Car Gym Pod 💪 #364

Real people, real English. Episode number three hundred and sixty-four, baby, and we have an absolute corker, an absolute blinder. a brilliant episode where I talk to the Hellraiser about going to the gym, okay, because there is some context needed in this episode. So the Hellraiser and I recorded this in my car. with a microphone, a decent microphone. So the audio quality is good because I notice when you

record podcasts in a car. You need the engine to be off. Otherwise it makes too much background noise. So we were in a car park at night. In a car. So just imagine that scene. Two 40 year old men parked in a car park with a laptop. and a microphone talking to each other. Okay? Now, yes, it was very weird. Um you will hear why we did this.

In fact, I'll tell you now, Mrs. R and R's parents were here, so it was a bit weird for the Hellraiser to come round to my house and me to say, Oh, we're gonna go upstairs and record a podcast like two children. So We chose this, which we did actually do quite recently. Um that was in the daytime, so it was less weird. Um, but I think there is some magic to it. Maybe it's a new root.

we could explore in this rock and roll English world. Um so yes, now especially at the start of the podcast, it takes It's not your standard start to a podcast. You will notice that immediately from the start of the podcast. And we also talk about something that we witness Very early on in the podcast, make sure you understand this, okay? Because we witnessed something very strange. Walst trying to find to do the podcast. Okay. And then we do talk about the gym.

So I am going to leave you now and here is the episode. I will talk to you at the end. Oh, before I do that, just remember my free 14 day challenge vocab for lazy people is starting tomorrow. tomorrow. So you need to sign up now. There is the link in the episode you are listening to.

Right now. If you haven't done it before, it's bloody brilliant, believe me. Okay. So make sure you do that. Pause the episode now and do that if you haven't already. And I will talk to you at the end. Happy listening. Right, here we go. What do I normally do? Hello, how are you today?

What what are you doing? We've started. You just uh you just didn't know how to start. No but you did you didn't know how to start. I forgot that, but can you forget how to start? You do this at what number podcast is this? Right. I've done lots of podcasts. I'm normally in my house doing a podcast. Now we are in the car park of the horse and groom pub. Amen.

We're gonna get some takeaway pints. Probably in a second. Mm-hmm. So that could interrupt the podcast, but you forgetting how to introduce the podcast has already put a bit of a funny spin on it. Well Speaking of spinning, my head is spinning because uh we're sitting in a car. My s the car's steamy, isn't it? Because it's it's yeah. I don't know what's wrong with my car, it's always steamy.

Um you've got hot breath. Uh maybe. And just so people know as well, we Went to the car park which listeners may remember we did do a pod recently. with um in the car and we went to a car park. We went back to that car park. So it's currently eight PM and there was one car in this one car in this car park and people were actually having sex, weren't they?

Well, we saw lots of moving. I told you that that was what that car park was for. Which we should have stayed there. Which is exactly why I didn't want to stay there. So you're you're so close minded. I I do not want to be neck in a Live a little bit in a car next to two people that are having sex eight PM on a Thursday in a car park. That is outrageous behaviour. If it was like two AM I could you know

Maybe think they want to get home and get to bed before two a.m. They've probably got to work tomorrow. Just wanna get out, have a get a good time, get home, cup of tea, bed before nine. I'm shocked that that was actually happening. Hellraiser was obviously saying park next to them. Can you imagine that? It was a whole car park, there's no one there, one car, they were clearly having sex, and the Hillrais is saying park next to them. Um you'll regret that when you're on your deathbed.

It's a missed opportunity. Those kind of things don't come round they barely come around once. I am a high level member of society these days. An upstanding member of society, okay? We're doing a podcast in a car park anyway, outside a pub. You are not whatever you think you might be.

You're not. Admittedly, that kind of does take away from my upstanding credibility. Um but I certainly don't want to be associated with people having sex in a car at eight PM. Too late. I drove straight out of there. Even though you didn't want me to, I drove straight out of there and to come to a car park where it looks less weird. Always weird, but less weird. Yeah, sure. Um

Two guys steamed up windows, microphone and a laptop, middle of the night. Headphone uh headlights are on. Middle of the night it's currently now eight fifteen. It's eight fifteen, yeah. Those guys have finished up and gone home.

