#127 | Natural Disasters | When Nature Attacks…

00:00:00:01 – 00:00:30:14
Exciting, weekend for you, or is it exciting? Is it more stressful? Yeah. So finally, after. Since March, when we bought the house in March. It's moving weekend, but not moving in the conventional sense. Where? Come Sunday night, everything's going to be done, and we've left the house. Yeah. Okay. No, this is more of a sort of gray, nebulous move where we never really know when the end is in sight.

00:00:30:16 – 00:00:59:06
A soft move. Soft move is something. Yeah. So we're moving, like, beds and boxes over. But what we've realized now is that we've got to leave this house in some sort of state. That means that if they wanted to rent it again, that that they could. They can't. Yeah. Yeah. Because it's so old. It was really poorly put together.

00:00:59:08 – 00:01:19:13
The whole place needs rewiring. There hasn't been any carpet on the stairs for years. The last time we asked them, can you put some carpet in? They just ignored us. So there's, so there's things like there's a hole in Will's room, there's some Alcatraz even needs to be put in a new bathtub, needs to go in and stuff like that.

00:01:19:13 – 00:01:45:04
So I don't know, how do I feel? I feel like this is another part of this, whole stressful experience. Good good good good. Great stuff. Have you, started to actually like, stuff in boxes? Yeah, it's like boxing stuff up. No, no, no, some stuff is. So will you be this weekend? Will you be boxing stuff up?

00:01:45:06 – 00:02:10:06
Yeah. Boxing stuff up. Driving things over? Yeah. Yeah. Well, And how is your house livable? The, The new. The new. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's beautiful. So it's nearly there. Yeah, it needs painting and stuff. And the the floor needs to go down in the where you come in, like the lamp, the hallway. There's new flooring that needs go down.

00:02:10:06 – 00:02:28:18
But other than that, yeah. Oh, well, carpeting needs to go into the bedroom and, my office. But other than that, it's, pretty much. Well, it's not finished. It's never going to be finished. But it's livable. Yeah. It's warm. I mean, what what is there a time where you have to be out of your current home? Yes.

00:02:28:21 – 00:02:54:19
In January sometime. Right. Okay. January 19th. Some that maybe late January, us January. So we'll move everything out and then, and then we'll do whatever work they request done to the house, and then we'll be done with it. I would imagine. Fuck. Exciting, man. It's been exciting. Once I've paid all the invoices and I. I don't have to worry about anything.

00:02:54:20 – 00:03:10:13
That's when it will be exciting, right? Right. Now for that. Yeah. Right now it's not like, oh, great, we're moving house right now. I was like, how am I going to pay for everything? So I, I don't know, is this a great way to start a podcast? There's nothing fun or about this. Well, I mean, it's I think people are enjoying it.

00:03:10:13 – 00:03:41:17
Well, I'm so interested to, about the move. Yeah. Okay, fine. I got in a year. I'll be. I'll be excited in a year. Okay. And there's nothing literally like when you're. I'm excited that we're nearly there. I'm excited. Really? Because she doesn't. She's really excited. Yeah, but I have to concentrate on the very real thing about paying invoices on time and figuring out how I'm going to pay for the work that's ongoing.

00:03:41:19 – 00:03:59:11
Right. And then figuring out how to pay for the replacing of all the windows and then eventually thinking about how to replace the roof and then, at that point, I'll be able to relax. So about six years.

00:03:59:13 – 00:04:26:07
I kind of, noticed, in a very small way. My shower. Oh, yeah. Sorry. I just got the fuck. I just got my shower redone. Rebuilt. Like, proper rebuilt. The en suite shower, all the tiles and everything, you know, the whole lot. Maybe two, possibly three years ago. And noticed when I was having a shower, water start pooling just as you step out.

00:04:26:07 – 00:04:47:14
I was like a fucking weird. And then my message was like, what? The sales have gone a bit. I can see some cracks and stuff like that. And then the shower tray was a bit soft in in a specific area. So does that right. Get a plumber in. See was what he came round yesterday. And when he came round I was like he was supposed to be camera.

00:04:47:14 – 00:05:09:02
He said one off one. That's all right. Waiting for three clock. No sign of him. So I messaged him to say are you are you actually coming around? And he was like, yeah. So I just running night morning job of shit like. And he said, just fucking Texas. And I didn't have my lunch because I didn't want my house to smell of food full.

00:05:09:02 – 00:05:22:24
The trade guides coming. I couldn't give a shit. I said for me, I wouldn't use him. That would be me. I, I know you, I know you. It's hard to find plumbers, Bobby. Like, yeah, fuck this guy. I'm not going to eat him. Really? That's what I would do. But it's probably you just want the thing sorted, right?

00:05:22:24 – 00:05:43:15
So you better. Yeah. Cut up. Go. And then, And then he came in, took the panel off, looked underneath, and he was, Yeah. See the problem right away? It's going to need to totally regain. And I was like, what? And he's like, yeah, everything needs to come out. Need to start again. Except that the plaster boards wet is rotten.

00:05:43:15 – 00:06:06:04
It's moldy. There's a crack underneath your shower tray. You can fit it here. Everything's fucked. Need to redo it again. And I was like, right, okay. Rust wasn't expecting that. I was expecting you to come and do the little squirt gun with the seal. Just reset it and stick some wooden things underneath the shower. Try to make it not bouncy.

00:06:06:05 – 00:06:24:19
Yeah, and he was sorry to tell you that before Christmas. That's not what I mean. You could tell me any time of that. It would still be horrible news. And then, so, so. Okay. Great. So two, three years ago, I paid like 3 or 4 grand to get that done. Now I got to fucking pay to get it done again.

00:06:24:19 – 00:06:46:23
But I think I'm going to get a second opinion. I need a second opinion. Yeah. Because yeah. Yeah. The I feel like the shower tray obviously is an issue. It needs replacing. Take that out, put a new shower tray in, put some more kind of support underneath because it wasn't as much support underneath it to stop it from bowing and stuff like that.

00:06:47:03 – 00:07:05:07
So you when you step on it, you can feel it. Yeah. It would not be the support it got sort of wet and sort of rotten. There was no support directly underneath it. So you just sitting on the track meet you and you know my brother is a plumber, right? You know, you can as it should. I said that because I know what you're like.

00:07:05:09 – 00:07:21:19
You're going to bond bought him about a hundred questions. He's going to get fed up and brought in. I'm, he lives too far away. No, but you can take videos. And he said, this is what he said. Send them to me. I will send them to Ryan. Right. Ryan will give his opinion, I will tell you.

00:07:21:19 – 00:07:44:20
And that will be the end of the matter. No follow up questions. Right. Okay. Yeah. That's fine if he's correct, if you can get enough, if, you know, follow up questions. Really not maybe one maybe. All right. But no, but at least you know whether or not you've been told the truth, right? So if you, if you can get a light, your camera and your light in there and underneath the shower, he'll be able to tell you, right?

00:07:44:20 – 00:08:17:03
Yeah. That doesn't need to be. He's saying the right thing. Or he might say, you know, you can do this. You can do a fix. I kind of get the in right that when tradespeople come in, even if it's a tradesperson or my car. And the issue is that it's in these kind of it needs work like investigation on it or something, or it's an awkward job, but people don't want to do awkward jobs for, you know, a money.

