S16E02 - Xavi Simons Believes. Do We?

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0:42it's the fighting cock a camel hey there boys Q &A Thursday it's the best the best version of you know what I wanted to qualify for Europe this year I did I always want to be in Europe because you're in Europe you're nothing yeah sort of but when we're in Europe don't really get to the Q &A Thursdays and Q &A Thursdays for me are the best version of the fighting cock so while I'm unhappy that we're not in European trophy a European competition I am happy that every Thursday for the next year we'll do this podcast rather than just simply what do you think of the game lads everyone saw it everyone thinks the same every podcast is the same thing about a game everyone yeah they're everyone so this gives us a chance to be a little bit more creative freestyle freestyle it yeah yeah and i've been i've been listening to oh and also not having europe means uh we're almost certainly going to win the league i did i did i did i've been watching javi simmons's interview with the sports agents which is a podcast by mark chapman and gabby yoref rosendale logan logan gaby logan all the same woman there's only one there's only one gabby and it's the one with all of those names it's just one person we celebrate all of them yeah right uh um and they interviewed javi simmons and i thought what a quality interview like you know i i'm the more you hear from him the more impressed you're you i am by him you know the stuff he did with his nan was a lovely thing because he's, you know, he's then got dementia and dementia is a thing that's sort of quite close to my heart.

2:24I'm not into it. It's not like I'm well into dementia. I just have a lot of family that have had dementia and seen it past and it's quite a tricky thing. So, yeah, I think you'd be an odd person if you were into dementia in that way. I wonder if there's a porn genre. Can't be. That'd be too, that'd be, that's beyond the power, isn't it? Yeah, I'm not going to search for it to find out, to be honest. I mean, if you had NordVPN, no one would know if you did. That's a good point. This episode isn't sponsored by NordVPN, by the way. So don't worry about that. That isn't the read. You're going to get another one of them later, right?

2:59You'll be happy tonight. No, but the Xavi Simmonds interview was just brilliant. It was for someone who's injured, who could be frustrated, could not want to be involved, who could use his time to not be engaged in the football club. like you know a certain Romero might might have chosen to be he's like front and center he's talking about he's did you see the interview you know what I'm even talking about no no well he talks about um why he chose to join Tottenham which is his first mistake because uh it was the head coach that convinced him ah you must gullible gullible young man is what I would say there uh he said van der Ven uh basically convinced him to say convinced him to come and said, we need you, so you come here, is what Van der Ven said to him.

3:47Good, good. Yep. He said his preferred position is a number 10, although he's happy to play wherever the coach wants him to play. Okay. Talks about his time at Barcelona.

4:03I guess the takeaway quote of the entire episode was, I want to show I can bring a title to Tottenham. everyone's talking about titles at the club. Yes. It feels like there's a message, isn't it? That's coming from someone. Yeah. It might be a mad little Italian geezer. Spiky air. But everyone's talking about, yeah, titles. We're going to win the league this year. This is what we're doing. I just think there's a lot of good stuff coming out, Rick. Yeah. I mean, like, I think there must be some kind of, not like a memo that's gone around to everyone, like an email. slash everyone's on slash was it slash slack slack slack just open it up and he says win the league yeah oh shit every morning in slack it just it's Zerby with a thumbs up picture going league this year boys but isn't that that's manifestation right that's everyone thinking about the same thing yeah getting everyone on board I think I think Ange was a proponent for that kind of visualisation and I think he told people that, you know, it's the same, you know, I always win a trophy in my second season and it's just putting it out there.

5:19When people come to Tottenham or wherever it be, players or anything like that, we are apprehensive saying stuff out loud because we'll get laughed out the building. We're going to win the league. We're going to win the FA Cup. Mate, old dusty trophy cabinet and all this shit. And it's like, is it worth piling the pressure on you to be able to say stuff like that for it to come around and more than often than not to bite you in the ass? So to come out and what it feels like within the club is like, obviously no Europe. We're making these signings. Roberto is fucking dialed in already and he's saying everything we want to hear.

