April 22, 2025

(music) POPES | Trivia Tuesday | LMBYTS #1335 | 22nd April 2025

(music) POPES | Trivia Tuesday | LMBYTS #1335 | 22nd April 2025
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Hello, and welcome to Jason Newland Vibe. As soon as

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I start and he is on me. Yeah, welcome to

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Jasonnewland dot com. I got this little wet nose sticking

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in my pocket. What is it I got? There is

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nothing in my pocket then, so yeah, this has let

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me bore you to sleep. It's Trivia Tuesday, and please

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only listen when you can safely close your eyes. And

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what I've thought to do, what I thought to do today,

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what i'd thought i'd do today is I'm going to

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focus on popes. Now. Just let you know, none of

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nothing I say is going to be controversial or anything

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like that. It's just I've looked for just trivia about popes.

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The problem I had because I did this little bit

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of research yesterday in preparation. Because I'm a good boy

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and I've done all my I've done all my homework,

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but I try to get them to put to Oh

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they did, they did, Okay, here we go. I wanted

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to because they kept having popes like Ivy and Evvy

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one one X and all that stuff. I don't know

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what that is. I do know what it is, Roman

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Numa roles, but I'm not really in a Roman numeral person.

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So I have saved it. Where is it? Where is it? Popes, popes, popes, popes, popes.

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What is it? That's weird? It should be in popes, popes,

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popes per popes. That's really I saved it. I one

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hundred percent saved it. Right, I'll download it again, download

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it again, open file notebook, which is a bit rubbish.

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So popes and their personal quirks. So here we go.

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So just let you know. I do have a Facebook

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group called Jason Newland's Boring Group. I have a YouTube

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channel call or, which is at Jason Newland. I'm also

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in the middle in the process of putting together a

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shop where you can download podcasts, episodes the links on

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my website. But I'm not really going to publicize it.

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I just just be working on it. It's taken forever,

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for ever and ever never. So oh I did did

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I did? I? Did? I get some Yeah? I did?

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I got some messages. I'm going to read them out

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because that's important to do that. Dude, do do do do?

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Here we go? Where are you? So? First of all,

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I need to say hello to a new member of

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the group, which is there's no other is there or

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any of us. No, okay, So there's a new person,

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a new member of our group, Jason Newland's Boring Group. Sandy. Hi, Sandy,

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thirty ten hours ago. So I have not all Wow,

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I didn't even say a looa. That's weird. I do apologize.

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How can I have not said alone? So I'm gonna

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put welcome Sangie. Better try and spell your name right, Sandy.

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Unless there was someone else that I did as well,

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that might maybe that was at night when I was asleep.

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It might have been. Yeah. Perhaps perhaps I saw it,

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you know, like got up in the night, looked at

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it and oh, gus nice and then just fell asleep.

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That's possible. I got where is it? It's oh yeah, yesterday.

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I don't think I mentioned this, but today mark seven

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years of Jason Newland's Boring Group. Thank you all for

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help and keep this community strong. So I posted a

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little thing. There had a few replies, So Tammy seven

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years of keeping the community strong. Congratulations, thank you, and

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Maria most definitely a hero. I'll send you. I'll second that, Christine,

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So thank you, and where's Christine's message? Congratulations? Hope you

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feel good about that. You should make a lot of

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us get through things better than thanks to you yourself. Jason. Now,

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come on everyone, there's a hero. Ye, there's a hero

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if you look concerned your socks, So thank you? Is it?

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I've got some other messages on there that I've seen

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on a different post that Molly posted, and it might

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have been yeah, Kate asks, I hope you're doing well, Molly.

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And because Molly posted this is on the seventeenth, so

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what was that Thursday? Friday? Thanks Thursday. Thanks for all

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you do, Jason. I still listen every night. It's so

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helpful in taking my mind off stuff. Thanks Molly, and

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some people like as I said, Maria, Maria our second

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at Thank you Jason. And how are you getting on, Molly?

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From Kate, Kathleen me to your treasure. Thank you, Thank

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you very much, figure that much. So back to popes now,

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I hope this isn't I'm not doing this in bad taste,

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by the way, I'm doing it just as a I

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think it's a be an interesting subject. But my nan

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loved the pope and she was her pope. Well, she

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had more than one pope, but the pope that she

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had had was I think one of the longest running

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pope's ever. It was a John Paul. Let's have a look,

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longest Pope Rain. I don't know if it rains are

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the right word. Pious, Okay, fair enough, thirty one years,

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but my name's Pope was definitely in there. Pope, what Pope, Peter, Pope,

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Pope John Paul, Yeah, John Paul so he wow. So yeah,

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nineteen seventy eight to two thousand and five. So my

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nun actually had a picture of him next to her,

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next to her chair in the bed, in the not

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the bedroom, the living room. So from nineteen seventy eight,

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from the age of eight, so really most of my

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adult life, I was going to say, two thousand and

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five to yeah, so for well, okay, not for the

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last twenty years. It hasn't been so for quite a

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big time. Seventy eight, eighty eight, ninety eight, two thousand,

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so twenty six years or twenty seven years. It's quite

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a long time, isn't it. In fact, it says it

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here exactly twenty six years, five months and seventeen days.

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But the oldest or the longest running monk monk pope

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brother Saint Peter thirty four year years. That's thirty sixty

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four AD to thirty three sixty seven AD. I don't

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know what that means. It goes back a while, doesn't it.

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WHOA Okay, so let's go to the list. Let's see

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what sort of trivia there is. Pope Francis two thousand

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and thirteen till now. He hasn't been pope for that long,

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is he? I mean, I know he passed away a

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couple of days ago, but I didn't think he'd been

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PopEd for more than about five years time don't afly?

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So he became pope just before my men left. So

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two thousand and thirty is it? Says present? Because this

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is not up to date with what's gone on this week.

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He was the first pope from Americas, from the Americas,

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and the first Jesuit pope. I don't know what that

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go I don't know what this is. I don't know

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what a Jesuit pope is. I don't know what I've

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from the Americas. So is that like, well, where was

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he from then? It was? I don't know. I really

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don't know. I don't know much about where people are from.

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I'm forty eight percent Irish, though. Pope John Paul is

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second nineteen seventy eight seventy eight to two thousand and

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five was an avid skier, And I'm sorry, I just

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had the image of him skiing in his attire, which

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just put a weird image in my head. It was

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an avid skier and continuing to hit the slopes well

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in to his papacy. So I'm guessing the papacy is

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when he's the pope. So he was a sciered before that.

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I mean, I don't know why you'd need to stop well,

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I mean, the only thing is a heck of a

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lot of the popes, especially more recently, seemed to have

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been quite elderly when they become pope, So I don't

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know if that's all has been the case, to be fair.

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Pope Benedict Nope x v I two thousand and five

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to twoenty thirteen was known for his love of cats

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in classical music. Oh right, Pope John X I'm not

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even gonna I can't even do it. I'm just going

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to put Pope John because x x III nineteen fifty

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eight to nineteen sixty three was affectionately nicknamed Good Pope

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John for his warm personality. So I wonder how many

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popes my name's are known, and then I don't know

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if my name ever got to meet the pope. Because

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she was just a devout Catholic. She used to go

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to Lord's quite regularly, and she used to clean the church.

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And I used to go to midnight Mess with her

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on like Christmas time, and when I lived in the

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same town as her, I used to go to Yeah,

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quite not often, I suppose, but yeah, over like my

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late teens, I'd go to church with her on a

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Sunday and then we're going to get tea and cakes

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and stuff in a coffee shop or something. Yeah, it

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was nice, so I do that. And her sister in

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law used to come along, So my granddad's sister used

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to be there. She used to come. I might have

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also done it in nineteen ninety yen, I don't know,

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it's or probably sixteen seventeen, eighteen nineteen, yeah, period in

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twenty maybe, and then I moved away, so I wasn't

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a really around anymore after that. I might have gone

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to church with her other times. I definitely went, like

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midnight mess, but when she after she broke her hip,

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she wasn't mobile enough to be going, and her eyes

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went as well. She didn't. They didn't fall out when

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she fell over there. I mean her eyesight went so

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she couldn't see so well at night. And I said

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a question about that. She can't. I can't see anything

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any anytime. I said, oh, okay, just asking this, So

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so you're going to go during the day, She makes

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no difference what time I go. Okay, just offen to help,

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she laughed. So, yeah, I went to the last time

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I went to midnight Mass with her was in two

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thousand and four. After that, she was never there again.

