Ashley's back, tell your friends.
Before we play the whole song.
Yeah, well, we don't have money to get copyrighted.
Anyway, everyone, welcome back to another episode of the Real Talking Podcast.
And if you didn't notice, Ashley's back.
Probably just for one week only, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to her.
So yeah, it's Christmas.
Ashley's jumping the gun already while cracking open the beer.
He's got the Brew Dog IPAs and on the Hazy Jane.
No, it's not going to be another one like last week because I already know what this tastes like.
Well, I was listening to last week's.
With the Aunt Bessie's.
Yeah, I don't know how I felt about it.
Well, a little cheers.
ASMR listeners.
And that is disgusting.
More for me, don't it look like?
Well, I can't believe it.
And also, as well as this last week's and there's a few things yet.
Cup of teas.
No.
Because you said, I don't know, Cup of teas.
Yeah, because.
They are disgusting.
They're not though.
It definitely is a generational thing.
Now, obviously I grew up around the Irish family and, you know, sort of not slung down my neck anyway.
But you just, you've just never been into it.
But you've never been a proper grafter, have you?
Always grafting.
It's literally just hot water with a bit of sugar.
Can't taste the tea bag does nothing.
No, it's not peppermint when you can taste it.
You can't taste it.
It does when you have a decent tea bag.
You know, because I don't have none of these cheap tea bags.
My Twonings alternate between English breakfast and I don't know, whatever the other bloody yellow one is as well.
But yeah, so a good quality tea bag, little splash of milk, not too much.
You know, you know the worst things about teas though, no one likes making them.
I do.
No, but you know, oh my god, that's what I think why I hate them so much as well.
Yeah, because you don't enjoy drinking.
And then look when you do the rumour, the cows on stroke.
You remember them ones?
Oh, yeah.
But fucking too many people, like loads of milk in the tea and that's what's hausy.
Now you just need a little dash just to take the colour out.
You need the milk to add the flavour.
No, because fucking the milk ruins it.
This is why you don't like it because you've had milk tea.
Fucking.
I've had warm milk.
I remember, well, it's fucking well being on jobs years ago when I was doing the electrics all the time in the Indian houses.
They do their tea weird.
So I say weird, but weird for me.
So essentially, they put four points of milk in a saucepan and loads of sugar and then a load of tea bags.
So there's no water involved and it just stews the tea bags into the milk.
And it's so sweet.
For me, it was sick because, you know, I haven't had sugar in my tea since I was 16.
So it wasn't for me.
I can be done. I've sugar, mate. Too sweet.
Sweet enough, kid.
The reason being was just because I'm so at 16, if I wanted sugar in my tea, I had to take my own.
I'm sorry.
16.
Yeah.
The chap that I worked with, he didn't have sugar in his tea, so he wouldn't bring sugar for me.
And so because I'd always forget to bring my own, I just got used to it.
And then I remember the first time I had sugar in the tea after I got used to it and I just spat it straight out.
I could have threw up straight away. It was absolutely disgusting.
Well, tea talk.
I know. But I love sugar in coffee. Brown sugar though.
Brown sugar.
If I'm doing an instant coffee at home or on the job, whatever, so it's just like your standard Nescafe,
you know, a jar, brown sugar makes a difference.
Yeah.
It's surprising to be fair because you think sugar is sugar.
But yeah, it does. It's almost more of a caramelised taste with the brown sugar in.
The mirror.
But that was the first thing.
The second thing is, you know, Mark Goldberg just needs to get this.
You need to just go on his show and get it over with.
It just needs to happen now.
Yeah, I can sit down and have a good few beers with Mark.
I don't think he has beers.
He does.
I think he has like Pina Coladas or something like that.
No, no, he does like a glass of wine and all that as well.
Yeah.
And he's on his Friday night shows, more so recently, he'll go to the pub and then have a couple of pints.
And then he says he's just sprinted back home up the hill and whatever.
And yeah, you can tell when he's had a drink because he's a bit more loosely.
Yeah.
So yeah, but shout out to Mark anyway.
I know you're listening.
I hope you have a good Christmas as well.
And speaking of, yeah, it's Christmas.
That's it.
I know we've already said it, but yeah, it's Christmas.
I'm the only one in the, not that you can see on the YouTubes at the moment because the laptop screen is in the way.
I've got a bit of my festivities jumper on.
You haven't got yours on yet.
And that's a t-shirt.
Yeah, it should have been a jumper.
It should have been a jumper.
As it was ordered, it should have been a jumper.
And you have got a jumper to be fair as well.
Yeah, I've got a jumper to put on as well.
