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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Have you ever noticed
a direct link between how you
feel and what the weather'sdoing outside?
I genuinely think I'm affectedby the weather.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
It doesn't matter
where you come from.
If you don't get the sunshine,you're going to feel like crap
at some point.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
There are so many
reasons why I understand people
moving away these days.
The sun is one of them.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
When you live
somewhere else and that sunshine
is out in the evenings forthree, four hours after work,
you have an extra four hours ofyour life.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
There's nothing
better than going to a big
public park and just see itheaving with activity.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Everybody's just so
much happier.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It's an awareness If
you're feeling low, if you're
feeling miserable, you need tocheck in and understand why.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
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Welcome everybody to the untoldpodcast.
I'm ash.
(01:08):
We got des hello and chrishello, and today we're going to
discuss how sad um our moodchanges with the weather and is
there any way to overcome it.
So, lads, have you ever noticeda direct link between how you
feel and what the weather'sdoing outside?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
You know what?
Only very, very recently Ihaven't had a proper summer
holiday.
That wasn't a stag do for Godknows how long.
I went to Dubai in December andI realized then just how much
happier I was the fact that thesun was shining and I wasn't
even with my family.
(01:47):
I was with a guy that I hadn'tmet more than twice and we were
meeting another guy that Ihadn't met more than once, but
it just, it was lovely, it waslovely.
And then the sun came out hereabout a week ago, didn't it?
And I felt the same thing and Isaid to Claire I genuinely
(02:09):
think I'm affected by theweather.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
It's the first time
I'm 44.
What about you.
It's a thing, isn't it?
It is a thing, it's got to be athing, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Oh, it's a thing,
it's definitely a thing, it is.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
It doesn't matter
where you come from.
If you don't get the sunshine,you're going to feel like crap
at some point.
I woke up every day through thewinter feeling like shit,
depressed, fed up, like Icouldn't be arsed with life.
Until you get up and godownstairs, you know and you see
your family and you do thethings that you do that make you
happy.
You do feel down in the dumpswith the weather.
Certainly because look whatyou've just said, the.
(02:41):
Certainly because what you'vejust said, the last week has
been amazing.
You even had a barbecue, matein March.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Do you know what I
mean?
That's amazing.
That's COVID, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
that's what we all
did earlier on, everyone had
barbecues in March, every day.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah, because it was
35 degrees and that's why there
was no, that's why there was nocloud, because we burnt all the
clouds off with Natural gases.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, that's it.
That's before the government.
100%, it's a thing.
That's why it's got a name.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I am.
It's definitely a thing.
I struggle, so I am the mostmiserable fuck when I really
struggle to get out of it.
Sometimes, when it's been greyand gloomy for weeks and weeks
on end, I'm like, oh my God,just.
And then the morning, I don'tcare if it's freezing, cold, icy
, frosty, as long as that sun'sout in the sky, yeah, I love a
(03:31):
cold sunny morning.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Oh, I love it, Love
it.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Get the dry rope out.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, get the dry
rope.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I mean there's so
much.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
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but maybe one day.
I am getting worried, though.
So we this is only our secondday recording the winter
episodes are going to be shitaren't they?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
oh god, yeah, they
won't, because we'll go
somewhere else and do it or getsome like sun lamps in the
studio.
Bring the vitamin D, yeah we'llbring our speedos and we'll put
sun loungers down in there abit of sand on the floor and
stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
We'll be like, yeah,
we won't record that on camera
because no one will want towatch that.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
No, yeah, they will
be the untold only fans I'm told
only fans check out my toes um,but no, it is a.
It is a thing like there's alllamps and stuff.
Um, I've really struck foryears and years.
For as long as I care toremember, I remember my mom
saying you need vitamin dtablets here.
(04:25):
We've bought you this speciallamp.
And my missus bought me aspecial lamp to try and wake me
up in the morning with sun,which is great until you're
things that slowly glow like thesunrise thing yeah, which is
great, until you open the blindand it's pissing down.
It's fantastic, but it isdefinitely a thing.
It's definitely a thing, so,but it's acknowledging it, it's
(04:47):
understanding it.
Like I think, over christmas,my brother-in-law was back from
dubai and he was back for threeweeks, I think.
For that whole three weeks itwas great.
