July 1, 2025

(music) (5 hours) ENGLISH SUMMERS | Trivia Tuesday | LMBYTS #1386 | Jason Newland | 1st July 2025

(music) (5 hours) ENGLISH SUMMERS | Trivia Tuesday | LMBYTS #1386 | Jason Newland | 1st July 2025
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Hello, Hello, everybody, Welcome to Jasonnewland dot com.

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My name is Sweaty Jason. Oh, it's hot, it's very

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it's a stuffy day to day. It's not. It's not

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it's not breezy. It's not.

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It's a bit o plus. Oh I was about to

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have a big moan.

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Then I won't. Okay, let's have a big moan.

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Oh oh that.

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Was a nice moon.

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And please only listen when you can safety close your eyes.

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So this morning about I wasn't actually supposed to go.

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We're not supposed but I decided that I was not

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going to go and visit my neighbor in hospital today.

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I was going to visit Wednesday Friday, Monday, Wednesday Friday

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this week. But after speaking to him this morning, he

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needed me to heed I needed to go up and

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see him.

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So I did that.

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But before I went up, there was a lot of

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noise in the garden, probably about nine o'clock ten o'clock,

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and it was the scaffolders. Now I've forgotten that they

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were coming. So they were putting scaffolding up to put

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some kind of knitting around the solar panels to stop

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the birds from nesting.

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Something like that they did.

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The counselor did call me about two three weeks ago

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to let me know. And because they're basically putting a

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scaffold in my side of the building.

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Now literally.

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Anyone can just walk up that ladder onto the scaffold

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in and just get into my windows if my windows

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were open. So I've got my windows closed, I've had

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them close. I've got them on the latch, so it's

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a bit of air, but they're not open, which is

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how I would have them in this heat. And I

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kept them closed also because I didn't know how close

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to the windows the scaffolding was going to be and

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I needed to go out, so I couldn't leave Vinnie

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in this living room that I normally do because it

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was too warm, So I had to leave the living

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room door open so he had the air so he

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could like go from room to room. So I he's

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had the access to the whole flat today, and I

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know that if he sits in the hallway, it's very

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cool in the hallway. There's no sun there and just

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you know, so he had a bit of a it's

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a lot of banging downstairs, a lot of doors slamming.

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I don't know why people Why do people slam doors?

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What is it about door? Is it?

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Is it?

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I don't know. Does it cause some kind of.

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Is there a part of the brain that gets stimulated

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and it gives pleasure that I don't know about, because

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maybe I'll start slamming doors if it does give me

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some kind of.

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Doorgasm? Doorgasm? H I just I don't know if it's

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a pleasurable thing. See, there's like seven times now the

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doors slammed, just in that short period of time. I

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don't know.

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Yes, So money, money mcmoney, Jason mcmoney, that's my name today.

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So now I've come back and all the scaffoldings put up,

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and there's literally it's just an entrance to my flat,

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to my windows. Which is not the best time year

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to have that, really, I mean, there's no good time.

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But I don't necessarily need the windows open in the winter.

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Well I do have to windows open in the winter,

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but at the moment then it's fairly important to.

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Have them open because of the duftiness and the heat.

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But I can't go out and leave my flat with

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the windows open, because anyone can just walk up the

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ladder and just get into my flat. And just take

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my stuff. And unfortunately, I live in an area.

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Where that is something that is very very likely to happen. Unfortunately,

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the flat downstairs got robbed about three months ago.

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So yeah, there's just you know one it alwish tangs.

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So it is.

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I went to So, I went and see my neighbor today.

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Got a taxi there, got a taxi back, same taxi driver,

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which is quite unusual.

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Well, it's unusual so far because I've had so many

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journeys over the last however many days it's been how

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many So I traveled there Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,

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So I did eight days in a row. Then I

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had Sat Day and Sunday off. Then I went on Monday,

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which is yesterday, and then I went again today, which

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is Tuesday. So I've you know, I've been a few times,

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never had the same taxi driver the whole time. You know,

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this is the first time I've had two taxi driver

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and the same tax driver more than once out of

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that whole period.

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The door's still slamming. Why is everyone slamming the doors

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so much? How strange, very very strange, indeed, And so

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I went and visited him. I managed to get him

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some ice from Costa. So he's been talking about wanting

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ice in the hospital. I just need to get some ice.

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So you need to get well. You need to get

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some ice, so you do, which is not how he

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speaks at all. And I said, I'll get you some ice.

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He said, Oh, it'd be good if it was in

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a flask, So it would I said, a flask. Yeah,

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we keep it icier for longer. Yeah, I'm okay. So

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I got him a cock. I got him a cock

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and a coke, got my bottle of coke.

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I actually thought he was going to be nil by mouth,

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because when I spoke to him, he said he was

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going to have a procedure done today. When I got there,

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hiss and and and nil by mouth NBM or whatever

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it is, it's normally it said nil nil by mouth

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nb M. They put on his board underneath his name.

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I put a change in the D n R. I

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thought it were funny. And but there there was nothing

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on there today that was on there the other day

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when he had to have a scan.

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But there was.

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And he got food, he got his dinner delivered. He

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ordered his dinner and I went to the nurse. I said,

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what what's going on? Isn't it you having a procedure done?

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Because I was going to go and get him some

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drink from Costers and I didn't want to get him

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a drink if he's not allowed to have liquids. And

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the nurse said, this is a head nurse. He said, no,

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he's not having a procedure today. I said, but he

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said he was, Well, he's not. He's always lying, isn't he.

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He's always lying Uncle Sausages. That's that's why everyone calls him.

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Vinnie started it. So basically, Vinnie calls him my Uncle

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Sausages because he gives him sausages. So he's got Nanny

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treats and Uncle Sausages. That's the two people.

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It gives people nicknames depending on what they give him.

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But now all the staff called him Uncle Sausages as well.

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Oh, sick with me? How weird would that be? Especially

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if there was bad news.

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I've got some bad news to tell you about Uncle Sausages.

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So it's yeah, it's with I don't want to get

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into too much details, but it's not it's nothing's going

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particularly well, but I've gone to the nurse. I phoned

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the doctor while I was there and asked the doctor

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what time he's going to be visiting the ward. So

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the nurse said to come there.

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About between nine thirty and ten, so that I can

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be with Uncle's Sausages when he gets his when the

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doctor tells him whatever the doctor needs to tell him.

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That way I can be with I can be there

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with him. No one's got to give permission to talk

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to me or anything, because Uncle Sausages always gives permission,

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you know.

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When I'm there, Uncle Sosages said, yeah, you can talk

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to him about anything.

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So it just means I can ask questions or anything

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if they because Uncle Sosages doesn't always ask questions that

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perhaps I would ask. And I do feel like I'm

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interfering a little bit. Yet at the same time, I

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think the best time to ask a doctor a question,

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especially when the doctor's only on the ward for a

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little while, is when the doctor's on the ward. That's

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you know, it's kind of the only time, isn't it.

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So I'm going there tomorrow early. It's his birthday Friday,

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so I'm going to early tomorrow going to get there

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by probably nine and then hear what the doctor has

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to say regarding treatment or whatever, because he's been there

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for quite a long time now and he's had constant

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blood tests et cetera, you know, which is normal blood

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pressure being taken, and had a little bit of medication

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to try and clear his yellowness. But other than that,

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he hasn't He's not in any pain, he's not in

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anything like that. So he hasn't had as far as

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I'm aware, any medication outside of just to get rid

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of the jaundice. And he's had a scan.

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Like he had the cat scan when he's done the

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first day he was there, and then he's had another

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big message scan of his whole body, which they still

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haven't given him the proper results from, or if they have,

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he's not telling me something little He was a little

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bit confused.

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So yeah, it's a weird one. Really.

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I just hope that because he's now talking about going home.

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He wants to come home now he's had nothing there,

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which I completely understand.

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I mean, after halfter half an hour, I want to

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get out there. It's not it's not a.

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Place to it's not an enjoyable place to be less

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so for him obviously, but I just yeah, it's I mean,

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in some ways it's a bit freer than it is

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with some of the other wards, because some wards have

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very strict visit visiting times and he just seems to

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have a little bit more freedom in some ways. And

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there's only four beds in a ward, which is quite

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a small amount compared to some other Some wards are

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quite big, aren't they. So there's always someone around, He's

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never everybody has to wait. There's always a nurse ory

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care worker within a few feet from him. So he's

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been looking at He's been looked after very well.

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It's just yeah, it's just a.

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I think he's just ready to leave the place. And

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his next door neighbor, who is the person in the

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bed next to him, Derek Trotter, he's actually been released,

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so he's not there anymore. He left today about eleven o'clock.

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Can you hear that? Listen to this? Can you hear that?

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That's where the windows closed. That's the RAF. I was

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gonna say bicycle then RAF thing. Oh, so that's the

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update on him. I'm just giving you an update for

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those that listen regularly, for those that don't listen regularly,

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probably not sure. You might not even know what I'm

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talking about, which is fine because that fits in with

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the podcast. Really, So this is this is Oh, I

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just clicked my collar bone. This is Tuesday, Trivia Tuesday.

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That's it.

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I forgot what I was doing then Trivia Tuesday, so

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I thought it'd be nice to do something.

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I did. I kind of try to do Monday's boring

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Objects yesterday. I did it last night.

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I released it today, but I did it last night,

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and then early this morning I edited it and uploaded it,

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processed it and stuff. But I think I spent the

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first hour talking about my neighbor potentially and maybe some

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other stuff, and then the last fifty minutes I've spent

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talking about hospitals that I've visited and been in. But

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you know, it could have been to be, Yeah, it could.

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Have been four or five hours long. If i'd have really.

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Focused on the things that I was going to talk about,

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it would have been a very, very long recording.

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And nobody wants Nobody wants that. Wow, five hours long.

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Woo woo woo, woo woo whoo.

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So I don't know what trivia, what trivia should I do,

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I seem to be. I kind of want to. Yeah,

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I want to move away from hospitals. I've had enough

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of it.

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I want to talk about something different. What about the

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history of medication? No, no trivia about what would be

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the most random thing that we could talk about today?

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Most random trivia? Okay, list I'm going to use chat

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GPT list one hundred trivia facts about umbrellas? What about

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umbrella that's even too boring for me? The Smurfs, no

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fairy tales could know what There's got to be something?

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What could it be? What could it be?

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Something that I should be prepared tonight, just a little

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bit prepared for these recordings, like slightly prepared, just minimally,

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just by knowing what I'm going to talk about, would

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be a good idea, wouldn't it, Especially with this, you know,

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trivia facts or Trivia Tuesday.

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I mean there was a time.

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There have been times when I've already got the list

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already in front of me before i start talking, but

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that today is not that case.

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I'm not prepared at all other than just fitting hell

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with my little boy by my thide. It is three

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twenty six in the afternoon. Annoy he's tired. I think

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it's the heat. I think it be the heat which

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is making me tired. Oh what list one hundred trivia

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facts about the weather weather if I can spell that

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correctly about summers in England.

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Over through history, through history history, So least one hundred

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trivia facts about summer summers in England throughout through history.

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I'm not going to ask it to fact check it.

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So if some of the stuff I might say that

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reading off here maybe completely ridiculously wrong. However, I have

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looked into some of this stuff in the past just

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out of interest. And the very first one here is

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talking about something that I remember. The summer of nineteen

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seventy six was one of the hottest and dirtiest, no driest.

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Rubber in English history. Now, I already knew that it's.

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One of those things, even at the age of five,

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because I was five at that time, and even at five,

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I knew.

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That there was something weird going on.

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Even I knew that, Wow, this is hot, this is

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really hot, and yeah, I remember.

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That super super super super hot really was.

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I got sunburnt, actually got ended up covered in blisters,

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which is a weird thing, but it's true. I covered

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in blisters because I was in I was out in

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the sun, fur without me top on, maybe just in

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me underpants, I don't know that would be weird. Maybe

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shorts or something, swimming trunks and we didn't have water nearby,

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so it's just playing on the playing field, I guess,

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and the.

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It's quite.

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This is weird though, okay, because I remember this in

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Newcastle and that makes me wonder because it just means

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I lived in Newcastle for a lot longer than I realized.

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But nineteen seventy six I was in Newcastle. So yeah,

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so from seventy seventy two to seventy six, I was

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said about four years.

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Yeah, that's weird anyway.

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So I yeah, covered in blisters on my back, on

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my front, and I'm being put into a bath. I

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don't think that was the best idea. I don't think

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blisters and a bath are a good combination. But I

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remember that, and it wasn't I remember all the laughter

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not coming from me. So June the two thousand and

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twenty three was officially the hottest June on record in England.

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June twenty twenty three, twenty four, twenty five.

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I thought June this year was the hottest one, but

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maybe so that was something it was hot. There was

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some days when it was yeah, right, July.

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This is the first once I read this in a minute.

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So the Great heat wave of nine nineteen eleven lasted

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over ten weeks.

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I don't remember that one.

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So when people act like, oh, it's the hottest, it's

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never been this hot for so long, like, yeah, has

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actually one hundred and ten, one hundred and fourteen years ago.

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But you know it's there an abnormality, abnomenally anomaly, anomenomaly anomaly.

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England recorded its hottest temperature ever forty point three percent

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centigrade or one hundred and four point five fahrenheit in

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Lincolnshire on the nineteenth of July twenty twenty two. Now

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if I remember, hm, I just have a memory that

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was it was really hot. There was one particular day

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when no one went outside apart from those people that did.

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It was really.

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Just phoning each other saying I'm naked, Are you naked? Yeah,

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I'm naked as well. And it was the only time

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my whole life that I've been able to phone people

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up and have that conversation, well, having a conversation where

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they say yeah, I'm naked too.

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Yeah, it was good.

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The weird thing about it was I was phoning people

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up saying are you're naked, and not saying yeah you.

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I said, oh, yeah, I am. I didn't realize it

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was hot outside. It hadn't looked the summer of two

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I don't even know I've thought outside.

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The summer of two thousand and three because I put

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ice cubes up me on that summer of two thousand

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and three saw two thousand plus. He okay, I'm not

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gonna read that out. It's horrible one oh stop it.

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The wettest summer on record in England was nineteen nine twelve.

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Nineteen twelve. Oh, the wettest summer on record nineteen twelve.

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Are you sure?

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Because I remember some wet summers? Number seven? In July

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nineteen twenty one, London saw thirty two consecutive days without rain.

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Thirty two Actually just a month, isn't it? In this

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Country's weird because if we go more than three days

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at rain.

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There's a drought, there's a drought hose by ban and

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then three days later flood warnings. That's how it is here.

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It's all I don't know. It's so short sightedness may be.

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Not all short memory, not remembering that the weather is

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constantly changing. And that's what this country is, England is

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it's a multiple seasonal country. In one day, it can

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be spring, summer, winter all in one day. And it

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might sound silly, but the changes in the weather can

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literally be that dramatic, that quick.

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So what else have we got?

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Thunderstorms are more common in English summers than in winter. Yep,

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that's true. I'm agreeing with it.

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I can't remember the last time I heard a thunderstorm

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in the winter, because thunderstorms seemed to be more a

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heat related thing.

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You know.

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The best thunderstorm I ever remember in my entire life, No,

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the two one was when I was really really little

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and I was probably five or six in Newcastle. This

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is when I was in the kids home and we

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were in this kind of yard and the building. There

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was a yard in the middle of this big building,

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so we could get in from different exits and stuff

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for different entrances. So we were sheltering on one side

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the building and I kept saying it's thunder and I

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said no, it's thunder and I said no, yes, thunder,

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and they kept saying no, it's thunder, And I said

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it's thunder and she walked off. It wasn't a very

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long conversation, but I just remember, and for some reason,

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I just remember that conversation.

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And then when about two thousand and three, I think

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it was Wow, there was a thunderstorm. It was the

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biggest thunderstorm.

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I've ever seen. And I was living quite high up

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in this building, not like super high, but.

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Not high enough to.

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Parachute out, but high enough to to not you know, yeah,

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it's high enough, high enough to you need a rope

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or a rope ladder to get down, but it's not

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quite high enough for a parachute to really gain any

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kind of usefulness. Probably wouldn't even be open before you

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hit the ground. I never tried it.

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I haven't got a parachute. That yeah, it was.

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It was up high enough and there was nothing overlooking it,

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which is quite nice. So it kind of had all

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the sky and this thunderstorm so big and so lightningly

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and so thundery.

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And loud, really loud.

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I loved it. It was wonderful. And it was during

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the summer as well, So this is two thousand and

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three in the and it was powerful, powerful, really good.

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It was a good moment. What other thunderstorms can I remember?

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Not many?

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Really no, No, not many thunderstorms thunderstorms. Can I remember

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any understormms? No, I don't seem to be able to

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remember any.

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There's been lots.

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I remember the day that Elvis left us in nineteen

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seventy seven. I think it thundered on that date during

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the day. It was in the summer, and the rain,

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the rain, we got absolutely drenched, but it was warm,

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so it wasn't an uncomfortable soaking. It was quite a

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nice soaking, in fact, and if you're ever going to

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get completely soaked, that seemed like quite a good time

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to have it happen. And it was quite a good

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day to have it happened as well, because a lot

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of people were sad that Elvis had left us, so

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it got really weird, weird day that was. I was

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upset as well, but for different reasons. I'll be honest.

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I knew who Elvis was, but I was I was

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six years old, so I wasn't so kind of up

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with who he was or what he did, and he

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sung stuff. So my oldest brother was upset because he

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was a massive fan.

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And all the TV because he was watching on the

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TV all the news, every channel had news stories about him,

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so all the other all the other programs were canceled.

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This was Saturday morning, and they're like, you know, and

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I was upset because every channel had his were talking

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about him, and there's no cartoons on.

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So I was five, I was.

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Six six in August two thousand and four. All there

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was one time I got drenched where oh yeah, I

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think it was a thunderstorm as well. And I walked

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to my dad's on Christmas Day. This would be ninety

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eighty nine, ninety ninety, maybe nineteen yeah, maybe, I think so,

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probably about nineteen ninety Christmas Day, and had gone the

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way to his house, which wasn't wasn't a long journey.

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It's probably twenty twenty five minute walk. I got soaked,

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so I'm annoyed.

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I'm yeah, I'm so.

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I knock on his door, going completely drenched, and he said, oh,

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do you want to want to I've got some clothing

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spare closing probably if you want. And I said no,

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I'm so angry, and I just stood there in his

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wet clothes. I couldn't sit down. I couldn't do anything.

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In the end that I just had to say, yeah,

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well that's all right. See so he's got me some

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a jumper and some tracksuit bottoms or something. But I

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was like, I was determined not to have anything.

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I was so.

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How could the weather do this to me?

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Me?

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Me?

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I could have just got a tax man and I

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couldn't have got a taxi Christmas Day. But I know

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if I'd just called my dad, he'd come and got me.

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Or I could have just said, look, i'll come around,

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but I'm going to wait until it stops raining, and

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then my dad would have come and got me. So

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or his wife would have come and got me.

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Didn't have to be a big deal. I just needed

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another controversial Christmas.

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No, that was all right. After that. I can't think

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of any thunderstorms off hand. Some may come to me

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as I'm talking. This might be a subject of thunderstorms.

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It's weird. Didn't mean it to be. But if any,

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if any of the thunderstorms pop into my head, I

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will tell you.

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In August two thousand and four, boss calm down wherever

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that is recorded a single day rainfall total of one

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hundred and twenty feet of rain or millimeters of rain

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whatever that I don't know what what's one hundred and

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twenty millimeters? Why don't they just do it in feet?

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So is that our foot of rain? Two foot of rain?

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H Strawberries ripe and faster during long, warm English summers. See,

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I don't really know much about strawberries, but I feel

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like I already.

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Knew that.

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Fruit. I mean, you just take away the strawberries and

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just say bananas apples. Doesn't all fruit ripe and faster

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in the warmth?

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I mean?

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Am I being? Am I being a bit silly there?

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I don't know.

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It could be.

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Oh, summer traditions and festivals, Wimbledon, which has just started yesterday, Wimbledon,

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or as I like to call it, grumpled or not grumbledon,

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gruntle grunt gruntled them because they grunt a lot.

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Ah.

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Yeah, I used to actually when I lived alone in

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the house, because I've moved around a lot over the years,

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not for the last ten.

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Years, but before that, a lot. I'm talking a lot.

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Lot.

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Started off when I was born, really like six months old,

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and I started moving.

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I'll packed me back.

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I did.

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I packed my bags up, and I thought that's it.

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I'm out of here. So if I was in a

484
00:38:47.880 --> 00:38:50.239
shared house, I.

485
00:38:50.159 --> 00:38:53.400
Would put Wimbledon on Wimbledon to the two weeks. I

486
00:38:53.440 --> 00:38:59.199
would turn up the female matches really loud so that

487
00:38:59.239 --> 00:39:01.320
my neighbors all I could hear us.

488
00:39:01.480 --> 00:39:09.280
Ah ah ooh ah. So I thought that they might

489
00:39:09.360 --> 00:39:13.079
think that maybe I had a girlfriend and I knew

490
00:39:13.679 --> 00:39:19.440
ways to.

491
00:39:16.840 --> 00:39:19.320
Make her happy. I don't know. I don't really know

492
00:39:19.360 --> 00:39:22.800
what was going on in my mind. It went quite

493
00:39:22.920 --> 00:39:28.320
well until the audience. The audience applauded, and that's when

494
00:39:28.360 --> 00:39:32.079
it felt like okay. I remember one of my neighbors said,

495
00:39:32.079 --> 00:39:34.239
how big is your room? If you could fit an

496
00:39:34.280 --> 00:39:38.880
audience in there and a tennis pitch.

497
00:39:42.119 --> 00:39:46.880
Oh dear. Wimbledon has been held nearly every summer since

498
00:39:46.960 --> 00:39:53.960
eighteen seventy seven. Now, I think Wimbledon was canceled in

499
00:39:54.039 --> 00:40:03.320
two ty twenty. I think as was of the Olympics.

500
00:40:05.840 --> 00:40:13.400
I also think that Wimbledon was canceled during the Two Wars,

501
00:40:13.480 --> 00:40:18.960
the two World Wars as well. I'm just thinking about

502
00:40:19.000 --> 00:40:23.159
like the World Cup and stuff. I'm guessing Wimbledon would

503
00:40:23.199 --> 00:40:25.760
not be going ahead during the World War in this country.

504
00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:29.920
So I could look that up, but I can't be bothered.

505
00:40:30.679 --> 00:40:33.440
It's weird, isn't it. I mean, I actually talk about

506
00:40:33.599 --> 00:40:38.039
stuff and I just it just the idea of just

507
00:40:39.199 --> 00:40:41.639
pushing the keys on a keyboard just seems like a

508
00:40:41.639 --> 00:40:49.639
lot of effort. The notting Hill Carnival, a summer event,

509
00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:57.400
began in nineteen sixty six. So the notting Hill Carnival,

510
00:40:57.599 --> 00:41:02.800
for those who don't know what it is, it's a

511
00:41:04.039 --> 00:41:08.039
it's a very famous carnival in this country that has

512
00:41:08.280 --> 00:41:14.800
a degree of a notoriority about it. And I think

513
00:41:14.840 --> 00:41:23.880
it's basically because it's a street carnival and it's the

514
00:41:23.960 --> 00:41:28.280
police can't control it the way they can maybe if

515
00:41:28.360 --> 00:41:33.880
something's in a park, they can have a bit more

516
00:41:33.880 --> 00:41:38.119
control of something if it's kind of stuck in one place.

517
00:41:41.760 --> 00:41:45.280
But the notting Hill Carnival, it's on the move, and

518
00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:49.280
there's millions of people probably turn up and from all

519
00:41:49.320 --> 00:41:56.239
over the world, and it's I get a sense it

520
00:41:56.320 --> 00:42:02.599
is kind of chaotic. I also get a sense that

521
00:42:04.920 --> 00:42:08.880
the press focused just on they don't they don't focus

522
00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:15.320
on the nice parts of it. And it's probably mainly really.

523
00:42:15.519 --> 00:42:19.159
A good, good vibe. I just I've never been there.

524
00:42:19.239 --> 00:42:23.400
I never wanted to, never really felt it's just for me.

525
00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:27.880
It's the crowds, too many people. I wouldn't really want

526
00:42:27.880 --> 00:42:34.119
to go to any festival or carnival or other just

527
00:42:34.159 --> 00:42:36.519
because of the amount of people.

528
00:42:36.599 --> 00:42:43.400
It's just like, Wow, I might go one day.

529
00:42:43.599 --> 00:42:46.480
Maybe that should be on my little my bucket list

530
00:42:46.599 --> 00:42:50.440
to go to the notting Hill Carnival. I tell you

531
00:42:50.480 --> 00:42:52.440
what I would like. I'd like to I'd like to

532
00:42:52.440 --> 00:42:55.639
be on one of the floats. I'd like if I

533
00:42:55.719 --> 00:42:57.920
was gonna if I was going to do something like

534
00:42:58.039 --> 00:43:03.079
go to Notting Hill Carnival. Liked to be involved, even

535
00:43:03.119 --> 00:43:05.760
if it was just handing out bottles of water to

536
00:43:05.800 --> 00:43:09.400
people for free, something like that, just to be involved

537
00:43:09.440 --> 00:43:12.239
in a positive way so that I can be part

538
00:43:12.280 --> 00:43:19.920
of it, but not a spectator, but also not a performer,

539
00:43:20.199 --> 00:43:24.239
you know, just kind of the background.

540
00:43:25.159 --> 00:43:28.639
Kind of person. That's kind of what I liked in

541
00:43:28.679 --> 00:43:34.960
a comedy club. I liked the idea of.

542
00:43:32.800 --> 00:43:34.519
Being in the background so I could be at the

543
00:43:34.559 --> 00:43:38.559
back of the club watching the acts, but also help

544
00:43:38.679 --> 00:43:41.599
with putting a show together, you know, getting the seats

545
00:43:41.599 --> 00:43:46.719
ready before the people got in, maybe emptying the tables

546
00:43:46.719 --> 00:43:52.039
of glasses throughout the breaks, and just helping out in

547
00:43:52.239 --> 00:43:58.360
the background, so being part of the comedy night, but

548
00:43:58.559 --> 00:44:00.960
not being the focus the comedy night.

549
00:44:02.559 --> 00:44:05.440
That I quite liked that. I'm not saying that I

550
00:44:05.440 --> 00:44:09.480
would have I would have loved to have been, you know,

551
00:44:09.639 --> 00:44:14.039
the main act on stage. That never happened, and that

552
00:44:14.199 --> 00:44:17.880
was that I wasn't destined to do that at that time.

553
00:44:20.079 --> 00:44:25.400
But outside of being the star I was, I quite

554
00:44:25.639 --> 00:44:31.760
liked just okay, this is it in.

