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My passenger this week is

1:54

a knockout. No,

1:56

literally, he's a knockout. He stings like a...

2:00

like a butterfly and float like a

2:02

bee. She will be

2:04

on the way champion. She tables

2:06

up with no blinds. Down. It's

2:08

Tom Abenow. This

2:16

is a final morning. This

2:18

is a final morning call from

2:21

Tom Abenow. This is a final

2:23

morning call from Tom Abenow. This

2:25

is a final morning call from Tom Abenow.

2:27

Thank you. Thank

2:32

you. Look

2:36

what we've got on board. Tom Abenow, how are

2:38

you doing Tom? I'm doing very well thanks. You're

2:41

going to have to put that in the hold,

2:43

that massive, but you know we're on a plane.

2:46

Look at that belt. It's very nice. I like it. I

2:48

can't stop looking at myself. I like it a lot. Oh,

2:50

and is it made of real gold? Well,

2:52

this one's a replica. This one

2:54

isn't. Why didn't you bring it around? Well, I

2:57

didn't know. I had to. You never know. You

2:59

never know, but the replica is still nice.

3:01

But I believe the real one is. I don't

3:03

know. That's amazing. Would you

3:05

wear that out on a night out? No. Quite

3:07

a big belt. No, I've never wore it actually.

3:12

They put it on you when you win. But I've never

3:14

wore it since. I don't just wear it around the house

3:16

and that and that. I've never wore it since. And

3:19

then who did you beat to win that

3:21

then? I beat a Russian guy, Sergei Pavlovich,

3:24

who was 16 and 1. That

3:28

was his record with 15 knockouts. And

3:31

I knocked him out. So we're doing all

3:33

right. We're doing good. Big scary guy. How

3:35

does it make you feel when you knock

3:38

someone out? I've never knocked. Because you're a

3:40

fighter. You know what I am? I'm a

3:42

biter. Oh, you are? I

3:44

buy. I gouge. I

3:47

go for the eyes. I pull hair. I

3:49

don't do any of that. I just do

3:51

the sport of fighting. Would you

3:53

ever buy if you were desperate? What,

3:55

in the fight? Yeah. Well, you've got a gum shield and so it's

3:57

not as effective. I don't think. Maybe I should wear a gum shield.

4:00

I'm sure. Stop it. Can

4:03

you imagine getting the gum sugar to get over these fucking

4:05

things? Yeah, you'd be struggling. That's a bit of tarpaulin or

4:07

something. So

4:11

listen, I don't know anything about mixed

4:13

martial arts. You really messed up the

4:15

algorithms on my laptop, you know. They're

4:18

like, Alan, has this laptop been stolen?

4:20

I'm putting in martial arts,

4:23

jujitsu. What's the difference between

4:25

jujitsu and Brazilian jujitsu? Well,

4:28

jujitsu, like a Japanese jujitsu,

4:31

is that's like more of a

4:33

form of self-defense. Well,

4:36

I guess Brazilian jujitsu, basically Brazilian jujitsu is mainly

4:38

done on the ground, like grappling with

4:40

one another. Whereas a Japanese. I

4:42

like that. I think you'd enjoy it. You'd

4:44

definitely enjoy it. I think you'd enjoy yourself.

4:48

Yeah, they're just different, different, slightly different

4:50

types of martial arts, that's all. I'm

4:52

gonna put that on my card, Alan

4:54

Card TV personality, comedian grappling.

4:56

My dad is a grappling instructor, he's

4:59

a lifelong grappling instructor, so you welcome him down

5:01

if you wanna roll with some men. I

5:03

love that. You don't need to eat. I'm in

5:05

the wrong job, I wanna grapple. Yep, ask

5:07

my dad about it after. He'll love to

5:09

have that chat with you, I'm sure. So

5:12

listen, this is a

5:14

travel podcast. Okay. You were born in

5:17

Salford. I was. You know,

5:19

I lived in Stretford for a while. No, I didn't

5:21

know that. I lived in Stretford. Did you really? There

5:23

was a mural of me underneath the underpass, but then

5:25

someone pulled it down. We

5:27

slept around there. Oh really, I didn't know that. Oh, amazing.

