The Post Pavilion Podcast
Two best mates, a couple of microphones and absolutely no plan. Join Chris Morley and Paul Gilbert as they chat about everyday life, how they became friends, things that amuse them far more than they probably should, and a fair amount of pointless guff (who even uses that word?). Along the way there’s regular features like What Gets on Your Tuts, Chris v Paul, and whatever else seems like a good idea at the time. New episodes drop every other Friday. For updates, follow us on Facebook & Instagram @postpavilionpodcast.
The Post Pavilion Podcast
Two Suitcases, Stonehenge & A DJ Meltdown
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In this weeks episode Paul dials in from a bleak hotel room somewhere on tour (armed with two suitcases and a dismantled TV), while Chris enjoys the comfort of home — and a surprisingly dramatic pigeon encounter.
Chris tells the story of the lost AirPods that have mysteriously resurfaced in Goa, and the viral DJ rant that’s gone totally wrong.
Plus: Stonehenge outrage, recycling bin wars, a Tesla correction, and a fresh round of “What Gets on Your Tuts.”
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ChrisI've already been I've already recorded.
Intro
PaulSave that. I'll save it. Just chop that up. Welcome to the Post Favilion Podcast. Two mates, a couple of microphones, and absolutely no plan. We chat everyday life, how we became friends, and things that amuse us far more than anything probably should. And tell you what, there's a lot of pointless guff on the way. Listen back to previous episodes to find out what the true meaning of guff is. Welcome to the Post Favilion podcast.
ChrisWhat the hell was that?
PaulHey, we've got a whoop our game, Chris. I like it though. I do like it. No, well, I was I've been listening to a lot of podcasts this week. I've obviously listened to my favourite Sexton podcast with Jordan North, William Hamston.
ChrisVery good, very good podcast.
PaulYeah, I do like that. I've listened to a diary of CEO. He's starting to annoy me a bit. But anyway. Too many ads. Too many ads. Oh, do you know? I listened to um what's she called? She used to be on um Celebrity Juice. Uh Food Cotton.
ChrisYeah.
PaulUh Happy Podcast.
ChrisI like that.
PaulIt's a good little podcast.
ChrisYeah.
PaulWell, I'm not right. I I'm all for a good podcast. And I'm all for sponsorship. But it was a 50-minute podcast, and 49 minutes of it just seemed to be adverts.
ChrisWell, newsflash. The great thing about this podcast, there is no adverts unless we get too big, where companies go, Can you sponsor? Can you can we sponsor the pod?
PaulYeah, but even if we get big, I'm not down for like just dominating adverts all the time. But one thing I did take from um the podcast is they start every episode with a little intro.
ChrisSo that's the introduction. Yeah. So we've got we've got our main introduction, and then you've got an introduction to the introduction, to the introduction of the episode.
PaulAnd then we talk about the introduction.
ChrisIt's a lot of introductions, but I like it. In it, in it. So anyway, episode three, mate. We're here. Hello. Incredible. We've actually gone past uh our last season where we only did one episode. Yeah. Now we've done this isn't episode three, so we're already winning.
PaulWe're we're we're on a roll, and I like it, you know, and I am making it work.
ChrisSo let's just let's just paint a picture right now.
PaulYeah.
Paul takes TV off the wall
ChrisUh now just tell everybody where you are, where what's currently happening, because listeners, I'll be honest. Pause Adam Air.
PaulRight, so like so I I decided to commit to this podcast and move forward with it and you know and try and get it done. So this week um I am back on tour. Uh I'm up and down the country, and I'm currently in a hotel room. And if I could paint a picture, I've got my phone lent up against a bottle of water. Yeah. I'm sat I'm sat on the smallest chair you could possibly imagine. I can I've got my suitcase next to me, I've got the bed next to me. It's I'm in a hotel, it's carnage. It's it's bleak, isn't it? Right, and actually, and we had a bit of a technical issue before we started recording.
ChrisHonestly, it's hilarious.
PaulWell, my my mic wouldn't work, so that was stressing me out. No power.
ChrisYou were you were you're taking the telly off the wall. Don't know why.
PaulWell, no, because you said because we thought the there might be an issue with the cable, so I was like, right, I need to plug it into a USB port to see if it is the cable.
ChrisSo you took the telly off the wall.
PaulYeah, but the only you because I everything I own is USB-C or whatever it is, yeah. I had nothing. So the only USB socket in the entire hotel room is the telly. So to get to the USB stick, I had to take the tell off the wall to plug it in to see if it was a cable. It wasn't the cable, that's fine. I got a light, that works, and then I couldn't, it took me 10 minutes to put the telly back on the wall.
ChrisI just thought, do you not have a USB socket in your hotel room?
PaulThere is no, it's there's gotta be.
ChrisThere's gotta be one.
PaulRight. I'm very lucky that I get to say nice hotel rooms and everything like that. That is all cool. But there's not even a plug by the bed. It's it it's literally the other side of the room. There's two plugs. There's two plugs at the other side of the room. Yeah, it just annoys me.
ChrisSo you had to take the telly off the wall to check your mic was working.
PaulNo, I had to take the telly off the work the wall to check that there was power going to the microphone, and basically it turns out it was my connector thing that goes into my laptop. Well, there you go.
ChrisYeah, but now you're in there. Now you're here, you're relaxed. How's the comfort of your own home? Oh, it's lovely. I do know what I had no stress this morning. Uh I went down, made a cup of tea, turned the laptop on, put the mic in.
PaulYeah.
ChrisEverything's good, and we're here. I'm I'm I was I was laughing so hard of you stressing out because you couldn't get stuff working.
