#98 | Superstitions, Premonitions And Karma

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It's happened again. Goddamn it! This is a bad one as well. Yeah, it is a real bad one. Yeah. After I wouldn't happen. I had that morning ran nine ish or something like that. I booked my flights to Spain, my family holiday to Spain, and having done four flights this year already. I was feeling all right.

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Feeling comfortable. Feeling like. You know what? I'm. I'm okay with this. It's a family holiday. People fly. Happens all the time. Blah blah blah blah blah. Within maybe an hour, a nudge over an hour. That news breaks of that horrendous plane crash in India. And then I've just come back to. Oh, great. Brilliant. God, do this again. And I say this is fucking fantastic.

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Yeah. Now exactly the same. My daughters go into Ayan Appa for four days with no way. Really? Yeah. With, her Ani and her daughter. Yeah. Not can Raven and I end up. For fuck's sake. She's 17. Not an idiot. But no, she's going well, and I went. It's my first day, and I. Seven and 10 or 8.

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Yeah, I went to Turkey for two weeks. Yeah. We we've established this. Would you send your 17 year old. How old? How old is your oldest? Amalie? She is 13, I. Right? Yeah. Do you feel like she's four years off spending two weeks on her own? You know, I know, I know, I know, I know, and I shouldn't ever be ready for that.

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And I never go in. And she never go and never go. So, yeah, she's going on Friday. So I'm kind of thinking, like, obviously it's happened now, isn't it? The plane crashes happen, but it just feels like I always knew the taking off was the bad thing. Well, I've always said that if you did say that, you did say that.

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Didn't say like I knew. I know about aviation. I just know you did. Someone told me, I said, like, the riskiest part is taking off and you get up in the sky. That's like the bit I'm most afraid is when I'm in mid-air. Yeah. So at the highest point, that's the worst bit for me. Yeah, yeah. It's like 5000ft cruising.

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Everything's fine, but you're the most furthest away you possibly can be from the planet. Not from that, from, from, Exactly how I feel. Exactly how I feel. But that it's, like, the safest. Like planes do not fall out of the sky, but. Yeah. So did you see that there was a video of a guy who'd been on the plane before, and.

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And he was taking a video that the air conditioning didn't work. None of the screens worked in front of them. None of the remote controls worked. There was no power in there was. The lights were on, but nothing worked. It landed. He then shared it and it's since gone viral. And it was the next flight that didn't didn't make it.

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Oh my God, are you kidding? Yeah. So he was like, saying there's something wrong. There's no way I thought you on like this a luxury. Like it's like the airliner and this is all regurgitate shit from the news I'm saying. Right. But the the Dreamliner is like a class in terms of commercial air flight. It's like. It's like the best.

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I mean, it sounds it being called a Dreamliner. I'd love to go on the trip, but not anymore. Yeah. Do you see like stocks stocks in Boeing of dropped obviously because one of their planes are falling out of sky. But you like yeah. What if it wasn't their fault. What if the person on the ground didn't do the checks properly.

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What if if the pilot had a heart attack. What what if what is not what's happened? Why not be Boeing? Fool. I think Boeing, quite a few strays of of late because of, I don't know, I think it was, it was seen that they were using parts that were past expiry dates and doing stuff they shouldn't. Don't hear that stuff.

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I don't know if that's true. You know, I don't know I don't know. I'm I'm fairly sure I read something if this is this podcast had a million listeners, would you just feel so freely to say that Boeing are using parts, old parts on airplanes? Joe Rogan does it. So you never get C. Does he know? Can I just for that absolute fucking know every time he speaks Joe Rogan do you think because we've all met liars in our life, right.

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We know what liars sound like behind Joe Rogan? Sometimes when you've just made up, you don't have a mate that used to go hand in with you. Don't you know you didn't come to Ireland, go drinking in Ireland with one of the fans that you'd met there? That didn't happen. You could, he said, oh yeah, I was drinking in Ireland.

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Man. Those guys are crazy, man. And I just one of the fans, we went out and we, we got, we were drinking and then it what it sounds like. But in some pub. And those guys are crazy. You never went drinking in a pub in Ireland. Sound like if you did stop making it sound like you're lying, because that's what it sounds like.

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Lying. Joe. It does say some mad things, but then often it's the guess that you gets on Gaelic giving a platform to say what they want to say. Yeah. I, I was scared by that. Right? Yeah. And one thing is made it out right. Have, like, I've seen a lot of things, like screengrabs of, the seating plan in the plane and where he was.

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That's like, how on earth as this one person managed to survive that wreckage? But what? Like what did he. And they said he jumped out the plane. What does that even mean? Well, I imagine when it crashed, he just quickly everyone else is just sitting there waiting for the seatbelt signs come on. And he's like, fuck this, I'm getting out.

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That what he jumped out before? Well, I don't know, I don't know. Yeah, I know, it crashed. And then Charlie is still alive and he climbed out the wreckage. Yeah, yeah. I mean yeah, that seems the most logical. But again it's like why him not why. Oh, he's just not changed seats as well. Apparently his proper final destination light is coming for him.

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Final destination. Come in. You weren't supposed to survive that one. He changed seats like the plane that happens on the plane. I think in that in that film, I don't know about me. I, I like people saying, would you want to be there? Would you want to be the one that survived that? Would you not have survivor's guilt?

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I'd be like, fuck no, fuck no, I want to survive. I mean, I'm sad for the other 250 people, but I have just won the lottery. I'm going to live my life in their honor. Yeah, yeah. Some guy again. I don't care anymore. I just survive that in their honor. I'm gonna do two bags of coke. I think I get me some chisel.

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Now give me the good stuff. I mean, this is fucking horrible, story as well, where a gentleman had been living in London, fucking Grafton, trying to get his family, who live in India, his wife and three children, I believe, to come to eventually save enough money and bring them to England. And he had just gone to India and to bring them to England.

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They were sitting on the plane and they took a selfie of all of them. As you know, the one white flight going to our what we've all worked hard for. She was a doctor coming over to England and all of that. And, they sent that selfie before to the family before they took off. And then obviously all of them have been I didn't see that.

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What what is also the to get a couple that had been traveling around India and they did it like a vlog into ever. Yeah. Like it's like I said, some sort of social media accounts and they were talking about their last day and what a magical trip it's been. And then they get on the plane and then that sort of starts even more haunting.

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The kind of last photo, the last video they did before they died. Yeah. You always thinking, is this our last podcast before we both die? It could be. When are you flying to Spain? August the 4th. So that could be it. Like you've got. You got a little plane dog before then? Yeah, I have actually. Yeah. I just saw you.

