April 28, 2025

(music) Monday’s Boring Objects | LMBYTS #1340 | 28th April 2025

(music) Monday’s Boring Objects | LMBYTS #1340 | 28th April 2025
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Hello, Hello, and welcome to Jasonnewland dot com. My name's

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Jason Newland, and welcome to let Me boil you to sleep.

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This is Monday's Boring Objects and today it's Monday, the

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twenty eighth of April twenty twenty five. And I'll tell

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you what right, it's eleven twenty.

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I don't know why.

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I mean, I haven't made a recording since the last

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recording I did was Friday.

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I think I can't remember. Do you do? I bought

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a dudder.

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Let me boil your pain away recording and in on Saturday. Possibly, Yeah,

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I did yad did so, I did Q and a

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Friday Friday. H that's weird, but yeah, so, but you

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know what, it's eleven eleven. What time does it say

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it was? It's eleven twenty one. I've had one hundred

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and eighty five downloads today, like the whole day, and.

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I don't know what's going on. I can't I can't believe.

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I can't believe it.

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Oh yeah, So I've got a website, Jasonnewland dot com.

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If you're like you can send me messages on there.

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The website's pretty good.

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It's all got all my latest recordings. Ultimately, all my

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recordings are on there. Also, Jason Newland's boring group is

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my Facebook group, so that's pretty cool. And what else

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my YouTube channel at Jason Newland the YouTube channels again,

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it's ever since, right ever since I've been just uploading

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the latest recordings on there, it's gone a bit. I mean,

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I've had a couple of new subscribers to day. But

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so I can't really complain.

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But it's just.

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It's not what it was.

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But is it my fault? I don't want to be

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on screen. I don't want to be on a video.

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It's not my.

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Fault videos why for some reason, I was.

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Only a little lie down just now. The vine was

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on the window sill in the bedroom, was looking out

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and everything's peaceful. He's some bathing. I'm just having a

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little rest listening to an audio book.

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I'm not really asleep.

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I'm just listening to an audio book, just laying down, rested,

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my body, rested, my eyes, rested, my mind, and.

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Out of nowhere right right right like starts barking.

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I was.

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I get up and I say stop, stop, get down

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off there.

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And all I do is I touch him, I touch

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his back. I prodded him.

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I literally just put my.

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Hands on him, said that's get down. He's ground at

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me like it's like I can't.

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I know he's a dog, and I know the dog's

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bark Okay, I'm aware of that. I've been around a

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while and I've had him for two and a half years,

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so I know that he barks. However, I have to

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keep his barking to a minimum because there is a

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there's an after effect. There's consequences of him barking too much,

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and that is.

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Neighbors getting annoy wait also other dogs barking as well.

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But none of that bothers me personally, I don't care,

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but it affects my neighbors.

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And then.

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The sound, you know, then maybe music's put on it's

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very loud to cover up the bark barking. Then someone

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else puts their music up to cover up it's like

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to try and cover up that music.

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And it can just be that role on effect. So

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if I can keep.

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Him quiet, It's not that I expect people not to

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have music on. It'sub to do what they want, but

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I don't want people to feel they have to drown

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out his barking. Do you know what I mean in

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it you get me swear down. So I'm just trying

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to explain that I don't know.

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I'm not in one second.

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Moaning about my neighbors downstairs because they are brilliant neighbors,

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really brilliant. So yeah, I'm not not complaining. I mean,

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none of the neighbors really are an issue to me.

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They're all all right.

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So while we're while I'm being false, let's talk about

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what can I what my I thought about doing it

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like a three pronged thing, So what am I? We

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could not do it together?

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Maybe what am I? Yeah, that's it, and I write

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it down because I remember it.

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But it's it's one of those weird things that I

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was thinking about this last night in bed.

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So three the three I don't not to call them.

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So so grateful one think I'm grateful about one thing

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I forgive and one thing I'm looking forward to. So

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I'm going to I'm going to try and start doing that.

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In case I haven't already said it, please only listen

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to this when you could safely close your eyes.

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So I'm going to try.

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And this is just a new thing I used to do,

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the gratitude thing. Three things you're grateful for. I struggled

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to find one sometimes, so I thought, I know.

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When I'm feeling.

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Grateful, the list is endless. Okay, so I thought, okay,

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listen instead of putting. Because this isn't supposed to be

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a test. This isn't supposed to be something that puts

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you on the spot.

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It's just a.

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Relaxing, calm, chilled out thing. So one thing that we're

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grateful for, one thing that we're all that we all forgive.

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It might be something you've already forgiven. It might be

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something that you decide, yeah, I forgive that, I forgive

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that person, or I forgive whatever. It could just be

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something really small. But you know what, if we do

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a small thing every day, it means they never build up.

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And then something.

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We're looking forward to, and I know that that the

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literal term of looking forward to something is you're thinking

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about something that's about that's going to happen in the future.

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Is literally the term looking forward to, but it's not

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used in that way, is it in the English language.

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Generally it's something you may be not necessarily excited about,

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maybe excited, but something that you're feeling positive about, something

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that you're feeling.

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Good.

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You know, you feel nice. You think about it and

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you feel nice. Maybe and I realized I've just explained

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the very simple term to people that know what it means.

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I'm sorry.

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Don't mean to be condescending, So I'm sorry about that.

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By the way, condescending is kind of it's like talking

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down to someone explaining to someone's explaining something to someone

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that maybe that they kind of obviously would understand. It's

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I guess being condescending is it's kind of expecting of

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a person not to be very very clever.

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Like that. Oh that makes me laugh.

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I'm sorry, sorry about being your old don condescending. By

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the way, what condescending means is right grateful. So if

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you just think about this, what you're grateful for?

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What do you forgive? What you're looking forward to?

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So I'm going to say mine, you ain't got a

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joining with this. I mean it might be at home

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thinking shut up. I don't want to tell you what

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I'm grateful for. I don't want to tell you. I

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don't want to think about something I forgive. I don't

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want to look forward to anything. Just get on monkey

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boy and tell us about something boring.

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So that that might be.

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What you're thinking, which is fine, Okay. So what am

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I grateful for right this minute? I'm grateful that I'm

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sitting here doing this because an hour ago I didn't

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want to, and all weekend I didn't want to. So yeah,

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I'm grateful that I actually am sitting here making this recording.

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So that's what I'm grateful for. What are you grateful for?

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Maybe you could just.

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Post on YouTube or whatever what you're grateful for on

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my oh, I don't know, maybe on the Facebook, on

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Jason Leuland's boring group. Just maybe just put in what

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you're grateful if you want. If you don't, that's also fine.

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And I don't mean like go and grab your phone

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and do it now, because this is chill out time.

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Something that you forget, something I forgive. Let me think

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I forgive one of my neighbors for Yeah, I forgive

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her for borrowing money not paying it back.

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Yeah, I forgive that.

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It's actually someone I saw yesterday and I got really

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well for him, Like you know what, I don't care

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about it anymore, but you know I do.

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I forgive.

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I was holding on to it a bit, So I

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forgive that. And is there anything that you forgive. Maybe

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you could forgive me, forgive me for making all these recordings.

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So I'm trying to think next is something that.

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We're looking forward to.

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I'm going to do this at the beginning of every recording,

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so you probably I don't unless you don't want me to,

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then I won't.

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Okay.

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So I'm not here to I'm not here to annoy people.

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I'm not here just to not it's not my only

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intention it's to annoy people. So something to look forward to?

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What am I I want to do this genuinely rather

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than there might have to be things that I make

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up in a sense of like okay, or I might

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have to search for it rather than make it up.

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What am I looking forward to? Maybe you'd like to

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think of something that you're looking forward to, or maybe

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you've already done it, maybe it's already there, maybe it's

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in your.

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Mind anyway, something or am I looking forward to? M

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that's a good that's not supposed to be difficult, is it?

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Is it difficult? I'm looking for?

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This is what I'm looking forward to. I'm looking forward

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to getting myself some new glasses, going to the opticians,

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getting myself some new glasses and then getting back to

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reading a bit more like I used to. That's what

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I'm looking forward to, because I realized, I mean, I

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do listen to a lot of audio books, so technically

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I am reading in a.

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Sense, but.

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I yeah, I missed that because that used to be

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part of my identity as a child, not just as

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a child, but as an adult, you know, for decades.

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So reading something that are actually physically looking at book

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reading rather than looking.

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At a computer screen.

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And yeah, so that's what I'm looking forward to, which

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means I need to make an appointment at the.

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Opticians and get that sorted.

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But it's just.

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Even though I do get discounts and stuff decent frames,

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they are quite expensive, and I.

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Get a.

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For me, I don't care so much about the glasses

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that I'm reading with if I'm at home reading or

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even well that's the only place I would aladly be

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reading nowadays.

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But being out, you know, because I'm going to.

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Have separate grug I know, he said, separate glasses, Separate

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glasses for reading, separate glasses for day to day, and

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maybe even ask if I can get some separate glasses

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for screenwork, because I think it's been affected my eyes.

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So.

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I don't care what they look like, the ones I

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use to look at a computer, the ones I used

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to read with, I don't care. They can be pink

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and have little I don't know, little fireworks shooting out

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of them.

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I don't know.

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It doesn't matter to me. Little windmills, remember those little windmills.

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You get a sea sea fronts on a stick. They

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can have those sticking out. I don't care, because, okay,

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I don't want them to have little windmills, but I

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wouldn't necessarily have that on my normal glasses that I was.

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Walking around in.

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But the reason it costs a bit for my normal

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glasses is because I think I'm going to be talking

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about glasses. This is the boring objects today. I probably

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talked about it before, but I'm going to do it again.

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Boring objects glasses.

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Here we go. See, I didn't know what I was

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going to talk about.

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Now, No, I'm going to talk about glasses, so I've

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kind of led into it, and I by by discussing classes.

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So I need to have actor like classes because I've

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got a heredity. There's a couple of hereditary things in

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my family on my dad's side, one is prostrate stuff,

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which I've so far been okay with, got tested with that,

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but three of my family members haven't been or they've

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been affected by it, like, you know, badly affected by it.

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So the other thing I just don't like saying a word,

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to be honest with you, I.

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Just don't don't. That's yeah.

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And then the other thing is osteoporosis. But that seems

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to be effected in the female side rather than the

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male side, but it can affect I mean, it's the

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percentage of male to female. I think it's higher for females.

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I'm going to check that, make sure I'm not osteo porosis.

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Did it?

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Did it?

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Did it?

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Osteoporosis? Female to male two male ratio? Okay, here we go,

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here we go. So, although female to ratio was three

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was three in several studies from the US, more recent

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data from Canada and Europe indicated that for ratio of

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one four. Oh no, whoa, I think she used to

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do with bone density. Really, it's nothing to do with.

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Sex.

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Well maybe it is, but not sex like so, I

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think in the old days it used to be called

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brittle bones. Like my nan had it really bad, and

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I think. I think two of my aunties have got it. So,

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but she was very old, elderly, my nan. She had

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to take this massive tablet. It's honestly, she had to

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like just suck on it for hours. Is it like

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vitmin d or something. Does she take like a calcium tablet?

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She take once once a once a week.

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I think. But so that's another thing. I don't know.

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It was questioned a bit of me because I've had

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so many breaks, so many broken bones over the last

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few years, that maybe there's some density issues.

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But then I spoke to.

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My doctor about that because I had to have a

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doctor's appointment on the phone, and he said, well, when

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you fractured your back falling down the stairs, that when

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you fractured your back trying to put your socks on,

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I don't think there's anything wrong with your back. Your

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back's fine, you know. No, when I fell down the

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stairs fractured my back and I had a CT scan.

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They we said they should sort of picked up on

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that if there were, you know, if there is an

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issue with your with your back and with you with

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your bones and stuffy, but they were if they're not

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looking for it, I don't know. Hopefully not. You know,

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I'm not bothered, but hopefully fine. But the other thing,

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let's talk about diseases.

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Yeah, no, it's.

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Macro degeneration, which is again it's in the family, which

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is my men had it, my dad's got it, which

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is an eye an I thing. So macro degeneration, it's

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an eye condition or mecula. Not macro mecula. Sorry, is

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a it's a common idea ie disorder, especially among older

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dudes adults, where the central part of the retina, the macula, deteriorates.

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So it's kind of a.

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What you're hustling me for?

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Vinnie? What is it?

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What do you want?

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He keeps trying to get into the window sill. Do

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you promise to behave if you go into the window sill?

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Right? Go on there? So he's gone.

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I put him. I told him, I said get out.

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But what I mean is, please go through the door.

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All right.

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It doesn't Vinnie, you can. I'm not leaving that door open.

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But if you want to go and go into the

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window sill in the bedroom, you can. But if you bark,

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you're gonna have to come in here. Nothing I do

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is good enough for him. It is just not good enough?

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Is it?

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I don't know what you want, mate, I can open

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this window.

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Is that what you want from me?

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To pull a cat?

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Oh?

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Is that better? Is that more substantial? You've got a

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bit more bit more sun?

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Is that better for you?

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God? It's constantly moaning. Yes, it's it's just a nice thing.

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It's it's digit it's just aging. It's an aging thing.

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I think, maybe not always, but it's more common in

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more older people. But older could I mean it's I'm

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technically in the older group now and I am fifty four.

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So my optician did say that it looked like I

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might have the beginning of it.

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So what they did did? They started?

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I started having actor like glasses to sort of protect

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me from the sun and sunlight and stuff. So I

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will continue that, but it's expensive. It adds some fair

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bit of money to the lenses. And I have anti

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glow as well or anti shine, I don't know what

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the right word, but yeah, I have that on there

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and it's like a coating thing. Although I think they

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might have actually come with them last time, our few

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last should maybe make an appointment the the opticians? Now,

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shall I? Should I make an appointment?

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Should I?

