#141 | The Many Accents Of Great Britain

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Right. The world is the world, Ricky. Just full of assholes, right? You know? Yeah. I'm not. Yeah, I'm coming to the point now. I don't give a shit about anybody, anywhere on the planet. Anyone. Why would you? Right. Good point. Yeah. Good point. But it was supposed to. Oh, me. I'm talking about every single human being.

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Love thy neighbor, thy neighbor and all that. Yeah. What are we doing? What are we doing? What is happening? Like Danny Dyer said it best. He said yeah eat. Eat food drink wine. Go on holiday with your family if you can afford to. Yeah. Be happy. Love your family if they're healthy. Yeah. Turn the wheel. If you turn the TV on for too long, you go loopy.

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Yeah, it's I, I don't know, it's mental. And then you realize it, man. Yeah, he's good man. I like Danny Dyer a lot, but he's one of my faves. Like, literally one of my faves. Sort of. Always has been. Yeah. All the way from since Human Traffic. Yes. His name was on that one. It, moth. Was it moth?

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Fucking now. You fucked me up. Now you can't name of Donnie's, humans, right? I watched when I was at university. Obviously, human traffic was, like, on all the time at about of Mark. Yeah. Correct. Yeah. Moth. Yes. Yeah. It was on all the time. You look at it now and you go, Jesus Christ, as a pile of shit.

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Yeah. Like, if you watched it recently, it is awful for. I haven't watched it recently, though. Your memory will be so much better than the film. It's a it's a fucking mess. Yeah, yeah. But it's better to leave it in the past and just live with the feels, isn't it? Yeah. There was so many, like. It's just how many one liners can we stick in 90 minutes?

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That's what it is. Yeah, but. But when you're a moron. When you're 20. Yeah. Right. You don't see that. You just saying. Oh, this is great. Look, it's a phrase I can repeat all these catchphrases, and it's so relatable because I take pills and they take pills and like, yeah, yeah, I get it. Yeah. Whereas you look, you look at it, now you watch it.

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And again, this is nonsense. This like this Bruce script. And then it's just bits. It's like a sketch show. Anyway, I think is because I was obsessed with it as a kid, I, I was annoyed when I rewatched it. What do you like about it? No one gives a fuck about you. Talk to the camera about like you'd like to do to Peter Andre.

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What is the, the, is it not to. I'd rather not talk about the. I like that I, I actually watched the film the other day. I, I never watched films as you as you well know. I actually took the time out of my life to watch, inception, which. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's. Isn't it?

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Very interesting idea, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, I'd say I enjoyed it. Yeah, definitely enjoyed it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Why? Inception? Ricky, what my GP talks about everyone talks about inception. Everyone talks about there's inception. And what's the other one that I need to watch? That everyone fucking talks about is interstellar. How the fuck did you know?

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Because there's another Christopher Christopher Nolan film there, right? Yeah. Talk about him going in mind that much of a basic bitch with just like, I need to watch interstellar. I need to, like I said, I watched it. No, I mean, they're amazing things to, like, films to watch, because they're epic. So he does. He makes big movies, and which is always good to see.

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I didn't like. I thought interstellar was so overrated. I'm not. I'm not saying it's. I don't like the no spoilers, okay? I don't even know what it's about. So. Well, what I've since found out, it's about, Einstein's theory of relativity. Oh, right. But I wasn't aware of that when I watched the film, so I made myself look quite stupid.

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And they had this idea about time passing at different rates for different people. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I just sort of hammered that idea into it's not a two hour film. It's like, well, I would get it's a cool idea, but do we need two hours of this? Right. I get yeah, yeah. What do you mean, what you mean Einstein's?

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You mean that idea you're talking about? You mean Einstein's theory of relativity? And I was like, oh, no, I don't. I wasn't like an idiot. Yeah. If if you watch Peaky Blinders, Ricky. No, I've not watched it. Yeah. You've never watched one episode of Peaky Blinders. You don't know what I know it. Oh, fucking now. Of course I have.

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Yeah, yeah. Got you like. Yeah. No no no I watched oh we got up to the last series. Yeah. And like much like Peep Show because you go up to the last series and it's like, oh, we've got to take a break because we need to film the last series. And then once they did that, I was like, I've run out of run out of motivation now.

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Oh, so you had him all on demand. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I've not watched the, like series and the last series and I've not watched the film. I got up to where, comes out till, till Saturday. Oh, okay. I've not watched. So I got up to the bit where, who is the. Is it Oswald Mosley?

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Is that his name? Yeah. When, when he came into it. Yeah. He. There's another season. Yeah. So yeah. It's great. Anyway, so I just thought I started this by, you know, for this, let's talk about some positive news that has happened in the world. The BBC not reported but. Okay. Yeah okay. Yeah. Major coral reef recovery in parts of Australia.

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Some sections of the Great Barrier Reef have shown surprising resilience, with coral cover bouncing back faster than expected in certain areas. Not perfect, but reminder nature can recover and if given half a chance, that's good news. I thought the last time I heard fucking Attenborough spouting off. I'm not attacking Adam Brody. No, he's a national treasure nut, but lost some fucking listen to him about it.

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It was all dead. We're dying. We're killing it. Oh, what are you saying now, Ambra? Yeah. Lie. And next time. Next time we produce Blue Planet, I want a bit saying it's recovering. It's getting better. Yeah. Not another bit about fucking turtles eating plastic. It's horrible. Right? It's horrible. We don't like it. We don't like it.

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But I don't want every episode of Blue Planet to end with misery every time. So now, this time, Attenborough end it with a bit of positivity. Yeah. Not. I refuse. Weirdly, my Mrs. has snorkeled on the Great Barrier Reef. She's she's come to this part where there is a known habitat of the well, like one of the world's largest fish or something like that.

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Right. And she saw this fish and it's fucking this size. You can't even believe that something like that is a fish that is alive. That just lives there. Yeah. And and her swim in there. We didn't in the Great Barrier Reef. The money. Well, what are you doing there? She enjoyed up. Yeah. Loved it. Yeah. You're pretty safe here.

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The Great Barrier Reef. No I might I might not. Oh no no no no not night night. But you have you have reef sharks, blacktip reef sharks. And they're not they're not necessarily aggressive. What about those those naughty fucking sea snakes? Oh, yeah. A couple of them. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they would be hiding in that coral.

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You go down, then a fucking little eel or a snake comes out and gets you. No. No, no. Oh, yeah. I watch in the boat. Thank you very much. Now, if you were, if you ever actually did make it to Australia. Okay. Would you like. And they say and they if not, what did you just.

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Okay. Good. I can see your face saying the Great Barrier Reef, you've got, you got lots of stingers like box jellyfish. Okay. Which can be fatal. Yeah. You got stonefish. Oh, hard to see. Oh, no. Octopuses. They should have most of those. Yeah, yeah. Cone snails. There's sharks, Tiger sharks. You didn't say that. Yeah. No, I thought there might be.

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You'd be like, getting me. Honestly, it's not. It's not great. What is that? What is it? They were spiders. Oh, fuck. It's like you forgot about them. I'm watching loads of videos of these divers that go down and just salt, pepper tiger sharks. Yeah. Yeah. So. So the money was in there at the time of my life not knowing this fucking blue blue ring octopus is everywhere.