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I saw the realization in your eyes. I forgot about that. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm going to Ireland, but I'm kind of thinking it's only 45 minutes, so. Yeah, but it still won't take off. You still got to take off. Indeed. And you know, if you're going somewhere that's 45 minutes. Do you think the plane reaches the maximum, like 35,000ft in the air?

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No. Because what's the point? Not me. Not you can't. Yeah. I wouldn't have been. No been no, no. Now, if you had to guess what would be the maximum height you get? I've got a kind of idea of my head. I thought, what if you. What is in, how high planes go at what put. Yeah. Like if you're only flying to Dublin.

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How high in the sky do you think you get before them? And shit? We better start going back down the 36,000, because they want to get as high as possible because you use less fuel. Yeah, I, I like I keep saying 35, I keep thinking 35 is like you reach you thing you. Yeah. You reach 35,000. If I'm flying to Spain, we'll take off, Luton.

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And then we get to 35,000ft, and then it's like, stick on cruise control until we get to Madrid, and then we'll start coming down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course, when you're flying to fucking Spain, you're at least a 2.5 hour flight. Yeah, I'm saying in a 45 minute flight, do they have time to get up there and down?

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I reckon they'll probably get to 25. Oh, see, I was thinking about 28. I'm kind of comfortable at 20. Yeah. Yeah. I'm more comfortable in your be with 46, 37. Yeah. Yeah. That jumping and guy over any mountain ranges you do. Yeah. You might have a bit of a live dog. Down in the. What is it? Well what, the mountain range, apparently.

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Is it, I think so, yeah. It is. Yeah, yeah. Come down middle Pyrenees. Very hard to get to top. The weather's too bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. We better eat my.

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What are we going to do? I'm going to eat, mum. Yeah, that'll be the first port of call. What would you do, though, man? It's just such a fucking. No, it's a head fuck. It's a head fuck for me because I'm now, like, obviously leading up to it, I'm going to be like, this is. It will panic me.

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Yeah. I mean, I've done all I can to make you feel calm about flying. And I think I've done I've done my beer. I'm going to go the other way now, because if you're still scared off everything I've done, I might as well listen, enjoy your fear and. Yeah, sure. And and sort of. So build it up, if anything.

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Yeah. No, I think I think that that's what mate should do as well. Scaler. Nice. Even. What this fucking bloke ballocks about, like helping each other out. Bring them down. Oh, bring them down. It does get to between 30 and 38,000 just by going to Bristol. Won't pop that. No. Really? Fly to Vegas. It's going to get that.

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I. The thing is it's well they the planes go even higher. Like if there is a thunderstorm and they can get above it, they will go. So, so this kind of thing can in a way go through the thunderstorm rather than above it. It's even scarier. Let's go under the thunderstorm. Yeah, but then what happens if the lightning hits?

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And, I don't know, I would be terrible. Rick. Oh, yeah, and I remember when I was flying at Spain once and it was like thunder, lightning, the rain was torrential and I was sitting on the plane and I was thinking, well, they're obviously not going to take off in this because you can't. You literally can't. You've said there's a thunderstorm.

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You can see, you can't even see out the window. It's raining so hard. And then we start rolling forward some that they're doing this, they're they're actually doing this is the that. No the people in the. No. Ricky. They don't care about storms. They're not bothered by them. They think this is nothing to us. This is the planes designed to fly for this shit.

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So I remember I remember when, I probably said this for phobias in periods. And we were trying to get home. That was big thunderstorm. And when you fly to bits, you'll know she was there recently. Yeah. They're on like you miss one train. Can we get the 8:00 train? That plane? No, there ain't none of that. You missed your plane to berate you stuck there for three days, and it's not a bad place to be stuck in.

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Don't get me wrong. Right. If you've got you've got some money behind you. Spend another few days in here. It's it's a dream. Yeah. But anyway, so we we were stuck in this airport and it was like, we've got a mate coming in. We've got nowhere to stay. Right? We're stuck in beer. It's when I say it's fine if you got a bit of money.

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We had no money. And we like this guy. We know Jeremy. He's very wealthy. Jeremy Goring is his name. He's a part of the, the Goring family who own hotels in London. How I know something. I know that I know him through. I would he wouldn't probably even remember my name, to be honest, but. But, Ollie and my wife and their friends.

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No. Here. No. Sorry. It's really boring. But Ollie's mate's husband, he's, like, best mates with Jeremy, right? Okay, so Jeremy knows my wife and knows obviously he's mate's wife. And I'm kind of just the periphery on the edge of all this. The benefit from it, and how I benefited from it is because he was we knew that he was getting a plane in from,

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Where do you fly from? From to get to Stansted. Probably Gatwick. Right. To get to, to get to get spirit. We knew he was come in, but all the planes had been stopped coming into spirit and us having somewhere to stay, no less. An absolute palace to stay in all depended on whether or not he was getting on this plane.

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Nine and coming spirit. And we didn't know anything, but his phone was off. I mean, like, maybe he's on the plane, maybe stuck in the tarmac and Gatwick is pissing down and it's then clouds are really tall and black. Yeah. And then there's patches of sunshine every now and then. Then there's a fucking thunderstorm and I'm like, I'm watching.

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And luckily he was flying with Ryanair and Ryanair will fucking get you there if they can get you that. Their entire business model is, is is it's own business money business model. He's getting that plane down, getting it for getting it up in the air. That's like are. So we're watching the sky and all of a sudden this plane just came out of the black crowds.

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Just, like I don't like that. Just leaning side to side. If a plane could make a noise, it would be a human noise. It would be Glenn. Yeah. It's it's coming down. It's coming. And then it lands big, like a fucking smoker, so. And then and then and then implodes. Jeremy goes, all right, how's it going with like, yes Ryanair of back.

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Yeah. No. Yeah. Boy, we had two days in his palace on the edge of a cliff looking out to sea. It is incredible. Oh, my God, that sounds. I'd like to be there right now. Yeah. So I rather jingle. Let's go.

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On the night I see like, Band of Brothers playing tunes. Hi. Is quiet. Midnight waves surfing through till daylight breaks. Rhythm hit us different ways. Love of music that we prayed with our tongues in cheek. Band I we like to speak and yeah, times change. But no matter what the bond remains. Brothers. Hello and welcome to lads anonymous is episode 98.

