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2:12

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Brian Moore always been the same. No

2:21

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2:23

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2:25

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a video camera and guitars that

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2:41

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2:45

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2:47

took me by surprise because I thought no, the

2:49

biggest guys got shouted. But anyway, you're

2:52

a microphone hog so do what you do, welcome, go on. No,

2:55

no, it's down to you mate. I've done the

2:57

last few because I've had to bring energy but

2:59

you look energised. Not. No I don't.

3:02

No I don't. Hold on mate, two seconds.

3:04

Hold on. Two seconds. I

3:07

know. Hi guys. Hi. Hold

3:10

up. Hold on. Listen,

3:13

Shanks is on the phone in the middle of our

3:15

bloody pod. He

3:19

actually has a go at me for stuff like this. Like

3:21

if I come on eating, as you'll know if you've listened

3:23

for a while, he has a go at me for eating

3:25

on the pod and eating on Zooms. Yeah, anything easy. Now

3:29

he's literally taking phone calls. He'll edit this out.

3:32

He will edit this out. I'm on a podcast Dave so you can just do that. Is that okay? There's

3:34

no talk to the people.

3:37

Bye bye. Let

3:40

me guess, subordinate of yours, you spoke to

3:42

him like shit. Like

3:45

a piece of dirt on your shiri wife. Joe, I spoke

3:47

to him like you speak to your wife. Don't

3:51

turn it on me mate. Don't

3:53

turn it on me fella. Shall I edit that bit out?

