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(music) Attempted Monday’s Boring Objects | LMBYTS #1385 | Jason Newland | 30th June 2025

(music) Attempted Monday’s Boring Objects | LMBYTS #1385 | Jason Newland | 30th June 2025
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Hello, and welcome to Jasonnewland dot com. My name's Jason Newland.

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This is let me bore you to sleep. Please only

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listen when you can safely closer eze. Today is Monday,

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the thirtieth of Jwan Tall zero, Little five. Vinny is

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carried up next to me on the sofa. Something's got

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his attention because he's is a pricked up and he's

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looking around. So haven't you've heard something, haven't you? Yeah,

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he's not quite so angry with me today because although

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I did leave him on his own again visiting my

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well day by in hospital. Mm hmm, well, I I

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left early, so I got a left by it with

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another neighbor who took me to the hospital after dropping

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off his wife and the kid at school and work.

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And I got there. I left here at half seven,

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got there about core past eight a m. And I

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left and bo, I'm not sure what I left. I

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left about one. I think I'm not exactly Yeah, I'm

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not exactly sure. So I was home. I think I

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was home by two o'clock. I took Vinnie into the

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garden to do weewis, but it's too hot outside for

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him to go out properly, so I'm not gonna he

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won't be going out until probably six seven six or

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something like that because it's just a bit too hot.

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He did have a nice w alk this morning, which

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was about half an hour out. We was out for

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about half an hour, but I think it because it

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was so early in the morning. I mean, we did

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wake up about I don't know, twenty to four, because

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we did. We went to bed about half eight last

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night and woke up about twenty to four, and so

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we got up. I got up, I had my breakfast.

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He got up as well, and we went for a

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walk about half six till. Yeah, it was about twenty

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five to seven till about five past seven, and then

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I had a shower, So I got back, had a shower, yeah,

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and then pretty much had about three minutes to get

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prepared to go downstairs and get a lift. So it

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all worked out okay. Potentially, Potentially I was maybe moving

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a bit too fast because normally, you know, I'm not

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I'm not necessarily set to a timer. So I found

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that I was making slightly more noise than usual when

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I was I was probably attempting to make less noise.

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I find that the try the more I try to

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make less noise, the more noise I tend to make.

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So if I'm in the if I'm gonna I'm in

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the kitchen and I'm trying to wash up really quietly

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because it's early in the morning and I don't want

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to disturb, you know, the neighbors. That's when I start

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dropping stuff in the sink. It's weird, isn't Isn't it strange?

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And it's strange. So yeah, I just want to say

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thank you to everyone that's sent their well wishes for

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my neighbor. It's very kind of you, and I do

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appreciate your support. So I'll give you the update. I

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know this is going to be Monday's boring objects. I'm

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going to talk about hospitals, but none of it is

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going to be medical or anything like that. Okay, so

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it was a little bit, but it's not really good.

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It's nothing. It's all going to be tasteful, if that's

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the right word. I'll try and keep everything tasteful, apart

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from some of my jokes. Maybe I don't know. Well,

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can't you tell jokes, do you? I've never remember you

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were telling a joke. Okay, I don't if jokes is

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a correct word. I think they're jokes. Maybe other people

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don't know, they don't notice. So, yeah, hospitals is going

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to be And maybe I've even done that before, but

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we're doing it again, doing it again. So I will

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talk about my experiences in hospitals, including being in hospital

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twice myself, also going to hospital a few times for

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different things, and visiting people in hospital. The first time

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I did hypnosis with someone in hospital. Yeah, so this

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had a few little instances along the way, visiting my

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nan in hospital, but I mean that was that was

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a journey, and that took me about five hours, six

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hours to get there. And then when I get there,

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I'm told that it's closing time or yeah, kind of

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that wasn't good. So the update on me Naybar is

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two things. Really, his next door neighbor, his current next

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door neighbor that's in the bed next to him, is

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leaving tomorrow, so he won't be there. And if they're close,

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they're really close. That been together for a week and

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you can see there's a it's almost like a brotherly

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kind of thing going on there. It's nice. And this

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is ten This bloke's probably ten years younger than him.

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I mean, I think he's about sixty six. She's kind

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of in the middle between me and my neighbor. My

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neighbor's seventy eight on Friday, I think this week. The

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other neighbor this Friday, thirdest Wednesday, froze whatever. I'm fifty four,

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he's sixty six, and everyone's sixty sixty eight, so it's

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kind of midway between us, and you can see there's

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a playfulness between them. I did disc was something quite

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interesting about my neighbor today from his neighbor, his new neighbor. Now,

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my neighbor can't stop talking. He literally can't stop talking,

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and he just talks, talks, talks. Apparently he talks when

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he's asleep. He doesn't even stop talking when he's asleep.

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So I don't know what and this, okay, I don't

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I was talking to the nurses about him talking because

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I was laughing about it, and they can't believe. I

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don't think they've ever met anyone who talks as much

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as him. They thought he was due to his condition,

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and I said, no, he's been like that since I've

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known him for ten years. I'm not saying that he's

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not affected by his condition. You know, I don't want

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to get in the way of any kind of medical

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intervention that might help. But yeah, they laughed, They said really,

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I said, yeah, there's been a chatterbox. But then I'm

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a chatterbox, and I do see myself in him. That

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sounds wrong, doesn't it, But I you know, I see myself.

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I tell I think part of the reason. It's not a

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conscious thing, but I think part of the reason why

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I I've helped him over the period the time I've

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been here and continue to do so to try and

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help anyway, I'm not sure how helpful I am is

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because I see it's almost like I'm looking at him

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and that's me in twenty five years time, or twenty

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three years time, twenty six years time. Wait a minute,

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fifty four, fifty four, sixty four, seventy four, I'll be

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seventy five, it'll be seventy eight. That's twenty three years

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something like that. So you know, twenty three years, you know,

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in some ways, Oh, it's a long time away, is it? Though?

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It is for someone who's ten, it is for someone

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who's twenty, it is for someone who's thirty. Maybe someone

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who's forty but it doesn't seem that far away now.

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I mean for someone who's twenty, if you say, oh,

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in twenty twenty five years, don't look at you like really,

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I'll be an old age pinchner in twenty five years.

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Or if you say that to a twenty year old

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in twenty five years, like yeah, I remember when I

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was a kid, Okay, when I was a kid, when

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I was a younger man, in my twenties, even up

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to my mid twenties, I remember thinking, I'm not genuinely

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thinking if someone said, oh, you got some wrong on

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your leg, you're going to have to have it removed

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in twenty years time, wouldn't even care. It's like twenty

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years that's a lifetime away. I don't care about twenty

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years away now. If someone said that now, it'd be like,

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that's like telling me before Christmas, by the end of

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this year, you're going to have that. That's how close

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it seems almost because it goes so quickly, so quickly.

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In twenty five years ago or twenty three years ago,

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even I was working in a core center in Churchill Insurance,

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and I felt old then. I felt old then. I

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think part of the reason was because I was working

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with when nearly everybody there was younger than me by

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a lot. So you know, I was thirty one, thirty two.

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There was people there in their early twenties, some even

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in late teens, and quite a few of them treated

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me like I was old, like really older. There was

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this female I think she was probably about twenty, and

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she was in my team. She's quite new, and she

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I think I was just finished to shift, so I

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keet my phone out of my pocket. I'm just gonna

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look at it, so if there'd any texts or anything.

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And she starts laughing. She says, oh, ah, I didn't

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think you'd have a modern phone because it was a

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small phone. It's like, really, what did you think I'd

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have some kind of big satellite phone or or bring

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out put out an egg cup with a bit of

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string attached to it, Like, what did you think I

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was going to use? It's a phone. It's just it is.

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It's some weird you may be using something something, something

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up to date. Yeah, and now as I get older,

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I'm thinking I was selling mobile phone contracts forty twenty

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four years ago. So my neighbor downstairs wasn't even alive

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when I was selling mobile phone contracts. My neighbors staids

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my neighbor downstairs. Wasn't I even alive when I was

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working at Churchill. I mean she was, Yeah, she wasn't alive.

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She wasn't even alive when I just when I'd finished

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working at Churchill. In fact, my neighbor downstairs was born

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a year before I started making recordings online. Because I've

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been doing it nineteen years. She's twenty. It's unbelievable, fully

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formed human being with her whole lifetime experiences at the

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same time as me sitting here. We're not sitting here

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necessarily but making weird audios and it's beyond measure. I

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find a very confusing, I really do. And to make

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it worse, she's probably thirty times more mature than I

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am as a person like now. Not when when I

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was your age, I was like a twenty. I was

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a child. Mentally I was a child. I can just

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hear like all many children when they entering in their

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age and no mental never grab up. Sure stop. This

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is about love, This is this is a gentle, loving place.

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Come on, come on, can't we just get along? He hey? Anyway,

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my neighbor he talks in his sleep. I didn't know that.

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I tried to explain that to his neighbor. I said, well,

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we don't sleep together. And I made a mistake. I

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said the wrong thing earlier. I've got a habit of

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doing this, just generally in life. I'm talking to one

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of the nurses and I'm just asking some questions and

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we just chatting. I said, oh, you've got lovely eyes.

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I didn't mean anything by it, and she punched me.

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And now she didn't I said you got lovely eyes.

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I said, oh, sorry about that, and we carried on

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talking and apparently it was distracting her change in the

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cafeter but she didn't know it was behind the curtain.

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But it's and I thought, oh, bit, I might think. See.

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I didn't care about myself embarrassing myself. It's far. It's

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it's quite hard for me to embarrass myself these days.

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Although something did happen later on that was a bit embarrassing.

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Involved a toilet. I'll tell you that in a minute. Anyway,

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it started to bug me. I'm thinking she's at work,

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and this is someone that I've gotten quite well with.

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THO did last week. It's really nice, very friendly, we

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have a laughing that, and I thought, that's that's that

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was just it was not on I can't be. It's

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you know, it's one thing if I was, even even

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if I was, I don't know, just paying someone a compliment.

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It's probably not the thing to do anymore. It used

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to be kind of okay when I was younger, in

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my in my day, you know, in the seventeen century.

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But and I thought, no, that's just I apologize sins

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I said it. And so I thought, you know what

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what I'll do is when there's no one else around,

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I just apologize to us. I did, I said, Look,

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and then what I thought i'd do, okay, is i'd apologize.

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But it's part of me wanted to. I don't know,

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it's just it's just it's the cheeky, cheeky little monkey

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inside of me. So this is what I said to her.

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I said, I just I just want to apologize earlier

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if I was inappropriate when I said that you have

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a lovely smile, and she said, oh, don't worry about it,

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and she's and she said, honestly, I said, no, it

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was unprofession of me, and she laughed. So now I'm

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thinking when she left, did she notice I said something different?

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Because before I said she had lovely eyes, and I

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said a lovely smile, and I thought, oh, that's wrong.

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I shouldn't, so I thought I better just changed. As

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I left, I said, oh, by the way, again, before

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I goes, want to say so sorry for saying. You're

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saying that you got already perky bum. I shouldn't. I

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didn't say that. I just I didn't. I actually didn't

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say goodbye to her because I didn't see her when

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I left. But I'm wondering if she if she noticed

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that I said something different. Is it just popped out

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in my mouth. It's a little bit like hmm, I

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don't know. It's a bit like watching my my name

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try to eat more than one bald sweet at a time.

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One always seemed to pop out, one always fell on

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the floor. No, I didn't. I don't want to saying that.

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Leave my name alone. Blimey. It's like seeing it a

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hamster try and eat a gob stopper. Anyone's seen it.

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Everyone knows what a gobstopper is. Oh, my body's so sensitive.

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I'm just stroke in my chest. I got a little

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it's a spot actually I've thought it was a nipple.

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I thought, oh no, not a fifth nipple. So yeah,

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I he's all right. But he had he had this

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body scan, like a big old body scan on Friday morning,

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like you know, early hours before nine o'clock. I got

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Friday morning, and he still hasn't had the results, and

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I hung around hoping that he would get the results

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before I left. But by half a I think it

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was by about one o'clock, still no one had come

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to see him, and he was eating his dinner. So

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I just left him. I went downstairs to get him

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some stuff from the shop, and then I just came home.

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So I was going to give him a call tomorrow.

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I'm not going to go every single day this week

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because I don't think I can. I can't financially do it.

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But it's not just that I could get a bus.

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It's just a journey. I couldn't, you know. I got

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a taxi back today. I just couldn't face getting on

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a bus and two journeys and standing out in that sun.