5:29

Yeah, I'm famous in Stretford. Okay, okay, I didn't know. So

5:32

where did you go on holiday as a kid? Where did I

5:35

go on holiday? I've

5:37

been just the standard kind

5:39

of English places that

5:41

people go. Green? You've been

5:43

to Blackpool? Plenty of times. I've been to Blackpool. I

5:45

hate Blackpool. It's on its ass

5:48

recently. Have you been? I'm

5:50

sure, when was the last time you were there? I went

5:52

a few, I turned the lights on at Blackpool. Oh, did

5:54

you really? I turned them on, then turned them off again,

5:56

but I thought, no, that's a strange thing. It's on its

5:58

ass. It's

6:01

awful recently Blackpool, it's terrible. Yeah, I've been

6:03

to Blackpool plenty of times. You always leave

6:06

with a smile on your face and syphilis.

6:08

No, I'm joking, you were. Quite disgusting. I

6:11

won't be surprised. So

6:13

where did you go on holiday then?

6:15

Oh, I've been to like Spain, Portugal,

6:18

Turkey. Turkey's

6:20

slightly on its arse as well these days, I believe.

6:22

But I've not been for a long time. Greece,

6:25

all them kind of places, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh,

6:27

do you like that then? I

6:29

bet you're the one that you always see going to the

6:32

gym even though you're running. No, no, no. Come on, I

6:34

bet you're there. I bet you're not having a fry up.

6:36

Of course, no, when I'm on holiday, I'm on

6:38

holiday. I'm chilling, I'm chilling out. I'm

6:41

definitely not going to the gym. Wow.

6:44

Well, I go to the gym enough at home. I

6:46

don't wanna go when I'm on holiday. Oh, I can't.

6:48

I always freak. I hate

6:50

those people. You're out over, you're sitting there, you're eating

6:53

your fry up, you see two people in Lycra running

6:55

by you. I hope you trip. Yeah, I hope. And

6:57

you pull a muscle. Exactly, I'm exactly. My

6:59

job is to train. That's

7:01

my job, is I'm in the gym all the time. I don't wanna do it

7:04

when I'm on holiday. I wanna sit there,

7:06

have a fry up, drink a mojito, and

7:09

do all the rest of it just like anybody else. Oh,

7:11

I can't do it in a lot. I like that. Yeah, I like

7:14

that. So listen, have you ever had any

7:16

holiday romances? Is there someone looking out for

7:18

a horizon in Grace or Turd? Or Blackpool,

7:20

maybe? Maybe, maybe when I should. No, I

7:22

don't think so. No, no, I don't think

7:24

so. Not as an handle. You've never had

7:26

a holiday romance? Yeah, maybe when I was

7:28

younger, yeah. No, I don't think so. When

7:31

you're younger, that's what I meant. Yeah, I think I

7:33

met a couple of girls in that, yeah, when I

7:35

was younger. But sometimes- Did you ever go

7:37

on those lads holiday like iron-app and all that? I've

7:39

been to a couple, but not, no,

7:42

not really though. Cause I was always, I sound

7:44

extremely boring now, but I was always training. Yeah,

7:47

my goal was always to do that. So I've not

7:49

been on too many like lads holidays or anything. Like

7:51

I've been on a couple, but not loads. Isn't it

7:53

funny that I've probably gone on more lads holidays? You

7:55

probably have. You probably have to be honest. Ha ha

7:57

ha ha. And what, you

7:59

know, because- with this mixed

8:01

martial arts, it's boxing,

8:04

wrestling, Taekwondo, Judo, Karate,

8:06

and it is actually, it's very

8:08

highly skilled and tactical, isn't it?

8:11

Mentally, Al, do you have to get yourself in this

8:13

state? Do you meditate and stuff like that? No,

8:16

I don't do much meditation, to be honest.

8:19

I have done it, but- Gwenfrook mentioned all those words.

8:23

It's very, I mean,

8:25

fighting someone in front of millions of people. It's

8:27

not a normal thing to do. It's

8:30

not like, I'm gonna wake up this morning and

8:32

go for a scrap with someone in Madison Square

8:34

Garden. So it does take, takes

8:36

a lot out of you mentally, and I think watching

8:38

that on the TV, you think, oh, just two fellas

8:40

having a fight here, like outside the bar on a

8:42

Friday night, but it's nothing like that. No, it's more,

8:44

I know. There's a lot goes into it mentally and

8:46

physically. It takes years of preparation. There's so

8:49

much to it, like you say. If you're bad

8:51

at any of the things that you

8:53

just listed, you're gonna get exposed, and the gloves

8:55

are so small, my division, the guys are so

8:57

big, it's just anything can happen. I

9:00

love it though, obviously, I absolutely love it. I

9:02

mean, that must be amazing, winning at Madison Square

9:04

Garden. Tell us about that. What was it like

9:06

when you saw that? How do you even get

9:08

your mind together to perform there? Because it is

9:11

a performance, isn't it? It's not just having a

9:13

fight. It's highly skilled. So tell

9:15

us, what did you shake yourself? Nearly,

9:17

yeah, a couple of times. I mean, the guy who

9:20

was fighting was very scary. Also, literally

9:22

nearly nearly. I

9:25

often have a few nervous poos in that before.