It's just, I'll be too hot in there.
At least when, so we're going out for bevies, beblars, booners with the lads in a be.
Drinks.
Yeah.
Because there's some Americans like what?
Getting on the sauce.
We won't be going to the club.
We're too old for that now.
Which for any of the Diyard listeners will know that we're too old for the club.
If you have to pay to get into somewhere of the age of 30.
Well, you think a lot of places are going to be doing that over the next two weeks anyway.
But any non, well.
Most places will definitely do it on New Year's Eve.
Yeah, the pubs will do it.
Yeah.
Some of them do it on Christmas Eve as well.
Also, I know we're trying to talk about Christmas and we're going to New Year's.
Don't you think like New Year's Eve is like over high night?
Yeah, it's a young person's game.
It's.
But again, we only done it a handful of times really.
Yeah, I didn't like it.
Of properly going out.
I think once was in town in the club.
Then the other couple of times was just in the pubs.
Too busy.
That's why I'm glad.
We're recording early at the moment.
And then when we go out in a little bit, it's going to be early beers with the lads.
And what pace are you going?
Because there's been.
How many?
I mean, well, I was going to say because some lads have.
Talked good talk pregame.
Let's see.
Look, everyone's got to keep.
I had to say, everyone's got to keep up with the same pace.
No, no, no, no, no, it should be.
No, because what's the score?
See, so it's just for a bit of context for everyone listening.
Now, bear in mind, love, me and Ash do have a little bit of a conversation when we're not on the pod, but not enough.
So a lot of these is a general conversation, learning things about each other.
So the WhatsApp group with all the gay lords, I'm not any I'm any, but I'd never.
You don't want to say.
Because it's just there's that much stuff going on.
If I was to jump in, I'd miss stuff and I'm not active enough.
I don't have enough time to sit there.
Great chat, lads.
And then, you know, put my two pens to you.
What are they coming out?
It's literally.
There's nothing in terms of I'm going to do this.
Well, there is, but it's not like I'm going to drink 20 beers.
We've got one lad that's saying he's only going to drink Top Shale.
So we're not going to use real names. Pro Evo.
Neil Daniels.
Yeah, Neil Daniels.
Yeah, Neil Daniels is going to be Top Shale. Top Shale.
Yeah.
What's Poen Applehead saying?
He's saying every time because also Daniels Nils.
Neil Daniels.
Whatever way you want to say it.
It doesn't matter because he doesn't go for it.
He doesn't go for it.
It's just.
Yeah. Yeah.
Only he's going to know.
Yeah.
But everyone else is going to be like, what's JD?
So he said he's buying pineapples drinks for him.
And that pineapple says basically he'll buy his drinks for him and shots every time.
Daniels speaks to him.
Just it was just literally.
I mean, everyone's talking like the big bugs game, you know, pretty much.
But on the on the field, let's see who performs. I mean, other than the right thing, not to anything.
That's it.
Well, it's going to be funny because we know what it's like when Poen Applehead's around.
The back and forth between myself and him.
It's it's been a little while since I've seen him.
So it's going to be quite a funny one because we know that he's just been sleeping in his van while everyone else is doing the work.
Yeah. And then what about Sutherland?
What's what's his story?
He's already there.
Why did apparently he's already started?
He would have been in the spoons at fucking half hour this morning.
Breakfast beer.
Oh, that's where I.
Yeah, he said he's getting a taxi there already to the place we're supposed to be.
We're supposed to start in between three and four.
And so we have got a destination of where we're meeting up there.
Yeah, it's where we used to go when we was kids because the phone and mom was there.
Well, I say kids, but when we was like young, 16, 17.
And then obviously there was a phone, a free phone to each bookie.
So I'm already going to apply so that might as well just be the same.
So I can see what's going to happen and go there and then venture off to the clumsy swan or the spoons or something.
Something like that. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Or maybe towards Coles.
Well, I'd be happy with those. You know, it's been years since I've been around there, so I don't know why the school is there these days.
Well, yeah. Right. Again. So is he we're all just going to keep to our own.
We're not going to be in rounds or anything.
As far as you know, you know, what's from the last night, the raw talk.
Because if it goes to rounds, everyone's got to keep up with the fastest drinker there.
That's it. And people don't keep up with me.
Even even so, the ones who was to keep up with me.
Yeah. But then it's like when you're after five drinks, then I'm still drinking.
Then second because of the pace.
You know, it's been years since I've had to fall asleep when I've been hitting it hard.
And that these days, plus, you know, I told you this morning, I woke up thirsty today.
