Real British Friends Catching Up: Natural English, Jokes & Everyday Conversation

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]Do you ever think, oh, oh, that's the career I would have enjoyed?

[00:00:04]>> Do you think engineers are good at planning social events?

[00:00:09]>> [laughter] >> Yeah, I used the toilet brush with the plate and uh >> No, never.

[00:00:14]>> And never use your J-cloth from the kitchen on the toilet.

[00:00:18]>> No, that's a good rule.

[00:00:19]>> You think they went straight from dead people to delivering babies?

[00:00:22]>> Just back and forth. Constantly.

[00:00:25]>> And they just swap, like, I've had enough dead people for the day. Can I I want something new. Oh, no, this baby's dead. Oh, next. [laughter] No, cut that. Cut that.

[00:00:38]Cut that, please. But then back in the day, yeah, it I'm not we're not going down infant mortality. That's not fun.

[00:00:46]How's your sex life?

[00:00:51]>> [music] >> Hello, mate. How you doing?

[00:00:54]>> Hello, yeah, good, thank you. Been been a while, isn't it?

[00:00:57]>> It has been. It has been a long old time. Um I feel like we've got a lot to catch up on, but uh the first thing for me is you're in a new environment. I don't understand the backdrop.

[00:01:09]>> I know.

[00:01:11]>> me? I actually don't know. I just woke up here. I don't know where I am.

[00:01:14][laughter] Um so I yeah, I moved in with my girlfriend, Rosie, who apparently you've never met.

[00:01:22]>> I know.

[00:01:23]>> Which is totally completely wrong.

[00:01:25]>> Yeah. I'm going to put that on you, though.

[00:01:28]>> Yeah. Yeah, yeah, fair.

[00:01:30]>> Just for no reason.

[00:01:31]>> No, [laughter] yeah, that's yeah, I think you you're you're right there.

[00:01:36]I definitely could have engineered a a meeting by now. And it's not really engineering. It's not It's not that complicated.

[00:01:46]>> Do you think engineers are good at um sort of planning social events?

[00:01:52]>> [laughter] >> Well, I'm I've never really been friends with engineers until I struck up a friendship with Dima who is the guy uh for listeners who I meet up with once a year to do the uh Camino. He's a good friend of mine.

[00:02:11]Um but yeah, he's my my only engineer friend and he's is he good at making plans? Well, I probably see him twice a year maybe three times a year and it's always it's always the same time of the year.

[00:02:25]So, I think they're good at kind of regularity.

[00:02:29]Um having structure to their social engagements.

[00:02:34]>> Does he encourage that annual get-together?

[00:02:40]>> Yeah. Yeah, to be fair, we we both do.

[00:02:43]Yeah, we both like it. But, we don't want to see each other more than two max three times a year. I think that's enough.

[00:02:51]>> So, maybe you could be an engineer. You know, you're doing the same as him.

[00:02:56]>> Well, yeah. You know, I was actually um encouraged to go on an engineering apprenticeship.

[00:03:04]>> Oh my goodness.

[00:03:05]>> When I was like 16. You know, when you finish you finish school.

[00:03:10]Wait, was it and then I think it was maybe after sixth form.

[00:03:15]>> Okay.

[00:03:15]>> 18. I was about 18, yeah. Before going to uni, but I hadn't made up my mind as to what I wanted to do next. So, I was going to do a gap year.

[00:03:25]Gap yah.

[00:03:26]>> A gap yah.

[00:03:27]>> Um which basically means do bugger all, um maybe work a few odd jobs >> How expensive?

[00:03:36]>> if you can. If you can afford it and if you are privileged enough to to go traveling, you do that basically.

[00:03:45]>> So, you bum around.

[00:03:46]>> Um anyway, that's the definition of a gap year. Um >> And why did you say gap yah? Why did you joke it like that? It's culturally relevant.

[00:03:55]>> Yeah, that became a thing, didn't it?

[00:03:57]Well, I just remember there was a video of this posh [ __ ] talking about what he did on his gap yah. And so yah is like a really I don't know, I guess posh What would you call those those people? Ra, very ra way of saying of saying year.

[00:04:19]Um very I don't know if you'd even call it RP. It's like even beyond RP.

