The Buckley's FUMING after late night kebab

The Buckleys

James and Claire Buckley host a casual, conversational episode covering everyday frustrations like soaring kebab prices and unreliable train schedules before diving into a

Key takeaways

• James accidentally reposted a creepy video of a five-year-old playing guitar on Instagram, sparking a debate about social media features.
• A YouGov poll reveals 53% of Brits prefer traveling back in time rather than forward, while WatchPilot found the 1960s and Victorian era are top choices.

Main topics

• Social media mishaps and Instagram repost features
• Train delays and poor 5G signal reliability

Notable quotes

"£12.50 for a kebab? One wrap? The world's gone mental."

Conclusion

The episode delivers lighthearted, relatable commentary on modern inco

Transcript preview

Speaker 3 (0:00) I bought a kebab the other day! Speaker 4 (0:01) That was insane! I Speaker 3 (0:03) could have knocked you down with a feather, Claire. Speaker 4 (0:05) I... Honestly, you could have blew me away when you told Speaker 3 (0:08) me. £12.50 for a kebab? Speaker 4 (0:11) One wrap? Speaker 3 (0:13) The world's gone mental. Do you know how much English language has changed? It's like... Honestly, it's bizarre. But I also do like seeing kids play instruments. Speaker 3 (0:28) Oh, don't take that out of context. Well, Speaker 4 (0:31) listen, there's your title. There's your title. Speaker 3 (0:37) you Speaker 3 (0:40) Anything? Speaker 4 (0:41) Oh, James, come on. Speaker 4 (0:47) Have you caught it? Speaker 3 (0:48) I don't know. Speaker 4 (0:50) No, I had something there when you sniffed back up. Speaker 3 (0:52) Oh, now my ears have gone pop. I'll get to it. I'll get to it at some point. Stay tuned. Speaker 4 (0:59) Hello and welcome to The Speaker 3 (1:00) Buckleys, the podcast where we sit down. And wait Speaker 4 (1:03) for James to find his snotter. Speaker 3 (1:06) Moan a bit and invite you into our lives. Before we get into it, we just want to remind you that you can get in touch with your stories and questions for us by emailing thebuckleys at platformmedia.uk or you can message us at thebuckleyspod on Instagram and TikTok. And don't forget to follow and subscribe to the show on Spotify or whatever podcast app that you like to use. And if you do enjoy the show, why not go ahead and leave us a nice review? Speaker 4 (1:26) Nice one. A Speaker 3 (1:27) nice one. Well, it doesn't have to be nice, but it needs to be five stars. Hey, Claire. Speaker 4 (1:32) Hey. Do you say snotter or is that a Scottish word? Speaker 3 (1:36) Snotter? Do you say bogey? Not really. Say bogey, yeah. Speaker 4 (1:40) Bogey. Speaker 3 (1:41) Is that what you call a bogey? Speaker 4 (1:42) Snotter. Speaker 3 (1:43) That's snot. Speaker 4 (1:45) I bet an individual one is a snotter. Speaker 3 (1:48) How are you? Speaker 4 (1:49) I'm okay. Speaker 3 (1:50) I'm having a problem with the repost button on Instagram. This is a fairly new feature. You keep hitting Speaker 4 (1:56) it? Speaker 3 (1:56) Sometimes I'm scrolling and I can feel like a little pulse on my phone. Speaker 4 (2:00) Yeah, those are scary when you can't see what the pulse has come from. As Speaker 3 (2:04) if like I've clicked a button or something. Anyway, I checked my reposts the other day. Did Speaker 4 (2:09) you have loads? I Speaker 3 (2:11) didn't have loads. I had one. Oh. Because, like I say, usually you can go back and go, what was that? Have I just fucking liked something? What was it? I don't know. How long has fucking been there? I took it off. Speaker 3 (2:26) It's a little boy playing guitar. Speaker 4 (2:29) When you say a little boy. I Speaker 3 (2:30) mean like a five-year-old boy playing the guitar. Speaker 4 (2:35) Right. Now, fine to scroll by and be like, wow, that's cool. Speaker 3 (2:40) Yeah. But Speaker 4 (2:40) to repost it. Speaker 3 (2:42) It's creepy. Bet on it. It's a bit. Be careful, Buckley. It's a bet Speaker 4 (2:45) on Speaker 2 (2:46) it. Speaker 4 (2:47) Wow. Oh, I wonder how long that had been there. I don't Speaker 3 (2:50) know how long that had been there. Speaker 4 (2:52) Did you check it? Was