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She was never in that town at Christmas, so she

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went probably about five days before Christmas. She would go

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up to her daughter's with my aunt and she'd spent

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Christmas there and New Year. And she did that every

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year until two thousand and four two thousand and fourteen,

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so for pretty much ten years she did that, and

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that's where she she left us. Was actually there when

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she was at my aunt's. So I got quite fond

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memories of two thousand and four Christmas because it was

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one of the better ones, one of the ones where

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I suppose I felt more part of a family in

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a way, you know, I was staying with my name

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I slept in the spare room with my name. My

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aunt and uncle were in the other room, and then

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was in her room, and then I went to We

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did midnight Mass, and we got home and then I

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went to We opened some presents as well, because my

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Auntie had a tradition of opening little presents Christmas Eve,

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which is I think is a good one. Plus I

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hadn't had any chocolate for about six months, or I

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had some chocolate and it was wow. And then I

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went to my dad's for Christmas dinner, and then I

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came home in the evening, had my Christmas evening thing

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at my NaN's, and then Boxing Day, I think we

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all went back to my dad's or my dad came

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around to us, I can't remember exactly, probably one of them,

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one of them. And then I went back the day

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after Boxing Day. So it was a yeah, it was

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a really good Christmas. That was two thousand and four.

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Just I don't know, I just felt I think staying

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at my NaN's that's kind of what I should have

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done really all along, I say all along, but like

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I did stay at hers a fair bit, but it

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would have been easy. Yeah, I just would have been

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better to me to stay there like during the nineties,

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probably didn't stay there. I did, I did, but I

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can't remember. But it's weird because I'd be sleeping in

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the same room that I had when I was seven

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and eight, like the little room, because that's the house

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that we used to live in before my Nanogrande took

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it over. So that room always, that house always meant

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something to me. If I ever won the lottery or

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had some decent money come in, I would try and

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buy that house. Yeah, definitely try and buy that house

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just so I could go. And I don't know, I

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don't know if i'd want to live in it even

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but i'd definitely I probably would quite like to live

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in it. I kind of like it. I mean, not

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as a shrine to my men, but because it's not

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going to look the same anymore. You know, all the

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furniture is gone, it's not going to smell the same,

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it's not going to be the same house that it

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was when we lived there and when my nan lived there,

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because it always felt like home, because it was home.

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You know.

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It was the first time pretty much since I was

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It was the first time since I was three months

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old or six months old that I lived in a

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family home with two parents and all my brothers all too,

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my older brothers all together. It was the first time,

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so I was like eight or seven, yeah, about seven,

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So that was the first time. And then the house

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kind of stayed the same. It changed, but it was still,

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you know, still somewhere we went to regularly. Every single week.

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I used to go and see my nan, and even

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though my granddad was there, he didn't say hardly a

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word to me. I think I just annoyed him. I

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don't know why, but he was quite strict to my granddad,

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but he didn't say much to me yet. I had

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a couple of conversations with him. Mom was about boxing.

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I think it was the lead up to Frank Bruno fight,

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maybe when he fought Mike Tyson. So this would be

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like nineteen eighty nine. And because my granddad was next boxer,

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was actually a boxing champion in the army. And see

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I didn't even know this. I knew he was a boxer.

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I knew that, but I didn't know until long after

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he had passed away. And MYNN was showing me, She's

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going through stuff, showing me his medals and pictures of

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him holding trophies. And I don't even know if that

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was just in the army. He might have been in

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schoolboy amateur champion as well. I really don't know. I

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can't remember, but he was. Yeah, he was a champion

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in whatever context of boxing. Didn't become professional in them days,

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BlimE me. I mean he left. He left the army

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at age twenty nine. I think the year before about

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nineteen thirty eight, so I think it was a year

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before the Second World War started, so he was twenty nine,

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which is bearing in mind he was only a lightweight.

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He probably would have been maybe lightweight well, or weight

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something like that, not that that's really thing, but you

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definitely don't start a professional career at twenty nine generally.

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I mean you can if you're an olympian, and some

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people do do it, but generally in them days, you know,

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he had well he didn't, because even if he had

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turned professional, he'd only wonder if he would have had

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a year. And then he was in there and he

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you know, he went back in the army again. He

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was theyre the first people to get called back up,

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and so he was what thirty thirty seven before all finished,

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and then because he was missing an action as well,

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so they presumed no longer, which is weird because my

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Nan actually spent half the war thinking he was gone,

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because she got sent a letter saying that he was gone,

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and then after the war finished she got another letter

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saying or telegram probably oh, we found him. He was

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in It was in a camp, and so we found him,

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but we can't. You can't see him because we have to.

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We have to rehabilitate him, because we have because he's

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basically we need to feed him and get him back

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to being normal human size again. So they didn't. This

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is I don't know why I'm talk about this, but

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he this just like a kind of person he was.

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He didn't want fuss, even at the end of his life,

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he didn't want fuss at all. And so he was

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taken to an army base in the UK to recoup.

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I don't know if I'm sure my name was allowed

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to visit him. I have no doubt that once he

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was kind of on his way to recovery, she was

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allowed and they have to do debriefings and stuff like that,

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I guess. But he was in one of the yeah,

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one of the camps, so he they what do they do.

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I think he had about three months, maybe six months

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in there, and then she got told he's coming home.

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He's coming home this weekend or this friday or whenever,

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you know, not this Friday. Now, this is a long

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time ago. This is nineteen forty five, forty six, whenever.

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And I don't quite know what month in nineteen forty

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five that the whole thing finished. I'm talking about the

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Second World War now, And that was not going to

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be my trivia Tuesday. Now, my trivia Tuesday is my

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granddad telling me stuff about my granddad. I'll tell you

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a bit more stuff about my granded if you want.

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I don't mind. It's a've got. There isn't any set

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script for these recordings, to be fair. It's I don't

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normally mention him, really, you know, I do. I've talked

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about my nan a lot over the years, because she's

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the person I was closest to. It's can I tell

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you something right? I did some for the other day. Now.

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I don't know why I did it. I don't know

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if it was the right thing to do, what the

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wrong thing to do, or just pointless. But here's what

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I did. Don't worry it's not going to be anything

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too weird. It is a bit weird. I actually read

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it out to you right.

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There we go, okay, you go, here we go, here

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we go.

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Oh okay, So is something I got details. I don't

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know why. Again, because it was my dad's birthday on

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the nineteenth, So on Friday, I sent him a card

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and I sent him like a gift basket of beers

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and lager and whatever stuff like that Moonpig, because I

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couldn't get up there. I just couldn't face a travel

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while I was on Moon Pig. And this is not

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an advert for Moon Pig, by the way. If it

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is that, I'm not getting paid anything. It's just what

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I use. There are other places that you can use. Right.

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I'm building this up to something, but it is kind

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of something to me. I had an idea I start

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because I've been thinking about my first step mom, you know,

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recently I did a podcast about a little while ago,

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and I thought to myself, m because Moonpig said anyone else,

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anyone else? And I thought, okay, I'll send her a card.

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Happy used to card. Now she lives with my brother.

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My brother lives with her, so I know the address

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anything else, and I ended up sending some mixed tulips

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a bouquet. So and I thought, you know what, I'll

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take this opportunity to say something nice. Bearing in mind

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I haven't really seen her, had any regular contact with

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us since nineteen eighty seven, which is quite a long time,

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isn't It was that nearly forty years. Yeah, about March

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nineteen eighty seven April nineteen eighty seven. I've seen her

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a couple of times. There was once when I did

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visit her. I think twice I tried. I traveled up

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there and I stayed over, and another time I started

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over one night, and this was probably around that time,

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unless that was maybe that was eighty six before she

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moved up there. But I did travel up there, and

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I hitchhiked all the way there. Took me about twelve hours,

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and she said I wasn't. She did give me something

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to something to eat, took me back to the to

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the took me to the train station, and I think

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she might have even paid for me to get back

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on the train. But there was no room for me

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to stay because someone else from my town where we

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were staying. So that was that was a weird one.