6:06maybe this is you know let's what was stopping us we're stopping us he's probably in there saying chelsea new manager transition carrick you know probably gone by christmas if we're honest liverpool new manager transition city new manager transition we're kind of all new manager.count as transition well he does but it's that time to say if we are if we get out the gates quick enough show consistency and that mental fortitude to be like right we are top of the league or we are third to keep on hanging in there that we this is our prime objective is to win the title and keep saying it we're equal to the others at the moment that's what you know you could be saying to the team and that they would be believe in it i believe it i think we you know the only team there the gunners that have the same manager and have had a consistent kind of team that would be you'd expect them to start the the season very quickly how they kind of finished it they're going to be you know champions but they've got injuries saliba apparently won't be back until 2027 saka and rice are going to be rested because of the World Cup.

7:33Sorry, in my head, that was two years, not one. He'll actually be back early 2007. I thought you said he's out for like 18, 20 months. He's so happy. Then he realised, fuck, it's just the five months. But still, I mean, opportunity, when it knocks. The thing is, Ricky, is it isn't, it doesn't, like if we go, if we win the league, saying we're going to win the league, that would be magnificent. If we don't win the league, it doesn't matter because it's about changing the mindset. I think us as fans, because of years of just underperforming and not being able to compete and being laughed at and spending money but nowhere near what other people spend and the wage structure sort of holding us back and that sort of stuff, it meant that as Spurs fans, we developed an attitude of, of course, we're not going to do it.

8:18Deep down, we were for, league talk is insane. And I think I'm still there. When De Zerbe says, yeah, we're going to go for the league. Not that you said that, but that's what we're hearing. And what Shavey Simmons says, yeah we want to win the league in my head i'm like intellectually i don't believe what they're saying i'm glad they're saying it i just don't believe them or i don't think that they think or they don't understand the club they've joined because the club they've joined is full of people that don't think we can win the league and it takes someone to change that mentality altogether like genuinely john if i say to you we will win the league next year it's just me saying stuff you don't actually believe it do you well i want to believe it so that that's a step in the right direction yeah and look you got to start you have to start somewhere and you know if we look at those scumbags down the road they built that like empty case for a trophy right which they were rightly laughed at and mocked for and everyone was like why have you built that but in a way i kind of understand now why they did it right because it's basically like setting your ambitions to go like Like that is what we're going to do.

9:26That is our mission. That's what we're going to strive to do. And it's the same thing in like businesses always do it, like having a mission statement and like how we're going to achieve our dreams. And everyone buys into this idea of what you're going to try to do so that everyone knows what the overall objective is. The overall objective of a football club can't be like, well, we want record breaking revenues and we want to build a new hotel, right? Like that's not going to motivate you as a playing staff. And, you know, even to a certain extent going, well, we want to qualify for like top four.

9:54It's like, cool, if that's the highest you're aiming, then you might finish lower than that. Whereas, you know, if you really go in, we want to try and win the league, that's going to be our actual ambition. And everyone in the club's like, that's goal number one. Like, we're going to try and win the league. If you finish second, right, that's like a massive improvement from where we've been previously. So it's less about like going, that's what you said we're going to do, therefore anything less than that is a failure. And it's more about setting the agenda of what the club is aiming for and like creating this idea of what success should be and i do feel like where this is different from the levy era is it feels like even the members of the lewis family are kind of brought into supporting that idea and that we've brought this guy in he seems to believe that's possible if we just give him what he needs like who knows and i agree with rick i like if you actually look around at the league there's a it might not be true it might not come to pass but you can absolutely make a case to go anyone can win the league this season anyone so yes whilst we might technically also be a club in transition if we can get our shit together before everyone else we have as good a chance as they do at having a proper go at it so I'm always on this fence of like I'd rather be a dream and think we might win the league so yeah I think we are going to win the league, Flav.

