146: Sam and Pete’s Disasters Meeting Exes’ Parents

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1:57There'll be a bonus episode which comes out on Thursday, which you'll be able to watch on Josh's YouTube channel on Sundays at 5pm, which means that you can catch us on A. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday. Rate, review and do all of that crap. Follow us, fucking subscribe. You know the fucking score by now. Lovely. So we've just done the O2. It was great. We hope. Who knows what's going to happen. I mean, how are you feeling about it? Well, this obviously episode is coming out after the O2, so we have no idea how it's gone. The reason that we're actually recording this episode is because next week is full O2 prep.

2:35Yes. So we won't be doing an episode because we will be sort of somewhere crying, I imagine, during what would normally be our record time. It's going to be a heavy O2 week. Everyone is on full O2 mode. Sam and I are off all other work commitments just to concentrate on the O2 because with a week to go, we don't know what we're doing. We do know. We do know what we're doing. It's going to be a fucking monumental occasion and what a goddamn show it's going to be. I'll tell you that much for free. But, yeah, as I said, we don't know actually how it's gone. So let us know. Let us know how we did.

3:12Yeah, that's if we still have jobs and haven't been cancelled. Otherwise, this podcast could be the end. Anyway, yeah, so I mean, fuck knows how it's going to go. I feel like we should probably do two kind of versions of how it went. So do you want to thank everyone for a great show? Okay. So we're going to start with, my God, that was unbelievable. The crowd were electric. Yeah, I can't believe they all turned up. I loved all your outfits, the P &S. Yeah, we've got the Pirates and the Steves. Yes, yeah, a lot of people came dressed as Steve. But, yeah, it was just an incredible evening, something we will never do again, hopefully.

3:54But, yeah, it was great. Sam wants to do Wembley next. He announced that on stage. Yeah. Which is wonderful. Just the 80 ,000 people there. So we'll see how that goes. But, yeah, thank you, everyone, for coming. It was brilliant. Lovely. Now let's do the real version. Okay. I'd just like to formally apologise on behalf of Staying Reverend Productions, on behalf of myself and Sam for what you witnessed. It took months of preparation for us to be that shit. It's really confirmed that we have no talent at all. We had big plans for it, and we genuinely thought we would be able to rise to the occasion.

4:28But much like both of our sex lives, we fell at the last hurdle. It wasn't ideal. We appreciate your money. Thank you so much. If it makes you feel any better, we didn't make any, because actually we spent all of the money from the tickets on that shit show. And even the pyro didn't get us through it. So if anything, we're all disappointed. All right, you at home, if you stream that, then thank you so much. You have done a good thing for charity, and I apologise for making you sit through two hours of that because I know some of you have done watch-along parties when you could have been out at Wetherspoons or Chicago's, but instead you stayed at home and had pre-drinks and did a watch-along party.

5:08We thank you for turning up. And again, a massive sorry for the fact that I dropped you vita on her head. She is okay. She's recovering well. We also apologised to the O2 in itself. We didn't realise the Paro was going to set things light. That was something that none of us expected, actually. The crowd surf moment will probably go down in history as a notorious moment. Yeah. Based on the fact that there was no surfing, he's just hit the deck. Yeah. As you all moved out of the way. But more than anything, I think the inappropriate, indecent exposure from Josh was unnecessary. again it's not something that was supposed to be part of the show he just came out and started windmilling out of nowhere he just got slightly too excited there were drinks in the green room and they were left unattended and you know as we all know Josh doesn't drink it was the first time what a time to pick you know your first drink but we will we will at some point well actually next episode we're going to do a full fucking O2 briefing where we actually do know how it's gone and we would just like to say that we're going to smash it.

6:18We are going to fucking smash it. You're going to love it. It's going to be absolutely fucking brilliant. I, if we do honest opinions on how we feel about it, I don't know. Oh, don't say that. Don't say that. I don't know. Oh God. It's been a long time coming and the closer we get, the more, the more worried I am. Yeah, but we feel like that every show. I don't. Yeah, we do. Are you joking, the Apollo? Mate, we turned up, we barely knew what we were doing. Every second half, we had to, we wrote the second half every time we got there. Yeah. Yeah, true. Yeah. Yeah, every show we're exactly the same.

6:56So who knows what's going to happen? It's going to be chaos. Yeah, it is going to be wild. But fingers crossed, it goes well. It's going to be fucking glorious and you're going to love it. I'm going to say that for damn sure. We hope. On to more important things than the O2. We're back on Sam's haircut. because you're now inspiring lots of people. It's gone from Roman Kemp to Sam Thompson and the mullet has been passed on, sort of a little bit like the Olympic flame because it's now been passed to another radio presenter, Jordan North. It seems to be, I imagine Ken Bruce will turn up with one soon.

7:35So Jordan North has been talking about his new haircut where he's got himself a little mullet and he actually took a picture of Sam Thompson to the barbers. Yes! How do you feel about that? Yes! It's like no Roman's going to be livid because it's the Sam Thompson now, it's not the Roman camp. Well, I think that's because Roman just sort of got the mullet and no one really questioned it, whereas you, it's become your personality. Mate, don't hate on me. I didn't ask Jordan to go and do that. Why do you think he did it? Do you think, I mean, now, because people have grown so kind of attached to your mullet, has it become kind of, is it your superpower now, do you think?

