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
A Posh Hotel & The Toy Story Stag Do
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This week, Chris and Paul somehow find themselves recording from a five-star resort overlooking a golf course, despite looking like they’ve accidentally wandered in from a motorway services.
There’s a stag do that starts with Toy Story 5, a six-year-old embarking on a four-day birthday week and a heated discussion about why cardboard coffee cup lids shouldn't be a thing
Plus there is another instalment of "What Gets On Your Tuts"
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Welcome to the Post Pavilion Podcast. Two best mates and a couple of microphones and absolutely no plan. We chat about everyday life, how they became friends, things that amuse us for more than they probably should, and a fair amount of pointless guff. Listen back to the previous episodes to find out the true meaning of guff. This is the Post Pavilion Podcast.
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ChrisWelcome to the Post Pavilion Podcast with me, Chris Morley.
PaulAnd me, Paul Gilbert. Welcome back. Well, it's been a week. It's been two weeks. It's been two weeks, yeah. Yeah. I think, Chris, we need to start the podcast with saying that I firmly believe that what we're about to say will not help the middle class conversation that we have week in and week out.
ChrisI have to say, this is probably the best place we've ever recorded a podcast in.
PaulYes. Um, let's just explain where we are. So we are currently at Celtic Manor in Newport, Wales. We are. We are staying at the hotel.
ChrisFive-star resort.
PaulIt is a five-star resort, and the reason we're here is because at the time of recording tonight we are going to watch Take That. Which we're very excited about. I am very excited about it. Um because it's been two years. What since we watched it?
ChrisIt's two years to this week that we watched their last show. Was it really? It was, yeah. It came up on my, you know, the memories.
PaulOh, your Facebook memories. But yeah, so this kind of doesn't help. Do you know when we talk about who's more middle class and who isn't middle class? Technically, right now, for the next 24 hours, are we both middle class? I think so.
ChrisWell, I reckon we may even gone upper class. That's my watch keeps going on.
PaulI do up to we've both gone. Well, this is the thing. If if if there's ever a place where I feel like I don't belong, it's here. It's here. So let's describe what we're wearing. So you're in like nice chino shorts.
ChrisYeah. Nice trainers, nice trainers, smartly dressed.
PaulSmartly dressed, and I'm in Nike trainers, Nike socks, Nike shorts, and a black hoodie.
ChrisYou you might as well have hang around with the chavs for the day.
PaulYeah. So do you know when I walk in and everybody's wearing like Like gear.
ChrisIt was very much suited and booted, wasn't it?
PaulAnd then I walk I rocked up, pulling my suitcase.
ChrisI would like to say there's probably like a lot of business people having meetings.
PaulWell, we just had a little tipple in the bar. Uh we went for a uh a little drink in the bar, and we were literally surrounded by corporate companies having breakout sessions.
ChrisYeah. There was there was I saw a table of five people all having a Zoom call, but they're on the same table, yeah, but with whoever they were talking to.
PaulAnd there was me and you having a pint.
ChrisUh we couldn't be any more out of this world.
PaulYeah. And can I explain what happened when I walked in? Go on. So I uh I've obviously travelled from my house and I got a Starbucks on the way, and we walked into the hotel, we went into the bar, I I had a cup of I had a Starbucks takeaway cup in my hand. Yeah, and she the lady came over, very well to do, and she said, Um, are you finished with that? And I said, Yes, I am actually. She went, Cool, let's get rid of it. We're not at Starbucks, we're at Celtic Manor.
ChrisBasically, she looked down at you to go, Why have you bought a Starbucks cup in with you to a five-star resort? Could you imagine if I walked in with a Costa? She would have stabbed me. Now, this place, if you've never been to it before, uh, highly recommend, just off the M4. Uh, and it's on a golf course. If you love your golf, this is perfect.
PaulWe are currently sat at the window. Um, I'll put a video, I'll put a picture on the socials, but we're currently looking out of the window over the golf course. It's lovely, isn't it? Um, yeah. What what I I just feel like we shouldn't be doing this podcast in Celtic Manor.
ChrisDo you know what? It's that big, it's got its own shopping centre. Is it called Celtic Manor? Yes or Celtic Manor? No, it's called the Celtic Manor.
PaulBut it starts with a C.
ChrisAnd just to clarify, we've paid to be here. We haven't been paid from the Celtic Manor.
PaulWe've obviously not been sponsored by the Celtic Manor.
ChrisHowever, if you would like to sponsor us, Celtic Banner, we can always come back.
PaulCeltic what?
ChrisCeltic Manor.
PaulYou said banner.
ChrisI did.
PaulYeah. But uh imagine that. Be lovely. Should we tag him in? Absolutely we should. That's a question.
ChrisAbsolutely we should.
PaulShouldn't we tag him in and go? We had a great time recording our podcast at Celtic Manor.
ChrisAnd do you know what? We would I was trying to be a bit cheeky because we arrived a little bit early, didn't we?
PaulYeah.
ChrisAnd uh check-in's not till four. And I sort of played played played the we're going out. But really, I wanted to come to the hotel room to record the pod.
PaulRight.
ChrisAnd I have to say, ten out of ten to them got us in nice and early.
PaulWell, we haven't though, have they? Well they have. No, let's tell them the full story. I left my house at half eight because you went. If we get there for about 11, quarter past eleven, then we'll be able to get into the room.
ChrisWell, I didn't say that exactly, I said we might be.
PaulThose were your words and your words only. And then so I I got up at half seven, I left at half eight. It's only an hour and forty minutes for me. I I drove down, I got here, and then I find out it's 25 quid to park overnight.
ChrisYeah, I've I didn't realise that either.
PaulBut hey, listen, we're so we're spending 50 quid to park our cars in a in a five-star resort. It's a very nice car park. It's underground, secure. That's all you need. Yeah, but anyway, so yeah, so we're at Celtic Manor. So what a time to be alive.
ChrisIt's very nice, actually. And uh I've been here before. It's for your first time here.
PaulUh of course you've been here before. I have been here. That kind of settles the debate already.