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Anyway, it's more good news, Ricky. All right. Good, good. I want to be that. Let's be positive in that. Yeah. Okay. Let's go. Breakthrough in ocean tech. Clean up, clean up tech. New systems now successfully removing microplastics from rivers before they even reach the sea. Good, good. To what? What would you say when you walk the streets of of of of London or Sheffield or at night?

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What would you might be afraid of? What would I be afraid of? Probably just maybe drug dealers and stuff like that. Dogs might be getting. No. Yeah. Not drug dealers, because drug dealers are normally. I mean, they're fine. They're just selling drugs. Okay, so there's been a significant drop in youth crime in several UK regions that okay, a reported meaningful reduction thanks to community led intervention programs, mentoring and youth investment.

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Good news. Good good news. I mean, I'd like to understand what like because if we're talking about vigilante groups like, you know, hunters, they've just expanded the I'm sorry, I don't have all the information, but I'm sure it's not that. All right, Rick, and final one, the ozone layer is healing. You remember junior people of our age.

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Well, remember in the 80s, we all thought we were going to get obliterated by the sun because our the natural ozone layer, which is mental to me, right? When you think about it. Yeah, yeah. The around our planet of the hundreds of billion things, it has to be perfect on this planet to sustain life. If we're the only planet in the universe that has life.

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One of those things was a film that sort of surrounded the earth, that protected it from the UV rays that came from the sun. Yeah, and in the 80s, the big moral panic was that there was a hole in the ozone layer because of all the pollution from the industrial age. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, was it from the industrial age was here?

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I think it was definitely human made in the 80s. It was always, I was led to believe it was fucking aerosol cans. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what it was. All of it never said. Oh, but you fucking up the ozone. Last friendliness. No spray links. Yeah. Apparently it's healing. And by the mid century, it'll be back to normal.

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So brilliant. And this is what? How does it feel like that is in the world? Wonderful, isn't it? Is it even there? How do we know someone's telling us it's there? I don't know, what is it anyway? Yeah, I, I'm just saying that in the 80s, we were all fucking going to be dead in ten years because the ozone layer was going to go away.

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That was what they reported. And it's all we were fucked. Yeah, yeah. And yet 50 years later, 60 years later, it will be completely back to normal. Did they say back to normal? A full Great Barrier Reef? Yeah. It's so. Well, yeah, yeah. No more plastic in the seas. Well, because they've, you know, these inventions that they've made is collected the plastic before it's gone out to sea.

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So going to be all right. Yeah. It's all going to be all right. Right. I yeah. One good thing I want to do my thing. If I had it lined up, I would.

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Jingles that fold. And,

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Is episode 141. I'm Ricky Heath. Flap, two best mates, one main off. But we answer your life dilemmas and confessions in our feature. Something only you know. And everything remains anonymous always. So sit back, relax and enjoy the podcast before we get into it. The dilemma we've got in today, it's, It's a good one, right? It's going to need our help, which is I saw it and I was like, I know two lads that will going to go put that up.

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Right. And then for I actually have to before we go into it, I am I weighed myself right. I'm back on the elf again. Back on the elf. It's coming into the summer. And I felt a bit like that a bit. You know, when you're running up the stairs and your boobs are moving a bit and you're off?

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It's. I mean, you're fasting again that time again. I'm always fasting. I'm always fasting. There was never a time where I'm up and fasting. So I have, I'm back to wearing the weighted vest again. So if I do fall in the canal in the river, I am, I don't understand, like, how anyone puts on weight if they don't drink regularly.

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Yeah, I don't either. I don't like what are you eating? So. No, no, no, it's so this is, this is this is pertinent to what I'm about to say, right? I want to lose weight. Right. So you have a little fluctuation. I don't want to lose weight. I want to get back to my, fighting. Right, right.

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And this last week. So it got to maybe Friday, and I weigh myself every Friday because Monday to Friday, just, you know, eating a calorie deficit, weight and intermittent fasting weight myself, 72kg. That's fine. And then I put into ChatGPT and I said, I've got these scales. It measures all of these things by sending them a fucking magnetic pulse through my body wherever.

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What do I need to be measuring in order to know that, to track how much weight I'm losing. And it gave me like 3 or 4 things to say, focus on these. But importantly, it said, don't weigh yourself once a week because you could be the body is a mysterious thing and you can weigh it different weights at different times of the day and stuff like that.

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So I thought, okay, so should weigh yourself 3 to 4 times a week and then take the average from that. Okay. On Friday I was 72 kilos. So I started this thing on Monday. Monday I weigh myself. I was 72.9 kilos, maybe put on a kilo over the weekend. How is that even possible? You didn't you didn't do that.

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It's what we're trying to weigh yourself in the morning. Your weight like. Right. So so 72.9. So I was like okay Friday. What is Friday in this household? Pizza day Friday evening pizza day. He knows it. He knows it. Yeah. There we go. And then Saturday. Sunday. Eat like a pig. Come round Monday by myself. Fuck. So carried on my intermittent fasting by myself on the Tuesday 72.6 okay on down then Wednesday 72.4.

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And then weigh myself today 72 right. So within that week I haven't changed and I've just stayed at 72 kilos in all times. I would have been like, I've been fasting all week and starving myself, and I haven't changed. And I've got the weighted vest on and I haven't changed. But now I've seen that. I went up and I was going down and eating myself silly at the weekend and still feeling like all the weight on Monday Friday.

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Calorie deficit. I guess what I'm trying to say is I've got a better understanding of tracking my progress daily and then seeing how my body is reacting. And I'm weighing myself every single day, probably about, I don't know. Our past nine got a wait for the turn out, the turn out. We'll put weight on there. Yeah, at the turn out.

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Then get on the scales. So just buy yourself at the same time every day. Yes. What I'm doing, don't worry. So, Yeah, every morning when you wake up by yourself, don't you get about the rest of the day? Yeah, yeah. You'll know whether or not you're losing weight. Yeah, but yeah, my body's body fat as well and stuff like that.

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So. And that's going down. But it was just, I just realized, I don't know how rich, how like, it's like the reason why I put on weight is because I'm drinking red wine. It's calorific. Yeah. If I'm not, I don't eat. It's. It can't be that difficult. You're walking. How do you walk in every day? Probably about an hour and ten minutes.

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Hour and 20 minute steps a day. You're walking 10,000 steps every single day. Every single day. What are you. And then I have lunch and a main meal and that and that and that main meal is. Are you. Are you loading it up? Is it a mental seismic. No no no no no it's not. And you're not. It's not going to get cookies.

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Hardly five minutes. No. None of that. No milkshake. No no no no no. This is just how you're supposed to look. This is you do six times. I, because you are in a calorie deficit and you're not losing weight. You put this guy, and this is what we want to be. Yeah, I know it is. But what?

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Do what I tell you. What? I find you look great, Rick. I know I am 43 as well. I should be. I'm seven, seven years away from 50. Yeah. Who cares? You're not going to leave your wife, are you? No, she's going to leave. She might leave me. No, I'm not going to leave you. I'd leave you like day.

