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3:14That's kind of the housekeeping. Yeah. That's the word I was looking for. Keeping house. Right. We are in a double record today, and this is the second main episode that we have done. This will be out on Mondays as normal, and then you'll be able to watch it on a Wednesday. And then, obviously, the bonus episodes, we're recording them as well, which come out Thursday audibly, which you can watch on a Sunday, which means you can catch us on a... Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday. Lovely. But as I say, this is a pre-record Vegas, well, not a Vegas special. It's a pre-record because of Vegas. Because we are off to Las Vegas tomorrow.

3:53Sam, how are you feeling? We have got a lengthy flight. Why do you sound, why are you sounding apprehensive about the flight? Because at the best of times, I work with you on a regular basis. But I always know in the back of my mind that if at any point I need to run away, I can. I can't on a flight. I'll do that with you on the flight. Are we sitting next to each other? I hope not. Pippa, you'll know this. Are we sitting next to each other? Yes. Yes. Oh, my God. I have work to do, and I would like to sleep my way through the flight. It's a lengthy flight. Let's not go over the top, please. It will be an awful, as we were just discussing, way to start our vlog in Las Vegas.

4:35Can we do a TikTok? No, Sam. No. TikTok on the flight. You sure? Yes. You sure you're sure? Yes. What would be the problem with the little TikTok on the flex? I don't want to. Just a little tickle. I don't want to do it. A little tickle on the TikTok time? This is the start of two weeks together, as we discussed. Let's not start it on a bad note. Oh, my God, I can't wait. I didn't think we were going to be sat next to each other. You know when you try and put the barrier up, I'm just going to drag it back down. Are you? I'm going to drag you back down. Yeah, that's all good, though. Stamp on your fucking head.

5:07Drag you with me. Oh, I wonder if the pilot's going to let us go and see him. I'm not going to go sit. All of this sort of shit is like, this is part of the reason, like, you know, again, we've done an interview this morning. He's my best friend and I'm working with him. I don't like going places with you. I just don't like it. It's just, everything is recorded. Everything is to just, let me just sit and be on a flight. You need to take me to go to the pilot. I don't need to take you. Sam, you're a 30 odd year old man. If you want to go and spend time with a pilot, go and spend time with a pilot.

5:39If you want to go and play with his buttons and he's, go and do that. That's like my dad. I don't need to be there for that. And also you don't. You've done it before, multiple times. It's no different to any other cockpit you've been in. Yeah, but this is a big cockpit because it's an over-Atlantic cockpit. You've done it before, Sam. This is not your first trip over the Atlantic. I've done it with you before. I don't need to do it again. It will be no different. What I will say is that Sam and I have been away together before. We have been on trips to the US before together. We have been on trips on all sorts of places together before.

6:17And it's painful. What we have the addition of this time is the team. It is their first trip away with us. Sorry, I was distracted then by Pippa and her Uber driver, Josh, just spudding each other in the background. the excitement of fucking being taken away um it's your first trip away with uh sam and i i mean it's going to be an experience for you sam how do you think it's going to go for the mate it's getting one of two ways um depends what kind of trip it's going to be because obviously we're going out there for a little bit of work as well right but no no no no no no we're going out there specifically for work and a little bit of fun as well all right it's not we're going out there it's not we're not going out there for fun and a little bit of work we're going out there for work and maybe a little bit of fun yeah but i feel the priority will be work yeah i think we can balance out the scales a little bit it's faith viva las vegas like i may i cannot fucking wait but am i going to be in bed at 10 p.m or am i going to be sending it those are the questions we need to ask each other well no they're not what we ask each It's what we ask you.

7:30You know they've got the world's biggest strip club in Vegas. Not that I want to go. Will, I mean, I don't think they open till 10, so will you make it? Well, I don't know. Is the offer there? I mean, the question's there. Are you planning on being in bed by 10pm as normal? As normal. Or will you be sending it? Are you going to be large and in charge? No, I'll tell you what I'm going to be doing. I'll tell you what I'm going to mean. I'm going to be doing exactly what Pippa does. So if Pippa decides to go to bed, I'll go to bed. Well, what I will say - If Pippa's going to send it, I'll send it.

8:06What I will say on this note then is Pippa is currently the reigning champion of sending it. No, no, she's only got one night in her though. She's got one night in her. But you're only as good as your last game. That's a very good point. And her last game - But I also know what the hangover was like the next day after that last game. So, I mean, what do you want to do? Let's not put the pressure on Pippa. Are you planning on enjoying yourself? Are you... Matt, I'm going to have the best time ever. I want to go and live the Vegas lifestyle for a week. I want to go and hang over it. What is the Vegas lifestyle in your...

