#120 | Halloween | Liquorice Lies, Pumpkin Panics & Costume Etiquette

00:00:00:00 – 00:00:15:22
That you're listening to different music all the time, which is good because I'm just like, get in the car type the Smiths on we go. Crazy power.

00:00:15:24 – 00:00:45:24
Yeah. I'm moving around. When I listen to stuff. I mean, listen to Lonnie, the Raiders with him, isn't it? You don't have to meet them in Rick I like. Yes. Yesterday I was listening to the cures. The cure album was free. I free I didn't free seminar about free boys. Boys. They're imaginary boys. Which, I've been enjoying the last couple of days, but this morning it was Norman Rockwell, which is an incredible piece of work, in my opinion.

00:00:46:03 – 00:01:10:02
I love it. And Lana Del Rey, I think she's beautiful, but also she's incredibly talented. Do you like when you go getting into your car? I take it you go in and you like, you know, I fancy a bit of fucking Norman Rockwell or whoever you said. Yeah, Lana Del Rey, because I've got the album called Norman Fucking Rockwell.

00:01:10:04 – 00:01:40:06
All right. Right. Okay. Right. I've got a carefully curated playlist with like 1500 songs on there to shuffle it and just shuffle it. And I know whatever's going to come out is going to be an absolute fucking bang dog. Then I try to listen to albums like, yeah, you do. Yeah, I am a little case in point, and especially now, my little brother, as we discussed last week, has got a new album out called, Fucking Junk.

00:01:40:08 – 00:02:15:11
A lot from junkies. It's not that nice. You gotta let me get the actual, it is called a junkie man from Albion. That was it. Sorry. And, we together created, curated that album, listing the track list and how it should go, where things should live. Right. Well, I say together, he did most of it, but I spent a good couple of hours listening to the album and and gave my thoughts, I think some of the, some of which he followed.

00:02:15:11 – 00:02:35:09
But so now the point is, is that often is like a process to putting the songs in order and, and how they're supposed to work as a, as a thing. Whereas it feels like in the modern era that singles are now the thing. And yeah, you have to release six singles on the album before Alex did this, to be fair, like a year before it comes out and stuff, which is violent, I don't mind.

00:02:35:09 – 00:02:58:17
It was just, I guess, I'm old enough to kind of we're both old enough to remember looking at CD albums and booklets and living with the CD and having to give it a go because you just paid 1299 from our price for it. Yeah. And that was you and that was yours. And you've had a song on the album he's heard on the radio.

00:02:58:17 – 00:03:28:18
And so you like. Yeah. He just got to like, persevere with it. This. There's been a fair few and, I'll say the the last Arctic Monkeys album, the car I like you listen to it first off. And it's not something like, because you're a fan and you want to give it time. But I'm like, God, yes.

00:03:28:20 – 00:03:48:06
What am I going to do? All right. I have to play it again. I'm gonna. Oh, actually, can I what? Tracks three, five and seven. You know, it's got a by the end of it. You just like by the 20th play you like. Actually, I'm having this. Yeah. Shit. But yeah. Oh, yeah. Completely. But should keep of what you'd like.

00:03:48:08 – 00:04:11:18
I thought you'd, you'd given up on it at least. Like at least this is the one Arctic Monkeys. I'm not going like. Yeah, but like, should you, how many, how many plays of an album should you give for it to be like, you know what, I've given up on this, or or should you be able to play it and be like, okay, there's a couple of tunes on there that I'm that I'm digging.

00:04:11:18 – 00:04:41:22
Let's go, let's go, let's go around the world again, see what happens. I've just seen I Want to Be Yours by Arctic Monkeys, been played 3.3 billion times on on the Spotify. I, I think that's because, Yeah. Oh of course. Yeah, exactly. It's just me. That was a, trending song on TikTok. Well, I don't know, mate, because do I want to know is play 2.7 billion pounds times?

00:04:41:22 – 00:05:02:19
Oh, really? Yeah. I just don't really fucking. Oh, really popular. Careful. I'm not playing this. All right. Yeah. That album I am. That was a surprise me of a time when I was a live where I was probably at my most free. Yeah. Happiest and full of, you know, parties to hold it. All the stuff about.

00:05:02:24 – 00:05:36:17
Oh, the good stuff. Oh, the good stuff that makes you feel bad in the end, that's all. Yeah. I to it's a great question because there's been examples in the I've had previously where I should have I would have given up typically but it's been recommended by people I respect. So I'm missing this I'm missing something. So I'm going to work on this album and the album I'm thinking of when I say that is the of, 22,000, which is now in my top three albums, probably of all time.

00:05:36:19 – 00:06:00:24
Yeah, but it's weird. It's like, it's not, it's not, it's not accessible, but it's super popular. Yeah, yeah. You look, it's, I mean, it's widely regarded as a masterpiece, but when you think of Bonnie, you think of skinny love, right? You do? Yeah. For sure. It's nothing like it. It's. You can hear it in the music, you can hear him and you can.

00:06:00:24 – 00:06:25:21
You can hear it. But it's there's a lot of it's sung for a mouth organ. Not a lot of it. There's a couple of songs he uses it around. Sounds like he uses like some sort of autotune, but. But yeah, those guys put a tube in their mouth and say, hey, I like this guy. Yeah, yeah. I, yeah, some of it's like that, but I don't know if you've ever listened to it, Rick.

00:06:25:23 – 00:06:55:24
But it is wonderful. It's in incredible, brilliant piece of work. I never forget when I went to this is years ago when block put Party First, released the album and I went to go and see them in the Kentish Town Forum and the there was two guys, American guys that were supporting, and one of the guys was on the keyboard, and he had that plastic tube in his mouth and was talking to the audience like a robot.

00:06:56:01 – 00:07:20:19
I don't know what's going on, but I quite like this. Well, he had he had the tube in his mouth. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No. Nice. When he was chatting to the audience, it's, I thought he was just a member of the audience. Rather one of them. Yeah. But everything about that 22 million album is is slightly off cure, but not off kilter.

00:07:20:19 – 00:07:43:04
Sounds like it's a negative. It's a bit odd, a bit weird, like the title 22 comma, a million is strange to look at. Yeah. And then the the formatting of all the tracks, in terms of the way, the tracks are listed are all odd. Some of that uses kind of what looks like Greek alphabet. It's just strange, a lot of it.

00:07:43:06 – 00:08:06:08
But when you get when he took me about 6 or 7 listens and I'm not I'm not giving up on this. I can hear something, but yeah, yeah, yeah. And then eventually it's like, oh, this is fucking great. Yeah. So this is this we were talking earlier with him because a friend of mine, a friend of ours, a mutual friend, won't say the name just in case he doesn't mention this, but he's used AI to create an album.

00:08:06:10 – 00:08:35:22
The kind of music he likes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, I listen to it and it's like, this sounds real. It sounds like this could easily be produced. Human being of immense talent produce this. Yeah. And I don't know how I feel about it. And this is like, there's a, there's a, there's an ethical thing here, isn't there, about, you know, it's given the fact my, my little brother is an artist.

00:08:35:22 – 00:09:12:01
He's struggling. Yeah. And you can make something that arguably he could never make. Yeah. By prompting a computer to do it. Like, where are we heading that. Yeah, that that is, that's true, I did I saw this interview. It's an old interview and it was. Who was it? There was a band interviewing Prince and they said to they said to him, like, you know, don't you think it's amazing that these kids now can get on their laptop and they can create music and everyone enjoys it and stuff like that.

