#25 | Getting a job | if you follow these steps you can’t go wrong

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The night hazy light band of brothers playing Jones High as 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 I we like to speak. And yeah, times change. But no matter what the bond remains. Brothers. Hello and welcome to lads Anonymous is episode 25, a podcast where two best mates of over 20 years invite you to join their safe space, where all manner of subjects will be discussed.

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We'll focus on a specific subject matter first and then answer your questions, dilemmas or need for advice, all handled anonymously. So sit back, relax and enjoy the podcast. Hello, Flav. How's it going, man? It's like 205. Does it really? Yeah. Fuck you. I like the I like the one of the people that listen to the podcast, send in their ring, send in their ring doorbell of their mate, dropping off a pass part a part, a package or a pass or a letter.

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And he's got his mate. He was dropping off this past winter, the podcast, and he just sings the jingle into the ring doorbell. Very softly, then walks away. I've watched that video and they've been listening to this and now he's not even anything. But yeah, I've watched that video 50 times. It's amazing. And I messaged him back to say, can I use this?

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Of course I can use it. Yeah. It's just like, if you do it, we'll see. You do buy it. There's a lot we'll play. What is he going to go? That's you know, I'm sorry. I don't want to use that. The you. And if he's like I'm really annoyed you used it was. All right. So what's going on here.

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So we're going to be up and fight. Was that what was gonna happen? Because we used to. I'm not in an organization in that fight because of a ring doorbell other than nuts. He's like a band of brothers playing tunes high as kites. So much. So much of our youth was spent exactly high as kites. Did you see the video coming out of Wandsworth prison?

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I think we doing this week. Are we. Because he's a bit. Oh all right okay. Yeah I did. And have you not won out to it. I've not done that. It was quite good. Yeah I mean like when I saw what was someone's like messaged me saying have you seen a single Wandsworth prison? I thought, well like I said, for in someone being.

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Yeah, someone being duped up or something like, like I thought it was going to and then it got sent the video and I was like gee, you know, the problem with it is that bloke, the recording it. I know he's essential because we wouldn't say otherwise, but just that way, mate, let's stop turning the, shall I say, the power.

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You stop turning the camera on your own face dead. So so so for anyone that doesn't know the video has a video, videos come out and a female prison warden is having sex with a prisoner, an inmate, Wandsworth prison. And the guy that is sharing the cell with the guy, he's got a, you know, he's got a camera phone and he's videoing it.

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Oh, and obviously he's been posted on the internet, but it was very, it was eye opening. Yeah. It was she was well into it and he was well into it. And you know, I, I've heard and there's been a lot of rumors around this that the bloke video wanted to go and she said, nope. So he said it.

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Oh, fuck. Really? That's what I've heard because she knew she was being filmed. That's the thing. That's what's weird about Ricky, is it? She's been filmed and she was fine with it, but that is obviously career ending. But she's going to prison for, they reckon, up to 18 months and she's got a husband as well. Husband and had a child that is just.

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And the bloke banging her is a seven month old child. Children everywhere. I mean, I think he's I'm not allowed to suggest something. I know this is controversial right. Go a should everybody be allowed to have children. You know there should be tests but I mean we we we with veering into you what's it called? You know, shit.

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The Nazis wanted to bring this in, by the way. Okay. Only select people can have children to create a master race. But what we're doing is not that right. Well, what I suggesting is save the children before they're born. Child welfare. We're looking out for child welfare first and then, Yeah. It's not not about genetics or anything like that.

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It's just about child welfare. It's the most important thing you can do in the world is bring a child into it. It's the biggest decision some people don't. Thinking about it. Some people just go, fuck it. Oh, pregnant. Okay, let's create another life. Send them off into the world. Yeah. This world. Yeah. No, I've just having to just think about it more, is all I'm saying.

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Yeah. I'm pretty sure you want to go into a prison and bang the inmates. Maybe think about, you know, the kids. You've got a kid. You've got a kid, Rick. I just don't know. I'm trying to just. I'm still trying to process. But she knew that they had the the video. Like, what? What did you think was going to happen?

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It happened so often that it wasn't a thing. And there's tons of them doing it. But Rick, she went to work. You think? Do you think the reverse happens as well, like the males in the female prison? Yeah. Yeah. And probably like in that scenario, if you're single, what's the end? It's not the end of the world, is it?

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It's just a bit of sex. No harm, no foul. But then they're being rewarded then, aren't they. Yeah. They shouldn't be rewarded in prison. You shouldn't be allowed to dick in prison, should you? That say, you know, it's the work bonus that's not written in the contract? Yeah. You can shag anyone you want. They're up for it. Just don't don't make a big deal out of it.

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Don't record it. Yeah, I record it. I don't record, no, but but but just back, just quickly. It's like, on a serious note, she's left work. She gone to work with a kid at home and a husband at home, and she's going through so and banged an inmate. Yeah, I ain't mother of the year material in my eyes, though.

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Yeah, I know, and what know who's looking after the kid now? She goes to prison for banging an inmate. The dos, the dad today he's got. What if he got a job? How was he going to do with the kid? Oh, because she wanted a bit of big. The power of death is insane. Yeah. Is is it is insane.

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I succumb to it sometimes. It's strong. Rick, what do you want with me? Not to suck the derivative right there. Of course. Closing with the, last week we spoke about, embarrassing embarrassment, and we didn't actually get on to X because we're going to do a whole other podcast on X, but we've had loads of embarrassing stories sent in, and I can't read them all, even though I would love to, but I am going to read this one out.

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So the embarrassment reminded me of one of the worst moments of my life. Yeah, one day, one day when I was 15, I was on the phone with a girl I'd really fallen for in high school. It was summertime, so I invited her over to my parents for a swim. She wanted to come, and I was very excited about the opportunity.

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A bit too excited. Later that evening, I opened up Facebook on my upstairs computer and had a picture of her and porn going side by side. Oh my lord, having a midnight session to release the poison. It really worked myself. It really worked myself out and I ended up passing out in the gang room. The next day she wakes me up on the couch.

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She said I hadn't answered her phone calls and my mum had let her in. I take a quick shower and come out to her, opening the computer and discovering the porn, plus Facebook pics of herself still open on the computer. Oh Lord, I was devastated. Yes, she was disgusted. She paid off like it wasn't a big deal, but nothing was ever the same.

