#68 | Idols | Now THIS Is A Person To Look Up To

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Yeah. Sorry if this, cuts in, there was a slight technical hitch, but we believe it is better now. I just want to address something with you guys, and that is, we had some emails and DM's about No quickie with Ricky on Thursday, and no, I didn't do it. There was no issue with me or doing it or anything like that.

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The simple reason was because we didn't have enough DMs or emails, and that covered the last show talking points or any of the shows before that. And I could have sat here and recorded 30 minutes and Chad absolute fucking breeze and put it out just to say quickie. Ricky's done 30 minutes, but I didn't want to waste your time and I don't want to waste my time, and I only want to put stuff out that I think is, you know, listenable and that people want to listen to.

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So that's the reason there was no quickie with Ricky. Hopefully we'll get it back and out next Thursday. But as I say on the pod, it's all dependent on you guys. If you send an email, if you send in DM's, then we will have stuff to talk about. So it's not going away. It's not going on patron yet.

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It's not done any of that stuff. It's it's basically your fault really. It's all down to you. Shall we jump into today's topic, flash? Yeah. Go on then. What is it? Idols now? Did you grow up with an idol? It's not like when you were younger. Did you have any, like, as a kid? And I might not. Might like.

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First of all, my mom was silly straight away because it was Optimus Prime. And that can't be your idol. But he was a heroic leader, you know, a strong leader as well. You know, he's. Yeah. Did the right thing. Always had the right moral compass. Would never would make decisions for the greater good, but would do anything to to protect the individual.

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So, yeah, Optimus Prime, I think we ought to be a little bit more like Optimus Prime. Yeah. You know, I think, you know, there isn't anything wrong with a good, strong moral figure, even though he was a robot. Yeah. And the thing. Because it is. Right. But there's nothing sexual about it, and I know. Yeah. Did you ever think about.

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I can't remember the name pinky in the film. I'll say. I'll say I'll give it to give. Oh, yeah. One. Yeah yeah yeah, yeah, for sure. I've just happy just in case people are thinking, oh, this is weird. It's like a creepy sex robot. Nuh. Turns into a car. Yeah. So. And nothing more section than that. This is just this female robot that turns into a car, and she wants a chaga.

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Yeah, well, it's going to divide it. So. Yeah. Yeah, an Optimus Prime is a good one, I guess. So I liked a lot. So I used to watch a lot of cartoons. So I chose my child, I think. Yeah, I think like, He-Man. Yeah, he was good. Like, I like the fact that he would just pole about in furry pants.

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Like wooly mammoth pants. Like, I reckon they would have called the show He-Man now, and I couldn't be more sort of binary than He-Man can use. Both men is both then. Yeah, he and then. Man, yeah, I think they've there's no mistake of. Whoa, this show is about. Yeah. He's a hey, he's a man and he's strong and gentle.

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Creator of He-Man. Just walking around shaking his head. Now guys, this is so comment on. It's also what would I call it now? What would He-Man be called now? They then I said I was thinking that I don't think that would work. Man. Would work. I don't know. Let's know. Yeah, man. Cool. And there was She-Ra, and so I never understood.

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So you got He-Man. What's the raw bit about? What's raw about She-Ra? That EC that is fucking weird. She-Ra and He-Man. Did you want to be in She-Ra? Let's just do an episode on the female cartoons. We want to bang when we were a kid. Hey, have you got any more? Yeah. Just grab it. You were there.

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I know, even as an adult. Yeah. You know Jessica Rabbit. Come on. Yeah, I know what they were doing. Unreal. Tiny waist, massive weapons. Yeah. I'm not sure if, where piece. I mean, that's a derogatory. I think I've been told off of this before. Have you really? Yeah, but just using sort of fun names for female anatomy.

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Some people don't like it, but the thing is. No, but we say the same for dicks as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think it's playful in it. Is it playful? Yeah. I don't know what. I don't know what I don't know anymore. I'm not sure I fit anymore. So, if I just apologize for everything as I say it, then I'm fine, right?