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I'm Ricky, he's Flav, two best mates. One main topic we answer your lifestyle memos and confessions in our feature. Something only you know and everything remains anonymous. Okay, so sit back, relax and enjoy the podcast. How's it going, Flav? Yeah, good. Well, good. Everything's fine. Rick. Have you, if you sort of do anything for Thursday, when's that?

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Sunday. Oh, no, I haven't I didn't even know it was that. What is the point in it's fucking shit. Like, seriously, I know when I should thank my fucking father, right? Who knows how much I appreciate him and what he's done for me. I tell him every single day. But for some wanker, some lesson. When now. We need,

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We need to. We need to monetize this, right? Yeah. That the that the catering industry needs your services. The car industry needs your money. Yeah. Fuck that, fuck that. I'm Mother's day. Fuck that too.

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My birthday's fine, but these other two like, nonsense. Like, I don't care. I can imagine you caring, but I don't care if I get I. No. Well, you don't want anything. No kids. No no no no, I'm not bothered. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not bothered. Like the cards and stuff like that. It's just I don't I man it's, it's like how many times, like when you're living with someone or like your partner and how many times can you write like similar things?

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Do you know, I mean, like, as in, like for your dad and, your, your wife and kids and stuff like that. But Father's Day is always one of those ones where I'm kind of like, I'm scratching around on a gift idea for my old man. I have no idea what to get him. And, you know, I kind of a a gold kind of, easy root is something to do with football.

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Naturally. So I got him a an official program. The Europa League final program. And that was, that was, you know, obviously programs. And when we were out there, they were also announced they couldn't get any. And plus they were like fucking catalogs. So it's like no one wants to be carrying a catalog around the whole fucking.

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They're massive. Yeah. What's the would you own? It was the Father's Day if you hadn't told him. Yeah. He's pretty good with dates, actually. He's like one of those guys that has a, wall mounted calendar and he hand writes everything in, so I'm pretty sure he would have. He would have had it sussed. Then I did one of those, you know, online cards sent out to him.

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Get there in time. So, I'm all sweet, but for me, I'm not even here on Sunday. I'm going fishing. So I said to my Mrs.. I said, look, I know it's Father's Day on Sunday. I don't know, you guys will probably want to get up and the girls might want to do me breakfast and all that lot, but I'm going to be out the door at 7:00.

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She's like, why? I said, I'm going fishing lot going fishing seven till right mid afternoon, late afternoon. She was like, yeah, absolutely fine, knock yourself out. And I sat. It's going to be ring Father's Day to me. My own fishing. Well you haven't towed. So are we allowed to talk about the conundrum? The fishing conundrum? You got which one?

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Yeah, we can talk about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, fine. That's fine. So I'm going rig. Yeah, yeah. So I'm going fishing with, my mate, his son, another mate and his son. But they they you can fish. And then there's another mate and his son, and they've never been fishing before. Now I grab every opportunity I can when people say, you want to go fishing, I'm like, yeah, man, I fucking love fishing.

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Any opportunity and fishing is always is much more fun when you go with other people, because you just messing about all day. And it's the that when you catch something big or something interesting, it's much more fun to share that moment with people. But the people that I'm going with, if they, I'll just say they're novices in game fishing.

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And I've been paired up with my a good mate of mine and his son, and they, you know, they can cast a rod and they're fine, but they won't touch my guts. They, like, can barely cast out. There's a lot of help and hand-holding needed. And I just want to sit there and enjoy nature and catch fish myself, but instead, I'll be untangling knots where people have cast into trees people that are just needing my attention all the time.

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I'll be up at my seat all the time, and I'd much rather it not be that just thinking that I don't want to be doing that. So what can what, what can I do to get away from that? Might go to the opposite side of the lake. I like it, he's like you were catching loads of fish. I just wanted to fish where you were fishing.

00:21:30:21 – 00:21:49:07
That's nice. Yeah. He's like, yes, that's not allowed in. No, it's not not, not at all. So I was fishing and what I so what you do is you kind of with your swim where you're fishing and you're baiting up and you have to bait accurately and you get fish competing for the free food that's going in.

00:21:49:08 – 00:22:07:01
Yeah, to a specific area. So while they're kind of, in competition with each other with this free food, and then you stick your bait there and then, you know, a fish will take it. So I was catching a lot of fish. A hell of a lot of fish, actually. And he wasn't catching any. And he was like, kind of like, how am I going to yours?

00:22:07:03 – 00:22:25:14
You've got all the fish, and I want him to have a good time. Yeah, but I wanted to have a good time. That's like a rule. Don't really do that. You know, like any other guys when they say, nah, nah, nah nah, this is where this is. Where? Patience episode over there. Not only does he coming to my swim, but he casts exactly.

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I mean, exactly where I'm fishing. You cannot do that. So that's double things. And I was like, John, you can't fucking do that. I need to woo. That's where you're fishing. That's where all the fish are. You need to go. So he edged me out to like to part the swim where I hadn't put any bait in, where it was just fraction.

00:22:45:19 – 00:23:06:05
I was going to have to warm the area up. And then if sun comes in and they've just taken over my swim and I'm just in the weeds and the side, I'm not. This is this isn't my not my day off going fishing. This isn't fun. What's fucking happened here? So nine and ten, but, they're nine on, let's say.

00:23:06:09 – 00:23:30:03
So it's you just you pull up when you get to a lake, you plot up and you decide where you're going to fish and what areas the swim and what areas will be baited. And you have to prepare the area. And so fish get used to the food being there and all that sort of stuff. And then once you're in that position, can you move to another area like if it doesn't work, yes you can.

00:23:30:03 – 00:23:46:00
Yeah. Right. Right, right. So that's what a good fisherman would do. Right. So you don't then if there's another fisherman on the other side of the lake and he's catching fish, go and sit by him and cast next to him, like if you didn't know him, he'd probably punch you in the face and be like, what the fuck are you doing?

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Is that how you do? How maybe this is. Yeah, yeah. It's insane. Insane. Even if you're not fishing where the other person is and you're kind of casting in and around that area, you're disturbing the water and it's like a fish, gaining confidence. And then something is happening. The vibrations in the water are kind of close to where they are.

00:24:09:04 – 00:24:28:06
They're going to get spooked and be like, what the fuck's that? So you can't not be fucking around in another man's swim. Is it kind of like buying a house, building it, doing it up, living in it, starting to get up, and then you mate comes round and says, can I go and have sex with your wife in your bedroom?

00:24:28:08 – 00:25:04:09
Is that. Yeah, I'd say yes. Exactly that. That is exactly I way, you know. Yeah. That's ask you do you know what we're talking about today? Superstitions. Yeah. You got caught in a trap. I can't hold back. Because I love you too much. But but, why can't you see? Why can't you see what you do in the me?