00:08:17:03 – 00:08:32:12
No, no, no. And I and I get that. I can get that. I had to say wait to do that thing for hours. That really doesn't like labor intensive. That isn't that's really labor intensive, but it's not actually going to pay a lot of money. Pain in the ass not to do that. Yeah. No. Fuck. I want to do that.

00:08:32:18 – 00:08:50:23
I get that right. But then just saying. Yeah, Unsweet needs replacing. That's a bit far fetched, I know for you to do the work, you need the money to be able to, you know. Yeah. I don't know whether people come in and just say, definitely needs to be got. It's definitely a part of it. Yeah. That's for me.

00:08:51:01 – 00:09:02:06
Like even like they don't want to do the work. It might be a day's work and it might be a right pain in the ass. You just say, I don't want to do that. So I'm just going to say this. And if they want to do it, I don't know. If you're not, it's not my problem. I'll go to next job.

00:09:02:08 – 00:09:26:14
But then you know that if you do video it and send it to Ryan, he'll give you one way or another, right? Okay. But I had the same thing with my door. The back door where this, It was like a double glazing French doors go out to the garden, and the handle broke, and I called a bloke to fix it, and he went, he can't you just do it?

00:09:26:14 – 00:09:42:13
And I'm like, if I could do it, I wouldn't be calling you a 100 pound job. Weren't interested. No one was interested. So I was like, I've just got this door. It's been broken for years. I don't know how many shots are locks, but it's like the handle needs to be fixed. And I'm like, I don't I don't know how to do this.

00:09:42:13 – 00:10:02:00
I need your help. Yeah, I need your help. Yeah. So, like the icon just said, send the video so I know what that'll be your answer. Then you'll know if you do need to rip it all out. Or it can be fixed. Generally, though, the water's getting through. Yeah, I'm spitting all in it. Yeah, I'm on plasterboard as well.

00:10:02:02 – 00:10:25:16
Yeah. We've just got plaster on ours and it'll be tiled, so hopefully that won't won't happen. But yeah. Pain in the ass. Yeah I mean houses are shit. Cars are shit. Yeah. But Merry fucking Christmas everyone, right. Merry fucking Christmas because it's the Christian go. This is the Christmas episode. No it's not. That's next. Like God.

00:10:25:18 – 00:10:34:11
What a start.

00:10:34:13 – 00:11:01:15
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 that we prayed with our tongues in cheek. Band as we like to speak. And yeah, times change. But no matter what the bond remains. Brothers.

00:11:01:17 – 00:11:26:08
Hello and welcome to Lads Anonymous. It's episode 127. I'm Ricky Heath. I have two best mates, one main topic we answer your life dilemmas and confessions and our feature something only you know. So sit back, relax and enjoy the pot. I was gonna say, how's it going, Flav? But, I know the answer to that. We'll just, I'll just get straight into the, actually a bit.

00:11:26:08 – 00:11:55:23
Housekeeping. First of all, thank you very much to everybody's kind words for the pot last week. You know, specifically your mum coming on and, honest take on grief. A lot of people said some really nice things, really helped them out. People who are going through grief at the moment, people that have gone through it, a lot of emotions shared on it.

00:11:55:24 – 00:12:20:03
I got a lot of whatsapps from people as well that I've listened, and they said that they weren't expecting that and, you know, hit them as they were listening to choke them up with my mum. So yeah, but you're better and mum's better as well. My mum, as lovely as she is, does have an ego and she would absolutely love to see some of those messages.

00:12:20:03 – 00:12:44:14
Ricky. Right. I'll, I think I like she got a number and I don't know what you did. Now I'll send you the messages I sent them. Yes. You love that. Yeah, yeah, I will de I will de bless her. Yes, I will. I'll send those across something not to, you know, the totally anonymous form. If you go on our social profile click on the link.

00:12:44:14 – 00:13:04:06
You see our link tree. You'll see the first one there with the anonymous form. We've had ten anonymized form. There's no email needed. We can't see your location. We can't see anything. So if you want to get something of which there is no trace back to you. So we've had ten in already. Thank you very much to those as well.

00:13:04:06 – 00:13:21:07
Some of them are absolute fucking remote. Have you found there's been more honesty now that they are completely anonymous? Yes. Yeah, yeah yeah. Some of them are a bit too honest. Joke's on you. They're not really anonymous. Nothing's that we know everything. I'm joking. Well, someone else did as well. Wrote and said, can you do the video upload?

00:13:21:07 – 00:13:40:20
And you actually said in the last video upload that I went in and I try to do the video upload and add it as a section, you can add it as a section, but it requires you to sign in using Google. And the reason for that is because people could spam and send Trojan viruses and stuff like that.

00:13:40:22 – 00:14:13:11
So I took it off. But you know where to find it. If you want to send a voice now lads, anon pod@gmail.com, send it in there. And the last thing I will mention. So actually Tim will think so. There's still a 20% discount on your annual subscription to patron. Patron.com/lads a non pod. And when you get to the basket enter at the the discount code Dec 25.

00:14:13:11 – 00:14:48:11
So like December 25th, Dec 25 and on. Did you see the, on patron. So like for those you don't know, like patron isn't just a subscription service, you can sign up to patron for free, have a free account, follow your create. Is that you like or podcast? Follow and on. Follow the fighting cock and people put out free public facing posts so we you know, we've got a couple that are free out on there.

00:14:48:13 – 00:15:20:05
The internet episode, the video episode, and I Tottenham blog that I've done, but also when I'm asking for questions for the pod, I always post on there and they're always free and I always use ChatGPT to generate an AI image of characters. Flag. And I saw the latest one. Very funny. Yeah, yeah. The topic that we're going to, speak about and the, the last one I just posted was Flav and I running away from a Sonam, a volcano eruption and an earthquake, and we both need.

00:15:20:07 – 00:15:51:08
Yeah, all good things and enough. And we only post those AI images on Patreon, so sign up for free. Have a little look. Follow us. Do whatever you want. Right. Let's get into today's topic. So the topic for today is Natural Disasters and Surviving them. Yeah. Have you ever been in a natural disaster or something that's close.

00:15:51:09 – 00:16:13:15
Close to it. No. But some some of what I was always is a kid. So grateful for the fact that I lived in the UK because we like it's got to be in terms of whether it's kind of balanced. I know it gets rain and you get like the seasons and stuff, but actually that's quite nice. It's like different times of the year.

00:16:13:15 – 00:16:40:11
It's different aspects. In the most extreme are weather gets is you might have a hurricane maybe once every 4 or 5 years. Yeah. Maybe you get storms, but not full blown hurricanes. No. And, the, weather is so tame that people still remember 1988 when we had an actual hurricane. And it was it. Come on top a little bit feeble.

00:16:40:13 – 00:17:04:24
She she who, few rooves were stripped off and that kind of thing. But generally this is pretty calm where we are. And so, yeah, I think the there is no group of people more fascinated by natural disasters than people live in the UK because it's foreign, like when they go, oh, there's a, there's a size site, what's it called, seven earthquake in Japan on the Richter scale and said, Salamis are incoming.