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So that was an I think I ever saw her

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again really, other than when my dad would go and

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visit my little brother. Sometimes they'd just kind of park up.

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It would be like a almost like a like a kidnap,

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a hostage and swap, you know, and like he'd get

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out of the car and she'd get he'd get into

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her car and he'd drive off, or she'd drive he'd

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get into our car and we'd take him for the weekend.

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So I used to go for the ride sometimes in

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my sort of seventeen eighteen, nineteen eighteen, yeah, seventeen eighteen

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years old, just for just for the ride really. And

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I saw her when my brother had appendicitis, when he

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was in hospital as appendix burst and so he yeah, sepsis.

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It was really bad, but he survived, so it's good.

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This is back blimey. In the nineties, i'd say maybe

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early two thousands, possibly late nineties, early two thousands, maybe

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late I can't remember. I'd have to ask him. But

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and that was weird because we were all in the

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we were in the hospital room and she walks in.

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It's like it was an uncomfortable experience. Really, I could see,

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like my dad's his wife. Now, it was just it's

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an uncomfortable situation because they're not they don't really know

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each other or anything. Of course, she's got every right

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to be there because if someone was in hospital. So

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I'm not saying anything about bad Bobby. But everyone left

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very quickly and I had to follow, and I kind

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of wanted to stay and spend some time with her,

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but I couldn't because they were out of there as

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soon as she got there, and that was my you know.

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So that's the last time I saw her. So that

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was probably twenty odd twenty five, twenty five, thirty years

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ago or whatever. Twenty five years ago, let's say, maybe more.

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And that was briefly for what about three or four minutes,

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and I had no contact with her really nothing. I

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did send her like Christmas, a big Christmas present thing once.

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I think that might have been early early nineties when

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I had a job and I just sort of sent

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a big, a big thing, but or maybe it was

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during the nineties and during the late eighties maybe, but

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since then nothing and that was it. So it's been

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kind of weird, and she's had some health issues and

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things on to go into details, but my little brothers

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obviously it's really close. It's his mum, so he's super

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close to her. And I had this conversation with my

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friend Luke. You know, his attitude is well, his opinion

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was just contact her. I said, I can't, I can't

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do it. He said, well, if you leave it too late,

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you regret it. Just do it. And I know he's right.

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I knew, you know, I know that's the right thing

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to do, but I didn't know how to do it.

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Now I've kind of done it, but I've not done

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it in a way that I've not really opened up

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any dialogue. So but what i'd done so I sent

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a card. I sent a bouquet of flowers. On the card,

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I wrote, dear pooh head, No, I didn't, where's my

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bloody birthday presents for the last forty years? And I didn't.

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I didn't do that because I didn't swear you owe

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me thirty eight years worth of Christmas presents, not to

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mention the Easter eggs. Wow, all those presents I never got.

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I basically saved her a lot of money in it,

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really thousands if you think about it over the years,

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even if like what you spend twenty cod a year

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twenty quid forty quid. Let's say fifty quid, fifty quid

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a year on presents, you know, including birthdays, Christmas, including cards,

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maybe an Easter egg. So that's fifty for a year

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times by ten years is five hundred pound. It's nearly

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forty Well, it's nearly forty years. So let's say five

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hundreds two thousand pound. Take off a couple of years,

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so one thousand and nine hundred pound, about one thoy

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nine hundred she's saved. It's not bad, is it. Anyway?

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So what I wrote, I didn't know that was going

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to come out of my mouth. What I wrote down

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is go away with any please, thank you. I don't

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know what she thought about that. Who's Vinnie? Why is

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she saying? Why's he saying? Go away? Vinnie? He's staring

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at me again? What what you got to play with?

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Oh this is weird. He got to play with Archie earlier.

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But I've got now. And neighbor gave me a long

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lead in the one's extendable leads. Just go with it

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to me. Because Vinnie was trying to play with her

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dog and he kept basically kept wrapping around. He couldn't

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do it one the lead I had. So Vinny's is

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staring at the food that's been out there too long now,

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So the foods, I've seen him eat stuff off the floor,

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which is just wrong. Yeah, you won't eat food that's

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been out too long. I'll get you something in a minute, mate,

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if you're that hungry, I will get you something, I promise.

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But he's had loads of when he's out, he has treats,

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but it's this dog food. It's not treats really. Oh yeah,

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he's doing a poo right. Archie goes up and literally

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sticks his nose just right where it's like, what are

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you doing? Move? It was weird. It's very very strange.

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I mean, I've got a very close relationship, but you know,

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m it's just it was an unusual moment. So what

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I wrote was, thank you for everything you did for

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me when I was a kid. You were the bestest mummy.

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I know you gave up a lot to take on

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me and my brothers. I am grateful, So dear Mum.

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Happy used to love Jason. So that that was it.

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Now there's not a lot of room on a moon

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Peak card. You know, I'm going to write my last story.

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But everything there was true. She was a great mum,

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and she did give up a lot. I mean, she

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was twenty one years old when she took on three kids,

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one who was seven, one who was nine, and when

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it was eleven. And then within a year she had

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another baby. She had a baby, you know, like I said,

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she had four kids. So by the age of being

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like twenty two, she went within one year pretty much

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no kids to four kids. And then she was looking

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at this massive house. Well it was a big house

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because we were quite a lot light of us. There

467
00:37:29.079 --> 00:37:31.079
was a lot of us. You know, we were very messy,

468
00:37:32.400 --> 00:37:34.440
if I can get the words out or what wolf?

469
00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:43.360
What's a what wolves mean? A lot of us. It

470
00:37:43.519 --> 00:37:45.559
was a lot to take on. And I think at

471
00:37:45.559 --> 00:37:49.159
the time I didn't really appreciate it. I didn't appreciate

472
00:37:51.159 --> 00:37:53.840
I mean, I adored her, I appreciate her, I loved

473
00:37:53.840 --> 00:37:57.360
her to bits, but I didn't appreciate what I guess

474
00:37:57.400 --> 00:38:04.440
she was sacrifice and I guess I mean she adopted us,

475
00:38:04.519 --> 00:38:07.320
so we were her you know, legal she was my

476
00:38:07.440 --> 00:38:16.159
legal guardian. Yeah, so it's I mean she was only

477
00:38:16.400 --> 00:38:23.280
like what thirty when she moved away, or yeah, thirty,

478
00:38:24.039 --> 00:38:33.679
Because I lived with her from nineteen seventy seven till

479
00:38:33.960 --> 00:38:41.199
nineteen eighty seven, but it's like less than that, so

480
00:38:41.280 --> 00:38:47.280
it's just less than ten years we were together, so

481
00:38:47.440 --> 00:38:51.639
nine years really, but like nearly ten years I suppose technically.

482
00:38:53.960 --> 00:38:57.480
So she was only like thirty thirty one. She was

483
00:38:57.559 --> 00:39:04.440
just still young and she had grown up sons because

484
00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:07.079
at that point when she was thirty, when I say

485
00:39:07.159 --> 00:39:13.039
nineteen eighty seven, when she left, I was sixteen. My

486
00:39:13.079 --> 00:39:17.360
other brother was eighteen, and the other one was twenty. So,

487
00:39:17.920 --> 00:39:21.559
you know, to be thirty one with a twenty year old,

488
00:39:21.840 --> 00:39:25.599
eighteen year old and a sixteen year old kid, kids

489
00:39:25.880 --> 00:39:30.119
plus an eight year old as well, you know, that's

490
00:39:31.679 --> 00:39:36.440
it's a lot. So I'm telling you, don't tell anyone else.

491
00:39:36.519 --> 00:39:41.239
I'm just just sharing this with you. I don't know why.

492
00:39:41.400 --> 00:39:43.119
I kind of keep forgetting about it, and then I

493
00:39:43.159 --> 00:39:49.280
remember and I didn't. I didn't put my dress on there,

494
00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:52.039
I did put my name? Did I put my name?