00:09:12:03 – 00:09:30:17
And Prince was like, yeah, it's a good skill, you know? It's a talent. But when you go to gigs and concerts, who's going to be playing those instruments? It ain't going to be them, baby. And and he was just like, I play all my instruments. Everything can be played a part of my songs and stuff like that.

00:09:30:17 – 00:09:58:18
That's what an artist is. I get what you're what you're talking about, but isn't it in comparison to someone playing the music, being able to play different parts of it, there isn't. So maybe it's the live element to music is what will explode. Yeah, because I mean, like if if someone is playing like obviously if you go to see, someone like Freddie again, it's a spectacle because he's fucking manic.

00:09:58:20 – 00:10:30:06
Yeah, he's living it, breathing it, everyone in there. But like, if you did just have kind of like an electronic duo or not even a duo, but and they kind of just press play and it's just a bit of scratching or whatever. It's kind of like, I don't know how this isn't it wouldn't really feel, I guess, you know, maybe, we I got to a point where it's extreme, but it's not like, like you people have been sampling and they've been using instrumental loops and elements to their music is, like you said, like produced on a computer.

00:10:30:06 – 00:10:58:06
So, yeah, they're not, you know, to be able to replicate this in a live setting that's been happening for years and years and decades. Yeah. So maybe it is. It is, maybe it's not. And this is like someone like my spoke to my ex-girlfriend who knew he. And it was actually case and I had friends and the case sent her, you know, the 50 cent, but it's sort of like from the 50s.

00:10:58:08 – 00:11:20:10
Yeah, or a soul version. And they're really good. She's backing the album out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I was angry. Second, let me just rewind what case it. Your ex misses it. Music recommendation. I mean, they've been talking for a long time. Really? Not like that. I mean, boys and girls can be friends. Of course they can. Of course they can.

00:11:20:13 – 00:11:42:17
Why is your face like that when questions need to be asked from me? I would love it. Love it more, obviously, because, you know, still care about my ex-partner. We spent 14 years together. A case would be a perfect, perfect me. However, I think she's, She's found someone new. Oh. Someone good. Good for her? Good. Yeah.

00:11:42:17 – 00:12:05:02
Lovely. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Good. So, case. I mean, I guess if you you want to, now's the time. Because she's she's pretty locked up. Anyway, so they've been listening to your music, and people have been. They've been popping their heads and and I listen to it and go, he's amazing. It sounds incredible. Like many men, but something to say.

00:12:05:04 – 00:12:37:00
Yeah, yeah yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. But it just makes me feel. I don't know how he makes it. Do you know what? Because this. I got caught slipping, man. I've been caught slipping a couple of times. I've, No, I prefer that. Yeah, yeah. Less embarrassing. Yeah. He's, afforded a couple of reels to a group chat because I'm, like, fucking out look or something in there, and someone says reckless I.

00:12:37:02 – 00:12:59:16
And I'm like, what the. Was I in the group? No no no no, it's just, schoolmates group. And would you like. Yeah. And I've watched I watched it, I watched I watched it back and I saw the, you know, the saw, watermark. And I didn't spot it before I saw is the. Yeah. Yeah, it's the one that's that's going round, which is really kind of lifelike.

00:12:59:18 – 00:13:22:23
All right. I was like, fuck, I feel really stupid now because when you look back, that wouldn't have happened. You know, like, you can't if you don't have time to piece together. You don't want the amount of content that you consume where you're scrolling through reels or TikTok or whatever. You don't have time to be like investigating whether it was real or not.

00:13:23:00 – 00:13:41:23
You're just like, oh, that's funny. Oh, fucking now that geezer got done by that bull or whatever. And he just forward it on to people because, you know, they like that content too. But you just forward, you know, and I share and you don't even know that it is it's a mixture of like that kind of content and how quickly you absorb it.

00:13:41:23 – 00:14:10:08
Typically, you know, you're on a you want to feed and you're yeah, yeah, you're flicking and so you're sharing, you know, and you haven't got time in the brain. There isn't enough difference between the fake AI video and a real one for your brain to register anymore, which is scary. Like, I, I had one where there was, a baby, a toddler sticking a fork into a plug socket, and this Excel bully goes and barks him and saves him.

00:14:10:10 – 00:14:35:09
Yeah, yeah, I've seen that. I'm like, wow, how did he know? How did he know there was danger there? And and then you look in you go. And that's not real. But it but but a year ago, we were going obviously that's how I now we're going. I can't tell the difference now. So does that mean, like, if.

00:14:35:11 – 00:14:54:23
Like if you do something bad, just say, oh, I didn't do it. Yeah. Someone made a video of it. Oh, yeah. What I, what I see quite a lot of, you know, famous content creators that have big accounts and anything that happens to them that just be like, oh, may it be seen if someone's done an AI of me doing gear or whatever it might be?

00:14:54:24 – 00:15:18:04
Yeah, that that's what they're just blaming it on. I think we can no one is going to get canceled anymore. Just blame it on AI. AI instead of the good times. So I'm brave, man. I'm good times. Better man. Yeah. Me. It's, scary times. Yeah, it's. Man, I don't know how it's all planned out. We're all going to just be spreading misinformation and just be fine to that, okay?

00:15:18:09 – 00:15:53:08
Sounds all right, all right. There we go. Something like having chlamydia or anything. If you look for media, vertical media, but you have this think of a man. Is that, I haven't. Well, you know, my. Yeah. I'm across. It's pretty clean. So it's made out sort of. It's murder principles. You are about, wearing a condom until you check out, you know, I have in the morning.

00:15:53:10 – 00:16:25:00
Funny how you like. Priorities change in that moment. The night I see, like, Band of Brothers playing tunes. Hi. Is quite midnight. Waves surfing through till daylight breaks. Rhythm hit us different ways. Love of music I we prayed with our tongues in cheek. Man is I, we like to speak and yeah, times change. But no matter what the bond remains.

00:16:25:02 – 00:16:30:06
Brothers.

00:16:30:08 – 00:16:52:17
Hello and welcome to lads anonymous is episode 120. I'm Ricky. He's five two best mates. One main topic we answer your life dilemmas and confessions in our feature. Something only you and I. And everything remains anonymous. Always. So sit back, relax and enjoy the podcast. Did I hear that you're am I man misheard. But are you going to London today?

00:16:52:19 – 00:17:25:18
Yeah. What? What did it. What are we? Strapped up to a lie detector machine? It was, a yeah. Fucking. Yes. Yeah. For, sports Bible shoot. About football. So they're going to strap me up and they're going to ask me probably question one Are Arsenal be a club and Tottenham, that's what that's what it's going to be.

00:17:25:20 – 00:17:59:19
But Ricky I've got I'm drowning in debt. So, you become a whore. Don't you start do anything. I mean, yeah, yeah. God, I'm not just drowning in debt. I'm just. Can't afford to pay the invoices at the moment. Baby. Right. The the, Yeah. You just, I mean, I probably from a lot of recently just come out of the video that's been published yesterday, with people at Spurs.

00:17:59:19 – 00:18:24:08
Fans listen to this. There's so content creators like expressions and some guy called Toby and Fouad and the young, and they're full of energy. Yeah, and I'm 44, and I woke up at 930 this morning and I wanted to go back to bed. I don't know what it was. This morning I woke up just so tired, like open my eyes and then I closed and then I got I need more sleep.