PaulAnd do you know what? Even when I arrived last night, I got here late last night and I was like, right, I'm gonna get everything ready. So I got the lappy toppy out, I got my mic out. Lappi toppy. You said what? Lapytoppy. What's wrong with lappy toppy? Lappi toppy? Yeah. Is that what you call it? Okay. Yeah, my little lappy toppy. Alright. I got that out, I got my mic out, I've got headphones out, I've got everything. I've had you said to me the other day, remember to pack your microphone. Correct. Before I went on tour. I'm on I'm on tour now till the end of February and I get a few days off. And I was like, it's not even gonna fit in my bag. So I've had to I've got two suitcases on tour with me this this this week. Like, what's that about? So you're it's oh, so I could put my podcast stuff in it. And then the people that I work with are going, Giles, why have you got two suitcases? I was like, right, chill. I've got my podcast stuff in it. I'm a podcaster now, but it's just like normally I have a suitcase and a rucksack. This this week I've got two suitcases. It's stressing me out.
ChrisHow big's your media system? Have you got like lights? Have you got sound equipment?
PaulNo, I haven't got anything, it's just my laptop, my microphone, my headphones, my cables, and it's I need my plugs, and it's like I don't I wouldn't normally bring my laptop on tour, but I've had to bring it on tour, and I couldn't fit it in my other bag, so I had to get another bag. So I've got two suits literally, the looks I got in the car park at 3am the other morning when I got the stuff out of the car. They were like, Gilps, why have you got two suitcases? I was like, just shoot your face. You're looking to record a podcast.
ChrisYou're the man, you know, you've got you've you've got your two suitcase kind of guy.
PaulI'm not. It's it's very it's quite ego-ridge. You know when you see people like when you see celebrities, they like WWE wrestlers, there's a lot of videos on TikTok, right, of people waiting outside their hotels. They go all around the world with a poxy little suitcase.
ChrisAnd do you do do you have people come up to you recognising you going, Oh can have a picture? Oh no, I've got my two suitcases, mate, can't you see?
PaulWell, not really, because we only really arrive like between midnight and three in the morning wherever we go.
ChrisIn the hour of darkness.
PaulYes, in the hour of darkness. But yeah, I've got some funny looks, and yeah, I'm a bit stressed, I'm not gonna lie.
ChrisWell, welcome. Welcome back. That's all I'm saying. Uh, and also lovely feedback as well. We've had we mentioned this in the last episode, but honestly, thank you so much for the ten people that are listening. It's brilliant.
PaulTen people. Yeah, we do know what it has been nice. People have been sending us messages. We had a lovely email the other day. Um, somewhat shall I read it out?
ChrisGo on, what do it?
PaulI don't know where it is. I'm gonna let me get the iPad out.
ChrisAlways having a mare.
PaulI'm having a mare, I'm gone. No, that's the stats.
ChrisIs it on the top press is it on the telly?
PaulIt's not on the telly. The telly's back on the wall. Is it in the shower? It's not in the shower. Oh, don't talk to me about the shower. Oh, not good. Tell you so, anyway. We had a message from uh a listener, Todd, uh, who put uh love the return of the podcast. Looking forward to the next episode in five years' time. Winky face. Oh, funny. Funny. Joke's on you, mate. Yeah, we're back. We've proved you're wrong, mate. Yeah. Anyway, he put uh on vibes alone, Chris seems to be likely more delightfully middle class out of the two of you.
ChrisOh, we can't not go back into that debate, are we?
PaulAnyway, that's his opinion. He's entitled to it. I agree with him. Uh he does say, however, I do think Chris is right where you should have a chat with your neighbours about the recycling situation and get something sorted.
ChrisI didn't know that was such a big, big talking point. It was about the bins.
Bins again
PaulYeah, and I'm in that predicament right now because my partner is my my partner, my girlfriend, she was been staying at my house. Now she's left my house. And ironically, is she okay?
ChrisEverything okay? Yeah, she's all good. No, she's gone to work.
PaulNo, no, she's fine. She's gone to a gig, she's doing she's working for the next two weeks.
ChrisOh, so she hasn't left you, she just left.
PaulNo, she's not left me. No, I don't think I'm going to announce our separation on the podcast. That's a way to tell you, isn't it?
ChrisOh, we could we could dedicate it. Not that that's what happened.
PaulNo, no, but anyway, she's left to go on tour as well, because she's gigging. And I looked on my ring doorbell last night. My recycling bins are back on the drive in the middle of nowhere.
ChrisWhat you need to do is clip that bit up and send it to your local council and go, look.
PaulJust leave my recycling bins alone. They're empty.
ChrisJust leave it out. Apparently, in certain places, this is really boring, but apparently, in certain places, you get a fine if you leave the bins out of the road. Anyway, that's all I'm gonna say about the bins.
PaulWell, anyway, but do you know what annoys me, right? So there's literally maybe like three bottles in there, right? Right, right, right, right, there's three bottles in there, and they'll still take the the blue bag, the black bin, and the the green bin all the way to the end of the track. There's nothing in it, mate. Leave it alone. So, anyway, I am going home uh tomorrow night. Yeah, um six hours, right?
ChrisUm in West Country today.
PaulWell, I don't know why, I'm in East Sussex. Um, but yeah, I'm going home tomorrow night for six hours. So it's tough on the road, isn't it? So when we're going home for six hours, so I'm gonna put my bins in. Anyway, he carries on by saying, uh, looking forward to the next episode. Hopefully, by then you'll have some pants on. Because episode one and episode two, I just rolled out of bed.
ChrisOh, of course. And I can and uh obviously we don't do things visually, there's a reason for that because you're normally any pants, so nobody really wants to see that.
PaulWell, I've moved forward a little bit. I was actually awake early this morning and I've I've showered, I've got my clothes on, I'm ready to go.
ChrisHe's ready. Honestly, yeah, smash in life.
PaulIt's only because I've got to go into work in like two hours.
ChrisSo I'm up so you you you're on a UK wide tour, yeah, and from hotels to hotels, you're staying in bed. This is great content.
PaulDo you know what? I love it. I love it. Hey, authentic, remember. Anyway, that was my week. How what is that? Was that my week? Or how's your week?
ChrisMy week, I to be honest, it's it's pretty boring, if I'm honest. I haven't I've literally keep saying right.
PaulYeah, I'm gonna keep saying it now.
Chris's Week
ChrisI can't even think what I've done this week. It's I've just it's been mundane, we're getting ready for the half-term.
PaulOh, yeah, because your little one breaks up for half-term soon.
