Bonus Ep 91 - My Friend’s Stag Do Was Not What I Expected
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What is a stag do and why is it significant in British culture?
The third one was a bit rogue. It was a safari of Norfolk. I don't know if many people know what animals you get in Norfolk. I think the one photo on the website was a Jeep with five onlookers looking at a cow. And I was the only one in the group that said I'd be up for it. And so I got a bit of stick for that. I thought the options were, do you not want to go on any of these? And I was like, I'm open to anything. And then they were like, this guy wants to go see a cow. What? hello and welcome back now um if there's one british institution that needs explaining to the rest of the world it's the stag do we send a grown man off for a weekend with his mates usually somewhere he didn't choose often dressed in something he'll regret all in the name of celebrating the fact that he's about to get married
Makes perfect sense, doesn't it? Well, today I've got a good friend of mine on the show and his stag was a bit special. Without giving too much away, let's just say it didn't quite follow the usual lads playbook. It leaned a little more towards what we'd normally call a hen do, which is the version the women tend to have. So you'll get both bits of British culture for the price of one today. Now, I'm not going to stop and explain every word as we go, because that's not how real conversation works. So just let it wash over you. Pick up the slang as it goes. And remember to get that free worksheet if you're not a member of the premium podcast or academy. Right. Let's introduce our friend, shall we? It's Tim.
He's been on the show before. Hello, Tim.
How are you doing? Hello. Yeah, very good. Thank you. How are you?
Yeah, good, thank you. Very, very good indeed. Thank you for joining me on a Friday afternoon, just before you're about to do something for your wedding, aren't you?
Yes, I'm about to go get my suit tailored. Yeah, and I don't know what that actually involves. So I've messaged you a couple of times about it, haven't I? Asking you what kind of... level of intimacy is involved with that.
What part of the, should I say outfit with you? I'm not sure if you're wearing, are you wearing a suit?
Yes, wearing a suit. And it's the lower leg because of the short legs and potentially a little bit on the sleeve. Not sure if they do that, but so that's what it's really going to be.
As in it's too long or it's too big?
Short man syndrome. It's too long on the arms, too long on the legs.
Well, it's coming round, isn't it? The actual date of the wedding.
It is. I mean, I don't know if your audience knows about your role in the wedding, do they? Or are we allowed to announce it?
No, yeah, let's do it. What am I doing for your wedding?
Well, you are our officiant, which I suppose in lots of other wedding cultures is you could say the priest or the vicar. Yeah. But as it's a sort of, I guess, non-religious wedding, you are...
the father of the wedding so you will be marrying us i will be marrying you which has been a great game for me to say to people saying that i am marrying katie in august and then also i'm marrying tim in august And I can say it to you, can't I? I can say I'm marrying Katie.
Yeah. And I can't get annoyed by it because it's technically true.
Yeah. And you you made that a fact.
I did.
Yeah. But yeah. Talking about the stag now. I came on your stag as the father of the marriage. But before we go on to the specifics, I'd like to know, do you have many stag do's that you've been to that you can reference in terms of what you were expecting to go on for yourself?
Yes. I organized my brother's stag because I was his best man. So that was very, when I was maybe, I'm 35 now, I was about 22, 23 then. And then I had a couple of stags, but then it is a lot of my friends aren't married or are because of the age that we're at, not doing stags. So for the last five, six years, I haven't really been on a stag do. So it's interesting when I was younger, the stag that I organized with my brother or the other ones that I went on certain friends stag parties, they were quite debaucherous, quite a lot of drinking, a lot of other things, a lot of going to clubs.
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Chapters
5 chapters
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What is a stag do and why is it significant in British culture?
0:00–4:54
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What were the expectations for Tim's stag do?
4:54–14:47
3
How did Tim's stag do differ from traditional stag parties?
14:47–19:48
4
What activities were planned for the stag do?
19:48–29:58
5
What were the reactions of friends attending the stag do?
29:58–41:04
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