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Sure. I mean, or maybe we don't, like, just acknowledge it. And you just. This is who we are. That's fine. You can not acknowledge it. But then people make they go out of their way to tell you that's the thing, right? Okay. I say yeah, right. One of my other idols when I was growing up, and this is probably my first ever non animation one.

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What was the funniest one growing up? Those fan bags were the funniest one. It what? I said what for dorks.

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Yeah. And bags spun back. So you came.

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I think the problem is because you're objectifying a woman's breasts, but right when obviously there are other things other than just tits. Sure. Yeah, sure. But yeah, I didn't. Yeah, yeah, maybe. Maybe, I don't know. I'm still. What about. I'll tell you what I think. I found a safe ground where you can still have a bit of fun with it, but you're also being respectful.

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Okay. Mama's because that's mammary gland, which is essentially what I actually. Yeah. Fox. But you know what we do, everybody does because they're lazy. They shorten things. So I get my hair shortened, I get my name shortened to the point where someone calls me. People call me stuff that isn't my name. So people sometimes like Gary, my name's not Gary.

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No one ever. I wasn't christened Gary is Gareth. People. Just Gary's easy and it goes even easier. Yeah, I, I, I get confused with your name because like, most people call you Flav and I obviously when we're talking, I'll call you Flav. Yeah. From the early years, I think I was more of a gal. Yeah, yeah. So when people I say when I'm in a group of people kind of flap, flap and I'm like, yeah, that's maybe I should just call him, but I don't really, you know, I mean, why have you got so many names?

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I don't know, I haven't I didn't seek this. So just the flap thing was about. So my mum always call me Flav. My brothers all get call flap and my dad gets called flap your mum. Corgi flap. She was the first one.

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She could be flap when I was like I was a child. I was like that when I was a kid. Chubby and fluffy. Always. Wow. So that so so that sort of stuck. But your. My brothers mates call them Flav. But that for Flav. But he's mates because a certain flavor. So it's just something. So when we start, when I joined the THC latest two forum, I needed to come up with a nickname.

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So I just put Flav in, right. And then and then obviously we, we I used to write something called cocks to the West, Jim Cox to the West Bloc a day I never knew that that was you. Well run that that it was only for the last few years that we've known each other. That I found out that was you.

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Who? You only found out. Raise your iris. This is a. Yeah. This is a blog. Literally 20 years ago, 20, 25 years ago. Joe, why I started that is because I was really annoyed that Cory Andre made a comment about Spurs fans celebrating when we drew to war with them, and he's like, is this what happens when you celebrate a draw?

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And I'm like, you fucking get it, mug? When he was just trying to win this up anyway, so I wrote a blog about it. So I used fluff then and then obviously when the podcast started, it just made sense just to transport it over because I didn't want to use I don't want people to know who we actually were, which is now ridiculous.

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Yeah, yeah. So and now. But now I wish I'd never done that because I'm as a grown man. Right? When I say go to the overlap, I have to go like I. What's your name? I'm going. For to say Flav. Your name is Flav. Yeah. It's a no no, it's a nickname, man. It's not really a nickname.

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It's my name, but names, character level. It might be Downers Flav. Bateman, can you check that? Fuck, yeah. No. So. Flav. Bateman. Is it? Listen, right. Flav. Bateman is just a name I made when I went on Twitter because I originally was going to just. I don't know why I was going to make like an alias on Twitter, which was like Patrick Bateman because I was well into.

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Yeah. Yeah, well into the book, American Psycho, American Psycho. So I've just put it on there, but obviously I've just kept that account and it's the podcast has got big, the Twitter accounts got big. So then when I get booked for things, they introduce me as Flav. Bateman. Yeah, I it does make me giggle quite a lot, actually.

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Do you feel like, having to rebrand? Like there are people that will just go throughout all their accounts change or their apps change, their bio change everything and just be like, do you know what that was? That person? Then you can even make a, you know, more upset about that. I think I'm more of a wanker. If you did that one, like you could make a video.

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Flav stayed long days. Gary Flavell Ricky I'm not doing that. I'm not doing that. I'm not going to come out here. Nope. No, I don't want anyone to call me Flav anymore. That's fucking. That's your break of anger. If you do, that just doesn't matter. Yeah, right. I had a lot of time when I was a Woolworths, and I walked to Woolworths when I was about 17.