9:27

Yeah, you've got to. But

9:30

yeah, the guy, I thought, I actually took the

9:32

fight on two weeks notice, which for anyone who

9:34

doesn't know, like that is not

9:36

enough time to prepare for a fight, really. But

9:39

it was a massive opportunity, obviously fighting for the heavyweight

9:41

title, so I didn't feel like I could turn it

9:43

down. And then I didn't have a visa,

9:46

so I only

9:48

found out that I was going to New York, literally

9:50

two days before I went, because I didn't have a

9:52

valid visa. I also trained for like

9:54

two days and then pulled my back, so I couldn't really

9:56

train at all. It was just an absolute nightmare, but we

9:58

still managed to pull out of it. We're

10:01

still one in a bad circumstance but... Did you

10:03

like New York? You're not going to know that

10:05

was on its house as well are you? I

10:08

actually didn't like it that much. Why are you on the

10:10

travel podcast you aint gonna do your show? I didn't know

10:13

it was a travel podcast, I had no idea it was

10:15

a travel podcast. No, it

10:17

er... So what? So you didn't

10:19

like New York? I'd not liked it but... What's

10:21

Salford got? That New York hasn't. Well, not a

10:24

lot. Not a lot to be honest but er...

10:27

Yeah, it was alright, it's just a bit busy isn't it? Just

10:29

a lot of people, a lot of people like to be there

10:31

for over a week. Yeah. But I was there to do a

10:33

job, I was there to fight. So it's not like I could

10:36

explore and enjoy myself, do you know what I mean? I was

10:38

having a couple of walks around and what not but... I

10:41

was there to fight this big scary Russian guy and leave

10:43

with the title which is what I did so... I

10:46

wasn't looking to have the time

10:48

of my life or anything so... Maybe if I would have

10:50

gone and explored a little bit I would have enjoyed it

10:52

more but... Maybe if me and you had gone and had

10:54

a life in New York. I was dying to get in

10:56

a few bars and not to explore but... It

11:00

was a big job. Next time we'll go together.

11:02

Yeah, it was a big job. We're all together.

11:04

Fussy patrol. Yeah. Well, I'm married. I'm steady on

11:06

I'm married so I'm gonna... So am I. My

11:09

wife er... knows I have erm... No,

11:12

I'm just... My wife

11:14

knows I go away for weekends. She

11:18

doesn't tell the kids. Round

11:21

one, your team ring. So

11:25

tell us somewhere you've absolutely loved

11:28

going on holiday. Er...

11:30

well... Please, there's gotta be somewhere you've got...

11:32

No, there's a good few places I love. I've travelled a

11:34

fair bit to be honest at this point, I think. It's

11:36

funny with you and you'll go

11:38

in somewhere and you know you've got to

11:40

concentrate, you've got to fight. And I know

11:43

we're not similar at all but I've just

11:45

recently come back from America doing a stand-up

11:47

tour. Yeah. And you're getting the visa.

11:49

The visa's a ball and you've got to go there.

11:51

Yeah. It's not moaning, it's so

11:53

wonderful that you can get to do these things.