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I tried to mend the relationship from there. Oh, with a with a game of sharks and minnows in the pool. But it was safe to say the relationship fell through. I will give her a bit of credit to my knowledge, she's never told anyone, which I've always been very grateful for. I don't know how sharks and minnows is going to solve that situation.

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I don't even know what she knows is now I know what I think is going to happen. Chasing them round the pool. But I think, yeah, Shorty thinks you're a predator. Don't play a game of I mean that like the Facebook picture and porn on like side by side on the computer. Is I've never been wild. I've.

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Yeah. I mean, I've never been in that situation or thought to do that. I just, I don't yeah. No, I mean I appreciate that you needed the porn as well as the picture because it wouldn't just be used, but it just that's like one of the things you do never tell anyone. No. Right. And then Eagle found out by the very person he was doing it to.

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Yeah. Yeah, that's fair play, Rick. I've got one that you did that we didn't talk about. Oh, for fuck's sake. The like I bring this up now. Well, because you should have said it last week, right? I can't remember when, when, when we went Spurs at Wembley and there was a steep hill that everyone was. Yeah. Everyone.

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Yeah. Pissing on to. Yeah I do. You went away didn't you. Right. Yeah. So we were was at the Green Man pub or was it the torch, the Green Man pub. And it was a big football day, big football event. The pub was Rameau. Loads of people were in the toilets. So men collectively decide to go out behind the pop into the wilderness.

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Into the wilderness where there is this, muddy verge. The men, very young men, were just pissing from the top of this verge, down into this, small chasm. Shall we say. So it's just full of muddy piss at the bottom. Now, I decided to join in that, and I went for a piss, too. Pissing into the muddy, pissy chasm cliff because I was, pissed up.

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I lost my footing and I slipped down the hill into this muddy, pissy chasm, and there was loads of thorns and stuff like that at the bottom. So trying to get out, I'm just kind of like waving my arms around. I couldn't get my foot in. I'm looking at the in mud and your eyes right there is. Yeah.

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Looking down at me, pissing himself, probably pissing on me at the time as well, like everyone else was. Sorry. And then I had to go to and this is at the beginning of the day, started to go to a cup final in the football, covered in mud and about 40 other men's piss. Yeah. Didn't want to go that way, didn't want to go.

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I just know that this will still be football. Yeah, yeah. I can't miss this can I came was it Spurs? Chelsea won it. Maybe Portsmouth. Yeah. So I yeah exactly. Lost that game and thanks for reminding me about that. That is yeah. Thanks. Oh that's terrible Spotify.

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The ratings are. No, don't don't don't you fucking rose. I'm getting sick of it. I'm. Oh, yeah, a thousand. No. Oh, for fuck's sake. What are you not doing? We're at 925. Last week we were at 884. So that's an increase of 41 the week before. That was 62 or something like that. There are thousands of you listening to this pod to make me stop doing this every single pod.

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I just want to get to 1005 rated stars. All you got to do, you go to Spotify, type in lads anonymous. You'll see three icons. There's a bell icon which notifies you when a podcast is out. There is a cog icon, which you can click and select the podcast to automatically download, which you should be doing anyway. And then there's three dots.

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Hit those three dots and it will say, right, this podcast hit the five stars, you're done. That's 20s out. You die, and you can make me stop doing this, please. But like, unless you're so you keep saying it. I'm I'm on my I'm at 920 please. And he won't stop it. Listen to me. I know Ricky as well as anybody on this planet.

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He won't stop. I won't start like why you make the podcast better by just clicking. Then I'll never hear about it. And there's people that never email into shows, but never do the five star ratings that never do any of that stuff. Leech off it for free. Danny. Yeah, that's and that's fine. But in this instance, just fucking do it.

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Just do it and just let me have my time in the sun. Oh, now, as soon as you hear the word Spotify, you can just skip ahead to using the skip thing and you never have to. Yeah. Anyway, so I didn't hear any of that. No, don't do that. Don't do that. I don't do it. Don't listen to him.

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Don't listen to him. Now, today, today. Today's topic. What is today's topic for? Today's topic is sharks getting a job. Oh yeah. What do we do? We do shops one day. We are. I'm a capitalist. I in a couple of weeks, a couple of weeks. All right. Get a job. Getting a job. Now I don't want to say like I've seen a lot of people on LinkedIn.

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I've got mates, have been mate recently made redundant. I was made redundant just over a year ago. There are other people that are looking for jobs and can't get jobs, and a whole load of fuckery at the moment. Now I'm not going to be where we are, not going to be telling you what you need to do is make sure you CV's got no grammar or typos.

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You should be fucking doing that anyway. And make sure your cover is this in that this isn't what this podcast is about. It's going to be about the more kind of, I'd say, embarrassing stuff about putting yourself out there. It's fucking hard and just talking about having to do that type of stuff. Now, I've never had a job.

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I've never gone through this process before. We get into that, there is a voice note that we've been sent in and there's been an update on ghost baths, but the gentleman that sent that in, he is a recruitment consultant, and he's got a couple of tips, which you're going to hear now, just quickly, if people haven't listened to the ghost episode, he that the bathtub was filling itself up to the brim and he didn't know why in his new house.

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Is it good he's up the it's it. Oh, I I'll just let me play it. Hello, lads. I hope you're both good. I'm actually the guy that sent the creepy bathtub story in a couple of weeks back. And if anybody is remotely interested, it hasn't happened again. We've been back and forth in about in the family group chat.

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No one's got a clue. I'm really glad it happened again, because if it had, it would have sent me over the edge. But if it does, anything else does happen. I'll let Ricky know. But, for this week's one, I spoke to Ricky really quickly on Instagram and I let him know I was a recruitment consultant. So he said if I had any advice, feel free to send it in.

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So this is for basically any lads out there or lasses, who are struggling to find, you know, their next job or they're not sure what they want to do. This is just two bits of advice that I would give to my mates. So this isn't necessarily, in line with what I do in my job, but this is just a good bit of advice for you.

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The first thing would be to follow up on your applications. So if you're somebody that's sending out like ten, 15, 20 job applications a day and you find yourself always saying, you know, I've applied to all these roles and you never hear back, that doesn't always mean you've been rejected. So what I would do is make a note of all the jobs you've applied for, and then every 3 or 4 days, just copy and paste a message to all of them.

