July 1, 2025

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

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

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is Sweaty Jason. Oh, it's hot, it's very it's a

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

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It's not. It's a bit o plus. Oh I was

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about to have a big moan. Then I won't. Okay,

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that's a big moan. Oh oh that was a nice moon.

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Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.

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

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

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going to go and visit my neighbor in hospital today.

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

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

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needed me to heed I needed to go up and

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see him. So I did that. But before I went up,

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there was a lot of noise in the garden, probably

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about nine o'clock ten o'clock, and it was the scaffolders.

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Now I've forgotten that they were coming. So they were

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putting scaffolding up to put some kind of knitting around

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the solar panels to stop the birds from nesting. Something

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like that. They did. The counselor did call me about

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two three weeks ago to let me know. And because

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they're basically putting a scaffold in my side of the building.

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Now literally anyone can just walk up that ladder onto

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the scaffold in and just get into my windows if

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

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I've had them close. I've got them on the latch

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so there's a bit of air, but they're not open,

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which is how I would have them in this heat.

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And I kept them closed also because I didn't know

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how close to the windows the scaffolding was going to

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be and I needed to go out, so I couldn't

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leave Vinnie in this living room that normally do because

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it was too warm, So I had to leave the

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living room door open so he had the air so

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he could like go from room to room. So I

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he's had the access to the whole flat today, and

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I know that if he sits in a hallway, it's

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

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just you know, so he had a bit of a

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It's a lot of banging downstairs, a lot of door slamming.

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

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What is it about door? Is it? Is it? Is it?

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

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there a part of the brain that gets stimulated and

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

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

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kind of doorgasm? Doorgasm? H I just I don't know

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if it's a pleasurable thing. See, there's like seven times

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now the doors slammed, just in that short period of time.

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I don't know. Yes, So money, money mcmoney, Jason mcmoney,

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that's my name today. So now I've come back and

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all the scaffoldings put up, and there's literally it's just

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an entrance to my flat, to my windows. Which is

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not the best time year to have that, really, I mean,

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there's no good time. But I don't necessarily need the

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windows open in the winter. Well I do have to

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windows open in the winter, but at the moment then

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it's fairly important to have them open because of the

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duftiness and the heat. But I can't go out and

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leave my flat with the windows open, because anyone can

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just walk up the ladder and just get into my flat.

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And just take my stuff. And unfortunately, I live in

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an area where that is something that is very very

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likely to happen. Unfortunately, the flat downstairs got robbed about

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three months ago. So yeah, there's just you know one

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it always tangs, so it is. I went to So,

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I went and see my neighbor today, got a taxi there,

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got a taxi back, same taxi driver, which is quite unusual. Well,

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it's unusual so far because I've had so many journeys

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

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

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So I did eight days in a row. Then I

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

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

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

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

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

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and the same tax driver more than once out of

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that whole period. The door's still slamming. Why is there

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one slamming the doors so much? How strange, very very strange, indeed,

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And so I went and visited him. I managed to

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get him some ice from Costa. So he's been talking

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about wanting ice in the hospital. I just need to

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get some ice. So you need to get well. You

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need to get some ice, so you do, which is

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not how he speaks at all. And I said, I'll

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get you some ice. He said, oh, it'd be good

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if it was in a flask, so it would I said,

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a flask. Yeah, we keep it icier for longer. Yeah,

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I'm okay. So I got him my co I got

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him a cock and a coke, got my bottle of coke.

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I actually thought he was going to be nil by

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mouth because when I spoke to him, he said he

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was going to have a procedure done today. When I

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got there, hiss and and and nil by mouth NBM

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or whatever it is, it's normally it said nil nil

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by mouth nb M. They put on his board underneath

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his name. I put a change it to d n R.

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I thought it were funny. And but there was nothing

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on there today that was on there the other day

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when he had to have a scan. But there was,

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

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

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

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Because I was going to go and get him some

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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treats and Uncle sausages. That's the two people. It gives

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people nicknames depending on what they give him. But now

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all the staff called him Uncle Sausages. Well, oh me,

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how weird would that be, especially if there was bad news.

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

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

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too much details, but it's not. It's nothing's going particularly well,

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but I've gone to the nurse phoned the doctor while

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I was there and asked the doctor what time he's

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going to be visiting the ward. So the nurse said

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to come there out between nine thirty and ten so

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that I can be with Uncle Sausages when he gets

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his when the doctor tells him whatever the doctor needs

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to tell him. That way I can be with I

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can be there with him. No one's got to give

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permission to talk to me or anything, because Uncle Sausages

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always gives permission, you know. When I'm there, Uncle Sosages said, yeah,

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you can talk to him about anything. So it just

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means I can ask questions or anything if they because

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Uncle Sosages doesn't always ask questions that perhaps I would ask.

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And I do feel like I'm interfering a little bit. Yeah,

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At the same time, I think the best time to

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ask a doctor a question, especially when the doctor's only

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on the ward for a little while, is when the

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doctor's on the ward. That's you know, it's kind of

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the only time, isn't it. So I'm going there tomorrow early.

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It's his birthday and Friday, so I'm going to early tomorrow,

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going to get there by probably nine and then hear

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what the doctor has to say regarding treatment or whatever.

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Because he's been there for quite a long time now

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and he's had constant blood tests et cetera, you know,

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which is normal blood pressure being taken, and had a

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little bit of medication to try and clear his yellowness.

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But other than that, he hasn't He's not in any pain,

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He's not in anything like that. So he hasn't had,

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as far as I'm aware, any medication outside of just

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to get rid of the jaundice. And he's had a

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scan like he had the cat scan when he's on

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

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another big message scan of his whole body, which they

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

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they have, he's not telling me something little. He was

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a little bit confused. So yeah, it's a weird one. Really.

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

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

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which I completely understand. I mean, after halfter half an hour,

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I want to get out there. It's not it's not

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a place to it's not an enjoyable place to be.

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

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I mean, in some ways it's a bit freer than

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it is with some of the other wards, because some

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wards have very strict visit visiting times, and he just

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seems to have a little bit more freedom in some ways.

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

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quite a small amount compared to some other Some wards

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

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

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or a care worker within a few feet from him.

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

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It's just yeah, it's just a I think he's just

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ready to leave the place. And his next door neighbor,

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who is the person in the bed next to him,

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Derek Trotter, he's actually been released, so he's not there anymore.

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He left today about eleven o'clock. Can you hear that?

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Listen to this? Can you hear that? That's where the

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windows closed. That's the RAF. I was gonna say bicycle

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then RAF thing. Oh, so that's the update on him.

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I'm just giving you an update for those that listen regularly.

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For those that don't listen regularly, probably not sure. You

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might not even know what I'm talking about, which is

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fine because that fits in with the podcast. Really, So

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this is this is Oh, I just clicked my collar bone.

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This is Tuesday, Trivia Tuesday. That's it. I forgot what

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I was doing then Trivia Tuesday, so I thought it'd

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be nice to do something. I did. I kind of

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try to do Monday's boring Objects yesterday. I did it

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

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last night and then early this morning I edited it

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and uploaded it, processed it and stuff. But I think

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I spent the first hour talking about my neighbor potentially

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and maybe some other stuff, and then the last fifty

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minutes I've spent talking about hospitals that I've visited and

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been in. But you know, it could have been to

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be Yeah, it could have been four or five hours long.

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If i'd have really focused on the things that I

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was going to talk about, it would have been a very,

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very long recording. And nobody wants nobody wants that. Wow,

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five hours long. Woo woo woo, woo woo whoo. So

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

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

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

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of it. I want to talk about something different. What

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about the history of medication? No, no trivia about what

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would be the most random thing that we could talk

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about today? Most random trivia? Okay, list I'm going to

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use chat GPT list one hundred trivia facts about umbrellas?

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What about umbrella? That's even too boring for me? The Smurfs,

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no fairy tales could know what There's got to be something.

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What could it be? What could it be? Something that

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I should be prepared tonight, just a little bit prepared

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

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knowing what I'm going to talk about. Would be a

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

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facts or Trivia Tuesday. I mean there was a time.

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

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already in front of me before i start talking, But

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that today is not that case. I'm not prepared at all,

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other than just fitting here with my little boy. By

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my thide. It is three twenty six in the afternoon. Annoy,

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he's tired. I think it's the heat. I think it

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be the heat which is making me tired. Oh what

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list one hundred trivia facts about the weather weather if

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I can spell that correctly about summers in England over

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through history, through history history, so least one hundred trivia

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facts about summer summers in England throughout through history. I'm

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not going to ask it to fact check it. So

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if some of the stuff I might say that I'm

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

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looked into some of this stuff in the past just

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out of interest. And the very first one here is

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talking about something that I remember. The summer of nineteen

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seventy six was one of the hottest and dirtiest, no

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driest rother in English history. Now, I already knew that

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it's one of those things, even at the age of five,

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

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I knew that there was something weird going on. Even

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

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and yeah, I remember that super super super super hot.

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Really was I got sunburnt, actually got ended up covered

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in blisters, which is a weird thing, but it's true.

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Or covered in blisters because I was in I was

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out in the sunfur without me top on, maybe just

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

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

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water nearby, so it's just playing on the playing field,

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I guess, and the it's quite. This is weird though, okay,

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because I remember this in Newcastle and that makes me

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wonder because it just means I lived in Newcastle for

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a lot longer than I realized. But nineteen seventy six

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I was in Newcastle. So yeah, so from seventy seventy

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two to seventy six, I was said about four years. Yeah,

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that's weird anyway. So I yeah, covered in blisters on

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my back, on my front, and I'm being put into

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

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I don't think blisters and a bath are a good combination.

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But I remember that and it wasn't I remember all

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the laughter not coming from me. So June the two

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thousand and twenty three was officially the hottest June on

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record in England. June twenty twenty three, twenty four, twenty five.

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I thought June this year was the hottest one, but

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maybe so that was something it was hot. There was

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some days when it was yeah, right, July. This is

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the third once I read this in a minute. So

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the Great heat wave of nine nineteen eleven lasted over

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ten weeks. I don't remember that one. So when people

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act like, oh, it's the hottest, it's never been this

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hot for so long, like, yeah, has actually one hundred

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and ten, one hundred and fourteen years ago. But you

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

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recorded its hottest temperature ever forty point three percent centigrade

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or one hundred and four point five fahrenheit in Lincolnshire

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on the nineteenth of July twenty twenty two. Now if

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

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it was really hot. There was one particular day when

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no one went outside apart from those people that did.

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It was really just phoning each other saying I'm naked,

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Are you naked? Yeah, I'm naked as well. And it

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was the only time my whole life that I've been

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able to phone people up and have that conversation, well,

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having a conversation where they say, yeah, I'm naked too. Yeah,

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it was good. The weird thing about it was I

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was phoning people up saying are you're naked, and not

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saying yeah you. I said, oh, yeah, I am. I

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didn't realize it was hot outside. I hadn't looked the

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summer of tooth. I don't even know it's outside the

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summer of two thousand and three because I put ice

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cubes on me on that summer of two thousand and

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

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

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wettest summer on record in England was nineteen nine twelve.

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

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Are you sure? Because I remember some wet summers? Number seven?

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In July nineteen twenty one, London saw thirty two consecutive

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days without rain. Thirty two Actually just a month, isn't it?

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In this Country's weird because if we go more than

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three days that rain, there's a drought. There's a drought

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hose by ban and then three days later flood warnings.

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That's how it is here. It's all I don't know.

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It's so short sightedness may be not all short memory,

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not remembering that the weather is constantly changing. And that's

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what this country is, England is it's a multiple seasonal country.

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In one day, it can be spring, summer, winter all

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in one day. And it might sound silly, but the

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changes in the weather can literally be that dramatic, that quick.

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So what else have we got? Thunderstorms are more common

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in English summers than in winter. Yep, that's true. I'm

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agreeing with it. I can't remember the last time I

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heard a thunderstorm in the winter, because thunderstorms seemed to

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be more a heat related thing. You know. The best

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thunderstorm I ever remember in my entire life, No, there's two.

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One was when I was really really little, and I

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was probably five or six in Newcastle. This is when

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I was in the kids home and we were in

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this kind of yard and the building. There was a

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yard in the middle of this big building, so we

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could get in from different exits and stuff for different entrances.

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So we were sheltering on one side the building and

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

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thunder and I said no, yes, thunder, and they kept

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

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she walked off. It wasn't a very long conversation, but

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I just remember, and for some reason, I just remember

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that conversation. And then when about two thousand and three,

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I think it was Wow, there was a thunderstorm. It

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was the biggest thunderstorm I've ever seen. And I was

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living quite high up in this building, not like super high,

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but not high enough to parachute out, but high enough

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to to not you know, yeah, it's high enough, high

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enough to you need a rope or a rope ladder

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to get down, but it's not quite high enough for

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a parachute to really gain any kind of usefulness. Probably

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wouldn't even be open before you hit the ground. I

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never tried it. I haven't got a parachute, but yeah,

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it was. It was up high enough and there was

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nothing overlooking it, which is quite nice. So it kind

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of had all the sky and this thunderstorm so big

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and so lightningly and so thundery and loud, really loud.

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

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the summer as well, so this is two thousand and

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

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

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Not many? Really? No, No, not many thunderstorms thunderstorms. Can

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I remember any thunderstormms No, I don't seem to be

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able to remember any. There's been lots. I remember the

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day that Elvis left us in nineteen seventy seven. I

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think it thundered on that date during the day. It

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was in the summer, and the rain, the rain, we

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got absolutely drenched, but it was warm, so it wasn't

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an uncomfortable soaking. It was quite a nice soaking, in fact,

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And if you're ever going to get completely soaked, that

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seemed like quite a good time to have it happen.

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And it was quite a good day to have it

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happened as well, because a lot of people were sad

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that Elvis had left us, so it got really weird,

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weird day that was. I was upset as well, but

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for different reasons. I mean, I'll be honest, I knew

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who Elvis was, but I was I was six years old,

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so I wasn't so kind of up with who he

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was or what he did. And he sung stuff. So

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my oldest brother was upset because he was a massive fan,

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and all the TV because he was watching on the

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

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So all the other all the other programs were canceled.

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

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I was upset because every channel had his were talking

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about him, and there's no cartoons on. So I was five,

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I was six six in August two thousand and four.

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All there was one time I got drenched where oh yeah,

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I think it was a thunderstorm as well. And I

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

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

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think so, probably about nineteen ninety Christmas Day, and had

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gone the way to his house, which wasn't wasn't a

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long journey. It's probably twenty twenty five minute walk. I

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got soaked. So I'm annoyed. I'm yeah, I'm so. I

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

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

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

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

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

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

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well that's all right. So he's got me some a

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jumper and some tracksuit bottoms or something. But I was like,

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I was determined not to have anything. I was so

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how could the weather do this to me? Me? Me?

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I could have just got a tax man and I

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

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if I'd just called my dad, he'd have come and

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got me. Or I could have just said, look, i'll

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

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and then my dad would have come and got me.

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So or his wife would have come and got me.

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

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another controversial Christmas and now it was all right after that.

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I can't think of any thunderstorms off hand. Some may

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come to me as I'm talking, this might be a

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subject of thunderstorms. It's weird. Didn't mean it to be.

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But if any, if any of the thunderstorms pop into

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my head, I will tell you. In August two thousand

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and four, boss calm down wherever that is recorded a

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single day rainfall total of one hundred and twenty feet

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of rain or millimeters of rain whatever that I don't

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know what what's one hundred and twenty millimeters? Why don't

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they just do it in feet? So is that our

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foot of rain two foot of rain? H Strawberries ripe

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and faster during long, warm English summers. See, I don't

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really know much about strawberries, but I feel like I

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already knew that fruit. I mean, you just take away

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the strawberries and just say bananas apples. Doesn't all fruit

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ripe and faster in the warmth? I mean? Am I being?

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Am I being a bit silly there? I don't know.

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It could be oh, summer traditions and festivals, Wimbledon, which

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has just started yesterday, Wimbledon, or as I like to

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call it, grumpled or not grumbledon, gruntle grunt gruntled them

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because they grunt a lot. Ah. Yeah, I used to

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actually when I lived alone in the house, because I've

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moved around a lot over the years, not for the

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last ten years, but before that, a lot. I'm talking

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a lot. Lot. Started off when I was born, really

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like six months old, and I started moving. I'll packed

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me back, I did. I packed my bags up, and

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I thought that's it I'm out of here. So if

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I was in a shared house, I would put Wimbledon

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on Wimbledon to the two weeks. I would turn up

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the female matches really loud so that my neighbors all

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I could hear us ah ah ooh ah. So I

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thought that they might think that maybe I had a

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girlfriend and I knew ways to make her happy. I

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don't know. I don't really know what was going on

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in my mind. It went quite well until the audience.

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The audience applauded, and that's when it felt like okay.

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I remember one one of my neighbors said, how big

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is your room? If you could fit an audience in

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there and a tennis pitch. Oh dear. Wimbledon has been

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held nearly every summer since eighteen seventy seven. Now, I

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think Wimbledon was canceled in two ty twenty. I think,

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as was the Olympics. I also think that Wimbledon was

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canceled during the Two Wars, the two World Wars as well.

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I'm just thinking about like the World Cup and stuff.

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I'm guessing Wimbledon would not be going ahead during the

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World War in this country, so I could look that up.

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But I can't be bothered. It's weird, isn't it. I mean,

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I actually talked about stuff and I just it just

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the idea of just pushing the keys on a keyboard

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just seems like a lot of effort. The notting Hill Carnival,

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a summer event, began in nineteen sixty six. So the

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notting Hill Carnival, for those who don't know what it is,

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it's a it's a very famous carnival in this country

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that has a degree of a notoriority about it. And

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I think it's basically because it's a street carnival and

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it's the police can't control it the way they can

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maybe if something's in a park, they can have a

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bit more control of something if it's kind of stuck

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in one place. But the notting Hill Carnival, it's on

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the move and there's millions of people probably turn up

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and from all over the world, and it's I get

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a sense it is kind of chaotic. I also get

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a sense that the press focused just on they don't

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they don't focus on the nice parts of it, and

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it's probably mainly really a good, good vibe. I just

464
00:42:18.360 --> 00:42:20.800
I've never been there. I never wanted to never really

465
00:42:20.800 --> 00:42:25.280
felt it's just for me. It's the crowds, too many people.

466
00:42:27.079 --> 00:42:30.920
I wouldn't really want to go to any festival or

467
00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:36.519
carnival or other just because of the amount of people.

468
00:42:36.599 --> 00:42:43.880
It's just like, Wow, I might go one day. Maybe

469
00:42:43.880 --> 00:42:46.679
that should be on my little my bucket list to

470
00:42:46.719 --> 00:42:50.559
go to the notting Hill Carnival. I tell you what

471
00:42:50.559 --> 00:42:52.519
I would like. I'd like to I'd like to be

472
00:42:52.559 --> 00:42:55.760
on one of the floats. I'd like if I was

473
00:42:55.800 --> 00:42:57.920
gonna think if I was going to do something like

474
00:42:58.039 --> 00:43:01.239
go to Notting Hill Carnival, I'd like to be involved,

475
00:43:02.840 --> 00:43:05.599
even if it was just handing out bottles of water

476
00:43:05.679 --> 00:43:08.760
to people for free something like that, just to be

477
00:43:09.000 --> 00:43:11.920
involved in a positive way so that I can be

478
00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:19.159
part of it, but not a spectator, but also not

479
00:43:19.199 --> 00:43:25.400
a performer, you know, just kind of the background kind

480
00:43:25.400 --> 00:43:28.760
of person. That's kind of what I liked in a

481
00:43:28.800 --> 00:43:33.239
comedy club. I liked the idea of being in the

482
00:43:33.280 --> 00:43:34.960
background so I could be at the back of the

483
00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:39.840
club watching the acts, but also help with putting a

484
00:43:39.880 --> 00:43:42.840
show together, you know, getting the seats ready before the

485
00:43:42.880 --> 00:43:48.719
people got in, maybe emptying the tables of glasses throughout

486
00:43:48.760 --> 00:43:56.000
the breaks and just helping out in the background, so

487
00:43:56.119 --> 00:43:59.360
being part of the comedy night, but not being the

488
00:43:59.440 --> 00:44:04.639
focus the comedy night. That I quite liked that. I'm

489
00:44:04.679 --> 00:44:06.559
not saying that I would have I would have loved

490
00:44:06.559 --> 00:44:11.519
to have been, you know, the main act on stage.