8:45I want to go see Elvis. I want to go... He's dead. Oh, yeah. I want to go see Adele. I want to go and see a show. I'd like to... I'd just like to point out, sometimes what we struggle with on this podcast is listening, telling the truth. Telling the truth. Because Sam knows full well we have a planned trip that doesn't include dead Elvis, doesn't include Adele. So he wants to do them things, like I would like a 12-inch penis, but I don't have them and we won't be seeing Adele. Are you sure? Yes. I'd like to get married. Yeah. Because we can get unofficially married out there. Well, then it's not getting married, is it?

9:30What we're doing then is just lying for a video. So look forward to that. Because we will. I want to go up the strip. Because I know for a fact we are doing that. I want to go up the strip. I want one of them long drinks with a big straw that comes out. Yeah. I want to go to a sports bar. I want to eat chicken wings. I want to go to the casinos. And I want to play poker. I've never played poker properly before. You never play poker? Yeah. Black Jack. Well, this is the thing. I mean, are you a gambler? No, never been a gambler. Have you ever been to a casino? Yeah, I've been to a casino. Have you ever gambled at a casino?

10:04I have, and I lose every time to the point where there's just no point in me doing it. Is that through lack of understanding? I think it's understanding. I think it might be the ADHD thing as well. I see a number, I put it all on there. Yeah, but to be fair, if you're playing roulette, then, you know, that's kind of what most... I love roulette. I don't think that's ADHD, where the only people, their ADHD, pick a number and put it all on. Just put it all on. I think that's just... All red or black. All red or black. Yeah, you've got a 50-50 chance there, haven't you? Perfect. All zero. Double your money.

10:31I mean, yeah, you can... We're just explaining roulette now. Yeah. Do you know what I would love? Oh, my God. You know those movies where you have, like, you're stood by a table and, like, you start... And it starts going well. You get a bit of a crowd around you. You're literally like, come on, Snake Eyes. Yeah. What Snake Eyes? Double one. Nice. So you'd like a crowd around you. is that because you're jubilantly celebrating winning or because you are crying because you've lost your house? Jubilantly winning. Right. Okay. Excellent. What are you planning on doing out there? What am I going to be following you to?

11:06Work. Yeah. Initially. But we are out there for Halloween. Oh, my God. I have made some arrangements for dinners and clubs. Oh, my God. We're going to a nightclub. We may go to a couple. That Halloween night, we are going to be doing, as pre-mentioned, a little dress up. Yeah. And we will be exploring the strip on our first night. Lovely. So that's an opportunity for you to tick off your big long drink. Okay, nice, nice. As well as the strip. So that's two for the price of one there. Is Vegas busy over this period? Vegas is always busy, mate. Yeah. It's actually a very good time to go to Vegas in terms of weather because you're looking at about 27, 28 degrees.

11:52No, is it boiling hot over there? Well, it's not boiling hot. It's nice. You get a nice breeze in the evening as well. So it's a really good time because obviously it's the desert. Yeah. Fucking Nevada. So when you go in the heat, it's fucking hot. Obviously the casinos, you've been in Vegas before. You've been in casinos in Vegas before. No clocks. Oh, yeah. So you don't know what time it is. At any point of the day, it could be any time you like. So we'll see whether your, how your personality deals with that. Pool parties. As well as the oxygen they pump in. Yeah. So you always feel quite alive in the casinos, which is nice.

12:28Are we going to a pool party? We may or may not go to a pool party. We will see. Like I said, we are going there for work. Oh, I'd love to hear a pool party. There are some fun activities and things planned that we're going to be doing. There is a pool party is happening. We may or may not go to one. It will depend on what else is happening. There is a potential day for a pool party. Oh, my God. But it is after an incredibly big night, which has been planned. Is it after your birthday? Well, I mean, if you read the scripts, then you can segue into it. Well, I don't mean to get everyone excited, but it might be Peter's birthday while we're out there.

13:11This is going to be huge. I feel like we should probably do a couple of TikToks. No. Yeah, come on, a birthday TikTok? No. What, really? Yes. we all know I don't like my birthday. I'm not doing TikTok. This is, see, this is again the problem. It was obviously Sam and I have a business together and, and you know, we do lots of fun stuff, but, but we don't have a personal life because everything is now recorded for you. Yeah. And you love it. You gobble it all up. Yes. My birthday is out there. So that's going to be interesting. We're going to get onto that in a, in a, in a minute. Just a couple of other things beforehand is, oh, Josh is coming on his first away trip with us as his peer part.

