#121 | Religion | Faith, Finding Peace & Blasphemy

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I am as a as a good son. Helped my my old man out yesterday. So I for 45 minutes where he lives in Aylesbury drive over there, I drove him. What? In my car. I got it back from the garage. Yeah, I got it back yesterday. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is it? Oh, mate, the exchange was fucking mental.

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I'm still gobsmacked over it, so I went, I shackle him, I said is that right to collect it? And he said yeah fine, come down. So I went down at about half eight, nine to go and collect it. And he goes, he printed off the, the kind of services that I've done. And he said, have a look at that.

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Just loads of stuff that I didn't really understand. And that I was like, okay, that's fine, 899 pounds. Okay. That's fine. And I said, oh, that's great, thank you. And he goes, not really though, is it, mate?

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Also what. And he goes, I say 199. So I put my card in the machine, paid it. It gave me my key. And they said the car's down the bottom of the car park. See you later. That was it. He's annoyed with you? Yeah. What? What? Why is he annoyed with me? Why is it my fault they don't understand what I've done.

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You've gone in a brochure? Yeah. Now everyone else does. And he hasn't fix it. Well, he has fixed it eventually. Be hated doing the job. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's exactly. Yeah. So. So I'm just thinking about from his perspective. Yeah. Knowing you. Yeah. Is there a chance that you badgered him?

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Like every every two days I'll ring back and say, is there is there an update? Have you have you ordered the parts? Have you found the parts where. What what? We do this this is six weeks, by the way. Six weeks. Okay. Yeah. So it's not like I'm fucking asking the world. I thought I'd leave it for three days.

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And in this six weeks, he never rang me once, not once, to say, we've got the parts. We found the parts I bought, the parts. I rang master nothing. It was me calling him because otherwise I'd never get an update. He's 20 phone calls in six weeks. And too many or too few or fine. I probably it probably wouldn't be.

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It wouldn't have been 20 because I gave up towards the end every other day. You said to begin with, Rick. Think he's the call? Fine. Now. It's it's it drove fine for the 45 minutes and it drove fine. I'm coming back as well. So now it's time to. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. That sounds like a much better story.

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Yeah. So I was at my dad's, and, I've been living there for years, and he's always ask me to go around and help for some, some reason or another. He wanted me to when his Mrs. was away. He wanted me to help him out so that when she comes back, there's the big surprise of all this work has been done in the house.

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And I was like, okay, that's fine. She's away at the moment. So I went round there and first thing he's where he's living that the the internet connection is terrible. So I said to him, if you got the, if you've got your Wi-Fi password handy. Yeah. One one minute. And that's, you know people that a lot much got his glasses out I'm finding stuff and on his computer desk.

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Old school tower, computer desk. And he's like, got, a pack of playing cards, almost beige sheets of paper, where he's handwritten, like Wi-Fi password. Yeah, gas and electricity, all of that. But that doesn't have up sheets of paper. He's not that bad, but he does have a yeah, a notebook that he keeps in a drawer with all his passwords written down on every.

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So I know some basic grounds. They've got everything they know. I know they got everything. But if you lose any of this, you're fucked as well. Can't get into his bank. Probably can't. Even drives. Thought the amount of times if it's a reset password for him is unreal. Yeah. Bless him. So I know I was just that.

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Okay, this is just, you know, when my kids grow up, I'm going to be doing something similar, and you just accept it. That's fine. And I said to him, can you write me out a list of stuff to do so that we know so that I use my time really well and God bless him. He wrote out a list.

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Oh, was that brilliant? So when I messaged him, I said, do you need me to bring anything? And he he just write drill. That was it. So I thought okay then support mature with me. Yeah. And then got round there and I, you know I thought the drill would just be for, you know, screwing things in or something.

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I put the shelf up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, I said, it was putting a mirror up. Have you got a spirit level? No. Okay, so I'll have to eyeball this and then, then, ask him loads of different things. Have you got any aero plugs? So I could know? Okay, you know what? I'm putting this mirror up.

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You know, the metal things that go into the wall screws. Do you have any of those? Not, Are we going to have to go to bed? That. And he was, It just looked at me like it really saw your face is like. Yeah, I think we better. And I was like, that's fine. Yeah. I'll, I'll do this thing, feed that.

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And he had loads of boxes in his spare room. He's got a bit, he's got a single bed in there for that's flat against the wall, because there's so many boxes on the lot. Is this still the same room that you stayed in when you said they moved? No. They moved. Yeah. Moved from Harrow to Aylesbury. So his spare room there is a single bed in there, but it's sideways against against the wall, flat against what's in the boxes.

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And all the boxes. Right. We went through these boxes and loads of VHS tapes. Absolutely loads and loads of tapes as well. No no no no no no, nothing nothing. I found a couple of Tottenham ones, loads of books as well, but we found a well, I found loads of boxes and you know, I've told this story in the book before, but I didn't know to this extent.

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So my dad would always buy me, minted coins, celebrations, royal families that would be worth money one day. Boy. Yeah, well, you keep out of that. But then I found loads of these, Japanese plates that are made from some company printed or produced or whatever. I said, dad, what what were these plates? And he was like, it's one of those things that is bought limited edition.

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Rick. One day from a magazine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. From like, it's not going to be worth anything. No, no, no, I was just that dad. Right. If anything happens to you and I have to sort this stuff out, it's going straight in the skip. Don't you dare. Don't you dare. He goes. You look on eBay right now like you tell me how much these flakes are left.

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And I was like, I, I've gone through one. I found $113 and I was like, oh, right, okay, but am I going to be able to go through and like list all these plates for 13? Don't tell him, man. It just hurts. And and then release it. So we were going for it and we got all these boxes from under the stairs, put them in the loft in the spare room, put them in the loft.

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Got his single bed out, put it flat. Two sideboard, drawers next to it. And the wardrobe, everything is looking really smart now. Lovely. Then he got to the DIY bit, put up a mirror and I was like, right, dad, I'm here. I'm really here. Is there anything else that you need me to do? And he'd run upstairs and he like come up here X, I ran upstairs with him.

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I'm here. Put in the bathroom. Yeah. And you know, the, the toilet roll holder. Yeah. Like it's really loose that. Can you sort that I said. Right. So what did you say? You handed in your daddy's. Oh fucking oh like that. Yeah. He hasn't got a clue hasn't it. Okay. So went and tightened up, redone the drill for the toilet roll holder.