3:56

No, no, because I've told people what you're

3:58

really like during it. don't even listen to it

4:00

just put it in he did ring

4:03

me and as soon as you I picked up he went I'm

4:05

doing he had it now on I some printing

4:07

company beacon printers in an half

4:10

I'm getting some stuff printed for the weekend so

4:12

oh god yeah

4:15

hey hi everyone right hi

4:17

everyone hi everyone welcome

4:20

to the flats and shanks podcast I'm

4:23

flat he's shanks and

4:25

this is series seven is

4:28

it considering

4:31

we weren't going to do

4:33

this and every year we've been

4:35

like are we gonna do it again seven

4:37

years is quite a long

4:40

time yeah yeah

4:42

how long you been with wife less

4:44

than that I

4:49

think we've got grump

4:52

here when's the last

4:54

time you were happy

4:57

I know the exact I know the exact

4:59

date I coffee with a mate

5:01

the other week loads loads of great mates

5:04

and had coffee with a mate and we were

5:06

walking along and on the news agent door it

5:08

had the euro million sign it said 110 million

5:11

pound jackpot and

5:13

I just said to him I realized we don't

5:15

we try to swear on this pod but let's just do it

5:18

for once we're okay and I pointed I

5:20

said what do you do that before I could almost finish

5:22

a sentence he said fuck off fuck off

5:24

straight away to the mountains on

5:26

my own exactly that's roughly

5:30

what I would do like it's not really I would

5:33

you know I couldn't be

5:35

without a copy I'm struggling to be without my

5:37

kids for like days at a time but it's

5:39

like in theory I would

5:41

like to have one of these cabins that like

5:43

they have it in American movies and TV shows

5:45

we'll go to the cabin just to the middle

5:48

of nowhere with bears eating weetabix off my back

5:50

deck yeah

5:54

you know I mean like yeah I

5:56

the idea of just pissing off and being on

5:58

my own is or being on

6:00

our own off grid is

6:04

lovely. Off grid? Here

6:06

he is, am I six? Well,

6:11

mate's a foxy now so black

6:15

ops isn't it? But it was straight

6:17

away, Toph could even get it out, it's like he was

6:19

waiting for me to ask, fuck off, we're

6:21

home to the mountains. Yeah,

6:25

Thailand, I'd probably like to go. What

6:30

was the guy's name, the stars and their eyes

6:32

guy Matthew Kelly? Wasn't

6:35

he like, I don't know, I don't know what

6:37

I'm talking about here, but wasn't it like, he

6:40

went to Thailand a lot, so people presumed

6:42

he was doing, you

6:44

know, naughty stuff out there, or was he actually doing

6:46

naughty stuff out there? I don't know. You see, this

6:48

is where if we were Joe

6:51

Rogan, and we had like a proper

6:53

setup studio and all that and zillions

6:55

of dollars, we could actually,

6:58

we'd have a producer

7:00

actually doing this. We

7:04

could ask him now. I'm

7:06

doing it now, Matthew Kelly, Thailand. You

7:08

bet he did. You

7:10

bet he did. Thailand's

7:15

got talent, there's no news there, I think

7:17

he did nothing wrong. I can. Often

7:20

when you go to dinners, there's either

7:22

a comedian or the MC

7:25

and the... Oh, cleared of accusations, by the way,

7:27

so I'm not going to go on about what

7:29

the accusations were because he was cleared. So

7:32

that's what I've got here. Anyway, formal

7:34

caution. Yeah. And

7:37

these are comedians at dinners, we'll often say

7:39

and make. We'll

7:42

say to the audience, there's some lovely

7:44

looking people here, some

7:48

lovely women in the audience, and he'll

7:51

say, gentlemen, where would we be, eh? Where would we be without women?

7:54

That is beautiful women by our

7:57

side. Thailand. That's

8:00

where we'd be. Exactly.

8:03

I laughed but I wouldn't. So

8:06

I went to a school, a mate of mine, now

8:08

he listens to this pod. You know Dux,

8:10

eat him Dux. Of course I do.

8:14

He was good, good night Antoine. Dux

8:17

lives in Miami now and he's very

8:20

posh and he listens to this. And

8:23

his parents were like great friends, like

8:25

amazing people, loved the family and all

8:27

that. They retired

8:30

and moved to Thailand and

8:32

they've lived there ever since. And as far as I'm aware,

8:35

I could be making this up so Duxie can text me

8:37

and let me know. I will let you know on the

8:39

next pod if I'm wrong. They

8:41

live in the house that

8:44

the Renault Clio

8:46

advert with Thierry Henry Nicole Papa

8:48

was filmed in. Bababoom

8:51

advert. What's on that? What a really cool

8:53

white house is my mate's parents house in

8:55

Thailand. If I've made it up I don't know

8:57

where it's come from but I think that's their house. Quite

9:00

cool isn't it? Yeah, well I want to go to

9:03

Thailand for the beaches and the food.

9:05

For the what? You

9:12

don't form today. Where have

9:14

you been? Where have you been this morning? It's

9:16

like DCI beach. From

9:19

um, sit down beach. Shut

9:22

up beach. Yeah,

9:25

I look back now and it took me like

9:27

10 years to realise that they called him beach

9:29

because it sounded like bitch. It took me all

9:31

that time to realise genius. Like

9:34

a succession when I called him Lester. Yeah,

9:36

what's the, what's the, what's

9:39

the um, what's it

9:41

called that show with DS DCI beach? Good

9:43

guys. Good guys. Operation Good Guys.

9:47

Operation Good Guys. Underrated. Not

9:49

many people know about it. One of

9:51

the originals that was of like, fly on

9:53

the wall mockumentary. Oh,

9:56

absolutely brilliant. I remember

9:58

telling you, Tom, you got a... me onto it

10:00

and I went to training and I was just crying

10:02

like when we were all having the sappuccino in coffee

10:05

club after gym and slagging everyone off down their backs

10:07

and then saying how

10:09

much we hate our jobs and hate the club

10:11

and all that stuff and we weren't really but

10:13

I was just crying and I remember Gruy

10:15

saying I've got to see this and I got

10:17

in the box set and about two

10:20

years later as you watch it you go no don't really

10:22

watch TV and I make you've got he never

10:24

watched it and then when I

10:26

watched The Guard with Brendan Gleason the

10:28

movie on Nick Woods recommendation they'll gloss

10:30

the prop I

10:32

watched it and I was like right mate I've told you

10:34

to watch something before and you haven't watched it you've actually

10:36

got to sit and watch The Guard and

10:39

he just rang me a text and said

10:41

this is the greatest movie of all time

10:43

it is my all-time favorite film but yeah

10:46

exactly Operation Good Guys was

10:48

that good wasn't it? Yeah it was I tell

10:50

you now we're on the topic of TV.

