Sept. 17, 2025

(music) #1433 Let me bore you to sleep | Trivia Tuesday

(music) #1433 Let me bore you to sleep | Trivia Tuesday

(music) #1433 Let me bore you to sleep | Trivia Tuesday | Jason Newland | 16th September 2025 🎙 Title: Let Me Bore You to Sleep #1433 – Trivia Tuesday (Shortest Days, Longest Rambles) 📄 Description (Spreaker-formatted, ready to paste): Hello and...

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(music) #1433 Let me bore you to sleep | Trivia Tuesday | Jason Newland | 16th September 2025

🎙 Title: Let Me Bore You to Sleep #1433 – Trivia Tuesday (Shortest Days, Longest Rambles) 📄 Description (Spreaker-formatted, ready to paste): Hello and welcome to Let Me Bore You to Sleep, I’m Jason Newland. It's Trivia Tuesday... or actually Wednesday. I missed Tuesday. Oops. 😴 In this extra-dull, extra-soothing episode, I take you on a rambling journey that begins with the trivia of shortest and longest days around the world — and ends somewhere in a memory of selling comedy albums to a policeman and having cold hands in 1990. Also: Vinny cuddles, night shift chaos, and a Buddhist fire exit incident. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. 🙏
Website: LetMeBoreYouToSleep.com ⏱️ Timestamps: 0:00 – Intro & Lighting Talk
Why I didn’t record Tuesday. The morning is strangely dark. I ramble about windows and needing the lights on.

5:00 – Trivia Tuesday Begins

  • 🌍 Longest and shortest days by country
  • Ecuador, Kenya, UK, Australia, Iceland, the Poles
  • Wondering where the moon goes for 6 months 🤔
30:00 – Memory Lane (Night Shift Jobs)
  • My double-glazing canvassing job in 1990
  • Working night shift at a meter factory
  • Trying to do two jobs and sleeping like a vampire
55:00 – Living with My Dad
  • Staying at Dad’s while working two jobs
  • Heating issues and blackout curtains
  • How many towns were involved in getting me to move out?
1:05:00 – Comedy Dreams & Video Players
  • Selling all my comedy stuff for £250
  • Trying (and failing) to learn stand-up from tapes
  • Buying a broken VCR from a “friend”
1:20:00 – Vinny Gets Affectionate
  • Vinny cuddles up on my lap ❤️
  • I wonder if he’s just accepted his fate...
1:25:00 – Outro
  • Realizing I’ve completely abandoned the trivia
  • Reminders to be kind to yourself
  • “You deserve to be happy. You deserve to feel safe.”
🐾 Special Guest: Vinny the dog – occasional barking, cuddles, and sabotage.

🔑 Keywords: sleep podcast, longest day trivia, ASMR, Jason Newland, relaxing voice, bedtime story, night shift, UK nostalgia, Vinny the dog, Let Me Bore You to Sleep, meditation, boring podcast, fall asleep fast

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Hello, and welcome to let me boy you to sleep.

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My name's Jason Muland and this is Trivia Tuesday. Now.

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To be honest, I don't like being honest, as you know,

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But to be honest, I'm doing this on Wednesday because

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yesterday I couldn't be bothered. I couldn't do it. I

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just I was busy. I'm not busy, but a neighbor

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knocked and had a a chat, and time went by

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and before I knew it, it was time to go

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bye byes. So I didn't do it. And the weather's changed.

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Not not that I should really be a reason, but

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it's nine two in the morning, and really I need

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the light on. It's like early evening here lightwise inside

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that Now, if I was going to read a book,

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I would need the light on, or a paper or something,

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you know, something like that. Luckily, with computers, you know

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there's a light on in it behind a screen, isn't it.

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So I ain't got to worry about that. But if

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I was sitting here writing stuff down, I would need

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to have the light on at nine twenty three in

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the morning. It's kind of weird, honestly, And I haven't

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even got the Curve Strawn. So the curtains are open,

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the windows are open because it's it was cold. I

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put the heat on and now it's too hot for

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our tonal windows. Weird time, it's I mean, it's only

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what is it, the seventeenth of September two thous and

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and twenty five leave hm hmm. That's kind of I

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think that's the thing about this time of year. Not

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this time of year, but like between now and March

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and open Jenny, there's only six months and between you

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get a lot of these days. And you know, during

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any in England or where I live anyway, this is

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kind of standard sort of lighting during the day for

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a good couple of months, like December, January, maybe part

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of November. I don't remember it normally being quite like

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this in September. It's just really I can't can't really

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show you because if I took a picture, it doesn't

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give you a gauge. Really. I mean, it's never like

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super bright inside here anyway, because there is a tree

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does block in a fair bit of like sunlight when

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the sun's out. Yeah, it's a little bit dull. Please

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only listen when you can safely close your eyes. My

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website is let me buy you to sleep dot com.

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What else can I tell you? Not really much. I

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just yeah, everything's okay. I I slept last night and

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then I got up. I dreamt Vinny is now in

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my dreams with me, which I don't know if that's

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normal or weird, I don't know, but yeah, he's in

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my dreams, so he accompanies me wherever I go, just

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like in real life. By the way, I've got Q

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and A Friday coming up this week, which is in

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two days. It's Wednesday today. So I have posted on

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my my Facebook group, which is Jason Newland's Boring Group,

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but I haven't had any questions yet. Had two people

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like it the post I put, but no questions, So

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please go to the page Jason Newland's Boring Group on

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Facebook and ask me some questions if you'd like to.

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I should also say welcome to the newest members of

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the group, which would be Sue Brooke, Janice Patrick, Camilla,

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melenis Myrena, Mary Forge, Vivek Fari Bada and Peter so

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have joined. So thank you for being part of this

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shop a Grove group. The link is on my website

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if you want to find it. If you can't find

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it is I think it should be quite easy to find.

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So here we go. So this is time for trivia Tuesday.

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I need to figure out a For some reason, I'm

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very focused on light today. So what are the shortest days,

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longest days? What shall I do? Weather? Because really weird

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because if I just what's the shortest days of the year,

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there's one short day, then there's one longest day, longest

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days in the summer, shortest days in I suppose probably

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December or beginning of January. Let's just I could just

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go through countries or the shortest and longest days. Please

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give me shortest, shortest if I could spell, and longest

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days days of the year by country. Got it? The

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shortest and longest days of the year, depending on leftitude,

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not the country itself. No, by country, Oh it is,

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oh okay, So it has example by country list all countries.

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The thing is it's probably going to be a lot

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of them. That's a huge list, almost two hundred countries.

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But I can absolutely create it for you before I

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dive in, I want to check list or countries. Yes,

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I'll just asked you just just do it, man, just

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do I'm a proper task master, mask tasker, right. I'll

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start off with the general rules. It says equator equator

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zero latitude equator. Sorry, day length barely changes after twelve

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hours of daylight all year. Twelve hours of daylight all

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year in the equator, so it's like twelve hours daylight

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twelve hours nine and the kind of stays the same length.

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I am kind of ad libbing, but fair enough. Tropics

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up to I don't know what that means. Variation is small.

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The longest thirteen hours, shortest is eleven hours, so there's

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not a lot of differences there. Mid latitudes, which would

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be UK, USA, Europe, China bigger swings. So longest days

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sixteen to seventeen hours, shortest day seven to eight hours,

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Arctic Antarctic circle at least one day with twenty four

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hour daylight midnight Sunday Okay specific and one with twenty

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four hour darkness polar night. Does that mean continuous So

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twenty four hours of light, twenty four hours of darkness,

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twenty four hours of light, twenty four hour darkness.

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See.

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If that's the case, that must have been really weird

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for people that were traveling up there to kind of

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try and climb a mountain or something and thinking, Wow,

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time just slows down when we're here. This is brilliant.

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It is have been light for age years, the days,

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We've got so much done, and then they go to

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sleep and think, God, it's like again, I feel so refreshed.

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I feel like I've been asleep forever. So poles one

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continuous six month day and one continuous six month nights

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each year. Yeah, I've heard about that. That's got to

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be very, very strange. So that's the North and South

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Pole or North South Pole. One continuous six month day,

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one continuous six month night. I'd like to visit that

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just to see what that's like. It's gotta be weird

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because so that means the moon never comes out. Where

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does the moon go? Where does the sun go after

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the six months? The sun just goes on holiday meanwhile,

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and go somewhere hot with it. And what where I

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mean the moon? What happens to the moon? So can

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you literally during the night, where does the sun go

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for six months? That's strange, is it? Unless it's literally

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because of the mountains. So maybe it's because of the

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mountains it's so big that the sun can't penetrate them.

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That's the problem. The sun's been trying to penetrate the

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mountains for years, but he can't. Perhaps, so just don't

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get on examples by country. So let's have a look.

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Here is a complete that's what I'm using chat GPT. Right,

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there's a huge list, almost two hundred countries. But I

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can actually absolutely absolutely create it for you. List all

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countries alphabetically with their shortest the longest day lengths. It's

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not given it to me. It's just given me loads

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and loads of countries. Yes, I'm going to see if

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they can do that. Yes, please, because this offered me

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maybe to tell me ones that it can give me

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the shortest and longest days. But before that has given

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me a list of some So Ecuador longest day twelve

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hours seven minutes, so that's Ecuador. Kenya near equator equator

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like it's Ecuador, Yeah, near equator Kenya, Keny is near

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the equator. Okay, didn't know. Longest day twelve hours seven minutes.

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Shortest day eleven hours fifty three minutes. So they have

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long days. It's basically like pretty much twelve twelve isn't

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that twelve hours a dark twelve hours of sun kind

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of all year round, with a few minutes in between. Literally,

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I mean there's seven minutes either way. So wow, it

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is fourteen minutes. So there can be fourteen minutes difference

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in the entire year between the longest day and the

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shortest day. That's up some latle casi and then you've

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got UK London. So oh, I was going to give

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me the actual date. That's nice. Around June twenty first, London.