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Do it on the phone so you can hear, but

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then I don't want to. I don't know I could

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day I can make an appointment on the phone. So

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I'm just gonna.

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Yeah. I think.

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Reading because the glasses I've got at the moment, it's

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got all. It's basically got all three. It's like three

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free lenses in one. So the middle is kind of

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I think the top the bottom is for reading, and

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I think the middle is the middle is for distance,

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and I think the top.

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Is for my computer. I'm not sure.

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Maybe it's only got two. It's a long time ago.

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It's been over three years since I last got my

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eyes tested. I need to get them tested again.

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I do.

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Who am I with eyes?

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Eyes? Not eyes?

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Are us eye spotters?

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Nope? Do you know I was actually in.

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I was in Iceland, the store, not the country, and

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I didn't have a passport at the time, so the

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store was the closest I could get to that environment.

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And I think I basically there was a little QB

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on me. I'd put all my stuff through and the

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I think I'd packed all my bags, and the lady

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behind the counter, because one knows like lowered counters, I

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think it might have had a like all mechanical thing

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that pushes along. I forget what they called conveyor, conveyor

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belt or whatever. And she said, oh, you've forgotten something

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that I'm put into the bag. I said, thanks, this lady,

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there's this lady. That lady, A lady who was waiting

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next to be said, shouted out.

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Should have gone to spec Shavers. And I thought, really, because.

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Bearing in mind, I was wearing glasses. So you know,

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it's a disability, isn't it, you know, eyesight and stuff.

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I'm not that. I'm just like, I wasn't upset.

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Just it's just like, okay, So if I was troubling,

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if I was in a wheelchair struggling to get upper

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upper ramp, should have gone to a different weight, should

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have got a better wheelchair like no, I said, I

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just it's a human error. I just didn't see it.

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How couldn't you see it as a big pack of cokes? Okay,

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perhaps I need to get my ice tested. Perhaps you're

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right I should have gone to Specsavers. I do go

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to Specsavers. I meant lots of different vets opticians over

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the years. I get my luck between them. Two the

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looks I get and I just I just found it weird.

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It's one of those like she wasn't really I don't know,

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she just watched it too much TV. Because it's an

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advert should have gone to Specsavers. But it just seems

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weird to hear an advert being chucked out in a

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real life situation, especially as it's such an old phrase.

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It's like, what's thirty years old since I've been having

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their adverts?

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Should have gone to spect thing thing. And I'm like, okay,

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And I just I.

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Didn't know really what to do or what to say.

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I just wanted to move on with my life. I

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just wanted to just to I suppose I should have

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put her down as one of the people I forgive.

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I thought, I advocate.

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Let it go, man, let it go. It was fifteen

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years ago.

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I know, I know it was. It was a long

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time ago.

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Fifteen years maybe not fifteen years, probably nine years, eight

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years maybe since I've been wearing glasses. So yeah, i'd

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been wearing glasses since. Were's the history. Here's the history

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of my glasses.

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I went to.

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I started getting headaches. Actually, that's what it was. When

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I was about fifteen. It's about fifteen and I was

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getting headaches, so my mummy took me to the dentist

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because she was she wasn't too bright.

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No, she took me to your doctors. Isn't it weird?

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I was fifteen, I was still going to the doctors

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with my mummy. That just shows I was just wasn't

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I didn't?

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I just did.

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Yeah, I didn't go to the doctors on my own

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until I was sixteen. I don't even I don't even

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know if that's normal. But I didn't want to go.

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I mean, if I'm honest with you, still don't.

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Oh what my mama, mama and I.

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The doctor said to me, you've got looks like it's

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your eyes. And I said, yeah, I know you're looking

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at my eyes, so they are my eyes. He said, no, no,

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I know they're your eyes. I said, well, you're looking

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at my eyes and saying it looks like it's your eyes.

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But if you're looking at my hand and said it

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looks like your eyes, that would be won't wouldn't it

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if my hand looked like my eyes. But if my

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eyes or my eyes looked like my hands, yeah, worrying.

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But if my eyes looked like my eyes, then that's normal,

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isn't it. He looked at my mum and she just

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shook her head as well. She said, I've had nine

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years of this. He said really, He said, yeah, nine years.

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So how come he's fifteen. Well, I've had since he

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was seven. Okay, it must be hard work, she said,

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don't matter. I found a way to escape from him.

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I'm moving away. You haven't told him yet. I'm moving away. Oh,

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it's going to be so lovely. And I'm like, I'm

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right here. I can hear what you're saying. It's my

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eyes that the problem, not mears. And the doctor said,

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you are with them ears. I'm surprised you can't. There's

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nothing you can't hear, and they laughed, that's rude. Can't

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make fun of them. The size of my ears, he said,

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the size of your ears. The only reason no one

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mentions your is because your nose is so big. No

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one even notices your ears are massive.

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Wow.

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And I'm thinking you're supposed to be my.

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Doctor, and he said, no, let me tell you something, Jason.

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I'm not your doctor. I'm your mum's doctor. She brings me,

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She brings you to me. When she moves away, I

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won't be seeing you again. You're gonna have to get

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your own doctor. I'm just seeing you as a favor

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to her.

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No one in this town wants to see you. I's like, wow,

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this is this is getting, this is getting why?

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He says, why all you do is fart everywhere you go?

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As far You're known famous in this town for farting

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everywhere you go.

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Fart far, far, far, far, far far far.

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You know how expensive it is to have to fumigate

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the entire doctor's surgery every time you walk past.

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What this is?

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Where is this all coming from?

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Well?

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Your bum apparently? Okay, I just wanted to a headache,

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I saw. I just wanted to get Jack checked out.

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He said, yeah, and luckily you can now go and

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see an opticians. He's a number three opticians. Go and

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make an appointment with opticians. So you're talking to me,

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he said, no, I'm not talking to you and talking

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to her if you can go and make an opticians appointment.

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Because I think it's his eyes that said okay, So

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I go to the.

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Opticians and they this is a weird one. See, no

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one ever told me this. Apparently had a won key eye.

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Maybe I still do. And no one tells me. But

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he said, I see again. I don't know if he

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was just friends with the doctors and he thought the

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doctor said, just wind him up. You know you're going

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to meet for the first time. You're going to think

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lovely kid. But then he's going to let one go

489
00:35:08.400 --> 00:35:11.760
and it's going to stink the whole building out. So

490
00:35:12.320 --> 00:35:15.920
get in there first, make fun of him. Do something

491
00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:18.960
like that, really get his self esteem down. It's okay,

492
00:35:19.800 --> 00:35:25.199
So I think that's what happened, but that this is

493
00:35:25.239 --> 00:35:28.440
what happened. In the very first opticians I've ever been to,

494
00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:35.760
he said to me, right, you need glasses.

495
00:35:37.239 --> 00:35:38.679
I've realized over the years.

496
00:35:39.960 --> 00:35:43.639
I think that's the first thing people learn in optician college.

497
00:35:44.800 --> 00:35:48.920
It's the first thing I learned, is you need glass Everyone. Well,

498
00:35:48.960 --> 00:35:51.360
come to your first day of learning to be an optician.

499
00:35:51.719 --> 00:35:54.519
Now repeat after me, you need glasses.

500
00:35:55.480 --> 00:35:56.079
What do you mean?

501
00:35:56.440 --> 00:36:00.119
No, just everyone repeat you need glasses.

502
00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:02.639
Or you need new glasses.

503
00:36:05.920 --> 00:36:07.599
That's what you're going to have to say to every

504
00:36:07.639 --> 00:36:12.119
single person you see from now onwards. So when you're professional,

505
00:36:12.199 --> 00:36:16.199
when you're all qualified, whether they've already got glasses or

506
00:36:16.199 --> 00:36:19.360
whether they haven't got glasses, you need glasses. Or you

507
00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:20.519
need new glasses.

508
00:36:23.119 --> 00:36:32.000
What if they don't need them? Get out, get out? No, no, no.

509
00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:38.360
I've never ever, ever known an oppetition to tell me

510
00:36:38.400 --> 00:36:39.519
that I didn't need glasses.

511
00:36:39.599 --> 00:36:39.840
Ever.

512
00:36:43.360 --> 00:36:48.840
I think that's it's just like what they're taught. So

513
00:36:48.880 --> 00:36:51.320
I went along. I didn't realize this at the time.

514
00:36:51.960 --> 00:36:53.719
I mean I did need glass I think I did, but.

515
00:36:55.199 --> 00:36:55.559
I don't.

516
00:36:55.840 --> 00:36:58.280
I mean, I don't personally think I needed them all

517
00:36:58.320 --> 00:37:00.400
the time, but they He said, you need them all time.

518
00:37:01.199 --> 00:37:06.960
You definitely done for reading. So he gave me. I

519
00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:08.840
think he gave me different glasses for.

520
00:37:08.880 --> 00:37:10.960
Reading, or did he.

521
00:37:15.559 --> 00:37:18.880
I'm not sure, but he gave me glasses. Now I'm

522
00:37:18.920 --> 00:37:21.559
not sure if I needed Oh, he gave me glasses. Anyway,

523
00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:24.960
it's such a long time ago. I might have had

524
00:37:24.960 --> 00:37:28.199
two pairs, one for reading, one for you know.

525
00:37:28.239 --> 00:37:28.840
Day to day.

526
00:37:29.679 --> 00:37:32.199
Just get a bit of extra money out of me. Well,

527
00:37:32.440 --> 00:37:34.079
I say out of me. I didn't pay for it.

528
00:37:35.079 --> 00:37:43.400
My mama paid for it, and she yeah, So it

529
00:37:43.480 --> 00:37:44.360
was weird. He said.

530
00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:47.159
This dentist said to me, you got a one KEI,

531
00:37:48.599 --> 00:37:50.360
I said, you got bad breath. You know, we've all

532
00:37:50.360 --> 00:37:55.519
got that wrong with us, he said.

533
00:37:55.880 --> 00:37:59.039
He came up to me. He said, missus Newland, do

534
00:37:59.079 --> 00:38:00.800
you want to pop out the room for a minute.

535
00:38:01.599 --> 00:38:05.440
She said why, He said, I just want to just

536
00:38:05.239 --> 00:38:08.719
I just want to punch your son. She said, really,

537
00:38:08.840 --> 00:38:11.760
you're going to punch him, she said, He said yeah.

538
00:38:11.880 --> 00:38:14.000
She said, okay, right, An want me to wait outside

539
00:38:14.039 --> 00:38:18.400
for I'm like, wait a minute, excuse me, I'm fifteen.

540
00:38:19.760 --> 00:38:23.800
You know just what you're doing. Anyway, nothing bad happened

541
00:38:23.800 --> 00:38:31.360
in the end. They calmed down and I said, what

542
00:38:31.440 --> 00:38:36.079
do you mean I've got a one key? I because

543
00:38:36.079 --> 00:38:40.920
I didn't really know what it meant. He said, well, okay,

544
00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:50.119
see I'm over here right, and your right arm is

545
00:38:50.199 --> 00:38:54.960
looking over that. Your right arm, you're right, and well

546
00:38:55.559 --> 00:38:58.320
it was a funny moment. He really it cut through

547
00:38:58.320 --> 00:39:00.880
the tension, to be fair, said, I didn't mean you're

548
00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:08.440
right your right arm and you're so you're left. I

549
00:39:09.039 --> 00:39:13.400
is looking at me. Your right eye is looking through

550
00:39:13.440 --> 00:39:20.199
the window the other side of the room. I said, So,

551
00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:24.760
I mean that's quite a good thing. It's a safe

552
00:39:24.760 --> 00:39:27.440
thing to do. Isn't it be able to see three

553
00:39:27.559 --> 00:39:28.960
hundred and sixty degrees?

554
00:39:29.480 --> 00:39:33.280
That's quite a useful superpower.

555
00:39:34.639 --> 00:39:37.199
He said, yeah, if your eyes were at the side

556
00:39:37.239 --> 00:39:40.239
of your head, it would be, but they're not. They're

557
00:39:40.239 --> 00:39:45.280
both at the front of your head. So like, okay,

558
00:39:45.639 --> 00:39:49.960
so I've got a wonky eye. I said, which one

559
00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:53.119
is it? He said, it doesn't matter. I said, what

560
00:39:53.119 --> 00:39:57.840
do you mean it doesn't matter? He said, look for

561
00:39:57.880 --> 00:39:59.480
the sake of the podcast that you're.

562
00:39:59.320 --> 00:40:00.840
Going to be doing in.

563
00:40:02.320 --> 00:40:08.880
Forty years time, you won't even remember which I it was,

564
00:40:10.239 --> 00:40:12.039
so there's no point even remembering it.

565
00:40:13.079 --> 00:40:13.840
You can make one up.

566
00:40:13.880 --> 00:40:16.280
You can say right or left. There are two choices, really,

567
00:40:18.559 --> 00:40:22.840
but it doesn't matter. Yeah, it's gonna matter for now,

568
00:40:22.920 --> 00:40:23.360
isn't it.

569
00:40:23.880 --> 00:40:24.119
You know?

570
00:40:24.480 --> 00:40:26.800
Okay, it's not gonna matter in forty years time when

571
00:40:26.800 --> 00:40:31.920
I do the podcast, but it's it's going to matter

572
00:40:31.960 --> 00:40:37.599
now because this is now. This is nineteen ninety six

573
00:40:38.360 --> 00:40:43.119
or eighty five, eighty six, whatever year it was. And

574
00:40:43.159 --> 00:40:46.280
he said, you really don't know what year it is.

575
00:40:47.320 --> 00:40:50.639
At fifteen, you should know the year you're in. I said,

576
00:40:50.679 --> 00:40:55.000
come on, start having a go at me. And then

577
00:40:55.039 --> 00:40:56.039
I fighted.

578
00:40:56.840 --> 00:41:03.039
And he changed his attitude. I think he was shocked.

