#82 | Ricky and Flav’s Bucket Lists

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I was chatting with my missus the other day, right. And I said to her, this is the type of stuff people send in for. That's anonymous. Yeah. And I reply to this voice note and she said, oh what? Like what's that about? And I said, oh it's for the feature or something. And you know. And she said, all right.

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What's that about? Well, she's not listening to this podcast. And I said, oh hang on, hang on. I, it's called something I, you know. Do you not know what I'm talking about? And she looked at me and she had that, you know, that glaze that continues on? I have no idea what you're talking about. You've just. That's the first time I've heard those words together.

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And and I was like, you know, I'm not mad at all. Not like, not in the slightest. Yeah. I think you're a little bit mad at this. Yeah, a little bit. Just. I'm just. I'm just amazed that this, that I, like, post nearly a real every day. And there's a lot of something any, you know, content. We talk about it, blah, blah, blah.

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So she can see that. And I know she interacts with some of the social, And she's just never listened to the podcast. And now when I don't expect to listen to every episode, that's fine. Well, you clearly do. And and you genuinely a little bit, a little bit miffed there, I can see I am a little bit because I thought she would just know this feature a good feature.

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Yeah. And then I asked her about it. And genuinely, I think in the 14, 15 years we've done podcasting and the just over a nudge over a year, the Vlad's anonymous, I reckon she's listened to about 20 minutes, 20 minutes of of lives anonymous. And that was it. And I'm fine with that. That's okay. I get I kind of get her reasoning, but I would have thought she would have known the something on, you know, feature unknown like 20 minutes.

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I just I'll he's never listen to a single minute of this. So this is what, She's not listening to a single minute. She has a podcast one. Oh, no. This is what I like to speak to you. I think when we started, I think she listened to when start going out like ten years ago. 11, 11 fucking out by 11 years.

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Enjoy. When we started going out, she I think she listened to an episode, but it's football. It's like, well, they don't care. She doesn't mean she watches Spurs. You can she understands that. Actually, weirdly, it's quite interesting watching I pick up and on the start understanding the game on a level beyond a mild interest. But she doesn't really care about football.

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She'll sit and watch, watch it with me. But somebody. So she's not gonna watch a whole episode. She is enough for me at home, you should. For me. She definitely is definitely sick to death of you. Oh, like. Oh, yeah. I'm sick to death of you. I think her reasoning is that, it's like a private conversation with me and a, you know, best mate, and it's.

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We're doing. We're just like lads chatting or chatting. And if she was to hear anything and she raised it with me, saying, oh, I didn't like the way you spoke about that or. Yeah, would you mention that and stuff like that. You know, obviously I'd be like, right, I've got to be a bit more reserved and your, impeding on my craft, you know what I mean?

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Right. So you'll see. So it's actually better that I come be an for say it's actually better that she doesn't listen to it. Really? Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. Have you if you ever got in, like, figure out the details. But if got even got into any trouble for what you've said on there. No. No, never. That was picked up with.

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Yeah. I have with, my mother in law and my sister in law for an early episode. I said something which I probably shouldn't have done. Yeah. And I think from then on in, I know my sister in law still listens to the odd episodes here and there. I don't think my mother in law does any more because of that nature where it is quite close to the bone, and I might say something that might be upsetting, and they don't want to have that relationship.

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Yes, because I started because of I said stuff. But I do say, you know, I have said to them previously that some of the things I say on this podcast, believe it or not, might be slightly embellished and it might be something that's a bit more, fanciful because, you know, on a podcast. So that's kind of my get out clause that, if whatever they did, whatever they choose to pull me up on.

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So I made that up. Didn't really happen, but it did. But I'm just lying just to get me out. Not you. You. I mean, I know you hate talking about this, but talkSPORT, Sky sports all the, you know, all the shizzle. How are you treated at home. Not like it in the fact that, oh treated at home, but like, you're not in the fact that you're treated like a, a celebrity or anything like that, but.

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Oh, but you do kind of a lot of these things, and you are, visible to quite a lot of people. So when you're going out and people like I that and I see you and say, oh, I know who you are or whatever people say, she online, how does she, how does she handle that stuff being.

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Oh, right. I really, really famous football commentator. So it's got this cool bits where like, you might be in Sports Direct in Swindon and someone goes, fluff or ask for a photo, which is bizarre, right? Because, yeah, it's, it's surreal. Right. And obviously. Yeah. When, when you if you miss the when especially when it's just odd when a stranger comes up to you and asks you for a photo.

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It happens, I would say twice a year maybe. Yeah. At most. So it's not like and it's generally because of the podcast I do with James James oh is massive right? He's really big successful football YouTuber. And so people watch the podcast to do with him. And that's why they generally people who watch that podcast, he come and they're like, all right, so not really, this guy sports all sorts of stuff.

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But the way they react to it, they don't they just they make fun of me. They, they, they were curious and they think it's funny, but now it's just sort of nothing. I don't know, I it's not, it's nothing. They just think I'm in like a bit of a goof, you know, like, I'm like the stepdad.

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It doesn't really understand them.

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You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, like like the uncool stepdad. How would I how does that, Because that's just the way these young minds are built. We'd never understand them. And, I didn't really feel like my dad and my mum really understood me when I was. When I was sort of 17. So it's a part of growing old and becoming independent, isn't it?

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They have to eventually go out in the world on their own, and they can't go out in the world on their own if they need mum and dad all the time. Yeah. So it's actually a positive thing if they think that you're lame because then living in England did. And so, I don't think they're impressed at all.

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Ricky, I don't think I think it's just what what was quite nice is that my brothers, the nicest bit was my brother's little my brother's son, Bob. He watches all the football stuff and he sees me when I'm on Sky sports. He likes that on Sky sports on a Saturday. And he watches that show and he really he like.

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I think that he likes that. And that's nice because you watch it and he and all my brothers, my brothers mates, sons watch it as well. So that's quite cool. But that. So it's like Uncle Flaps on telly again I guess so, but I that's how I say uncool, Gary. I'll do that. Well, I mean, I must say that even when you're on a Saturday show and I'm like, I'll just put it on and people will walk into the front of them and be like, how do you want a coffee or anything?

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They'll look at the TV in there, Foxy. And I'm like, yeah, it's on today's show in it every fucking time. Yeah, but I've been to, yeah, I've been out and about with, my daughter and someone said, you, Ricky. And I was like, yeah, yeah. Mean they said, I don't I don't want to be a pain, but can I get a fight?

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I know what you're doing is, I might just look like you're hit the floor, eyes wide open, was I? Oh, my fucking God. My dad is a celebrity. Yeah, I think I think, I think clown Will would have been more impressed when they were younger. When which she hit 17. It'll be less so my, my Mrs. has absolutely no, kind of amazement to it whatsoever.

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We are Ricky and Gary that are at home. Dad load the dishwasher that you know, do the dishes actually, but I don't know, I think the dishwasher. But remember, Don't you? She's seen us young, stupid and doing all the things you talked about on this podcast. Yeah, yeah, it's a go into kind of professional environment and, you know, try and do.

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Well. She still sees us. Oh, I think our nickname for us is dog shit and catch it. That's what she called us when we were in Bournemouth once and we'd managed to score and we spoke to on the phone, remember that? And she went, your cat shit in his dog shit. They said that. Donna. Oscar, you'll remember it.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I sometimes I'll say you remember when you called it catch it and dog shit because we were, we went Bournemouth on a little trolley to see my brother box in Bournemouth. Driver when he was. Yeah. Right. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. And somehow like these stories and back in the day I think through my, some somehow I got a connection.

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We went end up going to this house and bought, like, fuckin 50 pills. Like pills to remember that. Yeah. And it was a messy, messy day. But we were so excited that we'd found these that the, that, oh, I, I, I think we found Donna, and she was like, of course catch it dog shit for that.

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And I remember, I mean, this is this this is the end of that evening where I was so mangled. I don't remember anything from that day. But the end at about 4 a.m., not being able to sleep and staring in the mirror at myself for about ten felt like ten hours. Oh my God, that is what makes is grim.

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Don't do drugs, kids. Yeah, don't do drugs and drugs.

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Are them night hazy like Band of brothers play in chains. High is quite midnight. Waves surfing through till daylight breaks. Rhythm. Here's different ways. Love of music. So I 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 just said don't the drugs kids and literally the jingles pretty much all about drugs.

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Oh, God. With, We knew that when we made it there. Yeah, yeah. And I mean, and it was part of the chat as well that way we're going to do this anyway. Yeah. I was so, so much fun. Yeah. It was, you know, I don't think I'd survive now, but if I know if I can just plug me in Bournemouth, my, that's me on a radio.