13:49I have asked Josh not to come as Josh. Don't dress like this. Well, you know, I mean, Josh, I don't mind what you wear, to be fair. Well, I mean, it's important. We're in Vegas, mate. I've actually packed. I think I've packed quite well, actually. So Josh has pre-packed. We are two days before we go. Very, very... I mean, a lot of things are drying, but the idea is... So haven't packed then. So what you're doing is washing? For some of it, yeah. Yeah, okay. So what is your kind of... If you were to describe your style for Vegas, Josh, what would it be? Well, I'm bringing two suits. Two suits. But with the suits, I can make like maybe four or five variations out of the suits.

14:28Oh, yeah. And then, you know, stuff for the day, I guess. And then stuff for the day. Pipsqueak, our resident Wonder Woman, she is popping after this podcast to pick up some heels because I've told her that Birkenstocks are not appropriate. for Vegas clubs. They're packed too. So they're packed for the daytime, which is great. But in the evenings, we are going to be making an effort. Your style for Vegas. Obviously you've had a style. Right, bare chest. I want a silk shirt. Sorry. That's all I want. Silk shirt open. Okay. Have you got one? Yep. You've bought a silk shirt. I've got a silk shirt.

15:05So I'm going to have chest out, maybe a gold pendant. Was that Miami? Bit more Miami though, isn't it? Flared trousers. it becomes so hard doing this podcast when you don't understand the question or you just lie he hasn't got a silk shirt there and he hasn't got flared trousers and he hasn't got a gold pendant so what is your style going to be for Vegas? you know what I'm going to wear jeans and a tee but are you not going to everyone else Pippa's buying heels Josh is bringing suits the difference is are you just going to backwards cap your way through Vegas? I think so mate you know what I'm like I don't land in Vegas and think what outfits am I wearing?

15:46I'm a guy. I don't care. I just want to go to a sports bar, take down a bevy, and enjoy myself. Fine. What are you going to wear? Have you picked outfits that you know you're going to wear? No, no, no. I'm just going slightly up market in the evenings because we're in Vegas, and I feel like, you know, we're all going to be out, and it's going to be a fun time. You don't get a chance to get dressed up, and it's nice to do that sometimes. Oh, because I've got a pair of Chelsea boots and a pair of trousers and a shirt. Cool. Well, as we know, it's going to be Pete's birthday out there. There's a TikTok train going out at the moment about sort of five things I wish I knew at 25.

16:19Now, Pete, you're going to be turning 37. Are there any things that you wish you knew at 25 that you know now? Five things I wish I knew.

16:34Well, what's the question? Five things that you wish you knew at 25 that you now know at 37. What would you wish younger Pete would know? Is that the question? Yeah. Okay.

16:49You're older, you're wiser. I'm not. You're older. Yeah, just older. Five things that I know now. I didn't know at 25, so that's 12 years ago, that TikTok was going to take over everyone's life. and I wish I did know that because I would have just stopped life then. What a waste of 12 years this has been. I didn't know at 25 that pushing 40, I would still be on my own. I also at 25, I didn't know at 25, I didn't know you at 25. Is that a good or a bad thing? We're on the fence. I didn't know that I would be growing old as disgracefully as what I am. I thought at 25 that by 37, I may have completed the majority of things I wanted to do in my life.

17:53And actually at 37, I've gone backwards. So in the past 12 years, what I think, because at 25 was about the time that was just me coming into the TV. fucking thing. So then my life was very, very different. In the past 12 years, it has developed into a soul-crushing, dignity-losing mess and a car crash. So yeah, there's an awful lot of things at 25. Okay, I've got two questions off the back of those answers. One, at 25, did you think at 37 you'd have a wife and kids? Yes. Did you? Well, only because I didn't necessarily think I wanted one. I didn't want kids at 25. I just assumed I would probably not still be in this position.

18:39What a single. Sad. Lonely. You know the press are picking this up. I'm depressed. Let's see how many weeks they can get out of that. No, I mean, I didn't. Yeah, I didn't imagine that. Goes fast, isn't it? I didn't think. I didn't think I'd still be in the UK. Where do you think you'd be? Just somewhere else. I don't know. I don't really know what I thought. No, but this is fascinating. This is really fucking. I find this really interesting. I hope other people do. What, did you have an idea of like, of sort of like the route you're going to be taking? I wanted to be retired by the time I was 40.

19:11I had a specific reason and thing. And if, you know, if I was doing what I'd done before, then I had an out plan and an exit plan of fucking work. And then now I'm in the trenches. And I imagine I'll be in the trenches until, until the day I die. Because since then success has sort of gone. Don't have any. And I'm here, you know, for the third podcast records today, having started it with picking my favourite dick nickname. That is not something I expected to happen at 25. It wasn't in the kind of the exit plan. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, I don't know because I'm not one of them that makes like fucking plans.