579
00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:06.760
But anyway, what happened in the end, I was given

580
00:41:07.039 --> 00:41:11.880
a patch to wear. I think he was just making

581
00:41:11.920 --> 00:41:19.920
fun of me. He had me wearing a patch, and

582
00:41:20.360 --> 00:41:21.679
not only was it a patch.

583
00:41:21.400 --> 00:41:22.400
It was a pink patch.

584
00:41:23.800 --> 00:41:25.320
So I think somewhere.

585
00:41:24.920 --> 00:41:28.760
Along the line they were just winding me up. So

586
00:41:28.840 --> 00:41:31.800
I had to wear a patch over one eye, the

587
00:41:33.159 --> 00:41:35.559
normal eye, well was the one that wasn't one key,

588
00:41:36.519 --> 00:41:39.320
in order to get the other eye back to being.

589
00:41:41.480 --> 00:41:42.280
Where it should be.

590
00:41:47.119 --> 00:41:49.639
And I had to do these exercises where I'd look

591
00:41:49.639 --> 00:41:52.800
at a pencil with the patch on and I would

592
00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:55.320
just practice these exercises of following it.

593
00:41:56.360 --> 00:41:57.440
I felt I might have to do it with the

594
00:41:57.440 --> 00:42:05.559
other eye as well. I can't remember. And I went

595
00:42:05.639 --> 00:42:09.599
to school. See, I think.

596
00:42:12.440 --> 00:42:14.559
I might have worn a patch at school as well.

597
00:42:14.559 --> 00:42:16.320
I don't think. I think I had to wear the

598
00:42:16.360 --> 00:42:19.480
patch at home or you know, I didn't have to

599
00:42:19.480 --> 00:42:22.519
wear the patch when I went out, I think. But

600
00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:27.159
I had to wear the patch at home, but I

601
00:42:27.199 --> 00:42:29.599
had glasses to wear at school, so you know, bearing

602
00:42:29.559 --> 00:42:36.039
in mind, I was fifteen last year as school. Probably

603
00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:41.079
either the end of the year nineteen eighty nineteen eighty

604
00:42:41.159 --> 00:42:45.880
five or the beginning of nineteen eighty six is around

605
00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:54.079
that kind of time. Yeah, around that time, and I

606
00:42:56.440 --> 00:42:59.400
so I wore glasses for the very first time, and

607
00:42:59.440 --> 00:43:07.880
I'm walking walking to school. Even people I'd never spoken

608
00:43:07.960 --> 00:43:14.000
to were making fun of me. People that didn't even

609
00:43:14.280 --> 00:43:21.119
notice me in the past were laughing at me. It

610
00:43:21.199 --> 00:43:22.880
was absolutely ridiculous.

611
00:43:23.280 --> 00:43:24.320
I mean, I thought.

612
00:43:24.119 --> 00:43:28.960
Maybe a little bit of ribbon, but you'd have thought

613
00:43:28.960 --> 00:43:34.360
i'd have walked in with like a I don't know,

614
00:43:35.840 --> 00:43:38.159
a pizza on my head or something like that. The

615
00:43:38.199 --> 00:43:44.239
way everyone was like, oh, look that.

616
00:43:43.400 --> 00:43:44.719
That is wearing.

617
00:43:44.800 --> 00:43:46.519
It's wearing glasses.

618
00:43:50.159 --> 00:43:52.599
And it got to the point where I took them off.

619
00:43:54.719 --> 00:43:56.159
Because I didn't enjoy it.

620
00:43:56.199 --> 00:43:58.679
If I'm honest, I might have enjoyed it a little

621
00:43:58.679 --> 00:44:00.719
bit like my friend's a bit of ribbing, like.

622
00:44:00.719 --> 00:44:04.760
Okay, it's cool, but then it goes on a bit.

623
00:44:04.639 --> 00:44:05.360
Too long.

624
00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:12.719
And I still get phone calls even, you know, got

625
00:44:12.719 --> 00:44:15.920
a phone call last night for someone from school, just randomly.

626
00:44:16.440 --> 00:44:17.360
They said, you.

627
00:44:17.440 --> 00:44:22.679
Right, goggles and I hung up. It's like, come on, So.

628
00:44:26.800 --> 00:44:29.960
I didn't. I didn't. I thought it was right to

629
00:44:29.960 --> 00:44:30.559
wear glasses.

630
00:44:30.599 --> 00:44:35.679
I didn't really have an issue with it, but other

631
00:44:35.719 --> 00:44:37.239
people seem to have an issue with it.

632
00:44:38.719 --> 00:44:40.079
So I took them off.

633
00:44:42.119 --> 00:44:47.880
And I did wear them because I remember wearing them

634
00:44:53.360 --> 00:44:55.800
just before I left school, So I'm thinking it.

635
00:44:55.840 --> 00:44:59.880
Might have been nineteen eighty six.

636
00:45:00.599 --> 00:45:05.519
So I left school in April March April time, nineteen

637
00:45:05.559 --> 00:45:09.000
eighty six, so it might have been that period leading

638
00:45:09.079 --> 00:45:11.840
up because I got the chip shop shop, the chip

639
00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:16.599
shop job before I left school. I just remembered, this

640
00:45:17.039 --> 00:45:21.000
isn't it weird? I got the chip shop job before

641
00:45:21.039 --> 00:45:27.800
I left school, and I worked on a Saturday and

642
00:45:27.920 --> 00:45:31.880
maybe a couple of evenings. And then when I left school,

643
00:45:31.920 --> 00:45:39.559
I went full time, and then the September nineteen eighty six,

644
00:45:40.280 --> 00:45:42.920
I went onto the YS.

645
00:45:43.400 --> 00:45:44.079
So when I was.

646
00:45:44.039 --> 00:45:46.199
Full time, I was then in sixty pird a week,

647
00:45:47.159 --> 00:45:50.960
which is more than I'd ever had who were like, yeah,

648
00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:53.000
never had sixty pounds a week.

649
00:45:55.480 --> 00:45:59.199
Cash. You know, I was still at school, and I wasn't.

650
00:45:59.000 --> 00:46:03.440
Still it was technically still at school, as in I

651
00:46:03.480 --> 00:46:06.679
had to go and do my exams, at least I

652
00:46:06.679 --> 00:46:08.599
thought I did. I didn't realize I didn't have to

653
00:46:08.599 --> 00:46:10.920
do anything, because once you leave school, you don't have

654
00:46:11.000 --> 00:46:12.719
to do any you know, I didn't have to go

655
00:46:12.920 --> 00:46:17.280
do my exams. There was no consequence for not doing them,

656
00:46:18.760 --> 00:46:23.000
And it was kind of weird because but I was

657
00:46:23.039 --> 00:46:26.719
still in that zone of being told what to do

658
00:46:27.119 --> 00:46:32.360
by schools, you know that kind of I remember right

659
00:46:32.400 --> 00:46:37.480
before I left school, there was this deputy head teacher.

660
00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:41.280
I'd never had a run in with him ever, but

661
00:46:41.320 --> 00:46:45.920
for some reason, and this was the last week of school,

662
00:46:46.679 --> 00:46:48.840
he decided to have a go at me. And he

663
00:46:48.920 --> 00:46:53.079
came up to me and he started shouting in my

664
00:46:53.159 --> 00:46:56.679
face about something. I don't know what it was. He

665
00:46:56.760 --> 00:47:02.800
was used to teach French, so I didn't always understand

666
00:47:02.800 --> 00:47:07.199
what he was saying. I think he sometimes he forgot

667
00:47:07.320 --> 00:47:11.119
he'd go in and out of French. And it was

668
00:47:11.119 --> 00:47:13.480
a deputy head and he was known for being really strict,

669
00:47:14.840 --> 00:47:20.199
and he was just chatting in my face, and I

670
00:47:20.239 --> 00:47:25.800
went from being oh, you know, like to remember him.

671
00:47:25.800 --> 00:47:28.280
I only had three days left to school, and I

672
00:47:28.360 --> 00:47:32.719
just started laughing at him. I just walked off, like

673
00:47:32.880 --> 00:47:38.920
what are you gonna do? Literally, it's nothing. It's like, yeah,

674
00:47:39.960 --> 00:47:41.800
I could walk out of school now and it would

675
00:47:41.880 --> 00:47:46.159
make no difference. I'm just sticking around because it's like

676
00:47:46.239 --> 00:47:49.679
the last three days. Just to say goodbye to people

677
00:47:49.719 --> 00:47:53.840
I've been at school with for years.

678
00:47:53.599 --> 00:47:54.719
That's all it was.

679
00:47:55.039 --> 00:47:58.639
It wasn't say goodbye to some of the kids in

680
00:47:58.679 --> 00:48:01.119
the younger years that I was friends that I wasn't

681
00:48:01.159 --> 00:48:08.320
going to see regularly anymore, or even the ones in

682
00:48:08.360 --> 00:48:11.000
the older years actually, because they had a levels back then,

683
00:48:11.599 --> 00:48:17.159
so there was some of my karate friends were in

684
00:48:17.199 --> 00:48:18.440
the higher levels as well.

685
00:48:20.519 --> 00:48:21.800
I remember, just like he.

686
00:48:21.880 --> 00:48:25.360
Was shit like okay.

687
00:48:26.880 --> 00:48:28.840
But then there was another weird thing happened, and I

688
00:48:28.880 --> 00:48:32.280
still to this day don't know what happened, why happened.

689
00:48:33.119 --> 00:48:35.920
But I went into my classroom. This is my my

690
00:48:38.880 --> 00:48:40.880
the room that we went to first thing in the morning,

691
00:48:40.960 --> 00:48:43.440
we stayed in at breaks if we wanted to, and

692
00:48:43.480 --> 00:48:44.840
then would go in there at the end of the

693
00:48:44.920 --> 00:48:47.199
day and do the register.

694
00:48:47.559 --> 00:48:48.639
So it was my form room.

695
00:48:48.719 --> 00:48:50.880
That's what they used to call it, isn't it. So

696
00:48:50.920 --> 00:48:53.840
it was my classroom for the entire year, and I

697
00:48:53.840 --> 00:48:55.840
had the same one for about three years in a row.

698
00:48:55.920 --> 00:49:01.079
I think, so I'm in there, I go in there

699
00:49:01.079 --> 00:49:03.679
in the last day. This is somewhere that I spend

700
00:49:04.119 --> 00:49:06.960
a fair bit of time on the time in the

701
00:49:07.039 --> 00:49:09.199
times that I didn't want to go out or do anything,

702
00:49:09.239 --> 00:49:10.920
I wanted to be on my own, I'd go in

703
00:49:10.960 --> 00:49:14.400
there and there's be a couple of us, maybe just

704
00:49:14.440 --> 00:49:16.320
sitting on our own just doing our own thing, you know.

705
00:49:20.960 --> 00:49:22.599
So I went in there and there was a couple of.

706
00:49:22.840 --> 00:49:26.920
There was three kids, all three that didn't really know

707
00:49:27.079 --> 00:49:31.360
very well that I didn't really they weren't from that

708
00:49:31.920 --> 00:49:35.440
they weren't even in that class, and they were just

709
00:49:35.480 --> 00:49:39.639
in there and they were playing some song.

710
00:49:39.760 --> 00:49:40.119
I remember.

711
00:49:40.159 --> 00:49:44.440
It was something that was it don't think nothing, then

712
00:49:44.480 --> 00:49:49.079
your chicks for free, I own nothing. Whatever that song

713
00:49:49.199 --> 00:49:53.840
is direstracted it, and I like, So I went in there.

714
00:49:54.360 --> 00:49:57.159
I must have said something to annoy someone. I don't

715
00:49:57.159 --> 00:50:01.800
know what, but something started on me and he was

716
00:50:01.880 --> 00:50:06.159
kicking me in the shins. I'm like, but it was surprised,

717
00:50:06.159 --> 00:50:08.239
Like I didn't know because he was I think this

718
00:50:08.280 --> 00:50:09.480
one was a judo man.

719
00:50:09.800 --> 00:50:10.599
We used to talk.

720
00:50:10.800 --> 00:50:14.519
Yeah, I didn't know him a little bit, and you know,

721
00:50:14.519 --> 00:50:17.000
I was interested because he did judo. I did karate,

722
00:50:17.199 --> 00:50:20.239
and you know he was I think he was more

723
00:50:20.239 --> 00:50:23.679
advanced than me, been doing judo a long time. But

724
00:50:23.719 --> 00:50:26.360
for some reason, you know, I kind of had that

725
00:50:26.440 --> 00:50:29.760
mutual respect for him because we were both doing something.

726
00:50:29.800 --> 00:50:32.840
We both kind of understood what it was like to

727
00:50:32.880 --> 00:50:37.480
be passionate about a martial arts, you know, And he

728
00:50:37.519 --> 00:50:40.119
probably went through exactly the same thing of watching all

729
00:50:40.159 --> 00:50:44.159
the Bruce Lee movies and watching all the you know,

730
00:50:44.280 --> 00:50:46.519
all the kung fu movies and stuff, because that's just

731
00:50:46.639 --> 00:50:49.960
natural for anyone that does martial arts, especially when.

732
00:50:49.800 --> 00:50:50.320
They're a kid.

733
00:50:52.360 --> 00:50:56.360
But he actually just kicked me in the shins and

734
00:50:57.400 --> 00:50:59.719
closed the door, slamming the door on me. Didn't want

735
00:50:59.719 --> 00:51:04.880
me in the class room, like, and I just I

736
00:51:04.920 --> 00:51:09.199
didn't understand. There was no one else around. I don't

737
00:51:09.199 --> 00:51:10.880
know where everyone else was. I think that was the

738
00:51:11.000 --> 00:51:17.679
very last day that I was there. I was just like,

739
00:51:17.840 --> 00:51:21.480
I really didn't know. It's like to this day, I

740
00:51:21.639 --> 00:51:24.760
still not that it doesn't matter why, but it still

741
00:51:24.800 --> 00:51:27.000
bugged me, Like doesn't bug me now, but it bugged

742
00:51:27.039 --> 00:51:30.440
me for a long time. I never saw the kid again.