8:15I don't know. I didn't even know Jordan did that. I love the way, that's so funny. I actually, it literally is like the Olympic flame. Who's going to be next? Who knows? I mean, is anyone actually listening? Write in if you yourself have seen Sam's haircut and decided, do you know what I want to do? Go and get a Sam Thompson mullet. I think actually I'm getting a thumbs up because apparently people have already done that. listeners to the podcast have gone and taken a picture of you to the barbers and gone, I want to look like that. So genuinely at this point now, Sam, you're a style icon. I don't know what to do with that information.

8:54I'm going to be honest with you. What would you like to do with it? I don't know. I should probably get in touch with Jordan North and just be like, thank you so much, mate. It means the world. Yeah. Maybe message him now. Yeah. Probably send him a little message, shouldn't I? Just be like... Maybe your voice note. Jordan, I've actually got his number as well. There he is. Jordan! Hello, mate. It's Sam Thompson here. I just saw the last time we spoke was 19th of February, 2024. I just wanted to say, I've just heard about the mullet story. Mate, what an absolute honour. An honour and a privilege, sir.

9:27Interestingly enough, I went into my barber and asked for a Roman Kemp, which was the mullet. And now you've gone and asked for a Sam Thompson. Who do you think will be next asking for a Jordan North? We never know. but just wanted a touch base. And, well, I'm rambling now, aren't I? I love you. Have a lovely day, sir. Yeah. Well, I imagine after that voice note, he's going to go for a skinhead. All right, go on then. If you could, because I feel like you don't like the mullet. So if you could change my barnets, whatever you would want me to like have, all right, what would you give me? Put a hat on.

10:03Other than that.

10:08I think you should just go for a French crop, mate. Keep it simple. I don't even know how these ones are. French crop? It's kind of just a short kind of messy do. Google it. French crop?

10:24French crop. Hair cut, man. I mean, that's what I would do. If I was going to cut your hair, I would probably just go sort of a short kind of French crop style. Oh, bloody hell. Yeah. Very boy band. Keep it. And the mullet's not. Let's be it. I beat the final boss. No, not like that. Not with the kind of fringe. I would probably, or maybe a buzz cut, actually. You could go, yeah, a little bit maybe more like that. That's a bit aggressive in it. Yeah. I would just go something fairly simple, really highlight your head shape. But, yeah, I think that's what I do. Because the problem with your hair is it's so dry and like straw.

11:03the longer it is, the kind of more it... I can't stop that. I try so hard. But yeah, that's probably what I would do. What would you do to my hair? I would do anything. I think it looks perfect. It looks absolutely wonderful. I like the way it's shorter and shorter every year it goes by. I wouldn't even dye it. I like the silver pits. I mean, what are you going to do with the colour, actually? Are we keeping this colour now? Yeah, I think so. Forever? Not forever. It's a lot of upkeep, isn't it? At some point, I might platinum it. You might what? I might platinum. Yeah. I might just go for it.

11:37What's the... Okay. All right. Well, this is a brand new piece of information. When you say platinum, what exactly do you mean? Like white. White. Okay. Excellent. And what, are you going to go and ask for a Jamie Lang? Yeah, quite possibly, actually. Okay. Why? I don't know. Where's the inspo for that? And would you keep the sort of blackbeard? So I sound like a pirate. Would you keep the blackbeard and the platinum? No, I'd have to dye the beard probably, I suppose. Platinum as well? Well, no, I'd have to probably just... You looked like that bloke on X Factor years ago. What was his name? Rydian?

12:09Bloody hell. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the colour though. Sorry, that's the colour? That's the colour, platinum. Wow, okay. Without the roots, yeah. But why would you do that? I don't know. I'm 33 years old. I don't have that long to be fucking around my hair. I feel like I just want to sort of play around. I like it. Well, you do because you're going to go relay it, aren't you? I'm almost convinced it's my ADHD as well. I always want to change. I always like to change things. Okay, all right. So, yeah, I feel like platinum. Okay, all right. I mean, I imagine I don't know how much longer I've got of my hair, so I imagine my next style will be shaved.

12:43Are you actually going to do that? Yeah, I think so. When? Don't know. I've decided that I probably won't ever go to Turkey and do the old transplant. I think I'll just fucking get rid of it. When it really, really goes, because I'm fine all around the back. It's just the forehead that's the issue. Yeah, it's just the forehead. It doesn't seem to go in the middle, which is, well, because it becomes like McDonald's then. It's like the arches. The widow's peak. The widow's peak, yeah. So I might just shave it at some point. I can't wait for that moment. At some point, you've got to let me shave it, right?