491
00:44:12.440 --> 00:44:16.400
That never happened, and that was that I wasn't destined

492
00:44:16.440 --> 00:44:21.400
to do that at that time. But outside of being

493
00:44:21.679 --> 00:44:29.559
the star I was, I quite liked just okay, this

494
00:44:29.800 --> 00:44:35.239
is it in preference to being an audience member, because

495
00:44:35.239 --> 00:44:38.360
I used to go to loads of comedy clubs. I

496
00:44:38.400 --> 00:44:42.039
went to every I think apart from Jonglers, and that's

497
00:44:42.079 --> 00:44:45.519
the only comedy club I didn't never visit. I don't

498
00:44:45.519 --> 00:44:50.559
know why I never went to Jonglers in London, but

499
00:44:50.719 --> 00:44:53.400
pretty much every comedy club that was around in the

500
00:44:53.480 --> 00:45:00.119
nineties I visited by every single one, every single one,

501
00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:03.480
and there was hundreds of cave and went during that time.

502
00:45:05.400 --> 00:45:09.559
And I used to just turn up and people knew

503
00:45:09.559 --> 00:45:12.679
who it was. Quite a few of the people running

504
00:45:12.679 --> 00:45:16.480
the clubs were comedians themselves, so I knew them and

505
00:45:16.519 --> 00:45:19.199
I just hang around with them or me stand at

506
00:45:19.239 --> 00:45:24.440
the bar and just watch the watch the acts, maybe

507
00:45:24.440 --> 00:45:29.679
sometimes go on do a little spot. Maybe sometimes but

508
00:45:30.440 --> 00:45:33.960
it was just nice to be in the background. I

509
00:45:34.119 --> 00:45:39.199
like that rather than being rather than sort of sitting

510
00:45:39.280 --> 00:45:45.000
in a in a chair with the audience. I liked

511
00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:49.079
to Yes, it's nice to just what am I talking

512
00:45:49.119 --> 00:45:53.320
about while I'm mentioning that? Oh yeah, the notting Hill Carnival. Yeah.

513
00:45:53.320 --> 00:45:58.800
If I was participated in some way, then that would

514
00:45:58.840 --> 00:46:03.400
be cool. But in a positive way. You know. I

515
00:46:03.400 --> 00:46:07.559
wouldn't want to be not that I could do that,

516
00:46:07.639 --> 00:46:10.000
but like being part of or want to be working,

517
00:46:10.880 --> 00:46:13.880
like being a security or something, because that that doesn't

518
00:46:14.239 --> 00:46:19.000
that wouldn't be fun because then I wouldn't be relaxed.

519
00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:24.800
So maybe I'll go there? Would they go to the

520
00:46:25.000 --> 00:46:34.519
Dutig Hill Cardival. Morris dancing is traditionally performed in the summer,

521
00:46:35.360 --> 00:46:40.199
so Morris dancing. I just do Morrish dancing at school.

522
00:46:40.360 --> 00:46:43.400
Is that the one where you got you're going around

523
00:46:43.039 --> 00:46:48.079
the pole and you're dancing around the pole, and you've

524
00:46:48.079 --> 00:46:51.480
got it's a different pole to one of my mum

525
00:46:51.519 --> 00:46:54.800
used to dance around. But this one is no one,

526
00:46:54.920 --> 00:46:59.639
no one chucks money at you. This one is you

527
00:46:59.719 --> 00:47:02.599
hold onto like a ribbon thing, a colored ribbon, and

528
00:47:02.639 --> 00:47:04.719
you dance in and out of each other, but not

529
00:47:04.760 --> 00:47:07.639
literally in and out, but like I don't know how

530
00:47:08.119 --> 00:47:13.519
it kind of makes a pattern on the pole, a

531
00:47:13.639 --> 00:47:17.920
pattern from the different bits of fabric. Is that Morris dancing?

532
00:47:18.280 --> 00:47:23.760
Or have I got it wrong? Or is that fairy dancing?

533
00:47:23.920 --> 00:47:28.000
Or is that's a different, different type of dancing may pole?

534
00:47:28.480 --> 00:47:32.960
That's may pole dancing? Isn't it for may day may

535
00:47:33.039 --> 00:47:38.280
pole dancing? So Morris dancing, that's a that's a Scottish thing,

536
00:47:38.320 --> 00:47:47.039
isn't it Morris? I'm not sure. I think Morris dancing

537
00:47:47.119 --> 00:47:56.280
Scottish dancing. I might be wrong. Pims Pims, a popular

538
00:47:56.360 --> 00:48:03.280
summer drink, was invented in eighteen forty. It is Pims

539
00:48:03.400 --> 00:48:12.360
ani seed. I think it might be someone's listening to

540
00:48:12.400 --> 00:48:18.039
a TV and it's really loud. Do you think people

541
00:48:18.639 --> 00:48:22.480
sometimes listen to really loud things because it distracts them

542
00:48:22.519 --> 00:48:26.079
from their own thoughts? Because I don't know. I had

543
00:48:26.079 --> 00:48:29.679
a neighbor who I visited, and I went in there

544
00:48:29.880 --> 00:48:34.440
and this neighbor was literally had the music so loud.

545
00:48:34.920 --> 00:48:38.039
I had to leave. I couldn't. It was too loud

546
00:48:38.079 --> 00:48:45.440
for me. And it's almost like it was, well, it

547
00:48:45.440 --> 00:48:51.679
would be impossible for me to think In fact, I

548
00:48:51.719 --> 00:48:57.719
think I'd struggle to do even the most simple task.

549
00:48:58.400 --> 00:49:01.039
So if you said to me, I'll just add these

550
00:49:01.119 --> 00:49:05.159
numbers up, basic numbers, you know something is it takes

551
00:49:05.400 --> 00:49:08.239
a little bit of brain power, but not much, and

552
00:49:08.400 --> 00:49:12.880
even just working it out on a pad like two

553
00:49:12.920 --> 00:49:16.480
plaus four plus nine plus six plus nine plus five,

554
00:49:16.559 --> 00:49:18.840
but you know, just a few numbers, like okay, if

555
00:49:18.880 --> 00:49:23.039
I might take a few seconds to just figure it out,

556
00:49:24.360 --> 00:49:28.119
it'd be almost impossible with the volume of that music.

557
00:49:31.039 --> 00:49:35.559
That's what I mean. And I remember saying when I

558
00:49:35.599 --> 00:49:40.360
worked in evolution in Ipswich, I worked in the evolution shop,

559
00:49:40.400 --> 00:49:45.920
which was run by Buddhists, And I said to them,

560
00:49:45.920 --> 00:49:50.880
because there was the front entrance, but the back entrance.

561
00:49:51.719 --> 00:49:54.960
So you went through there was a little office that's

562
00:49:54.960 --> 00:49:57.199
where the computer was and they did everything out there.

563
00:49:58.719 --> 00:50:01.599
But there was another out of the back, which was

564
00:50:01.639 --> 00:50:04.800
a fire escape, and then out of there you could

565
00:50:04.840 --> 00:50:07.960
then walk through out of the other door, or there

566
00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:10.360
was a few different exits. There's some stairs you can

567
00:50:10.400 --> 00:50:14.480
go up, and that was where all the other surrounding

568
00:50:14.519 --> 00:50:18.840
shops kind of led into. That was their back entrances,

569
00:50:21.360 --> 00:50:27.840
and there was a key in the door and there was.

570
00:50:27.960 --> 00:50:30.760
There was a pushbar which opened the door, but it

571
00:50:30.760 --> 00:50:33.000
didn't work if the key was locked. If it was locked,

572
00:50:33.000 --> 00:50:38.400
it wouldn't work. And I said to the person, one

573
00:50:38.440 --> 00:50:40.559
of the people that was kind of managing the shop,

574
00:50:40.599 --> 00:50:45.119
I said, you have to leave that door unlocked when

575
00:50:45.159 --> 00:50:48.360
we're in the shop. Of course you lock it at

576
00:50:48.440 --> 00:50:50.199
night when there's no one in there, but when we're

577
00:50:50.239 --> 00:50:52.679
in the shop, it has to be left open. So

578
00:50:52.719 --> 00:50:56.000
when you push the bar, the door opens. And his

579
00:50:56.280 --> 00:50:59.440
answer was, we see, it just turned the key. It's

580
00:50:59.440 --> 00:51:03.679
not that different. And I tried to explain to him

581
00:51:04.440 --> 00:51:11.239
that in an emergency, things that are very simple normally

582
00:51:11.400 --> 00:51:17.199
aren't always simple, and he didn't get it. He didn't

583
00:51:17.280 --> 00:51:21.039
understand what I meant, but he did stop locking the

584
00:51:21.079 --> 00:51:26.000
door because I made such a fuss. So I'm quite.

585
00:51:26.159 --> 00:51:31.239
I'm quite on the old health and safety things like that.

586
00:51:31.400 --> 00:51:35.400
I think it's just too important to ignore. He did

587
00:51:35.519 --> 00:51:38.960
get the ump, but he got over it. I'm sure

588
00:51:40.800 --> 00:51:43.440
it's twenty one years ago. I think he's I think

589
00:51:43.519 --> 00:51:45.760
he's recovered. I do I do, I do? I do

590
00:51:45.800 --> 00:51:52.480
I do? And I've been in that situation where I

591
00:51:52.519 --> 00:51:54.280
had to call for an I had to call for

592
00:51:54.480 --> 00:51:58.440
the police once and I couldn't get my phone to work.

593
00:52:00.199 --> 00:52:06.199
It was just a normal phone, probably a smartphone, it wasn't.

594
00:52:06.239 --> 00:52:08.159
I mean, it was a while ago, but it was

595
00:52:08.159 --> 00:52:10.480
a smartphone. And all I wanted you to do is

596
00:52:10.480 --> 00:52:14.000
press nine to nine to nine. And because I was

597
00:52:14.159 --> 00:52:23.039
so like not knowing what to do that, I was

598
00:52:23.079 --> 00:52:27.039
struggling just to press nine nine nine and to press

599
00:52:27.079 --> 00:52:30.239
the button for it to ring. Seriously, it took me

600
00:52:30.280 --> 00:52:33.639
about six attempts to do it because my hand was shaking,

601
00:52:34.480 --> 00:52:37.880
and it wasn't. I wasn't fear so much. Maybe it

602
00:52:37.920 --> 00:52:40.400
was fear, but it wasn't fear for myself because I

603
00:52:40.480 --> 00:52:44.480
was trying to help someone else that was looked like

604
00:52:44.559 --> 00:52:48.360
they were in trouble. So I wasn't fearful for myself

605
00:52:48.480 --> 00:52:59.800
or anything. I just I guess panicked, I suppose. So, yeah,

606
00:53:00.079 --> 00:53:02.360
I don't know. I'm not quite sure. What's that got

607
00:53:02.400 --> 00:53:08.840
to do with Morris dancing. I don't know. Pims, Oh yeah, pims,

608
00:53:10.360 --> 00:53:17.280
because it's I don't know how I got on to

609
00:53:17.400 --> 00:53:27.440
that subject of doors that are locked. That's weird, isn't it. So.

610
00:53:27.639 --> 00:53:34.440
Glastonbury Festival began in nineteen seventy and became a summer staple.

611
00:53:35.840 --> 00:53:43.639
So Glastonbury I think Glastonbury was our version of wood Wouldcock?

612
00:53:43.960 --> 00:53:52.679
Is it Woodcock? Woodcock? You know the American really famous

613
00:53:52.679 --> 00:54:01.400
festival of nineteen sixty nine, would would would Cock Woodcock?

614
00:54:02.360 --> 00:54:05.480
I think it's Woodcock. But that was the That was

615
00:54:05.480 --> 00:54:11.760
a huge festival, wasn't it. Jimi Hendrix and they rolling

616
00:54:11.960 --> 00:54:14.679
stones and stuff like that. I think it was sixty nine.

617
00:54:14.719 --> 00:54:16.440
It might have been sixty six. I think it was

618
00:54:16.480 --> 00:54:17.079
sixty nine.

619
00:54:18.000 --> 00:54:28.840
And would Stock not cock woods cock Stock, would would Stock.

620
00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:36.719
Blimey. So I think Glastonbury was our version of would Stock,

621
00:54:38.239 --> 00:54:42.719
which was an America and I'm guessing other countries probably

622
00:54:42.719 --> 00:54:46.719
did the same. They copied and they had their own

623
00:54:47.679 --> 00:54:55.480
summer festivals. And Glastonbury I'm guessing because it's on at

624
00:54:55.480 --> 00:54:58.880
the moment, I think it's one, and there's lots of

625
00:54:58.920 --> 00:55:02.280
festivals in this kind of tree. I think it's one

626
00:55:02.320 --> 00:55:05.519
of the biggest, if not the biggest festival in the

627
00:55:05.679 --> 00:55:10.960
entire country. No, I'm talking about England, so I think

628
00:55:11.000 --> 00:55:14.519
it is the biggest one. But I might be wrong. Okay,

629
00:55:14.599 --> 00:55:20.239
So don't don't send me shoes are too small for me.

630
00:55:20.280 --> 00:55:23.559
As a punishment, I'm just I don't know. I hopefully

631
00:55:23.639 --> 00:55:25.079
I might be right. I don't care if I'm right

632
00:55:25.199 --> 00:55:28.800
or not. It's just it seems to be the most

633
00:55:29.360 --> 00:55:34.400
famous one. You know. I went, I once wear and

634
00:55:34.920 --> 00:55:39.840
I once wet myself. No, I once went to last

635
00:55:39.960 --> 00:55:50.639
night at the Summer Orchestra or last night at the Proms.

636
00:55:50.679 --> 00:56:01.079
That's it. I was in Talky, Talky Talky. Yeah, it

637
00:56:01.159 --> 00:56:07.599
was Talkey. I was in Turkey in two thousand and three.

638
00:56:07.840 --> 00:56:13.239
It was in the summer two thousand and three, maybe September,

639
00:56:14.760 --> 00:56:17.599
and I went and visited me cousin who lived there

640
00:56:17.679 --> 00:56:26.440
with his girlfriend. Absolutely loved the place, love loved loved

641
00:56:26.440 --> 00:56:29.760
the place. It was lovely. I really liked it. It's

642
00:56:29.800 --> 00:56:32.559
one of my favorite favorite places I've ever been ever.

643
00:56:34.079 --> 00:56:38.960
And we went to the park, the local park, and

644
00:56:39.119 --> 00:56:41.679
last night the proms was on there and they were

645
00:56:41.800 --> 00:56:44.199
I think they were filming it for the TV and

646
00:56:44.239 --> 00:56:48.159
it was live or something like that. In the park.

647
00:56:48.880 --> 00:56:54.159
The park was all cordoned off and we couldn't get

648
00:56:54.199 --> 00:56:59.639
in or they were charging money to get in, and

649
00:56:59.679 --> 00:57:02.159
we did want to pay something like that. So what

650
00:57:02.199 --> 00:57:06.880
we did is we climbed over the fences and we

651
00:57:07.119 --> 00:57:13.079
just crept in. We snacked it, snack snacked, we sneaked.

652
00:57:13.480 --> 00:57:20.440
We crept and we sneaked snacked in and it was cool.

653
00:57:21.159 --> 00:57:26.320
It was really nice. There were people asking for you know,

654
00:57:26.639 --> 00:57:29.599
proof of tickets and stuff. I don't quite know why,

655
00:57:29.639 --> 00:57:33.400
but we got asked to leave a couple of times.

656
00:57:33.840 --> 00:57:37.440
But it was It was still fun, though not as

657
00:57:37.480 --> 00:57:41.639
many people there as I thought there would be. But

658
00:57:41.719 --> 00:57:46.239
it was nice, It's really and the evening was lovely.

659
00:57:46.960 --> 00:57:50.880
It was one of those beautiful summer evenings. It wasn't hot,

660
00:57:52.400 --> 00:57:55.079
it wasn't like hot hot, it wasn't cold. It was

661
00:57:55.239 --> 00:57:58.880
just it was near the end of the summer. Maybe

662
00:57:58.960 --> 00:58:06.079
August time things about it. But it was really pleasant. Yeah,

663
00:58:06.559 --> 00:58:09.599
maybe it was July. It was nice during the day.

664
00:58:09.800 --> 00:58:12.840
I did get a suntan or I've got a bit burnt.

665
00:58:12.920 --> 00:58:15.920
Rather don't go out and get suntourn's got a bit burnt.

666
00:58:18.760 --> 00:58:28.840
But it was nice, very nice. And that's yeah. I

667
00:58:28.960 --> 00:58:39.880
just remembered that. Anyway, Summer Solstice celebrates at Stonehenge at

668
00:58:39.960 --> 00:58:48.199
dates back fairms of years, long before the people in

669
00:58:48.199 --> 00:58:55.679
this country or the royalty adopted things such as Christianity.

670
00:58:56.760 --> 00:59:02.320
So we used to be Pagans, I think in this

671
00:59:02.440 --> 00:59:14.840
country before the Romans came here trooping the color. The

672
00:59:14.920 --> 00:59:20.039
King's official birthday parade is held in Dewan, So yeah,

673
00:59:20.119 --> 00:59:23.199
that was we had that the other day a couple

674
00:59:23.239 --> 00:59:30.599
of weeks back, the loads of planes and stuff coming

675
00:59:30.639 --> 00:59:39.960
over here for his birthday, traveling towards London. The Henley

676
00:59:40.400 --> 00:59:46.840
Royal Regatta Regarta Regatta has taken place every summer since

677
00:59:46.960 --> 00:59:56.159
eighteen thirty nine. Well, let me tell you something. I

678
00:59:56.199 --> 00:59:59.559
know a little bit about the Henley Regatta because in

679
00:59:59.599 --> 01:00:06.719
the nine I got myself a job selling I don't

680
01:00:06.719 --> 01:00:10.519
know we want to call them, basically trying to sell

681
01:00:10.639 --> 01:00:17.159
companies deals for their staff to go to the Henley Regatta.

682
01:00:19.320 --> 01:00:24.440
And it was expensive, expensive, and all the staff that

683
01:00:24.480 --> 01:00:27.599
they took on they didn't pay them anything. It was

684
01:00:29.400 --> 01:00:35.519
commission only and it was just a numbers game. So

685
01:00:35.639 --> 01:00:39.400
they had people that came along and did really well,

686
01:00:42.639 --> 01:00:46.239
and then they had people like me that were desperate

687
01:00:46.360 --> 01:00:51.519
to earn some money, wanted to do really well, but

688
01:00:51.639 --> 01:00:55.280
couldn't be there long enough to do really well because

689
01:00:55.480 --> 01:01:01.159
I had maybe four days to earn some money before

690
01:01:01.639 --> 01:01:04.000
I couldn't afford to get in anymore. Couldn't afford to travel.

691
01:01:05.320 --> 01:01:09.199
But if i'd have had well, I probably wouldn't have

692
01:01:09.199 --> 01:01:11.119
been allowed to stay there for three months. If i'd

693
01:01:11.119 --> 01:01:14.800
have had to do a good period of time, I

694
01:01:14.800 --> 01:01:22.079
would have learned more and perhaps being able to sell something.

695
01:01:24.880 --> 01:01:29.800
And the commission was good. I mean we're talking thousands

696
01:01:29.840 --> 01:01:36.960
and thousands of pounds with these ten twenty grand or

697
01:01:36.960 --> 01:01:40.199
whatever for these packages, so I'd be earning some good

698
01:01:40.239 --> 01:01:45.400
money in commission. But yeah, I remember that I was

699
01:01:45.440 --> 01:01:52.039
there for about three days. Three days. I had a

700
01:01:52.039 --> 01:01:54.800
lot of sales jobs. I would talk about that one

701
01:01:54.880 --> 01:01:58.559
day because it is something that I never really spoken about.