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The longest day is sixteen hours forty minutes. The shortest

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day around the twenty first of December. I thought it

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was around December times seven hours fifty minutes. The good

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thing about the shortest day is knowing that every single

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day afterwards the day is going to get longer. And

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I don't know, just there's something quite nice about that.

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I mean, it takes a while, it does, but you know,

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there was a time when I'd be up till four

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in the morning, sometimes eight in the morning. I'd be

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awake all night for years and years and years. And

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what I noticed in the summer, like well, in the

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spring rather really so I when you get to like

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March April, kind of those kind of months. It's light

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so early in the morning, and it really gets early quick.

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It's like the time seems to just I don't know.

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It's quite nice, and the birds are up and singing,

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and you know you can look out see them have

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in a shower, brushing their teeth, you know, tucking into

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their corn flakes if they're all really getting ready. Okay,

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they're worn flakes. New York longest day is fifteen hours,

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shortest day is nine hours. So so far the UK

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has got the shortest day out of anyone. Also the

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longest day, oh no, yeah, just by ten minutes. Austraia

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longest day December twenty first, it's the summer solstice fourteen

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hours twenty minutes, so it's not as long as we have. Wow,

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So we're doing a ry and we really shortest days

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June twenty first, nine hours fifty minutes. So it's literally

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the exact opposite of us in the UK. In Australia,

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like the mirror image sixteen out of the opposite image. Rather,

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that's not really a mirror image, is it. But then

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if you look at the mirror, it's back to front,

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isn't it. People use the word in my mirriage in

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my mirriage mirror image in the wrong way, don't they really?

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I think when I say I was like a looking

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at someone's like a mirror image, which technically if someone

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looks right like you and you're facing them, and if

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they were your doppel ganger or whatever, or your twin,

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then that would be like looking in the mirror, and

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that'd be an EMM mirriage. I can't say that. My

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words all back to front these days, so an IMMI mirriage.

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And but at the same time, it's also back to front,

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isn't it, So it's not really a mirror image. I

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wonder where imma merriage came from. Where you think words

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sentences would be quite easy for me, wouldn't you really?

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Considering an amount of talking I've done over the years.

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That's got to be weird. How do people in Australia

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get used to it being warm in the winter? How

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do you get used to that soul you imagine like

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it's warm in the winter. But you know what Australia do.

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They do it wrong. They do it back to front.

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They say, oh, the summertime is their winter. No, it's

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still summer. It's just you're getting bad weather. December, November, December, January, February,

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whatever or January. That's winter still. Just because you're getting

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nice weather, it's still winter. Don't call it summer. You've

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got it wrong. Canada longest day sixteen hours thirty minutes.

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Shortest day seven hours thirty minutes. So we're still ahead.

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It looks like we're still ahead. The UK is still

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ahead for the longest day we so far have all

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these countries. Nope, we just got to Iceland. Iceland. Wow,

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longest day twenty one hours daylight. Shortest day three to

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four hours daylight. But then if you look at the UK,

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where are we? Okay seven hours fifty minutes eight so

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it's double but okay, fair enough. We don't have the

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shortest day, but Iceland do three to four hours. So literally,

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what time does it get light in Iceland? That's gotta

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be really weird, just to think that you've got to

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get you pretty much got to get everything done. So

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if you live in Iceland, maybe let us know, do you,

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I mean, what do the shops open outside of those

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four hours or does everything open and close? Because there's

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a lot of polar bears and stuff around, isn't there

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in Iceland. I don't know, I might be was that

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Denmark or was that Greenland? Or I'm sure it's polar

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bears somewhere walking around. I don't mean like walking around

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doing their shopping, but walking around, not like fully clothed

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and gossiping about each other. But you know, there's polar bears.

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But then twenty one hours daylight sometimes, So how does

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that regulate mood? And how does that? How does that

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affect sleep? Because I'm just going back to where is

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it Ecuador? Not Ecuador? The are right the poles to

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the north pole, South pole, one continuous six month day

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and one continue as six month night. So how does

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that affect people's sleeping habits? I mean, technically, I suppose

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if you're born there, you're acclimatized and you don't know

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any different. But I don't know, because I thought that

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the moon, the lunar kind of sequence and stuff had

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an effect. And that's as much as I know. I

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suppose You've just got to get thick curtains, aren't you.

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Although I can sleep in daylight, never used to be

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able to, but I can now. I can just go

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to bed in the middle of summer, you know, eleven

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o'clock in the morning or two in the afternoon, and

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I can go to sleep, just not like full eight

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hours sleep, but I have a nap and fall asleep fine,

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as long as Vinnie don't bark. Nothing else really bothers me,

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and I can have the curtains open, windows open. It's fine.

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I don't need it to be dark anymore. But there

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was a time back in nineteen ninety one, No, nineteen

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ninety I had this part time No, I had a

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full time job. I had two jobs actually, but I

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moved away from London in I think it was March

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nineteen ninety it might be February because around that time

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and then I got a job I was going back

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to doing by the way, unless in case you wondered

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what the sound is in the background, it's Finny chewing

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on one of his bony things. Okay, so I I

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still remember that conversation. It's weird because where I was

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living there was a phone at the bottom of the

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stairs I think, and it was a payphone. So I

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phoned up my Actually I don't know if I phoned

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them up. Well, they phoned me up, but basically to

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let me know that there was a job if I

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wanted it, I might have just phoned them up just

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to see how they are. And this person I used

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to work with, and they said, oh, there's a job.

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Jeff has taken on people again to do campusing, and

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he was the body. He's no longer with us, but

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he was sort of in charge of the canvassin for

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double blazing, because that's what I was doing in eighty

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nine nineteen eighty nine, and then lost that job because

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the company, the main company we were working for, decided

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to invest their money in advertising on radio instead of canvasing.

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But then and that was kind of late summer, end

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of the summer, sort of autumn time in nineteen eighty nine,

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and then nineteen ninety the same man had found another

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company to work for, maybe more than one actually, and

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we went out between I think about four o'clock in

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the afternoon until about eight. It was four hours work

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and I think it was like one hundred and twenty

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pounds a week, so, which is really good back then.

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So I was told there's a job if you want it.

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So I called up Jeff and he said, yeah, if

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you can get back here, we can start Monday. And

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so I phoned my dad up and told him, and

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my dad said, well, you can move in here for

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a little while, you can stay here for a little while.

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So I did. I packed my bags, didn't have much

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stuff literally, just probably helped the black bags of stuff,

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bin bags and stuff, and then got on the train,

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came back or went back to my dad's and I

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started working at this doing the canvas thing. And then

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I started thinking, hmmm, it's not really I mean, it

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was more than what I was earning before. I was

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earning less than one hundred pounds a week before during

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that period, but one hundred and twenty pounds storesn't like

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lots of money, but it was still, you know, twenty

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quid more than a while I was getting. But I

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wanted to. I was looking maybe get a job, like

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a proper job, and I applied to go and work

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at this meta factory that I'd already worked at twice before,

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so I knew people at work there, I knew some supervisors,

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and I kind of I didn't work my way back,

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but I managed to get a job interview and they

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took me on. But this time it was night shift,

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which is what I wanted because then I could continue

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to do the canvas and job, not really thinking too

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much about how much work that would be. I was

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a heck, you know, it's a long day. So I

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was starting work at ten in the evening and then

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I was finishing at six in the morning. I was, yeah,

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then I did. I'd go to bed, be in bed

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by seven, and i'd be up by two, and I'd

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start work at four, finish at eight. I'd normally get

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dropped off at home so I wouldn't have to travel,

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and then I'd get ready, maybe perhapside to eat, and

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then just had to work. So that's what my week

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was like for I don't know a couple of months

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until I just it was too much. It was It's

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a shame because I think I was doing Saturday mornings

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as well in the canvasin a lot extra overtime and

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when they needed me, so it was a little bit

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too much. In retrospect, I kind of wish I'd just

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stuck at it and saved some money, which I didn't

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because since I started doing some money, I decided that

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I wanted to move back to London and do stand

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up comedy, and instead of saving money, which is why

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I would need to do that. I every time I

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got paid, I would go to London and I would

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buy comedy albums and comedy videos. I suppose in a

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way trying to learn the craft without doing it. You know,

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maybe if I could learn something from watching the greats

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performing and I didn't. I learned nothing. But that kind

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of became my hobby. So I didn't save a penny. However,

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I think it was December time I did sell my

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entire collection of comedy stuff for about two hundred and

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fifty pound. I had loads of albums, tapes, video tapes,

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a lot, you know, lots of stuff. So I sold

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it all for two hundred and fifty and that did

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help me to move back to London. So it kind

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of worked, but it did. I mean, there was pretty

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thousands of pounds worth of stuff there, but never mind,

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and I'd save the blokes that bought this stuff. Was

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a He did stand up comedy, but as a like

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for charity, so he was a policeman but at the

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charity gear. He did charity gigs where he did stand

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up and he just wanted the albums just to get

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new jokes for his stand up show. So yeah, it

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all worked out. He was a friend of my dad. Actually,

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unless my dad just gave him money. So just I

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don't care how much it costs, just pay him what

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he wants so it'll move away. That might be like

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he want him to move to London. Just come on.

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The whole of the town got together and put a

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pound in each. There was more than two hundred and

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fifty people living in that town. But you know, you

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get the idea. Everyone wanted me out while they are

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they are, But then I remember I'm staying at my dad's.

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This was quite good, Like this was the best time

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that we kind of lived together because during the week

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he was at home during the week, I was at work,

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like nearly all the time every night, so literally he'd

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get home, he go to worker with sometimes cross swords,

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cross swords. Sometimes i'd see him in the morning. I'd

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be at my breakfast when he was getting up, and

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then i'd be going to bed. So sometimes I see

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him before we went to work to work, and i'd

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be gone before he got home. I might see him

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briefly for a few minutes at eight o'clock when I

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got back. But you know, that was kind of sometimes.

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And then he spent most of his weekends at his girlfriends,

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who ended up being his wife. So it was quite

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a good situation. We didn't really sort of annoy each

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other too much. Yeah, that was quite cool. So it

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was nice, especially at the weekend. I kind of had

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the house to myself. Not that I needed the whole house,

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but it was just nice to have the TV in

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the living room and instead of my black and white

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TV upstairs, which I could have got myself a color TV.