ChrisYeah, yeah, so the house is gonna be proper busy.
PaulUh at the time of recording, it's about to be half term.
ChrisIt's about to be half term, yeah. Um yeah, it was all really good. I've really honestly I've got such a boring week in comparison to you. Uh I worked the weekends, that was good. That was good fun.
PaulOh, were you you we were you gigging? Were you DJing?
ChrisYes, sorry. I'm not happy. I just why did you look out your window and that? I looked out the window, it must be the time of year because the pigeons. Two pigeons doing pigeon love. Uh, and it just made me scream.
PaulWell, you can say the word shaggin. What? That is fine. Sorry.
ChrisOh, mum's listening. Um sorry.
PaulSorry, mum.
ChrisUh yeah, pigeon, the two pigeons were at it, and it just caught my eye. You know, when you think I shouldn't look, but I can't help it. Uh not that I do that. That's just weird.
PaulBut right, mate, do you need to talk? I take it. Because I feel like you've said I've had a bit of a boring week. I'm getting ready for February, and seems to be the biggest time I've seen you smile this week is two pigeons having a go on each other.
ChrisLife's pretty uh life's pretty good at the moment, if I'm honest. Uh, is it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Really good. Right, okay. Really good.
PaulSo so you were gigging.
ChrisI was gigging, yeah. Gigging of the weekend. That was very good. Uh that was a bit of DJing and doing a bit of bingo, which I which I host.
PaulBingo with a difference.
ChrisBingo with a difference. Ravy bingo, for those people that have no idea what that's about. But yeah, that was good fun. Um and that's that's it, really. That's really it.
PaulUh I'll tell you what. The end what a life.
ChrisYeah. What a life. Although I am coming to see you next week, so that'll be nice.
PaulOh, are you?
ChrisYeah. Coming to see you do your thing.
PaulOh, you're coming to watch the show, aren't you?
ChrisOn your tour, on your UK tour. I tell you what, you're busier than Rick Astley.
PaulNever gonna give you a never gonna let you know. Um, yeah, oh yeah, I'm seeing you next week.
ChrisYeah.
PaulSo that'll be nice. Is that next week? It's in the calendar. It's in the calendar, yeah. It's in the calendar. Oh, nice. So that was your week then. So that was my week.
ChrisAlthough I did have uh can I can I share you a clip, which it's not great for those that are listening, but basically, as a as as a as a DJ myself, I can really relate to this. Now I saw this.
PaulDo you know what you sounded like then? Go on. You sounded like Tony Blackburn.
ChrisI thought so. I said a link on the radio the other day and it sounded like Tony Blackburn. I was but he's a legend, isn't he? He's so good. Anyway, uh so this was the clip. Basically, I was gonna set the scene. Give us some context. So this guy's DJing and he is having a mare, and there's about five or six people coming up to him, and he's trying to just do a mix, he's trying to def it basically just trying to work and work the crowd. But uh obviously there's a few people that have had a few too many Sherberts and they're coming up to him asking him all sorts of questions. Now, usually what I mean, we'll ask for your feedback afterwards, but uh there's part of me that goes, I probably want to keep it, keep you cool, be professional. There's another part of me that goes in what he delivers is exactly what I think a lot of DJs think. So I'll play the clip. Okay.
PaulAre you playing it through your phone?
ChrisI'm gonna play it through my phone, so apologies on the sound quality.
PaulBut I'll tell you what, uh we will share it on socials. We will share it on socials. Give it some context. Here we go.
ChrisOkay, um, right, here we go. So I'm gonna share it now.
Tik Tok StarOkay, look, I've said this once, said this twice. Don't come behind my booth. The reason this song is on because there's people are trying to talk to me five at a time. I cannot deal with five people at a time. So please, dear God, do not be so bloody rude as to stand here screaming at me while I'm trying to mix and do a thing at the same time, okay?
ChrisSo he's having a right mare, in he.
PaulWow. So what I can gauge from that is obviously he's made he's obviously in a club or doing a corporate or whatever. Yeah, he's trying to DJ, people are in the booth, they're trying to talk to him, tell him what songs to play, and everything like that. And basically, he lost it.
ChrisHe's absolutely lost it. Now, there's a part of me that's going, he's gonna be go well. I think he's gone pretty viral now. I think it's on I found that on TikTok. And um, I think more people who want to book him, just like but I've been there, I've been there where you've got like, and if people have got their drinks over your gear.
PaulRight, and be honest then, have you ever lost it with like people still around you?
ChrisNo, I've always done the excuse. So if you ever see me DJ and they ask for a song, I'll go, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll play it. And sometimes I don't even have the song, but uh, I'll just be like, Yeah, I'll play it. The only downside to that is is when they come back and go, You haven't played my song, I go, Yeah, it just didn't quite work with the set at the moment. I've gone down this road. That sort of works, but I would never sort of get on the microphone and go, I've done do you know what? Hats off, I've done it once, right?
PaulOh, there we go. Okay, when I just asked you if you'd done it, you were like, No, I try and stay calm. Because I always think what you do, even in life, and this has been a recurring theme in our friendship, is you're always that type of guy that just sits on the fence with everything. You get splinters on that fence. I'm sort of generally do. You're a middle, middle, you just always sit in the middle ground.
ChrisI yeah, but I sometimes I just don't want the stress. Do you know what I mean?
PaulRight, anyway, but yeah, tell us about the time when you were I I was playing as pack dance floor, pack dance floor, and somebody wanted a ballad.
ChrisI and I just for argument's sake, uh I don't know, it was everything I do, I want to do it for you. Everything I do, I want to do it for you.
PaulBrian Adams.
ChrisBrian Adams. And it's a great song, don't get me wrong. But in the middle of a dancey set, I knew it wasn't gonna work. Anyway, they kept coming up and up and up and up and up. So I just I did get on the mic and I said, Look, this this young person wants wants this song, the time to all sing. Hopefully you all stay on the dance floor. Let's do it. Press play, dance floor clears. But I didn't but I didn't say so. I said I didn't s go up to it and go, look what you've done. I've just went there we go, and then went into the next song and tried to get it back again. So um there's a part of me that wanted to be that guy and go I always wonder, would I go into their workplace and start uh turning up drunk and going, Can you send that email to the boss? It'll be really funny.