11:14How about that? Yeah, I'll take it. I just don't believe you. Right. Good. That's the problem. I need to be changed. I need something to happen to make me believe. I want to. I want to, absolutely. Well, Flav, as a wise man once said, just you wait. Just you wait. Well, I will, hopefully. Fingers crossed. Fingers crossed. Ricky, when did you finish? You said eighth, didn't you? No, I didn't say eighth. Yeah, I think you said that. No, top six has to be. Rick, when you found your mum's dildo for the first time why did you keep hold of it for a bit that's that's a couple of weeks i can't believe that i did i made a fantastic dildo joke and we had to cut that pod a twat yeah we went down an alleyway that which wasn't it wasn't publishable i don't think yeah but i want to know what happens to us but when we got down that alleyway it was dark and We were like, we've got to go back.

12:13I was like, oh God, we did four minutes. I was like, this can't go out onto the internet. I don't understand why you kept hold of it for a bit. What was it like, a memento? What the fuck did you want? I can't think of anything funny to come back to that. There's not anything really to say about that. You just wanted to measure it to see if it would fit him as well. Yeah. we played a we played a first pre-season game MK Dons behind closed doors at the training ground and obviously it's just it's just a pre-season doesn't mean anything but blimey what a goal from Fernandes what a peach did you see Gabby and Bongloog having a go at Spurs fans are getting excited saying yeah we should score those goals in training all the time mate we are there's a B under our we've put a lot of B's under a lot of bonnets this summer.

13:08Yeah, good. Isn't it? Yeah. He's got the arm with Spurs. I just want to know what, I mean, I do know why because he's 17th and all that stuff, but he just doesn't like what we've been able to do. He doesn't realise the size of the football club compared to his. But anyway, what a peach of a goal. It was amazing. Yeah, it was, I think even Fernandes said in his post-match interview, it's the best goal he scored. He ever scored? Yeah, that, even though it was kind of like a pre-season friendly, he said that he, like, hands down that's the best goal he's scored. How many times do you reckon out of a hundred?

13:44Like, I think you could roll that ball up and it's never going to hit that, but it's never going to hit the post and go in exactly like that. To be super critical, I think in training, players are probably much more comfortable with doing that than it's different. If you want to give a bongle ball any credit at all, to do it in a match, setting with 60 ,000 people watching is different from doing it like that. But yeah, it was an absolute peach. Yes, yes. I mean, to even attempt it, I think there was, I don't know if any of you have seen, there was a, I don't know if the keeper was off his line, but Gallagher tried to do something like that.

14:28Tried to lock the keeper. I think it went fucking, the ball went to the Emirates. It was fucking so high and far out. Someone on Reddit called it, he buried it in the bush. That's what I saw someone said. Because there's a big bush behind the goal. Just disappeared into that bush. And obviously, it's been clipped up. We've all been excited about him for a long, long time. He's already made his debut for Spurs, but Williams Barnett. I did an episode of The Lab with Lady White Rose. And he was talking about this kid is mustard. and uh i know i know it's pre-season i know it's not at the level but you can see that there's a player in him john like it's he people you you mentioned about finding a 10 ricky in case madison gets injured and javi simmons comes back yeah you might have you might mention it as well john but maybe trust him maybe john yeah so first of all i just want to let people into like behind the curtain which is like me and rick basically when everyone was talking about lwb lwb this lwb is mustard i was just like who is this left wing back that everyone i had no idea what you were talking about yeah it really confused i was like why can no one remember his name this left i just i just assumed it as soza i was like oh he's had a good game has he left wing back yeah and and this was in like multiple other people in other chats and i was like who is this left wing back for the love of god and then i realized it's really inspired um i mean this kid is like he is ridiculous like he is a serious talent it will just be really interesting to see what happens given that you know if you look at the youth players and the you know we've spoken about it there's a lot of them leaving the club because they're not going to get the sufficient game time he's an interesting case where he's like almost too young where he hasn't got a sell-on value just yet because he hasn't been out on loan he hasn't done much there and he's maybe a little bit too young to sell and like there's definitely more value and they definitely want to see more from him before they decide what to do with him and he's also clearly like really talented so in a weird way he might have more of a chance of hanging around and being that like you said being that sort of short-term cover for xavi because though you know it just doesn't quite make sense to move him on at this stage because if you think about like a player like divine or or Donnelly, for example, they play in that 10 position or they can play there.

