The Post Pavilion Podcast

Back Again, For Real This Time

• Chris Morley & Paul Gilbert • Season 4 • Episode 1

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Missed us? We’ve dusted off the mics, swapped a boardroom for a Somerset living room, and hit record on a proper comeback. No gimmicks, no ads, just two friends rebuilding a show that started in lockdown and somehow kept growing while we were away.

The classics are back, including What Gets On Your Toots, where small annoyances become big laughs and surprising insights into how we live together. Expect gripes about bins left out, groceries abandoned in the wrong aisle, and the unspoken rules of neighbourly care. We also dive into our cultural opposites: Toy Story devotion versus indifference, Disney trip confessions, Lion King nostalgia, and a playful warm-up to an ongoing debate about who’s more middle class. The battleground? Service stations, sausage rolls, and coffee that costs more than your dignity.

Thanks for listening and do not forget to like, subscribe and share with your mates. You can get in touch with your questions, shoutouts, TUTS of the week, or if you have a complaint (although we might bypass those) to postpavilionpodcast@gmail.com or check us out on Facebook and Instagram @postpavilionpodcast for all your pod updates 

Chris:

Welcome back. We're back. The Post Pavilion Podcast has returned. It is returned. We have dug it up from the grave. Come on then. When was the last episode?

Paul:

Well, the last episode we ever did of the Post Pavilion Podcast was actually the 8th of April. Get ready for this. 2023.

Chris:

That's terrible. What are we in now? We're in 2026. A lot has changed in three years.

Paul:

Yeah, do you want to know the podcast we did before that? So our last episode was the 8th of April 2023. Yeah. The episode before that was the 9th of April 2022.

Chris:

Okay, so we've got to make a promise now. Now this is a promise. This that we're gonna be doing a series of episodes. We're returning and it we're not gonna wait another year.

Paul:

We're not waiting another year, we are in. We're in.

Chris:

We are back.

Paul:

We've been discussing it for too long.

Chris:

And do you know what was interesting is that we put it this out on the socials. We did. And there was a there was a few people, wasn't there? They went, bring it back. There's a handful. We're not talking thousands, but we're not going for numbers. No, just me and you having a chat every fortnight. Every fortnight. Might even do one week. Well, I don't know. One a week?

Paul:

Shall we? Don't think I could commit to one a week. I'm busy. But I reckon once a fortnight we can release an episode.

Chris:

So uh in this number of episodes that we've got coming up, yeah, we're gonna be talking all sorts. Talking about how life has sort of changed over the last three years.

Paul:

I don't wouldn't say it's sort of changed, like especially for me, my life has really changed. Yeah. Um, so we can discuss that and keep everybody updated. Yeah. Um and things that have changed for you. Yeah, there's a few changes. There's a few changes.

Chris:

But this is all exciting stuff to come in the next few weeks. Gripping. But first things first, yeah. How are you doing? Is it nice to be back?

Paul:

Do you know? It's weird because we've been discussing it, like we said, for so long. Yeah. And um you've been more pushy than me.

Chris:

You didn't want to bring it back? What you're talking about?

Paul:

No, I didn't say I didn't want to bring it back, but you'd been like, we really should be doing the podcast. Yes. Why do we do the podcast again? Shall we do it again? And then I go, Yeah, I'm up for it, I'm up for it. And then it just never happens.

Chris:

And it's like, oh, everyone's doing a podcast. We were the first ones.

Paul:

We but we weren't really now. We jumped on a bangwagon. So if you didn't know, this podcast is called the Post Pavilion Podcast, and it started back in lockdown.

Chris:

Oh, don't tell me about lockdown.

Paul:

Lockdown, I think it was like twin late 2020, early 2021. Um well, the lockdown or the podcast. Well, but everything happened in that period. It was March 2020, I remember it so well. Yeah, that was when we got locked down. But yeah, so this podcast started uh during the lockdown period, and uh we just for something to do, and it it went alright, didn't it?

Chris:

It went okay. And do you know what fascinating? I know we we was we we're gonna keep the same features. Yeah, um, we've got the return of what gets on your tut. That annoys me. That's what the what the feature. No, no, I'm just saying that's annoying. I've got things to say. So we've got loads to get through, yeah. Um and also send yours in as well. We want to hear from you, right? Uh, so get in touch via our Facebook and Instagram page at the Post Pavilion Podcasts.

Paul:

Yes, and we're also bringing back Christophy Paul. Yes, that's not back, and maybe a couple of other exciting features.

