#52 | Christmas Day | You’re Doing Christmas Wrong If It Isn’t Like This…

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Ricky, is your birthday on Monday? Yeah. It's my. It is. I mean, no, that shouldn't you should know that. But I don't expect you to know that, you know. Do you know when money's 31st of August? You know.

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What day is it? One day. You were, 16, 6th December. Normally, some people just don't remember that stuff. It's not. Yeah, yeah. No, no, no, I know it's going on since the Bobby Lee, but keeps asking questions about China and Bobby Lee's from South Korea. And he goes, do you know where I'm from? Like do you actually know everyone's like, it doesn't matter to me where you're from.

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And I don't mind where you're from. Yeah, I just I just want to know about your life. Yes. And then you'll go. Do they do that in China? I'm not from China.

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Mate, I love you, I. He says this controversy around him at the moment something's happened. I don't know what it is. You don't know? It's, No, no, no, it's getting canceled or something like that. No, I think unless he's done something horrendous, you can't cancel someone the size of the over the, I think what it is, is about, the lead up to Trump's presidential election.

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He interviewed Trump. I was it platform. He he also went on Rogan's podcast and there was a bit of a bro type of podcast. It's like, oh isn't it great Trump Trump's back. And I was like, everything's, everything's going to be rosy again. Yeah I think it was just that he he says that he's not not that political or I don't know, he, he seems he's very right or whatever.

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I don't know, I thought really fucking care what. Just do the funny stuff and I'll be right. Yeah. And you know, luckily cancel culture is a bit of a myth unless you put yourself up on a pedestal and say, look, this is how you should behave, and then you're not behaving in that way. Yeah. Then people get it.

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Yeah. And they deserve it as well. Yeah. But if you know, if Trump can become president again after inciting the, uprising and the storming of the white House, I think. Yeah, it's fair to say he can't be canceled. What are you doing for your birthday? Right? Yeah. I mean, this is the thing, like, for my birthday, normally, what I would do, I would go to McDonald's, get them, get myself a cheeky McDonald's breakfast.

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Well, what we say now, double McMuffin. Yeah. That's brown. Hash brown. You go a little coffee as well. Yeah, yeah. Coffee two. And, not just one. Just the one. I'm not. Not an animal. Enough for two. I have two sides of your palm. It's always.

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Then after that, I would spend the day at home sitting in my own filth, watching my favorite films or TV programs. And, the last 5 or 6 years, that's what I've done. And it's been absolutely beautiful. And it's a great day to celebrate being me, being on my own and just doing what I want. Every being me motherfucker.

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Yeah. Yeah, exactly. It's one of those days. I don't know if you get it, but I feel guilty taking time for myself. I feel guilty watching a film like I like. If it's two hours, that'd be two hours. I put my phone down, put my laptop down, and I think, oh, I could be doing this. I could be doing that.

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So I don't I tend not to watch TV programs and films because I'm always like doing work or just anything. Really. Yeah. So, so then I'd like to have one day where I just switch off from the world and don't talk to anyone or do anything. A man needs his space. Yeah, really. You know, and. Yeah. Go on and just go.

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Yeah. Got. No, no, he open up after you go. So it's. Yeah, it's exactly that. It's, there's, there's a lot of talk about mental health, mental wellbeing, the pressures of life, the pressures of being a woman, the pressures of being a man, the pressures of being whoever you want to be in life. And I just want to take this day to not think about any of that shit.

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And just my kids for the sacrifice for me. Yeah. First of all, give me my presents, then get out my face. Do you know, it said, you know, you get know, I don't know what I'm getting, but they always buy me my favorite snacks. So I have the day they. So they'll buy me a big Toblerone. Do you eat the whole place over again in the day?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. I know. And there's no moment's hesitation in that, is there? Because I know the way your brain works. It's your birthday. You do what you want. Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. There'll be. There'll be some buttered popcorn throughout the day. My favorite crisps. I don't know, people hate me for this, but I love it.

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I know the plane popper dumbs the popper. Damn crisps plane. Yeah, yeah. Like just like popper. Don't you just say slap popper them. I don't need no coriander and garlic. I don't need no fucking sensations ones. No no no no no. Are they. What, what. Randomly. Well, that can be any brand. The Audi. That can be Tesco. Just a plain one.

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Standard pop. Adams. Yeah. 10:00 in the morning. Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah. So boring. Rishi. Bottle of cherry Coke. Couple of bottles of cherry Coke. You do a whole bottles of Jericho come today. Yeah. Oh, yeah. God, yeah. They'll be done by 12:00. By. So this. So this is to end up 3000 calories over. Oh, mate. It's disgusting. It's my day.

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It's my day. And I said I want. And then probably I will have a break during the day for, a midday blast off. Birthday blast stuff. Well, you're not one hour. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's got going on schedule. Let's go guys, let's get to it for sure. For sure. The one predicament that I have not really predicament, but I've done Band of Brothers a few times.

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What? That's what I've done. Sopranos? Yeah. Last time it was Blow Boogie Nights and or can't remember what? The other film was. An amazing film. It's like it's so good, but I can't remember what. His name is Donnie in it, and he's just. Wife's getting dragged. Oh, yeah? Yeah, yeah, he just keep seeing his wife get wrecked in front it.

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Just find groups of people and it's like, oh, what are they looking at? And they get through the crowd that it's is. It's like a night loot. Oh, for fuck's sake. You're doing this again. Jesus Christ side is so sad.

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It's it's a film. Yeah. And then I. Oh, I don't know what to watch. I don't know whether to go back to the usual stuff that I love or whether to try something new. Did my time into something different. Why don't people listen to this for Ricky's birthday? Because this be released on the morning of his birthday.

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Yeah. Why don't you go into the Spotify comments of this episode and tell Ricky what you should watch during the day? Yeah, yeah. Bear in mind, he's watched a lot of stuff already. Yeah, I do, I do have, I do love war films. World War Two specifically. Have you seen All Quiet on the Western Front? I have, yeah.

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Birthday film. It's quite bleak. No it's not. Yeah. You know, I used to work. I used to work with, Oh. Anyway, guys, that's the third film I watched. I like that, yeah, that was at Harrison Jude Law. Yeah, yeah. He's also, Do you go the other day? I don't really see him about that often anymore.

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He's still fucking rave. Yeah. He's good. He's still. Yeah. He, Lovely watch lover on eBay. That'd be good. Listen, I haven't seen. I haven't seen that in ages. Actually. That's a good show. I used to work with, young people, some of them vulnerable. A youth media agency called exposure. And there was a kid. Banderas. He was.

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His name was. I remember his name. Yeah. It might be hundreds, and he, he was like a studious kid, but difficult to make a connection with him. He'd been abused about how to rent this upbringing. Anyway, one way we did it is I said I'd read every book that he had to study for English GCSE.