555
00:44:31.760 --> 00:44:35.559
Preference to being an audience member, because I used to

556
00:44:35.639 --> 00:44:39.159
go to loads of comedy clubs. I went to every

557
00:44:39.519 --> 00:44:42.920
I think apart from Jonglers, and that's the only comedy

558
00:44:42.920 --> 00:44:46.039
club I didn't never visit. I don't know why I

559
00:44:46.079 --> 00:44:51.800
never went to Jonglers in London, but pretty much every

560
00:44:51.880 --> 00:44:55.199
comedy club that was around in the nineties I visited

561
00:44:57.199 --> 00:45:01.199
by every single one, every single one, and there was

562
00:45:01.360 --> 00:45:07.840
hundreds of cave and went during that time. And I

563
00:45:07.920 --> 00:45:10.119
used to just turn up and people knew who it was.

564
00:45:11.480 --> 00:45:13.320
Quite a few of the people running the clubs were

565
00:45:13.320 --> 00:45:17.239
comedians themselves, so I knew them and I just hang

566
00:45:17.280 --> 00:45:20.639
around with them, or we stand at the bar and

567
00:45:20.800 --> 00:45:25.320
just watch the watch the acts. Maybe sometimes go on

568
00:45:27.559 --> 00:45:30.920
do a little spot maybe sometimes. But it was just

569
00:45:31.119 --> 00:45:33.079
nice to be in the background.

570
00:45:33.880 --> 00:45:38.760
I like that rather than being rather than sort of

571
00:45:38.840 --> 00:45:45.599
sitting in a chair with the audience. I liked to Yes,

572
00:45:45.639 --> 00:45:49.840
it's nice to Just what am I talking about while

573
00:45:49.880 --> 00:45:52.360
I'm mentioning that? Oh yeah, the notting Hill Carnival.

574
00:45:53.159 --> 00:45:53.320
Yeah.

575
00:45:53.320 --> 00:45:58.800
If I was participated in some way, then that would

576
00:45:58.840 --> 00:45:59.280
be cool.

577
00:46:00.280 --> 00:46:04.039
But in a positive way. You know, I wouldn't want

578
00:46:04.079 --> 00:46:07.800
to be Not that I could do that, but.

579
00:46:07.920 --> 00:46:10.960
Like being part of all want to be working, like

580
00:46:11.119 --> 00:46:14.280
being a security or something, because that that doesn't that

581
00:46:14.320 --> 00:46:19.000
wouldn't be fun because then I wouldn't be relaxed.

582
00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:24.800
So maybe I'll go there? Would they go to the

583
00:46:25.000 --> 00:46:26.360
Dutig Hill Cardival.

584
00:46:31.039 --> 00:46:36.440
Morris dancing is traditionally performed in the summer, so Morris dancing.

585
00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:40.679
I just do Morrish dancing at school. Is that the

586
00:46:40.679 --> 00:46:46.360
one where you got you're going around the pole and

587
00:46:46.400 --> 00:46:49.280
you're dancing around the pole, and you've got it's a

588
00:46:49.320 --> 00:46:52.400
different pole to one of my mum used to dance around.

589
00:46:53.159 --> 00:46:55.840
But this one is no one, no one chucks money

590
00:46:55.840 --> 00:46:58.119
at you. This one is.

591
00:46:59.559 --> 00:47:02.159
You hold onto like a ribbon thing, a colored ribbon,

592
00:47:02.480 --> 00:47:04.480
and you dance in and out of each other, but

593
00:47:04.599 --> 00:47:07.400
not literally in and out, but like I don't know

594
00:47:07.440 --> 00:47:12.599
how it kind of makes a pattern on the pole,

595
00:47:13.440 --> 00:47:15.760
a pattern from the different bits of fabric.

596
00:47:16.760 --> 00:47:19.400
Is that Morris dancing? Or have I got it wrong?

597
00:47:22.400 --> 00:47:25.039
Or is that fairy dancing? Or is that's a different

598
00:47:25.440 --> 00:47:29.880
different type of dancing may pole? That's may pole dancing?

599
00:47:29.960 --> 00:47:35.639
Isn't it for may day may pole dancing? So Morros

600
00:47:35.719 --> 00:47:40.719
dancing that's a that's a Scottish thing, isn't it Morris?

601
00:47:43.840 --> 00:47:49.280
I'm not sure. I think Morris dancing Scottish dancing. I

602
00:47:49.400 --> 00:47:50.079
might be wrong.

603
00:47:53.000 --> 00:48:01.760
Pims Pims, a popular summer drink, was invented in eighteen forty.

604
00:48:02.480 --> 00:48:11.119
It is Pims anise seed. I think it might be

605
00:48:11.119 --> 00:48:14.119
because someone's listening to a TV and it's really loud.

606
00:48:17.199 --> 00:48:20.599
Do you think people sometimes listen to really loud things

607
00:48:21.199 --> 00:48:25.519
because it distracts them from their own thoughts? Because I

608
00:48:25.559 --> 00:48:25.840
don't know.

609
00:48:25.880 --> 00:48:29.280
I had a neighbor who I visited, and I went

610
00:48:29.320 --> 00:48:33.079
in there and this neighbor was literally had the music

611
00:48:33.480 --> 00:48:34.440
so loud.

612
00:48:34.920 --> 00:48:38.039
I had to leave. I couldn't. It was too loud

613
00:48:38.039 --> 00:48:38.280
for me.

614
00:48:39.119 --> 00:48:45.719
And it's almost like it was, well, it would be

615
00:48:45.760 --> 00:48:48.679
impossible for me to think.

616
00:48:50.239 --> 00:48:52.920
In fact, I think I'd struggle to.

617
00:48:55.880 --> 00:48:59.039
Do even the most simple task. So if you said

618
00:48:59.039 --> 00:49:03.159
to me, I'll just add these numbers up, basic numbers,

619
00:49:03.199 --> 00:49:06.039
you know, something is it takes a little bit of

620
00:49:06.199 --> 00:49:10.119
brain power, but not much, and even just working it

621
00:49:10.159 --> 00:49:14.320
out on a pad like two past four plus nine

622
00:49:14.320 --> 00:49:17.519
plus six plus nine plus five, but you know, just

623
00:49:17.559 --> 00:49:20.800
a few numbers, like okay, if I might take a

624
00:49:20.880 --> 00:49:25.000
few seconds to just figure it out, it'd be almost

625
00:49:25.000 --> 00:49:31.800
impossible with the volume of that music. That's what I mean.

626
00:49:32.199 --> 00:49:38.840
And I remember saying when I worked in evolution in Ipswich,

627
00:49:39.000 --> 00:49:43.039
I worked in the evolution shop, which was run by Buddhists, and.

628
00:49:45.119 --> 00:49:48.159
I said to them, because there was the front entrance,

629
00:49:49.679 --> 00:49:51.239
but the back entrance.

630
00:49:51.719 --> 00:49:54.960
So you went through there was a little office that's

631
00:49:54.960 --> 00:49:57.199
where the computer was and they did everything out there.

632
00:49:58.719 --> 00:50:01.599
But there was another out of the back, which was

633
00:50:01.599 --> 00:50:04.800
a fire escape, and then out of there you could

634
00:50:04.840 --> 00:50:07.960
then walk through out of the other door, or there

635
00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:10.360
was a few different exits. There's some stairs you can

636
00:50:10.400 --> 00:50:14.480
go up, and that was where all the other surrounding

637
00:50:14.519 --> 00:50:15.719
shops kind of led into.

638
00:50:16.480 --> 00:50:22.559
That was their back entrances, and there was a key.

639
00:50:24.039 --> 00:50:29.159
In the door, and there was there was a pushbar

640
00:50:29.400 --> 00:50:31.480
which opened the door, but it didn't work if the

641
00:50:31.559 --> 00:50:32.400
key was locked.

642
00:50:32.400 --> 00:50:33.679
If it was locked, it wouldn't work.

643
00:50:35.679 --> 00:50:38.920
And I said to the person, one of the people

644
00:50:38.920 --> 00:50:41.719
that was kind of managing the shop, I said, you

645
00:50:42.119 --> 00:50:45.920
have to leave that door unlocked when we're in the shop.

646
00:50:47.400 --> 00:50:49.000
Of course, you lock it at night when there's no

647
00:50:49.000 --> 00:50:50.960
one in there, but when we're in the shop, it

648
00:50:51.039 --> 00:50:53.559
has to be left open. So when you push the bar,

649
00:50:53.719 --> 00:50:58.159
the door opens. And his answer was, we see, it

650
00:50:58.280 --> 00:51:02.079
just turned the key. It's not that different. And I

651
00:51:02.239 --> 00:51:09.840
tried to explain to him that in an emergency, things

652
00:51:09.840 --> 00:51:16.079
that are very simple normally aren't always simple, and he

653
00:51:16.159 --> 00:51:19.039
didn't get it. He didn't understand what I meant, but

654
00:51:19.239 --> 00:51:23.960
he did stop locking the door because I made such

655
00:51:24.000 --> 00:51:24.519
a fuss.

656
00:51:25.480 --> 00:51:28.239
So I'm quite. I'm quite on the old health and

657
00:51:28.320 --> 00:51:31.239
safety things like that.

658
00:51:31.400 --> 00:51:35.400
I think it's just too important to ignore. He did

659
00:51:35.519 --> 00:51:38.239
get the ump, but he got over it.

660
00:51:38.440 --> 00:51:39.320
I'm sure.

661
00:51:40.800 --> 00:51:43.440
It's twenty one years ago. I think he's I think

662
00:51:43.519 --> 00:51:44.280
he's recovered.

663
00:51:44.440 --> 00:51:46.079
I do I do, I do, I do I do.

664
00:51:50.360 --> 00:51:52.760
And I've been in that situation where I had to

665
00:51:52.760 --> 00:51:54.920
call for an I had to call for the police

666
00:51:54.960 --> 00:52:00.320
once and I couldn't get my phone to work. It

667
00:52:00.360 --> 00:52:06.199
was just a normal phone, probably a smartphone, it wasn't.

668
00:52:06.239 --> 00:52:08.159
I mean, it was a while ago, but it was

669
00:52:08.159 --> 00:52:10.480
a smartphone. And all I wanted you to do is

670
00:52:10.480 --> 00:52:14.320
press nine to nine to nine. And because I was so.

671
00:52:20.119 --> 00:52:23.599
Like not knowing what to do that, I was struggling

672
00:52:23.719 --> 00:52:27.159
just to press nine ninety nine and to press the

673
00:52:27.159 --> 00:52:30.559
button for it to ring. Seriously, it took me about

674
00:52:30.559 --> 00:52:33.639
six attempts to do it because my hand was shaking,

675
00:52:34.480 --> 00:52:35.199
and it wasn't.

676
00:52:35.679 --> 00:52:38.559
I wasn't fear so much. Maybe it was fear, but.

677
00:52:38.760 --> 00:52:41.679
It wasn't fear for myself because I was trying to

678
00:52:41.719 --> 00:52:45.400
help someone else that was looked like they were in trouble.

679
00:52:46.199 --> 00:52:48.960
So I wasn't fearful for myself or anything.

680
00:52:50.760 --> 00:53:00.119
I just I guess panicked, I suppose. So, yeah, I

681
00:53:00.159 --> 00:53:02.440
don't know. I'm not quite sure. What's that got to

682
00:53:02.480 --> 00:53:08.800
do with Morris dancing. I don't know. Pims, Oh yeah, pims,

683
00:53:10.360 --> 00:53:17.280
because it's I don't know how I got on to

684
00:53:17.400 --> 00:53:27.440
that subject of doors that are locked. That's weird, isn't it. So.

685
00:53:27.639 --> 00:53:34.440
Glastonbury Festival began in nineteen seventy and became a summer staple.

686
00:53:35.840 --> 00:53:43.639
So Glastonbury I think Glastonbury was our version of wood Wouldcock?

687
00:53:43.960 --> 00:53:47.280
Is it Woodcock? Woodcock?

688
00:53:49.599 --> 00:53:54.719
You know the American really famous festival of nineteen sixty nine,

689
00:53:56.480 --> 00:53:58.440
would would would Cock.

690
00:54:00.840 --> 00:54:05.320
Woodcock? I think it's Woodcock. But that was the That

691
00:54:05.400 --> 00:54:11.280
was a huge festival, wasn't it. Jimi Hendrix and they

692
00:54:11.440 --> 00:54:14.079
rolling stones and stuff like that. I think it was

693
00:54:14.119 --> 00:54:16.239
sixty nine. It might have been sixty six. I think

694
00:54:16.239 --> 00:54:17.079
it was sixty nine.

695
00:54:18.000 --> 00:54:27.400
And would Stock not cock woods cock Stock, would would

696
00:54:28.039 --> 00:54:30.559
Stock blimey.

697
00:54:31.000 --> 00:54:36.719
So I think Glastonbury was our version of would Stock,

698
00:54:38.239 --> 00:54:42.719
which was an America and I'm guessing other countries probably

699
00:54:42.719 --> 00:54:46.320
did the same. They copied and they had their own

700
00:54:47.679 --> 00:54:55.480
summer festivals. And Glastonbury I'm guessing because it's on at

701
00:54:55.480 --> 00:54:58.880
the moment, I think it's one. And there's lots of

702
00:54:58.920 --> 00:55:02.280
festivals in this kind of tree. I think it's one

703
00:55:02.320 --> 00:55:05.519
of the biggest, if not the biggest festival in the

704
00:55:05.679 --> 00:55:10.960
entire country. No, I'm talking about England, so I think

705
00:55:11.000 --> 00:55:12.159
it is the biggest one.

706
00:55:13.119 --> 00:55:15.280
But I might be wrong. Okay, So don't.

707
00:55:18.159 --> 00:55:20.400
Don't send me shoes are too small for me as

708
00:55:20.400 --> 00:55:23.719
a punishment. I'm just I don't know. I hopefully I

709
00:55:23.800 --> 00:55:25.400
might be right. I don't care if I'm right or not.

710
00:55:26.199 --> 00:55:30.159
It's just it seems to be the most famous one,

711
00:55:32.360 --> 00:55:35.000
you know. I went I once to wear and I

712
00:55:35.039 --> 00:55:37.840
want to wet myself. No, I once went to.

713
00:55:39.480 --> 00:55:48.440
Last night at the Summer Orchestra or last night at

714
00:55:48.519 --> 00:56:01.000
the proms. That's it. I was in Talky, Talky, talky, Yeah,

715
00:56:01.000 --> 00:56:04.880
it was talky. I was in Turkey in two thousand

716
00:56:05.159 --> 00:56:10.760
and three. It was in the summer two thousand and three.

717
00:56:11.400 --> 00:56:17.039
Maybe September, and I went and visited me cousin who

718
00:56:17.079 --> 00:56:24.519
lived there with his girlfriend. Absolutely loved the place, love

719
00:56:25.280 --> 00:56:26.880
loved loved the place.

720
00:56:27.519 --> 00:56:29.960
It was lovely. I really liked it. It's one of

721
00:56:30.039 --> 00:56:32.559
my favorite favorite places I've ever been ever.

722
00:56:34.079 --> 00:56:38.920
And we went to the park, the local park, and

723
00:56:39.119 --> 00:56:41.679
last night the proms was on there and they were

724
00:56:41.800 --> 00:56:44.199
I think they were filming it for the TV and

725
00:56:44.239 --> 00:56:48.159
it was live or something like that. In the park.

726
00:56:48.880 --> 00:56:54.159
The park was all cordoned off and we couldn't get

727
00:56:54.199 --> 00:56:59.639
in or they were charging money to get in, and

728
00:56:59.679 --> 00:57:02.159
we did want to pay something like that. So what

729
00:57:02.199 --> 00:57:06.880
we did is we climbed over the fences and we

730
00:57:07.119 --> 00:57:07.800
just crept in.

731
00:57:08.000 --> 00:57:14.360
We snacked it, snack snacked, we sneaked. We crept and

732
00:57:14.440 --> 00:57:21.440
we sneaked snacked in and it was cool. It was

733
00:57:21.480 --> 00:57:26.960
really nice. There were people asking for, you know, proof

734
00:57:26.960 --> 00:57:29.719
of tickets and stuff. I don't quite know why, but

735
00:57:31.360 --> 00:57:33.400
we got asked to leave a couple of times.

736
00:57:33.840 --> 00:57:37.440
But it was It was still fun, though not as

737
00:57:37.480 --> 00:57:41.639
many people there as I thought there would be. But

738
00:57:41.719 --> 00:57:46.239
it was nice, It's really and the evening was lovely.

739
00:57:46.960 --> 00:57:49.559
It was one of those beautiful summer evenings.

740
00:57:49.960 --> 00:57:52.639
It wasn't hot, it.

741
00:57:52.559 --> 00:57:55.320
Wasn't like hot hot, it wasn't cold. It was just

742
00:57:55.960 --> 00:57:59.360
it was near the end of the summer. Maybe August

743
00:57:59.480 --> 00:58:06.079
time things about it. But it was really pleasant. Yeah,

744
00:58:06.559 --> 00:58:09.599
maybe it was July. It was nice during the day.

745
00:58:09.800 --> 00:58:12.840
I did get a suntan or I've got a bit burnt.

746
00:58:12.920 --> 00:58:15.920
Rather don't go out and get suntourn's got a bit burnt.

747
00:58:18.760 --> 00:58:28.679
But it was nice, very nice. And that's that's yeah.

748
00:58:28.760 --> 00:58:37.639
I just remembered that. Anyway, Summer Solstice celebrates at Stonehenge

749
00:58:39.719 --> 00:58:40.840
at dates back.

750
00:58:40.920 --> 00:58:45.239
Farems of years, long before.

751
00:58:47.639 --> 00:58:52.159
The people in this country or the royalty adopted things

752
00:58:52.199 --> 00:59:01.760
such as Christianity. So we used to be Pagans, I

753
00:59:01.760 --> 00:59:05.599
think in this country before the Romans came here.

754
00:59:11.239 --> 00:59:17.280
Trooping the color. The King's official birthday parade is held

755
00:59:17.320 --> 00:59:21.400
in Dewan, So yeah, that was we had that the

756
00:59:21.440 --> 00:59:28.000
other day a couple of weeks back, the loads of

757
00:59:28.119 --> 00:59:35.440
planes and stuff coming over here for his birthday, traveling

758
00:59:35.519 --> 00:59:36.320
towards London.

759
00:59:38.920 --> 00:59:46.119
The Henley Royal Regatta Regarta Regatta has taken place every

760
00:59:46.119 --> 00:59:55.199
summer since eighteen thirty nine. Well, let me tell you something.

761
00:59:56.039 --> 00:59:59.320
I know a little bit about the Henley Regatta because

762
00:59:59.480 --> 01:00:06.519
in the nine I got myself a job selling I

763
01:00:06.519 --> 01:00:10.199
don't know we want to call them, basically trying to

764
01:00:10.239 --> 01:00:16.280
sell companies deals for their staff to go to the

765
01:00:16.320 --> 01:00:23.840
Henley Regatta. And it was expensive, expensive, and all the

766
01:00:23.920 --> 01:00:26.360
staff that they took on they didn't pay them anything.

767
01:00:27.199 --> 01:00:27.719
It was.

768
01:00:29.400 --> 01:00:35.519
Commission only and it was just a numbers game. So

769
01:00:35.639 --> 01:00:39.400
they had people that came along and did really well,

770
01:00:42.639 --> 01:00:43.239
and then they had.

771
01:00:43.239 --> 01:00:43.880
People like me.

772
01:00:45.400 --> 01:00:49.239
That were desperate to earn some money, wanted to do

773
01:00:49.320 --> 01:00:53.360
really well, but couldn't be there long enough to do

774
01:00:53.440 --> 01:00:59.239
really well because I had maybe four days to earn

775
01:00:59.320 --> 01:01:02.960
some money before I couldn't afford to get in anymore.

776
01:01:02.960 --> 01:01:06.760
Couldn't afford to travel. But if i'd have had.

777
01:01:08.360 --> 01:01:10.039
Well, I probably wouldn't have been allowed to stay there

778
01:01:10.079 --> 01:01:12.159
for three months. If i'd have had to do a

779
01:01:12.199 --> 01:01:19.280
good period of time, I would have learned more and

780
01:01:19.400 --> 01:01:26.079
perhaps being able to sell something. And the commission was good.

781
01:01:26.519 --> 01:01:27.719
I mean we're talking.

782
01:01:29.079 --> 01:01:36.960
Thousands and thousands of pounds these ten twenty grand or

783
01:01:36.960 --> 01:01:40.599
whatever for these packages, so I'd be earning good money

784
01:01:40.639 --> 01:01:45.599
in commission. But yeah, I remember that I was there

785
01:01:45.639 --> 01:01:50.599
for about three days. Three days.

786
01:01:51.639 --> 01:01:53.960
I had a lot of sales jobs, and I would

787
01:01:54.000 --> 01:01:57.199
talk about that one day because it is something that

788
01:01:57.199 --> 01:02:00.360
I never really spoken about. I mean I spoke about

789
01:02:00.360 --> 01:02:04.280
the sales jobs in insurance. I've talked a little bit

790
01:02:04.280 --> 01:02:08.599
about the sales job where I did the selling phone

791
01:02:08.639 --> 01:02:13.880
contracts to people, but I've not I thought, I've ever

792
01:02:13.920 --> 01:02:18.760
really gone into detail about some of the other sales

793
01:02:18.880 --> 01:02:23.039
jobs that I've had, and I'm try and listen them.

794
01:02:23.159 --> 01:02:24.639
Let me see if I could listen them.

795
01:02:24.519 --> 01:02:24.760
For you.

796
01:02:30.519 --> 01:02:36.760
Life Insurance. This is back in nineteen eighty nine or

797
01:02:36.840 --> 01:02:43.519
before that, in nineteen ninety I had a sales job

798
01:02:45.119 --> 01:02:51.639
selling time share, so that was the second or I

799
01:02:51.639 --> 01:02:57.119
had a sales job selling and this is in probably

800
01:02:57.159 --> 01:03:07.880
about eighty eight eighty nine, probably selling water filters, so

801
01:03:07.920 --> 01:03:16.559
that didn't quite work out, yes, the water filters. Then

802
01:03:16.559 --> 01:03:23.400
I had another job selling advertising, and another job selling printing.

803
01:03:24.679 --> 01:03:26.000
So that's going around.

804
01:03:28.440 --> 01:03:34.639
Going around the docks into buildings trying to sell basically

805
01:03:34.719 --> 01:03:39.360
just printing, printing costs and paper and stuff like that.

806
01:03:40.400 --> 01:03:42.639
A lot a few sales, but I didn't really.

807
01:03:44.360 --> 01:03:45.599
Go very far.

808
01:03:48.039 --> 01:03:52.119
Then I had the job selling life insurance door to

809
01:03:52.159 --> 01:03:57.519
door in nineteen eighty nine in London. Then I had

810
01:03:57.519 --> 01:04:04.159
a job It wasn't technically selling, but it was trying

811
01:04:04.199 --> 01:04:06.920
to get people to have this is daor to door

812
01:04:08.239 --> 01:04:14.840
the satellite dishes for Sky and they'd have to satellite

813
01:04:14.920 --> 01:04:16.800
dish for a month I think.

814
01:04:17.960 --> 01:04:18.880
And it was the baby.

815
01:04:18.960 --> 01:04:26.599
It was the the puppy sales technique, so you'd give them.

816
01:04:26.679 --> 01:04:28.239
But you know, if you give someone a puppy for

817
01:04:28.239 --> 01:04:31.119
a month and then go and take it back, they're

818
01:04:31.159 --> 01:04:32.679
not going to want you to take the puppy back

819
01:04:32.719 --> 01:04:36.800
because they'll have fallen in love with puppy, and that's

820
01:04:36.840 --> 01:04:39.920
that's why it's called that. So if you leave something

821
01:04:39.960 --> 01:04:43.480
with someone for a period of time for free, and

822
01:04:43.519 --> 01:04:46.360
then you go and collect it. They're going to quite

823
01:04:46.559 --> 01:04:50.519
likely say no, I'll keep it and pay you. And

824
01:04:50.559 --> 01:04:54.639
that's how Sky did their their thing.

825
01:04:55.719 --> 01:04:56.079
Now.

826
01:04:56.519 --> 01:04:59.920
Part of the reason I stopped doing it because firstly,

827
01:05:00.079 --> 01:05:02.679
no one wanted to satellite dish because.

828
01:05:02.400 --> 01:05:07.599
They were at the time there were a joke. It was.

829
01:05:08.039 --> 01:05:12.239
It's one of those things that the newspapers were ridiculing them,

830
01:05:12.599 --> 01:05:14.719
like we would want one of those ugly things on

831
01:05:14.760 --> 01:05:20.880
the side of their their house, and the TV channels

832
01:05:20.920 --> 01:05:23.519
aren't much, and it was just it was kind of

833
01:05:23.559 --> 01:05:27.920
just starting up, and it was not classed as a

834
01:05:27.960 --> 01:05:32.000
particularly good thing to have. And that changed over the

835
01:05:32.079 --> 01:05:38.920
years and they became a worldwide phenomenon with Rupert Modoc

836
01:05:39.039 --> 01:05:44.480
Murdoch who now owns Fox I think, or one of

837
01:05:44.519 --> 01:05:50.280
those massive TV stations, and he gets married. He's in

838
01:05:50.320 --> 01:05:52.519
his nineties now and he gets married every year or so.

839
01:05:54.760 --> 01:06:02.320
And I kind of wish I'd stuck with that, because

840
01:06:04.239 --> 01:06:07.559
that proved to be I think I was knocking on

841
01:06:07.599 --> 01:06:12.199
the wrong doors. I could have done that during the day,

842
01:06:12.239 --> 01:06:15.960
if I'd done that all the time as a job,

843
01:06:16.079 --> 01:06:19.639
if I'd have had the if i'd have had enough money,

844
01:06:19.639 --> 01:06:23.360
because it was commission only. Of course, again, if I'd

845
01:06:23.360 --> 01:06:28.519
have just had enough to get me by for six months,

846
01:06:30.280 --> 01:06:33.159
I think I could have turned it into a very

847
01:06:33.440 --> 01:06:40.920
very successful enterprise and started to take on other people

848
01:06:40.960 --> 01:06:43.440
to work for me. I think I could have ended

849
01:06:43.519 --> 01:06:46.239
up being well. If I'd have done it like that,

850
01:06:46.480 --> 01:06:50.000
I'd have ended up being very very successful, very very

851
01:06:50.039 --> 01:06:53.880
young as well. And I knew about canvassing because I've

852
01:06:53.880 --> 01:06:57.239
done that before. That was my job for a while

853
01:06:57.760 --> 01:07:03.119
in nineteen eighty nine, during the whole of that summer,

854
01:07:03.880 --> 01:07:04.559
and I was.

