April 11, 2025

(music) Q&A Friday | Let me bore you to sleep #1325 | 11th April 2025

(music) Q&A Friday | Let me bore you to sleep #1325 | 11th April 2025
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Hello, and welcome to Cue and Cunie Cuney Friday, Gooney Cooney,

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Cumbere Friday. My name's Jason Newland. This is Jason Newland

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dot com. Please only listen to one who can safely

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close your eyes. It is eleventh what Friday? The eleventh

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of April two thousand and twenty five. Now, little problem. No,

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I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about this what

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I don't really know what to do today because because

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because because because of the wonderful things he does, I

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haven't really had any questions hardly. Now does that mean

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we're at the end of the Q and A Friday.

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Does that mean that's kind of it now we sort

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of stop doing them? Or I don't know. I don't

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know what the what the solution is, if I'm honest.

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So I do have a couple of questions, but and

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I realized one question can take me the whole session.

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But the idea, what's going on? What's that? Or right? Okay?

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So maybe my problem is I posted them on all

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the different pages and steady just on the Jason Newlands

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Boring group on Facebook. But I posted, like the any questions.

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I think the two things that have been problematic is

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first of all, I have produced probably too many recordings

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in a sense that the post hello, do you have

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any questions for this week's Q and A Friday, eleventh

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of April twenty twenty five, which I posted on the

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ninth Wednesday, has got kind of hidden by all the

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other posts that I posted, because you know I've done.

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I did three recordings yesterday. This will be the second

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one today. I did two the day before that, two

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the day before that. So yes, quite a few, I guess.

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So I'm thinking what can I do to cover that?

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So I've got questions from Hillary where in high landage

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of visit? And I've got another question from Sebastian. Oh,

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that wasn't a question. Will podcast when? Don't make me

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start on my own? So he didn't. I didn't ask

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a question. He posted a picture of do you know?

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On YouTube? But what on Facebook? At the moment there's

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all these pictures of like action figures done by AI

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and people are doing their own ones. Well, he's done

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for me, and it says Uncle Smellie hours of boredom.

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And it's basically a very very short, plump man with

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hardly any hair, wearing pink glasses and it says comes with

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several cooled dysfunctionalities ages nine and up. No age is

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five and up, so it yeah, that was his thing

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for me. So it wasn't a question. So I say, hello,

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do you have any questions for this? Seach Q and

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a Friday Sebastian answers have aware of you of robbing

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yourself by not talking to me. Never mind, I'll keep

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on barding your dms and one day you will have

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to face it. So I say, do you have an

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actual question? And he says, do you like your action

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figure I designed for you? So no, Sebastian, I don't

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like it. I mean, it's nice that you took the

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time to I don't even know what the right word

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is to be honest, uncle Smellie ours of boredom. I mean,

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the thing is, I don't want to say nice things

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about him. But Sebastian's been doing AI and images and

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stuff like that. Before AI was even about, he was

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doing and making weird making weird images and videos like

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ten years ago. So I'm a little bit scared what

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he could come up with with the new technology. In

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some of the things he's actually posted are very funny,

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there's one he did where there's me in a dressing

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gown and suddenly all these people just pulled my dressing

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gown off and it's like a kung fu or karate dojo.

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So yeah, I do like the some of new stuff

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you post, but it's usually it's not aimed at making

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me feel good about myself? Is it a? So? Where

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a guess? Where did Thailand were entirely to go? So

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that's that one, seems there's any other questions, any other questions,

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any other questions? Nothing on Jason Newland's boring group Let

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Me Boy to Sleep. Let's see if there's anything on

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that page? Oh, what come on Jason Newland Hypnosis. Let's

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all look on that page? Is there anything? You never know?

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There might be something? No, nothing on there, Let Me

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Boy to Sleep? Anything on there? I wonder why trains

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make so much noise? Sometimes? Might not be a train? Actually, Oh,

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I didn't seem to post it on that one? Okay,

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fair enough? So did I post it on the Jason

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Newland Hypnotist or one word? I didn't? Okay fair enough?

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So the ones I posted on I didn't get any

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other responses, so only one question and I don't believe.

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If I'm correct, I've ever had only one question in

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a week, which is it. I'm not concerned as in

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like no, oh, no, what we're going to do, but

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a little bit like okay, because it seems a little

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bit of a shame to wave goodbye to the Q

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and a Friday, because I've kind of got a little

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bit used to it. It's it's almost the first regular

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thing that I've ever really done. Like like I'm saying

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like a lot to don't I regular as in, well, okay,

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we all know what regular means, don't we But I

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don't know. I don't know what the solution is. So

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I'm thinking, if I go onto my website, is there

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a way general settings? Is there a way I can

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add something to the top of the page header and

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footer header layout? Because I'm thinking if there is, I

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know I need to I need to go to the page.

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So I go to pages because maybe if I can

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put so if I edit that homepage, if I can

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add a question or a button or or voice message

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as well, no not voice meage contact form review form.

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I wonder what the review form would do write a

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review for hypnosis and Sleeping deeply blind. It no, okay

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that it brings up it brings up a different one

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for each podcast. So there's too many podcasts. It's a big,

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long old thing. So if I go to intake form,

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what's an intake form? Anyone intake form? I say, a look,

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what this is? Intake form? Your name? Wow, okay, that's

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a lot of stuff. What if I can Nopes not

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allow me to change stuff? Well, that's no good. No,

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that that's probably more for me to feel in, isn't it.

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I suppose so people can know where to go. So

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let's do another one, because I'm thinking if I can

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do what would be quite nice if I could just

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have a section and you can ask, So if I

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could put a contact form at the top. And I

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don't know if I'm able to edit the contact form layout.

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I suppose, yeah, I could put something at the top

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so you could just put your name in, email address

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and your message. I don't know if it allow me

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to edit what's in the form. Doesn't seem to, does

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it seem to. That's just added another one. That's no

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point to that. So maybe I'll do that. I'll put

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that at the top of the page for the Jasonnuland

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dot com website, and then you can just ask your question,

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you know, add a question that you want for Q

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and A Friday and I will just write them down,

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keep a track of them, and answer them as I

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get them. Well, not I get them, but whatever I

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get before that Friday our answer, and then whatever I

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get the following week leading up by answer that as well.

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That makes sense, I think. So I need to put

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a header head in head in head in ask question

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for Q and A Friday. This is real time, baby,

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I'm doing this in real time. But how do I'm

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not used to doing it like this? How do I

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get it to be I don't want largest. I think

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H two is fine. I don't need largest, but I

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do need it to be in the middle. How do

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I get it into the center? Styles typography, font font

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font font font font font while there was in many

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choices book antiguy, well that would be it. I don't

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know old text A line that's it, got it in

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the middle. So is that useful? Ask question for Q

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and a Friday for the next for yeah, I'll update that.

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So let's have a look how it looks on my

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website on the on the phone Jess and new Land

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dot com. Yeah, blind me ask question for ask questions

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for Q and a Friday. Should it be more than that?

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Should ask questions? Ask questions for? Ask a question for

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the next Q and a Friday. What would be the

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best way to word it? I don't know uh to do? Do? Do?

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I'm going to ask Q and a chat GPT what's

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the best way to word a title? To form asking

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for questions? Yes, for the next Q and a Friday.

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And I can't do it myself. I just thought i'd

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be interested to see what it comes up with. Got

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a question for Q and a Friday? See this is better?

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This is ask me anything Q and a Friday submission

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or submit your question for Q and a Friday. I

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think they ask me anything. I quite like that, So

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what okay, let's take get rid of that. Ask me

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anything Q and a Friday submission. Do you think that's okay?

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I think it's what you're doing. So just on new

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Land ask me anything Q and a Friday submission. So

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from now on we'll just see, we'll see and see

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how it goes. So every time I do recording, I'll

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just say you can go to my website. Ask a

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question for Q and a Friday and just go to

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in fact, what I could do? Oh I could? I mean,

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it's going to come on the first page. I don't

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need to have it as a as a separate link.

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Do I really a separate page? I might do, though,

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but it's on the very first page. When you go

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to my website Jasonnewland dot com. Is there, ask me

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anything Q and a Friday submission and you just put

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in your name, put in your email address. You can

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put any email address, it doesn't matter. I'm not going

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to respond unless you want me to respond. And then

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there's just a question and just just under your message,

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that's it. I could probably change it a little bit,

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getting make it a bit more flashy, but I think

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that's all right. That does the job, doesn't It don't

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need flashy, just need functional, I would argue, So let

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me know what you think about it. So the question

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really is Thailand? So what I thought i'd just maybe

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talk about Thailand as I don't really have. I mean,

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you know, what did I do? Where did I go?

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What did I So yeah, I'll just talk about my

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time in Thailand, as I don't It's the only question

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I've got so thank you, Hillary, And yeah, that's what

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I do. I think the first time I really heard

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about Thailand, I mean I heard about it when I

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was a kid, to see it on TV, movies and

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stuff like that. I didn't realize the connection with Vietnam

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and all that stuff, didn't know the history of that.

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But I think it was more when I got into

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Buddhism and learned a bit more about Tibet and Japan, China, India, Burma,

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all the different places where Buddhism was and Thailand being

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a Buddhist country. I mean, how many Buddhist countries are there?

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Not many? Right, I need to spell countries correctly, Oh dear,

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I still have to look at the keyboard and the type.

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So there's twelve recognized Buddhist countries in the world where

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Buddhism plays a significant role in shaping the culture. So

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the top ten, really, why is it doing? Whoops? The

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page is gone? Why is the page gone? Right? The

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page is gone? Buddhist by country? Okay, here we go. So, wow,

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there's some countries where there's none recognized. Oh, I was

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going to say, Afghanistan is thirty one million, four hundred

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and ten Buddhists. But now that's the population of the country.

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There's about ten thousand Buddhists this estimate. I didn't realize

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there'd be any Buddhist in Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andra,

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Angola about ten thousand, Argentina about ten thousand, No twenty thousand,

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Armenia ten thousand, Alulba ten thousand, Australia six hundred thousand. Well,

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now Australia, Australia has got quite a link to Thailand.

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There's a link there. There's like, I don't know how

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to express it. There's a lot of Australian visitors to Thailand,

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and I think there's a lot of Thailand visitors to Australia.

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There's a all I think, a good positive connection. I

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might be wrong, but it seems like it's almost like

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a a family, like they're related in some way, a

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bit like maybe England and Ireland. There's always going to

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be that connection, regardless of the blamely some of the

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weird history that went on this. I think the average

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person in England would think of Ireland as being what

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I do. Did I tell you I'm forty eight percent

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Irish I'm going to you know, I'm going to be

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saying that until I'm ninety. It would never get boring

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for me. So yeah, I think Australia's six hundred thousand.

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I didn't think it would be that many, so it's

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quite a high. It's two point still only two point

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seven percent. Austria twenty thousand, alger Baijan ten thousand. I

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might mispronounce some of these words names. Bahamas ten thousand,

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and Bahrain thirty thousand, Bangladesh a million, a million and

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one thousand, so that doesn't surprise me. But there is

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one hundred and forty eight million, six hundred and ninety

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thousand people there, so it's still zero point six percent.

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So it's still a very very tiny percentage. But when

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you consider that India is where Buddhism came from, and

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the history of Bangladesh and all the other parts of

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that area sort of you know, with the religions and stuff.

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So yeah, the Barbados ten thousand, Blaris ten thousand, Belgium

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thirty thousand Buddhists, so it's zero it's still zero point

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two percent. That's weird. I just they've got ten million

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people in Belgium thirty thousand is zero point two percent,

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is it thirty thousand, three hundred thousand, three million. Yeah,

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I suppose blindly, so it's a very small amount. Just

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it seems like quite a few people. So yeah, thirty thousand,

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believes ten thousand, ben In ten thousand, Bermuda ten thousand.

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Used to be more, but they just keep disappearing. Do

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do Do Do Do do do? Don't hear about the

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Muda Triangle anymore? Do? We used to be such a

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big thing. It's like the Yetty and the lock Miss Monster,

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and you know, there's TV shows and movies about it,

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and it's almost like no one cares anymore. I still care.

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Bhutan is one of the most famous Buddhist countries. Seventy

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four point seven percent of the country is Buddhist five

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hundred and forty thousand, so seven hundred and thirty thousand

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people live in Bhutan. Seventy four point seven percent is big.

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So I'd quite like to go there because for me,

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it's it might I know something that, oh, you're going

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to Thailand. It's just to have a party lifestyle and stuff.

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It wasn't that party life. I've never been a party

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lifestyle person in my life, even when I was young

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and fruity. I didn't never did never, just just wasn't

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really a crowd person. The only place I ever felt

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comfortable in my life as an adult, like out like socially,

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I mean, would be the comedy club that I used

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to frequent and I loved that place. It was the

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only place I really felt at home. So Bolivia ten thousand,

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zero point one percent, Botswana ten thousand, So I'm surprised

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that there's any just because some of the culture is

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ten ten thousand, two million people in Botswana. Brazil two

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hundred and fifty thousand. Again, I'm surprised at that. I

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didn't realize there'd be that many in Brazil. Brunei thirty thousand,

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eight point six percent. So that's interesting because Brunei is

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I think it's not known for being a Buddhist place,

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is it, But it's got one of the higher percentages

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in the world. You've got Bulgaria ten thousand. I didn't

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think there'd be any Buddhists in Bulgaria, Burkina Faso ten thousand,

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because these are very Catholic or Christian countries. Bulgaria is

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pretty sure, Cambodia whoa bam van Cambodia. There's fourteen million,

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one hundred and forty thousand people living in Cambodia. How

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many people do you think are Buddhists according to these statistics,

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thirteen million, six hundred and ninety thousand, ninety six point

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nine percent in Cambodia. Wow, Cameroon ten thousand, Canada, Canada

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two hundred and eighty thousand. So that's cool, a very

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tiny amount percentage wise there, it's thirty four million in Canada. Chad.

