S16 Ep 857: Triple Bubble Ep 1 - Five Ideas
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What are the five conversation ideas introduced in this episode?
Hello. Hi. I'm good, sorry, I thought my, um, yesterday my, your voice was really crackly through the headphone. Oh, is that right now? Yeah, it's fine. How are you? Yeah, not bad. Sounds unconvinced. Anyway.
I've got three things I've written down from the past three weeks.
Oh, great. You do yours because mine are rubbish.
Well, mine are rubbish. No, mine are genuine. So are mine. Just do your first one.
Well, I'm going to write mine down. I don't know why. I've got two things. I learned how pensions worked recently.
And it blew my mind.
It blew my mind. Because I was thinking about, basically, I was thinking about my dad. And I was thinking, because I don't know, obviously, I don't know his finest.
You'd surprise me.
I've gone through his drawers, obviously. No, but like when someone said, oh, how that generation, if you had a pension in that generation, how it worked, it blew my mind. Do you know how pensions work? Well, how those ones worked. Do you? Because I never even thought about it. I don't know how anything works. No, I don't. I don't know how anything works. Well, basically, someone said, I can't remember who said it. This wasn't my dad, so I should have just asked my dad. I don't know if that's me. But basically, if you had a pension before a certain time, when you retired, you just get like a wage. Oh, well, I knew that. But that one's quite high, the percentage of that.
I was like...
Well, I knew that. I guess I don't know how high.
Well, I think I'm making it up now, but they said it was like, I don't know, 75% of what you were earning in your last year or something. That just comes in gratis.
I mean, to be fair, they are 70, not your parents, but... I know, but it's fucking great, isn't it? Well, probably not, because you've got a disease.
I haven't. What hasn't got a disease? No, you're not talking about... Well, he retired in his late 50s, I think, or 60 or something, when computers came.
So he was bringing in 75% of his final wage...
Now, yeah, still at me. Well, since he was 50-odd? Yeah, since he was like 58 or whenever he retired. Because when computers came in, he was on his way out. Lazy toss-up. I know. I was just like going, it doesn't work like that now, however it worked for them. But, oh, maybe it's my brother was telling me. Because he knows about these things. He said, they're not got a smashing deal that they don't have anymore. I was thinking about all these people. You know, like, had a job and then... Like Russ Abbott and stuff. Yeah, Russ Abbott, exactly. I was thinking about him the other day, mate. But it's not really a thing to talk about, but I was just like... Right. If you know about... I didn't know anything, and they're just going... Swannying around.
Yeah, well, it felt a bit like it.
Having Sunday roasts.
Do they go out for a Sunday roast? No, not really. Well, one, you don't pay a mortgage, and then secondly, you start doing less. So you're sitting pretty, aren't you, really?
Yeah.
Oh, no, I know it's not anything, but it was just when my brother was telling me, I was like, I didn't sort of know that that's the deal they had in that generation.
How does understanding pensions change one's perspective?
It's good, isn't it? I don't know why I'm laughing. I don't know why I'm laughing. I don't know why you're laughing. I know, well, it's probably because it's saying nothing to the story. And it's just... I feel like I'm laughing at that generation.
I don't know why they're making me giggle.
Because if you did a job for 40 years, you're now sitting pretty. I might ask my dad and have a number up on it. Yeah. Yeah, that's it really. Right, cool. It's not bad. Well, it's just finding out that there's a lockout. How comfortable he's been for 20 years. Well, sort of, yeah.
I think that's what I'm giggling about.
I've been worried sometimes.
He's fine.
He's absolutely fine. I don't know. He lashed out for something a few weeks ago. I was like, I hope he's got enough money for that. Look at his. He's just getting doled out. Well, you know, it was just a revelation to me. I thought pension, you know, like a state pension obviously is tiny.
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