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Chapter 1: What insights does Grace from The Almond Thief bakery share?
it's email time now that's who the time is right now we're opening up all of the old emails now i wonder who has emailed in now and craig and stew have emailed in now and sally too has emailed in now and john and bob Oh, oh, we're gonna read em now Oh, oh, we're gonna read em now
Welcome to Mailbag Fridays, everyone.
Best fun you can have.
And I'm going to kick off this week's mailbag from Grace, who's replied... To what? She works in the almond thief where I get my coffee sometimes.
Okay, so we had this in another app, did we?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Can you read her first email so I know what's going on?
So Grace said, hello, I've attached a message I sent you on Instagram. because it's too embarrassing to type again. I live just outside Top Ness, and I heard David on a recent episode talking about the market and that here you get bread from a stall there. I just wanted to recommend the bakery I work at called The Almond Thief. I went in there last week, and I was in there for an hour.
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Chapter 2: What health and lifestyle advice does a retiree offer?
Well, it's your fucking idea. I don't know.
I don't know. I sort of want to know what she does. It's for James to put like sort of baking music on.
Put that there. She'll fucking answer then. What are you doing?
Okay. I don't know how to write it. That's sounding weird.
Thank you for your email. Stop that.
She might just hear this and then write an email.
No, but write back. It's like the whole point is it's a cop. You said the fucking idea.
I can't write. If she hears this, she knows I'd like to hear about her.
Yeah, just write the fucking email. Just, oh God, you're not asking her out. What do I say to her?
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Chapter 3: How does an endurance swimmer inspire a career change?
Bread, etc. Pastries, bread, etc. Yeah, don't overthink it.
Fucking hell.
LAUGHTER
Oh, I hate that email I've sent.
Just forget it. It's fine. Oh, God.
Don't lose sleep over that.
Right. Oldie?
Yeah.
Nice oldie?
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Chapter 4: What are the heroic tales of a grandad who served in the SAS?
I came to and I was helped out by those passing by, one of whom trains paramedics. Against my wishes, I was just embarrassed, thought I'd fainted, wanted to get to work. She called an ambulance, which took me to an A&E. over several hours in hospital, my heart stopped four more times, which had been the cause of the original collapse.
I had a pacemaker fitted later that afternoon and I was discharged the following day. Chatting to the surgeon as she fitted the pacemaker, as I watched on the x-ray screen, fascinating. It was clear that I'd now retired. as you have to take it easy for several weeks while they remotely monitor the pacemaker. True enough, I was signed off by my GP the following week and effectively retired.
I was sore for a few days, mainly from coming off my bike, but healed in a couple of weeks. I had my 60th birthday night out, a curry and a few beers with my friends before the update report on the pacemaker from the cardiac team at the end of April. Basically, I was told that the pacemaker hadn't fired and that there were no issues, so I should just get on with my life.
Taking the cardiac team at their word, I've spent the summer messing about in the garden, seeing friends and getting my fitness back in the gym and as well as catching up on Chatterbeak's back catalogue. I've now heard them all. To come to the point, guys, you spend many a time bemoaning what you cannot or may not now do. My experience demonstrates that you cannot predict what will be.
You can put the odds as best as you can in your favor through exercise, et cetera, but you never know what can happen. What you can do, though, is enjoy and make the most of what you have and can do now. Yes, there may be a risk for Joe playing five a side, but better to take that low risk now than live with the regret.
You need to say that to Petra because she's worried. Anyway, sorry. I'll back that.
Equally, the loss of David's walk is annoying, but planning the return to fitness and the pod updates will be good for all of us. Basically, enjoy this life as much as you can. I should add that, much as I sound like a happy clappy, I've made it clear that I retain the right to be curmudgeonly retiree, and I will continue to enjoy your musings as you both continue to bemoan the pains in life.
I know that this probably won't reach either of you, But I put it out there as I want to put in writing what happened. It's all about me. And also express my appreciation for the pod. Regards, Nick. P.S. Went to Brighton for a day trip a week or so ago. £7.35 for a pint of lager.
Fuck me.
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Chapter 5: What song does a listener share, and why is it significant?
Nice bit of wisdom. Yeah. Man's got his head screwed on. What was the Sunday night show that they used to read out letters from?
That's Life.