13:15Surely, because you can't fuck up a shave. You can. Can you? Yeah, yeah. Because if I go for sort of like a number one, I imagine you'll just take the guard off, and then I'll end up looking like Professor Xavier. so um that is all i want is for pete to come in with a full-blown skinhead like not even a follicle i have done that before really well i know but like proper bald cap yep fully fully fully did it yeah it was um you really see the shape of your head when that happens don't you know what weirdly enough the shape of my head isn't that bad it's i've just got a long face it's a little bit like imagine i'll tell you what i look like with a skinhead imagine shaving a horse okay because it's just a long face oh i see what you're saying right like it's just it looks odd yeah i kind of feel like if you have a skinhead you kind of need a like a square face or or like a round face when it's long it kind of just looks a little bit like a thumb you know what i mean like that's what i look like, bald?

14:22I would look terrible. I've got the, I've got the Velar head is what I call it. The what? I call it the Range Rover head. The Thierry Henry? Yeah, it's basically where it comes out and you've got a little bit at the back, you've got a little bit of junk in the trunk at the end. Oh, well, well, you never know. Maybe you should shave, well, maybe you should shave yours. If I shave mine, maybe you should shave yours. Well, maybe we'll do it for autumn, you know, we like an autumn change. I feel like that's quite a, sort of like, you know, quite a nice thing. Yeah. Like pumpkin spice latte on one side, shaved head on the other.

14:49Yeah. I actually had a pumpkin spice latte the other day. It was lovely. Did you enjoy? Yeah, really nice. Oh, I like to mix up my coffee orders. So I did it at radio the other day. It was really lovely with an extra vanilla shot in it as well. You should have done a TikTok about it. We did. So there's a trend on TikTok, mate, going about basically being like, you know, the changes that we're going to make for autumn and how excited people are for it. You know, wearing Uggs. Oh, I can't wait to whack on a pair of Uggs. Yeah, you love an Ugg. Oh, I do. I love an Ugg boot. I don't mind an Ugg as well.

15:19Yeah, I've done Uggs for years. They're just very comfortable, aren't they? But I don't think they're not autumn for me, Uggs. Winter. They're winter because I sweat quite profusely. And I don't like to wear socks with Uggs. Do you know where Uggs actually originated from? And why? Australia. For surfers, so that when they finish surfing, and they would put their feet straight into it and it would kind of dry their feet. That's originally where I came from. It's an Australian brand, which surprises people because we wear them in winter. Yeah. I imagine that's getting cut out of the podcast. That useless piece of information that no one has got a response to.

16:01You like a crisp autumn walk as well, don't you, Pete? You love a little bit of sort of thing. I like a crisp autumn bike ride. It's the perfect time to be out of the bike because it's not too hot. Got to watch out for those wet leaves, though. Are we doing a shop to B &M? Like, what are we doing here as well? What's B &M? B &M. It's the furniture shop. You go and get your plastic pumpkins and, like, decorate your gaff. No, no, no, no, no. Home sense. I can see you pootling around home sense. I don't understand what pootle is. Pootle's just a little, just a little. Autumn, as a season, I like.

16:34Yeah. The bullshit around it, I do not. Oh, right. So you're not a pumpkin reef kind of guy. Similar to Christmas. I love winter. Don't like Christmas. So pumpkins and all that crap, no, not for me. Are you decorating your gaff? There is no point throughout the year I decorate my gaff in any way, shape or form. It stays the same through all 12 months. Maybe you should be a little bit more Molly May. Said no one ever. She does a massive autumn pumpkin wreath around her door. No, she just paints Tommy Orange. but so you're not you're not a pumpkin reef kind of guy no no no I mean I know you haven't been in previous years but this is obviously your first it's different it's gonna be a lonely one are you gonna be reefing and pumpkining I think so I think so will you have a pumpkin party yeah do you know what I love a season I like the idea what's your favourite season it always was the beginning of Christmas but this one's gonna be a bit tougher it's gonna be the first time it's going to be a bit more of a solo one but that's not to say it's going to be a bad one right I mean so what is your favourite part of autumn then talk me through your kind of autumn I love pumpkin picking yeah when was the last time you went I went two years ago and it was really really lovely will you be taking Leo pumpkin picking I can't wait that would be really nice we'll go pumpkin picking and then I'm going to make do you want to come to this actually we can carve it we don't know what it is yet oh but I already know the answer start carving faces into it proper wholesome, put a little couple of lanterns in there.

18:12Yeah, wholesome and me aren't really sort of connected. But no, the pumpkin thing and all that sort of stuff, I hate forced, it's forced fun. Look at that door. Yeah, it's a fucking mess, isn't it? No, look at that door. That's absolutely wonderful. Yeah, but they start rotting and it stinks. Yeah, but then you get someone to take it all away. Yeah, well, I mean, that is the answer is, you pay someone to take it all away. You wouldn't want to stick things in the bin yourself, would you? Fucking madness. I know it's autumn and it's the time for change, but I ain't changing that much. We could do a nice little YouTube video, stick it out there, you know, like our changes for autumn.

18:47Sam and Pete's pumpkin pickings. Our changes for autumn. Is there anything that you're going to specifically change this autumn? Hmm. I'm definitely going to go to Maya's Halloween party. Oh, yeah. Okay. It's that time of year again, everybody. Here we go. It comes around fast, doesn't it? It does. It really does. It hits you quick, doesn't it? Haven't had the invite yet. Okay, wonderful. So you're going to go to Maya's Halloween party. Yeah. What are you going to go as this year? Because why don't you tell us something else that you're going to plan and then not go? Because we've heard for the last three years what you've been planning to go as and you've not made one.