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English. Okay, that's. Oh, that's good. I used to read a lot then. Anyway, so it's a way of. And it's interesting. And so I, I had to I read he did a segment or module only GCSE in English on war literature. Oh. So the first one was all quiet on the Western Front, so. Okay. And I was, it's funny, the film was miserable.

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The book is, as you can imagine, horrendous. And when we talked about it, he wrote his essay. And as I said, oh, that's the kind of thing that's a good thing for the next one. Trying to, Was it Johnny got his gun. Oh, my lord, that's even worse. I'm no to that, Joe. I'll give you, I'll give you a synopsis quick.

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Before we started. Right. Okay. I, you know, just checking it is correct. Right. Yeah. So Johnny got his gun is about a a a man who was injured or was blown up basically in war. And he managed to, survive, but he had no legs, no arms. He was blind and he had no mandible like the bottom part of his face.

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So he couldn't came good quality of life left for blind, no arms and legs and couldn't speak. Yeah, okay. And the only way you can communicate was tapping his head on the back of his pillow. For guts. And the whole fucking book is exists inside this man's head. Yeah. Oh my lord. Anyway, so we talk about. I have a good.

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Anyway. Have a good birthday, mate.

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The,

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Other night. Hazy like Band of brothers playing tunes high as quite midnight waves surfing through till daylight breaks rhythm. Here's different ways. Love of music. 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 is brothers. You sing right within your heart.

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Okay, you got an eight plays public Christmas music in the background. I'll get everyone in the mood. Oh, excellent Christmas going through you. Intro. Hello and welcome to lads. Anonymous is episode 52. I'm Ricky Hayes, flat two best mates. One main topic we answer your life dilemmas. Your confessions are featured in something only you know. And everything remains anonymous always.

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So sit back, relax and enjoy the podcast. How's it going, Flav? It's good to remember. We did a podcast about Bonnie Blue. Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, yeah. And you know, there was another one. Yeah, yeah. Lily Phillips. Yeah, it's been a bit sad this week. Yeah. It's been, she had sex with Benjamin, and lo and behold, she's traumatized.

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Let us know what it is. Yeah, it's. I mean, like, we it's such a I don't know where we are as a society or something that sometimes you think that everything has been laid before and things can't get any worse, or things can't make you feel any different. And I'm numb to everything. And then I saw the news about both of them wanting to break the record of sleeping with the most amount of men in 24 hours.

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And Lady Phillips was going to have a trial run of going through 100 guys. And I was like, okay, she's very happy with that. And then there has been these interviews that have dropped and she stabbed 100 men. Yeah, yeah, yeah, a little docu. And it's the interview of the aftermath hosts 100 men in 24 hours to see how she feels.

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And it's pretty fucking sad, isn't it? It is sad. I don't know why I started with this, because I'm literally playing lovely Christmas music in the background.

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Is it? So, let's talk about Christmas break.

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Let's talk about fucking Christmas. So for me, Christmas is best before we get into Christmas, right? Did you say so last week we did the pod episode on sandwiches. Oh, yeah. And then the the the quickie with Ricky was with sandwiches, and everyone sent in their favorite sandwiches. The favorite place they eat, of eating a sandwich, all of that stuff.

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I'm going to say week Christmas music. Well, I'll play it again when we did the Christmas chat. Okay. Let's go. Let's get the, I don't know if you show this week that. Is she the conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch? Yeah. But not yeah, she come out and she said that. Let me read it for you. Sandwiches are not real food.

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Lunch is for wimps. She revealed she enjoys the occasional steak but rarely has time for lunch. What's the lunch break? She said. Lunches for wimps, I say. Brought in on. I work and eat at the same time. There's no time. Sometimes I will get a steak. I'm not a sandwich person. I don't think sandwiches are real. Food is what you have for breakfast.

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Soggy bread is a no no. I will not touch bread if it's moist, I like I don't know, you know she. Yeah. She's dry as a fucking bone that women real. Yeah. Real dry right. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. That's crazy. Oh, I will say something. I do agree with her a little bit on lunch. I think they said I did agree with all her politics.

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I don't, I don't really agree a line with any political group. As often as I get older, there isn't, somewhere in the middle of it all, I think. And I don't pay much attention to politics because I don't. I won't invest emotionally in something I can't control. Good. Right. But I think she is impressive the way she communicates, I don't.

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Okay, she may upset a lot of people, but in terms of clear, concise communication, that goes a long way. I think in politics, people, conservative voters will like her, I think. Yeah, they they I'm you know, I haven't really had to speak. I don't listen to to anyone towards the news. I, I do watch the news, but not not really the, the politics side.

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Somebody has actually put forward the topic of politics to discuss on this part. Yeah, it was good. I thought we would have done well. What do you think of labor? What do you think of Tories but politics overall? Well, you could do. I mean, I've just got a red pad and put a large tract for you that said, fuck, you're not doing that.

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That isn't fun. But, I do want to talk about just a little bit about this. The lunches for wimps bit. I, I maybe wouldn't have said that, but I think most, I think most adults at work. Yeah they have they sandwich and they and especially if you're an office job, you have your sandwich, your pasta pot and you keep on working.

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That's nothing new. That's nothing new. I think most people do that. If you're in a job where it's physically demanding, you need a break. Yeah, I've I've a little break. You need to have that little, reset and that recharge. And I think most people don't, though they certainly don't take. You're supposed to have I think it was a half an hour or something.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ollie only goes to work. She doesn't have a break, but she might have a break. Toilet break and stuff. She just works through and she eats and carries on work. I think most people did that when I worked in an office upholstery. I would just. No one had any lunch break. No, no, no, no. I would sit at my desk and eat and then carry on.

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But then the exception of, oh, I need to go up to the city center or I need to pop to the shop or I need to do that. You can do that, because the airways that you've spent sitting at your fucking desk, Ian. Yeah. Allows you to to pop off a day what you have on a day. So there's.

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Yes, but there's a bone of contention when we work there because a contract so that the contact so was bullshit was separated into two bits. It was, content and it was commercial. So they would sign the deals, we would make the call, we would make the make the content. Yeah. Course content monkeys. That's not very nice.

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They just didn't value what we did.

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Anyway, it was it was said in jest, but there was also a bit of truth, and we weren't very good anyway, but we signed a contract that meant the end of our working day was five, but commercial was. It was 530. So we would all just it made a point of leaving at five and walking through the commercial room have say, so I'm sorry it's getting such a problem that they tried to change your contract.

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So it all said 530.

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Minutes item. Good. We would work weekends. We would work going above and beyond salaried at 5:00. Doesn't matter. Like, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the people out there, there might be someone to listen to. And I thought, Rick, I thought this would be a bit easier, to be honest. Like some people are like, no, those are my working hours.

