Son’s Tears, Shark Fears & Yet More Transfer Woes (Q&A)

34:30I don't know. Don't doubt it. Have you seen the, have you seen, I think we can talk, we can say this, I think, although I'm a bit worried more about if it will be picked up in a few years' time. Have you seen that people are now using slur words for AI? They're calling them clankers. I don't like that. that is the start of a post-apocalyptic horror movie when AI take over um I find it all really really quite scary but also fascinating I don't yeah I don't really find it scary in the uh in the sort of Terminator sense I don't think there's going to be like well I don't know actually have you seen those those Boston Dynamics videos those They're knocking the boxes out of its hands with hockey sticks and stuff.

35:23It looks really cruel. Those geezers are going to get it, man. Yeah, I hope they do. They're going to have the skin peeled from their bodies. Yeah, and then they're going to wear the skin. Yeah.

35:35So I've done some research into this, and I've watched a couple of videos about how AI might take over the world. and essentially the best example of it is not it ending up by terminator but it ending up like you will not be able to live without it it will it will do everything for you and i say it this automated processes that make your life easier to the point where you can't do anything without it i use chat gpt about 40 times i've got it on constantly not talking to it like that but I'm using it more as a search engine than I do Google now. It's just much more intelligent. It just doesn't give me up websites for people of opinion.

36:18It gives me, and some bits can be incorrect and it doesn't get everything right. Well, that's it. That's when it's naff, isn't it? When you sort of say to it, what do you think about Spurs this season? And it starts saying, well, Christian Gross is going to be a great manager for you this year. If you keep Teddy Sheringham fit and firing, you know, you're like, mate, come on turn it if you pay do you pay for it no yeah if you pay for it it does for stuff in modern era it scours the web and creates a collated opinion as opposed to it just so it gives you up-to-date information now but not you know do you fancy it um i love so they are you know that ex machina is like i think both one of both of our favorite films like i adore that film and the idea that you can create a physical emotion that's the the a robot can't that the robot can conjure that type of emotion in you is fascinating so have you seen her as well the brilliant film yeah it was brilliant very ahead of its time actually we've we've gone we were massively off where is thursday pod anyway it's all right you know madison has uh gone i've got the knife as expected.

37:32It's an ACL. It's an ACL? Yeah, apparently. Someone just told me that on WhatsApp, though, so it could... Yeah, it is an ACL. But that's basically the season? Yeah, it's season done. Yeah, pretty much. Right. Poor Buff. That's good. Just get it, Zane. Get it. Do it. I know I was saying about we've spent loads, but we have to do it. We need to play out. We need to do it. Or bring Donnelly back. Do you know what I mean? There's got to be... There has to be an option, surely. Some way we can do this. It's got to be Eze. It's got to be him now. Yeah. Just make him feel wanted. Do you know what I mean?

38:08Say, look, Arsenal, they've been dragging their heels. I know we went after Morgan Gibbs-White, but look. You're going to start for us every game. As long as you're fit. You will literally be the man. You will be the guy, you know? Yeah. Go on. Dan Greesby asks on Twitter, how much responsibility does Flav take for could we ultimately resulting in Anger's downfall but us winning the Europa League I take complete responsibility for it so the could we thing came out of a conversation I was having with James Alcott and then we went for it big on the fighting call just thought it was funny because obviously we couldn't but could we and then it just sort of took a life of its own so So, yeah, I think everyone accepts that those first 10 games were essentially a death knoll for Poster Coglu.

39:05We didn't realise it at the time, but everyone was like, cool, that bit was good, but it's been pretty shit since then. If you take that away, it's been really shit. Yeah, man, I mean, it was a funny bit that sort of took legs and people run with it, really. It's good when it ends up on T-shirts other people have made. That's good. I like the – because you always see the little Olcott. Olcott's thing is a gif now when he looks to us. So good. Brilliant. Yeah. It's a great moment. Could they? Wow. Not safe for work, Coise, says, Just seen Flav in a hotel in London. I asked if he was going on Rule the Roost.