00:17:04:24 – 00:17:14:14
I'm like, what the fuck? I'm all over this. Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Some of the best times of my life with Boxing Day tsunami 2000 and.

00:17:14:16 – 00:17:39:06
2008 or whatever it was. But it's thousands of people died. Thousands of people died with so far removed from it. It's almost like a movie for us. Yeah. I mean, like all blizzards or, our snow snowstorms. A lot of snow for three days, maximum rainfalls. And then it goes when we even have it this year, when do we even have last?

00:17:39:06 – 00:17:56:04
Have proper snow? No, I don't know. No, we. I can't remember the last. I remember it snowing. I remember it having snowed. I couldn't tell you when it was last year. We didn't get a single fucking thing. I know some people did it. Did a Saturday. Yeah. The world's warming up and Britain's warming up, I don't think. I think we've seen the last of our snowfall.

00:17:56:09 – 00:18:21:10
Proper snowfall probably. Really? Well, where is it gone? I love a bit of snow. Hi. I seem to remember. I don't know if I'm misremembering, but when I was a kid, my six week summer holiday burning hot every day. Yeah, walking around with my mates in just shorts. You're right. Yeah. This. And then when come wintertime snow everywhere it was there was, there was snow about you.

00:18:21:10 – 00:18:54:01
Definitely. One major snowfall a year. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. Nowadays it's like. Yeah, but we're kind of like mid December and it's still fairly mild outside. But it was 14 degrees the other day. I didn't even like the economic. It was weird. Like there's no doubt that there was the I don't yeah. Compared to when we were young, there is definitely an impact on global warming or a change in the landscape in terms of, you know, how mild it is in the winter.

00:18:54:03 – 00:19:13:18
Shouldn't be that. No. All right. So you've not been, I don't think it would have been that hurricane in 1988, which is that would be the the closest natural disaster thing. I don't know how many people died. That would be it. That'd be the only one that you could consider generally. What about, some of the floods you get around you away?

00:19:13:18 – 00:19:38:21
Oh, I love that we're flooding. God. So good. It's quite like a man thing that we're. We love a flood, I don't know. Well, I don't see a women walking around talking about. Oh, I'll send you pictures of floods. It may, I'd say not actually in the, in the discord chat, the last three days, because it's been, like, really raining.

00:19:38:23 – 00:20:04:05
My usual walking routes have been flooded, and I'm just sending videos of flooded rivers and flooded canals in the discord. Great. Yeah. That's, I jumped over. I jumped over one the other day as well. Yeah. But yeah, I see. Yeah, that was embarrassing. I recorded that as well. We live in Vermont, but that, we live in, a place called Marston, which is essentially marshland.

00:20:04:07 – 00:20:28:24
And so it floods all the time. And one of the things I'm most excited about is when they start trenching the roads, because it means that it won't flood this year. They can never fix it permanently. Yeah, but they, that they can temporarily make it better if you if you call it that way. Driving through a flood is I'm going to destroy my car and I it's a kind of adrenaline rush that I can't really find anywhere else.

00:20:29:01 – 00:20:51:09
That would fucking scare me. Wet. You know where that place was? Where? They it's like they live stream most of the time. Yeah, it's where it floods. So there's a lot. It's just been something, been Gregor's or something like that. And essentially there's a dip in a road. A Ford, essentially. Yeah. Fraught. Ford, I can't remember.

00:20:51:09 – 00:21:17:23
It's called. It's like a dip where water gathers. Yeah. No, it's a Ford. But, and obviously most of the time this road is possible. But when they've had the heavy rainfall, it isn't. Or it is if you do, if you approach it correctly. So the correct way to drive through a Ford is slowly, slowly, so that you don't create a bow wave that can get into your engine.

00:21:17:23 – 00:21:36:11
Because if a water floods, the engine is fucked. Yeah, as I understand that you need to replace the engine entirety 6000 7,000 pounds. Fuck you, as I understand it. And then you've got these like, know this, like these people that I've never had a discussion about driving for water ever. Well, I grew up in London, but it's not even an issue.

00:21:36:11 – 00:21:54:13
And I know that you don't want your water grinding your engine and these people and brand new mercs just flying through it like they're fucking, you know, if you're driving around in one of these cars, flashy cars anyway, you think you're probably a bit of a knob. But yeah, they're driving through it like that. Like the laws of water don't apply to them.

00:21:54:15 – 00:22:19:16
And they go through water, floods the engine. A car becomes a brick cannot move. Yeah. And then like, And then there's this just lad Ben Greg is aware of his video and everything about it on TikTok. I always watch the videos. Yeah, I love it because there's nobody a crowd and they're like, And then then you see the car smoking and start spluttering, and then it just stops in this fluid and it's just, it's fucking so good.

00:22:19:18 – 00:22:40:22
And the thing is, well, people think that the faster they drive, the quicker they'll get for it. And that's that's how how it's done. Oh, no. You create the waves and then the water goes back up the exhaust into the engine and you're fucked. So don't don't drive really fast through them. They go just slow, slow and steady.

00:22:40:24 – 00:23:07:15
I've also got into videos recently and yeah, it's funny how that, that the algo just says you up stuff, but there's some dude, he's not paid by the council, he's not paid by anyone. But he goes up to drains and he's got these big pipes like, sticks him in to the drains, lifts him up. I didn't even know that in the in the drains, there's, like a little bucket and it collects all the mud and leaves and debris and shit built in.

00:23:07:17 – 00:23:24:11
Yeah. And then he sees it, and then, and then the car parks just all the water goes away into these drains, and they're just like. So the the bucket, the bucket collects all of the debris. And then when it's full that no more water can get through, and then the empty the bucket and the water goes. That's right.

00:23:24:13 – 00:23:48:06
I didn't know that either. Yeah, I love watching those. Well, anyway, the the the nearest, the nearest kind of, natural disaster that I've been. And I, I've told this story before, but it must. When was it? So I would, I would have been around 16 to 18. There was, an earthquake and it was, fell in Milton Keynes.

00:23:48:06 – 00:24:14:23
I remember that when you say, you know what it feels like. So I was reading a book at the time. I was lying in my bed, and I was kind of hunched over, nearly dropping off to sleep. And, you know, when you the kind of book keeps just falling over and keeps hitting you in the face. And I carried on reading it and then, I felt like a shake and I kind of, like, slid down my bed almost.

00:24:15:00 – 00:24:39:02
And I was like, I've, like, just fallen asleep. And I've just not realize that I've fallen asleep and I've moved and what? But then when I kind of got my bearings, I looked at my light bulb and I looked at my computer monitor and they were both swaying, and I was like, what the fuck has happened? Went into my mum's room that she says she's having sex, that sort of thing.

00:24:39:02 – 00:25:08:00
It was not bang, bang, bang. She's actually single at the time. At that point, just myself, off putting myself. Legs on the wall, just kicking and kicking my little. And then, I said to her, like what had happened, and the light bulb was swinging into my commitment. I was swinging, and we lived near a, we lived near a, like, a massive train shed.