00:18:24:10 – 00:18:50:14
So yeah, that was the that was interesting. But again, something you have to do if you want to, if you want to earn money sometimes, hot dog cats match their energy. And it was very tough. I walked away from that bit frazzled. Yeah, I can imagine. I can imagine that the big personalities and natural expressions, like it's hard to get, hard to get worded like they actually edited a lot of it out, like meeting him in person.

00:18:50:14 – 00:19:18:16
Is he as a, you know, the machine gun cliche jokes. Not right. Right. I know that's for doing much for on that's what he's performing. I guess you could say. Right. Okay. So people don't expression like a 100 mile an hour, influencer who comes up with these very funny sort of wordplay jokes when he's talking about football?

00:19:18:18 – 00:19:41:12
Yeah, I imagine he pre-load some a write some constantly. Yeah. In generally in life, I mean, just when you meet him, he's pretty, all right. It's like. I mean, he's a nice person to be pretty grounded as well. I mean, but as soon as the camera's on, he switches. Right. I'm on now. And, Yeah, I think you should move into that territory.

00:19:41:14 – 00:20:01:02
Like, really kind of give yourself a shake and be. Yeah. Don't say fucking for me. That's a it feels like you'll let that. Yeah, I can imagine. Where is it? That one was at, in Essex Road near, in, up about a street by city. Yeah. Up street. Yeah, yeah. And where you got to go today?

00:20:01:02 – 00:20:24:20
Same place. Oh, I don't even know. I haven't even looked. Yeah. So we strapped up in front of him. There's a bloke on, it will be, it's one Drop Studios where it is. So, yes, I'm up for it. Best of luck. Well, I mean, you know, you got to go for it. You go get the train.

00:20:24:20 – 00:20:56:14
You got to deal with that fucking palaver on a Friday. Get in, get out, make. Yeah, Ma, before we, crack on into today's episode, I know I'm going to forget this. I'm just going to do this now. Patron. Patron.com/lads, a nonprofit. You can become a patron. And you can get these episodes ad free. You can get the, on the Friday we're recording now on a Friday while the normies get them on the Monday.

00:20:56:16 – 00:21:24:03
Crikey, Ricky. It's no longer a quickie. It's, like, up to 45 minutes an episode. Now, come to the discord. There's lots of other features anyway, but what I wanted to tell you about is patron has a free membership option. So even if you're like, you know what? I ain't got the money at the moment, that's fine. If you join patron or you're already on patron, you can come follow Lads Anonymous for free.

00:21:24:05 – 00:21:51:23
And sometimes because we're nice, the content that we put out is actually made available to the public. So you can see and watch and do whatever for free. So if you're interested in that and you just like a little, little, little taste a little sample, get up to patron, sign up on follow lads anon pod on there. Another thing is well, I recently did a Tottenham vlog.

00:21:51:24 – 00:22:16:02
Now obviously this is lads anonymous. It's away from Tottenham, it's away from football but I'm not silly enough to know that a lot of people that are here are Tottenham fans, right? And someone in the discord said I can't get to the game. I live miles away and I'd really love just to see what it's like, what, what your day entails and just to soak up some of the atmosphere and all of that lot.

00:22:16:07 – 00:22:38:00
So I was like, you know what? Fuck it. The patrons come, they ask, I give them what they ask. So I did a little, I did a little Tottenham vlog of my day. It's only 11 minutes long, but it's quite fun. So you can go and check that out on the patron. And yeah, it's just that that type of content.

00:22:38:00 – 00:22:58:05
I'm not going to do that every single week though. I see we just get it, just get it, get boring. Very far from, from it and just put one out. That's it. But yeah, it would get very boring because I just have the same routine. But for like maybe champions League games or if I'm meeting up with different people or whatever, then I would do a lot more of it.

00:22:58:05 – 00:23:24:02
And it was actually really fun to put together, and I quite enjoyed it myself. So I wanted to get out of the way. And I'll stop talking about patron now. Flav, do you know what the topic for today is? Horror. Remember Halloween? All right. Yeah. That's right Halloween. Halloween is on the horizon. When you were, when you were a wee lad did you actually go out in London, do your Holloway really.

00:23:24:03 – 00:23:44:20
No I, you didn't like kids at, went trick or treating with the ones that want to beat you up. It weren't like they weren't looking so lovely village of feel to it. And like my mum, my kids always did. But yeah, not in Holloway. And I said no, you couldn't have your kids do it around you. What do you live in the fucking middle of nowhere.

00:23:44:21 – 00:24:03:21
Well, they don't want to. Oh, they don't care about it. But, I mean, Chloe cares about it to a point where it's Halloween parties that she's going to attend to, and she's in one of the, friends Halloween parties, which is quite cool. No, really, I told you about that. She's into into deejaying and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:24:03:23 – 00:24:30:01
And, obviously she, she needs to get a new controller, basically. But it has more features. You've got, like a basic entry level controller. But fuck, it cost a fortune. That's also expensive. Anyway, one of the, one of the patrons actually did message and say that they do have a controller do that she can have, but I think it's like 15 years old or something like that.

00:24:30:03 – 00:24:46:03
So don't look a gift horse in the mouth, though, right? Okay. Okay. I'll set you up. I'll set you up just for you. Just for you. Wouldn't I just assumed that I just assume because it's old that you would be like. I don't know anything. It maybe is, too. Oh, maybe she can't plug a phone into it.

00:24:46:03 – 00:25:10:00
I don't know in which case that will be an issue, because she doesn't have loads of. I don't know what you need CDs, I guess. Yeah. So yeah, I mean, if she if she can plug her phone into it and use and because you can use Apple Music music to do it legally, apparently. Yeah. Sweet. People are getting consumption now.

00:25:10:00 – 00:25:32:23
What will we talk about? Halloween. So. Yeah. No. So I remember one time, during Halloween this lad knocked on the door, and when I opened it and he went something along the lines of give me £0.20 or, the fabric for your window. Oh, well. Well, in, in Holloway. Holloway. Yeah. Oh. That's close. So wait there.

00:25:33:00 – 00:26:01:11
Close the door. Luckily, Ross. Ryan. Glen. Simon. But that a may I say I was younger, we were all there. Oh, no. So we, we went out and, it didn't come back again. But no, you probably did that to loads of families that didn't have people wouldn't there that could probably sort it out. So that's a mental thing to say and do.

00:26:01:11 – 00:26:23:10
Yeah. I mean give me £0.20. Otherwise I'll throw a break through the window. Yeah. Not even trick or treat. No. Coming straight out straight straight up straight. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Nice. We didn't fuck about really there. So. Yeah. Like you wouldn't do not like you wouldn't go around not knocking on people's doors for sweets and shit like that.

00:26:23:10 – 00:26:45:15
No, there was no celebration, really, is what I say. Yeah. When I, when I, when I was growing up, we did we did the trick or treat and, and it was kind of very that you know downplayed British Halloween at that point. So it was like we're not very good at it. You know, you get a plastic mask with that little elastic on the back.

00:26:45:15 – 00:27:12:13
We ping each other's on the back of the head. Then you get like some witch's fingers or some shit like that, and you go around doing the trick or treat. And I remember when I got older and I was still doing trick or treating, it was more about egging someone's house, just waiting, just waiting. And I remember this one time that I went round, this is fucking so many, such a naughty kid.

00:27:12:15 – 00:27:37:04
Yeah. I mean, I like, wiring in people's house. What? Yeah. Yeah, actually. Yeah. Yeah. Mischievous, but, like mischievous. Boisterous. Yeah. Would you go and clean these up afterwards? Well, I went to a mate's house. Yeah, and knocked on his door. They didn't answer. Sam, I said to my mates, is my mate. Let's. I can flower the windows so I can fly out the windows.

