July 19, 2025

(music) Q&A Friday | LMBYTS #1396 | Jason Newland | 19th July 2025

(music) Q&A Friday | LMBYTS #1396 | Jason Newland | 19th July 2025
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Hello and welcome to Jasonnewland dot com. Me name is

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Jason Newland. This is Q Today Friday, Curday Friday. Please

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only listen when you can safety close shorts and as well.

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I say thank you to Diana for your kind PayPal gift.

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Thank you very much. Yeah, I'm just trying to think

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what's happened since yesterday?

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No?

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Nothing, Yeah, I'm trying to do nothing. I'm just trying

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to think. No, I can't think of anything. I can't

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think of anything that's happened ever today or later. Today

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is the heavyweight Boxing Championship of the World. I'll be

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watching that, Daniel Dubois against Alexander us Ussick and I'll

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be watching that. Also, there's another world title fight tonight,

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which is uh bam bamgregious or what's going on here? Okay,

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Cliff Richard, Okay, it's just also one that I will

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not be paying for. I'll watch it on YouTube. Is

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Mani Pacquiao is fighting for a world title after about

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seventy five years of not actually fighting anyone. That's going

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to be weird. That's strange. Uh, but saying that that's

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a really really good bill, damn it? Or yeah, but

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I can't. It's wait, it's in the middle of the night.

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It's on Amazon Prime. That's confusing me. I'm sure all

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networks the Zone Saturday ninety Jesse Rodriguez, Oh be cause

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they still call him Bam Bam, but it's actually yeah,

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so this is on to Zone. Jesse Rodriguez, which is

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called Bam Bam is defending his world title for two

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world titles against the Pumel CAFU. So I can watch that.

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It doesn't cost any extra. I'll watch that. Ah. I

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want to watch all of them. Ah well hm, we

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will see. I'm definitely watching Alexandra Ushik against Daniel Dynamite Dubois. Yes,

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because that's on during the daytime. Well, it's on this

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evening UK time. The others start probably two o'clock in

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the morning UK time, and I'm honest with you, I

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think I might be asleep. Yes, all right, so let's

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move away from that. Sir Q Day Friday as well.

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It's raided today, which I don't mind. I don't have

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a lot of saying it, really do I it's not

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really within my personal power. Man, need to take the out.

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And we missed a little shower. It started to rain

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and we got back in time to not get wet,

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so it will be a little bit hit and miss

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I think today as far as taking them out, But

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I've got the weekend off. I'm not going up to

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the hospital unless there's an emergency, you know, of course,

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but i won't be going up there to this weekend.

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There's I want to have a little tidy up of

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my flat because it's messy, and I just I'm charging

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up the scrubber. I've got this mechanical scrubber thing that

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I can use to clean the sinks and the toilet

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and the bath and stuff like that. There's different headings

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on for each one. So I'm gonna I'm charging it

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up now and I'm gonna have a little bit of

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a scrub later of the bathroom sink, the kitchen sink

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and the kitchen counters. Try and have a little tied up,

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you know, maybe do a little bit of vacuum cleaning. Minimal, minimal,

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and I'd like to I don't know, I tell what

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concerns me a little bit. I just don't want to

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be Yeah, I want to make I just want to

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make this place a little bit better, a little bit

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nicer and if I put a bit of effort in,

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I could, you know, I could make the door frames nice.

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I could, you know, save up and put new doors

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on to the different rooms. Because the doors at the

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moment I still got the same ones I had on

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ten years ago, and they've been there probably ten years

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or twenty years before that, and they were already all

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scratched a bits because the previous person had I think

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she had two massive dogs. So the whole you know,

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it's stuff. The doors are just they're not the night.

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They're not the most pleasant to look at. I don't

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spend a lot of time looking at them to be air. No, No,

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I don't really. I don't just sit there in front

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of the door and just look at it and I think,

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oh no, it's not a hobby. But I still see them.

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I sometimes think it'd be quite nice to just got

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this whole flat, you know, just get rid of all

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the stuff, not get rid of everything, but redecorate it.

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Put a new decent carpet down, nice curtains, just little

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things like that, a decent setty, because the one I

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got now is falling apart. No, it's fairly comfortable. Perhaps

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just get myself a lazy boy something like that, because

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I had all an equivalent to that. I had a

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cheap version of that when the very first moved in.

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I think it cost me about one hundred and fifty

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quid and I had it for quite a few years.

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It was all right. Eventually it broke and fell apart.

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Would you imagine anything that I sit on is going

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to eventually fall apart? I don't know. Yah came moving

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on from that, but yeah, yeah, I have a little look.

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Some of the walls that still got looks like mold,

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but it's not. It's just the backing felt from when

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I had soundproofing up over there. Go took them off

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to put them into my shed, which I had in

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my bedroom. Didn't know, Vinny, you never got to see

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the bedroom shed, did you know? You didn't? It was

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gone before you moved in. Yes it was, Yes, it was.

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You never got to see the bathroom shed, the bedroom shed,

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or the kitchen shed. So that that's gonna I probably

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need some kind of you know, one of those heat

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heat scrapers, torch scrapers things. I probably need something like that.

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Yeah I would, yes, Vinny, Yes they would, Yes, they would.

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Are you not going to have your breakfast, Finn. You

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cannot going to eat your breakfast.

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N No, no, Why.

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I woke up this morning, I went a bit about ten,

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three minutes past ten, it was woke up. I got

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up out of bed just after six this morning, and

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Vinnie was in the living room. He was in here

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asleep on the cety. So I don't know why. I

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do know why. It's because he wanted to come and

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sleep in here. But I don't know why he wanted

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to come and sleep in here, because he only ever

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does things he wants to do, doesn't do anything he

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doesn't like. Do you, Vinny, don't pretend you can't hear

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me now he is like preted right up, you're listening

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to me. I know you are. I know you are. Oh,

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so yeah this, I'm not gonna be going anywhere. I

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did my Oh because it's Saturday. This is Friday, Q

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and a Friday is Saturday. So I didn't make a

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recording yesterday because I started to think, wait a minute,

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I made a recording yesterday. So there's no point in

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telling you what the latest is. But I can tell

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you a little bit about the latest. The main thing

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is I left here at nine o'clock yesterday morning to

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go to the hopital. Got there in good time, it's fine.

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Got their probably ten past ten, that's fair enough. Left

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the hospital about ten past twelve because Uncle Sausages had

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his dinner. So when he gets his dinner, I leave

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so that he can be a piece. But I see

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he's watching the golf. He didn't I wasn't really needed

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to be fair. He's said that's what he was focusing on,

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which is good because he was looking forward to it.

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He's been looking forward to it for over a month

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and it started on Thursday. So he's watching that, half

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listening to me, half watching the golf. And he did

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say something that made me laugh though, because he's got

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I don't want to use the word paranoid because he

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doesn't like that word. But he's basically, without going too

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deeply into medical stuff, his body is not filtering his blood, okay,

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so those toxins are going into his brain and it's

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a very standard thing in his situation. Happens to millions

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of people, and it's causing a thing called h E,

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which I can't remember what it stands for. And it

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isn't home economics. I don't know what it is. I

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know what it is. I've been studying. Oh, it's ridiculous.

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I know way more about the liver than I ever

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wanted to in my life. Before. All I knew is

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I didn't like liver. Tastes it horrible. That's all I knew.

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I didn't realize that it had a function. And then

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when you realize what its function is, how could you

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eat it? When you realize, like this is actually that,

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it's not something that Yeah, no, but hey he so

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he's not quite He's got a few like I'm trying

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to be careful how I word this. He yeah, he

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thinks he a couple about a week ago fought to

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the hospital. No, no, it's the beginning of this week.

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He thought the hospital would messing with his food because

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he said the food tastes different. They're adding stuff to

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the food. And then he's concerned about the medication he's

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given getting given them why is he taking it? And

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he started hiding the tablets. So I sorted that side out.

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But I promised him on Thursday night I would come

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into hospital, speak to the nurse, get the nurse to

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come in, speak to him, explain to him exactly what

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the medication was for what the medication is that he's

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getting and what it is for and whether he needs

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to take it or not in a way for him

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to understand and feel safe. And the other issue was

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he told me that one of the cares or nurses,

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it's hard to know who's who now because I think

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in hospitals it seems just from what I've seen, that

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the support workers or the care workers are pretty much

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doing a nurse's job now, you know, or in like

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the nurses kind of in charge of them is. You know,

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there's a lot of and it's hard to know who's

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who now, which ones that are nurses, not that it

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make any difference, but they're doing they're doing all the

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I think. The only thing they don't. You don't see

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a care worker generally with a telescope around the neck,

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so they don't have that, but they they seem to

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do everything else. I'm not sure whether or not they

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take blood sort of stuff. But but then when you've

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got the canicular thing that's or you know, it's like

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permanently in their arm, they can take blood. Anyone could

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take blood from that couldn't because it's quite easy, I imagine,

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but not the I've ever done it. He wouldn't let me.

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I was like, please, i'mcle, just let me just take

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a bit of blood. It's fun for me. He said,

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it's not fun for me. Okay. I said, I'll let

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you play with one of my Lego toys. He said,

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what I said, I'll let you play with one of

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my Lego toys. He said, no, I'd what you said.

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But what do you mean Lego toys. Lego is a toy.

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It's not a Lego toys. It's a Legos. You build

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something with a Lego set. Yeah, but no one, no

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one calls it a Lego toy. Well, obviously I do.

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And then he went on a rent about Legos and

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it's Lego isn't just for kids, so therefore it's not

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a toy. It's for adults too, and everyone can be creative,

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and you know, it's it's a it's a great way

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to relax, to find some kind of mindfulness. In fact,

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possibly Lego and then you started talking about jigsaw puzzles.

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Lego and Jigsaw puzzles were around long before mindfulness meditation

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became a thing in the West. And I said, well,

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what's that got to do with your tablets and he

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said nothing. Anyway, he said one of the nurses told

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him that he had to clear up after himself, so

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if there was any kind of situation, he had to

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clear up. So I went and spoke to the nurse

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and I explained to the nurse what he said to me,

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and she said, you know who it was and said

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that to him. I said, no, don't, So it was wrong.

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They shouldn't have said that. But apparently they also do

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try and encourage self sufficiency or if that's the right word.

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But to be fair, I don't think that's really an

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issue anymore. It's always going I'm just thinking it's always

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in a situation where they're in hospital and they have

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to learn to cope with a new type of lifestyle.

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Then helping them to learn to do things themselves. If

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they're going home, they're going to be on their own

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and live the next twenty thirty years. You know. It's

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but he's not in that situation, and he's an elderly man,

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and it's like, I just think people, all people deserve respect,

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but in that situation even more. I don't know why,

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but I just there's something different about that kind of situation.

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This is like a short term. I don't know what

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I'm trying to say. Anyway, It's got its own room.

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It's nice. It's better than some rooms I've lived in. Seriously,

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I would have been happy living in a room like

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that and not necessarily an environment, but getting food, getting

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someone clean in the bathroom. I'd get a big TV

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in there. I don't know if he's allowed to put

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his own TV in there, but you know, if it was,

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if he was in the room, then you could do

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it want it, couldn't he So he's on a short

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list to be getting a getting into a care home.

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That seems to be the next step because the hospice

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isn't probably going to happen because of the waiting list.

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So he's going to try and they're going to try

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and get him into a care home at the first opportunity.

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So he's now been moved to a room on his own,

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and I'm hoping by the end of next week he'll

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be moved. So really on it, which is good and

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he'll be happy. And he seems a bit happier now

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being in that room. He's not distracted by other people,

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is not. Yeah, he's not quite as annoyed. However, yesterday

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he was in good spirits and he's watched He's got

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the golf on while he's talking to me. He's pretending

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to listen to what I'm saying. I can see he's

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just keeps looking down at the gulf on the laptop

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on the iPad and he's watching it live on Sky Sports,

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and he is the food comes out, so I don't

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rush off as soon as if food gets there. I'm

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still talking to him. And he had what did he have? Oh?

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He had a potato, a jacket potato, two little bits

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of butter, you know the ones in the wrappers and

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tin tim you know, like I don't know foil wrapper things.

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And he had a little tub well actually it wasn't

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top tiny, but a tub of tuna fish. And then

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he also had a bowl of custard with some pudding

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in it. So I said, do you need a hand

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draw me to do anything? So he said yeah, and

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I basically I cut his potato open for him, and

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I said be careful. Was hot and he and he said,

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stop treating me like a child. And then he had

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a bite and it was hot. Why didn't you tell me? Now?

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He did? So I cut it to potato open. I

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asked him what he wanted next. He wanted the butter

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put on, so I put one bit of batter on

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each bit. Let that soak in a bit. And then

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I said, Georgia, want done with a tuna fish. Now,

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he could have done all this himself, probably, but it

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felt quite nice doing it for him, you know, it

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just it seems like a nice thing to do. But

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I don't know why just and plus he likes bossing

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me around. No, so as I put some tuna fish

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on top of the potato, and I kind of I

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didn't mesh it, but I kind of pushed it in

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a little bit, you know, to make it a little

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bit whatever, just how I guess how I would have

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done it myself. And he said, to me, my sure

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want to eat that. I said, well, okay, well if

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you had, if you you've had a jacket potato before,

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he said yeah, of course. I said, if you've had

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tuna fish on a jackiet potato, and he said he

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mumbled something, and he said, why don't you, Why don't

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you try it? I said, no, I'm not hungry, because

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it was like i'd had my I'd had a little snack.

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I had a cross on. Actually I got a cross

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on from costumes. Didn't get a coffee because it was

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so hot yesterday, really sticky and not. I didn't find

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a particularly pleasant heat wise. It wasn't yeah, it was.

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I mean, remember when the sun was on me, it

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was too hot. It was kind of a little bit

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uncomfortable from my head. So I said, no, you're fine,

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I'm all right. I've already had to cross on half

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an hour ago. I'm not hungry. And I said, okay then,

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and he like seemed to be hesitant, but then he

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took a bit and he said, I've got to be

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careful because the last thing I had was too hot.

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And I said, well, why don't you touch it with

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your tongue gently like you you know, and just make

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sure that it's it's not too hot before you put

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in your mouth. And he said okay, and he put

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a big bit on his fork. He just just put

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it right in his mouth. He didn't test it or nothing.

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So that is going to burn you if you do that, Bernie, Bernie.

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And but I can't tell someone else how to eat

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their food. I mean, he's been doing it a lot

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longer than me. And he but, yeah, I'd be a

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bit careful sessially with potatoes. They really can hold the heat.

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So but it seemed fine and he said, yeah, it's

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all right. And he pointed at the dessert and I

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said yeah. He said, I said, what what is it?

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It's custod, isn't it. What's in it? He said, do

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you want to try that? I said what I said,

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you want to try try some of the dessert? I said, no,

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I really don't like custard. It's not I don't like custard.

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I cannot eat custard. It is beyond no. That's a

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no no, like a complete no no, like no it

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that would be it's going to be that. Yeah. It

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would be like eating something if you think something that

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you really don't would never eat. That's the same for me.

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It's the same as yeah no, see yeah. See if

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you if you put a bowler custard, chucked it in

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a bin and they won't put all that rubbish on

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top of it, and you pulled the custard bowl out

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and said, and it's got all full of and rubbish,

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would you eat that? It would be the same response

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as if there was as if it was straight out

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of the oven or wherever custard comes from, whether it's born,

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I don't know. I just don't. I can't. It's one

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of those things. We've all got our little things, and

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we some people don't like crocodiles. I don't like custard.

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Don't judge me, baby, so and I said, no, I

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don't like custard. I didn't go into a big thing.

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I didn't talk about crocodiles or list of things that

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some people might like that, you know that I'm okay

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with that people don't like, and all that stuff. Didn't

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mention my my, you know, generally. And he looked at me.

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He stays smiled, and I'm like, okay, you seem in

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good spirits. I'm not going to not going to rock

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the boat on that one. He seemed much in a

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better frame of mind than he had done all week,

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all month really, but all week definitely. And he said, yeah,

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he started talking about Henry the Eighth. I said, okay,

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I'm not quite sure why he's talking about Henry the eighth.

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It seemed a bit random, you know, how did he

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manage to start? He just started talking about Henry the eighth.

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And he started talking and I wasn't really with him

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where he was going with this, and he started talking

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about how Henry the eighth had a food taster, and

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then I remembered my history the all Kings generally, I

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think back in the old days, he used to have

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food tasters to make sure that the food was safe,

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that they weren't being poisoned. He was using me as

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a food taster. He was making sure that the food

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wasn't poisoned. And when I realized what he was talking about,

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I couldn't stop laughing. It was proper barey laughing. And

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he was laughing as well because he found it funny.

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But I just couldn't believe that he meant it as well.

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He really wanted me to test his food and fought.

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I just found it hilarious that I said, okay, so

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what about me then? So if the food was poisoned,

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what about me? Then he started laughing even more, like okay, thanks,

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So that was kind of a funny funny thing. Another

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one he said, this was a couple of nights back

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because been having possible hallucinations, maybe weird dreams or something.

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But anyway, this previous to that, and this night he said,

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well in the morning, he said, oh, last night I

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went into I was orbited into space. And I said,

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I thinking I perhaps he dreamt that he was in space,

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or he hallucinated that he was in space, you know,

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seeing the stars, the moon, galaxy, Milky Way or whatever

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and all that stuff. And I'm thinking I'm talking to

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him like, okay, just going along with it. So I

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think he's talking about how he imagined he was actually

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in space and he either hallucinated it or maybe he

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dreamt it, and it was so really believed it was true.

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That's not what he was talking about at all. What

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he's really trying to tell me is he was woken

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up by the biggest part of his life. His bum

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woke him up, and he said it shot him. He

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banged his head on the ceiling. It was that powerful.

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It was like, ah, it's hard to keep crack. But yeah,

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So that's Uncle Sausages yesterday. I'm going back on Monday.

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I've got the weekend off. I need the weekend off.

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Is this is my time. I'm not going to be

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around any humans at all, if at all possible, Me

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and Vinnie, nothing else, no one else, pure bliss are lovely,

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no dramas, no conversations, and to be fair, I'm used

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to want that over talks. I'm an oversharer, and if

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someone is sitting there quietly, and then they're in a

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room with me, they're quiet, I would just keep talking.

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And that's why I'd be I'd be terrible in an

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interrogation room. If I was being interrogated, what I'd have

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to do is just sit down and just look at me,

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and they get my entire life story. Yeah. So I

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was hoping the rain would stop the the neighbors from

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being particularly loud, but they seem to have still doing that,

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so you might be able to hear that in the background.