Doesn't take long, does it? Um Well we were supposed to be talking about the gym because I picked you up from the gym, didn't I? Good session? Great session. Yeah? Really good session. Yeah, really, really pushed those Muscles, ligaments, tendons. I still can't imagine you at the gym.

It's just a sight which is a little bit more. You don't have to imagine it, you can come with me. You did send me your guest past pass link. Exactly. And you let it expire. Well you you didn't say anything, you just sent me the link. And then the link said like guest pass and I think I just didn't think explanatory mark, what do you want me to do? Write you a story. I think I just didn't respond. Yeah you didn't, yeah. And then it expired. Just like our friendship.

At the same time. They're trying to do something good for you. You're looking quite out of shape. And you know, this was just a friendly invite to start taking care of yourself. You go to the most expensive gym in town. Yeah, damn right. You can't put a price on health. Um Because what those guest passes are are to make me go and then think, Oh, this is great, I'm gonna sign up too. It's only it's only one time. I wasn't gonna get in shape with one time at the gym, was I?

Surely tasting heaven once is better than not at all. Well I go to the cheapest gym in town. Do you actually go to the gym? Uh I went once this week. Okay. I went on I went on Tuesday. I've I've tried to go every every day but um haven't managed to. No, that's not true. I went twice. So put that in your pipe and smoke it. But yeah, I don't really stay I only stay for like twenty minutes so.

That what how how does that work? Well, it's more it's more of a thing just to wake me up. We go early morning. Yeah. Oh You go you go end of the day? Well I try I've done a few of the six AM things, classes but I just like sleeping a bit more. You know what I what I think is If you can go at six like you're a real that's real determination. You've got something about you, grit. Especially now you wake up at six.

It's dark. It's dark. It's cold. If you can get out there, you are I've so that I just feel like I'm winning in life when I do that. If you everyone can go in the evening, that's easy, isn't it? It is. You're right. Someone did say once Someone did say anyone can stay up late but it takes discipline to wake up early. Amen, I love that. Who was that? Was that uh probably me. It could have been you actually. That was that was you. That one would just get associated to me, I think, shouldn't it?

Um but no, Jim is um guess it's going good. I um particularly enjoy the sauna if you're interested. It sounds like you're really working working out. Really dehydrated. See like a few shift changeovers and uh yeah. Have a have a shower and leave. But it the the strange thing about the this particular gym is it is It's a bit posy, isn't it? It's posthume. Virgin for Pers but Virgin uh well existed in Italy, so there in my mind it exists everywhere.

Maybe. Mm. I don't probably not. Probably not. But um one of the most annoying things is in the the sauna you kind of expect a bit of quiet time. Um and fairly regular that someone's having a phone conversation. That is with their their AirPods. And someone came in sat next to me the other day Got out their phone stand, put it there and started watching a series. Oh my god, that is fucking outrageous, isn't it?

I might just My head is I've had I've had a stressful day at work and thinking about that of someone doing that my head is pounding of just how stressed out I would be. Like what is wrong with people? What the fuck are you doing? It's quite sad, isn't it? Oh my god. Yeah. Did they did they have headphones at least watching the series? Okay, but at least at least just now someone's eating a chocolate bar. G genuinely. He just uh opened the Snickers and started jumping.

in uh sauna. I can't bring you anything stranger than doing Well I mean you told me last time we spoke it basic every time you go to the gym you immediately go to the pub after Celebration. Well this person obviously having his celebration directly in the sauna. I'm not gonna have a a pint in the sauna, am I? Um and when you were telling me about the gym, because it is quite

Quite pricey, isn't it? But you you had broken it down for me into how many pints of beer it is a week. Exactly. How many was it again? Three and a half. Three and a half pints of beer a week. Yeah. So what, pint of beers I've got that six quid now? So that's what? Three and a half, so eighteen, twenty one pound a week. Exactly. Which is three and a half pint of beer. Exactly. That's not and when you break it down like that Yeah, that's still like more than like eighty quid a month.

Three and a half pints a week. If you cast it like that it's easier to quantify and then you know you can just put take that and put that somewhere else. That that is the classic which I think happens of when you like try to justify spending a lot of money you is you I I always do that as well. You you think well it's only only three and a half pints a week.

But then the thing is for for that to b for that argument to be valid, you would have to stop drinking three and a half pints a week. But if you're going to the pub every time Like you go to the gym. Yeah, it's a classic problem. It's a classic problem. Your argument doesn't really I'm actually celebrating probably having three and a half pints extra. Are my lights still on shit? Oh if we get a flat battery. I would love that. See if the monster works.