I felt dehydrated. It's like I've gone to sleep and my body's gone.
You're going to have a big day drinking tomorrow.
Well, just been ready for it. I've been waiting for weeks.
My my gut feeling is Daniel's son is because he's on the top shelf.
Won't be making any any longer. And he said I'm doing triples. I'm doing this.
So so he'd be going home for six if that was the case.
Yeah, I'd say I'll be surprised if he goes past seven o'clock.
If he's if he's on the beer, if drinking the beer.
And I said to him, don't be drinking no beer because you've told good game.
And then is there still the ruling that so because there should have been the theme of Power Rangers jumpers.
No, no, because that he got too hard to get to get them.
I think it's just like a jump. So some kind of theme to it.
And the pineapple admit that he didn't actually try to order a barrage as well.
Because I saw the pictures. They're on my phone.
No, he's got he's got one. He's got a yellow one.
You get a range of one. Yeah. So that first jumper that he was wearing.
No, that was not an attempt.
That was from next door. Yeah.
He's trying to talk to you. Well, he's not gone to George as that he's walking.
He's gone to a shop and got that Marks and Spencer probably.
Yeah. H&M or something.
But now, OK. And then I'm trying to think of a well, not all any.
No one else knows him. Yeah. That other than that.
So I'm not I know he's after this. I'm going to call him when we're done.
See what the sketches for see what he's saying.
But he should be already for then. I don't know about jump was what he's got.
So it's a bit quiet. Has he come out with any load?
I'm going to be all these. No, no, no, no.
The only thing that, you know, we did put in place if you don't wear a jumper,
you have to put the lads around. So that's the that's that was the only rule.
So we'll see if he's in a jumper or not. Yeah.
And then is there anyone else coming?
Because Paul Scholes. No, no, he's not.
He'll be DJing tonight. Yeah.
He got. What about the turkey here?
Yeah, no, he's coming after work after work.
He don't finish work. He's free. He'll be got it.
I think he's already been there for a while.
Hopefully they're going to send him send him on them, send him back home a little bit earlier than usual.
So you can just go. And then is there any surprise guests?
For the audience, there's actually counting on counting just because, you know,
when you get over a certain age and you get over five lads out, that's good numbers.
That's what you need anyway. So I don't know.
Well, yeah, been interesting notes.
And I'm sure that we'll have at least one story to say next week of what's happened.
I don't know if it's going to be a wild stag do stories, but I think it's a big idea.
I think Jadie had five misses then went to sleep.
Kid, I don't know.
He talks about his craft.
He's all day.
See, he's committed.
You talked a good talk already now.
Yeah. So watch next next episode.
You're going to be there eating a slice of humble pie.
Fair enough. Jadie was on the Guinness all night.
Yeah, you will say. Yeah. And what's your drink of choice for tonight?
Because if it's desperate, there's no, no, no, no, no, no.
Bia Moretta.
Four points. Yeah.
So he's on the premium. Four points for the dash.
Let me know.
Four points.
You're trying to say that you're having as little lemonade as I have milk in my tea.
And that's not the score.
Yeah, it's the same. So you put milk in your tea.
Little dashed. Yeah.
Again, I don't mind drinking the same. We've had milk if I have to.
To be honest, I can. I love Bia Moretta.
Yeah, Bia Moretta is all right, to be fair.
Is that Madri Bollocks that gives me a headache? Where everyone likes that.
You ever had a Madri? Yeah, I have.
Disgusting. I mean, I'll drink you.
But, you know, it's not my go to really. I don't drink a lot of lagers these days.
I do a lot of my IPAs and stuff, but I wouldn't want to be drinking them because some of them are strong on the tap.
But Guinness, I know where I'm at with that.
You know, good few points on our happy days.
I love that we are last this. We talk about Christmas and then we talked about everything else.
I know, yeah. Literally everything else.
I mean, I suppose if we had more time to prep, we could have put a little bit of Christmas decorations on.
But now we haven't had enough time.
But now that we've unwrapped.
Christmas puns.
Tonight's procedure.
Yeah, Christmas. Yeah, Christmas.
Oh, wait there. Sorry.
Just segue before we have some segue.
One thing that, you know, we do some like on this podcast, we talk about things we don't like and we ran about it.
I've seen something that I didn't like it.
A man driving a Fiat 500.
Now, not the Braff, but like a white.
So it's white with the white interior. Yeah. Big man.
Fiat 500. I know exactly where you come from because I do a lot of driving.
Up and down the motorway all the time.
And this happens quite a lot.
Now, I'm not as bad as what it used to be because I anticipate to be a man driving them these days.