it a well-liked video? Was it like a million likes or something? No, Speaker 3 (2:57) I don't think so, no. I Speaker 4 (2:58) see Speaker 3 (2:58) if Speaker 4 (2:58) it Speaker 3 (2:58) was. Yeah, I think it was just like four likes or something like that. It was really random. Did Speaker 4 (3:03) you check the comments? No, I panicked. You've seen James Buckley's reposts. I Speaker 3 (3:08) panicked and I was like, why is James Buckley reposting posts of children? Speaker 4 (3:15) Oh, no. Yeah. Speaker 3 (3:16) But do you know what is weird is I do genuinely, that does come up quite a lot, kids playing guitar for Speaker 4 (3:21) me. Speaker 3 (3:21) Yeah, well, but you Speaker 4 (3:22) and Harrison watch those all the time. I Speaker 3 (3:24) know, but I also do like seeing kids play instruments because I just think, oh, that's great. Oh, don't take that out of context. Well, Speaker 4 (3:33) listen, there's your title. There's your title. Speaker 4 (3:37) So you date me all the time? Click that! Click that! Speaker 3 (3:42) Do you know what I mean? When we're in a world where it's like, you know... They're all on their Speaker 4 (3:48) phones. They're all on their phone. I know what you mean. They're more likely Speaker 3 (3:50) to fucking become shit hot a guitar hero than they are actually picking up an actual guitar. I Speaker 4 (3:56) know what you mean. And then when you see some Speaker 3 (3:58) kids that are like actually... And you go, fucking hell, I like to play this guitar better than I could ever dream to. And he's like five years old Speaker 4 (4:04) or Speaker 3 (4:04) something. Speaker 4 (4:04) Oh, Speaker 3 (4:04) is he really good? Yeah. Speaker 4 (4:06) Right. Some Speaker 3 (4:06) of these kids are amazing. Speaker 4 (4:08) Yeah. Speaker 3 (4:09) Let's move on. Speaker 4 (4:10) Don't repost it though. It's too much. Speaker 3 (4:12) Claire, let me have a quick little moan. Speaker 4 (4:14) Okay. And Speaker 3 (4:15) then we'll really get into this podcast. Okay. Just a quick one. Just a fucking journey in. Speaker 4 (4:20) The journey in today. Oh my God. Our Speaker 3 (4:22) train. We got on the train. The train turned up on time. It did. We got on the train. The train took over an hour longer than what it would usually to get to the station. Yes. We crawled all the way Speaker 4 (4:33) into Speaker 3 (4:34) town today. Yeah. And that's fine. I get that. It happens sometimes, all right? Yeah, it's annoying. It's irritating. But you can, you know, life's life. Do Speaker 1 (4:45) you Speaker 3 (4:45) know what I mean? It's Speaker 1 (4:45) what it Speaker 3 (4:45) is. My problem with trains, you know, when they just stop in the middle of nowhere for ages, Speaker 1 (4:50) why Speaker 3 (4:51) does it always have to be where there's no fucking phone signal? Speaker 4 (4:54) Yes, you are having a little... Speaker 3 (4:57) And 5G is bullshit. Speaker 4 (4:59) It is, isn't it? The amount of times when my phone Speaker 3 (5:02) is on 5G and it still won't do fuck all and I'm like, well, you're lying to me. Speaker 4 (5:05) Yeah. James, when I take my phone out the back door, it says 5G and there's none. Speaker 3 (5:10) Yeah, Speaker 4 (5:10) we've Speaker 3 (5:10) got bad... Yeah, it says 5G, but it doesn't work. No, Speaker 4 (5:13) never works. As soon as Speaker 3 (5:15) I leave the house and I'm trying to put something in maps, I have to drive around the corner from our house nowadays to put stuff in the maps. In the Speaker 4 (5:22) maps, yeah. It Speaker 3 (5:23) never used to be like that. No, Speaker 4 (5:25) no, that's a nightmare actually, yeah. We've had one of those journeys where at every single point there was a delay. Speaker 3 (5:32) Yeah, there was a problem. Somebody Speaker 4 (5:33) fucked us on a taxi. Yeah. Even coming in here, some door was shut. We had to walk all the way around somewhere. We were just like, we're not supposed to be here today. Speaker 3 (5:42) Hey, Claire, let's have a little swipe because we're going to talk about some interesting stuff. Speaker 4 (5:47) Okay. Speaker 3 (5:48) You look like you don't believe me. I Speaker 4 (5:50) don't believe