00:25:08:02 – 00:25:28:01
So, you know, the company Electrolux, like all the washing machines, dishwashers and all that, like, I think trains would come in and deposit these in these massive factories. But you also got a lot of lorries that would drive down our narrow road. And my mum was like, it's probably one of the articulated lorries that I've driven past and the vibration of it is shaking the house.

00:25:28:01 – 00:25:51:08
And I was like, number one, that's never happened before. And number two, at like 12:00 at night, that that didn't happen. And I went back to bed, I slept with the lights on and I was convinced it was a poltergeist. I mean, there is no other explanation other than you've got a pile in your room, and as soon as you shut your eyes, fucking game, I pick you up, throw you out window.

00:25:51:10 – 00:26:12:17
Yeah. Yeah, exactly. There. I went to work the next day, and as I went to work, everyone was crowded in the foyer, chatting, chit chat, and I was like, what fucking go on in there? Like what? Why is everyone getting excited? Another thing is approaching. They went right. Did you feed it? I was at what I meant. There was an earthquake last night.

00:26:12:19 – 00:26:34:13
Then the penny dropped and I was like, okay, okay, right now I know there's no power ghost in my mind. So yeah, it's the main thing that is a a back and back then like that. Eight I was really fucking freaked out by them, but I think that's the closest I've ever been to any kind of earthquake.

00:26:34:14 – 00:26:51:07
But it feels like a natural disaster. Is it? Well, earthquake. Yeah. No, that is in certain parts of the world. But there was no disaster in Milton Keynes. Was just that rumbling. No, it just it was just a rumble. So same as that with nothing to worry about, with nothing I like. But. Well, I was relatively close to Turkey.

00:26:51:07 – 00:27:13:03
Turkey of earthquakes. Devastating months. Yeah, yeah. So you know, four hours on a plane and you, you can you can get yourself involved if you want. But we just happen to live in a place. It's just pretty fucking insane. Think. Yeah. Average vanilla would you I mean, would you want to live in a place where there are no.

00:27:13:05 – 00:27:36:14
In America, they get quite a lot of stuff like that. What's your favorite mate? I was literally that was my next question. What's your favorite? What's your favorite? I think I mean, it's I've always been I was going to tell the story like last week, but when I was younger, I was fascinated by storm chasing. I think I used to watch just like loads of YouTube videos.

00:27:36:16 – 00:28:02:03
And I mean, it was the actual film twister, but maybe it was. I can't remember now, but where people there was just something exhilarating on one of those handheld cams and filming in a car and chasing this, this kind of tornado, and then it and then they'd make a wrong turn and the tornado starts chasing them. They reverse and fucking God knows what speed is absolutely brilliant.

00:28:02:08 – 00:28:21:13
Yeah, but yeah, obviously I didn't I didn't follow through with that profession. I wish I had that stay. But as the years go by, is it like a profession? Profession? I think there's a hobby. Is it? I don't know what it is. Yeah, I don't know. I don't think like I'm sure some people will work for a weather institute.

00:28:21:15 – 00:28:41:02
Yeah. But I think the idea of these, the ones that documentaries I've, I've watched about storm chasers like on Discovery Plus. So yeah, they've always been like just weirdos that do it and they upload their information rather than, this is like a NASA led project, but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. So what storm's your favorite?

00:28:41:02 – 00:29:06:09
I've. Everything's school. That that was back. That was back then. Oh. What's it now? I mean, after the Army, a scene, all those videos. It's an army. It's 100,000. A sad army and a new one, like, So since army is the main mill, right? It's an army. Is the steak and chips and the little side salads or little bread.

00:29:06:09 – 00:29:36:02
Roll whatever you want. Sink, house. Oh. Oh, God. Where is that come from? I like that. I tell you what, we've had sinkholes in in the UK and one more certain there have been well we know, we know, we know. Yeah, yeah, yeah a major incident February 2025. Maybe an incident declared as, over a sinkhole swallowing up UK street.

00:29:36:04 – 00:29:57:12
Yeah, it's it north east region, particularly around the Ripon areas, underlined by similar geology. So it's like the, the make up of the ground. It's not good for what we did on it basically. Right. Fuck. Yeah. They'll have a dirty little sinkhole mate here. And that one that happened the other day. Where was that in Thailand.

00:29:57:12 – 00:30:15:18
Is it Thailand? Yeah, I thought it was. I that's why I, it's done is you look at stuff. Yeah. It's a real. And we have to do that because if we believe if we see we're in trouble, one probably will end up doing that. Like my, my dad's into my music now anyway, if you have this and I mean it's not real and he's.

00:30:15:19 – 00:30:41:08
Yeah, I don't care. It's great though. It's like it's not I don't know he that to me is scary. Like when he's sending me, when he's sending me an album by a woman that doesn't exist, that no. Nothing has gone into that. That requires playing an instrument or creating music in the traditional sense. And people believe it has.

00:30:41:10 – 00:31:02:19
What do you do if you're a musician when you're so quickly become redundant? Because when people stop caring about live music or stop caring about how a piece of music is made, that's it, right? Anyway, a different subject, but I, I don't do, you know, I hadn't even thought about that. I was, I was about to say. But isn't the end game that your dad's just happy listening to music?

00:31:02:19 – 00:31:26:08
Yeah, that's what I said. The consumer eventually. Yeah, but I didn't realize I didn't really think about the. The consumer is the one that the, the the process goes where the consumer demands. Right. So if enough people don't give a shit that something is AI generated, then why not do it? Why bother hiring? If you're a singer, why bother hiring a session guitarist or a drummer?

00:31:26:08 – 00:31:52:09
Or why bother? Start a band when you can just put prompts and prompts into something like why? What's the problem? And it may be that that is that everything changes and shifts and so what? Right. The music industry cares if it does. Ask what you might think or you might think, that note something sacred and spiritual that we've genuinely created and we need to protect it.

00:31:52:11 – 00:32:16:21
You know, you can't at what point does this end, when in terms of, like, a disaster, I think this is a disaster where people and it goes to raves. If I generate music with no deejay, nothing to look at, just enter and listen to someone press a button like that to me, isn't a good thing. I want to go watch someone who could be flawed play an instrument perfectly.

00:32:16:21 – 00:32:39:05
That's what I want to watch. Like when I when I was at the radio, I went to that. I was watching people like Masters are. Yeah, but you could easily use their AI to generate a song that sounds like Radiohead made it. That is fucking scary. That is fucking scary. I hadn't even thought of scarier Than a tsunami from afar.

00:32:39:07 – 00:33:02:02
I'm more scared about that than I am tsunamis. Anyway, well, so sinkholes. The way what we saw in Thailand, I thought it was like, oh yeah, that's how extreme it was. Yeah. I mean, yeah, it was like that in that video, there's a guy that is just standing there and he's like trying to get a closer look, and they're like, everyone's saying, mate, don't go anywhere crazy.

00:33:02:02 – 00:33:20:18
And it's, I want to have a look. Let me look down the sinkhole. But this is let me look. Jim, leave me alone. This is a once in a lifetime thing. Yeah. There was one bit of a car that was down there, and they they would. They had like that. What you call it rappelled down to get them out of the car.