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I will work those hours and I would do no more. Is while is correct, is irritating now I know, don't I? I work until the job's done, but if it got to a point where the job is done every day at 7:00, then you kind of have a lot, mate. This is just my job now, working to seven.

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That's not what I signed up for. Yeah, exactly. We need to conversation. But no, no, not if I if there's a big project or anything that I need to deliver. And different requirements, it's made me realize because people don't know what Ricky Post does. All the posting of the Fighting Cock podcast. But then I was just creating more podcasts more.

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But also Ricky was like, I can't do this. I can't do all these because he signed me up two hours. Every time you make a new podcast, I'm losing part of my life.

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Sorry, about I don't do, fuck, you know? Before we jump in, did you for a bit for a while before thinking, how do I bring this up? Yeah, yeah, of course, man, because I just. Yeah. You shouldn't have. You should have just told me. Like I said at the time, it weren't. Obviously. Don't do it.

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It's not a problem. I know, but yeah, as humans, we are apprehensive of, approaching anything. Yes. Lives like that. When, I was going to say. When before we go into Christmas, if you are listening to this podcast, if you are a, new listener, if you have got onto this podcast late, if you are a day one, please make sure that you are following us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, wherever you get your podcasts.

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It's really important that you keep on following us, and every time we release in the pod, you'll get a notification of when a new podcast goes live. And now we're going to jump into Christmas. Is it? Let's play the music. So our Christmas right? Yeah. Yes. Right. When you play that's like nothing I love Christmas music man I love Christmas.

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I love everything about it. It's like you look forward to it all year, don't you? So I've even asked some real little and let people kind of know not Christmas already like which means great. It is because say it's the lead up to it. Really? Because as humans and people may not like to admit it, but it's true.

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Yeah. You you know that as it comes to Christmas, you'll be you'll be busy throughout December, but you're leading up to a big push and then comes through that, taking your foot off the pedal. Yeah. And you get a bit more playful at work last week in it. Yet the music is a bit louder in the office. People are.

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People are bringing in snacks. Yeah, it's just more relaxed, open beers at like 3:00. Yeah, yeah. Oh. Christmas week, compulsory black. Be like a pop up beer clock in it may work and just drink it. That's such a good, good job looking back. There we go. Yeah it's it's the it's the lead up to to knowing that you're going to have time off of your family.

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Time off with your mates that you couldn't. Yeah. Yeah it does, it does set up. And you can just sit in your pajamas. Oh whatever it is and watch Christmas films. The fires go going all day. You eat in weird things at like 11 in, in the morning because it's Christmas Day. Do what you want. Let me ask you a question, Rick.

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Yeah. Go time. Do you start drinking on Christmas Day? Yeah. So I would probably say I am around when I would get round to the mother in nose. Actually, I'll put, I'll just say 11:00, 11, 11, 11 half 11 around. That's the one I normally I have the last previous year it's been a beer but I've been, I've been dancing the old, old vino, the red wine.

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More than 11:00 in the morning. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What, what, to you fall asleep on Christmas Day? No, I don't, but I get to a point where in the evening where I'm so stuffed. Yeah, and I'm filling pretty, you know, three sheets to the wind. And I'm like, I want to get home now. I just wherever I am.

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Oh, you're not at home. Sometimes I'm at my mother and sometimes I'm at my mum's. But actually the past, you know, for four years we have been. I'm. You've been home. Yeah. I'm. I don't want I don't want Christmas. I don't mind being somewhere at Christmas, but I'm not leaving. I'm not. Yeah. That's that that's the thing I leave in.

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If you want me over for Christmas Day, I'm staying all night. Right? And you're putting a bed up for me. What? Because what kind of Christmas is it? You sit there and you're like, oh, I can't. I can't have a kind of a drink because you've got to drive home later or. But you wait and you stuff you like, oh my God, go get in the car, you know, bed from your bed.

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But I love it. But that's my old man's a Christmas Eve. Wait, Rick. We we.

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So what happened was right. We we. Sorry. I've said we about 50 times that we all got, like, pretty kind of pace as you do. But mate of mine, Glenn, and his wife and kids popped over on Christmas morning because they. That day, Christmas day on Christmas Eve. Don't ask me why I just did that. So they on Christmas Day, it didn't hurt anyone.

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So I popped over for just like to say Merry Christmas. It was my about 12:00 and we had a like glass of prosecco and then another guy and then another glass of prosecco this Christmas Day. Okay. Lovely. All right. Two and that three kids. And then we're like, just just relax a little bit. It's just, you know, just relax.

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You know? It's a show off this Christmas Day. Where are you going to go? You did your Christmas Day yesterday. You saw your family. Yes. 10:00 that night. We are all. It's Christmas day smashed, right? The battery. My stepmom, we cooked everything hammered right. And serving up the Christmas dinner at 10:00 at night. Right. I like it at 10:00 at night.

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Yeah. We were just like everyone. Just fucking mortal, right? And I was just. I couldn't I couldn't get my, brussel sprout onto my fork. I was so pissed.

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It's great day. But it wasn't very Christmassy. It was just people falling around and smashed and falling on sofas, and I. Yeah, I will, I will most certainly have a good few drinks, but not to get that smashed, like as you're saying, but like, your, your mate Christmas Eve and I had this and so I did put a request out for traditions.

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A lot of people in Europe, they have their Christmas on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day is like their Boxing Day. What they do on Boxing Day, just sit around doing nothing, playing with their toys. Yes. But just I thought, it's hot. I thought Germany, Denmark. Yeah. Denmark. Right. There are on people over there. But we know that have got one on the we.

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Yeah. I yeah, I, well, I don't hate the idea of just being out to chill out on Christmas Day, though. Like you get dinner right away, but then and then you can have leftovers, which is like kind of a Christmas dinner anyway. Yeah. I don't know how you. Because you're a stickler for tradition and we. Yeah, I am so my Christmas Eve we traditionally I don't know why it's not fucking.

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It's just the way we've done it. But we as a family, we would go out to the cinema. Yeah. I don't know why, but that that's exactly what we would do. Then the kids, they get a bed meeting at Macy's and I ask, when do you do your wrapping? I don't present wrapping none. When does Olli do the present?

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She's done most of it already. Okay. So she's, well, good. Yeah. So my missus and I, we would start Christmas Eve night when the kids, in bed. They're not going to sleep now. Other kids. So I think they're not really. Well, yeah. Yeah. And I, I know we, Well, we're going to need to change the way we do things.

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What's the what's the. I don't know, because we just don't have the time and we just think, I don't know, we'll just do it now isn't the priority you always at the time. This is what's the priority, right? Yeah. Why don't you fuck off, right.

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So we do the wrapping on Christmas Eve and then it, like, then it goes downhill because we've, we've had we've had a few drinks. Yeah, we're doing the wrapping. And the reason why it goes downhill is because probably about 1:00 my Mrs. then realizes that we've not bought the kids enough presents and starts crying. Always happens. Not warm enough presents, starts crying.