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Yeah. And I. Yeah. Yeah, I would know, right? Do you know what we're going to be talking about today? Isn't it about accents or something? But yeah, you fucking know we're free. So this came in from a patron, and they, from the, from North America. And they want to have a better understanding of accents across the British Isles and the stereotypes as well, because they obviously watch, lots of programs and stuff, and they're like, what's the difference between this and that and all that?

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And I think it's quite interesting how we, let me just let me just let me start you off with something. Gary, if I may go, right. So just how many British accents are there?

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Right. That the, What, are you going to go for it? You know, you're going to try and guess. I'm going to try and guess. I go nuts in Great Britain. Yeah. And, yeah, Great Britain. Sorry. The United Kingdom, let's say it's the United Kingdom. So there are, there are defined this is defined by someone like someone like this in terms of accents or dialect.

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Yeah. Accent. Yeah. Accents. Oh, man. I, I'd, I'd say 869 accents. That is, that's a, that is wild. Well, out you well out. Let's let's let's let's let's really come down. Come down on that number. Come down on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What is it? So just, just it's it's 56. No. So but there's an estimate.

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It's have around 56 different British accents while the USA is just 42 despite being 40 times bigger in total area. Yeah. But meanwhile Canada over there. How many, how many is Canada got? Six. Seven.

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Hang on a second. Why. Wanted to define it. Is it like boom from you on Cornish. Is it that broad because. Yeah. Yeah. Is there what there was in London there's shifts. You can hear the way someone speaks in west London to east London. It's completely different yet then you got north and south. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you've got these sort of morons that have sort of street talk as well.

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The way they talk that they've just eradicated, obliterated the the Cockney accent is gone now to just, talk about now. So that's the London accent. Now, I was saying, why are you putting that voice on there? Yeah, I know that's the way we talk in London. It ain't. That's not how we used to talk. But then you listen to like, you know, like patchy news.

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Their archives. Right. I love that. Yeah. You hear Londoners talk like that in the, like, 70s. Yeah. We didn't talk like that when when I was in teenage, we had a different Cockney accent to the one that existed in the 70s and 60s is completely different. Listen. Wow. That's interesting. You saying that I didn't even think about this.

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How much scum do I want? Scum. If you ever watch that again. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That is. That's good film. You like the greenhouse? That's your favorite bit? Haha, yeah, but the Cockney accent, that's a completely differently sound. Different. And so what I remember we are not these sort of nostalgic videos on Instagram where it says, you know, plays that sort of ethereal chat, track of children like playing.

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And then there's like images of what you be like growing up in the 80s, in the 90s. And it makes my heart, it makes my just it hurts. So it hurts. And they and they, they say that millennials suffer from this weird sort of melancholia, this longing for a time that did that doesn't exist more than any other generation has because of the change that we experienced.

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You know, we remember both a time that that the information age wasn't relevant at a time where it was. Yeah, we tried that. We found the internet. We experienced the advent of the internet, we experienced the advent of interconnectivity through mobile phones, the and people phones and stuff like that. Now this is completely normal. Now kid can't not have a phone.

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Whereas when we were kids I like I know this is like you. We would go in, we would go and knock on someone's door and just hope they were in. Unless they weren't, you just go walking looking for them in places you thought they might be. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, you found them. You found them. If you didn't, you'd spend six hours walking around not finding them and then just go home.

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Not disappointed because that was the game. That's hilarious. I have not thought about that since I was a kid. That's fucking mental in here. Yeah. Now we I would knock for my mates in there, but oh no, he's already out. And I'll be like, right, should I go to Winbush where everyone's playing football or shall I go to the park because I know that that's blah blah blah.

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And I'd cycle to Wimbledon now. Won't be that I'm not right. I've got to be at the park. I'm just fucking booting around, just trying to find my mates with my. My free time is spent trying to find where my mates are fucking amazing. God, yeah. What you were saying is, well, my daughter, she is not in the, you know, from where she.

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She lives in Milton Keynes. For fuck's sake. And you okay? Yeah. I just had an email. I didn't realize something was coming. Oh, do you want do you want to stop? Let me pause it. All right. No. It's fine. Oh, man. I

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So, like, obviously we're from Milton Keynes. I'm, She called me when she was at school, and I could hear her talking to her mates, and she was like, going, come, come, like, you know, talking like she's from Top Boy. And I'm like, wait, what we doing?

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Just that, my friend is just like. And she's just talking to me in this weird fucking little of an accent. And are we doing, like, you know, pull out that high voice and I'm like, is in a fucking, my god's children, right? And the thing is, is, well, I don't know, like, when I was younger, all I ever wanted to do was speak like a cockney.

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Like, yeah, there was. I'm not. Yeah. And not from Milton Keynes. Obviously I am Cockney accent living in Milton Keynes. And there is this, accent, apparently, that Milton Keynes have like, this cross between a Cockney and Australian accent. I don't really get it to be honest, but, yeah, I, I was fascinated with Cockney rhyming slang when I was younger, absolutely fascinated by my mum.

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I remember she bought me a cockney rhyming slang dictionary for Christmas or something. Well, how do you make this clear that you was fascinated by it? I don't know, I think I always had a fascination with London. And she wanted to be. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And then I eventually I moved down to London. So it was, I, I kind of always felt like I had this calling for London because it's just a fascinating place, fascinating people, language, all of it.

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So.

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But I don't really talk like a traditional Cockney now at all. There are words that I'll that I would use that is Cockney rhyming slang, but it's more kind of like, I don't know, it's just that I've grown up with that. So my, the way that I speak, like I again, I was saying about my adult, who will speak very like she's from or not now.

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Well yeah, she does not at home outside to her mates. She does it performative though it echoes. Yeah. But I was like, I don't know, maybe I was a bit like that when I was younger, but more leaning on the Cockney side. Were you like, I mean, not have you did you ever, when you were younger, did you put on an accent?

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Oh you London or anyway. Yeah. No, no not really. I, we used words and terms that perhaps my parents wouldn't have done. But yeah, we had quite a thick London accent, I think when I was a kid, I would it more teenage. I have been referred to around always a suite mate. So you'd say sweet a lot.

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Sweet brother, sweet mate. Sweet. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Whereas there other kids, it wouldn't say that. And it was typically white kids, it would be sweet mates would wear Fred Perry's or they'd wear Ben Sherman and flapjacks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a kind of Jack the lad. So is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that was kind of what we were like, pretty much.

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But then I went into school when with a lot of kids that were like that culturally very different, you know, second generation kids with West Indian parents and African parents. Who had a different way to communicate. So you kind of like, absorb a lot of it really? Yeah. My, like my old man, he grew up in north west London, same as my mum.

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My mama hasn't got a London accent, and I'd say my dad has one to an extent, but I think his more came from, being obsessed of Only Fools and Horses, Del Boy, and just loving that character, Del Boy and talking like Del Boy and using his mannerisms and, and what he used to say. But I don't think he's got a particular, Cockney accent.

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And then when you, when I was growing up, the there's always kind of that pull of people's parents or people down in the pub that actually had the traditional Cockney accent or was like a Londoner, you know, and they're fucking that guy isn't like proper geezers. Do you ever find, oh, have you ever found yourself like, is it what is that?