00:33:20:18 – 00:33:39:11
Was that bit real? So I thought that was I. Yeah. See, I don't know. Do you know what I'm talking about? The bit where they get up there, you know, and then suddenly the car just disappears into it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I, I feel like that's I, I wonder if that is, I think the, the, Army.

00:33:39:13 – 00:34:15:13
Do you know what. Right when I was having a look at this, this sand army, I always thought it was, Japan. That's where the main hit of it was. But apparently, Boxing Day 2004, 8:00 in the morning, a 9.2 to 9.3 earthquake struck the epicenter of the West Coast of, northern Sumatra, Indonesia says like a more hit by Indonesia, Thailand, couple of other bodies around there.

00:34:15:19 – 00:34:47:04
But I always thought was Japan because there is this video in Japan of the tsunami hitting right. Yeah. And there is. So you've got the sea. You've got kind of like this protecting part where if the sea comes over, it and it does some kind of, I don't know, balancing of the waves crashing over. And someone has this video from a high point and you can see how the waves are getting more and more choppy.

00:34:47:06 – 00:35:16:06
And then the water starts spilling over the sides and you can see people biking in the streets and walking their dogs and going for a run and doing whatever. And they are oblivious to what is about to happen. And then the water starts spilling over the sides, starts coming into the street, and then you can see the water drawing from the sea, and boats are starting to fall over the side of this thing, and then they get stuck on the bridges and the water gets higher and higher.

00:35:16:06 – 00:35:40:02
And these boats are just being crushed. And the whole streets and cars are being swept away, and it's moving through the streets and you can see it. And I was like, that is fucking insane. Yeah. How was it the one looking down at the buildings like from earlier legend and the bloke filming it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's quite a famous one isn't it.

00:35:40:09 – 00:36:03:13
Yeah it is. Yeah. And. Yeah. And how quickly the water came in, it is like. And there's, there's others as well. I've seen this one of someone on the beach in Thailand and they're all there. They're on their sun loungers. It's Boxing Day, they're having a nice time, you know, just getting over their Christmas dinner or whatever, chilling out.

00:36:03:15 – 00:36:29:17
And someone mentions that. Can you see that? The sea is receding quite a lot. Yeah. There's, there's a picture of, and it just goes back like a woman looking it. Yeah. Going out and like. Yeah, they see 100 and died. That woman. Yeah. Oh my. Oh those people. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Fucking gone. And then it just slowly starts coming back up the beach.

00:36:29:19 – 00:36:56:14
And then it's kind of like it starts knocking deckchairs away and stuff like that. And then you're like, right, okay. But people still, they, they don't know how bad it is. They think, oh fuck this. Just like that's a big wave or wherever. And then they are in trouble. They're in a lot of fucking trouble, if that like that, going to that side of the world, would that scare it?

00:36:56:14 – 00:37:16:24
Would that be in the plane, in the back of Yemen? No. No, not not like a natural disaster. No. I mean much more afraid of the plane blowing up before getting there than the worry about getting caught up in that disaster. But if you get caught up in that there, it's like one of them things if you don't make it out in time, if you haven't evacuated and you know they had no warning system then in the Indian Ocean.

00:37:16:24 – 00:37:41:01
So yeah, what the reason one of the Salamis in Japan and elsewhere is because it was, it was it was all about the same salami. Yeah, sure. Yeah. The 2001. Yeah. 2004. And, the one that sort of the reactors in, in the Fukushima, the reactors over was Fukushima. Yeah. Yeah. I, I've, the too much warped and overheated.

00:37:41:05 – 00:38:11:09
Yeah. Along those lines. And then there was, Japanese scientists that stayed behind to shut it down there too. I don't I can't remember if these were separate it because that happened in 2004. One happened in the Indian Ocean. Right. And is Japan attached to the Indian Ocean? My geography is terrible. Yeah, yeah it is. I'm sure it was because, loads of countries got it.

00:38:11:11 – 00:38:36:17
Yeah. But Japan seem to get it the worst. But I think it was the Indonesia got it as well didn't they. Yeah. So I don't think. Yeah. I have a second set of hands where it was. Where did it go off. Do you know, it says northern Sumatra, Indonesia. I, I'm just, I'm just zooming in on the map there.

00:38:36:19 – 00:39:02:02
All right. So technically it could be. But anyway, look, if you were on the beach in Japan or even in the Philippines or wherever, you would have been, once that was in is there's so little you can do to save yourself. Yeah. Right. And the one thing that never occurred to me, I just for, in my infancy, I actually forgot a key on me would be like, it's just a big wave.

00:39:02:02 – 00:39:25:08
I'll ride it out. I'll grab onto something, grab the lilo right away. Yeah, it's just the way land. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then what I didn't occurred to me is how much debris would be in the wave. Like there'd be shards of glass, there'd be chunks of wood. There would be. And there's no in terms of, like, dramatization.

00:39:25:08 – 00:39:45:14
If you've seen the film The Impossible. No, I've not made it. Do you like natural disasters at all? We just. Are you just doing this? I'm not film I don't like. I just don't like films. You know, they. I don't watch films. I mean, this is about a natural disaster, about tsunamis on Boxing Day. That's what this is what it's about, right?

00:39:45:14 – 00:40:06:11
Loads of people dying, getting swept up. And you see it all in HD, right? That not tickles your fancy. It's. Oh, and it's about a family again. Split apart, and they lose each other. That's the other thing in the tsunami is you get displaced that that's the that's the thing. Right? That's the thing that worries me like going to these countries and a tsunami hit in.

00:40:06:11 – 00:40:29:08
And I've got my family there and I've got, try and not only save myself but save them. How am I going to do that? It's fucking madness. Well, no. Exactly. This is what the film's about. You wouldn't be able to save them. They would hope that they survived. What's the film? Genuinely. You like it? I mean, it's I don't I was I've never.

00:40:29:14 – 00:40:55:22
I cried so much in film gods, brilliance. Proper shadow. Sorry. Words. Yeah. I can't wait to watch that. I'm crushing it at the, It's one of the deadliest disasters in human history. Can you ever guess how many people died in that estimate? It's how many people died. I don't I what is the one the most deadly, did you say?

00:40:55:24 – 00:41:05:19
Yeah, I would say no. Nuclear war nine. I'd say 9000.

00:41:05:21 – 00:41:45:19
230,000 deaths. Fuck me. Really? Yeah. 230,000. That's Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, India, Japan. That is fucking mad, boy. That is a fucking like. Yeah, that's so much more than I thought. No. In it. Yeah. I feel a bit proud of making light of it now. Well I mean of that people. Oh yeah, that is. But I mean, this is what, this is what, natural disasters do.

00:41:45:21 – 00:42:18:11
You know what? The Japan had a big sin army in 2011 as well. Right. Yeah. Is that the. That's the Fukushima one, right? Yeah, I think so. Not that 19,000 deaths fucking now. Oh, wait. Still. Yeah, it is Fukushima. Yeah. 2011. That's why we get mixed up. They they had literally, on the 8th December, I think it was Japan had a tsunami warning, earthquakes and army warning.

00:42:18:13 – 00:42:40:03
Mate, Japan just it's the number one place, I think that I that most want to visit at this moment in my life, but tsunamis, earthquakes, I don't I fucking. Mad. It's fucking on top there in here. It's not, it's not like it's anywhere in it, you know, not going not going to go because there might be a tsunami.

