#130 | Retirement | Pensions, Panic & A House By The River

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It's fate. Go!

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Do you, I don't know if this is just me feeling. Just being old and grumpy and stuff like that, but there's, like, 15, 20 WhatsApp groups, and everyone's going. Happy new year, happy new year. And I just feel like I'm saying it because everyone else is saying it like, I don't feel like I sound fucking awful, like saying this.

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It's not like I don't wish them a not a prosperous and successful 2026, but I'm just saying it because everyone else is saying it. And I feel like, yeah, I don't I don't think anyone feels anything when they're saying it. Really? No. Like what I didn't say. I don't know when they're sending it. They don't feel anything.

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When they receive it, they don't feel anything. No. It's like sending Christmas cards. Yeah, I know, you know, I always get like, my old man. It's like he's his generation, my generation. Where they would send it was like, rude if he didn't. Yeah. Pain in the ass. Like, right. My, Yeah. My mum I'm a dad. Both semi Christmas cards and my mum misses like, have you brought them Christmas cards?

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I'm like no, like that's just pointless. I didn't buy Christmas cards. And then Christmas cards appear on the table that I write and I have to get through it. And I'm just like, writing the same thing as I do every year. I mean, I did my I've made it abundantly clear to absolutely everyone that I never buy Christmas cards.

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Like I would happily never receive a birthday present if it meant I never to buy any. Like the great you sent me and brother. Me and my brothers have never bought each other a gift. Ever. Have you not read? No. I mean, maybe I don't remember, but it's just like unspoken rules. I. And it's better for everybody. Yeah.

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My my sister and I, we never buy any birthday presents for each other. We're both December babies. It's an expensive month. We don't do it this year, though. She was a bit cheeky. She bought me a birthday present. She said, I saw this. I thought of you. I just knew that you'd like it. So I thought I would do it as our fuck.

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What is it like? What? She got me and she got me two meadows. Their actual meadows that my, great granddad won in World War two. Yeah. That were you would like that? Yeah. And I was like. I was so, like, choked up by it that she, she she thought about it. Not really thought about it. I knew that I'd love it.

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I knew that, you know, connection to the family and my love of war and stuff like that. And at no point did you have an inkling or sort of know not, are you? No, no, no, I know that the you know, the what she did for you was a wonderful thing, but she just didn't enter your mind once.

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No, no, no, you're right, you're right. Yeah. But look, you've got an agreement in place, haven't you? So it's not on you. I think that's fine. Yeah. That's nice. Very nice of her to do it. It's actually a bit more special. I've got my granddad's actual ones from when he. When he. What he got in the war was that four of them.

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3 or 4 of them. What do you have them. Yeah. That he's ones that he was given in the war. Yeah. Oh my God, that's quality. Yeah. Somewhere I feel like I don't know where they are. They just I feel like you should wear them, you know, like Uncle Albert used to just pin them to his height and.

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But what about he didn't. They weren't any, like, special ones. They're all just standard in infantry. You know, he wasn't like you. Your I don't know, I've got 20 Germans and just. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he just fixed planes, I think, so that he can get many medals for fixing planes. But he, he served this part very important part as well.

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Yeah. Very true, very true. How was, Yeah. Gone. Just gone back to the present. Things like if you've got five brothers, you receive one present, but you have the four or 4 or 5 different present buying experiences. Mate. That's awful. So it's better for everybody.

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And it, yeah, completely. I totally I mean, I've got one sister, and I don't want to buy her presents. Hell, yeah.

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I think he says, well, we're old enough now where we're in that space of our lives, hopefully. Where, if we want something that we really want, we just go out and buy it. So it's like where I feel like at Christmas and birthdays that we're just in this death row of buying presents because we're supposed to buy presents.

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Yeah. My, my, my dad has been giving me 100 pounds since I was 16. Yeah. Still 44. Give me 100 pounds. Is inflation a stuff you go up to a, It's exactly the same with my dad as well. Stop giving me 100 pounds. Not worth 100 pounds anymore, is it? It's like he gives me the hundred.

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It gives me 100 pounds, for my birthday. It's like Christmas around the corner, and it's like. Oh, and then he'll give me Christmas money. And I'm like, well, he's giving me money. But then I have to be a thoughtful son and try and think of stuff to to give him. Yeah, I might, I well just say, well, why don't I give you 100 pounds?

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We just cancel each other out. Yeah. I think that we just don't give each other 100 pounds. Yeah.

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Yeah. No, no, it's really, really. Did you have a nice 20, 26? What, a New Year's Eve? Yeah. All right. I, it was a we have this, we have this strange tradition, and I quite like it that me, the kids and the missus, we go ice skating every New Year's Eve, we go ice skating. I don't know how or why that came about.

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Maybe because it feels a little bit Christmassy because of ice, snow, that type of thing. So we went ice skating. We came back, we ordered a pizza. Oh, we watched, you know, the it's just the usual shite on New Year's Eve on the TV, then watch the fireworks. And it's so funny, you know, when you're watching the fireworks.

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My Mrs. was like, oh, wait, isn't the sky clear for the fireworks? And it's just like, oh God, we sound like such mums and dads and 40 year olds. That sounds. And then to dream that evening. Yeah. Oh yeah, it was the pizza I had, even though it was lovely. I was beatboxing on the toilet most of the night.

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What? So that was. Where'd you get it from? It's a place called Papa Luigi in Milton Keynes. Knock knock knock. Like a Domino's running from, I think they might be nationwide. I'm not sure, but it was a lovely pizza. Lovely. But there's something in it that's just. Wait, wait. Yeah. The way he's named my fucking, mate may also explode.

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It's fucking Terence even. Yep. During the night. Yeah. Oh, yeah. There was, there was two before I went to bed. One at night. And then I had to go for one again this morning. It's like, how much is left in me? Nah. I'm empty. Literally empty. There's nothing else to come out. Yeah, totally. And this fucking this, pizza still playing havoc on me, but, no, drinking.

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Didn't have a single drop also as well, I just want to mention Christmas Day.

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Boxing day, New Year's Eve. I've not had one one drop of alcohol. That's good. Right. And that's not not that's not like, oh. I'm trying to be sober. I'm not, you know. Oh, I just because I was driving round my mum's so obviously I wasn't drinking. I had a couple of, 0% beers, but Boxing Day, I was at home.

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New year's, I just I don't know, I don't know what's, It feels weird. And then I just feel weird. Like, if I'm not, I'm. Do you ever feel weird that you had a proper, You had a good drink? Never. They. Didn't you say maybe. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, I got proper belted. Do you? When you're having a beer at home or a wine and your missus isn't.

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Do you feel weird that your. Yeah. The only one drinking? Yeah, a little bit. Yeah, but it's what I do. We unwind with a bottle of wine on the sofa. Right. Okay. But when I went sober last year. Yeah. Ollie was like, I don't like this. She doesn't. She wasn't encouraging me to drink. She felt awkward having a glass of wine.