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I was like, anything else. He said yeah. Come here. So I went into his en suite number. Toilet rod holder hanging off waiting there, coming in the house. I was scrubbing the toilet. It wasn't what they're asking. I said, there is loads and loads of stuff like that that I did. Putting up a new, fire alarm for him.

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All different things like that. Felt really good about it helping my dad. But the thing is, right? My dad, he was so kind of like, almost thankful, you know, like a like he was like a Victorian child with the flat cap not looking down. I can't believe he did this for me, Rick. I'm so thankful. And I'm like, oh, dad, I know, son, it works for me and I you have to pay for stuff and bring me up.

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And when it gets to the other side, I do the stuff for you. Yeah, you. That's right. But just probably because you never do anything for him. So he feels like he doesn't want to ask, that's all, mate. Don't fucking say that. That's fine. I tell you what. Mine's the opposite. I'm still guys. My dad again. Please help me.

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Dad, please. Just, Not honestly. My dad is like. I'd be like. Anywho, in a couple of ways. I mean, the better. Quite an eventful week this week, which I won't get into you, but, you know, my dad's. Help me out big time. I couldn't of even have dreamed of being able to move into this house without my dad's help.

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Yeah, but more to that point is. My, kitchen tab that's been in there for about 40 years. It's one of the cheapest. You can still get it in bank, right? It's the cheapest big. Yeah, right. It's just the standard red and blue rings and. Yeah, that's it covered. It's about anyway it's been leaking from. It has a crack.

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This is. How old is this crack down the top of the, top. Yeah. What comes out of when you run the top. It's I see it's an oldie, but we've been so at least been in this house 17 years. Okay, all all of our kids lives. But because we're moving, we don't put any in. It's not our house.

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We don't put any work into it. But we should replace the bathroom. It should be replaced. Yeah, the landlord should replace it, actually. But he's just not. He doesn't give a shit about anything. He. The landlord's 96. Yeah. Henry. He's never been in the house once in 17 years. He's never up the rent. The rent in 600 pound for 17 years.

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Henry needs to sort himself out. He doesn't. What do you see the 96 year old you're looking at down the tunnel. What do you think? He's worried about fucking pulling it out. I don't think he's. I don't think Henry cares about the house. Right. There was one time much we went there. Not to Henry. Right? Yeah. I'll tell you what Henry looks like.

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Right. He is about five foot four, and he is, as wrinkly and old as you could imagine, right? Yeah. Full head of bright white hair. Right. Yeah. And he walks everywhere at the pace of, like, I would say he walks at about point three of a mile per hour. It's just a shuffle, really. And every now and then you see him shuffle to the end of his drive.

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Look out, and then shuffle back. Right. We went round there once and we went, Henry, this would have been about 7 or 8 years ago. Henry, you need you know, you need this this know the. So the house we live in has been so badly put. Skin needs be completely rewired. There's no underlay under the carpets. In fact, there's just carpet on wood.

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You ever put it down? It's. Well, we tore it all up and we just exposed the wood and exposed the wood. But we said something like, we need. We need underlining carpets in the house needs to be warm. And he looked at us like we were crazy and like it was like, I don't even think he spoke a word and just shut the door.

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I'm sorry. Robin never lost Henry for anything. What did I just tap? I thought I'd fixed it. Richard. I thought I'd managed to stop it from leaking because it's pissing water everywhere that I tell you. I was trying to fix this tap. Yeah, yeah. Can I can I just ask you something? You know, when you when you thought that you had fixed the tap.

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Yeah. How could that that feel incredible. I felt like, well, the thing is, is because my dad didn't want to do it because he thought the entire tap had to come off. It was rusted to the sink unit. So you have to take the whole sink unit out. And he was like, I've done this before. It's simple like and the access to the, the nut where you would remove the tap from was obviously rusted together and.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. The way the sink basin is, you can't access. It's stupid anyway. Yeah. Anyway, so he really didn't want to it up and he was like, what? What you need to do is you need to go and get two replacement barrels to place the taps. And try and replace those. And I'm doing it and I'm putting them on and I just can't do it.

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And I just, I'm like I. And then eventually I get it right and it stops leaking and I'm like, oh, I actually got one tap right? And the other one, I just turned off. So we had cold water and and that was at the time that we'll manage with this. We can boil the kettle. We manage this for a couple of weeks for we move and then a couple of days went past and the water just starts dripping again.

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Dripping again. I hadn't done it right. And so that gets around there. And he's like, if you've done all this, have you done everything that you said you were going to do, other than everything to the tea, everything you said and it's not works. The problems, the washers, the washers, the, the all washers, that and he's I saw him start fiddling with the taps and the unreleased the cap and and and then a screw that gave you access to the barrel.

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And as soon as he'd done that, I was like, oh, God, this is gonna work straight away. Because he was doing things he did something that I didn't do immediately is the first thing I should do. Done. And I'm sitting there and that this is going to work, I didn't know, how do you know how I went? So I didn't do what you just did and what you didn't screw the bolt to the thing I was that no, but, you know, I've always got my dad until he's, you know, too infirm to do it.

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Anything like that. He's just. He's fucking brilliant. Like my dad is. So handy. And. And did he fix it? Hey, I saw it. Oh. How do everything. When I was, also with us. The night. See, like, Band of Brothers playing tunes high is quite midnight. Waves surfing through till daylight breaks with them hit us different ways.

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Love of music that we played with our tongues in cheek bangers I we like to speak and yeah, times change. But no matter what the bond remains. Promise. I basically sensed that the jingle was coming up, so I was getting it lined up so I didn't have to search for it. And then I clicked it and played it ring.

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So, there you go. There's a jingle. That's all right. That's so good. Right. Hello. Welcome to lads. Anonymous is episode 121. I'm Ricky, he's flat two best mates. One main topic we answer your life dilemmas in confessions and our feature something only you know. And everything remains anonymous. Always. So sit back, relax and enjoy the pod. Well, I was going to say is, the last thing is, everything my dad kept picking up like that was going in the loft, like everything.

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A pick it up and show it to me, guy when I'm gone. This is yours, right now. Every every single thing. Is that. What. What did you get? Everything. Being the loft. Everything. Every single room is clear. I wanted to get the rooms clear. The downstairs. The bed's down. It was a hoover. Hoovered? Yeah, Hoover it all up.