PaulRight. I don't know. I don't know.
ChrisUm I just um it's like what would you do in that situation?
PaulYeah, but me and you approach life very differently.
ChrisYes, I could yes, that is very true.
PaulI am uh I I I struggle at times to keep my mouth shut. But I'm yeah, actually, I think as I've got older I become more subdued.
ChrisWould would you the thing is there's no context in this video because you I think that was the breaking point for that guy to go I've done everything here, I've I I can't do any more. And it's so and it's so long you just break, isn't it?
PaulDo you know what? Um it's it's one of those where I I don't think the issue was the people that kept talking to him. I think he was having a bad day. I think you might be right. Do you know what? And do you know what? He's just he's probably approached that gig. We all have them gigs sometimes where you and I still hands down believe that if you have the opportunity to stand on stage in front of thousands of people every single week, and I feel really lucky that I get to do that every day. But I still think that people don't really understand sometimes that it's okay to have a bad day.
ChrisYeah.
PaulAnd but the fact of the matter is, regardless of how bad your day is, the people watching the show or coming to see you DJ or do whatever, quite frankly, they don't really care about your bad day. No, they don't. You've just got to go on stage, do what you do, and do it to the best of your ability. But then all the other times what you can actually do is see your work as an escape, maybe. So what however bad your day is for that one hour or two hours, whatever your show is or whatever you're doing, that's just an escape from reality. And that's how that's what I do now when I'm having a really bad day and and stuff's on my mind and shit. And oh I don't we have to no, that's fine. Leave it in, it's fine. I'll put expression. Um I didn't fully say I'll put express in. I just nearly said the S word. I didn't say it all the way through. I think you did. Yeah, I think you did. Right anyway, but when you're having a big day, let's not make a few things. Don't make a big thing of it. Let's not talk about it. But I think at times you just need to put your stuff to one side, yeah, go and do your job, and then you can go back to your but I think he was probably just having a bad day. He was having a bad day. And the tip of the iceberg was a load of people bothering him.
ChrisYeah.
PaulSo you are right, I wouldn't, I would never, I would never go into someone else's workplace and go, excuse me, mate, I think you're doing that wrong.
ChrisYeah. Well, let's just hope I want to find out if he got any more gigs from that, or I want to know more about it. I'm gonna do some I'll do some research, see if I can do a bit of digging. Is he a well-known DJ or is he just a DJ? Just a DJ, he was doing a gig, got booked. I mean the comments are incredible though. They are good. Hang on. Let me see if I can let me see if I can find them. Um because some people were going, yeah, I can I can relate, I can relate to him. There's a thousand comments. Uh apparently, super old. They've seen this on TikTok. They asked for RB when they booked him, he put Cheesy on, sang along to them, and got up dancing. I'd be fuming if I booked him and if he did that.
PaulOh I don't understand what they booked him for an RB game. He started playing party tracks.
ChrisYeah. Somebody's put, I just stick my headphones on and pretend no one's there. That's classic.
PaulYeah, one way of doing it.
ChrisClassic DJ, yeah. Uh I mean people have really got on the got got on the comments. Um he put, this is my brain at work on a daily basis.
PaulYeah, but I can imagine that. Like, even if you are like a a mechanic or receptionist or you're a you're a heart surgeon, I don't know, you just I think that's just lack of um lack of respect for for just do you know what? It's just human decency.
ChrisWell there's a DJ that's gone here as well. Now as an open format DJ, I can tell you that he is saying is kind of true. It's really annoying and it can easily mess with your set when there are multiple people coming up to you asking for songs. Except I would never get on the mic and bring down the energy like that. Lol.
PaulFair point. True, but short, mate.
ChrisAnd then and then there's another guy. Oh, this is why I prefer text to request. They text a song at any song and then pops up on their screen.
PaulShut up, I hate that. If you want a song, text 0900 097 097. Shut up, mate. 1999 rank, no one texts us the DJ anymore. That's another thing that annoys me. If you go to a bar or whatever, and you go, like, I I always go out with some friends in Blackpool every year. We all get together, and you go into a certain bar in Blackpool, and it's like scan the QR code to request the song. Oh god, yeah. I'm alright, thanks. Just be good enough to play a bit of everything.
ChrisYeah. Oh, somebody's come back from the 80s. They don't like uh they don't make DJs like they used to. In the 80s, if you ask for a record, they'd probably play it. Once a DJ gave me a record when I request it because no one ever had before.
PaulShut up. That's ridiculous. Go away.
ChrisYeah. And somebody put legend want to book this guy.
PaulYes, 100%.
ChrisSo there's good balance there. So uh anyway. Anyway, there we go. So there so that was that was my week. So if you've got any thoughts.
Paul has been in a Tesla
PaulOh, that was your week, the fact that you're basing your entire week on the fact that um you've watched one TikTok video about a DJ. Do you remember actually just remembered there was a video going viral about DJ um years ago. Uh there was a DJ that filmed a girl that thought the DJ box was the bar. Oh do you remember that clip? No, I don't. Right, so let me give you some context. So it's like it's a nightclub. I don't know where it is, but it's a nightclub, and the DJ is just in his DJ box, he's DJing. But some girl who's absolutely hammered is just stood in front of the DJ box holding a card up, and she's going, Can I have two sambukers, please? And he's going, What? And he's going, No, two sambukers. Yeah. And she thought she was that hammered that she thought the DJ box was the bar. And before I played to the DJ, he just filmed her the old time. That went viral a few weeks ago.
ChrisI'll have to check that out two years ago.
PaulYeah. But yeah, oh so we'll put uh we'll put that video. Yes. Uh the one that you said, we'll put that on our socials.
ChrisUm I mean, just read the comments alone. They're just good. So good. Really good. Really good.
PaulSo good. Anyway, I've got a correction to make, by the way.
ChrisThis is a public correction by Paul Gilbert.