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Yeah. I don't know why. Yeah, I can honestly, I feel like an alcoholic otherwise, don't you? Yeah. Yeah, I understand that. My missus just. She's a tea monster, so she, just drinks tea all the time, so I'm not going to fucking sit around having the kind of high technology drinking tea. It's a bit weird. She. We, wrote the, the the theme tune.

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Sing the theme tune, sing the film tune. What is that from? I don't know. I always want to say Harry into it, but I don't think it is. Yeah, I think it might be Little Britain. Anyway.

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Just, just, Dim night, hazy light, band of brothers playing tunes high as quite midnight. Waves surfing through till daylight breaks rhythm. Here's different ways. Love of music that we prayed with our tongues in cheek. Band as I we like to speak. And yeah, times change. But no matter what the bond remains. Brothers.

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Hello and welcome to anonymous is episode 130. I'm Ricky, he's have two best mates. One main topic we answer your life dilemmas and confessions and I'll feature something only you know. And everything remains anonymous. Always. So sit back, relax and enjoy the pod. It's New Year's Day. We're recording on New Year's Day. It's, It's a new day.

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It's a new dawn. It's a new way to drink life. Is it? What difference does it make to you? I don't know, it's just that it's, No. No one's doing anything new Year's Day, have you? If you got people coming over. No. No one's ever come into my house ever again. My. No. What are you doing at my my family?

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Well, my in-laws, all of them. Every single one of my Irish in-laws that descending on my house. How many on the side of this? A fucking lot, boy. There's a lot. Well, you could ask. I think we are just going to be doing stuff like a big chili nachos, that type of, you know, picky food. Really? I, I like the idea of Irish.

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You I like, I like stew, do you? I think it's incredible, really. It's, It's lovely. Like, I like a stew, but it's like, kind of the much derided, like, fuck, are we having stew tonight kind of thing. Whereas I'm like, yeah, all these cats and I walk in the door, I'm not. Oh God, that smells incredible.

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And that's. I'm right. Yeah, yeah. Fuck it. I might have a shooting tonight. Student dumplings. Right. It is a ring dinner. Yeah, but when I, when I come in from work or whatever, and I'm like, oh, well, we got dinner and it's like, stew, my, for fuck's sake. And, understand that? Oh, really? That's not that. I would say like I'd say, but that's probably the happiest I would be if I came in and said, hey, especially for.

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Yeah, like, is so love, like, a marmot comforting in it. Yeah. It's it's cold at the moment. Yeah. It's it's fucking brass monkeys at the moment. It's, Yeah. It's freezing. I might be right there. Is it here? Yeah. I went out the last yesterday morning and it was like minus one degrees, and it was like super misty.

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And it's one of the best walks I've ever had. Loved it. Really? Yeah. But what would have made it better if I got home and there was someone making stew? Yeah, I would have been right. You, when you're walking, you had the ice for me, didn't you? Yeah. The first time that's ever happened in my life.

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I was out for a while. I was out for a good hour and off, and I had ice in my hair and ice, and my beard felt like that's grilling me. So, yeah, it was wind. It's quite windy. I know it's out in the exposed. I was exposed, I was out on these fields. It was good though, because like all floor rock art.

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So, you know, I wasn't stepping in and you've got muddy patches which you generally. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, there's fucking ice in my bed when I got in a car. That shit. How does Frank like, the ice? I always think about dogs because they've got paws. Like, if they're putting their feet on freezing cold surfaces, it's fucking horrible.

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Yeah. The pads, they can't. There's, like, there's not, like, not many nerve endings in the pads. So it's almost like designed to withstand sort of don't get me wrong, they can hurt their pads and they crack and if they don't take care of them. But generally the right is hot. Surfaces are a problem really. Right. But also sweat through their feet, water they pants but they also sweat through their feet.

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They have sweat glands. They they. Yeah. And now I've said it. I feel like I've just made up, so much about dogs that I don't know. Oh, Fucking great. Yeah. I know, yes, they do sweat through their pads. Oh, no, I was right. It's a mine. So basic when it's hot sometimes and they walk on like a dark floor, you can see their footprints.

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Bark. But mainly through what they call them. Yeah. No, it's that he was right. He was. He enjoyed it. Yeah. I mean, that does sound wonderful. So these are mixed with you guys. Let him have the lead and enjoy it more. That's my fucking dog. So I have no idea what his temperament is like, whether or not he should be on a lead off the lead.

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Right? I'm not for that. I mean, an open field. You're not thinking for a bit. I'll let him off the leash. Do you think that hasn't crossed my mind? You know, in the in, like, the West Country, open fields for miles. No one's around. It's not Gene. You not think I've thought about all the time of the leaves?

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You think he's never been off the leash? Is that what you did? I can't see past. It's ten feet in front of me. I can't see him off the leash. He can. He can hear all kinds of things. If he goes, he's gone. I can't fucking see him. Okay. That'd be a nightmare. Right before we get into it, it is New Year's Day.

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It is 2026. I just want to say thank you to everyone that still listens to lads. Anonymous. Everyone that drops us a DM on Insta, emails, sending submissions, social interactions, the patron lot supporting us, keeping us going. We hope you have a fantastic 2026. And I actually mean that because, you know, you guys are the ones that keep this podcast going.

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So thank you so much. And yeah, I hope you have a good one. Do you know what the topic for today is? Five. Remember it's retirement. Good. I mean, I don't think I'll ever retire. Do you know what what we're doing is at work week. If I was on a building site. Yes, I'll be retiring as soon as possible.

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We sit down and talk for an hour on a microphone. It's like it's no big deal. If I can do it, I'll probably do that forever.

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Would you really? Yeah. If I need money, of course I will. Yeah. If I, if I was, you know, if I inherited loads of money or, I won the lottery, I wouldn't do anything then. No, but I can't foresee a world where I have enough money to go. All right? I'm not doing anything else. So would you would you set, like, do you have or have you ever thought about, like, an exit strategy?

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I think that's what people call it. Yeah. When I had a day when I had a job, I did. Yeah. Like a my real job. I'd like to get a legitimacy consider killing myself. If I thought I'd have to live in working in London, in Victoria till I was 68. God, that'd be fucking mental. Something would have happened during that period where I.

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I would have had to make a massive change. And it was just kind of lucked out with podcasting that I didn't have to get nine. I could leave the 9 to 5. The thought of doing that until, 68 is just, I just I just couldn't do it. I remember I remember leaving university at 20, what, 20 years old, right?

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Yeah. Finishing less. I didn't actually finish it. I left, but, and then I got a job. And I remember about two weeks into the job, I was like, is this it? This is it, isn't it? This is this is it for the next 60 years. Well, just two weeks into a job. Yeah, I might have even been on a temporary job.

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And I was like, I've got to do this now for 50 years, and. And then I might retire. And then five years I die. So it's this shit, which is a form of trying to think, which drove me to do something. I needed something to keep me sane. Rick. Yeah. Yeah. Kept me, kept me sane, basically. So then it became something I could turn money out of.

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But yeah, no, I would have definitely thought about an exit strategy then I am I am thinking in terms of like, retirement and stuff like that. Sorry, sorry. You know, what was I was talking about? Sorry. My mind went blank then for six, I think about sort of like pensions and things like that.