ChrisI've been here once before.
PaulSo you've been I yeah, well, yes, I've never been here. I've driven past it a lot.
ChrisSee, when I when we were driving in, there's a holiday inn on the left, and I thought that is the type of place Paul likes.
PaulJust so no, I don't stay in holiday ins.
ChrisNot holiday inns?
PaulNo. I very rarely stay in a travel lodge. And if I am going to stay anywhere, it's either a premier inn, but I have to have the premier in plus room.
ChrisYeah, do you know how much that costs to be in Cardiff? It was double the price. Yeah. Weird, isn't it? I'm not paying that.
PaulNo, they're cashing in on the take that concert tonight. That's all they're doing. That's all they're doing. You know what I mean?
ChrisBecause I think you can stay in the Premier Inn in Cardiff for about 20 quid. I think they pay you to go and actually stay in there.
PaulRight, we're not having a debate about hotels. No, we're not. Considering that when on the last episode we spoke about the fact that you were on tour for May Half Term with the Animal Guys, with me for the Butlins Tour. You you left Butlings Accommodation and went to stay in a Premier Inn because your missus and your son were coming. Yeah, it was so nice.
ChrisIt was a brand new one.
PaulOh, so now you are promoting Premier Inn?
ChrisNo, well no, look, look, listen. You know what you're doing.
PaulLet's talk about contradiction.
ChrisLook, you know what you're getting with a Premier Inn.
PaulYeah.
ChrisAnd I get it. But you know, it's it's convenient, isn't it? It's like something you go have a McDonald's, you go, I know what I'm getting. It's it's easy, it's quick.
PaulBut I just want to say, after two hours of being here at Celtic Manor Resort, how many times are we gonna say Celtic Manor Resort? Uh, two hours of being here, it's very nice. I nearly bought a pair of sunglasses. Did you do you actually like it? I actually do like it. That's good because I can tell you I'm coming back.
ChrisI was worried that you were going, it's too much for me, this.
PaulNo, mate, this is a little bit of me, this is. I'm not gonna lie, this is a little bit of me. Wow, we've I'm I'm coming back here. I think we've settled the debate.
ChrisYou you like you like the finer things in life.
PaulTo be fair, over the past few weeks, a lot we I've been seeing loads of different random people, and they do listen to the podcast, and they have said that they're not saying they're bored of the middle class debate, but they are saying that um it's a pointless debate because actually they do firmly believe that I am more middle class than you.
ChrisThat's the end of the debate. Thank you very much for joining us on the Post Pavilion Podcast.
PaulYeah, but I'll just say that I I am enjoying my experience. You could have booked a sweep. Alright. Well, next time we come, basically, we're in a cupboard with two twin beds in it. Hey, it's a lovely cupboard, isn't it?
ChrisIt's a lovely cupboard with a glue.
PaulWe actually, I don't I feel like we're talking about Celtic Manor a lot, but then I was interested to know what the price of it was for how much it would be for a suite. Yeah. Right?
ChrisSo you're gonna switch that off.
PaulYeah, no, I'm mid-talking. Sorry, hang on, bear with. That's it with silence.
ChrisHe said he said to me as well, before we record the podcast, don't worry, I'll put the phone on silent, it's all good.
PaulRight, anyway, go back to this, right? So we I went on the website, just curious to know to see how much a suite was for one night. Go on, right, just a a deluxe suite, one night, 900 quid. For one night.
ChrisHashtag ad, hashtag gifted. Imagine.
PaulAnd then you could put the presidential suite. Do you think let's say that Donald Trump comes over here?
ChrisI think he does, you know. I act genuinely think because that's this is this is the place they hold the the golf tournaments, uh the PGA.
PaulSo would you say that Tiger Woods has stayed in the presidential suite at the Celtic Manor?
ChrisAbsolutely he has. I he wouldn't be staying in a in a standard twin room, would he?
PaulSo but guess how much, guess how much a presidential suite was for one night? One night. Probably about a grand, I reckon. Two grand. Whoa! So you check in at let's say you check in at twelve, but you've got a check for 24 hours, two grand.
ChrisPer night. Who's paying that? Have you been in it yet? No. Then we need to go and find out what it's like.
PaulIf honestly though, if you won, let's say you won Capital Breakfast's £300,000 giveaway.
ChrisYeah.
PaulAnd you won, let's say £300,000.
ChrisYeah.
PaulWould you blow some of it on random stuff?
ChrisLike staying in a presidential suite in a hotel. Yeah, probably would, you know.
PaulDo you know ironically, that'd probably be the first thing I did.
ChrisI would I would enjoy myself, but then I'd probably have to pay my mortgage and do boring stuff like that.
PaulYeah, but you can but you woke up that morning without 300 grand, but you're going to bed with 300 grand. Alright. You you kind of go, let's go and stay in a suite for two grand. Well, you're still going to bed £298,000 richer anyway.
ChrisIt's not a bad day's work, is it, really?
PaulDo you enter them competitions?
ChrisNo, I've never.
PaulI spend a fortune.
ChrisAnd how much have you won?
PaulNothing. And they even get me as well, because I'll send you send a text, it goes text, text cash to whatever, whatever, whatever for an entry. And then they text you for like £2.50. And then they text you back and go, thanks for entering. Do you want five for five? And you're like, go on then, I will. So I reply back five to get five more entries. And then I've spent £7.50.
ChrisYou've fallen into the money-making machine. That's how they make their money. Yeah, but imagine if I do win.
Paul£300,000.
ChrisYou've got to be in it to win it. Do you know what? We had a scratch card I found in my house the other week. Yeah. And I didn't realise. Did you know this? That scratch cards actually go out of date.
PaulYeah.
ChrisI never knew that. So, granted, it was from last Christmas and we and had won £10. So I went to went to the shop to go and cash it in. They went, they went, blindly, mate. Not seen one of these for about six months. I went and he went, I went, okay, uh, I don't know what that means, but can you check if it's a win? Went, sorry, it's out of date. You'll have to phone them. I was like.
PaulBut you're not phoning them for three quid, though, are you?
