Let's Talk About... New Years Special! Ep.7

[00:00:10] Right then guys, we are back. Welcome to Let's Talk About. You've got me and Liam here again. Do you want to say hello Liam? Hello. How was your Christmas mate? Yeah it was alright, it was decent. Like I said I was off work. I was a bit annoyed because my dinner that I made wasn't the best. I was pissed off for myself. Nah, that always kills it. I didn't cook this time. It was probably the best. Normally I don't mind it mate. Cooking for the family is different for me. But no, it was the missus man cooked it and it was nice. Fair enough. Happy days. Let's get out nice of Santa.

[00:00:41] Yeah I got a few bits. Hence the new attire. Yeah we've got Lakers written all over it. Your film. Yeah we love Lakers. No we don't. Yeah I got a few little bits and bobs but I'm getting older now. Just aftershave and Lynx sets mate. Yeah true. Socks and boxes. Or axe as we have a few American listeners. Axe body spray not Lynx is it? Yeah yeah. Something Lynx for us. Like walkers. Yeah. But no, it was good mate. It was good. Happy days. It is. Yeah so it's our New Year's special this one isn't it mate?

[00:01:11] It certainly is. Shall we just get cracked on? Let's just get into it. Alright. So right. Also we hope everyone else had a nice Christmas as well. Yeah yeah that's the point yeah. Right then mate. New Year's Eve. Is it overrated? Yes or no? Yeah I mean it is. It's just an excuse. I think it is now. Yeah. It never used to be. No it used to be like the best time of the year didn't it? Yeah. Especially if you're going out and having a drink with your mates. I used to love New Year's Eve mate. Now I'm not bothered in the slightest. No it just doesn't make a difference.

[00:01:38] I think it's just realistically it's always been like an excuse though hasn't it? Just to go out and get plastered. Oh yeah but I mean like we ever need an excuse in this country to do that. Yeah that's true. That's very true. No it's one of them even like where we live like I can half understand in London and places like that. Yeah. But even here where we live is a fucking tiny little town. Yeah yeah. And places charge more and stuff and like. Yeah. There's nothing here anymore. Exactly. There's just nothing.

[00:02:04] I mean you go out like where we're from if you go out there's just a ton of like 14 15 year olds out in the town anyway it's carnage. Yeah. It's not very fucking clever. No. It's just fighting all the time isn't it really? No one's out for a good time anymore. No one's just out fucking chewing aggro. Yeah. Shite. Right then so let's bring the mood back up a bit. Yeah. Right highlights of this year for you mate. Highlights of this year. So I think starting this podcast in particular. Yeah.

[00:02:33] Is right up there mate. Right. I've really enjoyed it so far. I think we've done okay in terms of growth as well. You know it's been a steady but quick at the same time. Yeah yeah definitely. Definitely. It's nice to see that people are supporting us and you know they've kept in contact as well not just watch the first and then that's it. Yeah. You know we've been continuously listening to our podcasts. Other highlights. Tottenham being top of the league for a certain amount of time. I can throw that up there but it's recent.

[00:03:03] It's not been great. Definitely not after last night. Yeah I know. We don't do football on here anymore. No that's true. There's another one that I can't announce yet. Oh shit yeah. Yeah we will get to that. There'll be a little announcement coming out at some point. There will be. There will be. So that'll probably be the main highlight. Honestly I'd put this podcast just under that. Happy days. Happy days. It's not been a year of too many things going on really. Yeah.

[00:03:31] For me well I started a new job that I had originally first when I started. Really loved. Now I'd happily murder every single person in there in the sleep. As a hero every time I'm here. There's a few that are alright but majority of them I wouldn't mind going full on axe murder around. Yeah. That sounds like me in my workplace mate. Again obviously same as you starting this. Yeah so obviously Billy this was the year I got engaged. Yes. Isn't that like you didn't forget? No I did not forget at all and they did not just have to spend five minutes checking on my phone when it was.

[00:04:02] So yeah. We won't talk about that. So yeah obviously got engaged this year. Yeah. First full year of me own house. Alright yeah. Yeah. So I'm buzzing with that. Yeah. That's a good achievement. Alright. Fucking right. It was a fucking effort and all it was. I could imagine it. Yeah. But yeah that's about it really. Yeah. Not too much going on this year. Nah it's been a bit of a steady year. Up and down yeah. Hasn't been a bad year though. Alright. Not for me anyway. Yeah. Right then. What's been your best year? My best year.