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Looking fucking great. Like the cupboard under the stairs was fucking packed to the rafters. All of that stuff. All in the loft. Everything's gone. The mirrors up the toilet roof hold. Is it tightened? Fire alarms done. The carbon monoxide thing is done outside. Like, still need to do the outside, like, because we didn't have the right bulb.

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But, you know, we've made we've made a hell of a lot of progress. And he's so happy that when his missus comes home, he said he's not going to tell her anything, he's not going to tell her anything, and he's just going to wait until she goes to use the the downstairs bathroom and then look, and there's a mirror there.

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And then when she goes into the spare room that everything is gone. I mean, she goes into the cupboard of the the stairs, everything is gone. That's lovely. Yeah. You should keep in because you're, whatever you're going to say right now, I don't really want to think about it. Well, how do you know what you. What do you mean?

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Do you think she'll like you? No, no, no, I wouldn't be as crass. Is that. No. I was going to like. Because you're obviously. I don't know her, so I'll just know the brief things you told me back in the day when you would team. Yeah, yeah. Okay. So. So is she going to be, like. I think she will be grateful.

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Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I think she will. I think she'll notice the effort and then, she'll probably say and then she'll say, oh, like you did all this and shit and they'll be like, no, Ricky came round to the and she go, fuck it. Yeah, it's rubbish, this, this bodywork shit. Have you ever, have you had a conversation with her in years?

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Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah it's fine, it's fine. Yeah. What's her name. It's. No I'm not going into that GMC. Oh that's good. So you do your own though. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Everything's fine, everything's fine. Do you know where I'm talking about today? I can't remember it. It is. It's a big one. It's a religion, right?

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Yeah. But before actually before. I'm going to fucking forget this. Right? So last week we did Halloween. Thank you to all the emails that, people sent in someone, right, that I know from my childhood that I grew up with, you know, on the street that I've always spoken about, I was all single mums, and we all kind of looked after each other and a pack of wolves almost.

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He messaged me on the lads and on Instagram account and he said I hope he told the story of. And then he said it and I was like mate, I completely forgot. So what we used to do as kids, Halloween, we would go to all the houses, we would get sweets, but some people didn't have sweets and they weren't prepared.

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So they gave us money. They gave us a pounds. So we remembered the houses that gave us money. We'd go to the bottom of the street and we'd all swap costumes and then go and knock on their doors again, and then they would give us more money. And I totally forgot that we used data as that, as fucking mental analysis that, you know what?

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I need to bring that up. But yeah, that's what we, that's what we used to do. That's quality. And then someone wrote in here in Australia, but it was in Scotland when my wife and I were growing up. We call it Guys in Scotland. And you'd only get any sweets, etcetera, from people's houses if you told a joke, poem or performed a dance.

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I've told my girls this and every year they practice a joke. So in Scotland you've got to do a joke poem or don't you go fucking earn it. That's Halloween, I like that, yeah, I like, I like to cut their jib. And I also for if I get again, I send a message out to, patron. So patron.

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Yeah. Religion. Are you religious though? No, I didn't know. You didn't think. Well, the thing is I don't think so. I have to be careful with what I say here. I was baptized of the Roman Catholic faith when I was growing up. My grandparents on both sides, they were, They were fucking. They loved church. Absolutely mad for church.

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Very religious. And my mum, when she was bringing me up, was quite, she didn't want that for me and my sister. She didn't want the kind of, that way of living, of it all being revolving around church and God. And even though we were Catholic, it was it was less kind of that pressure on us to be getting dressed every Sunday and going to church like she was made to, which is, you know, which is great, really.

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So my grandparents like, I can't remember if I've said this before, but my grandparents in Spain, I would go over there for the six week summer holidays. And while I was there, I was there. My cousins, my grandparents, would obviously go to church every Sunday, but they loved it so much they would go to, a midweek Wednesday service as well.

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And because they wanted to show off their grandchildren, we would have to come out of the church first and we would greet all the elderly people coming out. And now, bearing in mind this is Spain, this is mid-summer of 35 degrees and there is no air conditioning in the church. So all these old people are profusely sweating and I have to kiss them on either side of the cheek.

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So my face is soaking wet and there's a lot of kissing going on, and a lot of Ricardo's going on. So that is kind of like my my memories of growing up with with religion. And did I send you the photo or did I think I gave you a tour of my, grandparents then? Yeah. But in every room, as the old, you will sit.

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Yeah. You would see, yeah. Mary. Jesus, Mary, all of them. All of them. Everyone is all over the villa and at my grand grandparents house as well. Lots of, crucifixes and, you know, a lot of that stuff. So it was quite, prevalent when growing up. But in my life at the moment to say all you I practicing Catholic.

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No, I'm not, but I will still go to church on when I'm supposed to, you know, like weddings or anything like that. So I think that's probably the most religious that the I am at the moment. What about like your what about your grandparents? Yeah. So my nan was sort of religious but never really spoke about. I never went to church, but she believed in God.

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She mentioned it a few times. Like she believed when my granddad died, that he went to heaven, and she's going to meet him later and all that. So there was religion there. My granddad wasn't religious at all on my mum's side. Really. You know, of that generation. You went to church. He was an altar boy when he was, a kid.

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Oh, but it's all kind of. It's just the stuff he did. It wasn't like. It's like going to the youth club, being an old boy. It was. Yeah, it wasn't a thing. When I was younger, my mum. I think when my mum lost my grandmother, the granddad after her, I just talked about being the altar boy. He married Margaret or Betty is actually what she was called, Nanny Betty.

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But her name was Margaret. And, she died when she was 59 and asleep. So she went to bed, mad. Yeah, she went to bed, and my granddad back up, and she had passed away. Mark B, my mum was 29 and I was a year old, and so, I think, in the brief times I, we do talk about that time, I've spoken to my mum a lot about it and, and how difficult she found it.

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And she spent a lot of time after that looking for, I think, looking for an answer or looking for a point of this. Yeah, I think she lost a lot of hope in or understanding or comfort in just existing. And she wanted to find that there was a point that perhaps her mum had gone somewhere, that she hadn't just died without being able to say goodbye.

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And there was a plan. So I remember as a kid, very young going, ended up going to churches and stuff like that with her. Yeah, I remember that. Like not vividly, but like in they may not even be true. I don't know what I'm remembering, but I remember I might ask her about this after after that. But, in the conversations we had previously, I think she's mentioned this before, that she was looking for something.

