#40 | 80s & 90s kids TV | a walk down memory lane

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Bit. A bit of a weird week with. Yeah, as in a that's based I mean, I'm not particularly or obviously I'm not a, a One Direction fan, but that kind of strategy for such a young person and you're seeing everything that's going around like photos of it looks like drug paraphernalia. And smashed up computer screen or TV screen.

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And there's like voice notes of, apparently that the people that work at the hotel making telephone calls to the police and fire brigade and saying about it, it's I don't know, man. It's this is something that just feels a bit weird about it, like, because he was posting stories to, Snapchat and it was like, all fine.

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Like, you know, I know that the how the days when we used to go out, not that there was any crack cocaine, not always know a crack cocaine. In the morning. You're fine. Right. It's the next morning when you're not fine, you know. So I don't want to kind of become like this, to be like a tittle tattle kind of tabloid coverage.

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Of what? Of what's happening. He was dropped by his label this like like this week apparently or something a week before. I didn't know that Andy's publishing publishing company dropped him. He was, he was in Argentina to see, one of the other One Direction people singing. So. Yeah. And his missus flew back home and left him alone.

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Yeah. So it feels like, you know, drugs, in my experience, could be a lot of fun until they're not a lot of fun. And then that fucking horrible. Yeah, and the horrible bit is really horrible. It isn't like it's about. It's like done like some mushrooms before. And then there's occasions I want to go to bed now and the mushrooms are out now, we ain't done yet.

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And I'm like, oh, I'm tired. It's been a long, long day. Can I go to bed now? Like, nope. And so so that is a very, in a weird way, a microcosm of when they fuck you up. Get. Its good intro in it. So just play the jingle. Yeah, let's do it.

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So sit back, relax and enjoy the pot. How's it going, mate? It's been a stressful, tiring week, I gotta say. Not quite as tiring as other people's know. I know, what's been, what's been keeping you up, then? Nothing. Only positive stuff, really, but positive stuff. There's a lot of sort of found a house I want to buy.

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And we're in the process of doing the bureaucracy involved. But there's so much, so much more than I thought there was going to be. Even though People planet said it's the most stressful time of your life and all that shit. And I don't believe that. But moving house isn't the most stressful thing you can go through in your life as bullshit.

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No? Surely relative dying is much more stressful than that. Yeah, I found the most stressful time in my life. It was an even. I didn't even do anything. It was childbirth. Watching my partner go through that, and not knowing whether my Mrs. is going to come out okay, the child is going to come out okay, or either both of them not come out okay.

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Yeah. And for a prolonged period of like 48 hours of it going on, it's fucking a long one then was it. Yeah. Yeah. Lost the normal. Yeah. Because she had to be induced and and then when that happens, it was just because the baby wasn't ready to come out. So it was just a prolonged period of my missus being in labor for fucking ages and then obviously getting to the to the final bit.

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But my like when people say, oh, that, you know, happiest of my life is, you know, my child. Yes. The fact of having a child is incredibly rewarding and happy. But the process of getting to that point was fucking, it was awful. Absolutely. Or was is baby one or baby two? Both of them? Baby, that was mainly baby one.

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But, yeah, it's just such a fucking, you know, people that listen to you if you, if you, you know, waiting to have children enjoy that, by the way. It's fucking. Yeah. It's just so stressful. And then again, buying the house, like you were saying, of the pitfalls of falling through or finding something on a survey or.

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Oh, by the way, everything's going fine, but we've got hold of ten grand. Why have you got a hold of ten grand? Because we didn't understand this fee. And it turns out you've got a plate and it's not. Fuck me, man. I'm. I'm straight, man. I've got no money, which we'll meet today. We're not at that stage yet, so we don't know.

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Maybe that's coming, maybe that's coming. But thus far it's been pretty stress free. Apart from just, from collate all this information. You all know Ricky, I'm not organized, right? I don't like doing that. I don't like responding to my mouse. I don't like reading WhatsApp, so I don't like doing anything really that involves words and emailing. But did you ever, you know, say to your Mrs. when she was struggling to give birth, did you go, come on up.

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I mean, I've been doing this for thousands of years. Yeah, I did say we watched we watched one porn every minute. Like, just do what they did. Just push. Keep coming out. Right. It came out on that show today. Yes. It's easy. Just, you know, you know, I don't think you're putting enough effort in what you should be doing isn't good enough.

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That's what you should have said. This isn't. Yeah. This isn't good enough. You're you're embarrassing you. You're watching my name. You're embarrassing. You're embarrassing everyone that stand in. Yeah. Do you think these nurses and this midwife, they're not busy. They just for these. Look after you. They're. And this is the thing, right? Is what? You know, there's some people that are critical of the NHS and as some people are fiercely defensive of it.

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And there are others that go, we understand the problems. You know, we've got, you know, a population that's grown and grown and grown and grown and grown and grown, and the NHS has to manage that right. But they don't. If you're in trouble, no matter how long you are in trouble for, they are there. Yeah, she's crazy and it's no wonder they make mistakes.

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And they wonder this, this times where things go wrong. But you know, look the pressure they're under and they and you know, most of the time the vast majority of time they're and they do a good job. Oh for sure. And like you're saying the pressure they're under like not only if they got loads of people to see but there's like a would you call it like a stopwatch on, oh, they came into Ward three.

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They have to be off in 24 hours, or we have to get X amount of people checked off so we can get X amount of people in. It's fucking mental, man. I would not like to be in that madness of of being on a ward. Last week's episode. Phobias. Couple of good phobias, last phobias that came in.