PaulYes, so in the last episode, we were talking about electric cars, hybrids, yes, and all that. And um I spoke about the five the time that I went in a Tesla.
ChrisUm with Big Norman. Big Norman?
PaulWith with Big Norman, um, Big Norman. And uh we the podcast came out, and then someone said, excuse me, you're a liar.
ChrisOh, go on.
PaulI was like, Am I? They went, yeah, you're a liar. You've been in two Teslas.
ChrisOh, another clang?
PaulI was like, have I? They went, yeah. Do you remember? We're in Florida. I was like, Wow, what happened in Florida? They went, and then I went, oh yeah, we did. So I just wanted right, imagine going to like a shopping centre in the UK.
ChrisYeah.
PaulRight? And you've got Claire's accessories. Right. Right. Super drug.
ChrisYes.
PaulArgos.
ChrisYeah.
PaulNext River Island. Woolworths. Woolworths. Is Woolworth's still a thing? No. No. Woolworths is now TJ Hughes, I mean. But anyway. Quicksave? Quicksave, yeah. But anyway, imagine we were in a shopping centre in Florida, and it was this shopping centre that you could describe as a bit pants. Right. And then right in the middle of it was a shop selling Teslas. So you went in. So we went in, and actually in the back of the shop there was a cyber truck. You know, the big Elon Musk cyber trucks. Yeah, I sat in one.
ChrisYou sat in one, did you?
PaulYeah, sat in one. And it was amazing. And uh the person that told me that said that I he expected a correction on the next podcast. So So today's episode is sponsored by Tesla. Imagine Elon Musk sponsoring our podcast. So apologies. I have been in two Teslas. It was a cyber truck. You've got your correction. There you go. Hope you feel better about yourself.
ChrisSo who's the most middle class?
PaulNo, I was in a shopping centre.
ChrisHonestly, two suitcases. Two Teslas. What more? What's next?
PaulNo. Right. That's not I'm only doing two suitcases because of this podcast.
ChrisAnd you have even told us you've got two toilets in your house. So you do two of everything.
PaulAlright, if we're playing that game, you've got three toilets in yours, haven't you?
ChrisNo, it's not. It's not three.
PaulHave you got three? One downstairs. Nope. One upstairs.
ChrisUh I've got four.
PaulYou have got two upstairs. I've got four. So where's the fourth one?
ChrisI got I got two. I got one. I got two in each bedroom. No, one, no, two, no, one, two.
PaulNo, right? One, two.
ChrisNo, I've got the main bathroom. I've got two ensuites and a downstairs loo.
PaulOh, you oh, your bedroom's got one. Your spare bedroom's got one. Then next door, next door to it is the bathroom. Yeah. You've got four toilets in your house.
ChrisCorrect. Do you know how many sinks I've got?
PaulWow. Yeah, I can't believe we go in there.
Airpods went missing
ChrisThree, four, five, six, seven, six, six sinks. One, two, three, four. Anyway, it doesn't matter. I've got a few sinks. Wow. Nightmare of a plug.
PaulHave you got a west wing and an east wing as well? Yes.
ChrisNow, we need to talk about our favourite feature.
PaulAre we going on to that already, are we? I think so. Well, I was going to talk about the fact I think you should we did say that we were going to talk about your AirPods that you lost.
ChrisD we did. Alright, okay, before we do that, we'll we'll we'll we'll talk about the AirPods. So I had a situation last year. You know me with AirPods on the nightmare. So I put the first lot I had, I stuck them in the wash, and then the second lot, uh, they they actually went missing. They fell out of my pocket, and uh and anyway, I couldn't find them. I could not find them, and now I've tracked them down.
PaulRight.
ChrisSo I went on the I went on the Find My AirPods app or the Find My iPhone app.
PaulYeah, there you go. Find my app.
ChrisFind my app. And I went, I wonder, I wonder if they'll be on there.
PaulSo can you give us some context? Where were you when you lost them? So you were on a cruise ship, right?
ChrisI was on a cruise ship, and then I got off on land. Because it said they're on the cruise ship, so I don't know where they went. And then uh got on land, and then I f and then I s found them going to Heathrow Airport. Nice. So and then they went from Heathrow Airport and then they flew quite some way and ended up in Goa. So where's Goa? That's is that India? India.
PaulYeah, yeah.
ChrisSo they've gone to Goa and they've sort of stayed there, but they're still active. Are they? Yeah, yeah, they're still active. So what I do, there's a little feature you can do on the Find My iPhone app. You can just ping it. So every every few days, just ping 'em. Just keep pinging them. Do you actually? Yep. I just do it. Just it amuses me to think- What are you gaining from that? Nothing. But for them that are listening going, oh, he's pinging again. He's pinging me. Which is good. Because if you've taken it.
PaulSo can we we we can naturally presume that um it's somebody that worked on a cruise ship. Maybe who has gone home. Maybe. And took your AirPods with him.
ChrisMaybe that might be the case. I'm just we're not, you know, I've got no evidence of that, but all I can say is that they've gone on holiday somewhere.
PaulHave you got new AirPods? Yes, I have, yeah.
ChrisBut it is quite good.
PaulDid did you do an insurance shobby on it?
ChrisI had to, yeah, well, yeah, I had to, because they were they're really expensive. Oh, do you do that? Yeah.
PaulWhat have you never done? I'm really I'm really bad at stuff like that. So like if I buy something and he says I'll come with like two years' warranty, or like through my bank I can get insurance on stuff, and I'm like, Yeah, yeah, cool, that's amazing. And then I just can't be bothered with the bank hook.
ChrisSo if you lost your laptop, you go, Oh, it's alright, I'll just get a new one.
Chris Loves Martin Lewis
PaulYeah. Alright. Well, it's faff though, isn't it?
ChrisIt's just a bit of admin.
PaulRight. I I I obviously talk to you every single day. And I remember you going, I'm trying to fill out this form, and then an email got missed, and then that happened, and then you had to fill out another form, to fill out another form. It's like, I just can't be bothered.
ChrisYou need you need somebody to employ just to do your general life admin.