702
01:01:59.400 --> 01:02:02.440
I mean I spoke about the sales jobs in insurance.

703
01:02:03.320 --> 01:02:05.639
I've talked a little bit about the sales job where

704
01:02:05.679 --> 01:02:12.119
I did the selling phone contracts to people, but I've

705
01:02:12.199 --> 01:02:16.039
not I thought, I've ever really gone into detail about

706
01:02:16.199 --> 01:02:22.000
some of the other sales jobs that I've had, And

707
01:02:22.039 --> 01:02:23.800
I'll try and listen them. Let me see if I

708
01:02:23.800 --> 01:02:32.480
could list them for you Life Insurance. This is back

709
01:02:32.519 --> 01:02:40.960
in nineteen eighty nine or before that, in nineteen ninety

710
01:02:41.679 --> 01:02:50.119
I had a sales job selling time share, so that

711
01:02:50.280 --> 01:02:53.800
was the second or I had a sales job selling

712
01:02:55.599 --> 01:03:00.000
and this is in probably about eighty eight eighty nine,

713
01:03:00.480 --> 01:03:15.000
probably selling water filters. So that didn't quite work out, Yes,

714
01:03:15.159 --> 01:03:18.920
the water filters. Then I had another job selling advertising,

715
01:03:20.920 --> 01:03:28.960
and another job selling printing. That's going around going around

716
01:03:28.960 --> 01:03:35.239
the docks into buildings trying to sell basically just printing,

717
01:03:35.840 --> 01:03:40.639
printing costs and paper and stuff like that. A lot

718
01:03:40.679 --> 01:03:45.599
a few sales, but I didn't really go very far.

719
01:03:48.039 --> 01:03:52.119
Then I had the job selling life insurance door to

720
01:03:52.159 --> 01:03:57.519
door in nineteen eighty nine in London. Then I had

721
01:03:57.519 --> 01:04:04.159
a job It wasn't technically selling, but it was trying

722
01:04:04.199 --> 01:04:06.920
to get people to have this is daor to door

723
01:04:08.239 --> 01:04:14.880
the satellite dishes for Sky and they'd have the satellite

724
01:04:14.920 --> 01:04:18.880
dish for a month I think. And it was the baby.

725
01:04:18.960 --> 01:04:26.599
It was the the puppy sales technique, so you'd give them.

726
01:04:26.639 --> 01:04:28.239
But you know, if you give someone a puppy for

727
01:04:28.239 --> 01:04:31.119
a month and then go and take it back, they're

728
01:04:31.159 --> 01:04:32.679
not going to want you to take the puppy back

729
01:04:32.719 --> 01:04:36.800
because they'll have fallen in love with puppy. And that's

730
01:04:36.840 --> 01:04:39.920
that's why it's called that. So if you leave something

731
01:04:39.960 --> 01:04:43.480
with someone for a period of time for free, and

732
01:04:43.519 --> 01:04:46.360
then you go and collect it, they're going to quite

733
01:04:46.559 --> 01:04:50.519
likely say no, I'll keep it and pay you. And

734
01:04:50.559 --> 01:04:56.800
that's how Sky did their their thing. Now. Part of

735
01:04:56.840 --> 01:05:00.280
the reason I stopped doing it because firstly, no one

736
01:05:00.360 --> 01:05:03.559
wanted to satellite dish because they were at the time

737
01:05:03.639 --> 01:05:08.599
there were a joke. It was it's one of those

738
01:05:08.639 --> 01:05:13.239
things that the newspapers were ridiculing them, like we would

739
01:05:13.239 --> 01:05:15.280
want one of those ugly things on the side of

740
01:05:15.320 --> 01:05:21.599
their their house. And the TV channels aren't much, and

741
01:05:21.639 --> 01:05:24.480
it was just it was kind of just starting up,

742
01:05:25.079 --> 01:05:29.159
and it was not classed as a particularly good thing

743
01:05:29.199 --> 01:05:34.079
to have. And that changed over the years and they

744
01:05:34.119 --> 01:05:41.360
became a worldwide phenomenon with Rupert Modoc Murdoch who now

745
01:05:41.400 --> 01:05:46.960
owns Fox I think, or one of those massive TV stations,

746
01:05:49.119 --> 01:05:51.079
and he gets married. He's in his nineties now and

747
01:05:51.079 --> 01:06:00.599
he gets married every year or so. And I kind

748
01:06:00.599 --> 01:06:05.000
of wish I'd stuck with that because that proved to

749
01:06:05.079 --> 01:06:09.480
be I think I was knocking on the wrong doors.

750
01:06:10.719 --> 01:06:12.559
I could have done that during the day, if I'd

751
01:06:12.679 --> 01:06:16.480
done that all the time as a job, if I'd

752
01:06:16.480 --> 01:06:19.880
have had the if i'd have had enough money because

753
01:06:19.920 --> 01:06:23.400
it was commission only. Of course, again, if i'd have

754
01:06:23.559 --> 01:06:28.519
just had enough to get me by for six months.

755
01:06:30.280 --> 01:06:33.159
I think I could have turned it into a very

756
01:06:33.440 --> 01:06:40.920
very successful enterprise and start to take on other people

757
01:06:40.960 --> 01:06:43.440
to work for me. I think I could have ended

758
01:06:43.519 --> 01:06:46.199
up being well. If i'd have done it like that,

759
01:06:46.480 --> 01:06:50.000
I'd have ended up being very very successful, very very

760
01:06:50.039 --> 01:06:53.880
young as well. And I knew about Canvassin because I'd

761
01:06:53.880 --> 01:06:57.239
done that before. That was my job for a while

762
01:06:57.760 --> 01:07:03.119
in nineteen eighty nine, during like the whole of that summer,

763
01:07:03.880 --> 01:07:08.519
and I was I was what was like eighteen at

764
01:07:08.519 --> 01:07:11.440
the time, so I just turned nineteen when I was

765
01:07:11.480 --> 01:07:19.239
doing this the satellite dishes. So yeah, I could have.

766
01:07:19.800 --> 01:07:24.159
I just I was working during the day and I

767
01:07:24.199 --> 01:07:27.280
was naked, to be honest with you, I was just nakeerd.

768
01:07:27.320 --> 01:07:30.639
I couldn't be bothered to and I wanted to earn

769
01:07:30.719 --> 01:07:33.760
some more money and try and do something. But it

770
01:07:33.800 --> 01:07:36.719
was winter and I was, you know, beginning of the

771
01:07:36.800 --> 01:07:42.840
year in nineteen ninety. Yeah, nineteen ninety it's the beginning

772
01:07:42.880 --> 01:07:46.239
of the year. It's really cold and windy and wet.

773
01:07:47.559 --> 01:07:52.440
It wasn't much fun, but it was an opportunity, it

774
01:07:52.480 --> 01:07:58.239
really was. And then, as I said, I did the

775
01:07:58.239 --> 01:08:02.079
Henley Regatta. It's a few years later or a couple

776
01:08:02.079 --> 01:08:08.639
of years later, and then I did Oh. I also

777
01:08:08.800 --> 01:08:13.960
did the time share as well in nineteen ninety. That

778
01:08:14.159 --> 01:08:16.399
was weird because I actually did get a sale and

779
01:08:16.479 --> 01:08:21.319
then they changed their mind. But what I did in

780
01:08:21.479 --> 01:08:24.239
that thing, I had to sit on a table. That

781
01:08:24.640 --> 01:08:28.800
what they did is really weird. They they offered people

782
01:08:31.479 --> 01:08:38.439
a gift to come and listen to a presentation. That's

783
01:08:38.479 --> 01:08:41.960
what it was. So they'd go along. They'd think they

784
01:08:42.000 --> 01:08:46.880
were getting a new car as a gift. Some people

785
01:08:46.960 --> 01:08:50.640
actually came up on the train and said, well, where's

786
01:08:50.640 --> 01:08:53.640
a car. Then I came up on I came up

787
01:08:53.680 --> 01:08:57.079
on the train. I'm going to drive back like they

788
01:08:57.119 --> 01:08:59.600
were just going to be given a car. And what

789
01:08:59.680 --> 01:09:01.880
it was really is they were put into a raffle.

790
01:09:02.439 --> 01:09:07.000
If they attended watched the movie, which was probably twenty minutes,

791
01:09:07.840 --> 01:09:09.760
and then he sat down with one of us and

792
01:09:09.920 --> 01:09:12.840
talked to us and let us try and sell them timeshare.

793
01:09:15.680 --> 01:09:18.119
And if they went through that process, then they would

794
01:09:18.159 --> 01:09:22.880
be entered into winning something. It might just be a

795
01:09:23.000 --> 01:09:27.439
box of nothing, or it might be it might be

796
01:09:27.479 --> 01:09:30.359
a discount in a supermarket, it might be a voucher.

797
01:09:30.640 --> 01:09:33.640
It could be anything, or could be a car. And

798
01:09:33.760 --> 01:09:36.479
they had a big car in the showroom, but one car.

799
01:09:37.319 --> 01:09:39.359
And you know, someone just turned up and said, well,

800
01:09:39.359 --> 01:09:41.640
how did I get in? Where's the keys? It's like, no,

801
01:09:43.720 --> 01:09:47.239
it's not quite you know. I'm not sure if the

802
01:09:47.279 --> 01:09:53.359
adverts were misleading. I don't know. Maybe I hope not,

803
01:09:55.439 --> 01:09:57.720
but I did. What I did notice is I was

804
01:09:57.840 --> 01:09:59.840
talking to these people and I was making them laugh,

805
01:10:01.359 --> 01:10:04.520
and I quite liked that, quite enjoyed that. And I

806
01:10:04.640 --> 01:10:09.439
was just telling them stories about my life and they

807
01:10:09.520 --> 01:10:15.840
were laughing and it felt quite nice. And one person

808
01:10:15.920 --> 01:10:19.079
actually told me they'll take it, you know, they'll take

809
01:10:19.159 --> 01:10:26.479
the they'll they accepted the sale, and I'm like, wow,

810
01:10:26.800 --> 01:10:32.359
I didn't expect that. And then they passed me. They

811
01:10:32.439 --> 01:10:35.159
passed them over to the person they had to do

812
01:10:35.279 --> 01:10:41.479
the contracts, and then they changed their mind. I mean

813
01:10:41.479 --> 01:10:45.399
I was there for probably four days, maybe five days,

814
01:10:47.840 --> 01:10:57.800
and this was I would say October time, nineteen ninety

815
01:11:00.760 --> 01:11:03.640
and it was in a different town and I just like, ah,

816
01:11:05.239 --> 01:11:10.000
so I just came home and that was it. I

817
01:11:10.079 --> 01:11:12.359
don't know what other things, what other things have I done.

818
01:11:12.399 --> 01:11:16.880
I've got little memories of places Oh yeah, I sold.

819
01:11:17.399 --> 01:11:20.239
This is actually a paid paid job I had. This

820
01:11:20.560 --> 01:11:26.720
was selling till role, you know for tills, you know,

821
01:11:26.920 --> 01:11:29.720
like in shops, just to till roll the role it

822
01:11:29.800 --> 01:11:35.800
goes in the till. And the amount of people that

823
01:11:35.880 --> 01:11:42.920
thought I was selling toilet roll, it just got it

824
01:11:43.079 --> 01:11:47.479
just got silly, like I don't need any toilet roll,

825
01:11:47.680 --> 01:11:52.560
no till role. So for some reason on the phone

826
01:11:54.319 --> 01:11:56.880
just wanted to hang again on your till roll. It

827
01:11:56.960 --> 01:12:00.319
seems to sound like toilet roll. Who do you get

828
01:12:00.359 --> 01:12:03.840
who supplies? Who supplies your toilet role? And they say

829
01:12:03.920 --> 01:12:08.560
toilet role, said no till role. Then after a while

830
01:12:08.600 --> 01:12:12.720
I realized I was saying toilet role, and yeah, I

831
01:12:12.760 --> 01:12:17.199
got confusing. I think I managed to get a sale

832
01:12:17.840 --> 01:12:21.359
with my friend who had a comedy club and he

833
01:12:21.680 --> 01:12:27.239
took some roles on. I mean it was it was

834
01:12:27.279 --> 01:12:32.600
a legitimate company and you know, so it wasn't like

835
01:12:32.720 --> 01:12:37.199
though Dodger or anything. They paid a basic plus a commission.

836
01:12:38.000 --> 01:12:40.600
I got the job because a friend had had a

837
01:12:40.720 --> 01:12:44.840
job and he got me the job there and our

838
01:12:45.039 --> 01:12:52.960
only source of leads was a Yellow Pages that was it,

839
01:12:55.479 --> 01:12:57.680
but from all over the country, so we dealt with

840
01:12:57.880 --> 01:13:01.600
the whole country, not just locally. In fact, we didn't

841
01:13:01.640 --> 01:13:03.600
deal real We did a little bit of local stuff

842
01:13:03.600 --> 01:13:06.439
in London, but it was the whole country, and I

843
01:13:06.560 --> 01:13:11.640
ended up doing Manchester or part of Manchester. I'm sure

844
01:13:11.680 --> 01:13:16.159
there's like there was different. Manchester is quite a large area,

845
01:13:16.880 --> 01:13:25.840
so it's different, different areas north, northeast, northwest or whatever, south, southeast, east, east, east,

846
01:13:26.840 --> 01:13:33.840
And yeah, I did, I did, I did. I didn't.

847
01:13:34.960 --> 01:13:45.560
It was all right, but I didn't enjoy it, if

848
01:13:45.600 --> 01:13:48.800
I honest, And this is a break I had between

849
01:13:48.960 --> 01:13:57.399
doing security. So I did security, and I yeah, they

850
01:13:57.640 --> 01:14:04.319
sacked me because of it got blocked, and I found

851
01:14:04.359 --> 01:14:07.800
it so ridiculous that they were blaming me for a

852
01:14:07.920 --> 01:14:11.000
toilet I blocked toilet, not just that but the fact

853
01:14:11.039 --> 01:14:19.119
that they were. They suspended me, so I wasn't getting

854
01:14:19.199 --> 01:14:22.479
paid for the rest of the week. And then so

855
01:14:22.600 --> 01:14:25.960
this is like maybe it was a Tuesday, the toilet

856
01:14:26.000 --> 01:14:30.439
was blocked, They sent me home, suspended me until the

857
01:14:30.560 --> 01:14:34.159
following Monday when I went into the office for disciplinary

858
01:14:36.159 --> 01:14:38.640
and I don't know if they were going to sack

859
01:14:38.760 --> 01:14:42.039
me or not, but I just laughed at them. I said,

860
01:14:42.039 --> 01:14:49.720
you're ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous. I said, why would Why would

861
01:14:49.720 --> 01:14:52.720
I block a toilet up and not do anything. I mean,

862
01:14:53.279 --> 01:14:56.319
I'm an adult. I don't I said, someone's clearly done

863
01:14:56.359 --> 01:15:01.760
that after I've left. It's ridiculous to block on me. Besides,

864
01:15:01.880 --> 01:15:05.000
I can't leave the reception once it gets because once

865
01:15:05.079 --> 01:15:09.760
I open the doors, so I'm there all night in

866
01:15:09.880 --> 01:15:12.359
this place. It was a it was a what was

867
01:15:12.399 --> 01:15:16.760
it called. It was a printing firm, not printed, but

868
01:15:16.800 --> 01:15:20.800
it was a like they printed magazines and newspapers and stuff.

869
01:15:20.840 --> 01:15:26.760
It was quite a Oh, I forget his name now, Henderson,

870
01:15:26.880 --> 01:15:35.399
not Henderson. He I think he did Kerrang to this

871
01:15:35.600 --> 01:15:43.039
this company. They did Korrang and like heavy metal magazines,

872
01:15:43.239 --> 01:15:51.000
really big famous magazines, and I think also computer magazines

873
01:15:51.039 --> 01:15:55.239
as well. And maybe they went and did some of

874
01:15:55.319 --> 01:15:59.640
the like other like loaded and things like that. I'm

875
01:15:59.680 --> 01:16:02.359
not sure or later on, but they did. You know.

876
01:16:02.399 --> 01:16:04.279
I got really well with the people at work there,

877
01:16:05.159 --> 01:16:07.319
some of the people that are there like late at night,

878
01:16:08.199 --> 01:16:11.399
I kind of just chat with them and stuff, because

879
01:16:11.439 --> 01:16:13.600
I'd start my shift at I think half three in

880
01:16:13.640 --> 01:16:21.960
the afternoon until I think it was half eight in

881
01:16:22.039 --> 01:16:26.680
the morning, so it was a half three four or five, six, seven, eight,

882
01:16:26.840 --> 01:16:32.039
nine ten, no waiting half three, four or five or

883
01:16:32.079 --> 01:16:37.479
six or seven one off two or three or four

884
01:16:37.600 --> 01:16:40.840
or five or six or seven hour that would be

885
01:16:40.920 --> 01:16:47.479
that long with it half three till maybe half four.

886
01:16:49.840 --> 01:16:52.239
It was about fifteen hours anyway, I was doing about

887
01:16:52.279 --> 01:16:56.960
fifteen hours shifts, so half four, half five, half four,

888
01:16:57.039 --> 01:17:00.760
then half four again as twelve, or was half four

889
01:17:00.840 --> 01:17:05.640
till half three, twelve, half five, half six, seven eight,

890
01:17:05.720 --> 01:17:08.520
half nine, off ten, half eleven enough tw haelf half one,

891
01:17:08.640 --> 01:17:14.760
half two, half eleven and half two, half three, half four,

892
01:17:15.640 --> 01:17:18.399
half five, half six, half seven. Yeah, so I think

893
01:17:18.439 --> 01:17:24.520
it was half four to half seven and unless it

894
01:17:24.600 --> 01:17:27.319
was sixteen hours. But sixteen hours seems a bit long,

895
01:17:27.359 --> 01:17:29.720
doesn't it. I think fifteen hours is what I did

896
01:17:30.520 --> 01:17:33.720
because sixteen hours seems a little bit. It's not enough

897
01:17:33.800 --> 01:17:36.720
ready to get enough sleep, is it? So I'd do

898
01:17:36.920 --> 01:17:48.800
fifteen hours five days a week, I think, and between

899
01:17:49.840 --> 01:17:52.800
I was loud on it. Between four point thirty and

900
01:17:54.960 --> 01:18:02.079
when the doors were locked, I really didn't leave the reception.

901
01:18:02.880 --> 01:18:07.119
I couldn't leave the reception, so when the front door

902
01:18:07.199 --> 01:18:10.000
was opened, I had to be in the reception. I

903
01:18:10.119 --> 01:18:13.439
was security for the building. When the doors the front

904
01:18:13.479 --> 01:18:17.159
doors were locked. Then I could do patrols and do

905
01:18:17.239 --> 01:18:32.000
whatever I want. Really, so yeah, so I in the morning,

906
01:18:32.279 --> 01:18:35.520
I would open the doors at about six in the morning,

907
01:18:36.960 --> 01:18:40.560
and I was there till seven point thirty. I couldn't

908
01:18:40.640 --> 01:18:46.680
leave the reception from six to seven point thirty until

909
01:18:46.840 --> 01:18:54.840
the receptionist came on and took over. So that was me.

910
01:18:55.039 --> 01:18:57.840
Maybe it's eight thirty, It's something like that. Maybe it's

911
01:18:57.880 --> 01:19:01.640
half four till eight thirty. So I wasn't allowed to

912
01:19:03.279 --> 01:19:06.840
leave the reception until the receptionist was on and then

913
01:19:06.840 --> 01:19:13.880
I'd go home. And I didn't use a toilet before

914
01:19:13.960 --> 01:19:20.880
going home. So how did I block that toilet? Because

915
01:19:20.880 --> 01:19:23.159
I can't use a toilet while the cleaners are in,

916
01:19:23.520 --> 01:19:25.600
because they're in. Once they're in. The front doors are

917
01:19:25.600 --> 01:19:28.720
open because the staff used to come in early hours,

918
01:19:29.399 --> 01:19:32.600
so six o'clock doors were open. The staff could come in,

919
01:19:33.039 --> 01:19:36.000
the cleaners would come in, and then they'd get deliveries.