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Just saying hi, my name is blah blah blah. I'll send you an email with my CV a few weeks back or a few days back. Sorry. Just wondered if you've had a chance to have a look over it. So that's the first thing you might, you know, if you send that to ten, you might get eight of them not respond still, but two of them might say, you know what?

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I was supposed to have a look at it and had a chance. I'll look now. You never know what might come of it. The second thing is, And I hate the word network con, but just talk to people. If you're in a football team or you go out, a lot of your mates find out what your mates do.

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Ask them how they got involved in it. Just say, you know, oh, you know how did you get into that line of work? I'm not saying go and ask your mates if they've got any jobs available, but you never know. Someone might turn around and say, you know, I'll done it by this. I actually know somebody that's looking for someone, blah, blah, blah.

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And you might, you know, land yourself a new job there. So ensure chase up on your applications, especially if you send them all out a day. And the second one is, just to talk to people and, and you never know what you might come across. All right. That's good. Good advice. Yeah, yeah. In the second, the second part, the second part of his advice in terms of like networking and network networking is obviously like a it's it makes it a bit of an it's it's not it's not a comfortable word.

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The idea of networking sounds exhausting and loads of fucking people about. But all he's saying is having conversations with your mates, and it's generally nepotism that gets you into places. And nepotism also is a loaded word. It's a word that is typically used in a negative way. It's like, oh, it's jobs for the boys. And if you have, it's who you know, not what you know.

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But that is the way it works. Like in every facet. Like for example, Ricky's starting this podcast was because we podcast. If I, if I didn't podcast, then there wouldn't be this, you know, like tentacles into other podcasts that go in and people I know. Oh actually I want to talk about I want to talk about that about effort and doing things and making things happen.

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But there's probably a conversation for for a little bit later. But yeah, he's, he's, he's, he's he's spot on. The two practical bits of advice that that could really help. Yeah. So networking now I'm a shy guy. I'd say in my social when people that I know you, I can be, an extrovert and, you know, very sociable.

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But generally speaking, if I am in a conference or if I go to, you know, an away day where I am listening to talks and then they do like the right. You've now got 15 minutes to go and meet people in your industry and do this. You know that. Like, I'll go and get a coffee, I'll go out for a cigaret.

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I'll do anything, anything to avoid that shit, man, because I just don't want to talk to other people and that's just me. But I realize that's not helping me know you get left behind if you do that. Exactly. You are not going to find that opportunity. And maybe that one person that where you just click with someone and you take their LinkedIn details or their other details and it doesn't actually have to be in a setting of a conference or in a way, or anything like that, just in normal life.

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Like this gentleman says, if you're going out with your mates and they bring their mates and normally you just stick in chat to your mates, what are you going to have a little convo with? One of the lads that they brought along? You just know his name's Chris. How's it going, mate? Where are you at? Oh, would you do that now?

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Like any jobs? Go in anything like that just to kind of see the the lay of the land and just to find out about what other people do, how they got into it. And you never know, because there might and the there might not be the opportunity there. But five months down the line, you might see this person do a LinkedIn post saying that we really need people to be content creators or my mate is looking for, and you've already got that in.

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If you didn't have those conversations before and you didn't put yourself out there, then that that opportunity wouldn't have arose for you. So networking for me is fucking painful. It really is. And I actually there's a little bit of saying that just came up in my mouth saying about networking, but, I find it. I find it hard, but I also realize that I'm not going to get other opportunities if I just stay on my little rock.

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It might be comfortable there. But yeah, it is. It might be. Yeah, yeah. But you're going to get nothing done. Exactly. And, networking is such a broad term and it's a horrible term, but it's more about communication. How communicative can you be? A case in point would be Charlie, our film guy who works on, you know, he's our mate, but he works on the flying cock, and he does artwork and stuff.

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When I left, when I left Bowie Street to set up on my own, I put out a message on LinkedIn. And that's probably the last time I've ever used LinkedIn. Yeah. And I said, I am leaving my job at Wall Street and I'm going to work on the fighting cock, whatever that means, full time. If you ever if there's anyone out there who's ever had any ideas and wanting to work with us, now's the time.

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I'm all ears. I want to hear anything I have to see. I don't know how many people saw it, but one person responded. Charlie never met him before. Yeah. You'd never met Charlie from that point? No. Just certainly. Listen. Podcast. Lots of podcasts sent me show showreel. I was I don't know what to do with this yet, but this guy's clearly talented.

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I need to keep him around. Yeah. So we met up, went up for a pint. You know, talked about what he was doing. I had this vague idea about doing a film that I'd written a treatment for. We started looking at potentially doing that. We started working on. It didn't work. We gave it up. Still want to go back to it at some stage, but.

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And I was thinking about other things we can do from that point. Charlie's now effectively inverted commas employed by the fighting cock in that, you know, he's he he gets paid for the work. He's he does it in terms of creative and the in the video stuff. But moreover, my connection to Boucherie got his company for a couple of years.

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Lots of work loads. Like you know, you're talking about tens of thousands of pounds worth of work. From one message that he sent five years ago, he saw this message on LinkedIn, reacted to it, decided to communicate, and from that point, look what happened. We ended up going to Amsterdam together and making a film about Tottenham's. Right. Tottenham and I x you know, and that quality film.

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Yeah. So, so but it's all stems back from that moment you said I'm going to do something here, I'm going to communicate, I'm going to make an effort. I'm going to reach out. And we didn't even know what it was going to be when we met. Had no idea. And I think that from that is one of the, the kind of the key things that I wanted people to take away from this.

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And I'm as guilty as the next person, really. But it was you putting yourself out there just laying your cards out, just being naked, almost to say I'm leaving my job. I need I need help going forward in design work, in video, in this. I need people's energy. I need the people around me. Exactly. To go back on, LinkedIn.

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How do you find LinkedIn? I haven't looked at it for five years. I hate it for not. Yeah, yeah, I, I even pay a lot like, not. Yeah. I cannot help themselves. It's because that's what the algorithm likes in LinkedIn. Yeah it is. Yeah. I, I, I can't remember the last time I posted on LinkedIn. What is it for?

