Aug. 29, 2025

(music) Q&A Friday | LMBYTS #1425 | Jason Newland | 29th August 2025

(music) Q&A Friday | LMBYTS #1425 | Jason Newland | 29th August 2025
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Welcome to another episode of Q&A Friday on Let Me Bore You to Sleep with Jason Newland. In this relaxed and often humorous session, Jason answers listener questions ranging from comedy and pets to birthdays and glasses. As always, the conversation wanders into personal stories, reflections, and playful tangents that make this series so engaging. Episode Timestamps

  • 0:00 – 3:22 | Introduction, PayPal gifts, and Jason’s Facebook group.
  • 3:23 – 6:17 | Morning routine with Vinny, running in the rain, and early chatter.
  • 6:20 – 12:07 | Vinny’s barking habits, dog behavior, and Jason’s thoughts on pets.
  • 12:10 – 20:20 | Council flats, new kitchens, and noisy neighbors during recordings.
  • 20:23 – 23:10 | Listener message from Cara, AI video experiments, and teeth talk.
  • 23:15 – 27:28 | Setup for Q&A Friday, questions gathered from the Facebook group.
Listener Questions & Answers
  • 27:29 – 55:09 | Dev’s question: Books, audiobooks, and resources for writing comedy. Jason shares experiences in stand-up, recommendations, and reflections on Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Steve Martin, and others.
  • 55:11 – 1:01:47 | Maria’s question: Glasses—bifocals, varifocals, or contact lenses? Jason talks about his eyesight, glasses journey, and family history of macular degeneration.
  • 1:01:48 – 1:21:48 | Hope’s question: How did Jason end up adopting Andre the ferret? A heartfelt story about falling in love with Andre, bonding, and how he changed Jason’s life.
  • 1:21:50 – 1:23:36 | Rich’s question: When is Vinny’s birthday? Jason shares the details and a little backstory.
  • 1:23:38 – 1:25:49 | Robin’s question: Have you ever been inside Hampton Court Palace? Jason recalls his childhood visit and funny memories.
  • 1:25:49 – 1:36:11 | Kathleen’s question: What’s the best birthday present you’ve ever received? Jason reflects on childhood birthdays, his first bike, and sentimental family memories.
  • 1:36:14 – 1:43:00 | Mary’s question: How do you design your episode artwork? Jason explains using AI, Canva, and his creative process for images.


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Hello, Hello, Hello, everybody. How are you doing today? Everybody

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you well?

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Are you?

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Oh?

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It's nice?

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Hello, and welcome to Jasonnewland dot com. My name's Jason

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Newland and please only listen when you can safely close

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your eyes. And welcome to Q and A Friday. This

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is Friday's version of let me bore you to sleep.

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LMB white yes, ELM maybe yeah, LMB white yes. And

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Vinnie was all calm and quiet and as soon as

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I start talking, he jumps down and decides to make

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as much sound as he can, bless his little bumb

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So yeah, it's what is it? It's Friday, the twenty

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dieight for August two thousand and twenty five.

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And by the way, I try to say thank you

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to everyone that sent me a PayPal gift, but there

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was I wasn't able to contact everyone because I couldn't

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find a way to contact see on PayPal usually has

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like an email address or something, but on this one

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person that didn't, or a couple of people.

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So I do apologize, but I did post thank you

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on my Facebook group, so I should let you know.

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I've got a Facebook group called Jason Newland's Boring Group

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and as it says, as you imagine, it's probably not

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the most exciting place to be, but it's really just

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for people that love listening to the Jason to the

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Let Me Boy to Sleep podcasts.

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Yeah, okay, what we've done today.

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I was going to say, actually, if you if you

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want to help me out, and this would really really

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help me out a lot to get more placed on

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Google is and also help the podcast out is. Wherever

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you're listening to me, could you perhaps lead a review

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that would be brilliant and maybe regularly as well. You know,

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if there's a recording you particular like, maybe you can

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just say what you like about it, Because the more

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reviews I get on my podcasts, whether it's on Spotify,

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if you're listening on I don't know, it's quite a

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few different places that you could be listening where we've

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got what we've got Apple Podcasts, podcast Addict, Overcast, Spotify,

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my website, Jasonnuland, dot com, cast box, Deezer, my Heart Radio, Edge,

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pocket casts, Chrome and Tenor, pod Speaker, androidapp, Ivo's Audible, VLC, Alexa,

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media Player, Roku, and many of us. Actually, if you

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can do that, that would be really really helpful because

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it can help me to reach more people and hopefully

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help more people. Thank you very much. So I haven't

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done a huge amount today. I woke up, had my breakfast,

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took Vinoy out and then we got rained on. It

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was raining, and to start with, it's just like a

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little bit, you know, spitting, as I say, just a

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little bit weird word, isn't it weird term for rain

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and being spot like, yeah, lovely? But that was okay,

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and then it started proper raining and I ran back.

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This is about eight o'clock in the morning, so I'm

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running back with Vinnie, and Vinnie decides he wants to start.

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He wants to start smelling things, sniffing things like why

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but yeah, memo, it's now warm in here. What wasn't

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warm earlier? It wasn't hold, but it was cool. I mean,

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I'm doing my top. Ah, it hasn't made no difference. Scrape,

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just trying to look at some messages. I got here,

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all right, So I'll get on with the recording, shall

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I don't normally I've just taken him out again. There's

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quite a lot of screaming outside, but it is in

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a distance, so I'm guessing it's possibly a like a

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party or something kids party, because it's very high pitched,

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so I'm guessing that's what that is. And it's it's

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not it's not close by unless it's in someone's flat,

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but it sounds like it's like a distance away. You

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might hear it, you might not hear it. I've got

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my curtains drawn, the windows are closed, which is probably

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why it's hot in it. They stuff it and for

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some reason this is weird. For some reason, there's a

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cobweb and it's moving around, So I'm wondering if the

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heating has come on. Shouldn't really have come on. It's

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not that cold. It's not warm outside, but it's not

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cold either. It feels it really does feel like autumn

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is approaching. It's a very automny kind of ish, you know. Yeah.

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I took him out again a little while ago, about

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an hour ago. And it's weird because Vinny's got into

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this thing like he never used to bark at dogs,

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and he always used to love saying loo to everyone,

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including dogs. Now and then he changed and he started

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to be a bit barking towards some dogs, but always

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like really friendly to all people. And more recently over

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the last few months, he's he knows who he likes

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and he you know, he's not he's so but he

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knows who he doesn't like. And there's this particular couple

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with a dog and he barks every time, and I

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don't know, they seem to be annoyed by it. I

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can't help him bark it. I mean he does. That's

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what dogs do, isn't it. I make sure he keep

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him away, and he's it's not like he's a scary

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dog or anythink he's a tiny little jack Russell. But

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I don't know if it's the dog or the people

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that he's barking at, because I'm pretty sure I saw

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them out without the dog once and there's barking at them.

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So I don't know. He's just got his own sense

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of I guess who he likes and who doesn't like,

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and I can't figure it out. So yeah, it's a

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shame because he barks at the wrong dogs as well.

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He's just the dogs that have got no like the

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nice dogs. Not always. There's a few dogs that are

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not so good and they look like they want to

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eat him. But a few dogs he'll bark at and

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they're so gentle. But then he's got a handful of

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dogs that he loves that he spends time with, and

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you know, he doesn't necessarily play with them, but he's

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just happy to be around them. But he gives the

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attention to the owner, to the human. And then there's

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three dogs that he's friends with that he will play with,

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and he's not particularly interested in the owner. He is

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still I mean, he'll get treats. He's always around him.

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That's his main focus in life is to get treats.

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But at the same time, he also likes to play

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with the dog. I just can't keep track of I

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don't really I wish there was a way of communicating

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with him in a way that would make sense of

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his behavior. I'm no dog expert. And before anyone says,

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why don't you just watch those dog those programs on

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dogs and the dog expert TV programs, you can probably

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watch lots of them on YouTube, And the answer is no,

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I can't do that because as soon as the dog

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comes on the screen, Vinnie lets me know if there's

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a dog on the screen, which is very annoying, especially

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when I'm watching a movie and it's like early hours

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of the morning, or it's the evening time when I

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really don't want him to be barking, you know, like

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nine ten at night, or I'm usually in bed by them.

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But if I'm watching a movie and a dog comes on,

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it's so.

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Rare rare, rare, rare, rare, rare, right, rare rare.