495
00:39:52.480 --> 00:39:54.920
I think I put my name. I mean she might

496
00:39:54.960 --> 00:40:00.519
not know who I am. She might have forgotten. She

497
00:40:00.559 --> 00:40:04.000
should remember, miss isldn't she that's ten years she should

498
00:40:04.119 --> 00:40:11.920
I mean I remember things. I mean something that's happened

499
00:40:11.960 --> 00:40:14.639
for ten years, knowing someone for ten years. I remember those.

500
00:40:15.840 --> 00:40:22.880
I remember people from when I was a kid. But

501
00:40:23.000 --> 00:40:25.679
I said, we're all different. I mean, she's moved on.

502
00:40:26.039 --> 00:40:28.400
I might she might be thinking, who the hell is

503
00:40:28.400 --> 00:40:38.320
this Jason? Yeah, and why is there a picture of

504
00:40:38.360 --> 00:40:41.920
a cake and flowers? Why couldn't you just give me

505
00:40:41.960 --> 00:40:43.920
a picture of some flowers and a nice big cake

506
00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:50.679
to eat? Yum yum, yum yum. I don't know, but yeah,

507
00:40:50.679 --> 00:40:54.760
that's what I did. Again. This is trivia Tuesday. I'm

508
00:40:54.760 --> 00:40:58.519
talking about popes. Believe it or not, I really am.

509
00:40:58.599 --> 00:41:06.480
I'm talking about popes. Oh, my granddad. He so he

510
00:41:06.599 --> 00:41:10.480
was coming back my nan or just not mine, just

511
00:41:10.519 --> 00:41:13.000
like not just my name, but like the whole street

512
00:41:13.320 --> 00:41:19.559
put on a street party, welcoming him, welcome him, welcome him, well,

513
00:41:19.840 --> 00:41:32.760
come in him back. Words are complicated today, So I

514
00:41:32.800 --> 00:41:35.199
think they put banners up and all kinds of stuff

515
00:41:35.400 --> 00:41:38.800
because he was he grew up in that area. I think,

516
00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:41.760
so he knew them. They all knew him and everything.

517
00:41:42.719 --> 00:41:48.599
Maybe they knew his family. So it was like, well,

518
00:41:48.679 --> 00:41:53.639
come back Ted. That was his name, and I guess

519
00:41:53.639 --> 00:41:54.880
it would be his name, wouldn't it if they were

520
00:41:54.880 --> 00:41:57.440
putting banners up the same way. If they put well,

521
00:41:57.480 --> 00:41:59.800
come back Bob, that would have been weird, wouldn't it.

522
00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:06.199
It wasn't his name anyway, and I don't know how

523
00:42:06.360 --> 00:42:11.719
much of a party it was, but I don't know

524
00:42:11.880 --> 00:42:14.239
it was. You know, he was he was a hero,

525
00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:17.400
like everyone that came back from the Second World War.

526
00:42:17.440 --> 00:42:20.599
They were all heroes. It's just he was a bit

527
00:42:20.679 --> 00:42:28.280
late coming back. So they they put a party on

528
00:42:28.320 --> 00:42:30.480
in a street party to welcome him back. He was

529
00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:32.760
supposed to come back on her I think it's probably

530
00:42:32.760 --> 00:42:37.760
a Saturday afternoon or whatever. He did come back on

531
00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:40.000
exactly like the right day, but he came in the

532
00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:43.360
back way, came in through the back gate, and went

533
00:42:43.400 --> 00:42:51.559
straight upstairs to bed or he didn't want the fuss.

534
00:42:52.760 --> 00:42:55.159
I remember my name telling me that. She's like, he

535
00:42:55.199 --> 00:42:58.920
didn't want the fuss. He didn't even come and say

536
00:42:58.960 --> 00:43:01.599
hello to people. I'm sure he did in his own time,

537
00:43:01.679 --> 00:43:07.760
probably individually, but he didn't want that fanfare, which is

538
00:43:10.519 --> 00:43:13.960
ultimately there's no way of knowing how another person feels.

539
00:43:13.960 --> 00:43:15.840
That's how he felt, and that's that's it. That's it,

540
00:43:15.920 --> 00:43:21.920
and it really, I mean, I do suppose, yeah, he

541
00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:24.679
wouldn't expect him to be doing, you know, cartwheels and

542
00:43:24.719 --> 00:43:32.000
stuff down the road. But I'm guessing some of the

543
00:43:32.039 --> 00:43:33.840
neighbors would have been a bit annoyed though when you

544
00:43:33.920 --> 00:43:38.639
put on some effort. Yeah, I don't know, but he

545
00:43:38.760 --> 00:43:42.199
was liked the liked person. It's one of these really

546
00:43:43.920 --> 00:43:49.599
neat and tidy. Always wore trousers and a shirt, shoes,

547
00:43:49.639 --> 00:43:57.639
always polished. I remember my name was there in a

548
00:43:57.760 --> 00:44:02.800
dressing gown and I said that because I stayed over one.

549
00:44:03.199 --> 00:44:05.440
I stayed there for a couple of weeks now a

550
00:44:05.559 --> 00:44:09.199
week when my stepmm is on holiday. When I stayed

551
00:44:09.239 --> 00:44:14.400
with her in the flat before she moved away, and

552
00:44:14.440 --> 00:44:17.079
my nan was in a dressing gown ready for bed,

553
00:44:17.159 --> 00:44:20.840
and I was getting ready for bed, and I said

554
00:44:20.880 --> 00:44:22.559
to him, and they said, I were going to bed.

555
00:44:22.599 --> 00:44:26.079
And I said, how come Grandad hasn't changed into his

556
00:44:26.119 --> 00:44:36.480
pajamas because he's standing there with a shirt, trousers like brown,

557
00:44:36.679 --> 00:44:42.280
polished shoes, trill bey hat overcoat. And she said, no,

558
00:44:42.400 --> 00:44:47.599
that is his pajamas. So it was yeah, apparently he

559
00:44:47.679 --> 00:44:50.320
used to every time he woke up. Maybe not every

560
00:44:50.320 --> 00:44:55.960
time he woke up, because anyone that's older than thirty

561
00:44:56.079 --> 00:44:59.599
or whatever. Will know that sleeping all the way through

562
00:45:00.199 --> 00:45:04.119
was a thing due to wewiz we either needs to

563
00:45:04.199 --> 00:45:08.440
do we wiz sometimes. But when he got out of

564
00:45:08.440 --> 00:45:10.639
bed in the morning, he would do press ups and

565
00:45:10.679 --> 00:45:16.559
sit ups right right, you know, even when he was elderly.

566
00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:28.039
One thing I didn't realize he did a really nice

567
00:45:28.079 --> 00:45:30.320
thing for me once, and I didn't realize it was nice.

568
00:45:33.280 --> 00:45:35.239
I didn't realize he was kind of reaching out to me.

569
00:45:38.920 --> 00:45:43.159
Phinney's doing them. Started to look around. Hinney's looks like

570
00:45:43.199 --> 00:45:49.079
he's trying to about to do something, get something off

571
00:45:49.079 --> 00:45:55.519
the little table next to the settee. I don't know why.

572
00:45:56.400 --> 00:46:00.719
You don't know why. Let's make it some noise. I

573
00:46:00.800 --> 00:46:03.280
was a big brother tonight. It's on at nine o'clock,

574
00:46:04.039 --> 00:46:07.000
Big Brother of Viction, and three people are being evicted.

575
00:46:08.920 --> 00:46:17.599
I've never been so excited in my life. Three people. Wow. Yeah, Vin,

576
00:46:17.599 --> 00:46:24.199
he's really playing up now for some reason. So my granddad.

577
00:46:26.639 --> 00:46:30.719
I think I just moved into my flat, my first flat,

578
00:46:31.800 --> 00:46:37.960
which was above this shop, the chip shop. I've fallen

579
00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:44.239
asleep talking about it, and he gave me he took

580
00:46:44.239 --> 00:46:48.280
me into his shed. I thought I was in trouble,

581
00:46:49.199 --> 00:46:57.599
and he said, can you hear him? How much noise

582
00:46:57.639 --> 00:47:03.400
can It's basically that's what he was trying to get

583
00:47:03.480 --> 00:47:06.519
from the table. I gave it to him, but it's

584
00:47:06.559 --> 00:47:10.000
a bag that had treats him. But the bag, it's

585
00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:16.360
an empty bag, but he's ripping it the bits. He's

586
00:47:16.400 --> 00:47:23.639
not happy. It's really not And I didn't know. I

587
00:47:23.719 --> 00:47:27.800
knew my dad, my granddad was really into gardening, like

588
00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:35.119
really into it. And I do sometimes think that that's noisy.