19:24I know. I have an idea, but it needs a second person for it. I'm still not going. We do this every year. And for the third year on a trot, I'm not going. I've not been invited. So what are you going as? A douche. Not dressing up then? I just feel like going as a douche would be quite fun. What is that? It's a shitter, isn't it? You're going to go as a toilet? Is that what a douche is? No. What is a douche? It's what you use to clean your bum. A bidet? You're going to go to a Halloween party? I don't know what it is. I can't tell you what it is because it's a bit grim. Okay. So you're going to go to a Halloween party as a toilet?

20:03No. I'll go as like maybe like a... Oh, you put me on the spot, Pete. maybe why you've been thinking about for three fucking years it's the highlight of your year have I put you on the spot mate it's not like I've suddenly just surprised you with this you've been desperate to go to this party for three years so surely you've fucking thought about it pumpkin pumpkin I'll go as a pumpkin or hard to get through the doors though but how did you come up with that yeah but also hard to go through the doors you don't want to be round you want to be sort of like is that why you've started with a spray tan you're just in preparation for your pumpkin just in my party prep right okay wonderful and will it be sort of an inflatable pumpkin or are you going to specifically get someone to...

20:40No, I think it would be a plastic sort of like painted on job. Yeah, I think we'd go all out to be honest with you. We could go like vampire or something like that. I feel like you'd get quite a few in there. Yeah, you won't see any pumpkins at a Halloween party. Fuck me. What would you go as then? I know you're not going, but if you had to... If I wanted to scare people... Yeah, well, if you just... I'd probably just go myself. I think that would probably be scary enough. I've never been to a Halloween party. What? No, I've never been to it. You've missed out, mate. Am I? Yeah. But I don't like fancy dress.

21:14It's just not really for me, all of that sort of shit, is it? I can't imagine Pete turning up. Again, the problem with seasons and fucking autumn and Christmas, it's all forced fun. Like, you have to go and dress the same. I don't have to do shit. Fuck off. No. No. But if you were to have to? I don't know. Just take a bit of blood in the side of my mouth and go, I don't know, I'm a zombie. You go to zombie. Right, Pete. I think there's less work, isn't it? At Halloween, we're going to dress Pete up as a zombie at some point. Or a skeleton, maybe. We won't, actually, because we will be in Vegas.

21:48We will be in Vegas. If we collect enough avios. Yeah, well, that is the question. We've never done uni, Sam and I, which I don't think will be a surprise to anyone. But we have spent a lot of time at Freshers' Week. But during PAs, Freshers' Week was the one back in the day. uh have you you've done PAs at Freshers Week haven't you well I've also gone to my fair fair my fair share of Freshers Weeks um as a PA no because all my mates went to you didn't they so I went and oh so oh so I've got normal mates who went to uni so I went out with them so you were the the guy that isn't part of uni but turns up and I lived I lived in halls with my mates for like two months.

22:29Yeah. In Nottingham Trent. But you weren't at uni. Yeah. So you were a squatter. Pretty much. Yeah. He's got a market. Is that normal? I don't understand the uni life. Well, because I was like 18 and so, and, and I was in between jobs and I was like, you know what? I'm just going to go and sort of live the uni experience with them. And I just went and did freshers of, on, on both years actually as well. Okay. Talk me through a freshers. Because I only know it from doing PAs. So talk me through Freshers Week as a uni student. They do like, that's so depressing, isn't it? Didn't even go to uni and I'm the guy and go, yeah, no, I'm with you, guys.

23:10No, no, no, no, mate. Listen, I think you make yourself sound real cool. Well, you also have to get wristbands as well. My God. Yes, you need wristbands for different nights. They throw different nights in the week. And it's weird. Sometimes there'll be like a Tuesday night that you all go to. that like it's just fucking weird because it's Tuesday. It doesn't really make sense but it's like the big night and it lasts for like two weeks, isn't it? It's like a two weeks thing, yeah. And you'd go down and just fucking party up. I got a job once in Nottingham. This is getting fucking wild. I worked behind the bar in a bar in Nottingham.

23:45So let me just understand this. You squatted at a uni in Nottingham despite not being a student and got a student job. Yeah, not for, like, for a week. Right. Did you enrol in any societies whilst you was there? No, I didn't. Sam was actually captain of the debate team for Nottingham Trent. But give me a day in the life of a uni student then, because I genuinely don't know. Well, it's wild. I can only speak for my friends, but, like, they would only... Well, you can speak for yourself, mate. You're a uni student for a couple of months. They didn't go to any fucking lectures either. I noticed that.

24:24Like, when you're a fucking fresher, you don't do shit. You literally party, wake up, eat and go again. Am I right in thinking fresher is your first year of uni? It's just the first week. So it doesn't matter what year of uni you are. It's always, it's not just like the... It's for the people who first start uni. So first week of uni. Yeah, but you can go every year. Like, you go to freshers week as the second and third year. Yeah, but you start feeling like a bit of a loser. Yeah, but you still get... Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it's a loser if you're a student and you go for a second or third year, but it's not a loser if you're not even part of the uni.