[00:04:31] It has to be 2018 mate. Well annoyingly it would have been a lot better if we had different answers but mine's the same. Yeah so the reason why it's 2018 is my son was born on the 2nd of July in 2018. So not like I didn't forget that earlier either. I was right in the end though. There was obviously the World Cup and it was a hell of a World Cup as well.

[00:04:59] Did ending heartbreak for us English like but it was still a good World Cup. Yeah it was fantastic. Just the atmosphere and everything. I feel like 2018 was the last best year for this area. If that makes sense. I don't know how. What do you mean this area? I don't know. For example when the Euros was on it the atmosphere wasn't quite the same. It could be because it's the Euros. It's not quite a World Cup is it? Right. I ended up watching a lot of the last Euros in Newcastle anyway but yeah. Oh. Oh. So there was that.

[00:05:28] It was my last sort of physically fit year. I was yeah I was still quite physical then. Lots of sports and stuff going on. That doesn't happen anymore. Yeah true. And there was also an almighty thunderstorm. I'm a lover of thunderstorms mate. Same mate but I don't remember the dates of them but fair enough. I don't remember the date mate I'll be honest. I think it was like maybe August or something.

[00:05:56] I just remember it was like pink lightning but it was non-stop. Oh right. There were a good two three hours and it was the last good storm we had. Right. And there was a bit of snow that year as well. We don't get that anymore either. Now we get a good slush. Yeah. That's your best. Exactly. But no 2018 by far for me. There's lots of reasons as well. We'll be sat here all day. Yeah. Yeah 2018 is best for me as well to be fair. For very similar reasons. Well I mean obviously I didn't have a kid that year but. Yeah yeah yeah.

[00:06:26] That I know of. I'm joking. No but like I said obviously the World Cup that was unbelievable. Bloody. I love when the World Cup is because my birthday is always in July so. Oh right yeah. Usually me and my birthday doesn't change. Yeah so I always enjoy the World Cup a bit more. Yeah. Because like you say the finals usually they're around my birthday time so. I had the best holiday in my freaking life. Went to Benidorm. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:06:55] And I'm very friendly with two Irish lasses. Won't say that too loud. Fair play. Yeah. And like you said I mean like the year I think. So 2017 to like say to the day I went. From the beginning of 2018 to the day I went on my holiday. Yeah. I managed to lose like fucking like five or six stone and I was just like. Oh wow. That's crazy. I was like. Yeah. Yeah. And I'll put it all back then so. It's easy to know isn't it. Yeah. Yeah. And mine's coming.

[00:07:24] It's well on its way. Yeah. So that was a bit fucking. I just. I felt mint. Yeah. Yeah. I did too mate. Yeah. 2018 was a good year. Yeah. I felt like I would run through walls and shit. Yeah. I just felt fucking. That was the last time I felt fucking. Yeah. Yeah. Sort of thing. Same here mate. Genuinely same here. I think 2018 was like my peak fitness. Yeah. And then obviously having the kids. How old were you when I was in 18 though? I'd have been 21. That's depressing.

[00:07:52] That was when you last felt good was when you were 21. Yeah. At least I'd have been 26. 26, 27. Yeah. 26, yeah. Yeah. Actually I was 27 when we were in Benidon. Because I was in Benidon for my birthday. And the mates got me a bright pink sash that said 27 and hot buy me a shot. I like it. I like it. Yeah. But one bad thing that I've ballsed up on that year when I went to Benidon. On my actual birthday I got that hammered.

[00:08:22] Again I can't say this too loud because it came out of me and then killed me in my sleep. But yeah. I just remember when we stood at the barn and it's last come up from me to say that. It was her birthday and everything as well. And she said oh we'll do drinks together and all this. And I just went. I apparently can't make sense to tell you. Now you're alright and walked up. I was at Hammond. I think that was when you got her and you fell off a balcony as well. Oh Jesus. Yeah. Quite the story there. Yeah. Good time. Good time. I love Benidon. Yeah. Best place ever. I've never been. Oh it's like Blackpool with some.