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We can't do anything about it. All the shops are shut and it's 1:00 in the morning. Have you bought them enough presents? So, I think we have, but but I will guarantee this will happen. It will absolutely happen. Then it's 2:00 in the morning, and we've just about finished wrapping everything. And then we go to bed, and the kids will be up at six because it's Christmas.

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So we've had four hours sleep, we've had a bit of drink. And in the back of my mind it's like I've just spent three hours wrapping presents and now they're going to be all the wrap is going to be ripped off. It's just feel so pointless, I think. I mean, it isn't pointless, is it? Because it's for the kids opening the presents, right?

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That's the point. But, but but yeah, all of this is your fault. All of that is your fault. I know, I know, it's like, are you going to bed at a good time? Will you still stand up smoking cigarettes on cigarettes? You given that up and you but a half. Yet, I know, I like that now. I want to hear what has been up.

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And you talk. Talk to me about that when you start putting yourself to bed. All right. But don't do it on the Christmas Eve. But then there's a bit of a tradition you like wrapping on Christmas Eve. Oh, what? I don't like wrapping at all. And I try this as best as I can to avoid any type of wrapping.

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But I'll always get collared because it gets to a certain point and it's like, right, fair. Is it? Only one person does it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it gets to a point when it makes sense. Like I've wrapped so much and I'm sick of it. You're going to need to help out. And I'm like, yeah, yeah. And I have just been watching it.

00:29:47:19 – 00:30:11:22
Well I got it on my presents 5050. Do you know what at the moment Don has bought more. Yes, yes she has. She won't. But I'm going to be transferring the money for half. That's not very Christmassy, Rick. I know it's not, but, you know, this is. This is the way modern, modern family's work. Do you have any Christmas Eve traditions, by the way?

00:30:11:24 – 00:30:31:10
Man, do you know what else? I love Christmas so much, but the kids are like teenagers, and they're just. It's not as much fun when you know they're not kids. But the best thing in the world is watching, like, anyone's got new babies. Listen to this.

00:30:31:12 – 00:30:56:04
No, not not new babies, because they can't. They shit. And that's just rubbish. Yeah. That you'll be. You'll be taking photos, put in presents in their hands, and they literally can't even hold anything up. Yeah. Fucking rubbish. No, not them, not them babies but the toddlers and that when they start. Yeah yeah yeah. And then when they get to like 4 or 5 and they believe in, you know, and it's, the, the magic of Christmas.

00:30:56:04 – 00:31:28:12
Right. And you just watch them, they're delighted. And that is amazing. Amazing experience. Really. Yeah. And it breaks. So to get towards your point, we used to do these things like Christmas Eve box. So they over box to open on Christmas Eve in it is some comfy fluffy socks a new pair of pajamas. Yeah. A two hot chocolate with marshmallows and they make nice, and some sweet some chocolates.

00:31:28:14 – 00:31:47:24
And then we would, they would get them on all their clothes on, and then they would make, we'd make their hot chocolates together, and they've got a big pile of marshmallows on top of it. And then, we'd have the fire go in and we put a, a movie on and we'd all sit in the Christmas Eve just in that glow.

00:31:48:04 – 00:32:05:21
Yeah, yeah, yeah. My, I would like to be a child in your house. It's it's it's only it's only it's like she she taught me that stuff like my mum and but it was like a great Christmas Eve growing up. I loved them, right. My mum and my mum didn't have a lot of money, but. But that was, you know, a bit more wealthy.

00:32:05:23 – 00:32:23:23
But they split up but there was no it didn't matter that there was a discrepancy in how much money and the value of presents. They just made it so lovely. Yeah. And so to create that, I'll be able to try and create that for the two kids was just, it was just amazing. So that was the tradition.

00:32:24:00 – 00:32:48:01
But now they don't want to be with us. They want to be in their rooms talking to their mates and, and play computer games that I think Will would rather not go come to my dad's where we can have Christmas Day and stay on his PlayStation play. Russell. He's his mates, I think. I think he'd probably rather do that if he was being honest, because he's just an age now where everything is.

00:32:48:03 – 00:33:01:18
He's just growing up. He's top. Yeah. And you can't be a kid anymore. And that little magic, that little spark is you have to replace that with drink as well.

00:33:01:20 – 00:33:22:10
I do you know what I can. You remember being that obviously. Obviously remember being that young. And instead of going to your nan's 80th birthday. But you like mum, but everyone's going to play down the park. And do you like World Cup doubles? I've got a guy who doesn't even know I've got that. Yeah, they were name. I don't want to go.

00:33:22:11 – 00:33:25:10
She smells.

00:33:25:12 – 00:33:44:20
But yeah, I, got that. I don't want like, obviously my kids will get to get to that age. What I they Christmassy. Yeah yeah yeah yeah we do. We do the pajama thing that they get present on Christmas Eve and they get to have, their new pajamas and they get a hot chocolate, and they deal with that as well.

00:33:44:22 – 00:34:05:17
Put a carrot out, even though they know put a mince pie out, even though they know the milk goes out, even though they know. But it's just that we're all together. Yeah, well, nice and warm, mate. Cherish these moments. Yeah. You got to be. They go. It changes.

00:34:05:19 – 00:34:33:01
Yeah. But then I've got. Then I'll have getting peace to look forward to seeing as I wake up. Yeah. With the money. Yeah. Yeah that'd be quality. Do you have like so you've got Christmas morning right. We were. So it's moved on. The breakfast has moved on to me. I don't know why but my mum used to do a massive full fry up every Christmas morning.

00:34:33:03 – 00:34:57:19
And I mean it was fucking delightful. For free is one of my top, top, top things. But then it's like just Christmas dinner. Well, I mean, it'll be like 3:00 or something like that. I'm just. And you've just had a fry up. Yeah. And you're full. And then Christmas dinner is coming shortly. Yeah. It's like, yeah. You know, the fry up at like then and then Christmas dinner at free, something like that.

00:34:57:19 – 00:35:24:21
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Three maybe four. Yeah. But after afternoon nothing I won't eat until Christmas dinner but really some, you know, there's freaks out there that have it like 1:00 in the like lunchtime. Well, that's that's what I wanted to, talk to you about. Well, I thought you would be a, more of a traditional get it done, get it over with at lunchtime, and then I've got the rest of the day to get steaming and eat cheese.

00:35:24:23 – 00:35:51:03
I didn't I thought normal was like 4:00, 5:00 in the afternoon, is it not? I don't know, I feel I thought people like 12 1:00. So it's, lunch lunchtime thing and it you have that and then people are coming back in the afternoon to have sandwiches and then in the evening she crackers and cheese and pickles and all that, like talking about pickles.

