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1:09

Hi, everybody. Welcome to the Flats and Shanks

1:11

podcast. I'm

1:14

Flats, he's Shanks. I've

1:16

got a really itchy throat because I'm

1:18

sitting in a

1:20

still in a room for a very dusty furniture

1:22

after a ceiling fell in next door. And

1:26

Tommy, do you know the noise I make when I've got

1:28

an itchy throat? Like

1:31

Bob Fleming. I'll do it

1:33

now. I'll do this. Ready? It's

1:37

like a snorting pig, but it gives my throat, you know,

1:40

when you rub your throat with your top of your tongue, that's not

1:42

enough for what I need. Fingers

1:45

down there. Oh, God. Gross. Banana.

1:49

Scratch it with a banana. Oh,

1:51

hairbrush or something. It's a long hairbrush. Tell

1:54

you about the boarding school. I

1:56

forgot. I realized I had something to tell you last week that

1:58

I forgot. My

2:02

wife and I, marriage

2:05

is great, we're very lucky, but

2:08

we've got one problem in our marriage which is that,

2:10

and everyone says, oh, same with me and

2:12

my missus, same with me and my fella.

2:15

No, no, I

2:17

can't understand one in five

2:20

things that Freya says. So she speaks

2:22

too quickly at the wrong volume

2:24

and

2:26

she'll be right next to me and it'll be

2:28

like, what was that? And literally her family

2:30

and friends that are with us will be like, what was

2:32

that? Her brother said to her recently, are they

2:34

even words? What was that? But

2:37

when I do it, because we live together,

2:39

it happens minimum five times a

2:41

day. So that is a lot

2:44

of times, probably 50 times a week on

2:46

average, nothing, three times today

2:49

already, nothing, nothing. So

2:51

if she's upstairs and I can't hear her, I

2:54

now just try and ignore, but sometimes I can't help but

2:56

say, no, nothing, not

2:59

a word or I usually swear, but

3:03

she will say it's something that from upstairs, flats,

3:05

yeah, didn't get that. I

3:09

was like, right, if you speak at the

3:12

same volume twice from a different room or floor,

3:15

why do you expect it to be a different outcome? So anyway,

3:18

it does sound like put me through. Put

3:21

me through. It sounds like put me through. Put me through,

3:23

yeah. It's not that sadly. She

3:27

says, she's like, get your bloody hearing tested, get your

3:29

hearing tested, your deaf, get your hearing tested.

3:32

So I actually booked an appointment, put me

3:34

through, put me through. I booked an appointment

3:37

at Specsavers on the quiet and

3:39

I went for a proper hearing test. Do

3:41

you remember a bath winger

3:43

from the old days called Jim Fallon had long hair? Yeah.

3:48

It was his wife, as it happens, and

3:50

had a proper hearing test in the booth with

3:53

an iPad looking in my ears

3:55

and also testing my ears and all sorts of stuff. Because

3:58

I needed proof once and for all, Tommy, who's following me. this

4:00

was.

4:01

Get your eyes done while you're out here.

4:03

Next week.

4:04

Where you going there?

4:06

Earsavers. I didn't expect,

4:08

I just walked past, I had a little advertising A board

4:10

out the front, whatever it's called and I was like, yeah, right, I'll

4:12

have one of those. Anyway, it turns out,

4:15

I have got the ears of a

4:17

wolf. Amazing,

4:20

incredible. She said, not only is it normal,

4:22

you'd say it's probably what we would call

4:25

perfect hearing. You make like

4:27

one as well. Yeah,

4:30

I bite like one and I share food like one. My

4:33

wife, my wife all

4:35

sounds like, this

4:37

country, Carrie Mucklow and her

4:39

mum shouting up and down the stairs. Yeah,

4:44

my crumpets don't have any holes in them. Turn

4:47

them over. Oh

4:48

yeah. It's

4:50

like

4:52

that. She'll shout from like through

4:55

four walls instead of just poking her head

4:58

around a wall or

4:59

a door or something.

5:02

Yeah, I

5:05

mean, at least you

5:07

know what's coming. At least you know what the words are.

5:09

But like, I'll be in this morning, we're just both having

5:11

toast at the same table that

5:13

Ireland, in our kitchen, you know, we're both having toast. Lads,

5:16

from the truth. But

5:19

she's just like,

5:23

I said, I'm three feet away. Three

5:26

feet. And in the

5:28

end, she didn't even say what she's going to say. We're both so

5:30

pissed off with the situation. But now you

5:32

see Tommy. Now, can you think well, in

5:35

a healthy marriage, it's not about blame. It's about

5:37

working together. No, no,

5:39

it is not. It's her fault. I

5:42

hear everyone else really well. You could

5:44

say as well as talking, I kind of you're the

5:46

same in certain roles, we listen for a living.