Chris:

Absolutely. And uh and it's nice to be back. It's nice to nice to catch up with you because we don't get to see each other all the time. And actually, where we are now, we're recording this uh from a living room in Somerset.

Paul:

Yes, we're in my house. You're in your house. So what's weird about that? Should we tell people last time we recorded the podcast? Yeah, uh, we were in a boardroom. Um very corporate, we were, but yeah, we were around the round table, very traitor-ish. Uh we're around the round table in my old workplace, but now I don't work there anymore. No. And then you're down visiting the area. That's right. So I said, why don't we do it live?

Chris:

Why don't we do it live? Well, live in your lounge. Yeah.

Paul:

Have you even introduced yourself yet?

Chris:

We haven't. I haven't.

Paul:

Have we? Well, I might have people that don't even know who we are. If you are brand new to the podcast, my name's Chris. And my name's Paul. And our friendship started way back in 2007. It did. When we were Butlins Redcoats. Very, very long time ago. And next year we celebrate 20-year our 20th 20-year anniversary.

Chris:

What are you gonna get?

Paul:

Nothing. Oh. I might put a post up on Facebook. Oh, oh, that's very kind of that bad far as it goes. That's that's that's very kind of you. Yeah, but we're two friends that like to chat a load of rubbish all the time. Absolutely. And uh we thought we'd do a podcast, and we've had a select handful of people saying we should bring it back, and now we can actually say we're back, baby.

Chris:

We are back now. Um you had a listen back at the previous episodes, all the all the episodes are still online, um, and just to give us an oversight, just for me to remember, yeah, what did we actually talk about three years ago? What in the last episode? I haven't I haven't listened back. Have you not listened to that?

Paul:

No, I was just I did I actually made a shared note. Go on, I did share it with you. Did you read it? Nope. Okay, cool. In the last episode, uh, which was on the 8th of April 2023, yeah, it's now end of January 2025. Um 2026. 2026, now sorry. There we are. Uh we discussed loads of things like um uh the well, the last podcast episode was the start of series three. Yes, it was we only did one.

Chris:

We did one.

Paul:

That's gone.

Chris:

That's the short I think that is the shortest series anybody's ever had. We may as well have called it a special. We could probably have to do that. Anyway, that's not anyway.

Paul:

Um, what did we talk about? Uh well uh we spoke about the Toy Story franchise. Did we? Yeah, apparently we discussed the Toy Story franchise. Apparently, Toy Story 5 was coming out, but it's still not out. It's out this year. Is it out this year? It is this yeah, we spoke about that in June. Um and I still don't like Toy Story. I can't believe that.

Chris:

Yeah, but you've got kids, kid. I haven't got kids. Yeah, but uh I'm sorry, but you it doesn't matter how old you are, you've got to love Toy Story. No. Did you not enjoy the first one?

Paul:

I went I went to I was really lucky this past six weeks. I've been to Disney World in Florida and I've been to Disneyland in Paris. And he doesn't like Toy Story, and I saw a couple of characters. I like Jessie from Toy Story, only because I met her at Paris. She was quite nice.

Chris:

Not Woody, but something here.

Paul:

No, not really bad. Slinky? No, don't care.

Chris:

Honestly.

Paul:

I did have a really good interaction with one of the sol is it Toy Soldiers or something. Yeah, Toy Sold Soldiers. The Soldiers. I did have a really good interaction with Soldier at Universal, oh no, Disney or Universal in Florida. That was quite cool. But when it comes to a franchise, don't care. What about The Lion King? Love The Lion King. That's a franchise. That is a franchise. Why are we going all corporate? I don't know. Franchise. But yeah, I like Lion King.

Chris:

So anyway, going back to the last episode.

Paul:

So we spoke about that. Uh we also said that uh that at the time of the last recording, your son was into Thomas Atank engine. Yeah, he's changed. Is that still the case?

Chris:

Uh not so much now because he's older, he's sort of grown out of it. What's he in? He's now into Formula One. Loves loves loves his cars. Nice. So he's moved from trains to cars now. Right. So that's cool.

Paul:

Uh last time we were talking about this episode, we were gonna bring an episode from Across the Water because that was the first time that I went to Florida with my friends.

Chris:

Oh, you went oh, you you didn't mention that. You went to Florida.

Paul:

I've been to Florida. No, not yeah, I went to Florida like six weeks ago, but I went a couple of years ago as well.

Chris:

Oh, someone's doing very well, which will all be revealed later in the episode.

Paul:

Um so I went to Florida, we're gonna do a across the uh ocean episode. That didn't happen. Um so it's not giving much hope to people that are listening.