00:42:40:03 – 00:43:06:03
That'd be weird. But it. Yeah, but I mean, that's going to be the time when I go in there because I was there waiting for me. There'll be alarms now. You can, you can get out. So. So yeah, they do, the two telltale signs of a tsunami, obviously the the siren warning and the water pulling back. It's a it's another short but no, if you out and see, you know, you feel the tsunami wave as well, which always freaked me out.

00:43:06:03 – 00:43:26:23
I was like, do the fish feel it? With the sharks feel it when they're out there. Have you say there's a there's another there is a video of a, a Japanese fishing boat on, they get radioed through that the tsunami is coming, and there's three enormous waves heading their way, and they hit these waves, and it's quite big, but they they ride it out.

00:43:27:03 – 00:43:52:24
Well, they don't run out and like, what they they weren't sort of capping, were they? They were just huge I mean that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Where's that. And I don't know tick tock maybe. All right. Well Rose I love a little So now actually I want to say right now. Right. Good. Is that if you do, come across a tsunami, they advise to survive.

00:43:52:24 – 00:44:15:23
It is to run up hill or to a high building immediately. Don't wait, don't film. Get to a high rise. And you know, that's that is solid advice just on that. I, I when I was looking for, right when you just said that just because I wanted to see it. Yeah. I've opened up WhatsApp. Not WhatsApp.

00:44:16:00 – 00:44:36:19
So, it said flood water. There's two lads in a rubber dinghy just going down some flood. Flood water. I, I would always see that on the news. And I always like that to be me. They're not going down streets. They're going down an actual flooded river. Look. Oh fuck. Oh yeah. It's going to end up in complete disaster.

00:44:36:21 – 00:45:06:14
Yeah, that's a rubber dinghy. Like one little branch that goes for it. They got lifejackets on because they don't. That's just that's mucking about. The another one is one that I wanted to, chat to you about the, volcano eruptions. Yeah. Now that, that's quite frank. Fresh memory. That was April 2010. Did you? You didn't get caught up in that, did you?

00:45:06:16 – 00:45:24:07
Oh, the Icelandic. Yeah. Yeah. The, No, no, I was I didn't like that because all the flights were grounded. Running. Yeah. Nothing like that. I mean, that's the best. If you're on holiday and you get grounded because of ash loads. You got a bit of money, you blow us. This is great. We'll stay for another seven days.

00:45:24:09 – 00:45:56:14
There's nothing I can do about it. Oh, work on saving. All right. That would be. Call it like volcanoes. They are another thing that fascinate me. You know, like seeing lava, like live volcanoes and lava pouring out of it. Have you seen those ones where it's just where it's like slow lava and people can get close to it, and they put objects in front of it, and then the lava just kind of devours it and just carries on running, like, what are you doing fucking now?

00:45:56:14 – 00:46:18:21
Yeah, get away from that. Yeah. Yeah, I, I, I watched the film once about a, it's based on the true events of these tour guides that would take people to this active volcano. Was they active? It was just smoke would be coming out of it, but it wouldn't be spewing like lava out it. And that's a different volcano.

00:46:18:22 – 00:46:42:02
Then every now and then, it blows up. They got unexpectedly exploded and they got stuck on the, on the, on this island. And they had to try and get in boats to get off and, just molten ash was just raining down on them and burning them and stuff. And I was like, fuck them. I'm never going to get near a volcano, mate.

00:46:42:02 – 00:47:07:12
That's fucking. Yeah, that is rough, man. Yeah. Look like it. Someone sent in Archer. Actually, that's just remind me someone sent this, email in for today's, topic. And this is a, this is on earthquakes, actually, but it's similar. Hi, guys. Earthquakes are common in Iceland, and they can really catch you off guard when you notice them.

00:47:07:14 – 00:47:40:14
In the spring 2008, I was driving outside of Reykjavik on my way to work on my family's summer cabin when I suddenly felt a jolt hit the car. It was as if the whole vehicle started moving in waves. All this, all the traffic around me, both in front and behind, dropped from about 60 miles an hour, down to ten miles an hour in the same second, a few drivers pulled over, got out and kicked their ties to check if they'd blown out, which they hadn't.

00:47:40:16 – 00:48:01:23
People looked at each other, not saying a word at first, and then almost simultaneously, everyone said that was an earthquake. At that moment, we all turned to look at the mountain right next to the road, and it was covered in a huge cloud of dust. Luckily, only a small part of it had collapsed and nothing reached the road.

00:48:02:00 – 00:48:26:14
The epicenter of the quake was just 1000m away from the mountain, meaning I was almost directly above it, and it turned out to be a 6.3 on the Richter scale. Wow. It was deeply unsettling. It was a deeply unsettling experience, but thankfully, earthquakes that big are rare in Iceland. In recent years, volcanic eruptions have captured most of our attentions here in the capital area.

00:48:26:14 – 00:49:01:09
Since 2021 eruptions in the Rick Yanes peninsula. I think that these have been happening regularly. I haven't gotten close to any of them myself, but I can see the glow from my living room window at home. Well, I'm just looking at what are you talking there? Like, these are genuinely volcanoes erupting in lava, pouring down into the onto the land like, can you imagine just being in your front room looking out the window, though?

00:49:01:11 – 00:49:48:16
That was it. The glass still closed. It's still going. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Still going, still going. Never mind fucking mental. The, I was going to say, I just want you to write these ones, these, these lessons before we move on. So volcanic eruptions down, tsunamis, landslides. I like obviously, I used to work in the railway and landslides is a big topic, very big topic because when there's a lot of flooding, bad weather, when, when the weather is frozen that much frozen and then it's slow and then it falls really quickly, it can, move the mud, and then that can create a landslide.

00:49:48:18 – 00:50:07:18
Yeah. And it obviously when it when it goes on the tracks, no one knows a train comes along, smashes into it. But what are you talking about? When you used to work for Network Rail. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So they would have different, technology that would then whether it be able to identify where the land is moved in the UK all the time.

00:50:07:18 – 00:50:28:07
Landslips. Really. Yeah. Yeah. All the time. And that's when I brain as that's when a line will get closed. Yeah. Because it's dangerous for the trains one quite recently maybe even the last 2 or 3 months. You see the image on line a train. No. No one had known that there was a landslip and a train full pelt.

00:50:28:07 – 00:50:48:17
Fucking went into it. Smash the fuck out the train. Luckily, no one died. It derailed the train, but everyone was safe on board because in my head, when a train derailed, like the carriages will go up like in the air, but like, probably designed to not do that. Well, right. So it's just hit the mud and just skipped on the track.

00:50:48:17 – 00:51:06:01
It just a will wasn't on the track that that was based basically. Yeah. So I was on the train the other day and trying to get back for the Spurs Newcastle game and it got, I couldn't get back basically. And I was there and they went, there's an issue with the track up ahead, which is waiting for Network Rail to get back to us and confirm that we can go forward.

00:51:06:03 – 00:51:27:16
And I was sitting and you fast, you motherfuckers, all the time with these wankers can't get nothing right. But actually, like, they probably got on a warning of some sort that set off that shit. That everything was safe so that we didn't were obliterated in the because of the landslip or something. Yeah, exactly. I mean that so that happens quite often.