5:49

So we're pretty good at it. So,

5:51

sorry, I'm out.

5:54

Not listening anymore. I'm not replying anymore. What's

5:56

bedtime

5:57

stories like that?

5:59

She'll speak to the kids and

6:02

she will speak at like 300 miles an hour to our toddler

6:04

and

6:05

with

6:12

words that I have to stop and check

6:14

myself to think if I understand them.

6:16

They'd like so... There'd

6:18

be a record for this mate. There will be a record

6:20

for someone who's able to

6:22

speak like super fast

6:24

or be able to read a book super fast. I've

6:26

never seen a meme of a guy

6:28

reading a book and it was like it was

6:30

a big book. It must have had like 300 pages and

6:33

he's just gone... He turns in

6:35

about 10 seconds.

6:44

Fake speed reading, that's right. It

6:46

was fake. What's the input that

6:50

the robot that your mother is a snowblower,

6:52

something five isn't it? Data five

6:54

or something like that? It's a short circuit. Short

6:57

circuit, that's it. But

7:01

my wife's like a cross between Eminem

7:04

and Fiona Bruce. She's

7:07

like super fast but posh at the same

7:09

time.

7:11

Anyway, it's not my fault. And

7:14

also it's now no longer my problem which

7:16

feels great. Got a certificate up on the wall?

7:20

She said I'd jump into email and she was like, yeah, could

7:22

you copy my wife in? And

7:25

they're like, well, just send it to you and you can forward it on. I said,

7:27

no, no. Could you copy my wife in? Because

7:29

she won't believe me. She'll think I faked it. She'll

7:31

think I fabricated this with a mate who's a graphic designer

7:34

because I have done things like that before. She'll think

7:36

I've got Mike to do it when I haven't. So

7:38

it's real. Best

7:42

thing was though, this is too much information but do you

7:44

want it?

7:45

Well,

7:47

is it saucy information

7:49

or is it? No.

7:51

Is it going to put me off there?

7:53

It's nothing to do with that.

7:55

It's me. I thought you were going to tell me about Smelly Poo or

7:57

something. Go on. I'm

7:59

ready.

7:59

I,

8:02

they put cameras in your ears and you can see the camera,

8:05

you can see on the screen what's in your ears. And

8:07

I was like, look, my cauliflower is a bit dodgy,

8:10

so just be careful, don't get a find in there. And

8:12

that was like, that was like a porcelain

8:14

tube. It was just immaculate in there. It was like,

8:16

wow, that is the cleanest day I've ever seen. Because

8:19

I watched loads of like ingrown

8:22

toenail sit up, bot

8:24

flight, ear wax removals on Instagram. And

8:26

then she went to my left ear and she was like, nothing in

8:28

there. I said, what's that? She said, yeah,

8:31

it's fine. That is a, that's a lump of

8:33

work. That's not in the way. Let's

8:35

get out. And she said, no, you got to make a separate

8:38

appointment for that. I don't do that. That

8:40

won't affect your hearing. And

8:42

if you want, you can make an appointment afterwards. But

8:44

don't go home and do it yourself. And

8:47

I got home and I got for

8:49

a pair of tweezers and a cocktail stick. She had a baby

8:51

in one hand. I shone my phone

8:53

torch into my left ear and said, get it out. I

8:56

won it in my hand. So a little

8:59

blueberry came out and now I've got the

9:01

cleanest days in Europe.

9:02

Little moth came out. Yeah. It

9:05

was a great day.

9:05

It was a great day. I'm having my eyes

9:08

down next week. Yeah,

9:11

my mind is bad. Well,

9:13

they're not that bad, but obviously got away glasses

9:17

and contacts, which is

9:19

a bit bad. I was with Drico

9:21

on Saturday and he obviously had white glasses.

9:23

Don't, don't, don't. He's ruined it for everyone.

9:26

It's like

9:27

it's like if a couple of you buy the same top

9:29

and then someone wears their top like

9:32

every day and then it just

9:34

you associate the top with them and you can't wear yours

9:36

then. Yeah. He's

9:38

like that with glasses now. He's ruined it for everyone. Like

9:40

not just not just wearing them now and again once

9:43

in a while.

9:44

He's gone from wearing zero

9:47

glasses on TV

9:49

to never taking them off

9:51

to the point where I think they might be drawn on.

9:54

And I can't wear them. Well, he had,

9:57

he didn't have them on when I got there

9:59

hanging on. on his cashmere sweater, you

10:01

know? And they were

10:03

just looking down there. Even worse, because he

10:06

just puts them on for TV then. Joke.