Chris:

Yeah, so basically they said they were gonna do this and they haven't done that. Basically, we're just a bunch of liars. Yeah, well, we're not well, we're not well look, listen, we'd love we love doing this, and uh, it was me that was pushing it to have it back. It was, yeah. Um, and I think it's a good time to do it.

Paul:

Do you know how much effort you've made to come round and you were really persistent on recording this? Yeah, is you're staying in some luxury accommodation. Yeah, I've refused to move. Yeah. Uh I'm still in my shorts and my hoodie. Yeah. Just literally rolled out of bed, and you've had a shower, you've been for breakfast, you've driven around to my house. I've done it all now. You've now done the technical side of it, and literally all I've done this morning is roll out of bed, put a hoodie on. I'm not wearing any pants.

Chris:

That is thank goodness we're not doing video. Now, actually, talking about video, yeah. Is it something that we go down later on? Do we go visual? Is it do people that people when they watch or listen to podcasts, do they watch podcasts now? That seems to be a new thing.

Paul:

Uh well, we know they do because we sat in this very room yesterday at the time of recording, and we watched Ant and Deck's episode on YouTube. Very good, actually.

Chris:

You'd expect nothing less. Yeah. And here's a little clang. Uh yeah. What right? Is they've basically stolen our feet or borrowed one of our features. Oh yeah, you texted me about that, didn't we? So we do the feature called What Gets on Your Toots. It's basically something that just goes, ugh, that annoys me. That that's for sure.

Paul:

I've got things ready for when what gets on your toots. And one I've actually actioned as well.

Chris:

Like, for example, yeah, what like it could be something so simple, like uh people that don't park in the correct parking space. Yeah. And then put it on.

Paul:

Yeah, and then one that really annoys me at the minute is I went to a a Tesco's the other day. Yeah. And I watched somebody pick up something, then realised two aisles down that they didn't want it anymore, so they just put it like some ketchup in with the crisps. Oh, that's so annoying. So I just go walk back, you lazy person. Nearly swarming. You nearly lazy person, take it back, put it back with a ketchup. Why leave it with the skips? Because it's laziness. That that annoys me. If that's you, go and put it back. Yeah, that annoys me. And you know one other thing that annoys me. Go on. Sorry, I'm in the flow of it now. Go on. So, like, I I I work away a lot, right? Right, yeah, that was very that was proper West Country. Yeah, it was, right? But I work away a lot, yeah. But my recycling comes every Wednesday.

Chris:

Yeah.

Paul:

So, but sometimes I'm not here on a Wednesday, so I may put it out on a Monday, right? My next door neighbours, they don't like because I don't come back till like the following Wednesday or the following Thursday. Yeah. I come back a week later and my my my recycling bins are still out. It's like, come on, do me a favour, just whack me recycling bins and for nothing says I'm not here when your recycling bins are outside.

Chris:

Well, I think that could be a you problem there. How's that a me problem? Because you've got to communicate with your neighbours better. To go, by the way, I'm away this week. Would you mind putting me bins back? And they'll go, not a problem.

Paul:

No, because if I'm ever here and their recycling bins are out, I just go, Oh, just drop them in, leave them under the window. Why why do I need to communicate that?

Chris:

Oh, you're one of those news.

Paul:

And also, if it's one of those, if I ass has got to get burgled, they're gonna burgle you too.

Chris:

You're one of those neighbours, aren't you? You do you do your bit, you you're you're the one you're the sort of the the one that runs everything in the road.

Paul:

I don't run anything because I'm never here, but it's just like sometimes that annoys me. And then I look at my ring doorbell, it's like recycling bins halfway across the road because no one's brought it in. So that's that smashed. And then you've got to email the council and go, sorry, my brown bag, my brown, uh, my brown box is broken because someone ran over it. Anyway, that we've got lots what gets on your toots is my favourite feature. Yeah, and I can't wait to go wild about a certain thing that happened to me in the past week.

Chris:

I I mean, if that's the only thing you've got to worry about in life, I think I think life's pretty good for you at the minute.

Paul:

No, life is really good for me, but that sort of is like like it just annoys me. If then you go, I'm not gonna put my recycling bins out, right? You don't put your recycling bins out, I leave them under the window, and I go, it's alright, there's nothing in there. I'll leave it. Like the recycling men, they don't need to come here and take it. Yes. And then you see on the ring doorbell, they make the effort to walk down my drive, pick up the recycling bins, empty the recycling bins, and then leave them. So I'm in a no-win situation, it annoys me so much. I'll tell you what, this is hard-hitting audio we're delivering today. We are we are a podcast that is very authentic. Yeah. Uh we we don't we there's no money in this.