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And then she. And then so she met she ended up meeting a man with my little brothers that that Alex meeting. Yeah. Him. Norman, his name was. And he was very spiritual. But not in the conventional sense. He was into, what would you call it? I would say more paganism, right? Yeah, yeah. So I'd move to ancient religion.

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Before Christianity, there was the paganism was one of the most widespread, religions across Europe and probably the world, but definitely Europe. Yeah. And now it's kind of much derided and considered very of the old age. There are lots of people that still kind of believe in spiritualism and, and runes and reading of palms and tarot and all this sort of stuff.

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So I grew up around that a lot. So while it wasn't conventional religion, I had that in my life. And, you know, to talk about the other world and gods and, and it wasn't constant every day, but it was just in the peripheries, another axis that would would he his trade was palm reading. So people would come to the house to have their palms read, and he would offer them guidance.

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Oh, wow. Yeah. That was so. It would be people coming into the house all the time. And he had an office, or it was more like a. It was more what's the what when you said palm reader, and then imagine a room that they would sit in and all the paraphernalia, it was like that. So it was lots of interesting objects and Egyptian stuff and a like a little flier in the corner of the room.

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And, and I remember thinking that was really special room. Like it was almost like sacred. Yeah. Like I'm making it sound like a fucking cult. It wasn't like that, but it was. It was like, that's where he did his work, right? So it was like an it was like the patriarch in the room, in the house that was their office.

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And as a kid, you wouldn't spend time in your dad's office typically. Right. You wouldn't talk about in there. Right. So, so, yeah. So we would, for about and for years. But the so, so that would, that would be where he would work. And he would write a lot and stuff like that. So there was that, that was definitely spiritual.

00:28:02:14 – 00:28:29:23
That was definitely, otherworldly and, religious space. Just not in the conventional sense. Yeah. And. And so, so the, the link between that and what my mum had said before is that perhaps my mum found in his belief system something that gave her answers, and then they formed the relationship. And then they had my little brother and they were together until he passed away.

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Which was about ten years ago now. And so there was this, there was, there was, there was this constant thing. And then there was a kid. I was quite afraid of it. I was scared because it's a very open conversation about, like, ghosts and spirits and shit like that. Yeah, I can imagine. Yeah. And so I as a kid, I was like, that's scary.

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But my mum was always there. It's nothing to be scared of and all that shit. I might you when you leave the room. I'm, I'm on my own. So you can say what you want. And and but but all through it, really, I never believed in it. I didn't believe it was true. And I'm still. I still don't believe it was true.

00:29:10:10 – 00:29:32:10
And so I believe in my mum's spiritualism and my little brother as well. Is he, he, he you've seen he's, he's Instagram. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Go, go and follow him on. Well he's got a few now, but wellness punk's a good one. There's an Instagram he set up and he talks a lot about this stuff, about spiritualism, but also about, like giving life lessons and, and he does a lot of work with runes.

00:29:32:10 – 00:29:53:23
Right. To him. That is absolute truth for me. It's just to far. I can't accept that that can be true, but I'm fully respectful. Obviously, I wouldn't never disrespect anybody for being religious. So yeah, I, I grew up around that, but I never believed it and I still don't to I don't believe there's any divinity out there.

00:29:54:00 – 00:30:31:15
Wow. That's really interesting because I thought, like, I was kind of expecting that obviously set that mum little brother, and like, what they practice and, you know, slightly alternative that I would have thought it kind of, it would have rubbed off on you to a degree that you would have found some kind of, believed in something like something not maybe not like a god or like, an energy or, something that drives you or, I don't know.

00:30:31:17 – 00:30:55:03
No, I think it's the least likely of the, But when it just didn't make sense to me to like my. I think less about it being true is about how does your brain work? And so I'm not saying it isn't true, but just the way my brain is constructed and the way I think about things, but also probably my social upbringing as well outside of that house.

00:30:55:05 – 00:31:15:01
Because remember, I lived with my dad, I didn't live there. I lived with my dad. So most of the week was spent with my dad, is much more practical, doesn't believe in God. So maybe that was where my influences come from. But I feel like I need to see and view something. See, it's behavior, and analyze it in order to get to the point where I can believe it.

00:31:15:03 – 00:31:42:12
I'm not saying that, there is no God. I'm saying it just feels like the least likely explanation to all of this. And if I can't believe in a God, then I can't believe in a religion. So I am, I am. I spent a lot of time wishing I did. I know that. So like, have you ever have you ever prayed like as a as a kid or an adult?

00:31:42:12 – 00:32:09:01
I prayed, I used to pray to my dead relatives right? Because I knew that they existed. Right. Okay. Yeah. So if I needed something, I'd ask them. Right. Yeah. That, Yeah. That I told you about the gross. Yeah, I didn't I, I used to say to my landlord, sort me out, don't let the ghost get me because she was deaf as well and all.

00:32:09:02 – 00:32:25:13
Everybody that died in my family, I would I would roll them off in my head before going to sleep. Please protect me while I slept. I was only eight, 7 or 8 years old. Maybe ten. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I would pray to them, but I wouldn't pray to God I would said it like so. Please, let's be awesome.

00:32:25:13 – 00:32:49:24
Please God, let's be awesome. But I don't see I'm actually thinking about God when I say it. It's just an expression that I mean, there are times where, where I and it's always around around football, where I'm in the middle of the match and I just stare up at the sky and I'm like, just whatever you have, wherever there is a belief, I don't know what what it is, but please help us.

00:32:50:01 – 00:33:24:02
Please let's school this go up. Going of, me being a bully, right. I, I've got an example actually. So I went to church last Sunday. Went to church last Sunday. It was a remembrance service for people that have passed my, on an uncle. So my cousin passed away, three years ago, and he was kind of at the center of our family.

00:33:24:02 – 00:33:56:09
He, had disabilities. And when he was younger, he was just a normal child running around, shut down by this illness. And they they they kind of didn't predict that he would last long at all. And he lasted, like into late 40s, maybe even 50. I, you know, I think of me I can't remember. But he was the, the center of our family and he, he passed away.