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I mean, you now just practice in Bournemouth with all those and a day ahead of us, I think we'd probably I'd, I'd probably get about oh five. And then I think I've got to tap out. I wouldn't do any. You just wouldn't touch him. No, no I wouldn't do any not Baines, not anymore. I wouldn't have kind of in such a.

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So you think you've taken your last accessible. Yeah. No, no, I have really I mean, I said, I don't know. You know what? I'm not. I'm well know what you're like, Ricky. You're right. Like, this is I had people listening. I want a little insight into, me and Ricky growing up. Right? When he's sober, he's going, I don't.

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Right? I going to be careful about what I say, but when he's sober, he's just like, yep, that's it. Done. Not drinking, not everything. Couple of drinks and I'll get a little finger in my ribs as what'll happen. So I, I'm not just seriously like what I mean, what if you right now you think that you've probably taken your last taxi bill?

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100%. How about using a car? Oh, my God knows how long now. Absolutely donkey's now. I've never. Yeah. Not really. It's a matter you grow out of in here. Yeah, I just think it's the, I've kind of regressed. So there was the fear before there was a thing I thought I was going to be a little bit.

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But you progressed. I don't think you've regressed. I think of it. I think saying that you knowledge. If we've all good authority, I probably won't take another ecstasy pill at 41. I think that's progress rate.

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So I thought I was going to like that to begin with. I thought I was going to do little bits and then we'll talk a little bit. I found out that I wasn't and this was the best thing ever. Then I've kind of, like, gone back to what? I've. I have a heart attack. What if I can't do that?

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Oh. Oh, so you have children? I've got, like this. I'm scared, so I'm not going to do that, I, I so so it's not that you don't want to, it's you just get a dying you. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's. Yeah. That's pretty much nail on the head there. No. Yeah. And I think yeah I want to be the, the things that come down from it and all of that stuff.

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It's just, it's not what's conducive to a being a parent when you've got kids and a wife that you have to be that's already so happens you having five on turns is the only. Yeah. I don't want to die because I've got kids. I think they have other week. I'd fucking like eight points of cause light and I've gone for the for the Sunday.

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I was just so hung over I was like, what has happened to me like I am? You've always been bad with hangovers. You've always been terrible. That that's like going back to Bournemouth, actually. Remember the day after we were on the pier, remember, I do remember and I just say, yeah, kept looking at you and you just kept looking.

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Me just shaking your head. And you hadn't said a word in about six hours. And that's shaking your head. And I would get annoyed with you some so quick. I'll just fucking get on with it. Like, yeah, I do enough appeal, I.

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We still got 20 left. Now let's crush him up. I, I, I, I, I would say I'm open minded. I can't remember the last time I've taken. I've taken ecstasy or MDMA. I can't remember the last time I did that, but. Yeah, I'm open minded. Yeah, I am.

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I, I kind of like, obviously with your, soberness now. Yep. And I, I get vibes that it's. You're not coming to the end of it. That would be. Well, I'm trying to find the right. Well yeah I think yeah. You're right. Yeah. I think you're, you're looking more towards there's going to be events coming up this summer and I think there's going to be a first hurdle where you're going to have some beer.

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And I think that will tell whether you'll either be okay of it or not. And then that will have a knock on effect of anything else within your life, but you might be fine with it and then go back to work and not have a beer until the next time you're out. And then you think, yeah, who knows, I'm going to Glastonbury.

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I might, you know, pop a bean in a field or something like that. Old time psych, you know, you never know. You never know. This week's topic I'm pretty excited to talk about, actually, because we've spoken on here before and, we spoke about common, what the conversation was. But you said about when you're older, you are looking forward to spending time with your wife, to travel the world or just to do more things and spend more time together and have that kind of, life experience shared with her.

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And from when we used to travel to away games, to watch Tottenham, I was always keen on sightseeing in the cities. And you would say to me, I'm going to be in the Irish pub, I'll see you in eight hours. So.

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Mate, yeah, yeah, yeah. I just felt like we, we had 2 or 3 days and there weren't time for fuckin sightseeing, and I mashed up and watching Spurs. That's what I thought was. Yeah, I mean, it was. And, I did that too, but I, I, I've always been into kind of the, I've always been into architecture, buildings, infrastructure, that kind of stuff.

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So when we were out and we were, I was looking at that stuff, and obviously you're on the leash, but when, as we've got older, I haven't really heard from anything about your bucket list. I don't know anything about if there is a certain experience that you'd like to go on to visit a certain country.

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Well, yours see a certain culture. So mine are, Let me just, I really do like geology. Like Bruce Parry. I don't know who that is. He's Maggie's I don't know, he's he's got this job, but he just goes to remote tribes. In what way? For South Africa. Sorry. South America, he was in recently. And then he just goes there and he just seems to go there and just do drugs for the people.

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But they're always doing drugs. These tribes ain't like he doesn't find these tribes. And they're all just like writing books and, you know, fishing. They didn't there always there's always an element of they've found a plant to get some fucked up and they all do that. Right. I which is if you live in the middle of nowhere, obviously.

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Yeah. So we got a day, right? Well, what's the best thing about tripping, right, is if you got a really calm environment that you feel comfortable with, where some parking ticket can't come in and spoil your trip. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jungle feels like as long as you cool with, like, the critters in that which you would be if you grew up there.

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Yeah. I mean, that's what I would be worried about as well. Yeah. Right. Until spike comes along in it. Exactly. But he's a Bruce. So just in just in terms of like bucket list post, people don't live like this guy lives. So he goes to these tribes, goes in there, he typically gets some sort of induction ceremony. And then he'll dance around some sort of tent that they've built.

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And so, so it really does. Everything is usually naked or with a little sort of lethal covering over his nether regions, because that's where the way they dress there. And then they'll give him some tea and then he's fat and that's and I'm like, how is this is on the BBC? But his job is to go to remote places and just take drugs with tribesmen.

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Right. You know what I said earlier about the the drug thing and that I'm too old and scared and stuff, like if there was anyone out there listening and they're looking for a presenter to go around the world and they drugs with tribes people. Yeah, I'm your man, I can do right. I can do that. I don't want to.

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I don't want to do that. Yeah. And it would be funny to see me hanging out with the critters around me and stuff like that. It would be. Well, it'd be horrible. What's your bucket list? So my bucket list, the a place that I've always wanted to visit. My misses as well. I think this is probably top of countries that I want to visit is Japan.

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Mount Fuji. It's, the cherry blossoms and the geishas and, it sure. Geishas know the. Right. Okay. Strippers. The bullet. The bullet trains are like a train wreck. Yeah. I'm not sure if bullet train a bit too quick for me, I reckon, because I want to kind of see the world go by it. I mean, the main reason I want to go to that.

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And I know this is going to sound fucking stupid, right. But better way of going to Japan would be like going to a proper, foreign country. Like I can go to Italy, I can go just I and I can get from Europe it. Yeah, I know what's going on. And I can say a few words. I can read a sign.

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I can do anything. If I went to Japan, I wouldn't have a fucking clue what's going on. Like, literally nothing. I'm like, I've been in a restaurant and I go to go to the toilet and I look at the signs, I wouldn't know what's going on, I wouldn't know how to go to the toilet. And I think just being there and experiencing a totally different culture that's different from mine would be, I don't know, what do you do?

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You say, I just like you said in Tokyo, you go in rural Japan. Both apparently, like outside of Tokyo. If you don't speak English, it's very difficult. Yeah. I mean, it's like going somewhere. It's like being not being able to read and write. Yeah. And no one understands what you're saying. Do you reckon? I've just. Something that's just popped into my head.

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Didn't we know someone that lived in Japan? Had you been, Lucky man. Yeah, I. To buy this car at Tulane now, Stephen, or something like that. But I he taught he will. He wasn't. He was a, He was an English guy. Yeah. He taught English in one of the schools and all he used to talk about, well, not all his own stuff, but he was he would talk about the culture, work, culture in Japan.

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And you can't really take holidays that you're allowed by law, a certain amount of holidays. But if you take home, everyone thinks you're a bit of an asshole. Yeah. This this is really this is other culture as well. I can't remember the name of it, but it's like when you when your boss goes out drinking, you can't leave before your boss.

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Yeah, I've heard that. So this you'll find loads of, men in their suits at, like, 4 or 5 in the morning, passed out on stairs and stuff because they had to stay out with their boss and they can't leave, and they get so drunk and they can't get home, and they just fall asleep in alleyways and stairwells and stuff like that.

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Ready to go to work the next day is fucking mental y. I want to say that, also the, the, there's like a problem with, like, low women who can't get boyfriends because they're more interested in computer games in that really. I feel like I might I feel like I might be confusing it with another Asian country, might be career, I think, you know, really.