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One that made me laugh. The Moors Murderers mug shots.

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Someone has a phobia that they can't see. They can't look at it from when they were younger, when it was on the TV, and it's just burned into their brain that they can. No, they can't even look at it without freaking out. These are these. And this is, the what? It was Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, apparently.

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Yeah, yeah. So weird, because we've got a picture of me and Ricky as Myra Hindley and Ian Brady. I've only really. And we share that about getting canceled. I think enough times passed in it. Yeah. Oh, yeah. At the time, actually they don't want to be canceled. But I do want people to see this picture that we didn't make.

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So I don't even know where the picture is. So if you go to it, I'm sure it comes on my Facebook memories one two years. At some point I will have it again. Someone out of mad fear of frogs as well. When they were younger on the pavement they saw a frog this nice and then it jumped at them and from then on in they can't look at pictures on the internet.

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They can't see. They can't even look at a frog. I think frogs are right. I think you just need to, Not it. Nice. Yeah, yeah. The thing to do that I hated by one time. But why I when I lived in London, if you ever went into that flat 120, did you get 120 Western? Which one was, is after one six, eight.

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He must have done. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, we put in a pond at the bottom. So you often get frogs in the frogs. Are you looking for bodies of water? Right. And then one year it just popped off down there, and there was, I would say, a thousand mini frogs, like tiny little baby frogs just milling about in the garden like fucking loads of them.

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Well, I think like, I know what I don't understand the frogs. I could be in my house now. There's no body of water anywhere. I could put a pond in my garden and then like six months later, frogs would be there. Where do they come from? Not how do they just spawn up from out of nowhere? No, I think just go.

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And then they smell the water and then they pop towards it. But where were they previously? They have a bit of water down the road, a bit. Because they want space, don't they? That's what I suppose. But my dad had a water feature in his garden, like in when he lived in London. It was like a a it was like four, three blocks stacked on each other and it was like a constant waterfall.

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So the pump would be in the bottom seven. The top. Oh, it sounds good. It was quite nice. Know what that's like? Yeah. Two frogs in there. It's just like, yeah, more water pulls from this thing and bit different from a pond. But I quite right. It does want to come and see. We Well, I say we you, made a comment about, the lads anonymous live show last week.

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Yeah. And to say that if anyone's up for it, then we would, you know, try our best to put one on. We've had loads of emails and social saying we would definitely be up for it. Is useful information too. Okay. Maybe about 15. I'd say 15, 15, maybe more. Yeah. So meet me in you in 15 people. Well, I think there'd be more than just those 15 permanent people in America.

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So they say, oh, you will come if not Americans. And I know the thing is, is, well, the way I worded it is, is anyone up for a live show? And an L.A. live show like, that's anonymous. Yeah. Let me see. But people saying, oh, you got to come to New York, you've got to come to San Diego.

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It's not obviously going to be your American ally. I mean, I'd love to come over and do that, but it's just not going to be me, Flav and two other people doing it. That'd be mad. So I you know, we all will look into it. We'll look into it. The only way you can do it, Ricky, is if you you set up, you can do it in the ticket.

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It event tickets, ticketed event will have a fee of 5.70 pounds tickets yourself. And if you get over, if you can get 50 to 60, they might be worth doing 80. Yeah, that's how you do it, right? Fine. We'll, we'll look into that for you guys and we'll see if we can, get a live show going.

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And obviously everybody I don't mean everybody. Man. Woman I was going to say child, but not child. Will will be invited. Now, today's topic is what's 80s and 90s TV shows? And I think we could we could probably just focus on on one of these here because I was having a look at it and there was just too much that I want to talk about.

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But we'll kick off with 80s kids TV shows. We know where we're going to go straight away, but, Transformers and like Rick, I yeah, it was only the film. I never really watched the TV show. That has shocked me. Well, so how did you find out about Tron? So you just went straight in to the film?

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Yeah, it was just massive when it was everywhere when we were kids. It's a massive thing. Massive buying. So I used to get up early on a Saturday morning to watch Transformers, and I used to get up extra early just so I wouldn't miss Transformers. There was a program on before it called Jace and the Wheeled Warriors. Yeah, and I wasn't a big fan of Jason.

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The word warriors got to say fucking. I hated it, hated it. But I just sit through the last 15 minutes of it. I wouldn't miss any trends. When you were a child. 15 minutes is a lifetime. You know, I wasn't this fucking shit. Oh, you know what I quite liked about Jason? The Wild Warriors was the intro I thought was quite good.

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The intro. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. That was. Yeah. And it was just driving around the things that a but but my issue with it was that it was plants. Exactly. So shit. But when you're 6 or 7 years old you don't want to fucking plants. I've Will's a sort of like a car. Fucking robots turn into cars then shoot guns.

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What are the things as well? I've released a wide amount and I don't get it because this is what the show is based on. But it's based on Jace. He's trying to. Well, he's he's fighting the bad guys, but he's also trying to find his dad. He's been split up from his dad, and every episode would finish on like a cliffhanger of Jace walking into a room to find his finally find his dad.

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And at that moment, his dad would walk out the other side of the room. Yeah, it's so cool. It's just so close. Yeah, if that's the case, just go through that door. Do you know, weirdly, because I. So the two things that I remembered about Jason, the world. Well, world warriors. Yeah. I thought it was Jason's in like my make Jason J.

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Yes. Yeah, sure. But it's not. It's Jaworski. Yeah, yeah. So I don't know. I thought it's Jason. Jason in the World War is because it was Jason Jason and the Argonauts as well. Yeah. Yeah. See, but so the plant thing I'm remembering wrong because I'm looking at it now. There definitely was like sort of woodland elements to it might not know that.