10:55

Griselda. I've just left it. What's

10:58

your problem bitch?

11:02

Anyway go on. Griselda you watch that

11:04

on Netflix? No. Oh my

11:06

days it's good. Is it good? Yeah. Oh

11:09

right. Yeah it's about drug

11:13

cartel in Miami during

11:15

like the 70s 80s. She's

11:17

the boss right? She is

11:19

the boss. And it's the

11:22

modern family lady Sophia Vergara?

11:24

Yes. Yes. Griselda

11:27

already have you? Well no because

11:29

I thought it was a... Oh your nose

11:31

just caught me. Sorry

11:34

I'm a real boy. I'll follow her

11:36

on Instagram because I'm a

11:38

amazing actor. I saw

11:41

the picture on the sky on TV

11:43

and thought it was I've now forgotten

11:45

her name the Welsh lady Michael Douglas's

11:48

Catherine Zeta Jones. Catherine Zeta Jones. I thought it was

11:50

her. Looks like that. Yeah they

11:52

do. So it's getting there? Yeah

11:55

it's good. Six episodes. Yeah I

11:57

really enjoyed it. It's quite

11:59

similar to sort of of Narco's Mexico.

12:02

Yeah okay. I thought

12:04

it was very good. I'm three

12:06

episodes in I think or two

12:08

of the season of True Detective.

12:11

Me too. I

12:14

hope it's not supernatural is all I'm saying.

12:17

Same here. That would annoy me. Same here.

12:20

And when I see it I

12:22

think that is the only possibility that it is. I'm

12:25

a hypocrite Tom because I

12:27

love Game of Thrones and that was weird and

12:29

had dragons in it. But. Yeah but you know

12:31

from a start it's sci-fi.

12:34

Not sci-fi it's fantasy.

12:36

Fantasy sci-fi or whatever it's called.

12:38

Fantasy stuff isn't it. Yeah. Do

12:41

you know I listened to the

12:44

first five or ten minutes of a Joe

12:46

Rogan podcast by accident this morning

12:48

on the school run. You've got on about it mate.

12:50

You're never going to meet him. Never

12:52

going to meet him. And as

12:54

I said I've only listened to a couple of

12:56

his podcasts but some of them I've loved and

12:59

found really interesting and some of them are a

13:01

little bit like. It's

13:04

almost like Wokism can go

13:06

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13:08

on that now like a lot of

13:10

things can go too far but you

13:12

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13:14

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13:16

I'm not like it's not like oh it's made me

13:18

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13:20

I'm not and I'm not with them on it and

13:23

it's not that funny to me and but some of

13:25

it's amazing but he's got

13:27

Taylor Sheridan on one and I was like

13:29

Taylor Sheridan who's that and I was like

13:31

oh yeah he wrote Yellowstone and

13:34

he also wrote oh

13:37

god Kingstown. Mayor of Kingstown I think

13:39

it's called which it's

13:41

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13:43

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13:46

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13:48

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13:50

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13:52

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13:55

that's the point there's no real plot to

13:57

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13:59

of people. these series now where

14:02

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14:04

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14:06

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14:08

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14:11

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14:13

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14:22

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14:24

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14:26

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14:28

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14:31

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14:33

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14:35

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14:37

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14:39

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14:41

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18:59

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19:01

some brilliant ones on there but it's it's

19:04

actually it's really

19:07

good. Are they as good

19:09

as the story about

19:11

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19:13

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19:15

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19:17

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19:20

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19:22

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19:25

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19:27

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19:30

my parents had a copy of Muscle

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19:38

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19:40

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19:43

all of his reconstructive surgery he was on the front

19:45

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19:47

and fitness and

19:49

put it back together and the

19:51

story was unbelievable and they don't have the magazine anymore so

19:53

no one believes me but it is true. Well

19:56

I've seen that because I watched a murder document.