ChrisNo, I didn't bother in the end.
PaulYeah, I won't bother either. Do you want do you want do you want a fiver?
ChrisIt'd be handy.
PaulYeah, I've got cash.
ChrisOh, right. Well, there we go.
PaulThat's another thing about these posh hotels. You don't take cash. Oh, well, you know, we I tried to buy a a r a beer with cash. He went, no. No. Card only.
ChrisI was like, yeah, well, okay. Easy for cashing up, I guess.
PaulBut I bet if I gave him 20 quid tip, he'd take it.
ChrisOh, absolutely you would. See what I mean?
PaulIt's the problem with these five-star resorts.
ChrisAnyway, let's uh let's just.
PaulI didn't realise either that part of the view we're looking at. All the flags are outside. And you see my mum on the uh on the Welsh one.
ChrisNo.
PaulYeah, my mum's on the Welsh uh the Welsh uh flag. Is she? Yeah, she's the dragon.
ChrisShe is not gonna be happy about that.
PaulI'm just saying that, so then she actually listens to the part. This is how I know if she listens or not. If she doesn't ring me and goes, What did you say about me? Then I know she ain't listened.
ChrisYou call me the Welsh dragon.
PaulYeah.
ChrisUh so anyway, look, we've done 12 minutes on uh Kelti Manor on this beautiful place. Please don't switch off. But more importantly, how's your week been?
PaulUm it's been a bit of a roller coaster for me.
ChrisWe've been to you been to a theme park?
PaulNo, I've not been to a theme park. I don't mean to bring the uh the mood down.
ChrisI'll put some music in the backgrounds.
PaulYeah, put the mood down. Um but yeah, so I've had a bit of a roller coaster, some family events. Okay. Um my my dad, my dad went in for hospital two weeks ago. Yeah two weeks today, actually, at time of recording, for a triple heart bypass. Big operation, that's massive operation. Um, yeah, so we went into hospital uh and he had a triple heart bypass. And mate, I'm not gonna lie, it was scary. Well, he's gonna be scary, it's a big one. And I always think it's good to talk about it. Of course. What you say to me. You've got to talk about these things. Yeah. So um, so my dad went in for a triple heart bypass. He there were a few complications, but he made it through.
ChrisFly me for a minute there. Seeing it up then, wasn't I? For a minute.
PaulI thought Imagine if I'd gone. He went in for the operation, few complications, he died. Okay, well, thanks for joining us on the first movie podcast. We'll see you next time. No, right. Um, but anyway, um, but what it's yeah, I just I've always I've never really had an opinion on the NHS because I hear too many people bad mouthing the NHS. Every time Arvind did it, it's always been there. Yeah. So I'm happy with that. But yeah, my dad went in for the operation, a few complications. He was in the theatre a bit longer than he should have been, but he came out of it, he was in ICU, intensive care. Yeah. And I cannot tell you how magical that all the nurses and the surgeons and the doctors were.
ChrisHonestly, it is incredible. And I think when she when you need it, it's that you because you feel so vulnerable when you're in a hospital. Yeah. Because nobody really wants to go there, do they? It's not something where you go, Oh, do you know what? Fancy a little trip out to AE today, that'll be fun for the next 12 hours.
PaulYeah, and I just it was well, first of all, it was really hard because during while the op was going on, I was still on tour. I couldn't really get off tour. So I had to stay on tour for the Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. But then on the Thursday night, I drove down and I saw my dad on the Friday, and I felt so relieved. But then I was so amazed because the weekend he was in intensive care Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and the nurses. So I just want to just they were amazing.
ChrisIsn't it isn't it incredible there are people on this earth, great people on this earth, that do amazing jobs like that. Like me and you, we just go around just chatting on stage. That's not really a job. These people, these surgeons, they they they open people up, do their magic, and put them back together again. That for me is a proper job.
PaulI or a mechanic. And it's really well, or a mechanic. But all do you know what it's made me realize since seeing my dad in intensive care, and luckily for all of us, he made it through everything. He's back home now. Good. He's back home, he's resting. Well, he should be resting. He isn't, but he's supposed to be resting.
ChrisIs he out and about?
PaulUh he is out and about. But since going to ICU and seeing the amazing nurses do what they do, and and then I listen to other people moan about stuff. I'm not bringing the tone down. Do you know? But they all need to get a grip on life.
ChrisIt does put it does put um things into perspective, doesn't it?
PaulYeah.
ChrisUh I mean there's no point in worrying about sweating about the small stuff, is there?
PaulSo for example, 25 quid for overnight parking. I can moan about it, but it's it's actually nothing in the grand scheme of things, is there? Not really. My dad went for a and you know what was amazing in ICU was you see the amazing care that my dad was getting, and and then you look around the ward and everything, and you see people in such vulnerable states having a variety of operations and stuff like that, and you just see go, you just go how amazing, how rewarding that job must be, but also how rubbish that job can be as well.
ChrisBecause it can go the other way, it can do, it can do.
PaulBut yeah, it was um it was an experience that I'll never forget, and I just if this goes out somewhere, I just want to say I love the NHS and I think the NHS is amazing, and we're one of the only countries that have a healthcare system, yeah, so don't hate it, love it.
ChrisHere, here.
PaulYeah, so but that was my week, and then I went back on tour, and back to back to normal. Back back to normality, yeah. Oh, I'll tell you a funny story about my dad though. Bear in mind you're supposed to be resting. I faced him the other day.
ChrisYeah.
PaulAnd I was like, where were you then? Because it didn't look like he was at home. No. And guess where he was? Go on, he was in the pub.
ChrisGood on him.
PaulHe's having a London Pride.
ChrisDo you know what? If I'd had an operation like that, a pint's not gonna help, is it uh not gonna hurt?
PaulWell, no, but it's full of iron, apparently.
ChrisWell, if you have a Guinness, it's great.
PaulWell, yeah, he had pale ale, he had a London Pride, you know what that was. London Pride. But yeah, so but no. Um, but I'm very happy that my dad made it through and there's my four minutes on my dad's operation.