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There's there's really nothing I can do about it. It's

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one of those things I can The only thing I

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could do is not make a recording, if you know,

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and I don't want to do that because this is

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what I'm supposed to be doing, isn't it. Yeah. I

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left about ten past twelve yesterday, got on a bus,

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waited for a while for a bus and got two wheels.

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You know, it's a two bus journey, got there, got

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to the bus stop I was going to get off.

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I had a choice of three different buses going past

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so for years, so that's why I went there. I

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was there for about an hour waiting before a bus

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actually turned up loads of other buses that weren't going

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where I was going. In fact, the bus that I got,

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that same number bus came and passed me about four

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times during that period, and I couldn't even see the

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bus numbers very clearly from a distance. So a couple

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of times, i'm I put my hand out to stop

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the bus, and then when it got closer, realized no thanks,

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and I like I waved it off. Another time I

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stopped the bus asked because I didn't know the number,

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I didn't know what it was, I said, do you

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go to Do you go to my home? And they

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said no. Then eventually a bus did come because I'm here,

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but I got home called twenty three. Yes, it took

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two and a half, about two and a half hours

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to get home. I was. It was tiring, itch war

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Oh that's nice, so yeah, I was. I came home,

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I had a SunNet to eat, I had an old

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chat with one of my neighbors. Then I went and

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had a nap and I did feel better after than

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a nap. I did. Then I watched a what did

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I watch? But he watched a bit of TV, watched

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part of a movie, and I watched the end this morning,

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and then I went to bed just after ten. Yeah,

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listen to the radio. I fell asleep, woke up at one,

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did a we wei, turned the radio off, and then

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woke up again at six. Well might I woke up

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at three and then six, and then that was it.

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So you're now up to date on my entire life.

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You see now what I call it? Let me boy

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you to sleep because there's nothing interesting or exciting about

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anything that happens to me. It's all boring. So let's

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go through the questions. I got one, two, three, four, five.

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Hope asks me favorite candy? Do you have any? What

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are they? Well? Thanks, Hope, we don't call it candy

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in this country. I know what you mean when you

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say candy. So you mean chocolate, don't you? Chocolate and sweets?

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So yeah, we don't call it that. I just thinking, so,

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so chocolate is candy, but are sweets because you are

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sweets like you know, boiled sweets, humbugs for example, or

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bomb bombs, jelly babies, things like that. What would that

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would that come under candy as well. So I'm gonna

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I'm gonna assume if I think of chocolate bars. Okay,

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so we just call them sweets. Really, it's what we

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call them because because they're sweet. Yeah, it kind of

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comes under the umbrella of sweets in this country. But

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I'm not going to be pedantics. I know. I know

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what you mean. The only candy I've ever had, So

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I have been sent stuff from America in the past,

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and it was those a couple of things. What of

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those little I think it was girshy was it a

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girshy bar? And those little twiggler dinkle wrinkle things that

465
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are just very sweet but yummy. I think the sweets,

466
00:38:46.039 --> 00:38:54.280
chocolate and stuff like that in America is possibly way

467
00:38:54.320 --> 00:38:56.840
better than in this country. I mean, I don't know.

468
00:38:57.000 --> 00:39:02.079
I've never been to America. I hope to god, I

469
00:39:02.079 --> 00:39:04.760
don't know how. I got no idea if I'll ever

470
00:39:04.800 --> 00:39:07.719
be able to do it. But if I ever go

471
00:39:07.800 --> 00:39:11.159
on tour, if I was to go on taur, I

472
00:39:11.239 --> 00:39:15.639
need to have enough money coming in to cover the

473
00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:21.159
cost of the travel, to cover the cost of the

474
00:39:21.199 --> 00:39:33.199
accommodation and you know, the expenses. So if you could

475
00:39:33.280 --> 00:39:37.400
organize a nice tour for me, anyone who would want

476
00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:40.559
to see me. But can you imagine me putting out

477
00:39:40.599 --> 00:39:43.159
Oh I got a tour, and I imagine if I

478
00:39:43.199 --> 00:39:48.880
posted it on Facebook, I'll probably get maybe four likes.

479
00:39:48.280 --> 00:39:53.199
It's like, yeah, okay, that's really I don't think people

480
00:39:53.239 --> 00:39:56.159
would really want to do a meet in greet because

481
00:39:56.199 --> 00:39:58.480
in a way, I do a meet in greet every

482
00:39:58.480 --> 00:40:01.880
time I do a recording, don't I I don't think

483
00:40:02.079 --> 00:40:05.599
I really need to be in the same room. But

484
00:40:05.960 --> 00:40:10.320
I think it might be distracting seeing me in person,

485
00:40:10.679 --> 00:40:13.000
especially if you don't know what I look like. If

486
00:40:13.000 --> 00:40:16.960
all you've got is the voice, and you imagine that

487
00:40:17.039 --> 00:40:25.960
I'm like blonde and six foot nine and hairy like

488
00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:34.000
a gorilla, I don't know. Well, however you imagined I am,

489
00:40:34.039 --> 00:40:37.119
it's probably not going to be how I am because

490
00:40:37.199 --> 00:40:42.599
no voice I say none, But generally, in my experience,

491
00:40:43.320 --> 00:40:51.880
voices rarely match a person physically if you hear the

492
00:40:51.960 --> 00:40:56.840
voice first. If I think, if I meet someone, sometimes

493
00:40:56.840 --> 00:41:00.280
a voice matches them perfectly, like, yeah, you've got that

494
00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:05.480
voice is perfect for you. But then if you think

495
00:41:05.519 --> 00:41:10.199
about someone like Earl what is his name? Dar Vader

496
00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:16.599
Man the voice of Darth Vader. You could like that

497
00:41:16.719 --> 00:41:25.280
voice matched him, but then once it's like all we know,

498
00:41:25.440 --> 00:41:31.559
isn't it Earl Jones, Earl Gray Jones or something his

499
00:41:32.079 --> 00:41:37.960
or Morgan Freeman the voice matches his face. But then

500
00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:47.199
pee Wee Herman's voice would match Morgan Freeman's face, if

501
00:41:51.199 --> 00:41:54.400
if that was his normal voice, if that's all we knew,

502
00:41:56.360 --> 00:42:00.119
so you know, in the Shore Shore Dank Prediction or

503
00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:05.480
whatever it was, Morgan Freeman they said we've got to

504
00:42:05.519 --> 00:42:09.960
an hour herp, We've got to get hour. I don't know, however,

505
00:42:12.280 --> 00:42:14.719
pe Wee Herman talks. I did like the way he

506
00:42:14.800 --> 00:42:20.679
talks maybe if it maybe laugh and and then be

507
00:42:20.679 --> 00:42:24.559
almost like, okay, that that makes sense because you're used

508
00:42:24.559 --> 00:42:30.559
to it. But if you didn't know, and you heard

509
00:42:32.639 --> 00:42:37.920
Morgan Freeman's voice, which is pe Wee Herman's voice, and

510
00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:43.239
you heard that on the radio or you know, audio wise,

511
00:42:43.280 --> 00:42:44.840
and you didn't know what you look like, and then

512
00:42:44.880 --> 00:42:49.239
you saw Morgan Freeman, you might think that doesn't look

513
00:42:49.320 --> 00:42:54.079
like his voice, Well, that doesn't sound like his Well

514
00:42:54.159 --> 00:42:55.800
it doesn't. That's not what I would have mentioned. He

515
00:42:55.840 --> 00:43:01.199
would look like I suppose, but I imagine I think

516
00:43:01.239 --> 00:43:05.320
in Morgan Freeman, if you had his voice, not knowing

517
00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:08.920
what it looks like, and I almost feel like you

518
00:43:08.920 --> 00:43:13.800
wouldn't be surprised because but then that's just because we

519
00:43:13.920 --> 00:43:19.800
know him. It's been around for so long. Yeah, it's

520
00:43:19.800 --> 00:43:22.480
a weird one, isn't it. But yeah, anyway, my voice

521
00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:27.880
does not match me. I've actually got a friend who

522
00:43:27.960 --> 00:43:33.119
likes listening to my voice, which is weird. She listens

523
00:43:33.119 --> 00:43:37.719
to my recordings. This is someone that I've known for wow,

524
00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:41.000
over twenty years, and she listened to my recordings when

525
00:43:41.000 --> 00:43:54.039
she's at home. And why why? I like your voice? Yeah,

526
00:43:54.079 --> 00:43:59.760
but come on, stop it. Favor candy, So I want

527
00:43:59.760 --> 00:44:03.199
to say, I'm going to go for favorite chocolate bars,

528
00:44:03.519 --> 00:44:06.639
bearing in mind I'm not supposed to eat chocolate anymore.

529
00:44:10.519 --> 00:44:18.079
I'm going to go. I'm going to go. Yeah, my

530
00:44:18.199 --> 00:44:21.800
go to is it's quite weird too, And they're kind

531
00:44:21.800 --> 00:44:26.079
of similar in a way, crunchy bars and more teasers.

532
00:44:27.559 --> 00:44:34.559
And we've both got honeycomb and chocolate. It's a different flavor,

533
00:44:34.639 --> 00:44:40.280
different taste, but it's still, you know, honeycomby. I used

534
00:44:40.320 --> 00:44:46.679
to love eating honeycomb, just honeycomb. When I was seventeen

535
00:44:46.760 --> 00:44:51.360
eight about eighteen, and I'd take a bar be wrapped

536
00:44:51.440 --> 00:44:54.360
up in plastic. I'd take a bar just to work

537
00:44:54.400 --> 00:44:57.320
with me, and I'd have it in my break time

538
00:44:57.559 --> 00:45:00.840
and literally it would be stuck to my teeth. My

539
00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:06.119
mouth would be stuck shut for about three hours. Literally.

540
00:45:06.559 --> 00:45:15.920
It was Oh, it was fun. Just loved the taste.

541
00:45:16.480 --> 00:45:19.440
And sometimes I would lick it and make it into

542
00:45:20.320 --> 00:45:23.039
do you know people do the what do they call

543
00:45:23.079 --> 00:45:26.800
it wiedling, tiddling widdling where they have a little knife

544
00:45:26.800 --> 00:45:28.800
and a bit of wood and they turn it into something.

545
00:45:29.519 --> 00:45:33.000
I did that with the honeycomb, but instead of a knife,

546
00:45:33.000 --> 00:45:36.440
I used my tongue and I would shape it and

547
00:45:36.639 --> 00:45:46.559
turn it into I don't know, just a distorted honeycomb bar. Really,

548
00:45:46.800 --> 00:45:53.239
I didn't really didn't resemble anything. I enjoyed it. It

549
00:45:53.880 --> 00:46:00.920
was my temporary hobby. I used to see. I don't

550
00:46:00.960 --> 00:46:05.679
eat sweets much anymore due to the fact that I'm

551
00:46:05.719 --> 00:46:09.440
not really supposed to because of my sugar levels blood

552
00:46:09.480 --> 00:46:13.360
sugar levels, and my weight again is sort of from

553
00:46:13.440 --> 00:46:16.719
losing some weight. So I stopped having sugar in my

554
00:46:16.840 --> 00:46:21.199
tea and I don't I don't eat. There was a

555
00:46:21.199 --> 00:46:23.239
time when I'd have like two chocolate bars a day,

556
00:46:23.760 --> 00:46:29.679
and I'd be drinking at least four cans of coca day.

557
00:46:29.840 --> 00:46:32.079
I don't do any of that anymore. I don't. I

558
00:46:32.079 --> 00:46:35.360
don't drink coke anymore. If I have a fizzy drink,

559
00:46:36.199 --> 00:46:39.519
which has been a bit more regular lately because I've

560
00:46:39.559 --> 00:46:42.559
been going up to hospital and it's been hot and

561
00:46:42.679 --> 00:46:48.599
water is okay. But I was getting cans or bottles

562
00:46:48.599 --> 00:46:52.519
of drink for Uncle's sausages, so I ended up getting

563
00:46:52.519 --> 00:46:59.519
myself a fenter. I quite like Fenta, but I don't

564
00:46:59.559 --> 00:47:06.280
drink coke, and so I don't drink faner it all

565
00:47:06.280 --> 00:47:09.039
the time. I did every day for a couple of

566
00:47:09.079 --> 00:47:13.840
weeks probably, but now I'm realizing that actually water is

567
00:47:15.039 --> 00:47:27.559
just better when it's hot. But myself personally bon bombs,

568
00:47:30.119 --> 00:47:35.239
so they're kind of they're like icin icing sugar on

569
00:47:35.519 --> 00:47:43.480
top of toffee the balls, and sometimes they're flavored. So

570
00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:49.840
I quite like the plain ones. Strawberry ones, Yeah, that's

571
00:47:49.880 --> 00:47:53.239
kind of the ones I liked. I haven't had them

572
00:47:53.280 --> 00:47:58.920
for years. All other things. I used to love it

573
00:47:59.039 --> 00:48:07.599
curly whirly, but again, and also because I I'm trying

574
00:48:07.599 --> 00:48:09.159
to kind of be a bit more careful with my

575
00:48:09.199 --> 00:48:14.760
teeth as well, so I don't try to keep down

576
00:48:14.760 --> 00:48:16.800
a little bit when it comes to eating chocolate. And

577
00:48:18.320 --> 00:48:20.480
with chocolate, with chocolate bar, you can eat it and

578
00:48:20.639 --> 00:48:23.199
just you know it's gone. But if you eat something

579
00:48:23.239 --> 00:48:27.719
that's chewy, then that sugar's kind of staying around the

580
00:48:27.800 --> 00:48:30.960
teeth and stuff. I don't know if that makes sense.

581
00:48:33.679 --> 00:48:35.559
I mean, last time I had a Curly Warlier, I

582
00:48:35.679 --> 00:48:38.840
put it in the freezer, got it out. We're all

583
00:48:39.119 --> 00:48:44.119
looking forward to it. Oh, I was a bit into it,

584
00:48:44.239 --> 00:48:50.440
and it's well, it got stuck in my in my

585
00:48:50.519 --> 00:48:54.599
teeth and when I removed it, it also removed by filling.

586
00:48:56.920 --> 00:49:02.599
So that was not a good idea. And I think

587
00:49:02.639 --> 00:49:05.000
I did it another time and it broke my tooth

588
00:49:05.039 --> 00:49:08.440
in half because I didn't learn the first time. That

589
00:49:08.559 --> 00:49:13.079
wasn't the second bite. This was like a few months later. Okay,

590
00:49:13.920 --> 00:49:16.239
I fought by then. And you say, well, I just

591
00:49:16.440 --> 00:49:22.920
have the Curly Worthy without freezing it. The problem is

592
00:49:23.079 --> 00:49:29.800
Curly Worthies are They're very meltable, and I'm not really

593
00:49:29.840 --> 00:49:36.840
into melted chocolate unless it's on ice cream, so melted

594
00:49:36.920 --> 00:49:43.719
Curly Worthies weren't really my favorite thing. I suppose I

595
00:49:43.760 --> 00:49:48.079
could have put it in a fridge because it's still

596
00:49:48.239 --> 00:49:53.840
It wouldn't be like a rock hard the way it

597
00:49:54.000 --> 00:49:58.800
was when it was in the freezer, but it wouldn't

598
00:49:58.840 --> 00:50:07.239
be warm, soggy and dripping. H That doesn't sound very pleasant,

599
00:50:07.280 --> 00:50:12.320
does it. I'm trying to think I could list all

600
00:50:12.480 --> 00:50:17.559
I don't have a Yeah, I'd say probably my favorite

601
00:50:18.360 --> 00:50:25.039
chocolate bar is a crunchy, my chocolate bar, as in, yeah,

602
00:50:25.440 --> 00:50:31.599
be a crunchy. I do like bars of chocolate, just

603
00:50:31.719 --> 00:50:39.639
chocolate as well, so Galaxy, I like that, Capri's bar

604
00:50:39.760 --> 00:50:43.480
of chocolate. I like that Fruit and ut I like that.

605
00:50:45.119 --> 00:50:50.159
And one of my favorite chocolate bars from the past,

606
00:50:50.159 --> 00:50:54.440
and I haven't eaten it for yeah, quite a long time,

607
00:50:54.519 --> 00:51:00.159
maybe years, is a toblerone I used to love to

608
00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:04.360
grown and they do. It's a taste. He's got nugget

609
00:51:04.360 --> 00:51:11.079
in it or nougar. I call them nugget and it's

610
00:51:11.440 --> 00:51:19.760
very tasty. Oh. I used to eat them fairly regularly.

611
00:51:23.079 --> 00:51:26.039
One of the reasons I don't eat as much chocolate

612
00:51:26.119 --> 00:51:29.639
as they used to is because I no longer go

613
00:51:29.679 --> 00:51:34.000
to the petrol station. I used to go there every day.

614
00:51:36.079 --> 00:51:38.519
There was more a looke thing. I'd go over there

615
00:51:38.559 --> 00:51:44.079
with him, so we'd take the take the boys for

616
00:51:44.119 --> 00:51:50.519
a walk, you know, and just I'd go and get something.

617
00:51:51.679 --> 00:51:54.719
I was able to take Vinnie in there, so we're

618
00:51:54.760 --> 00:51:58.599
going there. I'd get something, he'd get something, or I'd

619
00:51:58.639 --> 00:52:01.039
get something for him, and it stay outside with Logi.

620
00:52:02.199 --> 00:52:07.079
And quite often they had these special offers two for

621
00:52:07.159 --> 00:52:11.440
one pound fifty chocolate bars, so I'd get one for

622
00:52:11.559 --> 00:52:18.840
him and one for me, and you know, that'd be

623
00:52:18.840 --> 00:52:27.920
like a daily thing. And I kind of because someone

624
00:52:27.960 --> 00:52:31.480
those oh and oh yeah. Another I like is I

625
00:52:31.559 --> 00:52:38.760
do love a chocolate flake or the galaxy version, which

626
00:52:38.800 --> 00:52:43.119
is I can't even know what it's called. I've eaten one.

627
00:52:43.159 --> 00:52:46.000
I've been eating them for forty years. I still don't

628
00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:51.159
remember what they're called. They're nice. They're crumbly as well,

629
00:52:51.239 --> 00:52:54.559
but not as crumbly as a flake. So I like

630
00:52:54.639 --> 00:52:59.840
capprige flake. The weird thing about it is I like

631
00:53:03.760 --> 00:53:06.960
but on an ice cream. I love them like an

632
00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:15.280
ice cream with a flake makes it so much more appealing.

