#125 | Pets | Fur, Feathers & Full-On Nonsense

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I've just found out that Ricky is never, never listened to In Rainbows and doesn't know a single song of it. You probably have heard, you know, in the peripheries of listening to stuff that you've you've at least heard some songs off In Rainbows, but you've never sat with it, ever. No, I don't think I've even I, I couldn't tell you a single off it.

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I don't think I've listened to a single on there. So that one, I don't think it was a single I so King of limbs and the moon shapes my limbs. Yeah, that. That's fine. I get that if you don't want to, you don't like. But In Rainbows is, in my opinion, the best album it's ever been released.

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And it's about statement. Yeah. No, don't get me wrong, I'm scared of saying I shouldn't have said that because you're going to listen to this isn't the best album that's ever released and it won't be for you, but for me it is. Yeah. So tomorrow when you go on your work, walk in the morning. Yeah, just listen to it and then listen to it again the next day.

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Yeah. There's a song called Reckoner. Reckoner, that one that I heard you talk about it on another pod. Yeah. And the saying that it's your favorite song, and I got like, 15 seconds in, and I was like, just to get a flavor of it. And then I was like, I'll get back to that. Now. This is what I always do, and this is the bane of my life, right?

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I have books, I have albums, I have films that I'm like, I need to be, which needs to be done. If I need to take an hour out of my day. Dishwashers got to be done. Front rooms got me to, you know, everything's got to be sorted and then I can sit in there and listen. And I always think, right, today's the day that I'm going to sit with my podcast headphones and listen to In Rainbows and really not just absorb it, never get round to it, never fucking get round to I don't I want to do it, do it.

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I feel like I do it a disservice if I'm like, I don't know, listening to it while I'm working because I'm not fully immersed in what's going on. And then it just gets years down the line. And then I'm on a podcast now saying, I've never listened to it. I think, yeah, I think it's a shame, and it's a shame because it's my favorite album.

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You're not sharing that with me and I yeah, I get that and that again. You could, you could, you should, you should be better than that. I should do better. I know you're right. You are right. But I will say that, then I've never going to see power, so. Yeah. Ha ha ha ha. Yeah, yeah.

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Such a try. When I when I know that you got tickets for Radiohead, and I saw loads of people on TikTok sending in their clips and stuff like that, I know what it's like, obviously with Oasis and with other bands as well. What it's like to have a band that you adore and you're going to see them live and you had a beer and whatever else, and just that whole feeling, I was like, I was made up for you because I knew you'd be living your your best life.

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I was in that moment. I think back of it and feel a bit emotional, I think. Yeah. I'm not. Yeah, yeah. I want to, I want to live it. I want to hear it again. I want to do it again. I want to go to another gig. I if I hadn't bought this house and don't have any money, I would have.

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I would have gone to Copenhagen. I would 100% really if I, if I'm going to get a ticket without question. I would love to have done that again. And I'm really scared that that's it, as I'm worried that it is this weird, along with, along with the fact that, you know, I've loved that music for so long and I managed to be fine.

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Thanks. My brother Adam managed to go to see them play. Yeah, that there's this weird existential element to this as well in that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that might be it. That might be the last time I ever see them live. And that. Yeah, that also feels, you know, it's quite sad feeling that, that, that that section of my life is done in a way.

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I mean I'll always get to listen to them, but like, weirdly in When they Were Someone in rainbows in 2007, 2008, around that period, that was my most pessimistic, right. That was when I was most free. Yeah. And doing drugs and just gigging and going out and and that was a part of my life. And then that went and then it moved on to, to another one.

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And now I'm in my 40s, and now it feels like that might be a part of it. And that bit is done. And I don't know where there's little, but it's lots of no, no, no. Yeah, yeah, I get it, I get it. What would you prefer though. Like if you had a band they like if Radiohead were just so easy, easily accessible and they were doing a tour every year and their tours a lot lasted and like throughout the whole year, like Coldplay type of tour, but not been on the road for 18 months or whatever.

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Most people got to see them at some point, and you knew that they were going to be after the next year, you're about to see them and then after the next year. Or is it more special that you were one of the select few that got to see them? And I think it was special because I never thought they were tour again.

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Yeah. One of the, members of the band, was named as a completely escaped me. The Jonny Greenwood, the other brother. He didn't want to tour and kind of had to be convinced to do it. Yeah. Which I completely understand. Like, I mean, I can't, but yeah. Yeah. So I, it's just one of those things where, I just think, it's.

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What was I saying you were saying about, it was the, like, last kind of like chapters of your life. Yeah, a bunch of like. But but. Yeah, but but I thought that they wouldn't. I thought they wouldn't play again. And then and then they, you know, they did so and I managed to see it. And I hope they tour again I really do.

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But it felt like a farewell a little bit because they were playing all they were, they were playing different sets, but they were playing their best stuff from different sets and, and different albums rather. And I just wondered whether or not, that it felt like that was it, you know, that they do in America. I'm not sure if they are.

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I don't, I don't know, they did. They did. Bologna, Italy. England, Denmark. I feel like there's one more that I might be missing. Anyway, it was great, but not with Oasis as well. I like it felt like I was going to a farewell gig that. Yeah. Yeah. That it it did feel like obviously like you read a lot of stuff online.

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I was divorce, blah blah blah, blah blah needs money. Do you know, one last time and I think they've got gigs, Knebworth next year, not monster fucking gigs there, but it did kind of feel like if I don't get to this now, I don't feel like that there is going to be time in the next five years or whatever.

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I think it's going to be like, let's cash and cash in on this now. And then just let you know, let it die, not let it die. But will, you know, where does the guitars of when we want to not when people are saying, oh, you need to, we want to see you again. I know that, yeah.

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So I'm glad you, got to see that. I, I go, yeah, go on. And I know you change your subject gun. I think I'm getting some medical cannabis from the government. What? I, you know, I've got I've got this problem. This. Since I had Covid, I was, like, left with peripheral neuropathy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So neuropathies, one of the things that you can get medical cannabis for.

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So you've had to try other things. The doctor is up at Oxford so they offered me amitriptyline which is a painkiller and yeah antidepressant. But taken at small doses it isn't an antidepressant. It's just a painkiller. But. Right. But I can't take it because it makes me feel so drowsy. I can't work, I can't do anything on it.

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All I want to do is sleep. Which is fucking pointless, right? I mean, I run painful feet and not didn't have want to sleep all the time. Yeah, for three years. I've just put up with it. Anyway, my mum's got it as well, but to a lesser degree. And she, it happens in age as well. My granddad had it as well.

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So combined with virus and then the, the hereditary thing that is sort of destined to get it by the way the. So yeah, I've got like a meeting with or not a like a consultation and so I'll be able to buy medical grade marijuana. What did you do with your consultation. You got there and it was a trap house.

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And it was okay if it's just the dealer, you do it online. Yeah. I, I mean, I don't even like weed, so. But I don't know. I'll see what they say. That I didn't know you could get an England. Yeah, you can now that's fucking quality. You know, the UK is the biggest exporter of marijuana in the world.