11:55

But when you're sitting on that plane, it's

11:58

not like going on holiday. Absolutely not. in

12:00

a gin and tonic, he said no, cause I need

12:02

to rest my voice, I need to sort out these

12:04

gags. It's different, it's not travel travel, is it? Yeah,

12:06

definitely. It's work. I've been to a few places I

12:09

like to go with fighting, like I'm still fighting, but

12:11

it's, like I went to Abu

12:13

Dhabi a couple of times, I really love Abu

12:15

Dhabi, like over that area, the Middle East and

12:17

stuff, it's just, well the holiday bits, like Abu

12:20

Dhabi, Dubai and stuff, absolutely incredible, I absolutely love

12:22

that. Love Vegas as well, absolutely love Vegas, fought

12:24

there a couple of times, brilliant. Where would you

12:26

like to fight? Where in the world would you

12:29

like to fight next? Madison

12:31

Square Garden, that's pretty big. It

12:33

doesn't get bigger than that. See, I fought, the number

12:35

one place I wanted to fight was the Ulster Arena,

12:37

like as a UK guy, I wanted to fight

12:40

there. I fought there three times, I've main evented there three

12:42

times, I've sold it out three times. I'm not blowing my

12:44

own trumpet, but that's the facts of it. My

12:47

God, wow. The second place I wanted to

12:49

fight after that was Madison Square Garden, it's

12:51

such a prestigious arena, especially

12:53

for combat sports. And then

12:56

I fought there, I think, of

12:59

all places, I know I'm from Manchester, but

13:01

I think that I would love to bring

13:03

the UFC back to Manchester, that's what I'd

13:05

absolutely love to do. Where, what venue was

13:08

big enough for there? Well, they've got Old

13:10

Trafford, obviously, but they have no roof on

13:12

it, so they can't do an event

13:14

there. I

13:17

know they're building this new arena now, next to City's Ground,

13:19

which is gonna be 24,000, I

13:21

believe, so we could do that,

13:24

that'd be amazing. Why does this room

13:26

look amazing? What'd you change? I just got these

13:28

custom shades from blinds.com, it's all online,

13:30

so it's really easy. I remember shopping

13:32

for blinds. I waited around

13:34

all day just to get a quote,

13:36

it took forever, and the worst part,

13:38

he didn't see you. How

13:41

about you? I chatted with my blinds.com

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design consultant on my time. Plus, they make it

13:45

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13:55

this John Jones bloke, and you wanna fight

13:58

him, don't you? I do, I do. I

14:00

mentioned to my friend Bogdon who

14:03

loves Marshall Art and he's a monster. He

14:05

is, he is. Is

14:08

he as tall as you? Yeah, similar height to

14:10

me, yeah. Yeah. The

14:12

greatest of all time. And have you talked,

14:14

was it shit talk? Talk shit? I've

14:17

not talked shit about him. Is it shit talk? Yeah, we

14:19

can say shit talk. Yeah. What did

14:21

you say? Hi pussy! No, none of that. I'm

14:24

a respectful guy. I don't do any of that. Don't you

14:26

do any of that? No, none of that. A

14:28

little dick. I bet he's a

14:30

good guy. No, I don't do any of that. None of that. But

14:33

yeah, I'm just trying to get a fight with him. I'm

14:36

trying to get a fight with him to say that he's the best of all time. And

14:39

I want that on my resume. Yeah. I want

14:41

to test myself. Yeah, bring him to Salford.

14:43

Swat him. No, I'm definitely

14:46

going to swat him. But hopefully, anyway, you

14:48

just never know. You never know. How would

14:50

he work? So you'd say to John, has

14:52

he got an agent, John? I'm sure he's

14:54

got a manager. Yeah, he does. I'll

14:57

get you. Come on, then. That's what we're trying to

14:59

do. That'd be amazing. That's what we're trying to do

15:01

right now. He's injured at the moment. He is injured.

15:04

He was supposed to fight when I fought. That's why he didn't

15:06

fight and I stepped in. That's the way it worked. He injured

15:08

himself. Yeah, that's the fight I want to get. I want to

15:10

test myself. Ultimately,

15:12

that's what I'm going to do. Yeah, because he's the

15:15

number one in it. He's the number one. Well, actually,

15:17

I'm the number one in the rankings right now. Yay!

15:21

But he... I'm just like... I'm just

15:23

doing a bit of dick measuring there, aren't I, with

15:25

him? He

15:29

is the number one pound-for-pound of all time, people

15:31

are saying. Yeah, yeah. I want that. I want

15:33

to be what he's got. I want what he's

15:35

got. I just want

15:37

to test myself. Wow. And

15:40

he can do all these as well. Oh, he can do all them. Everyone

15:42

can do all them. Everyone can do all them. If

15:44

you're in the UFC, you're some of the best in

15:46

the world, so everyone can do all that stuff. I've

15:49

got me licked. No, I do my research.

15:51

I know people don't think I do my

15:53

research. I'm doing all right. I'm not. Do

15:56

I sound like... You sound like... Yeah.