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Yeah. Yeah. That the the people they were fighting against were a plant based. Right. That's what it was creature. It's just plants like fucking actually beat them. Yes. Yeah. And it's just like, is he going to find his dad. Is he going to find these that. Oh he's missed him by a second. He's missed the fucking O'Jays.

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Oh can you give me quick. You know, knowing this, you knew he was going to be there. Just fucking get there, Jase. You should have just know. And then he'll just be upset in that room. Walk around the premises. He's there. Chase. And then if he finds him, there'll be no more Jason. Jason, the world war is fucking fine.

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That's absolutely fine for all of us. It's shit. We hate it. We're only here because the Transformers, it's. Exactly. And then when. And then I'll wait for Transformers to come on. And, you know, everything was just all right with the world, and they they would do some, like, episode of cliffhangers, like the Transformers would get in a spot of bother and I'll be like, this is fucking this, this episode is tasty.

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And then and then it come on with that. You know, the voice that does like films and stuff like that. And to be continued next week I thought I'd be like, no, but first couple, couple of things I want to pick up on there, right? Yeah. In when watching cartoons and shows us as a, as a, as a kid in the 80s, there were too many cliffhangers and sometimes one episode would have two cliffhangers, so they would they knew that the cartoon was capturing the imagination of the kids, but they needed to feel alive and kicking with something.

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Yeah. So you got Lowe's alive and in, which is all right. It might have been alive and kicking, might be something else. As a kid, I can't remember, but then you'd have 15 minutes of X-Men of an episode. Yeah. And then it cut it, and you have to wait another 45 minutes and play the second half of it, because they knew what they wanted to do.

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You want the retention. They want the ad spend. That's what they wanted him to kid you like. I don't understand what it's what, just play the whole episode or what it was. However, like, why are you cutting his head off? Isn't I don't know, you guys, and they're fucking with you so that you sit there for longer and watch their shit.

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That's exactly I. I didn't even realize that. I didn't know that you brought that to my attention. All right, so that was the first thing. What is the second thing? The reason why I hated Jason? The word warriors and I haven't weirdly, I haven't thought about chasing the warriors for about 35 years, but now we're talking about it.

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Things are flooding back. I hated the spits when they weren't in their fucking machines with it walking around willy nilly like in Transformers The Movie. Ricky, when? Who's the boy? Was Daniel right? When you look at that, when Daniel isn't in his exosuit, he's shit. I couldn't get shit about his plight. I don't give a fuck about his idiot dad.

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I don't care if he is going to be out to be dropped in the molten lava, right? Yeah. And as soon as he gets into his exosuit, I'm all on. I'm on among the ten gravy train for one of it, but got. I mean, there it is. Yeah, it's really important. And it was the blending as well of Transformers like, coexisting with humans.

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And I remember is that spike spike. And like, I don't remember in an episode that was like trying to have it with one of the robots, one of the Decepticons. It's like, mate, like you're fucking tiny. You're a human. It's going to kill you. Are we doing? Did he have, No. He just he just, you know, normal.

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So it's just so people, people don't know what we're talking about, right? So in Transformers, there was the human protagonist was his son and daughter. Sorry, son and father who died. You and spike, right? Yeah. And at some point, they. But in order for them to remain interesting while Transformers are fighting each other, right, they have to make them into that a little transformers, because then as a human, as a boy, you're like, I'd love an X.

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I see, because I, you used to get into it and then he'd start driving around. Yeah. And these x, you see that would become like a little car. You wanted nothing else in the world but to be Daniel at that point, I as a kid, I would like almost pray when I was going to bed that I'd wake up as a transformer.

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Yeah. And I'd be so disappointed when I wake up and I'm like, oh God, I've got to live in this body again. Great. Fucking nice one. Flesh and bones. What load of shit do you like? With, when Transformers. And what you talking about? The advent of, That was back when, that used to be played on, do you remember the program DJ Cat?

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No. So he, say, D.J. Cat was obviously this puppet cat, and he would be presenting the show. I fucking hate puppets. Scikit-Learn. And, they used to do, like, games on there and and stuff like that. It was, I did used to love DJ Cat. What about if I can I interest you in Inspector Gadget? Kind of.

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Yeah. I thought it was all right. I, I didn't hate it. Like, can I keep it on the cat theme? It wasn't top cat when Tom Cat used to. Come on, I like. Oh, okay. Okay. So so so. Yeah. If you tell me Inspector Gadget or Top Cat, I've got an Inspector Gadget all day long. You know what I'm not doing?

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Now, let me ask you a question, Eric, I think I got it. I'll move on slightly, though. We can go back to Inspector Gadget if you want to. Pink Panther, was it for kids or not? What the fuck, man? I was so confused on. So, like, show me the cartoon bit. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. Which is it?

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The Pink Panther, it was just the introduction, wasn't it? With the pink. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that pink. That was just. It wasn't a cartoon character finale. It was just the way they animated the start of the show. Yeah, I think right in my head as a kid, Pink Panther was a cartoon big pink cat. But the Pink Panther was the actual detective, right, I think.

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No, actually, I'm not fucking about you now, do I? Do you know it? And then they put them when they put out the films. So it's very, human led. It was actual an actual film, weren't it? Yeah. No shit. Yeah, it's. Yeah, that was rubbish. It was Inspector Clouseau. Yeah. Hang on. It says a bumbling Inspector Clouseau must solve the murder of a famous.