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I've got like two stories about Woolworths. But they, they insisted on a dress code, so they wanted you to have a tag and name tag on it. Yeah. And I only had two name tags because I didn't have one as a new joiner. And I went there and there was no name tags that were suitable for what I look like.

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Like I know David or Mark or God forbid, Gary. They only had two. They had two. They had Mohammed. Yeah. And they had Babu. Babu like Joe. Papa. Yeah. Babu was my senior sales assistant and he had a spare one. So I actually chose between Babu and Mohammed. All right. So I would have to sit in the tell with Babu or my thing and people go, what is that, Swedish or something like that?

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Yeah, Swedish. Sometimes I went for a Mohammed.

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My, my Mrs.. Her very first job was in Woolworths and she was a Woolies. Yeah, she worked in the kitchen in Milton Keynes, in Woolies. They had like all the, the, the usual shit that they had downstairs. Then upstairs there was a little restaurant. Right. And she worked there and I think she would, she was still at school, so it would have been like 15, 16, that I was working at that age as well.

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That was but she never told anyone where she worked. She was obviously embarrassed. And no one wants to be seen at work and stuff like that. And somehow I found out where her part time job was. What did you do with that information? Rick went with me and my mates to go and find her at her job, and I got to the counter.

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I saw her in this, like, green shirt. Do you know what else she was wearing but a straw hat? It was part of the uniform, you know, like one of those, like, a hat that with one of those room. Like, if you were like, if you were pumping or something like that. Yeah. She she had to wear one of those.

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And I was just like, oh my God. When our eyes locked, she saw that I'd seen her and I had our mate. We were fucking pacing ourselves. You not think this is going to embarrass her? Maybe I shouldn't. Yeah. Oh, yeah. No, this is going to embarrass her. I should definitely do this. Because at that age, it's about embarrassing someone, isn't it?

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Because you're just a fucking idiot and you don't know any better. I've just texted her. It's where she Woolies.

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She's like, how do you know this stuff? In terms of idols, I didn't really kind of, I didn't I obviously went for the at least less than finger thing, like Oasis and. Yeah, you were more you were more. No, I was more. Liam. Liam and I wrote on marker on my very best size. On a mark from my desk.

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Liam is God, which is probably. You'd be right. No, it's a good statement. Good statement? My dad. Sorry I went. He's not God, he's a fucking idiot. Oh, yeah. It's okay, but you didn't know what you're talking about. Oh, you see, to get links cans and burn my desk with my links can as well. Hang on a second with.

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Is this your desk at home? Was it that you'd wrote Liam is going to burn your desk? Yeah, yeah. Home and my bedroom. Jesus Christ, it there. So it would, like, burn down and melt. It was just. Yeah. You know, you'd get links, camera, lighting. Yeah. I did that on my windowsill. That was so much fun. Yeah, it was mad because I will does it now and I will stop fucking do it I would, I fucking harassed I will tell you.

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Why can't you do that. Can you lose your PlayStation I'm like I, I was doing that. I was yeah, all the time. I loved fire when I was a kid. Yeah, we all have our mountain stuff. But, Maya, why don't you want to do it? Because it's dangerous and it's dangerous. We we we did it. We didn't feel like it was going to be dangerous.

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I had a pipe around and it was the Milton Keynes citizen. And I had to deliver to, like, a hundred houses, maybe even more. And me and my mates took all of those newspapers, free newspaper and took them to a school sandpit, and we just let them on fire. And then the wind picked up and, and it went into this little, like, wooded area on everything from fire.

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So we ran away and the fire and, you know, fire brigade came and put it out and stuff. But I probably should be saying this, but, you know, that's fun, I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Money was funny though. Well I yeah it's taxpayers money. Oh yeah. Never mind. It was a know I used to set loads of stuff and I fucking loved it.

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The closest I got to an actual idea, I guess, or someone I respected a lot, was a guy called Andreas Coomer. You met him, actually. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And he, he created a youth media project called exposure, which said, well, I realize now, but you don't realize at the time set you off in a path that eventually became whatever I'm doing now.