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Okay, he barks. He doesn't do the sound I made,

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but he barks. And there's been times I had to

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turn the movie off because he won't stop barking, and

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it's just like stop it, man, please store pats. So yeah,

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we went out earlier, came back. Downstairs flat is being refurbished.

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This is funny, Well it's not funny, but they're putting

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in a brand new kitchen now. The person lived down

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there for a year, because that's where Lucas lived. She

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moved in. Two people were getting their bathroom, their kitchen's done,

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Uncle sausages one of them, and another person downstairs. I

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didn't I have had my kitchen done. She called the council.

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That's what she told me. This is the lady that

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was living in that flat for a year. She moved

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down recently to say when am I getting my kitchen done?

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About herself? Rather not about me, And they told her,

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But this is what she told me. She said they

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said to her that the kitchen had already be done

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a couple of years back, which I know is untrue

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because I probably would have remembered that, wouldn't I don't

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you think it's like nothing that interesting has happened in

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his flat when he lived there, in a sense of anything.

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I mean, his windows were hanging on by a nail.

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Its front windows, they would like rail. When it was windy,

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there'd be a breeze when all the windows were closed.

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They literally it would blow you over. So because it

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was just like all loose, the counselor came around and

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hammered a couple of nails in. That's it. It's like, wow, Okay.

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So when she moved there, and she she wanted a

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new kitchen and a new barthroom and all this stuff,

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and the council said no, because I've always been done,

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which I hadn't had been done but maybe twenty years ago.

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And I've been in all the flats except one. Yeah,

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I've not been to one flat. I've not been in

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I don't think. But I've been in all the other flats,

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not like regularly, but I've seen the kitchens in every flat.

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I mean, downstairs is pretty much identical to my flat

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below me is the same layout, and Luke's old flat.

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I'm imagining up stairs, the one that I've never been in,

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would be the same design, the same layout. However, perhaps

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not actually because Uncle Sausages a flat. Yeah, that's weird.

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Uncle Sausages flat was maybe not. Maybe it wasn't different, No,

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it probably No, it's the same layout, the same layout

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as downstairs as well. Yeah, same layout. I'm just trying

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to remember because I've not been in that flat very often.

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It's been a while since I've been in there, and

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I know Uncle Sausages flat layout quite well, and my

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own of course, and you know the one that my

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friend used to live in. I went in there a

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couple of times since the new person moved in. I

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should have moved down now, but by winning there a

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couple of times, it's very weird. I didn't like being

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in there, although it looked nothing like it did. It

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was really if you close your eyes and someone took

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you in there and you didn't know where you was,

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took you into one of the rooms, not the kitchen

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in the bathroom because it looks the same, but it

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took you into one of the rooms and it's like

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you wouldn't necessarily know where you was to start with.

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I mean, the windows the same, but the decord, the

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furniture is very different, very different. It was much neater, tidier. Yeah,

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it's much more just nicer, very I would say, minimalist.

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Not that he was a hoarder, but it's you know,

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it had less stuff in there, just different kitchen. The

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kitchen is different as well. But then you know he

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had a new fridge, freezer, new cooker, new microwave, new toaster,

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new kettle. And how do I know that because I'm

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the one who bought it all. Yep, yeah, and a

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new TV. I got that for her as well. Why

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did you do that? Then? I don't know. I actually

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wanted to help. And this is last summer, but yeah, hey,

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not this summer, but last year two thousand and twenty four.

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She did say she was going to give me, give

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me money back for it, but she didn't. So I'm

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trying to think, what is that noise out there? Maybe

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it's a birthday party. Good on them, that's the thing

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I try. You know, if there's if I was doing

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a recording where I needed complete silence. I mean, that's

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the ideal situation personally, But as long as I've got

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Vinnie eating treats on the floor, there ain't going to

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be complete silence, And as long as I'm talking, it's

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not going to be complete silence. But because I can

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hear it, I don't know if you can.

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not in a kind of annoying way.

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But if I was sitting here doing and like now,

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i'd like to focus, you'd focus on your toenails. We're

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going to relax your toenails and moving up to your pubes.

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It that kind of where I would be trying to

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be all sensible and serious and deeply relaxed. It's a

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bit of incongruents when internally I'm thinking.

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Will you shut up that noise?

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You know? And every now and then getting up and

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shouting out the window and sitting back down and continue

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that feeling of your knees knocking together. I don't know

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why that would happen, So I suppose I should just

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get on with the the point, the reason why I'm

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doing this recording, shouldn't I Q and a Friday? No

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no jingle? Um, that's weet. Okay, there go, there we go.

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message from Kara. Thanks Carra. That made me laugh. Your

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message made me laugh. I'm going to read it out

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because it's not private, but oh it is private, but

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it's not. I'm my good Oh my gracious, I'm losing

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my marbles laughing over Luke embarrassing you by saluting magpies.

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I love it so much, Thank you, Carra. That was

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yesterday's recording. So, by the way, anyone who watched my

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little I did this little like blowing and kiss thing

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a couple of days ago, and it was Ai. I

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did say it was I. I said thank you again

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for your birthday, which is I created this AI video

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from a photo I have better teeth here and it's

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been blowing and then this big smile and like perfect teeth.

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I mean, my teeth ain't awful, but like they're not.

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It looks like a kind of I had my teeth done,

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you know, they were like perfectly sparkly white, and in fact,

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I don't think if I smile my teeth, that amount

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of teeth doesn't show. If that makes sense, I'd have

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to lift my upper lift up like look, I was

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just doing it and it didn't actually make sense. I can't.

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I can't tell you what I had to do and

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do it at the same time because you it's not understandable.

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So I would have to lift my upper lift up

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in order for my or stayfle them up I say

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a game that didn't work, or you know, pushing them

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up somehow me trying to tell you that is this,

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I have a favor on my in order for you

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to see all my teeth. See. It doesn't quite work,

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but it's quite amazing though, because the rest of me

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looks fine. My face looks the same. It's it's kind

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of it does look like me. Well it is me,

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but there's part of it which is quite amazing. I

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think because my face because as you look at it

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like that is how my face would go generalely if

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I smiled. Apart from that, there wouldn't. It's not as

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much too Fitch. Yeah, AI is getting very clever, No

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so Q and a Friday, I posted a que oh yeah,

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any questions for Q and a Friday. I posted it

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on Monday, I do believe. So that's what I've tried

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to do because a couple of weeks ago, I think

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I posted it on the Wednesday and I've got one question,

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so and I didn't do I didn't do it because

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one question wasn't enough really to do a whole podcast,

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although technically it probably was. Thinking about it, I mean,

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I've not even started the questions yet and I'm still

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down nearly half an hour. I can't help it. I

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just can't stop talking. So I've got a new way

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of doing it now. So on a Monday, if I remember,

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I post this image which is on a post on

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Jason Newland's boring group why Not Join, And it's just

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basically color of thing, colored thing, and it says any

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questions for this week's Q and a Friday, Kiss Kiss Kiss,

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and then a couple of arrows either side pointing down

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to a yellow part of the image, and then the

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date when the Q and A Friday will be so,

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in this case to twenty ninth of April. And I'm

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going to post one of those if I remember, every Monday,

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but just change the date, you know, I mean, next

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week's one will be why is this not opening? There?

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It is? So I want all all comments, right, got it?

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So I've got questions from Maria, Hope, Rich, Robin, Kathleen, Mary,

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Dev and Ryl. So I'm going to ask you. I'm

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going to answer Dev's question first because, as it says here,

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Hello Jason. Also belate birthday greetings to you. Thank you Dev.

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This is a sort of rollover question from last week,

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but I probably posted it too late. Yeah, I think

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you posted it. I'd already made the recording at that point.

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Because this is from last week. As you were involved

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in the comedy scene, I wanted to know, are there

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any books or audiobooks, podcasts, etc. That you would recommend

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for learning about writing comedy? Thanks in advance. What I

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would advise I didn't do this myself, which really explains

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why I wasn't very good. But there are comedy courses

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you can do depending on where you live, of course,

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so I'm based in England, but at the time I

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lived in London, which is still England, and they had

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a comedy course. I forget what it was called, but

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it was very popular and I would say probably sixty

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percent of the new comedians have been on that course,

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maybe forty percent, but quite a few comedians have been

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on that course, and quite a few of them went

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on to do okay. So I went on to do

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really really well. I didn't do the course, and yeah,

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I didn't. I don't know why. I'm not sure. I

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kind of wish I had. I would have benefited from

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doing that. But then also I think I did go

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to a I did go to a Mandy Knight, who

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was really I don't know if she's still doing comedy,

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but she was. I used to going really well with her,

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and she was originally in a double act where she

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did improv. She's really good. She's a really funny, funny lady,

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and she held this improv class. So I went along

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to do it, to do it, and thinking about it

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the way I've kind of turned out, I'm I reckon

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I might have been better at doing some kind of improv,

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you know, bouncing off other people. That might have been

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a better way for me to go instead of standing

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on stage just trying to, you know, remember something that

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I'd written down at home. So there's lots of different

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ways to do it. So it's I think if I'm

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going to come from the I mean, one answer to

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your question is that our books out there, there are

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where books on how to do stand up So I'm

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going to do all the work for you instead of

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you going online and searching for yourself. I'll do it.