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And so yeah, I just got the taxi back. And

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then I'm in a taxi just talking about technology and

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just some whatever. And just as we pull up outside

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my house. I notice he's got a camera. There's a

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little not only a camera, but there's a little screen.

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It's shown me and him together. There's one thing having

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a camera. It's fine, but I've never seen myself on

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a little screen like that. And I said, I don't know.

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It was a little bit annoying. I think I felt

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a little bit trust passed upon because if I knew

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i'd been filmed. I think there's one thing being filmed

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without sound, because you know, you need to be filmed

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if what you're doing, you know, I guess that's okay,

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But I didn't really want my conversation recorded. I don't know.

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It felt a little bit intrusive, a little bit, a

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little bit, you know. And I mean I've been in places,

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I've been in taxis and cars where there's a camera.

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I just I don't take much notice of it. But

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I've never been anywhere before where there's actually a screen

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it shows you yourself being recorded. It made it more real.

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And there's a reason I don't film myself anymore because

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I don't like being on camera, which is a shame

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because my YouTube channel's going completely to nothing. Really, even

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though every recording I do is uploaded onto YouTube. I'm

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losing subscribers. I don't know why. That's funny, but it's yeah,

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it's weird.

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I thought it would be quite handy to have it

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as a as a separate It was like, there's another

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place to listen to the podcast, but ootube doesn't seem

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to agree.

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Agree agree. Yeah. So it's Monday, Monday, and that's it.

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I don't think there's anything else going on with the

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hospital visits Day went there. I found out my other

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neighbor because I knew it used to be in a band.

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He was quite one of the and I say originates,

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but it's one of the originators of the psychedelic movement

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in this country. It started in America, but he he

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built a group and he was in a lot of

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he worked with a lot of really famous people in

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the sixties when the psychedelic movement was around, which would

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be I don't probably late sixties, maybe early seventies, late sixties, yeah,

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late sixties, because I know the Beatles were influenced by

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the psychedelic movement in sixty six, sixty seven, sixty eight,

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something like that. And he's literally he's in London recording

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an album. You know, he's still and he's think he's

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over eighty I think now, and he's still going. And

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he knows loads of people. But to him it's not

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they're not famous people. They're just people that he's known

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for sixty years. And it's weird. He said something just off.

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This is by the way, this is somebody that does

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not brag. That's the thing about He's not a bragger.

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I'm a bragger. I just don't have anything to brag about.

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That's why you don't really hear me bragging because there's

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nothing to brag about. He's got loads to brag about,

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and he doesn't. But he will ask. He will answer questions,

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and not all questions, but he will, you know, if

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I ask him stuff. And he said the only Beatole

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member that he didn't meet was Paul McCartney. He met

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the other three and I said to it, okay, well

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you know the next question I'm going to ask. And

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he said, what's that? How do I get my name?

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I said no, because he's got I won't say to

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you be about to look it up because he's on

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a Wikipedia page. He's not. He was well known, but

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he's not kind of like famous famous in a sense

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of possibly anyone under the age of seventies will have

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heard of possibly, Like I mean as in the period

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of time that he was well known was the seventies,

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late sixties and seventies, and but he worked on albums

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with a lot of famous artists over a long period

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of time. So I'm bragging about him. But he doesn't brag,

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um won if he brags about me. So I'm bragging

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about him telling people or one of my neighbors used

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to be in famous bands and stuff in the sixties

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and seventies, and I know him. Do you think he's

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saying the same kind of thing about me? Yea, I

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got a neighbor. He's got a dog. What else is

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it to say? Yeah, he got a dog? What else?

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You know? He's quite a nice bloke. You want to

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be trapped at a lift with him because he was

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just talking a lot of rubbish. But other than that,

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h yeah, he was saying something about he was It

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was at this gig what was it? The Birds? The

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Birds were playing this One of the birds were like huge,

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the band called the Birds b y r Ds, I

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do believe, And they were at a small club in

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London and all the names went to this club on

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this occasion, so they wanted to see them in concert.

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So my neighbor went along and it was jam packed.

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He was telling me this this morning, because I was

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asking him about acause I said to him, no, what

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was John Linnan like? And he said, exactly the same

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as you'd think, because at that time, that's when he

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was in the Beatles. And he said, sarcastic, funny, full

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of energy, and he just was kind of what you

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saw on TV. He you know, he obviously he could

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be serious as well, but great sense of humor and yeah,

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and he said basically, my neighbor said, he got into

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this club. It's so jam packed. I don't know if

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it was Johnny Scott's or whatever. It is one of

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those big places, and he ended up I think it

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was one of the I think Pink Floyd's manager was

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there and knew him and called him over and invited

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him to go and sit on the table with John Lennon,

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and he ended up sitting between John between Pink Floyd's

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manager and John Lennon's wife at that time, and John

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Lennon's wife was sitting next to John Lennon, so he's

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literally just he'd never met John Lennon. And to be fair,

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there was no one more famous in the world of

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entertainment at that time than the Beatles, so even you know,

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he was in I imagine he was in awe of

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beating him. He got chatting to him and stuff. But

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in that situation, you'd probably just be like an ordinary

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person really, because you can't treat someone like they're a superstar.

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I've always They're probably not going to want to talk

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to you. I'm guessing, in fact, I find that way.

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I find that in the past when I when I

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when I act like a superstar, people don't like to

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talk to me. Who actually just generally people don't like

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to talk to me. Apart from the people that do.

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They're the ones that worried me though, you know, the

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people that want to sit down and actually, oh, tell

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me more. Jason, I'm like, I'm not sure if I

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do want to be worried ooh yeah, he's my neighbors.

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That's a different neighbor. So the neighboring hospital is just

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waiting for his tests. And it was weird because today

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he started asking me questions about myself. Now, I was

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expecting him to use this as an excuse to start

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to talk about sports, which is what he sometimes does.

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He asks questions and then it can lead him on

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to talking about something he wants to talk about, or

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maybe there was a subject that he wanted to talk

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about and he was trying to get me there by

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drawing me in, you know, by pretending to be interested

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in what I used to do. But he seemed genuinely interested.

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And he was asking me about the comedy, about doing

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stand up comedy in London, because I think I must

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have mentioned to him at some point, and he was

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asking me about people that I'd met. I think, yeah,

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because I think I was telling about the neighbor what

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I just told you. I was telling him about that,

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and he started asking me about me about me and saying, now,

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who did you meet? I said, in London, you haven't

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met any famous people? And I said, and he said

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specifically famous comedians when I was on the comedy circuits

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to be involved in comedy for about ten years or

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twenty years really, but ten years solidly, And he said

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that he kept he had follow up questions, where did

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I go? How much was the gigs that people? How

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much the people pay to get in. I feel a

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little bit like he was trying to catch me out,

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like I was just lying and he was trying to

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find out if I was just telling porky pies. But

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the thing is why I'd have to be a bit

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silly to lie about my failures, wouldn't I because I

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wasn't successful. I never made out I was successful. Ever.

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I had some good gigs. I had a few really

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really brilliant gigs, but not many, and a few average

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gigs but not many. I would say, probably if you're

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going to go buy an audience response or the comedy

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promoter's response or the comedy club promoter, percentage wise, I

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would say, if you broke it up into good, I'll

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leave good and really good in the same category. So good, okay,

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not really good at not okay bad, I'm good, so

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okay would be a few laughs okay would be where

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they didn't the promoter didn't get kicked out of the

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club and told they're never going to be allowed to

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have another night there of comedy because of what I'd said,

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So that would be an okay gig, but not necessarily

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a good gig for me. A bad gig I had

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lots of those, especially in the first couple of years.

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The first year, I don't think I was even aware

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that they were bad. I was, I wasn't the most

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I don't know, I don't know what's this got to

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do with hospitals. Well, this conversation occurred in the hospital,

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so it is still part of the boring objects Monday's

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buying objects A and percentage wise, I would say probably

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I worked out. I think a bit about I did

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about I worked out once. I did about two hundred

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and fifty gigs twenty fifty twenty fifty performances over the period,

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and things did start to slow down once I got

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to nineteen ninety five, and I went through periods when

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I didn't do any comedy at all for months and months.

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So nineteen ninety four, A lot of this was to

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do with accommodation jobs situations where you know, I was

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I just couldn't either I was not interested or I

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didn't have the money to get to gigs anyway, So

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I didn't bother because there were some gigs I could

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just turn up at, like a talent contest that was

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every Thursday or every Wednesday or every other Thursday, you know,

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I think it was a downstairs at the King's Head

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was once a month on a Thursday, I do believe.

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And at the Comedy Cafe every Wednesday there was a

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new act Night, which I performed there a lot, many, many,

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many times, pretty much every Wednesday for most of nineteen

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ninety one. Yeah, it's true, wow, and quite a few

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ninety two, quite a few ninety three, ninety four, ninety five,

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sub ninety six, ninety seven and ninety eight. So yeah,

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I performed there over an eight year period, but less

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and less as the years went by. In nineteen ninety six,

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I was a security guard and I couldn't do any

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gigs at all because I was doing weird shifts and

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you know what, this is strange. I don't think I

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performed on stage. I might be wrong, but I'm not

466
00:39:21.159 --> 00:39:23.639
sure if I performed on stage the whole of nineteen

467
00:39:23.719 --> 00:39:27.880
ninety six. So I thinking at the beginning of the

468
00:39:27.960 --> 00:39:31.440
year I was homeless and then managed to find somewhere

469
00:39:31.519 --> 00:39:36.400
to live. I might have gone and done a few

470
00:39:36.400 --> 00:39:39.239
gigs at the beginning of the year, possibly, and then

471
00:39:39.280 --> 00:39:44.519
I got the security job in around March nineteen ninety six,

472
00:39:48.239 --> 00:39:51.199
and I had that security job all the way toward

473
00:39:51.199 --> 00:39:59.000
the summer nineteen ninety seven till about probably June, maybe

474
00:39:59.079 --> 00:40:06.039
July Une time, maybe May June nineteen ninety seven. So

475
00:40:06.079 --> 00:40:08.280
I had that I worked for that security company the

476
00:40:08.320 --> 00:40:14.320
whole time, and I was doing night shifts weekends. It

477
00:40:14.400 --> 00:40:21.960
was almost impossible for me to plan to do gigs

478
00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:24.880
to even because most of the gigs I did were free,

479
00:40:25.440 --> 00:40:28.000
you know, nearly nearly all my gigs were just ones

480
00:40:28.039 --> 00:40:31.119
that I'd do for nothing. I'd do an open spot

481
00:40:32.039 --> 00:40:34.559
or turn up at the comedy cafe on a Wednesday night.

482
00:40:36.599 --> 00:40:40.159
So I'm sure I probably did a couple during that period,

483
00:40:40.159 --> 00:40:43.239
but I didn't do much in ninety six. That was

484
00:40:43.320 --> 00:40:47.599
really the tail end of my comedy non career, as

485
00:40:47.639 --> 00:40:52.800
it were. But that was also at the time when

486
00:40:52.840 --> 00:40:59.679
I was I was getting better. I was able to

487
00:41:02.159 --> 00:41:06.679
be more topical, and I found that I was I'm

488
00:41:06.679 --> 00:41:10.000
not saying that I was good, but I was a

489
00:41:10.039 --> 00:41:17.840
better than before, and by talking about topical things it

490
00:41:17.880 --> 00:41:20.480
was I don't know, it just sometimes you don't even

491
00:41:20.480 --> 00:41:25.440
have to be particularly funny. I found by just saying

492
00:41:25.480 --> 00:41:29.599
something a bit silly about something that's really big in

493
00:41:29.639 --> 00:41:32.880
the news, it's just like a silly line. Sometimes get

494
00:41:32.880 --> 00:41:35.039
a little I might just get a little smirk or something,

495
00:41:35.079 --> 00:41:37.880
but I was still better than what I was used

496
00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:42.719
to getting. Well, I did say if you're making anyone angry,

497
00:41:42.800 --> 00:41:49.840
that was that was the good thing. And nineteen so

498
00:41:50.119 --> 00:41:57.679
ninety seven, from the summer ninety seven to the end

499
00:41:57.719 --> 00:42:02.920
of end of ninety seven, I did do a few gigs. Yeah,

500
00:42:02.920 --> 00:42:05.159
I did, I went. I did, and went to a

501
00:42:05.159 --> 00:42:07.880
few gigs as well. So I performed a bit more

502
00:42:09.039 --> 00:42:13.360
at the latter part of ninety seven because I was

503
00:42:13.400 --> 00:42:17.079
back involved in the comedy again. So I did Yeah,

504
00:42:17.239 --> 00:42:25.039
on a probably never at the weekend because I was

505
00:42:25.079 --> 00:42:29.320
busy at the weekends, But on a on a Tuesday, Wednesday,

506
00:42:29.400 --> 00:42:35.239
Thursday night, I'd probably end up going to gigs, whether

507
00:42:35.320 --> 00:42:38.159
to just watch my friends who are other comedians performing,

508
00:42:38.840 --> 00:42:41.480
or to perform myself. Ones that I could just turn

509
00:42:41.559 --> 00:42:44.559
up at and they'd let me on. So that was

510
00:42:44.599 --> 00:42:54.400
pretty cool. And then in ninety eight January, I just

511
00:42:54.440 --> 00:42:58.559
did my very last gig. Ever, I didn't realize just

512
00:42:58.599 --> 00:43:05.199
my last gig, but it was still last performance. And yeah,

513
00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:09.559
I've just heard him go. He started barking then because

514
00:43:09.559 --> 00:43:14.360
someone sneezing in the garden or well it was outside

515
00:43:14.480 --> 00:43:16.800
this building. It might have been in the building, but

516
00:43:16.880 --> 00:43:20.599
outside where I live. It was just a little sneeze

517
00:43:20.679 --> 00:43:31.960
and thinking, so yeah, I why oh yeah, because because

518
00:43:32.039 --> 00:43:34.639
my neighbor in hospital. He's just asking me all these questions,

519
00:43:35.679 --> 00:43:40.079
and I was thinking, what's the catch, How's he going

520
00:43:40.159 --> 00:43:49.400
to lead on to talking about football or sport? And yeah,

521
00:43:50.239 --> 00:43:58.280
he seemed almost almost interested in what I was saying. Weird,

522
00:43:59.679 --> 00:44:09.639
So because he's absolutely he's phonetic. It's a phonetic about sport.