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And, yeah, if it wasn't for him, I think I'd have a very different life. You know, when you meet someone who and you acknowledge through the past someone who is

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Right. Look at me and just copy what I do. Okay. Now. Ha ha ha! Ha ha! Ha!

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Yeah.

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What was that? I love it. Yeah. It's great. Yeah, we would have never seen that. So on TikTok, it's great. You got me this. You've been even getting. You know, just want to laugh. Yeah. That makes you feel better and a little laugh every now and then. It does that. That is why I. When I come away doing these pots and, the fighting cock.

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It's just that whatever's happening in your life, it may even be your life's just pulling along. There's nothing really happening. But when you come away from doing pots and you've been laughing and it's down into, you know, the depths of your stomach. Yeah. It just makes you feel so good. What is it? That is it. Is it endorphins or is it.

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Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The best thing I've ever read about the fine cooker. What I love to read about the fighting cock is I listen to it even when Spurs lose. That's the greatest compliment that we can get. Is it? Yeah. Okay. That for me, I know. Yeah, but. But I like. Because it just means that it's.

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People get something out of the evidence book because there's tons of spurs. It's me. And you can go anywhere to listen to an opinion about Spurs. It's no nothing unique in that. But if people are listening. Yeah. Because it gives them some sort of light relief in times when Spurs have been super shit, like they have this winner.

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Yeah. I think that's a great thing. And if. Yeah, if lads can kind of, you know, infiltrate some of the difficulties people have during the week, like we got, we got a voice voicemail, didn't we. Can we didn't we not necessarily play it because I just kind of it's very political and and you know, but but the point was that the bloke made is that the pot really helps.

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And. Yeah. And it gives him respite from, from the difficult situations people are finding themselves in, which is lovely, innit. Yeah. I actually had a, a DM on Insta yesterday. Exactly. Same. Very stressful job. They listen to the pot, they laugh. Stuff resonates like the pot we did last week. The one on in that was just it just went completely off piece of what we're supposed to do.

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We had so much good feedback about it. Just where yeah, yeah, that people enjoyed the fact that we were going off from, random kind of tangents and, you know, the demographic of people that listen to this, and a lot of people are parents and they go through exactly the same things. And it's just good to hear to lads like us going through what they go through, because there are a lot of people they don't really talk about, like the first thing you do when you go, if you meet up with your mates or whatever, you don't really go and chat about your home life there.

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I certainly don't know, parenting issues or anything like that. It's it's always go get a pint in, chat about football, chat about funny stuff or all the bad stuff that's happening with other people. You know, your your wife sent me a picture of your, of your firstborn. You sent me a picture. What was it then? Yeah.

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I think my she was very, very young. And you, sticking two fingers up, I believe she couldn't see behind her back, so it's. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there is that. But I, you know, your wife reminded me of yesterday. She sent me another picture of me and your firstborn. Yeah. And, she reminded me of how much I hated.

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How much she dribbled. She's traveled. She's such. She traveled all the time as a baby, right? Oh, yeah. I've got this really bad habit. Right? I've got a bad habit of thinking people's newborns might be, Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know? Yeah, yeah, but all of them, everyone I meet that. Have you not worked out yet that they might not?

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Be? Yeah. They're all babies. Dribble. Excessive dribbling they reach. Yeah. It is, it is. And then I thought you remember I found another video you holding my baby. And she was like, pretty much a very, very baby. She loved it at that point. You were was it. You were rapping Becky I was like that dead Wrong by Becky, which is a horrendous, horrible song.

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Relax and take notes as I take tokes at this marijuana smoke. Put you in a choke, choke. Gunsmoke. Gunsmoke. Biggest muscle bay. The reps, the, the hooker. Leah. Motherfuker. Say your prayers. Prayer. Hail Mary, full of grace. Smack a bitch in a face. Take a coochie bag and a no face off a bag. Jabba. If she act funny with the money.

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Yo, you got me mistaken, honey. Yeah, she deserved. That's exactly. Yeah, it's exactly what you're rapping to her, in her face, which was, you know, did she say that? I've seen these videos that she she she has seen it. Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, she actually loves it. It's, I see, I see rum diesel was back on WhatsApp.