00:51:27:22 – 00:51:56:03
And along with landslips, I, I you know what I, I've, I've come quite fond of as long as that, you know, with the house is, coastal erosions, you know, videos of the waves lapping at some cliffs somewhere. There's a house on there. Yeah. Slowly it slides into this a well, what happens are the insurance cover because they know that you there, do you just lose your home?

00:51:56:03 – 00:52:16:01
And that's it? I don't know, because there is some kind of. I remember because I always wanted to live near a river. So I've looked at this. And your home insurance is through the roof, because if the river burst its banks, your house is fucked. That's, you know, they know that's going to happen if you live in a floodplain.

00:52:16:03 – 00:52:39:16
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, when you, when you get, you get a land survey done when you buy, buying a house is what we did recently. And it tells you everything that's likely to happen in, in that whether it be, you know, there were extensive flooding, local rivers that might break. You know what? How if you live in a valley, what you can expect and.

00:52:39:21 – 00:53:04:18
Right, all of that stuff has to be given to the or the is accessible by the insurance company. So any any bad things. It all sounds terrifying, but when you speak to someone like surveyor, they said that's pretty normal. But it was like rock formations that possibly could move and shit like that. That oh fuck. Look, I don't want any snowball.

00:53:04:20 – 00:53:23:19
How do you feel about avalanches? Oh, I used to like an avalanche as a kid. Yeah, I'd like a I like watching them. Wouldn't want to get caught up in one. The idea of, being completely consumed on the snow and not being on some move is terrifying as a kid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, like when they say you like when the snow moves and it's on top of you and it's it can only be a few feet.

00:53:23:19 – 00:53:44:23
It's like concrete. Like it means I hate that. I hate the sound of that freezing cold snow. So a video of this guy in this snowboarding, and he's just going past, and he just noticed two legs poking out of the snow, and then he. Yeah. And then he. And then he dug it out and he was a line and he just like you go in and when you watch a video, you don't see it.

00:53:44:23 – 00:54:17:01
He sees it and you're like, what if you like, I would just dead. Like when they go up mount Everest. Yeah. You die up there. You're left. You're not recovered. You go up there, you go up there at your own risk. If you're dead, just dead. That's it. The the mountain takes you that the mental Joe Rogan recently posted I don't know how sorry to come on my Instagram, but he posted on his IG and it was a map of all the dead people that have been lost.

00:54:17:03 – 00:54:41:21
Everest. There is fucking loads man. So many dead ends. And they just they just left them like they're obviously like you saying just left there, but they're, it's almost like they've been mummified by the ice and snow. They're like perfect. Like a little time capsule. Oh. Fucking dead. You just lying there. You. You've walked past. They walked past dead bodies all the time.

00:54:41:23 – 00:55:07:10
Just left it. Apparently there's a there's a reference point called a green base. And it's someone that's dead in green boots. That's the that's the path. And it's actually a reference point of a dead person. Green boots, I don't know but it's thank I right I get why people one of the extreme things I don't get why they want to do that when I notice the tallest point on on Earth and all that stuff.

00:55:07:10 – 00:55:34:11
But you're one of like thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of people. You go up there and it's like a freaking it's it's densely populated with climbers. And most of these people are not. Oh, yes. In green boots. Is that just the body? Just. They're left like that. Yeah. But it's right there. But he. Put you off that put me right off my walk.

00:55:34:11 – 00:55:57:08
I'm going back not having any more of this. And because they're frozen, they don't blow no fucking out. Preserved like that. Yeah. I think that photo you're talking about, I don't actually I don't know if you saw, but I saw someone saying, not climbing Everest. Instagram. And it's there with all their gear on top of, Everest.

00:55:57:14 – 00:56:17:17
And then it's like behind the scenes and then it's just like a queue, like going into Tescos of people getting to the top of everything. You just think, oh, is it all right? I'm not saying it's easy, don't like, but I'm just saying like there's a queue of people, it's like, yeah, what? Yeah. And you're and Sherpas are doing amazing work for you and stuff.

00:56:17:18 – 00:56:39:10
Yeah. One of my biggest fears would be falling down a crevasse. Right. Okay. You know what I'm talking about. Like an ice. Is it crevasse? Yeah, yeah. So you got the snow on top, and then it's just like the kind of, like, kind of almost like a cave, but. Yeah, but it's just ice just falling down that,

00:56:39:12 – 00:56:55:13
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. What? Never been to a break in a couple of legs on the way. And then just been left down there to watch starve to death with broken legs? Yeah. You think? Well, what have I got on you? You're patting yourself, and you've got a little ax hammer like that. So hammer my head for my head.

00:56:55:15 – 00:57:21:21
Yeah. So smashing my own head in. It's, good, man. Sinkhole was done there. I don't really know the difference between hurricanes, cyclones, typhoons, typhoons and tornadoes. It's all wind stuff, isn't it? All wind and all of them up into a tornado? Yeah, the tornado is like a slight. Like a cyclone. Like. No, it's like a you know what tornado is.

00:57:21:23 – 00:57:50:20
Yeah, I know what a tornado is. Yeah, but hurricanes always. But then I circular Huntly but yeah. Hurricane. It's it's a hurricane not circular. Yeah but just massive. And what's tornado then. Smaller. It's like a spout fire okay. Yeah. Yeah I don't know man. We don't really we when you have in the occasion where we've had tornadoes in the UK, they're over water and it's like a water spout and it's not.

00:57:50:20 – 00:58:11:24
Yeah. I've seen of in any way like if you watched it like, that's incredible. That's that is, that's that's what it is. Something that's just jogged my memory. I think it's like, a tornado or a typhoon. I know tornado, one of them is horrible. One of them is, sorry. Water. Water made cyclone. And then it's.

00:58:12:01 – 00:58:38:18
Yeah. And then it touches land, and that's when it becomes whatever. But they're fucking pretty, pretty gnarly blizzards. I don't really care about blizzards. See them in Canada all the time. Floods, wildfires. Actually, God's missed that one out. The no, no, no, don't do anything for me then. The ones in LA recently. Yeah. I mean, did you I kind of fly.

00:58:38:20 – 00:58:59:10
I might look up from my phone if it comes on the screen, but not like it saw me where I put my phone down. Yeah, it's an RV is the, is it's just go. It's just just one thing, about volcanoes. I remember I remember reading about this at school in geography is that volcanic ash that settles after an explosion creates.

00:58:59:12 – 00:59:27:24
Yeah. It's almost like the best type of substrate for farming. Like the the growth around using volcanic ash. Like the reason why Pompeii was I think I'm getting this right, the reason why Pompeii, there was so much settlement in next to Mount Vesuvius. Yeah. Was that the farmland was so fertile and was they were able to easily grow crops and so.

00:59:28:03 – 00:59:54:09
Right. And the mountain hadn't erupted in such a long time that civilization formed there. And then we know what happened. You know, that's so weird. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, God got the wonder what happened. Yeah. I'd like to visit there, actually. Yeah. So weird, like, why would it have so much? Because it's full of minerals and minerals were coming up.

