I Never Splurge

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2:03Yeah. And people are going, Buckley, Buckley, Buckley. You had skins. You had, uh, what was it called? The in-betweeners. Young hip happening, guys. I got a bang for buck submission that might also end in divorce papers. Brilliant. That's the ones. See, this doesn't work for this podcast. Why not? Because I never splurge and you spludge all the time. Well, I try my best, Claire.

2:33Shall we do it? Yep. All right, let's go. Hello and welcome to The Buckleys, the podcast where we sit down, have a chat, moan a bit and invite you into our lives. Before we get into it, we just want to remind you that you can get in touch with us with your stories and questions by emailing thebuckleys at platformmoodle.

2:51It's a good start, isn't it? I spat everywhere then. I spat on myself. Can't talk. I spat on myself. I think I'm a bit drunk. Would you hurry up? I've drank a lot of beer really quickly. I'll have a beer then. That'll help. I do need another beer, actually. chop chop yeah Jesus fucking looking at you heard what the man said we do not talk to people like that by the way that was a joke one second I'm just waiting for my beer and then we'll carry on with the intro thank you thank you very much if you do want to get in touch with us our email is thebuckleys at platformmedia.uk or you can message us at thebuckleyspod on Instagram and TikTok and don't forget to follow and subscribe to the show on Spotify or whatever podcast app that you like to use.

3:45And if you do enjoy the show, why not go ahead and leave us a review afterwards. Hey, Claire. How are you? It is very hot in here today. I will just point that out. If we start getting redder and redder, it's very hot in here today. It is. It is. What's been going on in our lives this week? Well, we finally went to our friend's wedding. Yeah. We finally got there. Yeah. We were talking about the hen do and the stag do and stuff. The wedding is done. It's done. It's been in the diary. It's been looming over everyone for fucking ages. It was a good night though, wasn't it? Yeah, it was great. It was all right.

4:19I like a wedding. I do like a wedding. I'll tell you something. The last thing that you want to do when you go to an event where there's going to be lots of pictures taken and those pictures are going to last forever and they'll probably end up in some kind of album or something like that is have a fucking mental moustache and mullet combo. Yeah. So that was good. Yeah. Do you know what? The annoying thing is for the first time in my life, I had a suit made for me. You did? Yeah, you went all up. First time I've ever done that. I've had a custom-made suit and I thought, you know what? Because you've mentioned a couple of times in the past how you like me in a suit.

5:02You've said that a couple of times. Yeah, I know. You look good in a suit. Yeah, so I thought, right. I think you suit a suit. So I was like, make sure the suit looks good on me. And then your head looks like this. And I'm like, well, that's fucking about 1 ,200 quid gone down the drain. And also, what happened as soon as we turned up? Because we were staying at the place where they got married. And because we had a room, we all just took our stuff there in the morning and got ready there. And what did you do as soon as you turned up? with your nice, brand new, custom made suit. You're talking about the socks?

5:36Aye. Yeah. He was wearing white vans and he went, oh fuck, I forgot black socks. I forgot to bring socks. I had to, I had to go and beg for some socks. I managed to get some in the end. It's a good job, there were people staying. Yeah. Because if that had just been like a, like just turn up a day, you'd have been screwed. It was Dodge, Dodge came through for me. Was it his you wore? It was his socks that I wore. He came back with like four pairs of black socks. Some of them weren't that good. I was like, oh, these have been through the wash a few times. Well, they're not going to give you their good ones.

6:08No, Dodge gave me a brand new pair of black socks. Did he have a pack? Yeah, no. He had a pair of brand new black socks and he went, oh, he went to me, I've got some black socks, but I'll pack them for the breakfast tomorrow. I'm going to wear them for the breakfast tomorrow. I went, give me those. Give me those. Yeah And I've still got them You didn't give them them back? No The next morning was a bit mental wasn't it? Although would you want socks back? I think I'd just feel like just keep them They also had a little casino area They had like roulette and blackjack and stuff like that And I love a little bit of blackjack Yeah I actually think I'm quite good at blackjack I think it's like the easiest of the casino games As soon as I went up to the guy And he was like it's blackjack And I was like right is it pontoon?

6:57And he went yes it's pontoon We've been to Vegas together We sat at that Blackjack table For hours That was years ago I forget what it is If it's the 21 thing It's pontoon Yeah it's called Blackjack It's pontoon But I You know It's not the most Difficult game But I do think I'm quite good at blackjack And it did get to It got to the point Where I was up By quite a lot of money Yeah However It wasn't real money No It was like tokens Yeah That you could spend on a prize or something at the end of the night or something like that, which was really annoying when you're fucking two grand up. I was like, fucking hell.