633
00:53:17.519 --> 00:53:22.119
And that flake is it's all about the flake. Yeah,

634
00:53:22.119 --> 00:53:27.280
a flake on its own. If it's cold, I don't

635
00:53:27.400 --> 00:53:36.079
like warm flakes. It was cold, it's nice it's really oh,

636
00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:40.039
it's out of fridge, not a freezer out of fridge,

637
00:53:40.119 --> 00:53:42.639
although I suppose I could put in a freezer. I

638
00:53:42.679 --> 00:53:47.239
want one. Now I have no chocolate. There's no chocolate

639
00:53:47.280 --> 00:53:51.679
in here. I've got no biscuits, no chocolate, no treats.

640
00:53:53.079 --> 00:53:55.079
Even he hasn't got any treats. All his treats are

641
00:53:55.119 --> 00:54:03.280
gone now, damn it. I really if I had biscuits,

642
00:54:03.440 --> 00:54:08.760
I'd be eating them, honestly, just the odd biscuits. I mean,

643
00:54:08.800 --> 00:54:11.920
what I like to get is these stem ginger biscuits

644
00:54:12.880 --> 00:54:23.119
and they're it's from Saint's Breeze, but there what do

645
00:54:23.159 --> 00:54:25.320
they call it as good as as good as it gets,

646
00:54:25.440 --> 00:54:30.119
or that they it's like a it's their home brand,

647
00:54:30.519 --> 00:54:36.480
but it's a higher level that makes it sense, that

648
00:54:36.519 --> 00:54:41.039
makes sense to you. And they're they're a little bit

649
00:54:41.039 --> 00:54:46.719
more expensive, but they're so nice and the big old

650
00:54:46.760 --> 00:54:50.960
things and the ginger stem and I have them with

651
00:54:51.039 --> 00:55:01.320
a cup of tea and it's just all all yeah.

652
00:55:01.519 --> 00:55:03.480
But if I bought something the other day, that'll be

653
00:55:03.519 --> 00:55:07.639
gone if I honestly, within a day or two days

654
00:55:07.639 --> 00:55:13.880
of buying and they're gone. So I didn't get any

655
00:55:13.960 --> 00:55:19.760
this week. I managed to just spend just the amount

656
00:55:19.800 --> 00:55:24.480
that I was able to spend, just some milk and

657
00:55:25.840 --> 00:55:36.800
some breakfast cereal and not a lot else, to be fair,

658
00:55:37.360 --> 00:55:42.239
not much more, a few little bits of bread, coplor

659
00:55:42.320 --> 00:55:48.519
frozen bits. Yeah, I'm just trying to think. I used

660
00:55:48.519 --> 00:55:56.679
to love tries, cream, chocolate cream what have they called?

661
00:55:58.159 --> 00:56:03.320
Oh yeah, chocolate and don't get them till the beginning

662
00:56:03.360 --> 00:56:07.960
of the year. But the chocolate eggs, Capri's cream egg

663
00:56:09.679 --> 00:56:16.880
I've been eating them forever. But again, it's only really

664
00:56:16.920 --> 00:56:21.000
what I get from the supermarket now online because I

665
00:56:21.000 --> 00:56:26.159
don't go to the petrol station anymore. So it's not

666
00:56:26.199 --> 00:56:31.079
like a daily thing anymore, which is good. It's a

667
00:56:31.119 --> 00:56:36.800
good thing. But you know, I had to Yeah, I

668
00:56:36.840 --> 00:56:41.440
was told at the beginning of the year last year

669
00:56:42.039 --> 00:56:45.280
I needed to lose weight because my blood sugar level,

670
00:56:45.400 --> 00:56:56.639
so I did lost over a stone. Favorite candy Do

671
00:56:56.679 --> 00:56:59.960
you have any No? So that's my next answer. No,

672
00:57:00.000 --> 00:57:05.239
I hope I have a neur candy. I have no chocolate.

673
00:57:06.400 --> 00:57:13.880
All Smarties is what I love. Smarties? Yeah, I love

674
00:57:13.960 --> 00:57:19.639
Smarties do what I do like, but I also don't

675
00:57:19.719 --> 00:57:25.079
like I love the taste of bounty a bounty bar.

676
00:57:25.840 --> 00:57:29.800
I love the smell. I love the taste, but I

677
00:57:29.880 --> 00:57:34.239
struggle to be able to swallow coconut. It has a

678
00:57:35.519 --> 00:57:39.920
I just can't. I can, but it's almost like the

679
00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:45.480
coconut gets in my mouth and it sucks all of

680
00:57:45.519 --> 00:57:49.639
the liquid out of my body into the coconut. I mean,

681
00:57:49.679 --> 00:57:53.480
that's what I'm sure that's not happening. But I have

682
00:57:53.559 --> 00:57:55.960
to have a drink in order to eat the coconut.

683
00:57:56.760 --> 00:58:02.559
But it tastes so good. So I don't eat bou

684
00:58:02.800 --> 00:58:08.360
the Bounty Bar because it's it. Although it tastes amazing,

685
00:58:09.039 --> 00:58:16.599
smells lovely. I that duh, Yeah, too much chewing involved,

686
00:58:17.159 --> 00:58:21.119
and I just can't. It just doesn't seem to go down.

687
00:58:21.119 --> 00:58:25.480
So for what's so well as easy, I just remembered

688
00:58:25.599 --> 00:58:29.840
when I was a kid, I wasn't allowed to have alcohol.

689
00:58:30.000 --> 00:58:33.239
We used to have wine at the dinner table, and

690
00:58:33.280 --> 00:58:35.719
at Christmas, maybe i'd have a bit more wine than

691
00:58:35.760 --> 00:58:39.199
I normally would have, but we didn't have you know,

692
00:58:39.199 --> 00:58:42.840
I wasn't drinking whiskey or anything like that. But at

693
00:58:42.920 --> 00:58:48.400
Christmas we used to have these liqueurs, these chocolate liqueurs,

694
00:58:49.840 --> 00:58:53.400
and I would eat as many as I was able to,

695
00:58:56.360 --> 00:59:00.159
And I probably was a little bit tipsy on them.

696
00:59:00.559 --> 00:59:07.039
It was good. It's very good. Oh yes, who ha,

697
00:59:10.800 --> 00:59:14.599
tune and true. Trying to think what other chocolate bars

698
00:59:14.719 --> 00:59:25.039
I like, just visualizing all chocolate clays, love myself some

699
00:59:25.119 --> 00:59:32.800
chocolate clays. So these are basically individual sweets. They're wrapped

700
00:59:32.880 --> 00:59:43.039
up and it's basically yeah, they're toffee on the outside

701
00:59:43.079 --> 00:59:50.679
and chocolate on the inside. But so nice, oh so nice.

702
00:59:52.079 --> 00:59:57.159
I can I can get through a pack really quickly

703
00:59:57.199 --> 01:00:00.639
because I went after another just or and you can

704
01:00:00.719 --> 01:00:03.880
mix in a bit of mint as well, which changes

705
01:00:03.960 --> 01:00:10.000
the taste. It's just all really nice. I'm just trying

706
01:00:10.039 --> 01:00:13.800
to think what other I used to In two thousand

707
01:00:13.800 --> 01:00:19.840
and nine, I went through a period when I was

708
01:00:19.880 --> 01:00:32.280
eating Worver's original sweets, and they're like boiled sweets, but

709
01:00:32.480 --> 01:00:39.280
toffee tastes so good, so good. And then they brought

710
01:00:39.320 --> 01:00:44.199
out toffee toffee Worver's Original toffee, which you could just

711
01:00:44.360 --> 01:00:52.280
chew like, you know, like toffee toffee. So good, so nice.

712
01:00:52.840 --> 01:00:55.679
But that was like a short a short term thing.

713
01:00:57.360 --> 01:00:59.679
I stopped eating them after a while, but I used

714
01:00:59.679 --> 01:01:04.000
to eat them regularly for a few months. I don't

715
01:01:04.039 --> 01:01:09.559
know why I stopped, really, I remember one thing I

716
01:01:09.639 --> 01:01:13.039
used to do when I was a paper boy. I

717
01:01:13.079 --> 01:01:17.119
had this little period of time when I'd go and

718
01:01:17.199 --> 01:01:23.880
collect my papers in the afternoon after school, and I

719
01:01:23.880 --> 01:01:34.239
would have some do I have toffees and soft bins,

720
01:01:35.880 --> 01:01:43.960
and I'd mix them together, so beat toffee, mint, oh,

721
01:01:45.039 --> 01:01:48.519
and maybe a bit of chocolate. Oh. I just mix

722
01:01:48.599 --> 01:01:54.039
it all together like in a I don't know, like

723
01:01:54.079 --> 01:01:57.920
a washing machine or something, or a tumble dryer, just

724
01:01:58.480 --> 01:02:01.400
or a mixer, I suppose mixing it like a blender.

725
01:02:02.480 --> 01:02:04.199
And it was like it was like a I was

726
01:02:04.280 --> 01:02:08.920
like a little walking experiment. It was lovely, but then

727
01:02:08.960 --> 01:02:12.599
I'd always feel a bit by the time I got

728
01:02:12.599 --> 01:02:16.039
home because I just stuffed all this stuff down and

729
01:02:17.400 --> 01:02:21.199
it was a little bit too much, a little bit

730
01:02:21.920 --> 01:02:28.360
too much sugar. Even then, I'm trying to think of

731
01:02:28.480 --> 01:02:33.360
any other chocolate bars that I really I do like Aeriel,

732
01:02:36.840 --> 01:02:48.800
the mint one I do. I quite like. I do

733
01:02:48.920 --> 01:02:56.800
quite like mint. Mint flavored stuff. What are they called mint? Oh,

734
01:02:58.199 --> 01:03:04.840
they're like boiled sweets. They have mints, mevvyes, bevies, heaves, webbies,

735
01:03:06.079 --> 01:03:16.960
what they called mints, webbes, levies, tevies, Murray's Mint, Murray's Oh,

736
01:03:16.960 --> 01:03:18.519
I don't know if they still make them, but I

737
01:03:18.599 --> 01:03:28.480
used to like them very nice. Now I'm just thinking

738
01:03:28.480 --> 01:03:32.599
about stuff that I used to enjoy because when I

739
01:03:32.760 --> 01:03:35.280
was young. I mean, there is a shop in town

740
01:03:35.320 --> 01:03:38.960
that does this still. But when I was young, all

741
01:03:39.159 --> 01:03:43.559
the well, I don't want to say all, but my

742
01:03:43.639 --> 01:03:50.440
local one anyway, newsagents or we I used to call

743
01:03:50.519 --> 01:03:53.760
it sweet Shop, and it was on the corner. In fact,

744
01:03:53.760 --> 01:03:55.400
it wasn't a news agent, so it was just a

745
01:03:55.400 --> 01:04:04.599
sweet shop. Yeah, it was on the corner. Oh my goodness, Wow,

746
01:04:06.719 --> 01:04:10.639
how weird is this? I just remembered something that I'd

747
01:04:10.639 --> 01:04:25.199
forgotten for like forty years. Can you believe that? Say,

748
01:04:25.320 --> 01:04:28.079
he's a memory, I've not forgotten. This isn't a memory

749
01:04:28.079 --> 01:04:32.159
that I've forgotten, but I've forgotten the complete memory. And

750
01:04:32.199 --> 01:04:38.320
now I realized where it was. So it was early eighties,

751
01:04:39.800 --> 01:04:47.920
maybe late nineties, but probably eighty maybe eighty one. Charlie's

752
01:04:47.960 --> 01:04:52.320
Angels was on TV, so it was possibly a Tuesday

753
01:04:52.440 --> 01:05:01.960
or Thursday evening. I went to the Sweet Shop, which

754
01:05:02.079 --> 01:05:03.920
was just around the corner. It wasn't far to go

755
01:05:04.000 --> 01:05:08.079
to from where I lived up the road, so basically

756
01:05:08.199 --> 01:05:16.480
come out of the house and just turn left, then

757
01:05:16.559 --> 01:05:24.880
turn right, turn left, turn right or turn left, go

758
01:05:25.119 --> 01:05:37.840
up and turn right. But anyway, it wasn't far, but

759
01:05:37.920 --> 01:05:40.800
I just remembered because it's this shop. It was basically

760
01:05:41.719 --> 01:05:44.360
he had a ladder that used to get up to

761
01:05:44.400 --> 01:05:49.320
get all these tubs of sweets, boiled sweets, bomb bombs,

762
01:05:49.639 --> 01:05:56.599
chocolate saucers, sparkly things, all these kinds of yeah, sweets,

763
01:05:58.639 --> 01:06:02.039
and it'd be all these big play stick containers, all

764
01:06:02.119 --> 01:06:05.159
high up and low down, and the big chocolate bars

765
01:06:05.199 --> 01:06:08.280
on the counter, and he'd say, what you want, and

766
01:06:08.280 --> 01:06:10.280
he turn around and he go and get it, and

767
01:06:14.679 --> 01:06:18.480
only until this right this, not this second, but you know,

768
01:06:19.440 --> 01:06:23.719
a couple of minutes ago when I mentioned it, I

769
01:06:23.760 --> 01:06:26.880
have the memory of going there, and I have the

770
01:06:26.920 --> 01:06:32.079
memory of getting some sweets before Charlie's Angels was on TV,

771
01:06:32.800 --> 01:06:40.280
because back then Charlie's Angels was big, big show. And

772
01:06:40.400 --> 01:06:44.239
walking to that shop getting some sweets, coming home to

773
01:06:44.280 --> 01:06:49.320
eat the sweets whilst watching there was this one suite.

774
01:06:49.440 --> 01:06:54.800
It was bobby and flat, but a bit bobby, and

775
01:06:54.880 --> 01:07:00.199
it was pink, but it was mint and chewy, can't

776
01:07:00.199 --> 01:07:06.159
remember what it's called. I liked them. Well. I just

777
01:07:06.320 --> 01:07:11.519
realized that that shop, the sweet shop they used to

778
01:07:11.599 --> 01:07:17.000
go into for years, was the same place that I

779
01:07:17.239 --> 01:07:19.719
worked at when I was in a chip shop. It's

780
01:07:19.760 --> 01:07:25.920
the same building, it was the same entrance, and I

781
01:07:25.960 --> 01:07:32.280
didn't realize just till now, so I don't know what

782
01:07:32.320 --> 01:07:34.599
on earth was next to it, because it was a

783
01:07:34.599 --> 01:07:38.000
lot bigger than the shop. The shop was quite small,

784
01:07:39.719 --> 01:07:42.920
unless he lived in the back or something, and upstairs

785
01:07:43.000 --> 01:07:45.960
I don't know, and then maybe he just kept all

786
01:07:45.960 --> 01:07:51.360
his suits or stocked up. Oh, he had a really

787
01:07:51.360 --> 01:07:53.519
big bathroom. I don't know. But the place was that

788
01:07:53.719 --> 01:07:58.679
the building was not small, but his shop wasn't big.

789
01:08:00.119 --> 01:08:01.960
Go in and pretty much you walk in and you're

790
01:08:01.960 --> 01:08:04.599
pretty much you were at the counter when you got

791
01:08:04.599 --> 01:08:08.239
in there. There was no big long walk to get

792
01:08:08.280 --> 01:08:19.079
to the counter. And it was that exact building, that

793
01:08:19.239 --> 01:08:22.760
exact same shop as the chip shop that I ended

794
01:08:22.840 --> 01:08:32.520
up working in in eighty six. Wow, how strange is

795
01:08:32.560 --> 01:08:40.920
that I completely forgot until now. I wonder what other

796
01:08:41.039 --> 01:08:48.439
things I've forgotten, because this is the stuff that interests me,

797
01:08:53.359 --> 01:09:00.680
remembering things that you know, I guess I thought i'd

798
01:09:00.720 --> 01:09:11.119
forgotten but was still there inside my memory. I mean,

799
01:09:11.239 --> 01:09:16.279
you know, arguably it wasn't the most exciting memory. Perhaps

800
01:09:16.439 --> 01:09:22.359
nice intriguing and figurating and yeah, on the edge of

801
01:09:22.399 --> 01:09:29.520
your chair sitting story that I thought it was when

802
01:09:29.560 --> 01:09:35.159
I told you. But I find it kind of interesting

803
01:09:35.279 --> 01:09:41.039
that I was able to remember something that i'd completely forgotten.

804
01:09:41.960 --> 01:09:46.039
In fact, I'd even forgotten that that used to be

805
01:09:46.439 --> 01:09:49.119
the sweet shop when I worked at the chip shop.

806
01:09:52.079 --> 01:09:54.479
So I've forgotten that that building was the chip shop

807
01:09:54.720 --> 01:10:00.159
and was the sweet shop. Sorry, I forgot e and

808
01:10:00.279 --> 01:10:04.840
then in nineteen eighty six because it was a sweet

809
01:10:04.840 --> 01:10:15.199
shop probably until maybe nineteen eighty three eighty four. How weird.

810
01:10:15.479 --> 01:10:33.600
That's really strange, isn't it. Wow? Yeah, ooh, ooh, ooh.

811
01:10:33.680 --> 01:10:44.720
Do I only have other favorite chocolate or does ice

812
01:10:44.760 --> 01:10:50.520
cream count? I do? Like, I'll tell you one of

813
01:10:50.560 --> 01:10:55.079
my oh what was it called? Oh? What's that chocolate?

814
01:10:55.199 --> 01:11:00.439
That ice cream covered in chocolate and freckles of like nut,

815
01:11:01.039 --> 01:11:04.680
and then you buy into it and eventually you've got

816
01:11:04.760 --> 01:11:08.800
like a bit of chocolate on her. Oh, it's been

817
01:11:09.119 --> 01:11:15.039
so long since I've had an ice cream bar. I

818
01:11:15.119 --> 01:11:16.960
used to know all the names of the ice creams,

819
01:11:17.000 --> 01:11:23.199
but it's gone out of mied It's left mired for

820
01:11:23.239 --> 01:11:32.840
some reason. M hm right. Thanks to that, Maria asks me,

821
01:11:33.439 --> 01:11:39.119
do you have a favorite all time comedian from your

822
01:11:39.199 --> 01:11:43.319
time at the comedy club, famous or otherwise? Thank you,

823
01:11:44.039 --> 01:11:51.800
I came, Maria, thanks for that all time favorite comedian?