523
00:44:10.159 --> 00:44:12.440
I mean on a level that I've never seen before.

524
00:44:14.280 --> 00:44:19.320
Loves sport. Oh what I did do is because he's

525
00:44:19.360 --> 00:44:22.199
saying he didn't want the TV on, and they've got

526
00:44:22.280 --> 00:44:25.880
these TVs not like the Some of the NHS TVs

527
00:44:25.880 --> 00:44:29.639
are not great quality screens, and there the ones that

528
00:44:29.679 --> 00:44:31.440
are the side of the bed and you have to

529
00:44:31.440 --> 00:44:34.920
pay five pounds a day to have it. These TVs

530
00:44:34.960 --> 00:44:39.880
are free to use and they're decent TVs. And his

531
00:44:39.960 --> 00:44:43.199
one was unplucked. So and the person next to hims

532
00:44:43.239 --> 00:44:47.320
had his TV on the whole time. Now, I didn't

533
00:44:47.360 --> 00:44:51.800
realize how good the screen was the picture because I've

534
00:44:51.840 --> 00:44:55.880
never looked at the other blokes TV and I said

535
00:44:55.920 --> 00:45:01.000
to my neighbor in hospital. I said, I would saying

536
00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:03.920
not that he in hospital, because I've talked about a

537
00:45:03.960 --> 00:45:06.000
few different neighbors. I want you to know who are

538
00:45:06.039 --> 00:45:11.760
talking about, who I'm gossiping about. I said to him,

539
00:45:11.760 --> 00:45:16.079
you know, Wimbledon's starting today, and he starts talking about Wimbledon,

540
00:45:17.199 --> 00:45:22.719
and I said, well, why don't you watch it? Oh no,

541
00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:25.320
I'm happy with my tablet. I said, you've got a

542
00:45:25.679 --> 00:45:29.639
good You've got a television up there, a big screen.

543
00:45:30.679 --> 00:45:33.320
Well compared to his little tablet. It's a big screen.

544
00:45:34.519 --> 00:45:37.119
It's not they're not they're not big TVs, but probably

545
00:45:37.159 --> 00:45:41.079
twenty four inches or thirty inches or something. They're not.

546
00:45:41.880 --> 00:45:46.599
They're not little, but they're not big. A nice size.

547
00:45:46.599 --> 00:45:52.559
If you're in a really small room and it's up,

548
00:45:52.719 --> 00:45:57.239
it's kind of I think it's I wonder if they

549
00:45:57.280 --> 00:45:59.480
could be moved down. I'm going to ask that. I

550
00:45:59.480 --> 00:46:02.800
don't maybe there can be. I would need it moved

551
00:46:02.840 --> 00:46:06.079
down for me because with my eyesighting it, i'd need

552
00:46:06.159 --> 00:46:13.880
it closer. And it was unplugged. So between me and

553
00:46:13.960 --> 00:46:16.760
his neighbor next to him, I got the TV plugged

554
00:46:16.760 --> 00:46:20.360
in because he said, oh, it's not working. I said, oh,

555
00:46:20.480 --> 00:46:23.400
and then we had to find the remote control. A

556
00:46:23.519 --> 00:46:25.719
nurse went and got a remote control that he could use,

557
00:46:26.079 --> 00:46:28.599
which was exactly the same as a remote control. I

558
00:46:28.679 --> 00:46:31.440
got here in my hand, and he might be thinking,

559
00:46:31.599 --> 00:46:33.679
why are you Why have you got a TV remote

560
00:46:33.719 --> 00:46:36.719
control in your hand? Because I just picked it up.

561
00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:40.480
That's why it's just there to the left. I've not

562
00:46:40.559 --> 00:46:43.119
had a remote control in my hand the whole time

563
00:46:43.159 --> 00:46:50.119
I've been talking. That would be strange. It might not

564
00:46:50.239 --> 00:46:58.000
be strange. I've had a can of whipped cream though. Yeah,

565
00:46:58.400 --> 00:47:02.639
so he said to me. I said to him, and

566
00:47:02.639 --> 00:47:04.599
then he said to me. Then I said to him,

567
00:47:04.920 --> 00:47:07.039
So I plugged it in, turned it on. We got

568
00:47:07.039 --> 00:47:14.159
the TV onto it was. It was a political program

569
00:47:14.360 --> 00:47:19.480
on BBC two and then the live coverage of Wimbledon

570
00:47:19.679 --> 00:47:26.800
starting at I think eleven thirty in the morning. And

571
00:47:26.840 --> 00:47:32.840
once it started, he started to be distracted by it,

572
00:47:32.920 --> 00:47:38.039
and I thought, yeah, this is good because once football

573
00:47:38.159 --> 00:47:42.639
is on, or rugby or cricket, he's now got a distraction.

574
00:47:46.159 --> 00:47:48.199
And it was kind of funny because we were talking

575
00:47:49.039 --> 00:47:55.840
and it was it was a women's tennis match and

576
00:47:55.880 --> 00:48:04.280
it was just grunting. It was like ah and it was.

577
00:48:04.360 --> 00:48:06.079
I don't know. I just found it quite funny because

578
00:48:06.119 --> 00:48:10.400
it seemed a little bit inappropriate for well, for where

579
00:48:10.440 --> 00:48:14.239
we were, just to hear. So I kept thinking, I

580
00:48:14.320 --> 00:48:16.639
forgot the TV was on. So I've been going in

581
00:48:16.639 --> 00:48:19.880
there for however long, and the TV has never been on,

582
00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:23.880
so any sounds like that I'm used to hearing. Maybe

583
00:48:23.920 --> 00:48:29.559
he is from a different ward, because there's there's six

584
00:48:29.679 --> 00:48:38.679
different wards on that ward. That makes sense, So yeah,

585
00:48:38.800 --> 00:48:43.199
it's a ward, but there's six different rooms with four

586
00:48:43.239 --> 00:48:46.639
beds in each, and then there's a couple of other

587
00:48:46.719 --> 00:48:51.920
kind of single rooms which I'm thinking might be private. Perhaps,

588
00:48:52.000 --> 00:49:00.400
I don't know, I'm not sure. So he it was weird.

589
00:49:01.119 --> 00:49:02.840
I don't know what other people must have thought, if

590
00:49:02.840 --> 00:49:05.280
they'd have heard all that grunting coming out of the

591
00:49:05.360 --> 00:49:10.280
TV or out of our ward. I think they're also

592
00:49:10.440 --> 00:49:15.719
single sex wards, so the men there's women in that

593
00:49:17.000 --> 00:49:21.079
big ward that he's in, but not in his particular ward.

594
00:49:22.159 --> 00:49:25.280
Does this make sense? It seems to be too many wards.

595
00:49:25.320 --> 00:49:29.599
I'm using the word ward too often. Four wards, six

596
00:49:29.639 --> 00:49:37.719
wards in one ward. But yeah, it's I've not been

597
00:49:37.800 --> 00:49:40.519
in the other wards, but I have. Actually I went

598
00:49:40.559 --> 00:49:45.239
in one by accident, and that was all females, and

599
00:49:45.280 --> 00:49:52.280
I thought, well, it looks like my neighbor, but it wasn't.

600
00:49:53.280 --> 00:49:55.000
Do you ever get that where you see someone and

601
00:49:55.079 --> 00:50:00.159
you just think, oh, and it's not the person. You

602
00:50:00.360 --> 00:50:04.400
try to adapt, so adapts, you know, scrunch your face

603
00:50:04.480 --> 00:50:07.280
up a little bit and close your eyes half half

604
00:50:07.320 --> 00:50:09.840
so it makes them look a bit more like the

605
00:50:09.840 --> 00:50:20.599
person that you think they should look like. No, okay,

606
00:50:20.679 --> 00:50:28.360
And then I left. So I spent probably four and

607
00:50:28.360 --> 00:50:32.360
a half five hours with him. I never left it

608
00:50:33.360 --> 00:50:41.360
half one or maybe it was one, not sure. I

609
00:50:41.400 --> 00:50:43.519
think it was. He didn't eat his fish and chips.

610
00:50:44.320 --> 00:50:48.039
They're still on the side. No one's noticed. They're still

611
00:50:48.079 --> 00:50:51.000
on the side of his bed, like on his bedside

612
00:50:51.119 --> 00:50:55.199
cabinet thing. And it's going to start stinking at some point,

613
00:50:55.239 --> 00:51:01.760
isn't there fish? It's been there since Friday? No one not.

614
00:51:02.320 --> 00:51:04.800
You're going to start noting. There's be going to be cats,

615
00:51:05.199 --> 00:51:06.840
Like why is there so many cats in the ward?

616
00:51:06.880 --> 00:51:09.960
Where they're coming from? Why they're coming in there? They'll

617
00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:12.199
all be climbing up to the windows when now on

618
00:51:12.280 --> 00:51:15.960
to be gladder a cat ladder? Is there such a

619
00:51:15.960 --> 00:51:19.159
thing as a cat ladder. I suppose they could all

620
00:51:19.199 --> 00:51:22.199
just climb on each other's backs and make a big heap.

621
00:51:24.000 --> 00:51:27.519
I don't know if that's possible. Oh, you know what

622
00:51:27.559 --> 00:51:31.400
I forgot to do today. I was going to ask

623
00:51:31.679 --> 00:51:34.760
somebody if I'm able to take Vinnie with me to

624
00:51:34.800 --> 00:51:37.400
see my neighbor, because he keeps asking about him and

625
00:51:37.559 --> 00:51:42.440
he wants to see him. And another person who walks

626
00:51:42.519 --> 00:51:47.960
their dog told me that sometimes the hospital does allow

627
00:51:49.159 --> 00:51:55.000
depending on the patient's situation. They do allow hospital visits

628
00:51:55.119 --> 00:51:59.840
with a dog, but in a specific part of the hospital.

629
00:52:00.800 --> 00:52:03.039
So he'd have to go to that part of the

630
00:52:03.079 --> 00:52:05.679
hospital and I'd have to take Vinnie there and he

631
00:52:05.719 --> 00:52:09.239
could sort of spend time with him. The alternative is

632
00:52:09.280 --> 00:52:12.239
if he comes outside. I know, I can take Vinnie

633
00:52:12.320 --> 00:52:17.000
outside of the grounds of hospital and he could come downstairs.

634
00:52:17.000 --> 00:52:23.760
But he can't. Really, I don't know how to explain this,

635
00:52:23.920 --> 00:52:31.800
but he doesn't seem to the mobility he had a

636
00:52:31.800 --> 00:52:33.920
week ago doesn't seem to be there for some reason,

637
00:52:35.239 --> 00:52:39.280
you know, before, I think he's been going downhill a

638
00:52:39.320 --> 00:52:42.079
little bit just I think it's his age maybe. But

639
00:52:44.320 --> 00:52:47.000
the week before he went in hospital, he was walking

640
00:52:47.039 --> 00:52:53.800
around every day, going to the Petro station taking strides.