[00:04:24]>> Yah. Yeah, it's it's the Eton accent, really, isn't it?

[00:04:27]>> Yeah. Yah. Yah, it is. It sounds German.

[00:04:32]>> [laughter] >> Yah.

[00:04:34]>> Quick pause before we carry on. Um I don't know your exact level of English, but in this conversation, you've probably already heard a few intermediate to advanced expressions.

[00:04:46]And there are plenty more sneaking in as we go. Now, I could stop and explain each one, but that would absolutely kill the flow of the conversation, and we don't want that, right? So, instead, I've created a free PDF that goes with this episode. It breaks down the key vocabulary, gives you clear meanings, uh natural examples, collocations, and a few cheeky quizzes to help it actually stick. Um if you want it, just scan the QR code on screen right now or click the link in the description, show notes, or comments section. And that link will take you to this screen that video podcast viewers can see right now. Fill in your name and email, and that will get sent straight to your email inbox.

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[00:05:45]>> But yeah, it's the private school kind of uh mocking of that demographic who try to find themselves in Bali kind of >> Yes.

[00:05:55]>> cliche of all of them and yeah, a comedian made a skit that went viral that we referenced and it was a long time ago because we're now old people.

[00:06:07]We're 36. Are you 30 you're 35 still?

[00:06:10]You're clinging on to your >> I'm 35. Thanks very much.

[00:06:13]>> closer to No, but you're closer to 30 to 40 than 35 than 30. Aren't you?

[00:06:19]>> Yeah, agreed. Definitely closer to 35 than 40 though. But yes. [laughter] Give me that at least.

[00:06:26]>> Stacey does this thing where she always says, "Oh, next year I'll be 38 for now." You know, two years older because she's one of those kids that was a December or younger baby in in the first in that academic year. Do you know what I mean?

[00:06:43]>> Yeah, that annoys me.

[00:06:44]>> Really annoys me.

[00:06:46]>> But you're 35. How can you be 39 next year?

[00:06:50]>> Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:06:51]Yeah, and I don't get why she does it now cuz it's like, "Well, we don't want to be older. Stop shocking me with that."

[00:06:59]>> Yeah, no. Just say you're 36 now. That's great. Let's say it together. I'm 36 [laughter] now.

[00:07:06]>> Exactly.

[00:07:06]>> Come on. So, you're 36 now, aren't you?

[00:07:09]>> I'm 36 now, yeah. I've had my birthday since since we last talked. Did you manage to say happy birthday on the right day this day this time?

[00:07:18]>> Yeah, I think I also said it before.

[00:07:22]Um But I did Yeah, I definitely said it on the right day this year.

[00:07:27]Um >> I've got my WhatsApp open. It's got the day after.

[00:07:32]>> Just just write happy birthday and look at all the different dates I'm saying.

[00:07:36]>> happy birthday, mate, on the 18th of April. Very good.

[00:07:39]>> But I had it in my diary for like 4 days before that.

[00:07:44]>> Yeah. The in-joke here is that Harry, being a best man of mine at my wedding, still can't remember when my birthday is, and he asks he forgot for the last 3 years, and I think the last year or so, he's got the wrong day.

[00:08:00]>> Guilty as charged. But last year I was a day early, I think, which was already a massive improvement on the previous years, where I had just completely forgotten it. And and Charlie, I think the year before that, Charlie had written to me on my birthday saying, "Hi, mate.

[00:08:18]How are you?" Just, you know, expecting something. Anything special happening today in your life?

[00:08:27]>> [laughter and gasps] >> Someone's turning 34.

[00:08:31]Oh.

[00:08:32]>> that's um that's very relevant that your your engineer friend from the beginning of this chat is Dima, the guy that you went on the Camino with, and that is partly why we're going to have this catch-up, cuz we haven't chatted since then, and I want to hear all about that.

[00:08:49]>> Yeah. Yeah, a lot [clears throat] of different things have happened. Just going back as we've um digressed a little bit, I was making a point I'm not making a point, I was just telling you about when I was offered an apprenticeship.

[00:09:00]>> Oh, yes. Oh, yeah. Keep going.

[00:09:03]>> So I did I was about to to embark on my gap year. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:09:08]Um and I went to a careers advice center.