[00:08:52] Oh. I'm not looking forward to it then. Well we'll go in there for last as I do lad. So you best get prepared yourself for it. Where's that Blackpool? No we're going Benidon. Benidon. Yeah. Oh I like it. Okay. We're doing three nights. Three nights. Or maybe four. See how it goes. Yeah. So right. So moving on then. Speaking of me being leavened. Right. Give us your drunkest memories from past New Year's mate. Or any good memories you've got when you've made a tip to yourself or something. It would be the beginning.

[00:09:23] Beginning. Beginning. I can't speak mate. Beginning. The start of 2018. It's like me trying to say habitable all over again. Habitable. 2017. Obviously New Year's Eve. Aye. I was getting plastered on my mate's birthday as well. We were at his house. Big family as well. So we're all drinking. I drank a little too much. The missus wasn't drinking at all. Obvious reasons. Aye.

[00:09:50] We had no plan on announcing but I got that fucking hammered mate. I just remembered someone saying. Why didn't you let him die with a drink? I'm just like. Oh she can't. She's fucking pregnant. So you didn't like stand up on a table and announce it then? No. Oh that's disappointing. It wasn't that great. That's disappointing. It was really disappointing mate. Because we had a full plan for it and everything. It would have been better if you'd like. Go up on the table and like. Have someone to announce it. And then fell off. No. So we went. After there. We went to the frigate. Oh Christ. I was in there on boxing day.

[00:10:20] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And that's where it started to get a bit. Okay. It's me going around telling him. Do you know I'm going to be a dad? I'm 21 mate. You know what I mean? I'm going to be a dad. I'm going to be a dad. And everyone's buying me drinks. And I'm just going around telling every Tom Dick and Harry that I'm going to be a dad. But I've got my dad. Don't I'll be a chip in the house. Mate it's great. I had no proof. Well yeah. That's probably my only drink one I really remember.

[00:10:49] Obviously I had a kid very early. Yeah. So my drinking toned down massively at 21. Yeah. So. Yeah. I can't really remember too much. I remember one I spent in the ship. I think it might have been the year before that maybe. What 2016? No it would have been 2016. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure I was in the ship. I'm sure you were there as well mate. Possibly. I can't remember. Well you will have been anyway. But yeah. Yeah. I remember that one. Yeah. We got in some states in that place. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:11:18] Did some good nights in there. We did mate. And we do mine. Go on. Yeah. Yeah. So this must have been like 2009, 2010. A couple of years after I left school. I was in college. Well I was 14. Yeah. Yeah. You're just living out drinking. Yeah. Yeah. You've got to love that way. We love don't you. Tea side. Yeah. Or just this country. Yeah. Just the UK.

[00:11:49] Yeah. Yeah. So then 2009, 2010 and I was out in Middlesbrough. Mm. And somehow I ended up, you know the student accommodation flats on Borough Road. Obviously the old Gazette garage. Obviously the old Gazette building. Yeah. But somehow I ended up in there mate. You don't know. You don't know how. Well no because I don't know anyone who went to Tea Side Uni. So I don't know how the hell he ended up in there. Yeah. So I don't know. Fuck knows how he ended up in there. And honestly about that place is like the crystal maze.

[00:12:18] I've never. No. No more like Takeshi's Castle. I've never seen so many doors in my life. Were you still drunk at this point? I was assled. I was absolutely leathered. I couldn't even see straight. And I don't know if many people do though. The old super tradition about letting the new year in. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I never had to do it because it's supposed to be someone who's tall with dark hair. Yeah. So it was always me who had to do it. Right. So I think I got outside of this whoever's bloody flat room place we were in. And then I was supposed to go back in.

[00:12:48] Right. But I think I must have like had a minute to myself, shut my eyes. And then I didn't know where I was. I didn't know what door I was going back in because they weren't numbered or anything. Yeah. Even if they were, I wouldn't have known. And I think I must have tried about seven, eight, nine doors before I found the right one. People in every one. Well, this is the point. Right. Here we go. I opened one door. I saw two lads and the biggest bag of cocaine you've ever seen in any life. Jesus Christ. I walked in and two people having sex. Yeah.