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I've got no idea where that is. Ten thousand is Chad?

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Is it near Brazil? Chile? Ten thousand? China? See this

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surprises me. I know, it doesn't really surprise me, but

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it kind of surprises me now considering just the way

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that China is portrayed in the West media that there's

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no freedom. Well, according to this is two hundred and

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forty four million, one hundred and thirty thousand Buddhists in

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China out of one point three out of one point

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three billion, so as eighteen point two percent. Again, one

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of the countries that one of the world's highest proportions

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of Buddhists. So I'd like to go to China. I'd

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like to go and visit the Buddhist temples and maybe

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even stay in one for a while, but I don't

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know what the rules are anymore, or you don't know

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regarding going to China, and if we're allowed to go there,

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and I know there's Chinese people will listen to this recording,

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so hello, See there's people from Russia put it from China.

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There's people from all over the world, and some countries

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that block maybe the Western Internet, they just use VPNs

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and they get through that way. So it looks like

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I've got someone from maybe I don't know, trying to

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think of the country Holland or Brussels or Scotland. But

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actually they're listening from China because they've got a VPN

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and they just put more of a Western country down

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so they can listen. So hello, Hello my Chinese friends,

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my Russian friends, my Egyptian friends, Costa Rican friends, my

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Cuban friends, Denmark friends. Believe I can't my Bermuda friends,

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mind you, and I used to have more listeners from Bermuda,

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but for some reason they just keep vanishing. See I'm

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going to keep doing it. I can't help it. Sorry,

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I have no control. So China is definitely a place

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I'd like to go to visit because it's a because

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of the Buddhism. Really Costa Rica, Croatia ten thousand, Cyprus, Kuba.

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I'm thinking this is just out loud, which is where

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they're put in ten thousand, is they don't know, they're

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just guessing. France there's two hundred. I imagine they're guessing anyway.

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But France, you've got two hundred and eighty thousand, which

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is zero point five percent out sixty two million, seven

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hundred and ninety. So France has got less people than

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the UK, more than United Kingdom Germany eighty two eighty

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two million, three hundred thousand, so they've got more people,

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but they've got two hundred and ten thousand Buddhists. Ghana

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ten thousand, Greece, Guam, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Haighti, Honduras, they've

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all got ab ten thousand. Hong Kong is got thirteen

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point two percent, which is nine hundred and thirty thousand,

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But that's in China, isn't it controversial? Sorry? Seven million,

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fifty and that's a separate place, but it's now part

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of China, isn't it Hong Kong. So it's nine hundred

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and thirty thousand, that's blimey, that's good amount. Hungary ten thousand,

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Iceland ten thousand, India nine million, two hundred and fifty thousand,

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which is where Buddhism originated from. Some people think it

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originated from China, but it was India originated from India

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one point two billion, so zero point eight percent still

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a small amount. In India, I think used to be

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a Buddhist country and then changed. I think it's gone

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through different phrases over the years. Indonese year two million

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and two million and sixty two thousand, one hundred and

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fifty so that's BlimE there's two hundred and sixty six

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million people and a half million people living there, so

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Iran ten thousand, Iraq ten thousand. See, I didn't that

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surprisingly just because I thought I didn't think they'd be allowed.

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But then that's just the way that these countries are

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portrayed on the news. Maybe there is more freedom, more

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religious freedom than is you know, presented in the media.

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What else we got Italy one hundred and ten thousand

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out sixty million, Jamaica ten thousand, Japan forty five million,

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eight hundred and twenty thousand, so out of one hundred

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and twenty six and a half million, So it's thirty

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six point two percent. So I knew Japan would be

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large' I was, well, I thought it might be larger,

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but nope, it's still thirty six point two percent. Still

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one of the largest ones in the country in the world.

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Keeps saying country South Korea eleven million, our forty eight

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million is twenty two point nine percent. Guess South Korea

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Kuwait is eighty thousand our two point seven million, So

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that's that's interesting. Laos four point one million million our

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six point two million, so sixty six point one percent.

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And you've got other countries leven and Latvia, lesofa Liberia, girl,

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you came and you've changed my world, Libya, Leitchenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg,

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they had like ten thousand part of Libya's twenty thousand.

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According to this, Macau or Mecca Macau ninety thousand, seventeen

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point three percent. That's quite high BPPP. Malaysia five million

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out of twenty eight point four million, so that's nineteen

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point eight percent. Mexico, Mauritius, Martinic, Mutinik, Malta, Mali, Maldives

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ten thousand. Blimey, I didn't realize there's so many countries,

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so I just skipped to the ones where there's actually

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a lot of people, because this is getting ridiculous. This

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is not this is taken forever forever. I tell you

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Laos four million point one hundred Malaysia did I do that?

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Five million? So that's nineteen point eight percent, Mongolia one

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point five million, fifty five point one percent, Burma or

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Mayan mar thirty eight point four million, So it's eighty

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nine point nine percent, Nepal eight two point four million,

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eight point two percent New Zealand fifty two thousand. And

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then you've got Netherlands forty thousand, Norway thirty thousand, so

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it's still a small proportion. Then you've got fifty thousand

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in Peru, still a small proportion of the people, sixty

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thousand in Portugal, one hundred and seventy thousand in Russia. Wow, okay,

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cool ninety thousand. I mean's one hundred and forty two

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point nine million people in Russia according to this, so

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it's zero point one percent, so it's very small percentage.

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Ninety thousand in Saudi Arabia, Singapore one point seven million,

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so thirty three point nine percent. And then you've got

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Sri Lanka fourteen point four million, sixty nine point three percent,

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Taiwan four point nine million, it's twenty one point three percent,

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Thailand sixty four point four million, ninety three point two percent,

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and then you've got Vietnam fourteen point three million, sixteen

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point four percent. So really, if I go to the

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just to the percentages, just to the percentages. So Cambodia's

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top a ninety six point nine percent, thirteen point six million,

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but Thailand ninety three point two percent second, but it's

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got a lot more Buddhists, sixty four point four million.

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So that's why I went to Thailand. That's why I

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wanted to go there for quite a few years. And

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there was a few things that appeal to me. Just

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seems like, what would it be like to be in

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a Buddhist environment unlike here where the Buddhists go to

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a center and it's this is not a Buddhist country,

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and this is where I live, and it's kind of

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all kind of behind closed doors kind of for the Buddhists.

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I mean, it's you're free to practice in this country

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whatever you want to do. But I think the general

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public probably don't ever hear about Buddhists. They don't make

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a fuss, they don't, you know, it's kind of quiet, quiet,

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i'd say. But in Thailand the thing, So I'll go

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through the thing. There's a thing in Thailand they've got.

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I saw this myself, and I've seen it on videos

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on YouTube. There is a the monks. Because I visited

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the monastery. It's on this massive, massive, massive hill and

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the steps and it was hard walking up there. If

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I was going to do it again and have to

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be early morning or in the evening because it's way

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too hot, or have someone carry me. When I say someone,

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I mean protatly someone dragged me. It'd have to be

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a horse or something. And the wow, China has got

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more Buddhists than anywhere. I just realized that, BlimE me,

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China's got the most Buddhists. China, it's just it's not

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the biggest percentage. That two hundred and forty four million

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Chinese Buddhists, and then Thailand second at sixty four. So

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I realized I couldn't just go to China, there's visas

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and well it's visas for Thailand as well, but it's

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a lot easier what it was just to go to Thailand.

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And basically what happened is I wanted to go. I've

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not really talked about this, but I received a back

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payment which was owed to me from money that I

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should have been getting and I didn't going back for

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a few years, so they called me up and sent

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that to me. So what I did is I at

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the time, paid off my debts, paid off bills, paid

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off phone contracts, paid off all the different things, got

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some new equipment for this plate, you know, for the recording,

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and gave some of it away to friends. And then

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that's when I went over to a fortun and go

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to Thailand. So I did got the did during there

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was still needed a COVID pass at that time, even

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though we was out out of it in Thailand, those

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still all wearing masks and also in the airports and

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all that stuff, not in England but in Thailand and

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on the plane. If you can believe that I had

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to wear a mask for twelve hours. You know, when

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it came to eating, because there was two meals during

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that time, I have never spent so long chewing on

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a little bit of food as I did that day.

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I must have spent about three hours eating my dinner

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because it was such a break to not have that

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mask on, because it was very, very stifling, you know,

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I had to sort of be stuck with it. And

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they keep come around and telling people, put your mask on.

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Put your mask on. I mean, it's nice that, you know.

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The good thing about that period is I wasn't I

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was being asked to put a mask on because everyone

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else had to not just to cover up my face

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for other people because they were complaining. So it's nice,

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you know, there's a reason for it, and so got that.

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What was weird is so I got my friend to

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look after my flat. I wasn't gone for long anyway,

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a couple of weeks or whatever, but it just had

466
00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:55.079
to because I'd lost Andre a few months earlier, and

467
00:41:55.159 --> 00:41:57.159
I was very aimless at that time. You know, I

468
00:41:57.199 --> 00:41:58.800
was living on my own game. I didn't have anyone

469
00:41:58.840 --> 00:42:01.320
with me, but I had Onto with me for six years,

470
00:42:01.360 --> 00:42:03.400
five to six and a half years or whatever. Five

471
00:42:03.440 --> 00:42:07.079
and a half years. It's before I got Vinnie. I

472
00:42:07.159 --> 00:42:08.880
got Vin at the end of the year of that year,

473
00:42:10.320 --> 00:42:19.559
two thousand and twenty three. I think it was, so

474
00:42:19.639 --> 00:42:23.840
I just thought or was it twenty two? I really

475
00:42:23.920 --> 00:42:29.400
lose track. I think it probably twenty two. Wasn't it

476
00:42:29.599 --> 00:42:36.280
twenty twenty one? Two? Yeah, twenty twenty two? Endo, twenty two,

477
00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:41.199
twenty three, twenty four, twenty yeah, yeah, twenty two. Yeah,

478
00:42:41.400 --> 00:42:46.960
So it's it was twenty twenty two, And so I

479
00:42:47.079 --> 00:42:55.320
go over I didn't. I booked a hotel, I booked.

480
00:42:55.400 --> 00:42:59.440
It's just, you know, just everything over there is fairly cheap,

481
00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:04.639
an expensive place to go. The airfares are now like

482
00:43:05.239 --> 00:43:08.039
they went up to about double three times the amount

483
00:43:08.639 --> 00:43:13.119
because just after that whole period the fuel went up.

484
00:43:14.159 --> 00:43:16.599
So I managed to go there before the air price

485
00:43:16.760 --> 00:43:23.199
the air flights went up. And I had a couple

486
00:43:23.239 --> 00:43:27.440
of things in mind what I wanted to do. I

487
00:43:27.480 --> 00:43:31.639
was open to the idea of meeting someone because I

488
00:43:31.840 --> 00:43:34.719
was led to believe it's a very friendly place and

489
00:43:35.119 --> 00:43:39.639
maybe I might meet a female and go on dates

490
00:43:39.639 --> 00:43:42.360
and who knows. I didn't know, but I was open

491
00:43:42.400 --> 00:43:45.559
to it. And that is the kind of place. It's

492
00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:50.440
very friendly. People are friendly there, there's no What I

493
00:43:50.519 --> 00:43:54.519
did find out is talking to some of the tie girls,

494
00:43:54.559 --> 00:44:01.159
of thy ladies. To them, they're very very up front,

495
00:44:01.320 --> 00:44:06.400
very straight, don't mince their words. And one of them

496
00:44:06.480 --> 00:44:08.159
said to me, you know, you all look the same

497
00:44:08.199 --> 00:44:11.960
to us, So what do you mean, So do you

498
00:44:12.079 --> 00:44:13.960
just all are the same. You've all got big noses,

499
00:44:14.519 --> 00:44:19.519
because here I've got a big nose, But in Thailand

500
00:44:20.119 --> 00:44:22.920
pretty much all Westerners have got big noses because they've

501
00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:26.760
got little noses over there. So it's that in their mind,

502
00:44:26.840 --> 00:44:29.320
like you just got a big nose. You're English or

503
00:44:29.360 --> 00:44:33.079
you're American or European. They know straight away, and they've

504
00:44:33.119 --> 00:44:44.320
got names they've got like Arab, English, American. I think

505
00:44:44.719 --> 00:44:49.320
Arab kind of covers anyone from like in their mind

506
00:44:49.360 --> 00:44:54.159
that anyone from like India from the Arabian. You know,

507
00:44:54.199 --> 00:44:58.280
it's like they kind of class as an Arab, which

508
00:44:58.360 --> 00:45:00.719
is I was always fort you don't say the word Arab,

509
00:45:01.519 --> 00:45:07.079
but they just do. And also when it comes because

510
00:45:07.119 --> 00:45:09.719
I think, you know, I tell you that it's the

511
00:45:09.719 --> 00:45:15.280
best place to go if for a trans person, because

512
00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:18.039
if you want to walk down the street test it out,

513
00:45:18.480 --> 00:45:21.880
if you want to test out dressing the way that

514
00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:25.159
you want to dress, you can do that in Thailand

515
00:45:26.199 --> 00:45:29.920
and no one cares. I mean, technically you can probably

516
00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:32.400
do it in London as well, maybe some of the

517
00:45:32.440 --> 00:45:35.480
other cities. And I've seen people in London walk around

518
00:45:35.599 --> 00:45:39.159
dressing gowns in the middle of winter in snow, eating

519
00:45:39.199 --> 00:45:43.280
and ice cream, so you know, I've seen some of

520
00:45:43.320 --> 00:45:46.800
the weirdest things. Probably the weirdest thing I saw in

521
00:45:46.840 --> 00:45:54.800
Thailand was someone on a bicycle with a ladder, but

522
00:45:54.880 --> 00:45:57.360
it was like it wasn't a foldable ladder. It's a

523
00:45:57.400 --> 00:46:04.679
full ladder, probably six foot, but instead of having it

524
00:46:04.719 --> 00:46:07.679
on the side, he had it on front of him,

525
00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:11.679
so it was like stretching out both sides of the

526
00:46:11.760 --> 00:46:16.880
road and he's riding along like that. I was like,

527
00:46:17.159 --> 00:46:24.679
what how I was spending the microphone and how how? Why?