00:25:04:11 – 00:25:29:12
I can't really, that's what the next level. I can't even see. I didn't even think of that. I was thinking of there is superstitious writings on the wall. Is that fucking myth? Steve Wonder, is it? Yeah. I was going to say you're one of your favorite artists, Stevie Wonder. I preferred happy birthday to you, though. I don't really like any of this stuff.

00:25:29:12 – 00:25:54:10
What does that say? What's that Elvis song, caught in the sea. It was a suspicious sight. Suspicious mind? Yeah. Suspicious minds. This is is with suspicious minds. Was that remind you of? I don't know. I must be getting jacked off my tits at right fly for that back there. It reminds me of for him on a Saturday mid-March.

00:25:54:10 – 00:26:22:17
Yeah, yeah. That's right. Reminds me of back from the club. Stick on Elvis, stick on a bit of Tiny Dancer by, John Tiny. I would go a certain extent and, then round it off with a bit of hurricane by, what's his name? Bob Dylan. Oh, okay, okay, I can't I can't recall that you do with the hurricane.

00:26:22:19 – 00:26:54:07
No. Great great great bass. Do you have any, superstitions yourself? No. You don't believe in magic or ghosts in it? It's all bullshit. Really? What do you. I mean, I, I probably would say I don't believe it, but I wouldn't laugh in the face of it. I will give you some. I'll give me some examples. Actually. Let me, let me find some.

00:26:54:09 – 00:27:20:21
So if you broke a mirror, would you be like, oh fuck no. Yeah, I, I'd walk under a ladder 50 times, not give a shit. You would walk under a ladder. Yeah. You are fucking mental. It's it's it's nonsense. It's pretty. It's fucking, it's nonsense. What would what I'm going to say. So. So we let's talk a little bit.

00:27:20:23 – 00:27:45:01
Yeah. We are. You're talking about something that exists beyond what we can conceive to be real, right? A mysticism, some sort of divine objection to something you're doing, right? Yeah. Something greater than ourselves looking down and saying you cannot break the rules. You can't go against what nature intended. And if you do, we're going to punish you.

00:27:45:03 – 00:28:10:04
Yeah. And the ladder is what it was. What what they come up with. They went. They walk under a ladder. They walk under a ladder, a ladder. Ricky, I'm long ladders have been around. But you say that pointing. Go on like that. Like what you've done there with that ladder. God's gone. Come on. Just before Adam and Eve didn't have a fucking ladders in the in the, you know, Garden of Eden, right?

00:28:10:10 – 00:28:27:05
So at some point, we built a ladder in God's garden. Yep. Like that. That's good. If I got one of you got fucked me. One of you is, come up with this ladder because you need to get up in higher places. If one of you motherfuckers walk under it. Yeah, you'll. Yeah. All the bad luck. That's how stupid, Ricky.

00:28:27:05 – 00:28:46:13
That's why I don't believe in it. Right. Okay, now you paint out like that, they feel like it's a bit silly, but I don't want to tempt fate. That's the thing. Like, if I. If there's a point right where a mirror is going to drop, I would do everything so that it doesn't smash just in case, you know.

00:28:46:13 – 00:29:16:14
And if there's a ladder and I'm backing up the ladder and I'm walking, I will not go under that ladder. I'll go around the ladder. But you're like, don't care, just go under it. What about oh, this one might be, very apt. Friday the 13th. It's Friday 13th today. Is it? Yeah. Oh, well, there you go. That's how much I believe in it.

00:29:16:14 – 00:29:40:14
I didn't even realize, I mean, well, I don't think I, I don't. Wow. Okay, let me let's do a little test. Let's do a little bit, okay? Okay, okay. It's Friday 13th. Yeah. I don't believe in this. Yeah, right. So if fate is listening to me, of all the things you should be listening to myself, if you've decided to hunker down into what I'm just about to say.

00:29:40:16 – 00:30:02:07
Okay, this is really out of order. Do your worst. Do us today. But, you know, we can't say really what you mean. What's gonna happen to me is worse. What's happened to those poor cats on an airplane? No, no, you're not taking a flight for one. But no, And something bad happens now, though. Then may God strike me down.

00:30:02:09 – 00:30:23:23
It. Would you be a believer? I'll be dead. But, I mean, not not really. Are just guys coincidence? You know? Yeah. Two things aren't connected. They can't be. They can't. They can't be. They can't be that incredible. But also, like an unbelievable but also so trivial. And it's nonsense, man. It's all fucking, isn't it? It's complete nonsense.

00:30:24:00 – 00:30:49:16
What about if you were to see a magpie? And you're driving in your car, you see two magpies in your head or under breath. Do you salute the magpies? Yeah, I do, you do? Yeah. Every time. Yeah. She. How's the wife and kids. That's what say you go. Yeah. Well can we do this. Actually I do do that.

00:30:49:16 – 00:31:13:15
So I don't get bad luck. It doesn't cause my in my brain to go. That's what I'm doing. Where did that come from? Did you find out? No, I didn't, I didn't. It was. It was twinned with the, black cats crossing your path. And this is, only something that happens in Western culture. Apparently. The tradition of saluting magpies stems from a superstition that is seeing a single magpie as bad luck was in two magpies.

00:31:13:15 – 00:31:36:18
Is a is is a sign of good luck. So Newton single magpies a way to ward off potential misfortune, offering respect and potential, preventing bad luck and a superstition is the one for sorrow to for joy. Rhyme is the most well-known belief. Yeah, I do that all the time. The one sorry team for joy. Go for going away.

00:31:36:20 – 00:32:06:11
Yeah, yeah yeah for gold I fucking hate to be told you are very bought into the Magpies running. Yeah I didn't see that one coming from what you've just. What about Crossing your fingers. No, no, I wasn't watching football. Maybe a little bit. Yes. This is this is what I. This is an interesting point originally. Right. This has come to why we chose this topic.

00:32:06:11 – 00:32:22:05
It was sent in by a lad. I've completely forgotten. He sent in a voice note, and I sent you the email for the voice. And I didn't even tell you that the voice was this. I got it completely. My job is to play it now. Yeah. And then that'd be good. Actually. Oh. Hold him. Go download it.

00:32:22:07 – 00:32:55:16
Keep the fill feel. So. So it's when you're like with football, I find myself doing the most, craziest weird things that I wouldn't normally do. And believing things, making extra sure that I don't tread on cracks in the pavement, or making sure that I if I'm reading a stat about a certain game and I don't know, Newcastle haven't conceded from a corner.