589
00:47:35.920 --> 00:47:37.920
I do think that perhaps that should have been his

590
00:47:38.039 --> 00:47:44.920
career because he loved it so much. But he had

591
00:47:44.920 --> 00:47:47.000
a garden and he made it beautiful and he had

592
00:47:47.000 --> 00:47:51.079
a shed. Then he come on me, it's way too

593
00:47:51.199 --> 00:48:05.960
much noise. Please as if thanks completely ignores me, so

594
00:48:10.119 --> 00:48:17.440
sh sh sh okay.

595
00:48:18.840 --> 00:48:26.000
I don't know why it's funny. It's not even like

596
00:48:27.119 --> 00:48:28.800
I mean, I know, it's nice to hear him in

597
00:48:28.800 --> 00:48:33.280
the background sometimes just pit a pattern around.

598
00:48:33.039 --> 00:48:42.360
Maybe having a drink of water. But if this was

599
00:48:42.360 --> 00:48:45.599
a human being, you know, it's say if I had

600
00:48:45.639 --> 00:48:49.599
a friend that was sitting over there and they didn't

601
00:48:49.599 --> 00:48:51.440
want to be alone by it to make a recording.

602
00:48:51.480 --> 00:48:55.280
So so I'll just just sit there quietly. I'll I'll

603
00:48:55.360 --> 00:48:58.079
just be half an hour, an hour or whatever. So

604
00:48:58.119 --> 00:49:01.519
I'm talking and they're doing that, eating out some crisps

605
00:49:01.719 --> 00:49:08.559
and crisp packet when I'm dancing to be quiet, And

606
00:49:08.599 --> 00:49:23.239
that's them being quiet as those that you that when

607
00:49:23.320 --> 00:49:26.960
you go to the cinema you like to, you know,

608
00:49:27.320 --> 00:49:30.840
give yourself some popcorn or some treats and sweets, and

609
00:49:30.920 --> 00:49:36.239
you've got plastic bags. This is what the people around

610
00:49:36.239 --> 00:49:48.159
you are hearing all the way through the movie. Make

611
00:49:48.199 --> 00:49:51.559
sure you almost want to be considerate, isn't it? Wow?

612
00:49:54.719 --> 00:49:57.400
I think this should be. Is the band on plastic?

613
00:49:57.440 --> 00:49:59.480
I mean there's a band on plastic nearly everywhere else

614
00:49:59.519 --> 00:50:08.960
now have a band on plastic in cinemas. Just no plastic, shample,

615
00:50:09.599 --> 00:50:13.679
no plastic. He's finished now good. So my granddad took

616
00:50:13.719 --> 00:50:18.679
me into the shed and I never realized he was

617
00:50:18.719 --> 00:50:30.519
a mister Meggie Maggie mcgooney, mcgannymany mcganny. Yeah, like the

618
00:50:32.320 --> 00:50:40.760
in Maggie Your Meggy the karate kid in Meggie, mister mcgaggy,

619
00:50:40.880 --> 00:50:46.159
mister miyaggy, that's me Eggy. I mean, he wasn't actually

620
00:50:46.159 --> 00:50:49.280
that person. It was my granddad, but he had Bonze

621
00:50:49.280 --> 00:50:57.480
eye trees. I thought it was a Japanese thing. I know,

622
00:50:57.599 --> 00:51:01.519
mister Maaggiaggy or Maeggy had one had them in America.

623
00:51:01.559 --> 00:51:04.280
But I didn't think we had Bonzie trees here. And

624
00:51:04.360 --> 00:51:06.679
I wasn't even sure they were a real ever, like

625
00:51:06.760 --> 00:51:08.400
it's on tea, it's a movie. I didn't know if

626
00:51:08.440 --> 00:51:13.039
they were real. I thought, maybe it's a made up

627
00:51:13.039 --> 00:51:17.639
thing to make this story more interesting. But my grandther

628
00:51:17.719 --> 00:51:24.760
had these Bonzi trees that he'd spent years cultivating and

629
00:51:24.840 --> 00:51:28.800
he gave me. He gave me one of them. It

630
00:51:28.840 --> 00:51:31.760
was kind of like a flat warming because it was

631
00:51:31.800 --> 00:51:33.559
the first time I was living on my own, so

632
00:51:33.599 --> 00:51:37.400
I was sixteen. I never lived on my own really

633
00:51:37.440 --> 00:51:42.360
before that, and it was a lovely gift. I didn't

634
00:51:42.360 --> 00:51:49.960
look after it. Yeah it's true I didn't, so it

635
00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:57.920
didn't last. But what it's just lovely. I didn't appreciate

636
00:51:57.960 --> 00:52:01.480
it at the time. I didn't, you know, I wish

637
00:52:01.559 --> 00:52:07.320
I'd been a bit more. I was sixteen, I get

638
00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:10.280
at the time, I was very immature for my age.

639
00:52:11.400 --> 00:52:15.239
I mean I think I hit puberty at about thirty two,

640
00:52:16.320 --> 00:52:21.239
you know, a very very late developer. I said it

641
00:52:21.320 --> 00:52:26.519
lovely effects. Vinn A bit more noise, please, He stops

642
00:52:26.559 --> 00:52:30.880
and listens to me. I know he's looking at me.

643
00:52:30.920 --> 00:52:34.679
If I look around, He's not only looking at me.

644
00:52:34.719 --> 00:52:40.800
He's staring at me his tails wagging, waggling, wiggling, waggling.

645
00:52:41.519 --> 00:52:43.679
Does your tam do your tails do all kinds of

646
00:52:43.679 --> 00:52:51.000
weird things? Isn't it spinning? Spinning around? So another pope,

647
00:52:51.480 --> 00:52:56.840
Pope Pious, had a personal barber who was the only

648
00:52:56.880 --> 00:53:03.840
one allowed to cut his hair. So that's ninth. Oh,

649
00:53:03.920 --> 00:53:07.599
look at this, So I read a few of these out.

650
00:53:08.840 --> 00:53:13.639
Pope Paul the I sixty three to seventy eight was

651
00:53:13.679 --> 00:53:20.280
the first pope to travel by plane. Pope Leo eighteen

652
00:53:20.320 --> 00:53:23.639
seventy eight to nineteen oh three was the oldest pope

653
00:53:23.719 --> 00:53:29.119
living to the age of ninety three. Pope John Paul

654
00:53:29.159 --> 00:53:34.000
of First nineteen seventy eight had the shortest papacy of

655
00:53:34.039 --> 00:53:43.639
the twentieth century. Lasted only thirty three days. Uh dear,

656
00:53:43.760 --> 00:53:50.400
did dear Pope Leo I four forty to four sixty one,

657
00:53:51.320 --> 00:53:55.400
so it was only twenty one years old. He convinced

658
00:53:55.440 --> 00:53:58.599
Attila the Hunter turned back from invade in Italy and

659
00:53:58.800 --> 00:54:02.440
four point fifty two. He was a very young pope,

660
00:54:02.480 --> 00:54:17.000
wasn't he Pope Gregory, Pope Beneface nineteen twelve ninety four

661
00:54:17.039 --> 00:54:20.199
to thirteen O three declared the first jubilee year in

662
00:54:20.280 --> 00:54:29.440
thirteen hundred. Pope Pius x IX eighteen forty six to

663
00:54:29.519 --> 00:54:34.000
eighteen seventy eight, longest servant for thirty one years. I

664
00:54:34.039 --> 00:54:40.880
mentioned it earlier, didn't I? John Pope the Second nineteen

665
00:54:40.880 --> 00:54:43.719
seventy eight to two thousand and five was the first

666
00:54:43.800 --> 00:54:47.239
non Italian pope in four hundred and fifty five years.