641
00:52:53.920 --> 00:52:56.960
You know, he wasn't like now now he's walking one

642
00:52:57.000 --> 00:53:00.320
foot next to another, next to the other when I

643
00:53:00.360 --> 00:53:02.880
take him outside. I couldn't take him outside today because

644
00:53:02.920 --> 00:53:05.119
I was waiting for the doctor, and the other day

645
00:53:05.159 --> 00:53:07.199
we went out and the doctor came while we were out.

646
00:53:07.760 --> 00:53:17.719
It a not ideal. But he's really walking very very

647
00:53:17.760 --> 00:53:24.519
slowly and at times holding onto me. So I don't know.

648
00:53:24.960 --> 00:53:29.320
It might be a confidence thing. It might just he

649
00:53:29.440 --> 00:53:34.719
might have a similar thing to me where it's there's

650
00:53:34.760 --> 00:53:38.800
too many people. He's not used to that. It's not

651
00:53:38.920 --> 00:53:44.360
used to be walking down a hallway with let's face it,

652
00:53:45.119 --> 00:53:49.280
thousands of people coming and going, you know, and everyone's

653
00:53:49.320 --> 00:53:53.559
walking at different angles, different directions, people walking directly at you,

654
00:53:55.280 --> 00:53:59.440
and trolley's and you know, all sort of people on

655
00:53:59.559 --> 00:54:09.360
gurney and deliveries and all kinds of stuff. No parachutes

656
00:54:11.159 --> 00:54:14.360
and no elephants. But you know, I'm not saying everything's

657
00:54:14.400 --> 00:54:16.079
in the hallway, but it's quite a lot of stuff.

658
00:54:19.079 --> 00:54:20.519
So I don't know how much of it is that.

659
00:54:20.719 --> 00:54:25.239
But he doesn't go downstairs on his own. He doesn't

660
00:54:25.280 --> 00:54:27.400
go he doesn't go to the shop on his own,

661
00:54:29.119 --> 00:54:32.679
which a week ago he would have done before he

662
00:54:32.719 --> 00:54:36.400
went in there. He would have just you know, if

663
00:54:36.440 --> 00:54:39.119
he was visiting someone. Let's say, if he was visiting

664
00:54:39.239 --> 00:54:41.800
me and I said, oh, I need a bottle of coke,

665
00:54:41.960 --> 00:54:45.159
or can you get me some cheese, which is what

666
00:54:45.199 --> 00:54:50.000
he wanted today. Can you get me something from the shop?

667
00:54:51.000 --> 00:54:52.880
He just said, yeah, okay, you need have gone down

668
00:54:53.039 --> 00:54:59.519
and got it for me. So yeah, there was a

669
00:55:00.679 --> 00:55:05.400
that's a difference that I've noticed. And he's not talking

670
00:55:05.440 --> 00:55:10.599
as loudly as he used to. He's still talking unstopped,

671
00:55:10.679 --> 00:55:14.159
but is how much quieter talk? Because I can't hear

672
00:55:14.239 --> 00:55:17.320
him sometimes I kind of have to get closer to

673
00:55:17.400 --> 00:55:20.119
him and then he just goes boom in my ear

674
00:55:20.320 --> 00:55:28.360
makes me jump. So I was going to do some

675
00:55:28.519 --> 00:55:34.400
washing today, some laundry. What do I say to him?

676
00:55:34.559 --> 00:55:38.280
I said something, I've got to do some laundry today,

677
00:55:38.440 --> 00:55:45.760
he said, he thought I said something else. What sounds

678
00:55:45.840 --> 00:55:58.480
like laundry now? He thought, I said, law degree, So

679
00:55:58.559 --> 00:56:01.280
I need to start. You need to do some law

680
00:56:03.159 --> 00:56:09.079
do some laundry. And he said, oh, when are you

681
00:56:09.119 --> 00:56:15.599
starting that? I said what I said this afternoon? He said, oh,

682
00:56:16.119 --> 00:56:21.360
I said yeah. He said, like, well, I didn't know

683
00:56:21.360 --> 00:56:23.599
why it was so interested in me doing my laundry.

684
00:56:24.239 --> 00:56:27.320
Because I'll be honest, and i'll break this to you.

685
00:56:27.400 --> 00:56:33.000
I don't want to come across as being ungrateful or negative,

686
00:56:33.079 --> 00:56:36.159
but I don't get a huge kick from doing the laundry.

687
00:56:36.519 --> 00:56:39.320
It doesn't give me the it doesn't give me everything

688
00:56:39.360 --> 00:56:43.800
I hoped I hoped out of life. You know. It's

689
00:56:45.000 --> 00:56:46.639
but at the same time, it's a hell of lot

690
00:56:46.679 --> 00:56:49.480
easier than going to the laundret, which is what I

691
00:56:49.480 --> 00:56:53.840
did for most of my adult life, well since the

692
00:56:53.880 --> 00:56:58.440
age of sixteen. So I do appreciate not going to

693
00:56:58.440 --> 00:57:01.280
the laundret. And if I didn't have washing machine, I

694
00:57:01.280 --> 00:57:04.920
would do my washing by hand. I'm never going to

695
00:57:04.920 --> 00:57:12.119
a laundrette again, especially as the Yeah, the local laundrette,

696
00:57:12.119 --> 00:57:15.480
what there isn't one. So the closest launderette is about

697
00:57:15.519 --> 00:57:19.039
six miles away, six and a half miles away, So yeah,

698
00:57:19.119 --> 00:57:23.519
I'm not getting there. Yeah, but I used to because

699
00:57:23.519 --> 00:57:25.920
I used to live across the road from there. Even

700
00:57:25.960 --> 00:57:30.800
then it was it was a struggle, still used to do.

701
00:57:30.880 --> 00:57:32.960
I used to watch my stuff by hands sometimes. Then

702
00:57:33.760 --> 00:57:38.119
I just couldn't face going over there. I guess I

703
00:57:38.119 --> 00:57:42.239
didn't have the same relationship with her the launderette ladies

704
00:57:42.280 --> 00:57:45.480
I did with the laundrette lady in Stratford in London,

705
00:57:46.960 --> 00:57:51.280
although I did end up being friends of her. There's

706
00:57:51.360 --> 00:57:57.960
two ways it can go. I found with someone that

707
00:57:58.119 --> 00:58:05.440
washes your underpants, okay, on a regular basis. So the

708
00:58:05.519 --> 00:58:11.039
relationship is probably in some ways the most intimate relationship

709
00:58:11.239 --> 00:58:20.559
I have ever had with a female. It's something very

710
00:58:21.760 --> 00:58:28.239
there's a lot of unsaid stuff, you know, It's like

711
00:58:28.280 --> 00:58:36.239
an understanding. I no amount of money, no amount of

712
00:58:36.320 --> 00:58:40.519
money that I gave my launderette ladies for washing my

713
00:58:40.599 --> 00:58:46.280
clothes was compensation enough for what they had to go through,

714
00:58:47.079 --> 00:58:52.960
is you know, for handling my washing my underpants or whatever.

715
00:58:53.960 --> 00:58:58.440
So I realized that, and I've always realized that right

716
00:58:58.440 --> 00:59:02.880
from an early age. I thought, yeah, it's a job

717
00:59:02.920 --> 00:59:06.400
I wouldn't particularly want to do out and I've had

718
00:59:06.440 --> 00:59:10.400
some really grotty jobs and I don't. It's just something

719
00:59:10.440 --> 00:59:13.960
I don't think i'd really I I'd rather I'd rather

720
00:59:14.079 --> 00:59:21.840
work down the sewers. I think they do that. It's

721
00:59:21.920 --> 00:59:27.000
just yeah, it's so I had. But the difference is

722
00:59:27.719 --> 00:59:31.159
instead of like it's not looking down at someone doing

723
00:59:31.159 --> 00:59:36.840
a job is admiration. That's how I feel. I admire

724
00:59:36.920 --> 00:59:40.400
someone who can do something like that, something that I

725
00:59:40.440 --> 00:59:45.079
don't think I could do, and it's just because it

726
00:59:45.079 --> 00:59:52.679
would just it's I don't have the rights. There's a

727
00:59:52.719 --> 00:59:57.159
certain skill set that I just don't have to do

728
00:59:57.199 --> 01:00:00.480
something like that to do that kind of work. So

729
01:00:00.519 --> 01:00:03.280
I've got a lot of admiration. I do admire people

730
01:00:03.320 --> 01:00:06.039
that can do things that I can't do, which means

731
01:00:06.079 --> 01:00:08.440
I admire probably most of the people in the world

732
01:00:08.880 --> 01:00:12.119
because I can't really do too much. I can talk

733
01:00:12.480 --> 01:00:18.760
absolutely rubbish for an hour. I'm quite good at watching television.

734
01:00:21.960 --> 01:00:25.840
That's about it. Really, I ain't got much else to me.

735
01:00:26.039 --> 01:00:34.599
It's that's my skill. My skill is just talking absolute

736
01:00:35.639 --> 01:00:40.320
warbly bobbly for whatever, you know, an hour, hour and

737
01:00:40.360 --> 01:00:44.960
a half. I've been talking for an hour. I've not

738
01:00:45.039 --> 01:00:50.159
even got on to the subject of boring hospital stories,

739
01:00:51.119 --> 01:00:56.679
apart from I guess this last hour being boring. I

740
01:00:56.719 --> 01:01:04.559
can't stop talking. What's going on, By the way, I don't.

741
01:01:05.159 --> 01:01:09.800
I don't want this podcast to turn into me talking

742
01:01:09.800 --> 01:01:13.159
about hospitals the whole time. That's that's not my intention.

743
01:01:13.840 --> 01:01:17.559
So if you feel that's happening, let me know. But

744
01:01:19.840 --> 01:01:22.639
over the years, what you may have noticed, if you've

745
01:01:22.639 --> 01:01:27.119
been following me for a while is I do talk

746
01:01:27.159 --> 01:01:30.559
about what's going on in my life as well as

747
01:01:32.360 --> 01:01:36.199
making up a lot of just silly stuff. This so

748
01:01:36.320 --> 01:01:39.639
this is one of those occasions where I'm I'm kind

749
01:01:39.639 --> 01:01:47.719
of intertwining reality and stupidity, I guess, instead of being

750
01:01:47.840 --> 01:01:54.440
mainly stupidity. So I try and mix it up a

751
01:01:54.480 --> 01:02:11.360
little bit, just just a little bit. And yeah, I

752
01:02:12.679 --> 01:02:17.440
guess because I didn't do. Did I do a recording yesterday?

753
01:02:17.480 --> 01:02:19.719
I think I did? Didn't I I think I did.

754
01:02:19.840 --> 01:02:22.320
Didn't do one Saturday? Did a Q and a Friday?

755
01:02:22.840 --> 01:02:27.320
I think yesterday. By the way, you might be able

756
01:02:27.360 --> 01:02:32.400
to hear some background music. Sorry about that, but it's summer.

757
01:02:32.880 --> 01:02:38.880
Everyone's got their windows open rightly, so and you know

758
01:02:38.960 --> 01:02:44.480
what yesterday I was, I've made a recording in the afternoon,

759
01:02:46.679 --> 01:02:50.400
and I could hear the neighbors shouting as I was

760
01:02:50.440 --> 01:02:55.639
doing the editing, and I thought, wow, if you can

761
01:02:55.719 --> 01:03:00.920
hear that on this microphone, then that just shows you

762
01:03:01.039 --> 01:03:05.440
how loud it was. Because they're not in my garden,

763
01:03:05.599 --> 01:03:12.880
in a different garden, over a fence, just shows you

764
01:03:12.960 --> 01:03:19.440
how loud it was. But it didn't seem to be continuous.

765
01:03:20.719 --> 01:03:24.320
That was just a particular rah rah rah rah rah

766
01:03:24.760 --> 01:03:28.559
like that. I mean, I think I just made more

767
01:03:28.639 --> 01:03:32.320
sense than the person that was shouting. But yeah, kind of.

768
01:03:37.400 --> 01:03:41.039
So I've been in hospital twice. Oh now we start

769
01:03:41.079 --> 01:03:44.079
the recording an hour into it. Begin to start, now,

770
01:03:44.119 --> 01:03:49.119
are we well? Okay, calm down. I've been in hospital twice.