39:44He laughed and winked at me and grabbed me by the hair, dragged me into a toilet and fingered me while whispering, I prefer the extra inch over and over in my ear. Make of that what you will. You will. Obviously, this is a send-up of your now, I'm going to call it, mate, I'm going to call it meme template because it's quite weird. I actually see you can go down like a Twitter thread, you can go underneath a Romano thread, and you'll just see like whatever, an Everton fan making this same sort of joke. And I think, I know where that came from. Do you feel a sense of pride about that? What about, I knew when I was writing it that it was good.

40:26like I knew it was funny and I knew it would do well on Twitter but bearing in mind this is 2019 when it was? Yeah, it was Dibala when Dibala looked like he was coming wow he didn't come because of that tweet that was why he didn't arrive there weren't no image rights issues he saw that tweet and thought we were all freaks so I yeah I mean if I rehash it now people think I'm nicking it which is a bit of a weird one like it takes everything in me going no no no i did it first no it was mine you look like a cock then don't you um i i uh i so i did it again recently and i was really hesitant to do it and it actually did bigger numbers than the first one did and i can't remember who it is it wasn't kudos it was someone else i don't even think they arrived it might have been frank actually and i'm thinking do i i was really hesitant to do it but i had a glass of wine and i was like oh fuck it but by the same token i'm dming miguel dolaini who wrote a book about uh you know he works for a broadsheet newspaper but also wrote a book about petro states in football and i really want to talk to him and he's probably looked at my feed and thought who the fuck is this dickhead so i just got to really realize that maybe i'm not you know mid-30s and kind of get away with this stuff anymore and i'm you know if i want to try to kick on and better myself i've got to stop talking about being fingered in the toilet by some football who might be coming to spurs do you want to come on the lab miguel i promise football chat on there and he said yes and then said no then kind of pied me off later and so i'm like has he seen has he seen it so i'm not gonna i even like hesitated on the quote tweeted Ben Bowman's he did a great TikTok about about essentially Newcastle being a cuck for the rest of the Premier League because they can't get any players through the door and I posted that and I thought is that a good look if I want to get Miguel Delaney I don't know maybe it ain't I don't know I've had a in a in a previous workplace I'll say that me and a colleague we worked pretty hard to try and secure an interview with a prominent female broadcaster.

42:45But we had obviously, you know, we sort of worked on an editorial team and there was a social team who to stay up to date with like social trends would post lots of memes and all that type of thing. We managed to secure this kind of meeting after being like, no, look, we promise we're going to come to you properly. We're going to ask you all these different questions, have pre-screened questions, all this type of thing. and um when it was coming up to the the point of the interview we just got an email back from her basically saying i won't be going ahead with the interview and a screenshot from our company's uh the screenshot from our company's um twitter feed which was like a kind of when her indoors asks you to do it was like one of those you know i think it was like one of those on the tools like jokes where it's like the lads holding up a drill in the pub sort of thing.

43:35Yeah, yeah. It was really worded in the like, when Erwin Dawes asks you, when you're coming home type thing. And we were just like, yeah, okay. It's actually turned out to be quite a boring story. I don't really know why I shared that. No, no, no. But the connection between, and the thing is, it spurs as well, Jack, is like the tone of Tottenham's admin compared to the football club kind of jars somewhat. I think we've actually got a good social media presence. But what you have to do in order to kind of be relevant in that social media space doesn't necessarily align with how Daniel Levy perhaps want the club to be perceived.

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45:32Subject to credit approval, Apple Card is issued by Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Salt Lake City branch. Terms and more at applecard.com. Yeah, I think they were fighting against that for quite some time, weren't they? I feel like, and now they've just, they fully, I mean, they stopped just short of saying war a trophy on Arsenal tweets and stuff now, don't they really? I quite like that. I quite like a bit of personality from the social feeds. Yeah, same, same. I like the fact that that is now completely turned on Arsenal. They used to do it to us when we won it, and now fans of all clubs are just saying that to them.

46:07Very good. Yeah, that's amazing.