00:35:51:03 – 00:36:16:15
I remember when I used to go to my grandparents and Christmas, they used to have little bowls of nibbles just going about. Yeah. And, what, what was in it like twinkle, it's twinkle, it's off the eight mints. Like what? Why off right then suddenly, like, fucking popular. No one on this planet eats. And after eight mint, you know, past a week either side of Christmas.

00:36:16:16 – 00:36:33:10
It's the same with twinkle. It's like a twinkle. It's a lovely. But I'm not going on that fucking hot. July day. Going to get myself a package with. Yeah. If you come in, twinkle, it's in July. You're looking. I'm going. You fucking wrong you.

00:36:33:12 – 00:37:02:24
My grandparents used to put out, bowls of pickled onions, gherkins, and I would eat. I said like a nine year old. Basically a jar of gherkins before my Christmas dinner. So fucking weird, man. A jar of gherkins. I love it. I absolutely love it. Do you have any favorite nibbles that are in your house? That it. Just so you know, we have the, pretzels.

00:37:02:24 – 00:37:31:21
You know, the little pretzels, pretzel sticks, the actual pretzel shapes, that, oh, everything pretzel related is everywhere. My kids just absolutely love them. That is our nibble going around the gaff all day, every day. Christmas. Yeah. No, I don't like pretzels. They're boring as shit. That's that's fine. I mean that they actually quite like them. If your favorite crisp is of pop it, for fuck's sake.

00:37:31:23 – 00:37:57:04
I'm now seeing the trend, actually. Yeah, yeah. Because you're you're boring. Basic human being ready. Salty crisps sandwich. Basic bitch. Yeah. You know, you've got literally, like, the more I get to know you, the more boring I think you are. I, I see peanuts in it. It's got to be peanuts. See? Again. Okay. So it.

00:37:57:06 – 00:38:25:06
Yeah. No, I, I don't want, like, roasted, dry roasted peanuts. I don't want nose up. I'm sickly. It's the only time again around Christmas I'll go out and buy like, a sack of dry roasted peanuts. On Christmas Day, I'll eat them. And then I realize I've got a fucking sack full of dry roasted peanuts, and I need to get rid of them because I'm obviously going to be losing weight in January, so I'll just start smashing loads of peanuts all day, every day.

00:38:25:08 – 00:38:47:10
But moving. Not again. Like moving up to the dinner. Yeah. Do you and your family, do you get dressed up for Christmas Day and Christmas dinner? No, I know people do, but I don't. I'll probably sit in my pajamas all day. Probably. Really? Okay. My dad gets dressed. But my dad always looks quite so arch. I mean, it's always a must be.

00:38:47:10 – 00:39:10:20
Your dad is always, always looking on point. Yeah, it. When, it's, Yeah, it's it's got a he's got a Range Rover Evoque. Right. My old man a nice car and he goes, I've got, it's got to get serviced. Like he's got a nice car. Right. He's had it for years now. You know, he has eaten 7000 in 4 years.

00:39:10:22 – 00:39:36:22
It's like brand new. Fucking hell a Range Rover Vogue always tries to fucking Morrisons and back every day. And he goes, so he dropped him off at the garage and it's like a showroom. And he's looking at a brand new defender's Range Rover Defender. You guys watch with that go. It's nice in it. And I went that don't that's nice I mean I don't want labor getting all my money so that that's like that could fix my new roof.

00:39:36:22 – 00:39:52:17
What you're about to do that car. I will fix a roof on this house I might not be able to buy. That's too expensive. And you're fucking talking about Range Rover Defender. What did you say? What was what was the question? I can't even remember that was ever tell you the time I downloaded magic mushrooms on Christmas Day?

00:39:52:19 – 00:40:04:00
No, I never said, well, why? Why did you do that? Because it's Christmas. I don't know, just see weapons. I don't know, it was like.

00:40:04:02 – 00:40:20:02
I didn't really think it through. I just so, so they were kit cuts they made and looked exactly like a Kit Kat bar. And I remember not wanting to leave them around because the kids were young like, and I hid them at the bottom of my, my luggage back, so no. Well yeah, they would, they would. There's no absolute reason why they would ever go down there.

00:40:20:02 – 00:40:44:21
But if they didn't took them, I'd probably be in prison now. But they, anyway, they didn't find them, I don't know. I went down that tangent and so I was there and I ate some. And then I came up and Ollie was like, preparing Christmas dinner and was like, oh, God, you want to help me chop some vegetables?

00:40:44:21 – 00:41:15:19
I'll give it a go. I was chopping the veg rig. My arms were so long and at the end of my arms, with tiny little hands and a knife and the carrots, and they looked like they were so far away. But I managed to get through it at Christmas dinner, and, and then we put on a movie, we watched Ready Player One, which is such a good film to watch on mushrooms.

00:41:15:21 – 00:41:29:13
And, there's I don't know, that's the end of the story. Really? What was I, Ollie annoyed that it's a Danny. Oh, you're right about you. I can't remember that. Maybe I gave you some afterwards, I can't remember, it's a little bit of a blur, to be honest.

00:41:29:15 – 00:41:48:18
Oh, I just remembered. We're talking about getting dressed for Christmas. It feels like we've taken mushrooms, and. Yeah, I don't get. I don't get dressed up. We. So I used to have this old tradition of binned off because I'm just fucking bored of it. That I would make a point that I'm not getting ready for no one.

00:41:48:22 – 00:42:13:11
And I would have a Christmas onesie, and I would sit in this Christmas onesie from as soon as I woke up to the end. What, you eat dinner in your onesie? Yeah, yeah yeah yeah. Everything I went, I'd be driving around, go to the in-laws, turn up in my onesie. Wouldn't give a shit. But then it got to a point where, like, you're wearing a onesie and it's cold and you have to, do everything to go for a pup and go for a wee.

00:42:13:11 – 00:42:37:04
And I was just like, this is, this is fucking too much. So now it would just be jogging bottom jumper if I was going like back in the day, like if I was going to my mum's or something like that, then I would probably get a bit more dressed up. Now you were just saying that. You're saying the second what what time are you having Christmas dinner then?

00:42:37:06 – 00:42:57:02
I reckon about four. Yeah. Okay. That's not bad. That's not bad. I've never made it for a Christmas day without falling asleep in about 15 years. And I never fall asleep during the day, but always on Christmas Day. See, that's the beauty of Christmas. It's your body saying, do you know what this is today? For you. This is a day for you, Gary.

00:42:57:02 – 00:43:18:09
That's it. You. You do whatever you want. But I feel like you got a you've got. Oh, you know, someone's got to cook the dinner. Ain't going to be me, but someone's got dinner, right? So it's great because my missus loves cooking and my stepmom loves cooking. Them together, just, like, feed them in the kitchen, and they're just, like, fucking getting shit done.