771
01:03:51.440 --> 01:03:56.519
I have my adenoids out when I was seven, I

772
01:03:56.679 --> 01:03:59.559
was about eight. I think it was either just before

773
01:03:59.599 --> 01:04:02.360
I was a or just after. I think it was

774
01:04:02.519 --> 01:04:06.199
just before I was eight years old. Now, the reason

775
01:04:06.480 --> 01:04:10.880
I had my adenoids out is because I was partially deaf.

776
01:04:11.840 --> 01:04:32.800
We have a drink of water. Ah yeah, so it's

777
01:04:32.880 --> 01:04:40.119
basically just start. It started with h So I was

778
01:04:40.159 --> 01:04:42.800
in junior school and I started having to go to

779
01:04:43.480 --> 01:04:49.519
the nurse. So I was getting earaches, and progressively it

780
01:04:49.599 --> 01:04:55.440
was kind of becoming really really regular. I don't know

781
01:04:55.559 --> 01:04:57.760
how much I was skiving. If I'm honest with you,

782
01:05:00.280 --> 01:05:02.639
I might have just liked the nurse. I don't know.

783
01:05:02.800 --> 01:05:09.039
I can't remember, but I think I told us she

784
01:05:09.119 --> 01:05:16.599
had nice eyes. It's possible this inappropriateness started many very

785
01:05:16.800 --> 01:05:26.920
very young. I said, oh, yeah, I had my I

786
01:05:27.000 --> 01:05:29.239
didn't know what was going on. And then I started

787
01:05:29.280 --> 01:05:31.760
going to the I get sent to the doctors. Then

788
01:05:31.840 --> 01:05:35.719
I got son to the hospital, and they started testing

789
01:05:35.800 --> 01:05:40.599
my ears and to see what was wrong with my ears.

790
01:05:40.880 --> 01:05:43.719
And they started testing my ears as in not just

791
01:05:43.880 --> 01:05:48.760
looking through them and stuff through them. I've been through them,

792
01:05:49.239 --> 01:05:52.760
but into them with those little eye things that they do.

793
01:05:57.400 --> 01:06:00.519
But they started to give me hearing tests and I

794
01:06:00.679 --> 01:06:05.800
was partially deaf in my ear. Now, they said, that

795
01:06:06.000 --> 01:06:12.400
explains why I'm so behind at school, and it's really weird.

796
01:06:12.559 --> 01:06:14.559
I seem to be the only one that was surprised

797
01:06:14.599 --> 01:06:18.519
at that statement. I didn't know I was behind a school.

798
01:06:19.760 --> 01:06:29.119
I said, look, it's and I'm behind. I'm wow. I

799
01:06:29.239 --> 01:06:31.440
finished staring at me. What are you staring at me for?

800
01:06:32.199 --> 01:06:35.880
Were you staring at You're deady for? I think he's

801
01:06:35.960 --> 01:06:39.679
just happy to have me home. I spent the whole

802
01:06:39.719 --> 01:06:43.119
weekend with him here this weekend, and he was boring,

803
01:06:43.400 --> 01:06:47.840
but he seemed so much happy to have me here.

804
01:06:48.559 --> 01:06:51.400
He was cuddled up to me. Weren't you you were

805
01:06:51.400 --> 01:06:53.239
happy to have your daddy back? Wasn't here for a

806
01:06:53.280 --> 01:06:56.039
couple of days, and I'm here tomorrow as well, So

807
01:06:56.079 --> 01:07:00.519
I'll spend all day with him tomorrow, and then I'll

808
01:07:00.719 --> 01:07:04.960
go and Wednesday for a bit visit, and then Thursday,

809
01:07:04.960 --> 01:07:07.840
I'll have all day with my little baby again. On Thursday,

810
01:07:07.960 --> 01:07:11.480
won't I Yeah, then I'll go up to visit uncle

811
01:07:11.599 --> 01:07:15.280
and my uncle sausages that's what Vinny calls him, Uncle's

812
01:07:15.280 --> 01:07:21.679
sausages because he gives him sausages. And I will then

813
01:07:24.239 --> 01:07:26.840
have the weekend off again. So I'm not going to

814
01:07:26.880 --> 01:07:28.400
go up at the weekends, and I'm going to go

815
01:07:28.440 --> 01:07:35.000
on Monday, Wednesday free right day. Yeah, depending, of course,

816
01:07:35.320 --> 01:07:39.400
I'm upon the situation. You know, if he called me

817
01:07:39.480 --> 01:07:41.400
up and said, can you please come tomorrow, I'll go.

818
01:07:42.760 --> 01:07:46.039
There's not an issue with that. But generally I told

819
01:07:46.119 --> 01:07:49.880
him i'd be there Wednesday. I'll call him tomorrow I

820
01:07:49.880 --> 01:07:52.599
see how he is. But if he needed me to

821
01:07:52.719 --> 01:07:56.800
go up, then I would go up. I mean, if

822
01:07:56.840 --> 01:07:58.280
he needed me to go up now, i'd go up.

823
01:07:58.320 --> 01:08:00.719
Now you know, i'd go back. So it's not that

824
01:08:00.840 --> 01:08:05.119
ain't no problem. You know, I've told him my phone

825
01:08:05.199 --> 01:08:08.039
is on anytime if he needs to call me, which

826
01:08:08.079 --> 01:08:14.440
he did over the weekend, and I'm kind of his.

827
01:08:15.639 --> 01:08:18.239
I say lifeline, and that's very dramatic, but I'm his.

828
01:08:19.319 --> 01:08:22.279
I was someone that he can just contact if he

829
01:08:22.439 --> 01:08:27.279
just wants to just update me on stuff, you know,

830
01:08:27.960 --> 01:08:32.640
even if it's And he phoned me up yesterday to

831
01:08:32.760 --> 01:08:36.760
talk about Jaws the movie, and him and his neighbor

832
01:08:37.079 --> 01:08:39.760
in there. They were having like a little quiz quizzy

833
01:08:39.840 --> 01:08:45.840
game talking about movies and they were trying to remember

834
01:08:45.960 --> 01:08:51.520
the main character that the actual actors in Jaws. So

835
01:08:51.640 --> 01:08:58.760
you had Robert Shaw, David schne or Snyder. I forget

836
01:08:58.920 --> 01:09:04.680
what his first name is, and I've lost his name again.

837
01:09:04.720 --> 01:09:12.560
I did remember it. He was in Uh Do Do

838
01:09:12.840 --> 01:09:18.399
Do Do Do? That movie something of the Close Encounters

839
01:09:18.439 --> 01:09:22.279
of the Third kind. So it's those three that were

840
01:09:22.319 --> 01:09:28.399
in that movie. They were the stars and Schneider who

841
01:09:28.560 --> 01:09:32.640
what was his first name? But Robert Shaw was the

842
01:09:33.279 --> 01:09:36.560
He was a captain, the captain of the of the

843
01:09:37.439 --> 01:09:45.760
the boat and what's his name? Do do do do do? That?

844
01:09:46.039 --> 01:09:53.680
That bloke he was also in It is it Schneider

845
01:09:53.760 --> 01:09:56.239
that says or need to get a bigger boat. I

846
01:09:56.359 --> 01:09:59.479
think how's a good line in it? Need to get

847
01:09:59.479 --> 01:10:06.720
a bigger boat. There was a movie called the Perfect Storm,

848
01:10:07.560 --> 01:10:10.439
and I think this is in the two thousands, and

849
01:10:11.680 --> 01:10:14.279
it was basically a really big storm. That's basically what's

850
01:10:14.319 --> 01:10:19.800
around a boat in a storm, really big boat in

851
01:10:19.880 --> 01:10:29.119
a really bigger storm. And I remember seeing the the

852
01:10:29.279 --> 01:10:34.399
trailer for this movie on television and in the trailer

853
01:10:35.560 --> 01:10:37.560
this is when it was like being released at the cinema.

854
01:10:38.359 --> 01:10:41.560
In the trailer, it was a bloke from a Beautiful

855
01:10:41.640 --> 01:10:47.479
mind what's his name, and Gladiator, so he was the

856
01:10:47.520 --> 01:10:52.239
star of this movie. In the trailer, there's a part

857
01:10:52.399 --> 01:10:58.079
where there's this massive wave coming and Gladiator, a beautiful

858
01:10:58.119 --> 01:11:05.880
mind man shouts out hold on. At that point, I thought,

859
01:11:06.000 --> 01:11:10.720
I'm never going to watch that movie. If that's going

860
01:11:10.800 --> 01:11:14.800
to be the hook word hold on. If that's the

861
01:11:14.880 --> 01:11:16.920
best they can do in a situation like that, just

862
01:11:17.000 --> 01:11:19.680
shout hold on, then no, I'm not gonna watch it. Sorry.

863
01:11:20.760 --> 01:11:26.199
If that, if that's the level of dialogue, just I

864
01:11:26.239 --> 01:11:30.039
don't know why it just But there again, I had

865
01:11:30.079 --> 01:11:34.640
the same I had the same opinion about Gladiator. I thought,

866
01:11:34.680 --> 01:11:36.760
I'm not watching this, but it was a great movie.

867
01:11:37.800 --> 01:11:41.279
I've found it to be a great movie. I need

868
01:11:41.359 --> 01:11:43.600
to be specific that I I mean, it was class

869
01:11:43.720 --> 01:11:49.359
is a great movie by the critics and by the

870
01:11:49.479 --> 01:11:58.279
audience members. But I can only go by what I found,

871
01:11:58.920 --> 01:12:05.079
and it was I partly watched Gladiator too, But I

872
01:12:05.199 --> 01:12:11.159
made this error because I got this little walking machine.

873
01:12:12.279 --> 01:12:15.920
It's really cheap, nasty for members, and I got it

874
01:12:16.039 --> 01:12:20.439
about a year and a half ago. But it's really honestly,

875
01:12:20.720 --> 01:12:26.880
it's it doesn't feel safe even walking on it, like

876
01:12:26.960 --> 01:12:32.439
a treadmill. But it's really tacky, and I'm a little

877
01:12:32.439 --> 01:12:37.880
bit worried about the carpet underneath. Seriously, but I thought,

878
01:12:37.920 --> 01:12:39.520
you know what, I'm going to give it a go.

879
01:12:40.640 --> 01:12:44.760
So I started watching Gladiator, and I thought, I'm only

880
01:12:44.840 --> 01:12:46.359
going to walk and I walked on it for about

881
01:12:46.359 --> 01:12:49.640
an hour, no half an hour maybe, So I said

882
01:12:49.640 --> 01:12:51.960
I'm only going to walk on it when I watched Gladiator.

883
01:12:54.000 --> 01:12:56.600
Actually that's not what I thought. I thought, I'm never

884
01:12:56.640 --> 01:13:00.640
going to walk on it again because it's rubbish. No,

885
01:13:00.640 --> 01:13:03.720
I didn't. Fact, I did feel like I was actually

886
01:13:04.239 --> 01:13:08.079
touching the carpet, which is not supposed to happen. And

887
01:13:08.159 --> 01:13:11.600
I was a bit concerned about my neighbor downstairs because

888
01:13:11.640 --> 01:13:17.840
she did see me a few days later and she said,

889
01:13:20.039 --> 01:13:25.159
were you dancing upstairs. I said no. She said you

890
01:13:25.239 --> 01:13:28.960
were doing something because the whole flat was shaking. I said, no,

891
01:13:30.359 --> 01:13:34.680
I don't even live there anymore. She said what I said,

892
01:13:34.720 --> 01:13:36.279
I do live there. I don't know why I said that,

893
01:13:36.479 --> 01:13:38.800
but yeah, it wasn't me, he said it was who

894
01:13:38.840 --> 01:13:41.479
else would it be? I said that I'm pigeons, maybe

895
01:13:42.199 --> 01:13:48.680
in the loft. Pigeons often are naughty in the loft.

896
01:13:50.359 --> 01:13:52.560
She said, how would the pigeons in the loft affect

897
01:13:53.439 --> 01:13:57.720
my flat when your whole flat is in between me

898
01:13:57.960 --> 01:14:02.840
and the loft. I said, I don't have the answers

899
01:14:02.880 --> 01:14:07.159
to every question. You know, I'm not. I'm not a

900
01:14:07.279 --> 01:14:14.159
the thoras. She said, this a fulfill left. I said, yeah,

901
01:14:14.359 --> 01:14:19.680
the thor. She said, well, if you're trying to say forsaurus,

902
01:14:20.439 --> 01:14:22.760
that doesn't have the answers to any questions. That's just

903
01:14:24.000 --> 01:14:29.520
descriptions of words and various different versions of the same word. Really,

904
01:14:31.359 --> 01:14:35.079
and I said yeah. She said we didn't make sense.