00:32:55:16 – 00:33:26:21
So I'm like, I don't know, hoping that we shoot from outside the. But whatever it might be to break that, there are times and you know, because we support Tottenham, there were a lot of times where I'm in the stadium and we need something. We need something big and I will look up to the sky and in my mind I'm reciting please just whatever, whatever it is that's out there, I don't know what it is.

00:33:26:23 – 00:33:52:03
Right? The good vibrations, the good vibe, the good of energy, just just do some of that come off. No, not really, not my not really. But but at one time I could it it might, it might happen. Do you know what I mean. Yeah. It's more over. Probably our shit footballers and terrible tactics. So, have the influence.

00:33:52:05 – 00:34:15:11
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but there's always that bit. What if, like, maybe if I did do that, it might happen. But I think again, maybe. Coincidence. Yeah, just a bit. I've got a video ready. Right. Yeah. Go on. Player.

00:34:15:13 – 00:34:33:00
Oh, that's. I just I told you this little voice note. Because if you want to talk about this on the pod or anything, I don't really know. But before the Europa League final, I did like a mad routine of, like, going to the gym, like a certain spaceship, going home, shower and put on a different one watching the game.

00:34:33:02 – 00:34:55:05
I also before that I was at work and I had the choice between like an easy amount of work and a hard amount of work, which I know sounds really vague, which was the hard amount of work. So for suffer now, we won't suffer later. I'm just curious if you guys have anything that's like similar to that or any weird like post pre-match routines or superstitions that you guys have?

00:34:55:10 – 00:35:17:22
Anyway, I love the pull up Spurs. Come on, I like that. I like the fact that is a good way to apply your life is yeah, suffer now so you don't suffer later. That's, that's that's a bit that. Yeah. If you superstitions are leading him to behave in that way then then fair play. You should continue them. That is that's that's probably a healthy outlook a lot I mean I don't do that.

00:35:17:22 – 00:35:46:09
I wish I, I should apply that much more. Yeah. It did make me laugh of like the choice of the easy work or the hard work do the hard to him actually. Yeah. I meant the Spurs won the the year. I think it's like so that. Yeah just on that like like it's, it was like people give us grief legitimate grief for doing fight and cock socials where we get everybody in a room and watch what Spurs play.

00:35:46:11 – 00:36:13:13
And obviously the kind of games that we pick were ones that we played away from home. So we don't, you know, interfere with the match day at home. But the big games where people get excited for which is games are difficult to win. That's the logic behind it. Right. So these games on, we aren't likely to win those most most of the time people would email you, can you stop doing the socials because Spurs keep losing and know like like the people genuinely believe that.

00:36:13:13 – 00:36:43:11
The reason why I suppose the reason is because we keep doing these socials. The 300 men for 350 men in a pub in Waterloo, watching the game that's being played 2000 miles west of where, yes, the where we are. The reason those professional footballers have lost against another really good side is the fact that these men have congregate in a room, you know, that is it is stupid.

00:36:43:14 – 00:37:04:16
But there was a time where I was like, we've the bad guys, like, we've done quite a few socials and nothing had come up for us. And I was like, yeah, obviously not not stopping doing the socials, but it's like, fucking, are we ever going to win and is ever going to be really fun to do these because we to keep losing, which is mental.

00:37:04:18 – 00:37:31:24
Right. Superstitions. I get a apart from magpies where you know you are it seems you're a believer. What about like premonitions. Do you I mean ever had a, like a premonition of, I don't know, a loved one dying or an accident that you knew that was about to happen. You spotted it from a mile away.

00:37:32:01 – 00:37:51:22
One of the the classic ones is a phone ringing. You just knew it's going to be that person that was going to break the bad news or something like that. You knew that was going to happen, mate. Did you ever like so. So you say when you're saying that what came to me was like saying that this coincidences can be incredible.

00:37:51:24 – 00:38:20:05
Right. There was this in this well known story now, and I can't remember specific details about it, but this person had left work and had gone to visit a friend in another part of the country. And it was like Friday. It was like 530. And he's walking along the road and there was a telephone box, and he walks past the telephone box and it starts ringing.

00:38:20:07 – 00:38:41:06
And bear in mind is a couple hundred miles away from where he lives and works. And he's like, I've done it as well. When you've walked past, they don't have them anywhere many, many anymore because someone's got mobile phone. Yeah. Telephone box is used to be common and occasion of walked past one and they're ringing and you ring it and generally it's like a wrong number or I don't know what it meant.

00:38:41:06 – 00:39:15:00
The operator testing the line and this man picks it up and it's someone from his office asking them a question about payroll. What? Yeah, this is fact. This happened. You can Google it. And so he's like, this person just talks like sorry. Normally like of course this person is going to pick up because I've called him, but he hadn't it called a random telephone number by mistake or maybe got a digit out and.

00:39:15:02 – 00:39:32:05
He called the person he's expected to pick up and he picked up. And it's normal to him and he's like, how? How did you know I was here walking past this telephone box at this stage, and I didn't I've just called your normal number because I haven't. I'm in fucking Doncaster seeing a friend. I'm in the telephone box.

00:39:32:10 – 00:39:46:17
I picked it up and you're speaking to you crazy. How does that happen? It just a complete fluke. It's got to be in it. What else could it be? It's not even. It's not like I'm not about to tell you mum's dying or something. Then. Then you'll be like, wow, that is something I need to talk to him about.

00:39:46:17 – 00:40:13:11
Payroll. It's like, yeah, if you ever had anything like that happen to you, like, seeing an omen. Like, if you see certain signals or signs or certain, I don't know, just things that will make you kind of, like, know that something is about to happen. I mean, if you go back to football again, I think if you.

00:40:13:13 – 00:40:32:19
Sometimes you have a feeling about a game before it's off. Yeah. Know exactly how it's going to go and it plays out. But maybe you've been in that situation so many times and felt the similar like circumstances around the game are so familiar to you that you can kind of predict how a game will go before it even kicks off.

00:40:32:21 – 00:40:52:09
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I when Spurs played Arsenal in 2008 February 2008 League Cup semifinal, second leg, I yeah, I just had a feeling we were going to win that night and we hadn't beaten them in like 40 games or something. Yeah yeah yeah I could have put that down to some sort of foreshadowing or foreboding foreshadowing of what might happen.

00:40:52:11 – 00:41:16:00
Do you believe in, like trusting your gut feeling? Yeah. That kind of. Yeah. Okay. That's an occasion. That's a, of a premonition of trust. And it's not okay. It's not premonition. It's intuition. I think gut is like, based on experience. Is this a good idea? And, you know, deep down, it ain't like, should I like the.