528
00:46:26.079 --> 00:46:28.800
So that that was one of the weirdest things I saw.

529
00:46:31.679 --> 00:46:35.199
But when I got to I had this idea what

530
00:46:35.239 --> 00:46:42.159
I wanted to do. I needed a break from because

531
00:46:42.199 --> 00:46:44.920
I was taking care of my friend and I was

532
00:46:45.119 --> 00:46:47.880
that was just getting harder and harder. I needed a

533
00:46:47.880 --> 00:46:56.039
break from that. I gave him some money and I

534
00:46:56.199 --> 00:46:59.480
just needed because it was just getting too much for

535
00:46:59.559 --> 00:47:02.559
me and having lost Andre and I don't want to

536
00:47:02.559 --> 00:47:05.880
go I was serious, but yeah, I needed I started

537
00:47:05.920 --> 00:47:10.679
having I'd started having panic attacks again for the first time,

538
00:47:11.000 --> 00:47:16.159
I mean regularly for the first time in years, you know,

539
00:47:16.360 --> 00:47:20.679
like properly, full on, constantly all the time. Kind of

540
00:47:20.920 --> 00:47:25.320
that moment, that situation, and it was like reverting back

541
00:47:25.360 --> 00:47:28.880
to two thousand and six, and I didn't think that

542
00:47:28.920 --> 00:47:32.800
would happen again. And I couldn't get a griff of them.

543
00:47:32.840 --> 00:47:36.559
I couldn't seem to sort out it. It couldn't. Sort of,

544
00:47:38.400 --> 00:47:41.800
it's almost like I could. I was struggling, really struggling.

545
00:47:43.280 --> 00:47:49.840
And I was also getting what's that thing where your

546
00:47:50.400 --> 00:47:52.320
ears go and your kind of dizzy and stuff. I

547
00:47:52.360 --> 00:47:56.039
was getting that as well, So it was all weird.

548
00:47:56.159 --> 00:47:59.039
I was going through some weird, weird things at that time.

549
00:48:02.960 --> 00:48:05.559
And then I thought, you know, I'm just going to go.

550
00:48:06.599 --> 00:48:10.679
So I went out there on the plane, my ears popped,

551
00:48:12.119 --> 00:48:16.639
and that's the last time I had any ear problems,

552
00:48:17.480 --> 00:48:19.559
balance problems, whatever you call it. I forget them, but

553
00:48:19.639 --> 00:48:22.119
forget the term. I know the term, but I forget

554
00:48:22.199 --> 00:48:24.599
what it is. But it's the last time that happened.

555
00:48:24.599 --> 00:48:30.519
Because both my ears popped on the plane. An expensive cure,

556
00:48:30.760 --> 00:48:35.800
to be fair, but It cleared whatever was going on

557
00:48:35.840 --> 00:48:38.800
in my ears in a vertigo. That's it. It cleared it.

558
00:48:39.159 --> 00:48:41.920
And I haven't had it since I used to have

559
00:48:42.000 --> 00:48:45.639
it a few years ago. But that was course through

560
00:48:46.480 --> 00:48:52.079
a burst ear drum. This seemed to be caused by

561
00:48:52.280 --> 00:48:55.039
stress or something. I don't know what it was, grief,

562
00:48:55.519 --> 00:48:59.599
it could be anything, all kinds of stuff. So I

563
00:48:59.679 --> 00:49:03.280
need to get away. So I got away. I went there,

564
00:49:04.000 --> 00:49:07.639
stayed in this hotel. I think one of my happiest memories,

565
00:49:07.639 --> 00:49:09.079
and it's going to be weird to say this, but

566
00:49:09.159 --> 00:49:12.679
one of my happy, happiest times was sitting on the verandah.

567
00:49:13.599 --> 00:49:16.159
And this hotel was in a back alley, so it

568
00:49:16.199 --> 00:49:19.480
wasn't even like a near the sea or anything. I

569
00:49:19.559 --> 00:49:23.320
wasn't far from the sea, and I was sitting on

570
00:49:23.360 --> 00:49:28.880
the verandah taking in the smells. And that's the one

571
00:49:28.920 --> 00:49:31.920
thing about I'm not doing about the whole of Thailand,

572
00:49:31.960 --> 00:49:36.559
but anywhere I went it smelt nice because of the food.

573
00:49:36.679 --> 00:49:39.679
It's like just there's a lot of street food and

574
00:49:39.719 --> 00:49:44.960
it just smelt nice. There was no horrible smells, and

575
00:49:45.119 --> 00:49:49.320
the Thai people probably amongst the cleanest people I've ever

576
00:49:49.360 --> 00:49:53.280
been around. They had multiple showers a day because of

577
00:49:53.320 --> 00:49:56.760
the heats it's so hot and stuff. And it was like, wow,

578
00:49:58.039 --> 00:49:59.559
I have more showers in a day than I do

579
00:49:59.599 --> 00:50:02.760
any year. Yeah. I shouldn't say that out loud, should I?

580
00:50:02.840 --> 00:50:06.639
But yeah, it was very It was a very clean,

581
00:50:07.159 --> 00:50:10.960
very clean place. From that perspective. From that perspective, what

582
00:50:11.079 --> 00:50:13.960
I did found weird though I did found I found

583
00:50:14.599 --> 00:50:21.119
I find it weird is there was hardly any hot water.

584
00:50:21.760 --> 00:50:26.639
It was just warm like here I used to and

585
00:50:26.760 --> 00:50:29.599
I don't. I don't scold my hands when I wash

586
00:50:29.639 --> 00:50:32.960
my hands, but I wash my hands quite regularly every

587
00:50:32.960 --> 00:50:36.239
time I go out because we share the banister and stuff,

588
00:50:36.280 --> 00:50:39.800
you know, outside in the hallway, and I always wash

589
00:50:39.880 --> 00:50:43.199
my hands when I get back, just so that, you know,

590
00:50:43.480 --> 00:50:46.760
got rid of any who knows what people have been

591
00:50:48.960 --> 00:50:51.519
doing with their hands. I don't know. I know what

592
00:50:51.559 --> 00:50:56.320
I've been doing with mine. So when I was out there,

593
00:50:56.639 --> 00:50:59.440
it just wasn't hot. The water wasn't hot to a

594
00:50:59.519 --> 00:51:05.599
level that I was used to, which is very strange.

595
00:51:06.719 --> 00:51:10.840
Maybe that's why they have so many showers, because it's

596
00:51:10.960 --> 00:51:15.960
like keeping a constant cleansing cleanly lotless miss ness ness

597
00:51:15.960 --> 00:51:23.320
thing cleanly mess I mean I don't know if every

598
00:51:23.360 --> 00:51:26.880
single person has lots and lots of showers, but it's

599
00:51:29.639 --> 00:51:32.440
you know, the whole time I was out there, I

600
00:51:32.480 --> 00:51:40.320
didn't meet one bad smelling person at all, A type

601
00:51:40.400 --> 00:51:46.079
person that smell weird, not weird. But when it's hot,

602
00:51:46.880 --> 00:51:49.880
there's a tendency you know, just naturally that it's gonna

603
00:51:50.320 --> 00:51:55.360
come across yourd with you'd wiffy person. It's just natural.

604
00:51:55.440 --> 00:51:58.719
Especially blimely on the tube, that's the person I was

605
00:51:58.760 --> 00:52:01.199
always stuck under their eyes put armpit and I couldn't

606
00:52:01.239 --> 00:52:06.880
get out. That was always, Yeah, I love the tube

607
00:52:07.320 --> 00:52:14.840
and I didn't, so that was strange. I just I

608
00:52:14.920 --> 00:52:17.079
just not have any hot water. That threw me off

609
00:52:17.079 --> 00:52:20.519
a bit. But one of my happiest memories of being

610
00:52:20.559 --> 00:52:26.400
there was sitting on the verandah. The first few mornings

611
00:52:28.119 --> 00:52:32.199
I had. There was no food in the restaurant because

612
00:52:32.199 --> 00:52:35.440
I had like a Thai restaurant part of the hotel.

613
00:52:35.960 --> 00:52:40.320
But because of that period, you know, two thousand and

614
00:52:40.360 --> 00:52:46.800
two twenty one, pretty much most of the tourism in Thailand,

615
00:52:46.840 --> 00:52:50.960
and I'd say probably the whole of the world pretty

616
00:52:51.039 --> 00:52:55.639
much closed down, so there was there wasn't a lot

617
00:52:55.679 --> 00:52:59.119
open when I went there, A lot of restaurants were closed,

618
00:52:59.320 --> 00:53:02.039
a lot of bars were closed, not that I'm really

619
00:53:02.079 --> 00:53:04.440
a bar person anyway, but there was a lot of

620
00:53:04.559 --> 00:53:12.800
things weren't open. They either hadn't they either they hadn't

621
00:53:12.880 --> 00:53:16.480
reopened them, or they were closed completely. There was parts

622
00:53:16.519 --> 00:53:21.119
of the area that were completely derelict that two years

623
00:53:21.159 --> 00:53:26.320
earlier had been really busy. So and the only real

624
00:53:26.800 --> 00:53:31.159
regular people they were getting was people that lived a

625
00:53:31.159 --> 00:53:35.079
bit closer. So they had people from India that appealed

626
00:53:35.119 --> 00:53:39.519
from Emirates. They appeared from Australia coming over, but they

627
00:53:39.559 --> 00:53:42.760
didn't weren't getting a lot of They're still getting like

628
00:53:42.800 --> 00:53:47.960
Americans and English, but because of the the restrictions, they

629
00:53:48.000 --> 00:53:51.039
weren't getting as many as they would normally get. This

630
00:53:51.119 --> 00:53:54.880
is what I was told. None of the hotels were full,

631
00:53:56.480 --> 00:54:03.079
so it was fairly check the rooms. I mean, I

632
00:54:03.079 --> 00:54:07.480
think if that was in this country, what the people

633
00:54:07.559 --> 00:54:09.599
what to cut the hotels in this country would do

634
00:54:10.159 --> 00:54:12.280
is put the prices up to try and get their

635
00:54:12.280 --> 00:54:16.000
money back. But they didn't do that. They just treated

636
00:54:16.000 --> 00:54:19.039
people fairly because they were happy to have the customers.

637
00:54:20.119 --> 00:54:22.760
You know, the mentality in this country is well, if

638
00:54:22.800 --> 00:54:26.079
you've If you've got a hundred rooms and I can

639
00:54:26.119 --> 00:54:28.639
only fill fifty, then we'll try and charge them twice

640
00:54:28.679 --> 00:54:31.079
a price so we can get the money back for

641
00:54:31.119 --> 00:54:35.440
the other fifty rooms that we not fill in. But

642
00:54:35.519 --> 00:54:37.760
the way they see it over there more is well,

643
00:54:37.840 --> 00:54:42.840
actually we're grateful to have fifty rooms for so we'll

644
00:54:42.880 --> 00:54:46.880
let people have a cheaper have a cheaper time, you know,

645
00:54:47.000 --> 00:54:52.079
maybe stay for ten or twenty percent off the price

646
00:54:54.000 --> 00:54:56.559
because they've got such a choice of other hotels to

647
00:54:56.559 --> 00:55:01.079
stay in. So that's you know, that's I quite like that.

648
00:55:04.400 --> 00:55:08.800
But that was nice sitting on that veranda or that balcony. Rather,

649
00:55:10.719 --> 00:55:15.760
I bought some paper, some paper what are they called

650
00:55:17.679 --> 00:55:22.599
paper dishes, and some paper spoons or plastic spoons to eat,

651
00:55:22.719 --> 00:55:26.039
and I got some breakfast cereal, little boxes of breakfast cereal,

652
00:55:26.480 --> 00:55:29.159
and some milk put it in the fridge, and a

653
00:55:29.199 --> 00:55:32.440
cup of coffee, so I had coffee anyway there. So

654
00:55:32.480 --> 00:55:36.000
I had a cup of coffee and my corn flakes

655
00:55:37.599 --> 00:55:40.880
on the veranda the balcony. What's the different to the

656
00:55:40.960 --> 00:55:47.079
veranda on the balcony And I'm listening to my phone

657
00:55:47.079 --> 00:55:51.280
and I'm listening to LBC radio and it was Steve Allen,

658
00:55:51.760 --> 00:55:54.480
who does his four o'clock was what he used to

659
00:55:54.480 --> 00:55:57.480
do four till seven in the morning radio show, just

660
00:55:57.519 --> 00:56:02.320
a talk show where he just talked. He didn't the phones,

661
00:56:02.440 --> 00:56:05.079
but it would read out, you know, text messages and

662
00:56:05.079 --> 00:56:09.880
stuff like that. And I just remember, I don't know

663
00:56:09.880 --> 00:56:14.360
what time of the day it was for me. It

664
00:56:14.480 --> 00:56:22.440
was BlimE me. It's probably mourning for me, maybe ten

665
00:56:22.440 --> 00:56:27.920
o'clock in the morning or something. But it was just nice.