24:53but you're there every year. I got around. I went to Leeds Freshers. Oh, I didn't realise you'd done a Freshers tour. Yeah. All right, what's your favourite uni to be a part of? Nottingham by a mile. Nottingham. Why is that? Or Nottingham Trent. Well, only because all my mates went there. That's where I got into Call of Duty Zombies. I mean, if you and I had sort of had a little bit more sort of ambition in life and actually gone to uni, what sort of student do you think you'd be? Terrible. That's actually why I didn't go to uni. I had a couple of offers but I didn't go because I was like, I physically...

25:23Did you do A-levels? Yeah. Didn't do well, but yeah, I would have got like a couple of offers, but none of my mates went to any of the places that I was possibly going to go to. So you don't think you would have been a good student? So how do you think you would have... Well, I just would have wasted money. I know I wouldn't have gone to any lectures and I know that I would have like just spent loads of money and would have to apologise to dad again. Yeah, after the first. So, all right, fine. And so you just would have been a terrible student. Okay, fine. I think you would have been quite good, actually.

25:56You would have turned up. No, I didn't turn up to school, mate. I don't think I'd be turning up to uni. Yeah, I think truancy, I suppose you don't have truancy. Is it mandatory you have to go to certain things in uni or what? How does it work? No, you are kind of responsible for yourself. They won't chase you because you're just paying for your own education. Right, okay. So, yeah, I'd have turned up for the exams at the end. Would you have been a party boy, beanark, or a nerd?

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28:05What's B-Knock? Big name on campus. Oh my god, that man. I was a bit of a B-Knock at my friend's unis.

28:18That made me feel sick. Your big name on campus, Pete? Beenock. Yeah. No. It's not a real thing. Yeah. Big thing. If you were the cool people at uni, if you were a cool person at uni, everyone would be like, yeah, he's a bit of a Beenock. I don't think I would have been the cool person. I wouldn't have been a nerd. I imagine I wouldn't have been partying with uni people. I think I'm the guy that wouldn't turn, I'd just turn up in the mornings and get changed and have a shower and fuck off again. You'd be like the day student. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The day student that didn't turn up to any days. What about the societies?

28:56Pete Wicks and a society. What sort of society? Give me some societies. Well, we've got poetry. We've got the debating team. We've got fencing. We've got... No. I'm trying to think now. We've got fucking the drinking team. There's a drinking team. There's like beer society, cocktail society. Oh, captain. Captain of everyone. So captain of every single sort of alcoholic beverage. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, 100%. I'd be captain of the AA, captain of... Yeah, all of that sort of shit, yeah. My favourite is student radio for that. I did that. Oh, would you have been part of that? Yeah, 100%. It's only all the sad c*** that do that, don't you?

29:37Hey, mate, honestly, I was talking to... And both of our producers just spunted each other there. So that's where they came through the ranks. I was actually talking to somebody who lost out to the Leeds, the Leeds head of student radio station to Pippa. You were head of student radio? Pippa was head of student radio. Deputy, deputy. So was you a fucking B-tech? No, that's like the lamest thing you could possibly be. I was deputy of Leeds student radio, and I know exactly who you're talking about. And he lost out of the job to Pippa. Wow. Happens. It happens. Amazing. What, so were you, what is it?

30:19Can I tell you what student radio is, by the way? Everything you would hate. Mate, Pete, no one listens to it. And when I mean no one, it's literally like no one. I'll tell you what, let's just have a, see what you learn. Pippa, introduce the Staying Relevant podcast as if you're on radio. Lee's student radio. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good morning, Lee. Good morning, Leeds Student Radio. This is the Staying Relevant podcast with Pete Wicks and Sam Thompson. Listen to us on Monday.

30:56Wednesday. Thursday, Sunday. How awkward do you feel, Josh? Because that's turned my stomach a little bit. It's crazy to me because no one listens to it. Nothing. So what's the point of it? It's where you go and learn how to be in the radio, basically. But it can get, oh, it gets paid for the student union. Well, fucking. Bloody hell. The old painter and decorator trying to stick up for a fucking uni job. Do you get paid to do student radio? No. So why would you do it? Because it's a society and you make friends. You make friends at student radio. You make friends. Fucking, what a sad little life, Jane.

31:36How crazy is it that neither of us went to uni, though? I don't think anyone's surprised me. Really? I don't think it's that crazy at all. I mean, can you imagine me at uni? Me and you at uni together. We wouldn't have been friends. We fucking would have. Sam, there is no job, no path in life where we would ever become friends other than this. Are you joking? I genuinely disagree. If we had worked in the same place, especially at that age, uni, how old is that? Like 20 fucking? 18 to 23. 18, no, Sam, Sam, I'd have kicked seven bells of shit out of you at that age. Really? Yeah, mate, I was a very different person.

32:16I wasn't as patient and I'd have cut you. Yeah, but I wouldn't have let you go still. I would have just been like, come on, go. When I tell you I'd have buried you, I mean I would have buried you. No, but you would have seen me getting ostracised. I think you would have felt a little bit sad for me and you'd have been like, hey man, let me take you under my wing. And we would have gone to a couple of societies together. I would have taken you to poetry. No, no, no. Listen, I don't like people being ostracised, but I certainly wouldn't have chosen to spend time with you. And I feel like at that age, I would have been more inclined to make sure you couldn't find me.