10:09

He said, this is what I didn't know, he said that

10:11

he tries to leave it as long as possible

10:13

in the day till he puts them on, because once he puts

10:15

them on, he has to keep them on,

10:18

because when he takes them off, his eyes are basically,

10:21

they don't react to not having them on anymore. They're used to

10:23

having them on really quickly. I didn't know that was a thing. Yeah,

10:27

but

10:28

why put them on? Why

10:30

fucking around?

10:31

I mean, I'm kind of-

10:33

Joke, why would I shoot you? The little round

10:36

little ones, they'd be amazing on you. Like

10:39

Bernard Laporte,

10:41

those black framed-

10:43

Waro, mate. Tiny

10:48

little black framed, little

10:50

hoops, little whoo-loops.

10:53

Little John Lennon's, clear John Lennon's, I was

10:55

thinking about maybe some really thick black

10:57

rimmed Ronnie and Reggie Craywands, like

10:59

that sort of style. Fabian Gautier.

11:02

Yeah, I mean, they just look really, they

11:04

look like they'd be really annoying, like having windows

11:07

with really thick

11:08

beams across the middle, you know what I mean? It'd

11:11

ruin your peripheral vision, wouldn't it? Because

11:13

it's like skin. But obviously

11:16

skin is a reason, because you're stopping the sun coming into

11:18

the side of your eye, and you're like,

11:20

oh, I'm gonna get a glass, these ones.

11:22

You know, if anyone calls you, be

11:25

like an owl, moving your head all the time.

11:27

But it's like, if you've got, yeah, exactly. It's

11:29

like if you've got a box, a big box,

11:32

black box, and it's a big

11:34

black box with one of the sides is glass, it's

11:36

like sticking out on your head. But

11:39

you can't see anywhere, you've got these massive rims.

11:42

Yeah, like diving goggles. They look cool, but-

11:44

Or goggles. I might just get some

11:47

skee-galls, permanently, but I did, actually

11:49

a couple of weeks ago, they said,

11:51

do you want a sight test as well? I said, yeah, go on then. So

11:54

the other day I did have a piece of paper in front of me, and

11:56

I just had to move it a tiny bit, a

11:59

tiny bit away. to read it like an old man does,

12:01

only two inches, three inches away

12:03

and I thought this is it. I'm

12:06

going to get some cool tortoises, I'm

12:08

going to get what Drico's got but one better. A

12:11

better brand, better brand. Yeah,

12:15

it is a

12:16

nightmare unless you get very focused because

12:18

I've got to take mine off to read my phone or

12:21

read a book. I've

12:22

got to put it back on to watch

12:24

TV.

12:26

Oh mate, it's alright mate,

12:28

it's alright, it's part of my life now. Do you go,

12:30

do you go, if

12:34

you're a little bit...

12:35

I mean we're talking about something that,

12:38

you know, might not even happen to you. Eventually

12:40

it will but do you go five

12:42

pairs of cheap glasses and if you

12:44

lose a set it doesn't matter and they've got them dotted everywhere,

12:47

one in the car or do you go for a really

12:49

posh pair and back yourself to take care of them? Do

12:51

you go for five cheap watches or do

12:53

you go for one expensive watch? We

12:56

don't lose your watches do you? You don't take them off, you're not

12:58

taking them off ten times a day.

13:02

You're still wearing something, you

13:05

want people to respect you. I

13:07

know that's a big thing for you.

13:12

I haven't worn a posh

13:14

watch in ages.

13:16

What's posh?

13:18

Well, don't know whatever, I've got an Apple

13:20

watch is all I wear.

13:21

Yeah, there must be a few floating

13:23

around.

13:25

Worst check... Jimbo. Yeah,

13:27

but I don't wear it. Big occasions, yeah

13:29

I know, I'm the same, I like a digital one. Don't

13:32

wear it. The steps I've done, my heart rate. But

13:34

even I'd see loads of black tie dinners like you do

13:36

and dinners and stuff and I still don't even wear a posh watch

13:39

to those because I feel... I

13:41

just throw the Apple watch and it's like I'm

13:43

not asking if anyone likes my watch or not really. You'd

13:45

be rolling one out for Cheltenham.

13:48

With the bling, get you with the bling.

13:50

Yeah, I'd probably go heavy hitter on

13:52

that one. I'm looking forward to that already. I'm

13:57

not yet. It's too... That

13:59

day it changed. I think the chunt was too much for me now. Yes,

14:03

it is. That's why we're going to go once a year.

14:05

Do

14:06

you know what I think we might do this

14:09

time? Instead of mucking around like, Paulie

14:11

always gets us going to some bar or something afterwards.