Every single day it wasn't evena, it wasn't even a glimpse of
the sun coming through theclouds.
But it's christmas time, soyou're like, yeah it, it doesn't
matter.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Then Everyone's so
pissed they don't realise what
the weather's doing anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
And if you're a Brit,
you want Christmas in the cold.
It makes it feel more likeChristmas, doesn't?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
it.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Like I say I was in
Dubai in December and seeing
Christmas trees out there wasweird.
Yeah, Walking around inflip-flops.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Looking at Christmas.
I always, when Christmas is forus as a family, was a skiing
holiday.
Yeah yeah, the mountains in acabin.
Now that for me, is Christmas.
That's Christmas Next year.
We've gone to Christmas now.
It's a bit early for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
We can never talk
about Christmas too early.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I'm a I'm a Christmas
guy, but because my parents
just moved to Spain, we willprobably spend next Christmas in
Spain.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah, which can be as
in, can be as in we, you can
come if you want, and we'redoing a podcast in the sun and
we'll do a podcast in the sun.
That's a recorded offer.
That is that's it.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
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sun loungers out.
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Speaker 1 (05:55):
But no, it's
definitely a thing.
But what can we do to?
Is it a case of?
Let let's just acknowledge thatit's a thing?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I'm in danger of
going down the.
This country is shit route.
I'm not going to lie to you,because there are so many
reasons why I understand peoplemoving away these days.
The sun is one of them.
Yeah, I don't know what we cando.
Like I say, this is all fairlynew to me, that I've realised
it's a thing, and I'm on apathway to make enough money
(06:22):
that we can have winter holidays, yeah, yeah, but what can you
do if you're stuck in thiscountry and you've got no money
and you're affected by theseasons?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Surround yourself
with happy people.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Yeah, that's the
answer to everything.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
If you hang around
with miserable people, they're
going to make you miserable.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Mood hoovers.
It doesn't matter whether thesun's out or not, they're mood
hoovers.
They're mood hoovers, it's true, though.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I don't care what you
say, like what the work, but I
love the banter.
If I'm in a crap mood, I wakeup in the morning, I'm feeling a
bit crap about life, I'll go towork.
Those boys at work sort me outany better than any doctor will.
Any vitamin, any, anything youcan take whatsoever, yeah, just
try and have a laugh.
Surround yourself with people.
I know it's difficult sometimes, but it's a good point.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
it's a good point,
and that might be one of the
reasons why it hasn't neverreally affected me, because
football is my life and footballis a win at a sport, and it's
the same thing.
It's the changing of mentality,isn't it?
It's only these last few yearsthat I don't play football
anymore.
I didn't play football well tostart with, but you miss that,
didn't?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
you Like a ballerina
with two left feet?
That's it.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And as you get older
you don't see your mates as much
do you?
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
There's a reason why
we go on holiday, isn't it?
We don't just go on holidaybecause we want to get away.
You think when you go onholiday.
What do you actually do onholiday?
You stress about where you'regoing for dinner, you stress
about what time you're gettingup, you stress about what you're
having for lunch and your kidsare safe around the pool.
It's just as stressful as it isat home, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
But you're in the
sunshine, so it doesn.
It's changing, I don't know.
I guess as well.
I think it's changing up theroutine and I think that's the
thing we live in this societywhere, where you get up, you go
to work, like we did it in aprevious episode.
What's your day like?
You get up, you go to work, yougo home.
Well, in the summer you can getup earlier.
It's nicer to walk the dog atfive in the morning, watching
the sun come up, see the deershopping across the field.
It's you can go home.
Oh, there's a barbecue.
(08:12):
What shall we have on thebarbecue today?
All the kids are playing,they're out in the hot tub, on
the swimming pool or whateveryou've got.
I've got a tiny little one,it's like this big.
I was going to say I've got asink in my back garden you're on
the barbecue, you've got aglass of wine in your hand or a
nice cold lemonade with a bit ofice in it.
You nip to the pub for lunchjust to have a beer, and the
(08:34):
kids play in the playground andthere's other people around you.
I noticed last week week beforewhenever the sun was out
everybody's just so much happier.
It's like it's a matter what weforget.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Brighton on Sunday
was lovely.
It was gorgeous.
The beach was packed.
I drove and walked the doground a big local park in Hove
and it sounds stupid.