00:33:56:11 – 00:34:31:02
So I went to this remembrance service with my aunt and uncle and brought my family and stuff, and seeing your family like my cousins as well, seeing them in so much pain, like pain that you can't even imagine pain, of losing someone and the whole family. Losing someone. It's just it's really hard to kind of, process how you how you navigate that as a human right.

00:34:31:04 – 00:34:59:16
But when we were at this service, after they had, you know, showed immense emotion being there, there was this I don't know what it was, man, but it's almost like after the service and when we sang and did the hymns and looked up, the sun was shining through the stained glass windows and it was almost like a kind of, like a cleansing of the soul.

00:34:59:18 – 00:35:40:03
It's just so strange. And it wasn't like the they, they were right or they forgot, but it was like they were they had energy back. You know, it's such a weird thing to try and put into words, but they were broken at the beginning of the service, as you would imagine, and everyone's trying to comfort them. But then after it was like everything was out in the the Lord, whatever was, was in and there's this there was a kind of an inner peace for them that gave them reprieve from the pain that they were feeling and will will continue to feel.

00:35:40:04 – 00:35:52:15
But like through that, I find that so comforting, even though I'm not in that place as in.

00:35:52:17 – 00:36:38:00
I don't know, like they were some people, they actually say, okay, some there are loads of people that are nonbelievers. Non practices non anything. And then something comes along in their life and then they believers or maybe not even believers. But when I was in that church. Right. And the, solitude, the quietness, the the kind of the, the even the architecture of the church seeing the, you know, the old joints in the wooden roof and the stained glass windows and the old artifacts around and church pews, the smell, it was like I found an inner peace.

00:36:38:02 – 00:37:04:19
And it was beautiful. It was it was, you know, there's no mobile phone, nothing. You were just there to sit and ruminate with your thoughts and think about the people that have passed and stuff. So I understand why people go to church and how they find God and how they, yeah, use it as a coping mechanism. It's like, I don't know, I just thought, that is lovely work.

00:37:04:23 – 00:37:28:13
And, I would never say anything to take that away. And actually, you know, what you experienced is true because I think whenever people find religion, it's generally within themselves, through experience and through information they receive. And so that is a wonderful thing. And there are people out there that are so much more intelligent than me who are religious, you know?

00:37:28:13 – 00:38:00:03
So I'm not coming from this a place of like kind of where Richard Dawkins and, and Ricky Gervais come from, where there's a sneering ness towards religion. Yeah, yeah. You know, I, I like both people. I like, listen to them talk, but they're definite sneering about them. And I believe their motives are good, right? They want people to sit in to enjoy what they have right now, rather than celebrating something that probably isn't going to come next.

00:38:00:06 – 00:38:23:07
If, by their own reckoning. So, yeah, I mean, I remember walking when I was walking around Rome with the missus. We just kept finding churches down streets. Unsuspectingly beautiful buildings. Yeah, just tucked away like it was just like. Which is one of the most incredible things about Rome. And I didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I did.

00:38:23:09 – 00:38:43:21
But you turn a corner and there's just is a narrow street, and it's a just a massive church, like, in the wall. And you go, it is, this is incredible. And it's almost it's almost where some churches in the world are kind of a bit ostentatious, more like where we celebrate. But it's just this is incredible. And obviously Rome's a Catholic country, sort of Catholics.

00:38:43:23 – 00:39:10:03
It's about all of all of, it's all Catholic in this city, isn't it? So, yeah, these incredible places were tucked away, and the peace within them when you walked in, it was almost like you could breathe in. It felt different being there and being outside and if. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you're predisposed to the idea that religion is real, then you could definitely attach that piece to a divine yeah force.

00:39:10:05 – 00:39:13:01
So.

00:39:13:03 – 00:39:50:22
Yeah. It's interesting. I mean, look, it also, without being trite, but it if we create an animal that didn't exist through a lab process. Process? Yeah. Thank God he's real, isn't he? Because we are him. We are. We have created life. So in fact, it might be that. Whatever created this, or if it was a genetic mistake or if it was evolution gone.

00:39:50:22 – 00:40:10:09
Mental something, was it the beginning? Yeah. So for Dolly the sheep and Dolly the sheep, other than Dolly sheep was a it was a clone, wasn't it? Right. Yeah. But come from another sheep. Maybe that's a bad example, but there would be a time where we would be able to grow a sentient being. Whatever bio, whatever. So we become God.

00:40:10:09 – 00:40:30:18
We've created God on earth. But the one thing that I can't answer is how this what we are right now came to be. And I can't answer it because people are much, much clever and me haven't been out to figure it out and tell me. Yeah. So it's not like I'm trying to figure out, like I don't give a shit, really.

00:40:30:21 – 00:40:56:19
I'm not to be. Podcasting makes okay, but but but you know what I'm saying, Rick, is it's like, I can't I don't know where it's come from and science can't explain it yet. But what happens when science can't explain it? People fill that vacuum with religion. Yeah. And then more and more, the science begins to understand less and less religion can you can be used to explain it like I don't.

00:40:56:19 – 00:41:19:10
This is a true example anymore. When I was growing up, it was apparently said that bumblebees shouldn't be able to fly given their body mass and their wingspan. I believe that, and I tell everyone that fact is, is it still please tell me. I don't know, but I it's one of those things that I've heard that I'm so stunned by, that I still just tell everyone when I see a bumblebee and I'm like, yeah, that's that's real.

00:41:19:12 – 00:41:39:00
Yeah. So that that would be a great example of God would be about so science can't explain it, but God can. But I'm sure by now science has explained how a bumblebee can fly. I just don't I haven't looked it up, but I can. Yeah, that's that's that's quite interesting actually. So with the,

00:41:39:02 – 00:42:00:22
Science obviously. So I but by the sounds of it, you, very much believe in, in science. How can you not believe in it? No, I know, I know, but I'm just saying anybody that instead of being more religious that you're more scientifically led. I'm just I can see it, so I can. Therefore, I can believe it.

00:42:00:24 – 00:42:29:08
What you're asking me to do it with religion is believing something that is completely faith based. Yeah, I can't, I need to see and feel. I believe this crap for my cup exists because I can see it and hold it. I don't believe this pink hat that isn't in my hand exists. I can't see and hold it. No go Garrett going on to that right I so we're just obviously this is, a podcast about religion not taking the piss or anything like that.