920
01:19:37.880 --> 01:19:41.479
The machines would get filled in, you know, like because

921
01:19:42.600 --> 01:19:45.319
in London, because this is in the West End, a

922
01:19:45.399 --> 01:19:47.720
lot of deliveries had done very early because it's hard

923
01:19:47.800 --> 01:19:51.840
to park anywhere during the day and to get around,

924
01:19:56.000 --> 01:19:57.920
and some of the staff would be in really early

925
01:19:58.000 --> 01:19:59.720
as well. Some of them would be there late at

926
01:19:59.800 --> 01:20:02.159
night as well, you know, until ten o'clock at night

927
01:20:02.239 --> 01:20:04.479
some of them, and some would get in at six

928
01:20:04.560 --> 01:20:11.920
in the morning or half six seven. So I wasn't

929
01:20:11.960 --> 01:20:14.239
allowed to leave the reception, So if I did go

930
01:20:14.359 --> 01:20:18.600
to the toilet, it had to be before the reception opened,

931
01:20:19.079 --> 01:20:25.439
before the cleaners got there. Now, I always did a

932
01:20:25.560 --> 01:20:31.199
patrol of the building. My last patrol. It's just a

933
01:20:31.279 --> 01:20:34.560
go around make sure everything was fine. I always check

934
01:20:34.640 --> 01:20:38.199
the toilets. It wasn't really for floods. I just like

935
01:20:38.319 --> 01:20:42.039
looking at toilets, and so I went around and there

936
01:20:42.159 --> 01:20:44.640
was like toilets on each floor. I think there's four floors.

937
01:20:47.000 --> 01:20:53.840
Everything was fine, and I'm at home and I get

938
01:20:53.840 --> 01:20:57.640
a phone call. Yeah, I get a phone call. So

939
01:20:57.680 --> 01:20:59.279
I wasn't sent home so much. But I did get

940
01:20:59.319 --> 01:21:06.479
a phone call at home saying, don't you can't go

941
01:21:06.600 --> 01:21:09.399
in there anymore because you because the toilet was flooded.

942
01:21:12.880 --> 01:21:14.920
I don't. I'm not even sure if they told me why.

943
01:21:15.000 --> 01:21:17.239
They just said you can't go in anymore. You've been

944
01:21:17.439 --> 01:21:24.600
you've been suspended from the building. And yeah, I think

945
01:21:24.640 --> 01:21:26.520
it was when I got there on Mondays. This was

946
01:21:26.560 --> 01:21:31.800
a Tuesday evening, or maybe the Monday. The Wednesday morning

947
01:21:32.000 --> 01:21:35.159
they might have phone me. I was probably asleep. And

948
01:21:36.560 --> 01:21:39.640
then the following Monday they told me is because I

949
01:21:39.720 --> 01:21:43.720
had blocked the toilet apparently, and it upset one of

950
01:21:43.840 --> 01:21:49.119
the the cleanness and it had leaked and water had

951
01:21:49.159 --> 01:21:54.840
gone everywhere. I've blocked a lot of toilets in the past,

952
01:21:55.439 --> 01:22:03.479
I'll be honest with you. It's never overrun. Toilets are

953
01:22:03.520 --> 01:22:07.159
built to not overrun that you know, the water goes

954
01:22:07.239 --> 01:22:10.199
to a certain level, it doesn't go over I've never

955
01:22:10.279 --> 01:22:16.560
had a toilet overflow ever, so and I've blocked a lot.

956
01:22:17.760 --> 01:22:20.039
I have blocked a lot of toilets over the years,

957
01:22:21.640 --> 01:22:25.439
just like standard. I'm sure everyone has. It used to

958
01:22:25.520 --> 01:22:29.720
be a hobby. But on this occasion it wasn't me.

959
01:22:30.319 --> 01:22:33.199
Maybe I'm maybe I'm just getting punished for previous blockages.

960
01:22:34.720 --> 01:22:37.159
But they were making out that the water overflowed and

961
01:22:37.279 --> 01:22:44.800
completely when everywhere, Like how that doesn't even make sense.

962
01:22:46.439 --> 01:22:53.279
But anyway, I always blamed for that. And so when

963
01:22:53.279 --> 01:22:57.560
I went in there and they told me, I laughed.

964
01:23:00.960 --> 01:23:03.399
Now one of the managers, well, there was two owners

965
01:23:03.439 --> 01:23:08.239
of the business. One like me, and he was he

966
01:23:08.439 --> 01:23:14.399
was more active in the security company, so he'd he'd

967
01:23:14.479 --> 01:23:17.760
go around and he'd do a lot more like dealing

968
01:23:17.840 --> 01:23:21.000
with the security guards, and the other bloke would be

969
01:23:21.039 --> 01:23:24.319
in the office. So I think they were both equal partners,

970
01:23:24.439 --> 01:23:27.800
both ex police or something, but one of them was

971
01:23:27.960 --> 01:23:31.600
more in the background. We didn't really get to see him.

972
01:23:31.680 --> 01:23:38.000
Apart from the disciplinaries, I'd already had two previous disciplinaries,

973
01:23:39.760 --> 01:23:47.800
again both not my fault, so there and it was

974
01:23:47.880 --> 01:24:03.880
it two two disciplinaries, two disciplinaries, all three notinly discipline.

975
01:24:03.920 --> 01:24:08.359
The first discipline I had was I was accused of

976
01:24:08.520 --> 01:24:13.520
drinking at work and at that time I didn't drink.

977
01:24:14.720 --> 01:24:18.600
I just didn't drink. And apparently this is when I

978
01:24:18.720 --> 01:24:21.680
was working in the nurses home. Someone said that they

979
01:24:21.760 --> 01:24:26.279
saw me with a flask. Yeah, I had a flask.

980
01:24:26.399 --> 01:24:30.079
It had a protein drink, like a protein shake in it.

981
01:24:30.720 --> 01:24:32.399
So I'd go into the gym every day and I

982
01:24:32.560 --> 01:24:37.319
was drinking a protein drink. I was eating every two hours,

983
01:24:37.520 --> 01:24:38.800
you know, I was trying to put a little bit

984
01:24:38.800 --> 01:24:44.800
of muscle on. And she's like, someone must have thought

985
01:24:44.840 --> 01:24:49.079
I was drinking alcohol, And what's weird though, is because

986
01:24:49.600 --> 01:24:55.079
the the well, I forget what they call them now,

987
01:24:55.439 --> 01:24:58.279
but a security guard would come around and check everyone

988
01:24:59.159 --> 01:25:03.800
because I was doing shift and they'd come along, and

989
01:25:03.880 --> 01:25:06.279
I remember that there's two different ones, as a lady

990
01:25:06.319 --> 01:25:08.279
and as a bloke, and they both used to like

991
01:25:08.359 --> 01:25:11.520
sitting and chatting with me. And both of them smelled

992
01:25:11.560 --> 01:25:15.279
the flask because they career with what's in there. And

993
01:25:15.319 --> 01:25:17.399
I said, it's protein drink. That's something if you want.

994
01:25:20.039 --> 01:25:21.600
I said, I have. I have gobbed in it, but

995
01:25:21.680 --> 01:25:27.600
you can have some and I said no, but it's

996
01:25:27.640 --> 01:25:30.359
like it was a protein drink and they could smell

997
01:25:30.399 --> 01:25:34.640
there's no alcohol in it. It's just saying weird. Why

998
01:25:34.800 --> 01:25:37.000
someone I don't know if it was, I don't know

999
01:25:37.119 --> 01:25:41.079
the reason behind it. But again I laughed during that one.

1000
01:25:41.119 --> 01:25:43.840
I said, I don't drink alcohol. You asked me that

1001
01:25:43.960 --> 01:25:46.800
in the when the had gave me the interview. I

1002
01:25:46.880 --> 01:25:50.920
don't drink alcohol. I just don't. And also I don't

1003
01:25:50.920 --> 01:25:55.359
go out because I'm working every night. You know, I

1004
01:25:55.479 --> 01:25:57.640
was getting one night off a week at that point.

1005
01:25:59.560 --> 01:26:01.199
That's when I was lucky if I didn't have to

1006
01:26:01.319 --> 01:26:04.039
cover someone's shift. So I'm getting like one night off

1007
01:26:04.079 --> 01:26:07.560
a week. If I did go out, I might have

1008
01:26:07.600 --> 01:26:11.720
a drink, but generally, you know, I didn't didn't drink alcohol.

1009
01:26:11.760 --> 01:26:18.640
I definitely wouldn't drink alcoholic work. People would know, trust me,

1010
01:26:18.760 --> 01:26:21.960
if I was drinking our call at work, everybody would

1011
01:26:22.119 --> 01:26:26.920
know it. I'm not. Yeah, I can't hide it when

1012
01:26:26.920 --> 01:26:29.920
I'm drinking. If I'm drunk, the whole world's going to

1013
01:26:29.960 --> 01:26:34.680
know about it. So I laughed that off, and they

1014
01:26:34.840 --> 01:26:39.439
kind of just said, oh, fair enough, because that's you know,

1015
01:26:39.520 --> 01:26:41.520
the one that was very active with us all. He'd

1016
01:26:41.600 --> 01:26:45.199
see me enough and he believed me, so that was cool.

1017
01:26:45.279 --> 01:26:54.279
So I got. I went back and and then I

1018
01:26:54.399 --> 01:27:01.520
got I got accused of something else there as well.

1019
01:27:02.840 --> 01:27:13.159
I can't remember what it was or did I just leave,

1020
01:27:13.479 --> 01:27:16.640
did I did they move me? They moved me from there.

1021
01:27:17.439 --> 01:27:20.039
I'm sure there was another reason I got. I got

1022
01:27:23.760 --> 01:27:26.520
a disciplinary, so I got. There's two that I remember.

1023
01:27:26.600 --> 01:27:29.720
One was because of the when I blocked the toilet,

1024
01:27:30.239 --> 01:27:32.399
now when I was accused of blocking the toilet, sorry,

1025
01:27:32.920 --> 01:27:34.920
any other one was when I was drinking, I mean,

1026
01:27:35.119 --> 01:27:38.920
when I was accused of drinking. Sure there was another one.

1027
01:27:39.039 --> 01:27:43.199
There was a third in the middle or second but

1028
01:27:43.359 --> 01:27:51.199
before the third it was, well, anyway, I got sacked,

1029
01:27:52.119 --> 01:27:55.520
so that one with a toilet. They sacked me because

1030
01:27:55.560 --> 01:27:58.720
I was laughing in the interview in the disciplinary I said,

1031
01:27:58.760 --> 01:28:02.640
this is pathetic, this is really really ridiculous. I said,

1032
01:28:02.680 --> 01:28:06.079
after all the dodgy things I've done while I've worked

1033
01:28:06.159 --> 01:28:09.800
for you that you don't know about, and this one thing,

1034
01:28:10.159 --> 01:28:12.640
which the all things I have done, and the one

1035
01:28:12.720 --> 01:28:16.840
thing I didn't do, I'm getting blamed for. And they said, well,

1036
01:28:16.840 --> 01:28:18.399
we just need to have a little chat together, and

1037
01:28:18.479 --> 01:28:22.319
they went out and they came back and said, yeah,

1038
01:28:22.600 --> 01:28:30.479
I see you later, and they sacked me. What was

1039
01:28:30.560 --> 01:28:33.279
the other thing I did or not did, but that

1040
01:28:33.640 --> 01:28:43.239
I got accused of? Wasn't it stealing? But anyway, I

1041
01:28:43.439 --> 01:28:46.560
was doing this. I remembered that when I was started

1042
01:28:46.600 --> 01:28:48.279
talking about this, and then it kind of went out

1043
01:28:48.279 --> 01:28:54.399
of me head. I'm sure I had three disciplinaries. I'm

1044
01:28:54.479 --> 01:28:57.880
so proud of it. And I I was disciplined three times.

1045
01:28:58.000 --> 01:29:05.239
I got suspended three times. I got suspended at least twice.

1046
01:29:07.159 --> 01:29:09.359
Sure there was a third one. What would that be about?

1047
01:29:11.159 --> 01:29:16.800
Did I get accused of something else? Because I definitely

1048
01:29:16.880 --> 01:29:22.479
got moved from the nurses home for a reason. I

1049
01:29:22.520 --> 01:29:32.800
can't remember what that reason was, how strange. So I

1050
01:29:32.960 --> 01:29:37.840
ended up working in the printer's Dennis Dennis Printers or

1051
01:29:37.920 --> 01:29:49.039
something that was called and or Dennis Publishing Publishers. Yeah,

1052
01:29:49.680 --> 01:29:52.720
so I worked there. So I got sacked. I got

1053
01:29:52.840 --> 01:29:58.239
suspended and sacked, went and worked at this sales job

1054
01:29:58.720 --> 01:30:04.840
trying to sell till roll. And then after two weeks

1055
01:30:04.880 --> 01:30:08.439
of that, I found up the security company and said, oh, please,

1056
01:30:08.479 --> 01:30:17.159
can I come back? Sorry, sorry for laughing, And they said, yeah,

1057
01:30:17.399 --> 01:30:19.720
come back, because that's what was looking for people, I said.

1058
01:30:20.039 --> 01:30:23.159
They said, we've got a new site for you, and

1059
01:30:23.760 --> 01:30:27.600
they started putting me on the grottiest sites ever. Honestly,

1060
01:30:28.239 --> 01:30:30.359
they moved me around a lot, put me on some

1061
01:30:30.720 --> 01:30:40.880
really really bad sites, and oh did I get suspended

1062
01:30:40.920 --> 01:30:43.760
off one of those for drinking. I wasn't drinking though,

1063
01:30:43.840 --> 01:30:51.000
but I was with another another guard who was drinking

1064
01:30:51.800 --> 01:30:55.039
and he got through about I don't know, eight cans

1065
01:30:55.079 --> 01:30:58.840
of Lago during the night, but instead of instead of

1066
01:30:58.960 --> 01:31:02.600
putting them like hiding the cans, he just put him

1067
01:31:02.640 --> 01:31:07.920
in the waste waste paper basket in the office. And

1068
01:31:08.079 --> 01:31:16.479
the manager, who was a fiery fella, got very angry,

1069
01:31:18.840 --> 01:31:22.319
but as I said, wasn't me. And they knew the

1070
01:31:22.399 --> 01:31:24.199
other bloke and they knew what he was around, and

1071
01:31:24.279 --> 01:31:31.439
I think they suspended him and told the man, the

1072
01:31:31.600 --> 01:31:34.600
manager of that place, that they had sacked him, but

1073
01:31:34.680 --> 01:31:38.239
they didn't. They just moved himTo a different site. And

1074
01:31:38.359 --> 01:31:45.960
then one day and this was a former psychiatric hospital.

1075
01:31:48.239 --> 01:31:50.439
It was according asylum back then, but it was one

1076
01:31:50.479 --> 01:31:54.439
of them places, one of the biggest hospitals in Europe,

1077
01:31:55.319 --> 01:31:57.399
one of the longest hospitals in Europe, and it was

1078
01:31:57.439 --> 01:32:01.199
in North London, massive bit of waste ground, well that's

1079
01:32:01.239 --> 01:32:03.720
a bit of ground, and there was houses where some

1080
01:32:03.840 --> 01:32:06.079
of the patients used to live, where some of the

1081
01:32:06.199 --> 01:32:09.359
doctors and nurses used to live. And my job was

1082
01:32:09.520 --> 01:32:13.560
just to parole this whole patrol, rather not parole patrol

1083
01:32:13.640 --> 01:32:19.960
this whole area. And I could not stand being in

1084
01:32:20.000 --> 01:32:23.439
the same room as this bloke who was in charge,

1085
01:32:23.439 --> 01:32:26.760
because all he did was moan. But he was a shelter,

1086
01:32:30.079 --> 01:32:34.199
just like yeah, yeah, just about everything. So in the

1087
01:32:34.359 --> 01:32:39.840
end I just decided to do the patrol, but just

1088
01:32:39.960 --> 01:32:43.760
not go back to the office. I had my radio

1089
01:32:43.840 --> 01:32:46.800
on me and I phoned in every time to let

1090
01:32:46.880 --> 01:32:48.359
him know where I was because you have to phone

1091
01:32:48.399 --> 01:32:51.279
in every hour or you know, patrol every to let

1092
01:32:51.359 --> 01:32:53.279
him know where I was and stuff. So I was

1093
01:32:53.359 --> 01:32:55.439
doing everything on my side that I was supposed to do.

1094
01:32:56.359 --> 01:33:01.520
But this manager, you know, when I turned up perhaps

1095
01:33:01.600 --> 01:33:05.159
six hours later, he accused me of leaving the site.

1096
01:33:07.199 --> 01:33:10.640
He said, you've gone home. You went ihme and came back. Well,

1097
01:33:10.720 --> 01:33:12.199
first of all, I didn't go home because it take

1098
01:33:12.239 --> 01:33:14.720
me two hours to get there. So no, I didn't

1099
01:33:14.720 --> 01:33:17.680
go home and come back. What's the point or go home,

1100
01:33:18.239 --> 01:33:20.600
sit down for five minutes then come back, you know. No,

1101
01:33:22.079 --> 01:33:23.840
he said, I don't know where you live. I said,

1102
01:33:24.640 --> 01:33:28.680
I told you I live in. Where did I live?

1103
01:33:29.760 --> 01:33:36.119
Upton Park at the time. Yeah. Up see, I got

1104
01:33:36.199 --> 01:33:41.000
sacked from there because apparently if what I went off

1105
01:33:41.079 --> 01:33:44.079
site and I didn't, I stayed. I just I did

1106
01:33:44.159 --> 01:33:48.760
my patrol over and over again, and I phoned in,

1107
01:33:48.960 --> 01:33:51.199
you know, I called in my walkie talkie and I've

1108
01:33:51.920 --> 01:33:54.319
called in every hour. I did everything by the book.

1109
01:33:54.439 --> 01:33:59.760
But he decided that I hadn't, so he sacked me,

1110
01:34:00.920 --> 01:34:03.920
or he reported me, and they told him that they'd

1111
01:34:04.000 --> 01:34:06.439
sacked me, and they just moved me to a different site.

1112
01:34:08.800 --> 01:34:14.520
And then I ended up on the Royal Opera House,

1113
01:34:14.760 --> 01:34:17.560
the new rural opera House that was being built back

1114
01:34:17.600 --> 01:34:23.359
in nineteen ninety seven. So I was there. I was

1115
01:34:23.399 --> 01:34:31.399
a security there and I'd be backing in lorries and

1116
01:34:31.520 --> 01:34:35.640
stopping traffic and stuff like that because they had non

1117
01:34:35.760 --> 01:34:40.840
stop concrete lorries coming and going, and I'd be stopping

1118
01:34:40.920 --> 01:34:47.079
people and opening barriers for cars that had businesses in

1119
01:34:47.279 --> 01:34:52.279
that little area. Yeah it was I didn't mind. It was.

1120
01:34:52.600 --> 01:34:59.640
It wasn't a bad little job, and yeah it was

1121
01:34:59.680 --> 01:35:02.079
all right. Actually got on quite well with the builders

1122
01:35:02.159 --> 01:35:08.399
and the people involved. There was a couple of annoying people,

1123
01:35:08.439 --> 01:35:11.800
but there was is no I was one of them.

1124
01:35:13.600 --> 01:35:18.399
And then I got sacked from that job for some reason.

1125
01:35:18.439 --> 01:35:24.199
I can't remember why that was. Oh, I just remembered

1126
01:35:24.199 --> 01:35:31.199
why I got disciplined. It was a Canary wharf. Canary Wharf.

1127
01:35:32.159 --> 01:35:42.119
I got disciplined of falling asleep. Right, So I didn't

1128
01:35:42.159 --> 01:35:44.520
fall asleep. Well I did fall asleep, Okay, this is true.