46:13Let me just get my questions back. This is more of a talking point, actually. Here's one. Mathis Mills on Blue Sky says, the Greenland shark can live longer than 300 years. Icelandic people have been known to eat them occasionally. Apparently, they have to cook for days in the sand as their flesh is so tough. And even after all that, it tastes terrible. It's a rites of passage type thing more than anything else. I've been to, I lived in Iceland for a while. It's a delicacy. They call it halkal. Really? Yes. So you have a, you basically, if you're in like a, you can be in like an Icelandic pub and you'll say, okay, I can't remember what it was.

46:56There was a word for like the combo that it was, but what they give you is basically like this, this is almost like plastic Petri dish with a lid on it. And inside of that. Huh? I'm looking at it now. It's fucking disgusting. Yes. There'll be like a tiny little like cube of this shark meat in it. You get a cocktail stick to eat it with. And then what you're supposed to do is eat that and then follow it up with a shot of this stuff called Breniovin that they drink out there. It's like a licorice-y, aniseed-y, sort of very strong schnapps thing. But I've done this before. The shark, what I can liken it to is you have a cat, don't you?

47:35Yeah. You know when the cat's litany is changing, there's that acrid stench of cat piss? Yeah. That's what it is. Oh, my Lord. It's literally that. and it's so overwhelming when you put it in your mouth it's it's fermented it's it's horrific it's it's and people locally are they they also accept that it's horrific yeah it's like a it'll be like a you know it's the sort of thing where i think maybe the older school lot did it for whatever reason for something medicinal but the younger ones there would sort of do it as in like you know if somebody lost a drinking game or some thing like that you could do it in the in the pub whereas we might have you know shot a jägermeister or something they'll do that as like a forfeit or a bet or i don't do you know i mean it's i mean you're you're eating an animal that could have been swimming around for hundreds of years so i can't imagine it would have been it could ever be uh as you know something you'd want to eat and i guess is that there isn't a lot to do in iceland is there i mean you can look at the northern lights that's quite nice how many times it's like fireworks in it after five minutes it's like all right um i the greenness shark also all of them are blind did you know that no yeah they have a parasite that lives on their eyes that basically renders them every single one of them blind and you can see the parasite on it and they don't reach sexual maturity to well over 100 years virgins yeah so the categorically the saddest animal in the sea and they don't move very quick and um yeah they like they can live over 400 years old which is older than some countries on this planet which is crazy.

49:17I always thought they were like basking sharks. I thought they were those sort of things that just filtered up krill and stuff and then I once saw a picture of one of them tearing a seal to pieces which I found weirdly shocking. They generally eat a sort of carcass like what would you call it you know like roadkill but in the sea. So they'll come across a seal carcass and eat that or a whale carcass and eat that. I don't think they hunt like they're quite slow moving. Would you swim? Would you be one of those people that swam alongside one or would you be scared of it? I wouldn't be scared of a Greenland shark.

49:50You'd be nervous getting into a water with any big animal, but... Well, that's it. A big body of water is scary alone. Yeah, that's scary. Yeah, yeah. Like, yeah, I'd be more concerned with like leopard seals than I would at the Greenland shark probably. But have you been watching the... celebrities go shark diving no i do i i do actually want to watch that it's legitimately good program like someone who loves sharks like i do so what some of what they're actually doing it's like pretty gnarly like is i thought oh they'd be with sort of like tame sort of maybe you know like something like a black tip reef shark something that isn't really known for attacking humans they are in the water like they are legitimately in the water with dangerous animals it's it's insane how do you got the sign off i don't know but well let's let's stay on shot mobile spurs uh says as well to you on blue sky i think as well um if you had the opportunity to swim in the same waters where jaws 2 was filmed knowing that there are always hammerhead bull and tiger sharks within 300 yards of you would you swim there because we do jaws 2 was filmed at various locations between Pensacola and Navarre.

51:06Yeah, Florida. Yeah. Would you swim there? I wouldn't know. I'd feel very uncomfortable swimming there. It sounds horrendous. Look, there's one thing knowing that, you know, the likelihood of you being attacked by a shark, even if you're with one in the water. There's a guy called the Malibu Artist, which is a brilliant YouTube channel. He just does drone sharks where he's following mostly great white sharks and how close they get to you, these people without attacking them all the time is fascinating and revealing. But I still wouldn't want to chance it. It's like people, I don't want to get on an aeroplane really unless I have to.