00:42:29:08 – 00:43:01:13
And we've just mentioned about science based things and the believe in and, you know, both of us really that the belief of the physicality of things and science and stuff. So Noah's Ark is in the Bible, a global flood that covers the earth. One man saves pairs of every animal species on a massive wooden ark. I mean, I know, to be fair, I think that's Old Testament, though, isn't it?

00:43:01:15 – 00:43:26:17
It says Genesis 6 to 9 here. Yeah, that's I don't know what's Old Testament or New Testament. The Old Testament is Genesis and that sort of stuff, and those sort of fantastical stories about that stuff. Whereas New Testament is Adam, Luke, John, Paul, when I haven't I'm not studied in Christianity in the text, but Old Testament is a bit mental and everyone understands it's a bit mental.

00:43:26:19 – 00:43:47:24
New Testament okay, the story of Jesus and his disciples and shit like that. Noah and Jesus didn't live in the same book, as I understand. So it's like, oh, I didn't know The Hobbit and Lord of the rings. The different, yeah. No. So that's so. Yeah, yeah. So the idea, the practical, the practical, when I guess that story of Noah is brilliant story, by the way.

00:43:47:24 – 00:44:08:14
Yeah, yeah, yeah. When the story of Noah was written, I imagine people weren't really too skeptical or wouldn't think about it too much. It was served a purpose, right? Yeah. Told you it told them a story, a narrative or something that, you know, about the message and about what? No. He was trying to do in is important for that fact alone.

00:44:08:16 – 00:44:47:12
You can't have a fucking a gazelle and a lion in the same boat. No. It night that boat would never leave the dock. It would be fucking mayhem. There's no way there'd be Disney within a 3 or 4 days. A disease that B shits everywhere. Just. Yeah, it it it can work. And then. Yeah, I've got a couple of others here that I just thought I'd mention that I will because I was looking through and I saw, I don't know, you know, with now Jonah is swallowed by a great fish and survives in its belly for three days before being spat out alive.

00:44:47:18 – 00:45:09:16
Now, I've seen stuff on the internet where whales eat men in canoes or people in canoes, and then. But they're spat out. I mean, but that's not a religious text. That's Moby Dick. Well, it says Jonah in the Great Fish book of Jonah, apparently. I said, I don't know if that's what Moby Dick's based on. I don't know, I, I'm sure, I'm sure Moby Dick, great fish is Moby Dick.

00:45:09:18 – 00:45:30:21
I don't know, maybe I've just quoted. Maybe they are going to be might I might be one of us is wrong. But does it? That does sound like Moby Dick. But this is this is religious text that either. Apparently it is. It is, it is in the religious text. Yeah. Okay. Good. It, Mary Dick was based on it.

00:45:30:21 – 00:45:55:11
I don't know, but one of them was based on the know. The, the one is. Well, you know, Jesus rise is dead after three days and appears to, you know, many witnesses that Mary is, can see Jesus through the Holy Spirit. No sexual intercourse. There are a lot of things that I'm, you know, you read through the Bible.

00:45:55:11 – 00:46:15:12
I'm just a bit light. It's part of the reason why I'm still. I'm Tim scratching, you know? I mean, where it's like, that's science based. And and I get these all have a purpose. And in not everything is literal as well. You know, some of it has an alternative meaning. But how this is how these stories are passed down.

00:46:15:12 – 00:46:40:12
And I think it's like changing the stories. But there's also it's like a code to live by, isn't it? It's it's a way to, to, to to believe. It's something to follow. It's, a book to hold principle against. Right. Christianity has this. You see it. Christians with straps around their wrists say Wwjd? What would Jesus do to remind them?

00:46:40:12 – 00:47:00:16
Well, you know that that's like, no, it's like an acronym of what would Jesus do? But you see, you'll often see if you see someone with that, that means that kind of that the entrenched in their Christianity. Wow. I didn't know that. Yeah. So I mean, yeah, I don't think you need to take the Bible either the Old Testament or the New Testament.

00:47:00:18 – 00:47:21:07
Literally, you just learn lessons from it. And I don't think that or the Koran or any other book depends on how people want to interpret it. Right. So it's it's the principles to be followed by, but I for a long time I was, I, I went through a process where I wished I could believe and had faith.

00:47:21:09 – 00:47:40:15
Yeah. Like when I struggled with sort of had like existential crisis and stuff like that when in my 20s. Yeah. I was like, it would be so much easier if I just believed what the point of all this was. And, you know, I can't believe that's the thing with faith, if you believe it is true or isn't, that's the thing.

00:47:40:17 – 00:47:54:01
So you can't just manufacture and pretend, there's a couple of things, though. That was while I don't need religion any more now. Yeah. Is.

00:47:54:03 – 00:48:20:02
Because this fact, this is one fact I can say. Right. Okay. That when I die. Yeah. I am either going to if there is an afterlife, wake up instantly or I'm not going to, but the time space for me is exactly the same. It's instant or it's not. Either way, I won't be aware of it. But if it is instant, close my eyes.

00:48:20:04 – 00:48:50:02
Even if I'm reimagined a thousand years later, for me, it will happen in an instant. When you get right, when you get knocked out, when your brain stops functioning, when you are put on the anesthetic, yeah, you wake up. It feels like seconds with exact same thing when you're dead. So if there is an afterlife, while no instantly, if there isn't an afterlife, I won't know instantly, but I will only be able to conceive of time, so it won't matter.

00:48:50:04 – 00:49:13:14
There's nothing scary about that. And if there is an afterlife, I'm waking up straight away. Boy, you probably wouldn't even know that in your memory. Well, so yeah, you wouldn't know anyway. Yeah, you remember it or you don't remember it, I don't know, I mean, I listened to the telepathy tapes, which did give me pause up. Yeah, I yeah, right.

00:49:13:14 – 00:49:46:07
I need to I need to remember that because I really wanted to listen to that. Yeah. It did give me pause for for and that is, it's essentially about the fact that, it mainly focused on people on the autistic spectrum with a special focus to non-verbal autistic people. Yeah. And the idea was that they were able to communicate through telepathic telepathy with certain people, and they found that they, the mother and the son, could communicate with each other.

00:49:46:09 – 00:50:16:06
And through, images or words or numbers. And they put these they put in scientific tests to prove whether or not it was true, like you would have the child, the autistic child, non-verbal child in one room and the mother in another room. And then they would do these tests like, what am I looking at is a red apple and the and the and the mum would pick a red apple and they do these tests and you listen to these tests and they're like nail it, they nail it.