743
00:51:32.599 --> 00:51:36.400
Don't think I saw any of them again, and I

744
00:51:36.440 --> 00:51:44.320
didn't know why. And it was such a shock. I

745
00:51:44.360 --> 00:51:47.119
didn't get angry I did this. I was just confused.

746
00:51:48.800 --> 00:51:52.719
It didn't hurt, well, probably a little bit, but it

747
00:51:52.760 --> 00:51:54.880
wasn't like they weren't. It wasn't like he was punching

748
00:51:54.880 --> 00:51:58.039
me or anything, but like, you're kicking me in the shin,

749
00:51:58.599 --> 00:52:05.039
the hell are you doing? And yeah, that's weird. That's

750
00:52:05.159 --> 00:52:08.639
just a really weird ending to being being at school.

751
00:52:14.800 --> 00:52:16.800
Unless I was in the other I might be maybe

752
00:52:16.840 --> 00:52:19.480
I was in the wrong room.

753
00:52:19.880 --> 00:52:24.039
Wait a minute, was that my school? I think it

754
00:52:24.119 --> 00:52:24.800
was my school?

755
00:52:26.639 --> 00:52:28.159
No me, I might have just gone into the wrong

756
00:52:28.199 --> 00:52:34.039
schooling into some random classroom and sat down and maybe

757
00:52:34.079 --> 00:52:34.840
that annoyed them.

758
00:52:35.119 --> 00:52:35.840
It's possible.

759
00:52:37.079 --> 00:52:43.760
So there's one really quite a vivid memory I had

760
00:52:43.760 --> 00:52:47.559
when I first got my classes. Boy was too actually

761
00:52:47.559 --> 00:52:49.960
my little brother, he was old enough to.

762
00:52:49.960 --> 00:52:57.000
Be really annoying, really annoying, and he kept coming up

763
00:52:57.039 --> 00:53:01.159
to me and putting his putting, his fingering fun.

764
00:53:01.119 --> 00:53:05.639
Together to make some little glasses and he'd like get

765
00:53:05.800 --> 00:53:09.400
right close to me and look look through them, he said,

766
00:53:09.400 --> 00:53:13.440
can you see me? I mean he was like seven,

767
00:53:13.480 --> 00:53:18.320
I suppose at the time, And yeah, it was funny

768
00:53:18.360 --> 00:53:23.400
to start with, but he kept doing it, and he'd

769
00:53:23.440 --> 00:53:25.400
just like pick random objects up.

770
00:53:25.480 --> 00:53:26.199
Can you see this?

771
00:53:30.559 --> 00:53:32.800
That is quite funny when you think about it. But

772
00:53:32.840 --> 00:53:38.079
he just kept doing it, just it'd be random, and

773
00:53:38.559 --> 00:53:40.440
like we was all watching TV. I think we were

774
00:53:40.480 --> 00:53:43.599
watching I say all of us. At that point, the

775
00:53:43.639 --> 00:53:46.119
family was a little bit split. One of my brothers

776
00:53:46.159 --> 00:53:47.960
had moved out I think maybe the other one had

777
00:53:47.960 --> 00:53:49.559
moved out as well, so it was only really me

778
00:53:49.639 --> 00:53:57.639
and my little brother potentially at that time, and my

779
00:53:57.679 --> 00:54:01.119
little brother. I think we're just watching TV. My little

780
00:54:01.119 --> 00:54:05.159
brother gets up stands by a television and says, can

781
00:54:05.199 --> 00:54:05.760
you see this?

782
00:54:06.840 --> 00:54:09.440
Like it?

783
00:54:09.559 --> 00:54:15.360
Amused the family, Come on, leave me alone. I'm wearing glasses.

784
00:54:16.320 --> 00:54:20.840
It's not something to make fun of. And my dad

785
00:54:20.960 --> 00:54:27.000
was leave him alone. He's only seven. I said, who

786
00:54:27.079 --> 00:54:30.320
is He said, your brother? I said, oh, I know,

787
00:54:30.480 --> 00:54:33.760
I know, he's only seven. And then then my dad

788
00:54:33.800 --> 00:54:36.760
said he's sitting over there. I said, I know where

789
00:54:36.760 --> 00:54:40.320
he's sitting. I can see where he was doing it. Now, like,

790
00:54:40.400 --> 00:54:43.880
can you see where it is? He asked me to

791
00:54:43.880 --> 00:54:50.119
watch his van. I said, okay. He said it's on

792
00:54:50.159 --> 00:54:53.400
the driveway. I said, and it's a van. I'm not

793
00:54:53.400 --> 00:54:54.719
going to not know where it is.

794
00:54:55.760 --> 00:54:57.440
It's like it's.

795
00:54:59.400 --> 00:55:01.400
So I don't know who started doing it, my dad

796
00:55:01.480 --> 00:55:06.239
or my little brother. But then I started getting a

797
00:55:06.239 --> 00:55:09.440
little bit touchy, because you know, some people do that

798
00:55:09.519 --> 00:55:14.119
they show you something, and I started to get a

799
00:55:14.119 --> 00:55:22.159
little bit oversensitive. Maybe we were the air show and

800
00:55:22.440 --> 00:55:25.519
I remember my auntie saying, oh that the red the

801
00:55:25.559 --> 00:55:27.760
Red Arrows are coming soon. So we're all waiting for

802
00:55:27.800 --> 00:55:31.079
the Red Arrows, but there's loads of other planes as well.

803
00:55:33.559 --> 00:55:37.159
And my auntie said, the Red Arrows are coming. I said, okay,

804
00:55:37.480 --> 00:55:40.760
she said they're there. I was like, there there, Look,

805
00:55:41.119 --> 00:55:43.119
I said, I can see.

806
00:55:43.159 --> 00:55:44.119
I do have eyes. You know.

807
00:55:45.760 --> 00:55:48.719
She wasn't being rude. She was just pointing where they were.

808
00:55:49.159 --> 00:55:52.000
And the fact is I couldn't see where they were.

809
00:55:52.400 --> 00:55:53.639
So I'm glad that she told me.

810
00:55:54.440 --> 00:55:57.840
It wasn't really you know, I only got hit by

811
00:55:57.840 --> 00:56:00.679
a car once because I was ignored someone that was

812
00:56:00.679 --> 00:56:04.639
telling me that the car was coming towards me because

813
00:56:04.639 --> 00:56:08.199
it annoyed me. So I'm walking across a zebra crossing

814
00:56:08.639 --> 00:56:11.199
and someone showering, Wait, look, look is a car coming.

815
00:56:11.239 --> 00:56:14.599
It's not stopping because it was speeding and maybe I

816
00:56:14.599 --> 00:56:16.880
think police were after it or something, and I'm like,

817
00:56:17.960 --> 00:56:21.079
can't you see it? Look there's like shut up, I've

818
00:56:21.079 --> 00:56:23.960
got glasses. They're just glasses. And then I look over

819
00:56:24.000 --> 00:56:26.159
and I have to sort of jump out the way.

820
00:56:26.920 --> 00:56:31.440
Another time, I'm talking to a friend from karate and

821
00:56:31.480 --> 00:56:35.599
he's he's an adult, so he's working up above Tesco's

822
00:56:35.719 --> 00:56:38.360
in a shipping office. So I'm just looking at this

823
00:56:38.480 --> 00:56:42.440
really high build. I'm just waving to him because staying alone,

824
00:56:42.480 --> 00:56:44.159
you know, because I was just on my way home

825
00:56:45.199 --> 00:56:49.960
and he started shouting, look, look and pointing behind me.

826
00:56:50.039 --> 00:56:52.880
I was like, oh, you don't start now, come on,

827
00:56:53.360 --> 00:56:55.159
we were getting on, so, well, why have you got

828
00:56:55.199 --> 00:56:58.960
a start? It's bad enough it's at home, it's a school.

829
00:56:59.840 --> 00:57:06.039
Now it's karate people doing it. And he's like, well,

830
00:57:06.039 --> 00:57:10.199
it turned out it was a van backing and it

831
00:57:10.199 --> 00:57:14.519
bumped into me. Luckily it wasn't going fast, but it

832
00:57:14.599 --> 00:57:15.880
was back in study, you know, when I.

833
00:57:15.880 --> 00:57:17.639
Go do do do do do?

834
00:57:17.880 --> 00:57:20.000
Like that, it was making a sound, but I didn't

835
00:57:20.559 --> 00:57:22.840
wasn't listening because I was focusing on what I was

836
00:57:23.039 --> 00:57:27.239
what I was talking about, and probably when he was talking,

837
00:57:27.320 --> 00:57:29.119
I was focusing on what I was going to say next.

838
00:57:29.159 --> 00:57:31.079
So I wasn't really listening to what he was saying.

839
00:57:32.360 --> 00:57:35.199
But when he started pointing, hey, look, look like, I

840
00:57:35.280 --> 00:57:43.000
really took offence stopped saying look like, I can't see anything. Yeah,

841
00:57:43.039 --> 00:57:45.679
So I had a bandack a van back over me,

842
00:57:46.000 --> 00:57:48.719
but luckily it just hit my back and knocked me

843
00:57:49.159 --> 00:57:51.119
kind of knocked me out the way, but it wasn't

844
00:57:51.159 --> 00:57:59.119
moving particularly fast. But one of my memories of wearing

845
00:57:59.199 --> 00:58:04.519
glasses when I first got them, and this is just

846
00:58:04.960 --> 00:58:09.719
explain how I was. I've always been like this.

847
00:58:09.719 --> 00:58:10.880
This was a.

848
00:58:15.239 --> 00:58:18.719
It was one of them days, of one of them

849
00:58:18.840 --> 00:58:24.440
days where I had to get away. I had to

850
00:58:24.519 --> 00:58:29.960
remove myself from the situation. I had to be on

851
00:58:30.039 --> 00:58:34.679
my own. I was semi running away cat to be

852
00:58:34.760 --> 00:58:37.719
on my own. It was one of them things. And

853
00:58:38.000 --> 00:58:43.719
I walked to the next town on my own, wearing

854
00:58:43.800 --> 00:58:48.199
my glasses, and I just followed the bus route so

855
00:58:48.239 --> 00:58:51.480
I could get back again, which was actually quick. It

856
00:58:51.519 --> 00:58:54.360
was a much longer route actually, but it meant I

857
00:58:54.400 --> 00:58:59.480
knew how to get back. So it took me probably

858
00:59:03.480 --> 00:59:09.000
five hours to get there, and maybe seven hours. I

859
00:59:09.000 --> 00:59:14.920
think I might just got the bus back, but it

860
00:59:15.000 --> 00:59:19.679
was a sunny day probably I'm saying. I'm thinking maybe

861
00:59:20.239 --> 00:59:30.159
April time, just after leaving school, possibly on a weekday,

862
00:59:31.559 --> 00:59:39.119
and I I mean, technically it's probably not a good idea,

863
00:59:39.199 --> 00:59:41.159
but I was walking at the side of the road

864
00:59:42.000 --> 00:59:45.639
on the grass verge. There wasn't any pavements most of

865
00:59:45.679 --> 00:59:48.480
the journey because once we got out of the town,

866
00:59:49.119 --> 00:59:52.199
a lot of countryside between or in England. It's just

867
00:59:52.320 --> 00:59:57.159
huge amounts of countryside surrounding everywhere. Every town, every village,

868
00:59:57.239 --> 01:00:03.239
every city, it's the countryside. So I'm just following the route.

869
01:00:03.239 --> 01:00:09.239
I've done the route many times, many times, I've I've

870
01:00:09.280 --> 01:00:12.480
done the route a few times. I hadn't really gotten

871
01:00:12.480 --> 01:00:16.280
a bust that many times as a kid on my own. Well,

872
01:00:16.280 --> 01:00:17.519
I don't think I ever went on my own. I

873
01:00:17.559 --> 01:00:21.360
was also with her friend. So yeah, so I'm walking

874
01:00:21.440 --> 01:00:31.039
and it was very peaceful, very meditative, very I don't know.

875
01:00:31.599 --> 01:00:36.119
I was just thinking about things and a real, real

876
01:00:36.159 --> 01:00:41.199
good think, real good. It was like a separation from

877
01:00:41.960 --> 01:00:51.480
all the stuff that was going on, and it felt nice.

878
01:00:53.039 --> 01:00:57.119
I was hungry, though, but it felt nice. So it

879
01:00:57.159 --> 01:01:00.320
took me six six to seven hours walking in it,

880
01:01:01.400 --> 01:01:05.159
and probably got blisters and all that stuff, but got

881
01:01:05.159 --> 01:01:09.960
the bus home. No one knew I was gone, No

882
01:01:10.000 --> 01:01:14.119
one noticed I hadn't been around. But there was no

883
01:01:14.159 --> 01:01:17.159
reason for them too anyway, because at that time the

884
01:01:17.199 --> 01:01:21.679
whole family was busy. People were just busy doing stuff,

885
01:01:22.960 --> 01:01:27.559
and two of my brothers weren't really around anymore. My

886
01:01:27.599 --> 01:01:34.760
little brother was what seven eight, yeah, seven or eight,

887
01:01:35.119 --> 01:01:38.719
so he was kind of doing his own thing as well.

888
01:01:41.679 --> 01:01:46.800
Both parents were working, so yeah, I was kind of

889
01:01:46.920 --> 01:01:50.760
just you know, I think kind of the family had

890
01:01:50.800 --> 01:01:54.360
pretty much at that point, the family had.

891
01:01:54.599 --> 01:01:59.679
Kind of come to an end. And then, you know.

892
01:02:00.079 --> 01:02:00.400
By.