666
00:56:30.880 --> 00:56:36.880
It's very peaceful, and it wasn't busy. Really, It wasn't

667
00:56:36.960 --> 00:56:39.800
really busy where I was. It was quite quite kind

668
00:56:39.840 --> 00:56:43.320
of a little area. It wasn't a lot going on. The

669
00:56:43.400 --> 00:56:47.360
tourism was probably i'd say probably ten percent what it

670
00:56:47.360 --> 00:56:51.440
would normally be, which is why it was only ten

671
00:56:51.440 --> 00:56:57.440
percent of the place is open, probably, And I just thought,

672
00:56:57.480 --> 00:57:00.840
oh so I had had my dinner, have any breakfast.

673
00:57:01.079 --> 00:57:05.000
But the very first night I got there, I went

674
00:57:05.039 --> 00:57:06.880
and had to look around. I went for a walk,

675
00:57:07.800 --> 00:57:11.039
didn't know where I was going. But the good thing

676
00:57:11.079 --> 00:57:14.400
about you know, if you go to a seaside resort

677
00:57:14.639 --> 00:57:18.920
in Thailand. Again, I don't know if all the places

678
00:57:18.960 --> 00:57:22.599
are same, but it's well lit. There's a lot of

679
00:57:22.639 --> 00:57:27.199
people around because there's a tourist destination. It's the safest

680
00:57:27.239 --> 00:57:30.079
I've ever felt walking around at two in the morning.

681
00:57:32.920 --> 00:57:36.800
I mean ever, never ever felt safe really, because the

682
00:57:36.840 --> 00:57:38.639
only time I'd walk around at two in the morning

683
00:57:38.719 --> 00:57:42.400
was when I was in London, and me in London

684
00:57:42.880 --> 00:57:46.480
two in the morning is not. Yeah, it's never. Even

685
00:57:46.480 --> 00:57:49.039
as a young person, it wasn't. I was worried, but

686
00:57:49.079 --> 00:57:52.079
I never really felt kind of I felt on guard.

687
00:57:52.440 --> 00:57:56.880
But here I didn't feel on guard at all. It

688
00:57:56.960 --> 00:58:01.159
seemed like the sort of place where, yeah, if you

689
00:58:01.199 --> 00:58:04.360
want trouble, you can have it. It's like, if you

690
00:58:04.400 --> 00:58:06.719
want trouble, they give it to you, but if you don't,

691
00:58:06.800 --> 00:58:11.440
they're fine. You know, it's not anywhere if you want

692
00:58:11.480 --> 00:58:13.559
to be a trouble maker, it's very easy to get

693
00:58:13.599 --> 00:58:20.000
into trouble anywhere you go, but there it's you won't.

694
00:58:21.079 --> 00:58:24.400
My experiences, I felt safe. That's pretty much what I'm saying.

695
00:58:26.280 --> 00:58:27.760
And I got to know a few of the people

696
00:58:28.440 --> 00:58:34.119
and some of the some of the Buddhist parts of

697
00:58:34.199 --> 00:58:37.079
their life, so it's basically they're indoctrinated into it. They're

698
00:58:37.079 --> 00:58:44.480
born into Buddhism. Now they have Buddhist holidays, they also

699
00:58:44.840 --> 00:58:50.679
absolutely love their roal family out there. I mean like

700
00:58:51.880 --> 00:58:56.239
in a way that maybe we used to in this country.

701
00:58:57.199 --> 00:59:03.519
They're really important into them. I mean, I know there

702
00:59:03.559 --> 00:59:05.440
are people out there in this country that love the

703
00:59:05.519 --> 00:59:09.320
royal family, but I'm talking as a nation. There's a

704
00:59:09.440 --> 00:59:13.719
real loyalty to the royal family in Thailand. It's they're

705
00:59:13.719 --> 00:59:19.159
almost like say royalty, I suppose, but they're very Yeah,

706
00:59:21.639 --> 00:59:25.159
it's hard to explain what I mean, but it's huge.

707
00:59:25.920 --> 00:59:30.840
And when there's a birthday, there's no alcohol sold when

708
00:59:30.840 --> 00:59:35.559
there's a public a royal day. So if it's the

709
00:59:35.639 --> 00:59:38.840
King's birthday or whatever something like that, no alcohol during

710
00:59:38.840 --> 00:59:43.079
that day. They're still open. Bars will still open, but

711
00:59:43.079 --> 00:59:46.000
it will be soft drinks only, and they'll actually tell

712
00:59:46.039 --> 00:59:48.719
people because I went in on the day I went

713
00:59:49.880 --> 00:59:55.480
The day after I went there, it was a bank

714
00:59:55.519 --> 00:59:58.320
holiday due to a remember the royal family. I think

715
00:59:58.360 --> 01:00:02.239
it was a king's birthday. And I went in and

716
01:00:02.280 --> 01:00:08.000
there was this bar and I wasn't bored about drinking

717
01:00:08.039 --> 01:00:11.719
alcohol anywhere. I was still a bit jet lagged. I

718
01:00:11.760 --> 01:00:17.840
needed something to eat, and so I sat down and

719
01:00:18.199 --> 01:00:21.280
the first thing I was told is you can't serve

720
01:00:21.320 --> 01:00:27.199
your alcohol I said, that's all right, and she said

721
01:00:27.239 --> 01:00:32.000
what I said, that's okay. I'm not bothered. I don't

722
01:00:32.000 --> 01:00:35.360
care if I drinking alcohol, she said. Turned out she

723
01:00:35.360 --> 01:00:41.280
couldn't speak English. She said what she was surprised because

724
01:00:42.480 --> 01:00:46.119
I think most people that go there are going to drink.

725
01:00:46.400 --> 01:00:49.559
And I wasn't really that bothered. So I had something

726
01:00:49.599 --> 01:00:53.719
to eat. I can't remember what I had have. I

727
01:00:53.760 --> 01:00:59.199
found a burger and chips and the coke. That's back

728
01:00:59.199 --> 01:01:02.320
in the days when I drinking Coca cola. I'm like

729
01:01:02.400 --> 01:01:07.119
now when I just drink water. Don't even drink alcohol anymore.

730
01:01:07.679 --> 01:01:21.960
BlimE me and I think the So there was a

731
01:01:22.039 --> 01:01:25.840
lady called Ella there. I really I don't know. I

732
01:01:25.960 --> 01:01:28.880
just like really liked her because we were talking and

733
01:01:28.920 --> 01:01:31.199
she had the same kind of energy as me. Quite

734
01:01:31.239 --> 01:01:35.679
low key. I'm quite low energy. Really, I'm in my moment.

735
01:01:36.000 --> 01:01:39.320
I do have my moments, but it doesn't everyone. But

736
01:01:39.360 --> 01:01:44.599
I'm quite low in. She you're quite quiet. I don't

737
01:01:44.639 --> 01:01:51.840
get I'm not the most excitable person. Really, you know,

738
01:01:51.960 --> 01:01:56.679
I'm not particularly loud, and we seem to get on

739
01:01:57.119 --> 01:02:04.880
quite well. Now you're gonna just probably I don't know.

740
01:02:04.880 --> 01:02:10.159
I'm telling you this but anyway, she is it Ella

741
01:02:10.280 --> 01:02:13.039
or is it Bella or was it Stella? Or was

742
01:02:13.079 --> 01:02:15.880
it Gee or is it nom? I don't know. I

743
01:02:15.960 --> 01:02:20.920
forget what her name was, but she invited me. I

744
01:02:21.000 --> 01:02:23.119
think of Ella because it's someone a big brother Cordella.

745
01:02:23.400 --> 01:02:27.000
That's what I'm thinking of. That word, that name, she said.

746
01:02:27.800 --> 01:02:29.199
So I went in there a couple of days in

747
01:02:29.239 --> 01:02:38.599
a row, I think the first night she I'm always

748
01:02:38.599 --> 01:02:40.480
at the second night because I went in there because

749
01:02:40.480 --> 01:02:43.920
I quite liked the vibe in there. And she said,

750
01:02:45.719 --> 01:02:48.519
I was got talking to another bloke. It was from Ireland,

751
01:02:49.480 --> 01:02:52.239
and he just, you know, he was just chatting and stuff,

752
01:02:52.280 --> 01:02:56.679
and they were closing up and we're going out and

753
01:02:56.800 --> 01:03:01.760
the he was going back with the other waitress or

754
01:03:01.800 --> 01:03:04.320
the other there was like two managers. He was I

755
01:03:04.320 --> 01:03:07.280
don't know if that was his girlfriend or what. And

756
01:03:07.320 --> 01:03:11.440
she said, I'll bring bring Jason back and the other

757
01:03:11.480 --> 01:03:17.559
one said no, I don't know, and I thought, I

758
01:03:17.599 --> 01:03:22.039
don't care, it's fine, and I don't know. I didn't

759
01:03:22.039 --> 01:03:26.440
ask to go anywhere anyway. Well, a couple of nights

760
01:03:26.519 --> 01:03:29.760
later I went back and she's just there on her own,

761
01:03:29.800 --> 01:03:32.920
and at the end of the night she offered to

762
01:03:32.920 --> 01:03:39.400
take me home. And this is a bit where I

763
01:03:40.320 --> 01:03:43.119
should be saying, well, I'd like to be saying I

764
01:03:43.199 --> 01:03:45.960
went home. It was the best night of my life.

765
01:03:46.760 --> 01:03:51.559
We fell in love, and you know, we got married

766
01:03:51.719 --> 01:03:55.599
and we're going to spend the rest of my life

767
01:03:55.679 --> 01:03:58.519
with our I say, I bet the rest of our

768
01:03:58.559 --> 01:04:02.159
lives together. But she's but younger than me. I don't

769
01:04:02.199 --> 01:04:08.440
know how much I would say. It's hard to guess

770
01:04:08.679 --> 01:04:13.239
under thirty. I would say, maybe maybe older, but it's hard.

771
01:04:14.000 --> 01:04:17.239
You know. I did someone else that I got on with,

772
01:04:17.360 --> 01:04:21.960
she was thirty eight and didn't look I could. I

773
01:04:22.000 --> 01:04:24.880
would never have guessed her age. I'm no good at

774
01:04:24.920 --> 01:04:30.000
guessing ages anymore, not that ever was so if I

775
01:04:30.039 --> 01:04:32.760
ever was that good. But I think there was a

776
01:04:32.760 --> 01:04:35.079
period when I was in my twenties and I could

777
01:04:35.159 --> 01:04:39.559
kind of gauge and age, gauge and age, you know,

778
01:04:39.639 --> 01:04:44.159
if someone was nineteen or someone was like late twenties,

779
01:04:44.320 --> 01:04:50.639
maybe early thirties. But as I got older, people in

780
01:04:50.679 --> 01:04:54.400
the early twenties look just some of them are really

781
01:04:54.480 --> 01:05:01.440
really young, and then some people in their sixties look

782
01:05:01.519 --> 01:05:06.360
really really young, Like how can you can't be? I

783
01:05:06.400 --> 01:05:10.159
know a couple of people and they're both BlimE me.

784
01:05:10.280 --> 01:05:14.440
I think they're both like nearly eighty, and neither of

785
01:05:14.480 --> 01:05:20.800
them look it. It's like, how can you be nearly eighty?

786
01:05:20.960 --> 01:05:27.320
So it's uh. Someone did say to me and said,

787
01:05:27.719 --> 01:05:30.159
you said, well, you look younger than you are. But

788
01:05:30.199 --> 01:05:32.320
it probably wouldn't do if you took your glasses off

789
01:05:32.599 --> 01:05:35.199
and we could see your eyes, because I've got like

790
01:05:35.360 --> 01:05:39.280
shades some of my glasses actor like or whatever. I

791
01:05:39.320 --> 01:05:42.679
thought was a bit rude. If anything, I've probably look

792
01:05:42.760 --> 01:05:52.000
younger without the glasses. Probably not. So in those situations,

793
01:05:52.039 --> 01:05:53.719
all you can do. You can argue, or you can

794
01:05:53.880 --> 01:05:59.079
just silently fart and walk away. I chose to do that,

795
01:06:01.920 --> 01:06:06.920
so I yeah, So we didn't have a romance, and

796
01:06:07.000 --> 01:06:12.400
I didn't. What I did is first of all. I thought, yeah,

797
01:06:13.079 --> 01:06:14.920
But it wasn't do you want to come back to mine?

798
01:06:15.119 --> 01:06:23.239
It was let's go then, And she called two mopeds,

799
01:06:23.760 --> 01:06:27.800
two moped taxis. She had her own moped, but she

800
01:06:27.920 --> 01:06:29.880
left it there because she had a couple of drinks.

801
01:06:30.719 --> 01:06:33.440
So she got a moped taxi for herself and one

802
01:06:33.519 --> 01:06:38.679
for me, and I said no, I said, no way

803
01:06:38.719 --> 01:06:40.119
in the world am I getting on the back of

804
01:06:40.159 --> 01:06:49.559
that and I'm not sure days gone past when I

805
01:06:49.920 --> 01:06:52.239
wish that I'd just got on the back of the

806
01:06:52.320 --> 01:07:02.360
moped because I put fear ahead of pleasure, maybe fear

807
01:07:02.400 --> 01:07:05.639
ahead of I wasn't scared of her. I was just

808
01:07:05.679 --> 01:07:10.159
scared of the motor journey to being on a moped,

809
01:07:12.199 --> 01:07:16.000
just just having seen the way they ride those mopeds

810
01:07:16.559 --> 01:07:19.119
in and out of traffic, like seeing that and then

811
01:07:19.199 --> 01:07:22.320
thinking this is going to happen at eleven o'clock at

812
01:07:22.440 --> 01:07:26.199
night or half eleven at night, and it was dark

813
01:07:26.239 --> 01:07:31.639
at that point, and I didn't know where we were going.