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I didn't I could have done unless I did. Maybe

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I did have a color TV, because I'm thinking, you know,

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if I had, because I've got this. Yeah, this is

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a thing. When I lived in nineteen eighty nine, I

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lived in a house, like in a room in a house,

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and I watched Eddie Murphy's Delirious on videotape, which meant

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I must have had a video recorder. There's no way

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I would have a video recorder with a black and

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white TV. That doesn't make sense. So I must have

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had a TV unless there was just one in a

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room that I was renting as possible. It is possible,

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but I rented that Delirious out from the video shop

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or borrowed it someone. I can't really remember it's a

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long time ago now, I suppose I do remember the

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turning up for the job interview, and if nothing else,

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I was kind of having to explain why I had

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worked there twice already in the meter the meter factory,

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not meat but meter like electric meters factory, and why

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I had left twice without even telling them. I just

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I had a habit of not telling people when I left.

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And because I've had like fifty odd jobs or something,

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so I think I had one. I had three jobs

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in one week once. I think this is not nineteen

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eighty eight. So what I did is I told the

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lady who was interviewing me the story of me going

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to Spain for the afternoon, and she found it so

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hilarious that she just gave me the job. I think

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she felt sorry for me, but I just you know

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the facts. I got ripped off by a taxi driver

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and I was left with no money and I just

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couldn't just had to come back, had no choice. And she,

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I don't know how whatever it was the way I

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told her the story, she found it very funny. I

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don't quite know what I said, but she found it humorous.

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And if I remember, she was almost crying. I don't

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know if it's because she was crying from boredom or

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I mean she was sitting there. Maybe she had piles,

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I don't know, but she just could have been a

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hemorrhoid induced tears. But she Yeah, she gave me the

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job and I started working. I had to be trained,

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so I think I had a week of days. So

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I wasn't able to do the canvasing, or was I

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I worked nine till five. Maybe I was able to

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maybe they I don't know. I think I had to

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have a week off. But the problem I had at

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that time was I'd be going to sleep at seven

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in the morning, and because i'd get home, probably i'd

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probably get home about half six, have started to eat

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and then go to bed. So maybe it was half

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past seven trying to think to go to bed after eating.

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Who knows by really I struggled a little bit because

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of light coming in, and I think my dad puts

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some extra thick curtains up and he he made it.

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He put his curtains up, but it was like he

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made it from a big sign. So he pushed them over,

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so I to put them over the thing. But it's

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this big like like fabricated sign like stitched to it

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as well. So when the curtains are open or closed

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rather and it was covering the whole window, it was

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completely black or you could see a luminouses please leave.

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So I'm not quite sure what that was about, please

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move out. And I got used to it after a while.

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The hardest bit was the weekends, really, because I'd be

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finishing at six on a Friday and I wouldn't be

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going back till ten on a Monday. In the evening

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on a Monday, so you could say, technically I had

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three days off every week. I didn't, but I kind

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of did. I had all day Friday, all day Saturday,

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no Monday night, Tuesday night, Wednesday night, Thursday or Friday night.

448
00:40:37.960 --> 00:40:42.360
It's a Saturday Sunday. We're talking about two days. What

449
00:40:42.559 --> 00:40:46.480
was I saying three days? I know, three days, because

450
00:40:46.480 --> 00:40:49.360
then you've got the whole of Monday. So yeah, technically

451
00:40:49.559 --> 00:40:54.159
three days off bits nott, you know, three whole days.

452
00:40:56.679 --> 00:41:02.800
But it's you know, I kind of wasn't sure what

453
00:41:02.960 --> 00:41:05.039
to do. I mean when I first started, I thought,

454
00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:08.440
now I'm just go to bed, go to bed like normal,

455
00:41:08.559 --> 00:41:12.880
wake up at two or three in the afternoon and

456
00:41:12.920 --> 00:41:21.000
then go back to bed, maybe try and try and

457
00:41:21.559 --> 00:41:25.559
have the normal sleep pattern and wake pattern as I

458
00:41:25.599 --> 00:41:31.000
normally do, you know, like night shift. And that was

459
00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:35.119
a little bit hard because you know, back then, there

460
00:41:35.199 --> 00:41:38.960
was no night television really to speak of. There was

461
00:41:39.000 --> 00:41:40.960
a few bits and bobs on at night, but there

462
00:41:41.000 --> 00:41:46.360
wasn't a lot going on. There wasn't really anything to

463
00:41:46.400 --> 00:41:50.000
do or anywhere to go. And like when I moved

464
00:41:50.000 --> 00:41:52.480
to London, there was always stuff to do, you know,

465
00:41:52.599 --> 00:41:55.880
providing I could afford to get there and afford a

466
00:41:57.199 --> 00:42:00.679
bottle of coke or whatever while I was there an

467
00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:04.679
entrance fee, I could just There's always be somewhere like

468
00:42:04.800 --> 00:42:11.639
in the West End or somewhere like that. But where

469
00:42:11.639 --> 00:42:15.519
I was living at the time, there was nothing there.

470
00:42:15.920 --> 00:42:18.840
There was it was something, it's a nice little town,

471
00:42:18.880 --> 00:42:23.480
but there was nothing to do really other than maybe

472
00:42:23.559 --> 00:42:26.920
going into pubs and stuff. And that's at the time

473
00:42:26.960 --> 00:42:29.719
that really wasn't me. I wasn't really a pubby person.

474
00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:36.639
I'm still not really, but I definitely wasn't then. I

475
00:42:36.639 --> 00:42:41.719
didn't like pubs. I liked pubs when I was sixteen,

476
00:42:43.639 --> 00:42:46.000
but I didn't as well. I just liked it because

477
00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:51.760
I wasn't supposed to be in there, but it wasn't. Yeah,

478
00:42:51.760 --> 00:42:56.039
I never really, never really got the point of it.

479
00:42:56.079 --> 00:43:02.480
I never really saw the point of pubs. I can

480
00:43:02.519 --> 00:43:04.280
see the point of them in the past, you know,

481
00:43:04.320 --> 00:43:13.679
with community getting together, and but I didn't. I was

482
00:43:13.719 --> 00:43:18.039
never really part of any kind of community, as in

483
00:43:18.119 --> 00:43:21.280
like lots and lots of different people, or living together

484
00:43:21.719 --> 00:43:23.840
in a house in a room, not in a room

485
00:43:23.920 --> 00:43:27.719
in a road. Rather, I suppose I lived in houses

486
00:43:27.760 --> 00:43:31.679
where there was like community of people living not together

487
00:43:31.800 --> 00:43:35.760
but separately but kind of get to know them a bit.

488
00:43:38.239 --> 00:43:41.360
But that going into a pub and saying a load

489
00:43:41.480 --> 00:43:45.760
to your car mechanic or the person who delivers your

490
00:43:45.800 --> 00:43:52.039
milk or your post or the local electrician or never

491
00:43:52.079 --> 00:43:56.320
really kind of had that. I suppose the only closest

492
00:43:56.320 --> 00:43:59.880
thing I got was maybe seeing people that I worked with.

493
00:44:02.159 --> 00:44:06.000
That would be probably the closest thing. And even when

494
00:44:06.039 --> 00:44:11.280
I moved to London, really I would say the only

495
00:44:11.360 --> 00:44:13.400
time I went to a pub is were people that

496
00:44:13.480 --> 00:44:17.119
I worked with, outside of when I was going to

497
00:44:17.199 --> 00:44:21.639
comedy clubs or when I was dating. If I dated

498
00:44:21.639 --> 00:44:34.079
someone and would go to a pub, but became accustomed

499
00:44:34.119 --> 00:44:39.480
to be able to sleep during the day, and it

500
00:44:39.559 --> 00:44:41.679
wasn't the last time I did night shift either, So

501
00:44:41.719 --> 00:44:48.079
I did night shift in nineteen ninety. I finished I

502
00:44:48.119 --> 00:44:53.360
think October nineteen ninety because what they did is they

503
00:44:53.719 --> 00:44:57.320
got rid of the night shift and they moved me

504
00:44:57.480 --> 00:45:02.079
on to a double shift of one week being six

505
00:45:02.119 --> 00:45:04.639
in the morning till two at night. I was six

506
00:45:04.679 --> 00:45:07.239
in the morning till two in the afternoon other and

507
00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:10.599
then the following week two in the afternoon until ten

508
00:45:10.639 --> 00:45:13.760
at night. And I said, I don't want to do that,

509
00:45:14.719 --> 00:45:17.920
and they said, that's your new hours. I said, but

510
00:45:17.960 --> 00:45:20.480
I don't want to do it. And they were also

511
00:45:20.559 --> 00:45:28.559
making people redundant as well, and I just I wasn't pleased.

512
00:45:28.719 --> 00:45:30.519
I wasn't happy with it, so I left. I just

513
00:45:30.559 --> 00:45:34.599
didn't go in because I only took the job on

514
00:45:34.639 --> 00:45:38.400
because it was nice shift. I never liked the double shifts.

515
00:45:38.559 --> 00:45:42.480
I did that two previous times I worked there. Didn't

516
00:45:42.599 --> 00:45:45.079
like it because it's hard to get really, I've found

517
00:45:46.320 --> 00:45:53.159
it was hard to get into any kind of routine.

518
00:45:53.920 --> 00:46:00.320
If the hours are the same every day, then it's

519
00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:04.480
a routine. I can get my head around. I mean,

520
00:46:04.719 --> 00:46:07.039
what are you doing? And he there, he goes dinning there.