16:48And you'd think, well, if you need a third choice, you'd go to them. But we're like moving or looking to move on those players. And so maybe there is this opportunity for him to break in there. And yeah, I know some people that know him. And he is like, his family are Spurs. He's a Spurs fan, like fully. And there is a expectation around the club with him that they really want to try and create a pathway for him. They really do think he's like really talented. So it will be really exciting to see what happens with him because like a silky, classy, skillful number 10. That's exactly the sort of player you want to break through into your first team.

17:26It looks like he plays football for the fun of it. He floats around the skill. He obviously believes in himself. He looks like he's bulked up as well. I know it's only been six, seven months since we last saw him play. It looks like he's transformed a little bit. He's becoming a man. At 17, you're not fully grown. in fact you're not grown at all i know that's that's when you're athletes like these guys that you can go and train and you know develop muscle but there's like a natural strength that you're grown like you could probably like there could be a 17 year old kid who lifts as much weights as he can and ricky could kill him because he's got his man's shrimp yeah it's true yeah yeah yeah so when he gets that you'll see a different player altogether like he's um i just think there's something there and you look at clips of mikey moore and you know he's a few years older than him now and you look at clips of sort of donnelly and what they did at that level but there's something different about williams barnett what i what i liked about him when when he had the ball that his passing was so positive you can be a youngster you could be getting your kind of like You know that the games on Spurs play, you've got Fernandes, you've got Tonali, you've got a lot of eyes on it, and you can play the ball safe.

18:47You can do, just don't lose the ball. But he was playing through balls. He was being positive and aggressive in his passing. And what I loved about him was his movement. And what I mean by that is when the ball was coming across him, he was using the pace of the ball to move his body, like to roll the opponent and he'd done it quite a few times and it just i can't remember like what players remind me of but it was like do you know when you front up to a player and you take them on by doing a skill step a of dropping the shoulder but how he was moving the balls when it was coming towards him he was letting the ball move and then he was moving and it was just that kind of type of um confidence for such a young kid to be doing in a game i was like i'm having this we're fucking having it

19:39I don't know if I spoke to you boys maybe Ricky we spoke on this is Tottenham podcast we do behind our Patreon payroll patreon.com and we talked about Romero it looks like he's done Vicario also has not been taken on the tour so it looks like he's on his way out so I guess John what's your opinions on Romero according to Fabizio Romano that he will definitely leave Spurs. There's no way back. Both the club and the player have all agreed that it's time for him to move on. I know, did we talk about it, John? A bit, yeah. On a podcast? Yeah, I think so. Last week, wasn't it? Yeah. But at that time...

20:21You have to do everything you can to not... Yeah, yeah. Oh, shit, I'm giving you another opportunity. Yeah. At that time, it was basically unclear. There were no links to him leaving. And so it was more of a case of like, we need to move him on but you know what's going to happen whereas now gladly there are a few more like concrete links i was actually listening to to you boys talk about it and it is an interesting thing in terms of his like the price and i actually think there's a really interesting element which is like that the money we're hearing is like what 45 million euros which is basically like 40 million quid which is which is really low but i think that's like emblematic of of the problem that that we have with him, which is that people know he's a good player, but the reason that his value is low is because there's this ton of negative stuff that comes with having him.