905
01:14:36.279 --> 01:14:44.439
I said, you don't make sense. Yeah. It was one

906
01:14:44.479 --> 01:14:48.560
of the better conversations I've had this year, actually, But

907
01:14:48.680 --> 01:14:53.199
then I didn't go back on the treadmill, if you

908
01:14:53.239 --> 01:14:56.000
want to call it that. So I'm not and it's

909
01:14:56.039 --> 01:14:57.920
weird because I want to watch the rest of the movie,

910
01:14:58.000 --> 01:15:01.920
but every time I go to like watch it, I think, no,

911
01:15:02.079 --> 01:15:03.800
I need to need to get on the treadmill to

912
01:15:03.840 --> 01:15:10.359
watch that. How strange, isn't it? Isn't that a weird one?

913
01:15:14.960 --> 01:15:19.319
So I was having my ears tested and they said, oh, yeah,

914
01:15:19.439 --> 01:15:21.840
I was partly I don't even know which ear it was,

915
01:15:23.680 --> 01:15:25.359
right ear or left it. I could even tell you

916
01:15:25.560 --> 01:15:28.039
such a long time ago I knew at the time,

917
01:15:29.680 --> 01:15:33.880
and it said, yeah, you're partially deaf in one ear,

918
01:15:34.239 --> 01:15:41.199
which explains why you're well. They didn't tell that. My

919
01:15:41.359 --> 01:15:44.560
parents said that to me. It's why I'm so behind

920
01:15:44.680 --> 01:15:48.000
at school, so they've first all they blamed while I

921
01:15:48.119 --> 01:15:50.920
was so behind at school on the fact that I

922
01:15:51.079 --> 01:15:54.119
moved around so much as a little kid, so I

923
01:15:54.239 --> 01:15:57.000
never stayed in any school for a very long period

924
01:15:57.039 --> 01:16:03.079
of time. So pretty much taught myself to read. And

925
01:16:03.439 --> 01:16:07.079
my writing wasn't up to much at the age of seven,

926
01:16:08.479 --> 01:16:11.800
but you know I did. I picked it up and

927
01:16:11.960 --> 01:16:18.159
I loved reading, so I definitely wasn't. I wasn't behind.

928
01:16:18.279 --> 01:16:21.159
I personally wouldn't say that I was behind in reading,

929
01:16:23.600 --> 01:16:27.399
whether I understood what I was reading. That's there's still

930
01:16:27.439 --> 01:16:29.720
an issue. Now. I'm not sure how much I understand,

931
01:16:29.800 --> 01:16:38.199
but I and writing. I learned to do joined up

932
01:16:38.239 --> 01:16:44.159
writing when I was about nine, nine or ten. That's

933
01:16:44.199 --> 01:16:48.920
when I learned to start doing joined up writing. And

934
01:16:54.119 --> 01:16:57.880
writing was okay. I was okay with writing. I didn't

935
01:16:58.039 --> 01:17:07.159
necessarily understand or the apostrophees and commas and stuff. I

936
01:17:07.239 --> 01:17:16.279
understood full stops made sense. So I wasn't necessarily grammatically correct,

937
01:17:17.079 --> 01:17:22.840
but I did as far as writing goes. But reading, yeah,

938
01:17:24.279 --> 01:17:28.920
reading was something that I just adored. I loved reading.

939
01:17:29.960 --> 01:17:33.039
And something happened the other day. I was watching a

940
01:17:33.119 --> 01:17:36.479
YouTube channel YouTube video and it was about the Wizard

941
01:17:36.520 --> 01:17:41.880
of Oz. Now i'd forgotten or I didn't know, but

942
01:17:41.920 --> 01:17:44.800
I think I did previously. I think I did previously know,

943
01:17:44.880 --> 01:17:48.880
but I think i'd forgotten it. The Wizard of Oz books.

944
01:17:49.039 --> 01:17:54.079
There was a lot of books, like a lot, and

945
01:17:54.159 --> 01:17:58.000
the bloke through wrote the Wizard of Oz wrote lots

946
01:17:58.000 --> 01:18:02.159
of books about Oz and the different characters in US. Now,

947
01:18:04.760 --> 01:18:06.720
this is a memory that I'm not sure if it's

948
01:18:06.800 --> 01:18:10.199
true or not, but I'm pretty certain I read most

949
01:18:10.199 --> 01:18:13.760
of those books because I would get a book like

950
01:18:13.840 --> 01:18:16.560
that and I'd read it overnight or over a couple

951
01:18:16.560 --> 01:18:19.840
of days because I was just it was almost like

952
01:18:22.760 --> 01:18:27.000
it's like being really thirsty and drinking a lot of water.

953
01:18:28.119 --> 01:18:30.199
That was almost a bit like that for me. When

954
01:18:30.239 --> 01:18:32.920
I was reading, I just thought, oh, more, more and

955
01:18:33.000 --> 01:18:36.720
more and more loved it. And when I talk about it,

956
01:18:36.840 --> 01:18:39.640
it makes me hard. No, it makes me not horn.

957
01:18:39.720 --> 01:18:44.039
It makes me I didn't mean to say that, it

958
01:18:44.439 --> 01:18:51.920
makes me kind of damp. No, not damp. It makes

959
01:18:51.960 --> 01:18:53.399
me kind of want to do it, That's what I mean.

960
01:18:53.439 --> 01:18:56.199
It makes me want to kind of guess my juices

961
01:18:56.279 --> 01:19:00.479
going again, that probably sounds wrong to get a book,

962
01:19:00.920 --> 01:19:04.279
and I'm not even talking about factual books, which is

963
01:19:04.359 --> 01:19:09.520
something that I've focused on for most of my adult life. Really,

964
01:19:11.520 --> 01:19:21.000
I'd like to get back to maybe reading some what

965
01:19:21.119 --> 01:19:25.720
do you call it fiction? I guess, yeah, story books

966
01:19:27.560 --> 01:19:30.760
and perhaps not most supposed to call them story books,

967
01:19:30.800 --> 01:19:33.399
but that's what they are, isn't as a story. I'd

968
01:19:33.479 --> 01:19:40.520
like to get back to that. And maybe I did

969
01:19:40.640 --> 01:19:44.880
think about writing my own romantic novel, but doing it

970
01:19:44.960 --> 01:19:46.880
in my own, you know, doing my own little way.

971
01:19:49.760 --> 01:19:53.680
I did do a oh I did this recording. I

972
01:19:55.039 --> 01:19:58.560
think it was a video, it might have been an audio,

973
01:20:00.359 --> 01:20:06.039
and I posted it online and a few this is

974
01:20:06.119 --> 01:20:10.079
back when I was fairly doing quite well on YouTube.

975
01:20:11.760 --> 01:20:16.560
They got quite quite a positive response. But I lost it.

976
01:20:17.199 --> 01:20:20.760
I lost the recording somewhere along the line. But it

977
01:20:20.880 --> 01:20:23.720
was quite funny and it was just a story of

978
01:20:24.039 --> 01:20:28.720
me a romantic encounter on a train and I was

979
01:20:28.840 --> 01:20:31.920
just saying all the wrong things and it was but

980
01:20:32.039 --> 01:20:36.119
this is I mean, we're talking like two tenty twelve.

981
01:20:36.880 --> 01:20:42.960
I think I did this recording, and yeah, well I

982
01:20:43.039 --> 01:20:44.399
wish I had it, just so I could have a

983
01:20:44.439 --> 01:20:51.840
little listen. I also did a recording based on Andre

984
01:20:52.039 --> 01:20:57.159
talking and it was a whole recording of him just

985
01:20:57.520 --> 01:21:00.359
making fun of me. I think I lost that as well,

986
01:21:02.159 --> 01:21:03.720
so that would have been I would be good to

987
01:21:03.920 --> 01:21:09.159
be able to listen to. Lost a lot of recordings

988
01:21:09.199 --> 01:21:13.399
over the years, a good few hundred videos and recordings,

989
01:21:13.479 --> 01:21:21.479
audio recordings. I've lost some that were potentially not too awful,

990
01:21:22.560 --> 01:21:28.199
potentially I reckon over the nineteen years I've been doing

991
01:21:28.279 --> 01:21:32.319
these things. There must be I've got to have at

992
01:21:32.399 --> 01:21:37.680
least a handful of decent recordings, ones that are just good.

993
01:21:39.399 --> 01:21:41.840
There's got to be. There's got to be a few

994
01:21:41.880 --> 01:21:50.239
little gems there, surely, even if it was accidental. So

995
01:21:51.199 --> 01:21:55.840
the doctor regarding my hearings said, well, it's is going

996
01:21:55.920 --> 01:22:02.520
to be pretty much one of two things. Either I

997
01:22:02.680 --> 01:22:05.800
was born that way so I've always been partially deaf

998
01:22:05.840 --> 01:22:09.960
in one ear. Or I'd had an accident and bang

999
01:22:10.079 --> 01:22:14.560
my head when I was a kid little, which did happen,

1000
01:22:14.640 --> 01:22:16.279
but I think it happens for a lot of kids,

1001
01:22:16.359 --> 01:22:18.920
don't there. But I remember I fell down some concrete

1002
01:22:18.960 --> 01:22:23.800
steps once when I was about five, four or five,

1003
01:22:25.399 --> 01:22:29.880
And yeah, health and safety wasn't really a thing back

1004
01:22:29.920 --> 01:22:35.159
then in the seventies, So yeah, I did take a Yeah,

1005
01:22:37.000 --> 01:22:40.319
definitely had a few bashes on the head over my childhood.

1006
01:22:42.680 --> 01:22:44.399
But I might also have been born like this, I

1007
01:22:44.439 --> 01:22:50.359
don't know. So what they did is they it was

1008
01:22:50.560 --> 01:22:54.359
it's basically just a blockage. So my adinoids were blocking

1009
01:22:55.119 --> 01:23:01.880
or causing a blockage in one of my ears, maybe

1010
01:23:01.960 --> 01:23:04.760
both my ears, but I think it was one. So

1011
01:23:04.960 --> 01:23:10.600
they took my had aenoids out when I was I

1012
01:23:10.800 --> 01:23:15.479
was either eight or just before I was eight. My

1013
01:23:15.560 --> 01:23:20.439
biggest memory of that two things. First of all, I've

1014
01:23:20.479 --> 01:23:23.760
me Teddy Bear with me, which was nice. I love

1015
01:23:23.800 --> 01:23:27.560
my little teddy bear, and I might called him Teddy,

1016
01:23:28.960 --> 01:23:34.119
and you might think, oh that's original, oh Teddy, like okay, Well,

1017
01:23:34.279 --> 01:23:37.039
my granddad was called Teddy and my uncle was called Edward,

1018
01:23:37.960 --> 01:23:43.479
so both of them because in this country, ted is

1019
01:23:44.720 --> 01:23:49.159
another name for Edward and Eddie is another name for Edward.

1020
01:23:49.520 --> 01:23:52.600
So my granddad was called ted and my uncle was

1021
01:23:52.640 --> 01:23:57.079
called Eddie, but they were both called Edward. And I

1022
01:23:57.279 --> 01:24:03.439
called my Teddy ted or Teddy, probably after my granddad.

1023
01:24:03.479 --> 01:24:06.720
Probably maybe I called him ted, But I wouldn't dare

1024
01:24:06.760 --> 01:24:11.680
call my granddad ted. No, it was Granddad. He didn't

1025
01:24:11.680 --> 01:24:21.119
play those games, Oh no, he would have. I there

1026
01:24:21.239 --> 01:24:26.359
was that. And the other thing is I had botherel

1027
01:24:26.439 --> 01:24:31.680
for the first time, which was a bad idea because

1028
01:24:31.720 --> 01:24:33.560
that was the last drink of the day, and I

1029
01:24:33.640 --> 01:24:35.479
think that was just before I had the operation, so

1030
01:24:35.520 --> 01:24:38.439
I wasn't allowed any more water or anything, any food

1031
01:24:38.520 --> 01:24:42.079
or anything. And as botherl, which meant I mean now

1032
01:24:42.239 --> 01:24:44.439
to me, it was just like having a mouth of mud,

1033
01:24:45.359 --> 01:24:51.439
mouthful of mud, liquid mud. It was. It wasn't my thing.

1034
01:24:51.880 --> 01:24:55.600
Botherel wasn't my It's kind of like liquid marmite. I

1035
01:24:55.680 --> 01:25:03.159
would say, it's a yeast extract drink and I wasn't

1036
01:25:03.199 --> 01:25:06.640
pleased with that. It wasn't a good decision. But I remember.