32:53god you know what would have been so great imagine if there was like a way of putting young sam and young pete together when we were so different and like making us live in like halls together and see that's a fucking tv show like that honestly because i was pete i was so different why don't you update your hinge to what your new tv show idea so in addition to get me to the geek i've got this other idea um maybe i would have turned up to this imagine so so let's say uh you were role-playing again you were going to role-play let's say that you you got to the halls first right and you're sort of putting up your your poster of you know ozzy osborne and you're sort of sticking up with your blue tag and you've got sort of some music playing in the background and so and i come in and i'm like oh my god hello Peter because that's how I used to speak I used to be like oh my god what an absolute pleasure to speak like Pete lovely to meet you old chap what's your name I'd have broken your wrist and stamped on your fucking head we can't do that because we're roommates we're roommates yeah yeah yeah that's the whole point no yes I've walked in with my in all honesty genuinely and I mean this because I had no concern for

34:12authority or any of that shit I would have told you you couldn't stay there You can't. Surely not.

34:21Don't unpack. Get out. But this is where I'm living. Not now it ain't, mate. I love Ozzy Osbourne too. Not now it ain't. Off you go. I would not have stayed there. I would have gone and got myself a job and rented my own flat somewhere. There was absolutely no way. I couldn't do it. I don't like to live with people at the best of times, which is why I've lived on my own for fucking years. there was absolutely no way I could share a fucking halls with fucking you and your Tarquin voice. Not in a million years, Sam. Not in a million years. Pete, do you want to go halves on a Domino's, a meat, mighty meaty, it's a Thursday meal deal?

35:02Oh, just, no. I just think uni life just wouldn't have been for me. It just, I was very, very different. I just don't think I could have done it. And there was no way you and I would have been mates. okay well let's just part that because i don't i don't agree with that necessarily but i think what you would have been good at though is shagging around no listen i if there was a there was a sight for that i mate back then maybe um yeah yeah see there we go let's say you formed a relationship right and uh you know surely uni's not the time for a relationship well bit is it's where a lot of people start their sort of like first girlfriend experience because they're like together and they're like oh my god this is so great like and it's just yeah a lot of people have their first big relationship no that's the whole point and then what normally happens is you're together it's all through uni and then they break up after uni and they're like fuck i wasted all that time but that's by the by anyway is this from your time at uni you know this is my time at knots did you have a uni girlfriend in the in the couple of months you were there.

36:03I did a cup with a few people there. And so you, so you've got a girlfriend, you've, you're in the halls and the parents have rocked up. How are you meeting the girlfriend's parents at uni? Am I doing this as if it was me back then? Yeah. I wouldn't have met him, I wouldn't have turned up. No, because she'll get, she'll start getting ideas. So I just would have, my parents are coming, have a lovely time until your dad has said hello. I'm off to the pub with Dave. I don't know who the fuck else. No, if it was back then, I probably wouldn't have met him. What about now? Oh, now.

36:42Hello?

36:47It's probably a good place to start. How do you present yourself? How do you present Peter James? What, now? Yeah. So you're meeting a parent. You're meeting a parent of someone you love. I mean, we're falling at the first hurdle. I've never had to do that. How would I introduce myself? Yeah, I don't really know. How would you do it? Well, I think I'd probably sort of like a, is it a firm shake of the hand? Is it sort of like a compliment? Well, it depends if you're doing that to the mum or to dad. Well, is it a compliment to the mum? Is it like, I see where she gets her good looks from. Is it sort of a compliment like that?

37:17Is it a, can I help you round the stove, Mrs, whoever it may be? Help you round the stove? Yeah, can I help? I always do that. You help them round the stove? Yeah, can I help with the cooking? What do you mean by you help them round the stove? May I help with the cooking, sir or ma 'am?

37:33Go take your plate. So you've, I mean. I become a butler when I first meet the parents. This is a backstory we haven't agreed on because it was just a meeting, but now they're cooking you dinner. So you've arrived there for a dinner party. So you're helping mum run the stove. And then what are you going to do? Are you going to go have a cigar with dad in the fucking brandy room? Well, it depends if he has a brandy room, but like I like to get stuck in on a first meeting. Right. Do you think sometimes you're going too hard? Oh, 100%. A hundred percent. I'm a double clasped, double clasped handshake.

38:07Not just the one, it's the two. It's the, well, an honour. And what are you with the mum? I see where she gets her great looks from. No, you don't. I do. I see where she gets her great looks from. What if the mum's a pig? What did I say? You're beautiful. And then I just pray. Dad knows the mum's the pig. And then my girlfriend doesn't turn out like her. Are you being sarcastic? Because the dad turns out like I said, no, you're being sarcastic. Look at her fucking statement. Okay, all right. I mean, we love a role play. Let's role play this then, shall we? I'm dad. Yeah. You've been going out with my daughter for three months now.