824
01:11:53.359 --> 01:11:59.279
The So what do I early focus on comedians that

825
01:11:59.319 --> 01:12:04.640
I've seen, whether at my comedy well, the comedy club

826
01:12:04.680 --> 01:12:07.239
that I was involved in, or any other comedy club,

827
01:12:07.399 --> 01:12:10.399
or someone that I performed with or you know, I

828
01:12:10.439 --> 01:12:17.960
was on the same bill. But no comedians. I'm not

829
01:12:17.960 --> 01:12:21.039
going to talk about any comedians that are around that

830
01:12:21.079 --> 01:12:23.920
have come afterwards or that were before, or anyone in

831
01:12:23.960 --> 01:12:30.439
America apart from the ones that see live. So as

832
01:12:30.479 --> 01:12:33.960
far as comedians, there's two comedians that made me laugh

833
01:12:34.079 --> 01:12:41.760
the most in a live show in my memory, and

834
01:12:42.039 --> 01:12:45.439
one was Dennis Leary. So he came over from America,

835
01:12:46.720 --> 01:12:50.439
but I saw him. I basically followed him around for

836
01:12:52.159 --> 01:12:54.800
I think he was here for about two weeks and

837
01:12:57.199 --> 01:13:00.279
I went and saw him at every opportunity. I saw

838
01:13:00.359 --> 01:13:06.680
him at probably four different clubs, and he was just hilarious. Honestly,

839
01:13:06.760 --> 01:13:09.960
is one of the first comedians that I had seen

840
01:13:10.159 --> 01:13:18.039
that just had me laughing all the way through uncontrollably laughing.

841
01:13:19.760 --> 01:13:24.399
Another one, very similar situation. Really, it was a little

842
01:13:24.399 --> 01:13:29.760
bit later. It was Jerry dru Sadovich and it was

843
01:13:29.760 --> 01:13:33.199
in a little club. I'm not sure if I'd performed,

844
01:13:34.199 --> 01:13:36.800
if I was performing that night. I just went there

845
01:13:36.840 --> 01:13:40.079
to watch him, but it was in It was in

846
01:13:40.119 --> 01:13:43.800
a room above a pub. It wasn't a big audience,

847
01:13:44.680 --> 01:13:50.000
but he was so so funny. I mean, it wasn't

848
01:13:50.000 --> 01:13:52.640
a small audience, but there was probably couldn't have been

849
01:13:52.640 --> 01:13:55.319
more than like fifty sixty people there, so it wasn't

850
01:13:55.359 --> 01:13:59.159
a big space at an stage. He just stood on

851
01:13:59.239 --> 01:14:04.760
the same level as the audience. So funny. I was laughing,

852
01:14:05.319 --> 01:14:10.039
I really laughed loud and just like just so, they're

853
01:14:10.079 --> 01:14:17.600
the two that made me laugh the most our performance,

854
01:14:20.039 --> 01:14:25.199
you know that. That? Yeah, So then too, they're not

855
01:14:25.239 --> 01:14:29.720
my favorite comedians, which is a probably weird thing to say,

856
01:14:29.760 --> 01:14:33.279
but if I was going to choose my favorite comedians,

857
01:14:35.159 --> 01:14:37.560
and I've got respect for any anyone that will go

858
01:14:37.600 --> 01:14:43.920
on stage and perform, because it's not easy, and anyone

859
01:14:43.960 --> 01:14:49.159
that can actually be successful, like wow, that's that's amazing.

860
01:14:49.680 --> 01:14:54.720
It's like good, good for them. But as far as

861
01:14:54.960 --> 01:15:01.960
favorite performers, favorite comedians. I do like Jimmy Carr. Jimmy

862
01:15:02.000 --> 01:15:05.159
Carr's funny. I find him funny, and I used to

863
01:15:05.199 --> 01:15:08.640
know him as well. So I saw him for years

864
01:15:09.000 --> 01:15:12.880
performing at comparing at the club, you know, so I

865
01:15:12.960 --> 01:15:15.720
knew him. I didn't know him really well, but I

866
01:15:15.760 --> 01:15:20.760
knew him to chat to, and I saw him perform

867
01:15:20.840 --> 01:15:25.720
on stage probably at least a hundred times, if not

868
01:15:25.800 --> 01:15:29.560
more so I kind of I knew his act inside

869
01:15:29.600 --> 01:15:38.399
and out at that time, but not anymore. So I

870
01:15:38.399 --> 01:15:40.720
guess I didn't appreciate him as much because I kept

871
01:15:40.760 --> 01:15:43.359
seeing him. He was doing a lot of the same stuff,

872
01:15:43.399 --> 01:15:47.079
which is just normal for comedians, you know, if they

873
01:15:47.119 --> 01:15:49.359
move around, they do the same They might have like

874
01:15:49.560 --> 01:15:52.880
five four gigs in one night and perform the same

875
01:15:52.920 --> 01:15:56.960
act four times in a row. But the audience to them,

876
01:15:57.000 --> 01:16:02.000
it's new because then I've seen him before, especially on

877
01:16:02.039 --> 01:16:05.399
the London circuit where most of the comedians are not famous,

878
01:16:06.600 --> 01:16:10.840
well a lot at that time, most of them weren't known,

879
01:16:11.039 --> 01:16:15.199
so people would see them for the first time. So

880
01:16:15.319 --> 01:16:20.039
what seemed like ad libbin or what seemed like it

881
01:16:20.159 --> 01:16:22.560
might seem like the comedian was making stuff up on

882
01:16:22.600 --> 01:16:26.479
the spot, when actually they weren't. It was finely tuned,

883
01:16:27.319 --> 01:16:35.239
honed material from years of doing it. I'm just trying

884
01:16:35.239 --> 01:16:39.680
to think my favorite. That's what problem I had. One

885
01:16:39.680 --> 01:16:41.880
of the problems I had, apart from not being very good,

886
01:16:42.520 --> 01:16:51.439
is I didn't have the discipline to go on stage

887
01:16:51.479 --> 01:16:55.880
and perform the same material. It bored me performing the

888
01:16:55.920 --> 01:17:01.359
same material. I wanted to write new material, and the

889
01:17:01.399 --> 01:17:04.119
new material was no better than the old material, and

890
01:17:04.319 --> 01:17:06.479
none of it was particularly great. I had a few

891
01:17:06.479 --> 01:17:12.920
good one liners, but it was I didn't and it.

892
01:17:13.159 --> 01:17:16.119
And also depending on what mood I was in about

893
01:17:16.159 --> 01:17:21.119
how I performed. And there's one gig I did where

894
01:17:22.239 --> 01:17:25.359
it's actually for the same promoter, so she would I.

895
01:17:25.359 --> 01:17:28.279
I only had two promoters that would give me regular gigs,

896
01:17:28.680 --> 01:17:33.439
paid gigs, and one was Dolly and every one was Z.

897
01:17:35.119 --> 01:17:39.880
And Dolly was a fellow comedian like me. She was

898
01:17:40.039 --> 01:17:43.319
quite new, but she was a good promoter and she

899
01:17:43.520 --> 01:17:47.279
we were friends, and she gave me gigs wherever she was.

900
01:17:47.640 --> 01:17:50.479
She she opened up little clubs around the cut around

901
01:17:50.560 --> 01:17:53.199
London area. She had a R one, a really good

902
01:17:53.239 --> 01:17:57.279
one U R a big one in kind of men

903
01:17:57.319 --> 01:18:01.079
where it is now or where it was if it's

904
01:18:01.079 --> 01:18:04.039
still it's still running. I'm going to check this now

905
01:18:15.439 --> 01:18:33.199
it is, I wonder. I wonder now I've been running

906
01:18:33.279 --> 01:18:37.960
since two thousand and two. That's long after I was

907
01:18:38.039 --> 01:18:48.800
mine was the nineties. I wonder if because Okay, so

908
01:18:48.880 --> 01:18:52.239
there was a comedy club called the Crack Comedy Club

909
01:18:53.600 --> 01:18:56.279
and she had to change her name to Crack as

910
01:18:56.359 --> 01:19:00.439
in the Irish version, which is cr a. I k

911
01:19:00.720 --> 01:19:13.199
I think Anna's really good club, really good. I wonder,

912
01:19:13.239 --> 01:19:24.960
of course, is Land stand up? Okay, so I'll go

913
01:19:25.119 --> 01:19:33.399
back if I put in the original name. What's going on? Okay,

914
01:19:34.359 --> 01:19:37.960
maybe it's not running anymore. It's possible. I mean sometimes

915
01:19:38.039 --> 01:19:43.279
even if a club's really all it is, it is

916
01:19:43.000 --> 01:19:49.720
it is. But it looks like this one is in Ireland,

917
01:19:52.840 --> 01:20:00.319
I say about the crack Den Comedy Club is where

918
01:20:00.319 --> 01:20:10.960
Ireland's best comedians take to the stage. So yes, in Ireland. No,

919
01:20:11.840 --> 01:20:19.079
I thought it was a Wimbledon the Crack then comedy Okay.

920
01:20:20.399 --> 01:20:31.439
Do I remember her name, Dolly Dupre. It's weird. I

921
01:20:31.439 --> 01:20:34.239
don't remember her name, but I do. The comedy club

922
01:20:35.479 --> 01:20:41.199
must include Dolly Dupre, Dotty Dupre, doty Dopri, Dotty dot

923
01:20:41.479 --> 01:20:48.920
dot Dupre did do do did No. I can't seem

924
01:20:48.920 --> 01:20:50.800
to find it. But she was really good to me,

925
01:20:50.960 --> 01:20:56.119
so that was nice. And Z my friend Zed. He

926
01:20:56.279 --> 01:21:01.920
had a club called Chicken Reggies and again he had

927
01:21:02.000 --> 01:21:06.800
like a really really big one on a Sunday night,

928
01:21:07.520 --> 01:21:11.199
big audience, but he also had other ones started around

929
01:21:11.319 --> 01:21:17.920
like in pubs and stuff. So everyone loved said they

930
01:21:18.039 --> 01:21:20.840
really did because he was he was lovely. But he

931
01:21:22.000 --> 01:21:24.800
One of the things he did is he'd put on

932
01:21:24.840 --> 01:21:31.439
a comedy night and it all he'd get good acts.

933
01:21:31.680 --> 01:21:35.319
He'd also give people like me a chance. Plus he

934
01:21:35.399 --> 01:21:38.600
was my friend anyway, but he gave people like me,

935
01:21:38.840 --> 01:21:42.000
you know, an opportunity to do a gig and if

936
01:21:42.039 --> 01:21:45.319
we did well, he'd give it pay. But something that

937
01:21:45.359 --> 01:21:49.279
he was known for is he always paid the acts,

938
01:21:49.760 --> 01:21:53.239
regardless of what the audience was, like, how many people

939
01:21:53.319 --> 01:21:56.880
turned up, even if no one turned up, he would

940
01:21:56.880 --> 01:22:00.159
still pay the acts. So he was able to get

941
01:22:01.119 --> 01:22:05.600
big names on the circuit to do his gigs because

942
01:22:05.640 --> 01:22:08.720
he would pay. He'd arrange a payment and he'd pay

943
01:22:08.800 --> 01:22:12.199
probably as much as any of the other clubs, maybe

944
01:22:12.279 --> 01:22:14.359
not the comedy store, but you know of like the

945
01:22:14.520 --> 01:22:17.680
normal club. So whether it was one hundred quid or

946
01:22:17.680 --> 01:22:23.520
whatever it was back then. That's it paid the acts.

947
01:22:23.600 --> 01:22:30.800
That money so guaranteed he got decent acts. And everyone

948
01:22:30.920 --> 01:22:35.319
liked him and everyone respected him, and he did compare himself.

949
01:22:37.399 --> 01:22:40.079
But the audience, because he was friends with the audience,

950
01:22:40.560 --> 01:22:43.039
It's almost like he invited his friends to come along

951
01:22:43.600 --> 01:22:47.680
and it was a z party. It was a really

952
01:22:47.800 --> 01:22:56.319
nice atmosphere, really really nice. So I'm thinking if I

953
01:22:56.399 --> 01:23:00.760
was going to say my favorite stand up to mean

954
01:23:00.920 --> 01:23:05.000
in this country out of those that I met whilst

955
01:23:05.079 --> 01:23:12.800
doing comedy or ones that I saw on stage, Oh,

956
01:23:13.399 --> 01:23:24.319
Stewart Lee number one. Stewart Lee. Yeah, A short answer,

957
01:23:25.439 --> 01:23:30.880
so yeah, Stewart Lee was my I was going to

958
01:23:30.960 --> 01:23:37.239
say he's probably my favorite. Now the answer would have

959
01:23:37.239 --> 01:23:42.920
been different. In the nineties, I had a few. I

960
01:23:42.960 --> 01:23:45.880
would say my favorite. For a while, my favorite comedian

961
01:23:46.039 --> 01:23:50.880
was Mark Thomas. Absolutely loved Mark Thomas, and I wanted

962
01:23:50.880 --> 01:23:55.279
to be him. I was never going to be him,

963
01:23:55.760 --> 01:24:02.399
but I wanted to be him because I just it

964
01:24:02.479 --> 01:24:05.960
was nice to me. But that again, so was. I

965
01:24:06.079 --> 01:24:11.960
used to see Stewart Lee quite often. I did quite

966
01:24:12.000 --> 01:24:14.720
a few gigs with him, and he was always nice

967
01:24:14.720 --> 01:24:17.439
to me and he treated me as an equal, and

968
01:24:17.479 --> 01:24:23.600
I wasn't you know. He was a headliner and he's

969
01:24:23.640 --> 01:24:27.560
got a huge following around the world. Actually, but he's

970
01:24:27.600 --> 01:24:30.680
got a huge following, and he does a lot of

971
01:24:30.720 --> 01:24:36.159
live gigs. I think he's written books, he's had DVD.

972
01:24:36.680 --> 01:24:41.000
You know, he's done specials on Amazon or Netflix one

973
01:24:41.000 --> 01:24:47.600
of them. But he doesn't He was never up himself

974
01:24:51.399 --> 01:24:54.479
and he never put me down, even though I was

975
01:24:54.680 --> 01:24:58.520
pretty much useless at the old stand up. He was

976
01:24:59.479 --> 01:25:02.920
nice to me. I did find that quite often with

977
01:25:03.000 --> 01:25:06.039
some of the really good comedians. They didn't need to

978
01:25:06.079 --> 01:25:14.920
be horrible because they were very secure, I guess in

979
01:25:14.960 --> 01:25:20.159
their own abilities. There's some other comedians I will mention,

980
01:25:20.319 --> 01:25:23.920
so Stuart Lee will be I put him at the top. Now,

981
01:25:26.079 --> 01:25:30.800
in the nineties there was a few that it's one

982
01:25:30.840 --> 01:25:40.399
particular one, Mark Lamar. Now Mark Lamar did comedy. He

983
01:25:40.439 --> 01:25:42.399
didn't do it for a long time before he was

984
01:25:42.439 --> 01:25:46.920
discovered and got on TV. So I saw him quite

985
01:25:47.039 --> 01:25:51.039
I saw it quite a few times before he got

986
01:25:51.079 --> 01:25:53.720
on TV and he started doing a Big Brother and

987
01:25:53.720 --> 01:25:58.319
then The Big Breakfast rather the Word and this is

988
01:25:58.479 --> 01:26:03.960
early nineties, and then he did the never Mind the

989
01:26:04.000 --> 01:26:08.560
Buzz cocks. He did a couple of other things as well.

990
01:26:08.640 --> 01:26:11.800
So he's you know, he established himself as a TV

991
01:26:11.920 --> 01:26:16.560
star and he's got radio shows. I think he still

992
01:26:16.560 --> 01:26:24.560
does radio shows now. I remember in about late nineties,

993
01:26:24.640 --> 01:26:35.039
maybe two thousand, he he was doing he came and

994
01:26:35.079 --> 01:26:39.119
did a gig, but he was doing a live I

995
01:26:39.159 --> 01:26:41.000
don't know if he did a gig or he just

996
01:26:41.159 --> 01:26:43.399
now I think he actually did a gig. It was

997
01:26:43.439 --> 01:26:51.239
like my friends, it was the celebration of the the

998
01:26:51.279 --> 01:26:54.920
tenth anniversary of the Comedy Club something like that. So

999
01:26:55.000 --> 01:26:58.479
Mark Lamar, quite a few other big names came along

1000
01:26:58.479 --> 01:27:00.560
and did a show. So it was a special like

1001
01:27:00.600 --> 01:27:03.920
one off thing. Maybe it was for charity something like that.

1002
01:27:04.880 --> 01:27:08.520
And so Mark Laura was there and I said to him,

1003
01:27:08.720 --> 01:27:10.560
I didn't I don't even know if he remembers me,

1004
01:27:11.039 --> 01:27:13.039
but if he remembered me at that point, because I've

1005
01:27:13.079 --> 01:27:16.079
done a gigs with him, you know, eight nine years earlier.

1006
01:27:18.920 --> 01:27:23.399
But I said to him, you know what, it's really weird.

1007
01:27:24.800 --> 01:27:27.840
It's what's to tell you what's weird about you? And

1008
01:27:27.880 --> 01:27:33.760
he looked at me like uh huh. And I said,

1009
01:27:34.760 --> 01:27:40.680
what I don't understand is you go you're on TV.

1010
01:27:42.920 --> 01:27:44.600
So you're big staff, so you can make you lots

1011
01:27:44.600 --> 01:27:52.479
of money and stuff, but you never you don't. I didn't,

1012
01:27:52.520 --> 01:27:54.800
I didn't say it rudely, but you don't. You don't

1013
01:27:54.880 --> 01:27:59.960
come across your your stand up ability does not come

1014
01:28:00.119 --> 01:28:03.640
across on TV. And he said, what do you mean.

1015
01:28:04.000 --> 01:28:08.319
I said, it's like when you're doing the world and

1016
01:28:08.319 --> 01:28:13.399
when you were doing what people don't realize is that

1017
01:28:13.479 --> 01:28:17.680
you were one of the best comedians this country had.

1018
01:28:20.239 --> 01:28:24.199
So he started listening to me. Now, what Mark lamarcud

1019
01:28:24.199 --> 01:28:31.159
do is? I once saw him on stage and it

1020
01:28:31.239 --> 01:28:39.760
was at the looking forward to Christmas this year? Do

1021
01:28:41.039 --> 01:28:51.600
do do? I want to celebrate Christmas because I want

1022
01:28:51.600 --> 01:28:54.199
to make some changes. I know I've moved on from

1023
01:28:54.239 --> 01:28:57.960
I'm coming back to make Mamma. It's really got me

1024
01:28:58.000 --> 01:29:13.680
thinking though. The last month is maybe miss introspection, isn't it,

1025
01:29:15.159 --> 01:29:18.920
but also outrospection because I'm also looking at my surroundings.