667
00:54:47.760 --> 00:55:00.159
Wasn't he German? Oh? I can't remember. Oh, Pope Julius

668
00:55:00.280 --> 00:55:04.880
Second fifteen oh three to fifteen thirteen. Oh, these are

669
00:55:04.920 --> 00:55:07.119
the years that there was pope, not the years he

670
00:55:07.280 --> 00:55:10.679
was around. I was going to say that. Blow me now,

671
00:55:10.679 --> 00:55:12.159
So I was to think that bloke was like twenty

672
00:55:12.239 --> 00:55:16.559
three years old. The other pope commissioned Michelangelo to paint

673
00:55:16.599 --> 00:55:27.280
the seed in the Sistine Chapel. Okay, Pope Sixtus I v.

674
00:55:28.519 --> 00:55:31.360
Fourteen seventy one to fourteen and eighty four restored the

675
00:55:31.400 --> 00:55:40.440
Aqua Virgin Aqueduct, improving Rome's water supply. Pope Buyer Pius

676
00:55:40.639 --> 00:55:44.519
X one one or II thirty nine to fifty eight

677
00:55:45.000 --> 00:55:48.360
opened the Vatican Archives to scholars for the first time.

678
00:55:51.280 --> 00:55:55.480
Pope John Paul the Second nineteen seventy eight to two

679
00:55:55.519 --> 00:55:58.519
thousand and five he visited one hundred and twenty nine

680
00:55:58.559 --> 00:56:02.880
countries during his papacy. There was only one hundred and

681
00:56:02.920 --> 00:56:05.199
twenty three countries in the world, so that's not bad

682
00:56:05.199 --> 00:56:16.159
as a Pope Francis. Pope Benedict x v I two

683
00:56:16.239 --> 00:56:19.800
thousand and five to twenty thirteen was the first pope

684
00:56:19.840 --> 00:56:23.840
to use Twitter. I think he was one of the

685
00:56:23.840 --> 00:56:32.000
first popes to retire as well. I remember there's a

686
00:56:32.000 --> 00:56:37.039
big deal about that when he retired. Pope Paul v

687
00:56:37.199 --> 00:56:39.719
I was the first pope to visit the Holy Land

688
00:56:39.760 --> 00:56:47.840
in modern times. Pope John x XIII nineteen fifty eight

689
00:56:47.840 --> 00:56:50.639
to sixty three sent a message to the moon Junior

690
00:56:50.719 --> 00:57:00.480
Pollo eleven mission, What kind of message? Pope Adrian First

691
00:57:00.840 --> 00:57:05.400
seven seventy two to seven ninety five, oldest pope at

692
00:57:05.400 --> 00:57:12.199
the time of his election at aged eighty. Wow. Pope

693
00:57:12.360 --> 00:57:19.719
Urban v II, No, wait a minute. Pope Benedict x

694
00:57:20.199 --> 00:57:24.360
I X ten thirty two to ten forty four, ten

695
00:57:24.480 --> 00:57:28.039
forty five and then ten forty seven to ten forty eight.

696
00:57:29.320 --> 00:57:31.119
I don't know how I didn't realize you could be

697
00:57:31.159 --> 00:57:36.960
pope three times. That's that's I don't understand what that is.

698
00:57:36.960 --> 00:57:39.400
I'd have to look into the into the reason for that.

699
00:57:39.480 --> 00:57:44.320
But just not interesting enough to be honest. But this

700
00:57:44.679 --> 00:57:48.639
is peaque my interest mildly. He was the youngest pope,

701
00:57:49.679 --> 00:57:57.239
one of the youngest popes, possibly the youngest. Twelve. Pope

702
00:57:57.320 --> 00:58:02.559
John XII nine fifty five to nine sixty four elected

703
00:58:02.599 --> 00:58:08.559
poper around eighteen years old. So this now they're generally,

704
00:58:08.639 --> 00:58:14.480
you know, fairly elderly. Wasn't was the case? And he

705
00:58:14.599 --> 00:58:16.760
was a pope from nine to fifty five to nine

706
00:58:16.840 --> 00:58:23.199
sixty four, I mean, an eighteen year old. I just

707
00:58:23.239 --> 00:58:29.880
wonder what he got up to. This is Pope Martin

708
00:58:30.159 --> 00:58:34.719
IV twelve eighty one to twelve eighty five had a

709
00:58:34.760 --> 00:58:43.280
fondness for eels. Okay, Pope John the second seventy eight

710
00:58:43.360 --> 00:58:46.960
two thousand and five enjoyed a Polish cream cake called

711
00:58:47.079 --> 00:58:53.280
cram Wacker cramlca. Was he Polish? Wasn't German? Wasn't he Polish?

712
00:58:54.480 --> 00:58:57.400
John Paul second? I'm just thinking, because if he enjoyed

713
00:58:57.400 --> 00:59:02.400
Polish cream cake, maybe he was polish. But from the

714
00:59:02.400 --> 00:59:06.000
sounds of it, Kramalca, that sounds like a really nice cake.

715
00:59:07.000 --> 00:59:08.679
So I don't think you know you'd need to be

716
00:59:08.719 --> 00:59:12.440
polished to enjoy it. I imagine I'd enjoy that cake myself.

717
00:59:13.760 --> 00:59:16.239
In fact, I've never wanted to eat your cake as

718
00:59:16.320 --> 00:59:18.760
much as I do right now, And that's the only

719
00:59:18.800 --> 00:59:23.480
cake I ever want to eat. Kramalca. Oh, it sounds lovely,

720
00:59:24.840 --> 00:59:37.280
Pope Benedict's it says Pope Benedict. Pope Paul six, Pope Paul,

721
00:59:37.400 --> 00:59:42.039
Pope Paul the I nineteen sixty three to nineteen seventy

722
00:59:42.079 --> 00:59:46.000
eight preferred a light scotch and soda in the evenings. Wow.

723
00:59:50.679 --> 00:59:57.519
Pope Clement the I thirteen forty two to thirteen fifty two,

724
00:59:59.079 --> 01:00:02.840
this is interesting, enjoyed lavish meals, but was the only

725
01:00:02.920 --> 01:00:10.119
one allowed to use a knife at his table. Historical

726
01:00:10.639 --> 01:00:15.760
artistic endeavors that say, a look, Pope Innocent eight. Some

727
01:00:15.840 --> 01:00:18.480
of these names are pretty cool, isn't they? So? That

728
01:00:18.519 --> 01:00:25.880
he was the eighth Pope Innocent eighteen fourteen eighty four

729
01:00:25.960 --> 01:00:31.559
to fourteen ninety two. That's a long time ago, isn't it.

730
01:00:32.519 --> 01:00:37.960
Fourteen fifteen sixty I mean some of these like seven

731
01:00:40.119 --> 01:00:44.119
seven how many years when was the first pope? Because

732
01:00:44.119 --> 01:00:50.320
it wasn't there one here like seven four forty four forty,

733
01:00:51.320 --> 01:00:58.360
so it's four forty. I mean it's two outs just

734
01:00:58.760 --> 01:01:04.639
six hundred years ago, is that right? Yeah? Six hundred

735
01:01:04.719 --> 01:01:09.559
years ago. Nearly six hundred years ago. BlimE me. That's

736
01:01:09.599 --> 01:01:15.159
a few lifetimes, isn't it. Pope Innocent eight eighteen forty

737
01:01:15.199 --> 01:01:19.519
eight to fourteen ninety two accepted a gift of chess

738
01:01:19.559 --> 01:01:25.360
men made of sugar from King Ferdinand of Spain and

739
01:01:25.519 --> 01:01:30.039
Pope six to five fifteen eighty five to fifteen ninety

740
01:01:30.639 --> 01:01:36.199
once had really once had a fake mountain built in

741
01:01:36.239 --> 01:01:40.480
the Vatican gardens so he could climb it for exercise. Brilliant,

742
01:01:43.119 --> 01:01:45.559
that's just brilliant. You can't knock that, and so I can't.