00:27:37:06 – 00:28:01:21
And then I told him afterwards what I'd done. He told his mum is mum rang my mum the next morning. I had to go around and clean all their windows. Good, you know, pointless. That's just not round there I am. Yeah, yeah I reckon. Why did you do that. I don't, I don't, I just I'll tidy up grandma and.

00:28:01:23 – 00:28:27:18
The fucking such a knob man. I don't know why. Why I think that it's just, God, you these Sally so many stupid things on. You're a kid. I just want to get a touch on what you said there. The Americans across the pond, they go all out. What? What, like what are your thoughts on how how big they go for Halloween?

00:28:27:20 – 00:28:54:13
Well, it's a proper celebration, isn't it? Well, they have they got a cup, but it seems to be like they have, like, quality time from. Yeah, from when is Halloween? 31st of August. October. October. Sorry, that's what I meant. Otherwise. Anyway, I, you know, that's my birthday. The, So from there all the way to New Year's Eve, they have, like, quality time in America.

00:28:54:15 – 00:29:31:16
It's so much to celebrate and like Halloween. Yeah. Then you've got full, which I presume is just autumn. Yeah. Sounds so exciting in America. Yeah, it does, doesn't it? Yeah. You got you got Halloween, you've got Thanksgiving, you've got Christmas Day, you've got that. And then New Year's Eve, I guess there might be some other stuff that I'm missing, but it just seems like I think that they even though it's not like a, a holiday, but they've got like, one of the sales, there's a Black Friday, there's some mention that they everyone goes matter and it might understand is that none of them work in that time.

00:29:31:16 – 00:29:53:04
They just allow free months off. But all of America shuts down for three months just as a laugh. It might not be true, but that's what I think in my head. Yeah, I like it's looks fun. It looks like it's, I don't know, maybe. Maybe it's sort of idealistic and sort of made to look at that in films and maybe isn't as that that great.

00:29:53:04 – 00:30:17:17
But I think what it is, is because they've got like loads of space. Yeah. Like little left drives. Big drives. Yeah. Yeah. What, you don't realize the people in America license is we don't have drives in England. The house is not normal for a house to have a front garden. I a big flat garden. Yeah. Like that. Yeah.

00:30:17:17 – 00:30:42:01
That in America and they've never been to the UK. I wonder what it's like for them, for where they're living to come and see where like for me, for where I live. Terrace housing and no front, no front garden. You know, I got some bushes, but from the city then maybe like an American in the cities and they're, they're living close together in that respect.

00:30:42:03 – 00:31:07:17
Yeah. It's just down to economic opportunity, I bet. Why is it that some cultures I love coming to England like some people, groups of people, like if you go to Laycock, which is like where Harry Potter, parts of Harry Potter were filmed, it's just like down the road. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I like, yeah, it's beautiful. Like it's quintessential old English town.

00:31:07:19 – 00:31:42:02
But you will always find at least 50 Koreans walking around the street taking pictures is like Lane for not doing this sort of thing. But specifically Koreans. It's not. It's not, I don't know, Bangladeshi American Americans. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they might be Americans because they look like us, but it might be so hard to tell. But you can just it's just there is an obsession with quintessential England from that area of the world, which I just find like, where does that come from?

00:31:42:02 – 00:31:52:17
Maybe, maybe Anglophiles am I, if I may make that up? That feels right. Like. Yeah.

00:31:52:19 – 00:32:26:20
Yeah. Anglophiles are people who admire English culture, history and institution. Yeah, yeah, anglophiles. That's maybe what it is, but I just don't know what it is in some countries. Maybe. Maybe Downton Abbey is like fucking huge in South Korea. And that's like, exploded over there. I mean, yeah, that's why that's making me laugh. So I never watched that of I, yeah, that is that is weird.

00:32:26:22 – 00:32:47:24
But isn't that where, the listener comes from? Shippers? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, he lives in a little. He lives in Laycock. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh, shit. By ship I yeah, but I mean, and, I kind of feel like I'm the reverse for an American. I don't know what the American Anglophile word is. What you like.

00:32:48:03 – 00:33:11:14
You're a bit obsessed with them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That, like like like you were saying the holidays for Halloween. July 4th, Thanksgiving, all of that stuff, like. And like, the culture around, American football or ice hockey. American. Oh, foul. Is it like I'm an American? I follow American football. Maybe it's, That that.

00:33:11:17 – 00:33:44:02
Yeah. That doesn't sound sexy, does it? Not. Was disappointing. No. And, but, Yeah. So with Halloween and I see over there and how much of a big deal they make of it like it, it feels like everyone has got, massive kind of, like the lights and, like, all of a lot. Do you see, like, the moving objects of, like, there'll be a witch just floating in someone's garden, or they'll go to someone's front door and a fucking spider will jump out some way.

00:33:44:04 – 00:34:02:24
We'll go to the lengths of building, like a ghost train or ghost walk in their front garden. Yeah. Mechanical shit for Halloween. Yeah, man, I wish it. I just, I think I looking I what how can you be bothered to do that. You got to put it away every year you put on this Christmas lights that people through loads of Christmas lights live in front.

00:34:02:24 – 00:34:21:17
Else I love it, but I'm like it's like firework like once you've driven past it, once you like, yeah, it's hard enough. I haven't had enough trying to do it. I'm having a hard enough time putting the lights on the tree, let alone fucking doing those lights outside. Luckily, I'm not allowed to do that. Only just doesn't let me do that.

00:34:21:17 – 00:34:49:24
She doesn't let me decorate my eyes. I've landed on my feet so badly was I. Well, Yeah, we were able to really put up a bit of cobwebs and we put, like, pumpkin carved pumpkins and stuff like that. Yeah, the kids liked it more than me, because why? We didn't celebrate it as a kid, I never really got excited about it, but as my children do or did, they don't anymore?

00:34:50:01 – 00:35:17:06
Yeah. I mean, round there, I think with the, you know, as we look across the pond and how well the Americans celebrate Halloween, I think it's slightly it started to creep into British culture. And I think people are doing more things around Halloween to do that thing. Like, is there like a certain code where you live that lets people know that you're, that you're down for Halloween?

00:35:17:08 – 00:35:40:24
What's your last knock on the door? Is that you? Just. Yeah. Like a lantern out. Yeah. So we, my kids will, do their pumpkins. They will go meet their cousins, and they'll go and do trick or treating together at an estate away from here. But the pumpkins are outside a house no one's in. It's just me.

00:35:41:01 – 00:36:03:18
So my doorbell will go like 14 times of an evening. And it's just me on my own because they're out the door. Yeah, yeah. They're out. They're not fucking doing it. It's just me. Why don't you bring in when I go to do it? Every single time I pick them up and I'm like, this bit me. Yeah, it's a bit Mane is bit mean spirited, but do you open the door like, yeah, I do open the door.

00:36:03:21 – 00:36:23:03
And if you don't know how to do this, yeah, I do a massive police suite and then I have to do this kind of faux like, oh, oh, I love your costume. Oh, that looks like real blood. At least you should do that yet. What? What the play along. Yeah. Just open the door and give him the sweets and turn the fuck up.

00:36:23:10 – 00:36:43:07
Just totally don't talk to the kids. Well, the they're with their parents. They don't want to be, like, 13. Not me. Tell me mean. So like, you can you can go. You can you could say a lot of effort into that wedding. Yeah, yeah. You look how good. Yeah, Spider-Man like that don't go down to their level and start touching them and stuff.