14:13

It's like, no, we'll get a chunt in

14:15

the morning, we'll have a ruddy good day and then

14:17

when the last race finishes, we will get a taxi

14:20

home. We'll be in our beds at half

14:22

eight at night, at home, done.

14:25

That is what we need to do, not piss around going into

14:27

bars until two in the morning thinking we're cool because we're

14:29

not.

14:29

No, yeah, we got the bus back, but then we end

14:31

up going out and we get back to Cardiff.

14:35

I went out, I gave

14:37

it a bit of a dig on

14:39

Friday night in Bath, which I never do.

14:41

Oh, you were at the rugby, weren't you? I

14:43

went to the rugby, had

14:46

a few drinks there, like just a few, and then went

14:48

into town and I was just like, in the end, about half

14:51

one, 20 to two, I was just like, what am I doing, man?

14:55

Like, get out of here. The same nightclub is like,

14:58

it's a wicked spot, but

15:00

all the bath players are in there, they're in a separate bit

15:03

and I'm like, they're

15:05

all really nice guys, but it's like, I don't

15:08

know. I'm the same. I don't want

15:10

to be partying with them because it's

15:12

easy when everyone's winning and they beat Bristol

15:14

and life's good, but it's like, well, what

15:17

if I've said the back line wasn't very good the last few

15:19

weeks or I said the scrum's not up to it and the lads

15:21

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By the way, I went

17:16

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17:18

bath yesterday with a couple of mates and

17:20

he's got an emerging

17:24

wagyu beef business. So

17:27

I have got some wagyu

17:29

beef chuck that I'm going to make some chili with

17:32

tonight. So

17:34

when I get off his pod I'm going downstairs and I'm chopping

17:36

it up and I'm getting it going slow. That's what

17:38

I'm doing,

17:40

boy. Low and hard.

17:44

So low the dogs can't bite fella.

17:47

So low the dogs can't bite.

17:49

I've got a couple of field and flour sirloins

17:51

which I'm going to cook up tonight and I

17:53

got a nice bit of chapata bread with

17:57

some red onions and some caramel.

18:00

some caramelized red onions and we're doing a bit of...

18:05

What's the black oil called? Balsamic.

18:08

Balsamic vinegar. And we're doing some

18:10

onions in that with a bit of rocket on

18:12

top. Maybe layer it with a bit

18:14

of garlic mayo. And

18:16

that's going to be my dinner with a bit of veg, some

18:19

broccoli,

18:20

some corn,

18:22

maybe if I'm feeling naughty, some

18:24

sweet potato fries. You bastard!

18:28

Oh,

18:29

yeah, I've also

18:31

ordered all my Christmas

18:33

meat from Field and Flower. OK,

18:35

so people think, by the way, people often

18:37

think, people often talk about this as the Field and Flower

18:39

pod. Field and Flower, just let's

18:41

be clear, Field and Flower we love. Field

18:43

and Flower do not sponsor this podcast. We

18:47

probably quite like it if they did, actually. But

18:49

anyway, what have you ordered? Because I've got a Christmas

18:52

which is dotted around, so I've got to be careful. I

18:54

don't over order here. So what have you gone for?

18:56

I always remember the best Christmas turkey, said you ever

18:58

did was in the Traeger outside. So

19:01

if the juices is like a sponge, you could squeeze

19:03

it and the moisture. Yeah, I can't be

19:05

bothered to do it in the Traeger, but I

19:07

would do it in the oven. And I've also just

19:09

got massive crown. When I say massive crown,

19:12

it's enough for six people. So it's not massive. I

19:14

don't even know why I said massive. I'm

19:15

exaggerating like you. It's what you like.

19:18

I've got a I've got

19:20

a rolled sirloin as well. I've

19:23

done the rib of beef. I've tried to rib of beef

19:25

from Field and Flower, but I actually just I really like the rolled

19:27

sirloin. So I've got that.

19:30

Then you got your standards

19:32

to have your pigs in blankets, your pork, and

19:34

onion stuff in. Yeah. Yeah.

19:37

Your cheeses, your chutney. Yes.

19:40

Yeah.

19:41

So I've got all that. And then I've

19:43

got like a few extra sausages, a few

19:45

extra burgers. I've got a load of chicken

19:48

thighs as well, because I think I might do like a

19:50

curry the next

19:53

day. Yeah. With that

19:55

left very nice. Because I'm not really going to fancy

19:57

another roast dinner after ending

19:59

myself.