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Don't worry. I've got plenty of time. I'm not busy

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on Amazon. There is as a chicken two books if

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I remember rightly. Okay, this is one I don't know,

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Old Richard Belzer. Okay, he's very famous comedian in America.

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How to be a stand up Comedian. So that's a

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hardback book. I've not read that. The h where is it?

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This is a book I used to have called The

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Last Laugh The World of stand Up Comics. Now I

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almost want to get it again, but I'm kind of

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cutting down on my books now. But if you want

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to know about the history of stand up comedy in America,

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because that's pretty much where originated. Stand up comedy is

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an American thing. Really, they were doing alternative comedy in

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the fifties. We started doing it in the late seventies,

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you knows, I say we, But in this country they've

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always been decades ahead of us, not anymore, not anymore,

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but for a long time. And the English stand up

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comedians we've kind of when I say the newer breed,

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I'm talking last few decades, hugely influenced by American comedians,

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hugely influenced. But I would say possibly Americans are now

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influenced by us maybe as well, because because of the Internet,

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everything's kind of in the same time span. Now we're

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not really behind anymore. But that book, The Last Laugh,

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I won't teach you to do stand up comedy, but

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it's really I used to have it in one of

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the first books on comedy I ever bought about nineteen

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ninety one. I lent it to someone and I never

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got it back. Who was it that? Anyway, it was

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a really good book. Talks about I'll give you an

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example of the book. Out of it talks about Rodney

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da Dangerfield. I said, Rodney Daingefield was a comedian in

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the sixties and he went he basically quit comedy for

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about ten years, and then he came back and he

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became famous in the seventies. But he was like a

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lot older. And you know, I mean, if you think

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about Rodney Dangerfield, don't know. He's no longer with us,

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but I can't even remember him being young. Of course

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he was at one point, we all was at one point,

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but he always that that look he had made it

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kind of fitted in with his comedy. So maybe he

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was too young before because a lot of the stand

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up comedy really kind of post war, post Second World War.

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there'd be lots of coffee shops around America and people

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were performing coffee shops. They didn't nothing practically, but you know,

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there's there'd be there'd be a whole alternative kind of culture,

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and that's where people like Lenny Bruce came up, and

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George Carlin and maybe Richard Pryor as well. And then

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in the sixties, Lenny Bruce was a huge star in

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America for a while, and Richard Pryor was in the

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sixties to start with. It probably started in the fifties actually,

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but he was in the sixties. He became well known

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in America for a while because he'd I think he

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said something, what did Richard Pryor say? He earned a

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really good living for about five years, mimicking Bill Cosby,

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and by that I mean like with the jokes, with

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the act, nothing else. And for those that don't know

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Bill Cosby, don't worry. I'm not going anywhere weird with this.

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I think a lot of people outside of America maybe

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don't realize how big Bill Cosby was. And I'm not

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talking about TV wise. I'm talking about before television, not

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before television was invented, but before television. He was on television.

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Like anyone in the Western world is probably very well

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aware of the Bill Cosby Show, or maybe remembers it

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if they're you know, over a certain age. Maybe I

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don't think it's shown very often now for some reason,

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the reruns aren't on TV anymore. So he was. He

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was the biggest paid star. It was weird because in

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about nineteen eighty nine, nineteen eighty eight something like that,

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the three biggest paid star, according to the newspapers I

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was reading, were all Americans, and the biggest paid stars

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in America anyway entertainers. So you had Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby,

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and Prince and they were all making like one hundred

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million a year something like that. Prince was constantly on tour,

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selling millions of albums. Bill Cosby was on TV and

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his TV show was everywhere the most famous comedian in

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the world. Although I didn't know he was a comedian.

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I just knew he was Doctor Huxtable. I didn't know

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him as being didn't we know. I mean, I knew

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he was called Bill Cosby because it was the It

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wasn't the Huxtable Show, it was it was The Cosby Show.

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Confuse me a little bit. That doesn't take much. I mean,

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isn't that amazing? But before that, Bill Cosby, I'm not

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saying that he was more famous, but he was a

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huge star long before the Bill Cosby Show that you know,

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Cosby's in America. He filled out arenas all over America

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with his stand up. He had best selling albums comedy

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albums in the sixties, huge star sixties and seventies. He

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was massive, and of course he was massive in the

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eighties as well, for a different thing. But he was huge.

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It's really I don't mean to gush. That's a weird word,

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isn't it. I don't mean to be all gushy about it,

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especially as you know, I'm forgetting about any personal stuff

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to do with him. But it was on a level

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that I don't think anyone really reached because he reached

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a much wider audience than someone like Richard Pryor, who

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are a lot of people because a lot of comedians

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they would say, they may say maybe not now, but

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they used to say, this is Lenny Bruce was pretty

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much the most influential stand up comedian ever. But the

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king of comedy was Richard Pryor, and that used to

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be kind of the pretty much the understood accepted I'm

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not going to say the word narrative, also just said

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it of stand up comedy. Like Lenny Bruce, he broke

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through barriers. He got arrested constantly, and he pretty much

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he died for his art, you could say. And he

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was funny, but then he got very he got caught

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up in all the court cases, and that's all he

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did on stage was just talk about his court cases.

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Richard Pryor, and he broke a lot of taboos, which

449
00:38:26.280 --> 00:38:31.639
more than probably anyone else at the time. But then

450
00:38:31.679 --> 00:38:36.360
when Richard Pryor went on stage, he got away with

451
00:38:36.400 --> 00:38:41.119
a lot more because it was you know, it was

452
00:38:41.360 --> 00:38:48.599
years later. And also he could talk about being black

453
00:38:48.800 --> 00:38:52.039
and he couldn't get in trouble for that. Lenny Bruce

454
00:38:52.159 --> 00:38:56.599
used to talk about the different things between the races

455
00:38:56.639 --> 00:38:59.639
in America, and he got in trouble for it, and

456
00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:03.639
people got upset. But Richard Pryde, I don't know why

457
00:39:03.679 --> 00:39:06.360
that's funny, but just Richard Pryor did it in a day.

458
00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:09.440
I'm just thinking of I remembering Richard Pryor. That's all

459
00:39:09.440 --> 00:39:12.480
I'm laughing at. Is God remembering some of the stuff

460
00:39:12.480 --> 00:39:17.960
that he used to talk about. John And I'll tell

461
00:39:17.960 --> 00:39:19.920
you one of his jokes from his albums rich Prior.

462
00:39:21.400 --> 00:39:26.199
I can't even tell you the name of the album, Okay,

463
00:39:26.440 --> 00:39:33.159
I mean, bearing in mind right now, you can't buy

464
00:39:33.199 --> 00:39:37.559
the album. They put a sticker over the cut of

465
00:39:37.960 --> 00:39:43.280
the image of it, like if you watch it, if

466
00:39:43.320 --> 00:39:45.239
you go on Amazon or stuff like that, they will

467
00:39:45.280 --> 00:39:49.199
cover over the word. But in the seventies they didn't.

468
00:39:51.039 --> 00:39:56.880
But one of his names is albums was that N

469
00:39:56.960 --> 00:40:04.840
word is crazy by some by centennial N word, and

470
00:40:05.199 --> 00:40:08.159
you know, and he used that word a lot that

471
00:40:08.239 --> 00:40:12.039
these albums were named with that word on it. Now,

472
00:40:12.119 --> 00:40:17.960
Lenny Bruce, if he'd have done something like that, it'd

473
00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:21.719
still be in prison, would still be alive probably, Wow.

474
00:40:24.719 --> 00:40:27.639
But Richard Pryor got away with that just shows you

475
00:40:27.679 --> 00:40:30.400
how different things were by the time Richard Pryor was famous.