PaulWell, you but actually you could technically be my PA.
ChrisI could diarise all your you know, all your switches when your direct debits come out, I can I can get you better details.
PaulI do life admin once every three months.
ChrisThat's okay.
PaulBut you do it every like you're forever sending me messages going, uh I've I've been watching my boyfriend Martin Lewis and uh he says uh if you uh swap your bank account uh uh it's like oh shut up mate, can't be bothered.
ChrisYeah, but if he's gonna give you 200 quid, yes please, Martin, I'm all ears.
PaulYou do you do some people have like weird crushes, right? Yeah, so like this things that as as a lad, as a young boy, as a teenager, loved like you know, Pamela Anderson on Baywatch. She was like my crush. Was she you know what I mean?
ChrisAnd then but you as a as a grown man, you're like, yeah, Martin Lewis, my butt haven't got Martin Lewis like on a wall, I haven't got a picture of him on my wall in a house, so just just like what you do.
PaulBut you are fascinated with Martin Lewis a bit too much.
ChrisI like him, I think he's a good guy.
Stonehenge
PaulI nearly got your tickets a few weeks ago for studio audience with Martin Lewis. You didn't, yeah.
ChrisThat would have been amazing.
PaulBut I just couldn't bring myself to even be part of honestly, Paul.
ChrisI would have I mean, we've done some great things in the in the over the over our friendship, but to go and sit and watch Martin Lewis in the audience, that would have been made my year that that would have really made my year.
PaulYou could go to Vegas, Disney World, Disneyland. You could go and see Stonehenge.
ChrisStonehenge of all the places you could have come up with the 8303 going to the go to Stonehenge.
PaulThe only reason I said Stonehenge is because generally I see it twice a week when I drive past it.
ChrisUm is it do you love it every time?
PaulIs it once we're not literally people pay a fortune to go stand at some rocks? But not you, you just bike. You can't even stand there, you can't even get that close to them. You stood half a mile away. What a waste of money that is.
ChrisYou're better off just driving past to go, that looks nice, doesn't it?
PaulWhich is what I do twice a week, and then I get really angry about it. I go, look, even even the other day, we were driving past it the other day in the tour van and we drove past it, and I was like, Look, it's absolutely torrential rain. No one will be stood at Stonehenge looking at it. They were. Oh but it's packed, wasn't it? Yeah, it was. It's like seriously. Anyway.
ChrisStonehenge. Stonehenge. If you're thinking of booking us out booking a night away, forget Florida, night in Stonehenge. Get your ten. Get your ten. And your anarchy.
PaulYeah.
ChrisAnd your camera.
PaulOr go and look at some rocks.
ChrisGo and have a look at some rocks.
PaulEven in my hotel room right now, right? I I'm I'm I've got I've got a balcony, right? Someone's doing well. Not a balcony balcony, but I can see rocks. There you go. Done.
ChrisThere's no history with those rocks. There's loads of history with Stonehenge.
PaulOh, shut up. I can't I can't be doing that. Isn't it like the one of the seventh wonders of the world?
ChrisYeah, I'll take you. I'll take you. You know what I wonder? What?
PaulWhy? No one cares.
ChrisI'll take you for a day out. We'll go to Stonehenge.
PaulBecause you don't even know how much it is to go in.
ChrisHow much is it?
Cleaning by Katie Update
PaulIt right. So me and three of my mates, the people that I work with, we we went to do it one day. We had uh we had we had an afternoon free. We were driving past it anyway, and we went, shall we go? Did you did you pop it in? And we we drove in, we parked up, we went to the entrance, and then you have like Stonehenge Village, or right, whatever. And it was something like 37 quid to walk in the village. I was like, literally, well, actually, I never went to like find out how much it was. I disappeared and went to the toilet, and as I came back out, we went Craig, Becca, and Lee were like, we're leaving. I was like, why? Why are we leaving? I thought we were going. He went £37 each. I was like, nope, not doing that. That's terrible.
ChrisOh, you can go have a day at Norton Towers for that.
PaulYeah, you can. Yeah, you can. But anyway, that's about Stonehenge. Last episode we spoke about the fact that we uh our one and only episode was sponsored by Cleaning by Katie. Correct. And I said that she hasn't cleaned my house.
ChrisAnd she got in touch. She's got in touch.
PaulShe listened, she sent me a message. What she said saying she said, Gilbs, I've listened to the episode. Thanks for my shout out. And we can confirm that Cleaning by Katie is still cleaning. Yes! She's still cleaning.
ChrisIs she come around your house? Is she coming around your house to clean?
PaulShe is coming around my house to clean. We just need to agree a date, and she is gonna come and clean my house. There you go.
ChrisSo if a little small business shout out if you're living in the Somerset area, cleaning by Katie C girl.
PaulYes. So yeah, she got in touch with me. That's a nice little win. Instead, I'm still cleaning because we're not heard of her or anything like that.
ChrisWell that's a nice little win, isn't it?
PaulYeah, so yeah, she's come to clean my house. Which would be nice.
ChrisWhich would be a very good treat. You coming there we go, cleaning by Katie. What else? Well, should we do gets on your toot? Let's get let's do what gets on your toots.
What Gets On Your Tuts
PaulHow long are we in?
ChrisUh we're about 37 minutes in.
PaulAlright, let's do let's do a couple of what gets on your toots.
ChrisIt's very popular, this feature, isn't it?
PaulWe've had people message us, send us emails and everything.
ChrisStill need a jingle? Still need a jingle for it.
PaulUh oh, I'm in the process of jingles.
ChrisOh, he's not only just social media guy, he's jingle guy.
PaulYeah, I'm jingle guy. I have uh I know a lad. I know a person who's doing it for us.
ChrisIf they do well, they'll get a little shout out. Right. What's your first one? What have we got?
PaulShould we do some that um people have sent messages in? Yeah, go on. Alright then. So uh people, this was from Dean. Dean got in touch. Uh hello Dean. He said, people that say the word hun in every sentence in a text and in person, they just say hun.