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But then there's one of I maybe it's career with the, they got like, you remember we talk about internet chats last week. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's that last week's episode was one of the funniest we've ever done. And it was about this, but, Yeah. But no, there's, there's an issue with that. So there's this obsession with online AI girlfriends and the actual real life relationships and that social aspect.

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Right. So it's like you suffer in there. Mate, that's the I like the I like stuff. I know we did the, I posted on our Instagram the action figures that everyone's doing. Yeah. You know, it's just a bit of fun, but, it's getting closer. I it's not quite there, but some of the stuff that I'm seeing is just fucking mental, like online girlfriends and stuff, saying we're just going to be in our houses, in single bedrooms and we might need to go out and do anything.

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What a fucking life that is. That's horrible. Well, not really fancy Japan. No, not. Not for me, no. I'd much rather get on a train around Europe. I want to do that Interrail around Europe. I really enjoy that. My, my my goal. My number one is, Let's go. Come on. Is getting in the car and just driving through America and up to Canada and that sort of stuff.

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I'd love to do that, really. Stateside is where it's at. Is it? Yeah. Just, just I don't know why, but I would like to be on the road and stop and not hear anything. Just be in the middle of nowhere. That's that's I am. I remember when I was, I traveled up the west coast of America.

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I'm driving down from San Francisco down to LA, and it was just like this big one open road, and all the fields around us was black because lightning had struck the field and it'll burn. But we stopped over and we hadn't seen a car in, I don't know, the half hour that we were there, and we were literally in the middle of nowhere and you couldn't hear anything.

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It was just so fucking eerie. It was like we were the last people on Earth, and it wasn't a fun experience. But. So I just warn you about that. Is there any way, particularly in America, that you're like, I want to see the Statue of Liberty, or I want to experience going to the South, or I don't know anything that particularly piques your fancy of like, I kind of I've seen people do that there, or I think like, oh, I see the wrong thing or but I mean, like, I always like the idea of, you know, dive in with great whites and stuff like that.

00:26:35:23 – 00:26:59:14
Cage diving. Obviously my infatuation for sharks, I think that would be that would that's on the bucket list, for sure. But I'm not I'm not as obsessed by it as I used to be. I used to be. If you'd have asked me this question 20 years ago, I would have said 100% cage diving with sharks. But, so why has that changed now?

00:26:59:16 – 00:27:21:01
There's a lot of reasons why I look. It's not a very nice thing for the sharks. It's not. It's not great. It's not. It's not the most ethical thing. Right. Okay. It's like it's like going it's like going on safari. But one of the people on the safari with you who likes to shoot animals is kind of like, that, not that anyone that the sharks get harmed, but it isn't.

00:27:21:04 – 00:27:41:17
It's not. It upsets the natural balance of the of the. Yeah. So the ecosphere. Right? Right. Okay, I find I no, I just thought that you were scared or something like, oh, I am, I am scared as well. Not scared of getting eaten by the shark speaks. Do you imagine being in a fucking metal cage that they push off the boat, right?

00:27:41:17 – 00:27:59:17
Yeah, right. And so you're connected by some fucking bit of string and and you're in this cage with weights on it, and then you're blowing you in. It's just pure ocean. Yeah, right. Just deep blue to the point where it goes black and there are sharks around you. Yeah, I am quite scared of that scenario, even if you have a cage.

00:27:59:17 – 00:28:17:19
So that keeps it. You remember that short video with the keys are in a perspex box? Yeah. I mean, giant great white. I'm not. It wasn't a big like, it was one of the biggest great whites I've ever seen on film. Fucking smash through the bottom. What was he thinking? I don't know, it's like the. Oh, that's all right.

00:28:17:19 – 00:28:39:03
Because shock shocker. Realize that this is a perspex box. Like they know what the fuck's going on. But like, I honestly, I wanted him to get eaten. It's a shame that that is a shame. Shame we didn't have that. There's a you would have seen that. The great white shark. And it goes. It jumped into the cage with that, with that diver, and then I think.

00:28:39:05 – 00:28:57:18
And then got it. Yeah. And I love coming in the glow I think. Yeah. There is. Yeah, yeah. And the shouting. No one's in there, no one's in. And then someone say no John's in the John's out. He's like no, he's in there. And then fucking John pops out of the cage. You know, say that would scare me.

00:28:57:18 – 00:29:17:19
I would like to. So that is ammonium. I have put that on the bucket list, but it isn't to dive with great whites. It's to be on a, a big enough boat and to go out and at least see them in the ocean. Not like when someone says A cruise to me. I just can't get on with that.

00:29:17:21 – 00:29:38:23
Like my wife. My wife wants to go on a cruise. She she likes the idea that being on the big boat and seeing these different places, having obviously know her well, that I understand what that's right up her street in terms of she loves the idea of island hopping and going to when we went to Croatia, for example, in a week, we must have been to about 17 different places, which I thought would be a bit too much.

00:29:38:23 – 00:29:54:06
I would like to sort of relax then. It was probably one of the best weeks of my life. It was really good. Like I was like, if you know, a lot in the seven days period because yeah, yeah, yeah beforehand. But obviously it's early on in our relationship. So I was just like, okay, whatever you want, love. But it was wicked.

00:29:54:08 – 00:30:11:01
She did a good job. I can imagine not just reading the itinerary. It's like there's 17 different name places. What's that about? Oh, it's yeah, it's different on and we're going to be visited. No but we, we had, we had in a week we had a festival, a two day festival in Zadar. No, no, it doesn't matter.

00:30:11:01 – 00:30:30:10
The north of Croatia. Then from there we had to get a bus. No no no no. Hang on. Sorry, sorry. We flew to Italy first. That place called Trieste, which is at the top. Top of Italy on the right hand side. Yeah. So we stayed in Trastevere and then we had to get a coach down through Slovenia, then into Croatia to a two day festival.

00:30:30:12 – 00:30:51:00
From there we got a coach across Croatia. It's something at a national park called the this like lights and stayed in this really remote sort of lodges, where, where it just had wild animals walking around, including a fat potbellied pig who would come up to you and sit by you while you had to dinner and that. Right.

00:30:51:00 – 00:31:08:16
And then we had to get another coach down to Zadar, which is the final stop, which was a port town and sort of midway down through Croatia. I'm like, this is a lolly, but we came for a week. What have you done a week? Yeah, most people, most British people would do that in about a six week period.

00:31:08:16 – 00:31:28:18
Stop for a cup. Relax. Honestly, it was wicked. It was absolutely superb. And now if I was going sober, it'd be the best thing to do. You're constantly moving. Yeah, I see that. That's that's appealing to me. That is appealing to me to love it. Yeah. I totally like one of my, you know, on my list here.

00:31:28:20 – 00:32:02:22
So I've, I've also got America as well, and it's, I don't know why, but I'm just fascinated with the southern states Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, those places. And I think it's because it is the furthest removed from who and what I am and my culture. Do you know what I mean? It's like it's I don't it just seems like there places that time kind of forgot.

00:32:02:22 – 00:32:25:07
And I know they'll be modern, but, you know, the more rural places that way, it's actually I think it's really be really interesting to go and visit and experience that. So I would like to do a drive like you said, that through those states there. Just to see all that stay at a motel is that does that appeal to you?

00:32:25:09 – 00:32:50:11
Yeah, yeah, stay in a motel. But like I said, even sometimes in films like for American people, listen to this, like long highways in remote parts of America stopping at motels, these sort of single story motels or a diner that's romanticized massively for us because that obviously is not something we have here. We have service stations, as discussed previously.

00:32:50:13 – 00:33:10:22
As you know, it wasn't on this book. Oh, sorry, I do the only podcast. So apparently in Canada, if you're driving, they don't have service stations. There isn't gas lines plumbed in. So there is stops for you to check gas. If you run out, what the fuck do you do then? Find towns.

00:33:10:24 – 00:33:34:03
You have to prepare. Prepare and plan your journey so that you arrive at towns that will have a petrol station. But if you're just a city, this is massive. I know. So it's like ain't like just so you can be a fucking moron in you can be literally dropped on your head from birth and then picked up and booted in the head by a bull.

00:33:34:05 – 00:34:01:15
Right? And then massive head injuries grow up hill, but then have severe brain damage and not run out of petrol. In the UK, regardless of where you go, there is a petrol station within five miles of you at all times. Yeah yeah yeah, no matter what road you're on, apart from maybe if you get into sort of rural Wales, from rural Cornwall, then you might if you had an empty tank, might be in trouble.

00:34:01:17 – 00:34:23:04
But you've got to be a fucking moron to run it. Between the UK and Canada. It's a you have to plan it Ricky. So that is they just don't what happens if you, if you're doing a drive where you couldn't actually not. I mean, Canada is big enough that you could do one drive and not. So what if you some somehow captured by a man Rick a big man.