476
00:40:32.079 --> 00:40:34.079
But one of his jokes on one of his albums

477
00:40:34.239 --> 00:40:43.360
is there's two brothers. As he said, two brothers stand

478
00:40:43.400 --> 00:40:47.360
because he was talking about the cliche of different body

479
00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:50.519
parts and sizes between races and stuff. I'm not going

480
00:40:50.599 --> 00:40:53.760
to it, but he said, I won't do that his voice.

481
00:40:53.800 --> 00:40:55.400
I used to be able to do his voice quite well.

482
00:40:56.239 --> 00:41:03.480
Two brothers standing on a bridge, weewie's that's side by side,

483
00:41:03.679 --> 00:41:07.800
we in off a bridge, and one of them.

484
00:41:07.880 --> 00:41:14.079
Says, oh, the war's cold, and everyone says, yeah, it's

485
00:41:14.119 --> 00:41:19.440
deep too, so it's yeah, it's.

486
00:41:19.360 --> 00:41:21.519
Quite a funny joy. It's funny when he says it.

487
00:41:25.239 --> 00:41:27.519
I just think that's something that I can't tell you.

488
00:41:27.519 --> 00:41:30.440
You know, he's worth listening to if you've never I

489
00:41:30.519 --> 00:41:34.360
realized that's not the question. But if you want to

490
00:41:34.400 --> 00:41:40.719
hear something that you've perhaps never heard before, maybe check

491
00:41:40.760 --> 00:41:48.679
out a Richard Pryor album. Because if you've seen Richard

492
00:41:48.679 --> 00:41:52.039
prior just in movies and as I had up to

493
00:41:52.079 --> 00:41:56.519
the age of about eighteen or nineteen, I didn't know

494
00:41:56.639 --> 00:42:00.519
he did stand up comedy. Maybe eighteen, I knew he

495
00:42:00.599 --> 00:42:11.239
was in Brewster's Millions and See No Evil, Hear No Evil,

496
00:42:11.360 --> 00:42:15.320
and Stir Crazy and all those movies that he did

497
00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:21.800
with What's his Name and Superman three. So you know,

498
00:42:21.880 --> 00:42:24.719
I loved Richard Pryor when I was a little kid

499
00:42:24.960 --> 00:42:29.280
or growing up. I loved him. It was hilarious, but

500
00:42:29.320 --> 00:42:32.079
I didn't know he did stand up comedy. And there's

501
00:42:32.119 --> 00:42:34.199
no way in the world that anyone was going to

502
00:42:34.239 --> 00:42:36.559
show me his stand up comedy because I was a

503
00:42:36.559 --> 00:42:41.000
little kid, because it was adults rating and my dad

504
00:42:41.239 --> 00:42:44.360
was never into that kind of stuff anyway, so I

505
00:42:44.400 --> 00:42:47.920
never got to hear it. And then when I was

506
00:42:48.000 --> 00:42:53.039
nine to about eighteen, I I thought while I was

507
00:42:53.079 --> 00:42:56.199
in the second hand shop, I think like a record shop,

508
00:42:57.119 --> 00:42:59.199
and I was looking through the albums because I started

509
00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:05.519
listening to albums like Steve Martin, Emo Phillips. I'd started

510
00:43:05.519 --> 00:43:09.159
buying albums as well, so Emo Phillips, Steve Martin, Steven Wright,

511
00:43:11.400 --> 00:43:14.920
Bill Cosby. There was quite a few Bill Cosby albums,

512
00:43:15.320 --> 00:43:19.920
and it was like I was so transfixed. And I

513
00:43:20.159 --> 00:43:23.800
started getting videos as well, so Steve Martin, as I said,

514
00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:32.199
comics from here as well. Jerry Sadovich loads loads of

515
00:43:32.280 --> 00:43:34.360
sort of stand up to me. I had quite a

516
00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:41.360
nice library actually of videos, and I discovered Richard Pryor,

517
00:43:43.000 --> 00:43:45.639
so that the two things that I really remember discovering

518
00:43:45.800 --> 00:43:50.199
was well, Steve Main. I had no idea that he

519
00:43:50.320 --> 00:43:53.800
was a comedian. I'd seen him in movies, and some

520
00:43:53.840 --> 00:43:57.440
of his early movies I loved, long before he was

521
00:43:57.480 --> 00:44:02.239
famous in this country. I watched these films like Dead

522
00:44:02.280 --> 00:44:07.719
Men Don't Bear Plaid and Lonely Guy and The Man

523
00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:11.480
with Two Brains and stuff like that. What's the other

524
00:44:11.519 --> 00:44:15.800
one two of me? Or I forget it, but they

525
00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:20.079
were good with Lily Tomlin that was so funny. And

526
00:44:20.119 --> 00:44:24.519
then he did the Jerk and he became more famous worldwide.

527
00:44:24.719 --> 00:44:27.639
He was famous in America already. I didn't know that

528
00:44:27.760 --> 00:44:32.199
he was selling out arenas doing stand up comedy. Now,

529
00:44:33.159 --> 00:44:36.639
Dev you're probably regretting asking me that question, because you've

530
00:44:36.639 --> 00:44:39.599
got me onto a subject that I didn't realize that

531
00:44:39.719 --> 00:44:43.440
still had a bit of passion for, which is weird.

532
00:44:46.800 --> 00:44:52.440
But yeah, when I discovered Richard Pryor's albums, I couldn't

533
00:44:52.440 --> 00:44:55.400
believe what I was listening to because there was stuff

534
00:44:55.440 --> 00:45:00.800
that I wasn't supposed to be saying, still not allowed

535
00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:04.000
to say, but it was I hadn't heard, hadn't really

536
00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:10.480
heard other people say it. And then I discovered George Carlin,

537
00:45:11.159 --> 00:45:14.519
who in a way probably made me laugh even more.

538
00:45:16.800 --> 00:45:22.639
Some of his earlier stand up comic albums so funny,

539
00:45:22.719 --> 00:45:25.800
and I really got into him probably in the early

540
00:45:27.039 --> 00:45:30.239
probably about nineteen ninety and then ninety one, so I

541
00:45:30.280 --> 00:45:32.679
was listening to him quite a lot. Then when I

542
00:45:32.760 --> 00:45:39.039
kind of started out doing comedy, and I had it

543
00:45:39.119 --> 00:45:44.079
influenced me in no way. So I was listening in regularity, regularly,

544
00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:49.440
I was listening a lot to some of the greatest comedians,

545
00:45:51.519 --> 00:45:56.079
and it did not improve my performance. And also I

546
00:45:56.199 --> 00:46:02.039
was seeing in person some brilliant comedians regularly every week,

547
00:46:02.360 --> 00:46:07.239
sometimes two three times a week, including those that I

548
00:46:07.320 --> 00:46:09.400
used to be on the same bill with, and I

549
00:46:09.440 --> 00:46:11.800
still didn't get any better. Well, I got a little

550
00:46:11.800 --> 00:46:17.840
bit better, but I didn't. I didn't improve to the

551
00:46:17.880 --> 00:46:20.679
point where you kind of think I would do being

552
00:46:20.760 --> 00:46:26.079
around such talent, which I was for a long time.

553
00:46:27.519 --> 00:46:30.800
I mean I was involved with the comedy scene for

554
00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:36.920
a long time, long long time. But anyway, Yes, So

555
00:46:40.199 --> 00:46:43.599
Derek and Clyde was another one was Derek and Clive,

556
00:46:44.480 --> 00:46:52.679
Derek and Clive, which was what was it, Peter Cook

557
00:46:52.719 --> 00:46:59.599
and Dudley Moore. I discovered them in nineteen ninety or

558
00:46:59.599 --> 00:47:03.760
maybe it was nine, maybe nineteen ninety. I remember listening

559
00:47:03.800 --> 00:47:06.159
to it during my breaks at work with another colleague

560
00:47:06.159 --> 00:47:11.119
at work and we were just laughing. It was so

561
00:47:11.360 --> 00:47:17.119
funny because I'd never heard an English person talk like

562
00:47:17.159 --> 00:47:22.360
that say The things that they were saying was so outrageous,

563
00:47:23.599 --> 00:47:29.639
so wrong on every level, but hilarious. I just found

564
00:47:29.679 --> 00:47:35.760
it absolutely hilarious. And there was three albums, I think,

565
00:47:35.840 --> 00:47:40.079
including the live ones, so there's ad Nauseum Come Again,

566
00:47:40.800 --> 00:47:44.199
and I think it was just a live one I think,

567
00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:49.639
unless there was four albums, I think it was three. Anyway,

568
00:47:50.639 --> 00:47:54.840
as far as books go, has it got a couple?