15:59

Do I sound like a commentator? You're an analyst. Hey,

16:01

you're talking about an analyst. You're talking to me. I've

16:03

got an analyst job these days. Working

16:05

on the desk, talking about fighting. I

16:08

do do that as well. I do a bit of

16:10

that on the side. I'm busy enough with the fighting,

16:12

but when I retire, I'll get into that a little

16:14

bit more, I think. And tell us about your mate

16:16

Tyson Fury. He helps you out. He sounds like an

16:18

angel. Oh, he's a lovely fella, yeah. Lovely guy, yeah.

16:21

I know all his family are great. Tyson's got

16:23

five brothers. I know all his brothers. I know

16:25

his dad, I know his cousins, his young girls

16:28

and everything. Great people. Really, really nice people. Like

16:30

him a lot. Really nice fella, yeah. So

16:33

listen, what pisses you off when you're

16:36

on holiday? I mean, is

16:38

it a smelly room? Is it bad service?

16:40

Do you get angry? I mean,

16:43

people are gonna make, if you turn up at

16:45

the hotel desk, they ain't gonna say, yeah, yeah.

16:47

They're gonna get shit done. Oh, you never know.

16:50

Some people play the opposite, you see. They wanna do

16:52

a bit of testing me. Oh,

16:55

they do. That happens a lot, you know. I was a

16:57

big guy, especially with my cauliflower ears

16:59

and stuff. Oh, let's have

17:01

a look. I've never seen, oh, God,

17:03

yes. Yeah, they're a telltale sign of an

17:06

MMA fighter usually. Because I thought your face, your face doesn't

17:08

look. Do you know what, I brought one of those four

17:10

times though. But it's still

17:12

doing all right. It's still doing all right. But

17:15

yeah, I think I hate bad

17:17

service, you know. You know, like, I

17:20

can't stand it. If someone's miserable and they're serving

17:22

you and they don't look happy to be there,

17:24

I can't be doing with that, that's one of

17:26

my pet hates. I can't stand it. And

17:29

you know what, because when I went abroad, like

17:31

I said, I was in Canada, and I mean,

17:33

the customer service over there is spot on. You

17:35

get a smile, no one's itching

17:37

the tit, no one's like, you

17:39

know, being rude. But I

17:41

wanna say that I think Canadians are

17:43

too chatty, because I was eating a

17:46

falafel wrap and it was quite big.

17:48

And she went, are you gonna put that all in your

17:50

mouth? And I went, yeah. And

17:53

she said, wow, that's big, you must be hungry.

17:56

And I was like, and I thought it should

17:58

be really sweet before it eats. In England,

18:00

you say that to a fat person, and they say,

18:02

you're gonna be picking your teeth off the floor. You

18:04

know what I mean? You're gonna put that all in your mouth. But

18:07

they are, I prefer it over there. So what,

18:09

it's a bad service, so you get some cold

18:11

food and you go, come on, love. Yeah, and

18:14

the, no, not even like that, you

18:16

know. I don't mind that. Like, if they do

18:18

that, sometimes it makes... It's just if they're miserable.

18:20

Rude people, yeah, miserable. You're trying to order, they're

18:22

not using the manners and all that shit. I

18:24

don't like that. I like to, you should be

18:26

professional, I think. Yes. But what about, kind

18:28

of, are they working on tips, or

18:30

like the Americans and all? Yeah, I mean, I don't

18:32

know what. I went to a coffee shop, I

18:35

ordered a tea, she gave me a pot of

18:37

cold water, tea bag on the side, and pointed

18:39

me to the stirrer and the milk, and then

18:41

wanted a 20% tip. I

18:43

know you've done it, you've booked the get-a-lon. Yeah,

18:46

yeah. Yeah, I feel mean,

18:48

but you know, come on. I know exactly, it's the same

18:50

in, we had a Starbucks downstairs

18:52

for our hotel, and they kept wanting a tip, and I

18:54

thought, you're just working your job. But

18:56

I think a lot of the time, they work off

18:58

tips, don't they? They don't get an hourly rate, do

19:01

they? I know, they need the tip. I still give

19:03

them, I feel bad here. No, you do feel bad.

19:05

Oh, God, thank you. In

19:08

the left corner, we have the right

19:11

tube of pingles. In

19:13

the right corner, we have

19:16

a green tube of pingles.

19:18

Who will win? You

19:20

decide, that's £1.20, please. What

19:24

are you like when you do go abroad?

19:26

Do you try street food? Will you put

19:29

proper bush taco trial, or do you

19:31

like? Yeah,

19:33

I like trying the local stuff. I

19:36

like trying to... What's the weirdest thing you've had in your mouth? Do

19:41

you know, in Eastern Europe, they eat raw steak.