00:41:16:02 – 00:41:50:01
Yeah. Should I get another bargain? Probably not. Say no. My brain saying yes. Yeah. But you know what I mean. It's, it's more it's less mystical. It's more a learning. It's your subconscious knowing that you've learned this. You know what to do here. Do this thing. But you're intellectually going, no, I to do something else because there's a lot of, more scientific kind of research done now where your gut and your brain is, more connected than they originally thought.

00:41:50:03 – 00:42:13:23
So that gut feeling, and it kind of affecting how you think about things is more connected than than you would imagine. I remember I like my mum, like, for most people, your mom is the go to. I know I had, what problem did I have? I had a problem with it wasn't a problem. It was just,

00:42:14:00 – 00:42:32:17
So one of the clients I had for social media, and it was about payment, and it was, do I charge a a day rate or do I charge a monthly rate? And it was just stuff like that. And, I was I felt like it was should be a day. Right mum. My mum was like just do a month.

00:42:32:17 – 00:42:51:00
And I was like, but there might be like, I might work five Fridays in a month in comparison to four Friday in a month. So I did it on a daily rate. I'd get more money. And it was just this conversation and my mum was like, oh, you just just go with the monthly don't Rock the boat, that kind of thing.

00:42:51:02 – 00:43:11:10
I normally like nine times out of ten mums, right? And I'll be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, that sounds fine. But there was just something, you know, that gut feeling it's to say, no, I'm going to, I'm going to do daily instead and just go against what she said, which I would never normally do. And I did that and everything worked out fine.

00:43:11:10 – 00:43:47:20
It was great. But it's just one of those things where I'm kind of like, I will trust in other, other people's like opinion and my mums and stuff like that, but sometimes the like, you're intuition or gut or premonition wherever is so overriding and you just feel that it's right. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. So I, I, I'm a believer in that kind of, that gut feeling and I don't know whether this comes on the premonition, but this is probably my biggest one.

00:43:48:01 – 00:44:08:10
Yeah. I've got a feeling you're going to say about it. My nan passed away. My name was ill. She was in hospital. She'd been in hospital, like, a week or so or something like that. And I was asleep and I woke up. I'd never normally wake up during the middle of the night ever. And I thought, how fucking I am wide awake.

00:44:08:10 – 00:44:27:19
And I looked at my phone. It was like 3:00 in the morning. It's like, oh fuck no. I still got loads of time to go back to sleep. That's great. I went back to sleep and then when I woke up in the morning, it had a message from a from a dad saying, can you call me? So I called him, said Nanna passed away and obviously really upset.

00:44:27:19 – 00:44:54:12
And I said, when did she go? And he said that, she passed away at 3:00 this morning. And you're like, what? What? Like I get it right. The. Is it Ockham's razor? You know, it's where you're, Where you kind of deduce what happened to be the most logical thing. Ockham's razor, also known as the principle of, Paris.

00:44:54:12 – 00:45:19:24
To me, suggests that when faced with multiple explanations for a phenomenon, the simplest one is usually the best. Yeah. So? So it's like a, you know, coincidence. You put that down to. Yeah, you. But there must be, you know, I mean, not you just won't like that most of the time. Yeah. And it is 3:00 though. I'm on and died.

00:45:20:01 – 00:45:45:04
Yeah. But it's the same thing with the it's much more like look, I mean, you what I'm about to say. I don't want to take anything away from the fact that you had this connection. Right? No. Sure, sure. Yeah. Gun. Gun. Right. So ultimately, the most, but you know, and hate it, you know, like, it's obvious, like my brother's, no Nazi.

00:45:45:10 – 00:46:09:03
So. So the the likelihood is you just woke up at the same time. Similar time to a passing. Oh, I might be wrong. And there is some sort of mystical connection. And she wanted it was seismic and. That's what you woke up that you sensed that she was passing. But the simplest way, if you're using Ockham's razor, the simplest thing, what's the process that you woke up.

00:46:09:03 – 00:46:40:22
You know it's the time and it just happened to be the same time that she was passing. Yeah. And but. What's the nicest thing to believe. And you should believe the thing that brings you the most amount of peace. Yeah, I mean that. Yeah. That there is that my my Mrs. as well. She's had one where she, woke up and she could smell a very specific smell.

00:46:40:24 – 00:47:07:12
And it was like a, a medical smell, like antiseptic or something that, that. And she only knows this smell from a certain place in a certain time of their life when she was very, very young and, from her granddad. And she, she didn't grow up long enough to really know her granddad, but she remembers this antiseptic smell because he used to use it for something or other.

00:47:07:14 – 00:47:36:05
Anyway, she, rang her mum and said to her, like, I just smell the smell. This antiseptic remind me of granddad. Like. And she was very kind of like would remember granddad, and her mum was. That's really funny, because it's the anniversary of your granddad's death today. And it's like those things I, I spoke to you, but I know how that's the, you know, the about the, when we did the one about ghosts, the upset about ghost.

00:47:36:05 – 00:47:56:10
Yeah. And I told the story about both me and my brother was spoken to by a nun at the same time. Yes. Yeah. So. Yeah. Yeah, I was up in my bedroom. My. In my granddad's house. My nana died in that house, and, she said something to me. I run downstairs to tell my mum I'd heard this voice.

00:47:56:12 – 00:48:17:13
And my brother, who was seven years younger than me and a boy at the time he came out and he just said, I've just been spoken to by Nan at the same time. We came together at the same time. Yeah, I can't explain that. No matter how much I can try and apply a pragmatist sort of cynic. Yeah, I can't explain that at all.

00:48:17:15 – 00:48:43:01
I don't know where the voice come from. It wasn't from a radio. There was no right. There was a radio in the room, but it wasn't on, and it was in the air. It wasn't from any part of the room. Yeah. And it just happened to me. It may be someone's voice had been thrown, you know, strange things like that happen and something that, you know, it might have been a bit of static in the radio, and I might have heard it just just for a second.

00:48:43:01 – 00:49:03:02
It turned on and off. Yeah, but the fact that Alex wasn't in the room is in another part of the house. And for us to both hear it at the same time and come across, I can't explain it. I could never explain it. I know I never meant to explain it, and that's fucking weird. And it man, that is weird and stuff like that.

00:49:03:04 – 00:49:33:20
The, this is like the last bit that I'll, I'll chat about, like, karma and transferrable energy. Good vibes. Are you. I like because you've been quite, you know, I'd say don't believe in superstitions, premonitions with karma. What you kind of the good ness, the good, energy you put out into the world, and then you come back with good energy.