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What? Yeah. We supply and we supplied Netherlands. I'm not saying we supply smoke shops. We smoke from medical centers, a medical center. We sell a lot. One of our next Port of England is marijuana. That is fucking mental. I never knew that. Yeah, I think drugs took me about where did they grow it? Massive factories with grow. Grow factories.

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Yeah. You can't buy it from Barry down the street. But we jump into some companies and suddenly to each other.

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I was going to, I was speaking to you during the week, and, I was telling you about. I said we had to get we had a discussion, didn't we? So I and I, I'm just going to put it out there that I feel like that the men in their households that can cook are the best, better cooks.

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Right? Yeah. I think generally men are better cooks on women. Yeah, yeah. That's correct. Okay. I think it might be controversial, but I don't care. I mean, my wife is I would say my wife is a better than me, though I would say that. But I think generally that no no no, no. Hang on a second.

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Certain meals I think I do a bit of spag bowl, and I make a better chili. I think that she would strongly disagree. Generally, she's a much better than me in the general sense. That's what she does. She cooks. But yeah, I would say the men that I have for the food that I've eaten that's been produced like men generally is to a higher standard than the I've been served by women, I think.

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Yeah, I'm just conscious of, but there are some incredible I've got, I've had some incredible meals cooked by women. Yeah. That's my kind of. You. What I know chefs. Yeah, men. Why are they. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what you do. Evidently not. And what my message is. Right. So would say, like, like you spark those chili roast dinners, whatever it is, curries.

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And my kids will tell you that exactly the same as well. That I am the better cook. And I was at work on Wednesday, came back from the office, and my missus had done a little spag bo and I like. Okay, okay. So I came in and put my head round the door in the kitchen when she got away and you said it was you, did you look good.

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Well. And then. Yeah, well I that's that's exactly it. So I said hello to her, as I was taking my coat off and stuff like that and having a little eye on the pot that was, was, was in there what you use. Like I saw a couple of, leaves in there, and I was like, okay, so.

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Well, what's what's going on there? She looked at me and started grinning because she spotted in my back bow. I've tried a couple of bay leaves him. I thought he was going say, Bay leaves. She doesn't do that. And I thought, what's happening here? Right. And she started laughing. She's fucking trying to get me. She's trying to get my recipe.

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And another thing. Okay. Yeah. God, can I ask, is it accepted in your household that you make a better spec bowl? And, Donna, a million things on board. Now, she knows if you'll agree. Agree. Okay, I will. So. So. Okay. Right? Right. So she's been spying on you? Yeah, she has been spying on me. She's been doing it over a, like, quite a few months, and I'm normally quite a bit secretive because I know I like to have my thing.

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You know, the college close to my chest. And the girl is being like, who's who does the best part about that? Obviously. Who doesn't? My best mashed potatoes, dad. Obviously I like that. Just let me ask my few things, right. Otherwise it's mum. Mum gets everything. Yeah I'm through a time in this town and you've got a tough guy.

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You've got to be the guy who says no. Sometimes that ain't easy. Yeah, that's not easy. But it's nice to say I want to be the tough guy that kicks baseball and ice. So. And then also, there's a little. It's not really a trick, but it's what I like to do. I like to do a small dusting, not bare with me here.

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Of pesto gravy granules when in your bones in my bowl. And I say can I just say it's pretty controversial I don't know. Yeah. Can I guess. No no no no no no. So you use beef stock. Keep in it anyway. Right. So the pesto in it, it's, it's still got that salty like umami type of gravy to it.

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Also it's a bit of a thickener. So it creates a bit more saucy next to it. And then you've got the undertones of beef in there as well. So you've got mince beef, you've got the beef stock cube and then you've got a little dusting. And also when you eat you eat with your eyes first. Right. So with the gravy granules, right.

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The dust in it has, it gives it a more which have you seen. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Mixed in with it. But I mean it so that brown it gives it that real kind of gravy look to it instead of that more reddish look to it. So I've been doing that right.

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It what did I what else did I spot on the side. What's that spot. Fucking gravy grind. It was as well. She's like she's yeah she's trying to steal everything. But there is one ingredient that she does not know. And she was getting the right ask of me because I wouldn't tell her what it is. And she said, I'm going to open the cupboard and I'm going to point to every single spot, and if I get it right, you have to tell me.

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And she did that. But she pointed to everything and it wasn't that, was it not? There is not a spice. Oh, you didn't tell her. It's not as far as you like, put it. That didn't. Yeah. And I put everything the secret ingredient out. Now bear with again this is you want to tell you. Yeah. Yeah. If anyone makes my.

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I know a few people that listen to this that, she's connected with the family. She. Mate, I've done pots for 14 years. That's anonymous for. She hasn't listened to a single one. That's fine, that's fine. But the secret ingredients is a dash of milk. Like 200 mil of milk. Yeah. This is, I know I think they do use milk in the original recipes.

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I don't know, I saw this on, like, I'm, like, a bit of a magpie. If I like something in a recipe of boiling ice. Yeah, I use that. Yeah, yeah. Call it. It's not an individual once. I've just got everything into my one. So if you're listening to this and you know, my mixes and I know there are people here, don't tell her.

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Don't even give her a hint. Right. I don't use milk. No, that's not not a lot of people do. It's, It's a sofrito. Just start then. Then it's the beef. Right. Okay, then. It's onion, it's gravy. It's beef, but not gravy. Is it beef stock? Yeah. And puree and and since my is that's more more or less it okay I don't know but I did I did smash a, smashed a what's it called out the, out the part of their chili to the dark chocolate in the chili.

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Yes. Yeah. A thumb size of dark chocolate. Pop it in the. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Kids loved it. I was a little bit worried about how watery it was, but we just let it reduce naturally. See? See, this is where the watery ness with my Mrs. Eva, we've got a real dry ride of boiling ice where there is no sauce or Eva, you get, there's just like a red bath on your plate and you're not, you know, you can't, you can't be doing this.

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You, you you can always add a bit of, you can have tomato puree to pick it up. Yeah. All right. Oh, stop saying but yeah, hang the grave you graduate with taking it up. Give it that beefy kick. Give it that beefy kick. Enough. Do you want to. Yeah. Do you think I would if I did?

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Lined up, Every time.

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We've also had an email in from alas, right? Last week we put out a question why women watch true crime. Oh, yeah, about violence. So fascinated with murder. Yeah. And murdered and stuff. That's right. Exactly. Yeah. Why? I watch true crime number one. I'm fascinated with what the fuck makes people do these things. Number two, fascination with the legal system.

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Okay. Number three, total escapism in my house. I'm totally safe. And in their really bizarre way, it's a total switch off from my life in a small, safe circle. But she gets to watch this. Yeah. Okay. Number four, to understand more of the fucking dangers, I am, I am in once I leave this safe circle. Yeah.

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And number five tips on how to escape these bastards. Yeah. So is this because she feels as a woman, she's more likely to be targeted? Says she needs to know because. Yeah, absolutely. So that's it? Because the first free kind of like that is relative to everybody, men and women. Yeah. That is the second to that kind of makes sense.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah I mean that is a very but you know listen to my step mums front room sometimes and then. Oh you hear in the background. And then she was torn limb from limb by the killer. And the body parts were later found downstream mutilated and, and what would you call it also.