569
00:47:55.519 --> 00:47:57.760
I can't find the one I was looking for. So

570
00:47:57.880 --> 00:48:00.760
there are quite a few stand up books Stand Up Comic,

571
00:48:00.840 --> 00:48:10.079
How to Become a Stand Up Comic on Amazon, so

572
00:48:10.199 --> 00:48:13.840
there's a few. But what I would probably recommend if

573
00:48:13.840 --> 00:48:15.519
you if you're living in London, or if you're in

574
00:48:15.559 --> 00:48:19.920
a city or just check there might be something local

575
00:48:20.880 --> 00:48:24.960
is if you can find a course which you can

576
00:48:25.000 --> 00:48:31.320
go to, you like a four week course, one evening

577
00:48:31.400 --> 00:48:34.519
a week or one Saturday afternoon a week for six

578
00:48:34.559 --> 00:48:40.199
weeks or whatever, because the benefit of that is, firstly

579
00:48:41.199 --> 00:48:44.920
you'll be it'll be an introduction to the comedy world.

580
00:48:47.519 --> 00:48:50.000
A much probably quite a gentle way to do it

581
00:48:50.559 --> 00:48:53.360
in some ways, because I think quite often the way

582
00:48:53.440 --> 00:48:59.760
they they like format it is you go along. You're

583
00:48:59.800 --> 00:49:04.079
in a room with maybe five, six, ten, twelve people

584
00:49:04.159 --> 00:49:06.519
that you've never met before, but they're in the same

585
00:49:06.800 --> 00:49:09.599
they are the same level as you. They're the same

586
00:49:09.679 --> 00:49:11.800
if they're just starting out, or maybe they've done a

587
00:49:11.840 --> 00:49:17.239
few gigs, or maybe they've never done it, but what

588
00:49:17.280 --> 00:49:21.119
they were have in common with you is enthusiasm and

589
00:49:21.880 --> 00:49:26.159
you know, the dream of doing it, and maybe most

590
00:49:26.159 --> 00:49:30.800
of them have never been on stage before as a comedian.

591
00:49:32.679 --> 00:49:37.039
And then you've got the teacher who is going to

592
00:49:37.079 --> 00:49:40.920
be very much likely or have many many years of

593
00:49:40.960 --> 00:49:46.480
being a comedian and thinking about this course. In London,

594
00:49:47.000 --> 00:49:51.280
they used to have headliners from the comedy circuit in

595
00:49:51.320 --> 00:49:55.320
London every week come along and talk to the group,

596
00:49:57.559 --> 00:49:59.559
which is something you're not going to get in any

597
00:49:59.559 --> 00:50:05.440
other city. Cuation. It's you know, it's I mean, you

598
00:50:05.519 --> 00:50:08.280
probably can go to a comedy club and say hello

599
00:50:09.000 --> 00:50:11.159
to someone who's been on stage. You know, they'd a

600
00:50:11.239 --> 00:50:15.840
headliner and self, I really enjoyed your your performance, They

601
00:50:15.920 --> 00:50:19.239
might say thanks, But the chances of them sitting down

602
00:50:19.320 --> 00:50:22.599
for half an hour and actually going through what it's

603
00:50:22.679 --> 00:50:28.239
like to be a comedian and getting advice. Even I

604
00:50:28.280 --> 00:50:32.800
struggled to get that. And I was a comic and

605
00:50:32.840 --> 00:50:36.079
I knew these people, you know. Once I started, I

606
00:50:36.119 --> 00:50:38.760
got to know some people, and I didn't get hardly

607
00:50:38.800 --> 00:50:43.519
any advice. I think I was given up as a

608
00:50:43.559 --> 00:50:50.039
lost cause first, very early on, and I just it

609
00:50:50.119 --> 00:50:52.679
seemed like the biggest joke of my comedy act was me.

610
00:50:54.719 --> 00:51:01.199
That was the biggest joke. Bless see, I'm sure I've

611
00:51:02.320 --> 00:51:07.159
been either did Benivo or whatever. I used to have

612
00:51:07.280 --> 00:51:11.239
a book. But then another thing in the course they

613
00:51:11.320 --> 00:51:17.559
do is generally, as far as I know, they build

614
00:51:17.639 --> 00:51:21.679
up to you doing putting a nice five minutes together,

615
00:51:22.239 --> 00:51:25.239
and you're performing. Every week you go and performing something

616
00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:27.960
in front of the rest of the group, with the

617
00:51:28.039 --> 00:51:32.679
culmination of an actual gig at the end of it,

618
00:51:32.920 --> 00:51:34.800
and all of you will go on stage in front

619
00:51:34.840 --> 00:51:37.880
of a paid audience or maybe a free audience, at

620
00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:43.000
a comedy club or come a comedy night or something

621
00:51:43.039 --> 00:51:45.719
like that, So it'll be an audience, an audience members

622
00:51:45.760 --> 00:51:50.039
will be there and you get a chance to perform

623
00:51:50.280 --> 00:51:55.440
in front of complete strangers, an actual proper comedy audience

624
00:51:55.480 --> 00:51:58.480
for the first time. And the good thing about that

625
00:51:58.639 --> 00:52:02.280
is the audience know what come into. It's not like

626
00:52:02.599 --> 00:52:06.280
an ordinary open night, spot night where they might be

627
00:52:06.280 --> 00:52:09.320
coming to heckel and stuff. They're come in to support

628
00:52:09.400 --> 00:52:12.159
because they know that you've just gone through a course,

629
00:52:12.800 --> 00:52:15.079
a six week course or whatever. So they're going to

630
00:52:15.079 --> 00:52:18.320
be supportive. They're not going to laugh if it's not funny,

631
00:52:18.360 --> 00:52:21.880
but they're still they're not going to be hard on

632
00:52:21.920 --> 00:52:28.679
the comedians and be open to like it's nice now.

633
00:52:28.719 --> 00:52:31.119
I kind of I've got a lot of information from

634
00:52:31.239 --> 00:52:33.400
about these courses because I know a lot of people

635
00:52:33.400 --> 00:52:38.480
that went on them what I did, And yeah, so

636
00:52:38.559 --> 00:52:42.320
that's what I would recommend. The books are good. You

637
00:52:42.360 --> 00:52:45.599
can learn something from books. Of course, most of my

638
00:52:45.719 --> 00:52:55.559
learning has really come from books, I guess, but yeah,

639
00:52:55.599 --> 00:52:58.000
there's a lot. There's a lot of books on a

640
00:52:58.039 --> 00:53:02.000
stand up comedy that you can get hold of. I

641
00:53:02.119 --> 00:53:07.079
don't know which one I would necessarily recommend. I'm just

642
00:53:07.119 --> 00:53:16.239
looking down. All right, there's a Woody Ellen, but it's

643
00:53:16.280 --> 00:53:19.840
a it's a stand up comic, Okay. So I can't

644
00:53:19.840 --> 00:53:21.639
think that I'm going to put Richard Pryor in because

645
00:53:21.639 --> 00:53:24.960
I just want to see what the if it's censored.

646
00:53:27.239 --> 00:53:43.320
Rich Prior? Okay, past, I spill his name right here

647
00:53:43.360 --> 00:53:47.559
we go, right. Oh, it's all of his films from

648
00:53:47.559 --> 00:53:54.760
eighty to ninety one, blu Ray Richard Pryce also WHOA.

649
00:53:55.559 --> 00:53:59.679
There's a book about him called Prior Convictions, another book

650
00:53:59.719 --> 00:54:09.880
called Becoming Richard Pryor. Okay, he did. I still it's

651
00:54:09.920 --> 00:54:14.599
really childish. But there's a movie that he did and

652
00:54:14.639 --> 00:54:18.400
he's I think it's called The Toy and he's like

653
00:54:18.920 --> 00:54:23.760
looking after this little kid who's rich and I think

654
00:54:23.840 --> 00:54:26.159
he's kind of like the kid's toy, just just to

655
00:54:26.199 --> 00:54:29.760
do what the kid wants him to do. And he

656
00:54:29.840 --> 00:54:35.320
gets introduced to this little kid and so this is

657
00:54:36.199 --> 00:54:39.000
mister Pryor or whatever his name was in the movie

658
00:54:39.280 --> 00:54:44.199
and said welcome and like you to meet your new boss,

659
00:54:44.239 --> 00:54:51.760
Master Bates. Now I saw that when I was what

660
00:54:54.440 --> 00:54:59.119
probably about fourteen thirteen, and I'm still laughing because I'm

661
00:54:59.360 --> 00:55:03.960
so child odish. I still find hilarious. It's weird of it.