00:34:23:05 – 00:34:41:19
Yeah. And he's just taken a fancy and wants your bum, right. Yeah. Then that could just get up in you and you had to escape, and you caught and you just jumped in the car and started driving. Then you could run out of petrol in Canada. Oh, God. So. And you have to plan it. I'm not going to Canada.

00:34:41:21 – 00:35:08:21
Oh, no, I don't want to go there. Let's see. So yeah, the, in America, the southern states and I also want to go to, a bit of a random one, Ohio, the Ohio State Reformatory, which is the prison in Shawshank Redemption because the the building is just magnificent. I think they do ghost tours there now, so I'd like to do something like that.

00:35:08:23 – 00:35:35:12
But apart from that, there isn't anywhere. I mean, I've done the West Coast of America, I haven't touched the East Coast, and although I like New York, I'd like to go to, you know, Florida, Miami. But there isn't that yearning to go there, you know? I mean, there isn't that it doesn't kind of make it more holiday.

00:35:35:16 – 00:35:56:19
A New York is kind of like London built with massive fake of buildings. And it's it seems very hectic. I think that you think people see London as being hectic. Yeah. Yeah. It's mayhem. It's amazing. I don't want it. It's like like I, I can't as soon as I go down, I want to get out. It's too busy.

00:35:56:24 – 00:36:21:05
Yeah, yeah it's. Yeah I mean it's there's an appeal to it because of that. But is it is kind of. Can I interest you in first of all, I'm sorry that I want a day there, but I just thought I would just do it for a laugh, really? But, Continents. Is there a specific continent that you would like to, go to?

00:36:21:05 – 00:36:53:12
And when I said about the laugh, can you name me the seven Continents? Yeah. Can you? Yeah. Can you? I got six, right. So one I thought I couldn't, I just couldn't get it. So. So Africa, Asia, Europe. Yes. North America, South America. Here we go, here we go. Kiki went back to Australasia. I'll give you Australia. Australia as sorry.

00:36:53:14 – 00:37:20:13
Yeah. Isn't it Australasia. Isn't that the content continent. No. Is it so it must be something to do with the Antarctica or something that the cold air is, is it? And you fucking stink. Is it seven, eight, seven, you fucking dirty pig. I didn't get Antarctica. Didn't get it. What what, What? Well. Well, I swear it is Australasia.

00:37:20:13 – 00:37:39:16
I didn't realize it's just Australia. Australia on its own. There's a continent. Let's have a look. I may have, miss, miss typed that because I do know what you're saying. There is a like a and where it's like Australia, the Philippines, all of the South South Asia. So it's also reminded me of a, of a book.

00:37:39:16 – 00:38:06:01
I don't know what book it is. No, it's just Asia. Australia isn't one. Rick. Oh, no, it's Oceania. That's what it is. You're not. Right. So Oceania is Oceania is is Australia. You know, all those little ones? Fiji Islands, New Zealand, New Guinea, I think you know that area. Yeah, yeah yeah yeah, yeah. Oceania.

00:38:06:05 – 00:38:31:17
Where, where it's cut there and it's, there's a, it's, I know for. Yeah, a something like that where it describes those places like Eurasia. So interesting. So like 1984 is a world where the, the essentially the, the, the was the Aldous Huxley one brave new world. Yeah. It's one of those two where it's the descriptions of the world.

00:38:31:17 – 00:38:50:08
Yeah. It's not, it's not evil. It's because because England's called Airstrip One that's fucking mad in it is all it is. That's all it is. It's essentially a gateway for America to the rest of the world, which, you know. Oh, my God, that's kind of like, you know, like how you know how like parts of, you know, what is it like?

00:38:50:10 – 00:39:16:09
I think it's like American bases in Cyprus cause psychosis. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so they can go from there. But or like Trump saying he will put workers in Ukraine, which is effectively like having American people in you. What they are American people. Yeah. Yeah. And Russia can't attack Ukraine if American workers are there. So that's like security without Putin.

00:39:16:11 – 00:39:35:15
You know, jets in there. Yeah. Yeah. That's fucking man. What do you think about all these you know you know we're talking about bucket list. I bet there won't be any bucket list if the whole world collapses in terms of, you know, our bucket list would be like a fresh apple. In the future, I'd like fresh apple before I die.

00:39:35:17 – 00:40:00:02
I can't believe all these. I don't understand, director like I know it now. He's rolled it back, and, yeah, he. I mean, it feels like he. It's gone from him slapping tires on every one of them, slapping one back on him. Then he's hiring the tariffs. And then, I thought that the tariffs were like, okay, we're going to slap one on China.

00:40:00:02 – 00:40:28:20
So China have to pay extra money, to get their goods into America. But apparently it works the other way. Apparently that the tariffs work by, that Americans would charge China, but then China will charge, Walmart extra money to send it cost more. And then Walmart, we're like, well, we're not paying that. Well, we'll give that to the customer.

00:40:28:20 – 00:40:49:14
Yeah. So Americans will have to pay more, more money for their goods because of these tariffs. And then, I mean, that's that's just meant to an it I don't I don't know, I mean I don't I'm not going to claim to understand it. Right. Because it doesn't seem like it seems like I'm missing something. But yeah, I think that's what it is.

00:40:49:14 – 00:41:09:06
Right? I feel like there must be more to it than that. And there probably is people screaming at us going this. But no, no, no, I think we've pretty much nailed it. Now, the 43 year old men that live in the we have no have no idea about American politics, but I know I can understand how it would it would improve production domestically in the long run just by locally.

00:41:09:06 – 00:41:29:04
And I think that's a good thing. But it just he just what he came up with. Not everyone's getting it. Everyone. Machine gun everyone. You're all dead. I'm looking again. This is crazy. I don't understand it, but this is mental. And it's like. It's like in the press conferences. It's, it's just, you know, if you open your mouth and you say, like, hungry, do it right.

00:41:29:04 – 00:41:52:04
15% over there. Are you want to talk back there? 25%. Yeah. Gonna keep good. Yeah 50%. Well, that might well have that hungry. You're in the bin. Yeah. Next one is mental. It's like. It is like an episode of Black Mirror. Yeah. Is it. Didn't you show you what's the what's the first what's your first episode yesterday. Yeah I think the I think what I don't want to spoil it.

00:41:52:04 – 00:42:31:03
Oh. What the what. So Black Mirror when it started was groundbreaking. It was sensational. Yeah, but the fact that it was so interesting was a part of the trick. The writing was so clever and and so sort of tapped into everyday life that that was the car trick. And seven seasons in, you're expecting the trick, even still brilliant writing, but you've kind of they've sort of played their hand and it's almost like, all right, another comment about society, which is like, yeah, it's still good, but it doesn't have the same impact.

00:42:31:04 – 00:42:53:18
Like no matter how good a trick is when you're expecting it, it's not as impressive anymore. So that's its problem. And it's fucking depressing. So I don't know how long the lifespan of it is, but I love Charlie Brooker. I think he's great in terms of his writing and that, but that is something that is something I'm actually going to watch.

00:42:53:18 – 00:43:04:21
Oh, you are going to watch it. Yeah, I'm going to watch it. I watch it with the others. I it not knowing you. And I think I know the answer to this.

00:43:04:23 – 00:43:26:23
Adrenaline junkie any like skydiving, bungee jumping. Yeah, that's what I thought. I'm not an adrenaline junkie. Yeah, I know, I know, I'm gonna sit down and I'm gonna sit down and look at the sunset junkie. So I kind of. Yeah. I thought you could just sit down and look at my phone. Junkie. It's like Mickey meets a man I know I don't get.

00:43:26:23 – 00:43:42:22
All right? And when I was a kid, I used to like this kind of roller coasters and stuff. But we took the kids to Fort Park a couple of years ago, and we stayed overnight. Yeah, you can do Fort Park in the day. You don't need to stay overnight, trust me. But we went on to murder cases and I got off, and I'm like, that was fucking horrible.

00:43:42:24 – 00:44:11:19
I didn't enjoy that at all. And we went, I told you, I went to Benidorm. We went on the, the lake got an aqua mare. Yeah. Aqua land or something like that. They got there. Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. Probably one of the worst days of my life. Yeah. I was telling the story to my family the other day when I went on that big slide in Torrevieja, and I went to the aqua park, and my daughter was saying that let's go down.

00:44:11:20 – 00:44:29:04
And I got to the top and like, you know, I couldn't wimp out of it. But when I was dropping, like free falling from a high, was it the one with the trap door? No it wasn't, it wasn't one of those similar but similar, but like things were coming out of my mouth. I was making noises that I didn't know I did.

00:44:29:04 – 00:44:48:21
That was I didn't own that I didn't know. That happens to a human being until until it happened to me. So we did the the trap door that. Yeah, it was yeah. Yeah, it was, it was it's mad like, you know, if someone pulls a gun gun on you in a film and they, they wet themselves, it's like this uncontrollable thing that just comes out of your body.