855
01:07:06.559 --> 01:07:07.800
I was what was like.

856
01:07:07.719 --> 01:07:11.199
Eighteen at the time, so I just turned nineteen when

857
01:07:11.239 --> 01:07:18.920
I was doing this the satellite dishes, So yeah, I

858
01:07:18.920 --> 01:07:19.239
could have.

859
01:07:19.800 --> 01:07:24.239
I just I was working during the day and I.

860
01:07:24.199 --> 01:07:27.280
Was naked, to be honest with you, I was just nakeerd.

861
01:07:27.320 --> 01:07:30.639
I couldn't be bothered to and I wanted to earn

862
01:07:30.719 --> 01:07:33.760
some more money and try and do something. But it

863
01:07:33.800 --> 01:07:36.599
was winter and I was, you know, the beginning of

864
01:07:36.639 --> 01:07:42.440
the year in nineteen ninety, Yeah, nineteen ninety it's the

865
01:07:42.480 --> 01:07:46.239
beginning of the year. It's really cold and windy and wet.

866
01:07:47.559 --> 01:07:52.400
It wasn't much fun, but it was an opportunity, it

867
01:07:52.480 --> 01:07:58.239
really was. And then, as I said, I did the

868
01:07:58.239 --> 01:08:01.840
Henley Regatta. This is a few years later or a

869
01:08:01.840 --> 01:08:03.079
couple of years later.

870
01:08:03.079 --> 01:08:09.800
And then I did Oh. I also did the time

871
01:08:09.880 --> 01:08:14.840
share as well in nineteen ninety. That was weird because

872
01:08:14.840 --> 01:08:17.199
I actually did get a sale and then they changed

873
01:08:17.239 --> 01:08:22.199
their mind. But what I did in that thing, I

874
01:08:22.199 --> 01:08:25.159
had to sit on a table. That what they did

875
01:08:25.239 --> 01:08:32.600
is really weird. They they offered people a gift to

876
01:08:32.680 --> 01:08:39.039
come and listen to a presentation. That's what it was.

877
01:08:39.479 --> 01:08:40.600
So they'd go along.

878
01:08:41.119 --> 01:08:45.079
They'd think they were getting a new car as a gift.

879
01:08:46.439 --> 01:08:48.439
Some people actually came up on the train.

880
01:08:49.800 --> 01:08:52.680
And said, well, where's a car. Then I came up

881
01:08:52.680 --> 01:08:54.479
on I came up on the train and I'm going

882
01:08:54.520 --> 01:08:55.600
to drive back.

883
01:08:56.840 --> 01:08:58.279
Like they were just going to be given a car.

884
01:08:59.359 --> 01:09:01.279
And what it was really is they were put.

885
01:09:01.079 --> 01:09:01.920
Into a raffle.

886
01:09:02.479 --> 01:09:07.039
If they attended watched the movie, which was probably twenty minutes,

887
01:09:07.880 --> 01:09:09.840
and then he sat down with one of us and

888
01:09:09.920 --> 01:09:12.880
talked to us and let us try and sell them timeshare.

889
01:09:15.680 --> 01:09:18.159
And if they went through that process, then they would

890
01:09:18.159 --> 01:09:22.960
be entered into winning something. It might just be a

891
01:09:23.000 --> 01:09:25.560
box of nothing, or it might be.

892
01:09:27.039 --> 01:09:27.680
It might be a.

893
01:09:27.640 --> 01:09:30.119
Discount in a supermarket.

894
01:09:29.359 --> 01:09:31.520
It might be a voucher. It could be anything, or

895
01:09:31.560 --> 01:09:34.680
could be a car. And they had a big car

896
01:09:34.680 --> 01:09:38.359
in the showroom, but one car. And you know, someone

897
01:09:38.439 --> 01:09:39.960
just turned up and said, well, how did I get in?

898
01:09:40.000 --> 01:09:45.079
Where's the keys? It's like, no, it's not quite you know.

899
01:09:45.920 --> 01:09:50.439
I'm not sure if the adverts were misleading. I don't know.

900
01:09:50.760 --> 01:09:56.840
Maybe I hope not, but I did. What I did

901
01:09:56.960 --> 01:09:59.000
notice is I was talking to these people and I

902
01:09:59.000 --> 01:10:02.600
was making them laugh, and I quite liked that, quite

903
01:10:02.720 --> 01:10:07.880
enjoyed that. And I was just telling them stories about

904
01:10:07.880 --> 01:10:14.319
my life and they were laughing and it felt quite nice.

905
01:10:15.159 --> 01:10:18.199
And one person actually told me they'll take it. They'll,

906
01:10:18.399 --> 01:10:24.319
you know, they'll take the they'll they accepted the sale,

907
01:10:24.840 --> 01:10:27.720
and I'm like, wow, I didn't expect that.

908
01:10:29.279 --> 01:10:31.720
And then they.

909
01:10:31.600 --> 01:10:34.800
Passed me, they passed them over to the person they

910
01:10:34.800 --> 01:10:39.479
had to do the contracts, and then they changed their mind.

911
01:10:41.239 --> 01:10:44.680
I mean I was there for probably four days, maybe

912
01:10:44.720 --> 01:10:56.119
five days, and this was I would say October time,

913
01:10:56.640 --> 01:11:02.359
nineteen ninety and it was in a different town and

914
01:11:02.800 --> 01:11:03.399
I just like.

915
01:11:03.479 --> 01:11:07.119
Ah, so I just came home and that was it.

916
01:11:10.000 --> 01:11:11.960
I don't know what other things, what other things have

917
01:11:12.000 --> 01:11:16.039
I done. I've got little memories of places. Oh yeah,

918
01:11:16.119 --> 01:11:19.640
I sold. This is actually a paid paid job I had.

919
01:11:20.199 --> 01:11:26.760
This was selling till role, you know for tills, you know,

920
01:11:26.920 --> 01:11:29.760
like in shops, just to till roll, the role it

921
01:11:29.800 --> 01:11:35.800
goes in the till. And the amount of people that

922
01:11:35.880 --> 01:11:37.079
thought I was selling.

923
01:11:36.760 --> 01:11:45.399
Toilet roll, it just got it just got silly, like

924
01:11:46.159 --> 01:11:49.359
I don't need any toilet roll, no till role.

925
01:11:51.279 --> 01:11:54.760
So for some reason on the phone just wanted to

926
01:11:54.800 --> 01:11:57.760
hang again on your till roll. It just sound like

927
01:11:57.840 --> 01:12:01.960
toilet roll. Who do you get who supplies? Who supplies

928
01:12:02.039 --> 01:12:04.920
your toilet role? And they say toilet role, said no

929
01:12:05.119 --> 01:12:05.720
till role.

930
01:12:07.880 --> 01:12:10.800
Then after a while I realized I was saying toilet role,

931
01:12:11.680 --> 01:12:16.600
and yeah, I got confusing. I think I managed to

932
01:12:16.600 --> 01:12:20.800
get a sale with my friend who had a comedy

933
01:12:20.840 --> 01:12:22.520
club and he took some roles on.

934
01:12:24.159 --> 01:12:29.720
I mean it was it was a legitimate company and

935
01:12:31.680 --> 01:12:34.000
you know, so it wasn't like they were dodger or anything.

936
01:12:34.479 --> 01:12:38.439
They paid a basic plus a commission. I got the

937
01:12:38.560 --> 01:12:41.119
job because a friend had had a job and he

938
01:12:41.199 --> 01:12:42.199
got me the job there.

939
01:12:44.159 --> 01:12:51.960
And our only source of leads was a Yellow Pages

940
01:12:52.439 --> 01:12:56.920
that was it, but from all over the country. So

941
01:12:56.920 --> 01:13:01.199
we dealt with the whole country, not just locally. In fact,

942
01:13:01.239 --> 01:13:02.960
we didn't do real We did a little bit of

943
01:13:03.039 --> 01:13:06.119
local stuff in London, but it was the whole country.

944
01:13:06.239 --> 01:13:11.319
And I ended up doing Manchester or part of Manchester.

945
01:13:11.359 --> 01:13:14.880
I'm sure there was like there was different Manchester is

946
01:13:14.960 --> 01:13:20.119
quite a large area, so there's different different areas north, northeast,

947
01:13:20.199 --> 01:13:31.640
northwest or whatever, south, southeast, east, east, east, And yeah,

948
01:13:32.199 --> 01:13:34.000
I did, I did, I did, I didn't.

949
01:13:34.960 --> 01:13:45.600
It was all right, but I didn't enjoy it, if

950
01:13:45.600 --> 01:13:48.840
I honest. And this is a break I had between

951
01:13:48.960 --> 01:13:57.439
doing security. So I did security, and I yeah, they

952
01:13:57.640 --> 01:14:04.319
sacked me because of it got blocked, and I found

953
01:14:04.399 --> 01:14:08.319
it so ridiculous that they were blaming me for a toilet.

954
01:14:08.359 --> 01:14:11.039
I blocked a toilet, not just that but the fact

955
01:14:11.039 --> 01:14:19.159
that they were. They suspended me, so I wasn't getting

956
01:14:19.199 --> 01:14:22.560
paid for the rest of the week. And then so

957
01:14:22.600 --> 01:14:26.000
this is like maybe it was a Tuesday, the toilet

958
01:14:26.000 --> 01:14:30.479
was blocked, They sent me home, suspended me until the

959
01:14:30.560 --> 01:14:34.199
following Monday when I went into the office for disciplinary

960
01:14:36.159 --> 01:14:38.640
and I don't know if they were going to sack

961
01:14:38.760 --> 01:14:42.039
me or not, but I just laughed at them. I said,

962
01:14:42.079 --> 01:14:49.720
you're ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous, I said, why would Why would

963
01:14:49.720 --> 01:14:52.760
I block a toilet up and not do anything. I mean,

964
01:14:53.319 --> 01:14:56.119
I'm an adult. I don't I said, someone who's clearly

965
01:14:56.119 --> 01:15:01.800
done that after I've left. It's ridiculous to block on me. Besides,

966
01:15:01.880 --> 01:15:05.039
I can't leave the reception once it gets because once

967
01:15:05.079 --> 01:15:09.800
I open the doors, so I'm there all night in

968
01:15:09.880 --> 01:15:12.359
this place. It was a it was a what was

969
01:15:12.399 --> 01:15:16.760
it called. It was a printing firm, not printed, but

970
01:15:16.800 --> 01:15:20.800
it was a like they printed magazines and newspapers and stuff.

971
01:15:20.840 --> 01:15:21.439
It was quite a.

972
01:15:23.399 --> 01:15:32.000
Oh, I forget his name now, Henderson, not Henderson. He

973
01:15:32.119 --> 01:15:36.720
I think he did Kerrang to this this company. They

974
01:15:36.720 --> 01:15:45.479
did Korrang and like heavy metal magazines, really big famous magazines,

975
01:15:46.600 --> 01:15:53.640
and I think also computer magazines as well. And maybe

976
01:15:53.720 --> 01:15:58.000
they went and did some of the like other like

977
01:15:58.159 --> 01:16:00.960
loaded and things like that. I'm not sure or later on,

978
01:16:01.399 --> 01:16:02.199
but they did.

979
01:16:02.239 --> 01:16:03.760
You know. I got really well with the people at

980
01:16:03.840 --> 01:16:04.680
work there.

981
01:16:05.159 --> 01:16:07.319
Some of the people that were there, like late at night,

982
01:16:08.199 --> 01:16:11.399
I kind of just chat with them and stuff, because

983
01:16:11.439 --> 01:16:13.640
I'd start my shift at I think half three in

984
01:16:13.680 --> 01:16:15.880
the afternoon until.

985
01:16:18.680 --> 01:16:19.560
I think it was.

986
01:16:21.399 --> 01:16:25.199
Half eight in the morning, so it was half three

987
01:16:25.399 --> 01:16:30.520
four or five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, no waiting

988
01:16:30.640 --> 01:16:36.119
half three, four or five or six or seven one

989
01:16:36.159 --> 01:16:38.159
off two or three or four or five.

990
01:16:38.000 --> 01:16:41.279
Or six or seven hour. That would be that long

991
01:16:41.319 --> 01:16:50.000
with it half three till maybe half four. It was

992
01:16:50.039 --> 01:16:53.800
about fifteen hours anyway, I was doing about fifteen hours shift,

993
01:16:53.920 --> 01:16:57.800
so half four, half five, half four then half a

994
01:16:57.800 --> 01:17:02.079
gain as twelve or was half four till half three, twelve,

995
01:17:03.760 --> 01:17:06.640
half five, half six, seven eight after nine enough ten,

996
01:17:07.079 --> 01:17:11.399
half eleven, enough tw haelf half one, half two, half

997
01:17:11.479 --> 01:17:16.079
eleven and half two, half three, half four, half five,

998
01:17:16.199 --> 01:17:18.680
half six, half seven. Yeah, so I think it was

999
01:17:18.760 --> 01:17:25.680
half four to half seven and unless it was sixteen hours.

1000
01:17:25.680 --> 01:17:28.119
But sixteen hours seems a bit long, doesn't it. I

1001
01:17:28.159 --> 01:17:31.600
think fifteen hours is what I did because sixteen hours

1002
01:17:31.800 --> 01:17:34.159
seems a little bit. It's not enough to ready to

1003
01:17:34.159 --> 01:17:38.279
get enough sleep, is it. So I'd do fifteen hours

1004
01:17:39.199 --> 01:17:49.399
five days a week, I think, and between.

1005
01:17:49.840 --> 01:17:52.960
I was loud on it. Between four point thirty and

1006
01:17:54.960 --> 01:18:02.119
when the doors were locked, I really didn't leave the reception.

1007
01:18:02.880 --> 01:18:07.159
I couldn't leave the reception, so when the front door

1008
01:18:07.199 --> 01:18:10.000
was opened, I had to be in the reception. I

1009
01:18:10.119 --> 01:18:13.439
was security for the building. When the doors. The front

1010
01:18:13.479 --> 01:18:17.199
doors were locked, then I could do patrols and do

1011
01:18:17.279 --> 01:18:20.119
whatever I want. Really, so.

1012
01:18:25.319 --> 01:18:32.960
Yeah, so I in the morning, I would open the

1013
01:18:33.000 --> 01:18:37.359
doors at about six in the morning and I was

1014
01:18:37.399 --> 01:18:39.439
there till seven point thirty.

1015
01:18:39.960 --> 01:18:43.800
I couldn't leave the reception from six to seven point thirty.

1016
01:18:46.399 --> 01:18:54.520
Until the receptions came on and took over. So that

1017
01:18:54.640 --> 01:18:54.880
was me.

1018
01:18:55.039 --> 01:18:57.880
Maybe it's eight thirty, It's something like that. Maybe it's

1019
01:18:57.880 --> 01:19:01.680
half four till eight thirty. So I wasn't allowed to

1020
01:19:03.279 --> 01:19:06.840
leave the reception until the receptionist was on and then

1021
01:19:06.880 --> 01:19:13.960
I'd go home. And I didn't use a toilet before

1022
01:19:14.000 --> 01:19:18.760
going home. So how did I block that toilet?

1023
01:19:20.640 --> 01:19:23.239
Because I can't use a toilet while the cleaners are in,

1024
01:19:23.560 --> 01:19:25.600
because they're in once they're in. The front doors are

1025
01:19:25.640 --> 01:19:28.920
open because the staff used to come in early hours,

1026
01:19:29.399 --> 01:19:32.680
so six o'clock doors were open. The staff would come in,

1027
01:19:33.239 --> 01:19:34.239
the cleaners would come.

1028
01:19:34.159 --> 01:19:38.960
In, and then they'd get deliveries. The machines would get

1029
01:19:39.239 --> 01:19:43.560
filled in, you know, like because in London, because this

1030
01:19:43.640 --> 01:19:46.159
is in the West End, a lot of deliveries had

1031
01:19:46.199 --> 01:19:50.680
done very early because it's hard to park anywhere during

1032
01:19:50.680 --> 01:19:54.640
the day and to get around.

1033
01:19:56.000 --> 01:19:57.960
And some of the staff would be in really early

1034
01:19:58.000 --> 01:19:58.319
as well.

1035
01:19:58.439 --> 01:20:00.399
Some of them would be there late at night as well,

1036
01:20:00.439 --> 01:20:02.760
you know, until ten o'clock at night some of them,

1037
01:20:03.239 --> 01:20:05.079
and some would get in at six in the morning

1038
01:20:05.800 --> 01:20:07.560
or half six seven.

1039
01:20:10.760 --> 01:20:13.920
So I wasn't allowed to leave the reception, so if

1040
01:20:13.920 --> 01:20:14.520
I did go to.

1041
01:20:14.479 --> 01:20:18.680
The toilet, it had to be before the reception opened,

1042
01:20:19.079 --> 01:20:25.520
before the cleaners got there. Now, I always did a

1043
01:20:25.560 --> 01:20:31.199
patrol of the building. My last patrol. It's just a

1044
01:20:31.279 --> 01:20:35.399
go around, make sure everything was fine, Always check the toilets.

1045
01:20:36.520 --> 01:20:39.239
It wasn't really for floods. I just like looking at toilets,

1046
01:20:39.880 --> 01:20:42.880
and so I went around and there was like toilets

1047
01:20:42.920 --> 01:20:50.079
on each floor. I think there's four floors. Everything was fine,

1048
01:20:50.279 --> 01:20:56.680
and I'm at home and I get a phone call. Yeah,

1049
01:20:56.720 --> 01:20:58.439
I get a phone call. So I wasn't sent home

1050
01:20:58.479 --> 01:21:00.079
so much. But I did get a phone call.

1051
01:21:01.560 --> 01:21:07.239
At home saying, don't you can't go in there anymore

1052
01:21:07.239 --> 01:21:13.199
because you because the toilet was flooded. I don't.

1053
01:21:13.279 --> 01:21:15.119
I'm not even sure if they told me why. They

1054
01:21:15.159 --> 01:21:17.600
just said you can't go in anymore. You've been you've

1055
01:21:17.640 --> 01:21:24.720
been suspended from the building. And yeah, I think it

1056
01:21:24.800 --> 01:21:26.640
was when I got there on Mondays. This was a

1057
01:21:26.720 --> 01:21:32.119
Tuesday evening or maybe the Monday. The Wednesday morning they

1058
01:21:32.199 --> 01:21:34.000
might have phone me. I was probably asleep.

1059
01:21:35.119 --> 01:21:39.560
And then the following Monday they told me is because

1060
01:21:39.600 --> 01:21:43.640
I had blocked the toilet apparently, and it upset one

1061
01:21:43.680 --> 01:21:49.039
of the the cleanness and it had leaked and water

1062
01:21:49.039 --> 01:21:49.800
had gone everywhere.

1063
01:21:51.600 --> 01:21:54.880
Ah, I've blocked a lot of toilets in the past.

1064
01:21:55.479 --> 01:22:03.520
I'll be honest with you. It's never overrun. Toilets are

1065
01:22:03.520 --> 01:22:07.199
built to not overrun that you know, the water goes

1066
01:22:07.239 --> 01:22:10.239
to a certain level, it doesn't go over I've never

1067
01:22:10.279 --> 01:22:16.600
had a toilet overflow ever, so and I've blocked a lot.

1068
01:22:17.800 --> 01:22:21.640
I have blocked a lot of toilets over the years,

1069
01:22:21.640 --> 01:22:23.560
just like standard. I'm sure everyone has.

1070
01:22:24.920 --> 01:22:28.079
It used to be a hobby, but on this occasion

1071
01:22:28.920 --> 01:22:32.000
it wasn't me. Maybe I'm maybe I'm just getting punished

1072
01:22:32.039 --> 01:22:36.399
for previous blockages. But they're making out that the water

1073
01:22:36.479 --> 01:22:44.159
overflowed and completely when everywhere, Like how that doesn't even

1074
01:22:44.199 --> 01:22:52.920
make sense. But anyway, I always blamed for that. And

1075
01:22:52.960 --> 01:22:54.720
so when I went in there and they told me,

1076
01:22:56.920 --> 01:23:02.680
I laughed. Now one of the managers, well, there was

1077
01:23:02.720 --> 01:23:07.159
two owners of the business one like me, and he

1078
01:23:07.439 --> 01:23:13.760
was he was more active in the security company, so

1079
01:23:13.800 --> 01:23:16.800
he'd he'd go around and he'd do a lot more

1080
01:23:16.880 --> 01:23:20.680
like dealing with the security guards, and the other bloke

1081
01:23:20.760 --> 01:23:21.119
would be.

1082
01:23:21.039 --> 01:23:22.159
In the office.

1083
01:23:22.359 --> 01:23:24.920
So I think they were both equal partners, both ex

1084
01:23:24.960 --> 01:23:29.319
police or something, but one of them was more in

1085
01:23:29.479 --> 01:23:30.560
the background.

1086
01:23:30.560 --> 01:23:31.640
We didn't really get to see him.

1087
01:23:31.720 --> 01:23:38.039
Apart from the disciplinaries, I'd already had two previous disciplinaries,

1088
01:23:39.760 --> 01:23:42.439
again both not my fault.

1089
01:23:45.600 --> 01:23:58.079
So there and it was it two two disciplinaries, two disciplinaries,

1090
01:24:00.399 --> 01:24:03.880
it three notinly discipline.

1091
01:24:03.960 --> 01:24:08.399
The first discipline I had was I was accused of

1092
01:24:08.520 --> 01:24:13.560
drinking at work and at that time I didn't drink.

1093
01:24:14.880 --> 01:24:18.800
She didn't drink. And apparently this is when I was

1094
01:24:18.800 --> 01:24:22.000
working in the nurses home. Someone said that they saw

1095
01:24:22.039 --> 01:24:26.439
me with a flask. Yeah, I had a flask. It

1096
01:24:26.520 --> 01:24:30.199
had a protein drink, like a protein shake in it.

1097
01:24:30.760 --> 01:24:32.520
So I'd go into the gym every day and I

1098
01:24:32.560 --> 01:24:37.439
was drinking a protein drink. I was eating every two hours,

1099
01:24:37.560 --> 01:24:38.800
you know, I was trying to put a little bit

1100
01:24:38.800 --> 01:24:44.840
of muscle on. And she's like, someone must have thought

1101
01:24:44.840 --> 01:24:49.159
I was drinking alcohol and what's weird though, is because

1102
01:24:49.600 --> 01:24:55.159
the the well, I forget what they call him now,

1103
01:24:55.439 --> 01:24:58.319
but a security guard would come around and check everyone

1104
01:24:59.199 --> 01:25:03.840
because I was doing shift and they'd come along and

1105
01:25:03.920 --> 01:25:06.319
I remember that there's two different ones as a lady

1106
01:25:06.319 --> 01:25:08.159
and I was a bloke, and they both used to

1107
01:25:08.279 --> 01:25:10.880
like sitting and chatting with me. And both of them

1108
01:25:11.159 --> 01:25:15.239
smelled the flask because they career with what's in there.

1109
01:25:15.279 --> 01:25:17.439
And I said, it's protein drink. That's something if you want.

1110
01:25:20.039 --> 01:25:21.640
I said, I have. I have gobbed in it, but

1111
01:25:21.720 --> 01:25:22.239
you can have some.

1112
01:25:23.520 --> 01:25:28.199
And I said no, but it's like it was a

1113
01:25:28.239 --> 01:25:31.439
protein drink and they could smell there's no alcohol in it.

1114
01:25:33.279 --> 01:25:36.239
It's just seeing weird why someone I don't know if

1115
01:25:36.279 --> 01:25:39.520
it was, I don't know the reason behind it. But

1116
01:25:39.640 --> 01:25:41.720
again I laughed during that one. I said, I don't

1117
01:25:41.800 --> 01:25:44.880
drink alcohol. You asked me that in the when the

1118
01:25:45.439 --> 01:25:49.039
had gave me the interview. I don't drink alcohol. I

1119
01:25:49.119 --> 01:25:51.640
just don't. And also I don't go out because I'm

1120
01:25:51.680 --> 01:25:56.199
working every night. You know, I was getting one night

1121
01:25:56.239 --> 01:26:00.159
off a week at that point. That's when I was

1122
01:26:00.199 --> 01:26:02.880
lucky if I didn't have to cover someone's shift. So

1123
01:26:02.920 --> 01:26:06.640
I'm getting like one night off a week, if I

1124
01:26:06.680 --> 01:26:08.960
did go out, I might have a drink, but generally,

1125
01:26:09.920 --> 01:26:12.680
you know, I didn't didn't drink alcohol. I definitely wouldn't

1126
01:26:12.760 --> 01:26:19.039
drink alcoholic work. People would know, trust me, if I

1127
01:26:19.159 --> 01:26:22.399
was drinking our call at work, everybody would know it.

1128
01:26:23.520 --> 01:26:23.840
I'm not.

1129
01:26:25.760 --> 01:26:29.000
Yeah, I can't hide it when I'm drinking. If I'm drunk,

1130
01:26:29.039 --> 01:26:30.479
the whole world's going to know about it.

1131
01:26:32.359 --> 01:26:35.640
So I laughed that off, and they kind of just said, oh,

1132
01:26:35.800 --> 01:26:39.560
fair enough, because that's, you know.

1133
01:26:39.520 --> 01:26:41.560
The one that was very active with us all. He'd

1134
01:26:41.600 --> 01:26:45.239
seen me enough and he believed me, so that was cool.

1135
01:26:45.279 --> 01:26:54.319
So I got. I went back and and then I

1136
01:26:54.399 --> 01:27:01.640
got I got accused of something else there as well.

1137
01:27:02.880 --> 01:27:13.199
I can't remember what it was or did I just leave,

1138
01:27:13.479 --> 01:27:16.680
did I did they move me? They moved me from there.

1139
01:27:17.479 --> 01:27:20.960
I'm sure there was another reason I got. I got

1140
01:27:23.760 --> 01:27:26.560
a disciplinary so I got. There's two that I remember.

1141
01:27:26.600 --> 01:27:29.720
One was because of the when I blocked the toilet,

1142
01:27:30.279 --> 01:27:32.760
now when I was accused of blocking the toilet, sorry,

1143
01:27:32.920 --> 01:27:34.960
any other one was when I was drinking, I mean,

1144
01:27:35.119 --> 01:27:38.960
when I was accused of drinking. Sure, there was another one.

1145
01:27:39.039 --> 01:27:43.239
There was a third in the middle or second, but

1146
01:27:43.359 --> 01:27:44.319
before the third.

1147
01:27:45.920 --> 01:27:46.520
It was.

1148
01:27:49.880 --> 01:27:53.439
Well, anyway, I got sacked, so that one with a toilet.