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Is it called code switching? Was that where you change your accent to who you're, whoever you're talking with? What? Instantly. Or if you spend a lot of time with them, instantly. Like if I was. So if I was going to, maybe a job interview or I, if I bumped into someone in the canal when I was walking along and I'd been.

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I. How are you and stuff? I wouldn't be talking to them. Like how I would speak to you. Yeah, that's, you know, how's it going to like, right. Like if I be my, like, my best English, if I borrow to you, if I ring my missus and she's at work, she sounds different than when she's at home. Yeah.

00:29:33:06 – 00:29:49:23
Really? Yeah. Because she's in office. When I leave, I might leave. But the thing is, your missus would be talking different if she was. Okay, I get it, but there's she, so you can hear it because, you know, you're so well, you can hear the difference in tone. Difference in time. She's always has. It got me about that.

00:29:49:23 – 00:30:10:05
If I'm. If I'm in a car and I'm with people, she's like, oh, oh I see you've got your car voice on again. Yeah. So what do you want me to do? How do you want me to talk like I'm in a car with people like. But yeah. Do you ever do that? Like, if. Yeah. For work.

00:30:10:05 – 00:30:35:01
Yeah, I probably I do for podcasting. I have a different way of speaking on the podcast than I do from home. Yeah. Yeah, of course you do. Like, have you been mates down the pub from my brothers all sound differently. Yeah. Yeah. Talk to my mum differently than I talk to my dad. Probably day properly. Yeah. If you think about, you kind of change your tone according to who you talk to.

00:30:35:02 – 00:31:01:12
Yeah, yeah. What did you say it's called. I think it's called code switching. Right. Yeah, it's just that. How how do you, like, it just depending on the environment. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, I'm not as, common, I guess, when I'm with certain people. And I don't want them to perceive me as being a commoner by talking geezer and cockney, but,

00:31:01:14 – 00:31:26:20
Yeah, I guess I, I almost certainly do. If I'm speaking to whoever is in that. Yeah. All right. As we're talking about accents, I have to ask, what is your favorite accent across the British Isles? My funny, my favorite is the Cockney because of where I'm from. But, my. Really? Yeah. Why? I would to I don't know, I just would have thought you'd have gone somewhere different.

00:31:26:22 – 00:31:50:15
No, I yeah, I, yeah, I, I guess it's, I don't know why. I just like, I like it, but. And it's disappearing as well, which is a shame. Yeah. But, the I like Scottish people. I like if they're, like, the funniest people and the lyrics. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I would say, I would definitely say Scottish, Scottish accent.

00:31:50:15 – 00:32:22:11
I'm not sure about particular regions. Say Glasgow if I. Yeah sure. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. So yeah probably that. So like with Scotland. I absolutely love it. Obviously Lemmy, he's when he says hands, horns the ones. Yeah. Hey, hey, this is like my boss stew, right? He he would go, And I don't know what it means.

00:32:22:11 – 00:32:47:21
Now, which guys should we go down the pub? How? What do you mean, how? What do you how we will walk. But he actually means when. Right. Okay. What does how mean? How Scottish. That's funny man. He goes, hey, I was like, what do you mean how what why, why? That's that's it. Why why so. Oh, okay.

00:32:47:23 – 00:33:14:18
I'm going to be like late into work today. How how am I going to be late into work? You know what you're saying? You're not a. I like the short. Never like la la doesn't, Disney it. Yeah, yeah yeah yeah, yeah. I'm very fond of the Scottish accent. Yeah, yeah I, I like their wit as well. I just like the fact they don't take themselves seriously and they, they're, it feels like they're always up for a laugh.

00:33:14:18 – 00:33:41:17
They know it's not. It feels like gallows humor of being a Scot, you know? I mean, it's shit up there. Yeah, it's freezing cold. We're stuck in the Highlands. Those fucking English bastards are trying to shut us. What's that funny face? Shite. Being Scottish. What a scum of the earth, friends. But it's brilliant. So I at Scotland love Scotland.

00:33:41:22 – 00:34:09:21
I I've never been there, but I've been Scotland. One of my favorite accents is Northern Irish. Yeah, it's because it's just sounds so orange like. Yeah. No, not on many. It sounds harsh on women. Yeah. Sexy. You think it makes me fizzy downstairs? Yeah. Yeah. It's it. Yeah. It's a good turn. Yeah. What don't you like, I.

00:34:09:22 – 00:34:42:12
I'm gonna have to say the Liverpudlian accent. Yeah. That nasally weaselly, hair that John and I. It's just I down at my missus loves it. She loves it. And I'm like, I can't fucking stand it. Nothing against. Liverpudlians. They're lovely people. I love the community of Liverpool. Fantastic city. But the accent, I'm just like. And I know they hate cockneys and Southerners trash Cockney bastards.

00:34:42:16 – 00:35:06:03
They and not we ain't Scousers. It's always been this thing that. It's always that, that north south divide. What about you? Is there a a more hated accent that you know, is Scouse? But it's also Brummies as well. But I mean, you know, I'm going to second Ward. They'll probably accent. Yeah, it's a raw deal. It's not your fault you have to talk like that.

00:35:06:03 – 00:35:40:23
But I mean, I sort of like that, isn't it? Yeah. We do this bit with on the Javan podcast when villa school rehearse room, you in school do. Yeah. That's great. You're, Your mummy's a Brummie I yeah. Family's Brummies actually. She she she remarried after, my little half brother's little that she was in for a long time.

00:35:41:00 – 00:36:03:10
And then when she remarried a Brummie and now it's. Yeah, a thick Brummie accent has come back, whereas when I was little, she didn't really have one. She sort of. No, I really yeah. But now. So it's really quite thick. Fuck. But her husband is like really coarsely Brummie. Is he really. Yeah. As very thick. You bame Henry.

00:36:03:12 – 00:36:29:19
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I say obviously Brummies Peaky Blinders, Ozzy Osbourne, you know the fucking accents. For me, no, I don't really want to throw shade to Brummies, but I'm going to it. It has a very, you know, they sound thick. I'm sorry. Yeah, that was beyond me. Just human beings. No, no no, no, I know, but it does.

00:36:29:19 – 00:36:49:16
It does have that drone does, you know. Yes. It's Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And that's why Peaky Blinders is so cool because they made the premier cool for the first time ever. Yeah, like the Brummie. No, Birmingham. It was, it's known for it like factories, isn't it. Not. No, it was not industrial motor industry. Yes. Yeah.

00:36:49:16 – 00:37:16:11
Like obviously the you love working class socks and. Yeah. Yeah. Very hard. Like not very hard people, but like, you know, hard working grafters and with that, that accent. So I mean, like, it's not a place that I long to go to. So it's not one of those cities is isn't it cool? Isn't it, being like, known as the Second City?

00:37:16:11 – 00:37:35:10
Yeah, it's the second. It was the second city for industry and size. But after London, I don't know what the case is. Now I'm in Manchester. Yeah. Pretty, pretty fucking pretty. Well, you're more probably saying you never want to go public. You know, I've been waiting for this. I've been waiting. That's a crow flies. You are. You are more Brummie than you are.