38:46Oh, that's not long. Well, no, it's the first time you meet the parents. You've got to that stage now where you've become exclusive. You're now official. We sit down. We said hello at the door and all the rest of it. Walked in. How was the journey? All of that sort of bullshit. How was the journey? imagine Pete when he's eventually dad sitting down going that was a journey then traffic on the A1 yeah because like you've driven her back home to see mum and dad outside of London so yeah they're outside of London you know let's say let's go with some Cotswolds oh wow they're in the Cotswolds so you've gone out there you've driven there they've invited you around for dinner answer the door you've done all the niceties at the door and all the rest of it it's nice to meet you and blah blah blah blah you sit down dinner's just about to be served alright right?

39:31You know, you've just finished helping mum around the stove. You sit down. How are you starting conversation? Oh, bloody Nora. Well, I think straight away, you wait till everyone else has started their food. And then it's immediately, even though I haven't even tasted it yet, this is delicious. This is absolutely phenomenal. So you're going to go, you're not going to go with truth. Oh, lie. Yeah, 100%. Okay. And I would be like, oh, I'm so hungry, I'm going to eat a horse. I probably wouldn't have eaten breakfast just so I can finish whatever's in front of me. And then... Right, I can't work out, again, I lose clarity between real life and what the joke...

40:12You wouldn't really say this. Yeah, I've done it every single time. What, bombard compliments like this? Mate, Tiff Watson's dad, I... The first I met him went, should we have a game of tennis? Out in your tennis court. I was like, have you got any rackets? I played tennis with him. Wow. I wore his whites. Oh, sorry. The first time you met one of your girlfriend's dad, you wore his clothes? Yeah, I actually know. The first time I met him was I went for a beer with him, actually, in London. Okay. Oh, see, that's a bit more. Yeah, I went for a beer with him in London. And then you went straight into, can I wear your clothes?

40:49Well, that was a bit different, actually, because that was with, so Lucy Watson was going out with James Dunmore, it still is. And so we both, actually, this is quite fun, So me and James Dumbo, if anyone used to watch me in Chelsea, you'll know he appeared very briefly in it. You all know, I imagine, who Lucy Watson is. Me and him both met the dad for the first time at the same time, at the same place. So we were both fighting for his approval whilst having a beer. Who won that fight? Did you? Yeah. Okay, all right. So you're a bit of a, I mean, you've obviously met more parents than I have. So you're a bit of a pro really, which is why, which is why you should probably be giving me tips on, on how to meet parents.

41:28So let's say I meet someone. What are your top three tips for meeting the parents? Because I've only done it twice. And I'm 37. How fucking embarrassing is that? I've only ever met the parents twice. But the thing is, and I mean this, I don't think you need any tips because I feel like you'd be incredibly good. You're amazing, my mum and dad, not that we're dating, but like my mum and dad fucking love you. I love you. So I just think you need to be yourself. But if we're going to go sort of down the route of making them make a real impression. Yeah, because we've got people listening and what we like to do on this podcast, because I'm sure you all come here for advice from us.

42:06Oh, Sal and Pete's advice for you. Yeah, I feel like this could be a new segment that we'll add into this. Oh, we should. Yeah. Life advice. Life advice, yeah. Because there are some things, I know we like to just ask me how I feel about things on this podcast because generally I'm a bit fucked in the head. but this is definitely a you thing because you've done it multiple times so you can tell us the good and the bad. Are there any things that you've said that haven't gone particularly well? Yeah, 100%. Okay. What do we stay away from when meeting the parents? We stay away from anything to do with that might get the dad's back up.

42:47So sex? No, no, no, not even that. Oh, no, okay. Not even that. Like we stay away from anything that might make the dad feel like he is not in charge. That's a very big, that's a very big thing. Right. You, well, you want, you literally want to walk in. Respect the man's domain. Mate, you want to walk in belly up. Like you literally just want to be like, not actually belly up. You don't want to be sort of like doing the fucking, doing the ring move. But we're not showing him your ring, but like, as in like, as in like, you know, when you know in Exorcist, when they do the ring move. Is this, I'm already, I've already lost the table at this point if I'm with the parents, but.

43:23Okay, all right. So it's respect for... Are you trying harder to impress dad or mum? Dad, every single time. No, sorry, that's such a lie, mum. Because if the mum likes you, the dad has to like you. So actually, I always get along with the mum really, really well. Me and the mum always gets along. Me and the dad normally get along. And then, yeah, the mum... I always make a beeline for the mother. Because I'm sort of like, I'm the son you always wanted. Okay, all right. But the dad sees it. The dad sees it and he goes, he knows what he's fucking doing. Right, okay. All right, let's mix it up a bit then.

43:56What could Rosie's boyfriend do to impress you on first meeting? I'm going to tell you one story, sorry. Yes, please do. One story that don't do this. So I was at a lunch with an ex-girlfriend and their family. And the ex had a job interview. And this is years back. and the dad came to the job interview with the ex. And I was like, that's a bit full on, isn't it? I was like, why have you brought your dad to like a job interview whilst he sat next to me? Because I just couldn't understand it. How old were you, bro? How old was I? And to her? Like young, like sort of like early 20s. She brought her dad to a job interview.