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Oh, this is a new one. Anyway, it was very confusing as a kid, and I didn't have the patience. And as soon as it went to live action and not cartoon, I turned that fucker off. Because sometimes they. I'm pretty sure there was a cartoon with Pink Panther as well, if I remember. Yeah, I can always hear and I can see it, so I, I wasn't that into Pink Panther and it was I'm not really up.

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What did you say about Inspector Gadget or Inspector Gadget? I loved Inspector Gadget just because he like I like his trenchcoat. Yeah, that that was cool. And it had. And he did have a lot of gadgets. And I quite liked the, the nemesis in that I think was. Yeah, cool. And that's cool or something like that. Yeah.

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Like that cat that, that was call it a were you like a lot of my mates like Transformers was, was they were the guys for me. Wasn't me. I think most.

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Well, you're going to say oh couple. I really used to like, go I think I know what you going to say, but what you what do you think? It used to annoy me when people would do this. And you're going to annoy me now you're going to say fun. I like to friendly cats, man. Fuck. You know, I had funny toys.

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I was all up in fun to cat toys and younger than that, He-Man. He's a big fan of He-Man and as a kid, that was my next one. He-Man. I just have to. He-Man. If, you know, I love more than both of those, mask. Fuck yeah. Yeah, yeah, let's let's play a little game of thought of a brilliant game.

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Right? You're you're okay. Only only one of us are really going to enjoy. Right? Right. Brilliant. All right. I want you to sing me or mumble the theme tune of ThunderCats, and I'm going to play it to see if you're correct. God, I can't remember it. I know, let's see. Scenario. It used to go. Thunder, Thunder, ThunderCats.

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That's it, that's it. Is that all you got? So I got what? Thunder. Thunder. ThunderCats. Right. If it's right, is it? No, I don't think so. No, I'm. No. Isn't it Thunder? Thunder Thunder Thunder. Cats. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So try it. So play it. Yeah. Good.

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Fucking fuck up, Mr. Cat. Hey.

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I'm sorry. I'm. I get some fun. The cats are on the move. Fun. The cats are loose, remember? I do remember that. Yes. Hey, everyone. I think most people were ThunderCats over Transformers. Well, England. Judge, you know what is interesting about all this, Ricky, is because all of these programs and it kind of it was hurt to here, it really.

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But if you remember the Netflix show the to see the cartoons that made us something like that. No I don't I bet you love it if it's probably still on Netflix. So they do they do ThunderCats, they do Transformers. And it tells you about how these products were formed. Oh, made maybe don't. But it's a little bit soul destroying.

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Time. Right. I'm going to watch it now. I'm definitely gonna watch it. It's really interesting as an adult, I thinking like, I mean, obviously I wouldn't see cartoons now, but do they do cartoons like they yeasty no they don't. And and it's for this reason I'm about to say Transformers. You know why there is a Transformers cartoon show I believe I do that they they created the toy first.

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Yeah. And they just sell the toy. They created the animated space animated series after it. Yeah. That's true. They designed the carrot, they designed the toy first, and then they did a TV show. And if it's popular, the toys sell, go through the roof. That's fucking mental. Why? Why did they do it that way round was man. But what happens if he made a toy, you know.

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And then he did an animated series after he just bombed David Moore? No, they don't make the toy that they've got all of the toys made. And then hope it works. Have ordered the. So yeah. So this just someone just with a warehouse full of trash like like this TV show takes off like the work goes into the TV show, but they have the plans for the toys, and then they make the toys, right?

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TV shows a success, right? Okay, that makes sense. And so. And and and you know why I think just come back to your point about ThunderCats being more popular than Transformers. Yeah. I genuinely believe is that the ThunderCats toys were less fussy. They were easier to play with. They were less likely to break. Yeah. Just when you had and He-Man the same.

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They were sort of sturdy and they felt good. Yeah, yeah yeah yeah. Battle Cat and Panther. It's a puppet. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. So they would just looked cool, didn't they? And He-Man figures and skeletons sat on top of them. Yeah, I did have those figures as well. And they were like you could smash them about a guy about the gap.

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And I'd like nothing would happen because it was just it was no moving part. So nothing could really bright create. What would Transformers they would I mean, you could transform them, but you would have to get the mechanics quite right each time. Otherwise, I mean, otherwise it just be a robot and they just wouldn't work. Also, if you don't transform them properly, bits, bits of plastic things off them.

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Yeah. Are you complicated to to to play with. Yeah I remember I had, a robot called cop. Now if you've seen that, if you've seen the film, you know, cop was. But I went to transform him and something broken his leg and then he had no tension in his legs. So it's just a wobbly leg. And he couldn't stand up.

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He couldn't transform. And I was like, what am I going to fucking do with this? Like cop in the movie? Yeah, yeah. Weirdly, I never was fucking injured in his backers and maybe that's what they did it. Maybe that's why they did it. Yeah. Leave it up to the to other, TV programs in the 80s and in our youth now with the animated series, I was quite like, I know where I'm at with that, because that's all I ever used to watch.

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Now I'm going to read you the top ten UK kids programs. And if there's any that jump out, let me know. Top ten 80s UK programs. Yeah. For kids. For kids. Yeah. Number one, Grange Hill number two or twin zero. Let's see, I was too young for all of that stuff. I didn't really get into it wasn't really my wasn't really my bag.

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I knew of Grange Hill and I knew it. I know I never watched it. I knew about the big storylines. I was like, that died of a drug overdose. It was during I see. Do you remember the war on drugs in the 80s? You probably won't remember that, right? No massive thing, a huge commotion. It was fronted up by, Reagan, Nancy Reagan.