[00:09:15]Connections, [clears throat] I think it was called.

[00:09:17]>> I remember that brand, yeah.

[00:09:18]>> With an with an X.

[00:09:20]>> Yeah, connections.

[00:09:22]>> It's cool, isn't it? It's a way [snorts] to attract the teenagers.

[00:09:25]>> Certainly is.

[00:09:26]>> Not in a weird way.

[00:09:28]Um so I yeah, I went to meet this guy, and I remember he was really lovely, and um he presents me with a really cool opportunity, actually, which in hindsight probably should have thought harder about.

[00:09:46]>> [laughter] >> What was he say, "Go build a bridge"?

[00:09:50]>> Not in those words, but he just said, "There is an an engineering apprenticeship available that you would that you could apply for."

[00:09:59]I was like, "Nah."

[00:10:01]>> [laughter] >> "See you."

[00:10:05]"I'm 18. You're an adult. I know better."

[00:10:08]"I'm going to go out and get drunk, and then I'm going to go and travel in Europe and be sick in every city."

[00:10:15]>> There's your apprenticeship.

[00:10:17]>> "Yeah, shove it where the sun don't shine, mate." But, actually, engineering, I don't think, um, I don't think I would have thrived in engineering. I don't think I'm really an engineering person.

[00:10:31]Who knows?

[00:10:32]>> Who knows? Who knows? Deemer probably knows.

[00:10:35]>> Deemer probably knows. Yeah, I think he would say, "I don't think you're cut out [laughter] for a career in engineering." He is a [ __ ] So, yeah.

[00:10:45]>> [laughter] >> Don't think he would say that. Do you Do you ever think, "Oh, oh, that's a career maybe I would have enjoyed and done all right in"?

[00:10:56]>> What, engineering?

[00:10:58]>> Not engineering. Just It could It could be anything. Any anything just very different to what you do now that maybe Yeah, you could have embarked on or >> I saw something while I was on the toilet yesterday of a guy cleaning a toilet cleaning a swimming pool.

[00:11:15]He took a really It was a really bad swimming pool, like really algae like loads of algae, sorry, and it was just horrible. And he put loads of chemicals in, and he like hoovered it at the bottom, but with a not with an actual hoover.

[00:11:32]With a Yeah.

[00:11:33]>> whatever swimming pool >> Henry >> apparatus [laughter] they use.

[00:11:37]>> Okay.

[00:11:37]>> Um and it looked really satisfying.

[00:11:40]>> Mhm.

[00:11:40]>> I thought, you know, that's a very different career, but I'm interested.

[00:11:45]>> Great, yeah.

[00:11:46]>> Cuz I love tidying up.

[00:11:47]>> pool.

[00:11:48]>> [laughter] >> What?

[00:11:50]>> Oh, we got we got to get all the water out first, then I'm going to Hoover the bottom.

[00:11:55]>> He did it with the thing in there at the bottom.

[00:11:58]It was just like a pool cleaner, not a Hoover at all.

[00:12:01]>> Okay, wasn't Hoovering. Okay.

[00:12:03]>> But it was the suctioning.

[00:12:05]>> Okay. All right. So, it's just suctioning the dirt off the base of the of the the bottom of the pool.

[00:12:12]>> Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it looked amazing afterwards. I thought, that is job satisfaction at 100%.

[00:12:18]>> Yeah.

[00:12:18]>> Yes, I do get it from seeing my students improve, but also I'd love to see a pool very clean at the end of the day.

[00:12:25]>> That's true. Do you not get the same satisfaction when you say wipe a skid mark off the toilet?

[00:12:30]>> Ah.

[00:12:32]Ah.

[00:12:33]Ah.

[00:12:34]>> [laughter] >> I could I could go down that route.

[00:12:37]Um but I'll save >> forget forget the skid mark, but just cleaning a toilet or a basin or say a plate, is that not a similar satisfaction?

[00:12:49]>> Yeah, I use the toilet brush with the plate and uh >> No, never. Never use toilet brush with a plate. And never use um you know, your your J cloth from the kitchen on the toilet.

[00:13:01]>> No.

[00:13:02]>> Just don't mix. Don't mix. Leave them in the rooms where they >> It's a good rule. You know, before they understood about germs, say 100 years ago, do you reckon they actually thought that that was necessary to teach people?