00:43:18:09 – 00:43:38:09
We all meant that. Just sit there on the sofa just watching football or something. We know that. They've got it covered. Everything's glazed carrots, brussel sprouts. So what would they be working in tandem. And they work good as a team. Do I do. Yeah. Man, that's a that's a fucking dream is they, they really get on and.

00:43:38:10 – 00:44:02:17
Yeah, they make great. Well sure. You go on. What you said, what you say on Christmas with Christmas dinner. Then what would you like? Literally just about to to get to the, the meat on this. So I, my me my family Turkey is fucking shit man. It doesn't matter. You've got to eat turkey. No no no. Do you know what is tradition in my house?

00:44:02:17 – 00:44:22:15
And I make the fucking tradition. And we have. We have chicken or beef and gammon. So there's always, always a little honey glaze got. Okay. No you got. Let's go. I have a chicken a beef. No he going and he's woke everyone. Oh he's got Christmas dinner then you're not having Christmas dinner. You are having a roast dinner.

00:44:22:17 – 00:44:41:08
Well yeah. Good. No good. No. Don't know. Don't tell me. Don't bring me up and go. What time you haven't dinner? I don't know about your dinner. It's nothing to do. Christmas. Your thing has nothing to do with Christmas, mate. You're not even having turkey so you can fucking shut your mouth. You're having to roast chicken, kid, not raise the shit.

00:44:41:10 – 00:45:01:23
Succulent. So much better. Now you're right. I can understand that. Coming from me, that isn't. Doesn't mean much. I think we can bring Christmas dinner. You're just. I think we do have, We we do buy the crown of turkey. All right? Fucking shit. Doesn't matter. Everyone looks nice on the same day, and it needs to be on the table.

00:45:01:24 – 00:45:07:11
Doesn't matter for anyone to eat in Christmas otherwise.

00:45:07:13 – 00:45:31:14
A lot of other people, they turn up, turn their nose up. Yorkshire puddings. Well, who turns in our Yorkshire puddings? Oh, no, it's not traditional Christmas dinner. Oh, oh, I've heard this is controversial. Yeah, yeah. Yorkies, supposed to be served with beef Sunday dinners. And that is it. Says Christmas dinner for you. May you just look at me for not having turkey.

00:45:31:14 – 00:45:55:20
She says I like I like Yorkshire pudding. Oh, yeah. This is a traditional Christmas dinner. Says like a turkey with stuffing, stuffed potatoes. You see, we've had this discussion before and round up my mother knows about a year ago. She has, she does roasts and she does mash. I'll going for beef because I love potato. That's crazy.

00:45:55:20 – 00:46:16:06
Someone puts mash on my plate or Christmas that I'm from kicking off. What are you on about, mashed potato. No one's done. No one. When I take a picture of the of the Christmas dinner, put it on Instagram. Whatever. Is there a dollop of mashed potato? Is that apart from your house and your mum? The American thing.

00:46:16:06 – 00:46:48:14
Oh, I don't know. It might be. Let's, let's. I've amended my search. Let's see what it says. Right. Okay. Celebrate. Christmas dinner in the UK usually consists of roast turkey, stuffing, gravy, Yorkshire puddings. Thank you. Posh pig. Pigs in blankets. Yeah, yeah. Double double pork. Yeah. Bread sauce. Double pork. Go carry him as a good book, was it?

00:46:48:16 – 00:47:17:01
Yeah. But pretzels, red current jelly. I never have that. Now I like that I like bread sports, but I'm, I'm having, I'm having, I'm having, I'm having, horseradish all day, and I saw a different person next to it. It just had a little bit of wetness. The taste of much bread sauce, in my opinion. For the sandwich quickie with Ricky episode someone, an actual proper chef.

00:47:17:02 – 00:47:40:11
Michelin like that tier of a chef when he sent in his Boxing Day sandwich. Instead of using butter, he uses bread sauce for each slice. And I was like, oh, you fucking dirty bitch. Yeah, that's how I know. Yeah, Dustin. And I was obviously that having a little switch up boxing there. But you what you you having pretzels?

00:47:40:13 – 00:48:10:08
I'll probably go. You got it. Yeah. But by that point. Yeah. Reheat it. Reheat. Hajime. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm a bit. All right. With that, I can understand that. Yeah. Bread is a as a base. Yeah, yeah. So, so bread, red corn jelly, roast potatoes and vegetables. Particularly brussel sprouts. Broccoli. No chance. That carrots cauliflower and parsnips you can parsnips.

00:48:10:08 – 00:48:28:18
You can carrots. You can sprouts. And that's it. Not particularly fan of parsnips but if they're on the plate of I like Boston I'll smash them. Can I add something to this? This might be controversial. I would like to add something, and I know it's controversial, I think. And it will go on and I don't care. Yeah.

00:48:28:21 – 00:48:49:12
Cauliflower cheese. Yes yes yes. Yeah. I fucking caught it. Kick. Get all there. Hi. Hello there. Taste gets kind of one on there. Go back for some after. But Rick if I, if I had to choose, I would remove the cauliflower and I'd do it with leeks.

00:48:49:14 – 00:49:10:05
Right. Okay. I mean I thought yeah I don't hate that, I thought I it and I it easy leeks man that way that I love it like fuck tradition. You got to have turkey but you're allowed to add stuff I this is this is the thing about Christmas for me. You make your own tradition. It's your family. You do what you want, it's your day.

00:49:10:06 – 00:49:38:02
And you don't have to stick to fucking doing the presents after the dinner because someone say, like, who the fuck is going to wait around to have dinner first and then sit around and do presents? Presents first? That's exciting. But then you crack on with dinner and and start drinking. All these people that are waving their finger and saying, this is what you should do.

00:49:38:04 – 00:50:05:16
This is when you should what time you should do this. That's not traditional. You should just stick to whatever you want to fucking day, man, because it's turkey. The longest is turkey. I know what they say. Well, but what about gear on Christmas Day? What you said about that is it? I don't know what to say because. Okay, well, technically I probably would have done over the years and no, not on Christmas Day.

00:50:05:16 – 00:50:25:10
But that's a it's a cheeky technical technicality. That's easy in it. Yeah. That's right. Like 5 a.m. Christmas Eve Christmas morning. Yeah I know what we're done. God, I've gotta go get back in. And I used to. My mum fucking hated me for it. And she's well within their rights because I see now. But I used to wake up so many times.

00:50:25:10 – 00:50:44:20
Hung over on Christmas Day because I've been out with my mate, and when I would be at the dinner table, I could only eat half my Christmas dinner. And I'm just she could see that I was like, really just trying to shovel it down. And I was, you know, on the cusp of throwing up. Yeah. I didn't enjoy it.