19:46

Like they just eat raw, with raw

19:48

eggs on top. Oh, that's

19:50

because of protein. That's some rough, that's

19:52

not for me, that. They'll just have

19:55

a raw steak, with a raw egg on top.

19:57

Unlike gherkins and that. I tried that and it's...

20:00

disgusting. I tried that, that was probably the

20:02

most vile thing. That was that cold. I

20:04

don't know, but it's disgusting. I tried that

20:06

in Slovakia, that's absolutely horrendous. People

20:08

just sitting around eating raw steak and raw eggs. Oh,

20:12

and the cold, is it true? Do you have to

20:14

have like protein? Is that how you get that shape?

20:16

Do you have loads of eggs in the morning? Because

20:18

you know what I am. No, I don't do like

20:20

Rocky style ways drinking it. Yeah. You know, times have

20:22

changed since then. You can actually buy protein shakes. Yeah,

20:24

yeah. And then they don't see. Yeah, yeah. I

20:27

didn't want to do the raw egg things. But

20:29

yeah, I just have a couple of protein shakes today

20:31

and that, yeah. I try and keep my diet alright.

20:33

Can I have Coco Pops? I do, I

20:35

do. Oh, you can throw that in

20:37

every now and again, yeah. And

20:39

also, Mendy, can we talk about

20:41

SCX? Do you

20:44

have to stop? Because I've heard that you have

20:46

to not have sex before. Because I'm like that

20:48

with this podcast. Oh, you don't have sex before

20:50

the podcast? Sometimes during the podcast, but never before.

20:52

Are you, are you, are you, are you? I'm

20:57

joking, you don't have to. No,

21:00

I just do, I just do sex as normal. That's

21:02

good. I just do it as normal. Yeah. I

21:04

don't see why you would refrain from it. I

21:06

don't, I think that's all a myth, personally. Like

21:08

for me, fight week. I

21:11

just like to try and keep it as normal as possible. Yes,

21:13

you don't beat yourself. Yeah, because otherwise,

21:15

you start going into this weird headspace

21:17

and stuff and saying that on fight

21:19

week, my wife's not there. So, I'm

21:21

not having sex with anyone apart from if I want to do

21:23

it with my hand. It's

21:27

getting a bit boring at this point.

21:30

I've done that enough. So, yeah, I

21:32

just, no, no sex

21:34

fight week, really. Just because there's no one, there's

21:36

no one there to do it with. Good,

21:38

thank you for explaining that. Have

21:41

you ever been on holiday with

21:43

a famous person or seen a famous

21:45

person? We've had people have been on

21:48

holiday and Beyonce's been in the hotel.

21:50

Jeremy Kyle was on a flight. Oh, really? I've

21:52

not, I've not to be honest. I've not, I

21:54

don't think. Have you ever gone on holiday with

21:57

Tyson Fury? Nope. He's famous.

21:59

Nope, I've not. just go with the family

22:01

and yeah I've not seen any

22:03

famous people to be honest on holiday. I don't

22:05

think so. Oh that's a shame. That's

22:08

a good thing we had a great day. Where

22:11

do you want to be in like a hundred years?

22:13

Where is your place that you've travelled to and you've

22:15

gone oh I feel like I'm home?

22:18

In a hundred years. Yeah you're a hundred years old. Oh I'm

22:20

a hundred years old. You're probably being a hundred years old. Where

22:22

do you want to be in the world? I

22:25

like quiet places you know that are not that busy.

22:29

I think I've been

22:31

to Portugal a lot. I like Portugal a

22:33

lot. It seems a

22:35

lot more chilled like there's not a lot

22:37

of commotion in the bits of Portugal that

22:39

I've been to. It's just chilled out like

22:41

beach lifestyle. I like that. When

22:44

I've retired from my job which

22:46

obviously involves a lot of travelling, a lot

22:48

of madness and fighting and attention and stuff

22:50

I want to just live quieter

22:52

and more relaxed so I'd like to live somewhere a

22:55

bit more beachy than. What

22:58

do you say with your job then

23:00

because it is quite, you cherish

23:02

those moments when a fight

23:05

is over. Do

23:07

you just relax then?

23:11

Is that what you do then? You just get away from it

23:13

all and just have a bit of me time with your family?