44:44Yeah, mad. Which by the way, is happening a lot for Gen Zs. but that's that's conversation for the bonus actually yeah so basically she takes so she takes her dad to a job interview no I don't actually believe this on my life this happened this is what I did Pete I was sat there are you sure it was her dad not a carer so fucking confused and I was like I don't understand why you've done that mate so I did that face you're just doing that and I was like sat around the table and I let my inhibitions get the best of me and I forgot where I was for a second I went why the hell you bring your dad to a job interview you, dude, I got a hand on my shoulder like this from the dad, grabbed my shoulder and went, turned me towards him.

45:29I went, listen here, mate, the whole table quiet. Listen here, mate. I've had more meetings and you've had hot dinners. Mate, I fucking shat myself. I literally was like, I don't know what to do right now. And no one saved me, by the way, no one saved me. Like no one jumped in so I just went okay it's like okay and he really slowly took his hand off my shoulder did you continue to date this person I uh yeah not for that long after me yeah

46:00dude it was that I remember being sat there being like this is gone real west real quick I um I the one of the there's only two times where I've met the parents and um they were both very different experiences one was just a mum and it was a basically a pub crawl and well basically mum was visiting lived somewhere else was visiting and so we went out for dinner and drinks and it was fucking lovely it was just really really nice it was great the other time was going round to the parents house and dad had a pool table and I don't mind a bit of pool so so we played pool and it got so competitive to the point where we weren't speaking and just taking it really, really fucking seriously whilst drinking beers.

46:48And it was his pool table. So we started doing all these fucking like mad fucking bits. I then locked in because I thought I don't like getting beaten. And he threw the queue across the fucking table and walked out at one point. And then we didn't speak for the rest of the night. So this was pre-dinner. God, Len, when? Do I fuck? You've got to, mate. Do I fuck? No, because they know that you know you've let them win as well. So, like, I do that with golf all the time with the ex-girlfriend. No, see, I do. I've done it in golf before. You want to be the big man? Beat me. No, because I've done it in golf where I've literally been like, I'm just going to just do a bit of a shit shot because they just want to feel good.

47:24I want to feel good. So you didn't speak all day? You didn't speak for the rest of the, like, didn't it? It was frosty. It was weird. Fuck, yeah. Ended up actually being really good friends with him. Really, really good friends in the end. but I can't do the, listen, I'm very respectful. I've never stayed in a person that I'm seeing's parents' house. That's more you thing, I think, rather than respect. So I'm very respectful of that. I think you would hate waking up in someone else's gaff and in their dressing gown and their pink dressing gown and Pete walking downstairs and being like, hi, how do I use the shower?

47:58Oh, Pete. Absolutely, absolutely. Wouldn't do it full stop. But more to the point that it is like this dad's house. It's his castle. so I wouldn't stay there. But I certainly, I wouldn't just back down. Oh, I see that. You're a braver man than I am. No, you can't, because I think they end up respecting it more. After I had that hand-to-shoulder, big guy, I panicked. I mean, to be honest with you, the most fucking, that, that, to me, I'd have been like, well, I don't think I want to be part of this family. Do you know, this is my choice. You're fucking weird for taking your dad, and you, mate, you get your fucking hand off your shoulder, or you'll lose it.

48:35Yeah, I don't have that in me. I literally shrunk like a little diesel. I'd have peeled the hand off. Off the cloth, moth. Do you know what another thing is though as well, just before we move on, because I think we're about to finish, is your parents meeting their parents. Like Pete, you know what my dad's like? He's like a bit of a fucking goer. Yeah, I fucking love him. Parents meeting parents, they have to get along. Yeah, I mean, it kind of brings it to like weddings. like when you have all sides of the family and they're all kind of getting together. It's why I wouldn't do a big wedding.

49:11You just don't want to panic. I don't, I have loads of different groups of people and I quite like having different groups. The thought of it all together, I hate, I hate the idea of it. Groups just come together and if they don't like each other, you're like, oh no. I just, oh, I couldn't think of anything worse than like just, oh no, it just, I just don't like it because I think I would want everyone to have a good time. I'd be more panicking about that than what I'm actually doing. That's what I was like on my 30th. Do you know when you came here? I was like, this is Pete, everyone. Pete, come and speak to everyone.

49:40Yeah, like it's just a wild, wild thing. Like I just don't like the idea of it. But listen, so in terms of new relationships and starting new relationships, two different, you know, thought processes. Me, be yourself. Sam, compliment everyone. At any given opportunity. If you need help, me and Pete are offering our services. to come with you to meet your girlfriend's parents. Yeah. To sort of lay down. Because we've met more parents than you've had hot dinners.

50:11Fucking hell. And I think that's a great way to close the pod out. Yeah. What a lovely little episode. Because we've closed more pods than you've had hot dinners. We actually have. You know, we haven't had a fucking, we haven't had a pod off for about two years. What is that? Even over Christmas. It's aged us. I think it could be about time we take a break. No, we're never taking a break. We're never taking a break. We're going to be on Christmas, baby. Pete's going to have a hat on. Anyway, thank you for listening. Make sure you rate, review, do all of that sort of stuff. Follow us at Staying Relevant Podcast.

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