1037
01:25:06.920 --> 01:25:09.159
It's really weird because bearing in mind it's such a

1038
01:25:09.239 --> 01:25:14.079
long time ago. Now I remember the because I was

1039
01:25:14.159 --> 01:25:19.840
an award bloody doctor again. Can you hear that? I

1040
01:25:19.960 --> 01:25:25.079
wait till it stops and I'll started talking again. So

1041
01:25:25.479 --> 01:25:28.079
I just remember this that. I don't think it was

1042
01:25:28.199 --> 01:25:32.000
anyone else in the ward. Maybe one other person. There

1043
01:25:32.039 --> 01:25:34.800
was a children's ward, I think, but it was grim.

1044
01:25:35.239 --> 01:25:40.600
It was like underground, no windows, it was. It wasn't

1045
01:25:40.640 --> 01:25:43.439
a nice ward. It was in a really old hospital

1046
01:25:43.560 --> 01:25:47.119
that I think got shut down because it was it'd

1047
01:25:47.159 --> 01:25:53.560
been there since the Civil War, I think, and the

1048
01:25:53.640 --> 01:26:02.760
one in France, and I I thought, so the lady

1049
01:26:02.840 --> 01:26:10.039
came down with this trolley full of different things, tea, coffees, cocoa,

1050
01:26:11.399 --> 01:26:20.319
bov real water, juice probably, I don't know if there

1051
01:26:20.359 --> 01:26:23.439
be any fizzy drinks, probably not, but just that kind

1052
01:26:23.439 --> 01:26:29.520
of stuff, a wholics and no coffee that I don't

1053
01:26:29.520 --> 01:26:35.159
think they had coffee for kids back then. It didn't

1054
01:26:35.159 --> 01:26:41.680
want me running around or whizzing being excited, and I

1055
01:26:41.720 --> 01:26:43.880
couldn't make my mind up this has been an issue

1056
01:26:44.199 --> 01:26:51.079
I had all through my childhood and still today struggle

1057
01:26:51.199 --> 01:26:56.239
to make my mind up about anything. Really, I mean,

1058
01:26:56.520 --> 01:27:00.159
it was an issue more for other people than me.

1059
01:27:01.159 --> 01:27:04.359
It was annoying for me. Where it was frustrating for me,

1060
01:27:05.319 --> 01:27:07.800
it was I suppose it got really annoying for other people,

1061
01:27:08.560 --> 01:27:10.880
you know, if who was in a who were ordering

1062
01:27:11.000 --> 01:27:16.319
food or you know, things like that, choosing a video

1063
01:27:16.520 --> 01:27:22.239
to watch, even up to the last time I went

1064
01:27:22.279 --> 01:27:33.239
into Blockbusters, which would have been two when the Blockbusters

1065
01:27:33.800 --> 01:27:37.760
shut down, so over ten years ago. In it twelve

1066
01:27:37.840 --> 01:27:41.319
years ago, so the last time I went into Blockbusters,

1067
01:27:42.239 --> 01:27:45.560
and every other time, and every other time that I

1068
01:27:45.600 --> 01:27:52.079
went to any video shop, I would spend an absolute

1069
01:27:53.439 --> 01:28:01.479
age trying to decide which video to get, unless I

1070
01:28:01.560 --> 01:28:04.680
went there for a specific thing. So if I went

1071
01:28:04.720 --> 01:28:08.159
there for the new season of the Sopranos box set,

1072
01:28:09.600 --> 01:28:15.000
then it was quite simple. I'd get that. But if

1073
01:28:15.039 --> 01:28:23.079
I was if there was a particular movie, but outside

1074
01:28:23.119 --> 01:28:26.600
of that, I would be there for ages. And I

1075
01:28:26.720 --> 01:28:30.880
did the same thing as a kid. I'd spend probably hours,

1076
01:28:31.880 --> 01:28:35.039
I'm not even joking be I'd go and look at

1077
01:28:35.119 --> 01:28:40.680
the back cover of every single video. Now in Blockbusters,

1078
01:28:40.880 --> 01:28:43.680
that's not you don't you know things were in cases,

1079
01:28:43.720 --> 01:28:50.199
weren't they the Blockbuster cases? But in the original video shops,

1080
01:28:51.079 --> 01:28:54.279
well at least where I lived, all the videos were

1081
01:28:54.319 --> 01:28:58.800
still in the video case with you know, the picture

1082
01:28:58.840 --> 01:29:01.239
of the movie on the front, who was in the

1083
01:29:01.359 --> 01:29:06.239
movie on the back, the synopsis of the movie, plus

1084
01:29:06.279 --> 01:29:10.520
the videotape was in there, so everything was kind of there.

1085
01:29:10.560 --> 01:29:16.680
So I'd go through every video looking for something that

1086
01:29:17.439 --> 01:29:28.880
peaked my peakiness, got my juices going, made me moist,

1087
01:29:29.119 --> 01:29:32.319
I don't know whatever, I just got me excited, and

1088
01:29:35.239 --> 01:29:40.159
it would take forever. Honestly, I'd be in there for

1089
01:29:42.960 --> 01:29:46.760
an hour and a half. And none of these shops

1090
01:29:46.760 --> 01:29:50.840
were big, by the way, they were jam packed, but

1091
01:29:50.960 --> 01:29:53.199
they like, we have videos. And I only did this

1092
01:29:53.319 --> 01:29:56.319
when there's no one else around, So I wouldn't do

1093
01:29:56.439 --> 01:29:58.119
this if it was busy, if there was a lot

1094
01:29:58.159 --> 01:30:01.840
of other customers. It was you know, and they all

1095
01:30:01.880 --> 01:30:07.840
got to know me because I think one of the

1096
01:30:08.319 --> 01:30:16.039
owner of the video shop once said to me, do

1097
01:30:16.119 --> 01:30:22.239
you what did he say? It says something like, oh,

1098
01:30:22.399 --> 01:30:24.199
by the way, just let you know you're going to

1099
01:30:24.239 --> 01:30:29.880
be getting a pay rise next month, And I said

1100
01:30:29.920 --> 01:30:33.119
what he said. Oh, and he just liked he laughed.

1101
01:30:33.319 --> 01:30:36.640
So I forgot you don't work here. I was there

1102
01:30:36.680 --> 01:30:40.279
so often. He thought I worked there. He was the boss,

1103
01:30:40.479 --> 01:30:45.520
he was the owner. They had no staff. It was

1104
01:30:45.560 --> 01:30:54.159
a family run business. They lived there. I mean, once

1105
01:30:54.239 --> 01:30:57.720
I stayed, he started moaning, because so used to me.

1106
01:30:58.239 --> 01:31:01.279
He once he has started moaning, it was moaning nuts.

1107
01:31:01.880 --> 01:31:06.359
He said, Jason, can you please stop leaving dirty dishes

1108
01:31:06.399 --> 01:31:08.439
in the sink, but can you wash up after yourself?

1109
01:31:09.920 --> 01:31:14.239
I said, I don't live with you. You're not my dad.

1110
01:31:16.479 --> 01:31:20.439
What's going on? And he just forgot. I thought I

1111
01:31:20.560 --> 01:31:23.119
was actually one of his kids because I was always

1112
01:31:23.199 --> 01:31:28.600
there looking at the videos. Now, technically that would have

1113
01:31:28.640 --> 01:31:31.439
been a really good job for me because not only

1114
01:31:32.000 --> 01:31:38.279
was I an avid video watcher, I knew where all

1115
01:31:38.319 --> 01:31:41.560
the videos were. I knew where all the titles were.

1116
01:31:42.840 --> 01:31:45.560
So if you just said to me, if you've got

1117
01:31:45.600 --> 01:31:48.800
the Big Boss Bruce Lee's movie, or if you've got

1118
01:31:52.199 --> 01:31:54.239
I don't know anything like a Disney movie, or if

1119
01:31:54.239 --> 01:31:57.680
you've got I could say yes or no because I

1120
01:31:57.760 --> 01:32:02.840
knew what was on the shelves. It's I was always

1121
01:32:03.199 --> 01:32:06.680
it's really weird. I just knew where everything was so

1122
01:32:07.000 --> 01:32:08.399
cause I was in there any of the every day

1123
01:32:09.000 --> 01:32:13.640
looking for the next video, and that's what I did.

1124
01:32:13.960 --> 01:32:17.479
And it was so cheap. It was probably like fifty

1125
01:32:17.560 --> 01:32:21.119
pence forty pence or something to rent a video out

1126
01:32:21.920 --> 01:32:26.399
for one day, and so i'd get At times I

1127
01:32:26.439 --> 01:32:32.880
would be in there every day, especially during the holidays. Oh,

1128
01:32:33.159 --> 01:32:40.079
such a nice I liked those times. With Blockbusters. It

1129
01:32:40.239 --> 01:32:44.840
was more a weekly thing because I was working, and

1130
01:32:47.319 --> 01:32:51.119
it'd be probably like a lot of people would, I

1131
01:32:51.199 --> 01:32:56.560
guess to go on a Friday evening or Saturday evening

1132
01:32:56.680 --> 01:32:59.520
and just rent out like maybe two or three videos

1133
01:33:00.199 --> 01:33:03.600
for the weekend and bring them back on a Monday.

1134
01:33:07.760 --> 01:33:13.920
So yeah, I lived just up the road from Yeah,

1135
01:33:13.960 --> 01:33:23.199
I did lift just up the road from the video shop. Yeah,

1136
01:33:23.600 --> 01:33:28.279
but it's actually two different places. I lived just the

1137
01:33:28.399 --> 01:33:31.279
next place was just around the corner. The other place

1138
01:33:31.520 --> 01:33:34.600
was a lot further away. But the place before that

1139
01:33:34.960 --> 01:33:41.399
was I and it wasn't far probably fifteen minute walk,

1140
01:33:42.840 --> 01:33:49.760
so it wasn't far. Really. I used to love it though.

1141
01:33:49.760 --> 01:33:56.159
It's love getting videos out. It's strange how things had

1142
01:33:56.279 --> 01:34:00.880
changed because now because of all the streaming, I mean,

1143
01:34:00.920 --> 01:34:04.680
Blockbusters closed down in this country anyway. I don't know

1144
01:34:04.720 --> 01:34:08.239
if this video shops elsewhere, but I don't think video

1145
01:34:08.319 --> 01:34:14.479
shops exist anymore or DVD shops. They still sell DVDs,

1146
01:34:15.000 --> 01:34:22.399
I think, But it's streaming. But the thing is, what

1147
01:34:22.520 --> 01:34:28.880
I noticed with the streaming companies, the channels, is they

1148
01:34:28.920 --> 01:34:31.640
don't keep the same stuff on there. They tend to

1149
01:34:31.720 --> 01:34:36.319
take stuff off. Even Netflix doesn't keep the same stuff

1150
01:34:36.359 --> 01:34:39.760
on there. Forever they love stuff and then they'll take

1151
01:34:39.840 --> 01:34:42.560
it off. I don't know why I repeat myself then,

1152
01:34:43.800 --> 01:34:55.960
and that is slightly disappointing to myself, because because of

1153
01:34:56.000 --> 01:35:01.920
the wonderful thing he does. I'm thinking of what, maybe

1154
01:35:02.039 --> 01:35:07.640
reading all of the Wizard of Oz books, maybe getting

1155
01:35:07.640 --> 01:35:10.239
them all and just reading them. I mean, that would

1156
01:35:10.239 --> 01:35:12.119
be the point of reading them, isn't it. I have

1157
01:35:12.279 --> 01:35:17.920
to get them first. And I was also thinking about

1158
01:35:18.000 --> 01:35:24.119
writing a book, not a Wizard of Oz book, but

1159
01:35:24.199 --> 01:35:30.159
I did wonder sometimes the idea of creating a new world.

1160
01:35:31.760 --> 01:35:36.079
Now it's been done, of course well by lots of people,

1161
01:35:37.000 --> 01:35:45.439
but more famously, what's her name? What's a Harry Potter?