1149
01:27:54.039 --> 01:27:56.880
They sacked me because I was laughing in the interview

1150
01:27:57.119 --> 01:27:59.920
in the disciplinary I said, this is pathetic, this is

1151
01:28:00.159 --> 01:28:04.399
really really ridiculous. I said, after all the dodgy things

1152
01:28:04.439 --> 01:28:07.720
I've done while I've worked for you that you don't

1153
01:28:07.720 --> 01:28:11.760
know about, and this one thing, which the all things

1154
01:28:11.760 --> 01:28:13.439
I have done, and the one thing I didn't do,

1155
01:28:13.600 --> 01:28:17.039
I'm getting blamed for. And they said, well, we just

1156
01:28:17.079 --> 01:28:18.840
need to have a little chat together, and they went

1157
01:28:18.880 --> 01:28:26.560
out and they came back and said, yeah, I see.

1158
01:28:24.680 --> 01:28:30.960
You later, and they sacked me. What was the other

1159
01:28:31.039 --> 01:28:33.920
thing I did or not did, but that I got

1160
01:28:34.319 --> 01:28:34.960
accused of?

1161
01:28:36.720 --> 01:28:45.079
Wasn't it stealing? But anyway, I was doing this. I

1162
01:28:45.159 --> 01:28:47.399
remembered it when I was started talking about this, and

1163
01:28:47.439 --> 01:28:48.560
then it kind of went out of me head.

1164
01:28:51.239 --> 01:28:55.199
I'm sure I had three disciplinaries. I'm so proud of it.

1165
01:28:55.239 --> 01:28:58.880
And I I was disciplined three times. I got suspended

1166
01:28:58.920 --> 01:29:07.640
three times. I got suspended at least twice. Sure there

1167
01:29:07.640 --> 01:29:11.279
was a third one. What would that be about? Did

1168
01:29:11.319 --> 01:29:17.119
I get accused of something else? Because I definitely got

1169
01:29:17.159 --> 01:29:22.720
moved from the nurses home for a reason. I can't

1170
01:29:22.760 --> 01:29:28.920
remember what that reason was. How strange.

1171
01:29:31.159 --> 01:29:35.680
H So I ended up working in the printer's Dennis

1172
01:29:36.800 --> 01:29:41.560
Dennis Printers or something that was called and or Dennis

1173
01:29:41.560 --> 01:29:43.399
Publishing Publishers.

1174
01:29:48.800 --> 01:29:51.520
Yeah, so I worked there. So I got sacked.

1175
01:29:52.439 --> 01:29:56.720
I got suspended and sacked, went and worked at this

1176
01:29:57.479 --> 01:30:04.319
sales job trying to sell till roll. And then after

1177
01:30:04.359 --> 01:30:06.920
two weeks of that, I found up the security company

1178
01:30:07.000 --> 01:30:09.239
and said, oh, please, can I come back?

1179
01:30:11.319 --> 01:30:17.920
Sorry, sorry for laughing, and they said, yeah, come back,

1180
01:30:18.000 --> 01:30:20.359
because I was looking for people, I said. They said,

1181
01:30:20.399 --> 01:30:24.319
we've got a new site for you. And they started

1182
01:30:24.319 --> 01:30:28.800
putting me on the grottiest sites ever. Honestly, they moved

1183
01:30:28.800 --> 01:30:31.960
me around a lot, put me on some really really

1184
01:30:32.039 --> 01:30:41.239
bad sites, and oh did I get suspended off one

1185
01:30:41.279 --> 01:30:46.960
of those for drinking. I wasn't drinking though, but I

1186
01:30:47.119 --> 01:30:52.000
was with another another guard who was drinking and he

1187
01:30:52.319 --> 01:30:55.479
got through about I don't know, eight cans of Lago

1188
01:30:55.640 --> 01:31:00.600
during the night, but instead of instead of putting them

1189
01:31:00.680 --> 01:31:02.760
like hiding the cans, he just put him in the

1190
01:31:02.800 --> 01:31:08.800
waste waste paper basket in the office. And the manager,

1191
01:31:10.920 --> 01:31:19.199
who was a fiery fella, got very angry, but as

1192
01:31:19.239 --> 01:31:20.760
I said, wasn't me.

1193
01:31:21.680 --> 01:31:23.479
And they knew the other bloke and they knew what

1194
01:31:23.520 --> 01:31:29.319
he was around, and I think they suspended him.

1195
01:31:27.800 --> 01:31:28.880
And told the.

1196
01:31:30.720 --> 01:31:34.560
Man, the manager of that place, that they had sacked him,

1197
01:31:34.560 --> 01:31:37.439
but they didn't. They just moved himTo a different site.

1198
01:31:38.239 --> 01:31:46.000
And then one day and this was a former psychiatric hospital,

1199
01:31:48.239 --> 01:31:50.560
it was according asylum back then. It was one of

1200
01:31:50.600 --> 01:31:54.479
them places. Was one of the biggest hospitals.

1201
01:31:53.960 --> 01:31:57.119
In Europe, one of the longest hospitals in Europe, and

1202
01:31:57.199 --> 01:32:00.600
it was in North London, massive bit of waste ground,

1203
01:32:00.640 --> 01:32:03.319
well that's a bit of ground, and there was houses

1204
01:32:03.399 --> 01:32:05.920
where some of the patients used to live, where some

1205
01:32:05.960 --> 01:32:08.079
of the doctors and nurses used to live.

1206
01:32:08.520 --> 01:32:11.960
And my job was just to parole this whole patrol,

1207
01:32:12.079 --> 01:32:17.840
rather not parole patrol this whole area. And I could

1208
01:32:17.880 --> 01:32:21.439
not stand being in the same room as this bloke

1209
01:32:22.199 --> 01:32:24.760
who was in charge, because all he did was moan.

1210
01:32:25.760 --> 01:32:32.279
But he was a shouter, just like yeah, yeah, just

1211
01:32:32.640 --> 01:32:36.880
about everything. So in the end I just decided to

1212
01:32:36.920 --> 01:32:42.439
do the patrol, but just not go back to the office.

1213
01:32:43.000 --> 01:32:45.439
I had my radio on me and I phoned in

1214
01:32:45.520 --> 01:32:47.880
every time to let him know where I was, because

1215
01:32:47.880 --> 01:32:49.640
you have to phone in every hour or you know,

1216
01:32:50.159 --> 01:32:52.520
patrol every to let him know where I was and stuff.

1217
01:32:52.560 --> 01:32:54.840
So I was doing everything on my side that I

1218
01:32:54.880 --> 01:32:58.359
was supposed to do. But this manager, you know, when

1219
01:32:58.359 --> 01:33:04.159
I turned up perhaps six hours later, he accused me

1220
01:33:04.239 --> 01:33:08.399
of leaving the site. He said, you've gone home. You

1221
01:33:08.439 --> 01:33:09.439
went ihme and came back.

1222
01:33:10.520 --> 01:33:12.000
Well, first of all, I didn't go home because it

1223
01:33:12.079 --> 01:33:14.439
take me two hours to get there. So no, I

1224
01:33:14.479 --> 01:33:17.199
didn't go home and come back. What's the point or

1225
01:33:17.239 --> 01:33:20.119
go home, sit down for five minutes then come back,

1226
01:33:20.239 --> 01:33:20.560
you know.

1227
01:33:20.560 --> 01:33:23.880
No, he said, I don't know where you live. I said,

1228
01:33:24.640 --> 01:33:28.720
I told you I live in. Where did I live?

1229
01:33:29.760 --> 01:33:34.720
Upton Park at the time. Yeah.

1230
01:33:35.560 --> 01:33:40.079
See, I got sacked from there because apparently if what

1231
01:33:40.159 --> 01:33:43.079
I went off site and I didn't, I stayed. I

1232
01:33:43.119 --> 01:33:48.119
just I did my patrol over and over again, and

1233
01:33:48.199 --> 01:33:50.479
I phoned in, you know, I called in my walkie

1234
01:33:50.479 --> 01:33:53.000
talkie and I've called in every hour.

1235
01:33:53.119 --> 01:33:57.680
I did everything by the book. But he decided that I.

1236
01:33:57.600 --> 01:34:02.600
Hadn't, so he sacked me, or he reported me, and

1237
01:34:02.840 --> 01:34:05.199
they told him that they'd sacked me, and they just

1238
01:34:05.239 --> 01:34:07.319
moved me to a different site.

1239
01:34:08.800 --> 01:34:14.560
And then I ended up on the Royal Opera House,

1240
01:34:14.760 --> 01:34:17.600
the new rural Opera House that was being built back

1241
01:34:17.640 --> 01:34:23.359
in nineteen ninety seven. So I was there. I was

1242
01:34:23.399 --> 01:34:31.439
a security there and I'd be backing in lorries and

1243
01:34:31.520 --> 01:34:35.680
stopping traffic and stuff like that because they had non

1244
01:34:35.760 --> 01:34:40.880
stop concrete lorries coming and going, and I'd be stopping

1245
01:34:40.920 --> 01:34:47.239
people and opening barriers for cars that had businesses in

1246
01:34:47.279 --> 01:34:52.279
that little area. Yeah it was. I didn't mind. It was.

1247
01:34:52.600 --> 01:34:59.680
It wasn't a bad little job, and yeah it was

1248
01:34:59.680 --> 01:35:02.119
all right. Actually got on quite well with the builders

1249
01:35:02.159 --> 01:35:08.439
and the people involved. There was a couple of annoying people,

1250
01:35:08.439 --> 01:35:13.319
but there was is no I was one of them.

1251
01:35:13.640 --> 01:35:18.439
And then I got sacked from that job for some reason.

1252
01:35:18.439 --> 01:35:24.319
I can't remember why that was. Oh I just remember why.

1253
01:35:24.359 --> 01:35:31.239
I got disciplined. It was a Canary wharf. Canary Wharf.

1254
01:35:32.159 --> 01:35:39.920
I got disciplined of falling asleep. Right, So.

1255
01:35:41.760 --> 01:35:44.000
I didn't fall asleep. Well I did fall asleep, Okay,

1256
01:35:44.079 --> 01:35:47.319
this is true. I did fall asleep. So when I

1257
01:35:47.359 --> 01:35:57.319
was at Canary Wharf ninety six, probably April April time ish,

1258
01:35:57.399 --> 01:36:01.800
and my job was to who just basically checked people

1259
01:36:01.880 --> 01:36:03.520
as that were coming in to.

1260
01:36:05.199 --> 01:36:08.680
The floors that I was protecting. So I protected, I

1261
01:36:08.720 --> 01:36:15.319
was secured, and so there is probably about twelve of us,

1262
01:36:17.439 --> 01:36:19.840
maybe a little bit more that would and we had

1263
01:36:19.880 --> 01:36:24.960
to think four floors, two or four or five floors

1264
01:36:24.960 --> 01:36:29.079
that it was part of the Mirror group newspaper group,

1265
01:36:30.079 --> 01:36:32.279
so I had to Racing Times and.

1266
01:36:32.680 --> 01:36:35.680
Sunday Mirror, Daily Mirror, and.

1267
01:36:35.840 --> 01:36:40.479
Possibly some other stuff. So we were kind of securing that.

1268
01:36:40.600 --> 01:36:45.479
So there'd be two of us, sometimes just one on

1269
01:36:46.039 --> 01:36:49.319
the main doors. So I have to check people's passes,

1270
01:36:50.039 --> 01:36:54.159
have to check their purses, their handbags, their bags. Because

1271
01:36:54.199 --> 01:36:59.560
this was directly after a very serious incident that happened.

1272
01:37:00.039 --> 01:37:02.560
Why I got the job because I were taking on

1273
01:37:02.680 --> 01:37:06.079
new staff because originally I applied for the job and

1274
01:37:06.159 --> 01:37:10.079
he laughed at me, said no, no, you're right, we

1275
01:37:10.119 --> 01:37:11.680
don't need thanks, we're.

1276
01:37:11.479 --> 01:37:12.319
Not at desperate.

1277
01:37:13.199 --> 01:37:16.239
And then they called up a week later after this

1278
01:37:16.399 --> 01:37:18.359
major event happened and they said, yeah, we are.

1279
01:37:18.479 --> 01:37:23.119
We're quite desperate. Now we are. Yeah, we're desperate enough

1280
01:37:23.159 --> 01:37:28.039
to employ you. I said, oh, that's nice.

1281
01:37:27.279 --> 01:37:30.239
And so I got that job. Now I got on

1282
01:37:30.359 --> 01:37:34.000
really well with one of the owners, the one that

1283
01:37:34.119 --> 01:37:37.680
was around a lot, and I think that's why I

1284
01:37:37.720 --> 01:37:40.119
got away with so much stuff because I made him

1285
01:37:40.199 --> 01:37:43.560
laugh and we had a laugh. And even though I

1286
01:37:43.680 --> 01:37:45.840
ended up getting sacked, he's still I don't think he

1287
01:37:45.960 --> 01:37:47.920
wanted to sack me. And he's the one that gave

1288
01:37:47.920 --> 01:37:53.159
me a job back. He came up to me one

1289
01:37:53.239 --> 01:37:58.399
night after I'd done twelve hours. It was time for

1290
01:37:58.399 --> 01:38:03.119
me to go home, and he said, here, yea, yeah,

1291
01:38:03.239 --> 01:38:06.560
do some fear of a warncher. I said, not again.

1292
01:38:06.680 --> 01:38:09.319
I told you I've got a girlfriend. He said, no, no,

1293
01:38:09.319 --> 01:38:12.479
not that. He said, can you He wanted me to

1294
01:38:12.520 --> 01:38:16.560
stay for another twelve hours. See if you get any

1295
01:38:16.600 --> 01:38:18.800
normal job and they say can you do some overtime,

1296
01:38:19.479 --> 01:38:21.920
it's usually like an hour or so, maybe two hours.

1297
01:38:22.960 --> 01:38:28.680
This job in security is another twelve hours please. I said,

1298
01:38:28.680 --> 01:38:32.399
that's twenty four hours. He said I can count. I said,

1299
01:38:32.439 --> 01:38:35.359
I know, but I can't do twelve hours. I can't

1300
01:38:35.359 --> 01:38:41.600
do another twelve hours. I started at six this morning

1301
01:38:44.279 --> 01:38:47.560
or was it seven eight of I've been eight in

1302
01:38:47.600 --> 01:38:50.479
the morning. But I've been up since. You know, I've

1303
01:38:50.479 --> 01:38:53.000
been up two hours before I started my job, so

1304
01:38:53.159 --> 01:38:56.600
to getting up and then traveling, so I've been up

1305
01:38:56.600 --> 01:38:57.720
for a long time.

1306
01:38:58.840 --> 01:39:02.399
And he said, oh, go on please. So my job

1307
01:39:02.520 --> 01:39:10.760
was to go downstairs and look after the main This

1308
01:39:11.000 --> 01:39:11.239
was the.

1309
01:39:13.399 --> 01:39:19.560
Big boss's office area, the big Boss of the Mirror Group,

1310
01:39:19.920 --> 01:39:23.159
who at the time was Kelvin McKenzie. He was also

1311
01:39:23.399 --> 01:39:25.399
editor of The Son as well. Before that, I think

1312
01:39:27.279 --> 01:39:29.760
I saw him a few times, very very booming voice,

1313
01:39:30.600 --> 01:39:33.319
not hugely tall, but very booming voice, big bloke.

1314
01:39:34.520 --> 01:39:37.600
And I was the.

1315
01:39:37.680 --> 01:39:41.680
Reception and his office was further up, so anyone that

1316
01:39:41.760 --> 01:39:45.399
came to visit him had to come to where I was.

1317
01:39:47.039 --> 01:39:49.039
Now, no one was going to ask.

1318
01:39:48.800 --> 01:39:51.800
For him because he was gone. There was no one

1319
01:39:51.920 --> 01:39:55.600
in his office at that time. There was also another

1320
01:39:55.640 --> 01:39:57.960
office where someone did come for the and then I left,

1321
01:39:58.840 --> 01:40:04.960
probably his assistant something so or maybe he did come

1322
01:40:05.000 --> 01:40:09.119
for a little while. But after eight o'clock nine o'clock

1323
01:40:09.159 --> 01:40:11.720
there was nothing, no activity. So I was there on

1324
01:40:11.720 --> 01:40:19.920
my own, nothing to do at all. So I said

1325
01:40:19.960 --> 01:40:23.960
to my boss before accepting to do it well first time, I.

1326
01:40:23.960 --> 01:40:28.720
Said no, I said go on please. I said no.

1327
01:40:29.399 --> 01:40:32.479
I said no, I can't do another twelve hours. He said,

1328
01:40:32.520 --> 01:40:39.079
I'll be a best friend. And I was going to

1329
01:40:39.119 --> 01:40:41.119
say no, but then he started tickling me, and I

1330
01:40:41.279 --> 01:40:43.079
just it's hard to resist, isn't it.

1331
01:40:44.359 --> 01:40:46.479
And I said, okay, but I just got to warn

1332
01:40:46.520 --> 01:40:48.560
you I will fall asleep. And he said, it doesn't matter,

1333
01:40:49.760 --> 01:40:53.439
it doesn't matter, just whatever. I just need this to

1334
01:40:53.479 --> 01:40:53.920
be covered.

1335
01:40:53.960 --> 01:40:57.159
It's so important because of that area being no one's

1336
01:40:57.199 --> 01:40:59.600
going to be down there, no one, you know, the

1337
01:40:59.600 --> 01:41:02.479
big he's gone, he's gone, he won't be back till

1338
01:41:02.479 --> 01:41:07.119
tomorrow morning. You'll be gone before he gets in. And

1339
01:41:09.680 --> 01:41:11.920
even said, I'll try and get the other security guards

1340
01:41:11.960 --> 01:41:13.960
coming a little bit early so you can get off

1341
01:41:13.960 --> 01:41:20.000
a little bit earlier. And I said, okay, then, and

1342
01:41:20.039 --> 01:41:23.920
I sat down. That's a nice little gig. Actually it

1343
01:41:24.039 --> 01:41:32.119
was comfortable, no one else around, really comfortable. Like it's like,

1344
01:41:32.399 --> 01:41:36.640
that's probably the nicest little area in.

1345
01:41:36.079 --> 01:41:40.600
Those all of those floors, because there was a bosses area,

1346
01:41:40.640 --> 01:41:43.159
I guess. So he had a nice, really big, spacious

1347
01:41:44.920 --> 01:41:46.600
and there was a book there.

1348
01:41:46.159 --> 01:41:50.119
Called there was like a crime book that I started

1349
01:41:50.159 --> 01:41:56.520
to read and I read a lot of it. So

1350
01:41:56.560 --> 01:42:01.399
I'm reading this book and then and as I'm reading,

1351
01:42:01.479 --> 01:42:07.199
I hear this voice saying Jason, Jason, Like I look

1352
01:42:07.279 --> 01:42:16.239
up and it's my boss, like the security boss. He said,

1353
01:42:16.279 --> 01:42:21.119
you're asleep, So no I wasn't. I was reading a book.

1354
01:42:21.720 --> 01:42:26.359
He said, you're literally in a hammock with your pajamas on.

1355
01:42:26.600 --> 01:42:29.479
What would And I said, I told you that I

1356
01:42:29.520 --> 01:42:33.319
would fall asleep. I didn't realize I've fallen asleep. But

1357
01:42:34.239 --> 01:42:37.680
I said, look, I've done twelve hours, doing twenty four

1358
01:42:37.720 --> 01:42:44.439
hours without falling asleep. Is it's a ridiculous ask? And

1359
01:42:44.640 --> 01:42:46.720
he said, got to go home.

1360
01:42:48.680 --> 01:42:52.159
I said really. He said, yeah, I'll take over and

1361
01:42:52.199 --> 01:42:52.840
I'll sit here.

1362
01:42:53.039 --> 01:42:58.720
You've got to leave. You're suspended. And I said to him,

1363
01:42:59.079 --> 01:43:00.439
I think I might have called it the name.

1364
01:43:00.479 --> 01:43:02.159
I said, you are whatever.

1365
01:43:03.159 --> 01:43:05.079
I told you i'd fall asleep and you said it

1366
01:43:05.119 --> 01:43:09.039
didn't matter. He said, you're on camera, You've been filmed,

1367
01:43:09.079 --> 01:43:13.079
You've been seen falling asleep. How do you think we knew?

1368
01:43:15.359 --> 01:43:18.880
I literally said to you that I can't do another

1369
01:43:18.920 --> 01:43:20.279
twelve hours about falling asleep.

1370
01:43:21.119 --> 01:43:26.760
And he said, I know, but you know you're suspended.

1371
01:43:28.000 --> 01:43:28.840
So I went away.

1372
01:43:29.840 --> 01:43:31.640
A couple of days later, I went into the office

1373
01:43:31.680 --> 01:43:36.600
in the London Offices to go to my disciplinary. So

1374
01:43:36.720 --> 01:43:42.399
this would be my second disciplinary out of three, and

1375
01:43:45.760 --> 01:43:49.199
I had everything in my arsenal for that one. The

1376
01:43:49.239 --> 01:43:52.239
first one, I don't drink, they could take it or

1377
01:43:52.319 --> 01:43:54.920
leave it, whether I was being honest, and it was true,

1378
01:43:54.920 --> 01:43:58.359
I didn't drink, and it's no way I would take

1379
01:43:58.479 --> 01:44:01.720
alcohol to work with me, especially when I was at

1380
01:44:01.720 --> 01:44:04.880
a reception and it was all glasses and loads of

1381
01:44:04.880 --> 01:44:10.039
people coming and going. They could you know, it just

1382
01:44:10.039 --> 01:44:12.239
seemed just wasn't what I was going to do. And

1383
01:44:12.680 --> 01:44:15.479
I really wasn't a drinker at all. I'd go out

1384
01:44:15.520 --> 01:44:18.159
and if I did have a drink when I went out,

1385
01:44:18.199 --> 01:44:22.159
it'd be like one bottle of lager would last me

1386
01:44:22.199 --> 01:44:22.760
the whole night.

1387
01:44:23.880 --> 01:44:25.119
I'd more than likely just have a.

1388
01:44:25.079 --> 01:44:27.079
Glass of coke or a couple of glasses of coke.

1389
01:44:27.760 --> 01:44:32.880
Just wasn't my thing back then. The year before Wow,

1390
01:44:33.439 --> 01:44:35.720
I was putting it away. But that year I just

1391
01:44:35.800 --> 01:44:40.800
took a break. And so the first one, it was like,

1392
01:44:41.000 --> 01:44:44.199
could have gone either way, believe me or don't believe me.

1393
01:44:44.960 --> 01:44:47.439
And because they both one of them liked me, the

1394
01:44:47.479 --> 01:44:50.359
other one gave me the benefit of the doubt. So

1395
01:44:50.479 --> 01:44:53.000
they they moved me to a different place.

1396
01:44:53.319 --> 01:44:54.199
No did they move me.

1397
01:44:54.560 --> 01:44:56.479
I think they kept me there, and then I got

1398
01:44:56.880 --> 01:44:59.960
moved again for some other Someone accused me of something else,

1399
01:45:00.079 --> 01:45:00.560
so I don't know.

1400
01:45:02.159 --> 01:45:07.640
I can't remember what that was. And the second, the

1401
01:45:07.680 --> 01:45:10.720
second disciplinary, unlike the third one.

1402
01:45:10.880 --> 01:45:14.520
Third one, I was laughing and I got sacked. But

1403
01:45:14.600 --> 01:45:17.159
the second one I went in there and I was

1404
01:45:17.279 --> 01:45:21.279
not not because I knew the reason I was in

1405
01:45:21.319 --> 01:45:21.680
there for.

1406
01:45:25.800 --> 01:45:27.920
The first and the first and third time. I don't

1407
01:45:27.960 --> 01:45:30.359
think I knew until I got into the disciplinary why

1408
01:45:30.359 --> 01:45:34.760
I had been suspended. But the second time I knew

1409
01:45:34.760 --> 01:45:37.079
because it had already told me he needed to go

1410
01:45:37.159 --> 01:45:40.199
home because we found you asleep. So I turned up there.

1411
01:45:40.239 --> 01:45:46.239
I was r I was proper like I think.

1412
01:45:46.319 --> 01:45:50.640
First one I said, is you're out of order to

1413
01:45:51.199 --> 01:45:53.520
the bloke that was supposed to be my mate, what

1414
01:45:53.680 --> 01:45:56.079
my friend kind of was a boss, but I said,

1415
01:45:56.079 --> 01:45:56.800
you're out of order.

1416
01:45:56.880 --> 01:46:00.399
You know you are, and the other managed the other

1417
01:46:00.439 --> 01:46:02.560
boss said what's going on?

1418
01:46:03.840 --> 01:46:10.119
And the one that I knew started to talk and

1419
01:46:10.279 --> 01:46:11.960
his partner said, no, wait, manut, I want to hear

1420
01:46:11.960 --> 01:46:13.079
it from Jason.

1421
01:46:13.520 --> 01:46:19.399
Mister Newland. So I told him. I said, he asked

1422
01:46:19.399 --> 01:46:21.239
me to stay twelve hours after I just done a

1423
01:46:21.279 --> 01:46:23.159
twelve hour shift, so you wanted me to do a

1424
01:46:23.159 --> 01:46:26.479
twenty four hour shift? I told him point blank, I

1425
01:46:26.479 --> 01:46:32.079
would fall asleep, because what else do you do staying

1426
01:46:32.079 --> 01:46:33.359
away for twenty four hours?

1427
01:46:34.279 --> 01:46:36.680
I said I'd fall asleep, and he said it's okay,

1428
01:46:36.680 --> 01:46:40.319
it doesn't matter fell asleep. He sent me home suspended

1429
01:46:40.960 --> 01:46:46.000
and without pay, and ended up with disciplinary.

1430
01:46:46.600 --> 01:46:47.560
He said, is that true?

1431
01:46:47.720 --> 01:46:50.000
And they went out and they came back and apologized

1432
01:46:50.000 --> 01:46:56.000
to me, apologized, and.

1433
01:46:56.079 --> 01:46:57.079
I went back.

1434
01:46:59.319 --> 01:47:01.479
To Canary one off and I went back and continued

1435
01:47:01.520 --> 01:47:07.600
working there until they Now that was my first disciplinary.

1436
01:47:08.520 --> 01:47:11.840
The second one was the alcohol one. So that was

1437
01:47:11.840 --> 01:47:15.520
the first disciplinary. So I'm sure there was another one

1438
01:47:15.520 --> 01:47:21.319
as well. I can't remember what it was. I think,

1439
01:47:21.359 --> 01:47:25.920
I'm not sure. It's when the I think it was

1440
01:47:25.960 --> 01:47:28.760
at the weekend and a couple of vans pulled up

1441
01:47:29.520 --> 01:47:31.680
and they said they were just geared to collect for stuff,

1442
01:47:31.680 --> 01:47:34.319
and they took a load of computers out and apparently

1443
01:47:34.319 --> 01:47:35.560
they weren't supposed to do that.