23:15

Yeah that's what I try and do. I'm

23:18

aware that especially as I'm getting a

23:20

bit bigger now it's just madness. Just

23:22

after the fight it's just crazy and I'm not. My

23:26

lifestyle is quite boring to be honest.

23:28

That's the way that I've been. I

23:30

think that a lot of my success

23:32

comes from routine. Yeah I've different places.

23:34

Yeah exactly. My life's just like training,

23:36

go home, train again, sleep. It's super

23:38

boring. But I like it. I

23:40

like it like that. No, it's boring isn't it

23:42

really? I

23:44

mean I've got to do it. I've got to do it.

23:46

That's the way I'm successful is by living like that. After

23:50

I fought and stuff like when I flew home this

23:52

time I just turned my

23:54

phone off and I just wanted to have a day just

23:56

like being at home before I even leave the house. Yeah.

24:00

and that was it, the school room was mad enough on

24:02

its own and then I just wanted to... Aww, I love

24:04

that. I just wanted to just chill for a day. Oh,

24:07

is that? And is there anywhere that you want

24:09

to go that you've been, haven't been yet? I'd

24:11

like to go to Australia, but it's so far

24:13

though, isn't it? Yeah. It's so

24:15

far, and I'm a big guy, stuck on that plane

24:17

for like 30 hours or whatever it is. Yeah, how

24:19

do you travel when you're that tall? Well, I'm struggling.

24:22

You have to get the leg, I mean, what do

24:24

you want you like when you're on like a Ryanair

24:26

or something like that? I struggle, I struggle big time,

24:28

yeah. Well, usually the Ryanair flights, they're short, aren't they?

24:30

They're not too long though. No, no, but if you

24:32

are going to struggle in, because that's 24 hours and

24:34

I went to Australia last year, that is so...

24:37

I bet you had the bed and stuff though, didn't you? You must

24:39

have had the... I did have the

24:41

bed. Well, I'm a... Well,

24:43

I just knew York. I'm a national treasure. I have

24:46

to lay down. Absolutely. Well, to

24:48

New York we had the

24:50

lying down thing and it's much better, but still it's still along

24:52

the line. The lying down thing, it's called a bed. Yeah, bed.

24:55

It's not an actual bed though, is it? No. Did

24:57

you get an actual bed? Listen, OK, I do like a

24:59

bed on a plane if that means I've lost touch

25:01

with reality. I'll show you off. I'll

25:04

show you. Outside now. Let's have a bite.

25:06

I don't want it. Let's have

25:08

a bite. Hello, sir. I'm

25:10

afraid you're so massive, going to

25:12

have to put your head into

25:14

the overhead locker. Sorry for any

25:16

inconvenience. I can only do

25:18

four of these things. Boxing,

25:21

wrestling. You're black belt,

25:23

aren't you? Injudges you, yeah. That's pretty

25:25

amazing. Now, is there a point

25:27

in your body that you press and you can just

25:29

die? Was that a myth that went round school? What

25:31

do you mean? To what? You can kill someone with

25:33

one finger. I think that's all the right, yeah. You

25:35

can't do it like that. That went round the playground.

25:37

You could kill someone with one finger. Yeah, I don't

25:39

know. There's a bit of your body you touch. I

25:41

don't know it. Don't touch me. Don't

25:43

let me know if you know it,

25:46

but I'm not aware of it.

25:48

Now, around the school it was like there's a

25:50

bit on your body. Yeah, I

25:52

think it's round here by your chest. You press

25:54

it and you instantly die. I think that was

25:56

a lie and I've believed that. Have

25:59

you tried it on anybody? I wouldn't dare. No,

26:01

I wouldn't. No, I don't want anyone to die. I just

26:03

want to... And do you actually get a black belt? Is it a black

26:05

belt? Yeah, I've got a black belt, yeah. Is

26:08

that like that? Yeah. So where did

26:10

you say you wanted to go? 100 years old

26:12

and you want to be somewhere quiet? Somewhere

26:14

quiet, yeah. Chilling out. No

26:17

one will bother me. Just me and like... Me

26:20

and the elements. Me and the beach. Yeah,

26:22

yeah. I'd like that. I

26:24

mean, how mad have you gone on... I want to

26:26

know this. Have you

26:28

ever had any holiday nightmares? Have

26:30

you ever lost your luggage? Yeah,

26:33

when we went to Vegas... Well, it wasn't a holiday.