00:44:48:21 – 00:45:18:17
That's what happened to me. Yeah. I had the same, exact same experience, Ricky. And with the boy. Well, we went up and my knees were going as we were walking up the. Because I don't like heights, I hate heights, I hate heights, and weirdly, it's worse when I'm in swimming trunks, right? If I mean, because I'm not comfortable anyway, I'm walking around in swimming trunks and I'm climbing these and I'm climbing these stairs, and the stairs have holes in them like gaps in them.

00:45:18:19 – 00:45:37:12
And you're literally you're probably, by this point, maybe 80ft in the air, which you're not supposed to be. Right. My knees are going, and I'm thinking if I fell out, if somehow tripped and fell off, I would I would hit the floor. I would mangle myself, break my bones, my skull would crack, my body would be a mess.

00:45:37:12 – 00:45:58:01
But I would be alive for a good, could be a couple of minutes of just agony that you can't even imagine. That's what's came through my head as I climb the stairs and. And then not on top of this is that you get to these the top of this, this slide. And you don't want to I don't want to go down it.

00:45:58:03 – 00:46:17:02
I've come up here, so I've got to go down it. I'm not going to walk back down in front of my wife. Like I know that we're well past impressing each other, and I understand that. Right. But, yeah, I'm still a man. Yeah. No matter. It's not about impressing. It's about not disappointing. I don't need to impress her anymore.

00:46:17:04 – 00:46:43:17
Yeah, but I can't disappoint. I can't win when my son has gone down and was. Had a great time. Pussy out cannot. So I went down it and it was horrible. I hated every minute of it. Yeah. And I think he's got that kind of draws a line under for me that anything where I feel like, yeah, you're the dad, you're the husband, you're the guy that is the protector.

00:46:43:17 – 00:46:59:16
And you should go on there and you should kind of run it out. I've learned the lesson from that. I'm not that guy, and I'm quite happy to sit back. Just don't go out there in the first. Yeah. If you want to do it, you go, you knock yourself out, you enjoy yourself and what you, And everything will be all right with the world.

00:46:59:18 – 00:47:19:17
That's why I love setting of types, because it's all. Just go home. Let's calm. It's nothing that it's too much. You go to Aqua Landing. So any any water park in Spain, there's always one that's just too much. So create something like. Why have you create this fucking thing? And it's like, black. Only for people who like the brave people.

00:47:19:17 – 00:47:35:13
And it's like, it's the slide is all black and it's pitch black down the slide. Why would you want to go down the slide? We cannot see into the bottom. No. It's horrible. So I'm good. I'm going on holiday to Spain in August as I always do, and I will be going to the park, but I'm not going to be going down that big slide again.

00:47:35:13 – 00:48:02:04
There's no fucking chance there. Absolutely none. So adrenaline junkie, we can cross that off of this. What about. Are you, you one of those guys? I know it's kind of. It verges on visiting a country, but do you have a little, safari in a little, you'd love to go to Africa on safari. Or one which I'm.

00:48:02:04 – 00:48:24:24
No, we've spoken about before. The northern lights. Yeah, I mean, I I'd love the idea of going through Norway up, up into Scandinavia. Yeah. Definitely would like to do that. The. I just like the remoteness, I like I like being here. I'm here and there. I'm hearing about this kind of, I love a lot. A lot.

00:48:24:24 – 00:48:42:09
And that's what I like. That's attractive to me. Like, that's another dream of ours, which is it is much more easier to to plan was to fly to the moon. So you're really remote. But I like a cabin on one of the islands in Scotland. And just stay in there for a week. Just buy loads of supplies. Yeah.

00:48:42:09 – 00:49:02:03
Yeah, yeah, yeah. If I go in, you won't see another motherfucker for a week. And it's just me and the wife. I mean, like you. But you could be anywhere they like. You could. You could do that in, I don't know, you could be anywhere. I'm not that bothered about seeing the northern lights. I am bothered about the is.

00:49:02:07 – 00:49:18:15
Yeah. The journey. After you've looked at them for about I mean, I get they're amazing some natural phenomena and. Oh wow. But like half the world seen them already and I'll get there and look at and it's like can't see the fireworks. So like after about a minute, it's like he's a shit. It's like the same thing over again.

00:49:18:18 – 00:49:38:18
Fireworks are crap. I refuse to go to fireworks nights, but that's not. That's what the Aurora is, is natural. Yeah. And, how after about five minutes. All right, something my Mrs. is, desperate to go to see Northern Lights. So. So is Oli. Send them together. Yeah, and I don't want to go. I don't let me give a shit.

00:49:38:20 – 00:50:01:22
Couldn't give a shit about Ricky. Ricky, you don't have to give a shit. You pretend to give a shit. Yeah. Then you really just go on holiday to Norway. Does that sound right? Yeah. Well, I mean, I'd much rather not, because I'd rather son. And. Yes, you invite in or. Yeah, you'd rather sit by Paul in fucking Spain than travel through Norway.

00:50:01:24 – 00:50:20:14
Ricky, do you want to pay loads of money? Right. And then when you get there, it's insanely expensive. It's fucking freezing cold. And then I've got to travel somewhere else to go up and look at the sky for a few hours. You want me to do that? Not me. I don't want to do that. But I will, because I love my missus.

00:50:20:16 – 00:50:50:14
I'll do anything for her. But I don't want to do that when you know it's not fun for me. August. August. Well, the fourth, I think. Well I can't. Yeah. Motor vehicle. Yeah. Torrevieja. I'm like yeah well I love you Whispering just in case you're making plans. Okay. That sound too attractive to the white people. Come for a few days.

00:50:50:16 – 00:51:09:01
Yeah yeah. Do that. So we're just gonna find a place in Torrevieja. Yeah. Yeah. We'll speak offline, but we can do this, this planet. Oh, now, this is some sort of, Yeah. We. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, definitely the,

00:51:09:03 – 00:51:33:21
One last bit that that I did want to touch on. And again, I don't want to be a knob about this, but obviously researching for the pod seven wonders of the world, I won't we won't go through the, the actual seven wonders about the Ancient Ones, because no one fucking knows what they are. You'd probably get you'd probably get one of the actual seven wonders of the world, really.

00:51:33:21 – 00:51:53:10
But then. Then there's the new seven Modern Wonders of the world. All right. Well, I'm interested to know what they are. Okay. I don't know if I can, I can I don't know if I know any of them, but is there one really obvious one that's in, no, I think, you know, the pyramids, classes of wonders of the world.

00:51:53:12 – 00:52:17:15
They are so. Well, I'll give you that and we'll go for the modern wonders of the world, is it? What about the Mayan, that Mayan, the Aztec, Mayan, whatever they are. Pyramids. Apparently. The Chichen Itza. Yeah. Mexico. Correct. Well, another one. Yeah, that's one is the Great Barrier Reef in? Was that I wondered about it wasn't listed on this one, but that's a bloody good guess.

00:52:17:16 – 00:52:41:03
Okay. Oh, I don't think I'll get any of the others. I mean, you kind of said one, but you didn't really. No, no, you did say it. Now. The pyramids. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pyramids. Pyramids. You said that they found some shit underneath the pyramids they didn't know was there, I fucking I have the pyramids. Is probably my number one place.

00:52:41:03 – 00:53:02:15
Well, you go. I'm desperate. Yeah, I'm desperate to go to the flight for about £250. Pyramids. Valley of the Kings. Hang on a second, Ricky. So you won't go and see the Aurora, right. But you will go and see some fucking some. Well, I mean, it's quite interesting. Like they put some rocks on another rock. How did they do that?

00:53:02:17 – 00:53:18:12
But it's like you can just see the stone in more than that. But yeah. No, no, it isn't more than that. It's like once you've done it once, once you put one rock on another rock, you're just multiplying the times. You put a rock on a rock and then you've got a pair. Yeah. You know, you know, when you do weird stuff, right?

00:53:18:12 – 00:53:41:08
And you don't know how you get there, you're, you're in a wormhole and you're just like, what am I even doing here? I typed into Google, you're the location of your new house. Oh, yeah. It's really close to Stonehenge in it. I mean, it's it's about about a 30 minute drive. I'm about 30 minutes from it now.

00:53:41:10 – 00:54:00:04
Oh. Really? Yeah. It's fucking annoying. Right? The kneecap was closed. I, I know you guys pretty close to five minutes. From where? It's ten minutes from where I live now. So suddenly. Oh. Is it, I don't don't talk to me about Stonehenge. Don't talk to me about it like it's not. It's not, It's not in the Seven Wonders.

