Best Friends, Burglaries and Weddings

Can you have a best friend over 30? On this week's Wolf & Owl, we're back in the inbox answering your emails, from wedding planning headaches, to poo robberies, to one of life's biggest questions: can you still have a best friend post-30? The guys tackle an unforgettable burglar dilemma, (yes, it involves someone being caught on the toilet), and somehow end up talking about goats and Tom's big issue with them along the way. Keep sending your questions, dilemmas and voice notes to [email protected]. A Ranga Bee Production in partnership with Platform Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

• 0:14Speaker 00

  Welcome to the Wolf For Now email special.

• 0:18Speaker 01

  Can I do this like when I was awful this morning presenting?

• 0:20Speaker 00

  Yeah, go on.

• 0:21Speaker 01

  Hello friends.

• 0:25Speaker 01

  I hate those things.

• 0:27Speaker 00

  We are, we are having one hell of a morning, let's put it that way.

• 0:36Speaker 00

  We, we can't, unfortunately, we can't, we can't really go into detail of what happened, but

• 0:44Speaker 00

  it's been a bit tricky to get ourselves in order for this.

• 0:50Speaker 00

  Anyway, um, well, let's hope it continues to be as much fun as it has been during the break. Uh, but welcome to the email special of Wolf For Now.

• 0:58Speaker 01

  Um, yeah.

• 0:59Speaker 00

  Yeah, where we just get into whatever it is you want to send us.

• 1:04Speaker 01

  We're gonna look and, and obviously we're having a laugh, but there might be, some of these might be sensitive.

• 1:08Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:09Speaker 01

  Relax and let's get into the emails.

• 1:11Speaker 00

  But what we can say is that if it's getting sad for a little bit, you can be sure a laugh is not that far around the corner. Okay?

• 1:19Speaker 01

  Oh, you put that one away.

• 1:22Speaker 01

  Big Bear, would you like to read this one out?

• 1:23Speaker 00

  Yeah, sure, I will do, absolutely. Um, hello, Ron and Tom, my two of faith podcasters and all round good humans. I recently got engaged to my partner in our favourite city.

• 1:35Speaker 00

  In our favourite city abroad, it was perfect, low key intimate and has come at the right time.

• 1:39Speaker 01

  Nice.

• 1:40Speaker 00

  We've been together for five years, I'm thirty and he's thirty one.

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  Young.

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  And we are absolutely ready for the next step. I was so happy for the rest of the holidays, we soaked up the newly engaged bliss. However, upon returning home, I feel like our bubble has burst. My family members were very excited, which is lovely, but they immediately jumped to conclusions about our wedding. Assuming he'll be my bridesmaid, not sure I want them, signing up to plan my hen do, I definitely don't want one. It's not my thing at all and how big the wedding will be. We're getting constant questions about what we're planning and what they want us to do. I've even had a close relative tell me we can't get married until she's had her baby. She's currently pregnant.

• 2:16Speaker 01

  Oh, good luck.

• 2:17Speaker 00

  Of course, we want to accommodate loved ones and have some kind of celebration that works for everyone, but we're both huge introverts. I want to keep it as chilled as possible without anyone else's input. How do we navigate this time without letting people down or dulling their excitement? Of course, I feel like such a killjoy after shut down any conversations about a potential wedding before it gets too much. I just want to enjoy my engagement for now. Is that too much to ask? Lots of love, the terrified tiger. Well, thank you so much, Tiger, for your email. Tom?

• 2:45Speaker 01

  Well, terrified Tiger, I've, I've probably kept this a little bit of advice, uh, on the down low for a while. Cause I used it a lot in the early days of this podcast, but you need to just do you. I think the fact is in wedding situations.

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  Do you know what? I know you're doing it ironically, but it's so horrible.