814
01:07:32.960 --> 01:07:34.599
You know, It's like a part of me thinking and

815
01:07:34.679 --> 01:07:37.360
that this is my friend's He put this image in

816
01:07:37.440 --> 01:07:40.159
my head. He kept saying, well, be careful. You don't

817
01:07:40.199 --> 01:07:41.960
go home with someone and wake up in a bar

818
01:07:42.079 --> 01:07:45.119
full of ice and one of your organs missing. It's

819
01:07:45.159 --> 01:07:48.679
like brilliant, Like thanks for that. I really wanted that

820
01:07:48.760 --> 01:07:53.280
in my head, and I kept I was thinking this,

821
01:07:54.320 --> 01:08:00.400
this lady's seriously, we're gonna say up my street. You know,

822
01:08:00.480 --> 01:08:03.519
as far as she just really lovely, I liked her

823
01:08:03.559 --> 01:08:12.039
a lot, but I did think, well, maybe I don't know,

824
01:08:12.159 --> 01:08:15.480
I might just is she gonna sort of try and

825
01:08:15.519 --> 01:08:19.119
make some money from me by going to wake up

826
01:08:19.159 --> 01:08:24.920
with only one liver, you know, so I thought maybe,

827
01:08:26.439 --> 01:08:28.359
But there was that was it was more than moped

828
01:08:28.479 --> 01:08:33.960
to be fair. And then there was also I'm thinking,

829
01:08:34.039 --> 01:08:36.600
maybe she's just being friendly, and she takes me back

830
01:08:36.640 --> 01:08:40.720
to her place and introduces me to a boyfriend or

831
01:08:40.760 --> 01:08:45.560
a husband, and she's just being friendly, just a friendly person.

832
01:08:46.479 --> 01:08:50.359
Because that happened in Bulgaria, I was I spent all

833
01:08:50.439 --> 01:08:55.239
day talking to a wait to she was work behind

834
01:08:55.279 --> 01:08:57.039
the bar, so I think she's like a bar manager

835
01:08:58.199 --> 01:09:03.000
all day in the hotel. This is when I went snowboarding,

836
01:09:03.520 --> 01:09:07.319
but I'd spent the day before traveling down the mountain

837
01:09:07.399 --> 01:09:11.840
on my face, so I took a day off. I

838
01:09:12.000 --> 01:09:15.439
was teaching her English, she was teaching me Bulgarian. It's

839
01:09:15.479 --> 01:09:17.920
just me and her pretty much for hours and hours.

840
01:09:20.520 --> 01:09:24.319
And then in the evening, when my fellow travelers that

841
01:09:24.439 --> 01:09:27.680
I traveled there with got back from the mountain slopes,

842
01:09:29.680 --> 01:09:33.720
you know, we were another dinner, trying not to laugh

843
01:09:33.800 --> 01:09:39.920
at the the music act. And then it's just I

844
01:09:39.960 --> 01:09:42.039
don't know, I'm not used to having music being played

845
01:09:42.079 --> 01:09:44.920
on meeting. You know, when summer starts playing a harp

846
01:09:44.960 --> 01:09:49.279
to chord and it's like what starts dancing. It's like,

847
01:09:49.359 --> 01:09:58.840
I'm this is this is confusing my senses. And we're

848
01:09:58.920 --> 01:10:01.600
in this bar, which is part of our hotel. Where

849
01:10:01.600 --> 01:10:03.880
I went to was part of another kind of hotel

850
01:10:04.000 --> 01:10:06.760
part because all part of this big old complex and

851
01:10:06.800 --> 01:10:10.359
there's this like underground trapped tunnels and stuff. And I

852
01:10:10.479 --> 01:10:13.439
just followed them until I found new other places to

853
01:10:13.520 --> 01:10:17.600
go to what didn't seem to even be part of

854
01:10:17.680 --> 01:10:22.199
the hotel. It's like part of something else. Anyway, I'm

855
01:10:22.239 --> 01:10:27.319
in the in the bar, another bar with my my

856
01:10:27.439 --> 01:10:38.800
friends that have traveled to Bulgaria with and this this

857
01:10:39.000 --> 01:10:41.119
bloke came up to me, tapped me on the shoulder

858
01:10:43.399 --> 01:10:47.560
and he looked exactly how he was. He was a gangster,

859
01:10:49.800 --> 01:10:56.560
like proper gangster. It's like it's it's hard to explain,

860
01:10:56.720 --> 01:11:00.399
but I would bet any money I had that he

861
01:11:00.479 --> 01:11:05.279
had a gun on him and he said he pointed,

862
01:11:07.039 --> 01:11:10.319
he put pointed, and he's like, he's the lady that

863
01:11:10.359 --> 01:11:13.439
I've been talking to all day. He says, that's my fiance.

864
01:11:16.479 --> 01:11:20.439
M m mmmmmm. I mean that's when I thought I

865
01:11:20.560 --> 01:11:23.920
really am gonna wake up in nice on a mountain

866
01:11:24.840 --> 01:11:32.319
a mountain and she comes over and he says, and

867
01:11:32.800 --> 01:11:35.000
I thought, oh god, I don't know what to say here,

868
01:11:35.720 --> 01:11:40.159
because I really liked her, and I didn't realize she

869
01:11:40.359 --> 01:11:43.319
was I didn't ask if she had a boyfriend or anything,

870
01:11:43.600 --> 01:11:45.239
because I was just chatting to her. It was nothing.

871
01:11:46.039 --> 01:11:50.960
I wasn't flirting, really, just having a nice conversation during

872
01:11:51.000 --> 01:11:56.760
that whole day. And she said, and she came over smiling,

873
01:11:57.640 --> 01:12:01.399
and I thought, I wonder if he's smiling. I didn't look,

874
01:12:03.039 --> 01:12:05.439
and I think might still had his hand on my shoulder,

875
01:12:06.720 --> 01:12:12.479
and my knees were shaking. My knees were shaking. That

876
01:12:12.560 --> 01:12:15.079
sounds like a song, isn't it. And the hips were weak.

877
01:12:17.159 --> 01:12:21.079
And he said, I understand in it an accent. You've

878
01:12:21.119 --> 01:12:24.520
been teaching. You've been teaching whatever her name was, to

879
01:12:24.880 --> 01:12:27.319
some English words, and she's been I said, she's been

880
01:12:27.359 --> 01:12:31.039
teaching you some Bulgaria and I said, yeah. He said, oh,

881
01:12:31.319 --> 01:12:39.920
very good, very good. I'm not blame me. He it's

882
01:12:40.079 --> 01:12:43.840
so cool because he I think it's probably the only

883
01:12:43.960 --> 01:12:47.399
time ever that I've been thankful that I wasn't good looking,

884
01:12:49.359 --> 01:12:53.520
because I clearly was not a threat to him in

885
01:12:53.640 --> 01:12:56.239
any way. And I don't mean just physically. But I

886
01:12:56.399 --> 01:13:01.840
wasn't like a threat to his relationship. I was some handsome, strapping,

887
01:13:03.800 --> 01:13:06.680
you know, handsome guy that's gonna try and steal his

888
01:13:06.800 --> 01:13:11.319
fiance away. He didn't see any any threaten or at all,

889
01:13:12.439 --> 01:13:17.239
which was good for me. Really. It's the only time

890
01:13:17.279 --> 01:13:19.159
I've ever been grateful that I would look like I

891
01:13:19.239 --> 01:13:26.079
do and he liked me, brought me a drink and

892
01:13:26.800 --> 01:13:31.239
he was chatting to me, and they were chatting, and

893
01:13:31.399 --> 01:13:35.439
she was like, you know, talking to me, and it's

894
01:13:35.479 --> 01:13:42.319
like really nice. I didn't know what to do next.

895
01:13:43.800 --> 01:13:47.960
I still wasn't sure because I'd seen the Sopranos. I mean,

896
01:13:48.000 --> 01:13:51.560
the Sopranos hadn't finished. The Sopranos were still going strong

897
01:13:51.640 --> 01:13:55.479
in those days, because this was two thousand and two,

898
01:13:55.680 --> 01:14:01.199
probably about March time, so the Sopranos are still you know, No,

899
01:14:01.319 --> 01:14:04.039
it's infancy because it went on to about twenty ten,

900
01:14:04.079 --> 01:14:08.840
isn't it. Well I suppose infancy, Yeah, I guess, but

901
01:14:08.920 --> 01:14:10.760
I wasn't sure how this was going to play out.

902
01:14:13.199 --> 01:14:15.319
But it went okay, and I'm here, so it's fine,

903
01:14:17.199 --> 01:14:30.520
and then I yeah, that was just strange, very strange. Yeah,

904
01:14:30.680 --> 01:14:34.840
she was, it was I didn't. Yeah, I mean it's

905
01:14:34.920 --> 01:14:42.000
not Thailand. It's a different story. It's just when I

906
01:14:42.159 --> 01:14:45.119
go abroad, or in the past, when I've gone abroad,

907
01:14:45.760 --> 01:14:51.319
I seemed to be different, maybe a bit more confident,

908
01:14:51.439 --> 01:14:58.000
maybe maybe a bit more relaxed, maybe a bit freer.

909
01:15:00.279 --> 01:15:04.840
I don't put any effort in. Yeah, I'm not kind

910
01:15:04.880 --> 01:15:10.239
of like trying to get to know anyone. Just see

911
01:15:10.279 --> 01:15:18.239
what happens. Let it happen naturally. But on that occasion

912
01:15:18.319 --> 01:15:24.319
I got to know three four women, five actually five,

913
01:15:25.680 --> 01:15:28.720
So there was the first waitress was the I say,

914
01:15:28.800 --> 01:15:31.399
when I get to know, I didn't do anything with anyone,

915
01:15:31.439 --> 01:15:34.520
but we've got to know them. The first one was

916
01:15:34.640 --> 01:15:37.600
the very first waitress that served us and I had

917
01:15:37.600 --> 01:15:41.000
a cheese toasty sandwich, and it was the very first

918
01:15:41.079 --> 01:15:46.680
day we got there to the hotel, and she smiled

919
01:15:46.680 --> 01:15:54.439
at me. I mean some would view it and say

920
01:15:54.560 --> 01:15:57.399
she caught me looking down a top, but I'm just

921
01:15:57.479 --> 01:16:00.359
going to stick to she smiled at me, and she

922
01:16:00.439 --> 01:16:04.159
did smile at me when she caught me. She smiled

923
01:16:04.319 --> 01:16:06.640
and we had a bit of a connection that she

924
01:16:06.880 --> 01:16:10.000
chatted to me. And the next was in there and

925
01:16:11.399 --> 01:16:21.640
we we decided to go out on a date. Yeah,

926
01:16:21.720 --> 01:16:24.720
I think like the next night, next evening, when she

927
01:16:24.800 --> 01:16:28.600
finished work, I'm going to go to a restaurant or something.

928
01:16:29.399 --> 01:16:31.399
So I went into the bar to see her, and

929
01:16:31.439 --> 01:16:33.960
there was this other bar the other side of the place,

930
01:16:34.800 --> 01:16:37.680
in the middle of nowhere. Again, I kind of found

931
01:16:37.680 --> 01:16:40.159
my way around these places because I spent a lot

932
01:16:40.199 --> 01:16:45.560
of time on my own, just wandering around. And the

933
01:16:46.960 --> 01:16:50.279
I got in there and she was just basically talking

934
01:16:50.359 --> 01:16:54.840
to another bloke and she waved to me, but then

935
01:16:54.880 --> 01:16:57.359
she carried on talking to this bloke. So I left

936
01:16:59.680 --> 01:17:04.800
the day. I went to a pizza place that was

937
01:17:04.840 --> 01:17:09.600
there that I found, and I got really well with

938
01:17:10.000 --> 01:17:15.840
the lady in the pizza place, and we were like

939
01:17:16.000 --> 01:17:24.439
talking and maybe talking about maybe doing something. And then

940
01:17:24.479 --> 01:17:26.239
I got to know the other one in the other bar,

941
01:17:26.439 --> 01:17:29.960
the one that I told you about the beginning. So

942
01:17:30.159 --> 01:17:35.079
what happened is it's very strange. The one that I

943
01:17:35.079 --> 01:17:39.319
was supposed to go on a date with and she

944
01:17:39.560 --> 01:17:44.960
was talking to another bloke. I saw her two days later.

945
01:17:45.039 --> 01:17:46.760
I think she might have had the day off. Saw

946
01:17:46.800 --> 01:17:51.600
her two days later and the first thing she said

947
01:17:51.720 --> 01:17:54.159
is where were you? I said, I was there. I'm

948
01:17:54.199 --> 01:17:55.680
not you know, you saw me in a wave to you?

949
01:17:56.239 --> 01:17:58.039
So where did you go? I said, we was talking

950
01:17:58.079 --> 01:18:02.199
to some bloke okay, and she had she had the

951
01:18:02.279 --> 01:18:05.239
LP with me, Like, I said, what's wrong? She said,

952
01:18:06.359 --> 01:18:10.720
I got talking to a friend of mine. I said, okay,

953
01:18:11.720 --> 01:18:14.159
she said yeah, I told her. She said to me,

954
01:18:14.279 --> 01:18:18.279
I just met just met this this english man is

955
01:18:18.319 --> 01:18:20.159
really lovely and I've got on really well with him.

956
01:18:20.840 --> 01:18:24.119
And I said, yeah, same here and we both said,

957
01:18:24.199 --> 01:18:28.000
what's his name is? Jason? It's you? We both who

958
01:18:28.039 --> 01:18:31.680
both met you, And like I was playing them against

959
01:18:31.720 --> 01:18:34.119
each other, which I wasn't. I just only met them.