20:00

about a

20:02

former soldier

20:05

that tampered with his wife's parachute and

20:08

it didn't open but

20:10

it must have opened to a certain extent

20:12

for it to slow down slightly it was

20:15

all tangled and she landed in

20:17

a field that was recently bowed

20:19

so it was soft and she survived.

20:24

I'm not setting you up for a

20:26

joke here. I just went for the

20:28

punch line. Anyway, but you've outdone

20:30

me with with

20:35

that so well done. Yeah sorry mate it's

20:37

not because it I

20:39

don't want to be that guy I used to

20:41

play or played against a guy a few times

20:44

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20:46

me once if your cat's black his cat's blacker

20:49

if you've got an elephant he's got a box to

20:51

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20:53

to this guy that he wouldn't top and it was

20:55

just like so I should just make stuff up I

20:58

just make things up and I didn't

21:00

invite him but

21:02

he came to my flat once with

21:04

someone else and he just said

21:07

I said how long have you had it? I said it's my

21:09

new flat how long you been in? Oh three weeks yeah it's

21:11

good isn't it yeah how many other places you got? He got

21:13

any other places and I just said

21:15

yeah ten and I

21:17

didn't I had nothing. I'd had ten

21:19

and he hated it like you saw his eyes

21:22

go and his chest come in he's like he

21:24

hated the idea that I was doing all right

21:27

and as it happens I wasn't but it's just

21:29

like they're out there

21:32

fella yeah all right watch out

21:35

for him. Where

21:37

have you been this morning? Where have you been this morning? Well

21:41

oh well do you know where I've

21:44

been? I went to the doctors I

21:46

did some baby scan I

21:55

can guess go on

21:58

then just like to me No,

22:01

26th of Feb doing that. I

22:04

couldn't get plenty of appointment and then

22:06

I saw of all people Duncan

22:08

Bell, who I say this is all

22:10

due respect in the world to him, his wife

22:12

and all of his six children, he should have

22:14

got to snip a lot sooner. He

22:18

might have a couple of spare bedrooms in his house then but

22:20

he's got six kids. So

22:24

he said, oh mate, ring the old dock from the

22:26

club and I'm like, oh my God, well we had

22:28

two docks, the main one we had mostly unfortunately died

22:31

last year, which was incredibly sad

22:33

and we all loved him. The

22:35

other one we had is still alive. So

22:38

I just sent him a text and he goes, oh mate, yeah, done.

22:40

Book you in. Oh God, if I

22:42

knew it was that easy. So 26th of Feb, I'll

22:44

probably take my bottle of wine. I've

22:46

asked for no nursing assistants to be present. I

22:49

don't want a team of students around my balls. And

22:55

getting that done, which is good. But then I saw a

22:57

mate of mine the other week as well, who

23:00

said that he had to go back so

23:02

he got tested, hadn't worked. They had three

23:04

goes until it was confirmed. Three goes mate.

23:07

All right. How does it not work? If they

23:09

snip it and quarterise it, how does that not work?

23:12

So no mate, never done

23:14

one, bad one. All

23:17

right, skin tag removal. Yeah.

23:21

Yeah. The problem

23:23

is when people

23:25

say about a skin tag removed, you think that

23:27

is gross. There's this massive like polypy thing that

23:30

looks like a human. You just think rectum, don't

23:32

you? I think rectum. Oh, right.

23:34

No. But

23:37

I actually can say to you honestly that when

23:39

I forgot he was there, forgot I had this

23:41

appointment until I, my phone reminded me and I

23:44

was like, I literally,

23:46

I was at the doctor's for an asthma checkup.