[00:13:18] I walked in on at least two or three fucking groups of people and just like, who the fuck are you? And I'm just like, I don't know where I am. One of these doors my friends in. Yeah, basically. Honestly, it was horrible. I can imagine, mate. I felt lost. I was like, I don't know where I am. I was just walking up and down the corridor like, help! I'm lost. Yeah, basically. Oh, that's horrendous. I felt like I needed that fucking map off Harry Potter. The little footsteps.

[00:13:47] Yeah, it was fucking awful. Hated it. Oh, yeah. Couldn't imagine that. I think the most awkward thing I've ever like walked in on it. Well, I didn't even walk in on it. Me and my mate were walking around with a mask. Fuck knows. We were young. We must have been about 14 or something. 14, 15. And I remember walking past the house and broad daylight, mate. There's a couple just having sex on the settee. Right in front of the window. Fair play-tool. I'm 14. I'm sat there just staring at them. Throne out. Yeah.

[00:14:18] Look at this. I remember the notice. It was horrendous. Oh, yeah. I can imagine. It was horrendous. But then you do a sort of thing like, no, that's your fault. Shut the doors. Yeah. Blinds, curtains. It's probably daylight, mate. We weren't in like a little quiet area. Each to their own. Yeah, well, yeah. True. Exactly. Fucking hellfire. Right then. So we've talked about our drunked up stupid memories. Yeah. We've got a couple of listener ones now. Interesting. Yeah.

[00:14:48] So, right. So this one's from Josh. Technically, it's Christmas, but fuck it. We make the rules here. Yeah. So the story goes. So I spent two days painting my nander's bathroom blue about two or three weeks before Christmas. So we fast forward to Christmas Day night and I'm two and a half bottles deep of red wine. And all of a sudden I get that feeling. You know, watery mouth. Yeah. And I race to the bathroom only to end up being sick all over the bathroom floor and the freshly painted bathroom walls. Oh.

[00:15:20] Nightmare. Fucking hell. And yes, I did have to repaint the bathroom and my nander was very quick to let me know that I'd ruined Christmas. Oh dear. Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah, that is great. It'd be red wine as well. Yeah. Like the worst. Oh yeah, exactly. Like insane from the Exorcist or something. Red wine is the only, no, red wine and cactus jacks are the two only drinks that have made me throw. Yeah. And I remember my brother doing something very similar to that when he was, one of the first times he went out drinking.

[00:15:51] And he kept him home in the air. All I drink, well you'll know, all I drink is like orange squash. Yeah. Yeah. All my brother used to drink was blackcurrant squash. Right. This was when he stopped. Because he kept him home next to God knows how many glasses of that. Yeah. And then spewed up all over the landing. Oh. And he would say everything was purple. It's weirdo. It works, doesn't it? It just puts you off that drink forever. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it doesn't do that with me. I used to throw up and I never put crisps. Yeah. Or chips. Yeah, yeah.

[00:16:17] I'd throw up and then I'd, I wouldn't go back to drinking but I wouldn't let myself go home unless I was like just couldn't fucking see. Well I've only ever been sick from drinking twice. Same. Genuinely the same. One at a house party, one at night I would tell you. Yeah. But I genuinely, even when I'm ill, I stop myself from being sick. Yeah. I have a genuine phobia of being sick. I do. I'm never sick, mate. They're the last two times I was sick. Yeah. Like physically. Like I reckon, it comes out my fucking nose, ears, eyes everywhere.

[00:16:48] But I reckon, my dad listens to this, so he'll like this one. Obviously when, when I was living at my mum's, when I was little and that, he had to plastic clad the full upstairs bathroom just because when I was sick it used to come out and just start shaking me head left, right, and said it in fucking everywhere. Fucking exorcist, mate. Yeah. Exactly. Full on chunder dragon. There was, the second time I was sick. It was a night out in a room. But do you remember that they had like a, was it a telephone box or something just outside of it?

[00:17:18] Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was in there, mate. The LBT box. Yeah, because I knew it was coming. Why would you, no, no, that's a terrible idea, in a phone box. I didn't know. I just wanted to. If that was me, I'd flood the thing. I wanted to be out the way, mate. Out the way of the public. Oh, sobbing. It was everywhere. All over the glass, everything. I remember someone I hadn't seen in years. I looked at him, but I'm that drunk, mate. I remember it, though, and I was looking at him. Oh, I love it. Just all over the place, mate. He rang me a taxi. Worst thing he could have done.