1444
01:47:37.159 --> 01:47:39.039
Yeah, I think I got disciplined for that as well.

1445
01:47:42.680 --> 01:47:46.279
I wasn't to know, was I. Oh, but we've been

1446
01:47:46.600 --> 01:47:51.359
We've had millions of pounds robbed worth of computers. Like, say,

1447
01:47:51.359 --> 01:47:53.560
you should have told me, should have told me that.

1448
01:47:53.520 --> 01:47:56.760
You weren't having any vans come. What do you mean

1449
01:47:56.880 --> 01:47:58.880
tell you that we're not having any vans come in

1450
01:47:58.920 --> 01:48:02.479
to collect the computers. What if you'd done that when

1451
01:48:02.479 --> 01:48:04.960
they knocked on a window saying we come to collect

1452
01:48:04.960 --> 01:48:07.840
the computers, then I'd know that they weren't and they

1453
01:48:07.840 --> 01:48:13.760
were robbers. I'm thinking that maybe they made the excuse

1454
01:48:13.800 --> 01:48:21.000
of the toilets up just to get rid of me. Maybe, hmm.

1455
01:48:29.600 --> 01:48:32.800
The proms. So I've talked about the proms. Cheese rolling?

1456
01:48:32.960 --> 01:48:35.800
Did you know that cheese rolling down Cooper's Hill in

1457
01:48:37.479 --> 01:48:45.239
Glocus Dyeshire is a traditional summer event. Now it is

1458
01:48:46.279 --> 01:48:49.319
cheese rolling. I think the person rolls with the cheese

1459
01:48:51.479 --> 01:48:54.079
and these are not little bits of cheese, is a massive,

1460
01:48:55.119 --> 01:48:58.680
massive bits of cheese. It's very dangerous and people get

1461
01:48:58.680 --> 01:49:07.199
injured doing it. Is It's not as fun as you'd imagine, unless,

1462
01:49:07.239 --> 01:49:14.439
of course, it is coastal and seaside culture. The Victorian

1463
01:49:14.560 --> 01:49:22.439
era saw the boom of British seaside holidays. What is

1464
01:49:22.479 --> 01:49:24.640
a Victorian era is that when my nan and grandad

1465
01:49:24.680 --> 01:49:30.960
went on holiday, because it'd have like handkerchiefs on their

1466
01:49:31.079 --> 01:49:37.119
heads and stuff. Yeah, I mean back then there wasn't

1467
01:49:37.720 --> 01:49:42.720
such a thing as going abroad on holiday, you know,

1468
01:49:43.600 --> 01:49:49.159
Spain and France and stuff like that. Wasn't it wasn't

1469
01:49:49.239 --> 01:49:51.920
a flight a short flight away like it is now

1470
01:49:52.520 --> 01:49:53.359
what has been.

1471
01:49:53.239 --> 01:49:59.000
For a long time. So people from London, like my nan,

1472
01:49:59.439 --> 01:50:03.199
she used to go to places like Brighton or South

1473
01:50:03.319 --> 01:50:08.399
End on holiday. Now both of those places are not

1474
01:50:08.520 --> 01:50:13.560
far from London, both in or ones in Essex. Brighton

1475
01:50:13.680 --> 01:50:16.760
is in I don't know where it is is at

1476
01:50:16.800 --> 01:50:21.640
Hertfordshire Brighton, but both places are not a long way

1477
01:50:21.640 --> 01:50:27.119
away from London really, And.

1478
01:50:29.680 --> 01:50:31.720
They said they would go to places like that, maybe

1479
01:50:31.840 --> 01:50:36.079
Harriage even I'm not sure, and that would be a

1480
01:50:36.199 --> 01:50:44.119
nice summer holiday, And apparently I'm partly making this up

1481
01:50:44.199 --> 01:50:50.720
based on a very vague memory. Sometimes I think they

1482
01:50:50.760 --> 01:50:52.279
would stay in board.

1483
01:50:52.039 --> 01:50:57.760
In houses, and they may even.

1484
01:50:57.640 --> 01:51:04.520
Share rooms with complete strangers, and there would be a landlady,

1485
01:51:04.880 --> 01:51:08.000
as this was kind of the cliche, a very very

1486
01:51:08.159 --> 01:51:15.439
mean landlady, and the landlady would make food and give

1487
01:51:15.439 --> 01:51:19.800
them dinner and everything, but they would have to be

1488
01:51:20.079 --> 01:51:23.239
in by a certain time in the evening or.

1489
01:51:23.199 --> 01:51:24.319
The door would be locked.

1490
01:51:26.520 --> 01:51:31.039
That's the cliche of that, but I think some of

1491
01:51:31.119 --> 01:51:38.520
it's true. Potentially doesn't sound like particularly nice holiday, does it.

1492
01:51:38.560 --> 01:51:38.800
Really.

1493
01:51:41.399 --> 01:51:46.359
Brighton Pier opened in eighteen ninety nine and became a

1494
01:51:46.439 --> 01:51:52.239
summer hot spot. Yeah, Brighton's changed over the years, but

1495
01:51:52.279 --> 01:51:56.439
it was always a very popular holiday destination.

1496
01:51:58.399 --> 01:52:00.520
And it's.

1497
01:52:02.399 --> 01:52:09.359
Last time I went to Brighton. It ended up with

1498
01:52:09.359 --> 01:52:16.199
a sore bum because, yeah, I fell over and I

1499
01:52:16.279 --> 01:52:18.960
kind of banged. I fell over on my bomb and

1500
01:52:18.960 --> 01:52:22.680
I just banged myself, and it's like, oh and I remember.

1501
01:52:22.960 --> 01:52:26.319
It's just it was weird because I come home. Normally,

1502
01:52:26.680 --> 01:52:29.680
you hurt yourself, you expect a little I don't expect

1503
01:52:29.680 --> 01:52:31.319
people to say, oh no.

1504
01:52:31.279 --> 01:52:34.479
Start crying. You fell over and banged your bomb. Ale.

1505
01:52:35.119 --> 01:52:39.359
I didn't expect that, but a little bit of caring,

1506
01:52:40.000 --> 01:52:45.000
a little bit of maybe interest or sympathy. But people,

1507
01:52:45.199 --> 01:52:47.840
I come back to work, how is your How was

1508
01:52:47.880 --> 01:52:51.439
your holiday for your weekend in Brighton? And I said, oh,

1509
01:52:51.479 --> 01:53:03.000
I got sore bumb And people found that hilarious. I mean,

1510
01:53:03.159 --> 01:53:07.840
someone actually who I hadn't even told that I'd.

1511
01:53:07.640 --> 01:53:10.399
Hurt my that I had my accident. You know, the

1512
01:53:10.439 --> 01:53:13.840
first person I'm getting to work with, and no one

1513
01:53:13.840 --> 01:53:15.840
else had been in work. He was the first person there.

1514
01:53:15.840 --> 01:53:18.479
And I got there next this on the Monday morning

1515
01:53:19.039 --> 01:53:22.479
and he said, how is your how is your your

1516
01:53:22.520 --> 01:53:24.039
weekend in Brighton?

1517
01:53:24.600 --> 01:53:28.319
Have you got a saw bum? And I said, yeah,

1518
01:53:28.399 --> 01:53:31.920
how do you know? And he laughed and walked off,

1519
01:53:33.680 --> 01:53:39.640
and I'm like, that's weird. And then I told everyone

1520
01:53:39.720 --> 01:53:45.199
and they laughed that I'd fallen over, like you fall

1521
01:53:45.239 --> 01:53:48.800
on your cocksix. It's not a nice experience. The first

1522
01:53:48.800 --> 01:53:51.239
time it ever happened when I was in the chip shop,

1523
01:53:51.720 --> 01:53:57.600
I got saw bumb in there and the I was

1524
01:53:57.640 --> 01:53:59.520
carrying a bag.

1525
01:53:59.279 --> 01:54:03.079
Of potatoes, which I would argue is probably heavier than me,

1526
01:54:05.640 --> 01:54:10.319
maybe not fifty fifty kilos. Possibly, I don't know if

1527
01:54:10.359 --> 01:54:18.720
it'd be fifty kilos, it was heavy. Fifty kilos would

1528
01:54:18.720 --> 01:54:23.319
have been how much I weighed at the time, so

1529
01:54:23.479 --> 01:54:28.640
maybe it was. Maybe it was forty kilos, maybe thirty kilos,

1530
01:54:30.039 --> 01:54:32.680
but it was heavy, that's all I know. And I

1531
01:54:32.760 --> 01:54:33.600
slipped over.

1532
01:54:33.600 --> 01:54:39.560
In the kitchen and the bag of spuds, unopened, landed

1533
01:54:39.720 --> 01:54:45.960
on top of me, and yeah, I was struggling to walk.

1534
01:54:47.439 --> 01:54:49.680
I mean, really, I should have gone to the hospital

1535
01:54:50.319 --> 01:54:53.359
and got examined, because it would have been it took

1536
01:54:53.720 --> 01:54:55.479
quite a few weeks for that to heal.

1537
01:54:58.199 --> 01:54:59.960
But back then I didn't have.

1538
01:55:00.159 --> 01:55:04.119
Time to take off and just got on with it. Really,

1539
01:55:09.119 --> 01:55:10.640
but yeah, the last time went to Brion.

1540
01:55:10.840 --> 01:55:12.000
Yes, it's been quite a while.

1541
01:55:16.359 --> 01:55:19.359
Fish and chips became a seaside favorite in the early

1542
01:55:19.399 --> 01:55:20.399
twentieth century.

1543
01:55:22.359 --> 01:55:23.520
Really, I thought.

1544
01:55:23.560 --> 01:55:27.399
Fish and chips, yeah, seaside favorite. But fish and chips

1545
01:55:27.439 --> 01:55:32.680
is quite a traditional Friday meal religiously, I do believe,

1546
01:55:32.960 --> 01:55:39.359
or at least fishes on a Friday, because I think

1547
01:55:39.399 --> 01:55:42.800
it's the Jesus powable, isn't it. I think that's when

1548
01:55:42.840 --> 01:55:47.239
he he turned up. It was a Friday, wasn't it.

1549
01:55:48.119 --> 01:55:53.760
And he turned up, and the chip van turned up,

1550
01:55:54.640 --> 01:55:59.000
and there's loads of chips, and he said, okay, now

1551
01:55:59.000 --> 01:56:00.760
I've talked to you for a little bit. We're all here.

1552
01:56:01.760 --> 01:56:03.840
Let's go and let's get some chips out. Let's some

1553
01:56:03.880 --> 01:56:04.640
fish and chips.

1554
01:56:05.199 --> 01:56:08.840
And the fish fan said oops, and he said, what

1555
01:56:09.039 --> 01:56:09.319
is it?

1556
01:56:09.800 --> 01:56:13.680
He said, Jesus, sorry about this? He said, okay, what

1557
01:56:14.600 --> 01:56:17.600
so I'm a bit embarrassed. We've got loads of chips,

1558
01:56:18.560 --> 01:56:23.600
but we forgot the fish. And then someone showered from

1559
01:56:23.640 --> 01:56:27.399
the back and wait a minute, we've got one fish.

1560
01:56:27.520 --> 01:56:29.920
He said, he got one fish. All those chips but

1561
01:56:30.159 --> 01:56:34.800
one fish and Jesus said, I just hand it here, and.

1562
01:56:34.840 --> 01:56:37.119
You know the rest is history.

1563
01:56:37.199 --> 01:56:41.079
But that was on a Friday, because Fridays when fish

1564
01:56:41.119 --> 01:56:46.439
and chips was a thing back in Jerusalem, that the

1565
01:56:46.479 --> 01:56:51.520
bathing machine was a common sight on the nineteenth century beaches.

1566
01:56:53.319 --> 01:56:55.760
I feel we need more information about that, don't you.

1567
01:56:56.399 --> 01:57:05.439
The bathing machine a machine that bathes you. That sounds

1568
01:57:05.640 --> 01:57:19.000
very pleasant. It sounds almost oh, the bathing machine, unless

1569
01:57:19.000 --> 01:57:21.039
it's kind of like a thing with just a shower

1570
01:57:21.600 --> 01:57:25.159
that just showers you from different angles. But even that

1571
01:57:25.279 --> 01:57:28.319
sounds nice, doesn't it if it's at a decent temperature.

1572
01:57:33.720 --> 01:57:36.000
I've got to look this up. I'm sorry, this is

1573
01:57:36.000 --> 01:57:38.359
one of those moments where I can't not look it up.

1574
01:57:40.800 --> 01:57:44.439
Bathing machine.

1575
01:57:45.039 --> 01:57:48.800
Eighteen hundreds. I'm going to look up images just so

1576
01:57:48.840 --> 01:57:54.880
I can look at it. What right, it's only showing

1577
01:57:54.920 --> 01:58:01.319
you the outside of it. The bathing machine Collection of

1578
01:58:01.479 --> 01:58:11.600
Fouquet Bathing Machine eighteen hundred's Victorian bathing machine. But why

1579
01:58:11.680 --> 01:58:15.600
is it not shown inside? Maybe it was one of

1580
01:58:15.640 --> 01:58:16.199
those things.

1581
01:58:18.479 --> 01:58:27.880
Ah, it looks to me it was just somewhere that

1582
01:58:28.000 --> 01:58:33.239
you can jump into the water from. That doesn't doesn't

1583
01:58:33.319 --> 01:58:37.800
sound like a bathing machine. Let's read out what it says.

1584
01:58:38.960 --> 01:58:43.920
You search the web for bathing machines, says Google. Being

1585
01:58:44.199 --> 01:58:52.399
Ai Weather, the victorian of bathing machine, was in an

1586
01:58:51.640 --> 01:58:59.239
innovative mobile changing room designed to allow swimmers, particularly women,

1587
01:58:59.439 --> 01:59:05.000
to maintain in their modesties while bathing at the seaside. Okay,

1588
01:59:05.159 --> 01:59:08.800
so it's basically a changing room. It's a changing room.

1589
01:59:09.279 --> 01:59:15.319
Historical context, the bathing machine emerged during the eighteenth century

1590
01:59:15.359 --> 01:59:21.560
as the popularity of seaside resorts grew in Britain, at

1591
01:59:21.600 --> 01:59:25.319
a time when swimming costumes were not yet common and

1592
01:59:25.800 --> 01:59:33.000
modesty was paramount, especially for women. These wooden carts served

1593
01:59:33.079 --> 01:59:39.960
as both changing rooms and a means to discreetly enter

1594
01:59:40.159 --> 01:59:44.520
the water. The legal requirements for men and women to

1595
01:59:44.600 --> 01:59:50.640
bathe separately fostered the need for these machines, allowing females

1596
01:59:50.960 --> 01:59:55.840
to change into their bathing attire while remaining hidden from

1597
01:59:55.880 --> 01:59:56.560
public view.

1598
02:00:00.159 --> 02:00:02.880
Okay, so they the car.

1599
02:00:03.000 --> 02:00:07.880
They were carts on wheels six foot high eight foot wide,

1600
02:00:08.159 --> 02:00:12.720
and they were pulled into the sea by horses, and

1601
02:00:12.840 --> 02:00:16.520
babies could just jump into the water about being seen,

1602
02:00:17.039 --> 02:00:25.279
and maybe curtains or umbrellas to keep their modesty. Oh

1603
02:00:25.319 --> 02:00:28.920
look at this women used these machines. Mainly men were

1604
02:00:28.960 --> 02:00:45.720
allowed to bathe naked until the nineteenth century. Oh hmm, right,

1605
02:00:46.640 --> 02:00:52.520
And the bathing costumes were ridiculous. It wasn't like I mean,

1606
02:00:52.600 --> 02:00:58.119
they were proper, full on, full on old attire.

1607
02:00:58.199 --> 02:00:58.600
It was.

1608
02:01:00.039 --> 02:01:03.840
The men always have to have stripy ones and the.

1609
02:01:06.399 --> 02:01:10.199
It doesn't look fun. But there's a woman there were

1610
02:01:10.279 --> 02:01:12.600
in a bathing costume. It looks like she's getting ready

1611
02:01:12.600 --> 02:01:20.840
to climb a mountain. H wow, that's interesting, kind of

1612
02:01:21.880 --> 02:01:27.560
I know it's not supposed to be sorry about that.

1613
02:01:27.640 --> 02:01:32.039
The bucket and spades sets have been popular since the

1614
02:01:32.119 --> 02:01:33.640
early nineteen hundreds.

1615
02:01:36.520 --> 02:01:45.279
I should like bucket and spades, yeah, I did. I

1616
02:01:45.319 --> 02:01:50.720
used to like to. I should like to make sand

1617
02:01:50.840 --> 02:01:57.239
castles because it's fun, wasn't it. If anyone did it,

1618
02:01:57.239 --> 02:02:03.760
it's just fun. And my brother equally liked to just

1619
02:02:03.960 --> 02:02:12.279
step on mine. For some reason. I did think about

1620
02:02:12.319 --> 02:02:14.720
trying to get hold of some explosions, but just couldn't

1621
02:02:14.720 --> 02:02:17.560
get any. It's very hard when you're seven, the cold

1622
02:02:17.640 --> 02:02:19.920
of explosions. Explosives.

1623
02:02:20.000 --> 02:02:21.920
I was going to put some underneath the sand and

1624
02:02:22.239 --> 02:02:24.800
when he stepped on it, I'll teach him not to

1625
02:02:24.840 --> 02:02:30.920
do that again. But yeah, I couldn't get Any's been.

1626
02:02:30.840 --> 02:02:35.000
A lot of my childhood in prison. It was weird, and.

1627
02:02:37.119 --> 02:02:41.840
I was the youngest terrorist in history. Ice Cream vans

1628
02:02:41.960 --> 02:02:48.119
became widespread in the nineteen fifties. Oh, ice cream vans.

1629
02:02:49.399 --> 02:02:53.439
I loved myself some ice cream, having been to an

1630
02:02:53.479 --> 02:02:55.079
ice cream van for.

1631
02:02:55.039 --> 02:03:01.119
A long, long, long, long time. It amazes me that

1632
02:03:01.159 --> 02:03:04.079
they come out in all weathers. I saw one. It

1633
02:03:04.119 --> 02:03:07.039
was freezing cold and it came out because it was

1634
02:03:07.039 --> 02:03:09.720
a Saturday, because it was in June.

1635
02:03:10.560 --> 02:03:13.319
It was raining and it was very cold and windy.

1636
02:03:13.439 --> 02:03:16.159
It was like a winter's day out there, and they

1637
02:03:16.279 --> 02:03:19.520
just decided, well to second of June, let's go out.

1638
02:03:20.000 --> 02:03:21.159
It's officially summer.

1639
02:03:23.640 --> 02:03:25.159
Fly just landed on a microphone.

1640
02:03:26.479 --> 02:03:30.760
Punch and Judy shows were classic seaside entertainment. I don't

1641
02:03:30.800 --> 02:03:32.000
think they're allowed anymore.

1642
02:03:32.840 --> 02:03:33.840
That's the hither it.

1643
02:03:35.680 --> 02:03:42.399
Blackpool Illuminations, though not autumnal, used to start in late summer,

1644
02:03:45.119 --> 02:03:51.159
so Blackpool Illuminations very very popular. Blackpool well, I think

1645
02:03:51.199 --> 02:03:56.800
it was once classed as the Las Vegas of England.

1646
02:04:00.119 --> 02:04:04.520
That like casinos and all kinds of stuff in Blackpool,

1647
02:04:07.319 --> 02:04:09.000
and I would have loved to have gone there.

1648
02:04:12.159 --> 02:04:14.720
When it was busy, not busy busy.

1649
02:04:14.439 --> 02:04:16.359
But that in its kind of peak, just to see

1650
02:04:16.359 --> 02:04:19.279
what it's like, because I never did.

1651
02:04:19.840 --> 02:04:21.159
I don't know what it's like now.

1652
02:04:21.199 --> 02:04:24.359
If it still gets really busy, I hope it does

1653
02:04:24.600 --> 02:04:28.199
for the people that you know work there and have businesses.

1654
02:04:30.840 --> 02:04:32.960
But I went there once and it was on the

1655
02:04:33.000 --> 02:04:37.079
way to the Isle of Man and it was the

1656
02:04:37.119 --> 02:04:40.279
windiest day in history.

1657
02:04:41.079 --> 02:04:49.479
It was probably August July August time, really windy, and

1658
02:04:49.800 --> 02:04:55.600
we were going to Liverpool to catch the ferry to

1659
02:04:55.680 --> 02:05:02.720
the Isle of Man. The faerry was canceled, but because

1660
02:05:02.800 --> 02:05:04.920
we'd been in a car and we've been traveling for

1661
02:05:05.000 --> 02:05:08.439
ten minutes, my dad decided to continue the journey anyway

1662
02:05:09.439 --> 02:05:14.720
in a almost hurricane wind, which is why the fairy

1663
02:05:14.800 --> 02:05:18.319
had been canceled. You know.

1664
02:05:18.680 --> 02:05:23.520
He decided, well, we've been going for ten minutes because

1665
02:05:23.560 --> 02:05:27.920
his sister, who visit my auntie who we were visiting, said,

1666
02:05:28.199 --> 02:05:33.359
don't bother coming. There's no fairies. There is absolutely tremendous

1667
02:05:33.520 --> 02:05:38.199
weather here and the fairies are canceled for the formidable

1668
02:05:38.239 --> 02:05:46.520
future formidable, formidable future, formidable. It's very formidable. Was like

1669
02:05:47.560 --> 02:05:55.840
war that's quite good. Formidable Fordimmable biddable m hm. Anyway,

1670
02:05:55.920 --> 02:05:58.920
they were canceled, but my dad said.

1671
02:05:58.800 --> 02:06:07.279
Nah, and we stopped at Blackpool because it's on the

1672
02:06:07.279 --> 02:06:11.760
way to Liverpool. And I was quite.

1673
02:06:11.520 --> 02:06:15.239
Happy because I thought, all go to see Blackpool, Blackpool Tower.

1674
02:06:15.840 --> 02:06:21.840
There was no lights on, everything seemed to be closed

1675
02:06:22.039 --> 02:06:25.520
because the wind was it was almost hurricane level.

1676
02:06:25.560 --> 02:06:27.880
It was really strong.

1677
02:06:27.960 --> 02:06:30.800
I mean, we don't generally get hurricanes in this country,

1678
02:06:31.279 --> 02:06:33.920
but we do get very strong winds sometimes, and this

1679
02:06:34.000 --> 02:06:38.479
is one of those really really really windy days. My

1680
02:06:38.600 --> 02:06:45.319
name nearly blew away and.

1681
02:06:47.640 --> 02:06:53.119
She went into one of these toilets and it was

1682
02:06:53.319 --> 02:07:04.439
a what was it? It was a toilet. It's like

1683
02:07:04.520 --> 02:07:05.479
a porter toilet.

1684
02:07:05.880 --> 02:07:09.079
Okay, it was. It was heavy enough so it wasn't

1685
02:07:09.079 --> 02:07:11.359
being blown around, but it was a portter toilet. She

1686
02:07:11.439 --> 02:07:13.840
went in there and she got locked in. She couldn't

1687
02:07:13.880 --> 02:07:20.359
get out, and my dad got a phone call from

1688
02:07:20.359 --> 02:07:25.159
my auntie saying, it looks like the next ferry is

1689
02:07:25.239 --> 02:07:29.000
going to be The winds calmed down enough on their

1690
02:07:29.119 --> 02:07:31.560
end that they can sort of send the ferry out.

1691
02:07:32.319 --> 02:07:37.760
So we had to We had to leave Menanda. And yeah,

1692
02:07:37.800 --> 02:07:41.000
she's still there as far as I know that was

1693
02:07:41.239 --> 02:07:44.079
twenty twenty one years ago. I hope she's all right.

1694
02:07:46.279 --> 02:07:51.520
I've heard it. They're quite comfortable places, those porter toilets,

1695
02:07:52.359 --> 02:07:57.079
porter potty. She did actually get locked in.

1696
02:07:58.880 --> 02:08:01.600
It was funny, but in the same sentence, obviously it

1697
02:08:01.680 --> 02:08:05.880
wasn't funny, but it was funny. We got out, We

1698
02:08:05.960 --> 02:08:09.079
got her out. We managed to do the lot from

1699
02:08:09.079 --> 02:08:13.399
the outside. I think I knew how to do that,

1700
02:08:13.439 --> 02:08:16.039
and my dad looked at me very strangely. I was

1701
02:08:16.079 --> 02:08:18.359
able to open a toilet, a public toilet from the

1702
02:08:18.399 --> 02:08:19.600
outside that was locked.

1703
02:08:19.359 --> 02:08:21.800
From the inside. But it was just like a coin.

1704
02:08:22.000 --> 02:08:29.039
It was very simple and a drill. I happened to

1705
02:08:29.079 --> 02:08:31.840
have the tools on me. Don't judge me.

1706
02:08:32.960 --> 02:08:39.760
Lie dose or outdoor pools gained popularity in the nineteen thirties. Yeah,

1707
02:08:40.079 --> 02:08:44.560
they were popular. Are popular. I was going to say

1708
02:08:44.560 --> 02:08:45.319
were popular.

1709
02:08:45.039 --> 02:08:50.840
In my day. But outdoor pool like little pools, like

1710
02:08:50.920 --> 02:08:55.880
the blow up ones and the lie dose, and they

1711
02:08:56.039 --> 02:09:00.359
like the big beds, floaty beds made of plastic. They

1712
02:09:00.399 --> 02:09:02.640
were quite popular even.

1713
02:09:02.520 --> 02:09:06.880
When I was a kid, because you could you could

1714
02:09:07.239 --> 02:09:13.279
lay on them on in the garden, and then you

1715
02:09:13.279 --> 02:09:19.640
can lay on them on the water as well, and

1716
02:09:19.680 --> 02:09:24.920
you've got beach huts in places like south Wold and

1717
02:09:25.199 --> 02:09:30.840
Bourne Mouth are worth tens of thousands of pounds. Now

1718
02:09:30.840 --> 02:09:33.760
that surprised me, because that doesn't surprise me. I already

1719
02:09:33.800 --> 02:09:38.000
knew that because where my dad lives, the peach, the

1720
02:09:38.039 --> 02:09:44.199
beach huts are like thirty grand, thirty five grand. There's

1721
02:09:44.279 --> 02:09:46.680
not enough room to do anything in them, hardly.

1722
02:09:47.520 --> 02:09:48.000
Literally.