20:00

with Christmas

20:01

one and I've decided because

20:03

I'm obviously head of house, head of state, yeah,

20:06

where I live that we're gonna eat early

20:08

so we're not gonna have a massive breakfast, we're not gonna

20:11

have the old smoked salmon and scrambled

20:13

egg job, we're gonna

20:15

have a bowl of special k full

20:18

fat milk, tastes a little bit better and then we're

20:20

gonna have an early dinner, then we

20:22

can get into movies, playing

20:26

with toys and also

20:29

the biggest reason why is every Christmas

20:32

I've food about three or four, eat

20:35

too much and can't

20:38

handle any cheese,

20:41

so and I want to dream boy, I want to dream

20:43

big, you want to dream big Christmas, yeah

20:45

a bit of escapism,

20:47

get away from your real life,

20:50

that's why I go out mate, that's

20:52

why I go down the pub, okay

20:58

that's your plan to get away from your

21:00

family, hit me with yours,

21:06

I won't bore you the logistics but basically

21:09

getting back to our house at

21:11

about two o'clock on

21:13

Christmas day, having

21:16

woken up at my in-laws

21:18

house on Christmas day, so

21:20

not going to have time to do a massive great thing,

21:23

so what we are going to do is prep loads of

21:25

stuff before we go, have

21:27

it ready to just flick the oven on and go but I

21:30

need a reasonably quick bit of meat, so

21:32

what I was thinking was a joint beef, a fillet

21:34

of beef or one

21:37

of Field and Flowers rolled

21:41

stuffed turkey crowns which

21:44

are already rolled and I will have it ready to go on

21:46

the rotisserie spikes and I'll put it straight on the

21:48

barbecue outside and rotisserie outside

21:51

on Christmas day, you bastard, I didn't

21:53

even know they had one of them, they do it, they do them

21:55

alright, they got them, they got a load of them, oh I would

21:57

have had that, I ordered two.

22:00

last year by accident so got one

22:02

ate it and then

22:04

like in June or something I was

22:06

looking in the freezer to see what I had and I found this bloody

22:09

Christmas turkey and I told

22:11

everyone we had steaks for dinner and I'm doing them outside

22:13

and they came back in I said it actually eats turkey

22:15

and everyone was like boo no hate

22:17

turkey I only like turkey at Christmas everyone

22:21

loved it fella loved it.

22:23

Are you a way are you a sprout man

22:25

all year round?

22:27

Yeah oh I would but

22:29

I don't

22:29

I would but I don't.

22:31

If they're on offer sure but

22:35

no not really. I had

22:37

my first Christmas sandwich

22:39

last week. Pretemandje. M&S.

22:43

Lead

22:45

Alamere services add

22:48

everything in probably about 2000

22:50

calories.

22:54

Yeah but 2000 good times as well. I

22:58

still by the way haven't

23:00

got a problem

23:03

with I haven't got a decent

23:07

television show to watch all over the place

23:09

with TV fella started a couple of things 6'4

23:11

didn't really didn't really grip us

23:13

so we stopped it. Bodies

23:16

with Stephen Graham didn't really grip us you

23:18

know.

23:21

Talking about gripping have you watched the just

23:23

joking.

23:26

Oh you haven't got anything. But

23:29

Cliff one on ITV.

23:32

Yeah watch that that

23:34

was interesting but yeah

23:37

fella I just I need something I need.

23:40

I watched a couple of movies so as

23:42

you as you know maybe the listeners don't I've popped

23:45

over to Hong Kong.

23:47

Hong Kong for a

23:48

couple of days do

23:50

a rugby.

23:54

Rugby festival Kowloon spoke

23:56

a rugby Kowloon rugby dinner

23:58

and also.

23:59

I spoke

24:01

at

24:03

the Hong Kong Reunion Long Lunch

24:06

in partnership with Cathay Pacific. Thank

24:08

you for everyone there, Martin Murray and

24:11

HSBC. Thank you to Robbie McRobbie

24:13

and Ryan Rennie and you and Phillips.

24:16

Oh, that was it. Yeah. So I

24:19

watched a couple of things

24:21

on the plane. I watched the one with Michael

24:23

Fathbender in. I can't remember

24:25

what it's called, where he's an assassin.

24:28

The killer. I watched it this week. Yeah,

24:32

the killer.

24:36

He's a great actor. I thought it was great.

24:40

Really liked it. Yeah, but he

24:43

messed up in the opening scene, so I've got no respect.

24:45

Tommy.

24:48

I don't ruin it for everyone. I watched Tetris

24:50

flat. Watch that.

24:52

What?

24:53

Tetris is on Apple

24:56

TV. It's really good. Is

24:58

it? Who is the guy? He

25:01

played Elton John. He's also in Black

25:03

Box, Blackbird.