521
00:46:12.119 --> 00:46:16.000
Do you want to hear? What is there? He's standing

522
00:46:16.039 --> 00:46:20.800
on the side of the SETTI looking at me. He

523
00:46:20.840 --> 00:46:23.639
doesn't really do that. He's on the armist but on

524
00:46:23.679 --> 00:46:25.519
this side of where I don't see it. Do you

525
00:46:25.559 --> 00:46:28.800
want to get on my lap? I want to go

526
00:46:28.880 --> 00:46:34.400
on my lap? Come on, that's all right. One of

527
00:46:34.400 --> 00:46:41.199
the problems he has he loves to cuddle, but he

528
00:46:41.280 --> 00:46:46.639
doesn't like cuddling, which is a weird one, and it's

529
00:46:46.639 --> 00:46:52.320
hard to explain. Is like if he is like he's

530
00:46:53.159 --> 00:46:56.679
he doesn't know whether to do it or not. So

531
00:46:56.760 --> 00:46:58.360
if I had to pick him up, he'll run away.

532
00:47:00.519 --> 00:47:04.519
But actually what he really wants is probably to lay

533
00:47:04.519 --> 00:47:09.519
on my lap. And he looked like he was trying

534
00:47:09.519 --> 00:47:12.519
to get onto my lap from over there, But as

535
00:47:12.519 --> 00:47:14.559
soon as I went to reach out to help him,

536
00:47:14.960 --> 00:47:22.280
he ran off, jumped off the chair. Don't you whether

537
00:47:22.400 --> 00:47:25.079
it's just that he wants attention and I wasn't giving

538
00:47:25.079 --> 00:47:31.440
it to him. Hey, you get my attention now on you. You

539
00:47:30.199 --> 00:47:34.239
definitely get my attention when you bark. That's not the

540
00:47:34.320 --> 00:47:35.840
kind of attention you want, though, is it?

541
00:47:36.800 --> 00:47:38.679
No?

542
00:47:38.679 --> 00:47:44.199
No, is not. He's been a little bit more affectionate

543
00:47:44.280 --> 00:47:52.639
these days. To me, maybe he's he's just succumbed to

544
00:47:52.719 --> 00:47:57.159
the idea that he's stuck with me. Perhaps that's what

545
00:47:57.199 --> 00:48:00.280
it is. Maybe all his dreams have just faded and

546
00:48:00.320 --> 00:48:03.199
he's given up the hope of getting out of here,

547
00:48:03.840 --> 00:48:07.360
and he's just accepted his fate, that he's stuck with

548
00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:13.000
his old man. Is that what it is? Then, if

549
00:48:13.039 --> 00:48:19.360
you just accepted your fate, he doesn't have it too bad,

550
00:48:19.360 --> 00:48:22.599
and he can't. Mean he gets out at least three

551
00:48:22.599 --> 00:48:27.239
times a day. I mean, it sounds like a prison,

552
00:48:27.320 --> 00:48:32.840
isn't it. Like he's released, he has exercise three times

553
00:48:32.840 --> 00:48:38.599
a day. I think he has okay. I don't know.

554
00:48:39.679 --> 00:48:43.719
It's hard to tell, isn't it. But it seems okay.

555
00:48:43.920 --> 00:48:51.480
He seems fairly fairly content, all right. So I've had

556
00:48:53.320 --> 00:48:57.159
night shift jobs. So I had the one at the

557
00:48:57.199 --> 00:49:01.400
factory making meters, but I was doing a different job

558
00:49:01.440 --> 00:49:06.320
this time. I was actually instead of packing the meters,

559
00:49:06.360 --> 00:49:08.760
which is what I did the last two previous times

560
00:49:08.800 --> 00:49:15.800
I worked there, I was doing more meter work, as

561
00:49:15.840 --> 00:49:24.920
in testing meters, putting meters together, you know, building them,

562
00:49:25.320 --> 00:49:29.679
taking them apart, fixing stuff like that. So there's a

563
00:49:29.719 --> 00:49:32.840
lot more technical stuff and it's a lot more interesting

564
00:49:32.880 --> 00:49:36.000
as well. But then sometimes I'd be on the conveyor

565
00:49:36.000 --> 00:49:38.800
belt where all I was doing was just screw putting

566
00:49:38.800 --> 00:49:42.559
a screw in. You know, there's the conveyor belt would

567
00:49:42.559 --> 00:49:47.559
be huge. It's start off with like an an empty case,

568
00:49:48.199 --> 00:49:49.800
and then by the end of it there'd be a meter,

569
00:49:51.239 --> 00:49:55.079
you know, a complete meet I put together. Now, I'm

570
00:49:55.159 --> 00:49:59.000
pretty sure that that wouldn't be done by hand anymore,

571
00:49:59.239 --> 00:50:05.840
probably hasn't been for a long time. But it was

572
00:50:05.960 --> 00:50:11.320
weird because at the time. So when I moved, and

573
00:50:11.440 --> 00:50:15.599
because I've lived around a lot, every time I saw

574
00:50:15.639 --> 00:50:19.039
electric meter, I look at it and think that could

575
00:50:19.039 --> 00:50:22.599
have been one of the ones that I touched. You

576
00:50:22.639 --> 00:50:24.559
could argue, well, I just touch it now then you

577
00:50:24.599 --> 00:50:28.199
know it is. But no, I mean it's something nice.

578
00:50:28.280 --> 00:50:31.360
I suppose. You know, if you make toilet seats and

579
00:50:31.400 --> 00:50:33.760
you visit somewhere and you sit down the toilet seat,

580
00:50:33.880 --> 00:50:35.800
instead of thinking about all the different people who sat

581
00:50:35.800 --> 00:50:39.719
down on that toilet seat doing poos, you can think, oh,

582
00:50:40.519 --> 00:50:45.960
I might have helped make that seat when it was clean.

583
00:50:49.840 --> 00:50:52.199
It's I don't know, it's just I kind of looked

584
00:50:52.199 --> 00:50:58.440
at the meters and thinking, ah, because you imagine I

585
00:50:58.519 --> 00:51:03.199
saw thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of these

586
00:51:03.239 --> 00:51:07.920
electric meters. They were all black, they all looked the same.

587
00:51:09.320 --> 00:51:14.000
And I've seen loads of them since I am back

588
00:51:14.039 --> 00:51:19.039
in the past, not so much recently, but it used

589
00:51:19.039 --> 00:51:23.800
to have They used to have their little logo on

590
00:51:23.840 --> 00:51:25.760
it and stuff. But I think they were the main

591
00:51:26.480 --> 00:51:32.920
provider of electric meters in Europe. Maybe not the world,

592
00:51:32.960 --> 00:51:37.199
but in Europe. And they had more than one factory,

593
00:51:37.719 --> 00:51:40.480
but they were big. That was pretty much the main

594
00:51:40.800 --> 00:51:45.519
place to get employment in that town outside of the docks.

595
00:51:46.639 --> 00:51:50.920
So second, it was the I think it was the

596
00:51:50.960 --> 00:51:56.320
biggest poor in Europe for a while. So you know,

597
00:51:56.519 --> 00:51:59.800
it's sort of that was doing quite well. Or maybe

598
00:51:59.800 --> 00:52:03.559
this second maybe Dover was up, you know, higher up,

599
00:52:04.480 --> 00:52:11.360
but it is had loads and loads of jobs from tralling,

600
00:52:11.800 --> 00:52:14.760
you know, tralling the seas and stuff away though, and

601
00:52:14.800 --> 00:52:16.519
I think trall what do they do They take the

602
00:52:16.559 --> 00:52:25.119
ships out to the sea they called trawlers. Two working

603
00:52:25.239 --> 00:52:32.760
in the export agencies. Two I mean I worked on

604
00:52:32.840 --> 00:52:46.840
the docks one, one, two, three, four at least four times.

605
00:52:47.639 --> 00:52:51.000
Three of those times were for cleaning jobs and the

606
00:52:51.119 --> 00:53:00.480
other time was in a what was it. Oh, it

607
00:53:00.559 --> 00:53:06.719
was a horriage company for chemicals, so liquid chemicals and

608
00:53:06.760 --> 00:53:10.760
these big tankers would that that was what my job

609
00:53:10.920 --> 00:53:19.480
was working in the office. I remember that. I remember

610
00:53:19.920 --> 00:53:22.239
because I had a lot well, I knew quite a

611
00:53:22.239 --> 00:53:25.320
few people that worked on the docks, because that was

612
00:53:25.440 --> 00:53:28.719
the main place really to get jobs outside of retail

613
00:53:28.920 --> 00:53:36.679
or in the factory, unless you was I suppose delivering

614
00:53:36.719 --> 00:53:40.119
post or milk, or a builder or you know, just

615
00:53:40.159 --> 00:53:46.119
the other kind of things. But as far as condensed jobs,

616
00:53:46.280 --> 00:53:49.360
like lots of jobs in one place, they were the

617
00:53:49.519 --> 00:53:54.960
two main ones in that town. But then if you

618
00:53:55.000 --> 00:53:57.559
go to the next town, there was a sugar factory

619
00:53:59.239 --> 00:54:07.039
and so that employed huge amounts of people. I'm not

620
00:54:07.039 --> 00:54:09.440
sure what else they had there. It turned into be

621
00:54:09.599 --> 00:54:14.239
in the pretty much the capital of insurance, like nearly

622
00:54:14.239 --> 00:54:17.920
every insurance company was held there as well in the

623
00:54:18.039 --> 00:54:22.760
ninety in the two thousands, I made like so many

624
00:54:22.800 --> 00:54:29.159
different companies in one place. So yeah, I worked in

625
00:54:29.760 --> 00:54:40.840
two and in both those companies I I actually worked with,

626
00:54:41.480 --> 00:54:47.159
I think I had three, possibly three or four people

627
00:54:47.559 --> 00:54:51.559
came in from the previous company. One was already there,

628
00:54:52.440 --> 00:54:59.000
so Jody he I remember Jody like he was the

629
00:54:59.079 --> 00:55:02.280
number one sells per in Churchill. When I worked at Churchill,

630
00:55:02.519 --> 00:55:06.840
I was kind of number two. Sometimes Jersey was number two,

631
00:55:06.880 --> 00:55:15.360
but that was rare. He was overall number one, and

632
00:55:15.400 --> 00:55:17.440
I didn't really I did not talk to him, but

633
00:55:17.480 --> 00:55:19.320
I didn't really kind of get to know him because

634
00:55:19.480 --> 00:55:23.599
he was in a different team to me and we

635
00:55:23.679 --> 00:55:26.880
didn't really have an opportunity to just wander around and

636
00:55:26.960 --> 00:55:31.880
talk to each other. And you know, so I didn't

637
00:55:31.880 --> 00:55:34.440
really I knew him since I sailo too, and he

638
00:55:34.519 --> 00:55:39.639
knew me because we were on the leaderboard and you know,

639
00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:42.119
on the wall, so everyone kind of knew who we were.