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Oh, wooden. Oh, dear. What you call it like poor decomposed. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ten in the morning. I've got a cup of tea. Oh, yeah. Fucking. She loves it today. You know what we're talking about today? We are talking about pets. Oh, yeah. Now. Yeah. So. Yeah. Pets. So little. Frankie, don't get next to me.

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Yeah. Boy, that little bastard. Yeah, yeah. When I normally put these out and I say that we're doing, I don't know. We said internet last week. Few emails in fine pets. Fucking inundated. Inundated with photos. Pets. Oh, that bloody brilliant. Yeah. Absolutely brilliant. Were you a, like a pet household growing up? Cats. I'm a my mum, my dogs.

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So we had a few a couple of staff support. Mastiff who the Oscar. We had best the the staff. We and we had tuxedos like.

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Excuse me. He was a, he was a border terrier, but he he didn't stay long. It's fine. Remember? Oscar? Do you remember us? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's an old boy. We we, we took him on at about eight years old, so we had him for about 3 or 4 years, and then we had to put him down.

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But yeah, the latter part of his life, he was enjoyed with us. Yeah. Did you, have any like. So it's just mainly been cats and dogs. Yeah. I didn't have anything else. My dad is a fish, which is why I keep fish now. Yeah, you go fish. You've always been a big, fish, lad. I love. I love looking at the fish.

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Yeah, yeah, the the, Yeah. Little fish. You know, like tropical fish. You know, I remember Easter message me when you. When you'd get some new ones. Look what I've got today. The problem is, Rick is like, we're on this road when you when you, Didn't you read, like, maybe in the last year, maybe a bit longer?

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You'd redone your tank. You got to. I don't know what you call it. You know, you have to let things sit and really cycle, like. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know. So you got a new tank. Yeah. So when you get a tank, you have to cycle with the tank. You can't just put fish in there because they, the water isn't suitable for them.

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So they'll die. They'll get sick and die. However putting fish in a tank helps cycle it even if they do die. So yeah, there's there's so some people it's a bit cruel, but they'll put fish in there as a part of the cycling process, which is about. So this is looking that. So eventually you have a balanced water level where the ammonia is zero.

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Nitrates are nitrites. I think they are, safe at a safe level. And, there is an ecosystem that deals with fish waste and everything's healthy. And, and then you've got to get the pH levels of the water rights and the all fish like software or some like hard water, but most of them like soft water. And the problem where we live in the country is it's all hot water.

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Everything's. Oh, here I am. Is it hard working milkmaids? My fucking the limescale on my tap is insane. Yeah. I mean, I don't know if you guys got it on on heating systems here. You have to have a unit. Separate unit that softens the water. Oh. Just taps. Yeah. How about. So that's what it's like here anyway.

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It's a fish. Tropical fish. They come from areas in the world. The source of water. Yeah. And fresh water in, in the in a rainforest where you find some of these fish is, you know, it's all soft. So you have I u restricted severely restricted to fish that can handle hard water. And there's, there isn't a great deal of them.

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My greatest achievement was having the cocktail cichlid, the cockatoo cichlid, a man in the female and them having a, a having a bunch of fry. And one of them survived to become a fully fledged adult. That was the best. No way. Red. Hey. Yeah, that beautiful fish as well. But they lived their lifespan. That was that. The amount of times I've had fish and they've never fucking.

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You have to have things really like it needs to be well established. And, unless you buy guppies and then they just fuck and some really anybody can keep guppies, but, Yeah, I used to shower the fish tank. They could give me body bass. Oh. Oh, baby, if you want babies, get guppies. That will give you tons of babies.

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You'll have too many it. Yeah, yeah. And you see, little fry and stuff is cool watching them. But yeah, that's that was. That would mean it really didn't have any. What was your, What what was your first pet? Was you Tiger the cat to go? Yeah, he's my first. When I was little. What type of cat was it like?

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Ginger. One. Black. Brown tortoise. Tortoiseshell tabby. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My, My first. I think it was my first. So off our first pet was a cat that I had named Leonardo because it arrived at our back door. We started feeding it. So, No. No. Cat. Ginger cat. Yeah. According Leonardo, because it had a blue collar.

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So. And this is when I was very young. Turtles. Yeah. Yeah. So Leonardo was my very first pet, a lovely cat today. The think this is well. Right. We we had that can we had it for the years just like that. Gone lot. No idea where it went. But they just do what they want. Then I have a cat called Hawkins and it went missing for about six months.

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I just assumed it had been hit by a car or something like that. Yeah, of course you had. Yeah. They walked down the street and moved in with the homosexuals down the road.

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There was a homosexual couple, which obviously in the 80s it was a thing like. Yes. Where the homosexuals live now, obviously, you know, everybody's a bit homosexual I guess so, but, but, but but then it was like, it was a big thing. And so. And the cat preferred to live there than with my dad. And so we just moved out and they said, Will passed it, bastards.

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That will pass it and see the cat in the window looking at them like, what would you what, what is their cat then? So we've, we've had Leonardo and then my, I think the first pet that we ever had that was going out to the shops and buying it was a hamster, and it was a hamster called Coco.

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And I remember back then I wasn't scared of, Coco at all. Like, I've had a hamster later on with my girls, and it was fucking nippy. And I did not want to handle that bastard. It's to bite me up all the time. So Coco was. That was the very first from memory. The very first kind of love that I had for something.

00:31:00:20 – 00:31:41:08
And it died. And when Coco died, I was devastated. We buried it in the top of the garden, next to the shed, lollipop sticks and across the usual. And I just remember being flat, proper heartbroken from that. From then on we have two other cats, Claude and Bevis. So babies obviously. Yet during the heady years of Beavis and Butthead, Claude was, I think we call him crowed because, you know, when cats, when they get excited and they do that thing with their paws, you know, they cry, they pull and they cut you.

00:31:41:08 – 00:32:03:09
So he was clawing quite a lot. So, they say be this again. Fuck knows what happened to him up and left. One time was just like, this is bullshit. I'm not having this. Never saw him again. That was my cat. And Claude was my sister's cat. And, he stayed with us until the end. What happened to your latest cat?

00:32:03:09 – 00:32:33:02
The latest cat you had, say. And then moving on to, my kind of young family that, when we first had our foray into pets, we first again, we had, fish, goldfish. Two goldfish. They were called Emily one and Emily. Emily pirate one and Emily Pirate two. She got to name them. So that's the, you know, pirates at the time as well.

00:32:33:04 – 00:32:55:00
And then the girls wanted a kitten. Yeah. And we went to this shelter. She was like an hour and a half away. I don't know why we didn't go to one in Milton Keynes, but we were looking at all the cat. I mean, you don't buy cats unless you get in on some sort of Persian horse or, like one of those cats with no hair or something like that.

00:32:55:01 – 00:33:14:04
Yeah. Then you don't. You adopt cats, they just get given to you. You you adopt them. No one's buying a cat on a. Well, I, I can't even remember if we bought it, but we went. Yeah, something like that. And we were looking like in our mind we had them.