1026
01:29:18.920 --> 01:29:22.880
It's not really just how do I feel, but looking

1027
01:29:22.960 --> 01:29:32.760
around and having a different perspective because you know, since

1028
01:29:32.840 --> 01:29:43.680
two thousand, this will be like one, two, three, four,

1029
01:29:46.199 --> 01:29:51.800
potentially four losses, you know, just in those five years,

1030
01:29:53.159 --> 01:29:56.239
and two of the biggest losses of my life was

1031
01:29:56.319 --> 01:30:00.640
Luke and Andre, so without getting all heavy and stuff

1032
01:30:00.720 --> 01:30:06.800
is and now with Uncle sausages, I'm just like, perhaps

1033
01:30:06.800 --> 01:30:12.600
I need to be a bit more appreciative of what

1034
01:30:12.720 --> 01:30:21.840
I do have. Yeah, and I'm thinking I always loved

1035
01:30:21.920 --> 01:30:25.560
Christmas when I was a kid. I haven't loved Christmas

1036
01:30:25.600 --> 01:30:29.000
since I was a kid, but I do love the

1037
01:30:29.079 --> 01:30:32.560
build up to Christmas. Christmas itself is a time when

1038
01:30:32.560 --> 01:30:37.279
I'm on my own and I don't I'm not particularly jolly,

1039
01:30:39.039 --> 01:30:43.399
but I do like the build up. And really I

1040
01:30:43.399 --> 01:30:51.399
think the thing that's missing is probably just being a

1041
01:30:51.479 --> 01:30:55.640
kid again, having loads of presents. You know. I suppose

1042
01:30:55.640 --> 01:30:59.399
I quite like to just go back to that. And

1043
01:30:59.600 --> 01:31:04.680
I can't go back to that, but just be opening

1044
01:31:04.720 --> 01:31:11.079
loads of presents on Christmas morning in my pajamas in

1045
01:31:11.159 --> 01:31:16.520
the park. Yeah, I don't know, but yeah, just just

1046
01:31:16.760 --> 01:31:23.239
anyway back to Mark Lamar. I once saw him Stretten,

1047
01:31:23.399 --> 01:31:32.079
not Stretton. It wasn't Stretton, it doesn't matter. It was

1048
01:31:32.119 --> 01:31:38.760
a big, big, big gig that was probably three hundred

1049
01:31:39.439 --> 01:31:42.520
people there at least that was quite big for a gig,

1050
01:31:42.640 --> 01:31:45.279
like in a comedy circuit. But it was back then,

1051
01:31:47.920 --> 01:31:53.079
and he'd just been to see what he said He

1052
01:31:53.159 --> 01:32:00.199
had just been to see a what's his name? The

1053
01:32:00.199 --> 01:32:12.079
the wrapper? Okay, no, can't fix this, do do do not.

1054
01:32:12.119 --> 01:32:17.880
Can't fix this, can't fix this, can't beat this, can't

1055
01:32:19.479 --> 01:32:27.399
mc hammer? What did this? Can't fix this? Whatever? Anyway,

1056
01:32:27.439 --> 01:32:29.560
it was mc hammer. So we went to see mc

1057
01:32:29.720 --> 01:32:36.319
hammer at Wembley. I think, well, maybe I'm sure he

1058
01:32:36.319 --> 01:32:38.840
said Hyde Park, but why would mc hammer be at

1059
01:32:38.920 --> 01:32:42.119
hyde Park. That's going to be it. I'm going to

1060
01:32:42.199 --> 01:33:00.159
google that mc hammer hammer at Hyde Park, Hyde Park

1061
01:33:01.119 --> 01:33:15.359
nineteen ninety, nineteen ninety one. Wow, images of mc hammer

1062
01:33:15.439 --> 01:33:29.359
at na Hyde Park in nineteen ninety one. Really, he

1063
01:33:29.479 --> 01:33:36.000
was like, what a weird thing to remember he did

1064
01:33:36.119 --> 01:33:39.239
forty eight concerts on his world tour in ninety one,

1065
01:33:40.039 --> 01:33:49.520
So let's just go to UK. So he did. He

1066
01:33:49.640 --> 01:33:56.600
came to the UK May twoententy thirteen. Wembley Stadium, Wembley Stadium,

1067
01:33:56.640 --> 01:34:04.000
Wendley Stadium, Wembley Stadium, and then gm X Center which

1068
01:34:04.119 --> 01:34:09.800
is in Manchester, Wembley Arena. I went to Yeah, went well,

1069
01:34:09.800 --> 01:34:19.479
Wembley Arena, Wembley Arena, National Exhibition Center. That's third of May,

1070
01:34:20.399 --> 01:34:27.319
second of May. Let's go next. So where this This

1071
01:34:27.399 --> 01:34:36.760
sounds about right in the summer, But where is it?

1072
01:34:37.000 --> 01:34:40.520
Where does it say? Hyde Park? I'll not seen anything

1073
01:34:40.680 --> 01:34:50.079
any Hyde Park, Wembley Arena. Maybe it was just an appearance.

1074
01:34:50.119 --> 01:34:52.359
I don't know. I can't see any hyde Park here.

1075
01:34:52.920 --> 01:34:54.600
But when I put it in it did come up

1076
01:34:55.399 --> 01:35:17.800
Hyde Park. Please don't hurt world tour. That's weird. There's

1077
01:35:17.840 --> 01:35:28.600
actually a video on YouTube it says classic. Maybe it

1078
01:35:28.640 --> 01:35:33.000
was a Wembley. It was somewhere. I mean it was

1079
01:35:33.079 --> 01:35:35.680
quite late, to be fair. I think he went on

1080
01:35:35.720 --> 01:35:40.880
stage about eleven or ten or eleven. Mark Lamar did so.

1081
01:35:41.039 --> 01:35:43.520
Maybe he had been to the concert and he came

1082
01:35:43.560 --> 01:35:48.720
straight there. But I said what he did. He talked

1083
01:35:48.720 --> 01:35:51.640
about mc hammer. But there was one point where there

1084
01:35:51.720 --> 01:35:55.439
was someone sitting on a table in front of the

1085
01:35:55.560 --> 01:35:59.640
stage and Mark Lamar looked down at him and the

1086
01:35:59.680 --> 01:36:07.279
bloke was just looking at the table and Mark Lamar sick.

1087
01:36:07.319 --> 01:36:11.119
He says, Mark, Mark, he got about ten minutes worth

1088
01:36:11.159 --> 01:36:14.840
of material just by the person looking at the table.

1089
01:36:16.600 --> 01:36:23.199
He was that good. He just ad libbed, that's what

1090
01:36:23.439 --> 01:36:26.159
he was so good at. I mean, I know he

1091
01:36:26.239 --> 01:36:29.640
had material and he probably used maybe he used some

1092
01:36:29.720 --> 01:36:33.000
of it before you know, but he was he could talk,

1093
01:36:33.439 --> 01:36:42.800
he could it wasn't all rehearsed, and it was so

1094
01:36:43.079 --> 01:36:45.479
he was so good. Honestly, it's one of the best

1095
01:36:46.000 --> 01:36:50.079
stand up comedians I ever saw, as far as skill

1096
01:36:50.920 --> 01:36:55.399
and how he could just get material out of nothing.

1097
01:36:59.560 --> 01:37:02.359
And I remember saying that to him and he said, well,

1098
01:37:02.640 --> 01:37:06.680
he agreed with me. Actually, very few people would disagree

1099
01:37:06.680 --> 01:37:10.239
when you tell them that they're great. But he said,

1100
01:37:12.079 --> 01:37:15.000
because he was on tour. He just finished his tour

1101
01:37:15.960 --> 01:37:18.760
and he hadn't been on tour for years. He did

1102
01:37:18.760 --> 01:37:21.720
a tour when he first got famous, and he did

1103
01:37:21.720 --> 01:37:26.000
another one. This is probably ninety nine, two thousand, something

1104
01:37:26.039 --> 01:37:29.880
like that, and he said he couldn't believe the amount

1105
01:37:29.920 --> 01:37:32.920
of people that came up to him afterwards and said, well,

1106
01:37:32.920 --> 01:37:37.000
that was really funny. Didn't it speak to be that funny?

1107
01:37:38.079 --> 01:37:41.319
Why did you come and see me? Then? So they

1108
01:37:41.319 --> 01:37:43.319
were going to see him because he was hosted never

1109
01:37:43.359 --> 01:37:51.039
mind the Buzzcocks, he was a television celebrity, but they

1110
01:37:51.039 --> 01:37:54.560
did they didn't realize that he was really funny, Like

1111
01:37:54.760 --> 01:38:04.359
I mean stand up I mean and yeah, h I'd say,

1112
01:38:04.560 --> 01:38:12.479
now Stuart Lee, oh wow, I forgot one of the

1113
01:38:12.560 --> 01:38:24.520
main the main people. What's his name, Sean Locke. I'm

1114
01:38:24.520 --> 01:38:25.800
trying to think I was going to try and look

1115
01:38:25.840 --> 01:38:31.439
it up, but yeah, sew Lock, Sew Locke. He I

1116
01:38:31.520 --> 01:38:35.720
thoughtunate he's not around anymore, but he was. There was

1117
01:38:35.840 --> 01:38:42.960
two comedians comedians there was when I was on the circuit.

1118
01:38:43.000 --> 01:38:47.920
There was only two comedians that really everyone got. All

1119
01:38:47.920 --> 01:38:52.479
the other comedians seemed to get excited to watch. One

1120
01:38:52.479 --> 01:38:59.880
of them was Eddiezard and the other album was Sewn.

1121
01:39:01.079 --> 01:39:05.119
Those two were the ones where people would the comedians

1122
01:39:05.159 --> 01:39:07.560
would go and see them or if they were doing

1123
01:39:07.560 --> 01:39:10.039
a gig Lety's say, if they were doing a show

1124
01:39:10.079 --> 01:39:13.119
in a theater or they're doing a gig, they'd turn

1125
01:39:13.199 --> 01:39:16.439
up to watch them perform because they were so good.

1126
01:39:17.760 --> 01:39:22.800
That Eddie Yizard was he was the king of stand

1127
01:39:22.920 --> 01:39:27.800
up in the nineties. I mean he he'd already I

1128
01:39:27.920 --> 01:39:31.000
tell you what he did, Eddiezard he or she now?

1129
01:39:31.039 --> 01:39:38.199
But what Eddie? What Eddie did? Eddie Eddie? What Eddie

1130
01:39:38.239 --> 01:39:44.319
did was I think he actually paid to rent out

1131
01:39:44.319 --> 01:39:48.520
a theater in the West End and he put on

1132
01:39:48.560 --> 01:39:58.399
his own show and it became a huge success. And

1133
01:39:58.560 --> 01:40:03.000
I think I swim twice live. He compared this show

1134
01:40:03.359 --> 01:40:06.960
it was like a small gig, but it was it

1135
01:40:07.039 --> 01:40:17.079
was his gig, and the audience were there to see him,

1136
01:40:17.159 --> 01:40:19.119
you know. They weren't there to see the other acts

1137
01:40:19.159 --> 01:40:21.840
they see, They're just to see him, and they would

1138
01:40:21.840 --> 01:40:25.520
have been happy just to watch him all night because

1139
01:40:25.520 --> 01:40:29.279
he was so good. And Sean Locke was another one

1140
01:40:30.039 --> 01:40:34.000
where people would the other comedians would get excited to

1141
01:40:34.039 --> 01:40:38.880
see him. So the comedians comedian, both of them were

1142
01:40:39.079 --> 01:40:40.680
kind of at the top of the list back then.

1143
01:40:42.800 --> 01:40:45.920
The amount of times I heard people saying, Oh, seank

1144
01:40:45.920 --> 01:40:49.880
Lock's on at the is at the comedy store tonight

1145
01:40:49.960 --> 01:40:52.159
or is it a comedy cafe or is it junglers?

1146
01:40:52.600 --> 01:40:56.039
And the comedians that could, they'd finished their night, they'd

1147
01:40:56.079 --> 01:41:02.000
go and see him. It happened less with Eddie is

1148
01:41:02.039 --> 01:41:08.239
hard because he was famous earlier, so he was doing

1149
01:41:08.640 --> 01:41:13.880
sold out theaters and travel in the world, you know,

1150
01:41:13.960 --> 01:41:18.560
So he was kind of the most famous comedian pretty

1151
01:41:18.600 --> 01:41:29.119
much from the circuit at that time. All time favorite comedians, Yeah,

1152
01:41:29.119 --> 01:41:33.680
so I'm going to say Stewart Lee, but I've respected

1153
01:41:33.720 --> 01:41:40.600
lots of them, and Alan Davis. I really liked him

1154
01:41:41.039 --> 01:41:43.840
and he was always really nice to me, although he

1155
01:41:43.920 --> 01:41:49.680
was a little cheeky. So Alan Davis's he's gone. He

1156
01:41:49.720 --> 01:41:52.239
went on to do TV shows and stuff, and he's

1157
01:41:57.880 --> 01:41:59.600
what is that. There's a TV show that he's on

1158
01:41:59.680 --> 01:42:03.279
regular a couple of TV shows as regularly. But I

1159
01:42:03.279 --> 01:42:05.319
remember I did a gig with him and I said

1160
01:42:05.359 --> 01:42:10.640
to him, if this doesn't go well, I'm quitting, because

1161
01:42:10.680 --> 01:42:13.039
he used to chat to me. He was he was

1162
01:42:13.039 --> 01:42:17.840
a headline act, clearly going places. He'd won awards, and

1163
01:42:17.880 --> 01:42:21.399
he was just so down to earth and friendly to me.

1164
01:42:22.359 --> 01:42:27.640
Didn't don't you know, some comedians weren't, but he was.

1165
01:42:27.800 --> 01:42:32.279
So he's very friendly and he just laughed and we

1166
01:42:32.479 --> 01:42:34.720
just have a laugh and he said, I said, if

1167
01:42:34.760 --> 01:42:38.800
this doesn't work out tonight, I'm quitting. And the next

1168
01:42:38.840 --> 01:42:46.560
time I see him a gig, is it a different gig?

1169
01:42:46.600 --> 01:42:48.479
But I walk in and sit down and he said, oh,

1170
01:42:48.520 --> 01:42:53.680
I thought you'd quit, and he started laughing. And I

1171
01:42:53.720 --> 01:42:56.399
thought it was so cheeky because it didn't go very

1172
01:42:56.399 --> 01:43:01.600
well that gig that i'd had. I really and it

1173
01:43:01.720 --> 01:43:06.159
really it tickled him. The fact is that he remembered me.

1174
01:43:06.199 --> 01:43:10.079
It's like, okay, it's nice. It's nice to be remembered

1175
01:43:10.119 --> 01:43:17.079
by someone that is in that world. He was a superstar,

1176
01:43:18.159 --> 01:43:25.399
like Eddie Izzard, Mark Lamar Mark, Thomas, Kevin Day. The

1177
01:43:25.680 --> 01:43:28.119
list is quite long, to be fair, but they were

1178
01:43:28.159 --> 01:43:32.319
all really big stars on the circuit. They were super

1179
01:43:32.479 --> 01:43:36.640
even if they were on TV. Yet Harry Hill, people

1180
01:43:36.680 --> 01:43:39.880
like that, you just knew. It was so obvious that

1181
01:43:39.920 --> 01:43:43.199
they were going to go on to be TV stars.

1182
01:43:44.359 --> 01:43:50.560
Ardlow Handlon, although I never met him, it's yeah. And

1183
01:43:50.600 --> 01:43:54.560
then there was others that never became TV stars, and

1184
01:43:54.600 --> 01:43:59.279
they were just as good, just as funny. For whatever reason,

1185
01:44:01.119 --> 01:44:04.279
they didn't go on to be big stars. Someone like

1186
01:44:04.319 --> 01:44:10.840
booth By Grafo, phenomenal performer, but he never went on

1187
01:44:10.880 --> 01:44:15.800
to be a huge star. There was another one, I

1188
01:44:15.840 --> 01:44:18.520
forget his name, but he was doing theaters. He was

1189
01:44:18.800 --> 01:44:22.840
really doing well, but he never went on to be

1190
01:44:22.880 --> 01:44:26.640
a star, never went on to be on TV or

1191
01:44:26.680 --> 01:44:31.359
anything like that. And it's not because his material was adult,

1192
01:44:31.359 --> 01:44:37.199
because it wasn't. I don't know what happened. I just

1193
01:44:38.119 --> 01:44:43.159
it's not. Everyone fits the mold, I suppose or not.

1194
01:44:43.199 --> 01:44:54.920
Everyone fits in with what the TV people want. Yeah,

1195
01:44:55.319 --> 01:44:58.399
I'm going to stick with Steward Lee. But as far

1196
01:44:58.520 --> 01:45:03.319
as heroes, I would say Mark Thomas, for he was

1197
01:45:03.359 --> 01:45:06.760
one of my heroes a comedy. But I really I

1198
01:45:06.840 --> 01:45:10.119
really liked Stewart Lee because we used to chat and stuff,

1199
01:45:10.119 --> 01:45:12.880
so he was always nice. He actually he used to

1200
01:45:12.960 --> 01:45:17.399
be able to forget what the right word is, but

1201
01:45:17.560 --> 01:45:24.960
he could break down someone's act and tell me a joke.

1202
01:45:25.079 --> 01:45:30.479
So he would tell me a joke in another person's style.

1203
01:45:32.079 --> 01:45:34.920
So for example, he said, oh, Mark Thomas, because I

1204
01:45:34.920 --> 01:45:38.600
think I was gushing about Mark Thomas to him. He said, Okay,

1205
01:45:38.800 --> 01:45:41.640
here's what Mark Thomas does, and he told me a joke.

1206
01:45:43.399 --> 01:45:45.640
He's basically said something and this, this is a joke

1207
01:45:45.680 --> 01:45:50.800
in the style of Mark Thomas. And it was as

1208
01:45:50.880 --> 01:45:54.279
like okay, but it didn't have the same delivery as

1209
01:45:54.279 --> 01:45:59.279
Mark Thomas because stew at least very laid back, very

1210
01:45:59.439 --> 01:46:04.760
chilled out. Mark Thomas is very kind of edgy. He

1211
01:46:04.840 --> 01:46:08.279
was quite edgy back then, and he wasn't He talked fast.