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Yeah. She is, she had it again. It was like because she had loads of aggro of these. Do we. We haven't talked about it. We haven't taught the basis of conversation of it by the way. Right. Okay. Yeah. But you took it over. You did a parenting thing, you took it off her. And even though she really, really wanted it, actually, let's give people an update on forget That and that they on on last week because I don't know the update.

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Have your family forgiven you, Ricky? The next day, next day. Next. I always forgive my youngest, right? She was still annoyed that I didn't have a school week sleepover. Sleep like sleepover on a school night. She was still angry at the fact, but it had. It subsided a lot. And she. The thing is, she understood. She knew why.

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She knew the reason of why I said no. The workings behind it, the way that I spoke to her, it wasn't just because I was being mean and and it wasn't coming from a place of anger. I'm an adult. I'm mean. Dad, what I say goes, not even listening. Like one way traffic. And then my my oldest again, she went to her lesson because she didn't want to do drama.

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And she did. She did that like she did the lesson she first group that went first was so bad, the dramaturgy teachers shouted at them. I said, I don't want to say another group today until you've learned everything, so come back after half term and then you can all do it again. So I said, that's great. You didn't have to do it.

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But what does that mean now? Yes. And she was like, well, it means that I don't have to do it again for another week because I that's true. But it also means you've got to I know that I know do the work you got to do there, but you've got to learn your lines that you did. I learn, you know.

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And she has been learning her lines, you know. So yeah. Ricky tough love. It's important. Yeah. And you know what I feel I really, really sorry more so than ever because I haven't become a a parent.

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You know, there's people I've sort of talked to the kids and I talk to about their friends. I'm always interested about what's gone on their friends not prying. It's not like that. I'm just wondering what other people's dynamics are like. And, you know, there's just other kids don't have it that easy and they and their single parent families and yeah, it's tough.

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It's hard being a dad. It's really hard being mum and dad. Almost impossible I think. Yeah. So tough for single parent mums out there. Single family, single single parent kids. And especially for your mum. I have a dad. You can you can kind of be the authoritarian and you live, you create that kind of household. But the kids are then missing that kind of softness and warmth of their mother.

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You know, what you've got with you and your wife is I think it's about as good as you can get. Whereas she's going to be the mum, and I want them to be comforted, and you're going to be the guys has to do the tough bit, which is say no, but yeah, yeah. Boundary Rick, they've got both things.

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They've got the lovely mum who tries to make their life as good as easy as possible and then you've got the dad is like fuck that. Yeah, do the work, do the work. And then also because I do play like, you know, the bad cop sometimes I like to switch it, keep them on one side and play the good cop when I can hear their mum having a go, or digging them out.

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Yeah, I like I say girls come to the front room and then we'll. How can I get a blanket? And I'll be like, she's such a which she always. And then you walk into the room and I'll go, yeah the wick and they'll do it. And then she gets even more. I take, they're on my side. Yeah, yeah.

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I love it that and that nobody does break the ice because it's just funny that I like being in, there is nothing more fun in a house out where it is just full of laughter and take it about. Yeah, that's that's that's what my life is. Yeah. Just taking about, Is it good? Is it good?

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As good as.

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Good. The night hazy like Band of brothers playing tunes. Highs quiet. Midnight waves. Surfing free till daylight breaks. Rhythm of different ways. Love of music I we prayed with our tongues in cheek. Band is I, we like to speak and yeah, times change. But no matter what the bond remains. Promise. Hello and welcome to of anonymous is episode 68 I Ricky he's flav till your best mate.

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One main topic we answer your life dilemmas and confessions and our feature something only you know. And everything remains anonymous. Always. So sit back, relax and enjoy the pod. How's it going, Flav? Yeah. Oh, good. Good. Yeah. Everything's. Everything's fine. May been nothing to report. Really. All good. Yeah. Same. I I'm going to say something which is pretty British.