00:29:09:07 – 00:29:29:04
Fucking right. She had nothing to do with the, the war on drugs. Anything else? It's almost like it's, almost as bad as Putin invading Ukraine. Right? You're having an age. Just enjoy your life. You don't need to do a war on drugs. You're not going to win. And to this day, no one's won anyway. It was a wave of popularity.

00:29:29:04 – 00:29:47:00
And just say no drama, just say no campaign. Say, I know that. I know that campaign and I know the names you probably heard just say no in your school. It was a it was a government led initiative. And I think that Grange Hill really took onto it. But as we know, as human beings, both of us, as kids, the fast machine people don't want to say no.

00:29:47:03 – 00:30:05:06
They want to go, oh, what's that? Let me try that. So this is just this kind of prohibition bullshit that that just means that they ignore the fact that a human being has desires, wants, and hopes get them just to say no to everything. And you're 14 years old, you know, this is fucking boring. I don't want to say no to anything.

00:30:05:08 – 00:30:29:16
Give me that dick. Give me them tits and that kid. That's what you like at 1516, you got to figure out what you like. So. Yeah. Great. Until. Yeah. An insight. Yeah. Heroin overdose in the school bathroom or something. Oh, cool. Really? I'm glad I'm fucking much out. Yeah. Jesus Christ. Yeah. Second one, Blue Peter. I mean, Blue Peter was wasn't blue.

00:30:29:17 – 00:30:53:07
I mean, I mean, I, I, I fancy one of the presenters who did you fancy? I think her name was, Katie. Katie. I mean, I don't even know if you could tell me her full name, and I wouldn't know. Who was this in the 80s? Maybe this would have been brushing into the 90s. Now, Kate Cahill, maybe, The Muppet Show is number three.

00:30:53:07 – 00:31:12:22
Didn't really get into that either. Right? Like it was a muppet show. American. Yeah. Sesame Street when it, Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, I really, I remember do you remember Fraggle Rock? That's number ten, right? Also. Shit. Yeah. Right. But good grade, I think, was a hangover from the 70s, Fraggle Rock, when puppets were a big thing.

00:31:12:24 – 00:31:31:22
But there was a bit in Fraggle Rock in the intro, which I really liked was. Okay. Yeah, the rock. And you could see the Fraggle was, working and digging in that. Do you remember? I, it's a there's a bit when it comes to Fraggle Rock. Yeah, I don't I'm so swinging in the ass in some remote.

00:31:31:22 – 00:31:52:00
Grab a fractal bicycle, swing him in the air like you don't care. That's what you sing as a kid. But there was a cut away from the Muppets bit, and then it went into a bit of the rock. And inside the rock, they were tiny little Fraggle Rock, and they were excavating and digging and working and like, why were they doing that?

00:31:52:02 – 00:32:08:20
That was what their job is to excavate and dig into the rock and that, okay. So I like that bit with the machines. I think it was the machines thing that was really into as a kid. I think this is, it was just that bit that you liked. That's fair. I just watched that five seconds of footage, and that was it.

00:32:08:22 – 00:32:36:10
Good. Number four ThunderCats. Yep. Five super dead. I remember it didn't really do anything for me, and it was just shit number six, postman Pat. So I didn't watch Postman Part for the intro. A postman fucking love that. Yeah. They say why? It's just him driving about, going through the hills and stuff like that and I like and stuff like that.

00:32:36:12 – 00:32:57:22
And the car fits so neatly in. Yeah, I was actually I was like, that's really satisfying to look at. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then and then the show starts and he's not in his car anymore. It's just walking around talking to some fucking old woman about post. Yeah, it was, it was, it was just everyday chat. You had the world in the world in the palm of your hand post and pat.

00:32:57:24 – 00:33:25:05
Stay in the car, drive around Fox eight. Yeah, I know you just get out and just be like, how are you today, Lynn? Yeah, yeah. I'm good. Yeah, I've been a bit busy. I need more time of eight of eight. You know, it was shit. Danger mouse. No, no! Back! Push! No, no. Hey, man. And, Fraggle Rock.

00:33:25:05 – 00:33:54:18
And then there's honorable mentions that weren't in there. Rainbow I like rainbow. I mean, no, rainbow is, you know, George Cup bungalow. And. Yeah, these were all early 80s, I reckon. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tell me that that's what all of it. And then, trapdoor. That was fucking quality. So that was, that was a stop. But anyone that doesn't know trapdoor, it's like a stop motion.

00:33:54:20 – 00:34:17:02
Just a program that was made out of Play-Doh. Plasticine. Yeah, I enjoyed that. Really love that. And this one. I think this must have been late 80s. I absolutely fucking loved it. It was like a quiz show. Game show called nightmare. Yeah. We all want it to be a nightmare. All of us. It was a nightmare.

00:34:17:02 – 00:34:41:10
Describe it. Right. So it was like a kids. It's like a carnival. If it was it like a virtual reality type game show and the kids would wear, like, helmets, so the helmet would be so the kid couldn't see, right? It was. It sounded like it was a blindfold, but it was just really. But it'd be extravagant. It just put a pin on this kid's head and he couldn't see.

00:34:41:12 – 00:35:04:06
And there was a round where he had a team behind him who were watching him through a monitor. You know, as well as kids, you just thought, he's in this world. It's amazing. What's his kid doing world as an adult? You know, they just have a green screen pulled down in front of him. He had a pin on his head so he couldn't see the green screen to keep the illusion alive.