00:37:35:10 – 00:37:55:06
London. No, I'm not, I'm not I because we've had this discussion over the years where you woke me up. And every single time I go on Google and I'm like, distance to London, distance to Birmingham, I am closer to London than Birmingham. You might be closer to the M25. You're not closer to central London. No central London than Birmingham.

00:37:55:06 – 00:38:38:17
It is, it is literally like ten miles or something like that. It's pathetic. Yeah. But like where I live, like it originally was a railway. It was built because it's like the first railway town in the world, and it was built because it's equidistant between London and Birmingham, so that if trains did, need engineering work or anything like that, that they could pull over into these massive train sheds that are in where I live and can be fixed, and it's the whole, whole town is kind of like was built for people working in these factories that would fix trains, I guess.

00:38:38:19 – 00:39:00:05
But yeah. So that's the Birmingham. It's the same in Crewe as well. I think that would have been the same in Crewe because that's like equidistant between sort of Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester sort of. It's in the middle. Yeah. Cruise known for its yeah. Yeah. From my case and you know the amount of trains is a massive train station and cruise there.

00:39:00:07 – 00:39:21:02
Yes there is. Yeah, yeah. And it's it's got a very rich heritage where you has for trains. What while we're up that way. How do you feel about Manx? I mean, is this about the accent or the people of Manchester? Oh five bite. I fit all right. If I had to write them off in the Manx. I've been all right.

00:39:21:04 – 00:39:54:23
Yeah. So I would say the people of most cities have been alright. Generally people are decent. You kind of in terms of where I feel most disliked. Okay. I would say. Liverpool. Really? Yeah. And then. And then like. And the most welcome was Cardiff was the most welcome. I found a lot Cardiff. And in Glasgow because I went Rangers and obviously they're sort of the former.

00:39:54:24 – 00:40:17:21
Yeah English football clubs and they are Scottish and. Yeah. Did you ever, didn't you tell that story about when you're in that Rangers pub and. Yeah your mate left you know. Yeah. And some didn't say someone to say something horrible to you. Oh yeah. Like not horrible but it was a little bit intimidating. I've got pressed a little bit pressed dishes.

00:40:17:23 – 00:40:35:14
They heard my accent. Right. What are you doing here? And like, yeah, yeah. Come to my mate to watch the Rangers Aberdeen game guys. Who do you support. And it's it's Spurs. And he was like obviously historically there's a link between the firms of yeah Aberdeen and Tottenham. Then Aberdeen were playing Rangers. So that's the link he made.

00:40:35:16 – 00:41:04:16
That's Oh fuck. That was the game you went to Aberdeen. Rangers. Rangers, Aberdeen. Rangers, Aberdeen. Fucking hell that is what. Yeah. But it wasn't like that. Like Aberdeen had a 200 fans. It weren't like it wasn't a ferocious game. It's just game like any other really. But I think because of the history of that being an issue between, you know, Spurs and Aberdeen would travel go together and Rangers and Chelsea would and Liverpool and so it would.

00:41:04:18 – 00:41:31:05
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So yeah I don't know. Anyway I managed to get away but yeah it was, it was mental because you go up there and I was I've been up there twice now and I would meet Stu's mates and it would literally be like them talking in another language. They were talking in English, but I just couldn't understand what I was saying.

00:41:31:07 – 00:41:52:12
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like I'd have to go. What? What with. I, you just. You're talking to me. You're looking at me. There's noises coming out of your mouth. I have no idea what you're saying. I went when I went to, Rangers v Tottenham in a friendly. And, I met up with a load of Scottish spurs. Like Glasgow Spurs.

00:41:52:14 – 00:42:21:12
And they, when they were talking to me, one particular guy, every single sentence he was saying, I was just like, I don't know what you're saying. Yeah. And having to ask him to remind to remind me I actually this is quite pertinent when I, when, when I was younger I lived, so the family that lived opposite the lady she was going out with, this Geordie guy, Dave and Dave knew I supported Tottenham and he was a man.

00:42:21:12 – 00:42:39:16
And that thought. Right. And I'm just like a fucking, I don't know, ten year old kid. And he would come and knock on the door and chat to me and he'd be like, you know, Tottenham are playing Newcastle tomorrow and I wouldn't know what he's saying because he had a thick Geordie accent and I could never grasp what he was saying.

00:42:39:18 – 00:42:55:13
And all I would do is just say yeah, yeah, yeah and nod and stuff like that. And then the door would shut and he would go, and then the next day would happen and I'd get another knock on the door. Newcastle had obviously beaten Tottenham back in the 90s. The need not. And he would say where's my fiver?

00:42:55:13 – 00:43:18:13
And I'm like what? And he's like we had a bet yesterday. I'm like what? I know he would be making bets on me and I wouldn't know what was going on. I just there's an adult, right? An adult manager. I give him a five man. Yeah, I have to give him a fiver because it's what I bet him because I kept saying, yeah, I think that was I don't, I don't really I kept saying, what, what what, what are you saying.

00:43:18:15 – 00:43:44:21
You can't take money okay. Fucking yeah he did though. He did. And but yeah the Geordie accent is one of those accents. So you've got the same Scottish accent. I've been up to Scotland. It has been really hard to understand, but I guess there is enough in there that you can kind of grasp. But with Geordies and the Geordie accent I find it incredibly hard to understand.

00:43:44:23 – 00:44:09:09
There is. There isn't anything I can really grasp them because a lot of the words that they use, or phrases or shortened down words aren't quite similar to like London or South or anything like that. So, and because it's so far from like Liverpool and Manchester area and it's like just on its own, but the McCanns and the Geordies, they will tell you there's a big difference.

00:44:09:11 – 00:44:30:23
But I wouldn't be able to say if there is a difference or not. Yeah, but the accent is, it's fucking mental. Have you ever been to if you haven't been up to Newcastle? I've been in the town and just never tried to converse with anyone there. I've never been anywhere in the North east ever in my teens of, of of driven past it.

00:44:31:00 – 00:44:55:05
You know what occurs to me when I'm, when I'm, when I'm driving, I often have to drive up to Manchester from where I am in Wiltshire to get out drives about four hours. You've covered most of the the country in terms of where the industry is, right. You, you know, you go past. Yeah, yeah. And it's like four hours and I'm thinking how is this country done?

00:44:55:05 – 00:45:20:17
So much historically like it has built an empire. Yeah. That covered most of the globe. Yeah. And it is tiny. It's like it really? Yeah, yeah. It's so small. How do we generate so much money? Like, what the fuck is going on. How does how how many people in England. Not 70 million. How is it, where are they or where they fit?

00:45:20:19 – 00:45:50:01
That's what I was thinking was, I don't know, obviously was interconnected with like motorways and cars moved quickly, much more quickly now than they used to. And there would have been a time where it would take forever to go to the north of England. Yeah, yeah. And actually driving north and south is much easier than driving west. So yeah, it takes the same amount of time to drive where I am to where my brother is in Wales, than it does me to get to Manchester.

00:45:50:03 – 00:46:13:07
Well, it takes the same amount of time. Yeah. It's like, you know, it takes, it takes about 3.5 hours. Four hours together. But there's no there's no motorway. The motorway stopping there is, yeah. Yeah, the M4 goes along there, but it ain't like the M4. But to be fair, that's okay. I'll do it in a way I'm grateful cos I am.