ChrisThere, that's I mean that's good news. That is a good news story.
PaulThat's been the highlight of my two that's been the that's dominated since we last recorded, really.
ChrisWell, there you well, listen.
PaulSo it's nice. I've not really done a lot else, to be honest.
ChrisWell, it's nice that your dad's on the mend, and uh and I know he'll be listening, and he'll go, Why do you end up yabbering on for 20 minutes?
PaulWell, I don't care. I can say what I want, it's our podcast. How's your week been?
ChrisUh not as exciting as your week. Um what has my week been? Uh I've been working, I've been working a few uh a few weekends. Been on the road. Been on the been on the road, yeah. You didn't? Oh no Bogner. Uh and uh when I've done a couple of adult uh weekends, did a uh did a 90s weekend at the weekend just come in mine head. Uh, and there's a lot of people that we used to work with collectively.
PaulOh, yes, there was like a red coat reunion.
ChrisYeah, big reunion. Well, I say a big reunion, there's probably about six that turned up uh out of a possible a thousand we worked with.
PaulYeah, yeah, yeah.
ChrisUh but it was nice. Uh a big shout out to uh to Ben, uh to Bruce, to Sam, to Shell, to Steve, to Julie.
PaulUh and that was And there was loads of other people there from bars and lifeguards and stuff like that.
ChrisAnd it felt like you were going back in time about 10, 15 years ago.
PaulYou did actually text me and said that you bumped into a load of people that we used to work for, and you said they've not changed.
ChrisNo, they haven't. I don't I think it's this industry, isn't it? Uh they just don't do you think this industry keeps us young? I think so. I think so. You think everybody looks young. I I don't think anybody's actually aged. Um but uh but yeah, and so and I saw uh the weekend before, I saw a couple of people which I'd not seen in a long time.
PaulOh, you saw um a lady called Nina. He did. That's got her own she I think she's a social media influencer. Oh, she's doing very well for us now. Ransom big pants.
ChrisGive her a follow. It's honestly her videos are incredible. Yeah, she's called Rats. Ratz, no, Rants. Rants. Ransom Big Rats. Rant, yeah, imagine that. That is a different influence. Ransom Big Pants.
PaulI'm not gonna begin to try and even describe what the platform is, but I think it's very much aimed at uh ladies. Be careful.
ChrisCareful what you say.
PaulI'm just saying ladies. Yeah, well it's yeah, anyway. That's what I think anyway.
ChrisYeah, uh honestly, she's lovely, lovely lady. Uh, give her a follow because uh she's been listening to the podcast as well. She said that to you, didn't she, Robner? She did. I was like, blamey.
PaulSo hello Nina. How about we do a collab?
ChrisThat'd be nice, wouldn't it? Get on the pod.
PaulThe the old girls with the young boys. Oh yeah. I'm not scared of Nina. She makes me laugh. She'll be great. She'll howl like that.
ChrisShe is absolutely brilliant.
PaulDo you know what? Our interesting story about Nina is I interviewed her friend's daughter to be a red coat. Did you? Uh many years ago. I think her daughter, uh a friend's daughter was called Amy, who's still a red coat in Bogner. And normally in an interview, you have to ask like all the loads of different what do you think you bring to the role? How how would your best friend describe you? All that boring stuff. And actually, she said, Oh, you know my mum's friend. I was like, Who's that? She said, Nina. I was like, right, scrap the interview. Let's FaceTime her. So in the interview, I FaceTimed Nina and I said to Nina, should I give Amy a job? And she went, Can you? I was like, right, cool, no worries. Put the phone down on her. I went, go and have a seat over there. Then we give her the job. Brilliant.
ChrisThat's the I think that's the way to do it. I again, like you know, in this industry, it's not what you know, it's who you know, isn't it? Um, and I think that's how we've fallen into the various jobs that we've done over the years, is people we've been recommended, we've been recommended by by people we know. Yeah. So anything else happened interesting in your week? You know what? I it it's my son's birthday coming up. Oh, is it?
PaulYeah, so he's Oh, I've got his card, it's in the car. Good. Thanks. Don't let me forget. I haven't wrote it.
ChrisWell well, you haven't written it.
PaulI haven't written it. Alright. Is that William Hansen? Is that the is that the King? You have uh you're right, I haven't written the card.
ChrisIs that the King's English?
PaulThat is uh No, you would say I I like what you wrote in the card. Yeah. But before you you can read what I wrote, I've got to write what I read. What I read. Look at us trying to be etiquette.
ChrisYou know what? We can't we can't we can't. Can't be. But yeah, no, uh, this week uh it's my son's birthday. How old are you gonna be? He's gonna be 29. Uh no, he's gonna be six this uh this year. Is he six? I brought him a seven card. Good. Well, I'll save it for next day. Yeah, um, so I don't know a child that's that has more than one day of partying. He's on a four-day bender.
PaulWhat do you mean he's on a four-day bender?
ChrisThursday is his birthday, Friday we've got some friends coming over. Nice and bringing their kids over. Saturday, my family's coming down, and Sunday is his actual birthday party. So he's having a four-day party.
PaulHow could a six-year-old go on a four-day bender? I have no idea. No idea. Would you imagine going on a four-day bender now?
ChrisI have not now. One day, I like when I've done when I do the adult weekends and I see people doing the Friday, Saturday, Sunday, I can't make the Sunday because it's it's too it's too much. It's too much. Two days is absolutely fine. But not a th not.
PaulThis is why I have to disagree. I had a conversation with you downstairs when we were uh waiting to check in. That even the thought of drinking tonight is filling me with dread.
ChrisOh no, I like a I like a good night out.
PaulYou do like a good night out. See, I'm the opposite, mate. I can have three pants, pants, pants, pints, three pants, three, I can pick it pants and a pair of socks. Yeah, I can have three pints, get a kebab and go home. Finish on a t-shirt. Yeah. Um, but that's literally it. Um like the thought of the thought of now what time is it now at the time of record? It's two o'clock in the afternoon. I'm happy to drag this out until five, so there's that's three hours of me not drinking.