19:55So I don't really know. I kind of just have a go. How fast, though, does it go? I was fucking 26 yesterday. So when I was 25, you were like 21. Yeah. So fuck me. Mate, but you were 20. But how, but how, if you now look back, how fast has that gone? You know, when people are like, you know, when your parents, you say to you like, oh my God, don't wish away your youth and stuff like that. You're like, no, I just want to be older. And then you fucking get there and you're like, holy shit. That has happened so far. I'm 33. But do you know what's wild? is I feel like you've only just realised that you're getting older.

20:32Yeah. When did it hit you? Oh, 15. No, genuinely. Not even a joking. I never, from about 15, I wanted to be younger. Really? Yeah. Because at 25, I felt old. I remember thinking, fucking hell, like time is fucking, I haven't done anything I wanted to do. Like 12 years later, and I just feel old, even older. Like, it's not like I said, you know what I mean? Like, I feel like in the past year, you've probably gone, fuck I'm knocking on a bit. 33, mate. This entire year I've been like fuck I'm getting older. Not even on a miserable fucking thing but genuinely probably from about 20 I'm like fucking time is going.

21:09Time is going. And you blink. And that's 20 was 17 years ago. Yeah. Mate I know it's terrifying. What were the things that you wanted to accomplish that you haven't accomplished? I mean things like work abroad for a year or like Yeah. To be in all honesty and that's it's quite a difficult like a question for me because I've never had a plan. Do you know what I mean? Like, you know, in some people like, you know, by the time I'm this angel, I want to do this. I just wanted to be in whatever. And I thought it was going to be what I was doing before. By the time I was 40, I wanted to have built a company, sold it and fucking disappeared.

21:43I certainly didn't expect to be in this fucking weird world that we're in now. But even now I don't have a plan. Like I've just never had a plan. So there's not anything that I wanted to accomplish. There was like personal things. Like I wanted to be able to, you know, look after people that are low all of that fucking boring shite which i i've been like i've been lucky enough to be able to do but for me personally i never had an idea of what i what i was fucking doing i was just winging it and blagging it and i still am it's annoying really because i suppose at this point i expected to know what i wanted to do with my life yeah but do you ever know well that's the thing but i expected to i expected to not still be 12 years later from 25 winging it do you know what I mean but we all wing it mate that's the thing really everyone fucking wings it yeah but you know when you have some people and they find their life's passion or they fucking and they do it and you see and you go fuck I wish I was doing that and they have like a fucking I want to be able to do this this and this I've got no fucking idea but a lot of the time mate you look at a lot of people who know exactly what it is that they want to do and they're not happy yeah exactly yeah so then you've got someone who doesn't know what they want to do still isn't happy exactly mate so basically what we're saying is at 25 Pete thought he was going to have a wife and kids to be honest with you Yeah, it's not something I ever necessarily wanted, but I did probably think.

22:56So did I. If you look at our mates or people that we know, I mean, my mates are a little bit older than me anyway. They've all got, most of mine have wives and kids. Most of yours have got wives and kids. And then there's us. Mate, you know, it does freak me out. And then there's us who are excited about going to Vegas, getting dressed up for Halloween, drinking out of a large fucking glass, whereas everyone else is like, I've got a kid's birthday party this weekend. Man, that's exactly what I was just about to say. So a guy that me and Pete both know, I called Ed. I literally was like, what are you up to this weekend, mate?

23:25He goes, I got my kid's birthday party. I was like, what are you doing next weekend? He's got another kid's birthday party. I was like, fuck me. He goes, what are you doing this weekend? Well, I'm in Vegas. I'm in Vegas with Pete doing it like Halloween dress ups. You know what's going to really freak you out or freaked me out? Pippa is now 26. So this is a point. So, so this, this whole trend of five things I wish I knew before. I knew at 25. Pippa is at that stage now. Yeah. terrifying. And do you know what's worse than that? Pippa is more settled than us. She's bought a house with a fucking FLA.

24:01She's got a fucking lovely secure job. Couple of jelly cats. Do you know what I mean? She's got a smeg fridge. She's 25. She's fucking excited. Tonight she's gone shopping for heels for fucking Marks and Spencers. But, you know, she goes house shopping at the weekend and she goes to the pub and has fucking family things. Me and you, it's just dawned on me that I am 33 years old. I know that's not old. Like I'm far from old, but like, mate, do you know what it is? I've just always been the youngster, haven't I? I've always been the young one of the group. And like, and now, you know, you do have to start thinking about, you know, wives and kids and fucking, you know, how old you, like what kind of, if I want to be a dad, right?