00:36:43:12 – 00:37:09:22
No, I'm not doing, down to that level. Attempted. That's not doing that, Rick. Just, Now, I, I did I just have to say stay. I do not got I guy that's an evil. Oh. Tax. That's a that's the scene on your ignoble.

00:37:09:24 – 00:37:40:09
Way. Yeah. So I, I do get involved. What like when, when kids are going around and they go around with their parents. Right. What are your thoughts on the parents getting involved as in, do you think they should be dressed up with the group of kids or that that just quite they're right. Hanging out of the back in their normal clothes, spoil the illusion if all of them, and I open the door and I see someone, they've just got double denim.

00:37:40:09 – 00:38:02:11
All right, Matt, like you could put any face height on, like, what's the matter with you? I guess, like, when they have communal. I don't think I've ever dressed up for Halloween in my life. Oh, no no no no no no, hang on a second. When we used to go out in Crouch End, we would. I would, they would put like my message to put makeup on me, like.

00:38:02:13 – 00:38:25:14
And I remember waking up the next morning like, obviously really hangover and having it but couldn't get eyeliner off my eyes. Yeah. And so I had it on for about three days. This eyeliner. So that was my kind of experience getting dressed up. No, I don't I think they, I mean, if they've made a big effort as well, you just assume they're doing it for the kids.

00:38:25:14 – 00:38:44:18
But I don't, I mean, would you want them all dressed up then? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it just, I don't know, I open the door to see all the kids, and then I just see, like, a mum in a onesie. Just standing at the back, and, thank God I just something I need some effort. These lockdown era.

00:38:44:23 – 00:39:10:09
What about you? You're bringing them around, having a really good look at them lock down there, right? Yeah. You're not a sweet guy. Oh, yeah. So this is pretty, Did you have, a hierarchy of sweets? If you if you got about, I wouldn't want, anything like, the obvious ones I hate would be like, purple violets, but palm of I.

00:39:10:11 – 00:39:31:03
Oh, I love them. Yeah. Love them, I don't know. Yeah. I'm the only one in my house. That's when the kids come back. They're like, dad, look what I've got. And about 15 parvovirus. I'm like, give me a minute here. But if someone starts smashing them. Obviously University dislikes Parma Violets. Oh, yeah. Completely. And yeah, still available everywhere.

00:39:31:05 – 00:39:54:03
Like is it, are they successful because they're disgusting and people like giving them. Yeah. It's like licorice as well. Like there was a time where licorice was important. Like getting licorice when you were like eight years old. So worth that. Yeah. Oh, mate. Right. But licorice still exists. Still widely bought, but I know it's. Show me someone who likes eating liquid because I've never seen someone eat a part of.

00:39:54:04 – 00:40:14:24
My granddad liked it, and that was because licorice was a treat. After the war, during ration period, where in your rations would be a bit of licorice. Just fucking rank. It's disgusting stuff, but you can eat absolutely anything else you want and you choose licorice. I haven't, there isn't a human being. There's no there isn't one risk, though.

00:40:14:24 – 00:40:39:04
One does it. So why is it so? Why is it so popular? So licorice and Parma violets have got to be like bottom tier. Yeah, that licorice definitely. And I will go Parma Violets in bottom tier because generally people all hate them although I absolutely love them. Do you know what else about it had gone? Sherbet spaceships. Do you remember them?

00:40:39:06 – 00:40:59:22
I love them. What? Well, just put it on your tongue, letting it melt. And then the little sherbet comes out to say hello. Yeah, like a like a party. Just. Yeah. I love them that they're worse. They're also bottom tier. I like nibbling round the sides and then opening it and pulling the sherbet in your mouth. No, no.

00:40:59:22 – 00:41:15:06
Not really. And them quite fun. You know, I used to quite like when I was a kid. Was the straws with sherbet in them just a just a normal straw that was close shut. And you'd bite a straw. What was happening? When we were kids, they were just giving us, like, pure sugar, refined sugar in a tube. But you want this.

00:41:15:08 – 00:41:35:19
It's a tube full of sugar, and you just pour it into your mouth. Yes, I want that now. One day everyone in the 80s was getting fucking belts and slippers. Just fucking to put sugar in the roof. It probably was that. That was pretty was something. So I just it went away with that straw one. Right. Absolutely loved it.

00:41:35:19 – 00:41:47:15
Yeah. Fair play. Good. Cool. But halfway through the annoyance of because she'd been sucking on that straw, then yeah, it's wet and no, no, no sugar. Come. All right.

00:41:47:17 – 00:42:06:04
Yeah. No, I'm with you. It would do that. But I was like, with my side part of the game. I thought, like, the other things were icebergs. You remember them? Icebergs? They were like. What? It was nice. It's nice. It was like a little square. Yeah, frozen. Nice lolly, but it was plastic. See through. And the writing on it was iceberg.

00:42:06:07 – 00:42:28:03
And it had, like, a blue, like, you don't know what I'm talking about. No, I yeah. Ice lollies. Yeah. But it was a brand called Ice Burger. So you'd get an ice bucket and then give it out Halloween or just general sweets. Now, now I've slipped into general sweets to that chat. Sorry. Let me, let me send you this.

00:42:28:03 – 00:42:53:23
Just so you know what I'm talking. There's no chance in your childhood that you didn't have this iceberg. What are you fucking going on about, man? Just check your WhatsApp now, because I'm looking. I'm looking. Go! Is this fucking thing you'll go, oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Okay. Right. Okay. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah, that's all right.

00:42:54:00 – 00:43:17:05
When I would go around, I remember trick or treating and the panic in people's eyes of like Jake or Trey and then like, they'd be like, fuck, I haven't got anything. And you'd guess you'd get biscuits, but obviously they've been opened in someone else's tin and you're just getting someone's like, stale biscuits in your in your bag. I'm not mate with the fucking chocolate.

00:43:17:05 – 00:43:42:07
Like actually that, that was that I'd say my top tier like Parma Violets I love for me. Also, this isn't a real favorite that I've noticed, but everyone, like everyone else, hates them. But I love them is the, you know, the lollies, plastic small pipe, but it's quite chalky. The chalky type of lollies. Everyone hates them but I love them laughing everyday.

00:43:42:07 – 00:44:02:23
Will a little fucking crunch up on that is like a refresher, not a refresher. I don't know what they're called, I like them, I like it, I if you got anything like, coca Cola bar or wine bar wine bar. Oh my god, what about a wicked one? They may fuck you now. How good were they? I don't think I could eat one now.

00:44:02:24 – 00:44:23:08
I think it'd be the most disgusting thing on earth, but I lost. I lost two teeth to them. Yeah. I'm not. So. So how would you describe a Wamba? So it had. It just had a little fizzy. Yeah. That was the same. It was a chewy pink with pink with it. Yeah. Yeah, a chewy pink. I can't even remember the flavor of it.

00:44:23:10 – 00:44:48:10
I think it was unique. I don't think there was a flavor that wasn't really taste like. It's like a tropical flavor. But yeah. Yeah, it's something you would find in the real world. Like you had Coca Cola bars as well, which were the same look, but they sort of tasted like Coca Cola, whereas this. Yeah, this was unique, I'd tell you, like if I had a choice between the two, I'd probably have gone for a convertible when I was a kid.