893
01:02:03.320 --> 01:02:07.760
By this summer, the summer, I don't know when it was,

894
01:02:07.880 --> 01:02:18.880
it might have been May, maytime, maybe June, we moved

895
01:02:18.920 --> 01:02:26.280
out and stayed in my step mom's mom's flat until

896
01:02:26.320 --> 01:02:31.920
she moved away. So that was, Yeah, that was kind

897
01:02:31.960 --> 01:02:35.960
of a weird, weird period. And I didn't wear my

898
01:02:35.960 --> 01:02:43.280
glasses at all after that, like never ever again, didn't

899
01:02:43.320 --> 01:02:49.519
wear them, and then I the next time I went

900
01:02:49.599 --> 01:02:51.239
to see if I needed glasses was.

901
01:02:53.480 --> 01:02:53.760
Again.

902
01:02:54.679 --> 01:02:58.480
This was nineteen eighty nine. It was a few years later,

903
01:02:58.960 --> 01:03:05.679
nineteen eighty nine in London, and I wanted to get

904
01:03:05.719 --> 01:03:08.400
back to reading again because i'd had a break from reading.

905
01:03:09.840 --> 01:03:11.840
We're not a complete break, but I hadn't really read

906
01:03:11.920 --> 01:03:14.159
much for a little while for a few months, and

907
01:03:14.199 --> 01:03:17.360
I thought, and I didn't have any hardly any of

908
01:03:17.400 --> 01:03:20.559
my belongings in London, so I'd left them at my

909
01:03:20.639 --> 01:03:29.039
dad's just store in storage and not they had much stuff,

910
01:03:29.079 --> 01:03:31.400
but I think it was under a bed. But there's

911
01:03:31.400 --> 01:03:35.360
a lot of the videos and some books and stuff,

912
01:03:35.400 --> 01:03:39.559
you know. So what I did is I went to

913
01:03:39.599 --> 01:03:48.360
the opticians thinking, and they said, I just need glasses

914
01:03:48.400 --> 01:03:51.199
for reading. I don't need them all the time, just

915
01:03:51.239 --> 01:03:55.760
for reading. I said, okay, cool. So and that's when

916
01:03:55.760 --> 01:03:58.480
I started. I bought a couple of books and I

917
01:03:59.039 --> 01:04:03.039
got back into reading again because it was always a passion,

918
01:04:03.239 --> 01:04:07.000
and I.

919
01:04:05.960 --> 01:04:08.239
Not always obvious. I was born reading, but.

920
01:04:10.440 --> 01:04:14.079
I kind of taught myself to read. Really with my book,

921
01:04:15.400 --> 01:04:17.119
it's over there somewhere on the bookcase.

922
01:04:17.159 --> 01:04:18.519
It was a Jack Andry.

923
01:04:20.079 --> 01:04:22.679
Still I've literally memorized.

924
01:04:23.519 --> 01:04:27.159
I memorized it. And this is bearing in mind I

925
01:04:27.159 --> 01:04:28.599
haven't watched I haven't read this.

926
01:04:28.599 --> 01:04:33.119
Book since I was a little kid, okay, but I

927
01:04:33.199 --> 01:04:37.440
learned to read with it. And in the first the

928
01:04:37.559 --> 01:04:41.440
first page is a little rhyme, I'll tell you a

929
01:04:41.519 --> 01:04:44.000
story about Jack and Ry, and now my story.

930
01:04:44.880 --> 01:04:47.320
I'll tell you story.

931
01:04:48.320 --> 01:04:51.920
When I said, I memorized it, I'll tell you a

932
01:04:52.000 --> 01:04:55.360
story about Jack and Ry, and now my story has begun.

933
01:04:55.800 --> 01:04:58.000
I'll tell you another about Jack and his brother, and

934
01:04:58.039 --> 01:05:01.960
now my story is done.

935
01:05:03.559 --> 01:05:05.039
I tried to look for it the other day.

936
01:05:05.199 --> 01:05:07.039
I think while I was doing a recording, I could

937
01:05:07.079 --> 01:05:12.079
not find it. It's definitely there because I found it online.

938
01:05:12.960 --> 01:05:17.039
Because it's basically about Jack, Jack and the bean Stalk,

939
01:05:17.119 --> 01:05:19.559
and I think there's a few different stories about Jack,

940
01:05:22.079 --> 01:05:24.079
and that was what Jack and Noy was based on,

941
01:05:24.159 --> 01:05:29.119
which was a really famous TV show where people would

942
01:05:29.159 --> 01:05:31.760
just tell a story. They'd read out of a book

943
01:05:31.760 --> 01:05:37.559
and tell a story. And I, I said, taught myself

944
01:05:37.599 --> 01:05:39.760
to read. I mean, I'm sure that you know I

945
01:05:39.760 --> 01:05:45.360
did go to school and stuff at that time, but

946
01:05:45.440 --> 01:05:50.199
because I was what six, maybe six five or six,

947
01:05:51.079 --> 01:05:56.840
I moved around so much that I didn't I don't

948
01:05:56.880 --> 01:06:01.480
think I really had any kind of stable education as

949
01:06:01.519 --> 01:06:01.800
it were.

950
01:06:02.800 --> 01:06:05.880
And then when I moved.

951
01:06:05.599 --> 01:06:12.599
To with my dad, I was seven and I was

952
01:06:12.639 --> 01:06:20.400
told by one of my parents that I was behind. Basically,

953
01:06:20.400 --> 01:06:23.639
I was behind because I was told I've been taught

954
01:06:23.679 --> 01:06:29.840
the wrong way. That's what the teachers told her. That

955
01:06:29.880 --> 01:06:31.800
it sounded like I've been told I've been taught the

956
01:06:31.800 --> 01:06:35.039
wrong way. I was behind. I mean, probably just being

957
01:06:35.119 --> 01:06:36.760
kind to me, trying to explain it to me in

958
01:06:36.800 --> 01:06:42.840
a way that I might understand it. So basically what

959
01:06:42.840 --> 01:06:52.320
it meant I was in educational terms. Now, I guess

960
01:06:52.480 --> 01:06:58.440
remedial or special needs educational terms. Back then, I was

961
01:06:58.440 --> 01:07:01.119
a dunce. You know, it was a little bit different

962
01:07:01.119 --> 01:07:06.639
back then. This is nineteen seventy seven. Someone that was

963
01:07:06.719 --> 01:07:14.559
behind educationally was called a dunce. It's not good, really,

964
01:07:15.039 --> 01:07:18.119
it's not now, but that's what I was kind of

965
01:07:18.119 --> 01:07:18.719
classed as.

966
01:07:20.000 --> 01:07:22.519
But that's not how she she said that.

967
01:07:22.559 --> 01:07:24.960
She told me I was special. Now I didn't realize

968
01:07:25.000 --> 01:07:28.880
that meant special needs. But when she said I was special,

969
01:07:29.039 --> 01:07:34.159
I felt special, like loved, like I was, you know, special.

970
01:07:38.400 --> 01:07:41.079
Maybe she was about to say needs, but I just

971
01:07:41.159 --> 01:07:44.440
like made such a big I was so gushy and

972
01:07:44.559 --> 01:07:48.440
smiling when she said special. She thought, perhaps I won't

973
01:07:48.480 --> 01:07:55.039
say the word needs. Had a conversation with my dad

974
01:07:55.400 --> 01:07:58.400
later in the evening. Probably didn't they. So did you

975
01:07:58.480 --> 01:08:01.280
have a chat with him? Yeah, did you tell him

976
01:08:01.280 --> 01:08:02.440
that he special needs? Well?

977
01:08:03.400 --> 01:08:04.559
I told him part of it.

978
01:08:06.800 --> 01:08:11.960
But he seems so happy.

979
01:08:10.519 --> 01:08:11.639
He said, yeah, but he's happy.

980
01:08:11.639 --> 01:08:13.320
All you've got to do is just wave a banana

981
01:08:13.360 --> 01:08:14.639
around and that gets his attention.

982
01:08:14.760 --> 01:08:15.280
He's happy.

983
01:08:16.760 --> 01:08:21.119
That's not true. I do like bananas, but not quite

984
01:08:21.119 --> 01:08:29.359
that distractable. Give him a cardboard give him a cardboard box.

985
01:08:30.359 --> 01:08:36.439
That's all he needs. It's like, no, I mean, cardboard

986
01:08:36.439 --> 01:08:39.239
boxes were fun, but it's not all I needed. Also,

987
01:08:41.239 --> 01:08:48.640
I love television, So anyway, i'd kind of taught myself,

988
01:08:48.680 --> 01:08:51.359
I think, to read. Maybe I taught myself wrongly to read,

989
01:08:52.560 --> 01:09:02.000
but I think I ended up quite okay verbally. I

990
01:09:02.039 --> 01:09:06.000
think I was. I don't think I was behind verbally.

991
01:09:07.159 --> 01:09:11.760
And there's advantages to there's advantages to moving.

992
01:09:11.600 --> 01:09:12.720
Around a lot when you're little.

993
01:09:14.039 --> 01:09:16.279
From a verbal perspective, I think you get to learn

994
01:09:17.680 --> 01:09:20.720
quite you know, verbally, get to not always. But I

995
01:09:20.720 --> 01:09:23.800
think in my case, I think I became verbally quite

996
01:09:23.880 --> 01:09:26.680
competent being around adults a lot.

997
01:09:26.880 --> 01:09:30.680
That's another thing. Living in a kid's home with lots.

998
01:09:30.399 --> 01:09:34.520
Of other kids, there's lots of conversations all the time,

999
01:09:35.159 --> 01:09:38.560
you know, it's living in dormitories and stuff like that.

1000
01:09:39.399 --> 01:09:42.520
So I didn't really get any time to myself, but

1001
01:09:42.600 --> 01:09:44.359
there was a lot of conversations going on.

1002
01:09:44.680 --> 01:09:47.920
So I was hearing a lot of verbal stuff and

1003
01:09:48.720 --> 01:09:49.600
absorbing that.

1004
01:09:54.520 --> 01:09:57.399
So I think, you know, I think that my verbal

1005
01:09:57.439 --> 01:10:02.000
skills would probably be quite good, but everything else was

1006
01:10:02.199 --> 01:10:03.199
me being not.

1007
01:10:04.680 --> 01:10:05.680
So good.

1008
01:10:06.279 --> 01:10:12.119
My mathematics skills was still Yeah, it was never really

1009
01:10:12.119 --> 01:10:15.319
a thing for me, and it wasn't really it wasn't

1010
01:10:15.359 --> 01:10:21.479
really my forte as it were, nor science, nor geography,

1011
01:10:21.600 --> 01:10:24.079
nor history anything.

1012
01:10:24.159 --> 01:10:28.680
Really the only subject I liked too.

1013
01:10:28.479 --> 01:10:35.279
Ari and English Ari because I suppose in a way

1014
01:10:35.359 --> 01:10:39.159
I had a little bit of an advantage being part,

1015
01:10:39.279 --> 01:10:41.479
you know, for a couple of years being raised by

1016
01:10:41.560 --> 01:10:45.039
nuns kind of church every day. I kind of understood

1017
01:10:46.840 --> 01:10:52.359
the groundings of like Christianity or Catholicism or you know

1018
01:10:52.399 --> 01:10:54.359
that kind of stuff. I guess I had a little

1019
01:10:54.399 --> 01:10:57.960
bit more of an understanding of it, so it wasn't

1020
01:10:58.520 --> 01:11:05.119
too difficult. Plus, both the IRA teachers I had, because

1021
01:11:05.119 --> 01:11:08.159
I only had two IRA teachers this is religious education

1022
01:11:08.880 --> 01:11:11.840
and throughout my high school. And they were both lovely.

1023
01:11:12.079 --> 01:11:15.880
They're both too, of my best teachers. So I wasn't

1024
01:11:15.920 --> 01:11:19.359
interested in the subject really not to start with. But

1025
01:11:21.960 --> 01:11:24.920
it was, you know, it was more they were lovely.

1026
01:11:25.880 --> 01:11:28.520
I liked being in the class because the teachers were lovely,

1027
01:11:29.720 --> 01:11:33.239
and which is something that I think a lot of teachers.

1028
01:11:32.920 --> 01:11:35.520
Could learn from. Is actually.

1029
01:11:37.119 --> 01:11:44.800
Sometimes just I think just being nice, just being nice.

1030
01:11:46.359 --> 01:11:49.359
In them days, there was a lot of strict teachers.

1031
01:11:50.159 --> 01:11:50.560
It was.

1032
01:11:53.119 --> 01:11:54.800
Where I was. It wasn't.

1033
01:11:56.640 --> 01:11:58.840
I think it was kind of like children should be

1034
01:11:59.600 --> 01:12:04.159
seen not heard kind of attitude. So it's a little

1035
01:12:04.159 --> 01:12:04.800
bit different to.

1036
01:12:04.800 --> 01:12:07.399
How it is now. I don't know how it is now.

1037
01:12:07.439 --> 01:12:11.439
I don't have kids and I live on a council estate,

1038
01:12:11.600 --> 01:12:15.199
so kids are definitely not treated that they should be

1039
01:12:15.319 --> 01:12:16.199
seen and not heard.

1040
01:12:16.760 --> 01:12:20.199
They're definitely heard. So it's.