51:42And I know the likelihood of me going down is very limited, but it's phobia, isn't it? I'm terrified of being eaten by a shark for sure. It would be horrible. Being eaten by, being turned into something else is shit essentially. Yeah, yeah, yeah. did you ever see the Egypt one yeah I didn't watch it all the way through but it's got this stuff gets shared doesn't it on the internet I've seen it about 400 times probably what's wrong with you I don't know what are you doing what are you doing it's that is so it's like your worst nightmare watching your worst nightmare it's like weirdly compulsive be like Harry Kane signing for Arsenal and winning the double.

52:31That sort of thing. That would not be nice, would it? Yeah. Speaking of Harry Kane, All Killer No Filler on Blue Sky says, Is the outpouring of love for Son from the club's social media a bit of a snipe at Kane? 16 posts on Instagram alone from last night about Sonny, and I don't recall Kane getting anywhere near as much. Or is this just me looking for drama? Probably something in it, isn't it? Yeah, of course. I mean, Kane didn't deserve that 16 posts on Instagram, did he? He wanted out. He wanted to leave the football club. He did an interview while under contract at Tottenham with Gary Neville saying, I want to go to Manchester City and£100 million of fair price to play, removing complete leverage from the football club.

53:14You can't. I don't want to repeat what I said earlier, but it's fine for some fans and maybe the club to feel differently about Harry Kane than they do Humin Son. Humin Son is universally loved, I think. And Harry Kane would have been if he would have further destroyed his career by staying with us. But probably he thinks that, and he's right, that he deserved to go and win something elsewhere. But Sonny stayed and that's why he gets the adulation. That's what it is. Even when I mentioned, I put a tweet, I can't remember exactly what it was, but saying we all love you, Sonny. I don't know who I'm talking into he's never going to see this fucking message but you stayed with us and legend and like a few of us a few of the people responded that going what is that a dig at Kane and like in a way yeah it is a dig at Kane deserves it deserves it he went didn't he and won a dinner plate in Germany and that's what made me sad you know I think Cal tweeted this but it sums it up perfectly he heard it from someone else he's like Kane left to win a trophy son stayed to win us one and that that that's it in a nutshell already do you know what because i say do you not really annoyed me about that tweet from cal is because it was so sincere and it was such a nice tweet from cal usually such a horrible individual exactly because it's the sort of thing if i wrote that it'd be nice tweet oh i like son oh i'm so original and i was like i want to reply that to cal purely because he'd say that type of thing to me i'm not going to because it's nice yeah well you know you know because you're a decent human being you know i mean you know that's what he's like on twitter he's like that all day in whatsapp as well just doesn't stop he never relents to the point right cal come on now just we just said it was nice to see you earlier was it nice to see each other

55:17I said something about, I can't remember, Hainsey, good friend of mine, obviously. Yeah. He posted something at the end of the season that was all kind of like, you know, been a great year for me, great year for Spurs, up the Spurs. And I said like, quite a sincere, well in mate, you know, you deserve it, whatever. Just cow dives in, all right, Beggy Mitchell. And like, but your actual friends, like, Beggy Mitchell. Arsehole. Richie Coyes on Twitter says, not a question, more of a statement. You two are my favourite Spurs podcast hosts. But don't take that as too much of a compliment. I'd have my two favourite inmates on the nonce wing.

56:09So whatever the situation, he always has two favourites. I don't know where he is. That is good. Cheers, Rich.

56:21Was it Richie Coyes? Yeah. Oh, I know. Yeah, he's a good lad. This is a good one, actually. And Leslie on Twitter. If you could change... So, Flav, this is to you. If you could change places with Son just seconds before he scored a goal, what goal would you choose and how would you celebrate it?