00:46:13:09 – 00:46:34:05
I was actually it's quite funny, I, I was chatting with, the the lads on discord and I was saying about, like I'm going to view a car and I said one of the ones that I really liked is an hour and 20 minutes away. And I was like, it's an hour and 20 minutes away. It's the other side of Oxford, like you get there and it might not be that good.

00:46:34:05 – 00:46:55:02
And it's a, it's a fucking it is a journey to slap, around 20. And they were laughing at me as to say an hour and 20. That's like to go to a fucking corner shop in America. They're like 3 to 4 hours is a short journey, a short car journey. In America, 3 to 4 hours is a short journey.

00:46:55:04 – 00:47:15:03
I know no fucking man is mad, but their country is so sparse and I know, I know, but no like friend of ours is like someone said, I've got four hour drive. You be like, oh yeah, like one of them a month. Yeah, yeah. You go to pack loads of snacks and duvets and like it's a, it's a fucking that's a, it's a long but nice.

00:47:15:04 – 00:47:44:02
We're driving, we've, we've got we're going to a place called La Rochelle in, in the just south and Rochelle in France. Let's just say it sounds French boy. Yeah. My oh I didn't know Roquefort there. Roquefort as cheese in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, my my brother is a is his pay is paid for everyone to stay in this massive, huge chalet with a poor.

00:47:44:02 – 00:48:08:15
Not so, rave. Yeah. Which is amazing. And so it means that everyone can go on holiday together, and it doesn't cost us, and it doesn't cost us. It costs the price to get there, basically. And, What a fucking lad. Yeah. Anyway, we're going to be driving there. We decided to drive from from London down into France, have a little look in that road trip rather than a than, and it takes 12 hours, right?

00:48:08:19 – 00:48:40:04
I mean, that sounds it sounds lovely. It really does sound good. Yeah. And I remember when I was younger and we drove to from Milton Keynes to tour Rica in like southeast Spain, and it was like a, I don't know, it took until three days to get there because we did have some, stop offs. But when you're in a car for six plus hours, it's like, this is this this isn't fun anymore because you're literally just going down the road and you're not.

00:48:40:06 – 00:49:03:14
It's not like you're driving and you're seeing castles and fucking architecture and fields of flowers or whatever. You're just seeing road. And it's like, where did you go with this? This man, it's Yeah, yeah, it's the tour vehicle. It's just what was this final? No, it's just a family holiday. We drove there and we were there for, like, three weeks.

00:49:03:14 – 00:49:23:05
I got to Riviera is the south of Spain. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. No, that is that is fucking miles. That is ridic. No I know, yeah. It's just it's like I don't know why I fucking the. And the thing is as well I was, I was in this car, I was in the state car and I was in the boot and I was in the boot of another lad.

00:49:23:11 – 00:49:44:23
So we were like lying in an L-shape just for both of us to get in there. It's fucking terrible. That is terrible. And I was like, yeah, I was, I think I was like between 12 and 14 and I was asleep in the car. And you know, what happened is, well, when I, when I was asleep in the car crashed, I had a wet dream.

00:49:45:00 – 00:50:15:18
You. I remember waking up. Get out. Good. I like that for you. This. I'm in the car from a family smoking at that. It's brilliant. It's, Fuck, yeah. No. But, I mean, before we go, there are some other accents. I just want to, like. You're quite close to this West country. Right. Well, like, is it really just because it.

00:50:15:18 – 00:50:37:16
When I think of West Country, it is. It's just farmers, isn't it? Yeah. He's like Bristolian. Bristolian and. Yeah. And the, they all just it's all just sounds funny. It's just funny to this country. Yeah. That type of that. Yeah. That's where we are. This country's based in the butcher. So there are people. Sound like them, right?

00:50:37:17 – 00:51:05:19
Okay, but not everyone sounds like them. Like my wife. She. She's your wife? Doesn't sound like that. I. No, she she she. Some words will come out. You hear it? But she didn't. She doesn't meaningfully try to lose the accent. But there's others like, we've got Jess will be listening to this. Probably. But her wife, Sabina is has a quite a, I think at times quite a thick sort of West Country accent.

00:51:05:21 – 00:51:27:12
But okay. But it's charming. I think it's like a nice sound. Genuine. Yeah, yeah. And we're using the pot. I went for a pint in Melbourne a couple of days ago, and, there were two, three lads in there and got. The accent was so thick, you know, the. Yeah, I think there's only so far I can't imagine going for a job in, you know, in a city.

00:51:27:14 – 00:51:56:11
In the city. Yeah. Like going for a job in accounting and you sounding like you've got a thick Bristolian accent. I just can't imagine that working or fit in, but. Yeah. Did you do you find yourself, I don't have the right word is prejudice, but, like, accent ist like, if, you know, if you as soon as you meet someone and they've, I don't know, a Yorkshire accent and you're like, where are you from?

00:51:56:11 – 00:52:24:14
My, from Leeds. Like, are you immediately like, oh. Are you like, oh yeah. I love that city, a great city or like because I mean admittedly, like if them if it was a Scouse not bit off, but, and, you know, like I always find people from Yorkshire, you know. Oh, God's own country. Yeah. You know, the green hills and the dales of Yorkshire.

00:52:24:18 – 00:52:55:01
Yorkshire is the fucking best place in sliced bread, isn't I? You've got some nice things, like York, like everyone else has. But come on, I do. When I get on the train going up and like it's not too bad after you get past Midlands, and some of the sort of like the landscape there is nice. And then if you get past Liverpool, Manchester and into the peak districts and the late districts and into Scotland, there is fucking world class.

00:52:55:03 – 00:53:23:05
Yeah, but generally you go in for anywhere from the Midlands. It's like this is ranked. Wolverhampton. Yeah. Yeah it is. Yeah, yeah. It's just sitting there like I, I, you know, I don't, I, I don't want to sound mean, but it's just, it's the further west you go, the more beautiful it is. That's why. Yeah. Now and like, I always find it really like, I just find it amazing.

00:53:23:07 – 00:53:47:23
And especially in the north of England, like where you've got Liverpool and then you've got. I don't even know how far Liverpool, Manchester for an hour, maybe between the two cities. And then you've got Manchester. That isn't an hour from Leeds. Yeah. And then you got, well you got Oh yeah. I don't maybe hour by hour and 20 to Leeds and then you're Sheffield.

00:53:48:00 – 00:54:11:15
Oh. Which is insane. Such. Yeah. In such short a distance. You've got the Liverpudlian. The Mancunian. Yeah. Yorkshire accent. Yeah. And then not that Sheffield of like a proper. Yeah. Not. And then the distance down the same sort of a similar distance from Leeds to Sheffield. You've got the. No not in a match. That accent, which is the weird.

00:54:11:15 – 00:54:37:12
It's I hey. Yeah yeah yeah, yeah. Not in them and Leicestershire. Leicester's got got an accent is why is it is weird. It's a weird accent. Like you hear them talking. You go what's you come from like I mean it really sort of strange and unique accent. Yeah. So but like and then a Norwich accent is nothing like Birmingham accent.