743
01:01:46.159 --> 01:01:54.119
That's just great. Yeah, if you can't get to the mountain,

744
01:01:54.719 --> 01:01:57.360
bring the mountain to you. There's an old saying, isn't

745
01:01:57.400 --> 01:02:03.639
it bring the mountainto the pope? If the Pope can't

746
01:02:03.639 --> 01:02:09.559
get to the mountain. I haven't been to the Vatican,

747
01:02:11.039 --> 01:02:15.199
but I assume there's lots of stairs, lots of steps.

748
01:02:17.280 --> 01:02:19.920
But then I suppose if it's indoors. It's not the

749
01:02:19.960 --> 01:02:23.719
same as being outdoors, and you can't climb up a

750
01:02:23.920 --> 01:02:27.000
bigger loads of steps and feel like you've climbed a mountain,

751
01:02:27.400 --> 01:02:30.400
even though you might have actually done the equivalent of that.

752
01:02:31.599 --> 01:02:35.599
So I suppose having a mountain built in the garden

753
01:02:36.239 --> 01:02:41.119
was useful, wasn't it. Oh, that's something I would do.

754
01:02:41.199 --> 01:02:53.159
I like that and save looks. Some historical highlights. Pope

755
01:02:53.159 --> 01:02:56.679
France is twenty thirteen to present used to take public

756
01:02:56.719 --> 01:03:02.719
buses in Buena Aris and still prefers modest living. Okay,

757
01:03:02.719 --> 01:03:05.239
this is the pope that has passed. Sorry it's saying

758
01:03:05.239 --> 01:03:08.920
to present. It's not up to date. Here still prefers

759
01:03:09.679 --> 01:03:17.719
modest living quarters in the Vatican guesthouse. Pope John Paul

760
01:03:17.920 --> 01:03:21.159
second seventy eight to two thousand and five was the

761
01:03:21.280 --> 01:03:29.079
very first pope to visit a synagogue, and Pope Benedict

762
01:03:31.559 --> 01:03:35.119
two thousand and five to twenty thirteen visited the Blue

763
01:03:35.199 --> 01:03:45.480
Mosque in Istanbul, fostering interfaith relations. Oh, I didn't know this.

764
01:03:45.599 --> 01:03:49.599
Pope Adrian second eight sixty seven to eight seventy two

765
01:03:50.239 --> 01:03:53.559
was married before his election, and his wife and daughter

766
01:03:53.639 --> 01:04:00.639
lived with him in the lateran palace. They are like kings,

767
01:04:00.639 --> 01:04:06.639
aren't they really? The popes almost like higher than kings,

768
01:04:07.039 --> 01:04:13.480
like the higher than royalty. Pope Benedict the ninth, Okay,

769
01:04:13.519 --> 01:04:18.880
that's already done that one. Pope John Is twenty second,

770
01:04:19.199 --> 01:04:29.760
which was thirteen sixteen to thirteen thirty four, once banned

771
01:04:29.880 --> 01:04:38.920
chess from clergy, possibly because monks were gambling over it. Oh.

772
01:04:39.320 --> 01:04:44.239
Pope Adlexander the seventh sixteen fifty five to sixteen sixty

773
01:04:44.280 --> 01:04:47.239
seven had a bed that could be folded up and

774
01:04:47.320 --> 01:04:50.800
hidden behind a curtain. It's good, though, because you never

775
01:04:50.840 --> 01:04:59.800
know when you need a nap. Pope Pope in this

776
01:05:00.280 --> 01:05:05.400
the second sixteen seventy six to eighty nine, known for

777
01:05:05.440 --> 01:05:10.360
being extremely thrifty. He even reduced the Vatican's sugar allowance.

778
01:05:13.920 --> 01:05:18.400
And Pope Clement seven fifteen twenty three to thirty four

779
01:05:19.079 --> 01:05:23.920
had a personal astrologer and planned major events according to

780
01:05:24.000 --> 01:05:27.719
the stars. I wonder if they knew at the time

781
01:05:29.360 --> 01:05:34.599
that he was doing that. And when is it going

782
01:05:34.679 --> 01:05:42.119
to be a female pope? That's just a question. I

783
01:05:42.119 --> 01:05:44.159
don't know. I don't know what the rules are when

784
01:05:44.159 --> 01:05:47.159
the rules are no female popes. I know because I

785
01:05:47.239 --> 01:05:52.559
looked at all the people that will be basically people

786
01:05:52.599 --> 01:05:57.119
will be voting for them, all men. And there's never been,

787
01:05:57.639 --> 01:06:03.800
according to this, never been a female pope. So I

788
01:06:03.840 --> 01:06:08.039
means a pope ess. I mean the one that was married,

789
01:06:09.119 --> 01:06:16.559
was she He's I don't know, I don't know who

790
01:06:16.599 --> 01:06:25.480
knows all Pope Joan maybe there was? Oh, as I

791
01:06:25.599 --> 01:06:33.719
said that. Wow, Pope Joan legendary ninth century, so this

792
01:06:33.880 --> 01:06:38.639
might not be true. While likely a medieval legend, the

793
01:06:38.679 --> 01:06:42.400
tale of a woman who became pope disguised as a

794
01:06:42.440 --> 01:06:48.920
man has intrigued storytellers for centuries. It still is intriguing people.

795
01:06:48.920 --> 01:06:52.920
It's intrigued me. Now, how ironic the fact that I

796
01:06:53.000 --> 01:06:59.199
was just talking about females not ever being a pope.

797
01:07:00.000 --> 01:07:05.119
Now that came up. Wow, It's almost like I'm in

798
01:07:05.239 --> 01:07:07.800
sync with the screen in front of me. Maybe I

799
01:07:07.880 --> 01:07:12.239
just read it now I didn't. I did read it,

800
01:07:12.280 --> 01:07:23.880
but not until afterwards. Pope Gregory nine twelve twenty seven

801
01:07:23.920 --> 01:07:29.679
to forty one had a papal PayPal papal bull that

802
01:07:29.840 --> 01:07:36.280
declared black cats were associated with Satan. Oh that's good, Lisa,

803
01:07:36.360 --> 01:07:43.519
no superstition. Pope Nicholas the Fifth fourteen forty seven to

804
01:07:43.599 --> 01:07:48.679
fourteen fifty five loved books so much he began the

805
01:07:48.800 --> 01:07:58.599
Vatican Library. Wow. Pope Paul the Second fourteen sixty four

806
01:07:58.719 --> 01:08:18.199
to fourteen seventy one loved collecting classical statues and watermelons. Okay, right,

807
01:08:18.680 --> 01:08:21.039
there's a few. There's a few other bits in here

808
01:08:21.079 --> 01:08:30.720
that I won't read that just because it's not I

809
01:08:30.800 --> 01:08:33.279
kind of covered most of the stuff on here. Actually,

810
01:08:33.720 --> 01:08:36.159
I thought there was more than that. I'm sure there

811
01:08:36.239 --> 01:08:44.720
was more. I went through quite a few earlier. Artistic endeavors,

812
01:08:44.920 --> 01:09:00.680
global influence, unique papal facts. Okay, global influence. I already

813
01:09:00.760 --> 01:09:08.479
kind of covered most of these artistic endeavors. Michelangelo one

814
01:09:08.520 --> 01:09:18.439
had done that. The viaduct, done that opening for the

815
01:09:18.479 --> 01:09:24.920
two scholars for the first time, done that one. Historical highlights.

816
01:09:28.079 --> 01:09:31.840
Pope Adrian I V was the only English pope born

817
01:09:31.920 --> 01:09:37.640
Nicholas Breakespear in Hertfordshire. Wow, I did not know that.

818
01:09:40.279 --> 01:09:46.319
Pope Clement V moved the papacy to Avignon, France, initiating

819
01:09:46.399 --> 01:09:52.399
the Avignon Papacy period. So the pope was in France

820
01:09:52.479 --> 01:09:58.800
for a while. Pope Pius v I I was imprisoned

821
01:09:58.840 --> 01:10:06.520
by Napoleon for ruper refuse him to anal his brother's marriage. Oh,

822
01:10:08.960 --> 01:10:10.479
I don't know about that. I don't know what that

823
01:10:14.880 --> 01:10:19.439
a knoll and also get sort of undo the marriage.

