What Makes A Good Pub, A Good Pub?

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1:10Hello, everybody. Welcome to Daily Brightness. Our favorite episode is our Q &A. And just before we get into it, we have got one special question based off the last episode. It is from Emma, and it is, what is the grow up? What's the story behind grow up, Rach? Right, listen, I'm not telling the story yet. We're not ready yet, okay? It's only been a few days since we last went by it. But no, we will come out of that story eventually, but it's not the time. It's not the time or the place. Just bear with us, okay? Sorry, Emma Love, we'll come back to you. All right, Rach, kick us off. What you got for us?

1:51Next question is from Hannah. What is your favourite England tournament you have been to together? It's obviously a simple answer. The Euros. 2022 in England. Really good. There's nothing better. You can't compete. If you've watched our podcast, you'll know why we love that one. Can you stop sniffling? Sorry, I can't. I can't. Blow your nose. No, I'm not because that means getting up to get tissue. No, but the Euros. Grow up, boy. If you know us, grow up, that's it. If you know us, you know how much that tournament went to us on and off the pitch. Like, just the best, wasn't it? Best. It was. It was the best.

2:31But, you know, I've loved every tournament with you. Like, I have. Yeah, because equally the World Cup was amazing, wasn't it? Yeah, even the Olympics was incredible. I just think that tournament, it was different. It was. My favourite moment was sitting before the final and being like, oh, my God, Bestie, in years to come and we've got children, we're going to look back and be like, your mum's both playing in that final. No, I'm not being funny, Bestie. You can't say the Olympics was incredible. We had the worst time ever. Let's be real. It was the worst time ever. Let's be real. It was awful.

3:04We had a great time. Millie and Rachel together had the best time in Tokyo. As a whole, it was awful. But I look back, right? You know when people get the Olympics rings tattooed on them? I went to get one of my tattoos, the last tattoo I said. the last tattoo I got he was like why didn't you get the Olympics room I was like no I can't because I can't even act like I was really there like it was just so it wasn't a great time was it but we had a great time we had a great time anyway moving on I just started football at 16 can I get some advice please just enjoy it like enjoy it man that's the best best bit of advice I could give like if you don't enjoy it don't do it what was that Enjoy it, man.

3:54Enjoy it, man, yeah. Listen, man. No, but enjoy it. Do you know what I mean? Like, if you're not enjoying it, what's the point? I've always stood by it. A happy player is the best player, and you've got to be enjoying what you do. I stand by that rule. So, yeah, just soak it all up. You're at that age where you're developing and, you know, learning new things about football on and off the pitch. So, just make sure you're in the best environment, and, yeah, just live your best life with it. It's a short career, so make the most of any opportunity that you get. Right, you don't really watch men's football, but what is your favourite kit of all time, men's or women's?

4:26What I would say is the, what year was it, the England kit with the little poppy, little popper bun? It was reversible. Yeah, best kit ever. I never took it off. That was a great kit. I never took it off. Internationally, I would say that was the best kit. Yeah. 100%. But my favourite ever kit was a Leeds kit. Actually, I've got it now, like the new one. Yeah. This season's away kit is blue and yellow, obviously. but they made it in like I think it was like 2000, 2002 whatever I don't know what year it was but it was all like royal blue and it had like sponsored by Strongbow the cider sick yellow Strongbow sick but they made like a bit of a remake of it this year so I instantly bought that but yeah I'd say that one and the other one I had as a kid I was a Chef Wednesday fan as a kid I had that I got a vintage one actually someone sent me it and I was absolutely I was fucking buzzing can't believe they sent it me it had the lollipops on the front Chubba Chub Yeah, Chubba Chubb.

5:20It had that massive logo on the front and it was just like your standard blue and I loved it. Best. I love vintage kits like that. But I'd say those two, but the England one, they're reversible with the popper columns. 100 % the best one. Sick. How do you cope with the horrible weather this time of year? I was going to read that. Well, Mr. Zach, I actually... Wrap up! Wrap up and get out in it!

5:47Actually, let me tell you a little story is that this morning i thought oh the heavens have closed i'll quickly pop out with my three little gremlins as i got out the heavens opened i got absolutely saturated i weren't dying the raindrops were not poisonous i weren't melting i know some people think i'm a witch but i'm not um i just i don't i really like winter i don't need to cope with it because i like it i love it cold i love when it's freezing the only weather i don't like is wind that is it i hate the wind wind's horrible wind's awful especially in football I'm driving driving in the wind's awful yeah I agree I like like okay listen my heating's on but I've still got this coat on because I'm just like I just like I don't know like I love putting a coat on yeah my favourite outfit like if I was to put any outfit together I would have a coat on 100 % big puffer coat I'd love a little I like scarf and hats yeah but football I'm a bit of a melt I'm not you can just deal with it like I have long sleeve shirts on but do you know what I really struggle with melt You've known this about me.