00:50:16:06 – 00:50:41:14
And then it gets more difficult. Like write this number down is ten sequence number impossible to just random. They call a random yeah. App on on on on iPad. And so they, they asked the autistic child to read the number out and the mother gets it and you listen to it and you like what? Like how? Yeah.

00:50:41:16 – 00:51:06:03
How is that what you're saying to me is like, the telepathy exists. That's magic. What you're showing to me is what I've been missing in that. I can see the results. You're testing this. These are the results. And then it goes on. And then it gets to this point where they make a discussion and not. It's ruining any, any of this because it's.

00:51:06:05 – 00:51:31:21
But to autistic people, non-verbal autistic people can communicate with each other and they don't even need to be in the same room, the same building, the same state, the same country. They go to this place where they they can exist on a, on a psychic level, and they talk to each other and they prove this using on the telepathy tapes by interviewing people.

00:51:31:23 – 00:52:03:19
And I'm like, this is so unbelievable. Like, this is incredible. You are there is messages being relayed between people and their carers and there's no way that these people could understand or know this information. Yeah. And I'm like blown away by this. And then I'm not. Because they're all in on it. They have to be. What do you mean it's all apply.

00:52:03:21 – 00:52:31:12
It's all. They make this number ghost watch. Yeah. Yeah. Unfortunately. Yeah. Thanks for watching, guys. Watch A War of the worlds. They made that sound when water was broadcast, people were having panic attacks on the street. They thought that the aliens had landed, never attacking. And they they they presented this as a, the word about a thing, as I understand it starts with a broadcast about aliens landing.

00:52:31:14 – 00:52:56:16
Everyone run for cover, but they it was played on radio, so people thought that the broadcast on a water world was the radio. Yeah, yeah. And and so they're listening to this, and the Martians attacking the radio and everyone dying, and people are losing their minds in their home, thinking that the aliens, the Martians had arrived. And I just think that I can't believe it.

00:52:56:16 – 00:53:17:17
So it must be that it's all nonsense. It's all a part of a product. But I might be wrong. I don't believe that autistic people all meet in a psychic plane and talk to each other. I can't believe that. I hope it's true. And if it's true, then you have to change completely about how you think about everything because you say something else.

00:53:17:19 – 00:53:37:23
There's some somewhere we can exist outside of our bodies. And that's fascinating. This is true. I'll be buzzing for that. But I want you. Can you just say that I felt like I believe like that. There is not. That is easily influence on me. That's the thing. Yeah I am, yeah for sure. So my I was make listen to it.

00:53:37:23 – 00:53:53:22
Listen to the telepathy tape. My problem with it was the woman was the woman who narrated it was two into it. She was she should have been impartial. And she claims she was impartial and she wasn't. She wanted to believe all of it, which is fine. So I listen, see what you think. Yeah, yeah, I will day.

00:53:54:03 – 00:54:24:05
Right. We are going to jump across two dilemmas and to something none of you know. The topic for next week is alternative living. So lifestyles that departs from mainstream norms, often emphasizing sustainability, community self-sufficiency, simplicity or spiritual freedom. So that's like off the grid living, tiny house living. Have you seen those tiny houses people live in? I've seen George Clarkson's Amazing spaces, is what we're talking about.

00:54:24:07 – 00:54:54:02
I mean, it's it's akin to that, but this is even more fucking tiny spaces. Van ensured it. She made a house out of a skip because skips a temporary object. Yeah, it doesn't have to pay any council tax. I did see that. That's good. They. So this all that. I mean there's so much fucking alternative living now. I hadn't even realized I was even listening to this morning and, ancestral living now, ancestral living is what, the Liver King does.

00:54:54:04 – 00:55:20:07
Social media star. The liver king of goes out feet. In. I've watched the documentary about him now, I didn't, you know, like he's massive. Yeah, yeah, yeah, like fucking unit like. And everyone was saying insane, insane. He's got on all I do is eat raw food, raw vegetables, a train like a dog and bull vegetables. And people in the industry body burning just like,

00:55:20:09 – 00:55:43:14
And he's like, yeah. He's, they're like, sounds like full of steroids. Loads of steroids for years. Absolutely full to the fucking gills of hormones and bloody steroids. Can't like you can't kid. Someone who understands the shape of body and how you achieve it like this and like isn't possible. Like, sometimes you see these fitness guys.

00:55:43:14 – 00:56:05:09
Maybe we should do an episode on that, on the fitness guys. But you see him and they're like, they train every day and they've got lovely physiques that when I would dream to have but don't have the application to, to achieve. But they've got great physiques, but they're not ripped, but they think, you know. Oh yeah, you friend case, unless you use a steroid and be listen to this live.

00:56:05:11 – 00:56:21:02
Unless you got banned on steroids and he's never told any of us because he's body. Do you remember when we had that night out, I mean, yeah. And he pulled up and he got a bit touchy feely and he got his muscles out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I, we kept getting him to get his muscles out as well and lift weights.

00:56:21:04 – 00:56:44:14
He's got a washboard stomach. This, he's, he's, he's like zero fat. It look like I always say this to him. It looked like he was in pain because he was having to tense. He wasn't tense. His muscles, but it looked like he was tensing them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was madness. Like. And his body looks like he's like, surely like people might think he's on the stats.

00:56:44:16 – 00:57:08:06
Oh, yeah. Completely. But yeah, but he just has a diet of 16 chicken breasts a day. Sunday. Spokeswoman nine poached eggs. And for four fucking chicken breasts. So yeah, we're going to be talking about, alternative living next week. So if you've got I mean like if you know any. Oh, actually we do know someone that lives on a canal by.

00:57:08:08 – 00:57:38:15
So message us in, what about you? You know what? God crossbowmen. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For sure I do it. Maybe we can do a podcast on this canal boat if you drive. Kind of take. Oh, yeah, that'd be quality, actually. Do you know what? This morning I was walking along the canal, and, I was walking neck and neck with this canal boat as it was moving along.

00:57:38:17 – 00:57:55:24
And then I started beating it, and then I left it for just how fast do they go? How fast do I walk? I wasn't that well. Wasn't that top speed? They can't, because obviously the only damage the banks is a problem is like canal boats. They drive too fast. Or if you go to sail and they're like a jet ski, we would do that.