Chris:

No, and and do you know what the best thing is? What? There's no adverts. So it's just purely me and you. Now, if by some miracle somebody does want to sponsor the the pod, yeah, then we will more than happily discuss that.

Paul:

We did have a sponsor on our one and only episode in series. It is. It was cleaning by Katie. Yes. I don't know if she's still cleaning. If I'm honest.

Chris:

Did she come around and clean?

Paul:

No, she didn't. So actually, we didn't get anything from nothing. And she'll listen to this, I know she will, but I'm not even sure she's still cleaning. But we did have a sponsor, cleaning by Katie. Let's see.

Chris:

What do you mean? Let's get her on. Well, we get to come and go, what happened? First of all, can you come clean my house?

Paul:

We advertised your podcast, we advertised your cleaning services, and yet my house was never cleaned. And I bought you three years ago and you still haven't turned up. Yeah, exactly. So yeah, but if you want to if you want to be a sponsor, then let us know. I can't tell you what a sponsor entails, but it's all new, isn't it? Well, it is all new.

Chris:

What was that? That that was your I don't know if that was picked up. Your smart speaker decided to start talking. Oh. Upstairs. That's weird, isn't it? Yeah, someone's listening in. Someone is listening.

Paul:

Yeah. Um, yeah, so we're gonna do what gets on your toots. It's feed Paul or come back. Yeah. We've got some new features, and I've got an announcement to make. Oh look at me. He's got an announcement. I've got an announcement to make. I think we can a hundred percent in the next episode settle the ongoing debate on who's more middle class.

Chris:

Oh, now this is exciting because uh we do need to talk about that. And I don't think you can do a lot of talking, to be honest. Well, I've got my arguments, my fors and against.

Paul:

Right, yeah.

Chris:

And I know how middle class you actually are.

Paul:

R no, that's irrelevant. You right, just because you can turn around and go, oh, how many times have you holidayed centre parks in the past six months? I'll tell you three times. That's cool. Did I go to centre parks in Paris? Yes, I did. Have I been to Longley? Yes, I have. It's also a centre parks. Did I go to Sherwood Forest in Nottingham Centre Parks? Yes, I did. Did that all happen in the past six months? Yes, it did, but it doesn't make me middle class. Today's episode is sponsored by Centre Parks. Centre Parks. Imagine No, because we can't we can't do that because one of my tuts is about centre parks.

Chris:

You can't just say come and help us out on the pod and then slag them off.

Paul:

No, um I I don't one, I don't want them to help us out. And two, I what my my biggest tut of the year so far, and I know we're only three weeks in, but is about centre parks. I love centre parks, but there was one thing that annoyed me. What? It's well I'm waiting for the next application when we officially do what gets on. Can we have jingles this year? We can have a jingle. Can we make a jingle? No, you'd a Chris V Paul, and we need a what gets on your tuts. Oh, you're making me do more work for this now, aren't you? I'm sure. Is there anybody out there that could make us a jingle? Now that'd be cool. That would be good, wouldn't it? So if there's anybody listening that has the ability to make some jingles, yeah, basically we need a Chris V Paul, yeah. Which is like an ant V deck. Yeah, like a Dick V Dom. A what? A dick V Dom. No, like you know, Dick and Dom from the bungalows. Yes, not just because I said the word dick. It's still funny, you have to tick a box now. No, no. No, uh we don't know. We don't care anymore.

Chris:

Oh, it's explicit. He said the word dick.

Paul:

Yeah, but we need someone to make us a jingle for Chris V Paul. That'd be quite cool. Yeah. And then we need a jingle for what gets on your tucks. Okay, we can we can look that let's put it out there to the universe. Yeah, let's do that. I'm not paying. No, we are Do you know what? I will pay a small a small contribution to charity.

Chris:

Now, you love a stat. I do love to those people that have listened, long time listeners, that have been tuning in to this absolute load of nonsense. We used to say a few things about the stats. Tell us some stats. I have got some stats for you.

Paul:

We could have a jingle for stats as well. Something like the stats.

Chris:

Stats, stat, stats. Or you could be the stat man.

Paul:

I'm the stat man. Right, okay, let me make it clear. We need three jingles. Anybody listening that wants to make us some jingles? A Christie Paul, what gets on your toots, and the stat man. The stat man. Or whatever you think. Because I'm not paying.

Chris:

Okay.