1723
02:09:48.239 --> 02:09:54.720
You can you can sit in it, that's it. You

1724
02:09:54.760 --> 02:09:56.880
can't sleep in it. I suppose you could, but you're

1725
02:09:56.920 --> 02:10:07.600
not allowed to sleep in it, not overnight. We can't

1726
02:10:07.600 --> 02:10:14.159
have braves. Agriculture and nature some is a I don't

1727
02:10:14.159 --> 02:10:17.079
think you even own the land, so it'd be different

1728
02:10:17.119 --> 02:10:20.000
if you owned the land and you bought all those

1729
02:10:21.520 --> 02:10:28.119
beach huts along the prom Technically you could perhaps own

1730
02:10:28.199 --> 02:10:32.319
enough land to start building on it. I don't know,

1731
02:10:32.399 --> 02:10:35.880
put a fence up or something. Some it is peak

1732
02:10:35.920 --> 02:10:39.800
harvest season for many English crops. I didn't know that.

1733
02:10:39.880 --> 02:10:42.039
I don't know a lot about crops.

1734
02:10:43.840 --> 02:10:52.560
If we if AI manages to extend life.

1735
02:10:54.920 --> 02:10:59.079
To almost infinity, you know, so that all organs can

1736
02:10:59.159 --> 02:11:01.640
be replaced with pished, and.

1737
02:11:02.439 --> 02:11:05.039
You know that we just like could stay alive forever.

1738
02:11:06.960 --> 02:11:08.399
I'm going to study.

1739
02:11:09.720 --> 02:11:14.359
About harvests and crop growing because it does interest me,

1740
02:11:14.439 --> 02:11:17.199
but not that much. I don't think I'm going to

1741
02:11:17.199 --> 02:11:19.640
have enough time in my life to really put too

1742
02:11:19.760 --> 02:11:23.560
much effort into it. But it is something that is

1743
02:11:23.840 --> 02:11:28.119
I know it's really important, but I just, yeah, I'd

1744
02:11:28.159 --> 02:11:31.199
like a bit more time. I'd like a bit more

1745
02:11:32.159 --> 02:11:34.479
a bit more time added to my sentence so that

1746
02:11:34.520 --> 02:11:39.680
I could actually, you know, devote that time to studying

1747
02:11:40.079 --> 02:11:48.439
English crops and harvest seasons. The next one is strawberry picking.

1748
02:11:49.520 --> 02:11:53.399
Strawberry picking became a popular summer pastime in the twentieth century.

1749
02:11:54.479 --> 02:11:56.279
Did you know this? This is something that you probably

1750
02:11:56.319 --> 02:11:58.439
never heard before. I don't know who told me this,

1751
02:11:58.560 --> 02:12:02.399
but apparently straw breeze ripen much quicker when it's hot.

1752
02:12:05.840 --> 02:12:09.000
The smell of cut grass is a nostalgic trigger for

1753
02:12:09.119 --> 02:12:17.159
many Brits. Yeah, there's definitely a certain smell, isn't there

1754
02:12:17.199 --> 02:12:21.840
connected to that cut and grass. You're not like grass

1755
02:12:21.840 --> 02:12:22.960
in the garden I'm talking about.

1756
02:12:24.000 --> 02:12:34.199
Hmmm, So what we got here?

1757
02:12:36.520 --> 02:12:47.800
Hay fever, known medically as allergic rhinitis rhinoceros, spikes in

1758
02:12:47.880 --> 02:12:53.640
English selling due to pollen. I think that's the same

1759
02:12:53.680 --> 02:13:00.560
everywhere isn't it? What else has we got here? Blue bells?

1760
02:13:01.119 --> 02:13:06.119
Blue bells finished blooming by early summer. Blooming blue bells

1761
02:13:06.279 --> 02:13:16.319
finished blooming by early summer in English woodlands. Ooh, butterflies,

1762
02:13:16.680 --> 02:13:25.000
especially the red admiral and peacock, are abundant in English summers.

1763
02:13:25.920 --> 02:13:28.920
That's good. I love myself a bit of butterfly action.

1764
02:13:30.720 --> 02:13:32.000
That sounds wrong, doesn't it.

1765
02:13:32.119 --> 02:13:36.920
I really love butterflies though they're so beautiful, and moths.

1766
02:13:36.960 --> 02:13:39.960
I like moths as well. To me, a butterfly is

1767
02:13:40.039 --> 02:13:43.880
just a moth. It's a daytime moth, and a moth

1768
02:13:43.960 --> 02:13:48.359
is a nighttime butterfly. It's the same, isn't it?

1769
02:13:48.399 --> 02:13:54.600
For me? Just how I see it? I suppose to me,

1770
02:13:54.680 --> 02:13:58.119
a moth is like a a butterfly that is being

1771
02:13:58.159 --> 02:14:03.680
bitten by a vampire maybe, or a butterfly that's mated

1772
02:14:03.760 --> 02:14:09.960
with a bat. You know that's that would be messy.

1773
02:14:12.920 --> 02:14:16.159
The English oak releases most of its pollen in the summer.

1774
02:14:17.159 --> 02:14:25.800
Oh thanks. Hedgehogs are more visible in summer evenings. Most

1775
02:14:25.840 --> 02:14:28.720
things are more visible in summer evenings because you can

1776
02:14:28.840 --> 02:14:34.319
see because it's lighter. Even the lampposts are all visible.

1777
02:14:34.840 --> 02:14:38.479
The hedges are more visible. The trees are more visible,

1778
02:14:38.880 --> 02:14:44.760
the grass is more visible, the ladybirds are more visible.

1779
02:14:48.800 --> 02:14:53.439
My roller escates are more you know. The dog's barkin again.

1780
02:14:54.960 --> 02:15:01.439
So yeah, it's hedgehogs. Wish that dog would stop. I

1781
02:15:01.560 --> 02:15:06.920
managed to stop Vinneathan barking. He did start, and I

1782
02:15:06.960 --> 02:15:11.319
said to him, Oh, come on, baby, don't be doing that. Man,

1783
02:15:11.359 --> 02:15:14.319
little baby boy, we don't want to do that. We

1784
02:15:14.359 --> 02:15:17.359
don't want to be barking, do we. We don't want

1785
02:15:17.399 --> 02:15:21.399
to be barking because you're such a good boy. You

1786
02:15:21.479 --> 02:15:24.720
are a good boy, aren't you. You're my favoritest little

1787
02:15:24.800 --> 02:15:29.520
boy in the whole wide world. You are my little son,

1788
02:15:30.279 --> 02:15:36.560
my little Vinnie Minilli, Yes you are. The English oak

1789
02:15:36.760 --> 02:15:39.279
releases most of its poll. Okay, I would have done that. One.

1790
02:15:39.880 --> 02:15:47.159
Wasp season peaks in late summer, particularly August. Brilliant summer

1791
02:15:47.239 --> 02:15:51.760
thunderstorms help cool the air, but often follow hot whom

1792
02:15:51.800 --> 02:15:56.920
it spells. Well, it probably wouldn't help cool the air

1793
02:15:56.960 --> 02:15:58.840
if the air was already cool with it, so it

1794
02:15:58.920 --> 02:16:02.039
kind of has to follow a hot humid spells. It

1795
02:16:02.159 --> 02:16:06.720
sort of makes sense, I think, or might just being pedantic.

1796
02:16:09.119 --> 02:16:09.319
Right.

1797
02:16:11.640 --> 02:16:18.000
Historical events, the Spanish Armada was defeated in the summer

1798
02:16:18.039 --> 02:16:23.680
of fifteen eighty eight. The Great Fire of London began

1799
02:16:23.800 --> 02:16:26.079
during a dry summer of nine eight.

1800
02:16:25.920 --> 02:16:31.319
Of sixteen sixty six. None of this is nice stuff,

1801
02:16:31.359 --> 02:16:35.680
so I'm gonna just leave that. It's all at wars

1802
02:16:35.680 --> 02:16:36.159
and stuff.

1803
02:16:36.399 --> 02:16:39.200
The Queen Victoria regularly summered in the Isle of Wight.

1804
02:16:39.719 --> 02:16:51.639
That's nice food and drink. Eaton mess is a summer

1805
02:16:51.680 --> 02:16:56.040
dessert originated at Eton College.

1806
02:16:56.360 --> 02:17:03.600
So is that what Eton musk drinks? Well, it's Pin's

1807
02:17:03.680 --> 02:17:10.120
number one cup is traditionally served with fruit and mint. Okay,

1808
02:17:10.399 --> 02:17:15.719
cream cream teas are a summer staple in Devon and

1809
02:17:15.879 --> 02:17:25.760
corn Wall. I knew that Devon cream. Yeah. Cucumber sand

1810
02:17:25.840 --> 02:17:34.239
witches became popular as a cooling summer treat, and barbecues

1811
02:17:34.399 --> 02:17:43.600
became fashionable in English gardens in the nineteen eighties. Okay,

1812
02:17:43.959 --> 02:17:48.920
barbecues became fashionable in the nineteen eighties. I was around

1813
02:17:48.959 --> 02:17:53.040
in the nineteen eighties, so were they not popular before that?

1814
02:17:53.159 --> 02:17:57.360
I just thought everyone I remember the early eighties, I

1815
02:17:57.399 --> 02:18:01.600
remember even the late seventies seeing barbecues.

1816
02:18:03.079 --> 02:18:06.840
Oh, it's interesting. I just thought it was something that's

1817
02:18:06.840 --> 02:18:11.280
been around for ages and it has now, but before then,

1818
02:18:14.239 --> 02:18:20.959
ice cream cones regularly gained popularity in England after w

1819
02:18:21.280 --> 02:18:28.120
W one. Rhubarb and gooseberries are commonly harvested in early summer.

1820
02:18:28.799 --> 02:18:34.280
Rhubarb rubab is one of those. I mean, isn't it

1821
02:18:34.319 --> 02:18:38.399
technically a vegetable because it's a root? Isn't it? But

1822
02:18:39.799 --> 02:18:44.120
it's a fruit? Is it? If?

1823
02:18:44.280 --> 02:18:46.600
I don't know, I think it's a vegetable. But anyway,

1824
02:18:47.319 --> 02:18:50.280
rubarb is both disgusting and beautiful.

1825
02:18:50.760 --> 02:18:51.639
It's weird.

1826
02:18:52.959 --> 02:19:01.520
Now, it's sour and like funny face making taste. If

1827
02:19:01.520 --> 02:19:03.760
it's not done in a way that I like it,

1828
02:19:03.799 --> 02:19:07.840
I've got to just talk for myself really. But if

1829
02:19:07.879 --> 02:19:11.680
it has the right amount of sugar in taste and

1830
02:19:11.719 --> 02:19:16.159
it's in a rubarb crumble, okay, the difference of rubob

1831
02:19:16.239 --> 02:19:19.239
pie can be a little bit sour rubob.

1832
02:19:18.840 --> 02:19:24.680
Crumble, but it's done properly. The most beautiful. Oh, I

1833
02:19:24.680 --> 02:19:25.559
can't even say the word.

1834
02:19:25.600 --> 02:19:31.239
I'm so excited, oh honestly, and with some cream or

1835
02:19:31.319 --> 02:19:38.920
ice cream, absolutely gorgeous. Summer puddings made with berries and

1836
02:19:39.040 --> 02:19:43.920
bread are a traditional dessert. I've got funny stories. Were

1837
02:19:44.639 --> 02:19:49.239
one of my neighbors and asked me for some bread

1838
02:19:49.239 --> 02:19:51.520
the other day and I said, you've got any bread?

1839
02:19:52.719 --> 02:19:53.239
Texted me.

1840
02:19:53.559 --> 02:19:59.440
I said, yeah, all right, yeah, and then she said,

1841
02:19:59.440 --> 02:20:01.239
I wait a minute, I'm not allowed to have bread

1842
02:20:01.239 --> 02:20:06.920
because I'm diabetic. I said, okay, I've got a pizza

1843
02:20:06.920 --> 02:20:08.200
in the freeze if you want to. Actually said, oh,

1844
02:20:08.239 --> 02:20:14.920
that'd be nice. I mean, pizza's many bread, isn't it.

1845
02:20:15.079 --> 02:20:20.959
So just that's what I was trying to I think

1846
02:20:21.000 --> 02:20:24.000
the can I have some bread? That was the kriminal

1847
02:20:24.079 --> 02:20:26.040
saying oh, can I have some bread?

1848
02:20:26.079 --> 02:20:26.639
And water?

1849
02:20:27.840 --> 02:20:30.479
Thinking I'd say, no, wait a minute, let me let

1850
02:20:30.520 --> 02:20:31.719
me order your take out.

1851
02:20:32.319 --> 02:20:36.840
Yeah, no, I can't. I'm unable to. I'd like to

1852
02:20:36.879 --> 02:20:40.840
be able to do that, but I can't. I can

1853
02:20:40.920 --> 02:20:41.479
you do it?

1854
02:20:42.600 --> 02:20:47.840
Lemon barley water was made famous by wimbled Dune. Some

1855
02:20:48.000 --> 02:20:51.760
are puddings made with berries and bread. Okay, it's traditional dessert,

1856
02:20:52.280 --> 02:20:55.239
berries and bread. But that's bread and butter pudding though,

1857
02:20:55.280 --> 02:20:58.760
isn't it. It's saying some are puddings but bread and

1858
02:20:58.799 --> 02:21:05.360
butter pudding. Bread and butter, jelly and ice cream remain

1859
02:21:05.479 --> 02:21:15.319
a nostalgic summer party favorite. The phrase British summer began

1860
02:21:15.559 --> 02:21:21.559
in nineteen sixteen with daylight saving. Okay, fair enough, as

1861
02:21:21.559 --> 02:21:26.079
they changed ordinary then BBC weather forecasts for summer holidays

1862
02:21:26.079 --> 02:21:31.760
became part of family planning, and the nineteen sixties saw

1863
02:21:31.799 --> 02:21:37.040
a surge in seaside postcard humor. Ah, so that's when

1864
02:21:37.040 --> 02:21:39.639
it started. I should love all those because it used

1865
02:21:39.680 --> 02:21:44.520
to just be rude. Din't lots of rude pictures. Last

1866
02:21:44.559 --> 02:21:48.079
of the Summer Wine a sitcom man from nineteen seventy

1867
02:21:48.079 --> 02:21:52.159
three to twenty ten. It's just got some in a

1868
02:21:52.239 --> 02:21:55.040
title that's not really relevant to what I'm talking about.

1869
02:21:56.920 --> 02:22:00.760
But this next bit is Summer Holiday cliff Ridgard. It's

1870
02:22:00.760 --> 02:22:06.040
a Cliff Richard movie from nineteen sixty three. We are

1871
02:22:06.040 --> 02:22:10.959
going on a Summerhanaday, normal, working for a week or two.

1872
02:22:11.799 --> 02:22:16.399
I love that song. Gavin and Stacey's Barry Island scenes

1873
02:22:16.479 --> 02:22:20.319
became iconic summer TV moments. I got no idea what

1874
02:22:20.440 --> 02:22:23.360
that is. I know Gavin and Stacey, but I don't

1875
02:22:23.399 --> 02:22:27.799
know the moment they're talking about, and they're just talking

1876
02:22:27.799 --> 02:22:32.319
about things like Love Island, Top of the Pops, the

1877
02:22:32.479 --> 02:22:36.840
Radio one road show, Doctor Who's Summer Specials, just things

1878
02:22:36.840 --> 02:22:38.120
that be on TV in the summer.

1879
02:22:39.520 --> 02:22:42.440
Summer is probably one of the worst times on English television.

1880
02:22:43.680 --> 02:22:45.920
They just don't put a lot on TV. There's a

1881
02:22:45.959 --> 02:22:50.520
bit of sport for those that love sport, Wimbledon and

1882
02:22:51.719 --> 02:22:54.360
the World Cup or the European Cup if that's song

1883
02:22:54.479 --> 02:22:59.559
of that year. So there's things like that. Cricket, but

1884
02:23:00.079 --> 02:23:04.799
as far as entertainment programs, there's not always a huge

1885
02:23:04.840 --> 02:23:10.520
amount on That kind of starts in autumn. Oh, then

1886
02:23:10.559 --> 02:23:15.840
it's got outdoor activities. It's got crickets, tennis of course,

1887
02:23:17.479 --> 02:23:18.319
kite flying.

1888
02:23:19.120 --> 02:23:21.079
I don't know. Kite flying is something you need a.

1889
02:23:21.079 --> 02:23:26.840
Lot of wind. For a lot of wind wind, Bicycle

1890
02:23:26.959 --> 02:23:31.319
cells spike every summer. Well, we all buy things we

1891
02:23:31.360 --> 02:23:35.920
don't use that caravan and as a classic English summer tradition,

1892
02:23:36.840 --> 02:23:41.520
paddle boats on lakes became popular in the Victorian era

1893
02:23:43.600 --> 02:23:51.000
and children's summer camps began growing in popularity post WW two.

1894
02:23:54.239 --> 02:23:59.360
Village fates with tombolas and coconut shies are summer traditions

1895
02:24:00.879 --> 02:24:06.399
and schools out for summer signals mass family holidays starting

1896
02:24:06.520 --> 02:24:11.239
in July. So it's July to one today. This is

1897
02:24:11.360 --> 02:24:18.520
quite apt, isn't it really? For talking about what are

1898
02:24:18.559 --> 02:24:24.360
we actually talking about? What is the subject? Oh, summers. Okay,

1899
02:24:24.399 --> 02:24:26.760
we're talking about summers right.

1900
02:24:28.159 --> 02:24:28.360
All.

1901
02:24:28.479 --> 02:24:33.479
The term staycation became popular during summer's post two thousand

1902
02:24:33.479 --> 02:24:39.120
and eight staycation. I think it got to the point

1903
02:24:39.159 --> 02:24:43.639
where going abroad was no longer a really, really cheap

1904
02:24:43.680 --> 02:24:47.079
option as much as it used to be in the past.

1905
02:24:47.159 --> 02:24:48.879
It used to be a cheaper option in it. I

1906
02:24:48.920 --> 02:24:51.360
think it just became more expensive. Maybe I don't know,

1907
02:24:52.920 --> 02:24:56.920
Butling's holiday camps were a summer institution from the nineteen thirties.

1908
02:24:58.319 --> 02:25:01.680
I used to work at Button's for a season in

1909
02:25:01.719 --> 02:25:06.959
the winter of some time in the nineties. My tummy's

1910
02:25:07.000 --> 02:25:12.280
gurgling for some reason. Cornwall and Devon have been popular

1911
02:25:12.360 --> 02:25:19.399
summer destinations for centuries. It's a beautiful coven. Cornwall and

1912
02:25:19.399 --> 02:25:24.559
Devon lovely places. Never been to Lake District. I'd like

1913
02:25:24.639 --> 02:25:27.319
to go there. It sees the peaking visits during the summer.

1914
02:25:27.879 --> 02:25:31.360
I've never been there. It'd been nice. The Great British

1915
02:25:31.440 --> 02:25:35.959
q can be seen at every seaside chip shop in July. Yeah,

1916
02:25:36.000 --> 02:25:37.559
I'm not a big fan of the old queue in

1917
02:25:38.159 --> 02:25:39.000
I'll be honest with you.

1918
02:25:40.040 --> 02:25:41.479
Nah.

1919
02:25:41.719 --> 02:25:47.440
Rail excursions to the coast became common in the eighteen hundreds,

1920
02:25:47.639 --> 02:25:52.360
so yeah, that, I guess because we had railway tracks then,

1921
02:25:52.360 --> 02:25:58.399
didn't we Before that we had to go by horse

1922
02:25:58.440 --> 02:26:01.520
and car, I suppose, or ride on sheep.

1923
02:26:03.000 --> 02:26:09.719
Caravans and motor homes often clog English roads in August.

1924
02:26:11.079 --> 02:26:13.280
I was just wondering, Like with horses, you put a

1925
02:26:13.280 --> 02:26:15.399
carrot in front of them, so they run. What would

1926
02:26:15.440 --> 02:26:19.000
you put in front of a sheep? What a sheep

1927
02:26:19.040 --> 02:26:22.680
eat grass? So I suppose you could.

1928
02:26:22.719 --> 02:26:25.159
You could travel on a cow and just put like

1929
02:26:25.200 --> 02:26:29.639
some grass or a little plant or something dangling in

1930
02:26:29.760 --> 02:26:31.520
front of it, and they just follow that try and

1931
02:26:31.559 --> 02:26:39.000
get to the grass. Maybe bank holiday weekends are peak

1932
02:26:39.120 --> 02:26:40.120
travel periods.

1933
02:26:40.280 --> 02:26:42.280
That's true.

1934
02:26:43.280 --> 02:26:46.959
It says caravans and motor homes often clog English roads

1935
02:26:47.000 --> 02:26:50.000
in August. Okay, we don't ever go at them.

1936
02:26:50.280 --> 02:26:53.600
It's not their fault, is it. Why are having to

1937
02:26:53.600 --> 02:26:56.920
go at people in caravans and motor homes. They don't

1938
02:26:56.959 --> 02:27:02.319
take up a huge amount more space and cars, you know,

1939
02:27:03.239 --> 02:27:05.399
Like the other day I went into one told you

1940
02:27:05.399 --> 02:27:10.600
about that. But okay, I was in the hospital. I

1941
02:27:10.680 --> 02:27:14.360
needed the toilet. I needed the toilet, but it was

1942
02:27:14.399 --> 02:27:18.159
just a weir read but I needed to go went

1943
02:27:18.200 --> 02:27:21.920
to the men's toilets it and I walked past I

1944
02:27:22.319 --> 02:27:26.319
think five disabled toilets to get to the men's toilets.

1945
02:27:27.840 --> 02:27:30.920
It was blocked off because it's being cleaned. I went back.

1946
02:27:31.680 --> 02:27:33.000
There was multiple.

1947
02:27:34.319 --> 02:27:38.639
Disabled toilets, but I were empty, so I went in

1948
02:27:38.719 --> 02:27:44.680
one did my quick weewie came out as guaranteed. There

1949
02:27:44.719 --> 02:27:47.440
was a lady there in a wheelchair waiting, and the

1950
02:27:47.479 --> 02:27:49.399
woman that was with us was looking at me like

1951
02:27:49.479 --> 02:27:55.319
I just committed every crime in history upon her person. Honestly,

1952
02:27:55.319 --> 02:27:58.559
it was like really, And I said I was sorry

1953
02:27:58.559 --> 02:28:02.520
about that. I just needed to go, and neither of

1954
02:28:02.520 --> 02:28:09.159
the master answered me even acknowledge my existence. And honestly,

1955
02:28:09.280 --> 02:28:12.360
I was there for I was in there maybe twenty seconds,

1956
02:28:12.840 --> 02:28:14.600
half a minute, so it wasn't a long time.

1957
02:28:16.000 --> 02:28:18.479
So I didn't feel great. I'll be honest.

1958
02:28:18.680 --> 02:28:22.520
I mean, I am registered, I'm technically disabled anyway. I'm disabled,

1959
02:28:22.520 --> 02:28:29.360
but not just not physically. And I start thinking, and

1960
02:28:28.559 --> 02:28:33.319
I'm a little bit inside. As I'm walking.

1961
02:28:33.040 --> 02:28:44.159
Out, I'm just thinking, you know what, Okay, disabled toilets

1962
02:28:44.639 --> 02:28:51.840
there for disabled people, fair enough. However, in what world.

1963
02:28:53.399 --> 02:28:55.879
Does anyone expect to be able to just walk up

1964
02:28:55.920 --> 02:28:58.680
the toilet, open the door? And go in without queuing,

1965
02:28:58.760 --> 02:29:05.680
without waiting, without some else being in there. No one

1966
02:29:05.719 --> 02:29:08.399
does that with the men's toilets or for the women's toilets.

1967
02:29:09.360 --> 02:29:11.000
I can't believe there's someone in there. Why are you

1968
02:29:11.120 --> 02:29:11.559
in there?

1969
02:29:11.760 --> 02:29:14.159
It should be available for me just to walk in.

1970
02:29:14.520 --> 02:29:16.760
I sulppase. I shouldn't use the word walking, but just

1971
02:29:16.799 --> 02:29:19.520
to use the toilet without having to wait.

1972
02:29:23.959 --> 02:29:27.239
I mean, firstly I have to wait. It's like, I mean,

1973
02:29:27.319 --> 02:29:35.639
she was sitting down, it was waiting, and why would

1974
02:29:35.719 --> 02:29:37.920
she have to be what It's just it's just kind

1975
02:29:37.920 --> 02:29:40.799
of like, wait a minute. If I was in there

1976
02:29:40.799 --> 02:29:42.760
for hours, or if I was in there doing a

1977
02:29:42.799 --> 02:29:46.760
long long time, but why should it Why should that

1978
02:29:46.799 --> 02:29:54.479
toilet be available instantly when I also need to go

1979
02:29:54.559 --> 02:29:58.959
to the toilet. It's just that's I started to think.

1980
02:29:58.959 --> 02:30:01.280
They're like, wait a minute, I'm feeling bad here, but

1981
02:30:01.319 --> 02:30:04.079
I don't need to really, because.

1982
02:30:05.639 --> 02:30:08.959
If there is a queue of people, let's say, abled

1983
02:30:09.000 --> 02:30:13.719
bodied people queuing outside as sore as two people queueing

1984
02:30:13.799 --> 02:30:17.639
outside the disabled, then she's within her right to say, oh,

1985
02:30:18.079 --> 02:30:21.399
bug her off. This is for this is for me,

1986
02:30:21.520 --> 02:30:24.360
This is my toilet. I own this toilet, this toilet

1987
02:30:24.399 --> 02:30:26.879
was built just for me, and she's got a right

1988
02:30:26.920 --> 02:30:27.440
to kind of.

1989
02:30:29.520 --> 02:30:32.760
I don't know, run them over. I guess in a

1990
02:30:32.879 --> 02:30:38.239
chair she wants. But that wasn't a situation. So the

1991
02:30:38.319 --> 02:30:43.639
idea that she should be just speltered as open the

1992
02:30:43.680 --> 02:30:46.520
door and go in and never ever have.

1993
02:30:46.559 --> 02:30:47.760
To wait to use a toilet.

1994
02:30:49.840 --> 02:30:52.680
That's not really real life, is it. Sometimes we have

1995
02:30:52.760 --> 02:30:55.360
to wait to use a toilet because there's other people

1996
02:30:55.440 --> 02:30:56.000
on the planet.

1997
02:30:58.239 --> 02:31:01.559
So I felt less guilty.

1998
02:31:02.879 --> 02:31:04.760
I would have felt less guilty if I hadn't actually

1999
02:31:04.799 --> 02:31:09.639
said that to her, and then I felt more guilty,

2000
02:31:09.719 --> 02:31:15.159
But you know, we live, we learn sometimes. But I

2001
02:31:15.200 --> 02:31:18.639
did think about that, like, Okay, I needed the toilet.