you. A bit of scepticism. Yeah. Okay. Speaker 4 (5:56) Right, come on then, what's this big interesting thing you've got? Speaker 3 (5:59) Time machines. I'll just come out and say it. I'll just come out and say it. We're going to hypothetically talk about if we had a time machine and what we would do. That's a good conversation. It's Speaker 4 (6:11) a Speaker 3 (6:11) great conversation. That's Speaker 4 (6:12) a good Speaker 3 (6:12) pub conversation. Now, we spend a lot of time reminiscing about the good old days, especially the 90s. Speaker 4 (6:20) uh Speaker 3 (6:22) I feel like your heart's not in this anymore, Claire. But this week, we are going way back. Speaker 4 (6:29) Okay, now you're talking. Speaker 3 (6:30) According to a YouGov poll, 53 % of the British public would rather go backwards in time while only 25 % would choose to go forward. I can understand that. Yeah, Speaker 4 (6:39) I think so. Speaker 3 (6:40) In another poll, WatchPilot surveyed 2,000 adults across the nation to finally learn the answer to the question, if you could live in another time period, which would it be? Now, I wouldn't... I'll be honest with you. I know that I do bang on about the 90s and I love the 60s and the 70s and stuff. Speaker 3 (6:59) Genuinely speaking, we do not live in a better time than right now. Speaker 4 (7:03) Oh, no, I disagree. I know Speaker 3 (7:04) there's loads of shit to disagree with. Speaker 4 (7:06) I'm not even talking about big stuff. I'm just talking about I would much rather bring my kids up in a time without phones. Right, pre-internet Speaker 3 (7:12) and Speaker 4 (7:12) phone and stuff. Yeah, Speaker 3 (7:13) absolutely. Speaker 4 (7:13) Right, Speaker 3 (7:14) okay. So just ignore that for a second, but just living longer, eating better. Speaker 4 (7:20) Yeah, sure, sure. Most Speaker 3 (7:22) people do have a roof over their head, even though a lot of people are still struggling at the moment. But like what I said to you about the Middle Ages when like life expectancy was, the average life expectancy was like 32 or something like that. It wasn't actually, you didn't actually get to 32 and you were like, oh, well, that's me. I'm an old man now. Yeah, Speaker 4 (7:42) you've explained this. It's because Speaker 3 (7:43) you were lucky to get past your first week. Speaker 4 (7:46) Yeah. Speaker 3 (7:46) I'm mainly thinking about health. We're so much more healthy. Medical science is really, I know it is. But... This Speaker 4 (7:55) isn't a pub con, but if we were in the pub right now, I would have been like, right, okay, but let's talk about the fun stuff. Speaker 3 (8:00) But do you know what I mean? Like, you'd get, you'd, you know, go back 100 years, go back to the American frontier, right? Cowboys, that sort of thing. Speaker 4 (8:08) Yeah. Speaker 3 (8:09) Turn of the century, late 1800s, yeah? Speaker 4 (8:11) Right. Speaker 3 (8:12) If you cut yourself... You'll get infected and you'll just die. Okay, Speaker 4 (8:18) but we don't have to go into that much detail. Don't you want to sit around a fire with your horse beside you eating beans at a pot? Speaker 3 (8:26) Don't worry about Speaker 4 (8:27) medical... Those Speaker 3 (8:29) beans are probably off. There's no refrigerator. Speaker 4 (8:32) I tell you what, if I get a time machine, you're no coming with me. Let Speaker 3 (8:35) me tell you something. Speaker 4 (8:36) You are no coming. Speaker 3 (8:37) Let me say one thing to you right now and you'll go, oh yeah, do you know what? Yeah, you're right. Deliveroo. Speaker 4 (8:42) No, that's a... deal breaker for you I'm fine I cook I cook my own dinners yeah Speaker 3 (8:48) just Speaker 4 (8:48) me myself Speaker 3 (8:49) yeah yeah where's the shopping come from Claire Speaker 4 (8:53) I'd what you think I can again catch a fish Speaker 1 (8:57) Easy. Speaker 3 (8:57) No, I'm not saying that. Speaker 4 (8:59) Easy. It's been a while Speaker 3 (9:00) since you trotted around and got into a fight in a supermarket. Speaker 4 (9:05) Yeah, well, I'm banned for the moment. I've got a day delivery. No, but I wouldn't go that far back. I'd maybe go for like a couple of hours or