25:06

Oh, Tara

25:09

Negaton.

25:09

Yes, he's in it.

25:11

He's good. It's about

25:13

how Tetris is formed, how it was created,

25:16

how the rights were won. And

25:18

it was hugely during the Cold War between

25:21

America and Russia. Really interesting. True story.

25:23

OK,

25:24

so get on that. I actually really enjoyed it. Then

25:27

I watched something. Oh,

25:30

just before you take off on an airplane,

25:33

there is a window of about 10, 15 minutes

25:36

if you still got 4G, where

25:38

you can quickly look at films and

25:40

Google ratings. Yeah,

25:43

because there's a lot of unknowns on that. I watched how

25:45

to blow up a pipeline. Yeah,

25:48

because it had a really high rating

25:50

on Rotten Tomatoes. But yeah,

25:52

not impressed. You can't trust Rotten Tomatoes,

25:55

mate. I found the only one I really trust is the

25:57

Guardian

25:58

anymore.

25:59

Guardian gave the killer five stars which

26:02

is punchy.

26:03

I know Rotten Tomatoes is a lot like

26:06

Fudgy, Matthew Bennett you just

26:08

you can't trust them. Can't trust them mate.

26:10

Film or pod reviews?

26:14

Can't trust them Bella.

26:16

That was it really I don't think I watched anything

26:18

else. I've been watching

26:20

a lot of deadliest catch in the morning.

26:23

Oh God. We're

26:25

just on Bluey and potato head whatever.

26:28

Oh we are Bluey. I'll tell you what I went to last

26:30

night. I went to watch Shrek

26:33

the musical.

26:34

And a good?

26:35

At the Millennium Center. Oh yeah.

26:38

Yeah.

26:39

It wasn't like the film. I thought it was gonna be a little bit

26:41

like the film. It was

26:44

a lot the same music. It wasn't but my

26:47

kids loved it. My five-year-old really

26:49

enjoyed it even though it was quite late. But

26:52

some of the characters in it were really good. Completely

26:54

different to what you expect like similar stories

26:56

about falling in love with a princess and

26:59

Lord Fargoy. It reminds me of you. But

27:02

it was good. It was

27:08

mostly for adults rather than kids because I saw Shrek

27:10

the musical. I thought ah you know youngsters

27:12

were like that. They like the film but it's a bit more for

27:15

adults but still very good. Some

27:18

very good actors, very good voices,

27:21

great makeup

27:23

and Lord Fargoy

27:25

threw a teddy into the audience during a song and

27:28

my little boy caught it

27:30

and he was over the moon.

27:32

Oh that is bloody delicious. Bloody

27:35

lovely. Well done. But it was it

27:38

was good. That's

27:40

good. I got some bad

27:42

news yesterday which

27:45

was that the old Land Rover I've got that

27:48

I'm restoring. I

27:50

thought to myself well what you don't want when

27:52

you restore an old Land Rover is one that needs a full

27:55

repaint because there's loads of bodywork that

27:57

needs to happen first

27:59

and you don't want one.

27:59

that needs a new chassis or one that

28:02

needs a new bulkhead. So I thought

28:05

mine wouldn't need paint, it does.

28:07

I thought the chassis was alright, turns

28:10

out it's not but I thought at least the bulkheads

28:12

alright, it's not

28:14

either. So I've got to do all of them,

28:16

I've got to do all the things to

28:18

this car. So I had a bit of

28:20

a stressful night last night Tommy thinking why

28:23

have I done this, what I'm doing with my

28:25

life, why am I spending my children's future

28:27

on

28:28

a pale blue sky blue paint

28:31

for an old Land Rover, why am I doing that? Eat

28:33

cheese mate, escapism. That's

28:36

it,

28:37

bit stressful, woke up thinking about it. Of course this

28:39

is optional, I don't have to do this but

28:42

when you're a car nut fella, when you're a nut

28:45

you're just here aren't you?

28:47

Your pot committed now aren't you? You're all in.

28:50

Yeah I'm basically all in. Talking

28:53

about chassis. Just scrap the car but yep.

28:56

How's yours? How's the Ferrari

28:59

chassis?

29:00

I'm just thinking now I'm meant

29:03

to be at the gym in 35 minutes which

29:05

is 15 minutes away and I've got to get

29:07

a slow cook Chuck beef, where do you Chuck

29:09

beef chili on for tonight? There's just

29:12

no way and I've got stuff on this afternoon and

29:15

every day off I get home I basically leave

29:17

my wife with the kids to go to this meeting and that meeting

29:19

because I never have a day, never have a whole day of doing

29:21

nothing ever and it pains me a bit

29:25

and you're like today I've got one but I haven't. I

29:27

had a meeting this morning, I've got a pod doing

29:29

this, got a thing this afternoon with her

29:31

but it's got a time limit on it. Kids

29:33

coming home from school, homework, dinner, laundry,

29:36

it's real life but it's like people

29:38

say oh you know if you

29:40

want to go to the gym enough you will. Yeah my daughter

29:42

woke up at 4.29 this morning and stayed awake.