23:48

And they said, I said, Oh, while

23:50

I'm here, I literally only mentioned

23:52

it having it removed because I wanted

23:55

to film the process. What

23:57

was it? Was it a skin tag? Yeah. No,

24:01

no, you look like the kind of guy that would have skin

24:03

tags. Oh, no, it was, yeah. But I

24:05

was like, and I got there and they were like, oh, it's

24:07

not as big as we thought. And it's basically, it was like,

24:09

no, it's just under my arm. No, stop talking about them and

24:11

sector me. Skin tags. Oh, yeah. Skin tag

24:13

is under my arm and you can

24:16

hardly see it. And my

24:18

mate's wife would say this morning having coffee when I went to

24:20

go to the doctors and

24:23

Froze, like, tell her what he can go for. I was like, I'll tell you,

24:25

yeah, show her that. And Froze, like, it is disgusting. It's massive and disgusting. Have

24:27

a look at this. So

24:30

I showed her and she's like, oh, it's like smaller

24:32

than a pea. But I just

24:34

wanted to film it because I love stuff like that

24:36

so much. Yeah. Like,

24:39

I've got, everyone's got stuff wrong with them,

24:41

but I don't have, I

24:43

would love like maggots growing

24:45

out of a wound that I could pick or

24:47

like ingrowns or horrible ingrown toenails. My toenails are

24:49

fine and still I chop at them and almost

24:51

try and cause problems so I can like a

24:53

spider bite on your chin that you could squeeze.

24:56

Oh, mate, honestly. And to get rusty pliers on

24:58

and pull out a plug of pus. I'd love

25:00

that. But I went down and

25:02

they would film it. She goes, yeah, we get off all the

25:04

time. We can't film it. And I was out of there in

25:06

about four minutes and they were like, yes, they showed me it

25:08

in a jar. And I

25:10

was like, that is. Imagine you go

25:12

back home, like going into a really dark

25:14

room. So the phone likes you actually said

25:17

a real clear picture without any sunlight. The

25:19

only phone just watching it like this. See

25:26

you'll kill a breathing. That's

25:30

what I went for. It was a way for

25:32

some really. So they said, I

25:35

walked in and they said, you know, if you're with a doctor

25:37

or a nurse, I said, I know I did. It's

25:39

probably a nurse. She said, I think you were

25:42

the nurse. I said, it's probably a nurse. Because I'll go downstairs then.

25:45

So I went to the downstairs waiting room, sat there

25:47

for 30 seconds. We walked in and said, are you

25:49

David? I said, yes. I said, come on in.

25:52

I said, should I take my T-shirt? I said, no, leave your T-shirt on. Leave

25:54

your T-shirt on. I got that off. And I

25:56

was like, OK. I

26:00

started chatting, how are you? Yeah, good. So,

26:02

you come far, no, just over there, yeah,

26:04

not, not. Yeah, good, all right,

26:06

Sophie, give me that arm. It's this arm, isn't it?

26:08

And my right, I was like, yeah. And

26:11

she just started putting a tourniquet on my arm. I

26:13

said, out of interest, what are you doing with

26:15

that? And she said, well, what are you,

26:17

I'm taking blood. I said, what for? You're

26:20

here for a blood test for a liver function. I was like, no,

26:22

I'm not. And she,

26:24

I said, no. And she went, what do you mean,

26:26

no? And she was quite punchy. What do you mean,

26:28

no? I said, no, I'm not. I'm

26:30

not here for that. I'm here for this thing removal. And

26:34

she was like, um, are you,

26:36

David, are you, fifth at seventh

26:38

of June, 1952, were you born? And

26:40

I said, no, I bloody wasn't. I

26:42

wasn't born in 1952. Oh,

26:45

what are you talking about? It makes me 72 years old, or 71 years

26:47

old. I was like, no, I'm not in

26:49

my 70s. No, I don't suppose

26:52

you are. Walked out, and there's a bloke who just sat down

26:54

in the waiting room. I said, all right, mate, are

26:56

you Dave? Yeah, I said, you're in, fella. Honestly,

26:58

she was about to stick a needle in my arm. And

27:01

she hadn't checked my date of birth, or if it was me, she

27:03

just had it out. She had the kit out, turn the kit on

27:05

my arm. Take blood. And

27:07

I was like, hang on. That's

27:10

like as old school as where, just before you go

27:12

in for an operation, the surgeon will come in, and

27:15

they'll say, like, you know, it's your right leg, isn't

27:17

it? You need to clear

27:19

out of your knee. So yeah, and they'll

27:21

draw a massive arrow on your right leg. Yeah,

27:24

yeah. Just to make sure they don't operate on the wrong

27:26

one. Yeah. I

27:29

nearly got done. And she had a blue rinse as well. She

27:31

was really nice. I liked her. She

27:33

had an actual blue rinse. And

27:36

I don't think I've seen one in the flesh for

27:38

30 years. You

27:41

can still find him. I

27:43

got asked online yesterday, how long have you had a

27:46

driving license? How long have you had a driving license?