But early doors when the Fiat 500 first come back on the scene, it was it was marketed as a woman's car.
So it was the opposite of the original Yorkie bar.
It was just for women. And so you'd be driving along.
Oh, look, Fiat 500.
You'd go a little bit faster and then look to try and see a pretty lady driving.
No, it wasn't always a pretty lady because they're not all pretty ladies.
But then the absolute disappointment and shame that you'd feel when you'd notice it's a man.
Oh, for God's sake. And you've won a UE4, mate.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just just not about that.
You got to you got to stick to your own lane.
It's like with the Braff, I can get it.
But it just I didn't like it, mate.
It was just it's like when you have a beta and you see a man driving a Volkswagen Beetle.
You know what the newer ones are because the older ones, the ones like 0708, not the classic.
Yeah, so the classic ones, they're sound for me.
If you whack in the bloody Porsche engine and you know, you're kissing it off.
Then yeah, that's sweet. I'm talking about 0708, 09 plate ones.
Yeah. When it was the new Herb.
Yeah. Yeah. Was it was it the new one?
I don't know.
But God, we gave them.
Grave film. The old one.
The old one was. Yeah. The newer one was just horrendous.
I'm saying new one. It was like 20 years ago or something.
Well, yeah, the old ones. Yeah, it was all us.
I mean, it was no wrong to look with yellow car.
But there's it was all right.
But yeah, so Christmas.
Are you all ready for Christmas?
I mean, we literally haven't had this conversation.
I'm already I told everyone we're not doing it.
Obviously, we're having a baby.
It's too much to worry for everyone.
Rap it, rap all the you know, just put that.
So it's been pretty chilled.
Well, hasn't been chilled, but as far as Christmas completes,
they might have to do this.
That's saying and just use that excuse for the next few years.
That's good to me.
I'm going to have to have one of these babies in.
I'll fuck you know.
But I've done it for years.
I don't get presents or just get vouchers for people because it's just easier.
No, don't get me wrong. I've got your present.
Oh, do I show you on the part?
Oh, I don't want to show you.
Right. Let me carry on.
So we'll be so that I'll be solid in a minute.
Yeah.
But yeah, so generally, it's just all Amazon vouchers or next vouchers or whatever.
The people, it's just easy.
There's no no worse thing than you spend effort thinking about what to get someone.
And then you give them slippers.
The lot of these slippers.
Yeah. You know, so at least we a simple voucher.
Just get what you want.
Get what you want.
That's 20 pounds in boots or whatever.
Get yourself some fucking make up.
Whatever you're into.
So yeah, that's all done.
Missy's got loads of stuff for her.
Has she got stuff for you though?
Because you remember that the OGs remember the birthday fiasco.
She better have.
Because we don't want to be here.
I know she's got a few things.
When she was asking about it, I've just sent that.
So there was a toolbox thing that I wanted.
So it's an attachment for a tool chest that I've already got.
So I sent her a link for that.
And then I sent her the link for my Amazon wishlist.
But as she's, as I've done that, somehow, because I've got separate ones.
I've got my tool one, a general wishlist.
And then I don't know what the one is.
I thought I'd sent her the link for the general wishlist, but it mixed them up.
So there was tools and then games and whatever on this link that's been sent to her.
So just the other week she was talking.
She said, I've got such and such.
She didn't tell me what it was at first.
I don't know what she was trying to say.
I was like, have you got me a charger?
She goes, no.
I've got batteries.
So she's got me batteries for my drills and that.
Which that's on my tool list.
And then she's got me a blade for my plunge tool as well.
I don't know.
They sent her the worst presents.
No, to be fair.
The batteries, I always need more batteries because I buy more tools.
There's more things to use.
So that's where I'm going to go and mix.
I know what they're needed for.
The blade for cutting stuff that don't last long.
So I was like, look, I'll have these now.
I'll give you the money for them.
So just get me all the stuff.
Anything tool related, don't get me.
Apart from this attachment.
Because not the one that I've got at the moment.
The original tool chest that I had, that was a Christmas or birthday present a couple of years ago.
The wheels broke on it.
It wasn't sturdy enough.
So stuff like that.
I don't know.
Look again, a sander.
I'd put that on there.
If you get this, happy days.
If not, I'm going to get myself one soon.
So yeah, she's fucking she's grabbed some stuff definitely.
I don't know what.
I know of items it can be going off of that list.
And hopefully she's gone off that list and used the brand a little bit before.
Oh, we might not list as well.
Because well, she don't listen anyway.
So I'll just say some of the things I've got.
She don't do shit.
Ignorant.