1212
01:46:08.359 --> 01:46:12.880
And I absolutely adored Mark Thomas. I really did. I

1213
01:46:12.960 --> 01:46:15.159
used to see him and he actually put me on

1214
01:46:15.479 --> 01:46:17.640
the list, gave me a telephone number. He put me

1215
01:46:17.680 --> 01:46:22.399
on the What's it a list for his comedy store performance.

1216
01:46:22.880 --> 01:46:25.760
So I went along and watched it and he was

1217
01:46:25.800 --> 01:46:29.920
really cool. And he's also someone that remembers who remembers people.

1218
01:46:30.520 --> 01:46:33.760
So I saw him years later when I was dealing

1219
01:46:33.800 --> 01:46:36.079
with the comedy club and he walked in with his

1220
01:46:36.159 --> 01:46:39.079
shorts on because he was doing a charity gig and

1221
01:46:39.119 --> 01:46:44.279
he turns up. You're right, like like I saw him yesterday,

1222
01:46:44.640 --> 01:46:48.159
and he was just like a normal person. Neither a

1223
01:46:48.199 --> 01:46:52.960
normal person. But you know, to me, regardless whether he's

1224
01:46:52.960 --> 01:46:55.920
still on TV or not, he'll always be a star

1225
01:46:56.920 --> 01:47:04.319
because he was he you know, another person you could

1226
01:47:04.359 --> 01:47:08.520
say put it, you could argue saying the most famous

1227
01:47:08.560 --> 01:47:11.840
person is I used to know. I used toteal a

1228
01:47:11.880 --> 01:47:13.880
lot of gigs with this person, and he's also someone

1229
01:47:13.880 --> 01:47:16.800
that I used to talk to quite a lot. He

1230
01:47:16.920 --> 01:47:22.800
was nice. He was at university while he was doing comedy,

1231
01:47:23.399 --> 01:47:25.800
and then he went on to be well known, to

1232
01:47:25.880 --> 01:47:30.560
be a really headliner act and think and wrote books,

1233
01:47:30.600 --> 01:47:33.199
did radio, did some TV, all that kind of stuff.

1234
01:47:33.239 --> 01:47:41.039
And Spider Man's dad Tom Holland, not Tom Holland, Tom

1235
01:47:41.079 --> 01:47:46.560
Holland's dad. So he is Spider Man Tom Holland. His

1236
01:47:46.720 --> 01:47:52.319
dad is Dominic Holland, and he's a stand up comedian

1237
01:47:53.640 --> 01:47:57.600
that's really weird because I met him long before Tom

1238
01:47:57.600 --> 01:48:03.319
Holland was born, before I guess before he was married,

1239
01:48:03.359 --> 01:48:07.199
before Dominque got married and stuff and had kids, still

1240
01:48:07.199 --> 01:48:17.119
at university, and it was so lovely, so friendly. Another one,

1241
01:48:17.159 --> 01:48:22.880
Harry Hill, was really friendly. He's a bit of Sh'll

1242
01:48:22.960 --> 01:48:28.119
give you a little bit of information about Harry Hill

1243
01:48:28.239 --> 01:48:34.199
that you wouldn't know unless I told you, unless you

1244
01:48:34.239 --> 01:48:37.439
already knew. You wouldn't know unless you know. If you

1245
01:48:37.479 --> 01:48:44.760
already knew, then there's nothing new. I think in about

1246
01:48:45.039 --> 01:48:51.399
ninety I think it was ninety two, Harry Hill. It

1247
01:48:51.479 --> 01:48:53.600
was almost like they knew he was going to be

1248
01:48:53.600 --> 01:48:57.079
a star, and he went on to be a star.

1249
01:48:57.239 --> 01:48:59.520
I mean, he still is a star. He's a very

1250
01:48:59.560 --> 01:49:05.399
famous TV celebrity and I used to love watching him

1251
01:49:05.399 --> 01:49:09.560
on TV when he did his TV burp. It's funny,

1252
01:49:09.640 --> 01:49:13.880
it's really funny. So I saw him rifle at the beginning.

1253
01:49:17.560 --> 01:49:22.000
And they announced in time out and maybe somewhere else

1254
01:49:22.880 --> 01:49:26.600
that they had changed his name because initially his name

1255
01:49:26.680 --> 01:49:33.479
was Harry Hall h doubleel and they announced Harry Hall

1256
01:49:33.520 --> 01:49:38.119
will now be changing his name to Harry Hill because

1257
01:49:39.119 --> 01:49:43.239
another celebrity or performer had the name Harry Hall, and

1258
01:49:43.279 --> 01:49:46.560
they were not happy that he was using that name,

1259
01:49:47.239 --> 01:49:55.319
and they had it registered with whoever you register your

1260
01:49:55.359 --> 01:50:00.960
name with. So Harry Hall was his original name. Then

1261
01:50:01.000 --> 01:50:05.640
he changed it to Harry Hill. And let me see,

1262
01:50:05.720 --> 01:50:07.720
so I'm going to check this up. Let's see what

1263
01:50:07.760 --> 01:50:16.039
it comes up on his So Harry Hill. Look at

1264
01:50:16.079 --> 01:50:28.520
his Wikipedia page. Right, born Matthew Keith Hall. That's his

1265
01:50:28.560 --> 01:50:34.680
actual name. Is Harry a short name for Matthew. I

1266
01:50:34.680 --> 01:50:46.960
don't know. So his original stand up name was Harry Hall. Blimey.

1267
01:50:47.840 --> 01:50:50.680
He won the Perrier Award for Best Newcomer at nineteen

1268
01:50:50.800 --> 01:50:56.920
ninety two Edward Festival Fringe Best Newcomer here I remember that,

1269
01:50:56.960 --> 01:51:02.479
and then he went on to He did Harry Hill's

1270
01:51:02.520 --> 01:51:09.800
TV Burp from two thousand and one to twenty twelve. Wow,

1271
01:51:10.840 --> 01:51:17.680
I still love watching that. Oh he did You've been framed? Yeah,

1272
01:51:17.720 --> 01:51:20.359
so he's but he's another one that was really lovely.

1273
01:51:21.359 --> 01:51:24.159
He seemed to turn into his character though, So he've

1274
01:51:24.199 --> 01:51:27.079
got this character on stage, and I noticed that he

1275
01:51:27.159 --> 01:51:31.039
seemed to be when I saw him off stage, which

1276
01:51:31.079 --> 01:51:35.199
is fairly often before gigs, it seemed like he was

1277
01:51:35.239 --> 01:51:38.680
just turning into that person. Maybe that just was the person,

1278
01:51:42.359 --> 01:51:46.720
but he was definitely brilliant. Brilliant Comedians saw them loads

1279
01:51:46.760 --> 01:51:49.680
of times, very funny. But yeah, I'm going to stick

1280
01:51:49.720 --> 01:51:56.920
with Stewart Lee because the deconstruction that he does are

1281
01:51:57.079 --> 01:52:02.439
like that he kind of deconstrut ducks his own jokes

1282
01:52:03.600 --> 01:52:11.239
before he tells them, and it's so well written. And

1283
01:52:11.319 --> 01:52:14.880
my stomach's gurgling, which makes me think, when did I

1284
01:52:14.920 --> 01:52:19.960
have my breakfast? Six thirty? Oh, it's time to have

1285
01:52:20.039 --> 01:52:27.159
something to eat. Yeah, Stuart Ley. The next question in

1286
01:52:27.960 --> 01:52:31.680
which member of the royal family do you like the most? Now,

1287
01:52:31.840 --> 01:52:36.560
I'm not saying this to be controversial, but none of them. No,

1288
01:52:36.640 --> 01:52:39.359
I'm not saying this to be controversial, but the only

1289
01:52:40.000 --> 01:52:44.840
member the roal family that I ever really liked other

1290
01:52:44.880 --> 01:52:50.600
than the Queen would be Princess Diana. Princess Dinah was

1291
01:52:50.600 --> 01:52:53.479
my favorite. Now I realize you're probably talking about ones

1292
01:52:53.520 --> 01:52:58.239
that are still alive. I don't have any. I don't

1293
01:52:58.239 --> 01:53:01.039
really feel any connection with any of them. To be

1294
01:53:01.039 --> 01:53:06.720
honest with you, I felt, I don't know, not connection,

1295
01:53:06.880 --> 01:53:10.279
But I love Princess Diana, not loved her, but I

1296
01:53:10.399 --> 01:53:13.960
just she was from a very early age, she was

1297
01:53:15.039 --> 01:53:18.800
the Princess. She was the most famous member of the

1298
01:53:18.840 --> 01:53:23.199
royal family really, and then you've got the Queen, and

1299
01:53:23.239 --> 01:53:30.920
I've grown up seeing the Queen. But I've never, I

1300
01:53:31.159 --> 01:53:36.159
really have not had much interest in a royal family ever.

1301
01:53:36.600 --> 01:53:40.560
I was just I've seen I've watched two raw weddings.

1302
01:53:40.600 --> 01:53:45.359
I watched the Princess Diana and Prince Charles at the time,

1303
01:53:45.399 --> 01:53:51.560
Prince Charles now King Charles, and I watched the Prince

1304
01:53:51.640 --> 01:53:59.840
Andrew and Fergie getting married Sarah Ferguson get married in

1305
01:54:00.520 --> 01:54:09.199
was it nineteen eighty seven. I think outside of that,

1306
01:54:09.239 --> 01:54:16.319
I've not watched any of the other weddings, and I think,

1307
01:54:16.520 --> 01:54:25.119
really the way that they're being treated by the press,

1308
01:54:27.520 --> 01:54:31.039
and yeah, I just I just don't. I'm not It's

1309
01:54:31.039 --> 01:54:36.439
almost like the if you read the newspapers so much

1310
01:54:36.479 --> 01:54:38.800
about the royal family and none of it interests me.

1311
01:54:39.960 --> 01:54:43.079
So yeah, it's not really if you're in this country,

1312
01:54:43.239 --> 01:54:47.479
the royal families, either you really like them or you're

1313
01:54:47.479 --> 01:54:50.960
not bothered. I mean, I know some people are anti,

1314
01:54:51.279 --> 01:54:54.199
but I'm not anti anything really, not really, you know,

1315
01:54:54.199 --> 01:54:56.920
I'm not that interested in it to be against it,

1316
01:54:57.640 --> 01:55:02.359
But yeah, not really. He never really been that involved

1317
01:55:03.720 --> 01:55:07.439
in rural family and many Even the other day I

1318
01:55:07.520 --> 01:55:10.359
was in the hospital because I've been going up and

1319
01:55:10.399 --> 01:55:13.520
down for a month to the hospital to see mister

1320
01:55:13.600 --> 01:55:17.520
Sausages and a couple of weeks ago, there was all

1321
01:55:17.560 --> 01:55:23.039
these police and security and cameras and stuff. I didn't

1322
01:55:23.079 --> 01:55:29.239
realize it was Prince Williams's wife was there. My stomach

1323
01:55:29.279 --> 01:55:33.079
proper gurgling. I didn't know she was there. I couldn't

1324
01:55:33.119 --> 01:55:36.079
see her because she was surrounded by police and camera people.

1325
01:55:37.239 --> 01:55:40.000
It's only when I left I was told, oh, yeah,

1326
01:55:40.279 --> 01:55:48.520
Princess of Wales was there. I thought, no, See this

1327
01:55:48.640 --> 01:55:53.920
is how, this is how my mind works, and it's

1328
01:55:54.000 --> 01:55:56.680
very small minded and it's very petty. There's only ever

1329
01:55:56.720 --> 01:56:02.119
going to be one Princess of Wells during my lifetime,

1330
01:56:02.199 --> 01:56:07.199
and that is Prince what's her name, Diana, And it's

1331
01:56:07.239 --> 01:56:09.359
only ever going to be one queen, and that's the queen.

1332
01:56:10.119 --> 01:56:12.239
I know. There's going to be other queens. There might,

1333
01:56:12.600 --> 01:56:15.880
hopefully there'll be another queen in my lifetime, if I'm

1334
01:56:15.920 --> 01:56:25.239
lucky enough to see Kate become queen. But to me,

1335
01:56:27.439 --> 01:56:32.439
my queen is the queen, you know, the proper queen

1336
01:56:32.520 --> 01:56:35.399
that was a queen for thousands of years or whatever,

1337
01:56:35.720 --> 01:56:39.399
you know that passed away three years ago. She was

1338
01:56:39.439 --> 01:56:43.760
my queen, and Princess Diana was the only Prince of Wales,

1339
01:56:43.840 --> 01:56:49.359
Princess of Wells, and Prince Charles was the only only

1340
01:56:49.439 --> 01:56:53.000
Prince of Wales. It's weird. Although you know his son's

1341
01:56:53.079 --> 01:56:56.840
now Prince of Wales. So I don't really recognize that, don't.

1342
01:56:57.600 --> 01:57:00.319
I don't not recognize it. It's just when I think

1343
01:57:00.359 --> 01:57:04.720
of the Princess or Wells, I think of Diana. I

1344
01:57:04.760 --> 01:57:07.800
can't help it. And I know that she hasn't been

1345
01:57:07.840 --> 01:57:11.680
around for twenty five years, but hey, no, nearly twenty

1346
01:57:11.680 --> 01:57:15.640
blindly twenty eight years. I just that's just what I remember.

1347
01:57:15.680 --> 01:57:22.840
That's what part of my memory, because there hasn't been

1348
01:57:22.880 --> 01:57:27.119
a princessa Wells is there until more recently, like I

1349
01:57:27.119 --> 01:57:35.000
don't know whenever what's her name married Prince William. So yeah,

1350
01:57:35.039 --> 01:57:37.279
I don't like any of them. I don't dislike them.

1351
01:57:37.920 --> 01:57:39.560
Don't get me wrong. I've got no issue with any

1352
01:57:39.560 --> 01:57:43.199
of them, but I don't. I don't have any kind

1353
01:57:43.239 --> 01:57:56.439
of feelings about them. It just, yeah, it's a different world.

1354
01:57:57.640 --> 01:58:00.000
They have a different life to me. I've never had

1355
01:58:00.119 --> 01:58:02.880
been anywhere close to that kind of lifestyle, and I

1356
01:58:02.920 --> 01:58:08.319
don't understand it, and they don't understand my lifestyle is Yeah,

1357
01:58:08.520 --> 01:58:15.239
it's beyond understanding to be raised in a palace and

1358
01:58:15.880 --> 01:58:20.199
having everything done for you, never ever having to be

1359
01:58:20.319 --> 01:58:24.880
concerned about money and you know, just those kinds of things.

1360
01:58:24.920 --> 01:58:29.000
But again, at the same time, I don't have to

1361
01:58:29.119 --> 01:58:36.359
be concerned about, you know, thinking where am I going to? What?

1362
01:58:38.560 --> 01:58:42.399
Where shall I go on holiday? And where shall I

1363
01:58:43.840 --> 01:58:46.960
what what kind of really expensive food shall I today?

1364
01:58:46.960 --> 01:58:52.239
Because that's what they've got to worry about. I don't

1365
01:58:52.239 --> 01:58:56.199
know what it would be like. I don't know, so

1366
01:58:56.319 --> 01:59:03.680
I don't really relate to it. That's a proper gurglar

1367
01:59:03.720 --> 01:59:12.520
tummy wow. But at the same time, I know that

1368
01:59:12.560 --> 01:59:17.000
the royal family is very popular in other countries, but

1369
01:59:17.199 --> 01:59:26.439
here it's not really It's like, I don't know, I

1370
01:59:26.479 --> 01:59:28.720
don't get I mean, I'm not really in touch with

1371
01:59:28.760 --> 01:59:33.920
the common man woman. I guess because I'm so secluded,

1372
01:59:33.960 --> 01:59:37.600
so I probably I can't really talk on behalf of anyone.

1373
01:59:37.680 --> 01:59:42.680
But myself, I am aware that whenever it is a

1374
01:59:42.760 --> 01:59:47.600
raw function, the streets are full of people, you know,

1375
01:59:47.640 --> 01:59:51.800
whether it's a marriage whether whatever. The you know, millions

1376
01:59:51.800 --> 01:59:55.159
of well hundreds of thousands of people pave the streets.

1377
01:59:56.279 --> 01:59:59.520
I also know it's in London, and a lot of

1378
01:59:59.520 --> 02:00:03.520
those people going to be tourists, so they're not all

1379
02:00:03.560 --> 02:00:06.239
going to be people from England that are kind of,

1380
02:00:06.479 --> 02:00:11.640
you know, into the royal family. So some people are.

1381
02:00:11.640 --> 02:00:13.239
There's going to be some people that are absolutely your

1382
02:00:13.359 --> 02:00:17.680
daughter or family and have got nothing but royal memorabilia

1383
02:00:17.880 --> 02:00:22.680
around their house. And there's other people that are all

1384
02:00:22.720 --> 02:00:27.439
about our republic and they don't want royalty and all

1385
02:00:27.479 --> 02:00:31.920
that stuff. I'm not on either side. It is what

1386
02:00:31.960 --> 02:00:36.600
it is. It's here. I don't watch any of the

1387
02:00:36.800 --> 02:00:42.600
raw stuff on TV. Just don't. Yeah, it's not really something.

1388
02:00:43.800 --> 02:00:47.720
I did watch the coronation of the Coronation Street of

1389
02:00:49.600 --> 02:00:54.479
Prince Charles becoming King Charles. I watched that because it

1390
02:00:54.520 --> 02:00:59.359
was such an iconic moment and the chance of seeing

1391
02:01:00.119 --> 02:01:08.880
Harmonic being crowned. It's something that I'd never seen before live,

1392
02:01:09.439 --> 02:01:11.239
you know. I think they might be film footage of

1393
02:01:11.279 --> 02:01:14.960
the Queen being crowned in eighteen forty two whatever, when

1394
02:01:15.119 --> 02:01:21.279
Chevysh was crowned, but it was, Yeah, it was an

1395
02:01:21.479 --> 02:01:24.600
iconic moment, so I watched that, so I quite like that.