2002
02:31:20.319 --> 02:31:22.360
It's either that or go into the women's toilets, and

2003
02:31:22.440 --> 02:31:26.680
these days that's round upon. But there was only one

2004
02:31:26.680 --> 02:31:31.639
woman's toilet. There's only one men's toilet. There was I

2005
02:31:31.680 --> 02:31:38.120
think four, four or five what's it name toilets, because

2006
02:31:38.159 --> 02:31:39.000
you can go in there.

2007
02:31:38.879 --> 02:31:41.159
As well if you've got a baby to change as well,

2008
02:31:41.239 --> 02:31:44.840
so you know, it's not just for disabled people.

2009
02:31:45.920 --> 02:31:51.079
And I did a quick weewie. I didn't go there,

2010
02:31:51.159 --> 02:31:55.479
and I wasn't in there knitting a jumper for Vinnie

2011
02:31:56.239 --> 02:31:59.120
drinking a cup of coffee, watching the I don't know

2012
02:31:59.159 --> 02:32:02.440
wind would and tennis on my phone. I wasn't in

2013
02:32:02.479 --> 02:32:07.520
there for ages. I just it was a quick zip

2014
02:32:07.719 --> 02:32:13.719
in there, unzip and then zip up again. Actually there's

2015
02:32:13.719 --> 02:32:20.639
no zipping, so I was wearing what's it tracksuit bottoms.

2016
02:32:21.159 --> 02:32:23.319
It was more of a shake kind of not wanting

2017
02:32:23.399 --> 02:32:27.239
drippage anyway more than you need to know, So it

2018
02:32:27.319 --> 02:32:29.600
was a little bit of shaking. It's just, you know,

2019
02:32:29.760 --> 02:32:33.520
just washing my hands and stuff like that. And then

2020
02:32:33.559 --> 02:32:39.520
I and I left opened the door because the thing

2021
02:32:39.639 --> 02:32:41.239
is they were trying to open the door. I kept

2022
02:32:41.239 --> 02:32:45.200
pulling it, rattling the door like anything. It's okay, it's

2023
02:32:45.200 --> 02:32:47.040
not opening now. It's not going to open if you

2024
02:32:47.120 --> 02:32:53.799
keep pulling it. It's clearly someone in there, and seemed

2025
02:32:53.879 --> 02:32:56.719
like quite an angry person, both of them. Really.

2026
02:32:57.959 --> 02:33:01.440
I think seeing my lovely face didn't help when I

2027
02:33:01.479 --> 02:33:08.520
opened the door. And it's the first time I've ever

2028
02:33:08.559 --> 02:33:12.399
felt bad for not being in a wheelchair. It was like,

2029
02:33:13.840 --> 02:33:17.600
it's not my fault that I've also got to do weewies.

2030
02:33:18.239 --> 02:33:20.200
I can't do it in the hallway, can't do it

2031
02:33:20.200 --> 02:33:23.559
in the bin. We're in a hospital. Supposed to be

2032
02:33:24.200 --> 02:33:26.760
kind of sanitary, isn't it.

2033
02:33:26.879 --> 02:33:31.239
And it's quick. It's not like I had to sit down,

2034
02:33:31.879 --> 02:33:33.600
you know, I didn't. It's just like.

2035
02:33:35.719 --> 02:33:41.000
Probably half a minute if that, And they were nowhere

2036
02:33:41.040 --> 02:33:43.440
to be seen when I went in there, so I'm

2037
02:33:43.959 --> 02:33:48.239
figuring it probably took them at least fifteen seconds to

2038
02:33:48.280 --> 02:33:52.040
get there, so they were waiting for fifteen seconds because

2039
02:33:52.040 --> 02:33:57.520
that's that door started rattling, probably thirteen or fourteen seconds

2040
02:33:57.559 --> 02:34:00.200
before I'd finished. So at this point I was in

2041
02:34:00.200 --> 02:34:04.920
the shaken section of the adventure.

2042
02:34:06.200 --> 02:34:08.360
I needed to wash my hands, so I washed my hands.

2043
02:34:08.360 --> 02:34:11.319
In anyway, being in a hospital, I might have blowed

2044
02:34:11.319 --> 02:34:13.239
me nose as well, so maybe I didn't need to

2045
02:34:13.280 --> 02:34:16.120
do that. But it's always nice to get prepared for

2046
02:34:16.159 --> 02:34:18.959
when I go outside, just to make myself look nice

2047
02:34:22.079 --> 02:34:26.120
and make sure there's no drippages and stuff and just yeah,

2048
02:34:26.239 --> 02:34:26.799
make sure my.

2049
02:34:26.760 --> 02:34:29.760
Shirt covers that area in case there is. And then

2050
02:34:29.799 --> 02:34:30.639
I walk out.

2051
02:34:30.559 --> 02:34:36.799
And I'm faced with these two angry faces. It's like, Okay,

2052
02:34:37.399 --> 02:34:40.399
I think it's the first time ever in my life

2053
02:34:41.639 --> 02:34:42.559
that I've been caught.

2054
02:34:43.879 --> 02:34:48.760
And the weird thing about it, right is I think

2055
02:34:48.920 --> 02:34:52.879
two days earlier or no remembe. It was last week.

2056
02:34:53.200 --> 02:34:58.120
I went to use the toilet and the cleaner said,

2057
02:34:58.200 --> 02:35:01.000
I'll just choose the disabled ones. When these are closed,

2058
02:35:01.040 --> 02:35:06.120
you just have to use the sobered ones. And everyone

2059
02:35:06.200 --> 02:35:10.879
going in there was just every people, including nurses, doctors,

2060
02:35:10.920 --> 02:35:13.879
just anyone going in there and using them because there's

2061
02:35:13.920 --> 02:35:16.920
four empty toilets or five empty toilets, not just going

2062
02:35:16.959 --> 02:35:22.239
to leave walk the other side of the hospital because

2063
02:35:22.280 --> 02:35:25.399
this is right near the exit of the building or

2064
02:35:25.440 --> 02:35:32.280
the entrance to the buildings exit and entrance. Yeah, this

2065
02:35:32.399 --> 02:35:41.239
is I mean, I ah, I tell you, sand in

2066
02:35:41.280 --> 02:35:47.440
your sandwiches is an avoidable, unavoidable British beach memory and

2067
02:35:47.639 --> 02:35:56.159
donkeys on the beach are an English summer tradition. British

2068
02:35:56.200 --> 02:35:59.600
people rushed to the garden at the first site of

2069
02:35:59.760 --> 02:36:03.559
so I think you're getting a little bit caught up

2070
02:36:03.600 --> 02:36:04.840
in British people.

2071
02:36:05.040 --> 02:36:08.760
Every single person in England, they see some sudden they

2072
02:36:08.840 --> 02:36:11.360
rush into the garden. I'm not sure if that's true.

2073
02:36:13.040 --> 02:36:17.840
Socks and sandals are an infamous or infamous English summer

2074
02:36:18.120 --> 02:36:28.479
fashion foo pa or fox pass. I don't I don't

2075
02:36:28.520 --> 02:36:31.440
think there's anything wrong with having socks.

2076
02:36:32.000 --> 02:36:37.120
What I Phini's discovered the the the little old fly

2077
02:36:37.280 --> 02:36:43.760
again bless him. Pubs spill out on pavements every summer evening.

2078
02:36:45.239 --> 02:36:50.079
That can happen, I definitely can happen. I remember there

2079
02:36:50.120 --> 02:36:52.840
was a pub in London just near where the comedy

2080
02:36:52.840 --> 02:36:58.200
club that I used to be regularly at, and it

2081
02:36:58.280 --> 02:37:01.799
would be jam backed and this is a little road

2082
02:37:02.360 --> 02:37:04.319
that went all the way down and it was it

2083
02:37:04.440 --> 02:37:07.959
wasn't a big road, but the people would stand outside

2084
02:37:07.959 --> 02:37:13.120
the pub and there'd be hundreds of people outside. I'm

2085
02:37:13.200 --> 02:37:17.319
talking to a lot of people and I went in

2086
02:37:17.319 --> 02:37:17.920
the pub once.

2087
02:37:18.079 --> 02:37:21.200
I thought, it's got to be a big pub if

2088
02:37:21.200 --> 02:37:23.920
all those people are inside, then they come outside in

2089
02:37:23.959 --> 02:37:26.840
the summer. It wasn't big inside at all. They just

2090
02:37:26.879 --> 02:37:30.799
have more people visiting in the summer. And it wasn't

2091
02:37:30.840 --> 02:37:35.760
locals because it wasn't It was in the middle of

2092
02:37:35.840 --> 02:37:41.360
what's just near the the city center kind of you know,

2093
02:37:41.479 --> 02:37:45.920
the financial place near Liverpool Street. So that wasn't a

2094
02:37:45.959 --> 02:37:47.920
particularly residential place.

2095
02:37:49.319 --> 02:37:53.200
It was the city. It was the financial district, although

2096
02:37:53.239 --> 02:37:54.600
Canary warforso was.

2097
02:37:54.760 --> 02:37:59.200
But there wasn't a lot going on at the weekend generally,

2098
02:37:59.360 --> 02:38:02.799
especially during the day. Super busy during a week in

2099
02:38:02.840 --> 02:38:08.000
the daytime. Sometimes on a Saturday morning, you'd see oddly anyone.

2100
02:38:10.319 --> 02:38:13.719
People moan when it's cold, and they moan when it's

2101
02:38:13.760 --> 02:38:19.159
too hot. Yeah, I'm sure that's not just an English thing.

2102
02:38:21.319 --> 02:38:29.479
It's called moaning, although I imagine English people did invent it.

2103
02:38:30.239 --> 02:38:30.920
To be fair.

2104
02:38:33.799 --> 02:38:36.559
Fans sell out in shops every time there's a mini

2105
02:38:36.600 --> 02:38:41.120
heat wave. Yeah, we're very it's a very short term

2106
02:38:41.319 --> 02:38:42.120
in this country.

2107
02:38:43.079 --> 02:38:49.200
It's yeah, it is, if you if you want to

2108
02:38:49.639 --> 02:38:53.600
if the government right, if there was suddenly a huge

2109
02:38:53.639 --> 02:38:59.399
amount of bread, too much bread's been made, and you know,

2110
02:38:59.520 --> 02:38:59.959
I mean.

2111
02:39:00.000 --> 02:39:03.399
Millions and millions and millions of pounds worth of bread

2112
02:39:03.920 --> 02:39:08.040
over made, and all the bakeries got together and said,

2113
02:39:08.079 --> 02:39:09.639
look what we're going to do, because we're going to

2114
02:39:09.719 --> 02:39:13.159
lose millions of pounds over the next two days because

2115
02:39:13.159 --> 02:39:14.840
we're never going to sell all this bread that we've

2116
02:39:14.840 --> 02:39:17.840
accidentally made. And they went to the government and told them,

2117
02:39:18.000 --> 02:39:23.040
and the government put out a warning saying bread shortage.

2118
02:39:24.120 --> 02:39:30.120
Every every single shop would sell out our bread. Within

2119
02:39:30.159 --> 02:39:32.639
a few hours, there'd be no bread left.

2120
02:39:34.159 --> 02:39:41.639
So it's quite clever. The way it works. Water fights

2121
02:39:41.639 --> 02:39:45.479
with host pipes for balloons or a childhood staple. I

2122
02:39:45.639 --> 02:39:47.600
tell you what me and my two brother my two

2123
02:39:47.639 --> 02:39:48.680
older brothers used to do.

2124
02:39:49.719 --> 02:39:52.959
There was this pond where used to have like a

2125
02:39:53.000 --> 02:39:55.520
boat rides in that down near the beach. So we

2126
02:39:55.600 --> 02:39:59.079
used to have buckets and we'd fill the buckets up

2127
02:39:59.120 --> 02:40:05.639
and just pour water to over each other. And sometimes

2128
02:40:05.639 --> 02:40:06.559
we do it in the summer.

2129
02:40:06.719 --> 02:40:07.319
It was great.

2130
02:40:09.440 --> 02:40:12.479
Paddling pools and ice lollies make even the simplest summer

2131
02:40:12.559 --> 02:40:18.719
day feel magical. Yeah, I suppose it's something I don't

2132
02:40:18.719 --> 02:40:23.159
really do because i don't have a paddling pool and

2133
02:40:23.200 --> 02:40:27.799
I've got a kind of share a garden with the

2134
02:40:27.840 --> 02:40:31.079
other people that live in this area, so it's a

2135
02:40:31.120 --> 02:40:34.559
communal garden and it's not really a place to put

2136
02:40:34.559 --> 02:40:38.280
a paddling pool really, although I did, I did think

2137
02:40:38.319 --> 02:40:42.879
about doing something like that for this little one. I

2138
02:40:42.920 --> 02:40:44.799
thought it might be nice. But it's a lot of water,

2139
02:40:44.959 --> 02:40:50.440
isn't it to be fair? And I don't know if

2140
02:40:50.440 --> 02:40:54.319
you'd even want to do it because it doesn't like baths.

2141
02:40:56.120 --> 02:40:58.760
He avoids puddles. He will drink out of puddles, but

2142
02:40:58.799 --> 02:41:01.719
he doesn't he won't walk in a So I'm wondering

2143
02:41:01.760 --> 02:41:03.360
whether or not you'd even want to get into the

2144
02:41:03.399 --> 02:41:04.120
paddling pool?

2145
02:41:04.319 --> 02:41:04.639
Would you?

2146
02:41:05.399 --> 02:41:08.120
Would you get in the paddling pool? Would you be

2147
02:41:08.159 --> 02:41:09.879
a good girl and get in a paddling pool with

2148
02:41:09.920 --> 02:41:10.760
your auntie JJ?

2149
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Would you?

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02:41:15.799 --> 02:41:16.000
That?

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02:41:16.319 --> 02:41:19.280
I do believe is everything. I managed to get through

2152
02:41:19.319 --> 02:41:23.479
all one hundred pretty much. I missed out a couple

2153
02:41:23.559 --> 02:41:28.559
that would like, but yeah, most of them are done.

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02:41:29.520 --> 02:41:33.879
So I want to say thank you for listening. And

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I am going to do a Q and A Friday

2156
02:41:37.040 --> 02:41:42.079
this week, so maybe i'll put up I'll probably post

2157
02:41:42.120 --> 02:41:46.479
something on Wednesday tomorrow asking for questions on my Jason

2158
02:41:46.559 --> 02:41:52.000
Newland's boarding group on Facebook. So thank you for listening.

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02:41:52.159 --> 02:41:56.360
Remember to be kind to yourself, because you do deserve.

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02:41:56.040 --> 02:42:14.040
To be happy lots of love by relax in a

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02:42:14.120 --> 02:42:24.959
more deep and meaningful way, maybe in a way that

2162
02:42:25.159 --> 02:42:34.680
can not just allow you to feel calmer now and

2163
02:42:35.719 --> 02:42:44.079
throughout the time we spend together here, not just relaxed

2164
02:42:46.319 --> 02:42:50.559
at the end of the recording when it's finished and

2165
02:42:50.600 --> 02:43:00.479
you can enjoy that sense of comfort and peace, But

2166
02:43:00.639 --> 02:43:14.079
also I think it would be nice to have those

2167
02:43:14.399 --> 02:43:31.360
feelings of relaxation continue for longer after the recording has ended,

2168
02:43:36.440 --> 02:43:45.440
so that you can still benefit from listening to my

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02:43:45.600 --> 02:44:00.239
voice maybe in a few hours time, perhaps tomorrow, and

2170
02:44:00.280 --> 02:44:08.159
then by listening regularly, especially if you find like some

2171
02:44:08.280 --> 02:44:12.159
people do and myself as well. Sometimes I find one

2172
02:44:12.280 --> 02:44:22.600
particular recording that really resonates with me, and I just

2173
02:44:22.760 --> 02:44:28.399
listen to it over and over again every morning, every evening.

2174
02:44:36.040 --> 02:44:40.680
There was this recording from We're going back to about

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02:44:40.799 --> 02:44:46.079
nineteen ninety nine. It wasn't hypnosis, but it was a

2176
02:44:46.159 --> 02:44:55.639
guided visualizations. It kind of was hypnosis, really, and I

2177
02:44:55.719 --> 02:44:59.040
managed to find it again, and it still has the

2178
02:44:59.040 --> 02:45:08.280
same effect on me. And part of it was the

2179
02:45:08.360 --> 02:45:21.399
person's voice relaxed me. She just felt so peaceful, and

2180
02:45:21.440 --> 02:45:28.280
I'd look forward to listening to her in the morning

2181
02:45:28.719 --> 02:45:29.639
and in the evening.

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02:45:36.040 --> 02:45:45.040
And I knew before even pressing the play button that

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02:45:45.159 --> 02:45:48.600
as soon as I've done that pressed the play button.

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02:45:49.399 --> 02:46:00.399
This was in the days of CD players pressed the

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02:46:00.440 --> 02:46:05.799
play button. If fact, it might have even been a

2186
02:46:06.600 --> 02:46:10.959
tape recorder. I'd lie down on the bed and then

2187
02:46:16.120 --> 02:46:23.680
even without necessarily listening to her words.

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02:46:26.520 --> 02:46:35.879
Because I had them memorized. Really, it was as if

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02:46:35.920 --> 02:46:47.159
my body knew exactly what to do, and the muscles

2190
02:46:47.399 --> 02:47:08.760
just almost went into automatic relaxation, and I remember my

2191
02:47:08.959 --> 02:47:22.840
mind would slow down. Now. Now, I was listening to

2192
02:47:22.920 --> 02:47:32.200
this recording in the early days of learning hypnosis, and

2193
02:47:32.399 --> 02:47:41.319
long before I ever made any videos or audio recordings myself,

2194
02:47:42.520 --> 02:47:45.879
because I didn't start doing that till two thousand and six,

2195
02:47:52.799 --> 02:48:08.760
I knew, I knew how helpful I found being able

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02:48:08.799 --> 02:48:17.840
to just let go, to have that trust in the

2197
02:48:17.959 --> 02:48:28.319
person that I'm listening to, knowing that it's going to

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02:48:28.360 --> 02:48:39.200
be just as relaxing, if not more so. Each time

2199
02:48:39.440 --> 02:48:51.959
you hear my voice, you may feel the same. Some

2200
02:48:52.280 --> 02:49:03.719
people have been listening to me for over a decade,

2201
02:49:07.280 --> 02:49:11.319
maybe not solidly, obviously not twenty four hours a day,

2202
02:49:13.079 --> 02:49:27.799
but maybe people come back. Some people maybe listen every day.

2203
02:49:31.319 --> 02:49:37.319
That's something that I do which you may not realize

2204
02:49:39.719 --> 02:49:58.280
by listening, is when I record these recordings. Now, for example,

2205
02:50:02.840 --> 02:50:15.040
I also am affected by the words that I say.

2206
02:50:15.879 --> 02:50:25.200
So if I set you focus on your feet, notice

2207
02:50:25.319 --> 02:50:32.520
your feet relaxing, I will be focusing on my feet.

2208
02:50:37.440 --> 02:50:54.840
I will be noticing my feet relaxing. If I said

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02:50:54.959 --> 02:51:01.159
focus on your hands, and maybe notice is the difference

2210
02:51:02.200 --> 02:51:12.959
between each hand. Perhaps notice the air in the room,

2211
02:51:13.479 --> 02:51:18.280
the temperature of the room, on the backs of your hands.

2212
02:51:26.079 --> 02:51:30.000
You may start to notice what almost feels like a

2213
02:51:30.120 --> 02:51:38.200
very light breeze, even though there may not be any

2214
02:51:38.600 --> 02:51:43.520
type of breeze at all where you are right now.

2215
02:51:51.680 --> 02:52:02.280
And as you become aware of your hands, I'm also

2216
02:52:02.639 --> 02:52:30.840
aware of how relaxed my hands our feeling now and

2217
02:52:31.000 --> 02:52:37.920
when it comes to potentially drifting off to sleep, which

2218
02:52:38.000 --> 02:52:52.120
may be the reason you're listening, I also feel drowsy

2219
02:52:54.360 --> 02:53:06.399
when I make these recordings. I also notice my mind.

2220
02:53:07.319 --> 02:53:07.840
Drifting.

2221
02:53:15.760 --> 02:53:28.360
In fact, at times I've actually fallen asleep without even noticing,

2222
02:53:33.239 --> 02:53:42.360
and then I carry on talking. And it's only when

2223
02:53:42.639 --> 02:53:51.760
I listen back to do the editing I hear snoring,

2224
02:53:53.680 --> 02:54:00.920
and I think, I don't remember snoring. I'm but talking.

2225
02:54:03.760 --> 02:54:03.840
Is it?

2226
02:54:04.040 --> 02:54:04.479
Snoring?

2227
02:54:04.799 --> 02:54:11.559
Was a pig turned up? That's why I sound like

2228
02:54:11.600 --> 02:54:22.719
when I snore? How I get really into a whole experience.

2229
02:54:30.639 --> 02:54:39.719
I don't know how you feel. How relaxed do you

2230
02:54:39.799 --> 02:54:50.760
feel in your feet, how relaxed you feel in your hands.

2231
02:55:05.799 --> 02:55:07.440
I have noticed.

2232
02:55:09.479 --> 02:55:17.559
More and more that the more.

2233
02:55:17.360 --> 02:55:34.399
Relaxed, deeper level of comfort you feel, the easier your

2234
02:55:34.479 --> 02:55:58.000
breathing becomes. It's almost like that additional muscle relaxation. So

2235
02:55:58.120 --> 02:56:29.959
this allows you debreathe easier without necessarily focusing on your breath, however,

2236
02:56:30.200 --> 02:56:47.159
being able to notice the ease.

2237
02:56:50.120 --> 02:56:50.959
In which.

2238
02:56:58.239 --> 02:57:18.120
You breathe so natural, really, you breathe so very easily.

2239
02:57:19.120 --> 02:57:20.920
And smoothly.

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02:57:48.600 --> 02:58:06.159
Whenever I imagine my breathing improving m h. When I've got

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02:58:06.239 --> 02:58:22.280
my eyes closed, I tend to visualize a beautiful field

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02:58:25.000 --> 02:58:39.000
with trees and flowers producing all that life giving oxygen.

2243
02:58:59.040 --> 02:59:14.399
And it feels nice too, if nothing else, just taking

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02:59:14.680 --> 02:59:52.360
some time away from everything, enjoying that feeling of peace

2245
02:59:57.360 --> 03:00:41.879
serenity with a joyful heart. Time seems to just drip by,

2246
03:00:46.360 --> 03:01:36.200
so very slowly, relaxed, so deeply peaceful, completely unattached to

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03:01:37.120 --> 03:02:34.079
any thoughts whatsoever in this moment, completely free, noticing that

2248
03:02:41.639 --> 03:03:28.159
your mind has slowed down. Slowed down because nothing really

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03:03:28.399 --> 03:03:58.959
requires your attention, you can enjoy the physical sensations have

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03:03:59.120 --> 03:04:12.680
allowed the stress drip out of your body, dripping out

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03:04:12.760 --> 03:04:41.920
of every part of your body and being released from

2252
03:04:41.959 --> 03:05:22.319
your brain, cleaning your mind slowly but surely. The muscles

2253
03:05:22.680 --> 03:06:09.120
in your legs relax res res so very deep, REGs

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03:06:14.360 --> 03:06:39.760
so deeply, and the feeings, the pleasant feelings in your

2255
03:06:40.040 --> 03:07:07.840
arms and shoulders deepening each part of your body further

2256
03:07:12.799 --> 03:07:46.159
and deeper and deeper, noticing the feelings in the back

2257
03:07:46.200 --> 03:08:45.799
of your neck, m the feelings in your wrists, muscles,

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03:08:47.840 --> 03:09:42.399
in front of your body, also feeling peaceful deeply, there's

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03:09:42.440 --> 03:10:23.760
a sense of peace spreads through your very core. Even

2260
03:10:23.959 --> 03:10:50.239
when you focus on your mind. Her mind becomes be

2261
03:10:51.079 --> 03:12:27.520
and slower, deep relaxing, so very slow, your stomach pays

2262
03:12:27.719 --> 03:12:29.799
full in your stomach.

2263
03:12:51.360 --> 03:12:52.000
Held back.

2264
03:12:57.440 --> 03:13:11.079
Notice Notice how relaxed.

2265
03:13:14.600 --> 03:13:16.600
You now feel.

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03:13:25.399 --> 03:13:57.719
In the hole of your back. In a spy from

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03:13:57.760 --> 03:14:02.760
your brain, all right down down the middle of your back,

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03:14:06.040 --> 03:14:30.920
sending and receiving millions of messages every day, deepcomfort, increasing.

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03:14:40.760 --> 03:15:13.680
Deeply relaxed, your knees.

2270
03:15:39.000 --> 03:15:52.719
Relax spreading those signals down your spine or cord into air.

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03:15:53.120 --> 03:16:13.280
Every part of your body, have shins and your calf muscles.

2272
03:16:39.719 --> 03:16:40.719
With outbursts.

2273
03:16:57.159 --> 03:17:14.639
Feelings of peace and tranquility spreading through your body, tips

2274
03:17:14.639 --> 03:17:30.639
of your toes, to your eyes, your fingers, all the

2275
03:17:30.639 --> 03:17:44.600
way till you'll lower back, letting her.

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03:17:46.799 --> 03:18:16.760
Radiating pace.

2277
03:18:32.040 --> 03:18:58.719
To drift in mind, just wandering away, happy to let go,

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03:19:01.920 --> 03:20:03.280
let go completely like her, so tranquil your ole body,

2279
03:20:07.600 --> 03:22:30.440
enjoying a sense listing God more thy, enjoy the space,

2280
03:22:32.799 --> 03:22:34.639
this space.

2281
03:22:37.120 --> 03:22:38.239
Of peace.

2282
03:22:41.399 --> 03:23:22.799
And safety, says.

2283
03:24:44.399 --> 03:24:44.920
Letting go.

2284
03:25:03.000 --> 03:25:10.600
Maybe we can just focus on the different parts of

2285
03:25:10.760 --> 03:26:08.959
your body, just to notice.

2286
03:25:42.920 --> 03:25:44.879
Your forehead and your.

2287
03:25:44.799 --> 03:26:53.159
Eyes mutual, so loose, noticing the sense of complete freedom,

2288
03:27:03.000 --> 03:28:55.600
absolute freedoms, dress, day, peace, fall, energy, pace to breeze

2289
03:28:59.239 --> 03:30:09.920
soon ees. Yeah, yes, you may have or may not

2290
03:30:10.120 --> 03:31:10.879
have noticed your mind drifting peaceful, move any even more

2291
03:31:11.280 --> 03:32:04.959
deeply in the direction of total blissful pace, blissful pace, terrest,

2292
03:32:52.920 --> 03:32:54.600
tie to pace.