Paul:

Right, stats worse. So on the 8th of April 2023, when we last recorded our podcast, we were at a staggering. Honestly, hold your breath here. It's incredible these numbers. We were at a staggering 3,700 downloads. That is mad. Yes. Considering we're a small time podcast. And really it's just the majority of our friends.

Chris:

Look, we're not break, we're not going to be breaking records, but that ain't bad, isn't it?

Paul:

That was bad. That wasn't bad. But then since we stopped doing it, we had another people were still listening. I don't know why, but we had another 1,200 downloads since we stopped doing the podcast.

Chris:

Hang on, hang on. So more people pretty much have listened to the pod when we haven't been recording. Basically, yeah. So we're perhaps we're missing a trick here, aren't we?

Paul:

Oh, I don't know. Well, we'll soon find out. But yeah, so we did 3,700 downloads before we stopped. Since we stopped, we've had another 1,200 downloads. Don't know who's listening. So if you are listening, thank you. We appreciate it.

Chris:

Or are you just pressing play on the episodes?

Paul:

Well, one of them will be me, because I listened to the last episode last week before we did this.

Chris:

And also, what's quite fascinating, we're we're pretty big in Germany at the moment.

Paul:

We are, according to our actual proper stats. Uh I can I can click on locations, which I've just done.

Chris:

This is like this is like an insight of how podcasting works and and trying to try and look at the numbers of who's listening. Nice to have everybody because the great thing about podcasting now is always has been is that you're we'll go out to people all over the world.

Paul:

All over. Because we we do have a lot of people that know us or know others that maybe work on cruise ships.

Chris:

Yeah. How many people do you know in Germany?

Paul:

Uh I don't know anybody in Germany. I don't think.

Chris:

Well, Germany's quite a big. We're we're pretty big in Germany.

Paul:

Yeah, well, it's actually, well, the past over the past um few months, yeah, uh, 70% of the overall downloads has been from North America. Lovely. And that's cool.

Chris:

And what's interesting, um we've we've we've we've got a few people listening from Uzbekistan.

Paul:

We spoke about that in last time. There had no more sitting in Uzbekistan. New Zealand. New Zealand, but our top our top downloads are United Kingdom, then it goes United States, then it goes Germany, then it goes Netherlands.

Chris:

Right, here we go. World tour. World world tour of the podcast.

Paul:

What you think we're gonna we have the money to fly around the road and record a podcast?

Chris:

We we can do it. We'll we're what we should do is go and do an episode in each of the places that are listening. So have you ever been to uh Iran?

Paul:

Do you know what? Out of all them countries there, I knew you were gonna pick Iran. I'm alright with going to Iran, thanks. I'm alright with that. Who's listening, Jordan? I there there are rumours that there are a couple of listers out there that changed their IP address to a location, which is why we might be coming down.

Chris:

Anyway, anyway, so so thank you, thank you for all those people that have been listening and tuning in and just leave us a comment if if you like it. If you don't like it, then go listen to somebody out. Go somebody out. There's loads out there. Literally not bothered. I bet people are going, Oh, it's another podcast got listened to. What do you like listening to podcasts?

Paul:

Do you know what? I'm I've gone big on podcasts. Have you? Yeah, but I only listen to one.

Chris:

Which ones do you listen to?

Paul:

Uh I listen to uh the UK's number one etiquette expert, William Hanson and Jordan North. I listen to Help I Sex and My Boss. You're so middle. And I'm quite I'm quite no, I'm not. And I'm actually re very upset at the minute. Because I've had a bit of time off from work, I am so behind. I think I've got, let me just check. I've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. I've got eight episodes to listen to. Plus, you've got this episode to listen to. I won't listen to this. No, I'd be honest. I'm not sure why anybody would listen to this.

Chris:

But no, we it's nice the people that do listen.

Paul:

That you want what I appreciate. Yeah. But I listen to Help I Sex with My Boss. I'd love a podcast. What do you listen to?

Chris:

We we just plug in everyone else's podcast.

Paul:

Yeah, but our own.

Chris:

Yeah, but this is how real it is. Yeah, this is this is not doing this for money. This is no, I wish we were. Um but that'd be good. That'd be nice, wouldn't it? But anyway, look, it's just nice, it's just an insight of how me and Paul just catch up.

Paul:

Because basically, people will go, how does a friendship start? We can discuss that at a later date. But you are the one person I talk to religiously every day.

Chris:

Do you want to be really nice as well? I'm j we're just thinking out loud while we're doing this, is um is maybe get some guests on.

Paul:

If we can get it, if we can get it, if we can get people on, then there are people that have like that we said we would get on, yeah, that we haven't got on. For example, our friend Craig, um who owns a incredible show called The Animal Guys. Yes, they he won I said to him ages ago that he could come on. That never happened.