640
00:55:45.159 --> 00:55:48.639
And he'd been there for a long time, I think.

641
00:55:49.519 --> 00:55:52.320
So he left and I didn't see him for probably

642
00:55:53.079 --> 00:55:58.599
a couple of years, maybe a year. And this is

643
00:55:58.639 --> 00:56:06.159
in two thousand and I'm working in the It's like

644
00:56:06.199 --> 00:56:14.559
a gift shop, a Buddhist gift shop, selling some nice stuff,

645
00:56:14.719 --> 00:56:19.599
some absolute just yeah, it depends on what you like.

646
00:56:19.760 --> 00:56:29.880
But there was incest you could buy. There was ornaments, cushions, curtains.

647
00:56:32.159 --> 00:56:34.239
I did. I mean, I can't remember. They had like

648
00:56:34.440 --> 00:56:37.960
these hairy curtains that you could buy. It's like, wow,

649
00:56:38.079 --> 00:56:45.119
it's really weird. I remember this one time because I

650
00:56:45.159 --> 00:56:47.360
worked in the same shop in a different town when

651
00:56:47.360 --> 00:56:53.079
I was doing my degree, and the manager at the

652
00:56:53.159 --> 00:57:04.639
shop that's spent about five hours putting together this curtain display.

653
00:57:05.079 --> 00:57:07.400
I really put a lot of energy into it in time,

654
00:57:09.440 --> 00:57:11.159
and he said, what do you think. I said, I

655
00:57:11.199 --> 00:57:16.639
think it's lovely. However, he said, what do you mean? However?

656
00:57:18.000 --> 00:57:21.960
I said, you put it right in front of the

657
00:57:22.000 --> 00:57:30.119
fire exit, and he said, so, now, what go explain?

658
00:57:30.960 --> 00:57:34.760
Is what I noticed with some of my Buddhist friends.

659
00:57:35.480 --> 00:57:41.599
It wasn't that they didn't care about stuff like that.

660
00:57:41.639 --> 00:57:50.360
They were so focused on the moment that he just

661
00:57:50.440 --> 00:57:55.960
didn't really have I would in some ways, I'm a

662
00:57:55.960 --> 00:58:03.079
bit too prepared for things like that. Hopefully, what nothing

663
00:58:03.280 --> 00:58:05.119
like that happens. But I'm kind of if I get

664
00:58:05.199 --> 00:58:11.000
on a ship, I know where the lifeboats are, and

665
00:58:11.400 --> 00:58:14.199
you know, I'm ready. I've got a dress. I walk

666
00:58:14.239 --> 00:58:18.039
around with a full dress underneath my clothes in case that,

667
00:58:18.400 --> 00:58:21.280
you know, like only women and children, I'm on there.

668
00:58:23.199 --> 00:58:26.679
None of that stuff. I'm getting out of there. I'm

669
00:58:26.719 --> 00:58:29.519
so going to stand there because I've got a WILLI no,

670
00:58:29.800 --> 00:58:31.519
you you don't get to go on a ship because

671
00:58:31.519 --> 00:58:35.199
you've got a WILLI no, it doesn't work like that. Sorry.

672
00:58:35.400 --> 00:58:42.039
In fact, on the Titanic, I can't believe. I just

673
00:58:43.880 --> 00:58:47.840
I understand children that get I understand that when you

674
00:58:47.840 --> 00:58:52.239
go against women, then they are you're a sogganist? Are

675
00:58:52.280 --> 00:58:56.159
you sexist? Well, sometimes when I brush my hair and

676
00:58:56.239 --> 00:58:59.599
have a bath, I would say that I'm pretty sexist

677
00:59:00.440 --> 00:59:05.679
sometimes get attention. No, that's not what it means. So

678
00:59:07.039 --> 00:59:16.840
I like to be fairly prepared. And when I said

679
00:59:16.880 --> 00:59:19.000
that to him, he's like, oh, it's all right. Had

680
00:59:19.039 --> 00:59:23.639
that matter? And he went upstairs, and I thought, it

681
00:59:23.679 --> 00:59:29.239
does matter. But at the same time, he'd just spent

682
00:59:29.320 --> 00:59:35.920
about five hours putting it together. And I did feel

683
00:59:36.000 --> 00:59:40.400
for him because it was a lovely display and he's

684
00:59:40.519 --> 00:59:46.440
very artistic, and he'd been doing that job for a

685
00:59:46.559 --> 00:59:49.719
long time, also in the other shop that I used

686
00:59:49.760 --> 00:59:52.159
to work in, because that's he got me that job

687
00:59:54.639 --> 00:59:58.239
originally in the other shop back in two thousand November

688
00:59:58.239 --> 01:00:08.599
two thousand and two. And yeah, I felt bad, but like,

689
01:00:08.760 --> 01:00:12.320
you know what, the fire exit's there for a reason

690
01:00:13.400 --> 01:00:19.280
and you don't need it till you need it. I

691
01:00:19.360 --> 01:00:21.119
was going to say, like a condom, but it's not

692
01:00:21.199 --> 01:00:27.760
really good analogies, but you know, generally, But anyway, he

693
01:00:27.800 --> 01:00:30.199
went upstairs, he had the up. He did have the

694
01:00:30.280 --> 01:00:33.400
up with me, he was like. Then he came down

695
01:00:33.440 --> 01:00:37.199
and he started taking the stuff to help, and I

696
01:00:37.239 --> 01:00:38.840
helped him. I said, look, just move it to a

697
01:00:38.840 --> 01:00:41.360
different part of the part of the shop, and he

698
01:00:41.360 --> 01:00:46.159
said you, I suppose, and he probably didn't say that.

699
01:00:48.480 --> 01:00:51.159
I did feel a bit bad because that where the

700
01:00:51.199 --> 01:00:56.840
fire exit was was really he couldn't kind of have

701
01:00:56.960 --> 01:01:01.039
anything there, and it looked at our place it was

702
01:01:01.239 --> 01:01:07.719
very kind of bear area and there was a little

703
01:01:07.719 --> 01:01:16.000
courtyard outside, so although a fire exit if yeah, I

704
01:01:16.000 --> 01:01:19.840
wouldn't want to be stuck in their courtyard to be fair,

705
01:01:19.920 --> 01:01:24.159
or they could get onto the roofs, which I sometimes did.

706
01:01:25.639 --> 01:01:27.480
There was one member of staff that I didn't get

707
01:01:27.480 --> 01:01:30.960
on with, and she used to pick on me basically.

708
01:01:31.000 --> 01:01:32.760
She used to be just say rude things to me

709
01:01:32.840 --> 01:01:38.920
for no reason. And I think there was that safety

710
01:01:38.960 --> 01:01:42.199
of working with Buddhists, and she wasn't a Buddhist, but

711
01:01:42.280 --> 01:01:45.800
she felt safe that she could probably get away with

712
01:01:45.840 --> 01:01:51.480
more stuff than she would normally. And in the end

713
01:01:51.559 --> 01:01:56.679
I just had to let the management know that I

714
01:01:56.679 --> 01:02:01.599
wouldn't work with her anymore. It's weird and that fine.

715
01:02:01.840 --> 01:02:04.599
This is supposed to be a peaceful environment. But that

716
01:02:04.719 --> 01:02:09.239
was my opinion. It should it should be peaceful. And

717
01:02:09.360 --> 01:02:13.440
I wasn't out to cause trouble. I was just unfortunately

718
01:02:13.440 --> 01:02:16.960
being criticized every turn and by her for no reason.

719
01:02:19.679 --> 01:02:21.920
And then every now and I thought, now I'm not

720
01:02:21.960 --> 01:02:25.360
talking to her anymore. She'd draw me in by asking

721
01:02:25.360 --> 01:02:28.559
me a question about myself, knowing that I love to

722
01:02:28.599 --> 01:02:32.320
talk about myself, and she'd draw me in being friendly,

723
01:02:33.199 --> 01:02:35.880
and then she'd criticize something I just said, or she'd

724
01:02:35.920 --> 01:02:40.400
pull apart what I just said. It's like ah, and

725
01:02:40.440 --> 01:02:43.360
then she said. She kept going about I'm angry, what's

726
01:02:43.400 --> 01:02:49.639
its I'm at Cambridge, I'm at Cambridge University. I'm at Cambridge.

727
01:02:49.800 --> 01:02:53.519
She used to love saying that. It turned out she

728
01:02:53.639 --> 01:02:57.639
was an angryer Ruskin in Cambridge, which is not the

729
01:02:57.639 --> 01:03:01.639
same as being at Cambridge. There's an Alan Ruskin at

730
01:03:02.079 --> 01:03:08.159
Chelsford Angler Ruskin University is not the same as going

731
01:03:08.199 --> 01:03:12.280
to Cambridge just because it's in Cambridge. It's like me

732
01:03:12.760 --> 01:03:17.920
working in McDonald's in Cambridge and saying, yeah, I'm at

733
01:03:17.920 --> 01:03:24.360
Cambridge it's not exactly the same, but she really was

734
01:03:24.400 --> 01:03:33.599
acting like she was at Cambridge University campus and she wasn't.

735
01:03:34.440 --> 01:03:36.760
I found out funny. I laughed for about an hour.

736
01:03:37.800 --> 01:03:46.559
Solid she didn't enjoy that because someone asked her because

737
01:03:46.599 --> 01:03:50.199
she said something. Her car broke down, and I think

738
01:03:50.239 --> 01:03:52.159
she was on the phone saying, yeah, if you picked

739
01:03:52.159 --> 01:03:55.039
the car up yet because she had to get I

740
01:03:55.039 --> 01:04:00.239
think she got a lift back and she was saying if.