26:35

We were there to fight, but... We lost our luggage

26:37

for like five days. And being... Especially... So we went

26:39

to Vegas early to try and get used to the

26:41

time difference and stuff. Because obviously I've got to fight

26:43

someone. I've got to fight somebody. I don't want to

26:45

be knackered. Yeah, yeah. So we went there a little

26:47

bit early. I think it was like 10 days early.

26:50

And then our luggage didn't arrive. But

26:52

obviously we got a train. So

26:55

we need clothes. We had sweaty clothes

26:57

all over the place. We had the stuff that we

26:59

travelled in. We had to go to

27:01

bloody... What's it called? The American version of Tesco. What's that

27:04

called? Target, yeah. We had to go to Target and buy

27:06

a load of shit to train in. Yeah.

27:08

What an ideal. That's the worst thing that can

27:10

happen. Can you imagine going all that

27:12

way to have a fight and then your clothes go missing? Wasn't

27:14

ideal. I won the fight though. So I'm not complaining. Everything went

27:16

well. Can you imagine if you had to go to a women's

27:19

shop and you had to do it in drag? I

27:21

don't fancy that. I don't fancy it. This

27:27

is your captain speaking. We are on

27:29

our final approach to our destination. Cabin

27:31

crew get ready for landing. Cabin crew

27:33

get ready for landing. We're

27:45

about to start our descent. It's time

27:47

now for the quick fire round, okay?

27:49

Mojito, this is not when you're fighting.

27:51

Okay. Mojito

27:54

woman tea. Al-Qar or

27:56

Al-Qar trash. Would you rather go to prison or

27:58

go on holiday with TV's Al-Qar? power.

28:01

I'd rather go to Alcatraz. No

28:04

obviously I'm not

28:06

going to play with you. Speedo

28:09

or no no no. What's no

28:11

no no? Like naked. Would you wear Speedo? Oh

28:13

my god you can do it however you want.

28:15

Oh when you said no I thought you meant

28:17

like naked. No no would you wear badgy smugglers

28:20

on holiday? No it's not really my style just

28:22

a pair of socks. Mile high or I'm too

28:24

shy. Can anyone else see? No

28:27

no it's a toilet. It's not a glass box. It's

28:29

not supposed to get me and a woman in the

28:31

toilet. What the hell? I'm in the toilet. I'd

28:35

have a go. Don't say you're a

28:37

dog. With your wife. I'm not. It sounds like

28:39

I'm trying to make you have an affair. Bungee

28:42

jump. No it gives me the hump. Have

28:45

you ever gone mad on holiday like

28:47

yeah karaoke. Yeah I do a bit of that but I

28:50

ain't fucking jumping off a cliff. It's

28:52

not funny I would rather jump off a cliff than have

28:54

a fight. Oh you would? Oh no you won't

28:56

catch me jumping off a cliff no chance. No. You

28:59

know what I always think you know stuff like that. It used to

29:01

be like semi up for that you know like skydiving

29:04

bungee jumping. I've got three children

29:06

right and I always think imagine

29:09

if I died everyone would just be like what a knob. When

29:12

he's got like three kids what a shit way to

29:14

die when he's got kids. I know and I mean

29:17

listen I'm much older than you but when you get

29:19

older you realise life's dangerous enough that it is like

29:21

jump. It's funny you should say that because I went

29:23

on a bike recently and I pushed bikes. I

29:25

remember I used to ride a bike to school it.

29:28

I had no brakes on it and no seat and

29:30

like if I get like in trouble I just jump off

29:32

it and now I was going a bit

29:34

fast on the bike just down the road. I was like no I'm

29:37

going a bit faster like shit isn't it because I was going to

29:39

be fast on a bike. I remember when I was like

29:41

14 I had no seat and

29:43

no brakes. And you'd have no helmet

29:45

on which you'd come around. Yeah now

29:47

you're like yeah. And then

29:50

last but not least tip them or fuck

29:52

them. Do you tip, we talked about this,

29:54

do you tip or do you think ha

29:56

ha I never saw this. I am a

29:58

tipper if someone's nice I'll always. try

30:00

and help them out if I can. Oh, you're

30:02

a good guy, Tom. Thank you so much. Thank you

30:04

very much. And let's, yeah. John,

30:06

was he called John Jones? John Jones

30:08

is getting it. Yeah, John Jones is gonna get it. Ha!

30:14

Thank you for flying Alan Evans. Oh!

30:21

Thank you, Tom. That was so much

30:23

fun. Thank you to all our frequent flyers.

30:25

We really do appreciate you

30:28

listening. Remember, guys.