00:35:04:08 – 00:35:25:07
And then his teammates would guide him through a level. So on this green screen, it's superimposed like a bit of fire, a waterfall and a door that they had to get through and they had to negotiate. He has to listen to the instruction from his teammates who are watching for a monitor. Go going. Take a step to your right.

00:35:25:09 – 00:35:49:21
It's rotate 90 degrees to your right for two steps. But what was great about it is these are fucking teenage kids. They know what they're doing. They keep making mistakes. They might know that you them. And it was cool. It would you say it when they say, I'll take a step forward and be like behind them and then fall off a bridge or something like that, and you're like, God awful.

00:35:49:23 – 00:36:09:24
Moving swiftly on to the 90s now, do you remember these are the top ten in the 90s? The demon headmaster? No, I do remember it, but I never watched it as good art attack. Never watched it, I mean, Teletubbies, I think I was made out of that. Yeah. Byker Grove. If it was on, I'd never sort of sit down to watch it.

00:36:09:24 – 00:36:29:11
No, the Queen's nose. Never heard of it. Do you know, a lot of you used to rub a little 50 up in that? And, No, I don't know the animals of Farthing Wood. What the fuck was that? I remember that that was again, it's shitty. Like, if you're going to make a cartoon, don't make it about animals in a wood.

00:36:29:13 – 00:36:48:04
Like, there's nothing interesting about that. They've got haven't got guns and they don't drive cars. I think I wonder if it's off, if it's aimed at girls and boys like Transformers that many girls sat down on what Transformers and one you've missed is my favorite as well, by the way. Mosque. Oh, my favorite. But most. Yeah, that wasn't even in there.

00:36:48:06 – 00:37:06:10
Well, that's my niece, but they they used to put helmets on and they could fly. Remember that. Yes. Yeah. And there was one, there was a little the kids, little robot friend was called Tebow Bunny. Yeah. And it got a little iPad. It's a little moped. Yeah. And I think I'm a little teapot. Yeah, yeah that's it. Right.

00:37:06:12 – 00:37:26:13
But this is the thing is I wonder what like, you know, when society was much simpler back then, wasn't it, Ricky? Because. Yeah, boys like this and girls like this. But now they're saying it's fine for girls to like Transformers. It is. Yeah, but do they? Well, I know it was very much. You've got my little Pony. Yeah.

00:37:26:19 – 00:37:51:07
Barbie. We've got. Yeah, Bob. And we've got Transformers. And keep yourself to yourself. We'll keep us for ourselves. Key. Keep your hands off my Transformers face because you don't understand it. Yeah, you don't ask to transform. It's. I just keep your hands to yourself. I'm not going to touch nappies and. Late night 90s. Right. Funhouse.

00:37:51:09 – 00:38:17:03
The game show. Yeah. Love. Funhouse. Amazing. Get your own back and nose house party. Those how what got, all of these programs right for kids? You get garnished with slime. It's like the physical quizzes, and you have to take part. I mean, I don't I don't I don't watch kids TV anymore, obviously. Where is that all gone from the TV?

00:38:17:05 – 00:38:36:22
I don't know, I think like, I don't know what it is that they are watching though. I don't know. I don't think they are. Kids are watching TV. I don't think there's much investment going into cartoons and children like like little kids. Little kids. Yeah, yeah, yeah, like the PBS. Yeah yeah yeah. Is it night? God. And then the the Teletubbies is still going, like so.

00:38:36:23 – 00:38:54:06
Yeah. All of my family, all my brothers have all got really young kids ranging from like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, two up to eight. So all of that is on there now on Into the Night Garden and all that sort of stuff. Mr. tumble yeah, it's obviously not right. Yeah, there he is. Yeah, yeah, I know what you're saying.

00:38:54:06 – 00:39:14:23
I know what you're saying. I know what you're saying. This. Yeah, definitely no less that you can't say that. And I can't say that, but yeah, it's it's. You know, if you're walking around, but then he's fucking raking in. Yes. Do you know this is and this is, this is the thing. This is where entertainment is gone.

00:39:14:23 – 00:39:39:04
It's gone online and it's gone on YouTube. Know kids watching other kids open toys and play with toys on YouTube. And you know how much money they're making a fortune. And you know why they're making it? Because clean content, the CPM is through the roof. They're pushing products. And these these child based YouTube channels are making what TV companies used to make in the past massive amounts of money.

00:39:39:06 – 00:40:02:04
My, so my kids, when they were, when they were younger not not so much now, but they were fully in they were ten toes in with with the YouTubers. What do they like? So I cut Tiana. Her name was Tiana. For my youngest kid, I had to buy, Well, we bought Tiana, bedspread for her.

00:40:02:06 – 00:40:28:04
Absolutely loved it. And then my eldest, she is into the Australian family. I can't remember what their fucking name is, but there's there's quite a lot of them, and they stuff and. Yeah. Yeah. And they, they just they absolutely love it. I don't think she watches it as much anymore. But you're right, everything has moved over to a kind of YouTube and it's these tick tock now.

00:40:28:06 – 00:40:49:13
Yeah. These young, content creators and and it's not even. It's not that the adults are getting in on the ads are making their kids get better. YouTuber. Yeah. Just so that they can not creaming the profit. What what were your thoughts about, I kind of like this is like 90s now because it wouldn't have happened in the 80s.

00:40:49:15 – 00:41:12:09
The influx of American teeny type TV shows like, sister. Sister. Yeah. Well, as I was getting up, I fancied all of them was because I was the same age. That's right. There you go. So I didn't mind it. I used to love saved by the Bell. I mean, saved by the Bell was my favorite. I think. Yeah.