00:54:00:06 – 00:54:17:15
It's good. But what's fascinating about Stonehenge. What is it? The fact that they've got the manager put a big brick on two bricks. That's it. It's not like if you're into the Druids and order sort of pagan stuff, I get that. That's like a place of worship and all that stuff. I get that the really interesting stuff is how do they get the brick up there?

00:54:17:17 – 00:54:38:08
It is. And it's the type. It's the type of brick. Yeah, type of rock. Those rocks that they have that aren't from that location. Madness. And they feel like and they think that it was quarried from like North Wales or something. Where, where they are. So how did they get rocks of that size to where it is in Wiltshire and then build that formation?

00:54:38:10 – 00:55:00:04
There is no possible, clues as to how they did that, which is amazing. It is amazing the got nothing else to do but leave a bit of rock 200 miles. The pyramids. Like, right, here's another alien aliens. Right? But yeah, right. It's right. They don't know that one's been inside the pyramids. Is that right? No. They have.

00:55:00:04 – 00:55:19:19
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, right. What I'm saying is, how many pyramids on it I noticed at least two. Might more. Yeah yeah yeah yeah I think there is the, the main big ones, the main ones are like three. Right. Okay. Okay. So you need three. You probably don't need three, but this is nice to this. Three there.

00:55:19:19 – 00:55:39:17
Yeah. Let's take one down and then find out all the stuff that's in them. That'd be fascinating. Oh oddly I it eight part Netflix documentary about what they find in that period. What I Won't Watch is an eight part Netflix documentary about the three existing pyramids as they stand. Everyone knows about it. Fucking boring. Just take one apart and find all the secrets.

00:55:39:17 – 00:55:56:05
That's fascinating. Well. Oh well, we used to have three. But, we took one apart and found all this stuff. Oh, what a shame. Actually, no. Thank you. So now we know about all about it. Or do you, like some decay? Cannot leave it alone. It's the way it's meant to be, mate. That. That they don't give a shit.

00:55:56:07 – 00:56:14:04
Whoever made that, whoever, whoever made them could not give a shit if we took one them. I I'm going to say something right. And it might be a bit. It might be a bit shocking. But what you've just said, there is probably the most interesting, best thing you've ever said in our world. I sit in it. Take it down.

00:56:14:04 – 00:56:33:03
Yeah, that. Who would you. That is it. Yeah. I've never heard anyone in my life give that suggestion. I'll take it down and find out what's going on. I would love to do that because they've just. Used the radio and they found those columns underneath. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It takes one diving. Yeah, yeah, I saw it on TikTok.

00:56:33:03 – 00:56:55:23
It's all over TikTok. Yeah. If they take one down, they'll look all the things and find they'll understand what was going on. But. But is that so much better than just having three pyramids? What have two pyramids? Everyone thinks we've got two anyway. Yeah. I mean, anyway, yeah, that, the kind of taking parameter. So do just, you know, what else is my favorite thing?

00:56:55:23 – 00:57:17:04
Ricky. Ricky, my favorite thing is just the other pyramids in the Mayan. What do you call them? Chichen. So it's something like that. Yeah. That. Yeah, yeah. My favorite thing is when American tourists run up the right and then the local Mayans, I think their minds. And that will. Sure. What the local, you know races. Yeah. They they're not as do like it's like holy.

00:57:17:04 – 00:57:38:05
It's like it's like disrespectful isn't it. To their beliefs and the dogmas. And they just get the tourists and just batter them. So it's so you see the American tourist run off and then they just get kicked the shit out of this. Amazing. So I don't know nothing about the Mayan culture. I do know what the best bit is.

00:57:38:05 – 00:58:05:23
When the American tourists who run up and we get bad, yeah, throw hands disrespect. And I like that. I like that about them. Have you seen the this and the never price? I'd love to go to this. You this used to be number one and it has over the years gone down to third or fourth place I'd say is, Machu Picchu, which is the, kind of like you said, like the pyramid type buildings in Peru.

00:58:06:00 – 00:58:30:08
And it's on this mountain. Like, I just like looking at it. It's just, how did any of that ever happen? It's fucking mental. Yeah. Utterly mental mad. So I would like to do that now I, I'm going to say it's, something about the seven new wonders of the world. Just quickly we've got, you know, we've got another one every right that's even close to me.

00:58:30:08 – 00:58:51:05
And they've got these stones that stand in the square like a stone circle of Avebury, and it's like a billion people. They get there and there's these rocks that shouldn't be there, but they're all placed in this big circle. Yeah. And they like, how did these rocks get here? I asked and they said, well, we think it might be to do with the ice flow from the, you know, when the ice caps melt it.

00:58:51:07 – 00:59:09:00
Sorry. When the ice receded across the land, it dragged the, the rocks back. And I'm like, that doesn't sound right. Because the rocks. Yeah. That's bullshit. The rocks would be everywhere. That you wouldn't just be in this area, would they? And now they've made that up. Yeah. And I'm like, you've made that up. I don't care though. I don't want to find out how the rocks are there.

00:59:09:00 – 00:59:16:20
I don't care that the rocks are there. If that's your explanation, that's it. I don't believe it, but I don't want to know the truth.

00:59:16:22 – 00:59:41:03
I was supposed to sign a striker. And therein lies the problem, right? Sorry. Seven head about the seven wonders of the world. And I just want to say that you have visited one, I visited one, you visited one in my life. In your life? Not in your past life. In this life of terrorism. What is it? It's not right.

00:59:41:05 – 01:00:09:07
Where else I got remotely interesting. I've definitely visited one. You've definitely visited one 100%, but I'm going to start naming them while you having to think God. So the Great Wall of China. I haven't been there. Taj Mahal? Nope. In India, Petra in Jordan? Nope. Never been area. Christ the Redeemer in Brazil. Do you know what I was?

01:00:09:09 – 01:00:27:09
Do you know what it's only about? Maybe a year ago, I realized that was the statue. Yeah. It's called. What's it called? What's it called? What? Yeah. Christ the redeemer. Well, in Brazil, in Rio, I got on top of the. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Looking out as a fucking cool statue. Statues go. That's probably up there is the best.

01:00:27:11 – 01:00:45:12
I don't know why, but I, it's probably six months, maybe a year ago. Yeah. I only found out it was called Christ the Redeemer. I thought it's called Christ Irredeemable. Like it was. That was a Brazilian word. It Redeemer. But Christ the Redeemer. $84 to go there.

01:00:45:14 – 01:01:09:00
Well, you've got to pay to go up there. Yeah, it's just a fucking statue, a paint. Got it here. If I make money somehow. £70 to go and look at that statue. Yeah, I'm alright daddy. I can see it from that. And my three, mate took the Mexican, the, the chicken. Yeah. It's so Mexico and then Machu Picchu, a picchu in Peru.

01:01:09:03 – 01:01:27:15
So there is one left that is A71 in the world that you have visited and I have visited, you have is in the UK, not in the UK, in Europe, obviously. Yeah.

01:01:27:17 – 01:01:38:02
Hold on, give me guys. The cogs are turning. Is it in Italy? It might be in Italy.

01:01:38:04 – 01:02:01:09
Is it. It's not the the dome in Florence, is it? No, it's not my, it's it's the Colosseum. I didn't even go, I was there, he totally. I drove past me. I drove past it. I have a cab window. Saw it? Yeah. Fucking little snake. I thought you actually went to it. But anyway, you see, this is my point, Ricky.

01:02:01:09 – 01:02:07:22
This is my point. Is it going to Rome, right? And you're going to Rome? Like, what do you want to do?

01:02:07:24 – 01:02:29:19
What does everyone else do? Oh, they're going to look at some, you know, old brickwork. Oh. To which I want to do you want to do that. Yeah. All right I suppose I spent three hours walking around this fucking old Colosseum. Shit. It's not my thing. Right. What? I did, like, go. It's never been your thing. And, what I did like about Rome and would have been right up your street, actually, you did?

01:02:29:21 – 01:02:48:15
Was walking around Rome and just finding random little alleyways and finding some amazing shit. Like, it's not like London, where there's, like, churches that are just hidden down these little bell back alleys. I'll probably say it's the greatest city I've ever been to. All right. You know what? I'd never enjoyed walking around place more than Rome. And we did it.

01:02:48:16 – 01:03:07:23
We were only there for, like, a day or two. And it was we we must have. I mean, we we our right in at the end of the day. Not as bad as you actually. You need to say what you put your missus through when you went to Rome. But. Yeah, but, it just walking around fine. And I would say Rome is probably the best city up unto you.

01:03:08:00 – 01:03:32:13
Yeah. I made my Mrs. March round Rome. This is for, 20th anniversary, and, I made a walk round. We were going to all like, the places that you need to visit. And I made a walk round Rome all day in the beaten down heat. And towards the end of the day, she was like, my feet really, really hurt.