7:38No, it was good. It was a good night. I like a wedding. Yeah, I don't mind a wedding. I like a wedding. You always complain. We were boogieing. But we have fun. I'm not a dancer. Oh, the bride came up at one point. Well, I'll tell you who is a dancer. Our youngest son, Jude, right? That boy will tear up a dance floor wherever he goes, right? Yeah. If there's like an event and it's a dance floor, he's on it from beginning to end, right? He loves it. But at one point the bride came up and was like, there's nobody dancing, there's nobody dancing. And by that point I'd had enough drinks to be like, oh, dance.

8:11So I went up, danced with Jude and then you joined me and then other people did come. We were a bit drunk, weren't we? Yeah. Well, it's time now to have a little moan. And I'll be honest with you, Claire, I don't have much to moan about. Things are pretty sweet for old buckers. This is what I'm talking about. I said this last week. It's because you're working. Yeah. And I hate to be very mumsy about it, but when you're acting, you're much happier. Yeah. Because I'm thinking about other stuff. No, but also, not even just that, because you can be busy doing other stuff. You can do your podcast and even if you do a new advert or something like that, but whenever you're acting in something, you're happier.

8:53You are happier. I think that's a very... You're quite busy right now. That's a very, very common thing with actors, though. Well, there you go. It can genuinely be really depressing when you're out of work and shock. I've got news for you. If you want to be an actor, you're going to spend a lot of time out of work. Yeah. Even if you're, like, shit hot at the time and everything's going for you and stuff. It does come and go. There will be lots of lengths of, like, just sitting around waiting for something to happen, waiting for this thing to come through, waiting to know what you're doing. Yeah.

9:23And it can be, yeah, you can get sort of wrapped up in that a little bit. Yeah. Get a bit down. But we're all good. I haven't got much to moan at. Tell me you've got something, even a little thing to moan about. I do actually have a little thing. Okay. And I thought of this during the week, right? So I was in a supermarket. It was a wee thing that did annoy me. And I've never thought about it until the other week. It sort of clicked on me. Because, you know, in some of those shops they do paper bags, right? And I remember when the paper bags came out and it was like a whole big thing, like it's better for the environment, great.

10:00And you have to, if you want a plastic bag, you're going to have to pay for it, right? And everybody, I think everybody was all right with that. I remember everybody being like, yeah, cool, whatever. Why am I buying paper bags? Ah, because the paper bag is supposed to be, you can have it. I thought the whole point was you have to pay for the plastic bag and the paper's free. Why am I just buying any bag now? You don't get any bag for free. Why am I buying paper bags? I thought that was the point. I thought the point was if you want a plastic bag, if you want to live in the old days, you need to buy it.

10:35But here's a paper one. Because supermarkets have done this really genius thing, right? Where they bend you. I wouldn't. No, no, no. No, no. Don't be mean to the supermarkets. Because they've done this amazing thing, right, where even though there's like a cost of living crisis, and the price of everything is going up. Here it goes. Their profits are still rising every year. They're absolutely brilliant. They're geniuses. They're absolutely incredible. And we should, you know, don't hate the player. And they thought, and the government brought this thing in like, well, if you want to keep giving your customers plastic bags, we want you to deter them.

11:12Yeah. So maybe charge them for the plastic bags. That's what I'm saying. It was a deterrent. Yeah. And they've gone, well, it's not really deterred them because they're always buying plastic bags from us and we're making a fuckload more money out of the plastic bags, maybe we should put a little price on the paper bags as well. Why not? Yeah. Let's just fucking charge them for everything. But in their defence, Claire, they wouldn't be making record-breaking profits every year if they weren't treating us like a bunch of ****. Right, yeah, yeah. Okay, but am I wrong in that, like, have I missed something?

11:44Like, is somebody going to go, oh, no, it was always that? Like, my first thought was when he was like, do you want a bag? that's 20 pence or whatever. I was like, but these are paper. I thought the whole thing was if you wanted a plastic bag, you had to buy it. But now you're just paying for any bag. No, because they've gone, they need bags. They can't leave without a bag. Yeah. Oh, hold on. We've got some info. Yes, you usually have to pay for a paper bag at a UK supermarket. While there is no government mandated charge for paper bags as there is for single-use plastics, supermarkets generally set their own fees, typically ranging from 30 to 40p per bag.