662
00:55:07.079 --> 00:55:11.880
So yeah, that's my answer to your question, dev is

663
00:55:13.599 --> 00:55:22.559
try if you can find a place where you can

664
00:55:22.679 --> 00:55:29.719
maybe do some training, go to a course, a stand

665
00:55:29.800 --> 00:55:34.440
up comedy course, and dell include things like writing performance,

666
00:55:34.559 --> 00:55:37.239
how to hold a microphone, how far to have the

667
00:55:37.320 --> 00:55:41.119
microphone away from you from your mouth, where to look

668
00:55:41.159 --> 00:55:45.360
when you're on stage. I guess just you know things,

669
00:55:45.639 --> 00:55:49.599
all the things that I still don't know how to do.

670
00:55:50.360 --> 00:55:55.559
So thanks to that. So, Maria Hijason. On a recent recording,

671
00:55:55.639 --> 00:56:04.239
you mentioned that you might need new glasses the calls soon. Yep, yep, definitely.

672
00:56:04.559 --> 00:56:07.760
Would you have to be bifocal? Would they have to

673
00:56:07.800 --> 00:56:12.199
be by vocal or very focal? Have you ever worn

674
00:56:12.320 --> 00:56:16.480
contact lenses or it's something you consider doing? Thank you well,

675
00:56:16.519 --> 00:56:23.679
thanks Maria. I'll answer the first the second question first, No,

676
00:56:24.599 --> 00:56:30.199
and no and no and no and no contact lenses. No,

677
00:56:30.639 --> 00:56:36.440
I could know. It's not something I would do. I know,

678
00:56:36.519 --> 00:56:40.000
I understand why people do do it, especially like younger people.

679
00:56:40.719 --> 00:56:45.159
I mean not everyone likes glasses and to wearing glasses,

680
00:56:45.159 --> 00:56:46.840
and it can get in a way, you know, it

681
00:56:46.920 --> 00:56:50.880
gets steamed up at times and they get dirty and

682
00:56:51.039 --> 00:56:57.719
depending on what you're doing. I mean, I'm a messy eater.

683
00:56:59.079 --> 00:57:03.679
But contact lenses, no, I don't know. It doesn't really

684
00:57:03.719 --> 00:57:11.760
appeal to me. Never has. As far as bifocals or

685
00:57:11.960 --> 00:57:14.960
veryer focals, I'm not quite sure what very a focal

686
00:57:15.079 --> 00:57:19.880
is by focal, I think it's I think I have

687
00:57:20.039 --> 00:57:22.280
been very a focal is that where like the different

688
00:57:22.320 --> 00:57:27.000
parts kind of you can't see, but that yeah, you

689
00:57:27.039 --> 00:57:31.320
can see because the glasses, but my glass at the moment,

690
00:57:32.559 --> 00:57:36.119
the bottom part is for reading, and the middle part

691
00:57:36.480 --> 00:57:42.920
is for like distance, and supposedly the you know, the

692
00:57:43.039 --> 00:57:47.079
highest part is for like computer work, but generally it's

693
00:57:47.119 --> 00:57:49.719
the bottom parts for reading. And it's not big enough

694
00:57:49.840 --> 00:57:58.239
because I need separate reading glasses. And maybe that's what

695
00:57:58.320 --> 00:58:07.159
the very focal is. I used to have trifocals where

696
00:58:07.519 --> 00:58:09.639
I this is years ago when I was in the

697
00:58:09.679 --> 00:58:16.719
call center and a was it bifocals? Yeah, but they

698
00:58:16.719 --> 00:58:23.000
were almost that had like a line across so the

699
00:58:23.639 --> 00:58:28.079
I could read again read at the bottom. The middle

700
00:58:28.239 --> 00:58:32.719
was for distance, and it was really weird. It's very

701
00:58:32.840 --> 00:58:35.519
It felt very strange because I felt like I was

702
00:58:36.400 --> 00:58:44.159
taller than I would normally be because instead of like

703
00:58:44.239 --> 00:58:47.159
the distance, you know, it brings it closer, doesn't it.

704
00:58:47.599 --> 00:58:51.800
But the bottom part was pushing things further away for

705
00:58:51.840 --> 00:58:55.159
some reason. So I felt really tall, which was nice,

706
00:58:55.679 --> 00:58:58.440
but I felt, you know, a bit stumbling a bit.

707
00:58:59.039 --> 00:59:03.920
I tripped over a couple times, and I realized my shoelaces.

708
00:59:04.079 --> 00:59:06.679
I'm done. No, I didn't. That was weird, But yeah,

709
00:59:06.760 --> 00:59:12.840
I think no, no contact lenses. But also no longer

710
00:59:12.920 --> 00:59:16.440
am I going to get any kind of bifocals. I'm

711
00:59:16.440 --> 00:59:20.880
going to stick to from now on. At least, I'm

712
00:59:20.880 --> 00:59:26.559
going to stick to glasses for reading, separate glasses for

713
00:59:26.639 --> 00:59:30.400
everyday use for distance, which I definitely need more than

714
00:59:30.400 --> 00:59:34.639
anything else, and maybe try and get some glasses for

715
00:59:34.880 --> 00:59:45.960
computer use. The three separate things I do have anti glare.

716
00:59:46.239 --> 00:59:50.000
I think they're supposed to be anti glare, but I do,

717
00:59:50.079 --> 00:59:52.400
you know, video myself, and they do glare, so I'm

718
00:59:52.400 --> 00:59:56.400
not sure what that's about. They stare right at me,

719
00:59:57.480 --> 01:00:03.440
but the other act to light active active light or whatever,

720
01:00:03.760 --> 01:00:06.280
so they go they turn into kind of shades when

721
01:00:06.280 --> 01:00:11.440
I'm outside in the sunlight. That's something that I had

722
01:00:11.480 --> 01:00:17.880
because in my family we've got macro degeneration is kind

723
01:00:17.920 --> 01:00:24.159
of like a hereditary thing. And a few years back,

724
01:00:24.320 --> 01:00:32.519
my what's it opticians said, yeah, the best thing to

725
01:00:32.599 --> 01:00:34.360
do because you looked at the back of my eyes.

726
01:00:34.480 --> 01:00:37.880
He said, well, potentially the beginnings of that. You need

727
01:00:37.960 --> 01:00:43.239
to just protect your eyes when you're outside. So that's

728
01:00:43.280 --> 01:00:47.280
what I do. And he said, but you can wear sunshades.

729
01:00:47.320 --> 01:00:51.039
I said, yeah, but I need glasses, so i'd have

730
01:00:51.119 --> 01:00:56.320
to get the sunshades in my prescription. So it'd be

731
01:00:56.320 --> 01:00:59.199
easier just to get the them shade, you know, to

732
01:00:59.239 --> 01:01:05.360
shade on their own. Yeah, I'm going to get some soon,

733
01:01:06.000 --> 01:01:09.039
maybe not for Christmas, but I will eventually want to

734
01:01:09.079 --> 01:01:11.159
get things sorted out. I've got a few bits going on,

735
01:01:11.199 --> 01:01:14.719
so once I get everything sorted out, I'm going to

736
01:01:14.719 --> 01:01:18.159
get myself some glasses and I'll be it. So that'd

737
01:01:18.199 --> 01:01:27.800
be good. Hope asks, how did you end up adopting Andre? Well,

738
01:01:30.639 --> 01:01:35.679
I didn't want a ferret. That was a good way

739
01:01:35.719 --> 01:01:40.320
to start to start my story about the one of

740
01:01:40.360 --> 01:01:45.960
the lovers of my life, which was still is. Actually

741
01:01:46.280 --> 01:01:53.119
I love that little boy. I love him forever. My

742
01:01:53.559 --> 01:01:59.039
Luke downstairs had a ferret when I moved in. He

743
01:01:59.119 --> 01:02:02.760
had a ferret, and I was like, okay. First of all,

744
01:02:02.840 --> 01:02:05.559
I was very a little bit scared, very a little bit,

745
01:02:06.039 --> 01:02:12.920
a little bit very scared because I just didn't really

746
01:02:13.039 --> 01:02:16.559
know what to do with it. It was very quick

747
01:02:16.719 --> 01:02:22.199
and very sharp teeth, and he was a biter, which