1041
01:12:21.840 --> 01:12:24.239
I don't know what it's like in the mainstream country

1042
01:12:25.199 --> 01:12:33.520
people around the country. But I'm talking about glasses, I'm

1043
01:12:33.600 --> 01:12:38.239
talking about reading now. It's is I was in like

1044
01:12:38.319 --> 01:12:45.439
a remedial class once a week. I've just taken that

1045
01:12:45.560 --> 01:12:47.079
and I've talked about this before, but I had my

1046
01:12:47.079 --> 01:12:53.920
maths teacher, mister Johnson. It was lovely, big beard, lovely man,

1047
01:12:54.960 --> 01:12:59.680
really friendly and he actually I think if I'd ever

1048
01:12:59.720 --> 01:13:04.239
had him as my masth teacher all the way through

1049
01:13:04.279 --> 01:13:09.880
high school. I'm not saying that I would have gone

1050
01:13:09.920 --> 01:13:12.319
on to do a level or anything like that, or

1051
01:13:12.359 --> 01:13:15.840
even well, I think I might have gone on to

1052
01:13:15.880 --> 01:13:19.680
do GCSA, which I didn't did. I wasn't even that

1053
01:13:19.800 --> 01:13:20.439
level to do.

1054
01:13:20.560 --> 01:13:20.960
I had to.

1055
01:13:21.279 --> 01:13:24.359
I did CSSE, which is something you get like city

1056
01:13:24.359 --> 01:13:27.000
and guilds. That's the kinds of things you get for

1057
01:13:27.880 --> 01:13:34.159
block clearing toilets and stuff back then, and I think.

1058
01:13:34.000 --> 01:13:36.520
It's a bit higher now, but it was very low.

1059
01:13:36.359 --> 01:13:39.680
When it comes to it's City and guilds as of

1060
01:13:39.760 --> 01:13:43.960
people that are not academic. Really back then it was

1061
01:13:45.279 --> 01:13:50.640
it was the lowest level, and it's different now. So

1062
01:13:50.640 --> 01:13:53.800
I'm saying I'm not not going to be rude against

1063
01:13:53.840 --> 01:13:56.920
City and Gills because there's going to be people probably taking.

1064
01:13:56.640 --> 01:13:57.520
City and girls now.

1065
01:13:57.800 --> 01:14:02.079
But back then, City and Gills and Maths was not

1066
01:14:02.119 --> 01:14:06.920
an accomplishment. Necessarily it would have been for me because

1067
01:14:07.119 --> 01:14:09.159
I didn't pass it. So if I had passed the

1068
01:14:09.199 --> 01:14:12.600
City in Guilds, it would have been a really good accomplishment.

1069
01:14:14.039 --> 01:14:16.039
But I didn't get any qualifications.

1070
01:14:16.279 --> 01:14:16.920
I got.

1071
01:14:21.119 --> 01:14:27.520
You, which apparently is it stands for unclassified, so I

1072
01:14:27.600 --> 01:14:33.640
got unclassified for every single thing. I'm not sure if

1073
01:14:33.640 --> 01:14:40.880
I got a bit higher grade for English. If I'm honest,

1074
01:14:40.920 --> 01:14:43.079
I think I might have actually passed English or might

1075
01:14:43.079 --> 01:14:46.479
have been, but it still would have been low. Although

1076
01:14:46.520 --> 01:14:55.000
English was the only, probably the only subject that I

1077
01:14:55.159 --> 01:15:01.640
was adequate in. But the problem with English is I.

1078
01:15:01.600 --> 01:15:02.399
Didn't like it.

1079
01:15:04.399 --> 01:15:06.439
I did, to start with when I was in junior school,

1080
01:15:06.560 --> 01:15:13.159
loved English, practicing, writing, practicing handwriting. Reading books I would

1081
01:15:13.239 --> 01:15:17.079
take I got. I read every single book in the library.

1082
01:15:17.079 --> 01:15:20.840
They had a little library in the English room.

1083
01:15:20.359 --> 01:15:22.159
And it was just you know, little books.

1084
01:15:22.520 --> 01:15:24.319
But I'd take them home and i'd finish them, so

1085
01:15:24.359 --> 01:15:27.840
it would start reading them in class, would take turns

1086
01:15:27.920 --> 01:15:30.960
reading it out loud and things. I'd take the book

1087
01:15:30.960 --> 01:15:32.920
home with me and i'd read it overnight.

1088
01:15:32.520 --> 01:15:33.199
And bring it back.

1089
01:15:33.680 --> 01:15:36.880
And I did it to every single book. Sometimes I

1090
01:15:36.960 --> 01:15:39.039
take like two or three home at night the weekend.

1091
01:15:39.239 --> 01:15:43.520
I'd bring them back and i'd get permission. I wouldn't

1092
01:15:43.560 --> 01:15:48.920
just take them because I was a good boy. And

1093
01:15:50.439 --> 01:15:58.560
this is possibly before I got my library card, although

1094
01:15:58.560 --> 01:16:00.960
it might not have been if I don't know. Maybe

1095
01:16:00.960 --> 01:16:06.319
it was because yeah, I was nine, I'm not sure.

1096
01:16:06.319 --> 01:16:09.119
I don't think I had my library card it nine,

1097
01:16:10.479 --> 01:16:17.560
And so I loved English. I was more interested in

1098
01:16:17.600 --> 01:16:21.119
crafts than doing other things. So I think like history,

1099
01:16:23.520 --> 01:16:25.560
you know, would be talking about Romans, and I'm thinking.

1100
01:16:25.279 --> 01:16:26.680
What are you telling me about Romans?

1101
01:16:26.680 --> 01:16:26.760
For?

1102
01:16:29.119 --> 01:16:31.039
What are you telling me about the Saxons? Are you

1103
01:16:31.119 --> 01:16:34.920
telling me about the Why?

1104
01:16:36.399 --> 01:16:38.079
What are you talking about Napoleon? For?

1105
01:16:39.680 --> 01:16:43.560
It is just I think the only interesting thing about

1106
01:16:43.600 --> 01:16:47.880
history would be probably about if they'd done the history

1107
01:16:47.960 --> 01:16:50.000
of the town I was living in, or if they

1108
01:16:50.079 --> 01:16:55.000
had talked about the history of television or the history

1109
01:16:55.199 --> 01:17:02.520
of my family or something like that would have been

1110
01:17:02.560 --> 01:17:08.960
interesting to me, I guess. So I kind of went

1111
01:17:08.960 --> 01:17:11.079
along with it, and I just sat at the back

1112
01:17:11.159 --> 01:17:13.039
and and.

1113
01:17:15.000 --> 01:17:16.199
Just hid really.

1114
01:17:17.399 --> 01:17:22.079
And then I I was another thing, Oh yeah, that

1115
01:17:22.600 --> 01:17:23.439
when I was eight.

1116
01:17:27.039 --> 01:17:27.680
I was.

1117
01:17:29.600 --> 01:17:32.239
I had my adnoids out because I was having problems

1118
01:17:32.279 --> 01:17:34.680
with my ears. I was getting earaches, and then I

1119
01:17:34.760 --> 01:17:40.439
had had my head hit. It turned out I was

1120
01:17:41.760 --> 01:17:46.199
partially deaf in one ear, so I had my adnoids

1121
01:17:46.239 --> 01:17:47.960
out because.

1122
01:17:47.760 --> 01:17:48.399
I was blocked.

1123
01:17:48.600 --> 01:17:54.520
Basically he was blocked, so to clear it out so

1124
01:17:54.560 --> 01:17:56.800
I should be okay. So this is eight years old,

1125
01:17:56.840 --> 01:18:00.000
so I was partially deaf for however many years didn't

1126
01:18:00.079 --> 01:18:02.600
even know it, didn't.

1127
01:18:02.319 --> 01:18:04.159
Even know it didn't even show it.

1128
01:18:05.399 --> 01:18:08.720
And I remember being in hospital and like listening to

1129
01:18:08.760 --> 01:18:15.640
the and I had to like tap every time, and

1130
01:18:15.680 --> 01:18:18.000
I could like I do it both years. One ear

1131
01:18:18.119 --> 01:18:20.560
was really clear, which I think is my left ear

1132
01:18:20.720 --> 01:18:24.680
still is right right ear, it's not so good as

1133
01:18:24.720 --> 01:18:25.279
the left ear.

1134
01:18:26.119 --> 01:18:30.039
So the right ear was like, I mean, it's it's.

1135
01:18:29.920 --> 01:18:34.960
All it feels.

1136
01:18:35.199 --> 01:18:38.319
It's to me, it seems like the volume is lower

1137
01:18:38.720 --> 01:18:41.199
when I talk on on my right phone, if I

1138
01:18:41.239 --> 01:18:43.479
put my if I put my phone on my right ear,

1139
01:18:43.960 --> 01:18:47.399
it feels like the volume is lower. But I did

1140
01:18:47.439 --> 01:18:49.920
have an eye test a few years ago, and eye

1141
01:18:49.920 --> 01:18:53.520
test and ear test, but it wasn't Specsavers had an

1142
01:18:53.520 --> 01:18:57.760
ear tests and they said, yeah, here's fine. So it

1143
01:18:57.880 --> 01:19:02.399
might just be psychological. I don't know, but anyway, this

1144
01:19:02.680 --> 01:19:06.479
was real. So I definitely had a like a hearing issue,

1145
01:19:06.760 --> 01:19:07.720
but it was fixable.

1146
01:19:09.640 --> 01:19:10.119
I remember.

1147
01:19:10.159 --> 01:19:15.199
It's so funny because after I'd had the op, came

1148
01:19:15.239 --> 01:19:21.800
home for the next year or so, whenever someone called

1149
01:19:21.840 --> 01:19:24.920
over to me and I said I didn't hear them,

1150
01:19:25.239 --> 01:19:28.239
maybe I was focusing on something else. I didn't hear them.

1151
01:19:28.560 --> 01:19:30.960
My dad would shout out, that's it, we're going back

1152
01:19:31.000 --> 01:19:31.640
to the doctors.

1153
01:19:32.439 --> 01:19:33.760
We're going to get his ears tested.

1154
01:19:33.800 --> 01:19:36.199
Like it's like.

1155
01:19:37.079 --> 01:19:39.720
Because I was in a house full of three four kids,

1156
01:19:39.720 --> 01:19:46.119
including myself and two adults, I had to block off

1157
01:19:46.239 --> 01:19:50.000
that sound. It was too much. I had to kind

1158
01:19:50.039 --> 01:19:52.880
of go inside myself to block it off. So when

1159
01:19:52.920 --> 01:19:57.720
someone did shout out my name or I would sometimes

1160
01:19:57.720 --> 01:20:02.319
I wouldn't hear it because I had to in order

1161
01:20:02.319 --> 01:20:06.079
for me to watch TV in a room with how

1162
01:20:06.119 --> 01:20:11.119
many people was at three for five other people, that's

1163
01:20:11.159 --> 01:20:16.640
those three kids, four kids and two adults. So three

1164
01:20:16.680 --> 01:20:21.119
other kids, two adults watching the TV. Even if they

1165
01:20:21.159 --> 01:20:24.199
weren't talking, there was like rustling of bags and food

1166
01:20:24.359 --> 01:20:30.399
and fidgeting, and there was maybe traffic outside and you know,

1167
01:20:30.640 --> 01:20:35.319
just general sounds. I had to really zone them out

1168
01:20:35.399 --> 01:20:39.800
in order to watch the TV and hear it. So

1169
01:20:39.880 --> 01:20:41.720
they were talking to me and I wouldn't hear them.

1170
01:20:42.159 --> 01:20:44.720
It wasn't because I wasn't listening. It's just because I

1171
01:20:44.800 --> 01:20:50.560
was focused. I had the zoned them out. I removed

1172
01:20:50.560 --> 01:20:56.800
them from the situation, removed them from my peripheral vision,

1173
01:20:57.039 --> 01:21:01.239
removed them from my thoughts, sort of just focused on

1174
01:21:01.279 --> 01:21:05.640
the TV. And this is the only way I could

1175
01:21:05.640 --> 01:21:09.439
really watch it. I mean, even now, it seems like

1176
01:21:09.479 --> 01:21:13.319
I'm just talking about my inadequacies, doesn't it. But maybe

1177
01:21:13.359 --> 01:21:17.119
I am. Maybe that's what it is. But wearing glasses

1178
01:21:17.319 --> 01:21:20.680
is not an inadequacy. Wearing glasses is just it's just

1179
01:21:20.720 --> 01:21:23.239
a natural thing. Millions and millions of people with them,

1180
01:21:23.520 --> 01:21:27.359
including me, and there's nothing wrong with it so, but

1181
01:21:27.439 --> 01:21:34.159
this for some reason, I can't have someone sitting next

1182
01:21:34.159 --> 01:21:41.920
to me, like if when I'm at home. Bearing in mind,

1183
01:21:41.960 --> 01:21:43.960
this is the most relaxed place I'm going to be

1184
01:21:44.960 --> 01:21:48.159
really is being here, apart from I mean, the most

1185
01:21:48.199 --> 01:21:51.000
relaxed place I probably ever was before this was my name's.

1186
01:21:51.880 --> 01:21:53.279
If I was sitting in the room with my name,

1187
01:21:53.520 --> 01:21:54.840
I was relaxed.

1188
01:21:56.079 --> 01:21:59.279
In a way that probably I wasn't.

1189
01:21:59.479 --> 01:22:02.680
I mean, it's more safety thing, to be fair, emotionally,

1190
01:22:03.119 --> 01:22:07.239
I felt safe with her, but I was relaxed with

1191
01:22:07.279 --> 01:22:12.479
her here. It's probably the only place that I would

1192
01:22:12.520 --> 01:22:15.840
say I'd probably feel relaxed when that front door was

1193
01:22:15.920 --> 01:22:19.119
locked and I got a finny cuddled up next to

1194
01:22:19.159 --> 01:22:21.039
me and I'm just stroking him or got my arm

1195
01:22:21.439 --> 01:22:28.000
resting on him, it's relaxing and relaxed. Put someone put

1196
01:22:28.239 --> 01:22:30.880
up human beings sitting next to me, and I will

1197
01:22:30.920 --> 01:22:35.560
not feel relaxed. And I'm not talking like some random stranger,

1198
01:22:35.680 --> 01:22:39.960
just anyone, anyone I know. I don't want them sitting

1199
01:22:40.000 --> 01:22:42.359
next to me. I cannot sit next to someone on

1200
01:22:42.399 --> 01:22:48.439
a sofa, and that includes even Luke, my friend downstairs.