29:45

That's it done. She's a really good sleeper, maybe

29:47

she's poorly but 4.29

29:50

done screaming like

29:52

that's when I woke up and heard her anyway so I'm like right wakes

29:55

up the big kids before they go to school. This

29:58

is normal stuff I know that

30:00

but it's like, took my car, took my wife's

30:02

car in to the garage

30:05

for the second time. I

30:07

said, apart from anything else, the Apple CarPlay

30:09

doesn't work. And last time I

30:11

took it in, they ran me back and said, yeah, it does.

30:14

I said, no, it doesn't. He said, yeah,

30:16

we've tried it with a different cable. I said, if you look on your

30:18

notes, it says, I bet

30:21

you try it with a different cable and ring me and tell

30:23

me it works. I said, because every now and again,

30:25

it will pop up and work. Have you driven it anywhere? No.

30:28

I've got a warranty. Could you just fix it? So

30:31

I've taken it back in today and

30:34

I think they've just left a voicemail on my phone

30:36

while we're doing this to tell

30:38

me that it's not broken again because I stopped listening to it.

30:41

Didn't get it all in. I think they've just told me it's not broken

30:43

again. So I'm like, why? Could

30:47

you make my day easy and just unscrew that panel

30:49

and have a look if something's knackered because I've

30:51

literally given you thousands of pounds for a warranty and you're

30:53

like really, really resisting

30:56

doing any work to it. Could you just do it?

30:58

Whatever you do, the answer is no. Whatever

31:02

you do today, do not drive into the center of London

31:04

because I could see Michael Douglas falling

31:06

down coming out of you. Yeah.

31:09

Yeah. Just losing it.

31:11

All right, mate. Anyway, so I'd

31:13

love to go to the gym today. I

31:15

couldn't go yesterday. I had one of those days and

31:17

I think I can't go today either. So yeah,

31:20

I set my alarm to go this morning. I had to call at eight

31:22

and then to call at nine, call at 10

31:25

and

31:26

I got up at like six. I

31:28

thought, nah, it's not happening.

31:31

No, I'll do it later. You

31:33

don't. You know what? No, by

31:36

about half seven in the morning, I'm winding myself

31:38

down for the evening. So I've got

31:40

no chance.

31:42

Yeah.

31:44

But there we are. It's killed me. I

31:46

literally, as you were speaking, then I've just texted my mate at the gym and said,

31:48

I'm not coming, mate. I'm never going to, I can't prepare dinner

31:51

and leave in 12 minutes. That's not

31:53

how it works. And there's bloody,

31:55

I've got so many bloody kids. I could prioritize

31:57

my family, unfortunately. I

32:00

say to whenever I leave the house to go to the gym,

32:02

I say I'm just investing and living longer. We're

32:05

not going to do any rugby chat are we? We haven't got time or

32:08

are we?

32:10

Ollie Lawrence.

32:11

Ollie Lawrence in the first

32:13

half bath were amazing. Ollie Lawrence with Finn Russell

32:15

was dreamy, Cam Repath too.

32:17

Absolutely dreamy combo. Ollie

32:20

Lawrence is just a weapon. Quinn's

32:24

got really, really bashed by

32:27

Saris. Saris

32:29

were just outstanding

32:32

on Saturday night at the stoop, just outstanding.

32:35

Really, really dominant. Owen Farrell is

32:37

the boss. He is the boss.

32:40

Very, very good from their Maratouji,

32:42

Mega. And

32:45

then of course, you know, we're

32:47

looking forward to watching the extra game.

32:50

And then we hear about what happened to Ugo Mona

32:52

at the end. Not

32:55

good. Not good look. Horrific.

32:57

And there just

32:59

isn't, it shouldn't be happening.

33:02

No one deserves it. Of course, we don't know anything

33:04

about it. We weren't there, but we know what we read

33:06

from Ugo. And

33:09

it's just, it reminds

33:11

you that, you

33:14

know, without going too deep on it, reminds

33:16

you that people like you and me, we don't, that's

33:19

just never happened to us. And that will just never happen

33:21

to us. And we're no one's ever referred

33:23

to, you know, we

33:26

don't ever walk into an environment

33:29

in our home country because Ugo's an Englishman

33:32

in our home country and feel, I

33:34

don't know, outnumbered. It's

33:37

bloody horrible. And

33:39

that's your duty as a parent is

33:41

to educate your kids and

33:45

to make sure they know right and wrong. That's

33:50

your sole purpose. Bring your kids up quickly

33:52

so they don't turn into

33:54

horrible people. Say

33:56

an awful stuff.