ChrisWe don't have to drink to have a good time.
PaulI might go on zero.
ChrisYou can go and have a lemonade.
PaulWell, I've just got we've got to drive tomorrow. Yeah. So we'll have a good goal. Yeah, I can't imagine going on a four-day bender.
ChrisNo, not for me.
PaulEven when I go to Blackpool with the uh some friends of mine, um, even sometimes I I will go to the bar. Oh, none of them listen to this, so I can tell them. Yeah. But sometimes I go, I'll get the next round. And then my friend Martin will have whatever, and then Greg, and then Grey. Um, sometimes I get three pints of let's say Cruise de Campo.
ChrisOf all the lagers, you're gonna change it.
PaulI was gonna say Carly, but I know you'd have a go at me.
ChrisI've got to go a bit more up market. Um uh crew de cap de campo.
PaulWhat's it like? Cruise de campo. No, actually, I'll say it then. Normally I'll go up and get three Carly, and then sometimes I get a pint of zero lager. So it looks like I've got a good idea. Good idea. But none of them listen. Oh, he listens, Chris.
ChrisI've done that with you know, when somebody gets a round of shots in, and I and I re I'm no good on shots. I'm awful. And do you know what I've done before?
PaulWhat?
ChrisI've just poured the shot on the floor.
PaulSee, now I've gone the other way. What are you doing? So what if years ago, if we were ever on a night out, and I would let's say we've gone out at four o'clock.
ChrisYeah.
PaulNine o'clock, I'm ready to go to bed because I feel drunk, dizzy, all that.
ChrisYeah, you've said it's done.
PaulYou're done. I've done. Yeah. Sometimes I go, actually, I will have a shot, but I will stand near a toilet, I will take the shot that I don't like. Let's say tequila, I can't stand tequila. Okay. But I will take a shot of tequila because it'll make me sick, and then I go and be sick and it makes me feel better, and then I carry on tonight. That's what I used to do years ago. No, I couldn't do that. What you haven't what, you haven't been sick on a night out?
ChrisNo, I am, I don't, but I don't enjoy it. I don't enjoy it.
PaulNo, it gives me a new lease of life. Well, it used to, anyway. When you carry on, yeah. So um, but yeah, so your son's having a four-day bed.
ChrisYeah, so four-day bed of this week. Uh, and that's been pretty much my week, actually. It's and I've still got a few weeks off, which is nice.
PaulI haven't bought him anything yet, but you can tell me what I need to buy him afterwards. Okay, that's fine. But yeah, so happy birthday to your son. Thank you for it. Who doesn't listen to the bottom? Thank you. Right.
ChrisWe'll be moving on to next. So uh we need to talk about uh um basically I love the fact what's happening here, right?
PaulBecause he'll try and find a way of cutting this bit out. You picked your phone up to see what was cracking off, and you add 20 your pin, you couldn't remember your pin.
ChrisI couldn't, no.
PaulNo. No. That's why you've got the iPhone 8.
ChrisHang on. There's a note here. What's this?
PaulUh oh, right, so right. I need to talk about uh so this weekend I'm going on a stag do. Nice. So David, who works with us at the Animal Guys, is his stag due this weekend.
ChrisOh, he's gonna have a good time, isn't he?
PaulYeah, so we're going to Liverpool. Nice.
ChrisUm I've never been on a night out in Liverpool.
PaulNo, have you not? No. Well, um, and I'm staying in a travel lodge. Yeah. But I'm staying in travel lodge premium. Travel lodge premium.
ChrisOh, what's the difference?
PaulI booked a better room.
ChrisOh, a better room.
PaulBigger TV, it's got a coffee machine.
ChrisBut you'll only be in there for an hour.
PaulI don't care. I still need the facilities. I don't want to step in the shower. Anyway, first of all, let me tell you how Do you know when we did your stagdo, which I was really good at organising.
ChrisDo you know that uh was ten years ago?
PaulIt was, it came up on my memory.
ChrisYeah, about May time, wasn't it?
PaulYeah, it was about that. It was a great week. What did we do when we got there?
ChrisUh we went we went to the hotel.
PaulYeah, and then what did we do?
ChrisWe went out and had a few beers.
PaulCorrect, stopped there. So we're going on this stagdo, but we're not meeting until like three, four o'clock in the afternoon because people are travelling from all over.
ChrisOh, how long how long is this stagdo?
PaulWell, they're doing Friday to Monday.
ChrisOkay.
PaulI'm only doing Friday. Okay. Uh, because I've got a gig. So I'm doing Friday night, Saturday morning, then I'm leaving. Then you're out. Um, but guess how he's starting his stagdo? Dunno. Well, him and his um best men, I think he's got two best men. They're going to I don't get that, by the way. What? Two best men. I think one, I think one, if you were to have two best men, I think one plays a more primary role, and you have like the understudy that does all the bits that the main best man with.
ChrisI mean, I've got good friends, but I can only have one. It's it much easier, innit? My mate, uh another mate of mine had th four. No, that's that's silly, isn't it?
PaulNo, but you have I think there's like chief best man and then deputy best man.
ChrisBut brides be I get it with the bridesmaids, because you normally have like a chief bridesmaid.
PaulBut why do you right? But again, I argue that. Why do you need so many? Good point. All that all you're actually doing is spending £100 on a dress for four people. Yeah. When actually it's only the chief bridesmaid that does anything. I just want the girls up there with me at the at the counter at the altar.
ChrisThey're there anyway, they're there. And there they are. They're there in the front row.
PaulI'll let you know when we do me wedding. We'll get inside track. Um, but anyway, so he's starting his stagdo going to the cinema with his best men to watch Toy Story 5.
ChrisNo, sorry. Sorry.
PaulHe told me this. I was with him last weekend.
ChrisNo, I was I am going to see Toy Story 5 this week with my son.
PaulRight, but he's starting his stagdo with Toy Story 5. How do you feel about that?
ChrisI can't I'm glad I'm not going.