00:44:48:12 – 00:45:05:10
Yeah. Why? I'm bad for me by both of you. Even though. Even though I tip my teeth. Would you ever roll it up into a bowl? I saw people do that, but I enjoyed. See, this is why I lost both teeth doing the exact same thing, putting it in my mouth like that, and then yanking and pulling it like that.

00:45:05:10 – 00:45:33:20
And then once I pulled it away, I looked and I was like, fuck my teeth in there. I happened twice, didn't know my lesson, but, it's sweet and sweet and sour taste. Apparently that's what it is. Fizzy sweetness. It's not even a, The munchies tend to use sweet treat from Falkirk. Come from Falkirk? Yeah. And, and handy Candy says it's a fizzy, chewy, raspberry flavored sweet.

00:45:33:22 – 00:45:58:20
Right. What would be a pain in that? The packaging would get stuck to the the one bar. You'd have to get your fingernails in it, but may it fucking because the girls from previous Halloweens and stuff like that. And I've got refresher bars and they're the ones that don't get eaten when I've got a sweet tooth and I go into the cupboard and go and get them, I'll get myself a couple little cheeky refreshers in a bedroom watching the football.

00:45:59:01 – 00:46:17:04
And then when they're all stuck and I'm like, and then my fingers get all sticky. So annoying me. It's the, I'm just looking them. There were loads I'm looking at. I'm looking at loads of those sort of chewy. See, I might get you one of these Christmas break. I I'd love it. It has every flavor. 20 amazing flavors.

00:46:17:04 – 00:46:43:15
You've got Vimto, Wham! Tango, slush puppy. Oh, drumstick. Drumstick. Oh, yeah yeah I know shocker. Do you remember that one I remember, yeah. Yeah. Oh. What was you talking about? Well, I don't know. Cheers. Tears. Sweet. It's what you get for Halloween. I think the top tier one for me would be when they didn't have anything to give you.

00:46:43:17 – 00:47:03:15
And that panic, I'm. There'd be, like, oh, chocolate bar. Yeah, exactly. That's exactly what it was. Not this fancy shit. That panic can be like just the real chocolate bar that they're probably having for the dessert or savoring it for fucking lunch. And that shit is a whole king size. Snickers. Yes, boy. Oh, do you get in there?

00:47:03:18 – 00:47:21:12
What? Mad bastard. Is he in a whole Mars bar on his own? But that, to me is like I couldn't. You could if you give me a grand. I couldn't eat two Mars bars back to back. Oh, I'm sure you could. It's a lot in it. It's a lot of thinking about thick and two. Yeah, yeah. Was it?

00:47:21:15 – 00:47:38:23
Yeah. My. What? It was it was a kid with chop up mars bars and me and my, my granddad, we'd go around the shop and he'd sit me down and they would get this little plate and the little knife in it, and we'd chop up a mars bar, and I'd have a bit and he'd have a bit, and we'd just sit in the kitchen, eat in.

00:47:38:23 – 00:48:00:08
It's cool. Oh, that sounds nice. Yeah, it wasn't a little. It would chop up wee wee granddad. Yeah. Thought about cancer. Oh, God. That's a second time I've heard that this morning I, I don't listen to, The Flying Cock and Alex's tale about bowel cancer. And someone else said that they thought, I'm not fucking out, man. I was gonna get Vegas.

00:48:00:08 – 00:48:03:19
I, I was, I was it.

00:48:03:21 – 00:48:35:06
I wanted to get your, thoughts on the the kind of the whole dress up around Halloween. Now, I have you know, I have I'm going to say my thoughts. I for Halloween, I'm very much. It's about ghosts and spooky stuff. I don't understand why people just dress up for Halloween like it's fancy dress, you know, I mean, I, I've come and said, you know, I don't fucking know.

00:48:35:08 – 00:48:56:07
And it's not, it's not a vampire. It's not a mummy. It's not a witch or it's nothing scary. You're just like just having a fancy dress party. Yeah. That's not what Halloween is about. Yeah, that sort of happens. Yeah, I remember when, Ross dressed up as a a sort of Victorian, a dead Victorian woman in a massive.

00:48:56:07 – 00:49:20:17
Do you remember that? And I in a massive, like, Victorian dress with a wig and stuff. It's pretty cool. You've gone to some limits. Yeah. See, that's fucking call it a. Yeah. No, I mean, look, I noticed these these days, like, obviously the, the the kids obviously my daughter's 17 now, and it's just like I don't.

00:49:20:17 – 00:49:41:10
What when did Halloween. Why does Halloween have to be like you? Means you're wearing next to nothing. Yes. This was my next question. Why? What? Like, why is, like I mean, I suppose a mummy dressed up as a man. Yeah. Completely covered all the girls. And just like. Like, I don't know, I don't want to say what they look like.

00:49:41:10 – 00:50:07:14
Jezebel. Well, I mean, a lot of the time it's the hair band with some cat ears. Yeah, they've got some mascara around the nose and then fucking wax out and I'm like, okay. Yeah, okay. Yeah, it's exactly that. It's the cat is a little whiskers on the nose. And I just like, yeah. I don't mean it's just sound stuff for jokes, but yes, I think it's enough.

00:50:07:14 – 00:50:35:11
It, it's like, why is the costume okay, where's the rest? Yeah. Put a jacket. So it's covered as I read your. I can't tell you you are in for in for it. You know this. Yeah. With two girls, it's just like I don't know what it is. I get to a certain age and they're like it just like they want, like, you know, like, like wealthy people or like.

00:50:35:13 – 00:50:53:12
Like singers and songwriters and stuff like that. It doesn't seem they want to be stylish. They just want to have at least amount of clothes on as possible, like they have all the money in the world to look great and, and, but they choose just to have a mini skirt and some high heels and that you don't like.

00:50:53:12 – 00:51:19:00
That doesn't look stylish. It's just titillating. Yeah. Sex sells. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. I mean, like my, my daughter, so she is my oldest 14. And she said to me, this is going to be my last Halloween, that where I go out and get dressed up and go like that and her costume arrives. She's like, what do you think, my costume, dad, she's got a onesie.

00:51:19:02 – 00:51:43:12
But it's like she's one of the Teletubbies. That's. I was like, oh, that's that's good. Oh, but again, not like the Halloween factor. I mean, that's what you want to do. You want to you want of the cat is on. No, no no, I don't fucking celebrate the turns. I'll be out. But what I was going to say with the, like like were you saying, like, I'm going to have fucking murders with my daughters and stuff?

00:51:43:14 – 00:52:08:05
Yeah, of course, like, they'll be bad, but it just, you know, nothing like why you could not put some more clothes on. That's like, yeah, I'll do that now. And they're like 12 and 14. Yeah. But at the same time, in my mind I'm kind of like they, growing into young women and they it's like they've got this new body and they want to show it off.

00:52:08:07 – 00:52:29:23
So I'm like, okay, I get that. But there's a part of me that's at peace because I feel like they're comfortable in their own skin, you know? I mean, yeah, yeah. If they were wearing big baggy clothes because they hated the way they looked. Yeah, heightened themselves and stuff like that. So I at one stage I, obviously like put your fucking coat on.

00:52:29:23 – 00:52:50:04
They're like, no, no, no. And like do this and do that. But the other, the other part I'm like, do you know what? If you feel comfortable enough wearing those types of clothes, then I not at any point now you'll only catch me in shorts if I'm going swimming or at home and. Yeah. Yeah. Or shorts or no tracksuit bottoms.