00:33:14:06 – 00:33:36:02
We wanted a kitten. The girls wanted a kitten. Something small, something to play with. And then they had this can. They said it was the friendliest cat that they got there. And we were like, okay, let's have a look at him then. And they said, his name is Alpha. And we're like, good name, good strong name. And he wasn't a kitten, but he was like an adolescent cat.

00:33:36:02 – 00:34:05:02
Yeah. So he wasn't fully adult. He was still small, still growing, but wasn't quite a kitten. And when we were there, he was sound and we were like, this ginger bastard's coming down with us, like, load him up. Laid him up. So then we took off and we brought him home with us and he climatology really well. But then his kind of male adolescent started to rear its ugly head.

00:34:05:04 – 00:34:30:18
And you do the talking. Like when was it maybe three weeks. Three weeks or. Yeah. It's a horrible three weeks. And I would say, well, so, I would be going to, from the front room to the kitchen, the cat is nowhere to be seen. Then all of a sudden, from out of the sofa, it would pounce on my leg and claw my leg and start biting it.

00:34:30:20 – 00:34:51:10
And I was like, I know he's just playing, and I know he's just going through kind of back those teenage years. But when you've got small children and the cats coming out and doing that, but they were fucking petrified they would get home from school, run upstairs to their bedroom and sit on their top bunk bed, both of them.

00:34:51:12 – 00:35:12:24
And then they would, they would just the cat was gonna attack them. Yeah. They would demand their dinner on their top bunk bed. When it came to nighttime, obviously my youngest had to go on the bottom bunk off, would just be bolting about the house, and I'd see him running to their room and pull slap my daughter, while she was asleep, and then run out.

00:35:13:04 – 00:35:45:10
I was like, what are you fucking doing my night? You can't be. And then she'd wake up and she was crying and I was like, now one day everyone's scared of this fucker, he said. It's like their face as well to sleep it. Yeah. It's like he knew, oh no, I don't know what he was up to. And then he would do loads of things like that and like he and I would be bending down and he would use his claws and crawl up my body like, claw into my jumper and stuff and then just bounce off or I'd be asleep.

00:35:45:12 – 00:36:12:22
It's 3:00 in the morning. What is that noise? Office downstairs pretending like it's Glastonbury. He's fucking making a right noise jumping around it. What are you doing, mate? Oh, it's like. Yeah, they do during the morning. Yeah, exactly. Like cats are fucking mental. After that, we were like, do you know what? It's. The cows are petrified of this bloody cat.

00:36:12:24 – 00:36:36:13
Now we can't have the children coming home from school and running up and just staying in their bedroom all day. So we we made the decision as a family to give him away. Unfortunately, one of, Donna's mates, her mum was after a cat and she said, I'll take him home. And he was so she. Yeah, he was all right.

00:36:36:13 – 00:36:41:03
Yeah. He's gone. Apparently he said I.

00:36:41:05 – 00:37:06:03
They sold us down. I remember that my, my, my brother's missus had a cat, a black cat, and it was an absolute asshole. Everyone hated it. No one could stay in the house. This happened. Fucking terrorism. It never bothered me because I would like. It was. I occasionally would stay and stay in a flat after nights out and stuff, and it never really bothered me, but, that's.

00:37:06:03 – 00:37:23:09
Yeah, some cats do do that. I remember we had a cat, the Valerie, my stepmom was walking past the table and it's hiding under the table and it jumped in, clawed her feet, did the thing with the back of the foot when he they sort of. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you used to, but it's really. Yeah. Yeah. And she had cuts all over.

00:37:23:11 – 00:37:45:08
Yeah. Some of them can be white wankers. We got, we got a, we just, we had two cats dumped on us recently, which actually, you know, in hindsight, they're lovely little things, and I'm really fond of them. But one of them came back limping after coming in there, mate. What? The fucking animals? Wildlife that's been brought in by these two cats.

00:37:45:10 – 00:38:01:17
You know, you're supposed to put bells on cats, so it gives, like, mice chance to run away. I didn't know that was the reason I thought it was. Because if they're in the woods that you can find them or something like that. I mean, that helps as well, I guess, if you can't find it. Yeah, yeah, but apparently it's the save the wildlife bed.

00:38:01:17 – 00:38:24:14
The birds and shit. Right? What kind? The wood pigeon. A headless wood pigeon. Like what? Pigeons are protected. You're not supposed to. It brought in entire carcass and with its head missing, I just left it on the kitchen table. On the kitchen floor, though I've seen about, I would say, 16 dead shrews. I've never seen a shrew before having these cats.

00:38:24:16 – 00:38:45:17
Now he's looking. Hell. Come in and just leave these fucking things on the floor for us. I and I think they're like offerings. They're like, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. But one one came back limping and we're like, oh God, what's wrong with it? We had to go to obviously go to the vet and it's not insured.

00:38:45:19 – 00:39:08:04
Get your cats and your kids. Okay. And they were like, we're not sure. We don't have to get it X-rayed. X-rays were like 100 and £200. Oh, God. And there was a back. It's got a dislocated ankle. And I was like, oh, my Lord. I was like, I started looking online somewhere in the region between 1500 and 5 grand to fix.

00:39:08:06 – 00:39:25:08
Oh my God, we have these cats. Less than a year. They were just given to us. Yeah. And I was like, yeah, you know, I couldn't afford I just didn't have the money. I don't have to get some sort of loan. I don't know what or I would put down. And then.

00:39:25:10 – 00:39:44:11
We, they sent it off for a specialist and thank the Lord the specialist said it doesn't need operating on. Over time, it will mend itself, and it'll be fine. But there was a period Rogers, for I was going to be five grand down for a cat that was given to me. Oh my God. So, because I knew that it had,

00:39:44:13 – 00:40:02:11
Yeah, he'd messaged me to say that, like, it probably needs an up. So. So you just left it and it's and it's sort itself out. Yeah. She's still limping a little bit, but she's, we give her painkillers and and she's out. She has anti-inflammatories but yeah generally she's fine now. Oh fuck. You know. Yeah. So I, I went in I think whatever happened to the cats in future.

00:40:02:11 – 00:40:20:14
Just don't take them to the vet and just see if they get better. I think that's, that's where we're from from now. So this is, this is my, my kids are desperate for dogs, right? I'm desperate for dog. My message is that we all want a dog. I remember you saying this once. We went. We want one.

00:40:20:16 – 00:40:43:22
We just want a trained one. And I was like, yeah, but training is a part of the bonding experience you got. But apparently there are you can get trained dogs like toilet. Yeah. And stuff. I said we all will all want a dog, but it's lead on to your, vet bills. Pet insurance. Food. Got everything that comes about.

00:40:43:22 – 00:41:11:05
Pets are expensive. Yeah. It costs for, to have Frank, little man, little fat man. Sorry. It costs so in food, about £50 a month, probably into maybe a little bit now about probably about I would say that we get, we get this brand called years. They send us they send us it's whole food and it's meat.

00:41:11:05 – 00:41:39:16
So you can actually eat as a human being. It's proper food. Not it isn't just like processed in a can. Yeah. So we pay for that. He's insurance is about £70 a month. Yeah. Oh, God I may think is are wrong wrong with him that you could just go. We had here got an ulcer on his eye and they had to have a specialist sent in and to clinic in Swindon.