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Right. But, it's. I've got a small pension from work. Yeah. It's nothing really. So I need to basically. What what when you set up as a, when you set up as a, where am I, a business limited business? Yeah. You instead of paying corporation tax, you can put that into a private pension. Yeah.

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Which isn't taxed until you withdraw it. And then you pay tax on the pension when you use it in the future. Right, right. I'll get. Yeah. So my plan is once the house is sorted and everything, then, then I'll pay into that, instead of paying corporation tax, basically, that's the way it works. That's my plan. So anyone who has it, these, you know, anyone who's got a business and you know, you have a choice between you would be a sole trader or you've been a, a limited business.

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If you want a sort of build up your pension pot, it's better to be a limited business because you, instead of just handing over a check to the tax man. I never see you again. Yeah, I plan for the future. If I need an exit plan would be to pay into a private pension. But.

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That's. That's good. Say so. You've got you. I mean, you've got like a you've got a bit of an idea. It's not like you're sitting there and you're like, I've got nothing, I've got nothing. I don't know what I'm doing. I've there is something that is kind of whirring away in the background that that's kind of like, yeah, I'm hoping in the future I'll be able to afford to do that.

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Yeah. And once we get there, with the House of life become less expensive. That is still it. Yeah, yeah. So that's that's the plan, but I'm not sure I'll live till 565. Yeah. I've heard you say this a fair few times across the years on the pod. Like what? What makes you feel and think that it's fair, like a when don't I feel like I would probably do like a little 55 heart attack though.

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I'd say it's.

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I feel like kind of what's the point? But you kind of, your partner can your wife can draw down on your private pension, I think. So that's even if I don't live that long, I can, you know, I do come from a family of long livers. I should probably think about this like my my, my nan was 94.

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Her sister was 96, her sister, 98, 98. And she's still going, oh, shit. Her dad died at 99 because he was desperate to get his telegram from the Queen, which you. I'm not sure if you still do that, but you read 100. Yeah. Telegram from the. Yeah, yeah. King. Now. So in that in that instance, I probably should have a pension just in case I get past 55.

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It's. Yeah. What about you? So I like I don't really have anything at the moment. So this is where I kind of like when I was growing up and I worked at different places when I was younger. I worked there for 3 or 4 years, and then I got a company pension was paying into that. I left, then the pensions, you know, frozen because I'm no longer working there, no longer paying into it.

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And then I was, my previous company before I was doing this, and, Network Rail. I was there for like ten years. And then after that five years, you get the choice to go on like the real high end pension. You only get one, you only get one chance to go and it all fits you.

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And if you don't take it you can never go back onto it. And it's, one of the best, you know, public services, pensions that are still going, I believe. So I went on that and I was on that for five years. And then I left. Do you know how much is in your pension? See, this is this is it five?

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I don't understand pensions. I hear people talking. Lads like us in WhatsApp groups. And, I've got this for my pension and this and that and that. The interest on, I don't know what the fuck I know. I've got a lock in for it, and I know it's kind of something. I can see it. Yeah, yeah. All right.

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I don't know where it is because a lot of people don't know. They moved jobs and stuff and they don't know how to track everything. But there are tools available that help you track your pensions down. But so you do know. You know, you know the value of it. I do, but having been in this decent pension for five years and then the standard pension at Network Rail for five years, like that's not going to be enough to sustain me when I hit 70 or whatever and then just live my days off that.

00:24:01:10 – 00:24:23:06
So I'm in this position now where I have those like smaller pop pensions. But since kind of working for myself and the money I have coming in, I don't have money to be like, oh yeah, just if you stick 200 pounds in your pension each month, you won't even notice it. And then when you when it comes to retirement, you'll be laughing.

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I fucking don't have 200 pounds. Just stick the pension each month like, so, eventually I will get to a stage where the money that I have coming in the. I'll be able to contribute to my pension or get a private pension. But at the moment I'm kind of like living hand-to-mouth. And it's like, but this is 43.

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Yeah, because I a lot, a lot, a lot can change very, very quickly. You don't know, like I'm like where I'm at where I was at in 2018 to where I'm at now. It's like buying a house I thought would be impossible doing the house up on me. Impossible. But, you know, I didn't have a pot to piss in for years, years and years and years.

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But it's only been the last since lockdown. Pretty much was able to change things around a little bit. But, Yeah. Yeah. Don't. I mean, I get the anxiety from being in that position. People listen to this got like a lot of people don't have massive pensions or put paid in, but a lot, a lot can change in a short time.

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Especially if you can't sort of see, you know, find opportunity. But what you should do is marry, get officially married for, for a pension.

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That's a good idea. I just got one with the school. Yeah, yeah, go to school. But also her job. Now, like I said, if you ever take my advice and become a delivery company. So, yeah, she could pay all the corporation tax, all of it that she would pay to the government as 20% a year. That would go to the government anyway.

00:26:01:05 – 00:26:31:10
Yeah, she can put that in a private pension because obviously the government wants older people to have money. They don't need to be dependent on, on, on the, on the national pension. So they encourage people to do this. So, so you're like, I could spend that money on myself, I could spend the money buying things, or I could spend the money on a new car, whatever it might be, or I'm going to have to pay corporation tax anyway, put it into a pension, then you marry, then you take it.

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Yeah.

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That is a I think I might tell you that. Thank you very much. Like, don't tell us what you're doing. Just make it a big romantic thing. I'm like, yeah, you're right. It was snake in the grass is going to be listening to this and know the plan. Yeah. Just, I don't know what you heard on the plan.

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Yeah. Just. So if you're listening to this, don't. Yeah. Scupper Ricky's plan.

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All right? This is a long game he's playing here.

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How? Like your parents, they must be both retired now. Yeah, yeah, dad retired when he inherited loads and. Well, yeah, a fair amount of money. Yeah. He talked about, I don't know, 58, I think. Really? Yeah. He had a pension and he'd been plumbing. Well, central engineer, he's been going die. And then uncle Bill died, and uncle Bill was wealthy.

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He's he had a, he had a big pension from the Army, uncle Bill, because he lost a leg at Normandy. So if you retired when you get a big pension, he had his widow, his pension. So his wife Ivy died when she was in our early 50s. And she worked. She had a job in insurance, and she had a lot of money.

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And so he drew down her pension. And then he was successful in insurance as well. So he had his own pension. So he's just fucking bawling out. And you. Right. Every time you calling me be on a cruise somewhere. But, you know, some people kind of going to the show when they lose their partner, he was just like, I'm going to live.

00:28:06:09 – 00:28:34:01
I'm going to live as much as I can. And he did fair play to him. But he, Yeah, he he, he he he retired, and he's only two beneficiaries from his will, my dad and, another lady. And so, yeah, they halved his fortune. And so that in that point that was getting so sick of working for this company, they were changing all their hours and making it, I don't know what I was doing was pissed off about him.

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And he wouldn't do three days holiday in the summer. Three weeks holiday. You always had three weeks in Spain, three weeks in Spain. Yeah. Or Portugal? It Portugal came later. It was always that. It was always three weeks in Spain. Is that when you do anything else like. All right we are we go in Portugal to say and he, he, he decided he's going to quit because they wouldn't give him three weeks off.