960
01:18:35.119 --> 01:18:40.239
I had gone out with either of them really some

961
01:18:40.359 --> 01:18:42.399
kind of playboy. But it wasn't like that at all.

962
01:18:44.640 --> 01:18:51.000
But she wasn't happy and she yeah. Ironically, the very

963
01:18:51.119 --> 01:18:55.680
very first night when I got there, the receptionist, I

964
01:18:55.800 --> 01:18:57.840
really liked the receptionist. I feel I was going through

965
01:18:57.840 --> 01:19:02.800
little phase of liking people. I really liked the receptionist

966
01:19:03.119 --> 01:19:05.439
who you know, we spoke to read for it first

967
01:19:05.479 --> 01:19:08.279
of all, and then she disappeared. Didn't see her till

968
01:19:08.279 --> 01:19:14.760
the very last night, and she came up to me

969
01:19:15.119 --> 01:19:17.840
the very last night and we were sort of talking

970
01:19:17.920 --> 01:19:20.319
to me and I was like, okay, yeah, I just

971
01:19:20.640 --> 01:19:23.640
I don't know. I couldn't be bothered to talk to anyone.

972
01:19:23.680 --> 01:19:27.720
I thought I'd had enough of people by then, but

973
01:19:27.800 --> 01:19:30.800
I maybe had enough to drink and stuff. But the

974
01:19:30.880 --> 01:19:32.560
next day, because I didn't know, I didn't recognize her,

975
01:19:32.560 --> 01:19:35.039
because she hadn't been there the whole week other than

976
01:19:35.079 --> 01:19:39.880
that one time when we first got there. So go

977
01:19:40.039 --> 01:19:42.199
to logout, you know, to I think we had to

978
01:19:42.199 --> 01:19:47.039
collect that passports and whatever to leave, and she's on

979
01:19:47.119 --> 01:19:49.039
a reception. I was like, oh my god, it's you.

980
01:19:50.479 --> 01:19:55.279
She said, Yeah. I didn't realized her. She was trying

981
01:19:55.319 --> 01:19:57.479
to talk to me the night before, and I just

982
01:19:57.520 --> 01:20:01.239
couldn't be bothered, not in a rude I just I

983
01:20:01.319 --> 01:20:04.039
think I just had enough. I wanted to go home, really,

984
01:20:05.600 --> 01:20:10.439
And she came out and followed me to the coach

985
01:20:10.520 --> 01:20:12.880
and saw me off on the coach and gave me

986
01:20:12.920 --> 01:20:15.520
a big hug, and I'm not sure she gave me

987
01:20:15.560 --> 01:20:20.760
a kiss. I can't remember. We made love in the snow.

988
01:20:21.920 --> 01:20:25.960
We didn't, well, everyone watched from the bus. We were

989
01:20:26.000 --> 01:20:28.039
on the top of the bus. No, we wouldn't know,

990
01:20:28.279 --> 01:20:30.520
nothing like that happened. But she did like give me

991
01:20:30.520 --> 01:20:34.640
a big hug and everything, like what's going on? White,

992
01:20:34.760 --> 01:20:41.119
It's almost like I was suddenly became attractive to women

993
01:20:42.520 --> 01:20:45.359
out of nowhere for a week, and then when I

994
01:20:45.399 --> 01:20:47.520
got back to the UK, I went back to being

995
01:20:48.640 --> 01:20:57.239
invisible again. It's like brilliant. Then. I think three days

996
01:20:57.359 --> 01:21:02.079
or two days before we left, I met this other

997
01:21:02.439 --> 01:21:07.479
lady from Germany and we were just chat in and

998
01:21:07.600 --> 01:21:10.439
we went for a little walk and she grabbed me

999
01:21:10.560 --> 01:21:14.439
and start kissing me and everything, and she she pulls

1000
01:21:14.520 --> 01:21:18.079
me to the actually the elevator, to the lift to

1001
01:21:18.199 --> 01:21:23.439
go up to my room. Right just as a lift

1002
01:21:23.600 --> 01:21:27.439
the lift doors about to close. What happens, This hand

1003
01:21:27.720 --> 01:21:32.760
comes through and stops the doors from closing. And it's

1004
01:21:32.880 --> 01:21:36.399
her friend. Her friend doesn't want it to have fun.

1005
01:21:37.960 --> 01:21:41.159
So there's a term. There's a term for that now,

1006
01:21:41.279 --> 01:21:48.720
isn't there. It's two words ones blocking. I was blocked

1007
01:21:51.520 --> 01:21:56.039
by her and it was weird. I was like, okay,

1008
01:21:56.159 --> 01:22:02.800
fair enough, yeah, ok, just google both both of us.

1009
01:22:02.880 --> 01:22:09.279
Probably a little bit tipsy or whatever. But she's the

1010
01:22:09.359 --> 01:22:12.079
one that kind of made the moves. But her friend

1011
01:22:12.279 --> 01:22:14.680
blame me. She didn't want to. She didn't want her

1012
01:22:14.760 --> 01:22:19.199
friend to have any fun. So that was that done

1013
01:22:19.199 --> 01:22:22.479
as well. I just had to accept, okay, fair enough,

1014
01:22:22.760 --> 01:22:28.199
see her, I need to pooh anyway, by I was

1015
01:22:28.279 --> 01:22:31.640
poohing a lot when I went there. I couldn't believe it.

1016
01:22:32.439 --> 01:22:35.720
It really changed my whole body being there. So I

1017
01:22:35.720 --> 01:22:37.720
don't know if it was the altitude or if it

1018
01:22:37.800 --> 01:22:41.239
was the food. Maybe a little bit too much alcohol,

1019
01:22:41.920 --> 01:22:48.239
I don't know, but yeah, nice fresh air though, that

1020
01:22:48.359 --> 01:22:55.279
was nice. And then there was the twins. Now there

1021
01:22:55.399 --> 01:23:05.720
wasn't I just h so I I did. I did

1022
01:23:05.840 --> 01:23:09.800
go and say goodbye to all three of the women

1023
01:23:10.359 --> 01:23:11.920
that I kind of got to know a little bit.

1024
01:23:12.960 --> 01:23:15.800
Not the German one. I didn't see her again. I

1025
01:23:15.880 --> 01:23:17.840
don't think I might have done. I think she was

1026
01:23:17.880 --> 01:23:20.399
with a family though it's like family holidays, so I

1027
01:23:20.520 --> 01:23:25.199
was like, okay, a bit to keep away. But I

1028
01:23:25.319 --> 01:23:28.720
went to see the other three. So there's one that

1029
01:23:28.880 --> 01:23:32.039
worked in one bar, there's another one worked in a

1030
01:23:32.079 --> 01:23:34.680
pizza place, and the other worked one worked in the

1031
01:23:34.720 --> 01:23:38.279
restaurant downstairs. Not need a reception. So I went to

1032
01:23:38.359 --> 01:23:43.479
each one and say goodbye, and it was just like

1033
01:23:44.199 --> 01:23:47.359
I thought, well, I've not dated anyone, I've not actually

1034
01:23:48.000 --> 01:23:52.640
gone out anywhere, so I'll just say goodbye, you know.

1035
01:23:52.640 --> 01:23:55.119
And they were all one of them that even took

1036
01:23:55.239 --> 01:24:01.279
me into a room I wait from the bar, and

1037
01:24:01.359 --> 01:24:03.920
it was like a storage room. There was nothing in

1038
01:24:04.039 --> 01:24:07.800
there but just empty. But there was a few storage

1039
01:24:07.840 --> 01:24:12.079
I guess, and crates of coke cans or whatever, and

1040
01:24:12.199 --> 01:24:15.840
that was it, and closed the door and just looked

1041
01:24:15.880 --> 01:24:21.720
at me, like I'm supposed to do now. I literally

1042
01:24:21.760 --> 01:24:23.840
had about half an hour to get on the bus,

1043
01:24:25.680 --> 01:24:29.680
and I didn't know what I didn't know what she wanted.

1044
01:24:31.199 --> 01:24:39.000
And because I was so naive and very I was

1045
01:24:39.119 --> 01:24:45.479
quite a young person back then. I was only thirty one. Yeah,

1046
01:24:45.479 --> 01:24:48.439
I was still thirty one, so I was young, and

1047
01:24:48.520 --> 01:24:54.079
then I was only a youngster. I really was. I

1048
01:24:54.159 --> 01:24:57.079
didn't know, I didn't know what to do, but obviously

1049
01:24:57.199 --> 01:24:59.439
gave me a big hug, didn't see no way, let

1050
01:24:59.479 --> 01:25:03.680
me go, picked me up, wrattled me around a little bit.

1051
01:25:04.880 --> 01:25:16.560
I didn't mind, to be honest. I mean, yeah, I

1052
01:25:16.600 --> 01:25:18.960
feel quite happy. We would have brought a home with

1053
01:25:19.079 --> 01:25:26.880
me and possibly got married. I know that life doesn't

1054
01:25:26.920 --> 01:25:29.319
work like that. I'll just bring someone home and get married,

1055
01:25:29.359 --> 01:25:34.279
But and there seemed to be a connection. Maybe there wasn't.

1056
01:25:35.119 --> 01:25:37.319
I feel like I'm making this up. Maybe I'm not.

1057
01:25:37.680 --> 01:25:44.359
I don't know, Maybe I am the the bomber boom

1058
01:25:44.439 --> 01:25:51.319
boom boom boom what else. So yeah, that was good.

1059
01:25:52.119 --> 01:25:57.960
And then I did give I got the address. Oh,

1060
01:25:58.159 --> 01:26:01.359
one of them gave me an address and telephone number,

1061
01:26:01.399 --> 01:26:05.600
but I tried to contact but didn't seem to do.

1062
01:26:07.239 --> 01:26:10.000
I gave me my tele I tried to phone. That's it.

1063
01:26:10.119 --> 01:26:13.840
I tried to phone. I've got one of those you know,

1064
01:26:14.000 --> 01:26:16.439
those cards that you can phone abroad and stuff, but

1065
01:26:17.399 --> 01:26:22.239
it didn't seem to work. It was Yeah, the language

1066
01:26:22.319 --> 01:26:25.560
barrier was definitely an issue. It'd be easier now with

1067
01:26:26.159 --> 01:26:30.960
all the different apps, and this is before Facebook and whatsappened,

1068
01:26:32.079 --> 01:26:35.399
all the different ways to communicate with people. There's no

1069
01:26:35.560 --> 01:26:41.399
smartphones back then, and it would have been easy, you know,

1070
01:26:42.119 --> 01:26:44.439
much easier to sort of keep in contact with someone.

1071
01:26:49.079 --> 01:26:52.560
So what happened then is in my Thailand s I

1072
01:26:52.640 --> 01:26:58.920
did meet someone else, but at this point I had

1073
01:26:59.439 --> 01:27:06.680
a can rib and I wasn't really interested in her

1074
01:27:06.880 --> 01:27:10.560
as a as a other than just as a tourist guide. Really,

1075
01:27:10.680 --> 01:27:16.479
she showed me around, but she did sort of try

1076
01:27:16.520 --> 01:27:19.279
and take advantage of me. I think financially a little bitter,

1077
01:27:20.960 --> 01:27:27.159
but I wasn't that bothered. And then she in a place.

1078
01:27:27.319 --> 01:27:30.640
This is where I met her because a couple of

1079
01:27:30.800 --> 01:27:33.319
this man said I can you buy me some foods?

1080
01:27:33.319 --> 01:27:36.159
I said, all right. Then he actually came up to me.

1081
01:27:36.199 --> 01:27:39.680
He said, you got any money? I said, have you?

1082
01:27:41.079 --> 01:27:42.760
Were you asking me if I've got any money for?

1083
01:27:43.319 --> 01:27:45.840
What's in your wallet? What's in your wallet? And he

1084
01:27:45.880 --> 01:27:48.600
got his wallet out and said, look nothing. And he

1085
01:27:48.680 --> 01:27:52.920
was a taxi driver, but there was no customers. I said,

1086
01:27:53.199 --> 01:27:55.960
so why are you asking? Well, you showed me your

1087
01:27:56.000 --> 01:27:59.279
wallet for and he said, I'm hungry. You can I

1088
01:27:59.279 --> 01:28:01.920
have some food? I said, I'm sure you'll find someone

1089
01:28:01.960 --> 01:28:03.880
to give you food. He said, well, you get me

1090
01:28:03.960 --> 01:28:07.680
some food. I said, yeah, right, and he said what

1091
01:28:07.960 --> 01:28:10.560
is this way? I think he led me. I didn't

1092
01:28:10.600 --> 01:28:13.399
realize he owned the place he led me to actually

1093
01:28:13.439 --> 01:28:15.439
had his name on the front. And I don't know

1094
01:28:15.479 --> 01:28:17.079
if he owned it or rented it or it was

1095
01:28:17.119 --> 01:28:22.039
a family thing, but I mean he was hungry as well.

1096
01:28:22.119 --> 01:28:24.920
There was no customers. There was no one in there.