00:54:37:12 – 00:55:00:02
So where do these come from. Oh it's I, I when I was doing a bit of research into this now back in the day, I'm going to butcher this because I'm going in front of me. But it was, it was something to do with because, everyone like these villages and towns were so spaced out that they had a kind of, a dialect from that they, you know, taken from a village.

00:55:00:02 – 00:55:20:17
But because they were so separate and it took ages for, for anyone to get like a fucking horse and cart to the next village. It wasn't it didn't happen, regularly. So you stayed in your village and or town. Yeah. And however people spoke and the words twisted, and there was a kind of lilt to the accent. That's where it stayed.

00:55:20:17 – 00:55:55:08
And it just stayed in that place. Now, since the advent of, trains and cars and stuff. Right. Everything is more pronounced because you're going into different environments where people are speaking those. But back in the day, no one really knew that there were different accents because you just stayed where you were because there wasn't travel. But I find it amazing that how small the UK is in comparison to America, how do we maintain these dialects and these.

00:55:55:10 – 00:56:20:01
Yeah, they pass as a life. Yeah, yeah. I'll completely they're still alive today as they were back then. And everybody is hugely passionate about where they're from and their accents. And they still use words that are only used from those places, which I fucking love. Yeah. You kind of. You're, you should, in your own vernacular, in a way of speaking.

00:56:20:01 – 00:56:50:06
It's always been a way of identifying where you're from and the group you belong to, isn't it? It's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, you could even go as far as the football team you support and, and the terminology and stuff that's common in that. So yeah. Yeah. Amazing. Right. We are going to be going over to dilemmas and something only you know, the dilemma is called backstage blues, something none of you know is money well spent.

00:56:50:06 – 00:57:13:15
The topic for next week is actually, you know, when you were talking earlier about the ozone layer is space so the big bang or was it I mean, it's infinite. It's always expanding. How is that happening? You know what that means. It's oh, it's always expanding. It's the most terrifying thing on earth. I don't know, right. You don't have to answer me this.

00:57:13:15 – 00:57:33:13
But the sun, you know, it's burning a billion kind of bright lights or whatever. Like the brightest thing, you know? What does that even mean? I know, right? But it's like a burning star, isn't it? Or dead star. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah. No. Yeah, I think so. Yeah.

00:57:33:15 – 00:57:51:16
And it's, you know, from where it is, the distance to England who burn is warming the planet and all that. What I want to know is when are you going to space? Why pitch black? What's the sun's just there. Yeah. Why is it freeze? I thought, was it not freezing cold inside Earth the minute you leave it? Oh, it's freezing because the sun's still there.

00:57:51:16 – 00:58:10:07
Why are you cold? Other. Why is it cold? And how did they know that star that that died 3 billion years ago? And you're only just seeing it now? That's the exploded. Like, I don't know about any of those things. And Flav and I are going to discuss space and some of the weird kind of science behind it.

00:58:10:09 – 00:58:42:01
So if you are listening to this, right, and you know a bit about space, you want to drop some knowledge, you're a scientist, whatever it might be. Send an email to lads anon pod at gmail.com and we shall read out what you're, you know, if you want to talk about space now we are going to go into dilemma.

00:58:42:03 – 00:59:13:08
Oh, oh. So, just you got an issue for a tissue. You're a bit sad, cause I will give you a aching in your soul, alone in your flat. Please talk to Vicky Flanagan. Let that stress off your chest. Well, friends, you deserve to be like you're safe to get nice warm between. Vicky, your plan? Backstage blues.

00:59:13:10 – 00:59:43:14
Hi, lads. Long time listener here. Since about episode 41 of my weekly highlight long time listener episode flat. Doesn't sound long time, but thank you very much. So I dilemma for you. Me and the missus went to a rave in another city for our favorite DJ. We were celebrating nine years of our relationship. Many congratulations. She's been nothing but fantastic, honest, loyal and has made me a better man.

00:59:43:16 – 01:00:11:24
We're rolling in this rave at a bomb age and a few top ups, and it's one of the best days we've had. The last that comes on our favorite DJ, who we're pretty much groupies for. Half way through, a girl comes and gives the missus a wristband for VIP backstage passes, but only one. It happened very quickly, but she went over and asked if we could both come in.

01:00:12:01 – 01:00:33:16
Security says no and she goes in on her own. Did didn't say a word to me. I'm heartbroken in the moment. She's never been that kind of girl. That would just leave me like, So I start spiraling, thinking the worst and everything I know about her is wrong and that she'll just piss off any time a good opportunity comes about.

01:00:33:18 – 01:00:57:02
She comes back and after a short while and, and a couple of very upset text from me, and she's super surprised that I'm upset and is sorry. And her idea was that she'd go back, record a couple of videos behind the decks, and come back and we can laugh and say how cool that moment was. I want to believe her and everything I've known about her, supports that.

01:00:57:06 – 01:01:23:08
But I can't get that image out of my head of her walking away without even looking back or speaking to me. That voice in my head hasn't gone away saying that she was, getting excited and selfish and put the opportunity above me. A couple of things. Firstly, am I being naive believing her after it's happened? Easier to not ask forgiveness than permission?

01:01:23:10 – 01:01:43:16
And what do I do from here? Honestly, it's just confuse me and mess my head up. Am I overreacting? Influenced by social media, hating women, red pill, etc.? I just want some advice. What did? Sorry I missed the bit where she said what did she say? The reason was that after when she met him that she got in.

01:01:43:18 – 01:02:05:20
It was a situation that she couldn't miss. Yeah. So, she just said she thought it would be fun to go in there and get a couple of videos of her behind the decks while he's playing, and she would come out and be like, oh, that was cool. When it I was behind the decks while walking, and that's all she just that she, she did she went and that was that's what she said.

01:02:05:20 – 01:02:33:12
Yeah. And she came back to him after I came back to him after after some angry texts. Oh, I'm angry texts. Sorry I messed up. It's all right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I would, I wouldn't if it was me, I would give the wristband to my wife. If she wanted it, I wouldn't hand over. I wouldn't go in without a unless she insisted.

01:02:33:12 – 01:02:44:23
And she said, go and have a look. Tell me what it's like. Yeah. You definitely have a conversation. You wouldn't just disappear. Yeah.

01:02:45:00 – 01:03:11:10
And unfortunately, those things do kind of. They they stick with you. But she's also full of Mandy, right? Thank you. So you're not thinking, mate, who the fuck thinks clearly when they've had a bomb of Mandy? You just like someone gives you a wristband. You're like, go, go behind. You're like fucking. Yeah, boy. Bad. Really? Think you don't think clearly.

01:03:11:13 – 01:03:39:06
You've had like you've said, right? You've had Mandy. You've gone to see this stage. Are you having the best time going to these events? Physically. And the adrenaline exhausting for you? You don't think clearly. You do things. You say things. You know, everything is a bit like whizzing round you. So I would take that into consideration. And you've said here that she's not that kind of girl.

01:03:39:06 – 01:04:06:18
She's loving. She's loyal, she's decent, she's the best thing about you, I think possibly. Yet you, you you know, I'm never going to say, do you question how you feel and your emotions in that time because that's how you felt. But I would also say that maybe just have a conversation about it and then put it to bed, because you do not want to ruin a relationship over.