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So I said, fuck you, I'm going. What a fucking guy. Yeah. My mother has no pension. Oh, okay. And I don't know how she's managed to just pull it off. Really? She married. She married again. And, I think they just live off his pension. I'm not sure. Yeah. Like my my parents, my both my parents are.

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Well, both my parents are, I guess you would say retired, but my dad, he still works like he goes, keep himself busy. Like he's 73. He's still working at the moment. He's working. I think he's working at, like, a private school. And the head chef there has been off sick for a while. And he's getting up Monday to Thursday to do shifts, 6 to 1 or something like that.

00:29:58:21 – 00:30:23:13
As a head chef, just doing the kitchen, I 73. Does he have to just leave to food? Yeah, for the school. What is 73? What? What are you doing? What does he say? What does he say? A pension. And he said, well, they need my help. And he doesn't mind. He doesn't mind. I mind for the pure fact that I feel like he should be on cruises.

00:30:23:15 – 00:30:48:03
He has worked two, three jobs when he was younger. Always working, always grindin, always just, you know, just trying to be the model kind of it. And our, professional working money paying that, you know, all of that. And now this is his time in the sun. This is your time to kind of, go fishing, to go on holidays, to relax.

00:30:48:03 – 00:31:04:06
And he's sweating it out in the kitchen. And, and I say to him like, he just like, what? Why are you doing this? He's just like this bit of extra pocket money and it gets me out of the house, I think I don't mind, no, it's you, that he's got a point, like, just it's work to us.

00:31:04:06 – 00:31:31:04
But to him, it's. It keeps him. It's cognitive. Yes. It's. Yes. Everything. But my dad doesn't stop doing DIY. Just doesn't stop doing it. But to me, it's like the work, the amount of money handed over to builders. So the to do things I can't. Whereas my dad's pretty handy. Like the other day he's. I'm going to build a pond and I'm thinking just dig a hole, put some liner in it, put some stone throwing aside a pond.

00:31:31:06 – 00:31:52:03
Done. He he he dug a perfect rectangle in the floor. Yeah. Then started putting posts in and I was going to build a deck. He's built a deck. I'll tell you. Picture. This is insane. It's like something you see in a design magazine. He's like, and Rob, why are you doing here? So just enjoy it. Just enjoy doing that.

00:31:52:05 – 00:32:34:01
And no, no, I would like fucking with that. He needs to. He needs to keep his head that like like motivated and and and and I think if you stop then things can decline quite quickly. Yeah. That's what, that's what I was going to say I, I think if my dad didn't have that school work and he was just in his house with his messes rattling around, watching fucking Only Fools and Horses and EastEnders each day and just seeing that days, I think he'd become quite unhappy that he's cooped up in the house, quiet, kind of a bit reclusive because he doesn't have that social interaction like he does when he's working at the school

00:32:34:02 – 00:32:58:11
and and stuff like that. And your mind just turns to kind of like sludge. It just slows down because it's not being active, is not being worked. And I worry that as soon as he stops, then he'll kind of stop, if that makes sense, that I'm quiet and well, in one way, I'm happy that he goes out and he gets what he he needs and it keeps him busy and stuff at the same time.

00:32:58:11 – 00:33:14:22
I like 73 and I, you should be on a beach somewhere with a fucking cocktail or whatever. It goes on all the time. He does it all right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right. There is nothing more healthy than being proactive and moving constantly. If you want him to just. You think it's not. It's not healthy for him to sit.

00:33:14:24 – 00:33:34:14
Definitely not. It's much better to work and to move and to do. Definitely. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's like it's like having a dog extend your life for like five years. I saw that they ain't just because it's nice. Having a dog is mean because you walk in, you get an hour walking every day. You can't. Yeah. Yeah I'm pretty hung over at the moment.

00:33:34:14 – 00:33:54:15
Right. But I'm looking at him. I've got him with me. I can't say the word, but yeah, I know he's got to go out, so I'm going to take him out, even though I wonder what I really would like to do. I actually almost called you reconcile. I'm not. Then put him on a stay in bed. And that's how hungover I am.

00:33:54:17 – 00:34:13:11
My. And you know what? If you would have said that, I would have been off, for fuck's sake. But also, we've all been there, I totally understand. The problem is, is I would have to do it tomorrow, and I can't do it. Yeah, well, I can do it tomorrow, but I've got. I've already got three podcasts lined up for tomorrow, so.

00:34:13:13 – 00:34:41:07
Oh, fuck. You know what has to fit this in as well. And I just. Oh yeah. Yeah, we've been trained by that. Yeah. I'm sorry. I just want to say, my my my mum. Oh, yeah. She is. She's retired, draws by for their pensions. And she, I think she got a state one and a private one, but she's a counselor, so she still has clients that she sees.

00:34:41:09 – 00:35:08:09
So she has, money that that comes in and that it's kind of like, I guess. I mean, I wouldn't say I was going to. It's not a, like, a physical job. Do you know what I mean? Mentally. Yeah, sure. Physically, it's not like she's stacking shelves or whatever. When you say so, she's fine. She's, in about a week, she's going to go for two weeks.

00:35:08:11 – 00:35:31:06
She's, She was born in India, wasn't she? She was. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, she was born in, Mumbai. But to look at Ricky for those. But not right now. Look at Ricky's mum. She looks and sounds just like the typical English woman. But she was born in Mumbai. Yeah, yeah. This, Yeah. White women. My my mum's side of the family.

00:35:31:08 – 00:35:56:17
But both sides of my family are Anglo-Indian. Yeah. My mom's side of the family, majority all white, all born in India. Because in the court. Yes. Yeah. Well, it was, Yeah. So, you know, the British Empire. So it was they lived in British colonies in India that's run the railways. So that's where they lived.

00:35:56:19 – 00:36:21:01
Well, yeah. I think George Orwell was born in India as well, if I remember what he is, I think is called Anglo-Indian, but I believe he was born or has roots in Burma, I think. Oh, my. Feels right. Yeah. Yeah, I think he, I think he, he wrote a book about, maybe born in Mathura, Bengal in British India now.

00:36:21:05 – 00:36:44:20
Oh, really? You know, Bihar, Bihar gets in there fucking George is one of the one of my own as well on your life and. Yeah. Civic sir Ben Kingsley as well. Fucking one of my boys. That's quality. Yeah. Do you have, like, talking about retirement?

00:36:44:22 – 00:37:11:11
And we're talking about working as well. I have quite a few mates that they've already planned out their retirement, and then they've got their corporate jobs. Yeah, they've, that ever people that work in London or corporate companies in Milton Keynes or wherever it is. Yeah. Earning big money, mortgage nearly paid off. Yeah. You know, all the all these things, all these steps that they've, you know, taken, I know one of them.

00:37:11:13 – 00:37:30:24
He can't wait. He said he's going to press the button, and if he is, but he can't wait to in that life off and start a new life as a postman. He wants to be a postman. Wake up every morning, crack of dawn. Get your letters. Do you work? You're done at 2:00. That's it. And that's all I do.