00:50:44:22 – 00:51:05:13
And like, you know, when you look, you look at them, their bloodshot eyes, all they want to do is go to sleep and you're like, you fucking ruined Christmas Day. You have. Yeah. And I'm like, no, I'm alright, I'm alright. But I'll just be silent. Apologize. Now if you apologize since then, so I haven't. You should. Yeah, yeah I, I, I will do now and the holidays.

00:51:05:15 – 00:51:13:02
Come on now. She's traveling round India. She'll pick up. It's just from.

00:51:13:04 – 00:51:40:11
But, Yeah, that was, that was, that was silly of me to do that. That was, that was very silly. Yeah. Do you, do you, are you a do you have any kind of things that you do in the evening for Christmas? Like we are heavy on the games. So we will for Christmas Day, we will actually go out and buy games so that we can play Christmas Day evening.

00:51:40:11 – 00:52:00:03
Whether it's something simple like guess who you know, whatever it might be, but we tend to kind of go and have a bit of fun as well. I remember when I used to go around my cousin's house and there used to be fucking loads of us, and we'd be playing the, What's that? Well what's that? What's the game called?

00:52:00:03 – 00:52:24:18
You know, two words, three syllables. Charades. Yes. Yeah. Right. Yeah, yeah. Lovely. Lovely Christmas Day fucking event, that is. Yeah. Oh chill out in the evening I it's. Yeah a little bit maybe, maybe cards, game of cards that sort of thing. But my, my little brother Joe loves games. Like there isn't a massive oh mate, he'll boy stuff.

00:52:24:24 – 00:52:43:04
But, you know, I think it's called cornhole in America. What the fuck's that? It's like a board. And you got. You got a sack like a bean. Bean? Oh, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. Oh, yeah yeah, yeah. He managed to turn everything into the most exciting competitions. So all the time anyway you'll have. I'll have something. Something up his sleeve, no doubt.

00:52:43:06 – 00:53:05:24
But yeah, it's anything that brings you together really. It. And, and then you can celebrate your love for each other. And if you're not, if you're not somehow sitting down at Christmas and you're not content, that's a really sad thing. It's a really unfortunate thing. And, obviously people can have issues and problems in their life that they can't control, and it might impact how enjoyable their Christmas is.

00:53:06:01 – 00:53:28:03
And for anyone to listen to to this, he might be in that situation. I feel for you, but it won't always be like this. Because, you know, I mean, it's like, yeah, yeah, a lot about people are less fortunate than me and I'm not even talking about, you know, I'm not talking about someone as extreme as homeless people like that.

00:53:28:03 – 00:53:55:15
That's sad enough, but you're just talking about people that don't have a family unit for whatever reason. And it's it's just a little bit sad and it's a bit tough. Yeah. And and if whatever's going on in your life, the lead up to Christmas might have been stressful or anxiety ridden, it's always fucking stressful. But like, on my birthday, do what I do for Christmas.

00:53:55:15 – 00:54:16:14
Just have a day off of everything up, thinking just I have a bit of, have a bit of a drink, you know, just just kind of enjoy yourself, just let go and just enjoy it as much as you can and then get to boxing down, start the worries again about life and stuff like that. But just Christmas Day.

00:54:16:14 – 00:54:44:21
See if you can just have a break from overthinking and stressing yourself out. And I think both of us, if you're listening, I hope you have a fucking A Wonderful Christmas. Yeah, 100%. We are going to be we are going to be moving shortly to dilemmas and something only you know. The topic for next week is going to be music.

00:54:44:23 – 00:55:20:24
No music. The first single or album people. Yeah. What were you into as a kid? What's your go era? How have your how have your tastes changed? Any specific memories twinned with music? Your guilty pleasure bands. Good. Yeah, yeah. So I went here your stories or anything that you want to share about music send into lads anon pod at gmail.com and we will read them out.

00:55:21:01 – 00:55:47:02
The dilemma is called kick her out or suck it up and something only you know is pajamas, shovel and toilet paper. Now we're going to go on to dilemma. Just tired. You got an issue for a tissue? You're a bit sad, can will you a can in your soul, alone, in your flat. Please? Talk to Vicky a flat bed.

00:55:47:04 – 00:56:02:06
Let that stress off your chest. Well, friend, you deserve to be relaxed. You're safe here to get nice warm between Vicky. Your plans.

00:56:02:08 – 00:56:33:14
Lads, need some advice? My missus and I have been finished for a while now. We both agreed on that. All very amicable. We still get on fine. She is living and working at my house a full time. The last time we discussed it, she was staying here until some as yet unspecified time in the new year. I agree, that's fine, but it's hardly going to boot her out and it gives her a chance to get her own place.

00:56:33:16 – 00:56:59:23
Recently it's become pretty clear she's seeing someone else. At first it was, I'm going to my friends this weekend. I'm like, I'm pretty sure I know what that means, but hey, maybe she's visiting a friend now, though she doesn't even attempt to make an excuse. Last night she just said, I'm out tonight and then didn't come back all night.

00:57:00:00 – 00:57:28:06
Today is awkward as fuck, with neither of us really speaking. So am I mental for thinking this isn't cool? Obviously I don't mind supporting her while she gets her own place, but it feels like I'm supporting her while she's getting her next relationship lined up. Do I need to kick her out or suck it up? What do I do, lads?

00:57:28:08 – 00:57:55:09
You stick to what you've agreed. I don't I don't, I don't I don't really understand it. You broke up. She's so elsewhere. Yeah, but what? She's not allowed to move on with her life until she's moved out of the house. Well, it's his house. Yeah, she's living there. Yes. And they, they've they've broken up. Yeah. She agreed. They agreed in the New Year.

00:57:55:11 – 00:58:19:19
You need to find your own place. Yes. And in that time she's a like. Yeah, yeah, she's, she's, chasing that day and starting a new life somewhere else and staying out, doing, doing whatever. So now it's kind of like she's a lodger, at his house. Yeah. Did you. What do you think? Because you don't agree with me.

00:58:19:19 – 00:58:51:18
Clearly. I don't think there's an issue. I think that is taking the piss personally. What should you do? Is stay in her room and not go out? No, I'm not saying that. Well, how much? How is she allowed to do until she's not taking the piss? She. I would say if she's starting a new relationship and staying at, like, this person's house for the weekend and all that long, and then coming back to the house where they share together, it's like you can't have your cake and eat it, like, get out.

00:58:51:20 – 00:59:08:01
How is he? Like, is he allowed to move on now? Like, what else can he bring up? Can you bring a woman home? Is this is his home like, shagging men in the house? Is she? Well, we don't know that, that we know. Can we? We can only go by what he said. She's not sure that I know.

00:59:08:01 – 00:59:30:18
I like to add, I look, if it was me, the relationships over, she can do what she wants. If the question, though, is if she should kick her out, I think. Look, you agreed the new year. You're never gonna have a caveat. You can stay, but you can't check anyone else while you stay here. Just kidding.