Chris:

Yeah, because yeah, but it can happen now, and and also because um for those that are brand new, our background is working within entertainments.

Paul:

Oh, so we're gonna turn this into a an entertainments podcast.

Chris:

Well, do you know what? It's not there's gonna be aspects of that. I think for those people that want to get into the creative industry or the entertainments industry, you know, we're not superstars, but we've been doing it a long time now. We have and people don't people only see the bits they see.

Paul:

Are you confirming that we're both still in the business of show? We are still in the business of show. That has not changed. Did you see what I did there? It did. I turned the words around. Very good. Thank you.

Chris:

So clever, so clever. Um yeah, and um and I just thought, well, we could people don't people see the stuff that happens on stage, but don't we don't actually talk about the stuff that happens off stage.

Paul:

Right. So what you're saying is you want to get some guests on that could give us an insight into their lives as a touring. I just got that notification as well, by the way. Was it BBC News that came up when you watched it? Yeah, yeah, it just came up on my phone. See see, people can't see this. I know, sorry. Um, yeah, we should get people on from the industry that we work in, yeah, that we're actually good friends with, yeah. And we've actually had people come forward and go, can we be in your episode? Yeah, and you're like, yeah, of course you can.

Chris:

Because it it's it's one of the we have the best jobs in the world, I think. And we're very lucky in doing what we still do. Um and I think it'd just be nice to get an insight in terms of you know how other people like ourselves.

Paul:

We'll just invite some guests on that can self-promote themselves.

Chris:

Yes.

Paul:

Or if you've got a book out. I don't think any of our friends have got a book out. Or a podcast. Or a podcast. A couple of our friends have got podcasts, I think. Or or do they? Or plugging some they don't need to plug anything, they just need to. No, we just need to get some friends on. You can get some friends. So the crux of this is just our friendship. Chris Paul and Friends. Chris Paul and Friends.

Chris:

Does that mean I've got we need another logo?

Paul:

Oh not a logo, we need another sting. Oh, another jingle. Right, so we need another jingle. So we need a Christophe Paul, we need a what gets on your toots, yeah, we need a stat man, and then we need a jingle for Chris Paul and Friends.

Chris:

Are you gonna be singing in it?

Paul:

No. Just I don't know what even that sounded like. Chris Paul and Friends. Oh, that's Danny and Mick from CBB's. Danny and Mick. Where did you get that from? That's why I said Chris Paul and Friends was Danny and Mick. Why did I even sing that?

Chris:

More worryingly, why are you watching C BBC? You're you're 39 years of age, man.

Paul:

Oh, shit, thanks. No, it's only because ironically, I watched that some of they came up on my TikTok this morning. Oh, right. When I was having a having a number two. We don't need to know about the ins and outs of that. But we're a we're a we're an authentic podcast. Yes. Do you wipe your backside? Of course you do. So do I. We do you wee? Of course you do. Do you have a poo? Yes. Yeah. Do you shower? Yeah. We don't need to know the ins and outs of that. Too many podcasts nowadays. They sit there and give you the showbiz side of it. They don't talk about raw stuff like when you've had a load of food and all you need to do is go for a poo. And you sit there and you strain.

Chris:

Nobody needs to know that, Paul. That is not trying to make it authentic. But that's too I've gone too far the other day. That's what makes people love what we are. So what have they taken back from this episode? Uh oh, Paul let's go to the toilet. Um loves a jingle.

Paul:

I love a jingle.

Chris:

And and and love centre parks.

Paul:

Right, but we're not gonna settle that middle class debate. No, no, no. I've got you the phrase is I've got you over a barrel when it comes to settling that debate on who's more middle class. And you can't sit there and say anything because you know what I'm gonna say, but we're gonna save that for another episode. Well, I've got a lot on you. So you haven't got anything on that. I have. I've got nothing on that. You've got nothing on me. You wait. Oh well, we'll see. We'll set that debate. Okay. But anyway, so that's great. We're back. We're back. And this episode is just us reconnecting with the audience.

Chris:

Yes, reconnecting to the listeners. So uh, you know, if you have enjoyed it, thanks. Well, if you if you enjoyed it before, thanks. And hopefully we'll you'll keep enjoying it.

Paul:

You went round the really long way. Yeah, you went if you've enjoyed the podcast and you've like listened to us before, we appreciate you. If anybody has met us in the past two and a half years that have just got to know us and thinking, what's this podcast about? And you've started listening, welcome. But we switched off after five minutes, haven't I? Yeah, probably. We are 26 minutes in. Yeah. No, 27 minutes in.