So last week, because we come down, we will get on to baby talk shortly anyway.
They're all sitting there.
No, no, no, no, baby.
No, not that.
How's he mentioned about it?
So when we was there last week, because said about the plans of moving the office upstairs and blah, blah.
And she's sitting there.
She says she wants to get a new office chair.
That's one thing that I've already bought in the box ready to put together.
Looking so hopefully because tomorrow we've got some shopping and that today.
Hopefully she doesn't be so hard to try and buy one because I'm going to have to nip that in the bud.
Got the generic, but you know, dressing gown, the genres, whatever.
But again, we've last week, have I said about trying to fucking grow stuff, not weird or anything.
You know, I wouldn't want that make a bit of extra pocket change.
But she tries to grow herbs on the smallest windowsill in the world and it just doesn't work.
So I've got a miniature greenhouse so she can fucking stick that anywhere.
And it's just a piece of cake present basically.
I've got her a Venus flydrap.
So again, it'll grow into one.
She's got seeds, so she'll have to get a little pot or whatever.
Just a couple of other stupid little things.
One of them is it's almost like a chopping board, but it's a wooden one.
It's got two curves in it.
So you put your eggs, when you boil eggs, in the shape of like a slice of toast.
And yeah, it's got whatever engraving Alicia's D.P. board or whatever I put for it now.
Yeah, so decent enough presents.
It's not all shit or piece taking ones.
Because raddolds aren't worse.
Well, for men, I don't know if we've said it before, but it's easy to boil stuff for fucking men.
Because it's like, right, he liked that as a child, get that for him.
Anything with a little bit of nostalgia, that's it.
I almost bought myself a Sky Electric fucking the other day.
Yeah, fucking, it just popped up on Facebook or something.
I looked at it, I was like, that looks amazing.
And I'm sitting there and he was in the basket.
Whatever website he was in, he was in the basket.
And I was like, I haven't got the room for it though.
Because if I was to set it up, it would take up most of the living room.
Because it was a massive one.
It was like 200 pound or something.
But it was still not the old cheap plastic with the little metal pins that pushed in and all that.
I was like, oh no, I ain't got the room.
I didn't even know if Sky Electric was still a thing.
That's got to be dying out.
Well, across urban it would have been good.
Hot Wheels, the Sky Electrics.
If they actually merged together.
But people make the tracks for Hot Wheels, don't they?
Then let them go at the same time.
Yeah, yeah, but that's, you know, it's relying on gravity all the time, isn't it?
But if they did the little Sky Electric cars as the Hot Wheels ones, that would have banged to be there.
No, they just never did that.
Talking about presents.
What are your top three presents you've ever received?
So...
Or given.
Well, if we're going along that, we'll keep a couple of low jobs.
But no, it was always as a kid.
I remember opening up the Sega Mega Drive 2.
That was top tier back in the day.
It was like five, six years old, something like that.
God, yeah, I used to play it as much as I could.
And then the Power Rangers, the Megazords, I remember having...
Yeah, the original one and the Dragonzord.
Did you have the remote control one?
Yeah, but it worked like a proper remote control. It was still on a lead.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the old, yeah, you had to follow it.
Yeah, you had to walk along with it.
And then because I had the Ninjazord one as well, the following year, whatever it was.
And the same remotes had like a microphone in it so you could speak into it and it would change the voice a lot.
But you could just hear your own voice.
You were speaking louder.
I don't like them anymore.
No, definitely not.
I wonder what kids now...
Sorry, go on.
No, I'm trying to think of the third one.
I suppose it would just only ever be a little...
Oh, yeah, it was for Christmas, I think.
So my dad got me a limited edition.
I think there was only like 200 or 250 made in a special presentation box.
Man United's 2008 Champions League winning special edition top.
Come with the official match day programme and that as well.
Yeah, so just that's in there purely because of how shit United are these days.
Yeah, true.
So, yeah.
So you say what you're going to say about kids and then give me your three best presents.
No, I was just going to say literally what the kids have because there's none of that stuff.
I don't feel like...
You know, as a grown-up, there's those things that take you back to your childhood.
Is there that thing now for kids?
It's all gadgets.
Yeah, I don't think it is because you think they're all into fucking...
What's the one with the shitty dance?
Fortnite, Roblox and whatever.
So it's like that's just a digital thing that, yeah, they're always about to carry around with them on the...
Switches or phones, whatever they're playing on and that.
You just want to have that nostalgia feel to it.
Yeah, it's not something that when you move in house, for example, you find underneath the bed
and you start spinning your Beyblades on a plate for two hours, breaking shit.