741
01:04:00.239 --> 01:04:03.400
She was saying to the address or it's in the

742
01:04:03.400 --> 01:04:08.800
car park at the university in Cambridge, and I think

743
01:04:08.840 --> 01:04:13.960
they were asking, like what Cambridge University and you're like, yeah,

744
01:04:14.480 --> 01:04:22.880
well we're in here now, we can't see it. Then

745
01:04:22.920 --> 01:04:27.440
she says Angler Ruskin and they laugh about ten minutes.

746
01:04:28.920 --> 01:04:30.880
There's enohing wrong with Anglo Ruskin, by the way, it's

747
01:04:30.920 --> 01:04:36.280
a really good place, but pretending you're somewhere that you're not.

748
01:04:38.679 --> 01:04:44.480
I could go to Anglo Ruskin, but I couldn't go

749
01:04:44.519 --> 01:04:49.280
to Cambridge. I could go to Angler Ruskin in Cambridge, potentially,

750
01:04:49.760 --> 01:04:51.199
I said I could. I don't know if I could,

751
01:04:51.199 --> 01:04:54.159
but I you know, I mean, I'm qualified probably enough

752
01:04:54.159 --> 01:05:03.719
to go and do that. However, there's no way on

753
01:05:03.719 --> 01:05:08.639
this planet I would get into Cambridge University because I'm

754
01:05:08.679 --> 01:05:15.039
not of that. Ilk I'm not. I'm not. I'm not

755
01:05:15.079 --> 01:05:22.039
in that on that level of education. Just not. Oh

756
01:05:22.480 --> 01:05:24.480
but Jason, I'm sure you could do it if you

757
01:05:24.599 --> 01:05:29.239
really tried. No, not even if I tried. What have

758
01:05:29.320 --> 01:05:33.079
you tried really hard? No? Not even if I gave

759
01:05:33.159 --> 01:05:37.079
it at least ten percent, I couldn't. Well, don't you

760
01:05:37.079 --> 01:05:41.000
give it more than ten percent? Because I'm lazy? Where

761
01:05:41.000 --> 01:05:44.920
have you been? Have you not been observing? Okay, don't

762
01:05:44.920 --> 01:05:55.559
got to be rude. You're rude there, I think the

763
01:05:55.599 --> 01:06:00.719
next time I did night shift. Oh yeah, So I

764
01:06:00.760 --> 01:06:05.480
went back to London. This is how Chico was. I

765
01:06:05.519 --> 01:06:07.800
went back to the job that I had before in

766
01:06:07.840 --> 01:06:10.639
London that I didn't give them notice. I didn't go back,

767
01:06:11.639 --> 01:06:13.039
and I went back to him and said there's any

768
01:06:13.119 --> 01:06:17.920
chance of another job? And I suppose rightly. So they

769
01:06:17.960 --> 01:06:27.840
said no, we're full now sorry bye. So just like, Okay,

770
01:06:28.079 --> 01:06:33.800
this is January nineteen nineteen one, so I've moved there.

771
01:06:36.079 --> 01:06:41.159
I'd paid rent probably two weeks in advance or something

772
01:06:41.199 --> 01:06:45.719
like that. I was in this grotty room. I lived

773
01:06:45.719 --> 01:06:49.519
for four years, believe it or not. Nearly four years.

774
01:06:49.679 --> 01:06:51.920
Was it all the way through ninety one, ninety two,

775
01:06:52.000 --> 01:06:55.239
ninety three and up to the summer ninety four, so

776
01:06:55.840 --> 01:07:04.639
three and over three and a half years. And there

777
01:07:04.719 --> 01:07:07.840
was this when I moved in, there no central heating

778
01:07:09.719 --> 01:07:12.119
and there was a little bathroom heater on the wall.

779
01:07:12.480 --> 01:07:14.760
The other side of the room to where I was

780
01:07:14.960 --> 01:07:24.000
my dead was a draft come in the window and

781
01:07:24.039 --> 01:07:27.519
there was a meter, an electric meter. So I wasn't

782
01:07:27.519 --> 01:07:34.440
even getting that heating for free electric meter fifty pence pieces,

783
01:07:35.920 --> 01:07:44.679
so I pretty much I had that. Eventually it broke,

784
01:07:47.159 --> 01:07:50.480
but it was like a little bathroom. You know, there's ones.

785
01:07:50.639 --> 01:07:53.400
I don't know if they still exist, but I think

786
01:07:53.440 --> 01:07:59.800
it was like two bars and it shouldn't have been

787
01:07:59.800 --> 01:08:05.199
on a bedroom war Why would you not have central heating?

788
01:08:05.360 --> 01:08:09.760
I mean, central heating is not a new thing. It

789
01:08:09.840 --> 01:08:13.360
wasn't It wasn't like in nineteen ninety one, or we

790
01:08:13.400 --> 01:08:19.279
don't know that central heating. No, that's that's uh, that's

791
01:08:19.319 --> 01:08:24.119
the devil's work. That is No, if God had wanted

792
01:08:24.159 --> 01:08:30.159
me to be warm, if made me warm, I don't

793
01:08:30.159 --> 01:08:37.600
know what the answer would be. It's like it's supposed

794
01:08:37.640 --> 01:08:41.079
to be cold. That's why we're born in a cold country. Yes,

795
01:08:41.760 --> 01:08:47.960
it builds character. Shivering in your bed builds character, Yeah,

796
01:08:48.359 --> 01:08:50.720
builds an attitude. I'll tell you that's that's for sure.

797
01:08:51.960 --> 01:08:55.640
After decades of that living in places that we're cold,

798
01:08:56.279 --> 01:09:01.720
I won't be cold anymore. So the heating goes on.

799
01:09:01.760 --> 01:09:04.199
If it's cold, the heating goes on. I don't care

800
01:09:04.359 --> 01:09:06.640
what time of the year is. I'm not going to

801
01:09:06.680 --> 01:09:12.000
sit here being cold. I know some people are. No,

802
01:09:12.239 --> 01:09:15.279
the heaton goes off in March and it comes back

803
01:09:15.319 --> 01:09:19.359
on at the end of September. That's no heating throughout

804
01:09:19.359 --> 01:09:23.960
that whole time, regardless of how cold it is. I

805
01:09:23.960 --> 01:09:26.000
don't do that. I know a lot of people do

806
01:09:26.000 --> 01:09:31.359
do that because I've done a survey. I haven't done

807
01:09:31.399 --> 01:09:33.920
a survey, but I've just known a lot of people

808
01:09:33.960 --> 01:09:37.520
that have said that, and they were literally with his

809
01:09:37.640 --> 01:09:41.199
cold put an extra pair, but another jumper on if

810
01:09:41.199 --> 01:09:46.159
it's cold. No. The way I see is, I don't

811
01:09:46.199 --> 01:09:48.920
put a jumper on if I'm cold. I put a

812
01:09:49.000 --> 01:09:55.279
jumper on if I'm not warm enough. There's a difference there.

813
01:09:55.720 --> 01:09:58.560
To me, there's a difference between like I've got a

814
01:09:58.600 --> 01:10:04.000
little cardigan on now if I don't have this on.

815
01:10:04.520 --> 01:10:12.560
It's a little bit too cool. It's not cold, it's

816
01:10:12.600 --> 01:10:18.800
a little bit too cool. I'm not shivering, That's what

817
01:10:18.880 --> 01:10:21.840
I mean. I don't put the jumper on and then

818
01:10:21.880 --> 01:10:26.960
have cold hands and a cold face when I'm indoors.

819
01:10:27.119 --> 01:10:30.880
I just don't allow that to happen, because I had

820
01:10:30.960 --> 01:10:36.000
decades of it. That's why. I mean, even when I

821
01:10:36.039 --> 01:10:39.199
was a kid, it was the same like so really

822
01:10:39.319 --> 01:10:44.840
from up to the age of forty four, so I

823
01:10:44.880 --> 01:10:49.800
had forty four years of living in places that I

824
01:10:49.840 --> 01:10:56.079
had no control over the heating. Pretty much, forty four

825
01:10:56.199 --> 01:11:00.000
years where I couldn't decide whether or not I could

826
01:11:00.159 --> 01:11:05.239
be warm. It's a long time. So now I have

827
01:11:05.359 --> 01:11:12.119
the heating on all summer. There's like a greenhouse in there.

828
01:11:12.399 --> 01:11:18.079
I've got tomatoes grown out of my ears. It's brilliant. No,

829
01:11:19.960 --> 01:11:24.560
Phoinix turned into a cactus. No, I don't have the

830
01:11:24.600 --> 01:11:28.600
heating if it's cold. If it's like a really cold night,

831
01:11:28.640 --> 01:11:32.760
which we do have in this country. We have really

832
01:11:32.760 --> 01:11:35.520
cold nights in the summer. Sometimes if I need the heating,

833
01:11:35.560 --> 01:11:37.079
and I'll put the heating on for a little while,

834
01:11:38.880 --> 01:11:40.640
I got no issue. I mean, most of the summer,

835
01:11:40.760 --> 01:11:44.079
the heating's turned off, like off off, so I don't

836
01:11:44.159 --> 01:11:47.560
leave it on automatics, so it comes on if it's cold,

837
01:11:47.680 --> 01:11:51.039
I'll decide. In the winter, I've got it on automatics,

838
01:11:51.119 --> 01:11:53.479
so if it gets below a certain temperature, it comes on.

839
01:11:54.720 --> 01:11:59.119
In the summer, I don't do that. But sometimes it's cold,

840
01:12:00.319 --> 01:12:07.800
just because it's July or June, which is pretty much

841
01:12:07.880 --> 01:12:10.680
the hottest months of the year in this country, and

842
01:12:10.760 --> 01:12:14.520
we have We've had some really hot days this year,

843
01:12:16.960 --> 01:12:22.119
but only I would say, only a few hot nights.