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I know, and I have to use LinkedIn for, for work and I naturally find myself having to scroll and I'm just like, I hate you, I hate you. What's it for? What was LinkedIn for? It's for people to prove that they're good at their job. They put a soapbox out and they stand on it and say, today I learned about diversity and what it means to me.

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And today I learned about. And it's just like, mate, just fuck off. Do you think if people spend as much time working as they do on LinkedIn, talking about their work, that they'd get more? Yes, yes, yes, this is and that's another pet peeve. Instead of being on LinkedIn telling everyone what you're about to do, what you why don't you fucking go and do it?

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Because really, we think about that. We don't care. You know, it's impressive when you're, you know, driving around in that car, you want to drive around it, not how well you can fucking get engagement on LinkedIn. I appreciate it brings attention to the business, perhaps, but, Fuck that. Yeah. Fuck that. Fuck them. Now applying for jobs. Right.

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So I was going through this process when I was made redundant and obviously applying for a job. Now they kind of the landscape has changed massively from when I was younger to where I am now in applying for jobs. It used to be you would read a job description, job, job title, hand in your CV. They'd look at and say, yep, you're a match.

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Let's, let's have an interview. And now as well, cover letters. Equally as important, but you write your personal statement on your CV. What do you write in your cover letter that you've already not that's not on you. Yeah. You you got to spend time doing that. Yes. And now we're in this place where. You have to put everything from your CV and copy and paste it into the job application.

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You have to write your personal statement. You have to write your CV. That's different from your personal statement. Then you have to give examples of what you do in your job and why it works so well. And then you have to say how your values match the business values, and then you have to. Fucking hell, man, why are we being made to jump through hoops?

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Do you know what I feel like? I feel like I am on naked attraction. Like I am just totally bare and people are just an inch away from my cock looking at it at my ass and saying, yeah, nah, but you get one way that I'm like, you know, like in America where they have, where they're checking out prize bulls and people are, like, touching the calves and touching the thighs and saying how big the decades and shit like that.

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I mean, you know, it's just not. But it's honestly, I have to say, you know what? They've got the money. You want the money? Well, what? They don't know. It's just like. So it just feels so degrading. It's so degrading. And for every job, you have to change yourself to match that job. Yeah. And it's like, no wonder why people are so broken over the process.

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And they have no motivation these years. And because every time they are spending their days altering their application to match what they think the business wants, they don't even get an email or likes or anything like that. It's just gnawed do to know what else the person reviews that a lot of big companies now use AI. It's not even a human being looking at, CVS, they are just a they got the type of people who are typing.

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You got to essentially optimize your CV so that yeah, I activate. Yeah, it's, it's, it's ballocks. And the more people can move towards an entrepreneurial life, the happier they'll be. I think genuinely like I the, the, the process of applying for a job is one that I've never had to do, actually. I mean, have you have you never had to do that?

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I mean, I did when I was a kid, like for, to work in all Price and Woolworths, but it was like it was a tokenistic. They just took your information and played anybody, any kid that wanted a job, you more or less got one at Woolworths, right. But no, outside of that, it was through work I done previously.

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Got me an opportunity. So. But my first big job out of university was with, youth media agency called organization called exposure. But I've done all the work before I got the job, I was volunteering the exposure from 15 through to. Well. All right, pathway for university about to 2020. So when there was a job available again, obviously we can give it to him because he knows it inside out.

00:30:16:03 – 00:30:37:12
Who understands what it is. We don't want to go outside because what you've got or employ someone from outside doesn't understand the way the charity works, doesn't understand, or will have to learn how to, understand what what the charity does well and how we work with young people. I was one of those young people that benefited. So naturally, I got the job.

00:30:37:14 – 00:31:11:11
Who better would have got the job in that moment? Good. So and that's, you know, again, it, an example of, Sometimes in order to get opportunities, you have to put in your time and create and make yourself indispensable in that. Yes, I did, yeah. And going back to this, you know, they have an they're called ATS that I think is applicant tracking system where your CV goes into and all your other data that you put in and spent hours doing goes in.

00:31:11:11 – 00:31:42:10
And this bit of AI scans your data to see what keywords you've put in. And if you haven't matched, you know, ten out of the 12 keywords they're looking for. Your CV goes in the rejection box. And it's crazy because when when I've been trying to employ people in my previous, it's not just been about their skillset, it's about how they present themselves and how how they've written their CV, their personal statement.

00:31:42:12 – 00:32:09:04
Just to give me a flavor of all, we going to work well together, you know what I mean? Just to see if we're going to be compatible in that instance and these systems now. And I think everyone's kind of got on to the fact that you can go on to ChatGPT. You can copy and paste the job description, put it in ChatGPT and say, put out the keywords for this round.

00:32:09:06 – 00:32:40:00
When you're filling out your application, you populate your CV with these keywords so that hopefully you beat the applicant tracking system and that your CV is at least accepted. And you go through to the next round where a human will then judge your CV and, mine. It's just I can understand where people are coming from and how painful it is, because you're not only competing with.

00:32:40:02 – 00:32:59:19
What the business is asking you for of all these different things, but they're about your values. And, you know, I did this because of XYZ it. But then you've got to try and be a fucking computer to try and even get your foot in the door. It is frustrating and impossible for thousands of people applying for a job, but you want some a human being to sit down and read all.

00:32:59:19 – 00:33:28:17
No, no, I don't I, I just, I just, I just want to moan about it. And I want you to support me and moan. And I can't think I'm the man. You. I think there's this the there is, there is this position. Certainly from this definitely in this generation, you know, the younger generation suddenly becoming. No. But that they've got money that you want, they need to ensure they get the right person.

00:33:28:17 – 00:33:49:09
They don't care about you as an individual. They care about getting the right person. So if they've made money, surely they should be as as sensible as possible in employing the right person. I've been in jobs where they've employed the wrong people and you're like, how the fuck did this geezer get the job? Yeah, just because you want a job doesn't mean you deserve one.

00:33:49:11 – 00:34:05:07
You have to be the right person. You've got to work hard. You've got to build your skill set. You're you're now podcasting for a living. Rickie. Loads of people want to do that. Can they all do it? No. But you put the thousands of hours in, so you deserve it. Thank you. I fucking work hard and you get what you want.