12:21So it's not about saving the environment. It's about, you know, especially with the paper bag, it is about, we can squeeze a couple more pence out of them just before they leave. That's what it feels like, isn't it? That's what they're doing. That is what it feels like, though. I thought the paper bag was like a thing that we were all going to get on board with. Yeah. Anyway, that's Mammon. Make paper bags free. Hey, should we have a little swipe? Oh, I've got some great stuff coming up for you after this

12:57Hey Claire Why do you look like that every time I say hey Claire? Because this gets cut in a certain way Where people don't hear you rambling on for 20 minutes before you do that And me gone, you ready? We know we like to do our special It's World this day Oh, God. What is it now? I've not even looked. What is it? Well, Claire, today is National Splurge Day. Here's a description for you. Are you tired of moderation, endless budgeting and taking the frugal option? If so, then National Splurge Day is for you. No, I'm not. While for the rest of the year, a person may be a model of financial prudence, National Splurge Day is an opportunity to let that hair down, go wild and spend a little more on something decadent.

13:44See, this doesn't work for this podcast Why not? Because I never spludge and you spludge all the time Well, I try my best, Claire

13:56And whatever way you want to take that is true I'm trying my hardest I can't remember the last time I spludged I know, but you always say it's okay Sometimes I pretend that I've spludged Hey Hey Hey I take offence to that I'd rather know that you've not splurged Than a fake splurgeage No this is actually spending Oh okay right I have faked How much I spent on something once To you very recently Check this out Go on So for a long time right Our toaster was broken Right remember You would put the breed in And it would come back up And go down and come up And it wouldn't toast anything You're probably accused of putting your accent on, but carry on.

14:45Am I being Scottish? Because you said breed. Bread. And you said dune. Okay. People were going to go, she's putting that on. Sorry, sorry. So anyway, we needed a toaster for ages, didn't we? And I kept forgetting, because you never remember until you're going to make toast. Right. Anyway. Yeah. I bought a new toaster. Yeah, you lied about the price of it. I did. Yeah. I knew it was fucking, I knew it was Mickey Mouse when you bought it. No, you didn't. No, I didn't because I was going, I literally said to you how much did this cost? Yeah. Because it was some fucking brand that I've never heard of before whatsoever.

15:17You always get me into trouble when I buy something because you always say you've got a shitter version of the really good version. What's a good thing? Yeah, you buy cheap, you buy twice. Anyway, you are going on and on about getting a new toaster and you're going, get the good one that it comes up on the screen. I've seen toasters. And you can see how dark the bread's going. Yeah, I've seen toasters. You can watch it on the screen. I've seen toasters with basically like an iPad attached. Right, and I looked at them and they were fucking hundreds and hundreds of pounds. How many hundreds of pounds?

15:45I don't know, it was ages ago. Anyway, I found one that had a little dial of bread, right, from light to really like burnt basically. Yeah, yeah. And it looked, the little dial lights up. It looked techie, it does look techie. So anyway, the toaster comes in, I unpack it, I plug it in, me and the boys are making some toast and I say to you, oh, I got a new toaster. and you went oh that looks good you were looking at it and you went how much was it no let me do you let me tell you something when i said that looks good i was lying no you were i was lying but then you said to me how much was it yeah and i said to you there's your clue when someone says this looks good how much was it right and i said to you it was 150 quid yeah and even then i was a bit like which is expensive for a fucking toaster i could have spent way more on a toaster yeah i I know you could.

16:34And then you were ready to give it a chance. I've never used it once. Exactly. You left that room and me and Harrison were there and I told Harrison, I said, that toaster's about£45. I said, but don't tell your dad that because he'll just moan about how shit it is. Again,£45. Because you think the more you spend, the better it is. Yeah, because I'm an idiot. Right, in your defence,£45 is probably too much to spend on what is essentially a toaster. It's still a good toaster. Yeah, but I'm just an idiot and I'm a fool and I've succumbed to commercialism. Yeah. And I do want a toaster that you might find in Total Recall or something like that.

17:12Well, it looks like that. That's what makes me happy. Now, when I get home, I am lobbing that toaster down the back of the garden. My point was... I'm getting rid of it and I'm going to spend... I'm going to buy a fucking... I'm going to buy a solid gold toaster. So I do fake splurge. Right. All the time. All the time, it turns out. It is National Splurge Day. Right. Now, we do talk about splurging quite a lot on this. Too much on this podcast. Yeah. And we do have, which leaves us very nice. I've made a fucking pig's ear of it. And I made an absolute pig's ear of this. Fucking hell, man. Anyway, I'm trying to get us on to Bang for Buck.