56:49I would probably change it oh man I was going to say the Son goal against Arsenal it was behind closed doors so there was no one there we had the one under Ange remember when he went out I think he shushed the clock in didn't he as well there's that as well there is that but you know that curling shot that made it look so easy but it was incredible

57:15it would be it probably would be the equaliser for Spurs versus Arsenal I'd just jump in the crowd and start lamping like fighting spitting I would have a block of butter in my pocket and I'd take all of my clothes off and I'd just butter myself up so they can get any purchase on me like Bonson they couldn't get any purchase on me and I'd just fly into the fucking Arsenal stand and just batter some kids their dads are trying to get me off and I'm like, no, fucking, this kid's getting it smash the kid up, probably like that I'd love to speak with people like, what's going on here? you'd hear Peter Drury like spectacular scenes unfolding at the Emirates there's a button up him in sun fighting children picking a packet of butter from his pocket as if he were pulling the sword from the stone in an Arthurian legend one of his sort of soliloquies that he goes off on yeah beautiful Billy T asks if Gary Neville hooked Flav up with one question to ask Levy as part of an overlap piece what would that one question be I think seriously the serious answer would be if we take into consideration the fact that this approach to running the football club isn't going to really ever give us a chance of winning the league isn't it time you left that would be the question like if you don't think we can do it in this model and you've proven over and over again that we cannot why are you still here because the point of this football club of any football club is and certainly the size of this football club is to achieve success and glory so what are you still doing here is what I would say I'd ask him that question wouldn't you be worried about him handing you your P45 yeah he might go he might go well that's all that money wasted through the years isn't it we'll talk about this in your performance review later on and look I like I don't dislike Daniel Levy I'm not one of those people who's a cunt he's a money grabbing all that that's not how I feel about him like Jose Mourinho Yeah, yeah.

59:39He was going to reveal him, wasn't he? Yeah. I don't feel any ill will to him. I don't want anything. I just think I just no longer align with his way of running the football club. And I think football's changed and we haven't changed with it. And I swear to God, if I hear him say regulation one more time, I might run in front of an Aveco.

1:00:05Aveco. do you know what's annoying though and again yes i know i'm i've been levy pilled and i'm a cuck and all this type of thing but the annoying thing is when we do stuff the way we do i think about like i think about bill bow think about that europa league it just hits different for us you know this or this this as spooky's always called it this this like edging that tottenham do to us you look at man city man city don't care when they win stuff now yeah they can care less they don't care Liverpool care still you know and they operate in a vaguely this summer notwithstanding they didn't spend last summer and they won the league they didn't spend a penny in January and a penny in summer so they had the money so it was I don't know it's because I do I worry about I worry about the alternative I worry about the idea of us becoming this kind of team that just every single year spends 300 million pounds until we end up winning something.

1:01:08It's not having to spend£300 million. It's having the appetite to go after the best players. That's the issue. We don't have the appetite to operate in the way that Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal do. And maybe we're not financially in that situation. Again, another nod to... I know, speaking to someone else. A pod I did with a guy called Anastasia Pang on the lab. And it's quite sobering in that, despite us generating huge amounts of money, the outlays and the cost of running Tottenham is high compared to Arsenal. And, you know, if you just look at the loan repayments for the stadium, they're to the tune of about£25-30 million a season, which isn't massive when you consider the amount of money that we borrowed for the stadium.

1:01:56But it does mean that other clubs like Arsenal around us have£30 million cash a year that we don't have. and that is a sizable amount of money. That is down payment on free transfers probably. So we will potentially get there. We'll get to a position where we could go after players like Beckham Rice or be in that ballpark. But at the moment, we just, and we won't be, it's seemingly for a while in this current model, be able to do that. And it's frustrating because it costs the same amount of money for us to get in as it does Arsenal fans, but they're getting everything and we're not able to compete that way.

1:02:39And, you know, with new owners that come in with different ideas about how to run the football club, we would instantly be in that situation. Now, what are we asking for here? When I say that, people think I want fucking oil money. I want Qataris to come in and buy Spurs. I don't want that. I don't think nation-backed states should start to get a stranglehold on the Premier League. I don't think that's a good thing at all. That's why PSR is so important. I know Aston Villa, John McGinn, for example, this week said, PSR is restricting us from being able to compete with the Big Six because our owners want to spend money, but they can't.