You're not going to have that with Fortnite and games and it really are.
I mean, again, because at least with the old consoles, like the Sega Mega Drawing, there was the physical cartridges.
I know you cancel board games as discs or the mini cartridges.
Yeah, but it's not the same as going into like a game.
What was the other one that was a game and was it good game stuff?
It is a game stuff. Then it was Game Station.
So there was Game Station and Game Wars. Game Station had become a game.
There was two, wasn't there? I think the Game Stations changed to CX.
Oh, OK. OK. I think.
There was nothing better than one in a game and then I had to go into town to go.
Well, yeah, I know we've spoke about it before. That was just thought.
And then reading instructions on the bus.
Yeah, we'd save all that pocket money off.
And I think it was Pokémon Diamonds and Pearl that came out.
We got the bus. Went into town and remember us going up the ramp.
That was Ruby Sapphire. Yeah.
I was talking to his kids.
But I remember waiting outside, not expecting a lot.
There was going to be a queue or something.
So we got there an hour before it opened on a Saturday or a Sunday.
There was only two people there.
There was people walking past us, looking as if saying, well, hey, do you mean?
And the shop opens in, grab the guy back out.
Yeah. I think we might have grabbed a quick McDonald's as well.
But yeah, just on the bus opening the box and that log.
Yeah. See, I think we might have even took our game was with us that one
and played it on the bus on the way back.
We definitely done it at least once anyway,
because I remember sitting on the bus on the way back fighting a guy.
I don't think I ever did. I don't know.
I don't know.
I definitely remember sitting on the bus playing a game on the way back
after we just got one because we was all too excited to fucking just wait on that.
Yeah. So what are your top three favourite gifts?
I'm going to go for on about I think I'd say I'm going to go number three.
I'm going to go remote control car.
I dug the petrol once we didn't have the lead on it.
You'd have to follow it. Yeah.
But you like I remember my dad had to make the shell of the car himself.
So not make the shelter. So the shell came.
But you'd have to spray it. Yeah.
I think I got it for Christmas.
I think I started planning for March.
Yeah, that was good.
No, I'm not going to go on it.
I'm going to go grand theft all our voice today.
Because I remember that in October time, but I had it for Christmas.
I remember all kids at school had it at that time.
I was like fucking wanted and with the soundtrack emotion of famous as well.
Yeah.
Well, as I said before, number one, Pokemon red in that fucking old box.
Star job, the old school.
Yeah.
There was nothing better than when I opened up Pokemon red that would always stick with me.
Because I remember I stopped opening all my other presents to put in the game.
I was so blind.
It's the only time I've ever done that.
I used to love playing them games.
Thank you.
Every now and again, I haven't done it for a while now, but I'd get the emulator on my phone or something and I just start bashing it on there.
Yeah.
Well, what kind of was in hospital as we were waiting for the baby.
I started playing Pokemon platinum.
So I've never applied that one.
Yeah. So I started playing that again.
Yeah.
I'm a lot with it because you know when you can just play through it, but like now you're trying to get the best, the best version.
So the one, the best ability, the best nature.
Yeah, I'm not playing competitive.
So I know pick one up.
It doesn't matter.
I'm going to stroll through all this.
Yeah.
That's why I'm glad that I don't do the online stuff because I was a wood.
I'd have to get everything.
Yeah.
Whereas, because again, it's not too easy now as well because all the level up at the same time.
Yeah.
The ground that we used to have to go through.
That's why it didn't matter what ones you had.
You just had your favorite Pokemon.
You'd bang them up the levels.
That's it.
That's your team.
But there's two things.
There's all the secrets and extra DLC and that now.
I just can't keep up with it all.
You know, I know the Indigo and there's two DLCs for Scarlet and Violet log.
Yeah.
It's like another 40 pound or something.
I don't even think it's a whole new game.
It's like, I don't understand if it was a full separate game, but it's not, not the full length.
It's like just an extra map.
I think so.
I've not looked into it much.
Yeah.
I like the games.
I just don't hit this.
Yeah, they don't.
I think it's because that growing.
It's not.
It's not a growing.
I like that aspect of.
Yeah.
Just put in the effort and you feel achievements.
Yeah.
Actual achievement, not just a little trophy on your game.
I can't have a side dish and you have to buy another game.
Yeah.
I know I'm a side because you got like legendaries on there that you grinded for.
Yeah.
It is.
It's fucking.
The guys, because obviously I bought this one second hand, like brought it back in 2019
and I'm so, because I remember seeing it.
I'm going to have that.
I knew I'd play it.
So.
Yeah.