24:45What, do I want to be a real dad? Like, do I, I want to be doing sports day with my kid, right? and at least being able to come third. I don't want to just not be able to participate because my hip's gone. I know how depressing it sounds when I say I don't want to have any plans. I don't know if I want to get married and have kids. I feel like it's potentially even more depressing to have the goal that I want to be able to compete in sports day and come third for my child. You are setting the bar so low. I just want a podium finish at sports day. I want to be able to kick a ball around in the park with my kid.

25:21Do you know what I mean? I want to be lucky. I think I want to be a young parent, but I'm like, fuck, I'm 33. Like, I don't, I can't really be a young parent anymore. I mean, luckily for us, it's different for guys to girls. Yeah, but still in terms of body and like how your knees feel. Yeah, but I think still it is a lot different. I mean, I think for you. I know I want to be a dad at some point. That's the thing. I know I want to be a parent. So is that why you're dating someone considerably younger? So what were your thoughts at 25? Mate. eight years ago 25 and are you have you accomplished anything you thought you would have I met you at 25 no no I was just about to meet you I think I met you at 26 well no actually yeah it would have been you would have been 25 I'm guessing 2000 and what 17 yeah I met you at 25 because I've got that on my phone I've got photos I was literally looking for my photos yesterday I what have you got our first photo together I've got photos of us like celebs go dating together Wow.

26:19We look different. Have we aged well or? I love the way. Pete actually wanted to know that as well. You've aged better, believe it or not. Well, you definitely have. No, mate. Yeah, I look a lot older. I just look in the mirror. What, sort of about eight years? No, I look a lot older. But when I was 25, I didn't know what the fuck I wanted to do. I still see different to you. I thought at 25, I was still really young. like I was like this is great I've still got so much time to sort of figure out what it is I want to do and I never really had any big schemes and big plans I always kind of wanted to work abroad for a little bit which is annoying so you haven't done that yeah I mean you you are going to Vegas for a couple of days I really want you I really wanted to like do it like a year in LA a gap no like like a year in LA and like and like just try and do something out there I mean do you think you can still do that I don't know I feel like I'm getting a bit old I feel like you've got me like pretty young to go and do all that kind of stuff.

27:18But yeah, I don't think I'd really had many, but I think we're quite similar like that. I just always wanted to wing it, but I do want to be a dad. And that has been freaking me out a bit recently because I'm like, oh shit. So what, all right. Okay. So, so what is your, this is turned quite serious. It was supposed to be a TikTok trend. What is your cutoff for daddy Sam? If you, I mean, listen, and it doesn't mean that that is your, your dead cutoff, but what age, at what point, and how soon, and I'm not saying this is like, you know, because you've got a fucking bird. I mean, what do you think the oldest you can potentially have kids before you think you're past it?

27:56I feel like, as you say, mate, it's got to work with the person you're with and all that kind of stuff. So hypothetical world. Yeah, that's okay. Hypothetically. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would probably say 36. 36. So I have three years, less than three years. And I know I'm not going to do that as well. so I it's that kind of sucks because you just you blink Pete you fucking blink mate I mean you do a lot you blink metaphorically speaking I remember being 27 and being like right like you know I've probably got to marry and all this kind of stuff and then that obviously doesn't happen and then you're like fuck like you go through life I'm 33 and you're like oh my god well I mean look you know we've discussed it and you know it is going to be my birthday in Vegas people celebrate milestone birthdays yeah my next one is 40.

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31:45For three years off, 40. 40. How old are you? Mate, imagine you being at a bar. How old are you? 40. 40. which I mean that that is what I feel like below 40 you're kind of still considered sort of youngish you can still really do anything 37 you're still like you're like a an old young man well yeah you can still do anything you want when you hit 40 it's that's when and I already get it now but that's when people start going when you're gonna get shit together yeah like properly yeah do you know what I mean I know exactly what you mean at 40 it's not like everyone around you's having kids their kids are grown up yeah but this is the thing right like their kids are suddenly like they're going on dates themselves and and you're still there going oh god jesus time is running out jesus my lord but we're in a great spot we're fine things are great me and pete are gonna go after this and have a cry and a midlife crisis we do have something very exciting on the The book show.

32:51So at this point, we will have completed the live book shows. Thank you to everyone that turned up. However, we are going to apologise. Because at the time of writing, you know, things were very different. Our lives were very different at the time of writing the book. And obviously, you know, it takes a few months for publishers and all sorts of stuff to get the book to come out. and there are some discrepancies within the book. There are some lies within the book that I feel like we need to address, all of which are on Sam's part because what we have put in the book is dating profiles we wrote for each other.