• 3:05Speaker 01

  I know, I could see it, it just stays in your face. But I think when it comes to this sort of situation, you just need to, I, I think this day is about the two of you. I think it's about you making it a day that you want it to be, that you'll remember. I think as soon as you sort of feel like you're drowning in other people's plans and ideas, it will, it will spiral into something you, you have, you don't want it to be. So I think you have to lock that, that chat down pretty quickly and say, no, look, we're going to take our time. We're just going to enjoy our engagement. You know, obviously, and that's the other thing, you've got so many different people, your family, and no one's doing this maliciously. I think it's worth saying, everyone kind of will want it for the best, but I think everyone assumes that people just want a big wedding. They assume they want to be the centre of this massive facade, this massive.

• 3:50Speaker 01

  And actually, when I look back even at, at my wedding, it was like the happiest day of my life for a number of reasons. But if I ever was to ever do it again, I would, it would be so much like me and Catherine were to do about, I just, we do it in a really small surroundings with a few people. You really, really want there. Cause what you realize over the sands of time, a lot of the people that you're there, you know, not for any reason, but friendships drift. You know, times change and, and you, you might sort of lose track of the people there. The people at your weddings for a lot of the time are friends that might just be locked in that space of time that they're very close. And actually, over time, you know, this perspective of it just being about you two is all that you really, really need to be about. So I think stick to your guns.

• 4:33Speaker 01

  If, if, if you're an introvert, have an introvert's wedding, just make it as small, have the people that you want there. And just make it sure it's the most special day for you and your other half. Enjoy it. Um, and, and you haven't got to rush it, just enjoy it and being engaged is amazing. Enjoy that side of it. Me and Catherine went on to our best holidays, just, just looking for where we might want to go and get married or just as an engaged couple. I think everyone in, in life, we, I think we're, it's such a rush to chalk off moments and, and go, all right, we're going to get this thing done or that thing done. And actually, taking your time, being patient and just enjoying the, the, the here and now is one of the most important things you can do. So congratulations to you both, I hope it goes well. And if it is a big wedding, I know two guys who would love to be there.

• 5:19Speaker 00

  Yeah.

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  Me and John, because I know.

• 5:22Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah.

• 5:22Speaker 01

  I know you feel, John's now joined the sort of, John is like a wedding crasher, he loves weddings.

• 5:28Speaker 00

  Yeah. Um, I think, uh, two things, I sort of agree, I basically agree with Tom. I, I think one, your family and friends think that they are helping. Doesn't, I don't think it comes from a bad place, it's just they've got, you know, even like, even I was like, oh, you don't want a hen do. Cause it's such an assumed part of the wedding thing. And that's what your family are doing, they're assuming that you're going to want this and you're going to want that and bridesmaids and da, da, da, da, da, da. They're trying to help or they're doing it because they're excited, like, you think about the opposite where you came back and none of them gave a shit and weren't mentioning it at all. You'd probably be equally aggrieved.

• 6:08Speaker 00

  So this is actually probably the better outcome is that they're showing enthusiasm and excitement for you getting married. That's actually really lovely.

• 6:17Speaker 00

  But as Tom said, it's not about them. You've got to have the wedding that you want to have. And I think a lot of the time in lots of big life things, we just assume the default setting is what we should be doing. And it sounds like you are thinking outside the box a little bit and you want to do things your way. And actually, the people that really care about you, whatever you decide you're going to have, they will accept that and be delighted for you. Because what they want to do is celebrate your marriage. And so I think you either, you know, there's part of me that thinks ride it out for a little bit, they'll be excited for a while and it might die down a bit. And you can just get down to plan it yourself. Or if it gets too out of control, I think you just have, have to say, look, I'm going to be honest with you.

• 7:00Speaker 00

  All the talk about the wedding stresses me out a little bit. We just want to enjoy our engagement for a while and then I will come to you if and when I need. I'd love some help or some thoughts on how we're going to do the wedding. And I think people genuine, generally will accept that as a, as a useful thing and a helpful thing. And they'll want to support you in that. So good luck terrified Tiger, hope it goes well. And if it is a big wedding, I know two guys that don't know you well enough to attend. So take care, have fun. Congrats.

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• 8:30Speaker 01

  Hello Wolf For Now. I need to start by being honest and letting you know, I heard this question on another podcast. However, I wasn't interested in our answers, but I'm interested in what yours will be. If someone broke into your house while you were having a shit, would you wipe first before confronting them? Answer based on confronting them, not locking the door, hoping they'd leave you alone. Regards, the Goose.