844
01:12:22.359 --> 01:12:27.119
There's been a few nights where it's being like, oh,

845
01:12:27.760 --> 01:12:34.399
a little bit, a little bit stuffy, but the real heat.

846
01:12:34.600 --> 01:12:40.159
I didn't really experience the real heat at home this

847
01:12:40.279 --> 01:12:45.439
year because I was visiting uncle Sausages, so I experienced

848
01:12:45.479 --> 01:12:47.680
the heat as in, you know, going there in a

849
01:12:47.720 --> 01:12:52.680
taxi or on the bus, mainly taxis to start with.

850
01:12:53.279 --> 01:13:00.920
And then but then the I'm getting side the hospital

851
01:13:00.920 --> 01:13:03.760
and it wasn't warm inside the hospital because there's air

852
01:13:03.760 --> 01:13:09.000
conditioning everywhere. It wasn't cold everywhere, but it wasn't you know,

853
01:13:09.079 --> 01:13:17.000
it's definitely a different temperature to being outside. So I

854
01:13:17.039 --> 01:13:22.039
didn't Yeah, I didn't really get the full extent of

855
01:13:22.079 --> 01:13:30.239
the summer because I spent six weeks or something going

856
01:13:30.279 --> 01:13:33.279
backward and forward, so I can't spend most of the

857
01:13:33.319 --> 01:13:44.800
summer pretty much from the end of June, Linda, June,

858
01:13:48.239 --> 01:13:52.159
that's it. You come to me, good boy, good boy.

859
01:13:52.239 --> 01:13:56.039
We don't do that. No, we don't. We don't bark.

860
01:13:56.960 --> 01:14:00.520
We don't bark because you're a good boy. You're not

861
01:14:00.600 --> 01:14:04.800
just a good boy. You're a clever boy. You're very clever.

862
01:14:05.600 --> 01:14:08.560
You're the most beautifullest boy in a whole word the world.

863
01:14:08.640 --> 01:14:11.600
Yes you why Yes? You are yes? You are yes.

864
01:14:11.720 --> 01:14:14.720
You are yes. You are yes. You are yes. You

865
01:14:14.840 --> 01:14:17.800
are yes. You are yes, you are yes. You are

866
01:14:28.439 --> 01:14:47.800
okay Ka, Vinne's decided he wants to come and sit

867
01:14:47.880 --> 01:14:51.680
on my lap, so he's doing that. He put his

868
01:14:51.760 --> 01:14:54.199
poor out literally to try and get onto my knee,

869
01:14:55.000 --> 01:14:56.880
so he's not let him get on my lap and

870
01:14:56.880 --> 01:14:59.399
he's not trying to get down. So it's clearly where

871
01:14:59.399 --> 01:15:05.880
he wants to be. Isn't that You're happy? Yeah? I

872
01:15:06.000 --> 01:15:10.880
can't rich and I hurt my neck the other times,

873
01:15:11.159 --> 01:15:17.199
so yeah, when I couldn't get that job in the place.

874
01:15:17.239 --> 01:15:20.720
When I moved back to London, I said to my landlady.

875
01:15:20.800 --> 01:15:25.279
I said, oh, excuse me, landlady. She said, yes, tennant.

876
01:15:26.319 --> 01:15:31.039
I said, I'm not sure what I'm going to do.

877
01:15:31.279 --> 01:15:33.680
She said what do you mean? I said, well, you

878
01:15:33.760 --> 01:15:38.039
know that job I told you I had. She said yeah.

879
01:15:38.199 --> 01:15:43.159
I said, I lied. There's no job there. There never was.

880
01:15:44.520 --> 01:15:47.479
She said, does it not exist? I said, yeah, it exists,

881
01:15:47.640 --> 01:15:51.159
but I just thought I could go back there. But

882
01:15:51.279 --> 01:15:57.600
I was wrong. I misinformed you. Please forgive me. Can

883
01:15:57.640 --> 01:16:02.439
you ever forgive me? And she said probably not. I said, okay, thanks.

884
01:16:03.600 --> 01:16:05.199
She said, whay you thanking me? I just said I

885
01:16:05.199 --> 01:16:10.359
won't forgive you. I said no, but I just it's

886
01:16:10.399 --> 01:16:12.239
a new thing I'm trying out. I'd just like to

887
01:16:12.279 --> 01:16:16.439
say thanks to people. Just stop trying to make new friends,

888
01:16:16.439 --> 01:16:19.640
you see. So if I say thanks to everyone, maybe

889
01:16:20.239 --> 01:16:23.319
it will cause a more peaceful society and catch on

890
01:16:23.479 --> 01:16:30.439
and end up with some kind of world stability politically

891
01:16:30.560 --> 01:16:35.000
and emotionally. It maybe. She said, So you didn't get

892
01:16:35.000 --> 01:16:37.119
the job. What if you pay the rent next week?

893
01:16:37.880 --> 01:16:45.479
I said well, and she said, you're joking me. I said,

894
01:16:45.520 --> 01:16:47.640
I wish I was not very funny joke, is it?

895
01:16:48.119 --> 01:16:52.119
She said no. She said, what you're going to do

896
01:16:52.359 --> 01:16:54.680
I said, I don't know. I guess I'm just going

897
01:16:54.760 --> 01:16:58.279
to have to move back. And she said what would

898
01:16:58.279 --> 01:17:02.399
your dad say? I said, what do you mean? She

899
01:17:02.439 --> 01:17:04.479
said nothing, don't worry. I said, what do you mean

900
01:17:04.479 --> 01:17:06.000
more than my dad? Say what do you know about

901
01:17:06.000 --> 01:17:11.840
my dad? She said nothing, and then she looked away

902
01:17:11.920 --> 01:17:15.720
and started humming and whistling, which I thought, quite weird behavior.

903
01:17:16.720 --> 01:17:21.960
And I have you spoken to my dad? She said no?

904
01:17:23.319 --> 01:17:25.319
I said, come on, have you spoken to my dad?

905
01:17:27.239 --> 01:17:31.279
She said well? I said, come on, did you taken ages?

906
01:17:31.359 --> 01:17:34.399
Have you spoken to my dad? She said yes, I have.

907
01:17:36.119 --> 01:17:40.520
I said how She said, well, when you helped you move?

908
01:17:41.840 --> 01:17:43.520
He said no. I said, wait a minute, he didn't

909
01:17:43.560 --> 01:17:50.920
help me move. Someone else helped me move. Okay, Well

910
01:17:50.960 --> 01:17:53.239
you gave him the telephone number for the house, didn't you.

911
01:17:53.279 --> 01:17:58.000
I said, yes, Will you phone me up? Why to

912
01:17:58.119 --> 01:18:01.239
warn me about you? What do you mean, warn you

913
01:18:01.359 --> 01:18:05.000
about me? Just to let me know how annoying you were?

914
01:18:07.279 --> 01:18:13.640
I said, what, that's what it was? Nothing rude, nothing bad.

915
01:18:13.640 --> 01:18:15.920
He just want to let me know, warn me in

916
01:18:16.239 --> 01:18:19.079
you know ahead of time that you just a bit

917
01:18:19.079 --> 01:18:23.399
of annoying, bit of a pain to live with. I said,

918
01:18:23.479 --> 01:18:25.880
I'm not already living with you, aren't I you're downstairs.

919
01:18:25.880 --> 01:18:30.439
I'm upstairs. I got my own room. She said yeah,

920
01:18:30.479 --> 01:18:33.399
but we have to share a kitchen and a bathroom.

921
01:18:33.640 --> 01:18:38.079
I said yeah, and she said, well he just warned me.

922
01:18:39.520 --> 01:18:42.840
What do you mean warned you? She said, it doesn't matter.

923
01:18:44.279 --> 01:18:47.800
All I can tell you is that you might not

924
01:18:47.840 --> 01:18:51.600
want to tell him you're coming back. What do you

925
01:18:51.680 --> 01:18:55.600
mean tell him I'm going back? What I think he's

926
01:18:55.680 --> 01:19:03.000
moved moved? Yeah, he waited till you left and went

927
01:19:03.159 --> 01:19:08.000
came back to London and he moved. Did he give

928
01:19:08.000 --> 01:19:11.520
you an address? No? And she looked away and started

929
01:19:11.520 --> 01:19:15.439
whistling and humming. I said, look, I kind of figured

930
01:19:15.439 --> 01:19:18.520
out that when you do that, you're lying. And she said, wow,

931
01:19:19.039 --> 01:19:24.079
you are clever. I wasn't sure she's being sarcastic or not.

932
01:19:25.640 --> 01:19:30.159
And I said to her, well, where's he moved to?

933
01:19:31.079 --> 01:19:35.560
She said, I can't tell. You said, why not swore

934
01:19:35.640 --> 01:19:44.159
me to secrecy? Okay, Well I guess I have to

935
01:19:44.199 --> 01:19:50.119
stay here. She said, it's okay, it's okay. Actually, I

936
01:19:50.119 --> 01:19:54.399
said why so why? He said that when you lose

937
01:19:54.439 --> 01:19:58.960
your job, he'll pay for the first month and then

938
01:19:59.000 --> 01:20:03.359
I can kick you out if you haven't found anything.

939
01:20:04.760 --> 01:20:07.800
So you're telling me that you're going to be phoning

940
01:20:07.840 --> 01:20:11.439
them up tomorrow or whatever to let him know that

941
01:20:11.520 --> 01:20:14.439
I haven't got myself a job, so that he pays

942
01:20:14.520 --> 01:20:19.680
rent for the next month. She said no, I said, good,

943
01:20:20.079 --> 01:20:22.840
said no, I've already spoke to him. He's already sent

944
01:20:22.880 --> 01:20:26.399
the money. He's send a check. He's going to be

945
01:20:26.439 --> 01:20:36.720
here tomorrow probably, I love. So you've basically he's sent

946
01:20:36.800 --> 01:20:40.239
you one hundred and sixty pound. She said, yeah, it's

947
01:20:40.279 --> 01:20:44.079
forty pounds a week back then. And she said it's

948
01:20:44.079 --> 01:20:46.319
that why there was such a pause between you talking

949
01:20:46.399 --> 01:20:47.720
just then, because you have to try and add it

950
01:20:47.800 --> 01:20:51.520
up in your head. I said, yeah. I was going

951
01:20:51.560 --> 01:20:54.359
to say one hundred and twenty, and then I realized

952
01:20:54.560 --> 01:20:58.119
that's three fours. So I thought, how else can I

953
01:20:58.159 --> 01:21:03.239
work it out? And I realized if I do eighty

954
01:21:03.359 --> 01:21:08.520
times by two, it's one hundred and sixty. She said yeah.