33:34Only one of us needs that dating profile now. Mine does end with one foot in the grave, which is just beautiful. Sam's is kind of redundant. You know, I'm not going to explain why. I think you can imagine. The whole point of dating profiles was to do with dating apps. Yeah. At what point do you delete apps?

33:57Oh, it's a great question. And, you know, I'm asking for a friend of mine, a really good friend of mine, Steve, is dating someone called Deep. So Steve and Deep, you know, things are hotting up and they just want to sort of know at what point do you delete apps?

34:22It makes a real tough... I think the moment that you say you're going exclusive is the moment you delete the app. Really? Yeah. So, okay, so the moment that you're exclusive and, you know, we've discussed that. That's a conversation you have to have, yeah? It is a conversation you have to have. So is it during the exclusive, we're now exclusive, delete your app? Yeah, well, this is the thing. I feel like you've got to do it off your own accord. But what you don't want is, is it to still be on your home screen? Because that, you know, then it doesn't look great. Yeah. Especially like if you are, if you're off out for somewhere, like for dinner or, and, and then on the, in the taxi or the car on the way there, you've been checking the date now.

35:06And it was the last thing you viewed.

35:11Mate, I'm going to be honest with you. I think you should delete that app early. Yeah. You should delete that app early. Well, I mean, look, because I've got a question for you. Go on. And it's something I do know about, surprisingly, despite it being kind of one of these things. We are entering a period known as the last quarter of the year is kind of known as cuffing season. Do you believe in it? Well, for 37 years, I haven't. And this year is no different. If I believed in it, I'd do it. but it does seem at this period people like a summer they're single because there's lots going on you get out there you go on holiday and you do whatever go to the pub gardens and now you get to that kind of quiet a time of year where it's a bit wet and rainy and dark outside and it's all I want to stay in but you know watch Harry Potter yeah yeah yeah colour pumpkin cuffing season is upon us I'm going to explain what cuffing season is so cuffing season is a slang term for the period during autumn and winter when single people seek short-term committed relationships to get through the colder months.

36:14And then as it starts to heat up again next year, they fuck them off. See, that's a bit savage. That's a bit savage. Because how do you just fuck someone off after you've just literally sort of like formed a connection over the winter months? Hibernated. Well, it is a kind of, it's a relationship hibernation. But that's the thing. What do you do as spring is springing? Like, do you just be like, right, see you later, that was fun. Yeah. Oh, that's fucking tough, isn't it? So do you think, I mean, you spend a lot of time on Instagram and fucking social media and that, and obviously you'll see all the posts of people who are now entering cuffing season.

36:49Have you started to see the impact of cuffing season on your social algorithm? No, because I don't think anyone says they're in cuffing season. They've never said no. No, but you can tell. Well, you can see it. People don't go, listen, shall we? Because it's cuffing season, we might as well. We might as well. I just so happen to meet someone in September, October. everyone seems to meet someone September, October, then they start worrying about what to get for Christmas. Where are we spending Christmas with your family, my family? It's the first time they're going to meet. Well, let's not worry about it because I won't be with you next Christmas.

37:18It's going to be, oh, that's so bummed out. Because they're all the conversations that people start to have, aren't they? There is nothing better than having someone to snuggle up with on the sofa when it's freezing cold, though. There is nothing. Snuggly, wuggly, woo. Oh, it's amazing. I love a snuggly, wuggly, woo. they're so lovely just a squeeze a squeeze and a woo I mean even Pippa feels uncomfortable she's crossed her arms Pippa what would you do if your boyfriend said Pippa can we have a snuggly wuggly woo leave the house no what would you actually do with all my belongings what would you I'd do nothing I'd say nothing and I would do nothing and I'd just look but then he literally went Pippa why are you not acknowledging I want to go for a snuggly wuggly woo He would not be surprised by that reaction.

38:08Or question it. So what are the sort of things that people do in cuffing season that you are looking forward to experiencing? You just mentioned Harry Potter and a snuggly wuggly woo. But what other things? I mean, you know, long winter walks and sort of pumpkin pick. What are the other things? Winter Wonderland is, I mean, Winter Wonderland, between from November when it opens, when does it open, like mid-November? Yeah. From November until December, there is nowhere else to go on a date, whether you are cuffing, whether you were in a relationship, whether you were anything, than Winter Wonderland.

38:44It is a breeding ground for sexually transmitted diseases, for a start, but also for first dates, second dates, and getting to no's. Yeah, getting to no's. Getting to no's during cuffing season. They only happen at Winter Wonderland. The restaurants are empty because everyone is there, you know, wearing their fucking - We're going to be there. wearing their mittens, drinking hot chocolate and singing fucking Voulay Vu at the Bavarian village. All right, because that's where everyone gets to know during cuffing season. How do you feel about it? I love it. It's amazing for people watching. There's something about these winter months that I adore if you're dating someone.