00:41:39:18 – 00:42:06:22
We had to hold him still. She, she put, she put like made it numb. Yeah. She got like, this little bull with a serrated edge. And we just shaved the ulcer away from his eyeball. That isn't. That was so expensive. But the insurance. What the fuck? Yeah, they're quite common. Oh my God. So that's that. And then, obviously the excess was £700, so I had to pay £700.

00:42:06:24 – 00:42:35:13
Oh. So yeah, there is no denying the dogs. Yeah, yeah. But what you get in return is like a that's like a best friend like companion. I thought yeah go on. But sometimes lie on the bed and just hold Frank. And it would just go like last night when we got into bed. He sleeps in our bed, we go into bed and he'll usually sleep away from us at the end of the bed, facing away from us, because apparently there is their protective stance.

00:42:35:15 – 00:43:01:23
If they face towards you means they don't respect you. So it's really or they're not interested in defending you. The most respectful thing the dog can do is face away from you. That's okay. Okay. Yeah. But last night, for some reason, he just wanted a cuddle before he went to bed, and he never does. He came up to the end of the bed, and he put his head down on my chest and just fell asleep, and I was like, there's nothing.

00:43:01:23 – 00:43:07:06
There's no money. I wouldn't pay to keep his fucking thing happy in the life.

00:43:07:08 – 00:43:37:12
See, that's that's what. That's what I want. That is what I want. Like, they I mean, they say, a dog is a man's best friend. Wait. I mean, it could be anyone, but, like, there are, there are cases, many cases that I've read about, and that you see online where dogs have this, sense of they know when their owner is sad.

00:43:37:14 – 00:44:07:19
Yeah, or unhappy or anxious or whatever, and they'll come over and be more affectionate and stuff. I've seen loads of cases right, where people have animal will have dogs and the dog will be acting normal. And then for the next two weeks, the dog won't leave their side, hugging them, pining at them, being really affectionate. And then they've gone to the doctors and they found out they've got cancer.

00:44:07:21 – 00:44:18:24
Like dogs can sense it. Sensor that's fucking into an ear. Yeah. Also people who have to live longer than people that don't.

00:44:19:01 – 00:44:40:07
Is that true? Yeah. Life expectancy. You want to live longer? Require a dog? Get a dog. Yeah. The one thing the one thing is, well, that scares me about dogs. And I don't really like it about cats as well. Is when they stop and they barker fine er or they're looking at, well, like cat, like cat. I've seen so many cats just staring at will.

00:44:40:08 – 00:44:56:21
Like they can kind of see something in it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, oh. When I do that thing, you know, the hissing, I know that the hairs go up and I think maybe you're looking at. Oh, there's nothing there. What? Like what? Have you seen that? I don't know it. Do I want to know that there's a ghost there or.

00:44:56:21 – 00:45:14:18
No, I don't I'm not sure I do. I think I mean, even if there is ghost in your house, is it, you know, a man in his 40s. You shouldn't really be scared of them. Rick may take a poltergeist. Would kick my ass and your ass. Yeah, maybe. But there's no such thing as poor guys. This is stupid, isn't it?

00:45:14:19 – 00:45:34:04
Thing to believe in. It's like a ridiculous thing to believe in. I'll never not believe in them, just in case. I mean, random and disgusting. The ghost episode terrified a poltergeist when I was a kid was the worst. Yeah, but, But as an adult, I'm moving into a house that was built in the 1800s. But loads of people have died in the house.

00:45:34:04 – 00:45:54:19
Tons of them. The last owners died in the house. A death everywhere in that house. Yeah. And I've got in there like, fuck this lot. This is fine. Now, I must say, I saw the, the the photos and the videos that you posted. It is. It's looking. It's looking sweet, Brev. Yeah, it's looking beautiful. It's coming along.

00:45:54:21 – 00:46:23:15
It's fine. I think we've kind of broken the back. There's a couple more big payments that we have to sort out, but we're getting this. The most difficult thing dealing with dogs is, is the fact that they have a short life expectancy. See, that's again, that's another thing that I'm like, do I want to put myself and my family in a position where they're going to love something so hard for 10 to 14 years and then not be taken away?

00:46:23:15 – 00:46:50:12
And then we're gonna have to deal with the grief of it, because, like a lot of people, they treat and like you've just given an example that they treat their their dogs or their animals like they're their children. And to have your I'm, I'm aware that he's a dog and he isn't human. And he like there's a distinct difference between.

00:46:50:12 – 00:47:12:12
Yeah, a child and a dog and some people go over overboard with. Yeah, the level of affection and how they treat their animal is an animal. Right. And I and I love him dearly. Yeah, but he doesn't love me. He needs me. Yeah. And and so you important to understand that however I would kill a man for him.

00:47:12:14 – 00:47:36:10
You're okay. Yeah. I would snap someone's neck. Yeah. Just for him to live ten minutes long. That is lovely. See, that's. Yeah. Yeah, I've just seen this. This is. That's part of life, isn't it? It's like if you've. What? What a life he's had. He's happy, cared for. No one's been mean to him. He's never been hurt.

00:47:36:12 – 00:47:57:15
He's never been in a dog fight. You know, I mean, he's had a little role with other dogs. When it's come on top and he's defend himself or some fucker's left the dog of the lead. But generally he's had the best life ever. And all dogs, you know, come to the end of their life. And he's had a quality one living in the country, running in the fields.

00:47:57:17 – 00:48:18:09
He doesn't know. Yeah. I think he just thinks that's what every dog gets. But he's, he's a lucky boy, so. And we've managed to give that to him, and he's, he's eight now, so I'm hoping we get another 5 or 6 years out of him and then, yeah, we'll get another one. What I was that was going to be my next question.

00:48:18:09 – 00:48:44:11
What do you think your, forever have like dogs in your home? Because I've got a few mates. They have dogs. My sister as well absolutely adores their dog. Loves them more than anything in the world. But they said when they go, that's it. I can't be tied down anymore. Yes. Or, like a a a door at my sister's house.

00:48:44:13 – 00:49:05:22
It fucking ruined it. Ruin the wall. I don't know what happened, but there has been like, lots of other things of where dogs have been. How many dogs this year having just the one just, what kind of dog? It's a cross between, Husky and some other things as well. Never get a husky. I mean, I know that a husky husky?

00:49:05:22 – 00:49:25:14
Yeah, yeah. Worst of a certain dogs, if you want. It depends on what experience you want as well, Rick. Yeah. Like if you're if you're first dog, you'll get a husky. You have a nightmare. You never really put a border collie is a nightmare for, for for someone who's not experienced the dogs, he can't give it all the time it needs.

00:49:25:16 – 00:49:44:16
It needs to be run. It needs to be stimulated. It's it's a really tough dog to to have first what the border collie is that the one that, like a sheepdog type. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Okay. Yeah, yeah. But you think you just buying a dog and all dogs are the same? The different, I think. I think stuffs are a good.