21:08And now we're paying, essentially, we're paying the price for that because plenty of clubs will take him, but they are going to factor in the issues that surround him as a... He's a not. That he's a twat and that you're going to have to deal with that and that has an effect. And so, yeah, from a footballing point of view, I'm glad that he's leaving because I think that whilst individually he's a good player, he can cause teams that he plays for like problems and the Zerbi I think is like much more of like a system type manager and so a rogue player is going to cause you quite a lot of issues and especially defensively you just want like sound reliable players that can like give you what you need consistently and that is the one thing it's like you can get world-class performances out of Romero there's no doubt about that you don't know when they're going to come and you can't rely on them and at any moment he could also just get sent off or do something mental so you factor that in and you know one of the things that rick i think you mentioned on that pod was everybody in every fan base as well as the media hates his guts now in the in england so you've it's an added thing and you already mentioned flab about like gabby agbonglahor he's not alone is he like we already know everybody hates spurs ang said it best when he's like spurt totten does crazy things to people we've already got enough going against us i think if you clear the decks get rid of him he's also one of those figures who in this sort of post poch period he's been like one of the big figures i think like we've spoken a lot about the painful rebuild i think that that period was was like this entire transition period that's now over right levy's gone poch has gone all of that generation of players have gone.

22:47And he's like one of the big figures from that middle period. And if we are going to start afresh, he's got to go. And we need to move him on and let some new leaders take the squad forward. Just quickly, I wanted to pick you up about the Williams Barnett, something you said, John. How do you know? So my friend, Nick, who I've spoken to. Nick, Nick. Yeah, Nick. Nick Shirley, one of my best friends. Yeah, yeah, who's one of your best friends. Good looking chap. Good looking guy. Really good looking. Silver fox these days, but still going for the sort of richer gear, minus the hamsters in the arse.

23:24Lock your mums up. Yeah, lock your mums up. But his mum does look a little bit like... Whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah, go on. Who is his mum? What's her name? I'm not going to out his mum. Okay, who does she look like? She looks like Neil Warnock with massive tits. That's the magic. Neil Warnock with massive tits. Massive tits. What a description. Yeah. I imagine she has long straight hair well no she's just got short hair short hair so she looks a lot like like Neil Warnham with fucking big old titties so yeah and like one of the best mums going by the way you know what I mean like I used to go around to his house just any time of day she's like oh do you want a sandwich I'll just make you some food just like proper looks off him and his brother both completely spoiled growing up like their washing was always done like the mum would like she'd always clean their room take them and ferry them everywhere, go to football.

24:18Football will be on nonstop in the house. I don't think she ever watched a program that she wanted to watch because football was on 24th. Oh, bless her. What a woman. Just absolute goddess. And so the name's Neil as well? Yeah, her name's Neil. Neil Warnock Shirley. Neil Warnock Shirley. But yeah, so he, one of his friends is Luca Williams Barnett's dad. So it's a pretty good connection to him. Wow. Yeah. Rick you look a bit like Gabby above the horse thanks cheers for that like a slim version yeah thank you your head's like half the size of his yeah but if you thank fuck for that it's ginormous his head it's insane where did that happen where did that how did it like his body went right you've reached 45 we're just gonna make your head massive now he didn't have that when he was playing did he no no Do you remember he was really, really fast?

25:13He was absolutely rapid. I've got this theory that basically when he was growing up, he had some condition that if he wasn't moving quickly enough, that air pressure would build up and expand. And now because he stopped playing, it's just slowly inflating. So he'd be like megamind eventually, and then it would explode. That's a good theory. I believe that theory. That's what I think. That's what I'm going for. Sorry to stop the podcast, but we have to remind you that Saylee is the official sponsor of the Fighting Cock podcast. So if you're traveling soon, don't get caught without data. Saylee is the ECM app from the creators of NordVPN, giving you instant, affordable mobile internet in over 190 countries.

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26:35He's retired. I thought he retired like 10 years ago I had no idea he was still playing yeah I've got a quiz for you boys here we go here we go it's a Lewis Holtby quiz Jesus Christ okay tell me and you can play along at home if you get five out of five questions right DM Ricky right okay and you ask him whatever you want he replies to everybody I promise right so So how many games did Lewis Holtby play for Tottenham Hotspur? Fucking hell. I'll go 42. I'm going to go 53.