1396
02:01:27.840 --> 02:01:34.840
I suppose if you'd have asked me this question twenty

1397
02:01:35.000 --> 02:01:41.600
years ago or fifteen years ago, my favorite roles would

1398
02:01:41.640 --> 02:01:45.600
have been William and Harry. So when they were young men,

1399
02:01:45.640 --> 02:01:51.479
when they were like in their twenties, Harry was a

1400
02:01:51.520 --> 02:01:55.560
funny lad. He was cheeky, and he was getting up

1401
02:01:55.600 --> 02:01:59.560
to no good and you know, and William Owes came

1402
02:01:59.600 --> 02:02:02.359
across a nice Both of them came across as nice.

1403
02:02:03.880 --> 02:02:06.239
And then as they got older, they both went and

1404
02:02:06.279 --> 02:02:11.279
did a lot of stuff for charity. I think Harry

1405
02:02:11.319 --> 02:02:18.439
did the Invictor Games, William did a lot for mental

1406
02:02:18.439 --> 02:02:23.880
health charities. And it's I've always I think I've always

1407
02:02:23.880 --> 02:02:26.920
had a little bit of a soft spot for those kids.

1408
02:02:26.960 --> 02:02:30.079
Firstly because I saw them, remember seeing them being not

1409
02:02:30.159 --> 02:02:34.640
being born, but like on TV as little babies. And

1410
02:02:34.640 --> 02:02:40.119
there was their mother was Princess Diana, who was the

1411
02:02:40.119 --> 02:02:44.119
future kick, she was the future queen. Yeah, that's what

1412
02:02:44.359 --> 02:02:47.039
kind of was supposed to have happened, isn't it, future

1413
02:02:47.119 --> 02:02:58.039
queen and the most famous royal out for all of them.

1414
02:02:58.079 --> 02:03:03.279
And then yeah, I kind of felt for the kids.

1415
02:03:06.239 --> 02:03:09.600
I felt for the two youngs, you know, Harry and William,

1416
02:03:10.760 --> 02:03:13.680
and as I sort of grow up, I just thought, yeah,

1417
02:03:13.760 --> 02:03:19.479
they're good lads. They're just they're about ten years younger

1418
02:03:19.479 --> 02:03:25.680
than me, I suppose, because what maybe twelve years thirteen

1419
02:03:25.760 --> 02:03:29.479
years is not a huge age difference, but I think

1420
02:03:29.520 --> 02:03:38.760
what they were born in the early eighties, weren't they. Yeah,

1421
02:03:39.000 --> 02:03:50.239
so I'm thinking Princess Diana. But out of who's around now,

1422
02:03:52.319 --> 02:03:55.800
I suppose the King, the King really is. He's the

1423
02:03:55.840 --> 02:04:02.199
only one that i've that's been there all time. Prince William,

1424
02:04:02.279 --> 02:04:06.760
now Prince William, Prince Charles and now King Charles. Everyone

1425
02:04:06.800 --> 02:04:13.239
else and you know, Prince William and Prince Harry. They're

1426
02:04:13.000 --> 02:04:17.920
the three that I really that kind of stayed in

1427
02:04:17.920 --> 02:04:27.319
the spotlight. Really, So I suppose i'd probably say Harry

1428
02:04:27.319 --> 02:04:31.239
and William would be my favorite two favorites for different reasons.

1429
02:04:31.279 --> 02:04:39.159
I think they're both. If you if you change the

1430
02:04:39.279 --> 02:04:41.840
question to who would I like to meet, so that

1431
02:04:41.960 --> 02:04:43.439
if I say the question was who would I like

1432
02:04:43.520 --> 02:04:45.840
to meet? Out of the royals, it would be the

1433
02:04:45.920 --> 02:04:50.000
three you would be, the King and his two sons.

1434
02:04:51.560 --> 02:04:54.199
I'd quite like to meet Fergie. I know, technically she's

1435
02:04:54.239 --> 02:04:57.760
probably not roalty anymore because she divorced to Andrew. But

1436
02:04:58.359 --> 02:05:00.960
I've seen her do interviews and he comes across as

1437
02:05:00.960 --> 02:05:05.720
a really nice person. And she's done a lot for

1438
02:05:05.840 --> 02:05:10.439
charities as well as a lot of the Royal family have,

1439
02:05:12.640 --> 02:05:18.399
because you know, just by getting that raal seal can

1440
02:05:18.520 --> 02:05:23.479
boost a charity and people fund and give donations to

1441
02:05:23.600 --> 02:05:26.479
that charity because it's got the raw seal, and it

1442
02:05:26.520 --> 02:05:30.039
can be the difference between them being around for a

1443
02:05:30.079 --> 02:05:32.720
few years and then running out of money and stuff

1444
02:05:33.119 --> 02:05:38.720
and being around for decades and decades and decades helping

1445
02:05:39.000 --> 02:05:47.319
hundreds and thousands of people. Kate, what was your favorite

1446
02:05:47.399 --> 02:05:50.680
band musician during your high school years? What did your

1447
02:05:50.680 --> 02:05:54.920
friends listen to? I realized that's two questions. I don't

1448
02:05:54.920 --> 02:05:56.600
know what my friends listened to because I took a

1449
02:05:56.720 --> 02:05:59.880
notice of that, so I can answer that one straight away.

1450
02:06:00.399 --> 02:06:03.039
I didn't care what anyone else did when I was

1451
02:06:03.079 --> 02:06:06.520
a kid. I knew what I liked and that was it.

1452
02:06:07.239 --> 02:06:12.720
I'd never listened to music with anyone else, and I

1453
02:06:12.760 --> 02:06:16.520
used to like to listen to Elvis music with my

1454
02:06:16.720 --> 02:06:20.760
oldest brother, but it wasn't current, you know, because he

1455
02:06:21.479 --> 02:06:25.880
was gone in night what seventy seven So my childhood

1456
02:06:25.960 --> 02:06:31.960
really music wise, i'd say, started around seventy nine and

1457
02:06:32.079 --> 02:06:36.920
early eighties, and I had no friends really to share

1458
02:06:36.960 --> 02:06:40.600
that with, or at least I might have had, but

1459
02:06:40.640 --> 02:06:45.560
I didn't ask anyone. I didn't. Yeah, but I loved

1460
02:06:45.720 --> 02:06:50.920
Top of the pops I loved. I loved pretty much

1461
02:06:52.640 --> 02:06:55.199
most of the music that was around in the early eighties.

1462
02:06:55.800 --> 02:06:58.640
There were certain certain songs that I loved more than others,

1463
02:06:58.840 --> 02:07:00.960
and some that I didn't really cared too much about.

1464
02:07:01.880 --> 02:07:07.680
But my favorite singer was Shaken Stevens, my favorite singer.

1465
02:07:08.760 --> 02:07:19.920
My favorite bands back then, I can't remember. Did I

1466
02:07:19.960 --> 02:07:24.119
have any favorite bands? Wham? That's a band, wasn't it.

1467
02:07:24.159 --> 02:07:32.840
That's a Wham Wham? One of my favorite bands? Bross

1468
02:07:32.960 --> 02:07:40.680
But that was like late eighties. Yeah, sticking to the eighties.

1469
02:07:42.199 --> 02:07:50.520
The Madness. I love Madness, Culture Club, I love Culture Club.

1470
02:07:52.840 --> 02:07:56.520
Poor Young as a singer, I love Poor Young, ub

1471
02:07:56.720 --> 02:08:07.119
forty do do do what's this? Stand and liver your

1472
02:08:07.279 --> 02:08:13.319
money or your life? That that band so Adam and

1473
02:08:13.359 --> 02:08:19.479
the Ants I did. Also, I noticed I quite like

1474
02:08:19.600 --> 02:08:21.560
some of the older stuff. So I love Buddy Holly.

1475
02:08:22.600 --> 02:08:25.560
So Buddy Holly, you know, I mean it was he

1476
02:08:25.720 --> 02:08:29.920
wasn't around in the eighties, but I loved his songs.

1477
02:08:30.159 --> 02:08:34.279
And the Monkeys, that's another band I absolutely adored. So

1478
02:08:34.319 --> 02:08:37.359
I used to listen to Buddy Holly Greatest Hits and

1479
02:08:37.399 --> 02:08:42.880
The Monkey's Greatest Hits, possibly more than any other album

1480
02:08:43.600 --> 02:08:48.079
during the eighties, well during the middle early to middle eighties,

1481
02:08:49.039 --> 02:08:53.800
late eighties, I mean, I wasn't a child anymore technically,

1482
02:08:54.399 --> 02:08:58.199
but the late eighties have got much more into George

1483
02:08:58.239 --> 02:09:06.640
Michael's solo career, Ross Stevie Wonder sort of middle eighties onwards.

1484
02:09:06.720 --> 02:09:13.880
I fell I really loved Stevie Wonder to discovered him.

1485
02:09:13.920 --> 02:09:22.119
Michael Jackson, Wow. Yeah, So in my early childhood I

1486
02:09:22.119 --> 02:09:25.479
would have listened to Michael Jackson, but not necessarily knew

1487
02:09:25.479 --> 02:09:32.319
who he was. In my really by the time I

1488
02:09:32.439 --> 02:09:38.880
got to about ten, like nine ten, Michael Jackson was

1489
02:09:38.920 --> 02:09:43.359
like when I was nine. He was pretty much an

1490
02:09:43.399 --> 02:09:46.920
adult at that point, and he was doing sort of

1491
02:09:46.920 --> 02:09:51.600
off the wall, can you Feel It, can You Feel It?

1492
02:09:52.000 --> 02:09:54.399
You know, those kind of songs, and it was I

1493
02:09:54.439 --> 02:10:00.640
didn't really follow Michael Jackson. And then of course he Thriller,

1494
02:10:02.000 --> 02:10:07.000
which nobody pretty much in the Western world would have

1495
02:10:07.039 --> 02:10:10.960
not heard about because it was just constant thriller, this

1496
02:10:11.239 --> 02:10:17.079
thriller that, and I liked it. I mean I remember what.

1497
02:10:17.159 --> 02:10:20.720
I watched the Thriller video on Channel four for the

1498
02:10:20.760 --> 02:10:24.880
first time it was ever shown on British TV. I

1499
02:10:24.920 --> 02:10:28.279
was allowed to stay up late to watch it, and yeah,

1500
02:10:28.279 --> 02:10:33.920
I loved it. But I got bored with the songs

1501
02:10:33.960 --> 02:10:37.560
because they were overplayed. It's like every time I turn

1502
02:10:37.600 --> 02:10:40.479
a TV on, Michael Jackson was singing and I've got

1503
02:10:40.520 --> 02:10:42.760
a little I just got a bit fed up with it.

1504
02:10:44.039 --> 02:10:46.319
I don't want to hear it no more, which is

1505
02:10:46.319 --> 02:10:49.680
weird considering how how much of a big fan that

1506
02:10:49.800 --> 02:10:57.840
came of is in Well eighty six because Bad was

1507
02:10:57.840 --> 02:11:03.960
my favorite album, I preferred Bad over Thriller for some reason.

1508
02:11:03.960 --> 02:11:09.359
I don't know that. Probably the most listened to album

1509
02:11:09.399 --> 02:11:12.520
I've ever listened to probably is Bad, Michael Jackson's Bad.

1510
02:11:13.680 --> 02:11:24.680
And there's two songs from the eighties that I really

1511
02:11:25.560 --> 02:11:29.239
even today are two of my favorite songs. One is

1512
02:11:30.319 --> 02:11:35.279
Men Men at Work down Under and Totally Clips at

1513
02:11:35.279 --> 02:11:39.319
a Heart by Bonnie Tyler, two of my favorite songs

1514
02:11:39.319 --> 02:11:43.079
from the eighties from my childhood. But then if you

1515
02:11:43.199 --> 02:11:47.399
go back a little bit, Greece loved Greece every song

1516
02:11:47.439 --> 02:11:55.039
on the Grease album. Loved it, still do. So there

1517
02:11:55.079 --> 02:11:59.039
was that period of time in the eighties when I

1518
02:11:59.079 --> 02:12:01.720
would have the radio and play and wake me up

1519
02:12:01.760 --> 02:12:04.359
in the morning ready for school, and I'd be listening

1520
02:12:04.399 --> 02:12:10.039
to it. And there's for me, it was individual songs,

1521
02:12:11.039 --> 02:12:13.600
not so because I didn't really buy albums back then.

1522
02:12:14.720 --> 02:12:20.199
I just listened on the radio. So meat Loaf and

1523
02:12:20.399 --> 02:12:25.560
Share Addicted to Love. I think it was called that

1524
02:12:25.600 --> 02:12:30.039
one that was my favorite song. But then you know,

1525
02:12:30.279 --> 02:12:34.000
mid ladies watched the Color of Money. What's the color

1526
02:12:34.039 --> 02:12:38.680
of Mourney? Some people thinking, and me, you know, it'sird.

1527
02:12:39.039 --> 02:12:42.880
That's one Hollywood Beyond, I think that was And I

1528
02:12:42.920 --> 02:12:47.319
love that song. Just weird. Or you don't have to

1529
02:12:47.359 --> 02:12:50.560
take your clothes off to have a good time. Oh no,

1530
02:12:51.359 --> 02:12:54.640
love that song. Are the wings of love? Only the

1531
02:12:54.720 --> 02:12:57.439
two of us to go a flow? You know? I

1532
02:12:57.560 --> 02:13:00.760
love that song like there was an individual song. But

1533
02:13:00.800 --> 02:13:04.119
I'd never used to listen to their albums. First of all,

1534
02:13:04.119 --> 02:13:11.319
I didn't buy their albums. And so for me, when

1535
02:13:13.319 --> 02:13:16.960
now that's what I call music came out and it'd

1536
02:13:16.960 --> 02:13:20.119
be like the best hits of the year, or maybe

1537
02:13:20.119 --> 02:13:22.039
they'd do two a year, maybe three a year, so

1538
02:13:22.159 --> 02:13:25.399
just like break it down. I used to start buying

1539
02:13:25.439 --> 02:13:33.239
those tapes and I liked that a lot, and I'd

1540
02:13:33.279 --> 02:13:39.279
really listen to it over and over again. And yeah,

1541
02:13:39.479 --> 02:13:43.840
that was again individual songs. I didn't care about the albums.

1542
02:13:43.920 --> 02:13:46.920
I didn't want to listen to the albums. I mean,

1543
02:13:47.159 --> 02:13:51.279
I did have albums earlier on in my life. So

1544
02:13:51.439 --> 02:13:54.880
when I was like nine ten, I had albums. I

1545
02:13:54.920 --> 02:13:59.960
had the Beg's album I had I used to listen

1546
02:14:00.159 --> 02:14:06.439
to I had. I had Shaken Stevens albums Shaken Stephens

1547
02:14:06.479 --> 02:14:17.399
in the Sunsets, and I was sometimes listening to some

1548
02:14:17.520 --> 02:14:20.800
other albums that my dad had or that they both had,

1549
02:14:20.960 --> 02:14:31.319
which like music, film score music, so things like you know,

1550
02:14:32.239 --> 02:14:39.600
what's it called the Spaghetti Westerns with what's his name?

1551
02:14:43.760 --> 02:14:46.079
The man were no name in the town, were no name?

1552
02:14:46.920 --> 02:14:51.960
How does it get male? What was it called? Good?

1553
02:14:52.039 --> 02:14:55.840
Bad and ugly? And things like that, and then Star

1554
02:14:55.960 --> 02:15:00.279
Wars and Superman and those kind of scores of music,

1555
02:15:00.439 --> 02:15:03.840
and ASS just laid down and listened to that, and

1556
02:15:03.880 --> 02:15:07.439
it was lovely. He used to really relax me. And

1557
02:15:07.479 --> 02:15:09.680
this is before I moved up to the room upstairs.

1558
02:15:09.720 --> 02:15:11.960
At the top of the house, so I must have

1559
02:15:12.039 --> 02:15:19.000
been around ten eleven back then. I'm trying to think

1560
02:15:19.039 --> 02:15:27.560
what else, Yes, so I would say that in Shaken

1561
02:15:27.600 --> 02:15:33.760
Stephens number one, that was he was my favorite. And

1562
02:15:33.880 --> 02:15:42.079
also incidentally, Shaken Stephens was the number one recording artist

1563
02:15:41.479 --> 02:15:45.960
you singer not banned, the number one recording artist in

1564
02:15:46.039 --> 02:15:49.960
the UK for had the whole of the eighties. No

1565
02:15:50.000 --> 02:15:53.319
one sold more records than him in the UK a

1566
02:15:53.479 --> 02:16:02.600
UK artist, so he he was the king of the eighties,

1567
02:16:02.840 --> 02:16:10.800
Shaken Stevens behind the Green Dole. There was a time

1568
02:16:10.960 --> 02:16:16.159
when I really loved listening to fifties music, fifties and

1569
02:16:16.199 --> 02:16:19.600
sixties like Rubber Boler Up and Bound two Back to

1570
02:16:19.840 --> 02:16:25.159
You Who, and some of that stuff that was from

1571
02:16:25.159 --> 02:16:28.760
my dad's that he had on these eight track tapes,

1572
02:16:29.000 --> 02:16:32.719
really old tapes that plugges pushed them in, but they

1573
02:16:32.760 --> 02:16:36.959
were good quality sound and he had them from his

1574
02:16:37.079 --> 02:16:47.680
childhood because my dad was born forty six I think, no, yes,

1575
02:16:47.920 --> 02:16:52.959
nineteen forty six my dad was born, so his childhood

1576
02:16:53.000 --> 02:16:56.520
was really through the fifties when he was listening to music,

1577
02:16:58.000 --> 02:17:04.040
and then he was I guess he turned fifteen in

1578
02:17:04.319 --> 02:17:08.799
nineteen sixty one, so it was like his late teens

1579
02:17:08.840 --> 02:17:17.200
and adult years, you know, in the sixties. So yeah,

1580
02:17:17.639 --> 02:17:19.680
I used to love listening to that. And I know

1581
02:17:19.719 --> 02:17:23.200
I think when we went on holiday, we went to Wales,

1582
02:17:23.920 --> 02:17:27.079
long long journey, so us kids would be in the

1583
02:17:27.120 --> 02:17:30.120
back of the car. There'd be a trailer on the back,

1584
02:17:32.559 --> 02:17:35.399
my dad would be driving. I think they'd take turns

1585
02:17:35.479 --> 02:17:42.559
driving and he used to play these a lot of it.

1586
02:17:42.600 --> 02:17:45.600
They'd be a mixture of Beatles songs. That's a big

1587
02:17:45.639 --> 02:17:52.719
Beatles fan, and like rock music, gidget all around in

1588
02:17:53.319 --> 02:17:55.840
here on now, how are we that one? A lot

1589
02:17:55.840 --> 02:18:00.120
of songs like that which were really good for driving to.