1201
01:22:49.600 --> 01:22:52.279
He'd always sit on a different chair. I'd have a

1202
01:22:52.359 --> 01:22:55.159
chair separate for him, or he could sit on the

1203
01:22:55.199 --> 01:22:56.640
sofa and I'd sit on a chair. You know, I

1204
01:22:56.640 --> 01:23:00.760
wouldn't like he'd have a choice, so he'd sit on

1205
01:23:00.800 --> 01:23:02.560
the sofa if I was at the table. So if

1206
01:23:02.600 --> 01:23:05.520
I was at my desk, he'd sit on the sofa

1207
01:23:06.319 --> 01:23:09.520
and we'd watch TV together, or I'd be doing stuff

1208
01:23:09.560 --> 01:23:13.319
and wud chat. But if I was sitting if we

1209
01:23:13.359 --> 01:23:15.920
were watching TV together, which we didn't do that much,

1210
01:23:15.960 --> 01:23:21.000
but if we're watching boxing, I like to be comfortable

1211
01:23:21.000 --> 01:23:22.960
when I'm watching boxing, and I like to be in

1212
01:23:22.960 --> 01:23:26.000
the sofa with my legs up or in the chair

1213
01:23:26.840 --> 01:23:27.560
with my legs up.

1214
01:23:27.560 --> 01:23:28.239
Because I used to.

1215
01:23:28.159 --> 01:23:31.880
Have a not recycling reclining chair.

1216
01:23:31.920 --> 01:23:32.239
That's it.

1217
01:23:32.439 --> 01:23:38.640
I used to have a reclining chair, and I had

1218
01:23:38.640 --> 01:23:41.159
that for a few years. I've had this one for

1219
01:23:43.279 --> 01:23:45.239
I probably had this world for a few years there

1220
01:23:45.319 --> 01:23:52.960
as well. But the last few years he was with

1221
01:23:53.039 --> 01:23:56.840
the boxing, he would sit on a chair while I

1222
01:23:56.840 --> 01:23:59.399
sat on the sofa because and I'd always make sure

1223
01:23:59.439 --> 01:24:02.520
that it was stuff on the other because there's two chairs,

1224
01:24:02.800 --> 01:24:06.720
two seats on the sofa. The other side of the sofa,

1225
01:24:06.720 --> 01:24:07.800
it's always got stuff on it.

1226
01:24:09.119 --> 01:24:16.560
It's never empty. This is before I got Vinnie. I

1227
01:24:16.640 --> 01:24:18.319
used to just keep that.

1228
01:24:18.319 --> 01:24:20.560
That's where that's just stuff, where it's a book where

1229
01:24:20.600 --> 01:24:23.800
I can write stuff in a book I'm reading, whether

1230
01:24:23.840 --> 01:24:27.000
it's laptop, whatever, it's all stuff that's my little like

1231
01:24:27.039 --> 01:24:34.039
a little desk kind of People don't sit there, and

1232
01:24:34.119 --> 01:24:35.560
I can't sit next to someone.

1233
01:24:35.680 --> 01:24:36.159
I can't.

1234
01:24:38.399 --> 01:24:43.840
It's especially I mean TV or just it's about doable,

1235
01:24:44.079 --> 01:24:45.600
but I can't do it. I don't do it if

1236
01:24:45.600 --> 01:24:49.520
I don't have to. But having a conversation, it's too close.

1237
01:24:50.840 --> 01:24:53.560
I need distance when I'm talking to someone. I need distance.

1238
01:24:53.600 --> 01:24:57.399
I need at least maybe six to ten foot or

1239
01:24:57.479 --> 01:25:01.880
six foot probably just this not a far enough away

1240
01:25:01.960 --> 01:25:06.159
so that I need binoculars, but just you know, or

1241
01:25:06.199 --> 01:25:06.880
that they need.

1242
01:25:06.760 --> 01:25:11.199
To use a loud speaker. But I do.

1243
01:25:12.680 --> 01:25:15.439
I need that distance because I struggle to focus with

1244
01:25:15.479 --> 01:25:17.760
my eyes if someone is too close, like.

1245
01:25:19.560 --> 01:25:20.479
I don't know what that is.

1246
01:25:23.760 --> 01:25:27.560
Which makes being on a bus a little bit difficult.

1247
01:25:28.119 --> 01:25:30.800
And it's great if there's no one on the bus,

1248
01:25:31.840 --> 01:25:38.279
but a busy bus all I'd rather stand. I'd rather

1249
01:25:38.399 --> 01:25:46.640
stand and pretty much be sniffing someone's arm pit. No,

1250
01:25:46.680 --> 01:25:48.640
I don't want to smith sniff someone's ARMP I'm saying

1251
01:25:48.680 --> 01:25:52.079
I'd rather stand and be like squashed standing up than

1252
01:25:52.159 --> 01:25:53.239
have someone sitting next to me.

1253
01:25:55.479 --> 01:25:57.039
Is you know.

1254
01:25:58.039 --> 01:26:00.800
I suppose it's because my belly does give me distance.

1255
01:26:02.520 --> 01:26:04.479
Someone might be in it on my bum. We've got

1256
01:26:04.479 --> 01:26:09.000
such a big bum, big belly that people can't really

1257
01:26:09.000 --> 01:26:14.319
get too close to me if I'm standing up, which

1258
01:26:14.359 --> 01:26:14.760
is good.

1259
01:26:16.159 --> 01:26:22.960
Oh, I really painted a terrible picture of my body,

1260
01:26:23.600 --> 01:26:28.279
That's what I was going to say.

1261
01:26:28.399 --> 01:26:29.720
Oh yeah, So.

1262
01:26:31.239 --> 01:26:36.359
It turned out that after I had my ears thing done,

1263
01:26:37.000 --> 01:26:40.800
the teachers were saying they now, they said, oh, he's

1264
01:26:40.840 --> 01:26:43.279
so behind because he couldn't hear what was being said

1265
01:26:43.279 --> 01:26:45.920
in the classroom, and he was always sitting at the

1266
01:26:45.960 --> 01:26:48.319
back of the talking about me always sitting at the

1267
01:26:48.359 --> 01:26:57.680
back of the classroom and didn't didn't pretty much. I

1268
01:26:57.880 --> 01:27:03.399
wasn't able to hear what's going on well enough. It's

1269
01:27:03.439 --> 01:27:05.600
like they were trying to make excuses for me not.

1270
01:27:07.359 --> 01:27:07.760
Listening.

1271
01:27:08.279 --> 01:27:10.159
But the fact is, I mean, it might have been true,

1272
01:27:10.239 --> 01:27:11.520
I might have been part of the reason why I

1273
01:27:11.560 --> 01:27:16.439
was so behind, but I genuinely wasn't interested in what

1274
01:27:16.479 --> 01:27:20.840
the teachers were talking about and anything that did interest me.

1275
01:27:21.640 --> 01:27:22.199
It stuck.

1276
01:27:24.640 --> 01:27:27.039
You know, if I'm interested in something, I'll look it

1277
01:27:27.119 --> 01:27:39.560
up now, and that information generally stays with me. I

1278
01:27:39.600 --> 01:27:41.920
think sitting at the back was a good place to

1279
01:27:41.960 --> 01:27:44.039
be because I don't want to be I never liked

1280
01:27:44.079 --> 01:27:49.640
people being behind me. I never really enjoyed that, even

1281
01:27:49.720 --> 01:27:54.319
when I'll go to a theater. When I was really little,

1282
01:27:55.920 --> 01:27:57.800
I didn't care, like if I go to the cinemation,

1283
01:27:58.000 --> 01:28:00.720
like go in the front row. Because I was so little,

1284
01:28:02.560 --> 01:28:04.680
I didn't My head didn't even really fit to the

1285
01:28:04.720 --> 01:28:09.159
top of the headrest. So technically people were behind me,

1286
01:28:09.279 --> 01:28:12.199
but it didn't feel like they were because I was.

1287
01:28:12.399 --> 01:28:15.520
They probably didn't even know I was there. And I

1288
01:28:15.680 --> 01:28:18.119
spread my legs out and I was lovely, even though

1289
01:28:18.159 --> 01:28:21.039
I had little legs. I spread my legs out wherever

1290
01:28:21.079 --> 01:28:24.600
I was in the cinema, but it was I used

1291
01:28:24.600 --> 01:28:26.720
to love to sit at the front and had this big,

1292
01:28:26.880 --> 01:28:35.000
massive screen, And yeah, that's what I always used to do.

1293
01:28:35.079 --> 01:28:37.640
When I was older, i'd moved to the back.

1294
01:28:40.199 --> 01:28:40.640
Now.

1295
01:28:41.479 --> 01:28:44.560
I haven't been to cinema for a long time, but

1296
01:28:44.640 --> 01:28:50.079
now i'd probably choose, if possible, like a middle aisle,

1297
01:28:51.479 --> 01:28:54.239
but away from anyone. I don't want people sitting near

1298
01:28:54.279 --> 01:28:57.600
me or in front of me or behind me. I

1299
01:28:57.640 --> 01:29:00.359
just want my I want my own cinema based sickly,

1300
01:29:02.399 --> 01:29:07.439
but enough distance, you know, I'm gonna actually have seat.

1301
01:29:08.039 --> 01:29:09.720
In the past, I'm sure I was in the cinema

1302
01:29:09.720 --> 01:29:13.039
once and someone just walked up and sat right next

1303
01:29:13.039 --> 01:29:20.680
to me. And I remember saying, why you got all

1304
01:29:20.720 --> 01:29:24.520
these other seats in this cinema. I probably two hundred

1305
01:29:24.520 --> 01:29:27.720
seats in the cinema and there's only like five people

1306
01:29:27.720 --> 01:29:28.079
in there.

1307
01:29:28.239 --> 01:29:31.439
Why did you come and sit next to me? You

1308
01:29:31.479 --> 01:29:34.520
know what I heard? You know what response was. We

1309
01:29:34.600 --> 01:29:35.319
came together.

1310
01:29:36.079 --> 01:29:38.119
We came to what do you mean why am I

1311
01:29:38.199 --> 01:29:39.000
sitting next to you?

1312
01:29:40.119 --> 01:29:41.840
I've just been out to go and get some popcorn

1313
01:29:41.920 --> 01:29:45.760
for us. So that's the point where I thought maybe

1314
01:29:45.760 --> 01:29:51.680
the relationship wasn't gonna work out. Just going to the

1315
01:29:51.680 --> 01:29:54.439
cinema as someone doesn't it doesn't mean that I want

1316
01:29:54.439 --> 01:30:00.640
to sit with them.

1317
01:30:01.239 --> 01:30:01.920
That was weird.

1318
01:30:02.399 --> 01:30:04.560
So yeah, I had glasses.

1319
01:30:04.920 --> 01:30:05.640
Oh yeah, the.

1320
01:30:11.359 --> 01:30:16.000
Eighty nine got them again, started reading, started like using

1321
01:30:16.000 --> 01:30:16.920
them to read a bit more.

1322
01:30:17.000 --> 01:30:22.560
That was nice, And.

1323
01:30:22.520 --> 01:30:29.279
Really between nineteen eighty nine and two thy thirteen, just

1324
01:30:29.359 --> 01:30:35.199
reading glasses all those years, just reading glasses. I go back,

1325
01:30:36.720 --> 01:30:40.479
just need them for reading. Never mentioned a one kei.

1326
01:30:40.640 --> 01:30:42.720
Maybe I've still got one kei and no one's told me,

1327
01:30:43.720 --> 01:30:46.479
but I've had photographs taken. It doesn't seem to be.

1328
01:30:47.640 --> 01:30:48.239
Well, you know what.

1329
01:30:48.359 --> 01:30:50.680
I've had enough people in my life that would tell me.

1330
01:30:51.439 --> 01:30:54.159
They just make fun of me to my face about

1331
01:30:54.199 --> 01:30:59.319
having a one kei, So maybe I do, but I'm

1332
01:30:59.319 --> 01:31:00.159
pretty sure.

1333
01:31:02.319 --> 01:31:02.920
They tell me.

1334
01:31:08.000 --> 01:31:11.880
I actually met someone who had a one kei and

1335
01:31:13.880 --> 01:31:17.760
there's a health spa thing, and she's one of the

1336
01:31:17.800 --> 01:31:21.399
people that have been most I've most attracted to in

1337
01:31:21.439 --> 01:31:24.760
my entire life was her. I didn't met her once

1338
01:31:27.680 --> 01:31:29.520
as a one kid, just like just looking in a

1339
01:31:29.560 --> 01:31:31.800
different direction. And I had a friend. I had a

1340
01:31:31.840 --> 01:31:35.600
friend who had like an eye like that, like who cares,

1341
01:31:36.720 --> 01:31:39.880
He's got to focus on one eye. But you can't

1342
01:31:39.920 --> 01:31:42.800
look You can't look at both eyes anyway, can you?

1343
01:31:43.640 --> 01:31:44.720
Or ken you? I can't.

1344
01:31:47.159 --> 01:31:48.760
I'm not glazed over a little bit when I look

1345
01:31:48.800 --> 01:31:53.399
at people, but I can't unless it is at a distance.

1346
01:31:53.439 --> 01:31:55.119
I need a real distance if I'm gonna be able

1347
01:31:55.159 --> 01:31:59.199
to get an idea of focusing on both eyes. Too

1348
01:31:59.239 --> 01:32:08.800
close and I can't focus on either I so twoy

1349
01:32:09.000 --> 01:32:15.920
thirteen between Actually, yeah, I wore I wore glasses for

1350
01:32:16.079 --> 01:32:22.079
reading a lot during the twenties, during my twenties, rather

1351
01:32:22.600 --> 01:32:27.000
not the nineteen twenties, because I was reading a lot.