[00:17:48] So we're in the taxi. Did you spew up in the taxi? Spewed up everywhere in the taxi. Oh, you dickhead. He pulled over on the coast road. Right. It's freezing cold. I remember getting out. I had a clue. I was sick in the taxi. He didn't have a clue what was going on, mate.

[00:17:59] I had a clue what was going on. I'm like, yeah, I don't know what you're talking about.

[00:18:30] I've been walking home. I'm tired like that, mate. I'm that drunk. Fucking hell. Police officer actually had to come and pick me up, and they took me home. Found it, I like. Halfway down the coast road. Fucking hell. Jesus Christ. That would have been a better New Year's Eve story. Yeah. So I've got one more. Yep. He's asked to stay anonymous, this one. Right. So it was about 10 years ago, I was at a house party with my now ex-wife. Having a good night, plenty of drinks, etc. That's why he wants to stay anonymous. Yeah.

[00:19:00] When he says etc as well, I don't know if that means drugs. Right. Probably not, but yeah. Our friend at the time was a pretty shit-performing magician and did stunts. Anyway, so he started blowing flames from his mouth. Pretty cool at the time. When suddenly he fucked up and his full face ended up on fire. Jesus Christ. He's put in brackets, minor burns only. I mean, it's still a burnt face.

[00:19:26] And then after we opened him, we were all pissing ourselves laughing because the song that came on was Sex on Fire by Kings of Leo. Oh dear. Oh Christ, that's great. Oh, for fuck's sake. Oh, that reminds me of his then videos you see on Facebook, Twitter, wherever. Yeah. There's a group of lads on holiday, like Magaluf or something, and they're getting them lasses, you know, where they fucking slap them around the face and poor fucking. Yes. Fucking sambuaking and stuff all over them and set them on fire.

[00:19:55] Has it gone really wrong? Yep, yep. Yeah, you couldn't pay me enough to do that. I mean, you couldn't pay me enough to drink sambuaker anymore now, never mind a flaming one. I'm too much of that, have you? Yeah, mate, what would you rather do then? Throw up red wine all over your nana's bathroom or set your face on fire? I think set my face on fire. I feel like it's just a better story, do you know what I mean? Depends how bad the burns are. Yeah, true, true. As long as I can grow my eyebrows and beard back, mate. Oh shit, yeah, there's a point.

[00:20:25] Yeah, that's the only downside. I'm taking the wine and I don't even... I hate wine and I hate throwing up and I'm still taking that one. I'd take the throwing up for obvious reasons, but I feel like the other one's a better story, if that makes sense. Oh, it's definitely a better story. Yeah. Which would you rather do? Yeah. Oh, I'd rather be throwing up, mate. Yeah. Yeah. Just because I can't be without my beard. Yeah. Maybe one day I'll put a picture of me without the beard on our Instagram page. You've got one of me and you and I haven't got my beard and it's horrendous. Weird, we need to put that on there. Like a 12-year-old.

[00:20:55] We need to put that on there at some point. I was like 19 then as well. Aye. Oh dear. Fucking hell. Hey guys, Frankie here. I just wanted to send you guys a couple stories in relation to New Year's. I don't really have any funny ones, but I've got some weird ones. The first one is, I think I was probably, I don't know, 15 or 16. I was out with a couple of my friends and we ended up at this like really shady party.

[00:21:26] Wow. And I know I was drinking hard alcohol at the time. This was probably like rye or something. I used to drink a lot of that back in the day. Um, but at some point in the night we were offered mushrooms. Uh, the next thing we know we're all tripping balls and we need to get out of this place. So the three of us head out. Uh, we, the party was in like the, it was in this like subdivision that was kind of out in the country. So in order to get back into town, we had to walk back into town.

[00:21:56] Um, and I grew up in British Columbia in Canada, so it was quite remote. Um, so anyways, we're tripping balls on these mushrooms. And, you know, we're going through, uh, we're going down this highway and I'm looking into the trees and all the trees are separating and inside of the trees, I'm seeing all kinds of things. And, um, my friend that I was with, one of my friends I was with, I was looking at her and her face started to melt. Um, so I freaked out and I ended up running the rest of the way home.