• 8:53Speaker 00

  Okay, so you're mid shit.

• 8:55Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 8:56Speaker 00

  Somebody breaks in.

• 8:57Speaker 01

  So you've got to pinch one off.

• 8:59Speaker 00

  Basically, and we know that that is the, the worst situation in terms of post-clear up.

• 9:05Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, we've got to come back to it.

• 9:07Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 9:08Speaker 01

  I, I mean, I can't think there's a world, someone breaking into your house that you're going to wipe your bum. You have to pinch off and you have to go into a full army sly mode.

• 9:19Speaker 00

  Yeah, I guess so.

• 9:20Speaker 01

  I also think there's some merit probably in, if you can, picking somewhere out of the toilet and throwing it at the person.

• 9:27Speaker 00

  Uh, I think you're playing fast and loose with the word merit.

• 9:31Speaker 01

  No, but right, you're a burglar, is there anything more terrifying? Like I'm running out of the toilet and I've got a big lump of poo, like obviously wrapped in toilet paper in my hand and go, get out, get out.

• 9:41Speaker 00

  So you haven't got time to wipe your arse, but you have got time to gift wrap a turd.

• 9:46Speaker 01

  No gift wrapper, I just get the toilet paper, pick it up quickly. I mean, I'm, look, it'd probably be a bit, it'd be on my hands as well. Do you know what I mean? Cause I'm, I'm just thinking weapon wise, if this guy's got a knife, does poo be a knife?

• 10:01Speaker 00

  I don't know, it's just like, it's like we're fucking making a horrible version of rock, paper, scissors.

• 10:06Speaker 01

  If, right, you're, you're a burglar, I come running out and go, get back, get back. I've just done this, it's still warm.

• 10:14Speaker 00

  I think, I think it doesn't matter that you've still, you've just done it. I think no, no matter the age, I'd not want to see it. I, I think probably rather than it being a weapon.

• 10:22Speaker 01

  You'd also think that someone's insane if they get, yeah.

• 10:24Speaker 00

  Well, that's the point I would make, I think that person's so crazy.

• 10:27Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 10:27Speaker 00

  That I just need to leave immediately.

• 10:29Speaker 01

  I don't think there's a world where you'd wipe, anyone would wipe.

• 10:33Speaker 00

  Okay, there is a possibility though, that that burglar kills you or injures you.

• 10:38Speaker 01

  Yep.

• 10:39Speaker 00

  And you end up having to go to hospital. And then on the way to hospital, you're thinking, not only have they got to do with my injury, I've also got a shitty arse.

• 10:45Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's true, especially if it's been a post Paris poo for you. Coming out the back of Paris. Coming out the back of Ramesh, on the back of Paris, but.

• 10:58Speaker 00

  So yeah, so does that change your mind at all?

• 11:00Speaker 01

  No, I think if someone's there, it's defending you, you're defending your house.

• 11:05Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 11:05Speaker 01

  I think if you're wasting time wiping your bum, if you're like, oh, so give me a bloody minute, wipe me bum, I'll be out there and show you what for.

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  You, you bloody wait until I'm clean.

• 11:14Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 11:14Speaker 00

  Then you're bloody.

• 11:15Speaker 01

  Then you've got a fight in your hands.

• 11:16Speaker 00

  Yeah. Um, I don't think they're pulling the turd out of the toilet, it's that bad an idea.

• 11:20Speaker 01

  I think you'd pull up your trousers, obviously, your pants.

• 11:23Speaker 00

  But then it's, it's, it's the thing of like, in the heat of the moment, you throw a turd at a burglar, you miss.

• 11:30Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 11:30Speaker 00

  And then now your house has been burgled and you've got to clean your own shit off the walls.

• 11:34Speaker 01

  No, but I mean, you're getting a mid burglary. I mean, if you can sneak up behind them and then just rub the shit in their face.

• 11:41Speaker 00

  What does that do?