00:41:12:11 – 00:41:36:03
When I wake up in the morning. No. What is it? I couldn't tell you. I couldn't tell you the thing. Right? Because, saved by the bell. I see, and I know that a bit, but saved by the bell. Again. Yeah. You're right. When I was younger, I know, but I don't know if I would have been how much I would have been developing by then, but,

00:41:36:05 – 00:41:54:02
I've been a horny little toad by then. I didn't know what it was, but in no way did. You didn't know it was about. Is that why she was Kelly so sexy? Why do I get. Yeah. Whenever exactly. I, you know, I, I did love Kelly as well, I did Kelly was is is Kelly the one? I was a bit of a moon face.

00:41:54:04 – 00:42:13:12
Big round. Oh, I don't know why. I don't know if you'd call it a big, round moon face, but but I think that's the that's that's the one that. Yeah. That you're talking about. Yeah. Yeah I believe so. Yeah. There's sort of three of them. You've got to go. You've got. Yeah. Go. That was in later in showgirls Elizabeth Berkley.

00:42:13:14 – 00:42:35:23
Yes. It's you know takes quite a lot right. Yeah. And then Kelly was the other one was. Yeah. Katie Kopecky. Yeah. You. That was it. Yeah. Ray. Absolutely. Bring something for you, sister. Sister. I don't remember sister. Really, but, But the other one was Sweet Valley High. Sweet. Oh, my God, I haven't till about Sweet Valley High.

00:42:35:23 – 00:42:45:13
God knows how. Look at it. How? You can see there's a beauty stand in. Is she really every with perfect.

00:42:45:15 – 00:43:20:05
There's also I mean I've, I've already professed my love for Sabrina the teenage witch. Still love her and I loved watching it because I was watching her then obviously sister. Sister saved by the Bell. It was a program as well that I used to watch, and I don't know if you'd remember it called us say hi. It was, it was basically, they there was like six people and they all attended, an international school in Paris, and there's about four Americans, a pretend Brit.

00:43:20:05 – 00:43:41:08
And someone else used to love it. Absolutely love it. That was top TV as well. Hang time. Hang. Oh my God, hang time, hang time. So good at this podcast, essentially just a listing of things that people like, I know I, I'm, I'm actually, Teddy. Teddy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love to hang time and hang on to the oldest sport related stuff.

00:43:41:08 – 00:44:08:09
Really sort of used to resonate with me. Hang time. The hurricanes. I used to watch quite a lot of the hurricanes. Now, I think Brentford rejects the Brentford rejects quite like. Love that. I think we'll, we'll leave the, the 90s, TV programs there because I've just got the lyrics for saved by the Bell Girl, and then I'm gonna sing them for you.

00:44:08:11 – 00:44:27:01
Yeah. Play. Stay ready. When I wake up. When I wake up in the morning and the lock is out a warning I don't think I'm gonna make it on time. By the time I grab my books and I give myself a look, I'm at the corner. Just in time to see the birds fly by. It's all right. Because I'm saved by the bell.

00:44:27:01 – 00:45:02:00
Yeah. I love that, that is. That is amazing. Right? We are. We are going to go on to dilemmas and something none of you know, dilemmas is called whisked away. And something of, you know, is I want at least ten big cocks. Okay. Nail on the head. That is. Yeah. That is something. Now next week, the topic that we are going to do psychedelics now, have you taken them.

00:45:02:02 – 00:45:26:20
Yes. We want to hear from you. Is it something you plan in the future? Now I have a mate who is straight laced. No drugs, not drinks, but like, you know, when we meet up and stuff like, he's never had never shown an interest in any of that of, the dark arts. But he's recently on a night out.

00:45:26:22 – 00:45:51:02
Give me a little tap on the elbow. He's quiz me about psychedelics. He's gone to the latest stage of life, and he wants to know what it's about, how he can get hold of them. What do they do? Is there a part of the brain that he opens up? And you can process stuff? We'll talk about all of that stuff, and I know just the person to talk about then who has taken quite a few.

00:45:51:02 – 00:46:13:24
And I'm doing a podcast with you now. Yeah. So that is going to be next week's topic. If you have anything, send it over to lads anon pod at gmail.com. And we're going to go into dilemmas.

00:46:14:01 – 00:46:46:20
Oh just just tired. You got an issue for a tissue? You a bitch. I will teach you a aching in your soul, alone in your flat. Please talk to Vicky Flanagan. Let that stress off your chest. Well, friend, you deserve this. Like you're safe here to get nice. And between breaking your and. Right. Because, mum, this beautiful cat shows up at my house not older than a year.

00:46:46:22 – 00:47:10:12
He showed up at all hours of the day and night looking for strokes and love, and was always eager to have food and water. Sometimes he'd show up at 1130 at night asking for food. Two weeks ago I asked my next door neighbor whose it was and she didn't know. My missus and I decided to take the cat in and shout and shout when it showed up at the door again.

00:47:10:12 – 00:47:13:07
So excuse me.

00:47:13:09 – 00:47:35:10
We got a proper food, a litter box which it uses and it seems to have gained some weight and it's looking noticeably healthy. The other day, my other next door neighbor from across the street told me that it belonged to someone in a block of flats around the corner. My heart sank. Do I have to give this cat back?

00:47:35:12 – 00:48:01:24
What do I do now? You don't have to because animal cats choose where they want to live. Yeah, my my very first cat, Ginger. One we named Leonardo. That was back in the 90s. They like teenage, Ninja Turtles was, was, you know, that that was my thing back then. It just used to turn up at our back door and I could hear it purring.