Yeah, it still works. Is that the battery? The whole? Oh fucking, if we get flat battery. We've only been how long have we been here? No, don't worry about it. I can just I can give you a push start. Um I've just been to the gym. Mrs R and R's um Dad's here. He's good at stuff. He's they're visiting they were visiting last time we recorded this. That's but that's why we're here.

Well I was thinking I might have to call him if I've got a flat battery. I could say, just take my bike and cycle down here. Bring some jump lead. I know you'd need another car, wouldn't you? No, you could bring a battery. Who might have. But anyway, you I think you'll be alright. I think we'll be fine. Right, okay. I um are we talking about fitness? Uh yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Do you got any fitness stories?

Oh have you how is the ankle, your dodgy ankle? Oh, it's a nightmare. Always a nightmare, mate. Yeah. But still still you know. For example, when I did that, doctor said to me you'll never play football again. Didn't listen. Didn't listen. You wild man. That's me. And have you paid the price for that? Well they say I will do later in life. Play football again? No, pay the price.

What is the price? Arthritis. Oh That's what they said anyway. Whether that's true or not, I don't know. Yeah, you can just get one of those I mean it's not a big deal, is it? Just get one skate.

Good idea. Um I do have some other questions about the gym. Now do you prefer working out alone or with a gym buddy? I mean I don't have a gym buddy so I've got much choice. But my brother did come a couple of times'cause he actually took me up on my uh free free guest pass. Oh yeah? It was good? It was great, yeah, it's just good to it's good to work out. I I went with my brother the other day.

Should we have a like a sibling gym gym session? You know about four of us? I I wasn't a big fan though. No, I've I've going with my brother. Well in the past I went with Corporal Comer as well to the gym a few a few t only a few times. Um How is he? What wh how does he push it? Turn up to eleven. Yeah. Well, so when we got in there I it was very evident very quickly that he had literally never been to a gym in his life. And we were about

37 38 at the time. Why would you mean? Well he I he just sort of looked at me like a lost boy. I was like, what the hell do I need to do? And I was like, right, well, you need to pick up one of these. Um, but yeah, I'm not I'm not a fan of the

someone with you though, because it's like then you y y you know, you want to listen to music and then you got they got talk, you gotta take out your earphones. It's kinda like Well that that is actually a bit of a problem. I went with ad of Friend Kingy and um To the posh gym. How many guest passes have you got then? No, I went to the uh country club. Oh his his gym. Yeah he's he's actually got quite a posh. Yeah, even even posher. Even posher. Yeah, it's like horses.

Shit like that. Not indigen. You can ride a horse as part of one of your physical activities. Not static bikes or static horses. Yeah. Static fox hunting. No. Um And um so I yeah, obviously, you know, you go for the gym, took my headphones So got on the bike, put the headphones in and started cycling and he was like, What are you doing? You've got to talk to me. He said, What are you doing, mate? I said, Well, we're cycling he goes, Yeah, we're gonna have we're gonna chat, aren't we?

I prefer just to get in the zone. I've invited you in, we we're having a chat. Yeah, that that is ridiculous. Um but I would never s even if I if if that was me, let's say I invited you to my really point. Let's say I go to a really post gym, okay? Yeah, okay. And even if I wanted to talk to you, I would still never say, Can you take them out so I can talk to you? It's just the most pathetic thing to say to a friend, isn't it?

Can you please take out your headphones'cause I really want to talk to you. He did the same when we did the park run. Park run in town. I was putting the headphones in and went, Oh, all right, isn't it like that, is it? Oh, we're running five kilometres. What do you want me to do? Talk to you for half an hour. Oh God. So yeah, I remember once going for a run when So I think I was at university and I said, I'm gonna go for a run and my housemate said, I'll come with you.

And I was like I don't want you to come with me. And then he wanted to talk. And it's like you're out of breath and he's like, you know, what are you doing tomorrow night? And you're like I I can't focus on that. Yeah, d don't I don't want to talk to you.

Yeah. Do you think you've become more antisocial as you've gotten older? No, I think I've become more social. Really? Yeah, I think so. Because that was at university, that was when I was younger. Now I love chatting. I love Yeah, chatting isn't very social. I mean you just chat shit, don't you? Oh I chat to anyone though. Is that good?