[00:22:25] Um, I followed that up the next morning with going to work. I worked in a bakery, um, cooking donuts over like in like those big great grease vats. Um, needless to say, I got fired. Do not go to work. Playing with grace on mushrooms. Um, so that was one of my new years. Uh, and another one, once again, alcohol was involved.

[00:22:51] I was once again in the middle of nowhere at a house party and I wanted to go home. So in order to get home, I, uh, called one of my friends who would then just come pick me up. So I had told her to come pick me up. I said, listen, I'm going to leave this place and I'm going to, um, walk out to the highway, come pick me up there. So she came to pick me up, but she couldn't find me because I left the house and I turned the wrong way. Of course, this is in Canada in the middle of the winter.

[00:23:20] Um, I got so disorientated, like disorientated that, um, I actually ended up at one point this truck drove by and they could see that I was like upset. I'm crying. I'm in the middle of nowhere. I've been wandering for hours. And luckily for me, it wasn't anyone creepy. Um, it was a man who had a couple of small children and he offered to drive me into town, but I could end up frozen in a dish.

[00:23:46] So, you know, I have a lot of good, uh, new year's memories, but they're very, very short because I seem to only really remember the bad ones. So I thought I would share those two with you guys. I hope you have a great new year's, uh, and that 2024 brings amazing things. Have a great day. Nobody has resolutions. Yeah. So this year I've got, did you set, did you set any for this year? Yeah. Oh, sorry.

[00:24:15] This year. Yes. Go on. I haven't done either of them. What were they? So first one was get my car done and drive. And that's, that's now this year's, like the next year's, you know what I mean? That's one of them. And, uh, I could stop picking you up every day. Yeah. And to get physically fit. Fair enough. And I didn't do that neither. I had a good go at it. You're not in that bad of a shape though. If like, compared to me.

[00:24:45] Yeah. But I had my belly. But this is the thing. I'll keep it. You know what I mean? It'll come. That's the thing. I know if I continue just to be the way I am, it's, it's going to get bad. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm five foot seven. Like you're tall. So it's, it's, it's all right for you. I don't know why. It just looks better. You're more intimidating. Whereas I'm just a little fat fucking midget. Do you know what I mean? Just roll you down a hill. Yeah. Yeah. It's not great.

[00:25:15] But so my next ones, my next New Year's resolutions drive. And that will be done because my theory runs out in July. So you need to get that done. Yeah. That's, that's my motivation there for that. The other one is to get a new house. Yeah. Fair enough. Get a house sorted. Free bedroom. Fair enough. Have you got one for me to do then? What do you mean? Well, I've got one that you have to do for you. Have you got one for me to do? Have I got one for you? Hmm.

[00:25:44] Got to think about it and come back after a real mind off. Mine for you is open your mind about ghosts when we go somewhere. It's not a New Year's resolution. It is. It's slag. Yeah. But fine. Yes, I'll do that. Right. Good. And if we ever go somewhere. Yeah. I want you to be in a room on your own. Right. And you've got to ask the questions. Right. I don't care if you're embarrassed or. Is there anyone here? Yeah. All of that, mate. I'll give you a list. Right. Fair enough. Fair enough. I'll do that. And be open to it.

[00:26:14] Okay. Deal. Right. What's mine? Well, do you want me to do mine first and then do yours? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Of course. Right. So, mine for next year are to lose some Clem again. Yeah. Yeah. As always. I didn't actually say I was going to do that this year. I should try. You know what? I'm going to put three in. I want to lose the belly as well. Right. Yeah. So, I'm going to do that. I need to get a better car. Mm-hmm. Can you call that a resolution? Yeah. Yeah. I think so. It's about it, really.

[00:26:44] Yeah. I think, as I say about my belly, I just want it healthier. Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah. Same. I mean, can we have one for this? Get this as big as we can? Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Definitely. I think we've got to have a goal, haven't we? Yeah. So, I think by the end of next year, I want us to be minimum 3,000 followers. I don't think that's impossible at all. I think that's more than achievable. I'd like to go 5,000. You know, I'll always shoot for the stars. Yeah. But I want to keep a realistic.