1:03:21All right, I'm sorry about that. But if you take away all the restrictions, then there's nothing stopping a complete whitewash of ownership from areas of the world that only want control of that to create political gain. Essentially, the Premier League becomes a puppet, a political puppet, for institutions around the world that want to change perception about their country. Potentially. Is that a good thing? All 20 clubs owned by politically motivated organisations? I don't think it is. So I'm sorry, John McGinn, that you couldn't convince Rashford to stay, but there's a greater picture here that needs to be understood and viewed.

1:04:03Do you know one thing I really liked that Levy jumped on? And this is one thing, because obviously he's worked hard to get Spurs to where they are. When Gary Neville tried to make the example that, well, don't you think it's unfair? You sat here talking about regulation as the guy in charge of Tottenham Hotspur, when you've got teams like Aston Villa and Newcastle who want to catch up. And he was just like, he was basically like, I've spent two decades building this club up to this point. 100%. That is one thing, honestly, that's one thing that rattles me when Newcastle, Villa fans, all those types talk us, make out that we're part of this cartel.

1:04:50I'm like, lads, you are more, way more that than we are. we we've we've we've done the yards on this mate like yeah yeah so we've spent 20 years arguably in the eyes of football doing the right thing self-sustainable revenue generation bringing our own incomes in based on the operations of the football club and suddenly just because you've got an oil rich owner with a political agenda you just want the rules ripped up why where's the payoff for tottenham for doing things the right way in inverted commas you just don't want to do it you don't want to do the work you don't want to wait 10 years you want everything now that's what it is you want everything now if you want to blame someone blame a Mike Ashley for not building not not not having the vision to do what Man City had done you know I don't like what Man City done and how they've acquired their success but they are generating huge amounts of money there is a blueprint of how to do it Manchester City were not a fashionable football club when they took them over they're now generating record revenues more so than almost anybody in the Premier League, I think.

1:05:50Certainly more than anyone in the Premier League, actually. So there is no example to do it, but football fans, as ever, just want everything immediately. You know, there's... Newcastle fucking voted for PSR rules. I don't... Your club voted for them. So, what now, because your circumstances have changed, oh, no, no, it's all the cartel. It's the big cartel. Your fucking club voted for the fucking rules. How is it the big success cartel, you fucking morons. Sorry. You can tell I still. Be nice if we, well, it's good. You got to get it all out here, mate, because you can't do it on the overlap.

1:06:25Honestly, as I say to you on WhatsApp, I don't know. I get rattled watching. Whenever you're on the overlap and I see someone like, and I know your pals are Rory, so I'm not going to start digging him out here. But when I see Rory going for it, going on his sort of, his little pre-prepared thing he has about Tottenham that he will cycle through. I used to work with Boovy, and it's much the same with him. He has that sort of whole thing. Yeah, that's right. I get too emotional about that, mate. If you need to vent it somewhere, fine, do it here. I would have no issue with talking about Newcastle in that fashion.

1:07:05Probably not exactly like that on the overlap, but it is a weird situation. It's a weird thing, that program. because you don't really realize when you're on it, just how big it is. You're on the studio and it feels very friendly. And, you know, Carragher, I know people, you know, he's derided in some sections and he's done things in the past that are probably not very palatable. Spitting at children. Yeah, you know, spitting at kids, really. But he, I've got to say, just as an ex-Champions League winner and a Liverpool legend and all that shit, He's just a very normal bloke and will listen to you.

1:07:48And he's very approachable. And same with Paul Scholes is another one. But the fallout to making an even slight error when you're speaking is massive. It's huge. I made a mistake on there when I said Romero is constantly suspended. what I was trying the point I was trying to make in my mind was that that he's at that time through injury he had essentially played 1-2 for Tottenham back when the big injury he had this year so the conversation was about his future and I was like can you really rely on him because he's played 1-2 and I mentioned which I shouldn't have done the suspensions being an issue and he's not despite the sort of perception of him he actually hasn't missed that many games through suspension mate it was ridiculous it's the amount of fucking people I've got.

1:08:40Like, a bit of abuse I've got. Like, this guy doesn't know he shouldn't be representing Tottenham. This guy knows nothing about Tottenham. Like, I know a little bit about Tottenham. You know, we've been doing the pod for 11 years talking about it. People listen to it. So I'm not coming that out of the loop. But I just clearly made a mistake. Nothing. Nothing about Tottenham. Absolutely nothing about this game. Nothing. I mean, it was being perpetuated by people that would have wanted would want to be on there, to be honest. Anyway, yeah, let's just say it like that. He's a wanker, right? This geezer, he's just...