2293
03:33:24.920 --> 03:33:26.040
Sure, come.

2294
03:33:37.680 --> 03:34:16.600
Let him go, peace of mind, relaxed.

2295
03:34:20.079 --> 03:34:40.239
Body c rex.

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03:34:47.959 --> 03:34:49.879
C reax.

2297
03:35:13.959 --> 03:35:17.280
A body feels almost.

2298
03:35:18.319 --> 03:35:41.399
Invisible, so very relaxed, paceful.

2299
03:35:47.200 --> 03:35:47.360
So.

2300
03:35:54.959 --> 03:36:19.399
Pace right, let go.

2301
03:36:35.639 --> 03:36:57.760
Spas so fair, And you could start to notice that

2302
03:36:58.760 --> 03:37:06.799
you are feeling more relaxed, even though I've not.

2303
03:37:08.440 --> 03:37:19.159
Purposely focused your mind upon that sense of physical comfort

2304
03:37:19.840 --> 03:37:26.719
that is growing within you throughout your body, and your

2305
03:37:26.799 --> 03:37:37.440
mind starts to slow down, And that could be almost

2306
03:37:37.559 --> 03:37:47.120
in recognition of I guess my speech not being particularly fast,

2307
03:37:53.639 --> 03:38:04.079
and things just generally feel calmer. Just by listening to

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03:38:04.200 --> 03:38:12.840
my voice, you give yourself an opportunity to take a

2309
03:38:12.879 --> 03:38:19.760
break from the day, take a break from your life

2310
03:38:20.840 --> 03:38:29.360
as it is, and to give yourself a rest, giving

2311
03:38:29.360 --> 03:38:36.959
yourself permission to take some time off and to allow

2312
03:38:37.000 --> 03:38:43.200
your body to relax and allow your mind to slow down,

2313
03:38:47.239 --> 03:38:55.040
which in turn releases the tension and it stresses that

2314
03:38:55.120 --> 03:39:04.799
you had in your body. It's almost as if the

2315
03:39:04.920 --> 03:39:09.920
parts of your body just open up, allowing the negativity

2316
03:39:10.239 --> 03:39:22.120
out and at the same time replacing that negativity with

2317
03:39:22.760 --> 03:39:32.440
positive healing energy, which then fills your body up and

2318
03:39:32.520 --> 03:39:44.680
your mind to also starts to appreciate those feelings of

2319
03:39:45.920 --> 03:40:05.440
increasing confidence, an almost uplifting feeling, positive healing, an energy

2320
03:40:05.760 --> 03:40:16.319
that spreads through your body like a wave of comfort.

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03:40:21.159 --> 03:40:31.440
And all this comes from just allowing yourself a few minutes,

2322
03:40:33.280 --> 03:40:36.639
maybe half an hour, however long you want it to be,

2323
03:40:37.799 --> 03:40:49.760
to just rest and allow your mind and your body

2324
03:40:51.959 --> 03:41:08.959
to almost preset itself to the settings of comfort and relaxation, calmness,

2325
03:41:13.000 --> 03:41:22.399
which allows more room for feelings of pleasure and happiness

2326
03:41:26.399 --> 03:41:35.440
to move around your body and into your mind, almost

2327
03:41:36.040 --> 03:41:40.639
as if your mind and your body are sinking together,

2328
03:41:44.879 --> 03:41:54.639
almost mirroring each other. With that growing positivity and calmness,

2329
03:42:00.000 --> 03:42:07.680
it feels nice, really does feel nice to know that

2330
03:42:07.760 --> 03:42:16.959
you are the one that has allowed yourself to feel

2331
03:42:17.360 --> 03:42:32.000
more comfort than to experience more of this deep relaxation

2332
03:42:33.360 --> 03:42:47.600
spreading throughout your body. And as I focus on each

2333
03:42:47.959 --> 03:42:53.159
part of your body, you can notice that.

2334
03:42:52.920 --> 03:42:53.879
That part.

2335
03:42:57.600 --> 03:43:10.159
Becomes even more relaxed just by focusing on it. It

2336
03:43:10.159 --> 03:43:23.799
becomes even more calm and comfortable, just by focusing. And

2337
03:43:23.959 --> 03:43:29.479
as I move down your body, starting at your head,

2338
03:43:32.159 --> 03:43:37.479
the parts that you have already focused on will continue

2339
03:43:38.799 --> 03:43:45.959
to relax deeply, and those parts that have not yet

2340
03:43:46.120 --> 03:44:00.000
focused on or just automatically release any remain intention in anticipation,

2341
03:44:00.079 --> 03:44:05.200
shouldn't have even more comfort about to come.

2342
03:44:10.680 --> 03:44:11.079
Now.

2343
03:44:13.239 --> 03:44:19.440
I'm going to start by focusing on your forehead. Just

2344
03:44:19.600 --> 03:44:28.079
being aware of the feelings of your forehead and any

2345
03:44:28.159 --> 03:44:35.680
background sounds like mister Herbert the pigeon can just allow

2346
03:44:35.760 --> 03:44:42.920
you to feel even more relaxed. Just means you're in

2347
03:44:43.000 --> 03:44:51.079
the moment. This isn't this isn't a sterile environment. This

2348
03:44:51.239 --> 03:44:59.079
is the world. I live in the countryside, so there's

2349
03:44:59.159 --> 03:45:09.559
lots of nature sounds around. So as you focus on

2350
03:45:09.600 --> 03:45:16.120
your forehead, just notice how it becomes even.

2351
03:45:16.200 --> 03:45:17.920
More relaxed as you.

2352
03:45:20.040 --> 03:45:31.520
Focus only on my voice and that part of your body.

2353
03:45:32.520 --> 03:45:43.719
Moving down to your eyes, focusing on your eyes noticing how.

2354
03:45:45.920 --> 03:45:53.200
Your eyelids feel so heavy yet so light at the

2355
03:45:53.239 --> 03:46:00.280
same time, and all the muscles around your eyes relax.

2356
03:46:02.280 --> 03:46:14.159
Completely. Moving your focus down to your mouth, your lips,

2357
03:46:14.600 --> 03:46:17.120
your tongue, your teeth.

2358
03:46:17.319 --> 03:46:18.399
You comes.

2359
03:46:20.399 --> 03:46:35.079
The hole of your mouth, relaxing, calm and loose, as

2360
03:46:35.159 --> 03:46:43.319
you focus now on your jaw, just the parts of

2361
03:46:43.360 --> 03:46:48.040
your jaw near your mouth and your chin, but all

2362
03:46:48.079 --> 03:46:52.680
the way up the size of your face to your ears,

2363
03:46:54.840 --> 03:46:56.319
the hole of.

2364
03:46:56.360 --> 03:47:00.239
Your jaw, feeling.

2365
03:47:04.079 --> 03:47:06.639
More relaxed.

2366
03:47:10.000 --> 03:47:18.479
And calm.

2367
03:47:18.920 --> 03:47:28.079
Focusing on your neck, the front of your neck, and

2368
03:47:28.120 --> 03:47:41.159
your throat relaxing and loose and calm. The sides of

2369
03:47:41.239 --> 03:47:46.520
your neck, the right and left side of your neck

2370
03:47:49.479 --> 03:47:52.840
relax and lace.

2371
03:47:56.639 --> 03:48:03.639
And calm.

2372
03:48:03.799 --> 03:48:10.680
And now the back of your neck, focusing on the

2373
03:48:10.719 --> 03:48:21.120
back of your neck, letting go of any tension that

2374
03:48:21.360 --> 03:48:30.200
may have been there before, and enjoying that sense of

2375
03:48:31.239 --> 03:48:36.200
increasing comfort and release.

2376
03:48:38.920 --> 03:48:42.920
Then you can experience in the back of your neck,

2377
03:48:49.239 --> 03:48:51.600
moving down your back.

2378
03:48:53.680 --> 03:48:59.000
And moving either side of your spine right from the top.

2379
03:48:58.799 --> 03:48:59.840
Of your back.

2380
03:49:01.399 --> 03:49:05.040
All the way down to the bottom of your back

2381
03:49:11.079 --> 03:49:22.399
down to your lower back. And as you move up

2382
03:49:22.440 --> 03:49:31.280
and down your spine, you can feel the muscles either

2383
03:49:31.399 --> 03:49:45.000
side of your spine relaxing even more. And as those

2384
03:49:45.079 --> 03:49:54.319
muscles relax, that sense of comfort starts to spread outwards

2385
03:49:56.120 --> 03:50:05.760
from your spine into both sides of your back, the

2386
03:50:05.799 --> 03:50:09.319
top of your back, the middle, and your lower back.

2387
03:50:12.840 --> 03:50:20.000
And as you scan gently and slowly up and down

2388
03:50:20.159 --> 03:50:25.280
your back, there's the muscles in the top of your

2389
03:50:25.319 --> 03:50:28.120
back relax.

2390
03:50:28.000 --> 03:50:29.399
And become looser.

2391
03:50:33.680 --> 03:50:39.719
The muscles in the middle of your back also seem

2392
03:50:39.840 --> 03:50:49.319
to just almost divide from each other, separating and almost melting,

2393
03:50:55.120 --> 03:51:01.120
And in your lower back there seems to be an

2394
03:51:01.159 --> 03:51:15.399
extra special feeling of comfort. The spreads into your hips.

2395
03:51:17.639 --> 03:51:25.399
Sit down your lower back and into your hips, into

2396
03:51:25.399 --> 03:51:32.360
the area where your cosix are, and into your buttocks,

2397
03:51:34.360 --> 03:51:41.239
and all those muscles that spread bring your lower back.

2398
03:51:43.479 --> 03:51:45.000
Into your hip area.

2399
03:51:47.760 --> 03:52:04.280
Start to melt, start to really let go, and you

2400
03:52:04.520 --> 03:52:11.239
know where about to focus on your shoulders. Your back

2401
03:52:11.559 --> 03:52:22.479
and your spine will continue to let go, continue to

2402
03:52:22.719 --> 03:52:37.319
relax so calmly, and as you focus on your shoulders,

2403
03:52:39.079 --> 03:52:55.879
you may notice they're already feeling really loose. They're already.

2404
03:52:58.200 --> 03:53:11.799
Feeding calm and fear.

2405
03:53:16.120 --> 03:53:24.440
Those muscles then move from your neck into your shoulders

2406
03:53:30.959 --> 03:54:00.360
feel so soft and gentle, so smooth and calm, and

2407
03:54:00.600 --> 03:54:13.479
the feeling in your shoulders seems to spread deep into

2408
03:54:13.520 --> 03:54:23.959
your shoulders, that sense of relaxation, not just traveling deeply

2409
03:54:24.319 --> 03:54:31.840
into your muscles, but also relaxing.

2410
03:54:33.879 --> 03:54:35.360
The bones.

2411
03:54:40.639 --> 03:54:47.319
And moving all the way to underneath your arms, relaxing

2412
03:54:49.120 --> 03:54:53.920
the whole area between the tops of your shoulders and

2413
03:54:54.120 --> 03:54:57.120
underneath your arms.

2414
03:54:59.600 --> 03:55:06.360
He Then you feel so.

2415
03:55:08.200 --> 03:55:20.239
Relaxed and comfortable in your shoulders, which sense that's.

2416
03:55:21.920 --> 03:55:24.000
Deep healing.

2417
03:55:26.959 --> 03:55:44.479
Message into your arms. You may feel almost as if

2418
03:55:44.520 --> 03:55:51.040
your arms are not even there because they're so relaxed,

2419
03:55:54.239 --> 03:56:24.559
so deeply relaxed, so so calm.

2420
03:56:25.159 --> 03:56:32.239
So this.

2421
03:56:39.680 --> 03:56:51.040
The feelings spreading all way down your arms to your elbows,

2422
03:56:54.639 --> 03:57:24.920
including your elbows, circumfort spreads away into rists, your forearms.

2423
03:57:24.760 --> 03:57:33.799
Under wrists so heavy.

2424
03:57:37.120 --> 03:58:18.319
Yet at the same time slight and gentle. Fred s.

2425
03:58:20.879 --> 03:58:22.319
Now on.

2426
03:58:24.559 --> 03:59:18.200
Your hands, my hands, so peaceful, annoy hands.

2427
03:59:18.200 --> 03:59:19.639
The sensor.

2428
03:59:22.639 --> 03:59:24.520
Real pace.

2429
03:59:36.159 --> 03:59:50.600
Just seems to feel so familiar on your hands, relaxed

2430
03:59:51.840 --> 04:01:58.280
deeply hans I things things you think it tips attention

2431
04:02:00.120 --> 04:02:31.360
from your body so consible. Then you focus to legs,

2432
04:03:50.760 --> 04:04:48.040
assuls in your fis names s, relax carf muscles just

2433
04:04:48.360 --> 04:08:40.159
shas compasi I saints.

2434
04:07:03.280 --> 04:07:05.520
Serve peaceful.

2435
04:07:06.920 --> 04:08:03.079
Circom say peaceful, sircom serve peaceful sycom So.

2436
04:08:05.040 --> 04:08:06.319
Pace f.

2437
04:08:15.079 --> 04:08:16.959
Relax, same.

2438
04:08:21.959 --> 04:08:39.920
Pace, fall, come love, Let deep relaxation.

2439
04:08:40.360 --> 04:08:58.280
To spread your chest, your story, relax, lets me go.

2440
04:09:01.920 --> 04:09:02.639
Everything.

2441
04:09:13.879 --> 04:09:19.879
So I'm gonna start counting down now from twenty down

2442
04:09:19.920 --> 04:09:28.079
to one. You can imagine in a way it's like

2443
04:09:28.840 --> 04:09:35.319
just walking down some steps and each step or twenty steps,

2444
04:09:35.360 --> 04:09:44.719
and each step represents a level of comfort. Each step

2445
04:09:45.040 --> 04:10:00.600
represents a deepening of that comfort, and the fervy you

2446
04:10:00.719 --> 04:10:13.559
walk down those steps, the deeper, more relaxed feel. So

2447
04:10:14.200 --> 04:11:22.440
starting with number twenty twenty nineteen shhhh eight.

2448
04:12:00.399 --> 04:14:04.760
Seventeen sixteen, which consis fifty.

2449
04:14:46.840 --> 04:15:47.760
Four four s.

2450
04:16:54.079 --> 04:24:59.760
Too wellhhhhhh ninehhhhhhh eighthhhh.

2451
04:23:50.239 --> 04:26:36.159
Six na five four.

2452
04:27:06.280 --> 04:30:03.479
Hund one.

2453
04:30:58.120 --> 04:31:10.840
As you focus on your mind, I'm gonna count down

2454
04:31:11.159 --> 04:31:22.319
from ten down to one, focusing just on your eyes,

2455
04:31:26.079 --> 04:31:34.639
your eyelids, the muscles around your eyes, your eyes wolves themselves,

2456
04:31:36.120 --> 04:31:37.760
our whole area.

2457
04:31:40.280 --> 04:31:49.239
That makes up your eye.

2458
04:31:52.959 --> 04:32:00.879
As we count down from ten down to one, whilst

2459
04:32:01.120 --> 04:32:14.440
focusing on your eyes, you will become twice is relaxed

2460
04:32:16.680 --> 04:32:25.879
with each number counting down, that you may find.

2461
04:32:29.680 --> 04:32:32.360
The what you want to do is just.

2462
04:32:34.239 --> 04:32:41.440
Drift off to sleep. And if that's what you want,

2463
04:32:44.479 --> 04:32:57.559
then just allow yourself to do that. Now, focusing on

2464
04:32:57.600 --> 04:33:05.560
your eyes, got to begin counting down from ten down

2465
04:33:05.639 --> 04:33:20.119
to one right now, ten.

2466
04:33:45.880 --> 04:34:21.040
Nine eight.

2467
04:35:06.360 --> 04:36:57.680
Seven us.

2468
04:37:18.319 --> 04:38:30.080
E four.

2469
04:39:42.959 --> 04:42:23.360
Three us one.

2470
04:42:23.680 --> 04:42:40.680
So count down from ten to one ten nine eight.

2471
04:42:43.200 --> 04:42:46.360
Seven six.

2472
04:42:48.159 --> 04:42:51.400
Five four.

2473
04:42:54.000 --> 04:43:08.799
Three two one. And maybe that was a bit too

2474
04:43:08.880 --> 04:43:13.040
quick in order to relax. Maybe it's a bit too

2475
04:43:13.240 --> 04:43:19.319
fast for you to notice the calming of your body,

2476
04:43:22.479 --> 04:43:27.040
maybe even a little bit of pressure there, like you're

2477
04:43:27.119 --> 04:43:28.840
count it down from ten to one.

2478
04:43:28.919 --> 04:43:30.360
Would you expect me to do?

2479
04:43:30.639 --> 04:43:35.240
Man, expect me to STI go with floppy just because

2480
04:43:35.279 --> 04:43:36.360
you're counted down.

2481
04:43:41.919 --> 04:43:45.439
If you try it again, but this time, I'll go a.

2482
04:43:45.360 --> 04:43:52.759
Bit slower this time, and you focus on the whole

2483
04:43:52.840 --> 04:43:55.439
of your body before we.

2484
04:43:55.439 --> 04:43:57.319
Focus on your legs.

2485
04:43:59.040 --> 04:44:00.200
Just notice.

2486
04:44:01.360 --> 04:44:14.159
How your body does start to feel more relaxed with

2487
04:44:15.400 --> 04:44:18.360
every number that I count down.

2488
04:44:21.520 --> 04:44:35.959
Ten nine.

2489
04:44:33.240 --> 04:46:03.279
At eight, seven, six, five, four three, And just notice

2490
04:46:03.560 --> 04:46:15.560
how how you feel generally, how your body feels. It's

2491
04:46:15.599 --> 04:46:23.720
not necessarily even about counting down from ten to one.

2492
04:46:26.680 --> 04:46:40.080
It's that space that you have, that space between being

2493
04:46:43.639 --> 04:46:47.720
active physically or mentally.

2494
04:46:48.560 --> 04:46:49.159
It's just.

2495
04:46:53.759 --> 04:46:58.959
Sitting or lying down, just being there, not doing anything.

2496
04:46:59.000 --> 04:47:02.959
You're not saying it anything or in needing to think

2497
04:47:03.040 --> 04:47:08.959
about anything. So it opens up a space, you know,

2498
04:47:09.119 --> 04:47:18.479
a bit of a space, a gap. And the more

2499
04:47:19.759 --> 04:47:23.240
I came down from ten to one, the bigger that

2500
04:47:23.279 --> 04:47:32.840
gap becomes. So there's that gap of calmness, of comfort

2501
04:47:33.360 --> 04:47:49.599
and relaxation. It's a nice feeling, and it moves those

2502
04:47:51.360 --> 04:47:57.000
stresses or discomforts physically or emotionally moves.

2503
04:47:58.840 --> 04:47:59.240
Away.

2504
04:48:06.000 --> 04:48:18.400
Allows you to just slow down, someone to count the

2505
04:48:18.520 --> 04:48:25.040
game from ten down to one and notice that gap widening,

2506
04:48:27.200 --> 04:48:31.639
the gap, And as it widens, it's almost like that

2507
04:48:33.040 --> 04:48:36.400
the stress and attention falls.

2508
04:48:36.200 --> 04:48:54.639
Into the gap and gives you that distance, that space.

2509
04:48:57.000 --> 04:49:02.799
Now ten.

2510
04:49:06.799 --> 04:49:46.919
Nine, eight, seven, six, five.

2511
04:49:57.639 --> 04:51:01.720
Four three.

2512
04:51:03.639 --> 04:51:04.400
How did you want?

2513
04:51:06.439 --> 04:51:06.799
Body?

2514
04:51:06.880 --> 04:51:07.680
You feel.

2515
04:51:09.639 --> 04:51:22.479
Now?

2516
04:51:22.520 --> 04:51:23.799
Can you notice that?

2517
04:51:24.759 --> 04:51:35.360
Do you feel in calmer? Do you feel.

2518
04:51:38.200 --> 04:51:38.799
Relaxed?

2519
04:52:01.240 --> 04:52:05.759
As we now focus on your legs, just your legs.

2520
04:52:21.599 --> 04:52:41.799
I'm just gonna start with focusing on your thighs. Of course,

2521
04:52:41.880 --> 04:52:47.240
it's not the most exciting thing to be done, because.

2522
04:52:49.880 --> 04:52:53.040
I'm sure like most of your body is not not

2523
04:52:53.240 --> 04:52:55.200
going on right now.

2524
04:53:03.279 --> 04:53:09.560
Just focusing on the whole of your thighs, the tops

2525
04:53:09.599 --> 04:53:15.720
of your thighs, the size of your fires the bottoms

2526
04:53:15.759 --> 04:53:23.119
of your thighs, outer thighs and inner thighs. Basically the

2527
04:53:23.200 --> 04:53:26.479
whole of your thigh that leads into.

2528
04:53:26.200 --> 04:53:41.400
Your hip and it goes down to your knee joint. Now,

2529
04:53:41.479 --> 04:53:48.520
this is a big area. It's a very heavy area.

2530
04:53:49.000 --> 04:53:54.759
It's very strong, probably the strongest muscles.

2531
04:53:54.279 --> 04:53:56.680
In your body or in your thighs.

2532
04:54:06.880 --> 04:54:10.439
I don't think we perhaps.

2533
04:54:12.000 --> 04:54:23.840
Give enough attention to our thighs. Perhaps we don't they

2534
04:54:24.000 --> 04:54:44.439
acknowledge how important our thighs are to our lives, how

2535
04:54:44.560 --> 04:54:53.720
much they actually do for us all through our lives.

2536
04:55:00.840 --> 04:55:02.520
And it may seem.

2537
04:55:02.400 --> 04:55:07.520
Sound really weird, but I think that all of.

2538
04:55:07.479 --> 04:55:18.279
Our body parts, especially our thighs, needs some TLC, a

2539
04:55:18.360 --> 04:55:19.880
bit of love shown.

2540
04:55:20.560 --> 04:55:20.919
A bit of.

2541
04:55:27.479 --> 04:55:36.119
Acknowledgement, thank you, gratitude.

2542
04:55:38.279 --> 04:55:40.159
For what ad thighs do for us.

2543
04:55:46.720 --> 04:55:52.360
And I know this may sound a bit strange. Maybe

2544
04:55:52.360 --> 04:55:56.240
you think, why am I sure? How should be able in.

2545
04:55:56.040 --> 04:56:04.720
The garden hiding a tree or something. It's hard to

2546
04:56:04.759 --> 04:56:07.959
set a microphone number on a tree. That's what I'm

2547
04:56:08.000 --> 04:56:10.319
doing this se doors. Otherwise I wouldn't be outside un

2548
04:56:10.439 --> 04:56:13.680
in a tree, and I'm can't see the television from

2549
04:56:13.680 --> 04:56:21.840
a tree, you move down to your.

2550
04:56:21.759 --> 04:56:31.520
Knees, you gain such an important part, and I think

2551
04:56:31.560 --> 04:56:33.400
we don't necessarily.

2552
04:56:34.240 --> 04:56:41.919
I'll speak to myself here, I don't necessarily appreciate all

2553
04:56:41.959 --> 04:56:46.799
that one needs to do for me until I have

2554
04:56:46.880 --> 04:56:48.040
a problem with my need.

2555
04:56:49.240 --> 04:56:54.880
Occasionally, if I ever, maybe i'll bash it it's aching

2556
04:56:55.040 --> 04:57:02.000
for some reason. Then I realize how much it does

2557
04:57:03.720 --> 04:57:06.880
have the benefit of being able to use on my

2558
04:57:07.080 --> 04:57:14.439
legs without any kind of physical discomfort.

2559
04:57:15.279 --> 04:57:21.119
Is a beautiful thing. That's possibly an appreciated tool.

2560
04:57:22.119 --> 04:57:32.400
It's temporarily removed, and that's comfort. But as you focus

2561
04:57:32.439 --> 04:57:40.439
on your needs, regardless of how your needs feel, you

2562
04:57:40.560 --> 04:57:44.479
have that sense of gratitude.

2563
04:57:45.240 --> 04:57:48.240
And love to your needs for all they do for you.

2564
04:57:58.880 --> 04:58:02.880
We can still have that tension your fires, or maybe

2565
04:58:03.080 --> 04:58:09.319
notice how your fires feel. Maybe you notice that they

2566
04:58:10.360 --> 04:58:12.639
arm your.

2567
04:58:12.520 --> 04:58:25.639
Lexi more deeply as you focus.

2568
04:58:25.759 --> 04:58:32.560
Now the bottoms of your legs sets. You can't bottoms

2569
04:58:33.000 --> 04:58:36.799
the bones between needs.

2570
04:58:37.919 --> 04:58:51.080
Your feet incorporate, and course your ankles so atoms can

2571
04:58:51.159 --> 04:58:56.360
anyone has had even like the slightest spray of an ankle.

2572
04:58:57.360 --> 04:59:03.400
You know how yeah, how much we take our ankles

2573
04:59:03.520 --> 04:59:04.080
for granted.

2574
04:59:10.000 --> 04:59:12.040
And it's kind of strange in a way when you

2575
04:59:12.080 --> 04:59:17.840
think that, you know, logically, analysts.

2576
04:59:17.240 --> 04:59:20.240
Are a lot of thing than the rest of their arms,

2577
04:59:21.240 --> 04:59:24.759
which is okay, it doesn't I can't see any problem

2578
04:59:24.759 --> 04:59:27.959
with that, you know, just picking stuff up.

2579
04:59:29.400 --> 04:59:35.680
By incles so much thinner then the rest of our legs,

2580
04:59:42.000 --> 04:59:46.080
and from a physics perspective, logically, it.

2581
04:59:46.080 --> 04:59:52.279
Doesn't really make sense that all this weight will ultimately

2582
04:59:52.439 --> 05:00:04.279
be resting on your ankles then leading to your feet

2583
05:00:00.040 --> 05:00:15.919
area step by. Yeah, that's so much great work, scorts

2584
05:00:16.040 --> 05:00:26.240
us or sad goody. My wife's helps us to balance,

2585
05:00:28.560 --> 05:00:42.400
helps you get around to be my barn. It's a calf, Moses,

2586
05:00:42.479 --> 05:00:51.119
of course I'm stronger. I couldn't see the part of cards.

2587
05:00:52.279 --> 05:01:04.439
Let's seems okay. We go tiptoms, MS speaks that speech speaks,

2588
05:01:04.479 --> 05:01:14.560
peeps us tricks, shoots