[00:13:18]>> I think cuz >> Maybe >> realization, just to interrupt rudely, doctors would go from dead people and then they would go to um giving like helping give birth and they wouldn't wash their hands.

[00:13:32]>> Do they not?

[00:13:33]>> They didn't before.

[00:13:35]>> Right, okay.

[00:13:35]>> Yeah. Before they realized that germs are a thing they would do that.

[00:13:41]>> Yeah, but it's Do you think they went straight from dead people to delivering babies?

[00:13:46]>> Just back and forth constantly.

[00:13:48]>> And they just swapped. I've had enough dead people for the day. Can I [laughter] I want something new. Oh, no, this baby's dead. Oh, next.

[00:13:56]>> [laughter] >> No, cut that. Cut that.

[00:14:02]Cut that, please. But then back in the day, yeah, I'm not we're not going down infant mortality. That's not fun.

[00:14:10]How's your sex life?

[00:14:15]>> Uh, we're still going. Still going.

[00:14:18]>> Oh, bring back Ruth, can we?

[00:14:20]>> [laughter] >> But yeah, so um swimming pools, that would be my career, cleaning swimming pools. You think engineering, okay.

[00:14:32]>> I don't know.

[00:14:33]>> You don't think No. Okay.

[00:14:35]>> It's just >> Yeah.

[00:14:36]>> You know, I guess I'm reminiscing on what was actually quite a cool opportunity.

[00:14:42]>> Yeah. Did you literally not take it any further? You just left the room and didn't look back once.

[00:14:48]>> I think I I looked back, but it's only cuz I left my backpack. I had to go back for it.

[00:14:54]>> No. But no, >> I had to I think in the meeting I was like, that sounds really interesting. Let me ponder on that. And then I did for about >> 15 years.

[00:15:05]>> Yeah. Yeah. And then I reached the Wetherspoons and I've completely forgotten about it.

[00:15:13]>> [gasps] >> So, 15 years.

[00:15:15]>> Yeah.

[00:15:16]>> Yeah.

[00:15:16]>> Yeah. Well, 15 years later we find you in somebody else's house. Is it it not your it's not your house. You're >> Not my house.

[00:15:25]>> Are you are you paying rent to your partner?

[00:15:29]>> I'm paying for the food that we share and okay. I'm paying for what do I pay for heating?

[00:15:39]I pay for gas.

[00:15:40]>> I see you pay for the you pay the bills and the food.

[00:15:43]>> Not all of them. Not all of them.

[00:15:44]>> Not all of them.

[00:15:45]>> [laughter] >> Let the man speak.

[00:15:50]>> [laughter] >> I pay the gas specifically. So she has a gas meter that she is weird talking about my girlfriend's gas openly in front of millions of people.

[00:16:04]>> It's not that many.

[00:16:06]>> personal.

[00:16:07]>> No.

[00:16:07]>> Come on. Be ambitious. Come on.

[00:16:09]>> Yeah.

[00:16:10]>> Believe in yourself like I did as an engineer. [laughter] So um yeah, I pay for her gas.

[00:16:19]>> Okay.

[00:16:20]>> It's the end of it. So she has a gas Let me explain this in full. I pay for her gas.

[00:16:26]Full stop.

[00:16:28]Ask me no more questions.

[00:16:30]No.

[00:16:31]So she has a gas meter that she tops up which is very old-fashioned.

[00:16:36]>> Oh my god, that is really old-fashioned.

[00:16:38]So you could run out if you don't have enough coins.

[00:16:41]>> We could and we did did and we did.

[00:16:45]>> We did and we do.

[00:16:47]We did.

[00:16:48]>> We did.

[00:16:50]>> [laughter] >> Yeah, we do. We did and we we could and we have.

[00:16:54]Done. [snorts] >> Yeah.

[00:16:56]>> [laughter] >> We like to use we like to use the power of the pause.

[00:17:04]>> Exactly. Could and we have done. I have done. Yeah, it's awful actually. You're like oh right. This has been a good day.

[00:17:12]We're winding down. Right.

[00:17:15]You you Rosie will start hanging up the washing. I'll be like, "Ah, I'm just going to go and take a a deep bath."