1352
01:32:27.039 --> 01:32:28.319
I'd read a lot of books.

1353
01:32:28.079 --> 01:32:30.359
Had a lot of books.

1354
01:32:31.319 --> 01:32:33.439
That stupid flies in this room. It was in the

1355
01:32:33.520 --> 01:32:36.239
kitchen earlier. Now it's here unless it's just come in

1356
01:32:36.239 --> 01:32:38.720
the window and it's a different fly, or it's got

1357
01:32:38.760 --> 01:32:39.680
out a window.

1358
01:32:39.359 --> 01:32:43.319
In the kitchen and coming this way. It's harassing me.

1359
01:32:45.560 --> 01:32:55.079
Being earth by a fly. And I don't know why

1360
01:32:55.399 --> 01:32:55.960
I went.

1361
01:32:55.840 --> 01:33:02.359
To the opticians in twenty thirteen. I think I might

1362
01:33:02.359 --> 01:33:04.279
have been getting a bit of eyes strained because I

1363
01:33:04.319 --> 01:33:09.800
was working in a call center, and yeah, I was told, yeah,

1364
01:33:09.800 --> 01:33:12.560
you need to wear glasses, and you need to need

1365
01:33:12.600 --> 01:33:13.640
to wear glasses.

1366
01:33:13.239 --> 01:33:15.720
All the time or act.

1367
01:33:15.920 --> 01:33:21.560
You know what they call them lenses?

1368
01:33:21.760 --> 01:33:25.279
You know what's your names? Do you put in your eye?

1369
01:33:25.880 --> 01:33:27.000
Them lens and things?

1370
01:33:27.920 --> 01:33:29.920
I can't remember the name because I will never wear

1371
01:33:29.920 --> 01:33:31.920
them ever contact lenses.

1372
01:33:32.319 --> 01:33:34.319
No never never never never know.

1373
01:33:36.920 --> 01:33:40.920
And I never never never never know.

1374
01:33:41.039 --> 01:33:44.359
No, no, no no no, I mean for vanity.

1375
01:33:46.439 --> 01:33:50.000
I understand why people do maybe because glasses can cover

1376
01:33:50.119 --> 01:33:51.079
up the face, and if.

1377
01:33:50.920 --> 01:33:52.479
Someone's particularly.

1378
01:33:53.680 --> 01:33:57.079
You know, if I was particularly facially attractive, I didn't

1379
01:33:57.119 --> 01:33:59.399
want my face to be covered up, then maybe I

1380
01:33:59.399 --> 01:34:06.600
would wear contact lenses. I probably wouldn't have wanted to

1381
01:34:06.640 --> 01:34:08.079
wear glasses in my twenties.

1382
01:34:08.359 --> 01:34:12.119
I'll be honest with you. I wouldn't. I wouldn't know.

1383
01:34:12.199 --> 01:34:14.640
I wouldn't not have been happy wearing glasses all the

1384
01:34:14.680 --> 01:34:21.479
way through my twenties, and probably not even through my

1385
01:34:21.560 --> 01:34:26.880
thirties either. I didn't mind wearing them. I didn't mind

1386
01:34:26.920 --> 01:34:31.439
wearing reading glasses in front of people, but I don't

1387
01:34:31.479 --> 01:34:33.840
think I would have particularly wanted to be wearing glasses.

1388
01:34:36.520 --> 01:34:40.760
Yeah, yeah, it wasn't really for me. I'm used to

1389
01:34:40.800 --> 01:34:41.119
it now.

1390
01:34:41.319 --> 01:34:48.039
It's been what twelve years now since I've been wearing them.

1391
01:34:48.279 --> 01:34:50.720
And it was really weird because I first paid glasses.

1392
01:34:50.880 --> 01:34:57.720
It was three lenses, and the reading one was more powerful.

1393
01:35:00.079 --> 01:35:00.640
I don't know what is.

1394
01:35:00.760 --> 01:35:04.560
It made me look taller. I felt taller because the

1395
01:35:04.600 --> 01:35:08.039
ground was further away. It looked because that was the

1396
01:35:08.119 --> 01:35:12.640
reading part, so they were a bit more I don't know,

1397
01:35:14.039 --> 01:35:17.039
but it just looked. I felt that I was like

1398
01:35:17.199 --> 01:35:18.520
at least five foot tall.

1399
01:35:19.840 --> 01:35:20.800
It was amazing.

1400
01:35:21.720 --> 01:35:23.760
But at the same time, it was trippy because I

1401
01:35:23.800 --> 01:35:29.800
was literally I was tripping over the vet, not the vet.

1402
01:35:30.239 --> 01:35:37.319
And the optician did say, you're you.

1403
01:35:37.279 --> 01:35:38.600
Know, you get used to it, but it might be

1404
01:35:38.640 --> 01:35:39.600
a bit weird to start with.

1405
01:35:41.479 --> 01:35:45.039
I said, thanks. She says, it's a little bit like

1406
01:35:45.079 --> 01:35:48.279
a prostate exam, you know. I said what she said,

1407
01:35:48.319 --> 01:35:48.800
I said.

1408
01:35:48.600 --> 01:35:49.640
Don't worry.

1409
01:35:50.039 --> 01:35:53.720
So what are you talk about prostate exams? She said, well,

1410
01:35:53.760 --> 01:35:57.279
it's a bit weird. So what's weird about prostate exam?

1411
01:35:58.359 --> 01:36:04.720
She said, I'm an optician. I'm not supposed to give them. Okay,

1412
01:36:05.359 --> 01:36:06.800
that's it going in a weird direction.

1413
01:36:07.119 --> 01:36:10.119
I just left. They came running after me.

1414
01:36:10.239 --> 01:36:13.239
You gotta pay, you gotta pay.

1415
01:36:13.960 --> 01:36:16.520
I said, okay, I'll pay. I don't want to come

1416
01:36:16.560 --> 01:36:18.039
back and just give you the money. Said, but you've

1417
01:36:18.039 --> 01:36:19.159
got to come back. I said why.

1418
01:36:19.680 --> 01:36:22.479
She said, you left your trousers here. Okay.

1419
01:36:24.319 --> 01:36:27.439
But it was weird wearing glasses all the time to

1420
01:36:27.520 --> 01:36:31.479
start with. And I think some people because I've got

1421
01:36:31.479 --> 01:36:34.279
active lights. So what active lights, so that it goes

1422
01:36:34.359 --> 01:36:41.680
dark in the in the sun, sunlight all year round,

1423
01:36:42.239 --> 01:36:44.680
So I think some people think I'm walking around. Well, actually,

1424
01:36:44.680 --> 01:36:46.319
a couple of people have said it in the past,

1425
01:36:46.520 --> 01:36:48.840
a lot of other dog walkers. Why are you wearing

1426
01:36:48.880 --> 01:36:53.119
shades in the winter, I said, I'm not wearing shades.

1427
01:36:53.319 --> 01:36:58.760
These are my glasses. They just go they block out

1428
01:36:58.760 --> 01:37:02.359
the sunlight in my eyes to try and protect my eyes.

1429
01:37:04.680 --> 01:37:09.039
Oh okay, So I.

1430
01:37:09.000 --> 01:37:11.760
Think some people think I'm walking around with sunglasses on

1431
01:37:11.840 --> 01:37:16.880
in the winter or when I first go into a place.

1432
01:37:17.159 --> 01:37:18.720
So if I go and listen, was going to go

1433
01:37:18.800 --> 01:37:24.079
into the pet shop in the winter, I would look

1434
01:37:24.079 --> 01:37:26.279
like I was wearing sunglasses because it takes a while

1435
01:37:26.279 --> 01:37:28.399
for the lens to go down from dark to be

1436
01:37:28.560 --> 01:37:33.079
clear again. So the whole time I'm in that pet shop,

1437
01:37:34.359 --> 01:37:40.079
they might be thinking he's wearing sunglasses and it's December,

1438
01:37:42.159 --> 01:37:44.600
strange and raining.

1439
01:37:48.319 --> 01:37:49.119
But they go dark.

1440
01:37:51.479 --> 01:37:52.399
It's just what they do.

1441
01:37:53.000 --> 01:37:56.720
So I'm pretty sure my first mma had some like this,

1442
01:37:58.119 --> 01:38:05.399
our very first mother. I just have a memory of

1443
01:38:05.399 --> 01:38:08.760
her wearing dark glasses. Maybe they were just sunshades, but

1444
01:38:09.239 --> 01:38:14.199
she definitely wore glasses. So I don't know when when Okay,

1445
01:38:14.279 --> 01:38:22.479
let me check when did actor like, okay, did glasses

1446
01:38:24.479 --> 01:38:40.279
have history of people's glasses look sempty star glasses.

1447
01:38:43.800 --> 01:38:44.319
Acting like?

1448
01:38:44.359 --> 01:38:51.159
What is actor like glasses through the decades. Oh, I

1449
01:38:51.199 --> 01:39:02.439
can't believe did act aviators not aviators? What are they called? Oh,

1450
01:39:02.479 --> 01:39:07.000
I can't see the glass has been around what since

1451
01:39:07.119 --> 01:39:09.880
nineteen twenties? They were around since before then?

1452
01:39:09.920 --> 01:39:10.239
Weren't the.

1453
01:39:11.960 --> 01:39:14.479
Eyeglasses history. I don't really want to go through the

1454
01:39:14.600 --> 01:39:21.960
whole eyeglasses history. So history now, I'm just going to

1455
01:39:22.000 --> 01:39:32.800
go for history history of dark glasses. Dark glasses semi

1456
01:39:32.880 --> 01:39:39.720
Peppees an ingredient Samuel Peppe Paul Peppe's has been credited

1457
01:39:39.840 --> 01:39:44.760
with ordering the first dark glasses made by English optian

1458
01:39:44.920 --> 01:39:49.840
John Turlington, but, according to his diary, used more for

1459
01:39:49.920 --> 01:39:57.640
ogland women in church than to shield his eyes from sunlight. Okay,

1460
01:39:58.640 --> 01:40:00.439
I didn't know that was going to be coming up.

1461
01:40:01.840 --> 01:40:02.479
The hinted of.

1462
01:40:05.359 --> 01:40:08.199
I suppose they would be called tinted. But like mine

1463
01:40:08.199 --> 01:40:13.479
aunt sunglasses, they just go dark. I might get some, really,

1464
01:40:16.079 --> 01:40:21.520
I might get some glasses just to annoy people go

1465
01:40:21.720 --> 01:40:26.319
down like a bit of you remember Elton John back

1466
01:40:26.359 --> 01:40:28.560
in well, I'm not saying remember him. He's still around,

1467
01:40:28.560 --> 01:40:30.920
but remember when he was like in the seventies and

1468
01:40:30.960 --> 01:40:34.920
the eighties. He'd be wearing like really crazy glasses And

1469
01:40:36.680 --> 01:40:39.720
I might do that or Danny LaRue, was it Danny

1470
01:40:39.760 --> 01:40:45.760
LaRue Liberaci. Yeah, I might go down a Liberaci route

1471
01:40:46.359 --> 01:40:52.560
just wear really colorful spectacles, or I might just get

1472
01:40:52.600 --> 01:40:59.840
some normal glasses. I quite like these frames. But last time,

1473
01:41:01.880 --> 01:41:04.880
because they've got reading bits at the bottom, I got

1474
01:41:04.920 --> 01:41:08.439
two pairs of the same glasses. So this is the

1475
01:41:08.520 --> 01:41:09.640
second pair, warning.

1476
01:41:09.399 --> 01:41:10.199
The other ones out.

1477
01:41:10.520 --> 01:41:13.560
This is the second pair and needs at nearly worn

1478
01:41:13.600 --> 01:41:17.960
out as well. It's been I think three or four years,

1479
01:41:17.960 --> 01:41:26.079
maybe four maybe longer since I last had these. Yeah,

1480
01:41:26.279 --> 01:41:28.680
I've talked myself into it. I'm going to go and

1481
01:41:28.680 --> 01:41:38.319
get an eyeglass, eyeglass test, eye test for glasses. It's

1482
01:41:38.359 --> 01:41:40.600
not really much of a history of my glasses, is it,

1483
01:41:40.640 --> 01:41:44.479
But that's that's kind of it. I remember that when

1484
01:41:44.520 --> 01:41:47.640
I bought I got my glasses nineteen eighty nine, and

1485
01:41:47.680 --> 01:41:54.840
they were my first reading only glasses, I think, And

1486
01:41:55.079 --> 01:41:57.560
when I got them, I was so excited, went in

1487
01:41:57.640 --> 01:42:01.680
collected Durman. I'd already bought a book to read, and

1488
01:42:01.720 --> 01:42:03.720
I was waiting for the to get the glasses to

1489
01:42:04.720 --> 01:42:07.520
anoint the book as it were, or anoint the glasses

1490
01:42:07.520 --> 01:42:09.960
with the book, and.

1491
01:42:12.960 --> 01:42:14.720
I sat on them.

1492
01:42:15.000 --> 01:42:16.600
I put them on the bed and I sat down

1493
01:42:16.640 --> 01:42:22.399
and I basically, yeah, sat on them. I had to

1494
01:42:22.399 --> 01:42:29.159
take them back and get them reshaped. And that's it

1495
01:42:29.319 --> 01:42:29.760
for me.

1496
01:42:31.000 --> 01:42:31.760
So this is my.

1497
01:42:34.640 --> 01:42:40.640
Jason's was it Monday's boring objects glasses? So thank you

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01:42:40.640 --> 01:42:43.359
for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself because you

1499
01:42:43.479 --> 01:42:47.880
do deserve to be happy, and be gentle with yourself

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01:42:47.920 --> 01:42:51.600
because you do deserve to feel safe.