• 11:42Speaker 01

  Well, I go, oh, it's disgusting. How's more from that came from? I just got back from Paris.

• 11:49Speaker 00

  Yeah, it feels like you might aggravate them.

• 11:52Speaker 01

  Yeah, but can I say some burglars are just there for to steal, they don't want any trouble.

• 11:57Speaker 00

  Well.

• 11:57Speaker 01

  It's like bees.

• 11:58Speaker 00

  Yeah, they, they, they, they want to go in and out, don't they? So any complications?

• 12:01Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 12:02Speaker 00

  For example, somebody with a turd in their hands, probably gonna go, do you know what? The juice ain't worth the squeezer.

• 12:06Speaker 01

  The biggest attraction you've got to have is, is security lights that go on. Burglars hate those. If you've got a house without security lights, think about it, honestly. Winter's coming, well, obviously after summer, quite a long summer, but.

• 12:19Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 12:20Speaker 01

  Well, summers is just burglars catnip.

• 12:21Speaker 00

  Yeah, autumn's catching strays there for some reason. But, um, but yes, you're right. Yeah.

• 12:28Speaker 01

  Burglars love the summer.

• 12:29Speaker 00

  So get some security lights in. Um, I think probably that's more of an option for somebody that lives in an affluent area like you. I don't think everybody's gonna.

• 12:37Speaker 01

  What? Security lights? You can get security lights for next to nothing.

• 12:40Speaker 00

  I'm sure you can, but the point is, is that like, if you're, if you're close in with your neighbours, they might not want you to.

• 12:44Speaker 01

  I'm pretty close to my, I don't live in like you do in a, with a moat around my house. My neighbours are pretty tight.

• 12:49Speaker 00

  How dare you? How fucking dare you? You live in one of the most expensive places to buy property in the country.

• 12:57Speaker 01

  Yeah, but I don't live.

• 12:57Speaker 00

  Nay Europe, right?

• 13:00Speaker 01

  I don't live.

• 13:00Speaker 00

  I live in Crawley.

• 13:02Speaker 01

  Yeah, but you've got the biggest house by a long way in Crawley.

• 13:04Speaker 00

  Bullshit.

• 13:05Speaker 01

  A castle in Crawley.

• 13:06Speaker 00

  Bullshit.

• 13:07Speaker 01

  Okay. Is there a bigger house than yours in Crawley?

• 13:09Speaker 00

  Yes, definitely.

• 13:11Speaker 01

  I'm gonna drive around Crawley and see.

• 13:13Speaker 00

  Good.

• 13:14Speaker 01

  I'll drive around.

• 13:15Speaker 00

  Why don't you take Kat and little G?

• 13:16Speaker 01

  No, not taking them round Crawley. We live in a nice area.

• 13:20Speaker 00

  Um, okay. Well, I hope that helps.

• 13:22Speaker 01

  I think the more crazy you could be to a burglar, the better.

• 13:25Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 13:25Speaker 01

  Like, that's the attraction. Yeah. Like, if you can do.

• 13:28Speaker 00

  I think what would be really frightening is if you're walking out and you're going up to them while wiping your arse. You're still doing it on the move.

• 13:35Speaker 01

  And you go, oh, give us a kiss.

• 13:36Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 13:37Speaker 01

  All that.

• 13:38Speaker 00

  Or you just fucking, you've taken some of your shit and just smeared it like wall paint onto your own face.

• 13:42Speaker 01

  God.

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  Do you know what I mean?

• 13:43Speaker 01

  That is a good idea.

• 13:44Speaker 00

  Like.

• 13:45Speaker 01

  I think the more insight, I think, I think that's how you just, that's how you survive in prison.

• 13:49Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 13:50Speaker 01

  I think the first day you're in prison.

• 13:52Speaker 00

  Rule number one, smear yourself with your own faeces.

• 13:54Speaker 01

  And then just run around the prison yard going, who wants a cuddle?

• 13:57Speaker 00

  Yeah, I wouldn't do that if you've done a white collar crime. If you've just done tax evasion, I think that's a mad thing to smear yourself with shit.