[00:17:22]Um, I start running it and the water's just coming out cold. It's just pure cold water.

[00:17:30]And you're like, "Ah, okay, right.

[00:17:31]You've got to run to Costcutter, which is the local minimart, mini supermarket, and you've got to top up the gas meter."

[00:17:40]Why can't you do it in your house?

[00:17:44]You can't do it remotely. You get this gas card.

[00:17:47]>> Mhm.

[00:17:47]>> Um, it's all very very old-fashioned. You get this gas card, you go to the shop, you top it up, you come back, you put the gas card in the meter, and that tops it up.

[00:17:59]>> Oh my god.

[00:18:00]>> Yeah.

[00:18:01]>> I mean, that's even more inconvenient than coins.

[00:18:05]Cuz I thought you would just be putting the coins in the thing in your flat.

[00:18:10]>> But that doesn't make sense. That really doesn't make sense, does it? Cuz then you'd just open the machine and get all the coins.

[00:18:17]>> Where do all the coins go? Yeah.

[00:18:18]>> Yeah.

[00:18:18]>> It's just It's just recycling coins.

[00:18:21]Yeah.

[00:18:21]This is a Yeah, they they're never going to realize. We're getting this for free.

[00:18:25][laughter] >> So, I've got a question now. Does that make you sometimes um ease up on the gas usage?

[00:18:35]>> Well, you would think so, but cuz you you can you can monitor it and think, "Okay, we're only going to spend 40 quid this month."

[00:18:44]>> I mean you because you're the one paying the gas bill.

[00:18:48]>> Oh, I see.

[00:18:49]>> I can get one over on her here.

[00:18:51]>> Oh, I see. Yeah, might tight. Sorry, how long have you been in the shower, love?

[00:18:55]It's been 3 minutes.

[00:18:57]>> [laughter] >> Get out.

[00:19:00]>> We don't need to wash the dishes every time. No, every other.

[00:19:05]>> Once a fortnight, please. Come on.

[00:19:08]Do it while you're in the bath.

[00:19:10]Um, yeah, no. No, yeah, no is the answer. Yes, no, yes, no, no.

[00:19:16]>> No.

[00:19:17]>> But it's quite it's surprisingly uh cheap, actually. Like, it's um I'm not sure exactly how much we're paying on average, but because we just pay when we run out.

[00:19:28]>> Mhm.

[00:19:28]>> But I reckon about 30 quid a month on gas.

[00:19:33]>> Okay. Yeah.

[00:19:34]>> Probably. Maybe 25 quid.

[00:19:36]>> So, that ain't >> That ain't bad.

[00:19:38]>> You've got a good deal.

[00:19:40]But you're Is your You've still got your flat, haven't you?

[00:19:43]>> Yeah, so I'm still paying >> Okay.

[00:19:45]>> rent and bills [clears throat] on my flat, but obviously my bills, my gas bills are and electric bills are very low cuz I'm not using any electricity there.

[00:19:55]Although, I still use the flat as a uh an Sorry.

[00:20:06]Am I keeping you up, love?

[00:20:09]I still use the flat as a an office.

[00:20:12]>> Oh, okay. I thought you were going to say something about the gas.

[00:20:15]Which is sending me to sleep because there's gas in the air.

[00:20:19]>> No, no, no more gas chat.

[00:20:21]>> Okay, good.

[00:20:22]>> Unless you want to.

[00:20:23]>> But that's why I'm confused that you're there because you said you use your flat as the sort of where you do podcasts and and lessons.

[00:20:33]>> Yes, yes, yes. So, Rosie is currently in Florida on holiday.

[00:20:37]>> Oh.

[00:20:37]>> So, I can use her office, which is lovely.

[00:20:41]>> Nice.

[00:20:42]>> Yeah.

[00:20:42]>> She didn't want to invite you to Florida? [laughter] >> She didn't want to, no. She Actually, she did, to be fair, but it's a 3-week trip to to Florida, and it's like with her family and stuff. They're doing Disneyland.

[00:20:54]>> Say no more.

[00:20:55]>> I don't >> Say no more.

[00:20:57]>> It's not my idea of a hol- hollybobs.

[00:21:00]>> Yeah, yeah, fair.