00:34:05:07 – 00:34:31:21
Mostly. Sound. Salah. My dad fucked me. I want Rick, I don't want to disrupt the, You're running order because I don't know what you found. Okay? I just at some point, I know it doesn't need to be to talk about being entrepreneurial and maybe creating something for yourself, as opposed to being a slave to the job market and the 9 to 5.

00:34:31:23 – 00:35:01:06
Right. Okay, I will put that and we'll quickly we'll just talk about interviews, okay. And like you said, that you've not done that whole application process at the moment. And within your industry, it works quite differently as opposed to a corporate. I'm applying for this job. Yeah. Did you have interviews for the roles that you applied for, or that you were connected with or networked with, or anything like that?

00:35:01:08 – 00:35:22:24
I had a tokenistic interview with exposure, my first job, because it was a subsidiary of a council, so they had to go through the normal interview process. But I knew I had the job before I was in there, so it was kind of just like, it's not that they said formality had to be done. You know, we had a half an hour discussion.

00:35:23:01 – 00:35:44:15
So there was that. But my other job. So I did that for 12 years. And then my other job Boucherie they know about the podcast. We were nominated for an award and they went, we like this guy. We met him, I met I met Matt, who owned the, the FBI's. I was pinion of my tits on pills, but I'm.

00:35:44:17 – 00:36:05:07
But like, the my chip always fucked me anyway. And and that was the interview. Pretty much. I didn't know it was. I didn't know what was happening. But, like, I mean, I didn't know that he was sourcing me out, but. And then I met the other owner for a pint in the pub and that was it. So I've been really lucky to not have to go through this process.

00:36:05:07 – 00:36:32:11
I can't really advise, but you. Yeah, so. So, yeah, I have so I have done all of the, used ChatGPT to pick out keywords and job descriptions. The, the personal statements, the cover letters, how you know you're doing it right, the you know, you did it right. No. Not really. You just kind of you say to jab chat GPT about picking out the keywords, picking out the keywords for that.

00:36:32:11 – 00:37:02:24
Right. Yeah, exactly. For the job description of what you need to do. And another thing as well, which I am absolutely lost on, and I, you know, I know it's people need it, but I just don't get it. It's kind of like whereby I say in my job, I have done social media right? But not only do you say I've, I've posted x, y, z, you have to give examples of how it was good.

00:37:02:24 – 00:37:34:07
So I posted to Twitter on these days and it increased our engagement by X. And this is why I'm good at tweeting right? I could be making up. How are they? How was the company ever going to know that? That is correct. You would never know. Oh I did a newsletter and because I worked on clickable headlines, it increased readership by 25%.

00:37:34:11 – 00:37:58:03
That sounds good. No one knows. That's right. I've just literally pulled it out of my head and people would believe that. So why not just pick up a bit as well? They can't prove it. Life. Exactly. And it's just these are the things that I find personally. And I know they'll be people that that will listen to this and it will resonate, because I'm just not that good at selling myself.

00:37:58:03 – 00:38:21:05
I'm I'm kind of introverted and it's like pulling things out of my ass to make me sound like I am so much bigger than I am. And I get that's what you have to do to get jobs now, but I just find it crazy that it's we're in that type of position that we have to do that as people, and people aren't naturally gifted or want to be like that.

00:38:21:05 – 00:38:45:00
And if you want to get these jobs, you have to be like, that is just what you want. Just press what I don't know. No, you don't know. Not a crash, but. Oh, so you're introverted. Okay. You're not right for the job. Go for it. Introverts can make money, but it's like that. That whole point of selling yourself to the degree of really just putting it out there is.

00:38:45:02 – 00:39:05:08
It's hard. So like, if I know it's hard, but I say, listen, listen, listen, listen. Right. That's where you're coming from. And this is good because there is going to be people that are like me, yes, listening to this. And they're going to people on the other side of the coin that are saying, what do you want a crash?

00:39:05:10 – 00:39:27:12
What would you say to people that are like me that need to get themselves out there, that need to kind of release themselves of the shackles on when they're doing their CV as to sell themselves. They need to go through a process where you can arrive at being the person they want you to be, because what it is, is I understand that those things are horrible.

00:39:27:12 – 00:39:47:20
I don't like doing them. Oh, I would, I could imagine how horrible it is and having to go into an interview room and fucking talk to these people. You don't give a shit about them. They don't give a shit about you and you having to go through this process. It's bullshit. I understand how awkward and horrible that is, but no one cares if you don't get a job.

00:39:47:22 – 00:40:03:09
There isn't a lot of safety in it. There's not someone saying, oh, that's a shame, let's give him a job. That's not the way it works, is it? And if that is and that's a fact, right? So if there isn't someone out there going, I want to give this guy a job because he's a nice guy. If there isn't people like that, then what do you do?

00:40:03:10 – 00:40:26:17
You have to change. You have to find something for you and what you did, Rick, what you did was you went through that process. You lost your job because of, you know, whatever whatever happened in that company, that, you know, whatever, whatever it was, I don't know. But what if, like, lots of people recently had been made redundant, which is fucking horrendous because, you know, you then have to restart the process.

00:40:26:19 – 00:40:53:12
But you for we had a chat and we found a way where you could do this. Rick why don't you do this. This suits you. Let's put those in motion here and see what happens. And lo and behold something happened. Yeah. You just cramming yourself into something that doesn't fit you if you're unable to change is only going to end one way.

00:40:53:14 – 00:41:11:09
So you need to look at alternative ways to to do it. And and my point is, is, why I'm sounding harsh is because no one cares if you don't. Yeah. No one's around to go. Oh, that's a shame you didn't get a job. Let's pick him up. You have to pick yourself up. No one gives a shit.

00:41:11:11 – 00:41:15:04
And that's what I've learned. The older you get is.

00:41:15:06 – 00:41:38:02
No one. Really. There's no one looking out for you. You might. Maybe, but ultimately it's on you to to to do these things. And why you, why you're making a success of this, which is because of your desire and, and work ethic and your need to do it. And that's that's what will, find that's that's how you arrive at the right place.

00:41:38:04 – 00:41:58:15
Can I just quickly this is a good time actually to mention my. So my brother starting this, is starting the course up. Really? It's called the Green Man system, and it's for people like us. Rick. Who do you do you remember for how long we spoke about you should do a podcast? Rick. People love you on the pod.