00:57:55:24 – 00:58:19:14
But the weights damage the sides of the canal. Why didn't I make a fucking board? Oh, well, we'll ask him, but yeah, if you've got any, ways, if you try to do all ten, 11 of you live the grid, then send us an email, lads. Anon pod at gmail.com and we will read it out next week.

00:58:19:20 – 00:58:56:05
Now we are going to jump into dilemma. Oh, just, just tired. You got an issue for a tissue? You're a big fat cat when you a aching in your soul, alone in your flat. Please talk to Vicky Flanagan. Let that stretch off your chest. Well, friends, you deserve this place. Like you're fighting to get. Nice wall between bronchial and.

00:58:56:07 – 00:59:17:18
Hi, lads. Before I start, I just wanted to say how much this pot helps and puts a smile on my face when I've been going through a tough time. Thank you very much for that. Have you think about four months ago, I split out with my missus, who I honestly thought was the one and probably still have strong feelings for and love.

00:59:17:20 – 00:59:38:23
No cheating or any funny business happen, and we're still friends and in contact. The last three months I've been going on nights out with my mates and honestly have had no, to speak to. Any girl was asleep with any girls and one of my mates said I should download Tinder, which I did, and to my surprise, I got a fair few matches.

00:59:39:00 – 01:00:04:05
I've been speaking to a few girls and organized a couple of days now. The dilemma is, I'm not sure if I'm ready for a relationship, but I need to get back into the saddle after a four dry months. So should I go on these dates and try to properly move on? Or should I try to sleep about and have a couple of months where I try to have a bit of fun and have no commitments or responsibilities?

01:00:04:07 – 01:00:30:03
Cheers lads. Well, first off, yeah, after three weeks you do 1 to 3. Yeah. Get a brass. Obviously. Give us Yeah. Straight away. Yeah. Straight away. Do it now actually. Cool on. Yeah. Well, while you listen to this, Yeah, of course you should go on the dates. There's lots of practice, isn't it? But you might find the one where you might get a shag, or even it may go completely, terribly, but you don't.

01:00:30:03 – 01:00:52:13
Nothing happens by doing nothing. Exactly. So do something. Yeah, I, I agree and like, you know, I've, I've been in this position before when I met my, you know, partner and I, we, we had a break and it you know this is back in the day. So I wasn't going on Tinder and stuff like that. But you say that you, you still have feelings for this lady.

01:00:52:19 – 01:01:18:04
You're still in love with her. You're still in contact. If it's meant to be, then you find each other and you can't put your life on hold waiting for her to possibly come back or not. I mean, you don't know what she's doing either. She may have thought, you know, I'm moving on too, so you can't just rest on your laurels.

01:01:18:04 – 01:01:44:22
So I would say just go out, have some experiences, enjoy life. And if it's meant to be, you'll find each other again. And if not, then you've gained some good experience along the way. That's all I'll have to say about that if you guys. Yeah, that that. You're right. Yeah. Oh, good. Okay. That was a good good good easy one that one.

01:01:44:22 – 01:02:15:01
So thank you for that. Now we are going to be moving on to something I know you know shit. Well we, we're we're you. Were something you know. Bowling, lads. A little story for you. From about a year ago. After a night out, the wife and I were having a drunken roll around when her vibrator packed in sesh.

01:02:15:03 – 01:02:40:07
Afterwards, I went online through her my phone and told her to pick another our chance, my arm, and told her to pick some lingerie to. Not only did she, but she also said she had half a day. The following Friday so she would give me a treat. I tell you what, right? Just just to cut in, right? There is no better feeling than when you're going out with the missus.

01:02:40:09 – 01:03:01:03
The kids are away or something like that and whatever. And you can't, you know, it's on. You know, that there's going to be some room and stuff at the end of it. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. That's so I can imagine being in that position like next Friday. You're getting a tree. Come on. With a Ted with the teenage son.

01:03:01:08 – 01:03:29:05
Finding such times is hard to come by. As you well know, I was buzzing by Thursday. That's still been no delivery. I needed that package. I checked my emails and it apparently been delivered. I opened the attached file. I, of proof of the delivery. That's not our house. In my drunken excited state, I typed in our postcode but chose the wrong address from the drop down menu.

01:03:29:07 – 01:03:57:10
For fuck's sake. No, it's not like anyone would open it. It's got my name on it. I just hoped it hadn't been sent back to the post office. I knew where it been delivered, so I went to get it and knocked on the door of said house on my son's old primary school teacher. Mrs. Richards answered. Even though I think she's a right, miserable outcome, my wife always makes time for her when we see her out and about.

01:03:57:12 – 01:04:27:24
Oh hi, my wife bought something online, but I think it's been delivered here. Mrs. Richards went bright red and became flustered for turning around and grabbing the package from the side, which she handed to me. I looked down, not only had she opened it, but for some reason had also taken the biggest curved purple vibrator I'd ever seen out of its box, and it sat there in full view.

01:04:28:01 – 01:04:52:13
I didn't know what to do with it, she stammered. There was an awkward silence as I stared down at this absolute monster. What the fuck do I say now? I could feel myself cracking up. I looked up and joked, you haven't used it, have you? With that, she slammed the door in my face. Knowing my wife, she would have been absolutely mortified to know about this, that little exchange.

01:04:52:13 – 01:05:14:16
So I didn't say a word for a whole year. Whenever we say Mrs. Richards is clear, she tries to avoid us. My wife still waits and says hello, but barely gets a glance back, which creases me up every time. Last week, my wife asked me why Mrs. Richards seemed off to off with her, so it's time for her to know the whole story.

01:05:14:22 – 01:05:36:06
She listens to the pod now and again, so if this gets read out, I'll make sure she hears it and no doubt will die inside. Keep up the great work, boys, and up the lads. And that is something 90 I know. I want to know how big this, big purple vibrator was. What I want to know, but I just.

01:05:36:08 – 01:06:00:01
Because it is a monster. How big? How big is a monster? If is, like, textured veins or anything like that, just let us know. Send us a send this a photo of it. I thought I'd like to, right next week. The topic is alternative living. If you've got any stories or anything you want to share, send it in to lads.

01:06:00:02 – 01:06:16:16
Anon pod at gmail.com. Patrons, you'll get this today. Friday. Normies. You will get this on Monday. So until then, we'll see you then. Cheers.

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