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Oh, yeah. Have you noticed the weather has become pretty mild over the last couple of days? This week has been agony. It's been agony. It's nice. It's like sometimes, I don't know, it's like been getting a dig in the face every single time we leave the house. Yeah. I quite like the cold, Rick. I'm a more of a win a guy.

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Fuck that. Yesterday it was. It was mild in comparison. And I went out and gleefully it was it was like 14 degrees. And today I've been out for a walk as well. And it was, again, very mild, I think winter I think it's changing. I think winter. Yeah. Fort Wayne, Ma, let's just maybe there's nothing better than autumn or when autumn comes around for me is like, yeah, I can put my jackets on now and it the autumn's my favorite month hands down is wow.

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Yeah. It's beautiful like when you the colors of fall or autumn. Yeah yeah yeah I, I agree it's just wonderful. Wouldn't you like to go fishing in in autumn. It's got to be the best. Yeah. It is the best for fishing because that's when. When are we going to start feeding hot. Well, kind of high rate. We've known each other since 2003.

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With net, we're never going to go fishing. We are 100%. We are going to go fishing. But who is? Well that's good. I will take you. And then, Charlie is going to come as well. I mean, chances, but I know what's going to happen. We're going to make, we're making a little sort of by the River documentary on me.

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Yeah, yeah. That's right. Of course we're going to be doing a couple of those as well. So we are definitely 100% going to go. Someone actually, messaged yesterday on Instagram saying, where can I watch, yours and fly fishing videos? I'd love to see them as I make them come. They're coming. We've got to do it first.

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Yeah, you tell me where to go and I'll drive it. May. Oh, yeah. I want to fish Pike. I don't want to fish, I want to I don't I'm not bothered about a little chub. Right. I'm not bothered about that. I want some big scary pike and I ought to catch. I don't think they're that hard to catch, but they're fucking scary.

00:29:17:08 – 00:29:42:08
Me? Nicole basically, yeah they do. They attack instantly. There's been rumors that like little, little Yorkshire terriers, guy paddling fucking taken. Yeah, I know it's nature and it's nature. You don't want nature in the park, though. Nature in the Serengeti is fine. Yeah, that's what it's like to happen, not nature in the park. Temple Pike taking away little dogs.

00:29:42:10 – 00:30:07:00
I do watch those, follow a couple of Instagram accounts and where it is in, you know, a safari in Africa somewhere, or whether it be in India in some kind of rain forest and where animals gang up on each other and they start ripping each other to shreds. It's it's pretty, you know, I can watch a lot of stuff.

00:30:07:05 – 00:30:28:03
I don't like that. Some of that stuff is pretty intense, man. Like, there's a there's an animal, like, it's fully alive. It's fucked. It's lying on the floor, and hyenas are just eating its stomach there. Yeah, it's like fucking. This is wild, man. I struggle with nature. I struggle with that. I may I saw something or I post it in the group today.

00:30:28:05 – 00:30:51:22
Two tiger. Sand tiger sharks. Graner sharks. They're just they're pretty. Those are the ones you see in aquariums, actually, that they're one of the few shots that I can live in captivity. You saw that video? I posted that by any other. I sent them make a DJ. Yeah. Said to me already. Yeah. I haven't seen that. It's amazing though.

00:30:51:22 – 00:31:18:01
Anyway, so it's two great Nerf sharks biting each other and they get into a is called tonic immobility. And it happens in sharks. It might happen to other animals. And essentially if they they they they get in, put in a certain position and they become immobile. So there's a famous bit of footage of this guy finding a tiger shark on the surface of the water, and it's upside down, it's belly up.

00:31:18:03 – 00:31:42:13
And you think that's dead? It's not dead. It's it's it's in tonic immobility. I don't know why. I don't know what it does. Was it functions. Yeah. And it's these two shots of beating each other that are just turning in the current. And then both of them are like passed out. That's fucking imagine it. Like, I've seen people like swimming with sharks and they grab them, not grab them, but they kind of maneuver them on their back.

00:31:42:15 – 00:31:53:14
And then they it's just in this paralysis state, they're still alive, but they're just not not moving, not doing anything. Fucking madness.

00:31:53:16 – 00:31:54:00
Well.