00:37:31:01 – 00:37:50:06
What, is he going to do? That instead of doing nothing? And instead of you a full to do nothing? Well, I think he. That's his. Drop it. He would have paid off most of everything. So he can drop the stress and the money coming. He doesn't. He can earn less and be fine. Yes. So it's a weirdly, I don't discourage him.

00:37:50:06 – 00:37:59:06
You definitely follow your dream, right? But yeah, I stumbled upon this. Read it of people. Postman just angry at the Royal Mail the other day.

00:37:59:08 – 00:38:32:04
They all just the. You just complaining about how it's changed since it was privatized and it's not as good anymore. But how hard can it be? It just, you know, you walk around, you're in your shorts, it's minus free headphones and headphones on, just doing your best and posting the letters I don't know. Yeah. I mean, is there any jobs out there that you would think, you know, after I've kind of done the podcast in where, houses all paid off, I'm going to retrain and actually not retrain.

00:38:32:04 – 00:38:56:03
I'm just gonna work out. I'm just gonna, it's a five minute walk for me. I'll do work in the warehouse there. I always look at something like, there's this old boy who works in Greggs down the road from me. They look at the guy, but is this. What are you doing there? Well, you did. I was literally about to say we do it.

00:38:56:05 – 00:39:20:10
It's 75 or something, like I, I can't you just sit down somewhere like, live. But it maybe he likes a socialist. He seems to hate his job. It really annoys me. I want to fucking punch him. And he's, he's really slow. Also. Also, I was trying ordered more like, kind of a flat white and had a cross on whatever it might be.

00:39:20:16 – 00:39:39:02
Yeah. State Bank, whatever people have, they're not me, obviously, but. And he'll put his hand up like that. He's finger in the air to say one thing at a time. And I'm like, if you can't, how did you get this job? Well, I that is a bit, I don't know, but I find that a bit rude. It's a bit rude.

00:39:39:04 – 00:40:00:07
It's a finger. It's. Yeah. So one one, two, three. All I'm saying is a flat white and a crescent, I was I what is that? Is pressing the buttons really slow on them. But I'm not. I won't lose it, will you, Albert? Next time I think it goes up the bell, so suck it. Like, what was it Leslie Grantham was like.

00:40:00:09 – 00:40:29:04
Yeah, at the images. But in my. I can't see it, as you well know. But I know exactly the image you talking about. Yeah. I mean, you're right. I know the webcam. Yeah. Fucking weird. That was. Yeah. What's the worst one was, seeing, Ian Botham's toddler. Yeah. That. And that looked really like a bruised banana. I didn't it's also he didn't look.

00:40:29:04 – 00:40:36:11
Well. He looked they did it from, like, really unflattering angle like is. Oh yeah. Some work. Right.

00:40:36:13 – 00:40:45:17
Ian of. Yeah. Did I ask you to open that immediately. Can I be sent that to me?

00:40:45:19 – 00:40:59:14
Voice what a baby baby from it got his dick. How is it like, What? From what angle? He's looking at that guy in. Yeah. Lovely, right. I always put that in my mouth.

00:40:59:16 – 00:41:23:20
It can do for the image here. I found an image, but it's doctored. It's like a cricket ball. Where is my lawn? I know I found it. Good, good. Yeah, yeah, he sent it to you. Lovely stuff, lovely stuff. Can't wait to look at that. Disgusting. Can you put it in patron or something so everyone can see?

00:41:23:22 – 00:41:27:03
Yeah. We'll do actually. Yeah.

00:41:27:05 – 00:41:49:20
It's these gray. Yeah. From from memory. It was. It looked awfully weird. There you go. I was like. Yeah, boy. So when I look at that. Oh, shit. Shit. No, please, let me have a look. Let's have a look. Let's have a look at you.

00:41:49:22 – 00:42:18:10
I, Good. Yes. So it does look like a. Yeah. It's like bruised and dropping on banana. No, he's both in the background lying down. It's it's horrible. Why are you doing that. And that's a nice guy. Yeah. Brilliant. Yeah. It probably took a few and he's like yeah that's the best one. That's the one. And send it over to her.

00:42:18:12 – 00:42:48:19
She would love that. So I love that. Yeah. I am going back to the post a bit like if I was to do, any type of job, I kind of feel like your mind automatically goes to like, shelf stacking or not. That kind of right. Yes, I will just I will just do that. But it's such physical work and there's that element of numbingly boring other people as well.

00:42:48:21 – 00:43:16:01
Excuse me. Do you know where the toothpaste is? Play fuck off, mate. It's got songs up there. Read it. Yeah, it's with all the other toiletries. Where do you think it is? Yeah. I don't think I'd. I'd like to do a kind of, like a Parks Trust type of job. If you can volunteer or do something, you know, when you go out and cut woods down, cut grass in a zoo.

00:43:16:03 – 00:43:37:22
Oh, God, that'd be fucking amazing. Yeah, yeah. And we see really high sources. There you go. Can't get a job in the zoo. How about I take that now? Actually, yeah. When I was younger, I didn't really want to work in it, so. And I remember, why did I want to work in it? So I think I wanted to work in, like, a reptile enclosure.

00:43:37:24 – 00:44:04:07
Yeah. Yeah, I think I had this, like, dream of just. But what my interpretation of working in a zoo consists of is going into a cupboard, getting loads of meat and throwing it at crocodiles for them to eat. And I was like, yeah, that's a good job advice. It's exactly what they do. That and only that. You know why a hippo is perfectly suited to live in a zoo and have no ill, ill, ill health or ill benefits from it all benefits.

00:44:04:11 – 00:44:33:17
It just they don't they don't impact it. And the reason why is that they just do two things. Hippos. They eat and shag. Right. They eat, you know, like fucking vegetation. The herbivores that only me, and they if they're out too long, their skin can crack in the sun. So they have to be in the water all the time, so.

00:44:33:18 – 00:44:56:20
Right. They just chill in the water, and then they get out, and then they say, and again, they have the 80kg of vegetation a day or something. So genuinely, that's what should. I was watching a hippo video yesterday of a man roll a full sized pumpkin into Hippo's mouth, and then it's slowly closing, and then just munching on this pumpkin and eating it.

00:44:56:20 – 00:45:14:13
I was like, this is this is a good concept. I like this, I think Hippo, the last person I I'd want to be thing I'd want to be, I like if I was in the water I'd be most nervous with because I feel great white or a tiger shark. I've seen enough videos now that if you see them, they're probably not going to attack you.

00:45:14:13 – 00:45:41:20
Oh man. Of couple of things that come into my mind right there was. Yeah. Did you hear about the woman in California? They went swimming in California. And the shark, I, I think back to the surface with her body in its mouth. Oh my God. But ten days ago. Oh, I didn't see it. You don't see it like it's what was described.

00:45:41:22 – 00:46:02:20
Oh, yeah, I did. I didn't see the story. Eva. I was to Christmas a good story. The the. And then another one I saw was this, this sort of, tick tock channel called I survived. And it's stories of people that survived from their perspective. And a boat went down in the water. I don't know where they were, and they were swimming to try and find something.