One of the things that made mesmile.
The queue to the tip was hugeand you think that's Sundays are
back.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Yeah, you know, this
is what that's a Sunday job.
Yeah, they've all been up rightsun's out.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Trim all the leaves
back and everything and it just
felt like everyone was in abetter mood.
All the kids were in the park,there was football being played
out there, there were kidsplaying basketball, tennis,
everything, and there's nothingbetter than going to a big, big,
big public park and just see itheaving with activity.
Yeah, yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I saw what we do a
few years ago.
We started with a tent, then wehad a trailer tent and then I
bought an old caravan for 1,500quid and it sort of died.
So last year we said right, dowe want a summer holiday for
five grand or should we go andbuy a caravan?
No-transcript.
And we love it, the kids loveit, and there's something about
(09:45):
it just being outside.
I love being outside.
Like alfresco living is like ifI could just live outside, I
would.
It's a great show, mate.
We've got a caravan Love it.
And the thing with a caravan is,I mean, our caravan's not.
We've got an air fryer, we'vegot an ice machine, we've got a
(10:07):
beer, mad, but we've got all theamenities really.
But we spend.
Oh, you get up in the morning,you roll out of bed, you sit
outside, whether it's half six,seven, yeah, whether you put
your dry rope on, there are,there are other brands, um dry
robes are acceptable on acamping site.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I'm gonna say that
out loud.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Oh, they're just not
acceptable, I'm sorry on a
campsite at night, when you'resitting there and you've got the
massive pockets and you've gotyour fags in there and
everything else, it's called acoat.
That's what, coats weredesigned for.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I've got a moody
Milton Warehouse version, but I
love it.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
You can go to the
shower block, not like a flasher
, but know that you're safe Ifanyone from Dry Row Business
listens to this podcast.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
But yeah, it's
amazing and I think it's that,
whether it's just the fact thatit's grey or sunny, it's a
little bit of warmth in the airwhen you're outside, yeah, and I
think with the sun it changesthe daily routine.
We have the mundane in thewinter where you can't go
outside.
It's freezing, it's horrible.
You don't want to walk the dog.
When you get home the dog's gotto be washed every single time.
(11:09):
It's a real pain, yeah.
But then in the summer itchanges your daily routine.
Oh, should we pop to the pubafter work?
You wouldn't do that in thewinter.
No, you wouldn't say, oh, let'spop to the Carvery on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
That never, ever
happens.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I think that's one of
the main reasons why people
look to move abroad, isn't it?
You know?
Remember when Mrs Weave alwayswanted to live in Spain?
Well, certainly.
I have anyway, but she's goingto be forced to at some point.
You want it for that evening.
You want it for that becauseall we do, let's face it, all we
really do is work, don't?
In the UK?
We work to live, or we live towork, should we say.
When you live somewhere else andthat sunshine is out in the
(11:48):
evenings for three, four hoursafter work, you have an extra
four hours of your life, yeah,whereas here it's probably
pissing down the rain in themiddle of the summer.
You look at last summer, one ofthe worst summers I've ever
experienced.
We look forward to it.
We look forward to the threemonths a year.
Sit out in the garden and havea barbecue every night after
work, yeah, and we feel likewe're living.
And then it doesn't happen.
But when you live abroad, whenyou go abroad, you can go home
(12:09):
from work, cause it doesn'tmatter where you live in the
world.
You still got to earn money,yeah.
But when you finish work, yougo and sit out in the sun, you
walk down to the beach, you havea nice glass of wine and you
watch the people in Australia isexactly that, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
they have 5am yoga on
the beach and then a party
before work.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I've got a couple of
mates moved out to Australia.
He's riding motocross bikes onthe beach he's got a jet ski.
He's got, a boat he's got.
Do you know what I mean?
But it's just do you know what?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
I mean, does he?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
like doing podcasts.
I've not spoken to him for awhile.
He might do, jay, if you'relistening.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
One of my mates is
moving across.
He's moving with his husbandover because his husband's
Australian and they've livedover here for 20-odd years and
as soon as they retire they'regoing back to Australia.
So we'll have a place.
Bring the kit, we're going tointerview your mate in Australia
, no bother at all and see howdo you deal with.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
are you happier than
you was when you lived in?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
the UK.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Untold.
Look how happy we are.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
He just rode past on
his motorbike.