27:51

When? 26 years. Bad,

27:55

isn't it? How old are we? Wait.

28:00

We've had a driving license for 26 years. Cheers

28:04

mate. Where's the time gone?

28:07

Oh, right, well one of them is it? No,

28:10

it's just like we're old mate. But my point is,

28:12

it's time to disappear to the mountains on our own.

28:14

So when do we go? You find

28:16

a new hobby. You find like something for older people. Slow

28:18

them down a little bit. Well you're not slowing down, you've

28:20

got two young kids. Oh God, I am.

28:23

To older kids. No, I've got a new hobby. I've got two new hobbies

28:25

I was going to tell you about on this pod. Well,

28:27

we've only got six minutes left and we've got to touch

28:29

a tiny bit of it. On the Six Nations. Well,

28:32

anyway, I stopped my first Pilates lesson on

28:34

Monday. So, First

28:36

Pilates class. I try and get

28:38

myself moving and I've got a squash racket the

28:40

other day. I try and

28:42

bend a breeze block. Exactly

28:45

what I said. She came over and tried

28:47

to give me a little, she grabbed my back and I grabbed my shoulder

28:49

and said, I was just pulling around there and I said, you can try.

28:51

She's like, basically, I know what I'm doing. And like Paul,

28:54

she goes, yeah, there really is not a lot of movement

28:56

there. I said, no, correct. That is a piece of wood.

28:58

Imagine I try and lift your leg. Neither

29:01

a hand. Yeah. I

29:03

can bench one. I hope so. I hope so. Exactly.

29:05

Exactly. Exactly. I don't matter. Exactly.

29:08

Would you bench my legs? That's what I said. I didn't.

29:10

That is the only thing that matters. Don't you figure that.

29:12

Yeah. Calf raises and bench weight. No one cares. Who's

29:15

going to win the Six Nations then? We'll have to do

29:17

a little bit on. Yeah, just

29:19

came up. First came up to

29:21

France. The Ireland in France.

29:23

Massive game. I hope

29:25

it's, I hope it's as good as

29:27

we hope. It's going to be because, do you

29:30

remember the French New Zealand game

29:33

at the start of the Rugby World Cup? You

29:35

weren't too happy with that. I didn't think it

29:37

was too bad, but I hope it's all

29:39

singing a dance in the sets of the tournament. I

29:42

think France will win. I

29:44

think they will too. And I'm actually commentating

29:46

on it, which is really, you did say

29:48

flying out to my face. Can't

29:51

wait. I actually can't wait for that. It's

29:53

going to be amazing. Right. I got to host a dinner for Cardiff

29:56

Rugby Community Foundation on

29:59

Friday and then. I will be headed

30:01

home to watch the game. I was

30:03

on my own. I was slagging me off

30:05

online. I don't know who I'm doing it with actually. I think

30:07

Miles Harrison's doing it, which is,

30:10

well, basically the,

30:12

yeah, it's very good news. I might

30:14

just put something online saying commentators aren't great, are

30:16

they? Who are they? I had to watch

30:18

this one on mute. Had

30:22

that before. A journal from one of

30:24

the newspapers who I've never met actually.

30:28

Someone sent me a comment. Someone just copied me in

30:30

like, cheers mate. And it's like, yeah, I can't watch

30:32

this. Had to put them on mute and listen to

30:34

comms on the radio. So

30:36

someone there, oh, you should, that was at David Flappen.