1162
01:35:46.279 --> 01:35:50.479
You've got the Wizard of Oz, you've got Narnia, you've

1163
01:35:50.520 --> 01:36:02.439
got Discworld, you've got the uh token and whatever may

1164
01:36:02.520 --> 01:36:06.319
be my precious, that that thing, the hobbit, or that

1165
01:36:06.479 --> 01:36:13.199
kind of world. So I do think, you know, I

1166
01:36:13.319 --> 01:36:18.079
thought about making a world up, but it looks like

1167
01:36:18.359 --> 01:36:24.039
it looks like a lot of effort, and remember on

1168
01:36:24.119 --> 01:36:29.439
all the different characters. I don't know, I thought I

1169
01:36:29.520 --> 01:36:33.319
did think maybe introducing some new characters to my podcasts,

1170
01:36:36.920 --> 01:36:40.640
or perhaps having a guest, a guest come in and

1171
01:36:40.960 --> 01:36:47.640
like a you know, a different personality come and talk

1172
01:36:49.159 --> 01:36:55.319
once a week, or maybe Vinie doing a show. I

1173
01:36:55.399 --> 01:37:00.800
don't know. When I have my appendix out. When I

1174
01:37:00.840 --> 01:37:03.319
was about twelve, that was brilliant. I loved that. I

1175
01:37:03.399 --> 01:37:06.840
loved everything about that. There was a few moments when

1176
01:37:06.840 --> 01:37:14.640
I was embarrassed. There was one particular time when all

1177
01:37:14.680 --> 01:37:20.880
I wanted to do is I don't know why I

1178
01:37:21.000 --> 01:37:23.520
didn't just go over there, but I think at this

1179
01:37:23.720 --> 01:37:26.279
point I wasn't really supposed to leave my bed because

1180
01:37:26.640 --> 01:37:28.880
it was just after the op, so they didn't want

1181
01:37:28.880 --> 01:37:34.960
to me putting pressure on the stitches and stuff. But

1182
01:37:35.159 --> 01:37:38.399
I thought I got a way around this, so I

1183
01:37:38.479 --> 01:37:44.159
put my hand up, I said miss, and I actually

1184
01:37:44.199 --> 01:37:48.039
got up and I started walking towards the hallway because

1185
01:37:48.039 --> 01:37:49.920
that's where there was a box of comics, and I

1186
01:37:50.000 --> 01:37:53.560
wanted to have a look at the comics to see

1187
01:37:53.560 --> 01:37:55.720
what was in there. I think there was like X

1188
01:37:55.840 --> 01:38:01.039
Men comics and stuff like that. And the nurse where

1189
01:38:01.119 --> 01:38:04.119
you going? I said, I'm just going to go to

1190
01:38:04.239 --> 01:38:06.880
the toilet. She said, no, turn around. You know you're

1191
01:38:06.880 --> 01:38:10.239
not allowed to walk around until the stitches are a

1192
01:38:10.319 --> 01:38:17.960
bit more cemented. I said, okay, so I go just

1193
01:38:18.039 --> 01:38:19.520
to get back in bed. She said, no, no, if

1194
01:38:19.520 --> 01:38:26.720
you just if you can just stand there, and she

1195
01:38:26.880 --> 01:38:34.960
pulled out this. I actually thought they were hats, but

1196
01:38:35.039 --> 01:38:41.560
they're not hats, like a cardboard hat, and she yeah,

1197
01:38:42.399 --> 01:38:47.920
she pulled one of them out. Apparently I thought people

1198
01:38:48.079 --> 01:38:51.920
laughing because they were enjoying my dance in my comedy routine,

1199
01:38:52.000 --> 01:38:56.600
but apparently it's because that's not what they were for.

1200
01:38:59.079 --> 01:39:01.399
So she got me to she said, well, now do

1201
01:39:01.920 --> 01:39:04.359
we weies in? I don't know if she said those

1202
01:39:04.439 --> 01:39:06.840
words when I was twelve, so I don't know if

1203
01:39:06.920 --> 01:39:13.560
that was the right thing. But anyway, at this point,

1204
01:39:14.000 --> 01:39:18.359
at this junction in my life, I was a teenager.

1205
01:39:18.399 --> 01:39:23.680
I was getting onto being a teenager. I was self

1206
01:39:23.760 --> 01:39:28.199
conscious about my body. I also had a huge interest

1207
01:39:28.520 --> 01:39:33.399
in the ladies. In females at this time, especially older

1208
01:39:33.439 --> 01:39:38.920
women loved really they had no interest in me. I

1209
01:39:39.079 --> 01:39:42.960
was interested in them. And there was a particular nurse Therecord,

1210
01:39:43.079 --> 01:39:47.960
Nurse Nichols, that I was in love with. I've been

1211
01:39:48.039 --> 01:39:51.039
in love many times, especially when I was a kid,

1212
01:39:51.199 --> 01:40:00.600
constantly in love with women, and yeah, but anyway, I

1213
01:40:00.680 --> 01:40:02.760
don't think it was Nurse Nichols, but it's a different

1214
01:40:02.840 --> 01:40:07.039
nurse another. They were all nice, but she came like friendly.

1215
01:40:07.079 --> 01:40:10.720
I mean, she came over and she said, just do

1216
01:40:10.800 --> 01:40:12.319
it in here. I said, it's okay. He says, no,

1217
01:40:12.399 --> 01:40:16.479
That's why I hold it. This is the cardboard thing,

1218
01:40:16.560 --> 01:40:22.319
I mean. And it was among the most embarrassing things

1219
01:40:22.600 --> 01:40:26.359
that I've done because I didn't need to go to

1220
01:40:26.479 --> 01:40:29.760
the toilet, I didn't need a we we So I'm

1221
01:40:29.800 --> 01:40:39.279
standing there with my you know, aimed and nothing happened,

1222
01:40:42.600 --> 01:40:48.439
and I was talking to her. I just wish you'd

1223
01:40:48.479 --> 01:40:50.079
look at me in the eyes. That's all I wanted.

1224
01:40:50.680 --> 01:40:52.920
Just just look up here. My face is up here.

1225
01:40:54.079 --> 01:40:59.800
And it was so embarrassing. The weird thing about it

1226
01:40:59.840 --> 01:41:02.800
is even more embarrassing really when I think about it,

1227
01:41:02.920 --> 01:41:09.359
because at the time. She was an old woman. You know,

1228
01:41:09.520 --> 01:41:13.680
I was twelve. She was I mean old as in

1229
01:41:13.800 --> 01:41:19.319
she was old. But in reality, the nurses might have

1230
01:41:19.439 --> 01:41:23.840
only been like eighteen nineteen, so they were young. But

1231
01:41:23.920 --> 01:41:26.239
because I was so young, they all seemed really old.

1232
01:41:26.399 --> 01:41:30.840
They might be my twenties. So the fact is these

1233
01:41:30.920 --> 01:41:37.119
were young women, which makes it more embarrassing. But I

1234
01:41:37.239 --> 01:41:47.760
was I couldn't, I couldn't go weeries and yeah, that wasn't.

1235
01:41:47.840 --> 01:41:52.279
I didn't didn't enjoy that, which just goes to show

1236
01:41:52.279 --> 01:41:59.880
I suppose that was another another you know, learning moment

1237
01:42:00.199 --> 01:42:05.399
about not lying. I suppose, but I didn't. I didn't

1238
01:42:05.439 --> 01:42:13.000
really feel that I was lying, although technically I suppose

1239
01:42:13.079 --> 01:42:17.920
I was, but it didn't really feel that way. I

1240
01:42:18.079 --> 01:42:24.720
was just telling FIBs because I wanted to. I wanted

1241
01:42:24.760 --> 01:42:31.439
to read a comic. But the problem is at that

1242
01:42:31.760 --> 01:42:37.279
time I was still getting the Dandy and looking and

1243
01:42:37.439 --> 01:42:39.479
I was probably a bit too old for those comics,

1244
01:42:39.600 --> 01:42:43.159
so I said, don't bring them in. But the comics

1245
01:42:43.199 --> 01:42:45.159
they had for the kids were a little bit older

1246
01:42:45.760 --> 01:42:51.760
than what I would normally look at. And I've never

1247
01:42:51.880 --> 01:42:55.119
seen any of the whole thing you've noticed is a

1248
01:42:55.199 --> 01:42:59.880
fly again. I've never seen any of these superhero comics before,

1249
01:43:01.119 --> 01:43:04.079
because my brothers didn't used to get those kind of comics,

1250
01:43:06.000 --> 01:43:08.680
although I think one of them did start to. But

1251
01:43:09.520 --> 01:43:14.079
I used to get Looking and the Dandy every week.

1252
01:43:16.279 --> 01:43:18.840
My brother that was two years older than me used

1253
01:43:18.840 --> 01:43:24.840
to get The Beano and Wizard and Chips. And my

1254
01:43:25.000 --> 01:43:28.600
oldest brother, who was four years older than me, I

1255
01:43:28.720 --> 01:43:33.359
think he used to get a football magazine and a

1256
01:43:33.560 --> 01:43:36.680
war magazine because there used to be a lot of

1257
01:43:36.720 --> 01:43:43.840
that stuff back in the late seventies early eighties. There's

1258
01:43:45.079 --> 01:43:49.039
but yeah, I think he might have had a roy

1259
01:43:49.119 --> 01:43:53.119
of the Rovers or something was a comic that he

1260
01:43:53.239 --> 01:43:57.439
might have gotten, and but of course it might have changed.

1261
01:43:57.840 --> 01:44:01.680
I was sure one of them started getting superhero comics.

1262
01:44:02.800 --> 01:44:07.680
So I got this this memory of seeing Wolverine, and

1263
01:44:09.640 --> 01:44:14.800
I struggled to follow this story because the graphics were amazing,

1264
01:44:15.399 --> 01:44:19.800
but I couldn't always see figure out who was saying

1265
01:44:19.920 --> 01:44:23.680
what and why, And because the story is carried on

1266
01:44:23.840 --> 01:44:28.960
from the previous week or the previous comic, there seemed

1267
01:44:29.000 --> 01:44:33.279
to be a lack of consistency, or I suppose maybe

1268
01:44:33.359 --> 01:44:38.600
too much consistency depends on how you look at it. Yeah,

1269
01:44:38.800 --> 01:44:42.880
So I just wanted to look at the comics. That's

1270
01:44:42.920 --> 01:44:46.359
all it was. But other than that, it was the

1271
01:44:46.720 --> 01:44:52.239
bestest time of my childhood. Being in that hospital was brilliant.

1272
01:44:52.439 --> 01:44:57.279
So not all everyone. One of the doctors, not so much,

1273
01:44:57.479 --> 01:45:11.359
but all of the nurses. You know, it was Yeah,

1274
01:45:12.399 --> 01:45:16.319
it was okay, it was more than okay. I enjoyed it.

1275
01:45:16.800 --> 01:45:19.560
It was a nice time. It was lovely to have

1276
01:45:19.640 --> 01:45:23.920
a break from school, have a break from family life.

1277
01:45:24.760 --> 01:45:27.800
That was lovely, just to be away from everyone. It

1278
01:45:28.000 --> 01:45:35.319
was just spectacularly wonderful. I stayed in there for a

1279
01:45:35.439 --> 01:45:38.880
long time because I loved it. I got so well

1280
01:45:38.920 --> 01:45:46.039
with the other kids, and yeah, I didn't feel I mean,

1281
01:45:46.159 --> 01:45:48.279
I just didn't feel out of my depth. I didn't

1282
01:45:48.359 --> 01:45:54.760
feel self conscious. We just had fun and I probably

1283
01:45:54.880 --> 01:45:58.239
never laughed as much as I did then as the

1284
01:45:58.319 --> 01:46:02.119
first time I'd laughed. It's almost like the first time

1285
01:46:02.159 --> 01:46:07.239
I felt free really without restrictions of I suppose adults

1286
01:46:07.279 --> 01:46:10.159
in a way, and brothers, so I didn't have any

1287
01:46:10.199 --> 01:46:13.479
known people around and I could just be myself without

1288
01:46:15.800 --> 01:46:18.960
I don't know, there was I don't know how to

1289
01:46:19.039 --> 01:46:21.399
explain it. It was just nice. It was so nice.

1290
01:46:21.439 --> 01:46:26.640
I loved it. And I'm going to go because Vinnie

1291
01:46:26.680 --> 01:46:29.800
started barking, a few doors being slammed, and music's gone

1292
01:46:29.840 --> 01:46:34.279
up downstairs. So I realized I haven't really gone in

1293
01:46:34.439 --> 01:46:40.159
depth about talking about being boring, hospital, boring objects and stuff.

1294
01:46:43.239 --> 01:46:48.199
I attempted it. So give me two hour of ten.

1295
01:46:48.319 --> 01:46:50.640
Please give me a even know if it's a low mark,

1296
01:46:51.439 --> 01:46:56.159
give me a low mark. I don't mind, So thank

1297
01:46:56.199 --> 01:47:00.279
you for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself because

1298
01:47:00.319 --> 01:47:03.880
you do deserve to be happy and be gentle with yourself.

1299
01:47:04.279 --> 01:47:11.000
You deserve to feel safe. Lots of love, bye,