[00:27:14] Well, we're getting close to 600. That's what I mean. So, if we're getting close to 600. Imagine by someone we hit 3,000. And then by, that's halfway a point. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, definitely.

[00:27:23] Yeah, definitely.

[00:27:52] I think it's because I work in a phone shop. I never used to be like it. But since working in a phone shop, anything social media, any sort of phone, I'm like, get away, get away. Especially if it's a day off. I wish I had that problem. I work in a kitchen with a drunk house, fucking stop eating. But yeah, I do need to be more compliant from a phone. Just tell her, no, answer the cunt and not wait three days to text me back, you fucker. Yeah, it's true. Dickhead. All right, I like that.

[00:28:21] Yeah, so well, that's about that really, isn't it? Do we run through all plans for next year then? Yes. Yeah, so like you just mentioned then, we're going to start collaborating. We're going to start having guests on here. We've got a couple half, well, we've got a couple of penciled in, we'll say. Yes. A couple of them penciled in already. We're going to dive into a bit of a true crime and murder next year, aren't we? Definitely. A lot more of it. Yeah, we're going to do a lot more as well on obviously ghosts, supernatural and hauntings and shit like that.

[00:28:49] Yeah, another thing as well, we want to, I think another New Year's resolution for us is to really get going with the video side of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get our YouTube and TikTok and start building them as well. Yeah, definitely. I think just going... The video side is much more your... Yeah, yeah, that's sort of my ground, isn't it? Yeah. And more audio. There's a lot that I know about local as well, so just, especially with true crime, there's one, David Harker, I want you to have a look at him.

[00:29:19] I've just given away a story there, but I'd love to do that and take you to the places where they've been. I actually did that with my sister and her boyfriend. Yeah, yeah. And just took them on a whole little talk. Yeah, well, we'll do that. Like I say, I mean, we're going to try and debunk a few conspiracy theories as well. Like I say, we'll just... Well, there's just a lot more that we're going to get into, really. Yeah, absolutely. No limits. You what, sorry? No limits. Exactly, mate. No limits at all. Once a month as well, we're going to do some creepy pasta stories, aren't we? Yes, yeah, yeah.

[00:29:48] So that'll probably be the last episode of the month or summer. We'll do some storytelling, which given our Christmas episode, we need to... Well, I definitely need to get a bit better at it. Yeah, well, it's one of those. But time will come. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Another thing as well, I think, for our Patreon as well, we're going to get some really high quality and intriguing things to go on there. Yeah, yeah. So it's obviously not just...

[00:30:16] It just invites people to want to come and see what else we've got planned for the future and things. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And to go with the stories, the storytelling, if we've got any people out there who like writing stories, send them our way. We'll read them out. Yeah, we really want to get everyone involved. Any budding writers out there? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Obviously not fucking full-on books. Very much short stories. Yeah, definitely.

[00:30:41] But we do want to be as highly involved with our audience as possible. Yeah. I think if we ever got to the higher ranks and stuff, whatever, that's one thing that I want us to be the best at, the whole community. And that's involving the audience and even the fans and all of that sort of stuff. Yeah, definitely. Definitely. And obviously we're going to try and do something like a little ghost hunt for you, help me? Yes, we are, mate. Yes, we are.

[00:31:10] We've got one place in particular we want to go to. Aye, aye. But yeah, that's about it really. I mean, we've just died. Well, at the minute it's mainly just us messing about. We've got some little merch things on the go. Yes. Got some T-shirts on there. They're on the link tree. Absolutely. There's going to be a lot more coming as well. Yeah. We're going to have some limited edition merch. Eventually. Eventually. Eventually. We've got some little bits and bobs. It's not expensive.

[00:31:39] You know, what is it? £16 a T-shirt? Somewhere like that, yeah. Yeah. We only see... Mugs and stickers. Yeah, mugs, stickers. We only get to see like 10% of... I think we get like two quid off it, mate. That sale. Yeah, yeah. And if anyone, you know, does... To be perfectly honest, I wouldn't even be bothered about the money we get off that. Yeah, yeah. It's more than... It's got our fucking logo on it or something. Yeah, it's a good feeling, isn't it? Yeah, fucking right. Not even asked about the money on that one. That's just cool. 100%, mate. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I'm trying to say to people. Like, the money isn't a driving factor for that whatsoever.