PaulWell, he he told me this on the weekend. Serious. No, he's generally serious. They're going for like they're they're staying in Liverpool on the Thursday night, and then they're getting up on Friday, and they're going to get up and go and watch a 10am Toy Story 5.
ChrisWith a load of families.
PaulNo, no, well, yeah.
ChrisThere'll be a load there'll be a load of families in there.
PaulBut then again, let's counter argue it. Toy Story 1 came out in 1996.
ChrisBut I never saw Stagdos and M parties rocking up. God, do you know what will be a great start to our Stag weekend?
PaulBut I am gonna sympathise with him just a little bit. That I get that you love the Toy Story franchise. That's cool. I get it. Because you've grown up with it, but I wouldn't be starting my stag weekend with it. No way. And then get makes it even worse. Night before his wedding, he's staying in a travel lodge. So your last night as a single man, he's staying in a travel lodge. Anyway, he's not anymore.
ChrisYou've not told me any of this. This is brilliant.
PaulNo, this is what I found out the other day when we were on the um we were on the ferry over to the Island Man.
ChrisLook, I get look, whatever you want to do, it's your it's your wedding. It's your but but going on a stagdo to watch Toy Story is a bit weird. Yeah. Because like what I would do, go, I want to see Toy Story, I'll see it in.
PaulI'll watch it next week.
ChrisI'll watch it next week when I'm not doing anything. But to go, hey lads, fancy um fancy fancy going on a stagdo, yeah, yeah, I'll be well up for that. A few beers, yeah, we'll get on it. Yeah. Oh, we're gonna watch Toy Story to start with.
PaulBut I think him and his best friends, they like the Toy Story franchise, they're all together. So I if do you know what? I feel like we're being quite negative about it. It's just not something I would do. I wouldn't say to you, aye mate, when I finally get married.
ChrisWe're not going to watch a film before we.
PaulIf I said to you, can we go and watch um, you know, can we go and watch uh I don't know I'm trying to. James Bond. James Bond to start the Stag deal. He'll probably be out by the time you get married. Yeah, good point, actually. Um but yeah, so but anyway, I hope he has a nice time. But yeah, I'm only doing the Friday. Do the Friday night, we're going to a I think we'll go to a comedy club, and then we're doing paintballing Saturday morning, and then I'm out of here.
ChrisI'm on board with that. Bit of paintballing, a few beers, but you wouldn't start it by going to Soy Story 5. Sorry, I'll go, I'll I'll meet you later in the evening.
PaulWhat's your opinion on Willie Straws?
ChrisThat's that's taking a turn.
PaulUh no, because it was part and parcel of the same conversation.
ChrisHe's not taking Willie straws.
PaulNo, no. So here's the bride to be. Yeah. She has had here's another one for you. She's had three hem parties. She's had one with up north with her family and friends, one down south with her mates, and then she's having one more big one next week. She's having three hem parties.
ChrisIf they were real friends, they'd come and meet you.
PaulIt's alright for the best man and the bride to say what they want, because they don't pay for it anyway. Exactly. So fair play to her, to be honest. Three hen parties.
ChrisTo be fair, my wife, she had two hen parties, I think, because that was one with family, with it with like the nans, and which I get. I I guess it's a more of a gathering, innit? And then a proper hen do was in Bath where all the girls. Bath.
PaulBath, yeah. It was in Bath. Bath. In Bath. Do you know normal people go to like Benadome, Tenerife, Blackpool, Liverpool?
ChrisVery popular with hen parties.
PaulWhat is?
ChrisBath.
PaulReally? Yeah. I bet it's places like this with spas and stuff. Yeah. I bet she did have a spa for a hen do.
ChrisYeah, I think she did. Yeah, of course she did. There's a there's actually a um uh uh a place where you can go, there's a rooftop pool. It's really nice. Anyway, I'll take you there one day.
PaulPlease don't. Take you there before Toy Story. No, we're not going to Toy Story. But yeah, so but speaking of when my stug do actually happens, yeah, um, there's rules on mine, isn't there? There is. I won't be because I'm that person that if I don't want to do something, I'll just walk away.
ChrisI'll take you to the park. We'll go to a park. Well there's toys. Oh, they're they're going to Toy Story. We'll go we'll go have a go on the swing.
PaulSo yeah, so but yeah, so anyway, so but I hope he has an amazing stack, do you?
ChrisSo hang on, go back go back to Willy straws.
PaulYeah, Willie straws. Right. This is like controversial. So it's okay for hempies to take out with them straws with willies on the end. Yeah. And when they're drinking their drink, it's like they're drinking from a willy. Yeah. Right? Whatever you're into. But imagine if blokes went on their stag dude and they had a pair of boobs on the straw, we'd be perverts. Good point. Good point. This was the conversation when she said, Yeah, we have Willy straws. I'm like, but that's and then Magic Mike is a controversial one for you. Yeah. So women can pay to go and watch Magic Mike, watch a load of ripped men take their tops off and grind on the stage and do all that pulsating stuff and pour water on themselves. But imagine men paying to go and watch a load of women get their baps out. Well some people do. Yeah, but not as a production. So Magic Mike is in the it's in in London, Leicester Square. That's been there for years. People have been paying a fortune for that. Imagine if it was a woman's show. This was all part and parcel of my Willie conversation. So I don't know why I went from Willie's to Magic Mike.
ChrisSo so Magic Angela wouldn't have the same.
PaulNo, it wouldn't. But then if a group of blokes went, we'd be perverts. We would be perverts. It's weird, isn't it, how the world works. It's all about perception. I noticed you're sat on the fence here. You're not saying anything.
ChrisDo you know what? Do you know what I'm looking at? Just people playing golf. Because nobody can see this. It's not a visual podcast. So but I've just seen two blokes in what I can only describe as just golf gear.
PaulPink.
ChrisYeah, they're on there.
PaulI think that must be the 18th.
ChrisHe's got a pink t-shirt on, some trainers. It's not pink, it's salmon. And some and some shorts. Yeah. And they've all got to wear a ha wear a white hat. And it's not even sunny.
PaulYeah, great content. Uh but yeah. Anyway, that was that was my stagged and Hendoo rant.