00:41:58:16 – 00:42:17:10
You should do a podcast. How many for how long? It was. It was a so this has been going on for a fair number of years. And I've always batted away. Why? Why did you. That's why I'm kind out. I didn't have the confidence. Didn't have the confidence, didn't think anyone wanted to listen to anything that I've particularly got to say.

00:42:17:10 – 00:42:41:11
I've fitted on a podcast where I was comfortable because I had other people that would lift me up, and I just didn't know. I didn't have the knowhow, all the confidence or the self-belief or any of that stuff to get me to actually do it. And when we had the chat about Lads Anonymous, it was in 2023 and then the first episode went out in January 2024.

00:42:41:11 – 00:43:02:18
So it was a year after we had proper discussions. You should do this, Rick. And I was like, yeah, yeah, crickets, because I just didn't have Gary. Yeah it is. It's scary. It's very scary. It's people might not like it. You might get rejected, it might fail. All of those things are horrible things to think about and stop there if rejection is real.

00:43:02:19 – 00:43:22:21
Yeah. And and, and there are so many people out there that have ideas about things that they want to do that would change their life, could change their life. I've got this idea for a business, I want to go and sing on stage. I want to write a book. I gonna write poetry. I want to apply for this job.

00:43:23:01 – 00:43:56:16
I think this job is out of reach. I don't know how to get there because there's something in you that stops you. It's a nice guy syndrome. It's procrastination, whatever it is. So I'm developed this course and it's fascinating. It's really good. Called the Green Man System. And he works with you to to get past that point of resistance so that you can build that project that you've been aiming to build, and you might have been thinking about it for years, and you've never done it for all the reasons what Ricky has just said.

00:43:56:21 – 00:44:15:03
Part of the reason why this podcast didn't happen for so long was because Rick was was worried that it wouldn't work, or people might not value what he has to say or that it would be shit. I'd be shit. Yeah. So what's the point? Why? Why even start now? Ricky works for himself now. Ricky, I work for myself.

00:44:15:03 – 00:44:39:16
I don't have a boss. I don't have to get up in the morning, go up whenever I want in the morning, because I did the thing that I was scared of doing. And it's. And it's in so many people, there's so many great things that could be be created if you just let yourself do it. So if you want to find out more, you can find my brother on, or on Instagram at Cantwell Help.

00:44:39:18 – 00:45:09:17
Or you can contact him on WhatsApp. It's 07398 663261. He's got a completely free course that you can do that you can take part in. And that in itself will benefit you. And if you feel like you want to go further with it, you can talk to him about it. But he's already had a he's already one, one one full session with, with 20 people, 20 men actually, to help them develop their projects and do the thing that they're supposed to be doing that's just not able to do for many, many reasons.

00:45:09:19 – 00:45:31:13
It's just getting past that barrier. It's very difficult. But with Alex's help, we can do it. I just thought that would be a good thing just to say, because it's like, yeah, this is proper fit in for what we're talking about. And again, like whether it's interview techniques or whether it's, you know, just to get yourself out there and I've got this, I've still got this barrier even that we've been talking about this podcast up and just listening to talk.

00:45:31:13 – 00:45:50:10
Then I might sign up to a private school as well, because I still have to put his ECG in the description of the spot if people to find it. Yes. And also you can email lads Anonymous and we'll hook you up to that great anon pod at gmail.com if you're interested. Come and talk to us, email us.

00:45:50:10 – 00:46:10:14
You can send us anything on social and we'll hook you up to you. And can I, can I give you another example, Rick, of about how reaching out and communicating these can get you everywhere going. Then very quickly there's a lad. You might have seen him. If people listen to that, that's on us, but also having to listen to the final podcast, you'll have heard of a young man called Ben Bowman.

00:46:10:14 – 00:46:30:21
He's been on the pod a lot. You might seen him on TikTok. Ben talks football. About six months ago, he DM me with the longest DM I've ever seen in my life. Like, you know, he loves the chat. Ben, you can hear it when he's talking. Just goes. He's like a it's a machine. You can just talk about anything for as long as he wants.

00:46:30:23 – 00:46:52:22
It was the longest fucking DM I've ever seen in my life. Ricky. It was about 500 words and I'm like, right, well, he's gone to the effort to put all this in, but it's the wrong start because I have got fucking. I don't want to read all this. I wouldn't even read 500 words my wife had written. So let alone some bloke, I don't know, unsolicited on, on, on, on Twitter.

00:46:52:24 – 00:47:08:23
So I said to him, mate, I'm not reading this right. I've read I got the gist of what you want. You want to get out your job. Were working in the music industry. Yeah, she's a good job, right? But it just wasn't his passion. He went to work in football and he's just got all of this mess of ideas in his head.

00:47:09:00 – 00:47:34:23
And I said, right, call me and we can talk about this. Let's have a chat. That was six months ago. Since then, he's left his job. He's built a YouTube channel, is building a massive audience on on TikTok. He's he's started a podcast G all around football. He's got work now with James all. He's a massive YouTuber. I already got that work cuz I said, James, you got to work with his guy.

00:47:35:04 – 00:47:55:08
He's great. Look at his energy. Look at all the stuff he's doing now is paying him. Look what he's doing. James looked at his work and went, great, I need a producer for this film. Ben goes in, gets paid. That's that's how that's how it works. He's not working for himself. So. But he sent the message and it was a fucking wrong message.

00:47:55:08 – 00:48:16:11
And it was long and it was the wrong way to start a conversation. But it was. But they did it. If you're listening, don't send me like it seems. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you want it, do the thing. Send the message. Just. Just start the robbery. Just start the well, okay? The world is full of people that don't do stuff, right.

00:48:16:11 – 00:48:37:02
And if you do stuff, stuff happens for you. And you know how far ahead you get. Because if if your competition isn't doing stuff and you're doing it, then there is no competition. You just get on with it. I'm this sounds like fucking one of those David Goggins like, just fucking job and work. And he's it's as simple as that.

00:48:37:02 – 00:48:59:13
Even if you don't know what the reward is, if even if the money is, there's no money on the table for you at this stage, do it. Do. We did the fighting cock for eight years before earning a penny. Eight years outside of work, on top of a job, running the fighting the fucking cookies. I mean, now pretty much kind of runs itself, but as long as people are listening, we're okay.