27:18John is correct with 42. What? Oh my God. What the fuck, John? I mean, that's just a lucky guess. How many goals? There might be more than five. I'm quite having fun with this. How many goals did Lewis Holtby score for Tottenham Hotspur? two go with five the answer's three John Jesus Christ what other team no name me one team that Lewis Holtby played for in England in the Premier League oh

27:58oh shit alright name me one other English team you paid for Did he go to Fulham? He did go to Fulham. 3-0, John. Hey, hang on. Hang on. You said another team. Did he play for Blackburn? Yes, he did. Rick, you can have a point as well. 3-1. Right, okay. Nice. What team did Lewis Holtby play the most games for in his career? Fucking hell. Who did we sign him from? Was it Hamburg? That's what I was thinking. Was it Hamburg? I'm going Hamburg. Hamburg is the correct answer. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yes. Name me one other German club he paid for. Stuttgart. No. Ricky, you get shot. Fucking hell.

28:52I don't know. Cologne. Cologne. Yeah. That's how they say it, to be fair. No, Schalke and Holstein. Cologne. I remember being really excited about Lewis Hulbert. He had a good game against Norwich, if I remember rightly. He was like a cult hero back in the day. Yeah, we rated him. We rated him highly. Thought he was going to be good. Didn't happen. Didn't happen because he was very average. I saw him play in a pre-season. I went to Stagdew slash Pride in Hamburg. Can I just categorically say, Pride in Germany, certainly in Hamburg, is very different to Pride in the UK. I think pride in the UK is a celebration of homosexual love.

29:40Pride in Hamburg felt like just an opportunity for men to fuck each other. Oh. Yeah. And if you're straight, it doesn't, they don't, they didn't really mind if you're straight or not. Right. In fact, I think they preferred it if you were straight. Hang on, can I categorically say I didn't have sex with a man at pride in Hamburg? I'm just saying that they viewed me sounds like you did well someone put a put a sticker on my back which I walked around for about four hours of and it said come inside oh who did that that's out of order isn't it same way I think I stuck it on myself it was different what coincidence that you and your mum had the same sticker oh mate come on it's not even funny that's shit I really enjoyed it All right, let's do...

30:30So who won the quiz? John Bass won the quiz. Let's know what your score is. This is our home. If you need a blowjob, ask Ricky. Over his DMs. They're open for you. Always open. Always open. We've got lots of questions from beautiful people of Reddit. Whenever, on every Thursday, if we do the Q &A on Thursday, we always go to Reddit. We always ask the wonderful people to send in questions. So if you're not on Reddit or you are on Reddit and you're not on our coys, then you should be because it's an amazing little subreddit we've got over there. Schedule OK 6916 is, how did Ricky get over his spaghetti bolognese and garlic bread addiction?

31:14I didn't get over it. No, no, no. You can't get over it. No. Is it still your go-to meal? Oh, I love it. Absolutely fucking love it. You can't get wrong. It's like, I know. And everyone's going, yeah, but everyone says, yeah, of course, everyone says it everyone's correct yeah yeah it's really good my my daughter's been um making homemade dough balls brushing it with butter and garlic oh oh my god walking past just popping a couple yeah oh mate fucking all the time yeah yeah does she know that you're fasting and that well she does and she doesn't know about my addiction so i just keep it on the down low every time i like does anyone want any water when i go to the kitchen when i go in there i have a a couple of spoonfuls but for myself even though i've just had a massive dinner of it do you ever when you're eating dinner right and you're looking at the kit like you're not actively wanting to eat your kids food but you're like i wonder if they're gonna leave that and then you'll you'll you'll pretend to take no you're not pretending to take on the plates that you offer to take the plates out yeah and as soon as you get into the kitchen you have one little glance over your shoulder just to get no one's following you and then you gobble up all the foods on the plate yeah all the time that is me you know what i do because i don't have my own kids right but i've got lots of nieces and nephews and so like sometimes we'll go for like dinner with them and you know kids they always leave loads of food right yeah and it's and it's well annoying and their parents want their kids to eat more food right so i've devised this genius plan where i'm like i don't know i've got this really like good technique to like make them eat more of their food and i basically play this game where i get like a little bit of the napkin right i put it in my hand and i make them guess which hand it's in and if they get it wrong then you know they have to eat a bite and if you know if if they get it right then i'll have i'll have to have a bite of their food right well what i realized is you know the first go you make it so that they win right and then they're like they're having a bite and the parents are like oh that's such a good idea it's really getting them involved but what i do is i just make sure i keep losing then i can eat the rest of their fucking delicious burger because they're idiots they're morons they're fucking idiots and then i don't have to i don't have to like feel like guilty because i want to eat half their delicious burger that they've just left completely untouched.