01:03:32:13 – 01:03:48:21
Wreck. And we look down and her foot was bleeding about, toes are bleeding. And I was like, we still got I'd like didn't even acknowledge it up because I was like, we still got the Spanish Steps to go. And then after that we can go. She's like, look at my feet. But everyone was going like, would you stop?

01:03:48:21 – 01:04:08:09
And don't worry, your feet are invoice wrong. We know we need to march on to Moscow. We need to we need to get there. And I got out my sunglasses. Sunglasses case, you know, the cloth, the lens cleaning cloth. Yeah, yeah. Wrapped it around that I so don't we. Let's go. Fucking go trooper. She did it as well.

01:04:08:11 – 01:04:29:10
Did everything. Everything I needed to. So there you go. Put a finger in bits I don't care. Right. We have to. We have to get. Yeah I know I probably should, I, I should have stopped off the same. You should have stopped. Oh, just do it. The next nine things I wanted to say. Yeah, I know, I know, but I was scared I was gonna be there for three days.

01:04:29:10 – 01:04:51:06
Did you have fun during that day? The after you seen the third or fourth thing, you're like, oh, I can't see any more things that I do some things tomorrow. Yeah. We went to, Palin's on Hill where the old kind of, political type of buildings and stuff like that were, and it was like we were there in August.

01:04:51:06 – 01:05:10:02
The sun was beating down. It was midday, maybe a little bit past midnight, but we'd been out hours and they'd been walking for hours. And she said, I feel a bit fine. You and we're going to have to, we're gonna have to stop somewhere or do something. So I said, here's some more, I'm like carried on, just marching forward.

01:05:10:02 – 01:05:27:14
She's like, Rick, we need to we need to stop the schedule and go and get food. And I kind of, like, brought myself was like, I can't believe this. Do you can't believe it? Jenna. A guy at the time, I look back now and I was like, I probably should have waited. We did go and get food. Yeah, but you should have.

01:05:27:18 – 01:05:47:06
It should be. It's supposed to be fun. Not a fucking military march. Right? Just so you can see these fucking things. It's not. There's two of you I need. I needed to cross stuff off the list, Gary. And what difference does it make? We saw everything. Did she have a good. Did you ever. Who had the 20 year break?

01:05:47:07 – 01:06:09:10
You were I'd probably say I it up solutely she she. But they she enjoyed it too. Apart from the the walking around and being dragged around to places but she didn't really care for. Yeah. I sometimes think I, me. Yeah. Sometimes think you need to think a little bit more. Yeah, I know, but I just, I didn't, you know, sometimes.

01:06:09:12 – 01:06:27:23
So she should be stronger. She should just told you to fuck off as I should have. Yeah. She said that she should have done, Yeah. One last place I forgot. I forgot to mention before we move on is I want to go to Argentina and I want to go to Boca Juniors, La Bombonera. I definitely want to go to Olivia and try to cocaine.

01:06:27:23 – 01:06:48:19
I definitely want to do that. Really do? Yeah, that does sound something fun. Apparently, it's hard to get. It's hard to. It's hard to as a gringo. It's easily, very easy to be taken advantage of out there. Yeah, I see that. I would do that if you come up to me and said, mate, you got any? Yeah.

01:06:48:19 – 01:07:05:09
You got a chisel? I'd be like, can I just know if you can handle it? It's just not the way you do it. You need someone local you're friends with, you can sort you out. That's the way to do it. There's a book I read called Martin Powder and it's. Oh, yeah, in Bolivia. And it's about. I can't remember who.

01:07:05:11 – 01:07:26:23
I would recommend it to anybody. It's a true story. It's not the the, Danny Dyer film. That's, Let me just check. I've got, I got, Yeah. Yeah, but it is over. It is Danny, though. No, unfortunately, it's not that piece of shit. There's, there's a book. There's a book called, March in Powder that's been out since 2020.

01:07:27:00 – 01:08:00:16
And it's by a guy called rusty. What's his name? Rusty young. And, so it's the story of Thomas McFadden, a small time English drug smuggler. Was arrested in Bolivia and found inside the notorious San Pedro prison. He found himself in a bizarre world. The prison reflects in all. All its wrong. In the South American society, prisoners have to pay an entrance fee to get in there and buy their own cell phone cells by their own cells, and the alternative is to sleep outside or die of exposure.

01:08:00:18 – 01:08:22:13
Prisoners wives and children often live inside too. High quality cocaine is manufactured and sold from the prison. Thomas ended up making a living by, giving backpackers tours of the prison. He became a fixture of the backpacking circuit and was named in the Lonely Planet Light Guide to Bolivia. When he was told that for a bribe of 5,000 pounds, his sentence would be overturned.

01:08:22:15 – 01:08:43:23
It was the many backpackers who passed through who sent him the money. Sometimes shocking, sometimes funny mushroom power powers. Always a riveting story of survival. It's unbelievable work. It really is that when he's saying it. But that sounds insane. Ricky. Read it. Like if you need something to read, there probably be an audio book. And the what happens inside that prison is insane.

01:08:43:23 – 01:09:01:20
It's like a little world that functions, has its own currency. It has its own sort of hierarchal nature, has shops, you can buy upgrades. Your cells, mate, is bad. It's really good. But, that's one of the thing that scares me about the bucket list. And we'll finish. But, like going to all these different places, it does scare the living daylights out of me.

01:09:01:20 – 01:09:19:16
Like going to somewhere like Dubai. And I say the wrong thing. Or do a Ricky get pissed up and make an idiot myself. And they're like, mate, you just taking your top off at a place where you're not supposed to, and you've got seven years and you've got a fucking numpad, but not a fucking great. But yeah, that's what does scare me.

01:09:19:18 – 01:09:44:01
We're going to go on to dilemmas and something only you know in a minute. The dilemma is called tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies. And something only you know is I don't know. I just remembered what the. Something I need, you know, is fucking out is the fucking great. The topic for next week is going to be attraction.

01:09:44:03 – 01:10:16:21
So what do you find attractive in your partner? Man. Woman. Ladies, we know you listen to this, so we want to hear from you. What do you find attractive in a partner? It could be the physical form, financial, intelligence, education, career, fashion. Is it, you know, as rudimental, as the characteristics of someone, how they look, kindness, supportive, all of that stuff.

01:10:16:23 – 01:10:42:16
And we want to know what read your engine about the the opposite sex or the same sex. So if you send it over to lads anon pod at gmail.com and we will feature your stories or chat about anything that you would like to be discussed on the podcast. Now we're going to go over to dilemmas.

01:10:42:18 – 01:11:09:11
Oh, so I just started. You got an issue for a tissue? You a big fat cat will give you an aching in your soul, alone in your flat. Please talk to Vicky Flanagan. Let that stress off your chest. Well, friends, you deserve to play like you're safe here to get nice warm between breaking your legs.

01:11:09:13 – 01:11:35:05
Till midnight. Coming. Sweet little. Hi, guys. I have a dilemma, and I'm seeking advice. A couple of weeks ago, I was sitting with my mates in school and we thought it would be funny to download Tinder as a joke to see how many matches I would get. Just as a laugh, I downloaded and made my profile and set it as an 18 year old, two years older than I actually am.

01:11:35:06 – 01:11:59:02
I had no intention, to do anything when I did this, but seeing what matches I would get. Since then I've been chatting to this one girl and we are genuinely getting on really well, and I actually think I like her quite a lot. However, the age gap is only two years 18 and 16. I've already lied about my age.

01:11:59:04 – 01:12:23:08
I don't know what to do now, be extremely immoral and keep up the lie because I don't want to cut her out of my life or tell her I'm 16 and most likely it would get cut off straight away. I have already struggled to keep up this lie and it is a basically a ticking time bomb. I feel like the answer is pretty obvious, but harder to do than it is to say.

01:12:23:09 – 01:12:44:14
Do you have any advice? Thanks. Big fan of the pod. How old is he? 16. Why did he find this first? Yeah. First of all, that is my first comment. How is it? How is there a 16 year old listening? I'm surprised if you're listening to where you will be. Listen to this. How did you find this podcast?

01:12:44:16 – 01:13:02:13
That's my number one thing. But number number two gone. Was it 16 and 18? The difference 1619 is the difference. Eight. Don't worry about it. What you're saying don't don't tell out or use the same antenna until like a couple of years.

01:13:02:15 – 01:13:20:09
It can't do that. Well, what they're doing is talking on Tinder is not like you always are. Like, it's just nothing at this stage, is it? Yeah. But is it is it will go to a, it will elevate higher. Yeah. But you know, at 20 years when they've got two kids, they laugh about it when they just never tell it.