33:59

It's one of those things that they'll

34:02

always be assholes like that about always. But

34:06

the more we can eradicate them and the more we can educate

34:08

them and pull them up.

34:10

Yeah, when these things come out the better.

34:13

Yeah. And it's right. It's

34:15

right. It's one investigation going on because

34:18

it should do. I sort of think there'll

34:20

be a load of like a few roar around it and

34:23

all that sort of stuff. But you just

34:25

think, well, once all the action

34:27

stopped and action has been taken and someone's been found

34:29

and this article has been written and it's died down a bit.

34:33

You know, that still did happen. Yeah.

34:36

And it's, you know, it's still out. It didn't happen to

34:38

us. It happened to him. And it's really,

34:41

really sad.

34:42

I hope he's okay. And I hope the

34:45

investigation

34:48

is able to be concluded and

34:51

the guilty party is prosecuted.

34:53

Yeah, that's what we hope, isn't it?

34:55

Yeah. Yeah. I

34:58

would have given you a little bit of a debuff

35:01

about the URC, but I

35:03

didn't watch any. I said, actually,

35:05

that's a lie. I watched Cardiff

35:07

Zebra at 3am or 3.15am Hong Kong

35:09

time. Why?

35:13

Couldn't sleep. Couldn't sleep mate. Body clock. I

35:16

said clock all over. I

35:19

had a carbonara. 3.15am. Watch

35:21

that. They drew.

35:22

Should have won it. But

35:24

season. That'll do me. That'll do

35:26

me. That's that all info you want. Where are you this weekend?

35:29

What are you covering? I'm at Gloucester Leicester actually on Saturday. Great. What

35:32

are you doing? I'm at Cardiff Stormers Friday and another Welsh

35:34

Derby Ospreys versus the Scarllets on

35:48

Sunday.

35:49

Is any Welsh team playing any Welsh team at Derby?

35:52

Yep.

35:53

We

35:54

have more Derby's though because there's more the

35:56

way the game's going. the

36:01

games are scheduled is you play more whilst

36:03

Derby's.

36:05

Yeah and we had a we

36:07

had Derby weekend last weekend in the prem and

36:10

we kept wondering like I'm doing this show for

36:12

Premiership Rugby and almost actively

36:14

taking the piss out of the fact that Derby's aren't Derby's

36:16

and it was like right we've got another Derby for you now two

36:19

teams that are a hundred and six miles

36:21

apart it's like it's not

36:23

a Derby it takes two takes two and a half hours to

36:25

get there it's not a Derby they're

36:27

just both west of London basically so they count

36:29

as West Country that's kind of it but I

36:31

do like that long as you can have a laugh I like the PR

36:34

around it or and it's all good fun.

36:35

Speaking of parties mate get on

36:37

the peloton. Yeah.

36:41

Same. I'll walk the dog tomorrow. What

36:46

was that? It's my stomach. Oh

36:48

God. Used to be like this.

36:54

No it's not.

36:56

No it's going but we're losing it. So

37:00

right I'm gonna go and do a beef chuck a wagyu chuck

37:02

beef chilli job yeah all right. Yeah well

37:04

I'm gonna go and what have I got? I'm

37:07

gonna marinate some steaks.

37:09

I hope people are happy that we didn't do any rugby chat

37:11

on this one because people often complain

37:13

that there's too much when we do a significant bit.

37:16

We should dedicate one episode

37:19

maybe the next one to rugby. Shut up.

37:22

Shut up. Leave some reviews.

37:24

Let us know. Give

37:27

us your thoughts. I mean

37:30

if you tweet us or if you leave reviews on iTunes

37:33

maybe with some talk in subjects we can discuss

37:36

that. I

37:38

finished reading a book called

37:41

Killers of the Flower Moon because I wanted to read the book

37:44

before I went to the cinema to watch it which

37:46

I won't do because I've got four kids so I'll never go to cinema

37:48

again to watch an adult film and

37:53

difficult one this up recommended by a few people.

37:56

I found it to be one of the more boring books I've read

37:59

in quite a long time.

38:00

and I really thought I'd love it

38:01

so I might not go into the film then. Alright?

38:05

Yeah. Well done. Okay

38:07

great way to end. Yeah it's all negative, it's all negative. We're on a downer.

38:09

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