00:49:44:16 – 00:50:08:14
They've got a bad reputation, but I think they're good. They're not bad. Start of breed if you want. If, if we are going to buy a dog, it will be a staff 100%. Staffs are really good with children. Yeah. Any dog, by the way, any dog mistreated or brought up wrongly or doesn't receive training is not a good dog to have with children or anything else.

00:50:08:16 – 00:50:34:20
But a dog was brought up. Well, that's treated kindly. Staffs for the home are brilliant. They're amazing dogs. They're affectionate, they're they're loyal. And they, the their patience is, is like. It's not like not no other breed. Like they will put up with a lot. The only issue you have with them because of their breeding type is dog aggression.

00:50:34:22 – 00:50:55:17
So staffs are prone to be slightly aggressive to other dogs if they're not socialized properly when they're young. Right? Yeah, yeah. If they're pups and you have them with other dogs, yeah. Typically they'll be okay. But I wouldn't let Frank off the lead at all. Right. Firstly, I haven't trained him well enough to have instant recall. So he doesn't come back to me immediately.

00:50:55:17 – 00:51:15:12
When I call him, he will come back. Typically, if his attention is elsewhere, he'll be gone. So I wouldn't have him off the lead. But typically in all instances he's great and he's got other dogs that he's really good friends with. Like my dad has a French bulldog. Don't advise getting French bulldogs unless you're an absolute millionaire brat.

00:51:15:16 – 00:51:36:01
All right. You all kinds of all kinds of health conditions because of they've been over bred. They're flat faced. Avoid every flat faced dog, in my opinion. Do not get them unless you have deep, deep pockets. Inevitably that with the vet a lot. And, What do you mean flat face with, like a bulldog? Like, Right.

00:51:36:01 – 00:52:01:23
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anything with dog without snout. But I have been over bred the popularity because of the way French bulldogs, especially with their big ears, the company dogs to like, very cute. Been just been bred into oblivion. And now I have all kinds of fucking terrible, sinus issues, breeding shoes. And they are very expensive to fit the amount of money, but that's dropped on bred already.

00:52:01:23 – 00:52:25:12
But pugs another one. Terrible. I was about I was about to say, do you remember, your brother's pug, Marvin. Marvin? Yeah. Yeah. He's good. He was good. When I say terrible dog, the great dogs a great personal. Yeah. Yeah, just. They're just a problem. Yeah. The problems that come with them are just significant. So. Yeah, I'd recommend to staff Ricky if you get him.

00:52:25:14 – 00:52:56:08
Do you have, any aspirations for, a different type of pet? Have you ever like a snake? I'd like. I was I was about to say that genuinely was about to say, like, there's always been about one. And I was like, I'd love to have a snake. My. When I was growing up, my mate who lived down the road east had this python, and in the summer he would he would put the python in the tree and we were just like, he was there.

00:52:56:10 – 00:53:15:21
And the python would just be doing its thing in this tree, going around the branches and stuff, but just seen it there. And when I'd go into their house, the tank was like right the front of the house. And I just see this fucking python just sitting there. And I used to be like, I get it. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, all the time, all the time.

00:53:15:23 – 00:53:40:00
And I'm scared. I am scared of it. But there's something about it. Used to stink as well. Yeah, yeah. It stinks. So maybe it's the smell of this house. So this is, this smell. Yeah, it it had a weird, smell to it. Smell bad? Do they smell bad? Is it? No. A healthy snake has no strong odor.

00:53:40:02 – 00:54:01:06
Oh, must be his ass. Sounds they can smell if they release musk when frightened. Or if their enclosure isn't clean. So interesting. Take care of it. Who is it? It was Gator. Actually, he might be, He. You know, I've literally just. The penny just dropped that. He's probably. Listen to me. Should I, I quite like a little corn snake.

00:54:01:08 – 00:54:26:10
Apparently, if you're a beginner, they're good for them. They're docile. Yeah. He is. What? Really? They're. They're only little things as well. Is that that's not the red and white stripe type. Yeah. Yeah. Red. And they sort of red. Orange and white. Yeah. You've got red eyes. Yeah I'd quite like that. I don't size 4 or 5ft for about that long.

00:54:26:11 – 00:54:52:03
Fucking hell yeah. That's right. Yeah I, I always quite like a snake. Well this is not evidently, not real. Yeah. I don't blame it, really. I've got, I've got a list here of an animals. Just I'd just like your opinion on them. Really, whether, we're going to go with, Shit. Look. Good, dog.

00:54:52:05 – 00:55:12:06
Obviously. Good. Good. Yeah. Cat. Good. Oh, I'm, surprised, actually. Yeah. I wouldn't say a fish. Yeah. Fish. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. Rabbit a shit. My experience is rabbit. Fucking shit.

00:55:12:08 – 00:55:29:00
Illness. Fucking. Yeah. Cleaning it like shit constantly. They do. Rabbit rubbish, pets, rubbish. Pets. Rabbits. Shit. Yeah, definitely. You know. Shit. Yeah. Hamster.

00:55:29:02 – 00:55:52:03
You've got mention of hamster or guinea pig in this, I have you, I've had hamsters. Yeah. My, my my ex-girlfriend is mad. She'd have loads of things. We had rats. We had rats. That's on the list. And, what what what would possess anyone to have a pet rat? Rat in your house? They're not for me.

00:55:52:05 – 00:56:16:06
But they do, apparently are really intelligent. If you like them, you can kind of teach them tricks and shit like that. I wouldn't want to. I wouldn't want this again. Pissing, constantly. Pissing hamsters are pretty cool. I quite do like a hamster, but yeah, yeah, I, I don't really consider that. They're like children's pets, aren't they?

00:56:16:08 – 00:56:35:10
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't want to upset anyone, but if you're like an adult and you buy yourself a hamster, you're. It's a bit weird, isn't it? Well, I was an adult. Yeah. Just. You don't have any. Yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah. No I know odd. Great. And that they, they stink as well. But, I've never had a bird.

00:56:35:10 – 00:56:58:21
You know, I do like, I've had, like, I've had budgies and budgie records. My mum had two lovebirds, a husband, but and, but yeah. Noisy. So like those ones that I like, the, the videos are the, the ones that can talk in that but yeah. Wow. I've in another era of pretty quick my, pets.

00:56:58:23 – 00:57:20:13
My mate used to have, African gray parrot, and this was going round to his house. His house was the stone house. So we're at a young age. He'd bought his house of his parents, and we'd always used to go around there and get stoned. But he had this African gray parrot around there, and it was fucking loud as fuck called.

00:57:20:13 – 00:57:41:19
But. And, they lived long there. Yeah. And that's what we used to get stoned. And we would always be like, Steve, ain't it weird that your parrot is going to outlive you? It's like it will be your pet. Yeah. It will. Yes. Your pet, it's going to outlive you. It's fucking mental. And you be like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:57:41:19 – 00:58:07:06
We're just like giggling. The next one, bearded dragons never had one. Geckos I mean not really, not really. My favorite show called Hank. That's a good name actually. I mean yeah, yeah, not really a us. They live it. They can't. They live about 100 years as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That will outlive you as well boy.