ChrisYeah, I can see that. Are you okay, hun? Oh, shut up. Do you think do you think it's because we're older and that's what the is that what younger people say? I don't know. Is that hun? Yeah. Are you okay, Han?
PaulWell, I don't know. I just uh Is that not the same as saying mate? I guess so.
ChrisYeah. You right mate? How are you doing, mate? Do you like do you like it when people say that? You right, mate?
PaulNot really. My name's Paul, so uh how are you, Paul? I think it's more formal.
ChrisSome people say that because they don't know your name.
PaulOr how are you doing? I'm good, thank you. How are you?
ChrisI uh if somebody says mate to me and I don't know them, I feel more offended. If it's a mate of somebody I know, I'm o I'm okay with that.
PaulYeah.
ChrisBut you're right, mate. Oh no. Just go, you okay?
PaulDo you know what? It depends how how well you know them. I don't think if you know somebody well enough, maybe you created that boundary to go, hon, mate, yeah, puppet. Because I use the word puppet all the time.
ChrisThat's a very that's nice, actually.
PaulYeah, so our uh well, our old stage manager, mine and yours from back in the day when we were hosted together in Reds, Richard. We um we always used to call him Puppet.
ChrisWe did. We still say it now.
PaulYeah, we still say it now when we see him. So uh I get that it may be slightly annoying, but maybe it's people that don't really know you like they they're not very close to you enough to even warrant calling you Hon mate or anything like that. Yeah. No, I wouldn't. You with? But I can understand why it gets like what annoys me is people that like they they say it like Alright mate, how you doing? Yeah, I'm good, mate. You mate? Yes, mate. Oh you been alright, mate. How's your show today, mate? Right, short, man. Too many mates in one sentence.
ChrisSo would that be something that gets on your toots? Yeah, I think so, I agree. I'll say that does, yeah. Well with Dean on that one.
PaulAlright, Lee with Dean on that one. Are you gonna read one out? I'll give you the notes up.
ChrisUh big hello to Lee. Uh he says uh people who stop in busy streets when walking and they just stop and look at a shop window. Now, I can relate to Lee on this one because I had the exact situation happen to me in Morrison's yesterday. So there I was, but do you know, weirdly, I've been in Morrison's three times that day. That's another story itself. But anyway. Are you gonna get charged for parking?
PaulProbably, probably will. Because it happened to me once. I went into Tesco's twice in an hour, then I got a ticket. Did you? Because you can't return within like four hours.
ChrisI don't think uh I don't think I was charged. Anyway, that's another story.
PaulOh yeah, yeah, yeah.
ChrisYeah, ours is free. Um we don't pay council tags, the council pays us.
PaulI'm not even biting. You crack on.
ChrisSo basically, Lee uh Lee was saying about uh people stop. So I was walking and I was just minding my own business. This guy was on the phone going, yeah, yeah, yeah. We've got to flip back into Q3 and talk about high, low and interest rates. Yeah, yeah. And then he just stopped. He went, yeah, I spoke to Brian. Brian says, Yeah, yes, utilise the emails. Um, and then we'll fall back into that.
PaulChris, Chris, we're not a visual podcast. Why are you holding your hand up to your face?
ChrisI don't know. I felt like I felt like I was in the moment then.
PaulUm we're on FaceTime right now, and throughout that whole thing, you had you put your hand as a phone symbol and was holding up to your face. You were properly in character.
ChrisI was in character, I was in the moment. He just he just stopped. He didn't just slow down, he stopped. I didn't even the back of him. And I was like, get off the work phone, mate. You just needed to buy a loaf of bread. I couldn't switch off. But yeah, that really annoys me.
PaulSo annoying. It's like the people that like um like when you're driving and they just stop. And then you sat behind them going, Yeah, why is he stopped? We're not at traffic lights, we're not at a roundabout.
ChrisWhat what what are you doing? I've done it before. Oh, they just stop or they don't start.
PaulYeah, they literally they'll pull off and then they'll just stop, and you're like, Why have you stopped? Yeah, that is annoying. Especially get going out of a service station. So it's like it's like at that one moment they went, I forgot to buy something. But you're halfway up the merge lane. Like, keep going. I did nearly crash the car the other week. Let me tell you about that.
ChrisGo on.
PaulRight, so I need your opinion on this. Um, so we were on we were joining a uh a motor, a dual carriageway.
ChrisYeah.
PaulRight, and correct me if I'm wrong, I think the the merge lane, as you're joining a dual carriageway, yeah, you are supposed to speed up to match the speed of the cars at the dual carriage road.
ChrisAgreed.
PaulAgreed. So we were coming onto a road. Um I had my girlfriend in the car, and we were coming onto it, and then I was speeding up, I was speeding up, and then you look over your shoulder to see if it's clear to pull out.
ChrisYeah.
PaulThere was a car in front of me.
ChrisYeah.
PaulAnd as I turned to look over my shoulder to see if it was clear, my girlfriend went, Paul! I went, What? And as I turned, the guy had just stopped. He stopped. Literally stopped. Oh, yeah, just stopped in front. So then I had to slam my brakes on uh as hard as I could, because if I'd not done that, I would have literally totaled my car. So he was in the wrong. Yeah, because he he sped up, and then obviously there wasn't a gap for him to pull out. Well, don't speed up so quickly then. And then he just stopped at the end of the MERS lane. Yeah, which causes so I turned so I remember braking and I turned the car to the left, so then I would have if I was to hit him, I'm just avoiding hitting him. People that stop, that just annoys me.
ChrisI can hear an ambulance. I could hear that.
PaulI can't. Oh, I can't. Hang on. It's uh it's yeah it's actually a fire, fire. Is it a fire truck?
ChrisA fire truck, yes. That's yeah, there's fire, yeah. Oh sorry, I wasn't down with my emergency services.
PaulYeah, no, my uh my balcony that in my hotel room, it oversees a main road.
ChrisOh.
PaulI can't hear it because I've got my headphones on. Oh, I could hear that. But I did see Farm and Sam scooting away.
ChrisWe've got we've got time we've got time for one more. Time for one more. Are we doing one of ours?