00:48:59:13 – 00:49:22:15
I mean, but, But yeah, it's like, if you're in a job you don't want do something you enjoy doing enough, and there'll be a way to make money out of it. But you got to put that work in first. But the anticipation that this is a prize, that can't be the motive. Yeah, exactly. Just and again, you got an idea.

00:49:22:17 – 00:49:46:12
Make a start. It doesn't have to be the business plan. Doesn't have to be the strategy. Yeah. I will just send that email mate, to make that connection, get the conversation going. And you will soon speak to my brother. Speak to my brother honestly. Make that first step. There's nothing like, you know, there is a a course that he puts on that is work, and he works directly with you that you can invest.

00:49:46:12 – 00:50:02:02
If you want to invest in your what you might be doing and invest in yourself, then you can pay. But the start, there's nothing to pay. There's just, just he he can help and you can go through a process that will get you started in that creative journey, whatever that might be. You got nothing to lose. Go for it.

00:50:02:02 – 00:50:34:23
Yeah. Now, the next topic someone has submitted, which I quite like. Our top five dream holiday destinations. And why? So we've done the holidays in our full, easiest 40 year old lads. And we've done lads. We come, lads holidays. We really do. Jenrick. Yeah, we are. It's holiday season and what about one of the things we, we haven't done stag days either.

00:50:34:24 – 00:50:53:02
That's going to be a like a no no. We haven't focused on the whole thing about what you want to do. Stack these. At least I've got stories. I've got stories to stack the stories of days. Right. Okay, then we'll take all right. That's that's good. Because I thought my five dream holiday destinations are about places I don't know I like because I haven't been there yet.

00:50:53:04 – 00:51:16:17
And they're all places in Lanzarote. I, Lanzarote, Tenerife for Ventura. Right. Okay, okay. Well, just look, this one. My. Yes. All right. Yeah, let's do that. Well, wife's in Tenerife at the moment. Why am I so worried? Do you know why I'm worried? Because that fucking little slack just went missing in it. Yeah, he's he's still. It's still not me.

00:51:16:18 – 00:51:44:01
Found that man. That man. And I'm not like, he. I'm not saying anyone. No one deserves this, but he's. It didn't go around bragging. You stole a 12,000 pound Rolex on Snapchat. Is that factual? Yeah, it was like that Daily Mail report said. Oh, shit. Okay. He's ex-policeman ex-police, and he got that guy. The other guy, he's come out of the woodwork saying, yeah, you entered my house alive and he left alive.

00:51:44:01 – 00:52:04:18
That's weird thing to say, you know? Why did you sign a life? To say he came into my house and then he left. No, he came in alive. He left alive. It's like if you're not doing. Can you imagine? But he can you imagine? He's just been on a massive, like, two week bender. He's like someone walked past and he's actually just having a fry up in the local caff and they're like, are you J.

00:52:04:18 – 00:52:25:01
And he's like, yeah, why are we not seeing, you know, seeing the TV like right now I'm just just having it here in Tenerife. It's it's someone. So if you join the search party. Like he's a part of the gang that hit some kid with a machete like, I don't know, it was just people out there, jet lag missing.

00:52:25:01 – 00:52:49:06
There's missing, but kids are missing. Why is this getting so much attention? Because there is. There's some weird fish in this around it. Yeah. What do you think? I think I there's a story about drug cartels. Yeah. He was supposed to be selling. He lost a bag. And they've, you know, they've seen this. No, no, that isn't it.

00:52:49:08 – 00:53:11:10
Yeah. Who's on the drugs before taking the drugs? Yeah, exactly. You got to have the money for the drugs. So I think something like that maybe don't. If you need a job, don't. That isn't an alternative. No, this is drugs mill. The entrepreneurial chat. We we just had it. It wasn't. Can't do it. Can't get a believe cocaine.

00:53:11:10 – 00:53:45:17
Got it up. Step on it. Sell in the streets. Gotta go get that brick. Put that brick in your face. What are you going to do with it? Yeah. So? So next week we are going to be talking about stack. So sending all your stack do stories not lads holidays stack these. You know when you dress someone up when you do this that and the other and the whole kind of, energy around stack things and what it's about and maybe how it's changed now that you're in your 40s.

00:53:45:19 – 00:54:08:21
So if you've got any stories, send them in to lads. Anon pod at gmail.com. Voice notes come out. Get your voice notes in as well. Yes, he's a great, great example, great option. Everyone's got stacked stories. Get your voice notes in stack stories. Keep it to a minute if you can, and send it into the email address and we will play them next week.

00:54:08:21 – 00:54:37:24
Now this week we have no dilemmas, which is good. Everyone is right with a road. Yes, I think you know everyone's happy. That's great. We only have a something only you know. Yeah. And we are going to be playing that in a minute okay. It's called I, we really didn't expect that. And you're going to hear the theme tune now or something.

00:54:38:01 – 00:54:44:21
You know, you.

00:54:44:23 – 00:55:04:15
I was on a lads holiday once when I was younger. I snuck off to find a lady of the night. I've been drinking all day and night. And as you do when you're, As you do when you're about. I felt a bit horny. It was around 5 or 6 in the morning. I ended up finding a lady of the night, so I thought, fuck it.

00:55:04:17 – 00:55:30:12
Literally. Yeah. Went round the back of the hotel in a dodgy area. It's. Yeah. She tried sucking me off and I tried doing it from behind, but the session of beers meant there was no life in the out. Boy, she got the ass with me and randomly took a piss on the floor in front of me. Instead of being disgusted, I felt a twinge.

00:55:30:14 – 00:55:54:24
Oh yeah. I still have my trousers down to my ankles. Feeling the twinge my knob, I grabbed it and started knocking one off her piss in her tummy. On high. Fuck knows what had happened in my head. She could see me knocking one out, so came over and started sucking my floppy, then wallop just in her mouth with a floppy.

00:55:54:24 – 00:56:16:09
That's twice. And that's something only I know. What is it with people? Oh, how are these this phenomenon? I didn't know that you could know. That's twice I saw it with a floppy and two. What? In a month we've had two people saying they've injected a floppy. I've never heard of that before. Now record, you know, and I.

00:56:16:11 – 00:56:35:09
I'm going to try it. You're not going to try it. How do you do it? You. What do you mean you're going to try it when? Now, after this try out. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah. What? So, look, this is a phenomenon. We got to find out if there's more people out there, they can do it.