And the guys, the squad that had it beforehand, he didn't know, he didn't know Pokemon.
It honestly, I looked at him like these guys didn't know.
Yeah.
I've done that myself.
When, uh, born a second hand Pokemon gamer.
Always look to see what they've got.
Yeah.
You got to check it out.
You can tell that it's a kids had the game.
Like the parents bought it for the kid.
They played it for like six minutes and then just like, I can't be asked for this.
I don't like it.
Yeah.
You get it.
You don't.
Yeah.
And I loved that field log.
Yeah.
That was a shit team.
Yeah.
And then fucking started a new one.
That's it.
Fuck you.
Like a bow sprout in your six.
Yeah.
But it was, it was, it was just a proper sense of achievement.
Yeah.
And then you'd have to do the old school version, especially gold and silver where you'd have
to do.
Obviously the Joe, so then go, sorry.
Yeah.
Joe, so then go to cancer that one, you know, 16.
Yeah.
Real, real talking.
But how hard was professor Oak after that?
Because once you got all 16 badges, I think, uh, Mount Moon, you went off to, and he was
just like, yeah, fuck you.
Now you'd fight red.
Was you red again?
Yeah.
You'd fight red again.
But then, but then you go back to, and there's a white, sorry.
Yeah.
So you got to Mount Silver.
Was it?
Yeah.
So you, uh, once you got all 16 badges, you go to professor Oak and he says there's someone
that made me say that.
And then that's it.
The red that was there.
And he's all, he's just got all of them.
And it's just like black toys.
Jar is our, Snorlax.
Yeah.
Just killed him.
Yeah.
It's like also when you play, um, it's about diamond and then you end up being, I can't
remember the fucking name of it now.
The one with the blonde hair, the finer one.
Cindy.
Cynthia.
But it's also like when you play Ruby and Sapphire and how you catch Ray Quasar, cause
that's hard because you, and cause it's too, they're pretty much back to back, not back
to back.
Yeah.
My groin.
Just talk about that.
Um, but we're not gonna, I am actually going to ask the question then because they have
been sitting there for 40 minutes waiting for it.
So what's it like being a dad then?
No, it's daddy Ash.
Yeah.
Hey, puppy.
It feels good.
Um, no, I just want to say thank you for everyone that messaged in.
I'll read about it next week.
Yeah.
Cause I know there was a few messages like Kirsty and that just saying congratulations
and that.
Yeah.
Um, so thank you for that.
But now she's a baby.
She's, she's doing really well.
She's a, the only problem has got to be about she's too cute.
That's the only thing she's too cute.
She knows which is good because in general babes are ugly, man.
You know, the first couple of days when it's just all skin and she's like, yeah, they all
look the same way for, yeah.
I've always sort of bought the same radio.
But yeah, I suppose it's always different when it's your own anymore.
Cause he is the instant love.
Yeah.
We'd have everyone come up and be like, oh, and she pretty baby.
And like you, you think he's kind of have to say, no, no.
I know she's pretty pretty, but you know, everybody is cute in the wrong way.
She went, but she, this one's beautiful.
Yeah.
She's a.
Like the one that fucking bought the dog shit in the house.
You want about that one?
No, no, no, no, no.
That's where we was announced.
Well, and then that's all the nurses come over and said that we won't go on to the mid
boy for working.
Honestly, like, right.
Go on.
Have a rant.
Go on.
You know, you just have to be waiting for it.
You know, you bring a baby back.
You told you, you know, you get ahead of yourselves and you know, the mid was coming,
trying to make you look decent and just not to even ask.
They were taking my trainers off.
Well, my shoes off.
And I was like, she walks dog shit in.
Oh my God.
Especially because the whole purpose of when you got the house, you had the car put in
that odd poor, the LVT locker special, just, you know, essentially glorified lamina flooring
down at the front door.
So it's an area for people to take the footwear off and the lack of for just to say, Oh, that's
not clean copy.
Do you want me to take my shoes off?
But no, has the cheater then.
Traips in dirty dog shit.
It did warm me up because I remember because then we had my partner's family come round
after and I was like cleaning it up.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
But no, we saw the dog shit getting walked in.
Everything's fine, mate.
Everything's going good.
Yeah.
And then the sleeping, as a sleeping bean.
Yeah.
I mean, we've been quite lucky.
I mean, people were listening and probably be jealous, but she does do every, every,
she does do every two to three hours bottle in the night.
So it ain't too bad.
So no, it's a little easy enough routine as of the moment.
Yeah.
I mean, easy enough for me, obviously, because I've come back to work.