6:49My feet. My feet. I pour bunions to freeze. Yeah. When they get cold, it's like, I can't, I can't, I can't even kick the ball. I can't, I can't, I can't. It's so painful. So I put like, what I do is I have a hairdryer in my bag. Really? Yeah, hairdryer my boots before I go. No, I don't. My toes, you know what it's like. My toes hurt. She does struggle. They actually hurt. She's actually got a medical condition with her feet. I have to like blow my boots really, really hot and then put them on and then two minutes later they're cold again but then I'm adrenaline. I don't need to cope, Zach. Wrap up.

7:24Wrap up and get on with it. When do you put your Christmas tree up and what are your favourite Christmas decorations? First of December. All my decorations are up first of December and I don't take them down till the second week of Jan. I love celebrating Christmas. I love it. I don't know. Part of me doesn't really like it. What? Right? But then like part of me really like, I don't know. I've got a big like theory about Christmas. One, it's all for kids. But two, I just, I don't know. I think there's just such a big hype. No, it's not all for kids. No. It's not. Wait, hear me out. My build up to Christmas, I love.

8:00Yeah, agreed. But the actual Christmas day, I'm just like, oh, could be another day. No, I love it. I love, there's nothing better than giving presents. I don't want any presents. Giving presents is amazing. But equally, I've spent a lot of time away. so I'm not really had just been able to like do like it's like oh yeah you open on your gift on FaceTime like no like I love Christmas and the concepts of Christmas and I know when there's kids around it's the best thing in the world and I still do love it right but for me my number one favourite is the lead into Christmas like as soon as you can put heart Christmas channels on on the radio get me going love it oh I have Christmas songs I'm all in the spirit yeah I have that Christmas essential probably about two weeks they'll come on Oh, I could play them now.

8:42I absolutely... I could play them now. Much favorite Christmas song.

8:49Oh, I love that Mariah Carey one. Baby, I love... But then... What's mine? Do you know mine? Christmas, I give you my heart. That's my favorite. Should we start doing karaoke on the podcast, anyone? We should, we should. We should, we should. But that's my favorite. Yeah, I like Last Christmas. And another thing. Great question. I love mince pies. Oh. Oh, my God. The food at Christmas is another level. Banging. That leftover Christmas dinner in a sandwich. Oh, my God. Do you like Christmas pudding? No, I don't like Christmas pudding. I don't, but do you like Christmas cake? No, I don't like Christmas cake.

9:29See, love Christmas cake. I want all the icing. Give me the Christmas cake. Just give me custard. Don't get us started on Christmas. Can't wait for the podcast Christmas special. Oh, pussy. I'm going to get my Christmas jumper and everything. I might come as the Grinch. guys that is it for the first part of the questions we have got some absolute crackers in the second part we'll be back very soon

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11:24Welcome back, everyone, to the second part of our Q &A. Millie, hit us off with your next question. What makes a good pub a good pub? Now you're talking, isn't you? I know the sound of that.

11:44Guinness. That makes a pub a good pub. Go on. Do you know what? Let's see. Are you pouring it or not? Yeah, this is how you pour it. Let's see then. You know this. This is how you're supposed to pour it. Yes. People are going to judge me. listen to that sound but watch it ASMR that is so satisfying but watch it in a minute anyway I could have a lot of answers to this question right and my number one thing is community yeah agreed because you could have it in the best location you could have the best beers on draft you could have the best wine selection you could have the best interior the best exterior if you've got the people don't matter because a pub, take a pub back, strip it all the way back.

12:29A pub is a community and it's where people go to have joy. It's where people go to converse. It's where people go to shoot the shit. I bet you've got the same memories as me when you were a kid and you used to go to a pub with your dad. Oh my God, yeah. Every Friday night, me and my dad, we'd go down to Navi. That were our favourite pub at Navi. We had so many pubs. So many pubs and then I just remember like being on his shoulders on the way back and we popped at Chinese shop and I'd get chicken and sweet corn soup and one of those little takeaway cups and then I'd have ducking orange sauce. I remember it clear as day like it was yesterday.

12:59Some of my best memories like my sisters used to come. I'd earn a fiver. Collect all glasses in I'd get a fiver. I grew up in a pub basically, literally. My dad worked there when he was a kid. I worked there. Everyone in the family just like works there, right? Like I grew up and my pub was called The Dog. And they're always family run, aren't they? It's always family run. Yeah, but like what I love is that I could go into that pub to this day, right? Even if I was different owners like from when I worked there it could be like three different owners right yeah but the shepherd's dog is the shepherd's dog and you're always getting the locals right so they've whoever started that pub they've generated that community feel so everyone in that community knows that they can go there and they can feel a part of a community and you can literally I know for a fact I can go there tomorrow and I could sit on any given table and anyone would talk to me just I do think there's a lot of pubs that don't have that anymore yeah I can't show you my Guinness because I've I didn't do it very well this is how you're pouring, this is what you need to do.