[00:21:01]>> Yeah, yeah.

[00:21:02]>> Have you gone on holiday with them before?

[00:21:06]>> Uh I've Yeah, I've done a little getaway with them in the UK. We stayed in like a countryside cottage sort of thing and you know, barbecues and family family fun.

[00:21:19]>> Family fun.

[00:21:19]>> Yeah.

[00:21:20]>> You're meant to smile when you say family fun.

[00:21:22]>> Uh, family fun.

[00:21:23]>> Very good. Yeah.

[00:21:24]>> Yeah. I actually found it quite socially overwhelming.

[00:21:29]Um, it was Yeah, I I had a bit of a a minor meltdown, but it was fine.

[00:21:34][laughter] >> I like how you preface it with minor meltdown. Yeah.

[00:21:42]>> Yeah, no, exactly. It's like a bit of an oxymoron, isn't it? Minor minor meltdown.

[00:21:47]>> Yeah.

[00:21:48]Yeah, and that's Guys, that's not meaning that he was a minor and he was melting down in the mine.

[00:21:56]>> I was 35 at the time.

[00:21:58]And above ground.

[00:22:00]>> I was meaning above ground kind of minor.

[00:22:02]>> Oh, I thought you meant minor like below the age of consent.

[00:22:06]>> Yeah, all so confusing. English is very confusing, isn't it?

[00:22:09]>> It is. Minor mi- I'm a minor in the mine. There were no minors allowed in the mine.

[00:22:15]>> There might be more, but three for us right now. So, minor meaning not massive, minor meaning a child, minor meaning a person who works in the mine underground with coal, for example.

[00:22:30]>> Minor as in not massive.

[00:22:33]>> Yeah. Is that fair? No? A massive meltdown, a minor meltdown.

[00:22:38]>> Okay, right. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Yeah.

[00:22:41]>> What else?

[00:22:41]>> Insignificant, yeah. Yeah, sorry.

[00:22:44]>> Insignificant.

[00:22:45]>> head, not massive didn't compute as a as a concept.

[00:22:49]>> No, yeah, that's fair.

[00:22:50]>> Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, got you. Got you.

[00:22:52]>> Anyway, so you had a not massive meltdown.

[00:22:56]>> massive meltdown, which >> [laughter] >> Yeah, which Yeah, no, it's Yeah, not going to go Well, no, I was just socially overwhelmed, I think is the best way to put it.

[00:23:06]>> I think um it is quite overwhelming, especially if it's one of the first sort of long stays you've had with your in-laws to be or whatever.

[00:23:16]You know, that is cuz I find it's it's like a whole universe that they know how to operate in because it's their family. It's like their family social rules. And they don't know because it's just normal for them and you're this outsider and you're coming and you got to survive and all the pressure is actually on you because they're judging whether you're allowed in to their universe.

[00:23:44]>> Yes. Yeah, they're they're the thoughts that might go around your your head as well. Oh, that's it. All the pressure's on me. I need to perform. I need to be nice, fun, >> Yeah.

[00:23:56]>> thing, you know, you got to show yourself as a good partner and [snorts] family member which is a lot. Or, you know, it's not really like that. I don't think they are are actually putting that pressure on you, but it's in your head. It can get in your head. It can get in your head.

[00:24:12]>> Definitely. Definitely.

[00:24:13]>> Yeah.

[00:24:13]>> But yeah, okay, so you didn't want to do 3 weeks in Florida and fair fair. Yeah, absolutely fair.

[00:24:19]>> Yeah.

[00:24:19]>> Uh but you did do a walk that we'd like to talk about. Uh and that was starting in Spain or France this time?

[00:24:29]>> We started in Asturias. So, in Spain.

[00:24:33]It's a region of Spain.

[00:24:35]Um and they yeah, my geography of Spain is surprisingly rubbish uh for someone who lived there and goes there every single year.

[00:24:47]>> But didn't you look at like where you were walking on your map?

[00:24:50]>> Sure. Absolutely. Absolutely. So, As- >> [laughter] >> Asturias Asturias is to the east of Galicia, which is where you you you end up going into and that's where the Camino de Santiago ends.

[00:25:09]And I've never been to this region before and it is glorious. Love it.