824
01:10:19.479 --> 01:10:29.640
I suppose that's that's what that means. Pope Leo x H.

825
01:10:29.800 --> 01:10:38.319
The Pope Gregory XI introduced the Gregorian calendar in fifteen

826
01:10:38.399 --> 01:10:42.399
eighty two, which is still in use today. No idea

827
01:10:42.439 --> 01:10:49.960
what that means? Does that mean that the like January February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October,

828
01:10:50.000 --> 01:10:58.560
non December. Did what's the only name? What's the only

829
01:10:58.680 --> 01:11:02.520
first name you can get out of if you go

830
01:11:02.600 --> 01:11:08.039
for the first letters of the calendar January, February, March,

831
01:11:08.199 --> 01:11:10.319
all the way down. So what's the only name that

832
01:11:10.399 --> 01:11:14.880
comes out of the calendar from January to December? If

833
01:11:14.960 --> 01:11:17.600
you look at the first letters, the only name that

834
01:11:17.680 --> 01:11:22.079
comes out should I touch I spell out here? So

835
01:11:22.119 --> 01:11:32.920
you've got January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November,

836
01:11:33.199 --> 01:11:38.920
Jason the only name that is spelled with the first

837
01:11:39.359 --> 01:11:53.720
letters of the calendar. The only name Jason June, July, nothing, July, August, September,

838
01:11:53.800 --> 01:11:57.880
October November December, Jaysond. But I don't think there's any

839
01:11:57.960 --> 01:12:05.760
name would called Jason. That might be January, February due

840
01:12:07.239 --> 01:12:13.800
and March April, May, March April, mem That's not really

841
01:12:13.840 --> 01:12:27.840
your name, though, is it? June? July? August? Yeah, November December,

842
01:12:30.439 --> 01:12:35.680
you know, so it's not October November, December. I mean,

843
01:12:35.680 --> 01:12:42.680
it might might be a name called odd Sond September, October, November, December,

844
01:12:42.880 --> 01:12:49.399
So there might be a name called Sond August. Maybe

845
01:12:49.399 --> 01:12:52.239
there is a name called Essend, but it's definitely not

846
01:12:52.279 --> 01:12:59.359
a name that I've heard of. Jason is the only one, really,

847
01:13:00.079 --> 01:13:03.079
the only one any way, that I've heard of. I mean,

848
01:13:03.680 --> 01:13:08.880
you know, I have heard of that name. Jason, quite

849
01:13:08.880 --> 01:13:10.560
a good name. I don't know why more people don't

850
01:13:10.560 --> 01:13:17.239
call their kids Jason. Just seems like an opportunity missed.

851
01:13:19.319 --> 01:13:22.000
That's all I want. I don't want much for my listeners.

852
01:13:22.359 --> 01:13:24.439
I just want you to have babies and call your

853
01:13:24.520 --> 01:13:29.239
children Jason, regardless of their sex. Just call them Jason. Please,

854
01:13:29.319 --> 01:13:34.159
thank you. Here's my daughter Jason. I don't care. Just

855
01:13:34.159 --> 01:13:37.479
just one person, ONTs please call your kid Jason, and

856
01:13:37.560 --> 01:13:40.920
don't don't call it kid Jason because of some of

857
01:13:41.199 --> 01:13:44.600
you know, another reason, and then pretend that you call

858
01:13:45.119 --> 01:13:48.279
it Jason for me. I want you to genuinely want

859
01:13:48.319 --> 01:13:53.560
to call your kid Jason because of me. Now, some

860
01:13:53.640 --> 01:14:01.800
would argue that's a bit egotistical, a bit narsististic. You're

861
01:14:01.840 --> 01:14:09.279
probably right. Oh anyway, I think I've I mean, I

862
01:14:09.319 --> 01:14:12.439
know I went off track a little bit. Pope's iner

863
01:14:12.479 --> 01:14:18.960
personal quirk quirks. Pope Leo X one one was the

864
01:14:18.960 --> 01:14:22.520
first Pope he filmed, appearing in a short silent movie

865
01:14:22.680 --> 01:14:26.840
in eighteen ninety six. I didn't know how movies back then.

866
01:14:30.039 --> 01:14:38.119
And Pope Clement x I V was a skilled botanist

867
01:14:38.319 --> 01:14:41.680
and had a particular interest in the study of plants.

868
01:14:43.039 --> 01:14:47.439
Isn't that what a botanist is, someone who studies plants?

869
01:14:48.039 --> 01:14:54.199
Or am I wrong? John Paul, Pope John Paul's second

870
01:14:54.319 --> 01:15:04.399
was an evid outsdoorman, outdoorman outdoorsman enjoying hiking. Pope Paul

871
01:15:04.680 --> 01:15:09.279
V I first Pope to visit six continents, earning him

872
01:15:09.319 --> 01:15:19.000
the nickname the Pilgrim Pope. Pope Pius X one one

873
01:15:19.439 --> 01:15:22.760
had a passion for acting and performed in amateur dramatics

874
01:15:22.800 --> 01:15:33.800
before his ecclesiastical career. What Pope Francis, Pope Francis, this

875
01:15:33.840 --> 01:15:38.119
is our Pope Francis was a fan of the tango

876
01:15:38.239 --> 01:15:42.640
and even worked as a nightclub bouncer in his youth. Wow,

877
01:15:43.680 --> 01:15:47.439
I just don't see a pope think I bet he

878
01:15:47.560 --> 01:15:49.239
used to be a bouncer, but he used to be

879
01:15:49.279 --> 01:15:52.439
on the door of a nightclub. I've never never thought that,

880
01:15:54.119 --> 01:15:57.920
But then I think it's I think it's sometimes hard

881
01:15:57.920 --> 01:16:01.119
to even imagine someone used they used to be young,

882
01:16:03.720 --> 01:16:05.760
even though we've all we were all were young with me.

883
01:16:06.439 --> 01:16:14.880
We were all little kids, once teenagers, young adults, middle aged.

884
01:16:17.880 --> 01:16:27.199
Pope Benedict's x v I was accomplished penis pianist, often

885
01:16:27.239 --> 01:16:40.159
playing works by Mozart, his favorite composer. Wow, how cool

886
01:16:40.359 --> 01:16:49.199
culinary tales. I've already kind of covered this, right, Global influence,

887
01:16:49.479 --> 01:16:56.159
artistic endeavors, historical highlights, popes and their personal quots are

888
01:16:56.239 --> 01:17:07.399
kind of covered most of these or the yep, I'm

889
01:17:07.479 --> 01:17:10.560
kind of all done. I've covered everything. I mean, I don't.

890
01:17:10.760 --> 01:17:13.359
I'm not saying I've covered every single thing about popes

891
01:17:13.760 --> 01:17:18.039
since the beginning of time. I haven't. Probably about ninety percent,

892
01:17:18.119 --> 01:17:21.640
but not all of it, so thank you for listening.

893
01:17:22.479 --> 01:17:28.880
I'm going to go now. Oh yes, it's half past eight,

894
01:17:29.640 --> 01:17:33.239
which means Big Brother will be on in about half

895
01:17:33.319 --> 01:17:36.159
an hour, less than half an hour, So what I'll

896
01:17:36.199 --> 01:17:40.680
do I probably will because it finishes at half ten.

897
01:17:41.239 --> 01:17:44.520
I'll probably go to bed then. So what I'll do

898
01:17:44.800 --> 01:17:49.840
is edit this process it in the morning, so though

899
01:17:49.840 --> 01:17:53.960
it would be Wednesday, it will be early Wednesday, unless,

900
01:17:54.000 --> 01:17:58.039
of course, I decide to do it tonight. There's always

901
01:17:58.079 --> 01:18:01.760
a chance. You never know. I don't make I can't.

902
01:18:01.800 --> 01:18:06.760
I just don't know. I don't know, So thank you

903
01:18:06.800 --> 01:18:11.439
for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself because you

904
01:18:11.520 --> 01:18:14.640
do deserve to be happy, and be gentle with yourself

905
01:18:17.000 --> 01:18:26.520
because you deserve to feel safe. What's of love? Bye bye,

906
01:18:26.600 --> 01:18:27.479
bye bye.