00:49:33:23 – 00:49:58:13
Is that something that you're like, it's absolute ballocks. Just get on with your day, mate. Oh, you. Do you believe in kind of that visualization of I want to achieve this. And the energy I put into that to achieve it is, is down to what I'm putting out into the world. I don't believe there's this kind of universal balance happening.

00:49:58:15 – 00:50:19:24
I don't believe in karma. Like if you do a good thing here down the road, a good thing will happen to you because you've done that good thing. I genuinely believe that if you're a good person and you try to excuse me, try to do the right thing over and over again, that generally if you're doing good things, people will want to do good things for you.

00:50:19:24 – 00:50:35:16
But it's not a sort of universal balance is right. I'll get yeah, just a decent human being. And if you're a decent human being, surround yourself with decent people. They're more likely to help you out or give you opportunities like, yeah.

00:50:35:18 – 00:51:01:11
I it's there's no such thing as karma. It can't exist in isolated things. As far as I understand it, I can't but if I'm, if I'm visualizing to a cheat, like, say you slipped into the the I've dived there about like, positive affirmations, right? Yeah. If you focus on something that you want so desperately, subconsciously, unconsciously, you're going to make maneuvers in order to make that thing a reality.

00:51:01:13 – 00:51:24:07
And, and you're, you're going to be able to acknowledge when you've made progress because it feels like you're moving in that direction. So if you want a brand new BMW, then you'll work and say even do one that's necessary in order to get that BMW. But people believe that this universe giving you the BMW, that's where I'm kind of like, I mean, the universe.

00:51:24:07 – 00:51:42:22
You just work in the moving yourself in that direction. Like, what if someone said to me, oh, visualize what you want to do when you're 50? And I said, I want to do a career in podcasting, right? I want to make my living out of podcasting. If I just waited for the universe to give me that, just because I thought about it a lot, it would never have happened.

00:51:43:02 – 00:52:04:12
So I put into place and did things in order to make it happen. Yeah, it wasn't the universe coming. A knock on the door. This is Mike knocking on the mike, right? I you know, the universe didn't put $10,000 into podcasting, I did that. Yeah, I did that. You know what I mean? It's, Yeah, I get that, I get it well and.

00:52:04:13 – 00:52:21:03
Well, how you explained it there, I was a bit like. Nah, I believe in karma. Yeah, well, the goodness I put out in the world. You don't believe in it there. No. I again, I mean, it's it's this thing. It's real. It's like it's real in the sense that the better person you are, the better your life will be.

00:52:21:05 – 00:52:47:08
You, the people you choose to surround yourself with, with. Are they good people? Are they looking out for you? Yes. It's like people that go like, oh man, the amount you hear it, especially on social media where there's a guy I like watching, the kind of hope core. That's what I like. Right? Hope core, you know, like is it's like basically videos that are designed to make you feel good as opposed to deathcore, which you'd be like people getting eaten by crocodiles.

00:52:47:10 – 00:53:24:01
There's room for both in my life for sure, but no, but hope cause like people doing good stuff. And there's that kind of cynicism about it because are you exploiting the people you're helping because they're giving you loads of views as an element to it, but it comes from a good place anyway. There's this famous geezer going, he goes around and he finds people in need often that they might be homeless or living on the street, and he finds a woman and she needs rent money, and he gives a he doesn't know this, but he's like, I'm gonna do this for you, and I'm gonna give you 1,000 pounds.

00:53:24:03 – 00:53:41:09
Yeah. She's like, oh my God. And she turns away from him. She looks up to school and she goes, God, you're so good. You're so good. God, I know the video you're talking about. That means millions like it be. Yeah, yeah. It's true. God didn't do that for you. Fucking Zack did that for you or whatever his name is.

00:53:41:11 – 00:53:57:16
There is no it was. God wasn't maneuvering this. If God wanted to give it to you, a drop down in front of your feet like that. So, yeah, it's important to like. And to be fair, she was really grateful. She hugged him and told him she loved him and all that sort of stuff. But is this a sign of God?

00:53:57:16 – 00:54:18:12
Because it's for me. If you're if you're happy, if you're happy, if you'd happily thank God for what you've got and damn God for what you don't, you're not absolving yourself of responsibility for the situation that you find yourself in. Like if you're a drug addict, it's because of things that have happened to you in the choices you made have led you to that point.

00:54:18:14 – 00:54:39:20
And God and and God, if you get better, if you you did it, I don't know. No. No. That's that is that spot on. I can't really add to that because I think you've, you've rounded that bit up. Well, that but you've just you've just, destroyed any belief I had in com, good vibe, right?

00:54:39:22 – 00:55:00:10
Not many. You know, any good things will happen to you if you do good things for sure. Yeah. And I do believe that, obviously I believe that. But the because I used to be, I'm like, I remember my mum, my mum said something to me, this is quite a few years ago now and it always stuck with me.

00:55:00:12 – 00:55:19:24
And it was something had happened and I was going off on the deep and effing and blinding and this and that power, fucking. I was very much why me? Poor me, that kind of mindset. And she said to me that you're always so negative and you always kind of jump in at the deep end and you always go to the the worst thing that happened.

00:55:19:24 – 00:55:52:06
You're so angry, you're so frustrated. And I took that on board and I thought, I don't see myself like that, I really don't. And then I went to I've counseling and then I, you know, obviously that was playing in my mind. And I've tried so hard to move myself away from that way of thinking. And I think we mentioned it in the last part or, you know, one, one back about CBT and, you know, when you're, when you naturally receive bad news that you, you will tread the path of least resistance.

00:55:52:06 – 00:56:12:09
And that's how you've always thought and trying to re, think a different path and make it more positive. It's really hard to do, but you have to kind of just keep going at it. And I've got to a place now where I feel like that I am a lot more positive and a lot more better at, dealing with those situations.

00:56:12:09 – 00:56:37:02
I, you know, as ever and anyone else I could do better, but yeah, I kind of feel like again, with that and dealing with that, I'm thinking more positively that the more positive things will happen out of that situation. And it might be fucking hocus pocus or whatever, but that's what I kind of feel like, and I believe and it's working for me just as a positive mindset.

00:56:37:02 – 00:56:58:12
Right? Yes. That's positive mental attitude. Linford Christie talked about all the other music on the advert PMA positive. Okay. He did. That's quite a nice reference. The my, my mum used to say to me, I'd say like bad things would happen to me. Like what? What? Like if something didn't go away, I didn't get job, I want it.

