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Key Topics / Timestamps
- 00:01 – Opening chat
- 06:27 – Main topic discussion
- 02:32 – Early episode discussion
- 04:34 – Main conversation continues
- 05:45 – Later episode discussion
Full Episode Transcript
00:01.21
Gareth Flavell: Fucking hot.
00:03.29
Flav: Oh, yeah.
00:03.19
Gareth Flavell: I'm so hot.
00:05.55
Flav: Yeah.
00:05.34
Gareth Flavell: 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
Gareth Flavell: 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
Gareth Flavell: 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
Gareth Flavell: 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
Gareth Flavell: 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
Gareth Flavell: 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
Gareth Flavell: 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
Gareth Flavell: So if you are if you're watching this, right?
03:06.32
Flav: Yeah,
03:09.75
Gareth Flavell: 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
Gareth Flavell: 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
Gareth Flavell: 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
Gareth Flavell: 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
Gareth Flavell: Oh, my God.
03:57.66
Flav: um only when I'm here, like Wiltshire, in the country. Wankers.
04:03.32
Gareth Flavell: 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
Gareth Flavell: Don't need any of that.
04:24.82
Flav: Yeah.
04:24.51
Gareth Flavell: 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
Gareth Flavell: 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
Gareth Flavell: 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
Gareth Flavell: Right.
05:15.42
Flav: Yeah. Yeah.
05:16.82
Gareth Flavell: You know how to go?
05:17.53
Flav: Looks shit, in my opinion. but No.
05:18.45
Gareth Flavell: 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
Gareth Flavell: 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
Gareth Flavell: No, that's never going to do anything, is it?
05:36.60
Flav: No, no.
05:37.43
Gareth Flavell: 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
Gareth Flavell: 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
Gareth Flavell: Never will. Right, should we get into it?
06:00.57
Flav: Yeah, go on.
06:27.80
Gareth Flavell: 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
Gareth Flavell: 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
Gareth Flavell: Oh, is there?
06:59.22
Flav: Is there?
07:00.50
Gareth Flavell: 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
Gareth Flavell: Is it? Yeah, a little bit, yeah.
07:12.66
Flav: Okay. Do you want me to unplug this?
07:16.41
Gareth Flavell: ah Yes, if it would help with the non-delay.
07:19.42
Flav: this
07:21.15
Gareth Flavell: Should I stop this and then?
07:21.81
Flav: It might shut down this window. Hang on a second.
07:23.35
Gareth Flavell: Right.
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