Chris:

I mean, if you've if you I mean I've got to edit it, it's probably gonna be about a 10-minute episode, I reckon. No, don't be silly.

Paul:

Authentic, aren't we? We're authentic, we are authentic. So, yeah, so this is just a a welcome back episode to let you know that we are back. But we could be back, but we might not be back because we said this last time.

Chris:

What I would say is diarise to have a listen back in about four years' time. Yes. But no, seriously, we will be back uh in in two weeks' time with a another episode. We'll have a we'll have a little we'll have some feet our features will be returning as well, as we mentioned.

Paul:

But we can listen to our podcast on you're already listening, so you already know on they know where to do it. But did you know on Apple Podcasts now, uh, you can actually read the episodes. Why? It gives you a transcript. Why would you want to read it? So I don't know, it just you I just thought that was fun. Because I was looking on all the platforms and it on Apple Podcasts you can actually read it.

Chris:

So who's gonna read a podcast?

Paul:

I don't know. It's like reading a book, isn't it?

Chris:

Yeah.

Paul:

You surely you wanna if you read a book online, yeah, light on a Kindle Does that mean you've read the book?

Chris:

Yes.

Paul:

You don't have to physically hold the book to have read a book. Right.

Chris:

Where are you going with this?

Paul:

I've no idea. I just thought, I don't know why. But anyway, we're on Apple Podcasts, you can actually read the transcripts. I think that's quite cool. That is cool. That's how much has changed since we last recorded a podcast. And AI now is massive. Do you use Chat GBT a lot?

Chris:

Uh occasionally, yeah. Yeah. I use that for sending an email. What? So if I I'm not if I'm honest with you, Paul, not great at writing. Awful. Right, awful. Awful at awful at oh, excuse me.

Paul:

Oh, cough up.

Chris:

Go on, cough it up, son. Oh, excuse me. Yeah. Um awful at writing. Yeah, so I just use chat GBT to fluff it up a bit.

Paul:

On Instagram now, they rewrite your status for you. Do they? Yeah, you can click rewrite. And then you go and make it funny. Do you do that? Well, I have a few.

Chris:

Go and follow Paul on Instagram and have a look at his last few posts and see if he's used chat GT.

Paul:

I can confirm I haven't used I've never used it. No, it just says rewrite and then suddenly rewrite and you go, That doesn't even sound like me. And then you click on do.

Chris:

You never didn't even know it was a thing.

Paul:

Yeah, yeah, try it next time you don't really post a lot anyway. You don't post a lot. You do a lot of stories.

Chris:

Yeah, I mean if it's if it's if the my favourite stories is anything that involves animals doing funny things like humans.

Paul:

Yep.

Chris:

Or um I mean the internet's gone crazy. There's some great stuff on AI. There is.

Paul:

Well, we have a lot of fun with AI where you just take random pictures and then you change them.

Chris:

But you don't know what I mean, I don't know now what's real and what's not these days. That's the that's the problem nowadays.

Paul:

We, our voices could be turned into AI, and we did uh Yeah, but there's but there's apps out there now that you can literally write um it's like a song app where you basically go write me a song about my new TV and I want it in a country style, and uh these are the people I want you to include in the song, and then you click go, and then AI makes you a song.

Chris:

Oh, that's clever, isn't it?

Paul:

Right, task for you get and create a song.

Chris:

No, I can't, because you've got to pay like 50 quid for it. Oh right then. Do something AI for the next episode, and we'll try and work out what you've done.

Paul:

Right, okay. We'll we'll come up with that. We'll come up with that. Cool, right, nice. So, yeah, but this was a little hello and welcome back. Yes. We are here. Um, we're gonna discuss loads of things like oh, we can discuss this now. Um, I still own my GTEC Hoover. We spoke about that in the last episode. Did we? Yeah. Why was we talking about a GTEC Hoover? Because you I had a GTEC Hoover. Yeah. You had a GTEC Hoover, and you threw your GTEch away because you couldn't be bothered to ring up and get a replacement part, and then you went, oh, I'll just throw it in a bin, and then you brought a shark one.

Chris:

And oh I I've completely that shark one was probably the worst thing I ever bought. But are you still on that shark one or have you brought another shark one? I've I I've snapped the um the the main bit of it. Right. So I it's got like a a 45 degree angle in the middle of it, so when I'm hoovering, it doesn't it doesn't pick everything up now. I think I think when I hoover now, it creates more dirt than it did before. Right. So the ob so the answer to that is getting you hoover back.