1097
01:28:25.840 --> 01:28:29.600
There's this little bar restaurant. There wasn't really a restaurant,

1098
01:28:29.680 --> 01:28:36.079
more takeaway, so I gave him the food, gave his

1099
01:28:36.600 --> 01:28:41.239
fellow taxi driver I like, because I had moped taxis,

1100
01:28:42.279 --> 01:28:46.119
gave them food, and then I just left wait for

1101
01:28:46.159 --> 01:28:50.520
a walk. Later on in the evening, I forget all

1102
01:28:50.560 --> 01:28:52.760
about it, and I walked past and they all start

1103
01:28:52.880 --> 01:28:56.479
shouting for me to come in. And I didn't know

1104
01:28:56.560 --> 01:28:58.399
who they were because I didn't realize where I was

1105
01:28:58.439 --> 01:29:02.399
because it was all still new, and they was, oh,

1106
01:29:03.359 --> 01:29:05.279
come in, let me buy you, give you a drink,

1107
01:29:06.199 --> 01:29:08.600
and they were like all over me, being nice to

1108
01:29:08.680 --> 01:29:13.079
me and stuff, very very friendly. So I stayed in

1109
01:29:13.199 --> 01:29:15.840
there for a couple of hours, had some drinks, and

1110
01:29:19.560 --> 01:29:22.199
met this person that was a bit friendly as well,

1111
01:29:22.680 --> 01:29:25.359
but you know, sort of became my tour guide for

1112
01:29:25.439 --> 01:29:31.640
a few days, showed me around and that I had

1113
01:29:31.680 --> 01:29:36.800
this idea. But maybe it was a little bit drunk,

1114
01:29:36.800 --> 01:29:40.239
but I had an idea, I thought, And this is

1115
01:29:40.319 --> 01:29:43.680
something I'd thought about before because I'd seen on YouTube

1116
01:29:45.560 --> 01:29:51.680
during twenty twenty and twenty twenty one, because the tourists

1117
01:29:53.840 --> 01:29:59.920
pretty much had disappeared, like completely for about two years.

1118
01:30:01.239 --> 01:30:06.680
They the people that would normally work, didn't have any

1119
01:30:06.720 --> 01:30:12.880
money for food, didn't have any food, so there was charities,

1120
01:30:13.000 --> 01:30:16.319
and there was YouTubers and all stuff giving out food

1121
01:30:16.960 --> 01:30:23.720
to people queuing up along the beach. Some people were

1122
01:30:23.760 --> 01:30:25.680
running along to get the food, and they were giving

1123
01:30:25.720 --> 01:30:28.439
food out off the back of trucks and stuff like that.

1124
01:30:30.720 --> 01:30:33.840
I didn't see that when I got there, but I

1125
01:30:33.960 --> 01:30:37.039
did think to myself before I got there, I want

1126
01:30:37.079 --> 01:30:40.479
to give some food out. I wasn't expecting to do

1127
01:30:40.520 --> 01:30:42.520
it the way I did it, but I was thinking

1128
01:30:42.680 --> 01:30:46.479
I want to. It's been a dream, really to be

1129
01:30:46.520 --> 01:30:50.439
able to do something like that on a more a

1130
01:30:50.520 --> 01:30:58.760
bigger scale than just giving someone a burger for McDonald's.

1131
01:31:00.199 --> 01:31:07.439
Who's sitting in a a shop, a shop what you

1132
01:31:07.520 --> 01:31:13.399
call it a shop entrance, And I thought it'd be

1133
01:31:13.520 --> 01:31:19.199
nice to do something that was like a one off

1134
01:31:19.279 --> 01:31:22.279
situation that I'm possibly never going to be able to

1135
01:31:22.319 --> 01:31:28.319
do again. So what I decided is, I said to

1136
01:31:28.520 --> 01:31:34.399
the lady who was running this place which sells food

1137
01:31:34.520 --> 01:31:37.279
and it's like a little bar as well where I

1138
01:31:37.359 --> 01:31:39.640
got the food from during the day for the taxi

1139
01:31:39.760 --> 01:31:44.920
drivers or the motorbike taxi drivers. I said to her.

1140
01:31:47.000 --> 01:31:48.800
Act I said to the person I was talking to

1141
01:31:48.960 --> 01:31:53.399
that became my guide. I got an idea. She said,

1142
01:31:53.439 --> 01:32:01.039
what's that? I said, what if? I because she was

1143
01:32:01.119 --> 01:32:03.359
telling me how people were hungry and how there was

1144
01:32:03.479 --> 01:32:05.920
no like there was. She was pointing out the bar

1145
01:32:06.079 --> 01:32:08.880
she used to work out, which had a pool table,

1146
01:32:08.920 --> 01:32:12.600
and it was just like a small bar, but it

1147
01:32:12.720 --> 01:32:15.279
was empty. She was living upstairs and then pretty much

1148
01:32:15.720 --> 01:32:20.439
a derelict room, didn't have anything, didn't have you know,

1149
01:32:20.640 --> 01:32:22.760
she was like living from one day to the next.

1150
01:32:26.560 --> 01:32:28.359
And I kind of became a meal ticket for a

1151
01:32:28.359 --> 01:32:31.880
little while, which, you know, it is what it is.

1152
01:32:31.960 --> 01:32:38.199
It is fine. But she sort of pointed me towards

1153
01:32:38.319 --> 01:32:40.520
the lady that was in charge of that place, of

1154
01:32:40.640 --> 01:32:43.439
the place we were sitting in, and I said, well,

1155
01:32:43.520 --> 01:32:48.600
how much would it cost to give away a meal

1156
01:32:50.920 --> 01:32:56.159
and a drink like a meal in a bottle of water,

1157
01:32:57.000 --> 01:33:02.199
I think something like that. And she was working out.

1158
01:33:02.279 --> 01:33:04.079
She said, how many do you want to do? I said, well,

1159
01:33:04.319 --> 01:33:08.000
it depends how much they are each. Bear in mind

1160
01:33:08.039 --> 01:33:11.279
I had to try and figure it out the currency change,

1161
01:33:11.359 --> 01:33:19.920
you know, from pounds to tie bart or tie bart

1162
01:33:19.960 --> 01:33:26.239
to pounds, you know, conversion. And I was like, okay, well,

1163
01:33:26.479 --> 01:33:30.479
you know roughly what would it be? And I couldn't

1164
01:33:30.479 --> 01:33:34.079
even tell you how much it was per meal, but

1165
01:33:34.199 --> 01:33:45.600
we decided to do a lot of meals. I don't

1166
01:33:45.640 --> 01:33:47.680
know what it was, one hundred, two hundred and fifty

1167
01:33:47.800 --> 01:33:51.560
two hundred, I can't remember. And then so we did

1168
01:33:51.640 --> 01:33:54.319
that and when they were all like stacked up. It's

1169
01:33:54.359 --> 01:33:56.800
actually a photograph of me on one of my podcasts

1170
01:33:58.319 --> 01:34:04.039
with the staff there. They're all like hugging me. And

1171
01:34:06.319 --> 01:34:08.399
most of the people I gave the food out too,

1172
01:34:09.239 --> 01:34:14.880
were coming on mopeds because even though the job was

1173
01:34:16.199 --> 01:34:25.560
taxi drivers, they didn't really have any customers. So I

1174
01:34:25.680 --> 01:34:29.199
gave out not just me, the other staff did as well.

1175
01:34:29.560 --> 01:34:31.840
The other like everyone kind of muck did and gave

1176
01:34:31.880 --> 01:34:35.560
out the food. But I was it went really quickly,

1177
01:34:36.079 --> 01:34:40.039
like really quickly, and then they kept cooking more and

1178
01:34:40.119 --> 01:34:42.399
said you you want me to cook more? She said,

1179
01:34:42.439 --> 01:34:44.279
I bought more. I can cook it if you want.

1180
01:34:44.399 --> 01:34:51.079
And I lost track. I lost track of what I

1181
01:34:51.239 --> 01:34:54.079
was spending. I lost track of what I was given away.

1182
01:34:55.119 --> 01:34:58.119
And I did it the next day as well. I

1183
01:34:58.199 --> 01:35:03.800
think I did twice as much the next day. Yeah,

1184
01:35:03.800 --> 01:35:10.640
I spent a lot, a lot on that. It's the most. Yeah,

1185
01:35:10.800 --> 01:35:14.319
it's yeah, a lot. I've never never spent that much

1186
01:35:14.359 --> 01:35:17.520
money in one day. I don't think it for that

1187
01:35:17.680 --> 01:35:22.399
kind of thing before, but it was one of the

1188
01:35:22.479 --> 01:35:27.640
best experiences of my life, given away food to people

1189
01:35:27.800 --> 01:35:30.920
that were hungry. I can't think of anything really better

1190
01:35:31.000 --> 01:35:34.760
than that were to be more more useful in a way.

1191
01:35:38.000 --> 01:35:44.960
I know it's short term solution, but it's still I mean,

1192
01:35:45.000 --> 01:35:48.399
it might be a short term solution, but it's going

1193
01:35:48.439 --> 01:35:49.800
to mean a hell of a lot to the person

1194
01:35:49.840 --> 01:35:52.319
that's eating. And how do I know, just because I've

1195
01:35:52.359 --> 01:35:56.399
given out a meal to someone, they might be sharing

1196
01:35:56.439 --> 01:36:00.560
that with three people, they might be taking at home

1197
01:36:01.119 --> 01:36:04.840
to their kid and not eating anything themselves. You know,

1198
01:36:05.000 --> 01:36:12.439
I don't know. I'll find out after the third day.

1199
01:36:15.319 --> 01:36:17.159
And this is weird. I find out, how to the

1200
01:36:17.279 --> 01:36:25.920
third day that I was being charged Western prices for

1201
01:36:26.079 --> 01:36:31.239
the food. So I was being charged the same amount

1202
01:36:31.279 --> 01:36:33.640
as I would have been charged if I'd have gone

1203
01:36:33.680 --> 01:36:40.000
in there as a tourist to order a meal. That's

1204
01:36:40.039 --> 01:36:41.800
how much I would have been charged. And I got

1205
01:36:41.920 --> 01:36:46.199
charged that amount for each and every meal. But if

1206
01:36:46.239 --> 01:36:48.239
I had been a tie, I'd have gone in there

1207
01:36:48.239 --> 01:36:50.720
and ordered the same thing. It would have been probably

1208
01:36:51.600 --> 01:36:58.399
one third of the price. But they charged me the

1209
01:36:58.560 --> 01:37:06.399
full price, and the lady that was going to be like,

1210
01:37:06.720 --> 01:37:10.279
give me a bit as a tour guide. She told

1211
01:37:10.319 --> 01:37:13.880
me after about the fourth day, she said, you couldn't.

1212
01:37:14.520 --> 01:37:16.199
She fell out with them over it, but she said

1213
01:37:16.239 --> 01:37:19.640
she couldn't tell me because I seemed so happy doing

1214
01:37:19.640 --> 01:37:22.399
what I was doing. And they told her that you

1215
01:37:22.479 --> 01:37:25.479
dared tell them because I think she was also her

1216
01:37:25.560 --> 01:37:28.399
boss for the other bar when it reopens, and just

1217
01:37:30.600 --> 01:37:33.479
I didn't go back there after that. I didn't go back, didn't.

1218
01:37:35.479 --> 01:37:37.399
I just you know, once I found that out, I

1219
01:37:37.600 --> 01:37:41.159
was a bit because it wasn't even about the money.

1220
01:37:41.239 --> 01:37:45.800
It was about the simple fact that I could have

1221
01:37:45.840 --> 01:37:52.600
given twice three Well, I was only given away one

1222
01:37:52.920 --> 01:37:56.279
given away. I was only given away one third of

1223
01:37:56.359 --> 01:37:58.600
what I could have been given away. I could have

1224
01:37:58.640 --> 01:38:03.359
given away two thirds more or food and meals to

1225
01:38:03.479 --> 01:38:09.319
people that needed it, and I wasn't. And that's hundreds

1226
01:38:10.600 --> 01:38:15.920
of meals that I didn't get to give away. So

1227
01:38:16.039 --> 01:38:19.279
that was, yeah, I didn't like that. That kind of

1228
01:38:19.479 --> 01:38:24.960
left a little bit of her horrible. I mean, I

1229
01:38:25.119 --> 01:38:27.159
understand they want to get paid for the work because

1230
01:38:27.199 --> 01:38:29.720
they were cooking and it was hard working it, but

1231
01:38:29.800 --> 01:38:31.880
wouldn't they get paid. Don't they take that out of

1232
01:38:32.000 --> 01:38:36.279
the that would be the wages they would take anywhay,

1233
01:38:36.319 --> 01:38:39.359
isn't it if they're not going to work for nothing

1234
01:38:39.960 --> 01:38:42.479
when they give away the food to the tie people,

1235
01:38:42.760 --> 01:38:44.760
they're still going to make a profit, still going to

1236
01:38:44.840 --> 01:38:48.720
cover their wages and cover their costs. And bearing in

1237
01:38:48.800 --> 01:38:53.640
mind how many there's no. I can't imagine any day

1238
01:38:55.039 --> 01:38:57.000
in her history that she would have sold as many

1239
01:38:57.359 --> 01:39:02.720
meals as that in a day. Ever th what she

1240
01:39:02.880 --> 01:39:08.560
did that day, those two days with me, and all

1241
01:39:08.600 --> 01:39:09.920
she had to do was cooks. She didn't have to

1242
01:39:10.199 --> 01:39:14.920
she didn't have to deal with anyone else. And at

1243
01:39:14.920 --> 01:39:17.039
the end, I think she said, oh, can you pay?

1244
01:39:17.600 --> 01:39:19.840
Can you pay my system give her a bit more money?

1245
01:39:23.239 --> 01:39:26.239
I just said yes, But I thought, BlimE me, that's

1246
01:39:26.359 --> 01:39:31.239
this is before I realized I've been ripped off. So yeah,

1247
01:39:31.920 --> 01:39:34.600
I said, it wasn't about the money rather than about

1248
01:39:34.920 --> 01:39:39.880
I could have given more free stuff out. So that

1249
01:39:40.039 --> 01:39:43.439
was that was weird. Some of the I quite like

1250
01:39:43.560 --> 01:39:49.920
some of the Buddhists rituals that they do. I like

1251
01:39:50.039 --> 01:40:00.279
the bowing. That's nice, it's very respectful. The am I

1252
01:40:00.399 --> 01:40:03.760
going to say, oh yeah, even when they're drinking, they'll

1253
01:40:03.840 --> 01:40:07.079
chuck a bit of the drink into the street. It's

1254
01:40:07.159 --> 01:40:11.560
like an offering to the Buddha. So it's kind of

1255
01:40:12.359 --> 01:40:17.640
even though they're doing technically is a Buddhist really it

1256
01:40:17.800 --> 01:40:21.560
is like a non toxicant religion. You don't take toxicants.