So my partner, she'll, she does all the nine feet, bless her.
Yeah.
And then what was the first nappy log?
Oh, mate, you know what?
The first nappy, it wasn't that bad, like first wee, first poop.
It's when they do the explosion, the poop, oh my God.
Look, boy, when it happens, I don't even know where to start.
That's the thing.
Where do you start?
Because you're going to get your change and station done.
It's just, yeah.
And I mean, and it goes everywhere in all the crevices and you know, it's.
Because they do have a lot of loose skin and that.
Yeah.
Literally.
Yeah.
I didn't like it.
So because there was one just before I turned up last week as well, weren't there?
Oh, there was, yeah.
Yeah.
And it was all up the back, all everywhere.
That one weren't as bad.
It was the one before that where it was really bad.
Right.
But yeah, she's had a few this week.
Well, few this week actually where you're verping up the nappy and just like, what the fuck?
Yeah.
But now apart from that, you know, better to be out than in.
You know?
Yeah.
She's quite good.
She doesn't really mind that after that, only when she wants to follow.
Yeah.
We've been quite lucky.
Yeah.
And hopefully now, because even though I did briefly say that before,
last week was the first one, probably getting to see her and she got to have a little cuddle
with Uncle JD, the godfather.
But so hopefully now calms down and everyone else, all the family and that will have their
bit of a fair share.
So you should be able to just chill a bit more.
Yeah.
Try and get more comfortable at home.
The only thing I would say when it's what's been hard is obviously only after two weeks
maternity.
So anyone that's gone through this will know that you spend a week in the hospital and
obviously I've only got two weeks off.
So then I've had to have a week at home.
So it's like, it's a strange week.
You're coming back and forth to the hospital.
Then you bring the baby home, but then you're there 24 seven.
Then you go back to work.
So in three weeks, you've had three different variations.
Yeah.
And then so now breaking up for Christmas, it's going to be different again to go back
to it.
I've seen the New Year.
So yeah, it's, it's, it's finding that routine.
Like the new normal.
Yeah.
It won't be the new normal until next year.
Yeah.
Cause that, that I suppose that's always the hardest part.
Excuse me.
Not just thought with kids.
You know, similar, well, you know, yourself when getting a dog, cause you've got to get
that routine.
So he'd go for the walks.
We love the poo talk on this real talk podcast.
Yeah.
So getting that routine is always key.
And so obviously when everyone's trying to come round and at first you can't get settled
and get that routine.
So hopefully now that it is Christmas, you can start doing that.
And one final bit about Christmas.
What you go to Christmas movie.
Home Alone.
Easy.
No, no, there's never been a major one that I've enjoyed.
Home Alone.
But then number one or number two.
Number one.
See, cause that's a little controversy on its own as well.
Yeah, people prefer number two to number one.
Definitely won't going to be number three.
It's a different kid though.
Yeah.
Just fucking shit.
I think there's about six now.
I know there was definitely, there was definitely four.
There was one of them.
It was like summertime.
Yeah.
Like I hate that bad Christmas movie.
It's not only gets filmed in the summer or like in a hot place like LA.
It's just like, it doesn't feel right.
No, it doesn't.
No, it needs.
Yeah.
Cause again, a lot of people log out for that as well.
Now I'm not going to be one of those typical ones that says, oh, die hard.
You know, it's filled up Christmas.
I haven't really got a favourite Christmas film though.
No.
I was trying to think about you with that because I knew I was going to ask you Adam.
I know that you, it's not prefer, but you definitely so Christmas more than I do.
And obviously you will do more now as well.
We've having the Bambino and apologies for the YouTube watches, but the cameras just died for some reason.
Don't know why, but uh, audio it's still there.
I might even put on what a switch.
So you booked him a not switch done.
Nevermind.
Uh, I'll just do some graphics or whatever.
Yeah.
They'll say I'm the editor.
Let's say the set the hard work.
Yeah.
I think it's never out because we're growing up.
Mom's always thought from September at the Christmas channel on and just watching the crappy hallmark hallmark.
But no, you want to find this in it.
Yeah.
It's like the successful business woman goes back to the hometown.
Yeah.
It's like everyone's all the same.
It's like the run down that have one that's, you know, it's tied in the town.
Yeah.
The old high school like fling and whatever.
And he always bumped into them accidentally as well.
Yeah.
So I think because of stuff like that sort of tainted me a little bit.
Don't really get the feels for it.
Um, it's just the main thing I look forward to is the food and the drink obviously.
Um, it's which I think we shall end it there now because the magic word was just said drink and we're out for one shortly.
Yeah.
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