[00:25:14]Absolutely love it. So, it's northern Spain.

[00:25:17]So, weather-wise, you know, not amazing.

[00:25:20]You can get quite a lot of downpours.

[00:25:23]You can get rather wet. Uh but, really beautiful. You know, very mountainous, hilly, a lot of countryside. And they make cider. Uh really really nice cider.

[00:25:35]>> Right. Okay.

[00:25:37]So, is that what you were doing during your walk? You were drinking cider in the rain enjoying the views?

[00:25:44]>> Exactly. Yeah, we probably didn't do all those three things at the same time.

[00:25:49]Definitely two of them, walking in the rain and enjoying views.

[00:25:53]Cider was when we stopped >> Sure.

[00:25:57]>> at a place and we'd have a >> Yeah, in the dry.

[00:26:03]>> It's funny that, isn't it? Cuz, you know, put all three together, you're an alcoholic. But, just separate them, it's a social thing. You know, have it having the cider as a hip flask, that's a bit sus, isn't it? It's like, yeah.

[00:26:16]Do you really need that right now all the time?

[00:26:19]>> Yeah.

[00:26:21]I think the hip flask is yeah, it is a is a bit of an alky thing, isn't it?

[00:26:25]But, but but, accepted at certain occasions. And it's actually kind of cool as well, I think, a hip flask.

[00:26:33]>> Yeah, I agree. Yeah, if everyone's drinking, then it's kind of an acceptable utensil or container.

[00:26:41]>> Yes. Yes, I think a good time to use a hip flask, see how you feel about this, is maybe at a funeral.

[00:26:50]>> [laughter] >> Well, actually, yes.

[00:26:54]Yeah, cuz it's it's well concealed, isn't it? That's the point of a hip flask. You wear it on your hip.

[00:27:01]Although, you probably wouldn't wear it on your hip. You'd probably wear it on your breast.

[00:27:07]>> Yeah, in your breast pocket.

[00:27:08]>> Yeah, in the in inner blazer pocket.

[00:27:12]>> Yeah.

[00:27:13]>> Yeah.

[00:27:13]>> Yeah.

[00:27:14]>> You just whip it out, have a little swig, pass it around to your nearest and dearest.

[00:27:20]>> Yeah.

[00:27:20]>> And then, pocket it.

[00:27:23]>> Is it Is the right phrase warm your hackles?

[00:27:25]>> No, it's warm your cockles of your heart.

[00:27:28]>> Cockles.

[00:27:29]Warm your cockles of your heart. Do people say the full phrase?

[00:27:33]>> I think people just say warm your cockles. I think you're right. But, then there's a full phrase, isn't there? It's like every cloud You don't say every cloud has a silver lining. You just say >> No, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you're right.

[00:27:44]>> Just say the short version.

[00:27:46]>> Yeah. Yeah, to warm the cockles. I I I can see that. Yeah. Go on. Get it down you to warm the cockles, not the hackles.

[00:27:52]>> That's to give someone warm and happy feelings.

[00:27:55]>> Yeah.

[00:27:56]>> I guess you could Yeah, you have a drink and that warms your cockles.

[00:27:59]>> Yeah. Anyway, so you're not using a hip flask for the Camino to consume the cider. Where were you going to say is it it's an acceptable place to have it have a hip flask?

[00:28:12]>> Well, I was going to say a wedding.

[00:28:14]>> A wedding?

[00:28:15]>> I think not not necessarily if you're like a guest, but if you're the groom >> Yeah.

[00:28:24]>> [clears throat] >> you might want your best man or one of your best men to bring a little hip flask.

[00:28:29]>> Yeah.

[00:28:30]>> have a little swig, little bit of Dutch courage for those hard moments pre-ceremony or even while you're waiting at the altar. That's quite nerve-racking. I mean, you've been through that. Would [clears throat] you Would you have liked that if I'd if I'd whipped out a a hip flask?

[00:28:47]>> It's why I kept looking over to you.

[00:28:50]Right, have you got it? And you're like, "What?"

[00:28:54]I'd already finished it in the toilet.

[00:28:56][laughter] Yeah.

[00:28:57]Me and Matt down here.

[00:28:59]>> Drunk as a skunk.

[00:29:01]>> Guilty.

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