01:13:20:09 – 01:13:42:10
Yeah. Never tell never. Teller. So what, what I don't understand, like they're developing this relationship. Right. And like, imagine they're a couple of years older, whatever it is. And this is a relationship that's going to blossom. And they end up falling in love and they end up having a wonderful marriage. Right? Yeah. And two beautiful children and very successful great jobs.

01:13:42:11 – 01:13:58:24
And they're as happy as they can be. Yeah, all of that could be nipped in the bud because he goes, oh, by the way, I'm 1618. Just just build up your relationship on lies and just pretend it's fun.

01:13:59:01 – 01:14:19:18
I think a point in that. But also I do see the bit where it's like, if I was 18 and if I was 18 and I was seeing ago that was 16, and you didn't tell me and I was, you know, it went to a higher plane, shall we say. Yeah. Not not particularly in aus or anything like that.

01:14:19:20 – 01:14:51:08
You know, we met up and dated and kissed or whatever. Yeah. I'd be mortified if that person hadn't told me. Boy, I because a 16 my, that's not basically a child. And I know when you're 18, it's exactly the same. Like your mental development between 16 and 18 is like negligible how much you develop. Sure. But the psychological of someone being 16 and you're 18, you're I'd much rather than them tell me and then make me make the decision.

01:14:51:10 – 01:15:14:22
She's not doing anything illegal. 16 is legal, isn't it? 18. 16. I think he wants to wait. If you if you if you're if your daughter. But I'm an 18 year old when she's 16 would you have a problem. As I may not guidance.

01:15:14:24 – 01:15:35:12
What. No. Is that your issue. The fact that it's a bit the age gap or the just the issue was just in line. It didn't occur to me that any issue between 16 and 18 was, oh, my Mrs. was 16, and I was 18 when I met my ex, my ex. But I was like but to be fair, it was it was only for a month that she was 16.

01:15:35:14 – 01:15:56:12
She was then 17. And did you know her age? Yeah, she, she would just she she was my I turned 18 in the. And then that was your decision to be a non-person. I can see you. Do you actually actively say I I'm going to be an I know that I would, Ricky, that's not an answer. Don't stop me.

01:15:56:14 – 01:16:17:06
You're just you you're basically the I have been said about the. No. But Ricky, just quickly I just I've just to be clear, I, I was I turned 18 in the August she turned 17th March. Yeah. Is that still Nancy. It's a 13 month difference.

01:16:17:08 – 01:16:37:09
I mean, this is my point. If you know about it. Right? And you're comfortable with it, that's fine. And you're both on the same page of like when reading that story, I think you're the only one that's caught up in this in the fact that it is the non stuff. Really. Yeah. When I was this new, it was just that you'd lied about his age.

01:16:37:09 – 01:16:55:04
And should he build a relationship based on the fact that he told her life from the bat. Oh right. Okay. I thought that was maybe I thought yeah, maybe I've just totally misread it. Then what's he what is he worried about? Saying that he's going to be in a pedo is that he's concerned about it? No, I've just read.

01:16:55:04 – 01:17:14:21
That's what I've just read into it, that you see that the lies about it. So, Yeah, I just thought it was a like the lion thing, which is bad, the like, because I think he's like because he is ashamed of that, not ashamed, but he is younger than he should be on Tinder. You should be 18 and he's lied to get on there.

01:17:14:23 – 01:17:36:17
Yeah. And there's a reason because he's 16. Right. And so so when she finds out the truth, oh I see that she's been tricked into. But it's that's just rules of Tinder. That's that's not the rules of the law, is it? And the thing is, is if she doesn't go understand why he's lied, then she's just a fucking idiot.

01:17:36:19 – 01:18:00:16
She should understand, obviously. Obviously he's lied, obviously, because it's on Tinder, obviously. I'm sorry. I just wanted to talk to, but because I'm 16, why wouldn't I? Obviously Timbers right there. You can understand logically why I've done this. Then we started dating. Then I'm like, oh my God, she thinks I'm 18. If she can't sort of compartmentalize what's happened and go be okay with it, then it's a failing on her brain.

01:18:00:16 – 01:18:06:07
Nothing. It's not it's not set up. It's cool.

01:18:06:09 – 01:18:29:11
This would be interesting to, to cover everybody else's sports on this. You know where to email the lads. Anonymous. Is this 16 year old breaking out a predator cat predator trap? I mean, I mean, I would be, I'd be. I'd say if you still want to throw down, then you should know that I am 16.

01:18:29:17 – 01:18:54:22
Definitely, before anything happens physically. But, yeah, at this stage. Yeah. I'll just fucking tell her. We'll see it. Just just tell her I'm just I. By the way, I lied. I'm 16. Just, probably will be pretty well at the end of it, I think. And now we are going to go in something and, you know.

01:18:54:24 – 01:19:00:20
Something, you know.

01:19:00:22 – 01:19:27:14
I don't know. I've been drinking with my mates all day, and by the time we're in the last bar of the evening, I was drunk, horny, and had run out of money, my house being a good 10 pound taxi ride away. Bear in mind, this is early 2000. I needed to find somewhere to crash for the night. I was too far gone to try and have a decent conversation with anyone and had to aim low.

01:19:27:16 – 01:19:52:05
I spotted a strange looking girl sitting at a table and slid over to her. I don't have a lot of recollection of the conversation, but I ended up pumping her I over the railings by Canalside satisfied sexually. I was ready to leave her and wander off into the night. When I realized I had no taxi money, I had to ask her if she lived nearby and she did.

01:19:52:07 – 01:20:20:05
I asked if I could stay and she agreed. We walked until we got to a small semi-detached house, went in the front door and into the lounge at the back. The girls started to pull the cushions off the sofa and made a bed on the floor. I wasn't sure why, but I pumped her again and fell asleep naked, covered only by a joint giant doily thing that I pulled off the coffee table.

01:20:20:07 – 01:20:48:08
The next thing I knew, there was shouting and I sat up to see a big hairy lad trying to push the door open, but couldn't quite because of the couch cushions in the way he was shouting at the girl. Who the fuck is this? I shat a brick, jumped up and ran into the kitchen just as a lad got through the door, really realizing I was still naked, I put a hand up, put my hand in another glove and used it to cover my cock.

01:20:48:10 – 01:21:14:16
The lad got to the kitchen door, looked me up and down and asked me who I was. I said I don't know it. He asked me why I had an erection. I said I don't know. At that point the lad's mum and what turned out to be his sister started shouting and he left me in the kitchen. I got myself dressed and out of there as soon as possible.

01:21:14:18 – 01:21:35:21
A couple of days later I was at a bar with my mate when this same lad who I didn't know, knew one of my mates came and sat at the table. I shat myself at first, but within half an hour I realized that he didn't recognize me. With my glasses on and hair gelled. Then he told the story.

01:21:36:02 – 01:21:59:03
I sat there laughing at this guy I knew that he'd caught with his sister, hiding his erection with an oven glove. And that is something I need. Belter. Yeah. Absolute belter. I, so that era was a bit like that, wasn't it? In terms of like, I don't know, maybe it's just people of our age, but he'd run out of money and think it's not a problem.

01:21:59:03 – 01:22:21:22
Some it'll work out. Yeah, yeah, I remember sure. I remember in Amsterdam and having, run out. Oh, no, I didn't run out of money, but, my, my badge on my phone had gone. And just walking out into the night. I can't go into details about what happened that evening, but. Right. I managed to get back to my hotel.

01:22:21:24 – 01:22:39:21
It was a man. Do you know the story? I hear you do it. You didn't. It hit. I am, I remember as well, purpose. Just, you know, the, that little guy you have on your jeans inside, you've got the big pocket, then you've got that little tiny pocket. I know it's like 10 pound, 10 pound. Note that that may not.

01:22:39:21 – 01:23:04:09
Rik, this is your taxi money. Whatever happens tonight, you can get home. And then about 1:00 in the morning, I'll check. I've got no money and I grab that taxi money, buy more drinks every single time. Absolutely pointless exercise. Before we go, if you have any stories sitting on your chest in your closet for something only I know, please send them in because we are running thin on the ground for them.

01:23:04:09 – 01:23:30:23
We still got some to go, but I have a lot of interactions with people on social and they say I need to send money and I'm going to send money and you never do. Now is the time. Email us lads, anon pod at gmail.com and we will certainly read them out. Next week's topic is on attraction and this is what you find attractive in a partner.

01:23:31:00 – 01:23:54:09
We want to hear everything, whether it's financial stability in someone, whether it's you don't care about looks and it's all about kindness and support and caring stuff. We want to hear everything. So send into lads anon pod@gmail.com and until then we will see you on Monday.

01:23:54:11 – 01:24:17:19
The night hazy light band of brothers playing tunes high is quite midnight. Waves surfing through till daylight breaks. Rhythm of different ways. Love of music I 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. Promise.