00:59:54:11 – 01:00:21:07
So it's mad the destruction there is, like, the earth is just left to its own devices. Yeah, it would just, you know, while it's destroying things through the volcanic ash and stuff, if that then creates a massive burst in life. Yeah, it's a balance in it. Whereas humans come in to fuck everything up basically. Well, through chaos comes beauty.

01:00:21:07 – 01:00:41:11
Oh, that. And I think I think we'll leave it at that actually. Yeah. So before we are going to go on to add another thing, voice notes sent in, thank you very much. And something only you know I do. You know, I didn't actually name this because I was in a rush. But it's a it's a good on the topic for next week Christmas.

01:00:41:13 – 01:01:16:24
How are you spending Christmas. Where are you? Who are you spending it with? Have you got your presents sorted? Have you got your presents or it have. No, no okay. Talk about that. What is your Christmas Day? Look like? Any weird or interesting traditions. Send them in. For this one. If you've never seen anything in Two Lads anonymous, why not do it for Christmas and share how it is that you're celebrating Christmas and send that into lads anon pod at gmail.com and we will read them out in the Christmas episode of Lads Anonymous.

01:01:17:01 – 01:01:52:01
Now we are going to go on to another thing. And another thing and go into a grown up and another saying, yeah, I couldn't agreement that novel thing. Oh yeah. No, I didn't have a thing. Oh, oh should I like, oh I've got to play this now haven't I. Yeah. So that's cool. Cool. I've got to put my thumb up and go nicely.

01:01:52:03 – 01:02:14:00
Right, mate, you were calling for And another thing. I've got one for you. I swear, it is now against the law for people to sit in the middle lane of a fucking motorway and just drive like it. That's the law, right? So, like, why don't everyone. What doesn't all of these pricks, like, get pulled over and get a ticket for doing it?

01:02:14:00 – 01:02:39:00
Because, like, it's like whac-a-mole like you get past one and there's like another ten. If you go to any other country in Europe, the like, the traffic just flows, like people aren't doing that. But you know what pisses me off? Even more than the fucker sat in the middle lane is the pricks who, like, tear up behind them, flashing across three lanes, then come up in the front and go back again to prove a point, even when there's not a gap there.

01:02:39:00 – 01:02:55:11
So they go right behind the lorry enough to come back out again. Like you shouldn't be in the middle, like. Like they shouldn't be in the fucking middle lane, but you're a prick as well. Like, and the police should be pulling them anyway, and like, doing something about it fucks me right off. And while I'm at it on drive in, I'll tell you what else fucks me off.

01:02:55:15 – 01:03:13:16
People who fucking indicate right when they're going straight across a roundabout. What is wrong with you? Are you taught that, like, get your missis to have a word wreck? Honestly, that's my ID. And last thing fucking flag got. Stop putting up fucking flexibilities.

01:03:13:18 – 01:03:42:15
Yeah, the middle hogging the middle lane is so fucking annoying. Yeah, yeah, I am a bit of a middle lane. So you not supposed to just drive in the middle lane? No. The east. But is it supposed to just be in and out? You to get to the left? We get to the right and the middle line is just there to help you facilitate, you know, that low risk, the line you're supposed to drive in the left lane and, if you're in the middle lane, you and there is room to move over, you should move over.

01:03:42:17 – 01:04:09:13
If there's no room to move, move over. And you're going faster than the cars in the left lane. Then you drive in the middle lane, obviously. Yeah. And but if there is, if you're just idling along, certainly if you're not going at this limit at 70 and you're just you're basically intolerable. No, this but you're, you're creating a problem behind you because there are cars moving faster than you are the one to overtake, but only have one lane to do it.

01:04:09:13 – 01:04:35:03
So there's like a pinch pinching point of two lanes trying to get into one. You know you're not supposed to hog the middle lane. Rick. Don't tell me you do this. And, they are they do that. Yeah, they you know, I would run around me off the road if I was like that one thing that annoys me with driving that I do, and another people that don't wave or give a little thank you when you, when you land for.

01:04:35:03 – 01:04:53:11
Yeah, that's just manners in it. Like, even when, like even when I wave people through and it's like my right eye and I let them go and they come through and they just don't give me a nod. Even when it's my right away and I go through, I still give them a life. Yeah, that was my right away.

01:04:53:11 – 01:05:13:09
But thank you for waiting. That. Yeah. Not being a cup pain is when the the bad stuff happens. When the fucking volcano comes out of my mouth and when my kids are in the car, God, and I lose it. So like within an incident, like in your tempers, everybody's temper is just ramped up the minute they get in the cars.

01:05:13:09 – 01:05:40:14
Weird. Very strange. I never had any kind of road rage incident. I've. I've been pissed off before, but I'm jet relatively quite calm in the car. I think it's because Greg growing up with the old man, he just. We call him Angry Dad whenever he's in his valley. Just a mental. You'd go absolutely mental, right? We are going to jump into something only you know.

01:05:40:16 – 01:06:12:13
Something, you know, you. This goes back to my first ever lads holiday in Tenerife. We were 17. Our hotel had one of those safety deposit rooms near reception, where every room has a little safe box to keep your personal belongings. You are only allowed one person in there at a time. One evening when everyone was getting ready to go out, I pop down there to get some of my euros for that night.

01:06:12:15 – 01:06:40:05
There was a little stool there to to reach the higher ones. We had one little box for all of us in our room, so as I was rummaging around, I pulled out my mates little plastic wallet full of his money. You might think you can guess what's coming next, but no, I didn't take any of his money. I put it down on the stove and reached in and got mine out, got what I needed for the evening and put mine back locked up and left.

01:06:40:07 – 01:07:01:12
About an hour later, as we were leaving to go out, my mate went to get some of his money. He came out paid as a ghost, saying his money wasn't in there. My heart sank. I realized straight away I'd obviously left it on the stove, and a stranger had been in there and taken it. He asked which of us had been in there last.

01:07:01:14 – 01:07:21:13
I said it was Billy. He didn't pop in an argument. We'd had a few beers and he obviously couldn't be sure either way if it was him or not, but I said I last went in there a while ago and it had been, since me, and so I went along with it. My mate was accusing him of stealing it.

01:07:21:15 – 01:07:43:15
It was carnage, but I kept quiet. My mate was in bits. We were 17. We didn't have any spare money to withdraw, so he had to ring his mum to transfer him more money. The years my mate at the blame. The years my mate had had the blame for being the bloke who either stole or lost my mates money.

01:07:43:17 – 01:08:12:19
But it was me to this day, over 19 years later, that is still something I need. I know I, the there's something in the recesses of my brain somewhere where I have done something like that. I don't know what it is, but there's a little tickle, like a little tick up my nose or something. There's something there where I have done something and not owned up to it and just let it go.

01:08:12:21 – 01:08:34:14
And one day I'll remember that and I'll tell that story, but I can't remember what it is. So the topic for next week is Christmas. Let us know how you spending Christmas lads! Anon at gmail.com or anything else you want to send in patrons. We'll see you today at normies. See you Monday. I hope you have a lovely Christmas.

01:08:34:16 – 01:08:36:09
See you later. Yeah. Bye.