1129
01:35:44.560 --> 01:35:47.920
I did fall asleep. So when I was at Canary

1130
01:35:48.000 --> 01:35:58.359
Wharf ninety six, probably April April time ish, and my

1131
01:35:58.640 --> 01:36:02.079
job was to who just basically checked people as they

1132
01:36:02.119 --> 01:36:07.119
were coming in to the floors that I was protecting.

1133
01:36:07.439 --> 01:36:11.000
So I protected, I was secured, and so there is

1134
01:36:11.359 --> 01:36:18.399
probably about twelve of us, maybe a little bit more

1135
01:36:18.920 --> 01:36:23.560
that would and we had to think four floors, two

1136
01:36:23.840 --> 01:36:26.039
or four or five floors that it was part of

1137
01:36:26.119 --> 01:36:31.239
the Mirror group newspaper group, so I had to race

1138
01:36:31.319 --> 01:36:36.359
in Times and Sunday Mirror, Daily Mirror, and possibly some

1139
01:36:36.479 --> 01:36:40.600
other stuff. So we were kind of securing that. So

1140
01:36:40.680 --> 01:36:46.079
there'd be two of us, sometimes just one on the

1141
01:36:46.479 --> 01:36:50.079
main doors. So I have to check people's passes, have

1142
01:36:50.239 --> 01:36:54.239
to check their purses, their handbags, their bags. Because this

1143
01:36:54.439 --> 01:37:00.199
was directly after a very serious incident had happened. Why

1144
01:37:00.199 --> 01:37:02.800
I got the job because I were taking on new

1145
01:37:02.880 --> 01:37:06.199
staff because originally I applied for the job and he

1146
01:37:06.399 --> 01:37:10.319
laughed at me, said no, no, you're right, we don't

1147
01:37:10.399 --> 01:37:14.479
need thanks. We're not that desperate. And then they called

1148
01:37:14.560 --> 01:37:17.399
up a week later after this major event happened and

1149
01:37:17.479 --> 01:37:22.199
they said, yeah, we are. We're quite desperate. Now we are. Yeah,

1150
01:37:22.239 --> 01:37:26.039
we're desperate enough to employ you. I said, oh, that's nice,

1151
01:37:27.239 --> 01:37:30.239
and so I got that job. Now I got on

1152
01:37:30.359 --> 01:37:33.960
really well with one of the owners, the one that

1153
01:37:34.119 --> 01:37:37.640
was around a lot and I think that's why I

1154
01:37:37.720 --> 01:37:40.119
got away with so much stuff, because I made him

1155
01:37:40.199 --> 01:37:43.560
laugh and we had a laugh. And even though I

1156
01:37:43.680 --> 01:37:45.800
ended up getting sacked, he's still I don't think he

1157
01:37:45.920 --> 01:37:47.880
wanted to sack me, and he's the one that gave

1158
01:37:47.920 --> 01:37:53.119
me a job back. He came up to me one

1159
01:37:53.239 --> 01:37:58.319
night after I'd done twelve hours. It was time for

1160
01:37:58.399 --> 01:38:03.119
me to go home, and he said, here, yea, yeah,

1161
01:38:03.239 --> 01:38:06.560
do some fear of a warncher. I said, not again.

1162
01:38:06.640 --> 01:38:09.119
I told you I've got a girlfriend. He said, no, no,

1163
01:38:09.319 --> 01:38:12.239
not that, and he said can you He wanted me

1164
01:38:12.359 --> 01:38:16.239
to stay for another twelve hours. See if you get

1165
01:38:16.319 --> 01:38:18.720
any normal job and they say can you do some overtime,

1166
01:38:19.479 --> 01:38:21.840
it's usually like an hour or so, maybe two hours.

1167
01:38:22.960 --> 01:38:28.640
This job in security is another twelve hours please. I said,

1168
01:38:28.680 --> 01:38:32.399
that's twenty four hours. He said I can count. I said,

1169
01:38:32.399 --> 01:38:35.319
I know, but I can't do twelve hours. I can't

1170
01:38:35.359 --> 01:38:41.560
do another twelve hours. I started at six this morning

1171
01:38:44.279 --> 01:38:47.520
or was it seven eight? I might've been eight in

1172
01:38:47.560 --> 01:38:50.479
the morning. But I've been up since. You know, I've

1173
01:38:50.479 --> 01:38:52.960
been up two hours before I started my job, so

1174
01:38:53.159 --> 01:38:56.560
to getting up and then traveling, so I've been up

1175
01:38:56.600 --> 01:39:01.000
for a long time, and he said, oh, go on please.

1176
01:39:01.720 --> 01:39:08.520
So my job was to go downstairs and look after

1177
01:39:09.359 --> 01:39:16.399
the main This was the big boss's office area, the

1178
01:39:16.600 --> 01:39:20.520
big boss of the Mirror Group, who at the time

1179
01:39:20.680 --> 01:39:24.119
was Kelvin McKenzie. He was also editor of The Son

1180
01:39:24.199 --> 01:39:27.800
as well. Before that, I think I saw him a

1181
01:39:27.800 --> 01:39:31.680
few times, very very booming voice, not hugely tall, but

1182
01:39:31.840 --> 01:39:38.119
very booming voice, big bloke. And I was the reception

1183
01:39:38.560 --> 01:39:41.920
and his office was further up, so anyone that came

1184
01:39:42.000 --> 01:39:47.199
to visit him had to come to where I was. Now,

1185
01:39:47.640 --> 01:39:50.359
no one was going to ask for him because he

1186
01:39:50.560 --> 01:39:54.000
was gone. There was no one in his office at

1187
01:39:54.039 --> 01:39:56.640
that time. There was also another office where someone did

1188
01:39:56.720 --> 01:39:59.800
come for the and then I left, probably his assistant

1189
01:40:00.079 --> 01:40:05.600
something so or maybe he did come for a little while.

1190
01:40:05.640 --> 01:40:10.479
But after eight o'clock nine o'clock there was nothing, no activity.

1191
01:40:11.079 --> 01:40:15.800
So I was there on my own, nothing to do

1192
01:40:17.279 --> 01:40:22.880
at all. So I said to my boss before accepting

1193
01:40:22.960 --> 01:40:25.520
to do it well first time, I said no, I

1194
01:40:25.600 --> 01:40:29.800
said go on please. I said no. I said no,

1195
01:40:30.039 --> 01:40:32.680
I can't do another twelve hours. He said, I'll be

1196
01:40:32.760 --> 01:40:39.399
a best friend. And I was going to say no,

1197
01:40:39.479 --> 01:40:41.920
but then he started tickling me and I just it's

1198
01:40:41.960 --> 01:40:45.359
hard to resist, isn't it. And I said, okay, but

1199
01:40:45.680 --> 01:40:47.479
I just got to warn you I will fall asleep.

1200
01:40:47.560 --> 01:40:51.560
And he said, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, just whatever.

1201
01:40:52.439 --> 01:40:54.760
I just need this to be covered. It's so important

1202
01:40:54.800 --> 01:40:57.479
because of that area being no one's going to be

1203
01:40:57.560 --> 01:41:00.840
down there, no one, you know, the big he's gone,

1204
01:41:01.239 --> 01:41:03.640
he's gone, he won't be back till tomorrow morning. You'll

1205
01:41:03.680 --> 01:41:10.319
be gone before he gets in. And even said, I'll

1206
01:41:10.359 --> 01:41:12.479
try and get the other security guards coming a little

1207
01:41:12.479 --> 01:41:14.720
bit early so you can get off a little bit earlier.

1208
01:41:16.359 --> 01:41:22.439
And I said, okay, then and I sat down. It

1209
01:41:22.560 --> 01:41:25.760
was a nice little gig. Actually it was comfortable, no

1210
01:41:25.840 --> 01:41:32.880
one else around, really comfortable. Like it's like, that's probably

1211
01:41:32.920 --> 01:41:37.479
the nicest little area in those all of those floors.

1212
01:41:39.359 --> 01:41:41.119
Because there was a bosses area, I guess. So he

1213
01:41:41.199 --> 01:41:45.359
had a nice, really big, spacious and there was a

1214
01:41:45.399 --> 01:41:49.640
book there called there was like a crime book that

1215
01:41:49.680 --> 01:41:53.319
I started to read and I read a lot of it.

1216
01:41:56.399 --> 01:42:01.359
So I'm reading this book and then and as I'm reading,

1217
01:42:01.479 --> 01:42:07.159
I hear this voice saying Jason, Jason, Like I look

1218
01:42:07.279 --> 01:42:15.920
up and it's my boss, like the security boss. He

1219
01:42:16.000 --> 01:42:19.840
said you're asleep. So no, I wasn't. I was reading

1220
01:42:19.880 --> 01:42:25.399
a book. He said, you're literally in a hammock with

1221
01:42:25.520 --> 01:42:28.640
your pajamas on. What would we And I said, I

1222
01:42:28.760 --> 01:42:31.439
told you that I would fall asleep. I didn't realize

1223
01:42:31.479 --> 01:42:36.119
I've fallen asleep. But I said, look, I've done twelve hours,

1224
01:42:36.760 --> 01:42:41.039
doing twenty four hours without falling asleep. Is it's a

1225
01:42:41.159 --> 01:42:46.680
ridiculous ask? And he said I've got to go home.

1226
01:42:48.680 --> 01:42:52.119
I said really. He said, yeah, I'll take over and

1227
01:42:52.159 --> 01:42:57.520
I'll sit here. You've got to leave. You're suspended. And

1228
01:42:57.640 --> 01:42:59.880
I said to him, I think I might have called

1229
01:42:59.880 --> 01:43:03.600
it the name. I said, you are whatever. I told

1230
01:43:03.640 --> 01:43:05.520
you I'd fall asleep and you said it didn't matter.

1231
01:43:05.880 --> 01:43:09.359
He said, you're on camera, You've been filmed, You've been

1232
01:43:09.479 --> 01:43:16.159
seen falling asleep. How do you think we knew? Literally

1233
01:43:16.279 --> 01:43:19.399
said to you that I can't do another twelve hours

1234
01:43:19.399 --> 01:43:23.600
about falling asleep. And he said, I know, but you

1235
01:43:23.680 --> 01:43:30.239
know you're suspended. So I went away. A couple of

1236
01:43:30.319 --> 01:43:32.319
days later, I went into the office in the London

1237
01:43:32.399 --> 01:43:37.119
Offices to go to my disciplinary. So this would be

1238
01:43:37.239 --> 01:43:46.880
my second disciplinary out of three, and I had everything

1239
01:43:46.960 --> 01:43:50.159
in my arsenal for that one, the first one. I

1240
01:43:50.239 --> 01:43:53.079
don't drink. They could take it or leave it, whether

1241
01:43:53.159 --> 01:43:56.000
I was being honest, and it was true, I didn't drink,

1242
01:43:56.000 --> 01:43:59.560
and there's no way I would take alcohol to work

1243
01:43:59.640 --> 01:44:03.000
with me, especially when I was at a reception and

1244
01:44:03.119 --> 01:44:05.520
it was all glasses and loads of people coming and

1245
01:44:05.680 --> 01:44:10.640
go in. They could you know. It just seemed just

1246
01:44:10.920 --> 01:44:13.079
wasn't what I was going to do. And I really

1247
01:44:13.199 --> 01:44:16.640
wasn't a drinker at all. I'd go out and if

1248
01:44:16.680 --> 01:44:18.399
I did have a drink when I went out, it'd

1249
01:44:18.439 --> 01:44:22.239
be like one bottle of lager would last me the

1250
01:44:22.279 --> 01:44:25.359
whole night. I'd more than likely just have a glass

1251
01:44:25.399 --> 01:44:27.800
of coke or a couple of glasses of coke. Just

1252
01:44:27.920 --> 01:44:33.479
wasn't my thing. Back then. The year before Wow, I

1253
01:44:33.600 --> 01:44:35.960
was putting it away. But that year I just took

1254
01:44:36.000 --> 01:44:40.760
a break. And so the first one, it was like,

1255
01:44:41.000 --> 01:44:44.159
could have gone either way, believe me or don't believe me.

1256
01:44:44.920 --> 01:44:47.359
And because they both one of them liked me, the

1257
01:44:47.479 --> 01:44:50.319
other one gave me the benefit of the doubt. So

1258
01:44:50.479 --> 01:44:53.640
they they moved me to a different place. No did

1259
01:44:53.680 --> 01:44:55.880
they move me. I think they kept me there, and

1260
01:44:55.960 --> 01:44:59.279
then I got moved again for some other someone accused

1261
01:44:59.279 --> 01:45:02.760
me of something, so I don't know. I can't remember

1262
01:45:02.800 --> 01:45:10.079
what that was. And the second, the second disciplinary, unlike

1263
01:45:10.119 --> 01:45:12.840
the third one. Third one, I was laughing and I

1264
01:45:12.920 --> 01:45:15.960
got sacked. But the second one I went in there

1265
01:45:16.640 --> 01:45:20.880
and I was not not because I knew the reason

1266
01:45:20.920 --> 01:45:27.000
I was in there for the first and the first

1267
01:45:27.000 --> 01:45:28.720
and third time, I don't think I knew until I

1268
01:45:28.800 --> 01:45:33.560
got into the disciplinary why I had been suspended. But

1269
01:45:33.680 --> 01:45:35.640
the second time I knew because it had already told

1270
01:45:35.720 --> 01:45:38.600
me he needed to go home because we found you asleep.

1271
01:45:39.239 --> 01:45:43.520
So I turned up there, I was, I was proper,

1272
01:45:43.720 --> 01:45:47.520
like I think. First time, I said, is you're out

1273
01:45:47.520 --> 01:45:52.920
of order? To the bloke that was supposed to be

1274
01:45:53.039 --> 01:45:55.079
my mate, what my friend? Kind of? He was a boss,

1275
01:45:55.159 --> 01:45:57.520
but I said, you're out of order? You know you are?

1276
01:45:59.119 --> 01:46:02.439
And the other managed The other boss said what's going on?

1277
01:46:03.840 --> 01:46:09.079
And the one that I knew started to talk and

1278
01:46:10.279 --> 01:46:11.960
his partner said, no, wait, manut, I want to hear

1279
01:46:11.960 --> 01:46:16.920
it from Jason, mister Newland. So I told him. I said,

1280
01:46:17.000 --> 01:46:20.960
he asked me to stay twelve hours after I just

1281
01:46:21.000 --> 01:46:22.920
done a twelve hour shift, so you wanted me to

1282
01:46:22.960 --> 01:46:26.319
do a twenty four hour shift? I told him point blank,

1283
01:46:26.439 --> 01:46:30.880
I would fall asleep, because what else do you do

1284
01:46:31.800 --> 01:46:35.439
staying away for twenty four hours? I said I'd fall asleep,

1285
01:46:35.720 --> 01:46:38.359
and he said it's okay, it doesn't matter fell asleep.

1286
01:46:38.880 --> 01:46:43.359
He sent me home suspended and without pay, and ended

1287
01:46:43.439 --> 01:46:48.159
up with disciplinary. He said, is that true? And they

1288
01:46:48.199 --> 01:46:53.800
went out and they came back and apologized to me, apologized,

1289
01:46:55.600 --> 01:47:00.439
and I went back to Canary one off and I

1290
01:47:00.479 --> 01:47:05.880
went back and continued working there until they Now that

1291
01:47:06.039 --> 01:47:10.319
was my first disciplinary. The second one was the alcohol one.

1292
01:47:11.359 --> 01:47:14.800
So that was the first disciplinary. So I'm sure there

1293
01:47:14.880 --> 01:47:19.720
was another one as well. I can't remember what it was.

1294
01:47:21.039 --> 01:47:25.720
I think, I'm not sure. It's when the I think

1295
01:47:25.720 --> 01:47:28.199
it was at the weekend and a couple of vans

1296
01:47:28.239 --> 01:47:30.880
pulled up and they said they were just kid to

1297
01:47:30.920 --> 01:47:33.000
collect for stuff, and they took a load of computers

1298
01:47:33.039 --> 01:47:37.319
out and apparently they weren't supposed to do that. Yeah,

1299
01:47:37.359 --> 01:47:42.720
I think I got disciplined for that as well. I

1300
01:47:42.880 --> 01:47:46.760
wasn't to know, was I. Oh, but we've been We've

1301
01:47:46.760 --> 01:47:51.359
had millions of pounds robbed worth of computers. Like, say,

1302
01:47:51.359 --> 01:47:53.439
you should have told me, should have told me that

1303
01:47:53.520 --> 01:47:56.720
you weren't having any vans come. What do you mean

1304
01:47:56.880 --> 01:47:58.840
tell you that we're not having any vans come in

1305
01:47:58.920 --> 01:48:02.479
to collect the computers. What if you'd done that when

1306
01:48:02.479 --> 01:48:04.960
they knocked on a window saying we come to collect

1307
01:48:04.960 --> 01:48:07.800
the computers, then I'd know that they weren't and they

1308
01:48:07.840 --> 01:48:13.720
were robbers. I'm thinking that maybe they made the excuse

1309
01:48:13.800 --> 01:48:15.600
of the toilets up just to get rid of me.

1310
01:48:18.720 --> 01:48:31.800
Maybe hmm. The proms. So I've talked about the proms.

1311
01:48:32.039 --> 01:48:35.319
Cheese rolling? Did you know that cheese rolling down Cooper's

1312
01:48:35.399 --> 01:48:43.119
Hill in Gloucus, Dyeshire is a traditional summer event. Now

1313
01:48:44.800 --> 01:48:48.600
it is cheese rolling. I think the person rolls with

1314
01:48:48.760 --> 01:48:53.039
the cheese and these are not little bits of cheese,

1315
01:48:53.119 --> 01:48:57.560
is a massive, massive bits of cheese. It's very dangerous

1316
01:48:57.920 --> 01:49:04.199
and people get injured doing it. Is It's not as

1317
01:49:04.279 --> 01:49:11.279
fun as you'd imagine, unless, of course, it is coastal

1318
01:49:11.439 --> 01:49:16.479
and seaside culture. The Victorian era saw the boom of

1319
01:49:16.640 --> 01:49:23.640
British seaside holidays. What is a Victorian era is that

1320
01:49:23.720 --> 01:49:28.239
when my nan and grandad went on holiday, because it'd

1321
01:49:28.279 --> 01:49:35.600
have like handkerchiefs on their heads and stuff. Yeah, I

1322
01:49:35.680 --> 01:49:39.079
mean back then there wasn't such a thing. As going

1323
01:49:39.119 --> 01:49:45.880
abroad on holiday, you know, Spain and France and stuff

1324
01:49:45.960 --> 01:49:50.600
like that. Wasn't it wasn't a flight a short flight

1325
01:49:50.680 --> 01:49:53.760
away like it is now what has been for a

1326
01:49:53.880 --> 01:49:59.479
long time. So people from London, like my nan, she

1327
01:49:59.640 --> 01:50:03.439
used to go to places like Brighton or South End

1328
01:50:05.319 --> 01:50:08.640
on holiday. Now both of those places are not far

1329
01:50:08.720 --> 01:50:13.720
from London, both in or ones in Essex. Brighton is

1330
01:50:13.840 --> 01:50:18.760
in I don't know where it is is at Hertfordshire Brighton,

1331
01:50:19.600 --> 01:50:23.159
but both places are not a long way away from

1332
01:50:23.680 --> 01:50:31.000
London really, And they said they would go to places

1333
01:50:31.079 --> 01:50:35.159
like that, maybe Harriage even I'm not sure, and that

1334
01:50:35.199 --> 01:50:43.359
would be a nice summer holiday. And apparently I'm partly

1335
01:50:43.439 --> 01:50:49.560
making this up based on a very vague memory. Sometimes

1336
01:50:50.239 --> 01:50:55.960
I think they would stay in board in houses, and

1337
01:50:56.720 --> 01:51:01.800
they may even share rooms with complete strangers, and there

1338
01:51:01.800 --> 01:51:06.520
would be a landlady, as this was kind of the cliche,

1339
01:51:07.159 --> 01:51:12.720
a very very mean landlady, and the landlady would make

1340
01:51:14.319 --> 01:51:19.279
food and give them dinner and everything, but they would

1341
01:51:19.359 --> 01:51:22.039
have to be in by a certain time in the

1342
01:51:22.239 --> 01:51:28.680
evening or the door would be locked. That's the cliche

1343
01:51:28.880 --> 01:51:33.079
of that, but I think some of it's true. Potentially

1344
01:51:35.000 --> 01:51:41.920
doesn't sound like particularly nice holiday, does it really. Brighton

1345
01:51:42.079 --> 01:51:46.800
Pier opened in eighteen ninety nine and became a summer

1346
01:51:46.920 --> 01:51:52.319
hot spot. Yeah, Brighton's changed over the years, but it

1347
01:51:52.399 --> 01:52:02.640
was always a very popular holiday destination. And it's last

1348
01:52:02.680 --> 01:52:09.399
time I went to Brighton. It ended up with a

1349
01:52:09.520 --> 01:52:16.439
sore bum because, yeah, I fell over and I kind

1350
01:52:16.479 --> 01:52:19.000
of banged. I fell over on my bomb and I

1351
01:52:19.119 --> 01:52:22.680
just banged myself and it's like, oh and I remember.