39:23Like, I think they're magical. I really, really do. Those, like, those bonfire fireworks nights, the Halloween nights where you're carving pumpkins or whatever or when you got a winter wonderland and like, and you, and you stood there with something you actually quite like. It's cold and you all like, they've got, you both put your little woolly hats on. You're like, I just think it's amazing. I think it's absolutely amazing. You do not think it's amazing. You do not. Why? You think it's magical. I think it's magical. I want to go ice skating. Like I just, I just think there's so many activities you can do and I just love getting all wrapped up warm and cozy and being able to do that with someone else.

39:58I love, I love it. It's my favorite time of the year. until it then becomes not my favourite time of the year because it becomes a Christmas team. But this lead up, and I think also what's really nice is, I don't know if you have this because you just work all year round, but as the year sort of comes to a close, I peter off a little bit and I start closing the doors a bit. And that's quite nice. I don't have a door. I just close doors ever so slightly. And like to do, just do some like stuff where you actually feel like you're actually living a bit of a life. You know? Yeah, I mean, it's different because you have a life to live.

40:38So I'll tell you what, what I think we should do as we're now entering, let's call it staying relevant cuffing season. Oh my God. What I think we should do is obviously we do bonus episodes. We've discussed cuffing season for quite a period of time here. And I think it is, even I know what cuffing season is. So it's not like a new fucking thing for me because I've heard it a million times before. I want us now from now until the end of the year to discuss cuffing season in the bonus episodes so we want to hear your cuffing season stories oh my god and your mishaps your mishaps we want to hear um successful cuffing bad cuffing we want to hear handcuff other cuffings um and we'd like to hear what you're doing during cuffing season where you're going on dates and more importantly now at this point because i have said to the team and we are going to do it we are going to do a team night at winter wonderland because it's such a fucking thing i want to hear your winter wonderland stories because there is nowhere better to fucking people watch than winter wonderland and i have seen some fucking sites there over the years uh from arguments to fucking you know first date all sorts of stuff so start sending them in and we're going to call it

41:51relevant cuffing relevant cuffing that's going to be a new section that we're going to add because we are now you know i feel like we're quite good to give advice on things at this point we've got someone who's happily cuffing um uh and someone who's happily crying so i feel like we can we can hit it from both sides if you're single and you can't cuff then maybe you know we can help you and if you are cuffing and don't want to be, maybe we can help you. If you don't know how to cuff, then maybe we can help you. We're just here to help. We're just two guys here to do what we can. Give it our best go.

42:28Right, enough about us and enough about cuffing and let's move on to some more of the Staying Relevant family. Oh, wow, this is huge. Yeah, this is massive. The Relevanters the morning after. This is now your second mention on our podcast. We have a fan podcast, relevant as The Morning After. Two members of the SR family who are in this office and, you know, work with us. They may have featured in an episode. I saw this. This is fucking mental. Surely you're meant to run this past us, by the way. Or did they run it past you? Oh, did they fuck, mate? Mate, that's what? This is the first I'm hearing a bit.

43:14I follow our, like, very sweet fan account, right? It's just called Sam and Pete. And I'd watch their stories. I'm flicking through the stories. Your two mugs, Josh and Pippa, by the way, you're on a fucking Zoom. So, Kian, Lucy and Louise, who run the podcast Relevanters the Morning After, which is on Spotify, I presume and I will hope to fucking God they asked you both to be on here and you didn't message them and say, we'll do it. Okay, so our team were approached to go on. Let me just give you an example of why these two f***s sit behind the camera. It's because Josh shared his hair routine.

44:00He did a short demonstration with a hairdryer and some hairspray. What? first of all, I actually didn't know about this pod until about half an hour before. Because Pippa started it and she was like, do you want to jump on? I was a little bit late. I apologise. But they asked me, well, no, they asked Pippa, what do you do with your hair to get the scrape back look? She demonstrated. And then they were like, oh, what about you, Josh? And I just happen to have the products right next to me. So let me just confirm then. Listen, Kian, Lucy, Louise, we love that you do the podcast. I feel like you probably need to work on a better guest booker.

44:42But if you want to find out all about how Josh styles that thing on his head and how old Moonhead scrapes her hair back, then make sure you listen to Relevant Us The Morning After on Spotify. I mean, I don't even know what to say. For future reference as well, you two, You need to run it past us. Run it by us. At what point you two think you are guests on other podcasts? I mean, I'll tell you what, these two will end up on Call Her Fucking Misses next or fucking help her shag me mum. Yeah, this is what we're having. Josh, you did the outro. Josh did what? You did an outro for that podcast. What do you mean?

