Episode Summary
Ricky and Flav open this two-part episode with an everyday catch-up before the longer discussion of dreams continues in part two. The opening conversation covers the heat, homes that retain warmth and attempts to stay comfortable, including Ricky cooling off in a paddling pool. Insect bites and memories of fishing add another seasonal diversion. How do the things that normally make a house comfortable feel during hot weather? This short first instalment captures the hosts’ familiar back-and-forth and personal observations, setting the scene for the episode’s wider exploration of dreams and sleep.
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Key Topics / Timestamps
- 00:01 – British heatwaves, sleepless nights and overheated homes
- 02:32 – Houseflies, horseflies and painful insect bites
- 04:34 – Paddling pools and TikTok inflatable water beds
- 05:45 – TikTok shopping doubts and the episode introduction
- 06:27 – Episode introduction and fixing an audio delay
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Continue reading related Lads Anonymous transcripts: Dreams, nightmares and sleep: part two (episode 155, part 2); Simulation theory and the nature of reality (episode 149).
Full Episode Transcript
00:01.21
Ricky: Fucking hot.
00:03.29
Flav: Oh, yeah.
00:03.19
Ricky: I'm so hot.
00:05.55
Flav: Yeah.
00:05.34
Ricky: It is. I am. You know me. I love the heat. Love being out in the sun. Love kind of ah topping up the tan. But in England, it's just, it feels different, doesn't it?
00:18.97
Ricky: Like, ah I've got the air con, not air con, I've got fan blowing when I'm trying to go to sleep. And it it just doesn't do anything. Nothing. Nothing.
00:28.13
Flav: I usually am okay with a fan in ah in a bedroom at night. Last night was, it was impossible. It didn't do anything. It was just, I had the worst night's sleep I think I've ever had in ages, months.
00:41.64
Flav: It's just rank. Our houses are not designed for for this heat. that so So for people, like, there are a lot of, you see them on TikTok, they're going, o the British are complaining because it's 31 degrees.
00:55.70
Flav: we're we ah we're not set up for this. It's a different kind of heat as well. it's humidity to English heat that's ah um that's different from what you might get when you're in Spain. You get 35 degrees in Spain.
01:08.03
Flav: It's hot. Don't me wrong. You don't want stand directly in the sun unless you're tanning or something. But the minute you get in shade, it's fine. there's a sort of lightness to the air despite it being hot. The humidity is what kills you in in in in England.
01:20.79
Flav: Plus, all of our houses, to to to to the point where even new houses, you get graded on how well your house retains heat, not loses it, how well it retains heat.
01:30.65
Ricky: Yeah.
01:32.36
Flav: So the best houses are classed as it goes from A to F. And when we bought our house, it was something like a E or a D, it's an old but old house. And we just had it rated again and it's gone up to a C. So um it means that we put loads of work and money into ensuring that the house retains as much heat as possible, which for 95% of the year is absolutely fine because we have six, we have four, five cold months, cold-ish.
01:58.42
Flav: But for thee when it's like this, this fucks, man.
02:01.66
Ricky: the the The worst part about this is what I'm finding is, ah again, love the heat, but this morning i was down here at my laptop at about half past seven, 7.45, something and like that.
02:14.97
Ricky: My ankles were sweating. like how do your ankles sweat it's fucking ridiculous and the flies because i've got my back door open all the time not like that but you know the actual back door um but there would be flies around that if that back door was open but yeah it's just it's disgusting i'm sorry i said that even yeah
02:24.41
Flav: Yeah, a bit madder.
02:28.61
Flav: Yeah.
02:32.63
Flav: That's disgusting. That's disgusting. Yeah, that's the rest revvot most revolting thing you ever said.
02:41.21
Ricky: But I came down this morning and no word of a lie, there were like fucking 10 to 15 flies just buzzing around my house. I was like, what you guys doing here? Like, come on, man.
02:51.99
Ricky: This is ridiculous. So I've been walking around with a fly swatter, just trying to fucking go after them. I've killed loads, but they just it seems like they're multiplying and I can't can't get rid of them.
03:05.22
Ricky: So if you are if you're watching this, right?
03:06.32
Flav: Yeah,
03:09.75
Ricky: and a fly lands on my head, then um you know the reason why. It's not because I'm living in a skip or something like that. It's just because of the fucking heat.
03:20.54
Flav: we got a lot. get horse flies here, which are a different breed of fly. You might even get them in the…
03:25.98
Ricky: Mate, they're naughty, those bikes, aren't they?