01:04:06:20 – 01:04:24:20
I mean, now, how long was she gone for you? I mean, did you really think that she'd gone in there and gone backstage to give blood as a as a groupie or something like that? No, she didn't even speak to the deejay by the sounds of it, so. No. Oh, yeah. I think you just heard that it wasn't for me, and that's what stuck with him.

01:04:25:01 – 01:04:43:08
And which is I get that. Yeah, which is fine. But people, it's just. You've been together for nine years. You've said all these lovely things about her. Yeah, I just because in this one moment when she's rolling off her tits, suddenly just for a bit of a selfish way, which we're all capable of doing. Yeah, you shouldn't hold it against her and you should move on.

01:04:43:08 – 01:05:09:21
But should and can these two different things, if it's something that's really bugged you, then, then it's then you have to work on that, I think. Yeah. I don't even think it's worth even bringing up, really what I do after the fact. I mean, yeah, I know, but if it's kind of eating away at him, I don't know, I was going to be like, I don't know if it's like a week just out.

01:05:09:22 – 01:05:20:03
It's no, it's not this really bugging me that he did that. Like what? But she's going to just say I didn't. She probably already has said I didn't mean it. I'm excited. And I went.

01:05:20:05 – 01:05:38:07
I think you should go for it the other way. And the next time that happens, you give that DJ a blowjob, encourage her to do that. Yeah. And then you get the first thing. First thing first get breath. Yeah, yeah. Get across. Then it's okay.

01:05:38:09 – 01:05:59:08
Okay. It's straight me. Get your head in the game. Realign yourself, get brass. Yeah, and then think about talking to her. But yeah. Now, honestly, I just think, I don't think you're overreacting because I'm not going to, you know, quash how you're feeling, but think about the environment where you're in, and there's a lot going on at that time.

01:05:59:08 – 01:06:18:21
And I. I would assume she didn't mean it. And, if it's a one off, then I would let sleeping dogs lie. Now we are going to go into something. Only you know why? Something. You know.

01:06:18:23 – 01:06:47:01
Money well spent. Hey, guys. Debated sharing this for a couple of weeks and heard you were running low on stories. So here we go. I recently turned 21, and my grandma had been putting a fiver a week away since I was born, and I ended up with a nice sum of seven grand sitting in the savings account. But my mam, they've spelt mam for out this mam the not yet.

01:06:47:01 – 01:07:06:08
This has got a northern twang to it so well in Burnley my mom mom, you your mum's when your mum this is going to sound weird, but when you made your mum speak via DM, she says she uses that term. Mum, what could you. She talks about, I don't know, I that night we just have catch ups.

01:07:06:08 – 01:07:26:23
What? What are you saying to my mum? I know that talks about. Well what do you catch up about. About you read more about your son. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. She is not. She doesn't say I know as a as a mom and I'm like, you got to stop saying mum, okay? Even as a kid, as explaining that.

01:07:27:00 – 01:07:54:08
My mam also took me to Krakow. Is it crack of. Does it sound crack off my face? Depends where you are, Krakow. I think some people say crack. I say crack of. But yeah. Crack. Crack outside the crack of it. Yes. Crack off. A couple of weeks after the birthday. Quick bit of context. I'd been suffering with an alcohol problem for a couple of years, and things came to a head on the Saturday with me and my mam having an argument.

01:07:54:10 – 01:08:18:07
Sorry to hear about that. I vowed to quit drinking, but she in brackets haven't been an alcoholic herself. Close brackets said that I should wait to go cold turkey until I see a professional. I thought that made sense so I had a few before she wanted to go home. As she was tired, I said I was going to have one more and then I'd be back.

01:08:18:11 – 01:08:48:11
I ended up having four and I was royally smashed. Anyway, I decided to call it a night and started heading back on the last street before the apartment. A man says strict crap free drink. I say no thank you. Five steps later, the alcohol kicks in and says, did you just say free drink? I've lost where I. I've never been in a stripper's before, but I thought one more couldn't her.

01:08:48:13 – 01:09:13:16
Long story short, I absolutely love Polish women, having dated a couple and they kept getting me drinks, I still I was in there for an hour, but it was for sex and I was so smashed I didn't realize they kept putting the prices up. Anyway, I somehow managed to blow my entire heritage on some Polish tits and arrived back at 6 a.m., only to have two hours sleep before checking out.

01:09:13:18 – 01:09:39:24
I've never lied to my family before, but I of course can't tell them the money is gone. I said kill me anyway, a blessing in disguise as the shame I felt has allowed me to quit drinking and begin sorting my life out. Brackets. Two weeks clean. At the point of writing this close bracket love, use both and listen to many of the poor Jews involved in and use.

01:09:39:24 – 01:09:51:11
Really get me through stuff. Hope this gives use all a laugh and that is something my own neo I know that happened two weeks.

01:09:51:13 – 01:10:13:10
Well, well, he's been clean two weeks from that happening, so I don't know when this happened. Well, no, he said it happened two weeks ago because he got clean after it happened this week. Yeah. At the time of writing. Yes. I mean, you've dropped seven grand in it in one night. I that's not in a that is not a oh my lord.

01:10:13:10 – 01:10:31:00
Yeah. Don't tell anyone ever that apart from us. Katie saw. It's just a moment in time. Yeah. It will be kind to yourself. Be kind to yourself. Forgive yourself. Should have got brass. I mean, if you did, I should have got bros today. Just really just got them for a head. Not just not just not to. It's not just that they may.

01:10:31:02 – 01:10:49:23
Yeah. I've got, I've got a few. I've got a few stories of people that have gone to strippers and they've, they've, they've spent that boy. They've lost a lot of what. Look. Great. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Grands. Yeah. One of them sold his car in the hope to buy a new car, and he just got so wrecked, he spent the entire money of the car.

01:10:49:23 – 01:11:12:02
Money on strippers. I don't understand it. Like I've never understood strip joints. I don't I don't know, I understand, like looking at pretty ladies. Yeah, but you what do you do? You just go in there, you get wound up, and then you just got to leave. Well, I've never I know in some countries it's more than that. And it's actually a brothel.

01:11:12:02 – 01:11:47:07
It looks like a strip. Tried, but. Yeah. No hand. Hand jobs as well. Things like that. I always like remember when we used to go, we've talked about this before, but we talk about, When you're away with Spurs, it's like I just spoke in agreement that loads of different guys history. Yeah, yeah. So strip joints and brothels and they talk about it openly, but when their own, it would never anyway, I've never understood it, but it always amazed me that, no, none of them really cared at these women don't actually want to sleep with them.

01:11:47:09 – 01:12:07:08
That's something I would never be able to get past. Yeah. And like, you don't want to be doing this so. And what and I'm. And how do I get aroused knowing that you absolutely do not want to be doing this? No. I, I mean, like, obviously they're pissed up and full of chang, but not I don't care if they're for the Chang.

01:12:07:10 – 01:12:26:07
I would be like that. I'd be that weird person that's like, he's £50 and that guy behind the curtain. I'm not. I can get you out of this. You don't have to do this anymore. Yeah, we'll use this 50 pound. I'll get you a hotel outside the city and I can ask. You don't have to do that.

01:12:26:07 – 01:12:56:06
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