748
01:02:22.280 --> 01:02:25.880
put me off. I think it's I think it might

749
01:02:25.920 --> 01:02:30.159
be thundering. So it put me off, okay, because I

750
01:02:30.159 --> 01:02:32.039
didn't want that. I didn't want something that was going

751
01:02:32.079 --> 01:02:35.119
to be biting people who came around. Not that I

752
01:02:35.159 --> 01:02:37.480
get a lot of people visiting, but I didn't want

753
01:02:37.559 --> 01:02:42.159
to be bitten myself. He found it funny. It'd let

754
01:02:43.440 --> 01:02:45.960
l was the name of the ferry. He'd well, it's

755
01:02:45.960 --> 01:02:49.519
the poul cat. But he'd let him bite him and

756
01:02:49.559 --> 01:02:55.320
he just didn't care. He bit me once, but really

757
01:02:55.320 --> 01:03:00.320
bit me on the on my arm. And what it's

758
01:03:00.320 --> 01:03:04.760
to do is to do like the crocodile role. It's

759
01:03:04.880 --> 01:03:07.320
not good and it really hurt. I left a mark

760
01:03:07.400 --> 01:03:10.280
on their for weeks. This was early on my time

761
01:03:10.360 --> 01:03:15.760
living it. So I thought no because I considered because

762
01:03:15.760 --> 01:03:19.519
I wanted to get a dog, and he said, oh,

763
01:03:19.880 --> 01:03:21.840
you could get a faery. I said no, you're right,

764
01:03:23.960 --> 01:03:25.519
and I was going to get a dog. And then

765
01:03:27.000 --> 01:03:29.559
the dog that I went and visited didn't like me

766
01:03:30.960 --> 01:03:33.960
a bit like Vinnie. Just didn't wasn't interested at all

767
01:03:35.480 --> 01:03:37.280
and as a puppy, but it was in a like

768
01:03:37.320 --> 01:03:43.480
a shelter, you know, an animal place, and I just like,

769
01:03:45.159 --> 01:03:51.360
I want my feeling, my theory, my idea if I

770
01:03:51.400 --> 01:03:53.519
ever got a dog of my own, would be to

771
01:03:53.599 --> 01:03:57.320
go and visit that dog. And maybe there's like six

772
01:03:57.440 --> 01:04:01.920
dogs and one comes up to me and chooses me.

773
01:04:03.039 --> 01:04:05.440
That's what I wanted. I wanted a dog to choose me.

774
01:04:06.760 --> 01:04:10.679
It didn't happen, so I kind of I visited twice,

775
01:04:11.800 --> 01:04:15.559
still didn't really fill any connection with the dog. So

776
01:04:15.599 --> 01:04:19.039
I decided not to get that dog. And they kept

777
01:04:19.039 --> 01:04:21.280
saying they calling me, or we've got other people that

778
01:04:21.360 --> 01:04:24.559
want to take us. Would just do that then, because

779
01:04:24.559 --> 01:04:28.320
it just didn't feel a beautiful little dog, but it

780
01:04:28.480 --> 01:04:32.159
just just didn't didn't seem like the dog liked me

781
01:04:33.800 --> 01:04:37.800
a bit like Vinny. He doesn't seem to like me.

782
01:04:39.480 --> 01:04:41.599
I think he loves me, but he doesn't like me,

783
01:04:41.760 --> 01:04:49.480
I think sometimes. And so I didn't get an animalony end,

784
01:04:49.480 --> 01:04:54.199
it didn't get a pair. And then around the November

785
01:04:54.239 --> 01:04:59.840
time might be in October November ish, I normally say November.

786
01:05:00.079 --> 01:05:05.000
I don't know, and this is two thy fifteen, Luke

787
01:05:05.079 --> 01:05:11.159
says to me, Ah, I said yeah. He said, my

788
01:05:11.320 --> 01:05:21.360
friend who breathes ferrets has got two ferrets going needing

789
01:05:21.400 --> 01:05:27.280
new homes. And I said yeah. He said, are you

790
01:05:27.320 --> 01:05:32.400
interested in getting a ferret? Now? These? Well you might

791
01:05:32.400 --> 01:05:36.679
not know this. Andre was related to L. So L

792
01:05:37.199 --> 01:05:43.840
was Andre's uncle liked blood relative because he had got

793
01:05:44.000 --> 01:05:47.320
L from there as well from that same friend like

794
01:05:47.480 --> 01:05:54.000
a cuple few years earlier, so they were related. Anyway,

795
01:05:54.800 --> 01:05:58.920
I thought, yeah, maybe I will. But then I thought,

796
01:05:59.039 --> 01:06:03.760
you know, they did stink a bit. I personally loved

797
01:06:03.800 --> 01:06:07.119
the smell of Andre, but I know not everybody is

798
01:06:07.119 --> 01:06:12.480
into that kind of stinky stink. I think he's I mean,

799
01:06:12.519 --> 01:06:15.079
he didn't always smell good, because they are kind of

800
01:06:15.079 --> 01:06:21.760
a bit skunky at times. Anyway, I thought about it.

801
01:06:21.960 --> 01:06:26.039
I thought yes, no, yes, no, And then I thought

802
01:06:26.760 --> 01:06:31.320
no no, I've got a brand new carpet that's only

803
01:06:31.360 --> 01:06:35.280
been in there for a few months, the flats looking good.

804
01:06:36.559 --> 01:06:42.559
I don't want it ruined. Well. I got a bit

805
01:06:42.639 --> 01:06:47.400
interrupted then because Phinnis started barking and I couldn't figure

806
01:06:47.400 --> 01:06:51.480
out why he was barking. And then I heard some thunder.

807
01:06:53.719 --> 01:06:58.840
Now we've had thunder before. I don't mean, you know,

808
01:06:59.199 --> 01:07:02.920
in history, but you know, since I've had Finny, there's

809
01:07:02.920 --> 01:07:10.159
been thunder. And normally he doesn't seem to be too bothered.

810
01:07:11.679 --> 01:07:15.320
But it did. I fit norly. You know, maybe there'd

811
01:07:15.320 --> 01:07:18.320
be the TV would be on it kind of cover

812
01:07:18.360 --> 01:07:22.639
it up a little bit, but yeah, it was. He

813
01:07:22.679 --> 01:07:26.320
didn't like it. The ely other time I've seen him

814
01:07:26.360 --> 01:07:34.079
really disturbed by anything outside, you know, is fireworks. Once

815
01:07:34.159 --> 01:07:36.639
we was out at night and the fireworks were going

816
01:07:36.679 --> 01:07:39.719
off and he pulled me home, so we didn't like that.

817
01:07:40.599 --> 01:07:44.719
Another time, he didn't like the aircraft going over to

818
01:07:44.920 --> 01:07:47.519
air display because there was lots. He didn't like that.

819
01:07:47.559 --> 01:07:51.920
Accept's very noisy, and the air blue In the other day,

820
01:07:52.199 --> 01:07:55.519
last week or whenever it was, he pulled me home

821
01:07:55.559 --> 01:08:00.000
from that. He didn't didn't like that. Most things don't

822
01:08:00.119 --> 01:08:06.320
bother him, but just strings from the sky generally. I

823
01:08:06.360 --> 01:08:09.639
said to him, just don't look up, and he told

824
01:08:09.639 --> 01:08:13.119
me I was being silly. I am got to look

825
01:08:13.199 --> 01:08:16.960
up to hear the thunder, have I I said, all right? Wow?

826
01:08:18.479 --> 01:08:24.000
So yeah, Andre, so at this point I'm thinking I

827
01:08:24.039 --> 01:08:26.600
don't want I think I don't want someone who's going

828
01:08:26.640 --> 01:08:30.159
to bite me and it's going to make a mess everywhere.

829
01:08:30.399 --> 01:08:37.159
And now I really decided I was a firm negative

830
01:08:37.359 --> 01:08:42.840
like no, no, not don't want one. I love l

831
01:08:43.159 --> 01:08:45.399
and I did. I mean, he was pretty good of me,

832
01:08:45.760 --> 01:08:48.119
as long as I remember to wear a long sleeved

833
01:08:48.159 --> 01:08:51.800
shirt or T shirt because if I kept my off.