That's being social, isn't it? I I probably love chatting. I I you know what, I love chatting to strangers now. Do they love it? Not sure. That's that's the thing, is the question. Who's the last stranger you suppose? Good question. Um so well mm don't know if this counts as Do you talk to strangers in the gym? No. Well the gym uh this is another question somewhere. Do you ever feel a bit self conscious?'Cause I I I go to the gym

Obviously not being the strongest. Um having been in the gym. When I was in my in the in a rhythm you know, I was I was pretty built, mate. I was I was pretty built. I didn't I didn't when was it? Well, it's been two times in my life where when I've been really built. When I did boxing, did I ever tell you that? Well when I was about five.

Honestly there's a photo of me when I'm five and I am built like a brick shit house. Your frame hasn't changed in size since then, has it? So since you've just lost the muscle definition. And another time was during just before COVID, that was where I hit my peak. Really? Because a friend who is a personal trainer told me that I was in good shape. So

Yeah I know. Best uh you never forget a compliment like that, do you? No, how long how long does that work? I think I've already I've mentioned that in the pod like ten times. Oh I'm sure leave it. It's on my stag do. And he was probably saying it just to get repeat business as well. Uh no, it was on my stag do because we went to the things in Budapest, the baths outside. I was wearing shorts and he was like, Fuck me. Talking about your penis.

No. Um well I don't think he was actually that impressed. He just said, You're in you're in decent shape. Well you're in good maybe good was the adjective, not decent. Just my massive muscles. I've known you for thirty years and I don't think I've ever seen I mean uh me neither. But None of us are really a massly crew, are we? We're not gym bros, I would say. No. Well, this is what I'm saying, this is why I feel self conscious, because when you are when you see the gym bros

I'm just a bit like, oh. Um so that's why I don't talk to people at the gym. Because I kind of feel a bit like I don't know. Bit. Do you feel like you don't belong in the gym? Yeah. That's sad. Well, because now this is what I was gonna say. You're a good guy. This is what I was gonna say. So now When I'm doing like a deadlift. Right? Yeah. Yeah. I I don't do those but yeah. Well when I when I do I now just lift the bar with no weights.'Cause the bar the bar's still like twenty K.

20 kgs, yeah. I don't I'm not into that side of the gym. So so I don't put any weights on it. But then you've got the person next to you who's putting on like a hundred kgs. And then I'm just lifting the bar with no weights on, but still heavy, still twenty. Um so yeah, it just feel bit self concentrated. It's the bar when it's own twenty kgs. Yeah. If you get a big bar, I'll see.

That's what my personal training friend told me anyway. So it must must be true. All of the bars everywhere in the world are twenty twenty kgs. Well, they they're heavy. It doesn't matter, Mark. It's all in the head. It's all in the mind. They are heavy. If it's psychologically it's twenty kg.

Yeah. Uh well I'm only just I'm just starting again. I'm I'm gonna build up to that again. I think my Why don't we go weightlifting together? Pre COVID. I thought you said you don't do weights. What what do you do then at the gym? Well I can imagine, yeah. Like I like I said, I just can't cafe there. I can't see it, you at the gym. It's just not I've well but you better witness it.

You could have witnessed it. Mm. Yeah. I what what I swim, we got a swimming pool there. I do the swimming, I'll do some weights, you know, usual things. Right. Walk around a bit. Mm-hmm. You like swimming? It's it is the most boring thing. Can't even wear headphones. G good. It's just you in the water. Yeah. And ten annoying thoughts. Are you okay with that? I have to get out quite quickly. Exactly.

But you know, it's good to be with your thoughts for twenty seconds.'Cause that that exact thing happened to me the last time I went swimming. Well you just got caught up in your thoughts. You nearly drowned. And then and then after twenty seconds I was out of the pole. After getting lapped, meaning getting overtaken by a seventy five year old woman about five times, and I was panting. And I just thought it was a little bit more than a little bit

This is not for me. And that that was embarrassing because then I I was mates with a few people at the gym there. This was when I was living in Italy. And then they were all like, I thought you were going swimming today and I was like, Yeah, no, I couldn't hack it. So I'm back here. That's a shame. Don't let it go like that. Um, talking of competing with kids, I've also started uh kickboxing, don't tell.