• 14:04Speaker 01

  No one's gonna pick on a shit guy. You don't wanna make any friends while you're there, but no one's gonna touch you.

• 14:09Speaker 00

  No.

• 14:10Speaker 01

  If you, if you run around the first day, you go, give us a cuddle and you're covered in shit.

• 14:13Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 14:14Speaker 01

  Then everyone's going, oh, fucking hell, he's a weirdo.

• 14:15Speaker 00

  Yeah. If you do it a second day, I think there's probably a good chance you just get knifed up in your cell and left for dead. But anyway. Uh, well, thank you so much. That was great. Yeah.

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• 15:27Speaker 00

  Howdy. I absolutely love you both. Me and my best friend Felicity are massive fans. I have a dilemma. I'm thirty four and Felicity is my best friend, but she's thirty nine. And she thinks people can't have best friends when they're old.

• 15:38Speaker 01

  Oh, that's like at the difference of us in age and.

• 15:41Speaker 00

  And I get offended when she doesn't introduce me as a best friend, so I correct her all the time. In addition to this, something happened a few years ago, which she always puts me down for. I was so excited one morning when I queued online to get front row tickets to Ramesh. I was bragging so much. However, when I told her where it was, I said Brighton. Turns out my geography skills aren't the best as I live in Shropshire, which is two hundred and forty miles away, four hours driving. I thought Brighton was near Chester. We ended up not going and it was too much to travel. Fuck's sake. Sad times, but to make up for it, we did go see the wolf in Liverpool.

• 16:13Speaker 01

  Okay, that's nice. That's.

• 16:14Speaker 00

  When we sat down, Felicity blagged two front row seats from the lovely doll lady. Winner. But back to the question, do you think you can have a best friend when you're over thirty? And do you think she needs to start introducing me as her best friend? Please be on my side. Love, the friendly ostrich. Best friendly ostrich.

• 16:29Speaker 01

  Oh, Rumsky.

• 16:32Speaker 00

  Uh, okay, Tom.

• 16:34Speaker 01

  Beautiful stallion. Uh, I, I, look, it's a weird thing, isn't it? The best friend thing.

• 16:39Speaker 00

  It's a funny old game.

• 16:40Speaker 01

  The best friend thing, I'm, I think if someone is legitimately your best, best, your best friend. And that you've been through thick and thin together and you've, yeah, and there's, it's, it's completely just been the two of you ride and die. I think you could go, oh, this is my best friend. I, I think that the trouble is, I think if you get into a place where you have more than one best friend. Like Catherine is a friend, I should check it carefully here. She has someone, she is a friend, who calls everyone her best, everyone's her bestie. So it's like, it kind of loses its edge.

• 17:14Speaker 00

  Sure, but I don't think bestie means best friend anymore. I mean, I know.

• 17:17Speaker 01

  But, but that is what it means, right?

• 17:19Speaker 00

  I know it actually does.

• 17:19Speaker 01

  This is my bestie.

• 17:20Speaker 00

  It doesn't actually.

• 17:21Speaker 01

  Yeah, but, but that's what it's about.

• 17:23Speaker 00

  It's like, you know, legend. Bestie's gone the way of legend.

• 17:25Speaker 01

  Yeah, it has, but legend is actually, you could, there could be more than one legend.

• 17:29Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 17:29Speaker 01

  I think if you have a best friend.

• 17:31Speaker 00

  Goat as well. Goat's been.

• 17:32Speaker 01

  Yeah, goat's gone crazy now.

• 17:33Speaker 00

  Teeth kicked her.

• 17:35Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 17:35Speaker 00

  Do you know what I mean? By.

• 17:35Speaker 01

  By the way, also, I know because it's the greatest of all time, but goats are living out on that, aren't they? Goats are one of the most boring, stinky old animals there is.

• 17:44Speaker 00

  Right.

• 17:44Speaker 01

  They.

• 17:45Speaker 00

  I think goats are great.

• 17:46Speaker 01

  No, they're not.

• 17:47Speaker 00

  Fainting goats are hilarious. Mountain goats are very impressive.