955
01:21:09.640 --> 01:21:13.720
I said thanks. She said, yeah, I wasn't really congratulating you.

956
01:21:13.800 --> 01:21:20.039
I'm just you know, acknowledging and what you said. And

957
01:21:20.079 --> 01:21:22.199
I said to her, look, instead of just being a

958
01:21:22.279 --> 01:21:26.920
little bit gnarly, a little bit a little bit, you know,

959
01:21:27.159 --> 01:21:32.000
looking down at me, a little bit judgmental. Perhaps you

960
01:21:32.079 --> 01:21:38.880
could be helpful, caring, kind, and baby, he just gives

961
01:21:38.920 --> 01:21:49.960
me kisses. Vis gives me kisses. And she said, well, okay,

962
01:21:50.039 --> 01:21:52.960
I suppose I could try and help. I said that

963
01:21:52.960 --> 01:21:56.560
would be nice. She said, are you any good at

964
01:21:56.560 --> 01:22:01.720
cleaning toilets? I said what? She said, I could give

965
01:22:01.760 --> 01:22:04.159
you like a two pound discount a week if you

966
01:22:04.279 --> 01:22:08.239
clean the bog? Said no, one's called it a bog

967
01:22:08.279 --> 01:22:10.720
for years. She said, I do. I love calling it

968
01:22:10.800 --> 01:22:15.159
a bog. Makes it feel really down to earth. Should

969
01:22:15.159 --> 01:22:17.600
we call it a toilet? And she said, no one

970
01:22:17.600 --> 01:22:22.520
called it a bog? And I was like, okay, fair enough,

971
01:22:22.560 --> 01:22:26.960
but no, I said, I'm not cleaning the toilet two pound.

972
01:22:28.720 --> 01:22:31.239
How's that going to make a difference to my rent?

973
01:22:31.279 --> 01:22:33.760
Just two pounds off a week of off of forty?

974
01:22:34.880 --> 01:22:36.760
She said, well, that'll mean you'll one, you know, thirty

975
01:22:36.800 --> 01:22:43.039
eight pound. It wasn't a literal question. I know it

976
01:22:43.239 --> 01:22:46.520
leave me with thirty eight pounds to pay. She said, well,

977
01:22:46.560 --> 01:22:52.920
that's what you just asked me. And obviously I'd done

978
01:22:52.960 --> 01:22:55.279
her accent differently because she was Italian, so she had

979
01:22:55.319 --> 01:22:59.239
a very very strong Italian accent, but I didn't do

980
01:22:59.319 --> 01:23:05.800
her accent. Yeah, I hope you're pleased. I hope, I

981
01:23:05.840 --> 01:23:16.680
hope you appreciate me. Thank you very much. Yeah, and

982
01:23:17.479 --> 01:23:22.880
what else? Yeah, anyway, she came through and she gave

983
01:23:22.920 --> 01:23:29.720
me a shower. Jason Jason Jason. So I go down

984
01:23:29.760 --> 01:23:33.439
and I said, yeah, she said, come down on the

985
01:23:33.520 --> 01:23:39.239
stairs please. So I went downstairs and there was this

986
01:23:39.399 --> 01:23:45.840
other lady there and I said, I said, hello, said yeah,

987
01:23:46.000 --> 01:23:53.279
and this is my friend Canterbella. I said, she wants

988
01:23:53.279 --> 01:23:57.079
her to talk to you, do I said, okay, fair enough,

989
01:23:57.239 --> 01:24:00.359
So I'm talking to her. She ends up. It ends

990
01:24:00.399 --> 01:24:03.159
up that she's the HR. She's in charge of the

991
01:24:03.319 --> 01:24:09.079
HR department in a bakery, huge bakery in London, East London.

992
01:24:10.279 --> 01:24:13.319
And she said to me there's a job going in

993
01:24:13.319 --> 01:24:17.039
a canteen and you can work there or you can

994
01:24:17.119 --> 01:24:22.479
apply to it there. I said, okay, told me the hours,

995
01:24:22.560 --> 01:24:27.279
told me the right the wages, and so she was

996
01:24:27.399 --> 01:24:29.239
helping me out. But she was helping a friend out

997
01:24:29.279 --> 01:24:30.920
so that she got a rent but at the same

998
01:24:30.960 --> 01:24:34.840
time helping me out. And I went along for the

999
01:24:34.920 --> 01:24:39.479
job interview. Got the job. Turned out the chef who

1000
01:24:39.520 --> 01:24:41.920
was in charge of the kitchen, didn't have a choice

1001
01:24:41.920 --> 01:24:44.000
about whether I worked there or not. And he told

1002
01:24:44.000 --> 01:24:47.600
me he wouldn't have employed me, which is nice, how lovely,

1003
01:24:47.960 --> 01:24:50.359
and that told me that he told me that afterward

1004
01:24:50.119 --> 01:24:55.079
become friends. Yeah, like he still he liked me at

1005
01:24:55.079 --> 01:24:56.880
that point when he said he wouldn't have employed me,

1006
01:24:57.119 --> 01:25:01.279
and he still wouldn't, so, hey nice. And he sold

1007
01:25:01.359 --> 01:25:06.079
me a dodgy video player that didn't work, but I've

1008
01:25:06.079 --> 01:25:13.640
forgiven him twenty five pounds that cost me. Didn't get

1009
01:25:13.640 --> 01:25:18.319
that money back while I I mean, how could you

1010
01:25:18.399 --> 01:25:24.479
do that to someone? Admittedly, he'd stopped working there, so

1011
01:25:24.560 --> 01:25:27.039
he'd left, and I was still working at the factory,

1012
01:25:27.920 --> 01:25:30.399
so he Yeah, I guess he was just trying to

1013
01:25:30.439 --> 01:25:33.079
make a little bit of money in that, but it

1014
01:25:33.159 --> 01:25:38.760
seemed a bit rude. So Vinnie's still lying on my

1015
01:25:38.840 --> 01:25:44.079
lap and cuddling up to me. Normally it might do it,

1016
01:25:44.119 --> 01:25:45.960
and I hold him mind. I want to get down,

1017
01:25:46.600 --> 01:25:48.760
but he doesn't want to get down. He seems happy

1018
01:25:49.560 --> 01:25:55.640
to just be cuddling. It's weird. It's almost like he's

1019
01:25:57.000 --> 01:26:02.720
become an affectionate turning into a dog, like a nice

1020
01:26:02.960 --> 01:26:10.560
friendly doggy. Hey, I don't understand. But anyway, I ended

1021
01:26:10.600 --> 01:26:16.920
up working after that. I worked in the actual factory,

1022
01:26:17.000 --> 01:26:21.560
the bakery itself, not the canteen, and I was doing

1023
01:26:25.760 --> 01:26:36.520
what was I doing. I was doing all kinds of shifts,

1024
01:26:36.920 --> 01:26:42.079
including night shift, So yeah, I did a nice Was

1025
01:26:42.119 --> 01:26:46.199
I doing night shift? Yeah, I'm pretty certain I was

1026
01:26:46.239 --> 01:26:50.159
doing night shift, and then sometimes a night shift led

1027
01:26:50.199 --> 01:26:57.880
me to do days as well. Yeah, yeah, so that's

1028
01:26:58.319 --> 01:27:00.079
it was kind of all over the place, but that

1029
01:27:00.039 --> 01:27:03.560
it was my second night shift job. My third night

1030
01:27:03.640 --> 01:27:11.119
shift job would be working in security in nineteen ninety

1031
01:27:11.199 --> 01:27:13.720
six and I had one.

1032
01:27:16.760 --> 01:27:29.720
Two, three, four five.

1033
01:27:37.039 --> 01:27:39.880
I'm just trying to think at least five different places

1034
01:27:39.920 --> 01:27:43.800
that I did not shift on. I did they shift

1035
01:27:43.800 --> 01:27:54.039
on a few places, but predominantly night shift. I don't

1036
01:27:54.039 --> 01:27:56.479
think I did nice shift again after that. I think

1037
01:27:56.479 --> 01:27:58.680
that was it. That was the last time I did

1038
01:27:58.760 --> 01:28:06.199
nice shift. But I did that for a while. It

1039
01:28:06.319 --> 01:28:11.039
was okay if there was people around, If I was

1040
01:28:11.039 --> 01:28:14.039
on my own the whole time, I'd end up having

1041
01:28:14.039 --> 01:28:17.680
to go to sleep, even though I was sleeping during

1042
01:28:17.720 --> 01:28:20.640
the day. Now, the problem is, back then there was

1043
01:28:20.680 --> 01:28:24.439
no internet, nothing that was reading. But I struggled to

1044
01:28:24.520 --> 01:28:28.119
read when I was tired that night, But I could

1045
01:28:28.119 --> 01:28:30.880
have built websites and stuff, and you know, if it

1046
01:28:30.880 --> 01:28:34.439
had been ten years later, I could have really made

1047
01:28:34.520 --> 01:28:44.640
use at that time. Let me just have a look

1048
01:28:44.720 --> 01:28:51.479
and see what the I was supposed to be talking

1049
01:28:51.520 --> 01:28:55.439
about longest days and shortest days, And I'll be honest,

1050
01:28:56.319 --> 01:29:01.840
I've lost interest in that never mind, So thank you

1051
01:29:01.880 --> 01:29:04.920
for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself because you

1052
01:29:05.000 --> 01:29:08.279
do deserve to be happy and be gentle with yourself.

1053
01:29:08.960 --> 01:29:15.680
You deserve to feel safe. Lots of love, Bye,