45:22Well, none of them wanted to do it. So I was like, I'll just say bye then. Go on, do it. Oh no, it was actually quite full on scripts. I can't remember it. Sorry, sorry. I'm going to script. Right, and listen, we are very thankful and bless Kian, Louise and Louise. Shall I say your names again? Bless you for doing this podcast. But the problem is, and just a little bit of advice from, you know, two people who have done a couple of podcasts. If you can't do your own outro, you've got a few problems. Josh, is that going to be the outro going forward? No, no, I don't think so. It was just for the one episode.

46:01I think it was just a one-off. Just a one-off. So you've taught them how to do an outro? Or they sent you a script and you read it? I can't remember it. It was actually quite similar to ours. Alarming, did you say? Yeah, it was. Well, do you want to do our outro then? Well, so today we've still got a little bit... Do you know what? Actually, to be honest, are you done with this ep? I don't know. Are we done with the ep? Yeah. I think we're done with the ep. So I'll tell you what we're going to do. Thanks for listening. Josh is going to do the outro. Well, shit. it that's a good start um oh is it actually scripted we i mean we don't use it and you've josh i'll be honest with you mate uh you've been here for a year run with it yeah go on good man thank you for listening to staying relevant the podcast hosted today by a couple of sam thompson and pete wicks um please rate review and if you want to email us which pete never wants you too and he hates the email address hello at srproductions.co.uk see you later missed a few bits out there big guy but not bad not bad nice i like it so josh is now in charge of outros yeah and uh when you are listening to this we will have been and gone to viva las fucking vegas and based on the fact we recorded this before and just found out this information we may or may not come back with Josh.

47:22Yeah. If he's not here and he goes missing, just know we buried him quietly in the Nevada desert. But viva Las fucking Vegas. And also, we're going to be, you're going to follow all of the, you can follow us. I was going to say Goss, but it's not Goss. You can fucking follow all of the journey. I don't know, what is it? You can follow the fucking vlog. We're going to document most of it as well. So you're going to be seeing a lot of it. A lot of content to come. This has been A staying relevant production.

48:20way. You could instantly raise your FICO score by an average of 14 points with Experian Boost. Download the Experian app for free today. Results will vary. Users who received a boost improved their FICO score 8 from Experian by an average of 14 points. See App Store or Experian.com for details. Results will vary. Not all payments are Boost eligible. Users who received a boost improved their FICO score 8 from Experian by an average of 14 points. Some may not see improved scores or approval odds. Not all lenders use Experian credit files, and not all under zoo scores impacted by experian boost see experian.com for details saturday september 26th two of combat sports most dangerous strikers collide bare knuckle liverpool's own darren the gorilla till goes to war with cuban powerhouse yoel soldier of god romero plus the bare knuckle middleweight championship of the world is on the line when the reigning champ dave the redneck mundell defends against undefeated british challenger jack the meat pleaver colon bkfc 94 or Till vs.

49:18Romero. Watch it live only on DAZN. Sign up now at DAZN.com. Thumbtack presents Tile Trouble. Every single time I use my sink, I make eye contact with the uneven grout of my kitchen backsplash. The crooked corners eye me and I'm haunted by more tiling questions than I thought possible. What kind of pro can fix a backsplash? Can I replace one cracked tile or should I replace them all? What? What if I just use Thumbtack? I can hire top-rated pros, read reviews, and compare prices with a tap. All on the app. Thumbtack knows homes. Download the app today. Most media plans treat frequency as a risk, something to cap.

49:57But in podcasting, that costs performance. Hearing a brand advertised repeatedly makes 50 % of fans more likely to remember it against 17 % who say less likely. And that positive impact is true against every outcome we tested. Podcasting is where repetition builds, not where it wears out. Get more insights like this from ACAST's latest podcast Pulse report, which is out now. Download for free at acast.com slash pulse. Hello Relevanters. We wanted to let you know that you can hear exclusive bonus episodes of Staying Relevant every month on Amazon Music. We are going to be playing Snog, Marry, Avoid, one of our favourite games, all with fictional characters.

50:40So prepare yourself for Sam to snog Woody from Toy Story and for me to marry Pocahontas. And possibly the genie from Aladdin. We don't know yet. We were sort of like undecided on that one. That's an avoid for me, that one genie. I don't know. I quite like it. Listen to monthly bonus episodes exclusively on Amazon Music and enjoy ad-free listening on Amazon Music for all episodes of Staying Relevant with your Prime membership.