00:52:50:05 – 00:53:18:18
No no no jogging bottoms. Yeah. Fucking our culture. So you know, I mean, I, you know, you got to pick and choose. I just wanted to say, have you ever seen a Halloween costume that you've just like. Is like a shit now? Well, if you can think of one, this image always pops up in my head, and it's always around Halloween, and it's Alex Turner and I.

00:53:18:18 – 00:53:41:24
Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. And he went to a fancy dress, Halloween party, and he went with his, I don't know if his partner at the time, but they went as, Florence and the machine, and he was the machine, and he got. Are you having a look now? Yeah. So little Google. Yeah. Have a little gig.

00:53:42:01 – 00:54:05:19
And and, so he is he going out with Florence? No, he wasn't so. So he's his partner or whoever he went with dressed up as Florence, and he went as the machine and he was a washing machine, which is a it's a fantastic costume. Not sure it's quite Halloween of what I said, but because it's a bottle of ice next.

00:54:05:19 – 00:54:30:22
So he said to me, yeah, yeah, okay. Good. So that is, that's probably one of my most favorite costumes I've seen. Like, yeah, I again like the costumes. I like, more Halloween tips. Like, if you've got any, costumes that you've seen that you'd like when, when I went to university the first time, everyone went mad for Halloween and dressing up.

00:54:30:22 – 00:54:59:03
So I made scream, scream outfit, which. Oh, nice. Yeah, it's an easy one. Cliche. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but I had it. I had a helmet off. Helmet like a mask. Yeah, but when I pushed, I had a squeezer underneath my cloak and blood would run down the mask. So it's pretty cool when we go clubbing in like the place called paradox, we call it pants and socks, and then we go, that's where you would end your night.

00:54:59:03 – 00:55:17:23
Basically in in Falmouth in Cornwall. And, so we, we would dance in and, and every now and then I'd press the button and then this blood. And that was pretty cool because like, yeah, but who would come up and try and see who's behind the mask and then be really disappointed at the, but it was also good because it was really all.

00:55:17:23 – 00:55:39:19
And when the blood came down, it called your face. So two times. That's good. I mean, I, I wouldn't have you as a, as a witch, like someone that dresses up and has a mask, but young. And I was only like 19 then, so young and full of bottle of cum. Yeah. And I you just full of cum.

00:55:39:21 – 00:56:09:19
Yeah. There you go before me. I'll actually. What's this? So this was asked by a patron this question. So you're going to get it. You're going to get it asked in the pod. What's the scariest thing you've ever seen? Well, in general, I think so. What we did, but maybe most, maybe the most spookiest when we did the ghost episode, I think I told the story, but there was a, you know, then when we saw the woman at the end of the corridor.

00:56:09:21 – 00:56:39:03
Oh, my dad's house. Oh, yeah. Fuck, yeah. So instead of me rehashing that story, go, yeah, yeah, yeah, go back and listen to the ghost story because I talk about that. And another one that happened to me and I'm a ghost, but I do things I can't explain. The, that ghost episode, I probably mentioned it before, but it was one of my most fun podcast recording that because I fucking hate talking about ghost, but it was just so fun because I was.

00:56:39:03 – 00:56:57:01
So I was like, just squirming in my seat, just talking about it, actually. And what I'll do. And I want to do another one because we've got to do another internet one. We did one episode, you know, on Ice, it's a whole episode on the internet. How is podcasting to come? It's locked in that boy. It's locked in there right?

00:56:57:03 – 00:57:37:10
We're going to go on to dilemmas and something none of you know. The dilemma is called wedding. Whoa. And there's something only you know, it's called dad's boxes. Now, the topic for next week. It's a fucking pagan. It's a juicy one. Religion. Are you religious now? Do you think religious, religion is a good thing? Why is the sudden surge in Christianity with Russell Brand, Conor McGregor, even, Tommy Robinson in on the act as well?

00:57:37:12 – 00:58:04:18
What's your understanding of other religions? I mean, that's going to be incredibly embarrassing for me, but we'll give it a go. And what's your favorite Bible story like? Turning water into wine, right. Rising from the dead. He's got he's got a fucking back catalog, I tell ya. There's some mental stories and we're gonna, you know, we're gonna unpick them on the pot.

00:58:04:20 – 00:58:34:03
So if you've got any stories or anything that you'd like to add for the topic of religion, send it in to lads anon pod at gmail.com and we'll be sure to read them out. Now we're going to go into dilemmas. Oh yeah. Okay. There is it. There. Where are we.

00:58:34:05 – 00:59:10:06
There. Oh, just, just tired. You got an issue for a tissue? You a big sack, won't you? Aching in your soul, alone in your flat. Please talk to Vicky Flanagan. Let that stress off your chest. Well, frankly, the sun play like you're safe here to get nice warm between bronchial and. Hello, boys. Keep me anonymous, please.

00:59:10:08 – 00:59:29:18
Now, I know you've put that. Keep me anonymous, which is one everyone knows. Everyone. Everyone. Why are you doing that? To say that if you listen to the podcast or not. Yeah, 120 episodes. Not one name slip yet, right? So the I mean show that I'm not. Yeah. That will never happen. Never ever happen. Got a save the date for a friend's wedding back in March.

00:59:29:23 – 00:59:48:16
The wedding is in Majorca. And because the groom's mum is a schoolteacher, the wedding is going to be in May 2026. Hang on a second. So you want to be anonymous, but you're giving us really precise information. If anyone knows, you wouldn't know who you are.

00:59:48:18 – 01:00:11:01
So it doesn't matter if you say your name is not going to do well, and only if someone that he knows listens to this. Yeah. The couple are quite hippie dippy and free spirited, and in being so haven't really given us much info with regards to the wedding, such as the venue time, or if there will be any pre-wedding events such as a welcome party.

01:00:11:03 – 01:00:41:20
I'm also trying to afford my own wedding and we'll be getting married in September 2026. I've been asked to be a groom's man and I asked when I was asked, he said there wouldn't be a best man. He didn't want a stag or a speech or two being matching suits. My dilemma is that because the wedding is going to be in May half term in Majorca, it is currently going to cost me 580 for flights and three nights.

01:00:41:22 – 01:01:05:17
My fiancé is also invited, so that's 1160 all in. We just don't have the money currently because of our own wedding. How do I tell him that we're not going to be able to go? I'm going to get a bra just in case. That helps. But please give me some advice.

01:01:05:19 – 01:01:16:14
Yeah. Fair, fair. It's tough, innit? I.

01:01:16:16 – 01:01:40:09
I think it's borderline selfish to have a wedding in another country. Yeah. Despite me going to two in recent years. Yeah. Because there's a there's an assumption. Please. No, no no no, it's not, it's not for selfish. Yeah. If that couple isn't going to be offended if you say I can't afford to do it, and if they're like, cool, we understand, then that's fine, right.

01:01:40:09 – 01:02:02:03
Do what you want. Yeah. So, yeah, because not everybody is in a position where I can afford to pay over grand in flights, like right now with the house. I couldn't if someone said I was doing a stacking December for the wedding. You've got to come, I will, I cannot come. There is no world I would be.

01:02:02:05 – 01:02:26:08
Yeah. And just as I said to making the assumption that people can't afford and then be offended if they can't come. Yeah. This is an issue. So essentially you, your friend, has created a problem for you and you have done nothing to, to deserve that. Yeah. So I would say, look, what you asking for a way out of this way.

01:02:26:08 – 01:02:49:14
You don't upset your mate for telling them you're not coming. That's just not going to happen. Yeah, you. But you've just got to accept the fact that they need to accept the fact that you're choosing to prioritize your own wedding over theirs, which is absolutely fine. Yeah. Just anticipate that they'll probably not come to yours. And potentially, you know, there may be some splash damage here.