Damn right mate.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
And I think again,
though I think we're touching on
it here the sunshine bringswith it a culture, yeah, and
that culture is all of thethings that we love in our life.
Yeah, the darkness and thewinter it steals it from us.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, it's a mood
hoover.
It is a mood hoover.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
The weather is a mood
hoover.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I think also with
what I was saying about surround
yourself with good people.
I think when the weather isgood, the people are good anyway
.
Yeah, so it's not just theweather that's actually making
you feel better about yourself.
It's everybody that you'resurrounding yourself with.
They're all happy because thesunshine, because you're happy
because someone else is happy,and you just you feed off it,
don't you?
A full up beer garden, oh mate,there's nothing like it on a
(13:55):
Monday morning, that's it.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Friday afternoon with
a whole gross guy and a
barbecue guy and a burger andshit just a barbie, something
going.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I live near a race
course on a Saturday afternoon
when it is boiling hot and thebeer's flowing and everyone's
dressed up and the vibe it'sjust nothing like it.
Yeah, nothing like it.
Yeah, yeah, but you can't God?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
you boys are making
me sad.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I know, should we go
out yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
can we?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
But it's right though
, isn't it?
Is it just the weather?
No, it's, hold on.
It's this.
It's because it brings out thebest in people.
People are happy and smiling,and if you surround yourself
with people that are happy andsmiling, then chances are
they're going to lift your.
You're an average of the peopleyou spend the time with.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
That's true.
We're going to say this a loton nearly every episode that we
do.
It's an awareness If you'refeeling low, if you're feeling
miserable, you need to check inand understand why.
And if you do understand why,you can go some way to fixing it
by putting some things in place.
I think that's it, mate.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Slowly, slowly
catching monkey, though Don't
try and put too much pressure onyourself.
You can't change whether thesun's going to come up in the
sky in the morning.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
No, you can't change
if it's going to rain.
Government can, they can't even.
The weather forecast can't evenpredict it.
They can't change it.
Keir Starmer made it rain today.
The arsehole.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Cloud seeding.
Oh my God, chem trails, don'tstart.
Did you know that the earth isflat?
Oh, no, no.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Good, good morning,
prime Minister.
What's the weather today?
I think it might rain.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
This is quite a good
one.
We'll end on this.
What is the most ridiculousthing in your life?
You've blamed on the weather.
I don't really know, to behonest.
What do you blame on theweather?
The fact I'm a miserable?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
bastard and I don't
want to go out today.
It will usually be somehorrible football related own
goal that I've accidentallyscored.
I've got nothing.
I once scored an own goal overa kick.
I know think about it.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
You're trying to
picture how that might go an own
goal over a kick nice, I betyou.
He was asked about thefollowing week.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
That was the weather.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
It was the sun in my
eyes that's a really tough
question, to be fair it is atough question.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
What do you do?
You know what I mean?
Because I can't do this becauseit's raining.
Then, oh it's too hot.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Snow, snow, yeah,
snow.
It's got to be snow innit.
I can't come to work becauseit's snow.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Sorry, there's a bit.
I enjoy it.
That's not a sad thing halfmillimetre of snow outside my
house.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
There's no way I
can't get my car out.
There's no way I can't get thevan out today.
If you say what's the?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
worst thing.
That's not the worst thing,that's a good thing, yeah yeah,
I don't know I don't think I'veever blamed anything on the
weather.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
I think, if you think
about it deeply, there's a lot
one because I didn't expect itto be sunny last weekend but
when it's miserable the gasprices these days I buy the
takeaway coal things now butwhen it's sunny, we moan that
(17:03):
it's too hot, and when it'srainy, we wish it was sunny.
Yeah, where'd you go with that?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
that's the English
thing isn't it?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
think my definite ideal weather
is cold and sunny.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah, can't go wrong,
that's why I love skiing, if
it's cold, really cold.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
It never rains.
So that's, why they're so happyin Switzerland and all those
countries where they have snowall the time in the winter.
What you're saying is dry ropeweather.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
You are, this is it.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I'm definitely not
you're one of these people.
You hate it so much, youactually love it.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I've got one.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
It's got my name on
the back of it, switzerland is
like they might as well renamethat dry robaland, yeah, maybe
anyway, thanks for watching.
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