00:56:58:12 – 00:57:17:12
Even life is a part time job. And I'd say to my mum, like, why didn't why didn't this happen? What? Why is this happening to me? Why why do I feel this way? And she'd say to me, why? Why not? You? Why shouldn't this happen to you? Why? You know what? Why do you deserve a life that not not.

00:57:17:12 – 00:57:37:06
She didn't say it in as many words, but it's almost like, yeah, you understanding that bad things and difficult challenges will happen to you, and also accepting responsibility for why those things have happened. Because they don't just happen out of the blue. What did you do? Not you specifically? Yeah. What did you do to help that situation make it better for yourself?

00:57:37:08 – 00:57:57:14
Did you go about things in the right way? What parts of what happened to you can you take responsibility for so they don't happen again? And then whether you choose or not to apply that or even go through that process is up to you. But no one cares if you didn't do it, no one cares, and no one's really looking out for you in that respect either.

00:57:57:14 – 00:58:26:02
So if you choose not to go for a process of self evaluation when something goes wrong in your life, then only hurts you really badly. Yeah. Anyway, no, that's good, that's good. We've got we haven't got a dilemma this week. But we do have something I know, you know, that one is called pickpocket. The topic for next week is going to be music festivals.

00:58:26:02 – 00:58:50:19
So Glasto is upon us. And if I'm honest, I'm feeling a little bit, a little bit jelly. But I'm also at the point of light. Can I actually camp out for four days? Not while I'm like, I'm 42 years old, I don't know, I'm just in Glastonbury and live in the house and then go to that's one like when we go to festivals like Primavera in Portugal.

00:58:50:20 – 00:59:03:21
Yeah, we camped in the heat, like we said, in a hotel. We walked in every day. Oh my God, I didn't even think about the camping in the heat thing. Is that where no one does that? Unless you're unless you're like a 19 year old kid and you need to save loads of money, then understand in that respect.

00:59:03:21 – 00:59:24:18
But no. No. Yeah. Yes. Sitting in some fucking muddy field with loads of fucking Herberts should. We'll talk about it. But my, like, my daughter's going to have a festival on her own. She has a wedding on her own for. For a while. Not on a run around with a couple of mates. It's my first festival. Yeah, yeah.

00:59:24:20 – 00:59:48:21
The problem is, I reckon again, we'll talk about this, but the vibe seems to have changed. Yes, yes, I know, I know kids, I know 40 year old said that kids were wankers when we were kids and they were 40 year olds. But yeah, but some of what again, upsets me is just I can't get my head around like there's like walls in this campsite and there's like walls between the, but we talk about it, which is why we will talk about it.

00:59:48:21 – 01:00:10:23
So if you've got any, festivals that you've been to location wise, where the mad festival and the UK. Yeah. Mad Festival stories. We want to hear from you. The bands, the best line ups that you see, the location that you travel to to get it. You go to Croatia for a festival. Yeah. I did a festival in Croatia called Sun Star.

01:00:10:23 – 01:00:38:23
Some like that, all that, all that stuff that, we want to hear from you about. And I went to Sonar Festival, Barcelona, on a stag day, which I have some stories. And if you've got any horror stories about portaloos random people in your tent, or fucking drug fueled nights where you didn't know where you were and what happened, send in to lads anon pod at gmail.com.

01:00:39:00 – 01:00:47:08
Now we are going to be going into something only you know.

01:00:47:10 – 01:00:54:07
Wow. Something, you know.

01:00:54:09 – 01:01:21:11
This is called pickpocket. While backpacking through Thailand and generally having a great time, things took a weird turn. One night I was out drinking with a friend and two girls we'd met at previous hostel. After a heavy night, we ended up skinny dipping at the beach. Classic. I know that there with me. Afterwards, the others dried off and just quicker than me, so I told them I'd catch them up.

01:01:21:13 – 01:01:45:07
As I was heading back to the hostel alone, a Thai woman on a scooter pulled up next to me. She was around 40. Not small, not huge, just there. She started shouting at me and Thai. Between being drunk and the language barrier, I had no clue what she was on about being detained there. I told her where I was staying and she offered me a lift.

01:01:45:09 – 01:02:13:23
Feeling adventurous, I jumped on. As we passed my friends, I smugly gave them the wanker gesture like I was some kind of legend. Seconds later, she reached behind and to my surprise, started rubbing my cock. Yeah, just like that. I was stunned, but admittedly didn't stop her. Like the first. Not like the thirsty pig I am. By the time we pulled up to the hostel, I had a full on, hard on.

01:02:14:00 – 01:02:44:13
I plan to thank her and head in, but instead she grabbed me and led me away from the entrance into the bushes. As pure curiosity, I obeyed like the good little boy I am into the bushes. Well, one thing led to another and five chaotic minutes later protected. Thankfully it was over. I threw out my shorts and stumbled back to my room, sobering up just enough to be hit with the classic what the fuck was that?

01:02:44:15 – 01:03:09:19
Also sinking in the fact that I had just given my friends the wanker sign. That's that's all. That's fine. The next morning I woke up with mud all over my knees and my bed, a dirty little reminder of the night before I reached for my phone. Then had a gut feeling and checked my wallet. Of course gone. The 2000 baht, the odd withdrawn the night before had disappeared.

01:03:09:21 – 01:03:35:13
She'd pickpocketed me while I was inside her. So yeah, in short, I was drunk, sexually assaulted and robbed by a woman I now refer to as the Thai mugger. Strangely, I wasn't even traumatized. Just mostly pissed about the money. Lesson learned. Never a random scooter. I've only just told Christ friends this story partly out of shame, partly because it's absurdly funny and that is something I need.

01:03:35:13 – 01:04:00:20
I know, Christ, there's no, you got everyone's got. Listen to this, right? I mean, out there, I listen to the women. I'm not just waiting around in the street to have sex with men. Right? It's my best, right? There's just not. No matter how fucked you are, realize that, okay? If you're if you're getting free sex, you're going to pay for it in some way.

01:04:00:22 – 01:04:26:11
And yeah, if you're on the back of the moped and the hand rounds in the back literally for two seconds, you've said there's a language barrier, you know, that that's it's either that it's going to end up to you having your wallet taken or your skin taken off. One of the two is going to be broken. Yeah. So for the next hot topic, we're going to be talking about, festivals.

01:04:26:13 – 01:04:34:20
You know the drill. Send it into that anon pot at gmail.com. And until then we will see you on Monday. Cheers.