00:46:02:22 – 00:46:26:14
And one of them disappeared and then shot back up in the air and screamed, shark! And then just pulled down again. I was swimming in the ocean. That was like a sister or something. Oh, God. Hell in it. But I wouldn't want to get eaten by hippo ever. Have you seen how quickly they move free? It's insane how they move.

00:46:26:16 – 00:46:44:22
How? How did I do? I can't swim, no. Do you know they can't swim? If they get into the deep water, they float to the surface. Take that. Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah. They they turn over and float to the surface.

00:46:44:24 – 00:47:07:16
But yeah I've seen loads of hippo attack attacking boats. They're just steaming free. Not free, but I. Well, when I, when I see a animal in a human being on Instagram sometimes, I can't not watch the entire video. I have to watch it. Whereas if someone jumping off a wall and breaking their leg, I can't watch that.

00:47:07:18 – 00:47:26:22
Oh, as soon as I feel like that might be that kind of video, I have to. Yeah, yeah, I hate that stuff. So I stick around for of it. I saw a a naughty Little Tiger video yesterday attacking a man who got out his car. Now I don't know where it is. I would think some people are saying some people say this, I, some people were saying it wasn't.

00:47:27:02 – 00:47:51:06
And the looks and the screams, I mean, they sounded real. And the whole action, the movement of it, it felt real. So I wanted to believe that this tiger did wait for its opportunity again. I, I really hate it. Yeah. Me too. I wish it didn't exist. I mean, I, I love ChatGPT, don't get me wrong, but it's really, really useful.

00:47:51:08 – 00:48:15:14
Yeah. Oh, yeah. But, generally, I think I can pin. Yeah, I it's it's hard because you don't know what's real anymore. Yeah. I can kind of still tell generally I think I can, but it's getting to a point. Like I said, six months to a year, you won't be able to tell. It's like, I don't know what we're doing.

00:48:15:16 – 00:48:40:03
I, I have to go to, comments and see what everyone else is saying, because otherwise I'm just forwarding fucking AI videos to people. I look like a dick doing it. Yeah it does. Yeah, yeah. So before this month that sent me a did I tell you this? I think I might have told you this. Yeah, I did, I think my dad told me he sent me this new artist that he likes.

00:48:40:03 – 00:49:08:11
And it was it's just I mean, none of it's real. Unlike the Philippine Boesch, Bush, Kelly Bush has 1.3 million listeners a month, and it's all I can think with that, right? I'm not piece of music. It's been great. It's on Spotify. It's playing the person who created it. But I like getting all the money for it. Yeah, I heard about it.

00:49:08:11 – 00:49:31:21
So whoever. Yeah. Would you tell me how you produce it? It's your you produced. Yeah. It belongs to you. Yeah. So you. Yeah to guess that you would, you would. Before we jump on, I just wanted to ask you what your dream scenario retirement is. I'm going to tell you mine. First of all why you have a little thing.

00:49:31:23 – 00:49:59:16
All right I've got on I, have you ready? Yeah. Mine is I've always wanted to live close to a body of water. Now, where I live now, at the moment, who wouldn't want to live next to a lake, may? Yeah. Imagine living. Imagine living this close to it. Like.

00:49:59:18 – 00:50:02:17

00:50:02:19 – 00:50:26:09
So that really could I live? Quite true. I see where the, canal. You know, you're kind of obsessed with war on you, love. Yeah, yeah, I have, always have been. And I live close to the canal. Close to the river. But it's not the same as I couldn't leave my back garden. And it's going to the river.

00:50:26:11 – 00:50:55:18
It's drawing to the canal. Or I have, like, an estate. Like at my house. Now, the retirement for me would be that somewhere where I could leave my house or see my house and just plop a fishing line in there and sit there all day with a little coffee and just watch the world go by being able to listen to kind of nature and just be zen.

00:50:55:22 – 00:51:18:08
My, where I live. I'm not sure I told you this. For this. There's a gentleman who bought a house, and I went round there to look at it by photos, because that's what I do now with a bifocals. And, I looked out his garden and I walked to the edge. And there's a there's a river at the bottom of the garden with steps going down into the water.

00:51:18:10 – 00:51:42:16
Oh, God. And he fishes it. Oh, oh come on. Oh, he gets up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I hope it's. Oh, would you get them in the river? The country river. Yeah. You would. My. Yeah. I'm, this is this is, so weird, but I'm actually meeting someone in a couple of days, and I used that. He used to hang around my sister, but.

00:51:42:19 – 00:52:09:06
And I used to hang around with his brother, and, I posted in a Facebook group, Milton Keynes, England Association Facebook group about shop. Local shop. That's fine. Danny. Yeah, right. That's the elusive fish. Is it so. So this winter? Yeah. I'm gearing up to fucking get myself a prize chub. And he saw my comment and he said, Rick, I've got an old, chub rod you can have.

00:52:09:08 – 00:52:18:16
And if you meet me down, down at specific rock rod. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, how's it been? You know.

00:52:18:18 – 00:52:40:21
Because this is a quiver tip rod. So the quiver tip rod, the tip of it is very, it's very bouncy, basically. So when you cast into a river, you're not using a float, you're using a lid. So the LED waste down to the bottom of the riverbed, and then you've got your hook coming off that. So your quiver tip is straight.

00:52:40:23 – 00:53:06:21
And when a fish takes it, it will start moving like this. And that's when you know you've got a bite. So I don't have one of those rods and he's going to give me that. But he also said, yeah, where we live, he's going to take me on a walk down the river where he knows that there are big chub in those areas, and he's going to point them out to me because he's caught them, so I can't I'm fucking oh, I'm so fucking stark.

00:53:07:02 – 00:53:13:00
I can't fucking bore you. I'm going to get a.

00:53:13:02 – 00:53:46:05
Isn't that like, cheating? Now, what was cheating? Well, like telling you exactly where to go to catch him, and then you catch one that's like, what's so. Well. Well, I mean, it's not. The fish hasn't jumped out, man. So you have to present these baits in the right conditions, the right weather, the right temperature, the right everything for them to be like, yeah, I'm going to have that right now because you could do you could spit, you could see fish all day and you could present bait in many different, many different baits, in many different forms, in many different ways.

00:53:46:08 – 00:54:04:06
And the fish will not take it. They will be like that. No, no, no, no, I know what you're doing. Right? Fuck off man. I'm still chilling and you can't catch him. So he'll point me to the areas of where these chub are, and then it's down on me and my fishing ability, whether I can catch him or not.

00:54:04:06 – 00:54:22:13
Right. I know him about fish in a bit of a. It's not looking good, brother. Right. So let me ask you this. And you know, those little motorized boats that drop bait into the middle of the pond or wherever? No no no no, not that. No, that's chief cheating. That's so bait by. No, I've that all right. What about, like, a harp, not a harpoon?

00:54:22:13 – 00:54:44:19
A, what? It called it catapult. Catapult baiting. Is that cheat okay, no. Not cheating. There's a skill to it that they skill to it, and they're not particularly that accurate either. So you can you can put enough bait to where you are using a well stuff like if you ever caught a pumpkinseed.