ChrisRight, we've got time to do our feature. Which is What Gets On Your Tots. Am I putting the am I putting the theme tune back in? Yeah, it's got that's our theme tune. It's time for What Gets On Your Tots.
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PaulNow I do like that thing. Do you like it? Yeah, I do like it. Right, talk to me. What gets on your toots?
ChrisUh okay. Uh well, we had a message in from Dean who basically said uh barber shops. He's got a thing of he's got a thing on barber shops. What about them?
PaulWhat where you go and get your hair cut?
ChrisYeah, he says, barbers that take cash only and not cards.
PaulRight, what's the issue?
ChrisWell well, I guess you don't always because people don't really pay with cash anymore, do they?
PaulNo, right.
ChrisSo you've gone into a barber, especially I get it, if you go into a barber shop you've never been to before, you sit down, you get yourself ready, you have your hair cut, and they go, that'll be £10. We don't take card.
PaulNo. I don't see an issue with it. You don't see an issue. No, because I I said it a few weeks ago in the podcast. I've started drawing £100 out every like week or so. Because we should be paying with cash more. Cash is king. Cash is dying. It is dying out. Do you know what I mean? Like that earlier on when I went, oh, can I pay with cash? No, card only. Do you ever why? What's what that? You do feel like they spent millions of pounds putting the king's face on notes. No one's seeing it.
ChrisYou know what? You do feel a bit like, oh, is it okay? It used to be years ago, is it okay if I pay by card? Now, is it okay if I pay by cash? You think you're doing something dodgy.
PaulWell, the I think the problem I've got is that I've been going to the same barber for 20 years. He may be the reason I'm bold. I'm not bold, but I'm losing the hair at the side. Yeah.
ChrisYou can have a Jimmy car where you can get the hair transplant.
PaulWhat fabric? Um but anyway, I've been going there for that long that I know it's cash only.
ChrisHave they not gone card yet? No.
PaulNo. Cash only. Cash it in the bank. Because the problem is, when you're paying card, when when you're an independent business, or you're an independent hairdresser or whatever, every transaction that you're taking on card, you're paying the banks to take that money. Good point. So the banks and the corporate companies, they're making millions, billions, trillions off you by using your card. So, and I've had this conversation with people that own cash-only businesses. They can take that cash, put it straight into the bank with zero fee to uh a credit card company or anything like that. And I'm not saying that people are being dodgy with their money and tax-free and all that, not paying their tax. That's that's their own business. But when you're a small independent business like a barber's or a coffee shop or a charity shop or whatever, by paying cash, you're giving more money to that company. Without let's say you pay 20 quid for a hair court, £1.19 of that goes straight to the bank. Yeah, for what? And if you have 20 customers a day, that's 25 quid.
ChrisThe only thing that that that throws me a little bit, if you've got a regular hairdresser and then they put the prices up, and you're going, oh, it's gone up by a pound.
PaulThat did throw me a little bit of a week. I haven't got a pound. They're like, No, that did throw me a view of the week.
ChrisThe best hairdressers are the ones the ones that go, don't worry about it this time. Yeah, yeah. And then you know the next time. Because it's annoying, who has an extra pound in their pocket?
PaulYeah, mine went up from 21 to 22. God, that's expensive for a haircut. But to be fair, I always give them 25 anyway.
ChrisDo you yeah, for a haircut? What's wrong with that? I mean I pay for it. But tip your barber. I do. I I pay him 18.
PaulYou should always tip your barber because they've got the they've got the power to make you look nice or look like an idiot.
ChrisSee, I went to a barber once and he absolutely destroyed my hair. And he was I nearly asked for a I nearly asked for a refund, but I couldn't. I couldn't I just had to walk out and go, that's it.
PaulProblem when those things happen though, your hair just goes back.
ChrisWell it does. You don't have to wait a few minutes.
PaulSo what side of the fence are you on with Dean? Are you on Dean's camp or you're on my camp?
ChrisI sort of get it. I sort of get it. I think it's more convenient because everybody I've got I have everything on my phone now.
PaulI know, but it takes two seconds to go to a cash point drawer.
ChrisI know half the cash points and not the banks are shutting down in the high street. Yeah, but the cash point's on. There's always a cash point.
PaulProtect you should be supporting the independent businesses.
ChrisTo be fair, my hairdressers literally has a cash point a couple of doors down. So I have got no excuse, really.
PaulAnyway, Dean, I I I'm not saying I'm against it. I'm just saying that there may be a bigger picture behind it. Okay. Any other talks? What we got?
ChrisUh 20 mile an hour speed limits.
PaulOh no. I hate them. Oh, that's a place, because we're in Wales, it's full of 20 mile an hour.
ChrisUh look, I get it, safety, important. I get it. But when you put a 20 mile-an hour speed limit in a road that's been 30 for quite a long time, and then they knock it down to 20. I think it's more dangerous trying to look at your speedometer to do 20 because it's so slow.
PaulNo, I'll get a car that has cruise control that you can put it on 20. Well, I haven't got air conditioning to buy a new car then.
ChrisYeah, but it's so slow. I could walk quicker.
PaulNo, you can't know you. The average person walks six miles an hour.
ChrisNo, I could run quicker then.
PaulOkay, the average person runs about 15 miles an hour. So if you go downhill with the wind behind you, yeah, I get it.
ChrisYeah, but you'll constant yeah, but oh, I just I basically I get what you mean, because you could basically get foot cramp. And this is where the speed camera and then they put speed cameras in, and this is where people they get people because they're trying to make a load of money, aren't they?
PaulGuess what? I'm one of them people. You got caught? Yeah, but again. No, I from the No, I got caught while we were together in May after him. Got caught by a mobile police camera in the van. I was doing 38 in a 30.
ChrisOh no!
PaulSo the boss was away in Canada, and then he just we had a catch-up when he got back, and then he went, and then he texted me once I put the phone down. He put question. I was like, yeah, and he went, Who's driving the van on this date? I was like, that was me. And he went, Congratulations, you've had a speeding ticket.