1257
01:40:21.720 --> 01:40:24.800
It's one of the one of the I don't say

1258
01:40:24.920 --> 01:40:32.000
rules are one of the things, but it's it's less

1259
01:40:32.199 --> 01:40:36.760
that their Buddhists, as in not meditating and not practicing,

1260
01:40:37.399 --> 01:40:42.439
but they have a monk practice for them. So the

1261
01:40:42.600 --> 01:40:45.039
monk will come down from the mountain or from the

1262
01:40:45.800 --> 01:40:51.520
monastery and they will give offerings to the monk in

1263
01:40:51.640 --> 01:40:59.359
the form of usually food, and then the monk will

1264
01:41:00.960 --> 01:41:04.880
say some prayers for them, and they'll sit there and

1265
01:41:05.119 --> 01:41:08.840
just have the monk offer prayers to them. So it's

1266
01:41:08.880 --> 01:41:12.199
a give and take situation. So the monk sits in

1267
01:41:12.279 --> 01:41:18.800
the monastery all day meditating and practicing for the rest

1268
01:41:18.880 --> 01:41:21.720
of the people in Thailand, and they can just get

1269
01:41:21.720 --> 01:41:25.720
on with their lives and not have to do that.

1270
01:41:27.199 --> 01:41:29.800
So it's a very different way to how the Western

1271
01:41:30.680 --> 01:41:37.560
meditators work. Really, I mean, it isn't It isn't. We

1272
01:41:37.680 --> 01:41:41.199
don't I say we are not that involved. I haven't

1273
01:41:41.199 --> 01:41:44.439
been involved for years. Really, in my mind I am,

1274
01:41:44.560 --> 01:41:56.720
but in practice i'm not. Yeah, I'm trying to think

1275
01:41:56.800 --> 01:42:03.720
other things. What this is the irony? When I got

1276
01:42:03.800 --> 01:42:12.399
back this my tour guide started contacting me, asking me

1277
01:42:12.520 --> 01:42:17.000
for stuff. So I ended up buying a television, ended

1278
01:42:17.079 --> 01:42:21.680
up sending them money, all these kinds of things by

1279
01:42:22.239 --> 01:42:25.560
I forget was called some app And in the end

1280
01:42:25.600 --> 01:42:27.199
I just had to cut her off because she was

1281
01:42:27.279 --> 01:42:30.920
just kept asking for more, more, more, more and more

1282
01:42:30.920 --> 01:42:35.840
and more. But she was a good tour guide, so

1283
01:42:36.760 --> 01:42:40.479
I paid her to do to take me around, paid

1284
01:42:40.479 --> 01:42:43.840
her for everything that she needed. Food, We went and

1285
01:42:44.119 --> 01:42:48.359
fed the dogs. We got food off her. What's it.

1286
01:42:49.760 --> 01:42:55.560
There's this uh street food vendor and he was making

1287
01:42:55.680 --> 01:42:59.319
these like meat stick things on sticks, almost like kebabs,

1288
01:42:59.319 --> 01:43:03.640
I suppose, and there'd be three in a pack, and

1289
01:43:03.880 --> 01:43:07.800
maybe they'd had vegetables on them as well. And I

1290
01:43:07.920 --> 01:43:12.079
bought the entire store. And we walked through the beach.

1291
01:43:12.680 --> 01:43:15.199
And it's good to have her with me because she

1292
01:43:15.319 --> 01:43:19.439
knew who not to approach. She said, don't go near them.

1293
01:43:21.319 --> 01:43:24.199
They don't like foreigners. Because some people didn't like the

1294
01:43:25.039 --> 01:43:30.079
you know people. She just knew who was who, so

1295
01:43:31.439 --> 01:43:36.880
we would give out the food along the beach and

1296
01:43:37.039 --> 01:43:39.880
I thought, and then we walked back after doing that,

1297
01:43:41.960 --> 01:43:45.159
I couldn't believe that stall was full again, full of food.

1298
01:43:46.600 --> 01:43:50.039
I thought I'd done him a favor. You go home now. Nope,

1299
01:43:50.840 --> 01:43:53.720
it just appeared out of nowhere. It's almost like he

1300
01:43:53.840 --> 01:43:55.479
just shook it like a magic trick and all the

1301
01:43:55.520 --> 01:43:59.760
food is there again. Wow. So we've got a load

1302
01:43:59.800 --> 01:44:03.800
of more food and fed the dogs. So there's a

1303
01:44:03.880 --> 01:44:07.600
lot of stray dogs around, so we start feeding dogs.

1304
01:44:08.239 --> 01:44:11.159
Some of them just have to kind of chuck the

1305
01:44:11.239 --> 01:44:13.439
meat and let them eat it. And there was this

1306
01:44:13.640 --> 01:44:20.399
big pound of massive gate and there's that waste ground

1307
01:44:20.439 --> 01:44:24.279
or whatever, and there was huge amounts of dogs behind there.

1308
01:44:26.239 --> 01:44:29.920
So I'd be chucking food over there for them, and

1309
01:44:31.119 --> 01:44:35.439
it was cool. I got to do things that I

1310
01:44:35.600 --> 01:44:40.079
probably never would get to do here. I mean, I

1311
01:44:40.199 --> 01:44:43.399
can't go around feeding stray dogs in the UK because

1312
01:44:43.439 --> 01:44:51.159
there ain't none. Really, there's not going to walk on

1313
01:44:51.279 --> 01:44:55.560
a beach and give out food to people some bathing

1314
01:44:55.640 --> 01:44:59.560
on a beach because they probably don't want that. It's

1315
01:44:59.600 --> 01:45:02.479
a different scenario. Plus people aren't sleeping on the beach

1316
01:45:02.520 --> 01:45:05.560
at night in this kind well maybe they are. I

1317
01:45:05.640 --> 01:45:07.840
don't know. I've not been everywhere, but there was a

1318
01:45:07.920 --> 01:45:11.079
lot of people were on the beach late at night,

1319
01:45:11.840 --> 01:45:17.600
just sleeping. So there was that. Another thing I quite

1320
01:45:17.720 --> 01:45:21.279
liked there was this. It sounds like I'm just bragging

1321
01:45:21.319 --> 01:45:23.039
about what I did, but this is just what I did.

1322
01:45:23.199 --> 01:45:28.600
It's not really bragging and just it was something I'm

1323
01:45:29.079 --> 01:45:33.359
I'm glad I got to do. And yeah, so I

1324
01:45:33.439 --> 01:45:35.039
did a few other things like that as well, but

1325
01:45:38.479 --> 01:45:45.800
I'm glad I've got to do that. Yeah, I am.

1326
01:45:46.560 --> 01:45:49.840
It's a shame to I don't think it kind of

1327
01:45:49.920 --> 01:45:53.119
worked out so well. That's why I would have wanted

1328
01:45:53.159 --> 01:45:56.760
it to. But it's it was a great experience to

1329
01:45:56.800 --> 01:46:02.840
be able to do that. So yeah, that was my Thailand,

1330
01:46:03.760 --> 01:46:06.680
one of my one of my Thailand journeys. I think

1331
01:46:06.680 --> 01:46:11.479
I've talked forever about this now, so I didn't have

1332
01:46:11.520 --> 01:46:20.680
any other questions. So yeah, thank you, thank you. What

1333
01:46:20.720 --> 01:46:22.279
I'm going to do, Wait a minute, I'm going to

1334
01:46:22.319 --> 01:46:27.520
go into my website. Okay, go into my website and

1335
01:46:28.600 --> 01:46:30.640
let me see if it works. If I go to

1336
01:46:30.800 --> 01:46:36.239
Jasonnewland dot com, ask me anything, Q and A Friday

1337
01:46:36.319 --> 01:46:39.359
submission right at the top of the page. So I'm

1338
01:46:39.399 --> 01:46:50.439
going to put in right Willie Warmer email, will you

1339
01:46:50.680 --> 01:47:08.199
Warmer at booby So my question have you I'd like

1340
01:47:08.279 --> 01:47:16.359
to give different weird, funny names. Have you always been

1341
01:47:18.680 --> 01:47:24.520
so handsome? Right? So that's the question. So I'll see

1342
01:47:24.560 --> 01:47:26.960
what comes through. I said, Look, so I'm gonna submit that.

1343
01:47:27.399 --> 01:47:30.159
All it's asking me. Am I a robot? No, I'm

1344
01:47:30.159 --> 01:47:34.680
not a robot sending the message was sent successfully, so

1345
01:47:34.800 --> 01:47:39.079
let me see if the message came up in the

1346
01:47:39.159 --> 01:47:45.279
junk mail it has. Let me click. So the message

1347
01:47:45.279 --> 01:47:53.479
from Williwarmer. Oh, this message sent from Jason dot com

1348
01:47:53.840 --> 01:47:59.000
Williwarmer email, Williwarmer at boobies dot com form type contact

1349
01:47:59.680 --> 01:48:02.960
Have you always been so handsome? There's no d in that,

1350
01:48:03.159 --> 01:48:06.239
so I should have done it wrong. So it works,

1351
01:48:06.680 --> 01:48:12.800
so if you have questions for next Friday. For next Friday,

1352
01:48:14.880 --> 01:48:18.840
you can start adding now so that next Friday I

1353
01:48:18.920 --> 01:48:24.960
can actually answer some questions rather than this has been

1354
01:48:25.079 --> 01:48:28.920
like a more like an ordinary let me boy to sleep, really,

1355
01:48:29.000 --> 01:48:35.079
isn't it? Which is fine? But it's just weird. Just

1356
01:48:37.439 --> 01:48:40.079
I didn't think I have a ever have a week

1357
01:48:40.159 --> 01:48:44.079
where it was just one question, because I haven't the

1358
01:48:44.199 --> 01:48:48.199
whole time I've been doing this, and the Q and

1359
01:48:48.239 --> 01:48:51.720
a Friday is wonder was the first one. I don't

1360
01:48:51.720 --> 01:48:54.079
know if I've got it. I've got a something like

1361
01:48:55.000 --> 01:48:58.640
Q and a Friday one hundred and seventy two episodes. Okay,

1362
01:48:58.720 --> 01:49:02.199
that's with all the different ones. So let's see when

1363
01:49:02.359 --> 01:49:08.560
was the first one. The first one was, oh my goodness,

1364
01:49:10.000 --> 01:49:15.279
you won't even believe this. That you might be asleep now,

1365
01:49:15.359 --> 01:49:20.680
but if you are awake, you won't believe it. The

1366
01:49:20.920 --> 01:49:26.479
very first Q and a Friday was a tenth of

1367
01:49:26.560 --> 01:49:31.079
April twenty twenty four, and it's now the eleventh of

1368
01:49:31.159 --> 01:49:41.640
April twenty twenty five. So I have literally done every

1369
01:49:41.800 --> 01:49:49.199
single week since then. I don't know if I've missed

1370
01:49:49.239 --> 01:49:55.079
any out. I'm pretty sure i've done every week. In fact,

1371
01:49:57.079 --> 01:50:10.319
i'm pretty sure I have blimey, wow wow a year.

1372
01:50:12.439 --> 01:50:14.880
So this is a year of letting boy to sleep,

1373
01:50:14.960 --> 01:50:22.239
and it's probably the worst one yet. One question I

1374
01:50:22.279 --> 01:50:23.800
should have put that If I have known that, I

1375
01:50:23.880 --> 01:50:28.359
could have put the first year anniversary Q and a Friday.

1376
01:50:29.840 --> 01:50:35.760
I think he's moaning now. I don't know what he wants. Wow, blimey. Okay, anyway,

1377
01:50:36.319 --> 01:50:39.960
I'm going to go. Thank you for listening. Remember Q

1378
01:50:40.119 --> 01:50:44.560
and A. Oh, tonight is the fiction night for celebrity

1379
01:50:44.600 --> 01:50:49.199
Big Brother. I think that's on at nine o'clock. So

1380
01:50:49.279 --> 01:50:52.680
I've been watching that at nine. It's now caught past seven,

1381
01:50:53.439 --> 01:51:01.000
which means probably get myself some food, and then I

1382
01:51:01.079 --> 01:51:05.800
will watch the end of a movie that I started

1383
01:51:05.840 --> 01:51:10.079
to watch. Well, actually know what I'll do play watch

1384
01:51:10.600 --> 01:51:13.119
watch something while I do that. Well, maybe i'll try

1385
01:51:13.159 --> 01:51:17.119
and edit this now. I want to get this edited

1386
01:51:17.199 --> 01:51:21.680
before Big Brother starts. It's even that i'll do it

1387
01:51:21.840 --> 01:51:24.880
first thing in the morning. I'd kind of like to

1388
01:51:24.920 --> 01:51:31.840
do it tonight. Yeah, we'll see. So thank you for listening,

1389
01:51:32.119 --> 01:51:35.439
Thank you Hillary for your question. And sorry there's only

1390
01:51:35.520 --> 01:51:41.359
one one answer to give. Please thank you for listening.

1391
01:51:41.479 --> 01:51:45.680
Remember to be kind to yourself and also be gentle

1392
01:51:45.760 --> 01:51:49.399
with yourself. You deserve to be happy and you do

1393
01:51:49.560 --> 01:51:55.640
deserve to feel safe. Lots of love, Bye,