13:59Well, I was trying to focus on you and pouring, do you know what I mean? So the head's a bit too big. But I agree. It's not bad. It's got a good top on it. Cheers to that. Cheers. I can't cheers anything but my little stick, man. But I agree. What makes a good pub a good pud? One, a pint of Guinness, and two, the people. All for the people. Yeah. What do you hope your lives will be like in 10 years? Ooh. That's not where you see yourself from five years from now. Fucking hell. I don't know where I see myself tomorrow, like, over five years. In a pub. Me and Rachel, oh, my God, we've got the Daily Brightness pub.

14:33We should have a pop-up pub. We should have a pop-up pub. Hey, don't get started because when we get an idea, we make it happen. Do you know what? I actually don't think, like, I don't want to answer that question because I think - I don't want to think too far ahead. I don't want to plan. Like, my life has been planned. Yeah. Our lives have been planned. Like, everything's been planned. Everything's a structure. Everything's a routine. That's what I want. Freedom. Freedom! Last figures. Yeah. Like, don't plan it for me. Like, let me just... No, I just... Honestly, I just want a good life. I want to be happy, healthy, family.

15:04You can have a few non-negotiables that you, like, want to stick with. But, like... Nah, I want freedom. I'm not planning it. I'm not doing it. Not planning it. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. Oh, you like this. B &M or home bargains or range. Oh! Right, that's... That's... Right, that's nasty. That's nasty. You can't make us decide that. We like them all. Because, because. Do them in order. We won't pick one. We'll do them in order. Let me just tell you, like where I live, B and M and the range, right next to each other, yeah? I never understand that either. Why are they side by side? But one's here, like the two of them are there and then her baggins is like all the way over there, right?

15:41So you've got to do like a round robin. But each of them sells things that the other one doesn't, in my opinion. So I'll go to each for different things, but I think. Mine's the range. I'm not going to lie. Mine's the range. I think it's the range. But I love it. The range does it all. And have you seen that they've got the Christmas decorations out already and I've already picked my colour theme for this year? It's green. No, but I'll be honest. I don't like that. I don't like the overkill of Christmas yet. Because I think for me... Oh, there couldn't be any overkill for me, bestie. But I think for me, Halloween's not even been yet.

16:12So once that's over, I'm like, start Christmas. But I walked in literally two weeks ago. I'm like, it's only just turned October. I know, but I am excited because I love going to the range and just, oh, my trolley's full. Every time I go, get in, get in, get in. No, I love the range. Don't give a minute, I love the range. Half of my house is the range. Yeah, I think it's the range. I think that's the answer. But I'll tell you what I do like. Pooh bags from Home Bargains because, right, I don't know your take on this. I've got eco poo bags, just like, you know. Yeah, I like the feel of them. It's like the co-op bags, isn't it?

16:46So smooth. Oh my God, yeah, they're lovely. Very therapeutic. Same, right? but when they're in that little pouch yeah it's easy yeah but I always run out of the pouch and I'm just like what oh yeah I've got bags because they're on the pouch well I get there and I'm like no I haven't and I'm like oh I can't pick it up so I get really annoyed so all of mine now are like shoved in the pocket every coat you go in in my house has poo bags right so I like the ones from Home Bargains because they're not on a roll so you can just pull three out four out put them in your pocket put them straight in rather than doing this hey Dex, you done the poo?

17:22Yeah, no. Get one out of your pocket. Scoop it up. Off you go. I have a sucker. I've got a little dog walking bag and I've got my treats clipped onto my strap. Do you say treats on a dog walk? Yeah, and then... Oh, I don't. Because I'm like the treat lady in the village and they all come up to me and they love me for it. And then in my bag... It's like the bird lady in Home Alone. And then in the side of my little dog bag, there's a little like pocket where you put your poo bags on a roll and then they stick out the sides and then I just pull it out and I I really yeah but I'd forget the bag yeah but I don't because I find that very I like that that's my little thing what I'm sure yeah but see I just put sometimes I like a long coat sometimes I like a short coat sometimes I like a rain coat sometimes I don't like a coat so I've got to like get them all ready yeah but see I just put I put my bag on I just put my bag on best day yeah but I'll be like where's my bag no it's hung on my little dog hook where the harness is so I cannot forget it yeah but I'm not like that I don't come in and put my bag on a hook.

18:19I go, dogs off the lead. Oh, heating off. Foods off. Yeah. I just, you know me. I'm a bit of a, well, you know that's not me. Right guys, that is it for today's episode of our questions. We will be back next week. Make sure you send me your questions. Thank you as always and we can't wait for the next load. Bye. Goodbye. Goodbye.

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