ChrisSo what's the damage then?
PaulI uh well We do not know yet. I don't know yet. I had to fill out the back and then send it off for them to then send it to me.
ChrisSo the next episode we'll find out if you've got the points or I hope I get the course.
PaulWell, we hope so. So find out we'll see. Any other tucks? Um, I've got one. Go on cardboard lids on coffee cups. Oh, go on, expand. So the other night I funny enough, I had to stop at your favourite services. Yeah. It was three in the morning. I needed a coffee, and so I ended up going to Costa Services, not the main bit, but this the petrol station. Yeah. And I asked for a latte. The lovely lady made me a latte, but then she stuck a cardboard lid on top of it. And I'm all for recycling. Yeah. I get all that. But once you put your mouth round it, and once the liquid's gone through it, the cardboard just becomes soggy. Do you know what you're talking about? It's made my teeth go funny.
ChrisYeah. It's like chalk on a on a board. Yeah. I just I I it for me, it's the it's the texture of the cardboard and the liquid. It doesn't sit well. And I I'll agree with you on that.
PaulI know I just I'm all for generally I'm all for recycling. I try and recycle as much as possible. I don't think there's enough recycling bins anyway around places. But just not a carboh-like Starbucks have started doing it at takeaway cups. It's like stop it.
ChrisI always take my own now and just get a because I I like a metal container, it keeps it nice and hot.
PaulBut my commutes are slightly different to yours. I go from a car to a van to a van to a ferry to a ferry into a car to any cops and then a different car and then a different car. Yeah, do you know what I mean? So like sometimes I I just I lose a lot of stuff. Yeah. So but for me, cardboard lids.
ChrisI'll agree on that. That's yeah, I'm glad you're does anybody else have the same issue? Are they quite happy about it? Let us know. Uh have we got any more? Any any more for any more?
PaulUh you wrote Apple CarPlay.
ChrisOh no, that wasn't a tut, actually. Oh, was it not? That wasn't a tut. That uh was very much uh I because my car's so old, I've had to go and get one of these Apple CarPlay systems. Uh, just because it it's quite handy for the maps and driving around. Uh and I pulled up at the traffic lights the other day and I heard the car next to me what they were playing through their Apple CarPlay as well.
PaulSorry, yeah, because you're tuned in by a FM transmitter.
ChrisI'm tuned in through their frequency.
PaulRight.
ChrisSo I pick a frequency that no station's on, and I was hearing uh a bit of Keane with somewhere only only you know. Somewhere only Yeah, it was lovely. And then they changed it into and then it just moved the moved it onto the next one and played some classical music.
PaulIt was it was a completely random playlist, but well that's what you get for buying cheap Apple CarPlay systems in your car.
ChrisI guess that's my tut. That is my tut, actually. What is is when you're trying to play the music through a frequency, you just hear, and it's kind of like.
PaulWell, you know what you can do, right? So you can stop being cheap about it, you can go to Halford's, you pick a screen, and they will install that screen into your system for like 100 quid.
ChrisYeah, but I can do it myself for nothing.
PaulWell, go and buy one and install it in your car then without using an FMAM transmitter.
ChrisWell the thing is, I've got an all I can put it in the auxiliary, but my car's that old it the the the socket interferes with the Sigma bar.
PaulBut still, but you're but you're moaning about something that you can control.
ChrisDo you know what I should do?
PaulWhat?
ChrisJust get a new car.
PaulYeah, but well, yeah.
ChrisAnd then I wouldn't have the issue.
PaulI had my car nicked the other day. Did you? Yeah. I didn't really have it nicked. We were on tour and I had my car on tour, and uh the boss said, Um, I'm going home, his other half was going home, Becca. Uh another member of the team was going to that location and somebody else. Well, they were in a van. Going to get three people in. So he went, right, anyway, Gil gives your keys. I was like, Why's that? He went, I'll take your car, you take the van. I was like, How does that work?
ChrisYeah. So you had a nice car or an or an old.
PaulYeah, and then he rang me halfway through the journey, very frustrated, because my automatic wing screen.
ChrisYeah.
PaulWipers, automatic lights, and everything was all kicking off, and he didn't know what to do. I was like, Well, you don't need to do anything.
ChrisYeah, just does it.
PaulAnd then he sent me, and then he rang me back and went, just so now I'm selling your car. I was like, please don't sell my car. But I've got no more tuts.
ChrisNo, I think that's it. Well, look, look, it's a quick one this week.
PaulUh we're not, we're 45 minutes in.
ChrisHas it really been that long? Yeah.
PaulUh time flies when you haven't played.
ChrisIt really does. So if you've got any tuts for the next episode, please send them in at the Post Pavilion Podcast. Get us on Instagram and Facebook and tell all your friends. Yeah.
PaulLike it, love it, share it, subscribe. Is that the same? I don't know.
ChrisYou haven't said that for a while. I haven't actually.
PaulBut we're going to go and enjoy. Do you know what we haven't done for a while? I don't mean to drag this on. We haven't done stats. I'll do that next episode.
ChrisWe'll do it next episode. Uh, but you know, we're just doing this, not for the numbers, we're doing it because we enjoy it. Um and we're gonna go and have a game of golf, and then we're gonna go watch Take That.
PaulYou can have a golf. I'm gonna go in the marble shower. Okay. Well, we're gonna We can actually have a shower. I could be in the shower, you could be in the bath at the same time. There's a bath and a shower. Yeah.
ChrisUh we'll we'll reconvene.
PaulI don't know if I keep interrupting, and you're trying to wrap it up. I'm trying to wrap it up. Go on, wrap it up.
ChrisWe're gonna reconvene. We'll talk about take that on the next episode.
PaulUh we're gonna watch Gary Barlow.
ChrisNo spoilers though, because there'll be people that haven't watched it.
PaulJust so you know, if you've got TikTok, I've watched it all already, to be fair. I'm just doing it in person.
ChrisAll right, well, we'll have a good time, I'm sure. Anyway, so have a good week and we'll see you on the next pod. Ta!