00:58:07:08 – 00:58:39:13
Now these two I've never thought about getting them for myself, but I do like them. Iguana and a chameleon. They're fucking pretty gnarly. Yeah. Oh my God. Somebody can live up to 200 years. Yeah. Where the fuck there's a famous tortoise that, They reckon, What? His face. What's the evolution, dude? Richard Dawkins, no old babies.

00:58:39:13 – 00:59:10:16
The guy from the. No, no, the main man back 200 years ago. Charles Darwin. Yeah. Darwin. The the the tortoise that. Darwin. First it. Yeah, yeah. It's still alive. Apparently. Fucking mental. And, would you ever. I'll finish with this on, Spiders. Nuts. Now, I don't do it too. Where do we go? Long. You have to I didn't I was.

00:59:10:16 – 00:59:31:05
That's for bravery. I don't think I would have done that. No, it's, it was at that time I wanted to prove a point to my children that, You know, that spiders aren't scary, but really, I was like, this is fucking horrendous. Did and did it? How did it work? Did they are they not scared of spiders?

00:59:31:05 – 00:59:53:01
No no no no. Petrified. Petrified. I am the official. Do you remember when we first met Frank? They wouldn't. Yeah. You can't see me in the house. Yeah. And, the girls wouldn't get out of the car because Frank was around. And what, they scared of him biting them or something? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they were sitting on the roof of the car and I guess.

00:59:53:01 – 01:00:15:02
Right. But most of the evening. And then. Then they went on the tram. Yeah, they're on the trampoline and, and you can get on the trampoline. So. Yeah. No, they, they found that out pretty quickly. And now they love him. They do. They absolutely adore him. I just want to say before we move on, thank you to everyone that has sent in emails regarding their pets.

01:00:15:04 – 01:00:49:05
Yeah. There was a cat called Steven, which I am such a fan of people calling their pets human names. Fantastic. A black standard poodle called hero. We got that. A dog called Zelda. Two hamsters and six chickens. Well, you got a lot on your plate, son. Two lads, Huxley, golden retriever, and Fletcher, a black lab. This guy who has sent this in Luna, a six month old Alaskan Malamute.

01:00:49:07 – 01:01:12:16
Is that how you pronounce it? Manami? Yeah, yeah. Alaskan malamute. At least I'll include the picture. She was my first dog, and she became my best friend immediately. I even have her tattooed on my leg. And she's not even dead yet. So, I mean, that's. Love it. From this site. I also had about I've had about 40 chickens, not to mention in my head.

01:01:12:16 – 01:01:32:23
Well, yeah. That's, you had the big bars the happy past. Yeah. The big, big bass. Yes. He he died. All of them died. Harry is a big prize somewhere. Yeah, yeah, he would he would sometimes attack you chickens. Oh, my fucking mental. Yeah, it would, he would jump up and, like, cockerel and kick the back of your legs when you'd walk past them.

01:01:33:00 – 01:01:52:17
Or you would if you had like, bright trainers. He ate the bright trainers. He'd think he was like a threat to his bitches. But him they chickens are fucking cruel. Like they have chicks that they. It's something wrong with them. They pet them to death or they won't feed them. They'll shut them out. And they just got this tiny little chick walking along.

01:01:52:19 – 01:02:19:24
There were two things we had, we had to have. And, because they were abandoned by the Slater twins, we used to call them. They were too little evil black, black, black little hands. And, this is the Slater twins. Yeah. We couldn't Slater twins. And they were they they kept rejecting all the chicks. And they would,

01:02:20:01 – 01:02:43:02
We would pick the hens up, and we would have to take them in and put them in an incubator, because if they're not warm, they die in. We'd had this little unit we bought and, Yeah, it was, they turned out that they were hermaphrodites. The, the chickens that we, we'd raised and the, the Slater twins didn't want to, didn't want to bring them up.

01:02:43:02 – 01:03:13:08
And it turned out to be hermaphrodite. Just how many cockerels that laid eggs, basically. How do you know they were? Because they would cock a doodle do and they would lay eggs. Oh, fucking l bloody l. Yeah. The last one, that we've got is tortoise, the zippy and a three legged dog called Tito. Now, the person who sent this in, they live on a National Trust island around Devon area, and they, they've got a beach that's right next to them.

01:03:13:10 – 01:03:36:22
And there's photos of zippy on the beach. And I don't think I've seen a happier tortoise just milling around on a beach. Everybody sent their photos in. Thank you so much. We will post them on our Instagram and I will go in. So there's some lovely stories that have gone in with the emails that you've sent in, and I will cover all of those in a quickie with Ricky.

01:03:36:22 – 01:04:03:03
So thank you very much for that. Now we are going to be moving on to and another thing and something only you know. But before we do that there are two voice notes that being sent in. So thank you so much. The voice notes that Vincent and the topic for next week, we've had a couple of emails about this, one from a patron, and we're going to be dealing with grief is very happy.

01:04:03:03 – 01:04:31:24
I know, but it's, you know, coming up to Christmas, a lot of people are going to be alone. So I need to support those people. But we're going to be talking about dealing with grief process in loved ones, passing, navigating for a relationship where the person has a terminal outcome. Your parents getting older and how has your mindset changed around this and why is death such a taboo subject?

01:04:32:01 – 01:04:48:05
So if you've got any stories and you want to share something, send in to Lad Anon Pod at gmail.com and we will read it out. Now we are going to be jumping into. And another thing.

01:04:48:07 – 01:05:11:05
And another thing if you're gonna. And another friend. Yeah. Great moment. And I was saying oh we're also learning everything. Oh oh chill out like.

01:05:11:07 – 01:05:34:08
All right lads, love the pod. Just send it in my. Another thing. I'm an Englishman living over in Australia, so I don't know if this is a worldwide thing or just over here, but whenever I go to a big chain, like a supermarket or McDonald's or something, and I finish on the self-service, making my purchase, it always asks me, do I want to round up to the nearest dollar for charity?

01:05:34:10 – 01:05:58:21
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm a very charitable person. I give money to charity. I get involved in fundraisers, donate to just give ins for people. But there's something about when I've just spent hundreds of dollars getting ripped off on food feed in my family to make billions of profits for the supermarkets and McDonald's, that then I have the cheek to ask me, do I want to round up $0.63?

01:05:58:23 – 01:06:08:21
How about you fucking round up $0.63? You're the one with more money than me. Fucking dickheads.

01:06:08:23 – 01:06:34:13
I always round it off as well. Do you? Of course. Wouldn't like it. Says, here's some kids that have got, I don't know, you know, they're not malnourishment. Yeah. And I've just paid a quid for a MacDonalds or. And I can't afford another 60 to give to these mama kids. Right. Okay. Yeah. So if you're like no this is I'm not.

01:06:34:13 – 01:06:57:11
Yeah. Giving MacDonalds fuck the malnourished kids. Yeah yeah yeah pretty much. But you're the reason. What what I might just send in. You'll just not just. I want to give money to manage, kid. No, in my mind, I'm in this weird mindset that it's going to a massive company, that they're just going to be paying for extra truckers on the street.

01:06:57:11 – 01:07:18:16
It's not going to be going to those kids. Well, so you think with charities just don't give any money to the kids and don't help the kids? No, no, no, they use it to to buy more HR people or to go wasted money and charities. They probably. Right. Yeah, to certain extent. But I don't really think that's what what you're the reason why you just don't want to give any money.