1:09:15I can't even remember his fucking name now, but one minute he's fucking kissing my ass in my DMs and the next minute he's slagging me off and I'm like, well, what's going on here? Anyway, never mind. Just wants to be close to the light. That's where you've got to take it, mate. That's where you've got to take it. I've taken plenty of your time today. I'm just going to end it on this from Carl Newman who says, how annoyed and frustrated are you about the constant blah, blah, blah? When are you going to finish the pin badge orders? I have finished them. What do you want? You ain't got one, have you not?

1:09:52He then said, I just hope this gets a rise out of him. I have actually received my pin badge. Motherfucker. It worked. It worked. It worked because you delayed it. You didn't read it all.

1:10:08I do still have some. I don't know why I want to open. The problem is, so many of the people who listen to, a lot of the people who listen to the fighting cop are from the States, which is fantastic. I sound like 30%, something like that. And then obviously they want a free pin badge, which is what we offered. But then you take a post office and it's like four or five quid, like$7 to send one. You've got 100 people from the States. you're talking about I'm suddenly 700 quid down for a free pin badge so uh you might as well just fly over with them it would cost the same well you fly over with them and say pigs come and see me in this place right rattle a big can watch a whew running from all corners of the states you know yeah um so I think everyone's been so I think there's some people that haven't you know I know a good friend Austin Bear Bethnal Green Bear I don't know if you know Austin he hasn't received one and that's intentionally he's never going to get one and he will be listening to this you're never going to get one Austin okay

1:11:25thank you Flav legend thank you mate people obviously know and love the fighting cock you are is it is it fair for me to say you're putting a lot of care and attention right now into the lab where yeah i just like really enjoy doing it like the fighting cock the fighting cock kind of takes care of itself you know we just turn up depending on what's happening and just just we speak to each other and that's what we've been doing for all those years but the lab it takes a lot bit more work and i'm just enjoying finding things to talk about and and um really interestingly people are putting themselves forward like with stuff that they might talk about it's awkward when it's not interesting and they put it so put themselves forward but no typically people have been um and it's been well received and it's starting to do some decent numbers as well in terms of listenership so um yeah there's tons and tons of uh podcasts i've done on the lab that you can go back and listen to uh which are a lot of it is um a lot of it is sort of evergreen so you can pick it up as and when you want um and there's been some sort of contentious issues and there's been some less so contentious issues but there's one that everybody hated where where i spoke to a guy about um qatar's failed bid for tottenham got accused of being a part of the sports washing process that was fun that was habs wasn't it you spoke to yeah yeah yeah yeah sorry i didn't know if you knew him um so yeah habib bulah he came on and we talked about that so but there's it's there's just lots of different interesting things i think are interesting we did an interview for example with um a irish journalist about mason milio he's that guy we've uh signed fromst patrick's over in a record irish transfer yeah so there's lots of good stuff and if you don't want to listen to stuff about spurs um or you've sick to death of spurs podcasts then you can um you can listen to football between the lines the podcast i do with hltco all lads are not don't don't do ricky dirty.

1:13:25All the lads are on the moss. I've got you back, Rick. Sorry, Rick. He does love the Royal Roost as well. Brings it up all the time. Love him. Well, you've been on Royal Roost, have you been on Royal Roost podcast? Any podcast you won't go on, Ricky. I can't move with him around. He's like a fucking... You can't be yourself anymore when Cal's around. Not allowed to. Nothing sincere. That is... Do you know what, Cal? That is toxic masculinity and I have had enough. It is 2025, alright? Yeah, you've got to fucking sort it out. Stop it now. Imagine what he says in encrypted chat. Imagine that, if you can.

1:14:10Talk to him on Signal and all that sort of thing, do you? Yeah. What's that supposed to encrypt, isn't it? None of it is. None of it is. Get your tinfoil out on. Anyway, cheers, Gal. Much love. You're a legend. Cheers, Jack.

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