Probably have been boring everyone about. But um anyway, so I uh did my um sample class like a while ago. So like a guest pie. Yeah, yeah. Did someone give you a guest pass? Yeah, yeah, that's exactly it. Um and uh I um yeah they said oh you can go on Tuesday if you want. So fine, great. Got there and there was like um Closed down. Punching kids. And then another bunch of kids came. Oldest was about, I'd say twelve, thirteen. And then I had to train with them.

We were doing the and I said to the guy, Why didn't you tell me that this was a kids' class? And he said, No, no, all ages are welcome, but it's just there's mostly kids in this class. I'm f I'm forty years old. What what do you expect me to do? I'm running around in circles with kids. I got this is not good for anyone.

Their parents are probably watching thinking. Some of them came out the kids came up parents came early to pick up the kids and I was just like, who the fuck? Is this old rr guy with his red hair that looks like he's about to explode?

So unfortunately we do need to stop the episode there and it will continue tomorrow in the RR family membership area. So if you are interested in listening to the rest, things do turn a bit crazy. As you can hear from this very small snippet, where the Hellraiser was testing out his drawing skills. I mean the car f maybe we should take a picture of how steamed these windows are because it it is a drawing of a cock and No, do not draw that. My god.

If you didn't hear what he was drawing, just rewind that, okay? But just try to imagine this is the Hellraiser. He's drawing pictures on a steamed up car. You can probably get it. Anyway, so let's have a look at some of the vocab from this episode. So a couple of other things I want to bring up. Not always vocab, kind of vocab related grammar. One is the difference between breath and breathe. So your breath, because we mentioned how maybe when you go swimming, you are out of breath.

And I think we also mentioned it a couple of other times. Your breath, people can have bad breath, for example, like that. Smell when someone's talking can be bad breath. That is your breath. However, the verb breathe Like that has an E on the end. They are different words. Breath, no E at the end. Breathe, E at the end. Okay. And I mentioned we had done a pod in a car recently.

Ish. Now that ish we add to the end of a word to say more or less. Now we normally add it to the end of an adjective to say like it's blue-ish. Or sometimes even I'll see you at eight each other for like a time. I did it in a kind of jokingly way, but it is something that we often do. Oh we did a pod recently ish. You just add that ish at the end to say mm more or less.

Um another piece of strange grammar that the Hellraiser used where he said, I told you that that was what that car was for. In that sentence, did you notice the word that? is next to each other twice. He said well, once. He said, I told you that that was what the car was for. I told you that that was what the car is for. Now that is a cri That is a correct sentence in English. Sounds very strange, but it is correct. Although if you are writing, best to try and avoid that. However, in speaking.

a common thing. I mentioned how I am an upstanding member of society. So upstanding member, a good member of society. And the Hellraiser said that I'm looking quite out of shape, which was very nice of him, so not looking great. And then when the Hellraiser was like saying I was out of shape, I said I went to the gym twice. last week. So put that in your pipe and smoke it. Basically to say, look

You're wrong. I'm right. Okay? That's the end of the argument. And I mentioned how if you can go to the gym at six o'clock in the morning, you've got something about you. So if you've got something about you, hey, you have something extra, the X factor, let's say. Then the Hereza said the gym he goes to is a bit posy, so people like posing, you know, taking selfies, stuff like that. We also had some vocabulary about

Starting a car because I remember my lights were on. I had left my lights. Um I'm not sure if you got that part. In the middle of the podcast I just said Oh no, my lights are still on and I was worried about having a flat battery, meaning the battery might have finished. And the Hellraiser said he can give me a push start. So that is when someone s pushes the car, you know, and it starts again, a push start. And I mentioned how we might need some jump leads.

So they're the things that you need when you put the car to another car. They are called jump leads. The Hellraiser said that his brother took him up on the free guest pass offer. So you take someone up on an offer, you say, Yes, I will do that.

I also mentioned how I got lapped by an old woman. So you get lapped when they're going round the track and then they go faster and they keep going round you. And I mentioned how I was panting. So panting are Like that because I couldn't hack swimming, so I couldn't hack it, I couldn't manage. So that's it for today. I will see you all in a couple of weeks. Don't forget my free 14-day vocab for lazy people challenge is starting tomorrow. So make sure you do it.

And that's about it. So yes, I hope you enjoyed the episode. Talk to you very soon. But in the meantime, just keep on running. Slash rock and roll English.