1352
01:52:22.960 --> 01:52:26.239
It's just it was weird because I come home. Normally,

1353
01:52:26.680 --> 01:52:29.640
you hurt yourself, you expect a little I don't expect

1354
01:52:29.680 --> 01:52:32.840
people to say, oh no, start crying. You fell over

1355
01:52:32.880 --> 01:52:36.239
and banged your bumb ah. I didn't expect that, but

1356
01:52:36.399 --> 01:52:41.199
a little bit of caring, a little bit of maybe

1357
01:52:41.600 --> 01:52:46.600
interest or sympathy. But people come back to work, how

1358
01:52:46.720 --> 01:52:50.760
is your How was your holiday for your weekend in Brighton?

1359
01:52:50.880 --> 01:52:57.199
And I said, oh, I got sore bumb And people

1360
01:52:57.359 --> 01:53:05.399
found that hilarious. I mean someone actually who I hadn't

1361
01:53:05.439 --> 01:53:09.399
even told that I'd hurt my I had my accident.

1362
01:53:10.039 --> 01:53:11.840
You know, the first person I'm getting to work with,

1363
01:53:12.880 --> 01:53:14.960
and no one else had been in work. He was

1364
01:53:15.000 --> 01:53:17.279
the first person there. And I got there next this

1365
01:53:17.520 --> 01:53:20.319
on the Monday morning, and he said, how is your

1366
01:53:20.720 --> 01:53:24.960
how is your your weekend in Brighton? Have you got

1367
01:53:25.000 --> 01:53:28.960
a saw bum? And I said, yeah, how do you know?

1368
01:53:30.560 --> 01:53:35.760
And he laughed and walked off, and I'm like, that's weird.

1369
01:53:38.600 --> 01:53:42.560
And then I told everyone and they laughed that I'd

1370
01:53:42.680 --> 01:53:46.439
fallen over, like you fall on your cocksix. It's not

1371
01:53:46.600 --> 01:53:50.039
a nice experience. The first time it ever happened when

1372
01:53:50.079 --> 01:53:52.600
I was in the chip shop, I got saw bumb

1373
01:53:52.640 --> 01:54:00.359
in there and the I was carrying a bag of potatoes,

1374
01:54:00.680 --> 01:54:05.920
which I would argue is probably heavier than me, maybe

1375
01:54:06.079 --> 01:54:10.520
not fifty fifty kilos. Possibly, I don't know if it'd

1376
01:54:10.520 --> 01:54:18.760
be fifty kilos, it was heavy. Fifty kilos would have

1377
01:54:18.880 --> 01:54:23.760
been how much I weighed at the time, so maybe

1378
01:54:23.880 --> 01:54:28.479
it was. Maybe it was forty kilos, maybe thirty kilos,

1379
01:54:30.039 --> 01:54:32.600
but it was heavy, that's all I know. And I

1380
01:54:32.760 --> 01:54:38.520
slipped over in the kitchen and the bag of spuds, unopened,

1381
01:54:39.039 --> 01:54:45.399
landed on top of me, and yeah, I was struggling

1382
01:54:45.479 --> 01:54:48.880
to walk. I mean, really, I should have gone to

1383
01:54:49.000 --> 01:54:52.079
the hospital. They got examined, because it would have been

1384
01:54:52.880 --> 01:54:55.439
It took quite a few weeks for that to heal.

1385
01:54:58.199 --> 01:55:01.159
But back then I didn't didn't have time to take

1386
01:55:01.239 --> 01:55:09.439
off and just got on with it. Really, but yeah,

1387
01:55:09.439 --> 01:55:11.600
the last time went to Brion. Yes, it's been quite

1388
01:55:11.640 --> 01:55:18.920
a while. Fish and chips became a seaside favorite in

1389
01:55:19.000 --> 01:55:25.479
the early twentieth century. Really, I thought fish and chips, yeah,

1390
01:55:25.640 --> 01:55:28.399
seaside favorite. But fish and chips is quite a traditional

1391
01:55:29.039 --> 01:55:33.880
Friday meal Religiously, I do believe or at least fishes

1392
01:55:34.720 --> 01:55:41.359
on a Friday, because I think it's the Jesus powerable,

1393
01:55:41.479 --> 01:55:45.640
isn't it. I think that's when he he turned up.

1394
01:55:45.720 --> 01:55:49.039
It was a Friday, wasn't it. And he turned up,

1395
01:55:50.680 --> 01:55:55.760
and the chip van turned up, and there's loads of chips,

1396
01:55:56.640 --> 01:55:59.640
and he said, okay, now I've talked to you for

1397
01:55:59.680 --> 01:56:02.520
a little bit. We're all here. Let's go and let's

1398
01:56:02.600 --> 01:56:05.239
get some chips out. Let's some fish and chips. And

1399
01:56:05.680 --> 01:56:09.159
the fish fan said oops, and he said, what is it?

1400
01:56:09.800 --> 01:56:13.640
He said, Jesus, sorry about this? He said, okay, what

1401
01:56:14.600 --> 01:56:17.520
so I'm a bit embarrassed. We've got loads of chips,

1402
01:56:18.560 --> 01:56:23.600
but we forgot the fish. And then someone showered from

1403
01:56:23.640 --> 01:56:25.520
the back and wait a minute, we've got one fish.

1404
01:56:27.560 --> 01:56:29.920
He said, he got one fish all those chips but

1405
01:56:30.159 --> 01:56:34.199
one fish, and Jesus said, I'll just hand it here,

1406
01:56:34.479 --> 01:56:38.680
and you know the rest is history. But that was

1407
01:56:38.720 --> 01:56:41.720
on a Friday, because Fridays when fish and chips was

1408
01:56:41.760 --> 01:56:47.760
a thing back in Jerusalem that the bathing machine was

1409
01:56:47.840 --> 01:56:53.640
a common sight on the nineteenth century beaches. I feel

1410
01:56:53.680 --> 01:56:57.159
we need more information about that, don't you. The bathing

1411
01:56:57.720 --> 01:57:06.359
machine a machine that bathes you. That sounds very pleasant.

1412
01:57:08.720 --> 01:57:19.399
It sounds almost oh, the bathing machine, unless it's kind

1413
01:57:19.399 --> 01:57:21.960
of like a thing with just a shower that just

1414
01:57:22.119 --> 01:57:25.920
showers you from different angles. But even that sounds nice,

1415
01:57:25.960 --> 01:57:34.039
doesn't it if it's at a decent temperature. I've got

1416
01:57:34.119 --> 01:57:36.199
to look this up. I'm sorry, this is one of

1417
01:57:36.239 --> 01:57:41.399
those moments where I can't not look it up. Bathing

1418
01:57:42.439 --> 01:57:48.640
machine eighteen hundreds. I'm going to look up images just

1419
01:57:48.680 --> 01:57:54.520
so I can look at it. What right, it's only

1420
01:57:54.600 --> 01:58:01.119
showing you the outside of it. The bathing machine Collection

1421
01:58:01.279 --> 01:58:11.319
of Fouquet Bathing machine eighteen hundreds, Victorian bathing machine. But

1422
01:58:11.439 --> 01:58:15.479
why is it not shown inside? Maybe it was one

1423
01:58:15.520 --> 01:58:26.680
of those things. Ah, it looks to me it was

1424
01:58:26.920 --> 01:58:31.279
just somewhere that you can jump into the water from.

1425
01:58:31.760 --> 01:58:36.319
That doesn't that doesn't sound like a bathing machine. Let's

1426
01:58:36.399 --> 01:58:40.079
read out what it says. You search the web for

1427
01:58:40.640 --> 01:58:47.840
bathing machines, says Google. Being Ai Weaver, the victorian of

1428
01:58:48.159 --> 01:58:56.159
bathing machine, was in an innovative mobile changing room designed

1429
01:58:56.199 --> 01:59:00.880
to allow swimmers, particularly women, to maintain in their modesties

1430
01:59:01.000 --> 01:59:05.720
while bathing at the seaside. Okay, so it's basically a

1431
01:59:05.840 --> 01:59:12.560
changing room. It's a changing room. Historical context, the bathing

1432
01:59:12.720 --> 01:59:16.800
machine emerged during the eighteenth century as the popularity of

1433
01:59:16.960 --> 01:59:22.800
seaside resorts grew in Britain, at a time when swimming

1434
01:59:22.880 --> 01:59:28.680
costumes were not yet common and modesty was paramount, especially

1435
01:59:28.840 --> 01:59:35.880
for women. These wooden carts served as both changing rooms

1436
01:59:36.239 --> 01:59:42.520
and a means to discreetly enter the water. The legal

1437
01:59:42.640 --> 01:59:47.079
requirements for men and women to bathe separately fostered the

1438
01:59:47.239 --> 01:59:52.239
need for these machines, allowing females to change into their

1439
01:59:52.840 --> 02:00:01.159
bathing attire while remaining hidden from public view. Okay, so

1440
02:00:01.319 --> 02:00:05.479
they the car. They were carts on wheels six foot

1441
02:00:05.560 --> 02:00:09.880
high eight foot wide, and they were pulled into the

1442
02:00:10.000 --> 02:00:15.239
sea by horses, and babies could just jump into the

1443
02:00:15.279 --> 02:00:19.000
water about being seen, and maybe curtains or umbrellas to

1444
02:00:19.159 --> 02:00:27.720
keep their modesty. Oh look at this. Women used these machines.

1445
02:00:27.760 --> 02:00:31.520
Mainly men were allowed to bathe naked until the nineteenth century.

1446
02:00:32.920 --> 02:00:51.039
Oh hmm, right, And the bathing costumes were ridiculous. It

1447
02:00:51.199 --> 02:00:57.079
wasn't like I mean, they were proper, full on, full

1448
02:00:57.159 --> 02:01:00.720
on old attire. It was the men always had to

1449
02:01:00.800 --> 02:01:09.039
have stripy ones and the it doesn't look fun, but

1450
02:01:09.119 --> 02:01:11.680
there's a woman there in a bathing costume. It looks

1451
02:01:11.720 --> 02:01:17.800
like she's getting ready to climb a mountain. H wow,

1452
02:01:18.800 --> 02:01:22.920
that's interesting kind of I know it's not supposed to

1453
02:01:23.039 --> 02:01:30.479
be sorry about that. The bucket and spades sets have

1454
02:01:30.600 --> 02:01:37.000
been popular since the early nineteen hundreds. I should like

1455
02:01:37.079 --> 02:01:45.920
bucket and spades, Yeah, I did. I used to like to.

1456
02:01:49.359 --> 02:01:55.520
I should like to make sand castles because it's fun,

1457
02:01:55.640 --> 02:01:58.960
wasn't it. If anyone did it, it's just fun. And

1458
02:02:01.880 --> 02:02:08.039
my brother equally liked to just step on mine. For

1459
02:02:08.159 --> 02:02:12.960
some reason. I did think about trying to get hold

1460
02:02:13.000 --> 02:02:15.560
of some explosions, but just couldn't get any. It's very

1461
02:02:15.680 --> 02:02:20.039
hard when you're seven, the cold of explosions explosive. I

1462
02:02:20.119 --> 02:02:22.479
was gonna put some underneath the sand, and when he

1463
02:02:22.560 --> 02:02:25.359
stepped on it, I'll teach him not to do that again.

1464
02:02:26.960 --> 02:02:31.039
But yeah, I couldn't get any It's been a lot

1465
02:02:31.079 --> 02:02:37.319
of my childhood in prison. It's weird, and I was

1466
02:02:37.399 --> 02:02:42.960
the youngest terrorist in history. Ice Cream vans became widespread

1467
02:02:43.039 --> 02:02:49.840
in the nineteen fifties. Oh, ice cream vans. I loved

1468
02:02:49.920 --> 02:02:54.079
myself some ice cream, having been to an ice cream

1469
02:02:54.439 --> 02:03:00.800
van for a long, long, long, long time. It amazes

1470
02:03:00.880 --> 02:03:03.880
me that they come out in all weathers. I saw one.

1471
02:03:03.960 --> 02:03:06.880
It was freezing cold and it came out because it

1472
02:03:06.960 --> 02:03:11.239
was a Saturday, because it was in June. It was raining,

1473
02:03:11.479 --> 02:03:13.760
and it was very cold and windy. It was like

1474
02:03:13.840 --> 02:03:17.279
a winter's day out there, and they just decided, well

1475
02:03:17.680 --> 02:03:21.119
to second of June, let's go out. It's officially summer.

1476
02:03:23.640 --> 02:03:27.520
Fly just landed on a microphone. Punch and Judy shows

1477
02:03:27.560 --> 02:03:31.960
were classic seaside entertainment. I don't think they're allowed anymore.

1478
02:03:32.840 --> 02:03:40.279
That's the hither it. Blackpool Illuminations, though not autumnal, used

1479
02:03:40.279 --> 02:03:48.199
to start in late summer, so Blackpool Illuminations very very popular.

1480
02:03:48.640 --> 02:03:53.159
Blackpool well, I think it was once classed as the

1481
02:03:54.880 --> 02:04:03.359
Las Vegas of England, that like sinos and all kinds

1482
02:04:03.399 --> 02:04:08.079
of stuff in Blackpool, and I would have loved to

1483
02:04:08.119 --> 02:04:13.760
have gone there when it was busy, you know, not

1484
02:04:13.840 --> 02:04:15.960
busy busy, but that in its kind of peak, just

1485
02:04:16.039 --> 02:04:19.840
to see what it's like. Because I never did. I

1486
02:04:19.960 --> 02:04:22.560
don't know what it's like now. If it still gets

1487
02:04:22.640 --> 02:04:25.760
really busy. I hope it does for the people that

1488
02:04:26.000 --> 02:04:31.239
you know, work there and have businesses. But I went

1489
02:04:31.319 --> 02:04:33.840
there once and it was on the way to the

1490
02:04:33.960 --> 02:04:38.840
Isle of Man and it was the windiest day in history.

1491
02:04:41.039 --> 02:04:49.279
It was probably August July August time, really windy, and

1492
02:04:49.800 --> 02:04:55.560
we were going to Liverpool to catch the ferry to

1493
02:04:55.680 --> 02:05:02.640
the Isle of Man. The faerry was canceled, but because

1494
02:05:02.800 --> 02:05:04.880
we'd been in a car and we've been traveling for

1495
02:05:05.000 --> 02:05:08.399
ten minutes, my dad decided to continue the journey anyway

1496
02:05:09.439 --> 02:05:14.720
in an almost hurricane wind, which is why the fairy

1497
02:05:14.800 --> 02:05:20.239
had been canceled. You know. He decided, well, we've been

1498
02:05:20.279 --> 02:05:25.279
going for ten minutes because his sister, who would visit

1499
02:05:25.319 --> 02:05:29.079
my auntie who we were visiting, said don't bother coming.

1500
02:05:29.600 --> 02:05:36.039
There's no fairies. There is absolutely tremendous weather here and

1501
02:05:36.159 --> 02:05:42.119
the fairies are canceled. For the formidable Future Formidable, Formidable Future,

1502
02:05:43.119 --> 02:05:52.279
Formidable it's very formidable. Formidable was like war that's quite good. Formidable, fordimmable,

1503
02:05:52.600 --> 02:05:58.359
biddable hm hm. Anyway, they were canceled, but my dad

1504
02:05:58.439 --> 02:06:07.079
said nah, and we stopped at Blackpool because it's on

1505
02:06:07.199 --> 02:06:12.039
the way to Liverpool. And I was quite happy because

1506
02:06:12.039 --> 02:06:15.920
I thought, all go to see Blackpool Blackpool Tower. There

1507
02:06:16.000 --> 02:06:22.359
was no lights on. Everything seemed to be closed because

1508
02:06:22.399 --> 02:06:25.760
the wind was it was almost hurricane level. It was

1509
02:06:25.960 --> 02:06:30.079
really strong. I mean, we don't generally get hurricanes in

1510
02:06:30.159 --> 02:06:33.680
this country, but we do get very strong winds sometimes,

1511
02:06:33.720 --> 02:06:37.199
and this is one of those really really really windy days.

1512
02:06:38.399 --> 02:06:48.520
My name nearly blew away and she went into one

1513
02:06:48.600 --> 02:06:57.119
of these toilets and it was a what was it?

1514
02:06:57.119 --> 02:07:06.199
It was a toilet. It's like a porter toilet. Okay,

1515
02:07:07.439 --> 02:07:09.239
it was. It was heavy enough so it wasn't being

1516
02:07:09.239 --> 02:07:11.600
blown around, but it was a portter toilet. She went

1517
02:07:11.680 --> 02:07:14.199
in there and she got locked in. She couldn't get out,

1518
02:07:16.479 --> 02:07:21.239
and my dad got a phone call from my auntie saying,

1519
02:07:21.560 --> 02:07:25.600
it looks like the next ferry is going to be

1520
02:07:26.319 --> 02:07:29.960
The winds calmed down enough on their end that they

1521
02:07:30.039 --> 02:07:32.840
can sort of send the ferry out. So we had to.

1522
02:07:34.920 --> 02:07:38.359
We had to leave Menanda, and yeah, she's still there

1523
02:07:38.359 --> 02:07:42.439
as far as I know. That was twenty twenty one

1524
02:07:42.520 --> 02:07:46.680
years ago. I hope she's all right. I've heard it.

1525
02:07:46.720 --> 02:07:55.760
They're quite comfortable places, those porter toilets, porter potty. She

1526
02:07:55.920 --> 02:08:00.279
did actually get locked in. It was funny, but in

1527
02:08:00.359 --> 02:08:04.880
the same sentence, obviously it wasn't funny, but it was funny.

1528
02:08:05.239 --> 02:08:07.000
We got out, We got her out. We managed to

1529
02:08:08.399 --> 02:08:12.760
do the lot from the outside. I think I knew

1530
02:08:12.760 --> 02:08:14.479
how to do that, and my dad looked at me

1531
02:08:14.600 --> 02:08:17.359
very strangely. I was able to open a toilet, a

1532
02:08:17.479 --> 02:08:20.039
public toilet from the outside that was locked from the inside.

1533
02:08:20.520 --> 02:08:22.439
But it was just like a coin. It was very

1534
02:08:22.520 --> 02:08:29.720
simple and a drill. I happened to have the tools

1535
02:08:29.760 --> 02:08:35.039
on me. Don't judge me. Lie dose or outdoor pools

1536
02:08:35.279 --> 02:08:41.119
gained popularity in the nineteen thirties. Yeah, they were popular.

1537
02:08:43.039 --> 02:08:45.000
They were popular. I was going to say were popular

1538
02:08:45.000 --> 02:08:50.800
in my day. But outdoor pool like little pools, like

1539
02:08:50.920 --> 02:08:55.840
the blow up ones and the lie dos, and they

1540
02:08:56.039 --> 02:09:00.319
like the big beds, floaty beds made of plastic. They

1541
02:09:00.399 --> 02:09:05.920
were quite popular even when I was a kid, because

1542
02:09:05.920 --> 02:09:10.600
you could you could lay on them on in the garden,

1543
02:09:12.880 --> 02:09:16.079
and then you can lay on them on the water

1544
02:09:16.199 --> 02:09:22.560
as well. And you've got beach huts in places like

1545
02:09:23.199 --> 02:09:29.640
south Wold and Bourne Mouth are worth tens of thousands

1546
02:09:29.680 --> 02:09:33.239
of pounds. Now that surprised me, because that doesn't surprise me.