01:02:49:16 – 01:03:08:02
Yeah, I hadn't thought about that second part, actually. But now would you go are you going to be offended? Is what I'm saying. If you're offended that they can't come to yours, then you should be understanding of their offense while you can't come to theirs if you go now. Don't worry mate, I understand it. Then, I'll just accidentally put the G.

01:03:08:04 – 01:03:25:04
The, So, you know, I don't know, mate. I think that's that's what you have to do. Or, you know, what about his wedding is, at the local church around the corner from their house, and he's still can't come. You can. I can see you're after him. Er, mate, do you want to be friends? You really want to be?

01:03:25:06 – 01:03:43:14
I can see what's wrong with what you really want to be friends with someone who would be mortally offended if you can't afford to come to his wedding and and I know he's groomsman. I in my position, I'll be like, I don't I can't come like I'll tell you. Case in point. Yeah, my brother Adam got married long time ago.

01:03:43:14 – 01:04:04:22
Like maybe 15 years ago in, in Croatia. And I couldn't afford to do it. I couldn't afford to come, so I didn't go. He doesn't fit. I didn't feel anything about it. If you a I understand. Don't worry. It's fine. I've. I've done, exactly the same thing. Yeah. Within the last three weeks. My cousin is getting married in Greece.

01:04:05:03 – 01:04:37:18
Yeah. And I can't afford it. And this cousin, I see them weekly. Yeah. So one of the, one of the clients I freelance for, she works there, see her every week, and obviously we get on like a house on fire. Love my cousin. I just can't afford it. And all I did, I was just honest and had a conversation with her and said about with my missus at the moment, you know, transitioning to become a driving instructor.

01:04:37:22 – 01:04:59:11
Yeah. And balancing the books. Me working on my own. Yeah. And just trying to manage everything. Now for me, I said that it isn't a definite no, I'm not going to come because it's in May 2026. There might be a time when it comes to April. We have some money and we're like, fuck it, let's just do it because we're in a bit in a better place.

01:04:59:13 – 01:05:22:11
If you are asking me to accept the invite or decline it to say where I'm going, I'm going to decline right now. And she was like, mate, I totally understand. I understand that you're flying to Greece. You go get hotel and you're taking kids out of school, or, you know, if you book free days, if you book seven days is basically the same price and all of that stuff.

01:05:22:11 – 01:05:45:09
I think if you have that conversation, they should understand. And if they don't understand, then maybe that's selfish. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I wouldn't worry if they don't understand. And it is a bit kind of, a little bit awkward. That will pass and then they'll get over it. But then if they don't and they get a bit snippy about it, then it's on them.

01:05:45:09 – 01:06:10:18
Really. Is is it that you genuinely can't afford it? If it is, you genuinely can't afford it? Then look, you just gotta be honest. It's not your fault. It's just life and you've got. Or is it that you just. You're begrudging paying it, which is different conversation. Yeah. Because if they know you can afford it and you say you can't, then that's going to be a a further issue, isn't it?

01:06:10:20 – 01:06:31:12
So you're saying we need to put all the money to the wedding like that. That's a fair thing to say. But either way, how difficult the situation is, it completely depends on how your friend takes your work, your your words. But like what Ricky said, just be completely honest. It's like, that's that's all you can be. Yeah, yeah.

01:06:31:14 – 01:06:59:02
Get a bros t head. Obviously. Get a bros. Yeah. Get it bros. Clear your head and then go through with telling them why you, why you can't go. We are going to be going onto something only you know, something. You know. That's boxes and memory that has been locked away and has been unlocked since the UK law changed around porn.

01:06:59:04 – 01:07:23:18
We have to supply it to have a wank. It made me think back to pre-internet wank age. The year was 1995. I was 14. Early wanking years. One of my mates invited me for a sleepover, pizza, films, etc. his parents were cool so we could stay up till whenever we play computer games. I had it off, then they got later.

01:07:23:22 – 01:07:49:00
One of us, me suggested we watch the ten minute Freeview on television. X that was fucking great. That was I was on one sofa. He was on the other, both in sleeping bags. As a horny 14 year old boy, I started to have a discreet wank. A new from the angles of the sofas that he that he would have to sit up to see exactly what I was doing.

01:07:49:02 – 01:08:14:11
But as I say, it was a discreet wank. Also, I'm 101% certain he was fixated on the ten minutes Freeview himself. Then out of nowhere, spunky time, I lay there in a panic. These on the hand and then the full pubes I had. I waited for the Freeview to end. Then my mate just started talking to me about this and that.

01:08:14:13 – 01:08:32:02
All I could think about is I have a handful of jizz and I'm lying there chatting to. I asked him to get me a drink, to give me more time to get up and get to the toilet and get cleaned up. No luck. He was already on his way back before I was getting out the sleeping bag. I felt around and found a cloth.

01:08:32:04 – 01:08:51:06
I thought, fuck yeah, I'll use that to clean up and then I could carry on with the night. I stuffed the cloth in my sleeping bag to deal with in the morning. The next morning arrived and I remembered the cloth. I got it, and there's a pair of large boxer shorts that I'd grabbed from the top of the laundry pile in the dark.

01:08:51:08 – 01:09:17:24
I went to the bathroom, clean the boxes as much as I could, and put them back within the pile of slightly damp clothes. I got away with it. I kept I kept it to myself forever. I came in my mates dad's boxer shorts. That is up to 90. I know, I mean lovely, yeah, there's just your dad's probably skiddy your mates.

01:09:17:24 – 01:09:37:14
Dad's probably skiddy boxer shorts and you've just cleaned up your jeans that you think like the mum would have been doing the washing and all of these, these boxer shorts are a bit damp and then probably like that par for the course for dad would have got blamed for that. That would have got blamed for the jizz in there.

01:09:37:17 – 01:09:59:23
Yeah. It is funny. The man like you like mad stuff. You get up when you're a kid with, like if you found a porn mag and you'd sort of you all know what you wanted. But yeah. So you'd. You know what? I film, but that's about I don't say this because I don't want to beat the other person out, but I'm finding the other finding Paul mates when you were like 11 was the best.

01:10:00:00 – 01:10:22:16
It was just so interesting. Yeah. I mean, just looking at the pictures, just trying to work out stuff. Yeah. I mean, in Spain we found the pulled, like wherever you go in the world it's the same issues, like men trying to get rid of porn mags. They can't have anymore. Just women with massive bushes, which, I wasn't really into, but the,

01:10:22:18 – 01:10:44:23
Yeah, it was just the javelin. But Russell Howard's bit about finding a porn mag with his mates in the bush. No, mate, it's the funniest bit is, with one of his mates who comes up with a new way because they. None of them know what they're doing. Yeah. So, like, they're like, whatever. They're kind of sort of turned on, but it's like, not sure why or what to do.

01:10:44:23 – 01:11:04:19
And they're all sort of fiddling with their bits. And then one of his mate and I'm like, this ombudsman is a definitely go and watch this on YouTube afterwards. But one of their mates digs a hole in the ground and just puts his cock in it and just start spinning around. And they're watching him do it. It's so good.

01:11:04:21 – 01:11:27:16
That is something that young boys got to fucking die. Little pigs. Yeah, right. That's it for this week. The topic for next week is religion. If you've got any stories or any thoughts, send it in to lads anon pod at gmail.com. Patrons will see you today, Friday and normies, we will see you on Monday. There's.