00:54:44:21 – 00:55:09:07
A pumpkinseed. Oh no. Pumpkin fish. Oh it might be a pumpkin fish. Do you know, is there one on the river that. No, not not in British rivers. And I, I don't think there is. I think if a seed fish,

00:55:09:09 – 00:55:35:20
Could produce a beautiful, beautiful fish. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's beautiful fish. I think they're in, not Florida or something. Maybe, but, but they, you know, they, do, you know, you can eat them. Can you tell them what? The pumpkin fish? Yeah. It always reminds whenever you think about it, it's obviously you have the lots of parties.

00:55:35:20 – 00:55:42:14
People move to the UK and they love eating carp. So they go.

00:55:42:16 – 00:56:06:02
There, right? And I know, and I say this, you get quite a lot of people on these fishing Facebook page. It's like if anyone hasn't caught a fish first people, I get it. Eastern Europeans. Oh yes, they've been down there. So there were nets the other day. You didn't you didn't see them just framing them because you can't catch fish.

00:56:06:04 – 00:56:33:13
You can get them in southern England. Oh, okay. But they are then native to North America. But they introduced, they. Yeah. I mean, I've got to say, have all this fish on here. Chub seems like the most boring looking. What about a rainbow? You know, and they're they're that they all in the river where I am.

00:56:33:13 – 00:56:55:02
Really. But they they are elusive motherfuckers. He's just a fisherman. I used to eat. They've got loads to eat, so it's hard to convince them to take the right. Yeah. Because they're in the river. Their natural isn't, I don't know, Brant Flake, or maggots or whatever. They're like, that's that's kind of foreign to me.

00:56:55:02 – 00:57:23:06
I'm not going to. If you ever want to go with an eel. Never caught. I don't want to catch one either. Little fuckers in there. Yeah. They're that they are disgusting pigs. Have caught little, little chub perch, bream, tench, carp. Roach Rudd. Goldfish. Caught goldfish. Yet have. Yep. They're not supposed to be in the river early.

00:57:23:08 – 00:57:39:22
No. Oh, you won't find them in a row in a river commercial. Like you'll find that I would have been putting in the mistake. Yeah. Not on purpose. Yeah, yeah, it's koi hop. Yeah, yeah, I caught one of those. That fucking. I might go to a pet shop, but you sell them, you can pick them up. They're that easy to catch.

00:57:39:24 – 00:58:01:14
They just come up to you, didn't they? But I'm glad. They got, what was going to say? What's your retirement? What's your, retirement dream? Yeah. Like a river through a garden would be the dream. Like I'm not a fish just to have it, I think, just to just to look at the best thing I ever did was sink a bath into.

00:58:01:14 – 00:58:19:01
Do you remember that in one six, eight? You will remember that, actually. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah. Sunk a bath into the floor. Made it into a pond. And we had, like, newts in there and fish and stuff. It was cool. Mine would just go further. Further remote, further rural, further away. Wow. Really? Yeah. This what?

00:58:19:01 – 00:58:38:02
We've moved into a little village now. But the dream I went when I was walking the dog the other day, I would, I found it. What's great about moving is it's loads of places I can explore, right. And find new walkways to go to. But I just saw this house on top of a hill, and I looked at it and I was like, I've just moved into the house and I'm like, I want to live in that house.

00:58:38:04 – 00:58:48:08
Just like that. Big brick walls, gardens do like.

00:58:48:10 – 00:59:14:09
Living so remotely. Does it scare you? Well, because, like, you're you're the only person there. Only if, like, people came along and tried to burgle you or whatever you do here is doing something that they, they target, like, yeah, okay, the PlayStations and all stuff like that. And you're like, you're the only one, I don't know nothing around in your books for sure.

00:59:14:10 – 00:59:37:11
Never thought about it before. More sort of security conscious here, but yeah, I, I, not really. Well, it doesn't you times it doesn't happen it like it's very rare for a house gets burgled where I live. It would be in the papers if it happened. So would you, right. If someone said, right, this is your house that you can have by the river.

00:59:37:13 – 01:00:05:11
It's distant. And there's one other house which is fairly close, but you've got a beautiful house and it's opposite. But I lived opposite you. Yeah. Me? Yeah. My family. Yeah. That would be amazing. You enjoyed it or would you be like, no, no, I just want to be alone now, I'd love that. But, what about I mates just where I lived, they, they done the roundabouts.

01:00:05:13 – 01:00:18:17
They've done the roundabouts again with the cross and it really. Yeah. It was up there for about a day and then someone had scrubbed it off, so I don't know what. Oh no. Oh, I live in a racist town or not.

01:00:18:19 – 01:00:36:06
I thought I was moving to a racist town, but apparently not since the progressive people here, because they say what they say is the new gaff where you live. Yeah. That they, they did the Red cross and the roundabouts. And then the next day it was, it was gone. Yeah. So we bleached it and scrubbed it off. That's quite nice actually.

01:00:36:06 – 01:00:57:14
Yeah. Someone's out there saying yeah, we're not having it. Yeah. You never not hear that sort of malarkey. I was surprised because I was like everywhere there would be that kind of malarkey. It's in wheelchair. You know. Yeah. Like there's never been a labor seat, a wheelchair, has it? Never. I don't think so. The fuck does not is not in living memory.

01:00:57:14 – 01:01:27:19
No, it's the green belt. And it keep them out. Fundamentally, they're all right as long as they're in London. The general mentality. Right. Before we move on, we do have a dilemma called the abomination and something only, you know, thirsty for more. The topic for next week is pop culture. Do you remember sending me a WhatsApp message?

01:01:27:21 – 01:01:57:08
Just said, lads, pop culture. Yeah, it feels like a good one. So maybe I did say that. Yeah, yeah. So what makes a good pop? The bad pop like carpets. Fireplace. Yeah. For last night. The unspoken rules of pubs. Yeah. As has anyone ever stopped for a pint. It's gone out for a pint. Pub regulars, the characters that, haunt these local pubs solo.

01:01:57:10 – 01:02:31:10
What is it? But yeah, if you. Yeah, yeah. Right now I've not. You've never just gone. I popped into the pub for a. But never, never in my life have I done that because I'm scared about being judged sitting on my spine. Let's talk about that next week. Yeah. I got, something. So it's, I hate that, that the, the kind of we're doing a live podcast and then you ask me stuff, and I answer it without lying, and I'm like, oh, God, people know this about my insecurities.

01:02:31:12 – 01:03:10:04
I think it's, Yeah, we're talk about this. We did a big bit on the podcast today with James about, having a solo pint, and it should be encouraged, but we'll talk about it next week. Oh, good. Good. So, yeah, everything about pubs, UK pubs, UK pop culture, anything that you, want to talk about, whether they're still as important to your community, the therapy sessions that you have there, celebrations, mornings, all that about how important and the culture of the British pub send it into lads and on FAQ lots and on pod at gmail.com.

01:03:10:04 – 01:03:21:05
I forgot their own email address then and we will read out. Now we are going to go into dilemma.