17:57It's a regular feature. It's called Bang for Buck. It's where we talk about where you splurge on something. Yeah. Let's play the theme tune. Bang for Buck. Is it worth the spend or just dumb luck? Bang for Buck. Did it change your life or did it suck? Bang. Right. Here's a message from Ben. Benny. Benny says, hi, James and Claire. I got a bang for buck submission that might also end in divorce papers. Brilliant. That's the ones. I've recently bought myself one of them big leather reclining armchairs for the living room Oh, a Joey chair Yeah, you know the type Pull the handle, feet up, beer balanced on your belly Ever since watching Friends, I've always wanted to be like Joey and Chandler With their own recliners, just parked in front of the telly There's just something ridiculously cosy about them There was lots of guys my age That were young boys watching Friends in the 90s That would have gone, oh, imagine that You did?

18:56Yeah, I know I did I know I did. That's a story in itself. I can't bother to get into that. Yeah. But I did. Yeah, I did. Every bloke, right, wants to have a lazy boy. They want to be Joey and Charlotte from Friends, right? Right, okay. Now, slight issue. I did mention it to the missus beforehand and she was absolutely dead against it. Her exact words were, you're sitting on the sofa with me. We are not having armchairs in this house. Fair enough. Anyway, it's currently somewhere in a DPD depot heading towards my house as we speak. sent me back£630, which feels like the best money I've ever spent.

19:33That's expensive. I genuinely can't wait to sit in it every night watching rubbish on the telly. She's going to send it back? Not fully sure what the missus is going to say when it arrives, but by then I should already be reclined. Imagine that. Just having a go at... Imagine you coming into a room and having a go at me and stuff. I'm just... Imagine you midway. Having a go at me going, what are we going to do about this? And you haven't done this yet and you haven't done that. And then you reclaimed. And I'll just go. Well. I'd fucking smack you into the chair. That's not good, by the way. You don't buy furniture with supervision.

20:14I'm off furniture. There's usually one that's better at the old decor than the other one. True. Yeah. Then you just leave it at that. And if one of them says absolutely not, then you can't just go and buy a big, massive fucking chair. Look, I'm not in a position, Ben, to... I don't know how to help you out here, man. No, you've fucked up. Because when that comes, the shit's going to hit the roof. Yeah. Yeah. Shouldn't have done that. That's not good. Yeah. Don't be buying big fucking ugly chairs for the living room. Yeah. That's not good. I don't appreciate that. But it might be really, really comfortable.

20:49It depends. Oh, good, because you'll fucking be sleeping in the garden. Yeah. That might be happening. I hope it's really comfortable. We got another one from James who says, Hi, Buckleys. Loving the pod. I was listening to your pod when I was triggered by your list of the most irritating things people can do. In particular, people eating loudly and armrest etiquette. I'm adding this. People who breathe too loudly. All of these are an issue for me when going to the cinema. It drives me crazy. Now, when I take the wife to the cinema, I buy three seats, even though there are only two of us. So I can guarantee there is no one sitting next to me, breathing or eating in my ear and trying to hog the armrest.

21:32For an extra 13 quid, I get to enjoy the movie in my own unsociable bubble. That's bang for buck in my book. Yeah, no, the cinema is not a place to be sociable, is it? No, no, there shouldn't be any talking. That is genius. I like that extra 13 quid. You've got yourself a buffer from the next person. Yeah. Now. But someday we'll sit in it and then you have to say that's taken. and they'll go, well, by who? Then you have to go, I bought an extra. That makes you look like a knob. I've thought about this on airplane flights. You kind of do that. They'll sell it out. Will they? Yeah. Loud breathers are a problem.

22:09Yeah. Remember I said to you once, I was actually trying on a dress for something. We were going somewhere and I had to come in another room to get you to zip it up, right? Yeah. And I didn't notice what you were doing. I didn't look at you. I just said oh can you zip this and I turned around obviously so you were at my back and you were zipping up and I went to you have you got headphones in and you went yeah why and I honestly he was doing this now it was a bit tight he was going

22:47and I was going he definitely cannot hear that because that's even mental for him I think that's just the noise I make when I'm standing close behind you Claire

22:57that's bang for buck though that one extra little 13 quid get yourself a little buffer zone between you and the next person in the cinema absolutely brilliant but he says he's messes next to somebody on the other side no he's next I assume they've got the aisle seats right I think you're giving them too much it'll be the aisle is missus him spare seat and then whoever the fuck turns up right okay and I do think that is worth 13 pounds I think that's a good little and also you're putting a bit of money into the industry that I'm supposed to be in. Good. Keep going to the cinema. I love it. Yeah, keep going to the cinema, guys.

23:31Come on, go to the cinema. It is good. Let's have a swipe and then I'll work out where the fuck we are in this. I've lost myself. Okay, swipe me.

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