00:56:35:11 – 00:57:01:06
This is like. This is how the X-Men find new mutants to to work with here. A rumor that there's a thing about. And it's been out. It's not one out with a ejaculate with a floppies, the floppy. And that's two people. And what? So if you slide, a lot of people listen to this podcast, but it's not a massive you know, it's not a in terms of the grand scheme of things that the millions and billions of people on the earth, tiny, minuscule.

00:57:01:06 – 00:57:19:13
We found two people that can do it. There must be more of you out there. It doesn't sound a great way to have any jerk. No, no it doesn't. I'd much rather have it in a traditional sense. Yeah, for sure, for sure. But I'd like to, you know, if I if I could change it up, I would like to.

00:57:19:14 – 00:57:45:05
I'm can trained for it. Or is it just one of these things takes you by surprise? I don't know, I don't I don't think so. I, I'm interested. This is my curiosity. I've got to say. What else is another question about what we've just heard? Is he. If you. Rick, at any point, you're like, you've been out on the beers, are your mates before you just sneak off and get fuzzy?

00:57:45:07 – 00:58:07:21
Yeah. How committed do you have to be to do that? No. And the the the coke's turning in your brain to think right. This is what I'm going to do. It's not like prostitutes, I think, yeah, I have a problem where I'm with my mates. This is especially when I was younger, when I'm with my mates.

00:58:07:23 – 00:58:32:16
The fear of missing out. We're all at the table having beers. Check my wallet. Fuck. I need to go and get cash out. And it's giving myself up to leave the pub, find the cash machine, get money out. Come back to that. These people are doing that. But to find prizes. Yeah. Like he's just. Yeah. That's getting the cash out to, you know, buy a, you know, some gear.

00:58:32:18 – 00:58:48:07
Yeah. Back in the day. That is a mission. Oh, I'll go meet the guy. What? He's going to drive to me. How close is he going to be to me? How long is he going to be fucking out? This is. I'm not doing it. I'm going home. What color? Causey. What color? What's he. What is that? Is he.

00:58:48:09 – 00:59:07:17
Yeah. All right. Well well well well, I'll tell you the most mental story of when I picked up one's dye guns. Well, do it now. Yeah, yeah, but just to finish that, the, the the dedication to go and get the money, find the prostitute. And it sounds like you found it on the streets. I don't know how you do that.

00:59:07:19 – 00:59:22:23
And then how do you even approach that as well. There's just a woman that you just walk past and say, you a prostitute. I'm sure you want that address. Is that how you do it? But, but, but but then and then and then he's he's she's tried to succeed because he couldn't guard. She tried to bail from behind.

00:59:22:23 – 00:59:39:18
Couldn't guard. She did squats down in front of you and has a piss after being annoyed at you. And you get a floppy and and you get a twinge and then come inside a mouth with a floppy cock. Then you've got to walk away from all of that and God starts to process it. All that just happened. That was weird.

00:59:39:18 – 01:00:13:00
Yeah. Oh, because an hour ago I decided I needed going at state with a prostitute. Bad decisions in the night, Rick. So this happened a long time ago, a while back. So I might not be able to remember this correctly, but it is the most bizarre thing, right? So I was coming in on the train from Paddington, and, so I brought my guy and he said, I'm going to be here in this white car with, it'll be a giant white.

01:00:13:00 – 01:00:36:13
Wow. And yeah, something like that. Does I co what road go to this road in Paddington? Because I wanted to pick it up and and just be on my way. I didn't want to hang around fucking Paddington anyway. Get there. Bag on time. White car comes along. White Honda turns into the road that I'm waiting for him. I get in the car.

01:00:36:15 – 01:00:55:04
I said, I'll make. Can I just have one, please? And he looked at me a bit odd, and the car looked a bit like it wasn't the normal driver, and and it was a bit mucky. Anyway, he pulled out the gear. He gave it to me. I gave him £50 or whatever it was. I put it in my pocket.

01:00:55:04 – 01:01:16:19
Got out of course, said, right mate, have a good day. He drove off. I'm walking down the street, standard. Five minutes later I get a call from my dealer. Where are you? I mean, what? We're here. We're waiting for you. Where are you? And I went. I've already picked up a white Honda. Yeah, I got into white Honda.

01:01:16:21 – 01:01:38:24
I asked the guy, can I have some gear I've already picked up. You went. That was enough. But what? What did you mean, that wasn't you? You mean I've just got into a random car? Also some random bloke for drugs. He's given me drugs and I've paid him and he's driven off like nothing happened. And he's driving the exact same car as you.

01:01:39:01 – 01:02:01:24
That is nonsense. I went back, he goes, okay, do you need me to do anything while he's coming? Get the drugs. Be delivering for you. Does that right? Fuck you. All right, go have free wraps. And do I go? So did that. He said, God, the chances, the coincidence of that if. Well, man, like this bloke, a random person got in his car, asked for drugs.

01:02:01:24 – 01:02:27:04
He gave it to him and I got out and it was like nothing to this man. I mean nothing on those levels. But I've been waiting when I was younger, waiting to get picked up from my mum. So my mum's car, walked over to it, opened the door, sat down, looked at my mum. Was it my mum? It was just someone with the same car and I just completely misremembered the situation.

01:02:27:06 – 01:02:37:07
Got in the car. So. So my mum across the car, you know, they would just laugh but but then to ask that person, I'll just have one place.

01:02:37:09 – 01:03:07:22
And they gave me one. My fucking madness, boy. The same color car, same type of car in the same street in pallet, at the exact same time that I was there waiting for it. Maybe they just all drive white. Hyundai. Yeah, they may do that. I mean, I still, crazy. So next week we are going to be talking about stag dos.

01:03:07:24 – 01:03:41:10
If you have any stag dos, specific stories, voice, note them, send them in, or even email them in. Send it to lads anon pod at gmail.com and we will see you next week. On the night, hazy like Band of Brothers playing tunes. Hi as quiet midnight waves in free till daylight breaks. Rhythm hit us different ways. Love of music that we prayed with our tongues in cheek.

01:03:41:10 – 01:04:00:01
Man I we like to speak and yeah, times change. But no matter what the bond remains. Brothers.

01:04:00:03 – 01:04:09:21
Or the nights hazy lights of brothers. Playing tunes. Always fights.