Paul:

I've still got a G-TEC. I've had my GTAch for like eight years.

Chris:

Are you upgrading to the Dyson?

Paul:

Uh no, I will not. Have you seen how much they are? No. No, they're expensive. They're good though, aren't they? Yeah. We can discuss on the next episode that we've both got two sets of friends. Two sets of friends. Yeah, so you've got your friends. Yeah. And I've got my friends.

Chris:

Friends! Friends! You've got your own friends.

Paul:

Yeah, you've got friends and I've got friends. Would you say your friends are middle class? Nope. Would you say that? What that your friends are middle class? Yeah. Yeah. Are your friends middle class? Working working people are. We're working people, we are. We're not working on the cards. This side of the podcast. We're working class. We travel.

Chris:

You're not working.

Paul:

We do hours. I can name you every service station under the sun that I travel to every week.

Chris:

Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna Right. I'm gonna get some I'm gonna get some service stations. I'm gonna Google some service stations.

Paul:

Yeah, and I'll tell you what road they're on.

Chris:

You're gonna rate them out of ten as well.

Paul:

Yeah. I can tell you now, Gloucester services in the country. There's people, if you've listened to previous episodes that when we've done this, we have this ongoing debate about Gloucester services. And I did stop at Gloucester Services the other day. I went, do you know what? And I was on the phone to you and I went, guess where we're stopping? Gloucester services. And I walked in, went for a Wii. Yeah. And then I walked out. I went, Do you know what? Let's get a drink or something. And I went to the machine. I'm not paying £5.20 for a latte. But it's the best latte you'll ever have. And then I go, I'll have a sausage roll.

Chris:

Yeah.

Paul:

Sausage is sausage. Why do I have? No, I just meant like you go to Greg's, it's rubbish. It's not rubbish, it's a bangin' sausage roll. Gloucester services, it's like a Cumberland mix with sage and onion sausage roll, and it's like £6.90.

Chris:

Yeah, but you pay for the quality, you pay for local proper food. It's great. Not Greg's that's been in a factory and it's just been compressed with loads of rubbish in it.

Paul:

Do you ever wonder sometimes how we're still friends? Because you are like you you're very, yeah. Imagine I drink IPA. And I have Budweiser. I don't really drink anymore.

Chris:

I do like an IPA.

Paul:

You see, IPA, you and so you like that. We like opposite things.

Chris:

Well, that's why we work so well because opposites attract each other. Yeah. Because we're very similar in a lot of ways, but very different in others.

Paul:

I know, but like you would would you pay, would you pay £6.90 for a Cumberland sage and onion sausage roll? Absolutely I would. And you'd pay £5.20 for a latte. Somebody once said to me, uh I can't remember what they said to me now.

Chris:

What's happened here? Uh I can't remember what I was gonna go say. You pay you get what you pay for. That's what I was trying to say. You get what you pay for. Because okay, if you do pay more, it's not always the best, but something like that, it's a nice little treat, isn't it?

Paul:

It's not even a treat. Little hog roast. I couldn't even bring myself to even go, do you know what? I'm here, I'll buy it. I didn't. I actually got back in the car and I drove to the next service station. Terrible. I love a Starbucks.

Chris:

You you want to read up about what they do as a company. Oh, there we go. I'll leave you with that thought. Anyway. What do you mean? Just Google it.

Paul:

That's all I'm gonna say. Yeah, but 99% of their coffee helps whatever it is, whatever it is. That's what they say. Oh, is it? That's what they say. Oh, you're not one of those, are you? Ah, anyway. Believe in all these um, what do they call conspiracies? Next you're saying COVID never happened.

Chris:

He won't, let's not bring all that up again. We don't need to go through that. Um, but anyway, I think we'd leave it as that just for today. Oh, yeah. I think that's that that is it, I think. And then well, the thing is, we've got so much to talk about, we don't want to do it all in this episode.

Paul:

But when we come back, we'll be more structured. Yes, uh, we might have some jingles by then. Well, I can't promise anything, but we'll do our best. But let me clarify if anybody out there wants to make us a jingle, we need a Chris V. Paul, what gets on your toots, stat man, um a stat man, and what was the other one? Uh just listen back. Just listen back.

Chris:

Yeah, um, and uh and if you give us a follow on our socials uh at Post Pavilion Podcast on Facebook and Instagram.

Paul:

It's been wonderful, but and I can promise we are back for the small minority that like listening to our podcast. So this is the Post Pavilion Podcast, and we'll see you next time.