00:48:02:01 – 00:48:28:16
We we opened the back door and it came in tentatively stroked it. It was fine. Didn't scratches or anything. The next day these fucking turned up again and need Leonardo. Then we gave it some food, some water. Our cat. Now this is us and he stays stayed until he was brown bread. But I didn't actually see him die though, so he could have gone to another family.

00:48:28:22 – 00:48:49:12
That's just what they do. Just what they do. Cat went off to die about two weeks ago, said, read that thing. I remember doing a pod with you, like maybe a year ago. Enough. I thought it was dying. Yeah. It was. It survived for another year. Had a heart failure, but then it just it ran off and saved us a big deal about going to the vet and stuff.

00:48:49:12 – 00:49:17:05
Really just ran off to die on its own. Poor bugger. Yeah. So with this cat, if if it's there and it's yours and it's in there, I would continue to, to love it and take care of it. But if it does have any distinguishable marks on it or fur pattern where someone is going to say, that is my fucking cat and it's undisputedly their cat, then maybe, you know, give it back.

00:49:17:07 – 00:49:33:21
But cats are cats, man. It doesn't matter if you give it back, it's coming back whether you like it or not. Would you mean it? The the cat's going to come back as soon as you let it out. It's going to come back to you. So it's not your problem. Some might say stuff. You just say, well, I've stopped feeding it.

00:49:33:21 – 00:49:54:17
I haven't been feeding it, but just feed it if you want to start coming, I, I mean, if you stop feeding my cat. Please. I'm not feeding her. But you want. Something only you know is you're feeding the cat. But don't tell anyone. You're feeding the cat as one. Fuck cat now. Yeah, your cat is your cat, right?

00:49:54:19 – 00:50:01:18
We are going to go into something only you know. Next.

00:50:01:20 – 00:50:30:23
Something, you you know, you. This is called. I want at least ten big cocks. It's similar to the theme of, something only, you know, on a previous pod. I mean, some mates are out in Paris on the pissing gear. Ended up in a club which none of us knew was a gay bar. We paid to get in and were given a drink with entry, so I thought we might as well hang around for a bit.

00:50:31:00 – 00:51:00:05
None of us really knew where else to go and what time anything would be open till my mates went to the toilet to do some gear. So I went for a wander and was approached, but at the time I thought was possibly a woman, as he was all dressed up in makeup in a week, he told me that there was a room where we could go and he'd suck me off, or in the morning drunk and get up.

00:51:00:07 – 00:51:03:03
I followed.

00:51:03:05 – 00:51:32:08
We went behind this curtain and there was at least 20 people in there fucking and getting sucked off. I had my trousers pulled down within seconds and then had to, like, suck it me up. I could barely get hard. I think it was a combination of the gear and also what was happening around me. And to me, this bloke, the one with the wig said come back to mine and fuck me.

00:51:32:10 – 00:51:58:04
So I followed, but that's when not. But no part of that is he sees a guy I know part of what has been of I'd say, man, he's got all right. Yeah, I'll go with you. As we were heading towards the exit, he grabbed several other men to go with him. Now we're in the street and at least four of us, plus him.

00:51:58:06 – 00:52:21:10
He was shouting at random men in the street, asking them to come home and to fuck him, shouting, I want at least ten big cocks! I think he managed to get another 2 or 3 along the way. About ten minutes into the walk, I got the fear and I couldn't think of anything worse. All I wanted to do was go home, go back to my bed.

00:52:21:16 – 00:52:45:10
So I walked in another direction. I love to fuck. I love that he's walking long and he's looking around. We just maybe might have been a bit of small talk with the other men the following day, and eventually he's gone. What am I doing? The bloke in the wig proceeded to shout abuse at me, calling me a pussy and God knows what else.

00:52:45:12 – 00:53:07:07
I didn't care. I was out of there and that is something only I know. There's so many questions I have about that. It's fucking the bit where he's like again, like you just say he was walking ten minutes down the road with them. Look at three minutes. It was it was all right. There was probably smoking cigarets just like, oh, where are you from?

00:53:07:07 – 00:53:28:14
I'm from England. I where are you? Just from a suburb in Paris. All right. I'm going to go back and take this geezer away. Yeah. And then ten minutes, he's just thought, you know. Well. And I've been walking long enough. I've had a check after you as well. Yes. And he's well in the club to geezer sucking him up a chance.

00:53:28:15 – 00:53:50:00
I came up with my I thought if it's going to be the guy with the wig on. Okay, I can see where the lines get blurred. It's 4:00 in the morning. You've done Ozark? Yeah. You've drunk loads of beer. I can understand why you went off piste with that one. But then there's two geezers there. There's two geezers, which is just absolutely right.

00:53:50:01 – 00:54:28:22
It's just done. Me. So thank you very much for sending. And anybody else, if you have a dilemma or something only you know, please send those in to lads and on pod at gmail.com. And don't forget next week's topic is going to be psychedelics. So if you've got any stories, any questions about psychedelics like you thought about doing it yourself but you're too scared, send them in to lads anon pod at gmail.com and we will see you next Monday.

00:54:28:24 – 00:54:53:15
On the night hazy light band of brothers playing tunes. Hi is quiet. Midnight waves surfing free till daylight breaks. Rhythm hit us different ways. Lover music's out. We prayed with our tongues in cheek. Band is how we like to speak. And yeah, times change. But no matter what the bond remains. Promise.