33:20Yeah, in front of their parents. In front of their parents. Yeah, exactly. I can't lean over and be like, oh, just have a big bite of your kid's burger. But in this scenario, I'm a hero and I'm eating their burger. It is fucking genius. You've had three burgers that night, at least. Easily. And then I start doing it with their drinks. Like, I'm doing it with everything. Fucking honestly, kids are fucking idiots. Everyone goes, oh, my kid's so intense. No, they're all idiots. They're all idiots. They're thick. Thick, so stupid, kids, aren't they? Thick. Why can you be so fucking stupid? do you realise if I wasn't around you'd be dead that's how shit you are that's how shit you are the whole purpose of you on this planet is staying alive you'd be fucking dead if it weren't for me, idiots, you're a fucking idiot fucking idiot anyway and then they get to a certain age where they stop being idiots and then they think they know everything about everything I'm having this at the moment a little bit I'm getting advice from 16 18 year old kids that haven't been around the block before you think I ain't been around the block before?

34:17I ain't been around the block. Yeah, yeah. Do you not think I've been around the block, do you, kids? I fucking built the block. Yeah. I am the block, pal. I was helping out with a bit of English the other day. Oh, God. Yeah. And I said, oh, no, that sentence ain't right. You've got to change it. Chloe went, no, it is right. No, no, it ain't right. It's a possessive, it's a possessive. The fuck I'm wrong? Yeah, you are. I'm fucking wrong on that. Fucking hell, she did know. Anyway, other questions. You didn't get over it, did you? How often did you have sweet? Very well? Once every 14 days? What, a spag bowl?

34:56Yeah. Fucking behave once a week, mate. Once a week. Yeah. It ain't like it was last time. I'll tell you, kids at home, right? I would go around Ricky's house running his flat and it was disgusting the amount of food you could put on a normal plate. I didn't think it was possible to get that much food on the plate. And then you complained about being fat. Obviously, you're having like... each bowl of spaghetti bonnets was about 3 ,000 calories. This is the one time that Flav jokes and builds up everything that he says. Like, he just kind of embellishes everything that he says about me. He's right on this one.

35:31I can't lie. I'm not going to sit here and lie. And just to reinforce the fact that this is truth, you didn't actually have garlic bread as cutlery. You didn't actually have... No. You did have a knife and fork. Oh no, a spoon and a fork. Yeah. Yeah. It was two loaves of garlic bread around, hanging around. Oh, there always is. Always. Spudsy, Spursdy, he says, there's too much optimism on the podcast at the moment. Who will be the first, the fighting cop regular to call RDZ? It fucking does my head in this. If you're too lazy to write Deserby, then you need to look at yourself. all right just fucking write deserve because i have your you can't be asked to do the work and now i'm going i have to say rdz every single time rdz it's not even a z it's a z you cunt anyway um he'll be the first on the the fighting crop regulars to call rdz to leave and when will they do it uh m philly says cow and it'll be because we'll draw to commentary and we'll decide he hates his shit beard and dodgy haircut and someone else just said Alex yeah yeah I was gonna say we will be undefeated in 10 games yeah and Alex will come in and be like I'm not sure I'm having him I'm not sure and then we'll lose the next 10 and he goes there's something about this guy yeah yeah I know it's controversial but I think we should hang on to him now and we're all like fucking do you know do you know what you're doing I can't tell