01:07:18:18 – 01:07:41:23
Because that's the way it does. If it's local charity, East Milton Keynes, I'm up for, I think all up for that. I think I think there's some sort of tax benefit to these companies doing this thing as well. I'm not sure. I'm not sure what it is. I'm sure you know, when you do. I did one the other day, so, Movember and, like, gift Aid.

01:07:42:00 – 01:07:57:22
Yeah. Like, if you if you say take gift aid and it says, I don't know, they, swear there's like, a tax thing. Yeah, but that's the charity. The charity doesn't. I think the charity doesn't pay tax on the donation. I think that's what it is. Right. So, so that essentially the government don't take their percentage from it.

01:07:57:24 – 01:08:17:22
So they actually to the charity is worth 25% more or something like that. Right. But then there's no charities don't pay tax anyway. So I don't sure what it is or maybe the government matches or whatever it is. They get more money if you gift aid. Yeah. Yeah. Well I always tell the charity shops, they, they, you have to fill out a gift aid form to you if.

01:08:17:22 – 01:08:36:08
Yeah, if you want them to get the gift idea, you don't have to. You can just walk out and then after they have to pay that the levy or whatever, isn't it. Yeah, I know I had no. Did you know what one thing I do, I do hate and I never is the door knockers bomb. Mate.

01:08:36:09 – 01:08:54:11
No. And why is it always when I'm making my age? I've got an omelet on the pan and you're like, you're saying about, like, I don't know. I'm not, like, just come on on. I don't like doing offers, and I don't like being fucking harassed on the street by. No, you know, I'm never, ever. I'm never going to stop in the street and talk to you.

01:08:54:13 – 01:09:15:14
No. Never going to do it. No. So you can you can just sort of like you have a certain gift, give a certain or and generally they'll leave you alone. Yeah. When there are no wage, they're being paid. They're not there because they believe in what they're doing. This is a job. Yeah, but you're asking me to believe in what you're telling me and you don't.

01:09:15:16 – 01:09:35:02
Yeah, yeah, it's a terrible setup. It probably is effective. And they managed to get sign ups and stuff. It's like another thing is, another one is like, I believe in the Red cross. I think the Red cross doing incredible work. But then I'll get calls later after I've agreed. I'm paying Red cross, I'll pay you every month.

01:09:35:04 – 01:09:55:23
And now you're calling me for more? I'm like, because you know, I'll give by. I'm on the system as someone who donates. So you cities. Yeah. And I'm like, I get that. It comes from a place of cause there are disasters happen and they need more money and. Yeah, but I don't want to be harassed for more money for something I'm already doing.

01:09:55:23 – 01:10:20:02
That's good. I don't want that. Yeah, it makes me think like I. I've got it tells me on my phone when Red cross call and I never pick it up because I know what the fuck is. Want more money. Yeah. That's that's, that's that's not on. I would say. However, he's right about Baton Rouge, for example. When they could you can upsell at a petrol station.

01:10:20:02 – 01:10:41:10
They always having a special station at 25 for cherry. If they said we will match your donation up to a certain amount. Yeah that would be better. But they're not much of a donation. Are they just asking for money and like, oh yeah, it's McDonald's profitable. Is the petrol station profitable? Of course it is. So he's right. Fucking pay the money.

01:10:41:12 – 01:10:56:00
Yeah, that was good. But, and now we have another voice tonight and it's going to be something only you know. And.

01:10:56:02 – 01:11:20:11
Yes, lads. Ricky. Love. Hope you. Well, this is, something only you know. And, a little story after it. So when I was 18 years of age, bumped into a girl that I'd gone to school with, not seen for a few years, saw on a night out that things progressed, wind up going towards the back of this nightclub.

01:11:20:13 – 01:11:42:01
There was a little sort of little green, a bit of a field out the back. Things are things are progressing. And as Ricky would say, I've realized we've got to get this poison out. So we've gone out the back. Things haven't cracked on properly. We get a taxi home. As we're going up the stairs, I'm thinking something smells off.

01:11:42:03 – 01:12:04:22
I know, I know, she's not shit herself. I can see she's in front of me going up the stairs. I don't think I, I've, I was in a bad way, but I don't think I'll shoot myself. I'll check at some point. But we carry on. It's only when she is sprawled out, starfish on the bed, legs akimbo, ten and two.

01:12:04:24 – 01:12:16:12
I realize that these lovely blue heels I'd asked her to keep on were covered. Covered in dog shit.

01:12:16:14 – 01:12:42:21
The mattress was covered. The sheet was covered. It was fucking cruel. And there was more shit than that. This wouldn't be a something. Only, you know, if I'd done the normal thing and said, get them fuckers off, let's get the bed stripped off, we'll go somewhere else. I didn't even hint at the idea. They didn't move a jot.

01:12:42:23 – 01:12:46:07
Job complete.

01:12:46:09 – 01:13:19:09
That probably would have stayed. Is something only I don't know if, if I hadn't been going back through the episodes lot. So me and my old man, my granddad listen to every episode together, and he passed away not too long ago. 78 years old, cracking bloke. And it's only as I'm going through the episodes again, I've got to episode 21, which was an episode, about dads all male role models stepped out and he was my dad.

01:13:19:14 – 01:13:44:20
Granddad. But not literally. We're not. I'm from Derby, but we're not inbred. But dad, grandad, best pal. Just fucking top geezer. And he always said, I need to send in. I need to send in that story. So I've done it now. I've done it for him. Thank you lads. Through, through. While he was ill, making a bloke in his late 70s very fucking up and giving him a good chuckle.

01:13:44:22 – 01:14:03:09
And a little last thing on him. There was an episode where I've got quite emotional, it might have even been the same episode, a quality listen and made me grandad are looking at each other. He sat in his armchair, on a sofa. We've just had a Sunday dinner. I look at him and go, quality this.

01:14:03:11 – 01:14:24:21
I've got a tear in me. I comes over, puts his hand on my shoulder and says, shut up, you funny? And it's, isn't a measure of what kind of low key was. I don't know what fucking is, boys. Keep up the good work. Keep doing what you're doing. Fucking quality on a speeches. Cheers. Lots.

01:14:24:23 – 01:14:46:05
That was possibly the best message I've ever heard. Yeah, it was the the highs and the lows of it was, was amazing. The, the bit of, there was more shit than bed.

01:14:46:07 – 01:15:06:19
Yeah, that was quality. That was, that was wicked, man. What a message. Yeah. The and is one of my favorite things is to say is calling someone a fanny. Stop being such a fanny. I was I was gone, and I was. I've got tears in my eyes now. Yeah, that's right. That that absolutely cracked me up.

01:15:06:19 – 01:15:31:03
Shut up. Yeah. Fanny, would you. I don't know what the guy's name is, but, mate, DM me on Twitter. That was amazing. That. Yeah, that was, a fantastic voice night. Anyone else got a voice night? Send it in. And that was a brilliant something I need, you know, now, next week we are going to be talking about grief.

01:15:31:05 – 01:16:01:20
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