00:59:30:18 – 00:59:48:03
Yeah, it's not much of an issue. Like, just fucking like your relationships over, clearly. Just go gently. I'm uncomfortable with this. I don't like it. I think I'm going to leave. That's fine as well, but yeah. Yeah, yeah. Anything wrong? She's not doing anything wrong, in my opinion. But you all within your rights to go. Come on, it's time.

00:59:48:03 – 01:00:08:13
I know you said the new year, but this is mad. This for me. I'm very uncomfortable. If you feel uncomfortable, you should never feel uncomfortable in your own house. Therefore. Yeah. I'll ask you to leave. It's not the end of the world. She got parents and she. She goes. Yeah, except parents, friends and adults. She could, you know, rent or whatever, or new boyfriend, but only boyfriend.

01:00:08:13 – 01:00:32:24
But I do feel like even if she is seeing someone else and whether it's a she or he that you wouldn't, you have the decency to be like, oh, man, I'm, I'm at my ex's. Maybe I should not get into a relationship until I'm out of this house.

01:00:33:01 – 01:00:49:09
That. No. Oh, did I not not no issue for me you know. Yeah I would do I mean we look just I my previous relationship we decided to end it and we were living together.

01:00:49:11 – 01:00:52:16
And I was the later checking.

01:00:52:18 – 01:01:16:01
So yeah, I think, yeah, I know I thought that. Well, the angle that I mean, he's not, he's no, he's. If he's not, he's not I clearly. No idea. Is it the lady he didn't mate. No I don't think it is. Maybe he didn't have the the pistol didn't go off to say bang. Right. But if you can start shagging now, is it?

01:01:16:01 – 01:01:38:22
Whoa, whoa, whoa. You've gone well ahead of me. Like you're in a relationship now. I've just been there with my day commands, just waiting. Why didn't someone tell me? What was it? Should he get bros? I think, honestly, it's a must to. Isn't. It's an equalizer. Yeah. Bros in her room. Well, yeah. Well, while she's in it, I don't mind that.

01:01:38:24 – 01:02:00:14
It's just the bros upstairs. God, Pat on the back. She runs out. Yeah, just kick her out, then. Problem solved. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right. We are now going to go on to something only you know. Why something, you know you.

01:02:00:16 – 01:02:22:19
I was on holiday with my family in a little cottage in Normandy a couple of years ago. The cottage was in the absolute middle of nowhere, down a very long, overgrown lane. The house was at the end of the lane, far enough away from other houses, that you would only need to come within sight of the house that was your destination.

01:02:22:21 – 01:02:56:11
The line ran alongside the house and then sort of petered out into the undergrowth. Anyway, the toilet stopped working, so for a couple of days we had to shit in the lane and bury it. One of the mornings I went to the lane to take a shit. As I was finishing up, I heard the pounding of hooves and a French lady on a horse appeared around the corner, apparently lost, and saw me squatting in my pajamas with a shovel and toilet paper.

01:02:56:13 – 01:03:25:08
She looks at me wide eyed, like she's just seeing something really strange. I panic and try to stand up casually, but my foot slips and I stumble into the mess. In the process, I fling the shovel into the bushes, barely missing her horse. The lady sighs deeply, like she's seen it all, and offers me a hand. I stand there for a moment, totally embarrassed, then quickly finish up and head back to the cottage.

01:03:25:10 – 01:03:50:02
I try to tell my family, but they don't believe me. From then on, I'm the weird guy in the pajamas. From then on, they always make shovel jokes wherever I go. Whenever I go outside, I wonder if that lady still tells the story of the weird guy in his pajamas burying his business in the bushes. And that's something only I know for actually, mate.

01:03:50:04 – 01:04:12:00
It's weird. The whole family. It's just an ambitious and buried nipple. That's what your family's about, is it? That's the weird bit is why are you all doing that? What is? At the beginning, I missed that bit. So at the beginning, it's on a family holiday in a cottage in Normandy, right? Why? Why are they buried in their poo?

01:04:12:02 – 01:04:31:08
Because the, the toilet broke the last few days. I mean, like, I don't know, you trying to use the toilet, but then if you call it. What would I do? You put in a bag of filling it as far as you can. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, for sure, for sure. Oh, I just crushed my pants. I just sit in it.

01:04:31:10 – 01:04:58:02
Just just do it anyway. But, the, cracking up when, you know, coming up from that squat and there's a French lady on a horse and she's asking you what you doing? Or that she's lost, and then you stumble back into your own shit, wearing pajamas and a shovel in your hand. Absolutely fucking delightful. Sensational. And that is the end of this week's podcast.

01:04:58:03 – 01:05:23:09
Good. I've got get in a car and drive. Lovely. Well, I hope you have a safe drive. So, how far is it for Christmas? Oh, fuck. I forgot to wash your favorite Christmas bangers. Probably, like in terms of quality fairytale in New York. Really? Yeah, probably. Like it is a fucking great tune. Although it's played to death, they all are.

01:05:23:11 – 01:05:43:23
I don't like all this fucking changing the lyrics, as you can imagine. Right. Okay. Like the lyrics. What what what what? You know what, you scumbag. You maggot. You cheat so I know get. Look, don't get me wrong, I understand the impact of that word and how how disgusting it is. And I would, I would never use it in a sentence.

01:05:43:23 – 01:06:03:09
Genuinely. I it's oh, in the same way I would never use the N-word. I would never use that word as well. Do you know. Do you know what that means? The F-word. You know what I about this conversation? You don't. It is. You know what it is. Yes, yes. Well, what do you, It's a derogatory term. Yeah.

01:06:03:11 – 01:06:28:17
For gay men. Is it? Yes, it is, but you know what that is. The thing about it is, isn't it? Something to do with. It's did it with fire and burning of. Right. It's a, it's a roll of twigs that are used to burn it, to light a fire with. That's how disgusting that is, right? That said, you can't change art because of this, I don't think.

01:06:28:17 – 01:06:47:23
I just don't think you. It's it's the how the artist intended it. Therefore it should be heard that way. Don't play it. If you if you don't want to play it, fine. Yeah, but don't tweak it like fucking. Anne Marie and Olly Murs did a cover of it. And didn't you, like, fuck off, cover something else. Can you imagine if it did, if they did sing that word?

01:06:47:24 – 01:07:12:02
Probably. But it is covered by loads of people. But then it's like, no, no, no, we're going to do this. We're gonna make it super inclusive. Cover another song. Don't fuck with stuff. In my opinion, I don't like it. I don't, I don't like that the the topic for next week is music. So if you've got anything that you want to send to us on the topic of music, send it to lads.

01:07:12:03 – 01:07:17:24
Anon pod gmail.com and we will see you next Monday.