03:29.50
Flav: yeah Yeah, they're horrible cunts. ah they They don't bite you. They slice open your skin. They make an incision.
03:37.91
Ricky: what
03:38.87
Flav: they They make a slice. They've got like a a mouth that cuts rather than than pierces. so that's why when you get um you get a horsefly bite, it bleeds.
03:48.50
Ricky: Yeah.
03:49.82
Flav: You'll you'll have blood running down your your your arm. Yeah, especially from like a Yeah, I've been bitten about three or four times.
03:52.18
Ricky: Oh, my God.
03:57.66
Flav: um only when I'm here, like Wiltshire, in the country. Wankers.
04:03.32
Ricky: yeah I used to get them when i when I'd go fishing. But… um Yeah, fucking hell, didn't know was that bad. i so I've seen people where they've been bitten and they've got like, um it's almost like a target. You'll see the the like the the deep red circle and then it just spreads out. It's like, fucking hell, don't need any of that.
04:22.82
Ricky: Don't need any of that.
04:24.82
Flav: Yeah.
04:24.51
Ricky: We've got a um and little paddling pool in the back garden and it's one of those ones where it's got seats in each corner. So in the evening, I've just been a bathing one's legs and feet and just sitting there with a yes, beer, all I can do.
04:34.36
Flav: Oh, yeah.
04:38.03
Flav: Sitting there.
04:43.16
Ricky: just to you know just chill in it's it's all i can do
04:46.95
Flav: chloe Chloe was succumbed to the advertising of TikTok and bought one of those um beds that you lie down in the the water. You fill up with water and it's like a it's ive been on a it's like being on a bed in a swimming pool, but it's not.
05:03.12
Flav: it's on You're on the lawn. So she's been lying in that.
05:06.39
Ricky: i've i've not I've not seen that. That that sounds ream.
05:09.06
Flav: just like a blow-up bed, but you pour water into it, and so you lie on the water part of the… It's sort of… The water is…
05:14.00
Ricky: Right.
05:15.42
Flav: Yeah. Yeah.
05:16.82
Ricky: You know how to go?
05:17.53
Flav: Looks shit, in my opinion. but No.
05:18.45
Ricky: oh
05:19.56
Flav: There's a gimmick, innit? How long is that going comfortable for? The water's going to get warm within about 15 minutes, but she wanted it.
05:23.42
Ricky: ah and but I've seen those ah light bulbs on the TikTok that come with a fan and you you know you plug it into the the ah to the light.
05:33.27
Flav: Yeah, I can't imagine they… Yeah.
05:34.86
Ricky: No, that's never going to do anything, is it?
05:36.60
Flav: No, no.
05:37.43
Ricky: Absolutely nothing.
05:38.85
Flav: Also, I'm not sure the fittings are designed to carry that additional. I don't know. Maybe they are.
05:45.32
Ricky: I know. And then as you're getting it from TikTok as well, I very much doubt, you know, that, I don't know, it just doesn't seem safe when you buy stuff off TikTok. Never bought anything off TikTok.
05:55.03
Flav: No.
05:55.65
Ricky: Never will. Right, should we get into it?
06:00.57
Flav: Yeah, go on.
06:27.80
Ricky: Hello and welcome to Lads Anonymous. It's episode 155. I'm Ricky, he's Flav, two best mates, one main topic. We answer your life dilemmas and confessions in our future. Something only you know, and everything remains anonymous always. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the pod.
06:46.39
Ricky: i was going say, how's it going, in Flav? But we're both hot and we're just, yeah, we know how it's going, right?
06:54.36
Flav: I think there's delay on my end. I'm not sure.
06:57.28
Ricky: Oh, is there?
06:59.22
Flav: Is there?
07:00.50
Ricky: yeah There's a little bit, but my computer's just fucking dead, so I just thought, out yeah.
07:05.25
Flav: Spazzing out.
07:08.15
Flav: Well, is there a delay?
07:08.12
Ricky: Is it? Yeah, a little bit, yeah.
07:12.66
Flav: Okay. Do you want me to unplug this?
07:16.41
Ricky: ah Yes, if it would help with the non-delay.
07:19.42
Flav: this
07:21.15
Ricky: Should I stop this and then?
07:21.81
Flav: It might shut down this window. Hang on a second.
07:23.35
Ricky: Right.
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