Yeah, you reminded me of That's Life when you were reading that. Great. And I mean that in a good way.
Chris Sell. Yeah. This is from Kevin Newey. New or old? About the same sort of time, three months ago. I know someone who's gone a lot further than swimming the channel.
You don't know what's coming into you. Off the back of what we've said? Yeah, it's like, fuck no.
I know someone who's gone a lot further than swimming the channel. He's actually swam around the whole UK coastline. And also more recently swam 510 kilometers nonstop, taking 56 hours. Check out Ross Edgley on YouTube and let me know if you need an intro. He's a real life superhuman. Keep up the great work, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, but no more Pletrum snooker competitions, please.
Well, we're bringing that back then. Literally got the snooker name still on the desktop from last time. Yeah, don't serve the beggar. Thank you for your email.
I mean, I would, I'd really like to speak to him. I just can't be arsed. Don't know why. I'd love to speak to him without all the faff.
Yeah, the admin that goes with it. Do you want to hear the old names from the Snookers last 16?
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Chapter 6: What unique invitation do the hosts receive from a fan?
Anyway, Karen.
Do you want old or new? Old, old, old is fun. This is from Guy Weston. I don't know what this is. Morning, both. Just seen the Patreon post and would love to get on for a chinwag. Hope all's well. P.S. P.S. I was playing a game the other day, which I thought you two might like, for a feature. It's called Tension. It's really good. Have a look and see what you both think.
You'll be laughing playing it. Stay safe and fight the good fight. That's nearly three years old, that email. Thanks for your email.
Oh, yeah. Thanks for your email. Yeah. Thank you for your email.
In my head, it blows their mind that we get an email from us three years later and it obviously doesn't. What?
Three years ago?
Yeah. It might do. Michael Caine's. Hi, normally I wouldn't write in, but after David talking about getting a dog, I thought I would as I trained to be a dog trainer. After listening to the pot.
I remember you talking about getting a dog. You were bloody adamant.
Well, it's not over.
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Chapter 7: How does a listener's journey to becoming a dog trainer unfold?
Fucking hell. You're serious? Being out in nature on my own and my dog are the two things that made me happy. So I changed my job. Got a loan. Kicked the car out with a cage.
You not getting a dog. Fuck.
Fair play. Then I started courses on dog training so I could train my eight-year-old Corgi to be safe on the trials and got obsessed. I ended up working with professional dog trainers and watched them work their magic. Cut a long story short, I ended up getting a puppy of a working line dog.
It took me from a low part of my life to the best part of my life as I now travel all over the UK on hiking trips and also do puppy foundation courses for people to fund journeys with my boys. The first year is the hardest because that's where you teach them the rules and the boundaries.
This can't be four months ago. He's done so much. There's no way this was four months ago.
Yeah. They also have a fear stage in there. Around six months, they have their teenage stage.
Yeah.
It's the stage where people give up as they think their pup is being bad and get rid of them. And after the first year, they then settle down and become the best part of your life. Here's some pictures of my boys having fun on their travels. Just to thank you for your amazing podcast, what has given me the best years of my life.
Thank you both and everyone who works so hard to bring us all Chatterbinks. It's much appreciated. Aww. Bloody corgis. I got attacked by corgis. What a lovely email.
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Chapter 8: What reflections do the hosts have on the emails received?
Go on, then. What? Say something. I said I'm trying to say less. Oh, right. Oh, why are you trying to say less? Because I irritate myself with some of the things I say. Go through that stage still. On the podcast, I'm trying to say less. I think genuinely by saying this, I will add more value. Oh, you want to be sort of enigmatic? No, don't fucking twist it till you win.
Rather than just blurt some bollocks out, which I'm so close to doing all the time, just let it roll on.
Yeah, but he's not being you. Yes, exactly. Blurt the bollocks out. Exactly. Blurt the bollocks out.
No, I'm trying to be a new person. Where's this come from? I'm hearing myself. At the times I go, oh, God. Has this come out of nowhere? No, it hasn't. It's been bubbling over my whole life.
Yeah, but I mean on this end. Let's get to the end of the end.
Because you went, you went, you know, what's the matter with you basically? And I went, I'm just trying not to say bollocks.
Well, what do you think that the fact he's changed his life around just listening to the pod?
I think it's fantastic. Also like... Bollocks!
No, go on, what do you think?
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