1590
02:18:04.440 --> 02:18:06.520
I need to ask him one day what those songs were,

1591
02:18:06.520 --> 02:18:08.760
because a lot of them I couldn't even tell you.

1592
02:18:11.799 --> 02:18:15.079
Vinny snores, did I ever tell you that? Okay, so

1593
02:18:15.159 --> 02:18:19.159
I feel I covered that. Anne asks me, do you

1594
02:18:19.239 --> 02:18:28.040
play any instruments? The answer is no, there's not a

1595
02:18:28.159 --> 02:18:31.200
very long answer to that one. I used to play.

1596
02:18:33.479 --> 02:18:36.079
When I was in junior school, I played the violin

1597
02:18:36.600 --> 02:18:43.840
not very well. When I was in high school, I

1598
02:18:43.879 --> 02:18:47.959
played I was in the cecrets and I played the

1599
02:18:48.000 --> 02:18:53.719
bugle not very well. And then I played the drums

1600
02:18:53.920 --> 02:18:58.280
in the ciccretts not very well. Then I played the

1601
02:18:58.319 --> 02:19:06.680
glocking spill even worse us and then I what else

1602
02:19:06.760 --> 02:19:12.319
did I play? I'm sure I played something else. That's enough,

1603
02:19:12.360 --> 02:19:18.159
isn't it. I did. I did learn kind of learned

1604
02:19:18.159 --> 02:19:23.280
to play the guitar in the mid nineties or ninety

1605
02:19:23.399 --> 02:19:28.319
six ninety seven, not very well again, but I did

1606
02:19:29.040 --> 02:19:33.120
learn the chords, and I had this. Really I splashed

1607
02:19:33.120 --> 02:19:36.600
out a little bit on a nice guitar. It was

1608
02:19:37.079 --> 02:19:39.159
I think I spent like two hundred and fifty pounds

1609
02:19:39.159 --> 02:19:42.079
on this guitar. So it was a good quality. There

1610
02:19:42.120 --> 02:19:44.000
was quite a lot of money back then. There was

1611
02:19:44.120 --> 02:19:50.079
good quality, and the strings were good, the sound well. Basically,

1612
02:19:50.079 --> 02:19:54.399
what I decided is, if I'm going to sound a

1613
02:19:54.440 --> 02:19:57.319
bit rubbish, then I might as well do it on

1614
02:19:57.360 --> 02:20:01.079
a nice guitar, because even a rubb sound sounds better

1615
02:20:01.120 --> 02:20:07.079
on a good guitar. And I figured out that I

1616
02:20:07.159 --> 02:20:12.559
wasn't motivated to get this, get the sounds correct and

1617
02:20:12.600 --> 02:20:16.920
get the chords right if the guitar. If the guitar

1618
02:20:17.040 --> 02:20:20.959
sounded rubbish as well, So I kind of got a

1619
02:20:21.079 --> 02:20:27.520
decent guitar with a really nice sound, good strings, good quality,

1620
02:20:28.360 --> 02:20:36.399
So it was more enjoyable listening to it, and it

1621
02:20:36.479 --> 02:20:42.000
was easier to learn to play it because the sound

1622
02:20:42.120 --> 02:20:45.360
was nice. So when I did manage to get the

1623
02:20:45.479 --> 02:20:53.959
chords right, it sounded nice. It might not have sounded correct,

1624
02:20:54.120 --> 02:20:59.639
but it sounded nice. But then I was sharing a

1625
02:20:59.639 --> 02:21:03.200
flat This was like nine, late ninety six, ninety seven,

1626
02:21:04.520 --> 02:21:07.559
early ninety seven, and I had this guitar, and my

1627
02:21:07.760 --> 02:21:12.399
friend who was sharing a flat with me, really didn't

1628
02:21:12.399 --> 02:21:16.120
seem to enjoy my practicing. And remember he said to me,

1629
02:21:16.200 --> 02:21:20.239
all I can hear is this, and it's like do.

1630
02:21:20.000 --> 02:21:22.159
Do do do do do do do do do do

1631
02:21:22.159 --> 02:21:24.079
do do do do do do do do do do

1632
02:21:23.920 --> 02:21:26.000
do do do do do do do do do do

1633
02:21:26.000 --> 02:21:28.159
do do do do do do do do do do

1634
02:21:28.159 --> 02:21:31.680
do do do do do do do do do do

1635
02:21:31.680 --> 02:21:33.920
do do do do do Do Do Do Do Do

1636
02:21:33.920 --> 02:21:36.399
Do do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do

1637
02:21:36.399 --> 02:21:38.959
Do Do Do do do do do do do do

1638
02:21:38.760 --> 02:21:41.319
do do do do do do do do do do do.

1639
02:21:44.479 --> 02:21:49.040
He said that all I hear all day long, do

1640
02:21:49.159 --> 02:21:50.639
do do do do do do do do do do

1641
02:21:50.799 --> 02:21:52.680
do do do do do do do do do do.

1642
02:21:53.520 --> 02:21:56.440
And it's like, I said, I'm practicing. He said what for.

1643
02:21:59.120 --> 02:22:01.520
I had no answer for that is like, why are

1644
02:22:01.559 --> 02:22:05.840
you practicing? Are you going to be in a band? No?

1645
02:22:06.959 --> 02:22:11.600
Are you? He got Sophie. He said, do something else,

1646
02:22:11.840 --> 02:22:16.200
Play a different song, a different tune. He really was,

1647
02:22:18.000 --> 02:22:22.840
I was annoying him a little bit. So I went

1648
02:22:22.920 --> 02:22:27.000
into my bedroom and I decided I was going to

1649
02:22:30.600 --> 02:22:33.399
play the same tune, but just try and do it

1650
02:22:33.559 --> 02:22:40.200
louder so he could really enjoy it. I tried. I

1651
02:22:40.319 --> 02:22:43.280
tried the mouthforkan. So when I was working as a

1652
02:22:43.319 --> 02:22:46.879
security gul, I thought, you know what, I can learn

1653
02:22:46.920 --> 02:22:53.559
a new instrument. Malthforkan's small. I've literally got twelve hours

1654
02:22:53.600 --> 02:22:57.799
in a night to just practice, so maybe I could

1655
02:22:57.840 --> 02:23:02.760
be quite good at this. But I realized once I

1656
02:23:02.840 --> 02:23:07.840
started that I didn't like it, so I never bothered.

1657
02:23:08.520 --> 02:23:13.520
I kind of gave it up. And then a few

1658
02:23:13.639 --> 02:23:18.159
years ago, quite a few probably six seven years ago,

1659
02:23:18.520 --> 02:23:22.000
I bought a ukulele. Still in my cupboard, still in

1660
02:23:22.079 --> 02:23:25.159
the same box that I bought it. I've had it

1661
02:23:25.239 --> 02:23:34.319
out about three times. It's still in there, and maybe

1662
02:23:34.399 --> 02:23:37.920
one day you might maybe you might not believe me.

1663
02:23:38.120 --> 02:23:41.120
Perhaps one day maybe the next recording I do, I'll

1664
02:23:41.159 --> 02:23:43.680
get my ukulele out and I'll play it for you.

1665
02:23:44.719 --> 02:23:46.399
When I say I play it for you, I don't

1666
02:23:46.440 --> 02:23:51.600
know how to play it. I never learned. I think

1667
02:23:51.639 --> 02:24:01.440
i'd need lessons I did. My stepmom did teach me

1668
02:24:01.520 --> 02:24:05.280
a bit of piano, like chopsticks, you know, stuff like that.

1669
02:24:05.959 --> 02:24:08.440
But she did because she was I think she had

1670
02:24:08.440 --> 02:24:12.000
an a level in piano. She's very good, and she

1671
02:24:12.159 --> 02:24:15.719
taught me the basics. And at the time I could

1672
02:24:15.840 --> 02:24:21.000
read music because I'd been playing the violin, so I

1673
02:24:21.079 --> 02:24:23.200
knew how to read music. So it was quite easy

1674
02:24:23.879 --> 02:24:28.280
to know where the keys were. In a sense now

1675
02:24:28.360 --> 02:24:33.319
I don't know, because I've not read music for quite

1676
02:24:33.440 --> 02:24:38.840
some time. But back then, you know, it's quite easy.

1677
02:24:38.920 --> 02:24:41.559
But it's very difficult because in a sense of my

1678
02:24:41.760 --> 02:24:47.399
hands running little, the keyboard or the piano keys were

1679
02:24:47.520 --> 02:24:51.159
quite large. It wasn't like a It was one of

1680
02:24:51.239 --> 02:24:54.719
those pianos that you put against the wall. It was

1681
02:24:54.760 --> 02:24:59.319
like a proper old fashioned piano, but it wasn't. It wasn't,

1682
02:24:59.520 --> 02:25:04.239
you know, like a huge piano. But there was a

1683
02:25:04.319 --> 02:25:06.920
certain amount of strength you needed to press down and

1684
02:25:08.000 --> 02:25:09.479
I just wasn't used to that. So it was a

1685
02:25:09.520 --> 02:25:13.200
little bit different because I was probably ten at the time,

1686
02:25:13.719 --> 02:25:16.200
so it was very different. But I did like it,

1687
02:25:16.959 --> 02:25:23.079
but not enough to really get involved, which is a

1688
02:25:23.200 --> 02:25:27.719
shame because I do I do think to having a

1689
02:25:27.879 --> 02:25:32.200
skill like that, being able to play a musical instrument

1690
02:25:34.239 --> 02:25:39.200
is such an amazing skill to have, and bearing in

1691
02:25:39.280 --> 02:25:43.680
mind I've played multiple musical instruments over the years, not

1692
02:25:43.840 --> 02:25:48.840
for a long time, but I kind of had the opportunity.

1693
02:25:50.520 --> 02:25:54.440
If I was stuck at the violin, I could have

1694
02:25:54.520 --> 02:25:57.520
been I could have ended up being really good at it.

1695
02:25:59.120 --> 02:26:03.159
I did it for about a year. I was adequate,

1696
02:26:05.559 --> 02:26:08.520
but a year maybe a year. Yeah, I did it

1697
02:26:08.600 --> 02:26:11.920
for a while, but maybe I could have been really good.

1698
02:26:14.799 --> 02:26:18.639
But I quit. Like many things, I stopped doing it

1699
02:26:18.639 --> 02:26:20.879
because I didn't I don't know why I didn't like

1700
02:26:20.959 --> 02:26:25.360
it anymore, but I was having lessons unlike the drums

1701
02:26:25.440 --> 02:26:28.399
or a bugle or whatever. I actually went to lessons

1702
02:26:29.959 --> 02:26:33.840
I think twice a week at junior school for the violin,

1703
02:26:35.840 --> 02:26:37.920
and we did concerts and stuff like that.

1704
02:26:38.399 --> 02:26:38.559
You know.

1705
02:26:38.840 --> 02:26:42.680
So there's one one time I was on stage with

1706
02:26:42.840 --> 02:26:46.520
one other person playing the violin. My parents were watching,

1707
02:26:47.680 --> 02:26:51.120
and that was a bit nerve wracking because the orchestra

1708
02:26:51.319 --> 02:26:57.600
were all doing it together. Then suddenly it's almost harder

1709
02:26:57.680 --> 02:26:59.520
to do with someone than you do it on your own,

1710
02:26:59.600 --> 02:27:02.360
I found, because if I did it on my own,

1711
02:27:04.319 --> 02:27:07.639
it would just sound how it sounds, But to do

1712
02:27:07.760 --> 02:27:13.000
it with someone else, it's to have to be in sync.

1713
02:27:15.280 --> 02:27:17.959
We did it. I don't know how bad or good

1714
02:27:18.000 --> 02:27:20.479
it was. I got no idea, but we managed to

1715
02:27:20.559 --> 02:27:26.760
do it. That is one thing that I wish I

1716
02:27:26.920 --> 02:27:32.319
kind of stuck at, because I think I might have

1717
02:27:32.440 --> 02:27:35.239
been I had quite a good ear for music, quite

1718
02:27:35.280 --> 02:27:42.680
a good ear for tone, and potentially I could have

1719
02:27:42.760 --> 02:27:47.559
been quite good. Yeah. So I think if I was,

1720
02:27:48.040 --> 02:27:50.600
if I was going to start, which which musical instrument

1721
02:27:50.600 --> 02:27:53.159
would I have stuck with? If I could kind of

1722
02:27:53.239 --> 02:27:57.040
go back and do that, the violin would be the one.

1723
02:27:58.639 --> 02:28:02.520
The bugle was living did I found. I learned the

1724
02:28:02.600 --> 02:28:07.840
bugle and it was just easy, and the glocking spill

1725
02:28:08.559 --> 02:28:12.719
difficult but doable. But it's very kind of lots of

1726
02:28:12.760 --> 02:28:20.159
different keys and remember which goes where. The drums probably

1727
02:28:20.239 --> 02:28:23.319
more enjoyable because I got to hit things, do a

1728
02:28:23.319 --> 02:28:27.120
little little little do a little little do a little

1729
02:28:27.159 --> 02:28:33.680
little little a little a little. I just I enjoyed it,

1730
02:28:34.319 --> 02:28:36.000
but at the same time it was a lot of

1731
02:28:36.040 --> 02:28:38.879
hassle because big it was as big as me a

1732
02:28:39.000 --> 02:28:41.079
drum I was like walking around with his finger was

1733
02:28:41.200 --> 02:28:44.440
really heavy because I was said, I was like ten

1734
02:28:44.479 --> 02:28:53.120
to eleven big old things. So I would have preferred

1735
02:28:54.000 --> 02:28:56.200
if I was going to choose two instruments that I

1736
02:28:56.239 --> 02:28:58.319
would have been good at that if I you know,

1737
02:28:59.200 --> 02:29:01.200
if I could choose two instruments to be good at,

1738
02:29:02.399 --> 02:29:06.879
it would be the guitar or the piano. I've had

1739
02:29:07.239 --> 02:29:11.000
multiple keyboards over the years. I once bought a piano

1740
02:29:11.639 --> 02:29:13.840
back in two thousand and four, bought it and sold

1741
02:29:13.879 --> 02:29:17.319
it than this in about three days back to the

1742
02:29:17.399 --> 02:29:23.719
same person and lost about one hundred quid. And yeah,

1743
02:29:23.760 --> 02:29:34.360
it's one of those moments of silliness. But I liked

1744
02:29:34.639 --> 02:29:37.559
just have this idea of like being good at something.

1745
02:29:37.879 --> 02:29:39.440
I think that's what it was. I wanted to be

1746
02:29:39.520 --> 02:29:41.760
good at something, but I never found anything that I

1747
02:29:41.920 --> 02:29:48.079
was if I wasn't interested enough in it to progress

1748
02:29:49.040 --> 02:29:52.639
to a point of being any good, or I just

1749
02:29:52.760 --> 02:29:59.799
wasn't very good at it, you know, it's I'd love

1750
02:29:59.840 --> 02:30:05.520
to being a good breakdancer or a brilliant breakdancer. I'm

1751
02:30:05.559 --> 02:30:08.760
not a dancer. There's certain things that are just that's

1752
02:30:08.840 --> 02:30:13.440
not me. It wasn't you know. It's kind of like

1753
02:30:13.680 --> 02:30:18.319
it'd be good to be a basketball player, but that

1754
02:30:18.399 --> 02:30:20.799
would be I mean, I'm not saying it wouldn't be impossible,

1755
02:30:20.879 --> 02:30:23.719
but it would be very difficult at five for eight

1756
02:30:23.799 --> 02:30:26.559
to become a basketball player, where most of them are

1757
02:30:26.639 --> 02:30:31.840
like six five plus. You know, there's a big advantage.

1758
02:30:33.200 --> 02:30:41.680
So yeah, I think basketball was the only sport that

1759
02:30:41.840 --> 02:30:44.799
I thought was quite cool because you know, chucking at

1760
02:30:45.719 --> 02:30:47.920
getting a ball in a basket or a hoop, that

1761
02:30:48.079 --> 02:30:50.479
was quite fun if there was no one else around.

1762
02:30:51.120 --> 02:30:53.120
So I quite enjoyed doing that, you know, from a

1763
02:30:53.159 --> 02:30:55.479
distance and just trying to get the ball in. And

1764
02:30:55.559 --> 02:30:58.120
I could spend hours doing that, but not if other

1765
02:30:58.159 --> 02:31:00.280
people were around. I didn't want anyone getting an way

1766
02:31:01.239 --> 02:31:03.760
I'll try to get the ball off me. That just

1767
02:31:03.840 --> 02:31:12.559
took the fun out of it for me. So yeah,

1768
02:31:12.760 --> 02:31:16.239
in short, really no, I don't play any instruments, but

1769
02:31:17.399 --> 02:31:21.159
and I never will now. I think those days are gone.

1770
02:31:22.840 --> 02:31:28.760
I don't have any interest in playing instruments now, but

1771
02:31:28.799 --> 02:31:38.559
I very much admire people that can. Yeah, I do so.

1772
02:31:38.639 --> 02:31:40.840
I suppose the thing I was best out of all

1773
02:31:40.920 --> 02:31:44.239
the instruments that I did play probably would have been

1774
02:31:44.280 --> 02:31:48.799
the violin, because that's the one that I practiced the most,

1775
02:31:49.600 --> 02:31:55.239
and I also my family home enjoyed it listening to it,

1776
02:31:55.719 --> 02:31:58.799
to the screeching. But that is the one I practiced most,

1777
02:31:59.000 --> 02:32:08.319
and it's the one I was actually having musical lessons for. Anyway,

1778
02:32:08.639 --> 02:32:11.120
that seems to bring us to the end of this recording,

1779
02:32:11.840 --> 02:32:14.040
and I'm going to go and get myself something to eat.

1780
02:32:16.399 --> 02:32:18.639
I hope I've answered you questions. I know there's been

1781
02:32:18.680 --> 02:32:22.520
a few. I probably got off the subject a little

1782
02:32:22.559 --> 02:32:26.639
bit every now and then. Apologies. I apologizes my friends,

1783
02:32:28.040 --> 02:32:31.200
but thank you for listening. Remember to be kind to

1784
02:32:31.239 --> 02:32:37.520
yourself because you do deserve to be happy and be

1785
02:32:37.639 --> 02:32:46.799
gentle with yourself. You deserve to feel safe. Lots of love. Bye,