01:03:21:07 – 01:03:48:15
Oh, oh. So, just tired and you got an issue for a tissue. You're a bit sad because pain will be a can in your soul, alone in your flat. Please talk to Vicky Flanagan. Let that stress off your chest will bring you this lovely day. Black. You're safe here to get nice and warm between waking and.

01:03:48:17 – 01:03:51:10

01:03:51:12 – 01:04:20:10
The abomination. I have a Christmas dilemma, lads. I don't come across as ungrateful, spoiled or whatever, but I appreciate your thoughts for Christmas. My big gift was a piece of artwork that was commissioned by my wife and I. Were you thinking, that's pretty cool. What a woman. And that's what I thought too, as she was giving it to me and telling me the backstory whilst made opening it.

01:04:20:12 – 01:04:54:21
She combined all my loves family Tottenham, golf, Barcelona and dogs. The thing is, it's hideous. It's an A2 size specifically for my office to sit behind me during work cause my hobbies loves are individually just stuck onto this artwork. None of it goes together. I don't even like dogs. I like greyhounds because my grandparents had one and I said I like them once.

01:04:54:21 – 01:05:19:12
Or maybe a few times. There's a Labrador and a sausage dog on there, for fuck's sake. And it looks like the the now in heaven. I don't even own dogs. Now can I tell my missus the truth and hope we just laugh it off together? Or do I just have to accept it? But make sure I take it down during work cause it's truly an abomination.

01:05:19:14 – 01:05:46:02
I know, lads, I'm not sending you a picture. Oh, please. Please, I'm desperate to see that. No, don't tell her. Just deal with it, you know? Yeah, it's actually going to be, like, a lovely thing when you. When you were there. You can't tell her. Yeah. I mean, you done well because you generally. If I can't if if my Mrs..

01:05:46:04 – 01:06:07:02
I don't know, she's I can tell if she doesn't like something straight away. And, Yeah. And I sometimes get things wrong, but I don't. It's like one of them. And you just let that be the nice thing at the moment, even if you have to stare it. I mean, what could you do? What's practical advice here?

01:06:07:02 – 01:06:22:21
I you could just, hit it with a hammer. So. So that the glass smashes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Put it down the side so I don't get that sorted. And you never get it sorted, but leave it out for about a month and then smash the glass and then just put it aside and I will get that replaced.

01:06:22:23 – 01:06:47:16
Getting something is something that never happens. No one does it. No, not. That's my advice. First, please. I want to see it. First of all, get a brass, get that clear mind. Get yourself sorted. And then I would I would hang it in the office. And then every time around it work or just actually off the wall. I mean it like I need to see my my Mrs..

01:06:47:19 – 01:07:07:17
She loved this bit of artwork. Loved it. She bought it all framed, just set pride of place in our kitchen. And then she showed it to me. And as soon as she turned it round, I just started laughing. I said, I said, are you fucking joking? And she was like, do you not like it? And I was like, that is hideous.

01:07:07:17 – 01:07:26:06
Let me see. I was just, I'll send you off. I'll send you after. Yeah. So yeah, it's downstairs in the kitchen. Yeah. Please send it. But my Mrs.. Like if I ever was to say she said like, oh like, how do you like my new coat and what. It's all right. And whatever. She's like, you don't like it.

01:07:26:06 – 01:07:49:07
They, And, I'm not. Yes. Yeah. You know, skirting around it, she just doesn't give a fuck what I think, though. And I think more more power to her. If she loves something and she can tell that I'm a bit like, Yeah, not not really my cup of tea. It makes her wear it more what it's like to a point I think only values my opinion.

01:07:49:07 – 01:08:12:22
But generally she thinks without question that her opinion is more important. Yeah. And decision making in the House, for example, what color the wall should be there is in the world where I really get to. I got to choose my office. Nice. Let me have that. But she did quite like what I chose. But generally it's her choice.

01:08:12:24 – 01:08:34:15
Yeah, and that's fine. Happy wife, happy life in it right? Yeah. Okay. As right we are going to go onto something only, you know, really beat. Next week's class means something. You know.

01:08:34:17 – 01:08:57:04
Thirsty for more match with a bird online and a range friend I am. She turned up with an umbrella and asked if she could drop it off at my flat, so I knew it was game on. The skies were blue and there was zero chance of rain. She might as well have announced that she was DTF, that few drinks first seemed more civilized, right?

01:08:57:06 – 01:09:14:06
When out in town and had a couple of pints. She had a couple of Diet Cokes. We were getting, great. And I knew I was on for a good shag. And after the exchange of messages during the week, I told her I was just going to pop to the toilet and then grab a couple of vagabonds.

01:09:14:08 – 01:09:45:16
And she mentioned that if I wanted to do that on her, then she would be fine, but I asked, do it. I'm sorry. What? What was that? She repeated confidently. If you want to do that on me, then that's fine. I shuffled off to the toilet, confused the aroused. I stood at the urinal, frantically messaging the group chat, seeking advice like most, but sampled my fair share of wet work.

01:09:45:18 – 01:10:07:04
Pornography. But this was a whole different level. It was on a plate and it was coming at me hard and fast. I headed back to our table nervously and ordered the eggs. She didn't touch as I down both a short Uber ride and we're back at my flat and things are progressing. Her intentions ring in my ear.

01:10:07:06 – 01:10:35:23
I know what she wants, but am I ready to deliver that? I'm not sure. She sucked me off on the whole time. I'm acutely aware of what's to come. She's going to ask me to piss on. That was already. It just feels a lot. She performs three, maybe four minutes of stunning fellatio, and I return the favor. After perhaps 45 seconds, a similar gush of liquid in my mouth.

01:10:36:00 – 01:11:07:00
She seen her opportunity and she's taken it. My mouth is full of piss. And what else do you do after that? But swallow? She acknowledge the act and address the elephant in the room by muttering, good boy, I, I feel used and dirty. However, I couldn't have been more turned on. Boy, I then commit. I then commit six, maybe seven years of my life, which is full of unsatisfying sexual experiences.

01:11:07:02 – 01:11:28:17
Nothing quite matches that night. No one has the confidence she had. I was no longer a good boy and I struggled to handle it. It's a slippery slope from that sort of mountain, and I'm not proud of the Google searches I made during that period. Luckily, I managed to find a way out and now have a mrs. and a baby.

01:11:28:21 – 01:11:53:05
But every now and again after a few drinks, I think to myself, where am I Mrs. ever piss in my mouth at that simple thought and act is something only I know. Good. I'm there. Yeah. That's good. Well yeah yeah yeah. Okay. Round of two, boy. Lovely. Like good boy. You can love me, but good. Can you imagine that?

01:11:53:05 – 01:12:21:15
That just. You think you're the. You're the pissy but you're the. You're the one getting pissed in your mouth. That is just, Yeah, I didn't realize. Ace. Yeah. You don't know? No. Do I know, do I? But yeah. Yeah. No, not been that. Don't want a guy there. Okay. The episode for next week. The topic is pub culture.

01:12:21:15 – 01:12:54:13
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