30:38

This is a few years ago. And then he sent

30:40

me these message, these DM's saying, oh, sorry, mate, kid

30:42

notes you. Yeah, I love your stuff normally. I thought,

30:44

oh, shut up. Don't crawl it. Try

30:46

and crawl back in now and mate. All right, toenails. And

30:49

buy it, tough nuts. Yeah. A

30:51

couple of, I think, fans are winning

30:53

it. News out of the camps. One

30:56

is Marcus Smith, freak injury, not

30:59

available for the first game. Isn't the worst thing.

31:01

It's Italy. Why you'd imagine England

31:03

wouldn't have too many problems with that. There

31:06

is talk that can win it as fit. Now he

31:09

busted his jaw or did something to his jaw.

31:11

I think it was Quinn's. And

31:15

there was a lot of words coming out of the

31:17

camp saying that he wasn't going to be fit for

31:19

at least two games into the campaign.

31:21

But there is a bit

31:24

of chitter chatter saying that he is going to play 15. And

31:27

Sam Costello at 10. Okay.

31:31

I like that. But I don't know. I

31:33

mean, Johan Loyes. I'll be on the ground, mate. Well,

31:36

Johan Loyes probably being one of the form players. Even

31:39

though Scarlett's haven't been great. But I'm

31:42

sure he'll be back to Cardiff as well.

31:44

I'm sure he'll feature on the bench, Johan,

31:46

because he covers certain positions. And Marcus Smith,

31:48

do you know how bad? Well, we

31:50

don't know yet, but he's not playing

31:52

this weekend. And people are saying it

31:54

pays the way for Finn Smith. Because what's the point in

31:57

starting George Fore, you know, so much about him. that

32:00

argument but if you're

32:02

going to play George Ford, if

32:04

it was going to be Marcus or George and you're going

32:06

to play one of them as your first choice, you

32:09

want to get George Ford going basically, you want to

32:12

give him a game to get going and I don't

32:14

know, so I would imagine George Ford would start, this

32:16

could be, we could find out tomorrow that we're wrong

32:18

but and Finn Smith will be on the bench but

32:21

Finn Smith has been great and I think in the

32:23

second half against Munster a few weeks ago, that is

32:25

the half that could see

32:28

him get capped in this. It's a good game to

32:30

start going right because if things

32:32

go well against Italy, you can't be dropped

32:35

for the second game against Wales, you

32:38

just, you know, for someone like George Ford, he

32:40

could hold on, he could potentially hold on to

32:42

the jersey through the whole of the campaign because

32:44

he plays that well and he's un-dropable. He can't

32:47

play like that. He'd end up on 99 caps

32:49

if he played them all, I think he's got 94

32:51

caps, pretty amazing. Yeah,

32:53

would be good. Yeah, and again, my

32:55

opposition, Lou said to me, it's an interesting

32:57

one just because everyone's been injured but now

32:59

Marla is declared fit so

33:02

he is fit. I think he's managing a,

33:04

he might be managing a bicep injury, I

33:06

don't know but and Gengis back fit, although

33:08

he hasn't played so you could

33:11

well, it could be, you might see

33:13

Beno Abano involved because he's been in really good form

33:16

but you could see him

33:18

just like just last minute, Marla

33:20

and Gengis are basically declared fit and

33:23

he's out of the squad which would be

33:26

tough on him but Marla, to start Gengis

33:28

on the bench probably is probably how they'll

33:30

go. We could do, we could do, I

33:33

can instalive when the teams come out. Yeah,

33:35

we could actually. Talk through them. Maybe.

33:39

See how busy we are. See how busy we are. I'm going

33:41

to Marseille aren't I but we might do it tomorrow night. Yeah.

33:45

Alright, well done guys, keep going.

33:47

It's been a great one, it's been one of the

33:49

best. Somebody sent me a review saying really rugby pod,

33:52

rugby heavy pod last week ruined my commute to work

33:54

if truth be told so I'm sorry about that mate.

33:57

Better this week. Yeah, we've done,

33:59

I reckon. 7.5 minutes. Less than that.

34:02

Alright, lots of love everyone. Thank you very much. Bye

34:04

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34:08

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