1547
02:09:33.359 --> 02:09:37.800
I already knew that because where my dad lives, the peach,

1548
02:09:37.920 --> 02:09:42.039
the beach huts are like thirty grand, thirty five grand.

1549
02:09:43.960 --> 02:09:46.680
There's not enough room to do anything in them, hardly.

1550
02:09:47.520 --> 02:09:51.600
Literally you can you can sit in it, that's it.

1551
02:09:54.640 --> 02:09:56.640
You can't sleep in it. I suppose you could, but

1552
02:09:56.720 --> 02:10:07.239
you're not allowed to sleep in it, not overnight. We

1553
02:10:07.359 --> 02:10:13.920
can't have braves agriculture and nature. Some is a I

1554
02:10:13.960 --> 02:10:16.720
don't think you even owned the land, so it would

1555
02:10:16.720 --> 02:10:19.359
be different if you owned the land and you bought

1556
02:10:19.479 --> 02:10:26.399
all those beach huts along the prom technically you could

1557
02:10:27.399 --> 02:10:32.000
perhaps own enough land to start building on it. I

1558
02:10:32.039 --> 02:10:35.319
don't know, put a fence up or something. Some it

1559
02:10:35.439 --> 02:10:39.439
is peak harvest season for many English crops. I didn't

1560
02:10:39.479 --> 02:10:44.039
know that. I don't know a lot about crops. If

1561
02:10:44.880 --> 02:10:56.319
we if AI manages to extend life to almost infinity,

1562
02:10:57.119 --> 02:10:59.840
you know, so that all organs can be replaced with

1563
02:11:00.000 --> 02:11:04.399
plenished and you know that we just like could stay

1564
02:11:04.399 --> 02:11:12.199
alive forever. I'm going to study about harvests and crop

1565
02:11:12.279 --> 02:11:15.159
growing because it does interest me, but not that much.

1566
02:11:16.199 --> 02:11:17.960
I don't think I'm going to have enough time in

1567
02:11:18.039 --> 02:11:20.640
my life to really put too much effort into it.

1568
02:11:22.399 --> 02:11:25.600
But it is something that is I know it's really important,

1569
02:11:26.720 --> 02:11:29.079
but I just, yeah, I'd like a bit more time.

1570
02:11:30.239 --> 02:11:33.239
I'd like a bit more a bit more time added

1571
02:11:33.319 --> 02:11:38.039
to my sentence so that I could actually, you know,

1572
02:11:38.159 --> 02:11:42.319
devote that time to studying English crops and harvest seasons.

1573
02:11:45.000 --> 02:11:50.720
The next one is strawberry picking. Strawberry picking became a

1574
02:11:50.800 --> 02:11:54.720
popular summer past time in the twentieth century. Did you

1575
02:11:54.800 --> 02:11:56.920
know this? This is something that you probably never heard before.

1576
02:11:57.479 --> 02:11:59.920
I don't know who told me this, but apparently straw

1577
02:12:00.039 --> 02:12:06.319
breeze ripen much quicker when it's hot. The smell of

1578
02:12:06.399 --> 02:12:13.279
cut grass is a nostalgic trigger for many Brits. Yeah,

1579
02:12:15.039 --> 02:12:17.880
there's definitely a certain smell, isn't there connected to that

1580
02:12:18.680 --> 02:12:22.279
cut and grass. You're not like grass in the garden

1581
02:12:22.319 --> 02:12:37.199
I'm talking about. Hmm, So what we got here? Hay fever,

1582
02:12:41.600 --> 02:12:48.159
known medically as allergic to rhyinitis, rhinoceros spikes in English

1583
02:12:48.199 --> 02:12:54.000
selling due to pollen. I think that's the same everywhere,

1584
02:12:54.000 --> 02:13:00.520
isn't it? What else has we got here? Blue bells?

1585
02:13:01.119 --> 02:13:06.039
Blue bells finished blooming by early summer. Blooming blue bells

1586
02:13:06.279 --> 02:13:16.279
finished blooming by early summer in English woodlands. Ooh, Butterflies,

1587
02:13:16.680 --> 02:13:24.720
especially the red admiral and peacock, are abundant in English summers.

1588
02:13:25.920 --> 02:13:28.840
That's good. I love myself a bit of butterfly action.

1589
02:13:30.720 --> 02:13:33.479
That sounds wrong, doesn't it. I really love butterflies though

1590
02:13:34.800 --> 02:13:37.880
they're so beautiful. And moths I like moths as well.

1591
02:13:38.680 --> 02:13:41.600
To me, a butterfly is just a moth. It's a

1592
02:13:41.720 --> 02:13:46.720
daytime moth, and a moth is a nighttime butterfly. It's

1593
02:13:46.800 --> 02:13:50.159
the same, isn't it for me? Just how I see it,

1594
02:13:53.720 --> 02:13:57.119
I suppose to me? And moth is like a a

1595
02:13:57.199 --> 02:14:02.439
butterfly thats been bitten by a vampire maybe, or a

1596
02:14:02.520 --> 02:14:09.079
butterfly that's mated with a bat. You know that's that

1597
02:14:09.199 --> 02:14:14.880
would be messy. H The English oak releases most of

1598
02:14:14.960 --> 02:14:21.680
its pollen in the summer. Oh thanks. Hedgehogs are more

1599
02:14:21.840 --> 02:14:27.199
visible in summer evenings. Most things are more visible in

1600
02:14:27.319 --> 02:14:32.399
summer evenings. Because you can see because it's lighter. Even

1601
02:14:32.439 --> 02:14:36.560
the lampposts are all visible. The hedges are more visible,

1602
02:14:36.960 --> 02:14:40.279
the trees are more visible, the grass is more visible,

1603
02:14:42.000 --> 02:14:50.600
the ladybirds are more visible. My roller escates are more

1604
02:14:50.800 --> 02:14:57.680
you know. The dog's barkin again, So yeah, it's hedgehogs.

1605
02:14:58.600 --> 02:15:02.520
Wish that dog would stop. I managed to stop Vinnea

1606
02:15:02.560 --> 02:15:08.359
from barking. He did start, and I said to him, oh,

1607
02:15:08.439 --> 02:15:12.319
come on, baby, don't be doing that. Man, little baby boy,

1608
02:15:13.159 --> 02:15:14.720
we don't want to do that. We don't want to

1609
02:15:14.760 --> 02:15:18.359
be barking, do we. We don't want to be barking

1610
02:15:19.000 --> 02:15:22.239
because you're such a good boy. You are a good boy,

1611
02:15:22.319 --> 02:15:25.399
aren't you. You're my favoritest little boy in the whole

1612
02:15:25.479 --> 02:15:31.840
wide world. You are my little son, my little Vinnie Minilli.

1613
02:15:32.439 --> 02:15:38.399
Yes you are. The English oak releases most of its pollic. Okay,

1614
02:15:38.399 --> 02:15:41.279
I would have done that. One. Wasp season peaks in

1615
02:15:41.399 --> 02:15:48.960
late summer, particularly August. Brilliant summer thunderstorms help cool the air,

1616
02:15:49.359 --> 02:15:55.359
but often follow hot whom it spells. Well, it probably

1617
02:15:55.359 --> 02:15:57.800
wouldn't help cool the air if the air was already

1618
02:15:57.840 --> 02:15:59.800
cool with it, so it kind of has to follow

1619
02:15:59.840 --> 02:16:04.000
a hot, humid spells. It sort of makes sense, I think,

1620
02:16:04.920 --> 02:16:15.119
or might just being pedantic right. Historical events, the Spanish

1621
02:16:15.399 --> 02:16:19.119
Armada was defeated in the summer of fifteen eighty eight.

1622
02:16:20.800 --> 02:16:24.399
There the Great Fire of London began during a dry

1623
02:16:24.520 --> 02:16:30.359
summer of nine eight of sixteen sixty six. None of

1624
02:16:30.439 --> 02:16:34.040
this is nice stuff, so I'm gonna just leave that.

1625
02:16:34.799 --> 02:16:37.760
It's all at wars and stuff. The Queen Victoria regularly

1626
02:16:37.840 --> 02:16:49.159
summered in the Isle of Wight. That's nice food and drink.

1627
02:16:49.360 --> 02:16:54.040
Eaton mess is a summer dessert originated at Eton College.

1628
02:16:56.360 --> 02:17:03.600
So is that what Eton musk drinks? Well, it's Pim's

1629
02:17:03.680 --> 02:17:10.040
number one cup is traditionally served with fruit and mint. Okay,

1630
02:17:10.399 --> 02:17:15.280
cream tea. Cream teas are a summer staple in Devon

1631
02:17:15.559 --> 02:17:25.319
and corn Wall. I knew that Devon cream. Yeah. Cucumber

1632
02:17:25.440 --> 02:17:32.440
sand witches became popular as a cooling summer treat, and

1633
02:17:33.360 --> 02:17:43.479
barbecues became fashionable in English gardens in the nineteen eighties. Okay,

1634
02:17:43.959 --> 02:17:48.879
barbecues became fashionable in the nineteen eighties. I was around

1635
02:17:48.959 --> 02:17:52.879
in the nineteen eighties, so were they not popular before that?

1636
02:17:53.159 --> 02:17:57.280
I just thought everyone I remember the early eighties, I

1637
02:17:57.360 --> 02:18:04.600
remember even the late seventies seeing barbecues. Oh, it's interesting.

1638
02:18:05.600 --> 02:18:07.840
I just thought it was something that's been around for ages,

1639
02:18:08.479 --> 02:18:15.719
and it has now, But before then, ice cream cones

1640
02:18:16.000 --> 02:18:24.319
regularly gained popularity in England after w W one. Rhubarb

1641
02:18:24.360 --> 02:18:30.159
and gooseberries are commonly harvested in early summer. Rhubarb rubab

1642
02:18:30.280 --> 02:18:35.479
is one of those. I mean, isn't it technically a

1643
02:18:35.600 --> 02:18:42.760
vegetable because it's a root, isn't it? But it's a fruit?

1644
02:18:43.799 --> 02:18:45.799
Is it? If? I don't know, I think it's a vegetable.

1645
02:18:46.000 --> 02:18:53.120
But anyway, rubarb is both disgusting and beautiful. It's weird now,

1646
02:18:53.200 --> 02:19:01.680
it's sour and like funny face making taste. If it's

1647
02:19:01.799 --> 02:19:03.920
not done in a way that I like it, I've

1648
02:19:03.959 --> 02:19:07.920
got to just talk for myself really, But if it

1649
02:19:08.000 --> 02:19:11.879
has the right amount of sugar in taste and it's

1650
02:19:11.920 --> 02:19:16.479
in a rubarb crumble, okay, the difference of rubob pie

1651
02:19:16.879 --> 02:19:19.600
can be a little bit sour rubob crumble, but it's

1652
02:19:19.639 --> 02:19:25.280
done properly. The most beautiful. Oh, I can't even say

1653
02:19:25.319 --> 02:19:29.360
the word. I'm so excited, oh, honestly, and with some

1654
02:19:29.680 --> 02:19:38.159
cream or ice cream, absolutely gorgeous summer puddings made with

1655
02:19:38.319 --> 02:19:43.639
berries and bread are a traditional dessert. I've got funny stories.

1656
02:19:43.680 --> 02:19:48.920
Were one of my neighbors and asked me for some

1657
02:19:49.000 --> 02:19:51.479
bread the other day, and I said, you've got any bread?

1658
02:19:52.719 --> 02:19:59.120
Texted me. I said, yeah, all right, yeah, and then

1659
02:19:59.159 --> 02:20:00.879
she said, I wait a minute, I'm not allowed to

1660
02:20:00.920 --> 02:20:06.479
have bread because I'm diabetic. I said, okay, I've got

1661
02:20:06.520 --> 02:20:08.200
a pizza in the freeze if you want to. Actually said, oh,

1662
02:20:08.239 --> 02:20:14.799
that'd be nice. I mean, pizza's many bread, isn't it.

1663
02:20:15.079 --> 02:20:20.920
So just that's what I was trying to I think

1664
02:20:21.000 --> 02:20:23.959
the can I have some bread? That was the equiminal

1665
02:20:24.040 --> 02:20:28.799
saying oh, can I some bread and water? Thinking I'd say, no,

1666
02:20:28.959 --> 02:20:32.559
wait a minute, let me let me order your take out. Yeah,

1667
02:20:33.680 --> 02:20:36.879
no I can't. I'm unable to. I'd like to be

1668
02:20:36.920 --> 02:20:40.959
able to do that, but I can't. I can you

1669
02:20:41.079 --> 02:20:46.040
do it? Lemon barley water was made famous by Wimbled Dune.

1670
02:20:47.799 --> 02:20:50.799
Some are puddings made with berries and bread. Okay, it's

1671
02:20:50.799 --> 02:20:54.319
a traditional dessert berries and bread. But that's bread and

1672
02:20:54.399 --> 02:20:58.239
butter pudding though, isn't it. It's saying summerre puddings, but

1673
02:20:58.399 --> 02:21:04.360
bread and butter pudding, Bread and butter jelly and ice

1674
02:21:04.440 --> 02:21:14.360
cream remain a nostalgic summer party favorite. The phrase British

1675
02:21:14.440 --> 02:21:21.280
summer began in nineteen sixteen with daylight saving Okay, fair enough,

1676
02:21:21.440 --> 02:21:25.120
as they changed the ordinary. Then BBC weather forecasts for

1677
02:21:25.200 --> 02:21:30.719
summer holidays became part of family planning, and the nineteen

1678
02:21:30.920 --> 02:21:36.600
sixties saw a surge in seaside postcard humor. Ah, so

1679
02:21:36.639 --> 02:21:39.319
that's when it started. I should love all those because

1680
02:21:39.360 --> 02:21:41.120
it used to just be rude and and lots of

1681
02:21:41.200 --> 02:21:46.840
rude pictures. Last of the Summer Wine, a sitcom, ran

1682
02:21:46.920 --> 02:21:51.680
from nineteen seventy three to twenty ten. It's just got

1683
02:21:51.760 --> 02:21:53.959
some in a title that's not really relevant to what

1684
02:21:54.040 --> 02:21:59.159
I'm talking about. But this next bit is Summer Holiday

1685
02:21:59.360 --> 02:22:04.079
Cliff Richard. It's a Cliff Richard movie from nineteen sixty three.

1686
02:22:05.280 --> 02:22:10.399
We are going on a Summerhanaday normal, working for week

1687
02:22:10.520 --> 02:22:15.600
or two. I love that song. Gavin and Stacey's Barry

1688
02:22:15.639 --> 02:22:19.799
Island scenes became iconic summer TV moments. I've got no

1689
02:22:19.920 --> 02:22:22.280
idea what that is. I know Gavin and Stacey, but

1690
02:22:22.959 --> 02:22:27.440
I don't know the moment they're talking about, and they're

1691
02:22:27.440 --> 02:22:30.399
just talking about things like love Island. Top of the Pops,

1692
02:22:32.239 --> 02:22:36.440
the Radio, one road show, Doctor Who's Summer specials, just

1693
02:22:36.559 --> 02:22:39.879
things that be on TV in the summer. Summer is

1694
02:22:39.920 --> 02:22:43.799
probably one of the worst times on English television. They

1695
02:22:44.079 --> 02:22:46.040
just don't put a lot on TV. There's a bit

1696
02:22:46.079 --> 02:22:51.760
of sport for those that love sport, Wimbledon and the

1697
02:22:52.120 --> 02:22:54.520
World Cup or the European Cup if that's song of

1698
02:22:54.600 --> 02:23:00.159
that year. So there's things like that. Cricket, but as

1699
02:23:00.239 --> 02:23:05.120
far as entertainment programs, there's not always a huge amount

1700
02:23:05.239 --> 02:23:10.719
on That kind of starts in autumn. Oh, then it's

1701
02:23:10.760 --> 02:23:18.319
got outdoor activities. It's got crickets, tennis of course, kite flying,

1702
02:23:19.120 --> 02:23:21.000
I don't know. Kite flying is something you need a

1703
02:23:21.079 --> 02:23:26.799
lot of wind. For a lot of wind wind, bicycle

1704
02:23:26.959 --> 02:23:31.239
cells spike every summer. Well, we all buy things we

1705
02:23:31.360 --> 02:23:35.840
don't use that caravan and there's a classic English summer tradition.

1706
02:23:36.840 --> 02:23:41.479
Paddle Boats on lakes became popular in the Victorian era,

1707
02:23:43.559 --> 02:23:51.000
and children's summer camps began growing in popularity post WW two.

1708
02:23:54.239 --> 02:23:59.319
Village fates with tombolas and coconut shies are summer traditions,

1709
02:24:00.879 --> 02:24:06.360
and schools out for summer signals. Mass family holidays starting

1710
02:24:06.520 --> 02:24:11.200
in July. So it's July to one today. This is

1711
02:24:11.360 --> 02:24:18.479
quite apt, isn't it really? For talking about? What are

1712
02:24:18.559 --> 02:24:24.319
we actually talking about? What is the subject? Oh, summers? Okay,

1713
02:24:24.399 --> 02:24:30.200
we're talking about summers right all. The term staycation became

1714
02:24:30.319 --> 02:24:37.879
popular during summer's post two thousand and eight staycation. I

1715
02:24:38.000 --> 02:24:40.799
think it got to the point where going abroad was

1716
02:24:40.879 --> 02:24:45.159
no longer a really really cheap option as much as

1717
02:24:45.239 --> 02:24:47.520
it used to be in the past. It used to

1718
02:24:47.520 --> 02:24:49.680
be a cheaper option, and I think it just became

1719
02:24:49.760 --> 02:24:54.360
more expensive. Maybe I don't know, Butlin's holiday camps were

1720
02:24:54.399 --> 02:24:58.680
a summer institution from the nineteen thirties. I used to

1721
02:24:58.719 --> 02:25:02.360
work at Button's for a season in the winter of

1722
02:25:03.079 --> 02:25:08.079
some time in the nineties. My tummy's gurgling for some reason.

1723
02:25:09.040 --> 02:25:14.200
Cornwall and Devon have been popular summer destinations for centuries.

1724
02:25:16.200 --> 02:25:22.120
It's a beautiful coven. Cornwall and Devon lovely places. Never

1725
02:25:22.239 --> 02:25:25.120
been to Lake District. I'd like to go there. It

1726
02:25:25.239 --> 02:25:28.719
sees the peaking visits during the summer. I've never been there.

1727
02:25:28.760 --> 02:25:32.920
It'd been nice. The great British q can be seen

1728
02:25:32.959 --> 02:25:36.200
at every seaside chip shop in July. Yeah, I'm not

1729
02:25:36.239 --> 02:25:38.399
a big fan of the old queue in I'll be

1730
02:25:38.479 --> 02:25:44.159
honest with you. Nah, rail excursions to the coast became

1731
02:25:44.360 --> 02:25:51.319
common in the eighteen hundreds, so yeah, that guess because

1732
02:25:51.319 --> 02:25:54.440
we had railway tracks end didn't we Before that we

1733
02:25:54.559 --> 02:26:00.639
had to go by horse and car, I suppose or

1734
02:26:00.760 --> 02:26:08.639
ride on sheep. Caravans and motor homes often clog English

1735
02:26:08.799 --> 02:26:12.799
roads in August. I was just wondering, Like with horses,

1736
02:26:12.879 --> 02:26:14.600
you put a carroat in front of them, so they run.

1737
02:26:15.079 --> 02:26:18.399
What would you put in front of a sheep? What

1738
02:26:18.520 --> 02:26:22.760
a sheep eat grass? So I suppose you could. You

1739
02:26:22.840 --> 02:26:25.239
could travel on a cow and just put like some

1740
02:26:25.520 --> 02:26:29.959
grass or a little plant or something dangling in front

1741
02:26:30.000 --> 02:26:31.719
of it, and they just follow that try and get

1742
02:26:31.760 --> 02:26:40.040
to the grass. Maybe bank holiday weekends are peak travel periods.