PaulOr are we doing one of yours? Or are you doing or do you want to do other people's?
ChrisI'd say what, let's do uh let's do somebody else's.
PaulUh okay. Uh oh, Mitch got in touch with us. Yeah. Uh thank you. Mitch, hello. Uh train station. When someone is trying to scan their ticket, but they have their suitcase on the way system. Uh so therefore the system thinks it's two people, yet the barrier doesn't open, it turns into a massive queue.
ChrisKate, let's break this down. What is a what's a way system?
PaulOh no, wait. A wait. So basically, when you if you're at a train station, yeah, and you scan your ticket to go through the barrier. Yeah. Yeah, basically on the floor. Yeah, it flaps open.
ChrisFlaps, come on, let's not go there.
PaulStop it. Um when the um when then stop saying it. Just stop saying it. Um but yeah, so when you scan your ticket or you scan your card or your phone or whatever, on the floor is it's all sensors on the floor. Is it so I like we could get a train from say London Paddington to wherever. Stonehenge. Stonehenge. We could get one to Stonehenge, and then I could buy one ticket. You could stand with me.
ChrisYeah.
PaulI could scan the ticket, and basically we could just shuffle through as one.
ChrisOh, I didn't know that.
PaulBut there's sensors on the floor that basically go make sure it's one person. But if you've got a suitcase with you and you have that next to you while you're trying to scan your ticket, what happens is the system thinks that there's two people trying to get through. So what happens is you're trying to scan, scan, scan, but people are behind you, then it's like it forms a queue, it forms a cue, it forms a cue.
ChrisIt needs to it's too quick, isn't it? The flappiness, too quick. It needs to be open, give it 10 seconds, close, but then more people are gonna go, I don't, but who cares? Just just stop opening and closing so quick. That's my motto.
PaulBut that's not really Mitch's problem, is it?
ChrisIt's the fact that he's literally like just have some well knowledge if it was me queuing, I wouldn't be stood near somebody who's got a suitcase. I'd go in another queue.
PaulYeah, but but if you're at a really busy train station, yeah, it's chaos. If you're in one of the London, Manchester, Birmingham Stone Enge, you know, Stone Stone Enge, if you're at them big train stations, they're really busy. Yeah, true. I don't travel on trains often for that very reason. And also the price of a train ticket is ridiculous.
ChrisThat's another story in itself.
A Phone Call
PaulThat's another story in itself. So, yes, I understand, and thanks for getting to talk to Mitch. I understand how much that would get on your tour. Any I do know Mitch and I know that he travels on trains a lot.
ChrisSo he's the train guy. Uh well, if you've got any tuts as well, please send them in because we love hearing uh from from the listener anyway, and uh and there's some great, great ones that we've got for next few episodes.
PaulSo yeah, keep him coming in. Can I quickly tell you about a phone call that I received last night?
ChrisWe got a quick one, we'll wrap it up there.
PaulSo, no more what gets on your tutz, but I just need to tell you about a phone call that I received from my nephew last night. Okay. That made me giggle.
ChrisTell us more.
PaulMade me giggle a lot. So he um he's in his early teenage years.
ChrisOkay.
PaulAnd um and I think Uncle Paul is his safe space. Okay. So he tells me stuff that he gets up to.
ChrisRight?
PaulAnyway, not heard of him for a while, maybe a week or so. Anyway, he called me last night, he FaceTimed me. He said, Uncle Paul. I stopped him first of all and said, um, what's going on with your hair? He's gone into a mullet stage.
ChrisNice, classic, classic.
PaulNot sure how I feel about a mullet.
ChrisClassic. It's cool coming back, isn't it?
PaulThe kids are all getting a little hair and so anyway, he's got a mullet, and then he went, I've got something to tell you. I was like, What's up, mate? He went and got myself a new girlfriend. Oh, I was like, that's cute. He's got a girlfriend, that's nice.
ChrisThat is very nice.
PaulYeah, he said, I'm going around to see her tomorrow. I was like, Oh, awesome, amazing. He went, also, uh, just saying, uh, I've shaved my pubes.
ChrisOh my god.
PaulAnd I went, sorry? What? And he went, I've I've shaved my pubes, Uncle Paul. I was like, Oh my goodness. And I was like, why have you done that? He went, no, didn't like it. It'd get a bit bushy. So uh I borrowed dad's clippers. Oh god. I've shaved my pubes. And I went, oh right, okay. And do you know when you don't know what to say at that point?
ChrisI wouldn't well one, yeah, uh but you've you've used your dad's clippers.
PaulWell, uh yeah, but I'm not right, just so no, we've all used somebody else's razor at one point, it is what it is. What not for your downstairs area, but like when we live together, I'm sure you maybe when I taught you how to shave, maybe use my razor to go, I've got a bit of hair, whatever. Yeah, but the fact that my my nephew, who's in his early teenage years, FaceTimed me last night and said, Uncle Paul, got a girlfriend. It's like boom, and I've shaved my pubes. Well, you've got all that to come.
ChrisI I don't know how I'd even answer that.
PaulI go well, in the end, I just laughed at him and said, Well, good luck. Um, and said to him that uh I'm gonna talk about it on the podcast. And then he went, Please don't. And I went, Well, I'm doing it.
ChrisWell, on that uh so you can take it.
PaulMaybe I don't maybe you can make it as part of the episode title.
ChrisWe could do that. We'll have a look at it. I'll leave that to you. We'll leave that to you.
PaulI'll leave that to you.
ChrisWell, there you go. Uh well we'll be returning in another couple of weeks for more highbrow conversation, as always. Yes. Uh, and uh, like I say, get in touch with uh with us with your tut, because we want to hear from you.
PaulYes, we love the tutz. And don't forget we're on Facebook and Instagram.
ChrisAt the postpavilion podcast. So uh have a good week, Paul. Have a good week.
PaulAnd you and I'll why are you saying have a good week? Like I'm not gonna talk to you. Well, it's just by the time you stop recording, we'll have another chat. We will half an hour. All right, right. I'll speak to you in a minute then.
ChrisSee you next time.