• 17:50Speaker 01

  Yeah, but they're not the greatest animals.

• 17:53Speaker 00

  They've not.

• 17:53Speaker 01

  They're not even the top hundred and fifty animals. There's so many.

• 17:57Speaker 00

  I don't think you can name a hundred and fifty animals.

• 17:59Speaker 01

  I bet if we were to say, I could easily.

• 18:00Speaker 00

  Well, that's next week's episode. Make sure you, make sure you check it out. Like and subscribe so you don't miss it.

• 18:05Speaker 01

  I think that they're just like a sheep and a horse put together, or a sheep and a donkey put together to make a goat, right?

• 18:11Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 18:11Speaker 01

  That's essentially what you're dealing with. And I just don't think there's much to them. And all of a sudden, everyone's, the goat emoji has become like the most heralded thing. Do you know what I mean?

• 18:19Speaker 00

  But not because of the animal.

• 18:21Speaker 01

  Yeah, I know, but the animal has probably got ideas of fucking grandeur because it's like, oh yeah, by the way, have you, have you heard what everyone's saying about Lionel Messi, my friend? Named him the goat after moi. It's like, no, it's because it means the greatest of all time, Tony. And it's like, no, no, no, no. There, there's a picture of the goat. It's used wildly around.

• 18:39Speaker 00

  Let, I just wanna get into this a little bit, right? Obviously you know this isn't the case.

• 18:44Speaker 01

  No, no, but.

• 18:44Speaker 00

  So why are we talking? Why, why?

• 18:45Speaker 01

  No, because it's a hypothetical situation.

• 18:47Speaker 00

  Right.

• 18:48Speaker 01

  The goats, right, if, if, right, if tomorrow we woke up and Doctor Dolittle was real, right?

• 18:52Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 18:53Speaker 01

  And we can talk to animals and we're going, oh, fucking hell.

• 18:55Speaker 00

  Well, even if Doctor Dolittle was real, then there'd be him that can talk to the animals.

• 18:58Speaker 01

  Right, no, we all get that ability, right? And then all of a sudden it's, oh, it's like Narnia, right?

• 19:03Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 19:04Speaker 01

  And you, you start chatting to animals, having a bit of a chinwag with animals.

• 19:08Speaker 00

  Is there a Mr. Tumnus?

• 19:09Speaker 01

  I'm not having him, by the way. I'm telling you now, Mr. Tumnus is straight away, he's getting a knock at the door. And it's like, hello, mate. Have you been, uh, you been texting young girls, have you? Have you had a little, giving them sleeping juice, have you, mate? Eh? Let's have a look at your phone. I think that Mr. Tumnus is a bang on wrong one.

• 19:28Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 19:29Speaker 01

  Right? And also, what is it? Isn't he half a goat? It's, so I'm saying now, goats, as soon as they get a little bit of tea, which they will, everyone's sort of like raving about them.

• 19:39Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 19:40Speaker 01

  Right? Oh, you had a goat, goat, goat, everyone's talking, they hear that going, oh, bloody hell, why is everyone talking about goats? Like, they will start getting really fucking, yeah, arrogant.

• 19:49Speaker 00

  Okay, I feel like we've gone slightly off the point. Um, what do you think is our advice to our friend here?

• 19:58Speaker 01

  So I'm just.

• 19:59Speaker 00

  Friendly ostrich.

• 20:00Speaker 01

  Yeah, uh, my thing would be, I think if you're genuinely best friends, then it's fine to go, oh, this is my best friend.

• 20:06Speaker 00

  Disagree.

• 20:07Speaker 01

  Really? But if you're genuinely best friends.

• 20:09Speaker 00

  Yeah, I think, yeah, but you don't have to fucking, why do you have to announce that to everybody?

• 20:13Speaker 01

  It's a lovely thing. If you've got someone who's your best friend.

• 20:14Speaker 00

  It's not a workplace where everybody has to know the hierarchy. It's, it's just, this is my friend and you two know your best friend.

• 20:20Speaker 01

  I don't have a best friend now. I'd say I've got really good friends.