1743
02:26:40.280 --> 02:26:46.000
That's true. It says caravans and motor homes often clog

1744
02:26:46.120 --> 02:26:49.559
English roads in August. Okay, we don't ever go at them.

1745
02:26:50.280 --> 02:26:53.559
It's not their fault, is it. Why are having to

1746
02:26:53.600 --> 02:26:56.920
go at people in caravans and motor homes. They don't

1747
02:26:56.959 --> 02:27:02.280
take up a huge amount more space and cars, you know,

1748
02:27:03.239 --> 02:27:05.159
Like the other day I went into I want to

1749
02:27:05.360 --> 02:27:09.920
you about that, But okay, I was in the hospital.

1750
02:27:10.479 --> 02:27:14.319
I needed the toilet. I needed the toilet. It was

1751
02:27:14.399 --> 02:27:18.120
just a weir read, but I needed to go. Went

1752
02:27:18.200 --> 02:27:21.920
to the men's toilets it and I walked past I

1753
02:27:22.319 --> 02:27:26.280
think five disabled toilets to get to the men's toilets.

1754
02:27:27.840 --> 02:27:30.799
It was blocked off because it's being cleaned. I went back.

1755
02:27:31.680 --> 02:27:38.159
There was multiple disabled toilets, but I were empty, so

1756
02:27:38.239 --> 02:27:41.479
I went in one did my quick wee wee came

1757
02:27:41.559 --> 02:27:45.719
out as guaranteed. There was a lady there in a

1758
02:27:45.719 --> 02:27:48.559
wheelchair waiting, and the woman that was with us was

1759
02:27:48.639 --> 02:27:52.079
looking at me like I just committed every crime in

1760
02:27:52.399 --> 02:27:57.600
history upon her person. Honestly, it was like really, And

1761
02:27:57.719 --> 02:27:59.319
I said I was sorry about that. I just needed

1762
02:27:59.360 --> 02:28:04.639
to go, and neither of the master answered me even

1763
02:28:05.840 --> 02:28:10.639
acknowledge my existence. And honestly, I was there for I

1764
02:28:10.799 --> 02:28:13.639
was in there maybe twenty seconds, half a minute, so

1765
02:28:13.760 --> 02:28:17.159
it wasn't a long time. So I didn't feel great.

1766
02:28:17.840 --> 02:28:21.000
I'll be honest. I mean, I am registered, I'm technically

1767
02:28:21.040 --> 02:28:25.680
disabled anyway. I'm disabled, but not just not physically. And

1768
02:28:27.319 --> 02:28:32.479
I start thinking and I'm a little bit inside. As

1769
02:28:32.520 --> 02:28:42.319
I'm walking out, I'm just thinking, you know what, Okay,

1770
02:28:43.079 --> 02:28:50.760
disabled toilets there for disabled people, fair enough. However, in

1771
02:28:50.920 --> 02:28:55.440
what world does anyone expect to be able to just

1772
02:28:55.520 --> 02:28:57.399
walk up the toilet, open the door, and go in

1773
02:28:58.000 --> 02:29:00.760
without queuing, without waiting, without some else being in there.

1774
02:29:05.399 --> 02:29:07.399
No one does that with the men's toilets or for

1775
02:29:07.479 --> 02:29:10.639
the women's toilets. I can't believe there's someone in there.

1776
02:29:10.680 --> 02:29:13.159
Why are you in there? It should be available for

1777
02:29:13.239 --> 02:29:15.399
me just to walk in. I should maybe I shouldn't

1778
02:29:15.479 --> 02:29:17.840
use the word walking, but just to use the toilet

1779
02:29:18.520 --> 02:29:25.399
without having to wait. I mean, firstly I have to wait.

1780
02:29:25.840 --> 02:29:29.000
It's like, I mean, she was sitting down, was waiting,

1781
02:29:31.760 --> 02:29:37.040
and why would she have to be what? It's just

1782
02:29:37.360 --> 02:29:40.280
it's just kind of like, wait a minute. If I

1783
02:29:40.360 --> 02:29:42.120
was in there for hours, or if I was in

1784
02:29:42.159 --> 02:29:45.920
there doing a long long time, but why should it

1785
02:29:46.120 --> 02:29:53.840
Why should that toilet be available instantly when I also

1786
02:29:54.000 --> 02:29:58.319
need to go to the toilet. It's just that's I

1787
02:29:58.360 --> 02:30:00.680
started to think. They're like, wait a minute, I'm feeling

1788
02:30:00.760 --> 02:30:05.799
bad it but I don't need to really, because if

1789
02:30:05.840 --> 02:30:09.319
there is a queue of people, let's say, abled bodied

1790
02:30:09.399 --> 02:30:14.280
people queuing outside as sore as two people queueing outside

1791
02:30:14.319 --> 02:30:17.600
the disabled, then she's within her right to say, oh,

1792
02:30:18.040 --> 02:30:21.319
bug her off, this is for this is for me,

1793
02:30:21.520 --> 02:30:24.319
this is my toilet. I own this toilet. This toilet

1794
02:30:24.399 --> 02:30:26.840
was built just for me, and she's got a right

1795
02:30:26.920 --> 02:30:31.600
to kind of, I don't know, run them over. I

1796
02:30:31.680 --> 02:30:37.200
guess in a chair she wants. But that wasn't a situation.

1797
02:30:37.959 --> 02:30:42.159
So the idea that she should be just spell toed,

1798
02:30:42.239 --> 02:30:46.200
just open the door and go in and never ever

1799
02:30:46.360 --> 02:30:50.479
have to wait to use a toilet, that's not real

1800
02:30:50.639 --> 02:30:53.079
real life, is it. Sometimes we have to wait to

1801
02:30:53.200 --> 02:30:55.959
use a toilet because there's other people on the planet.

1802
02:30:58.239 --> 02:31:03.760
So I felt less guilty. I would have felt less

1803
02:31:03.760 --> 02:31:06.520
guilty if I hadn't actually said that to her, and

1804
02:31:06.600 --> 02:31:11.920
then I felt more guilty, But you know, we live,

1805
02:31:12.120 --> 02:31:16.920
we learn sometimes. But I did think about that, like, Okay,

1806
02:31:17.479 --> 02:31:21.319
I needed the toilet. It's either that or go into

1807
02:31:21.360 --> 02:31:25.959
the women's toilets, and these days that's round upon. But

1808
02:31:26.040 --> 02:31:29.120
there was only one woman's toilet, there's only one men's toilet.

1809
02:31:30.280 --> 02:31:35.879
There was I think four four or five what's it

1810
02:31:36.000 --> 02:31:39.200
name toilets, because you can go in there as well

1811
02:31:39.239 --> 02:31:41.280
if you've got a baby to change as well, So

1812
02:31:42.000 --> 02:31:48.440
you know, it's not just for disabled people, and I

1813
02:31:48.520 --> 02:31:51.319
did a quick weewie. I didn't go there, and I

1814
02:31:51.440 --> 02:31:56.639
wasn't in there, knitting a jumper for Vinnie, drinking a

1815
02:31:56.680 --> 02:32:00.360
cup of coffee, watching the I don't know, Wimbledon tennis

1816
02:32:01.239 --> 02:32:06.079
on my phone. I wasn't in there for ages. I

1817
02:32:06.159 --> 02:32:08.760
was just it was a quick zip in there, unzip

1818
02:32:10.639 --> 02:32:14.319
and then zip up again. Actually there's no zipping, so

1819
02:32:14.399 --> 02:32:21.520
I was wearing what's it tracksuit bottoms. It was more

1820
02:32:21.559 --> 02:32:26.040
of a shake kind of not wanting drippage anyway more

1821
02:32:26.120 --> 02:32:27.639
than you need to know, so it was a little

1822
02:32:27.680 --> 02:32:30.600
bit of shaking. It's just, you know, just washing my

1823
02:32:30.680 --> 02:32:37.000
hands and stuff like that. And then I and I

1824
02:32:37.159 --> 02:32:40.000
left opened the door because the thing is they were

1825
02:32:40.040 --> 02:32:42.959
trying to open the door. I kept pulling it, rattling

1826
02:32:43.040 --> 02:32:45.879
the door like anything. It's okay, it's not opening now.

1827
02:32:45.959 --> 02:32:47.760
It's not going to open if you keep pulling it.

1828
02:32:48.559 --> 02:32:54.319
It's clearly someone in there, and seemed like quite an

1829
02:32:54.319 --> 02:32:58.719
angry person, both of them. Really. I think seeing my

1830
02:32:58.920 --> 02:33:03.879
lovely face didn't help when I opened the door. And

1831
02:33:07.440 --> 02:33:09.799
it's the first time I've ever felt bad for not

1832
02:33:11.040 --> 02:33:15.000
being in a wheelchair. It's like it's not my fault

1833
02:33:15.079 --> 02:33:18.719
that I've also got to do weewies. I can't do

1834
02:33:18.799 --> 02:33:20.639
it in the hallway, can't do it in the bin.

1835
02:33:21.360 --> 02:33:25.040
We're in a hospital, supposed to be kind of sanitary,

1836
02:33:25.120 --> 02:33:29.239
isn't it. And it's quick. It's not like I had

1837
02:33:29.280 --> 02:33:33.520
to sit down, you know, I didn't. It's just like

1838
02:33:35.719 --> 02:33:41.000
probably half a minute if that, And they were nowhere

1839
02:33:41.040 --> 02:33:43.440
to be seen when I went in there, so I'm

1840
02:33:43.479 --> 02:33:47.520
taking I'm figuring it probably took them at least fifteen

1841
02:33:47.639 --> 02:33:50.959
seconds to get there, so they were waiting for fifteen seconds,

1842
02:33:51.760 --> 02:33:57.000
because that's that door started rattling, probably thirteen or fourteen

1843
02:33:57.120 --> 02:33:59.920
seconds before I'd finished. So at this point I was

1844
02:34:00.120 --> 02:34:06.680
in the shaken section of the adventure. I needed to

1845
02:34:06.799 --> 02:34:08.760
wash my hands, so I washed my hands. In anyway,

1846
02:34:08.840 --> 02:34:11.639
being in a hospital, I might have blowed me nose

1847
02:34:11.680 --> 02:34:13.479
as well, So maybe I didn't need to do that.

1848
02:34:13.719 --> 02:34:16.360
But it's always nice to get prepared for when I

1849
02:34:16.440 --> 02:34:22.479
go outside, just to make myself look nice and make

1850
02:34:22.520 --> 02:34:26.360
sure there's no drippages and stuff, and just yeah, make

1851
02:34:26.399 --> 02:34:28.520
sure my shirt covers that area in case there is.

1852
02:34:29.520 --> 02:34:31.799
And then I walk out and I'm faced with these

1853
02:34:32.239 --> 02:34:37.879
two angry faces. It's like Okay. I think it's the

1854
02:34:38.000 --> 02:34:42.479
first time ever in my life that I've been caught

1855
02:34:43.879 --> 02:34:48.719
And the weird thing about it, right is, I think

1856
02:34:48.920 --> 02:34:52.719
two days earlier or now, remember it was last week,

1857
02:34:53.159 --> 02:34:58.079
I went to use the toilet and the cleaner said,

1858
02:34:58.200 --> 02:35:01.000
I'll just choose the disabled ones. When these are closed,

1859
02:35:01.000 --> 02:35:06.079
you just have to use the sobered ones. And everyone

1860
02:35:06.200 --> 02:35:10.840
going in there was just every people, including nurses, doctors,

1861
02:35:10.920 --> 02:35:13.879
just anyone going in there and using them because there's

1862
02:35:13.920 --> 02:35:16.920
four empty toilets or five empty toilets, not just going

1863
02:35:16.959 --> 02:35:22.280
to leave walk the other side of the hospital because

1864
02:35:22.280 --> 02:35:25.399
this is right near the exit of the building or

1865
02:35:25.440 --> 02:35:32.159
the entrance to the buildings exit and entrance. Yeah, this

1866
02:35:32.399 --> 02:35:41.159
is I mean, I ah, I tell you. Sand in

1867
02:35:41.280 --> 02:35:47.360
your sandwiches is an avoidable, unavoidable British beach memory and

1868
02:35:47.600 --> 02:35:56.120
donkeys on the beach are an English summer tradition. British

1869
02:35:56.200 --> 02:35:59.520
people rushed to the garden at the first site of

1870
02:35:59.760 --> 02:36:03.559
so I think you're getting a little bit caught up

1871
02:36:03.600 --> 02:36:08.040
in British people. Every single person in England, they see

1872
02:36:08.120 --> 02:36:10.520
some sudden they rush into the garden. I'm not sure

1873
02:36:10.559 --> 02:36:15.559
if that's true. Socks and sandals are an infamous or

1874
02:36:15.719 --> 02:36:27.159
infamous English summer fashion fo par or fox pass. I don't.

1875
02:36:28.200 --> 02:36:32.040
I don't think there's anything wrong with having socks. What

1876
02:36:32.319 --> 02:36:37.639
I Phini's discovered the the the little old fly again

1877
02:36:37.760 --> 02:36:43.680
bless him. Pubs spill out on pavements every summer evening.

1878
02:36:45.239 --> 02:36:50.040
That can happen, I definitely can happen. I remember there

1879
02:36:50.120 --> 02:36:52.840
was a pub in London just near where the comedy

1880
02:36:52.840 --> 02:36:58.120
club that I used to be regularly at. And it

1881
02:36:58.239 --> 02:37:01.799
would be jam backed and this is a little road

1882
02:37:02.360 --> 02:37:04.319
that went all the way down and it was it

1883
02:37:04.440 --> 02:37:07.920
wasn't a big road, but the people would stand outside

1884
02:37:07.959 --> 02:37:13.079
the pub and there'd be hundreds of people outside. I'm

1885
02:37:13.200 --> 02:37:17.239
talking to a lot of people, and I went in

1886
02:37:17.319 --> 02:37:19.799
the pub once. I thought, it's got to be a

1887
02:37:19.840 --> 02:37:23.000
big pub if all those people are inside, then they

1888
02:37:23.079 --> 02:37:26.159
come outside in the summer. It wasn't big inside at all.

1889
02:37:26.520 --> 02:37:29.879
They just had more people visiting in the summer. And

1890
02:37:30.360 --> 02:37:34.639
it wasn't locals because it wasn't. It was in the

1891
02:37:35.200 --> 02:37:41.079
middle of what's just near the the city center kind

1892
02:37:41.079 --> 02:37:44.479
of you know, the financial place near Liverpool Street. So

1893
02:37:44.639 --> 02:37:50.040
that wasn't a particularly residential place. It was the city.

1894
02:37:50.159 --> 02:37:54.799
It was the financial district, although Canary warforso was, but

1895
02:37:57.239 --> 02:37:59.200
there wasn't a lot going on at the weekend. Generally,

1896
02:37:59.360 --> 02:38:02.760
especially during the day, super busy during a week in

1897
02:38:02.840 --> 02:38:07.000
the daytime, sometimes on a Saturday morning, you'd see oddly anyone.

1898
02:38:10.319 --> 02:38:13.680
People moan when it's cold, and they moan when it's

1899
02:38:13.760 --> 02:38:19.120
too hot. Yeah, I'm sure that's not just an English thing.

1900
02:38:21.319 --> 02:38:29.159
It's called moaning, although I imagine English people did invent

1901
02:38:29.319 --> 02:38:35.719
it to be fair. Fans sell out in shops every

1902
02:38:35.760 --> 02:38:39.920
time there's a mini heat wave. Yeah, we're very it's

1903
02:38:39.959 --> 02:38:45.719
a very short term in this country. It's yeah, it

1904
02:38:45.879 --> 02:38:50.680
is if you if you want to if the government right,

1905
02:38:51.040 --> 02:38:55.280
if there was suddenly a huge amount of bread, too

1906
02:38:55.399 --> 02:39:00.440
much bread's being made, and you know, I mean millions

1907
02:39:00.479 --> 02:39:04.520
and millions and millions of pounds worth of bread over made,

1908
02:39:05.920 --> 02:39:08.440
and all the bakeries got together and said, look what

1909
02:39:08.520 --> 02:39:10.360
we're going to do, because we're going to lose millions

1910
02:39:10.440 --> 02:39:13.479
of pounds over the next two days because we're never

1911
02:39:13.559 --> 02:39:15.600
going to sell all this bread that we've accidentally made.

1912
02:39:16.200 --> 02:39:18.040
And they went to the government and told them, and

1913
02:39:18.120 --> 02:39:24.399
the government put out a warning saying bread shortage. Every

1914
02:39:26.840 --> 02:39:30.200
every single shop would sell out our bread. Within a

1915
02:39:30.239 --> 02:39:36.879
few hours there'd be no bread left. So it's quite

1916
02:39:36.920 --> 02:39:42.479
clever the way it works. Water fights with host pipes

1917
02:39:42.559 --> 02:39:45.879
or balloons or a childhood staple. I tell you what

1918
02:39:46.040 --> 02:39:48.399
me and my two brother my two older brothers used

1919
02:39:48.399 --> 02:39:52.680
to do. There was this pond where used to have

1920
02:39:52.799 --> 02:39:54.760
like a boat rides in that down near the beach.

1921
02:39:55.239 --> 02:39:58.079
So we used to have buckets and we'd fill the

1922
02:39:58.120 --> 02:40:00.760
buckets up and just pour water to over each other.

1923
02:40:03.159 --> 02:40:07.280
And sometimes we do it in the summer. It was great.

1924
02:40:09.440 --> 02:40:12.440
Paddling pools and ice lollies make even the simplest summer

1925
02:40:12.559 --> 02:40:18.680
day feel magical. Yeah, I suppose it's something I don't

1926
02:40:18.719 --> 02:40:23.079
really do because i don't have a paddling pool and

1927
02:40:23.200 --> 02:40:27.760
I've got a kind of share a garden with the

1928
02:40:27.840 --> 02:40:30.879
other people that live in this area, so it's a

1929
02:40:31.120 --> 02:40:34.520
communal garden and it's not really a place to put

1930
02:40:34.559 --> 02:40:38.239
a paddling pool really, although I did, I did think

1931
02:40:38.280 --> 02:40:42.840
about doing something like that for this little one. I

1932
02:40:42.920 --> 02:40:44.760
thought it might be nice, But it's a lot of water,

1933
02:40:44.959 --> 02:40:50.399
isn't it to be fair? And I don't know if

1934
02:40:50.440 --> 02:40:54.280
you'd even want to do it. Because he doesn't like baths.

1935
02:40:56.120 --> 02:40:58.760
He avoids puddles. He will drink out of puddles, but

1936
02:40:58.799 --> 02:41:01.680
he doesn't he won't walk in a So I'm wondering

1937
02:41:01.760 --> 02:41:03.319
whether or not you'd even want to get into the

1938
02:41:03.399 --> 02:41:06.680
paddling pool. Would you? Would you get in a paddling pool?

1939
02:41:07.600 --> 02:41:09.120
Would you be a good girl and get in a

1940
02:41:09.120 --> 02:41:16.360
paddling pool with your auntie JJ? Would you? That? I

1941
02:41:16.479 --> 02:41:19.440
do believe is everything. I managed to get through all

1942
02:41:19.440 --> 02:41:23.600
one hundred pretty much. I missed out a couple that

1943
02:41:23.719 --> 02:41:29.559
would like, but yeah, most of them are done. So

1944
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I want to say thank you for listening. And I

1945
02:41:35.559 --> 02:41:37.440
am going to do a Q and A Friday this week,

1946
02:41:38.239 --> 02:41:42.440
so maybe i'll put up I'll probably post something on

1947
02:41:42.559 --> 02:41:47.479
Wednesday tomorrow asking for questions on my Jason Newland's boarding

1948
02:41:47.559 --> 02:41:52.959
group on Facebook. So thank you for listening. Remember to

1949
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be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy.

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Lots of love five