[00:32:09] And if anyone does buy the merch, obviously, get a photo of yourself in it. Yes, get that. Yeah, we'll get that on the Instagram. Get it sent in. We'll get it on the Instagram. You know, I'm going to look at getting some little prizes and anyone who buys like merch and things will put into a draw for, you know, a prize and things. I've got lots of ideas coming for next year. Yeah. Yeah. And then, well, just to finish off, really, we want to just give a big thank you to everyone. Definitely. Yeah, everyone's been dead supportive. We hit over 500 followers.

[00:32:37] Our goal for when we started in October, was it? Something like that, yeah. Yeah, around that time. End of October, beginning of November. We wanted to hit at least 500 by Christmas and we've done that. Yeah, I mean, we're nearly at 600 now into the new year. We've had over 150 downloads, which the target was 100. Yeah, yeah. We're really happy in it. Everyone's been dead supportive. Like you said, just every single person, even if you just listen to one episode. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, that's it. Just giving us the light of day means a lot to us. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

[00:33:07] Lastly, I want to thank you. Yeah? Because I've wanted to do a Footland podcast for fucking years. And me and Kate, obviously my other half, you know, tried doing one. She hated doing it. And then we started, obviously, the football one, which was going well, but dipped. Which I think mainly was, like, sometimes it just wasn't feasible for us to do. Yeah, yeah. With our work and trying to get frigging. That's it.

[00:33:35] Watch as many games as we can. Yeah. Selective audience and things as well. Yeah, exactly. I mean, doing this, like you said, the idea of this is we want to be able to, you know. Involve in this. Yeah, include everybody. Yeah, every single person. Yeah, absolutely. Because everyone's got interests. Which people, some people will say is stupid, but we'll see how it goes. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. That's it. Another thing as well, I want to thank you too, mate. Because it's not easy. We're getting all soft. Yeah.

[00:34:01] It's not easy to, in a place like where we live, for example, for anyone to even risk doing this. Because everyone in this area is like. Knows everyone. Yeah, yeah. And it can be a judgmental place, especially from, you know, the younger generations and stuff. But we're not bothered by that in the slightest. We'll just kick them in the head. Yeah, that's it. That's it. And it's nice to find someone who has the balls to do something like this. Yeah, yeah. Because I've been trying to do the YouTube side of it, as you know, for a long, long time. And having a.

[00:34:29] Well, that was why I bloody messaged you the first time, like when we started the football one. Because me, who hadn't spoke for a good while then. Yeah, it must have. It was quite funny, really. I'd only ever seen you in the town, innit? Yeah, I know. We'd have a chat in the town, yeah. Yeah, it was quite funny because it's like, I remember messaging you. I remember as soon as I pressed send, I was like, what a stupid question. Because I asked you if you still liked football. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why the hell have I asked him that? Of course he fucking does. Yeah, no, well, I'm glad you did, mate. Because as soon as I say that, I thought, wow, I'll never see you. Because I never took you for that kind of person, mate. Yeah, yeah.

[00:34:59] It was good to see. No, but it's like fucking me getting into podcasting that, it calms me the fuck down. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Everyone has the hobbies and stuff. I have a lot, which can be a bit daunting sometimes. But this is one of those things that I've really gone into recently. And I'm enjoying it. And I love how involved you can be with it. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Swap and mint. Well, that's enough of that soppy shit now. Yeah, twat. You fucking bellend.

[00:35:29] And to your phone. Right then, should we leave that one there, mate? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm happy with that, mate. I'm happy with that. Right then, so wish everyone a happy new year. Absolutely. All the best for 2024. Yes. Hope you had a good Christmas as well. And all the best for the new year. Hope everyone's resolutions, you know, they come true. It's not witches. It's not fucking genius. Manhattan, sorry. Right then, so wish I'll speak to you in the new year about something really fucking weird and scary a bit. Yes, definitely.

[00:35:59] Again, somewhere we're looking to go to. Potentially go to, yeah. Right. Right then, so we'll see you a little bit. I don't know what that was. Right, we'll speak to you then. That was the parrot, mate. Aye. Jack the parrot. Yeah. Take care, guys.

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