• 20:23Speaker 00

  I've barely got friends.

• 20:24Speaker 01

  You have got friends. You've got really good friends. You're very lucky. I actually think there's people out there who give their white bollocks to have friends like you've got.

• 20:32Speaker 00

  Well, you're talking about yourself now.

• 20:33Speaker 01

  No, the three friends you've just been away with and then you've got a load of plethora of other friends. You've got people who really care about you.

• 20:41Speaker 00

  This, this feels like an intervention now.

• 20:44Speaker 01

  You have.

• 20:45Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 20:46Speaker 01

  Big Ben who, who's on here, right?

• 20:47Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 20:48Speaker 01

  Okay, Jean, I'd say is one of your friends.

• 20:50Speaker 00

  It's all workplace people.

• 20:52Speaker 01

  Yeah, but they're still friends, right? I would say that you, you're, you know, but have you got a best, what you, I, I would, I would say, I'd struggle to go, I've got a best friend.

• 21:01Speaker 00

  Hmm.

• 21:02Speaker 01

  I'd say I've got, I'm very lucky. I've got good friends, I've got great friends. But if you had someone who'd been there forever, you know, since you were six, like, you know, my girl.

• 21:10Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 21:11Speaker 01

  You had someone like that.

• 21:12Speaker 00

  But I don't think you have to, I still, I agree with that. You can have a best friend.

• 21:15Speaker 01

  You've been through thick and thin.

• 21:16Speaker 00

  You don't have to introduce, you don't have to introduce, you can say this is my very good.

• 21:20Speaker 01

  Difference, which is beautiful, by the way.

• 21:22Speaker 00

  In what way?

• 21:22Speaker 01

  So one of them was in year five, the other one was in the first year at school.

• 21:25Speaker 00

  Fucking hell, work that out quick, didn't you? You know, but I don't think you have to keep announcing it.

• 21:30Speaker 01

  I don't think you'd have to announce it.

• 21:31Speaker 00

  Why do you have to go, this is my best friend?

• 21:33Speaker 01

  If you're like a, you know, a nightclub or whatever, oh, by the way, this is my best friend, Lizzy.

• 21:37Speaker 00

  I think if you were introducing to like, say, for example, you turned up.

• 21:43Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 21:43Speaker 00

  To like, say, I, I, I, there was a group of people that I knew.

• 21:46Speaker 01

  You would be close to being, you're, you're very close. If, if I was to have a best friend.

• 21:50Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 21:51Speaker 01

  You're very close.

• 21:51Speaker 00

  Yeah, you're in the running for me.

• 21:53Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 21:53Speaker 00

  So, so I would, I would go.

• 21:55Speaker 01

  I have probably said at some point, oh yeah, by the way, Ramesh is my best friend.

• 21:59Speaker 00

  Not, you haven't said that after by the way, have you?

• 22:03Speaker 01

  No, no, you know, if someone said your name and I've gone, oh, you should probably know.

• 22:09Speaker 00

  Okay, I hope, I hope beyond hope that isn't true. But like, say if I, there was a group of people.

• 22:15Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 22:16Speaker 00

  And I was introducing it.

• 22:17Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 22:18Speaker 00

  I would say, and this is one of my very best friends, Tom Davis, right?

• 22:20Speaker 01

  Yeah, cool, yeah.

• 22:21Speaker 00

  But I'm not saying this is my best friend.

• 22:23Speaker 01

  I'd bring her out, which is one of my best mates, Rumsky.

• 22:25Speaker 00

  Um, okay, he's not normally like this. He's just a bit over excited.

• 22:29Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 22:30Speaker 00

  Um, in answer to your question, yes, you can be best friends when you're older.

• 22:33Speaker 01

  Yep.

• 22:34Speaker 00

  But I don't think you have to announce it to everybody.

• 22:36Speaker 01

  And also it's quite nice that you've got that little, little bit left back.

• 22:40Speaker 00

  Yeah. Keep a little bit of your powder dry.

• 22:42Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 22:42Speaker 00

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• 22:46Speaker 01

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• 22:50Speaker 00

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• 22:51Speaker 01

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