834
01:08:51.800 --> 01:08:55.319
God did have a little nibble, but he was really

835
01:08:55.359 --> 01:08:59.880
he was a very loving verrit, you know, very cuddly

836
01:09:00.079 --> 01:09:02.600
and but at the same time, you know he'd like

837
01:09:02.680 --> 01:09:06.279
to little bite every now and then, a little snack,

838
01:09:08.399 --> 01:09:15.439
treat himself to be a human. So and one hundred percent, nope, none,

839
01:09:15.439 --> 01:09:18.479
one one. So I'm just like going around my life

840
01:09:18.600 --> 01:09:21.680
as I do. And I'm walking home. I don't know

841
01:09:21.720 --> 01:09:25.880
where i'd been, probably been to town or something, or

842
01:09:25.880 --> 01:09:29.760
to the garage. And I'm coming back and I see

843
01:09:29.800 --> 01:09:36.920
this bloke holding he's in looking in the back of

844
01:09:36.960 --> 01:09:42.119
a car and he's holding a cage. Then I see

845
01:09:42.239 --> 01:09:45.000
and this is outside the front of my building. And

846
01:09:45.000 --> 01:09:47.399
then I see Luke come out and he waves to

847
01:09:47.479 --> 01:09:51.560
me and he says, look, look there, these are the

848
01:09:51.600 --> 01:09:55.720
two ferrets are two baby ferrites. I said, okay, and

849
01:09:55.760 --> 01:09:57.760
he said, come and have a look at them. He

850
01:09:57.880 --> 01:10:00.920
was so excited. That that's one of the things about Luke.

851
01:10:01.000 --> 01:10:05.159
When he was excited, he brightened up so much. It

852
01:10:05.199 --> 01:10:10.840
was very contagious. So I kind of got very intrigued

853
01:10:10.880 --> 01:10:14.319
and I was excited as well to sort of have

854
01:10:14.399 --> 01:10:20.439
a look. With no intention had taken one on. I

855
01:10:20.439 --> 01:10:22.439
didn't want to take it, and bearing in mind the

856
01:10:22.479 --> 01:10:26.079
bloke didn't want any money. He wasn't doing it for money.

857
01:10:26.079 --> 01:10:31.239
He just loved ferrets. So there was two ferrets. One

858
01:10:31.279 --> 01:10:34.119
of them, you know, was Andre, one of them was

859
01:10:34.279 --> 01:10:38.800
his brother, and one of them had to be that.

860
01:10:38.880 --> 01:10:44.279
He hadn't decided which one was already been adopted by

861
01:10:44.279 --> 01:10:48.319
someone else, but he was going to deliver that ferret,

862
01:10:48.439 --> 01:10:53.479
I think a few days afterwards, because he had to

863
01:10:53.520 --> 01:10:57.199
get a cage and stuff for it. This bloke who

864
01:10:57.279 --> 01:11:04.479
was also a friend of Luke's. Instead of running around

865
01:11:04.800 --> 01:11:16.560
on the floor, I fell in love with Andre. I

866
01:11:16.600 --> 01:11:21.079
fell in love with him. See that that what I

867
01:11:21.159 --> 01:11:24.960
wanted to happen to me is, you know, like a

868
01:11:25.039 --> 01:11:27.039
dog wanted to I wanted a dog to fall in

869
01:11:27.039 --> 01:11:29.119
love with me and to come up to me and

870
01:11:29.279 --> 01:11:35.159
like just have that attachment. The reverse happened with Andre.

871
01:11:35.920 --> 01:11:41.000
I absolutely fell head over heels in love with that

872
01:11:41.039 --> 01:11:45.119
little boy in a way that I'm really so surprised about,

873
01:11:46.119 --> 01:11:49.760
because you know, if you just said to me a

874
01:11:49.800 --> 01:11:52.359
few years back before that, like one day you're going

875
01:11:52.439 --> 01:11:56.239
to have a ferret running around your home, I would

876
01:11:56.239 --> 01:11:59.920
have I wouldn't have believed them, I would I just laughed.

877
01:12:00.239 --> 01:12:00.760
It's like, no.

878
01:12:00.760 --> 01:12:02.960
Way to me.

879
01:12:03.079 --> 01:12:06.199
If fairy was like a rat, you know, there was

880
01:12:06.239 --> 01:12:09.720
no difference. There's a big difference. But at the time

881
01:12:09.760 --> 01:12:12.479
I didn't really know. I just it was just some

882
01:12:12.479 --> 01:12:16.800
something that was very weak, who wiggly, wibbly wobbly, moved

883
01:12:16.880 --> 01:12:21.079
very quickly and bit people. And I didn't want to

884
01:12:21.199 --> 01:12:27.000
I didn't want to know. At this time, I knew

885
01:12:27.000 --> 01:12:29.079
a little bit more about ferries because I'd spend time

886
01:12:29.119 --> 01:12:31.640
with l and he used to come up here and

887
01:12:31.800 --> 01:12:34.479
he was as good as gold apart from the occasional

888
01:12:34.520 --> 01:12:43.640
snack out of my arm, and so Vinny certainly, Vinnie

889
01:12:44.960 --> 01:12:52.000
Andre absolutely hated me. I picked him up and he

890
01:12:52.039 --> 01:12:56.199
bit me every opportunity he bit me. Just on that

891
01:12:56.279 --> 01:13:00.359
occasion he really grabbed me in his raisor teeth. Remember

892
01:13:00.359 --> 01:13:02.920
it's tiny at this point, you could like fit them

893
01:13:03.039 --> 01:13:09.279
and polm my hand. And there's videos. There's probably pictures

894
01:13:09.359 --> 01:13:11.920
on Facebook, but there's loads of videos of him on

895
01:13:11.920 --> 01:13:19.199
my YouTube channel. Andre and I had to hold him.

896
01:13:19.239 --> 01:13:24.520
That the bloke who would brought the two around, he

897
01:13:24.680 --> 01:13:28.760
showed me how to handle the baby, and so did Luke.

898
01:13:30.319 --> 01:13:32.920
There's a certain way you basically put your finger thumb

899
01:13:33.239 --> 01:13:36.399
around the neck. Because the neck so tiny, you're not

900
01:13:36.600 --> 01:13:39.760
choking it. It's just basically there's a lot of loose,

901
01:13:40.199 --> 01:13:44.399
loose skin there. It just means that they can't maneuver

902
01:13:44.640 --> 01:13:50.880
their mouth to bite you. Another thing is it was

903
01:13:50.920 --> 01:13:57.640
just something that parents do to ferrits is they pick

904
01:13:57.680 --> 01:14:00.399
them up by their neck so it doesn't hurt them

905
01:14:00.640 --> 01:14:04.279
the back of the neck, the skin, but they just

906
01:14:05.199 --> 01:14:09.319
completely stay still. They stop being naughty as soon as

907
01:14:09.399 --> 01:14:12.119
that happens. Or you can drag them back like that

908
01:14:12.479 --> 01:14:16.600
and they just stay still. So if it doesn't hurt them,

909
01:14:16.600 --> 01:14:23.000
but it makes them be passive, they give up. They

910
01:14:23.079 --> 01:14:27.640
kind of you know. So that's kind of something I

911
01:14:27.720 --> 01:14:30.920
learned to do, But the rest of it was just

912
01:14:31.319 --> 01:14:33.640
made up as I went and on but Luke kind

913
01:14:33.640 --> 01:14:36.520
of taught me quite a bit, I suppose as well. Yeah, yeah,

914
01:14:38.600 --> 01:14:45.960
And I went from nowhere in the world to all

915
01:14:46.199 --> 01:14:48.359
those so many things in my flat.

916
01:14:51.039 --> 01:14:51.239
Too.

917
01:14:53.159 --> 01:14:56.760
I've never wanted anything as much as I ever did

918
01:14:56.840 --> 01:14:59.840
in my life. That's probably a bit of an exaggeration.

919
01:15:00.159 --> 01:15:04.640
I really like the other one had no interest in

920
01:15:06.560 --> 01:15:09.640
and it was just as cute as I'm sure every

921
01:15:09.680 --> 01:15:12.239
baby ferret is just as cute as each other. But

922
01:15:12.239 --> 01:15:15.479
there was something about Andre. I don't know what it was.

923
01:15:15.520 --> 01:15:18.159
There was something about him, something about his little face

924
01:15:18.239 --> 01:15:21.920
and his little mask that he had, like almost like

925
01:15:22.000 --> 01:15:25.000
he had an eye mask on him, like he was

926
01:15:25.159 --> 01:15:30.039
a highway dick Turpin or you know, something like that

927
01:15:31.640 --> 01:15:35.159
bank robbery. Maybe not, but yeah, he's just cute. He's

928
01:15:35.239 --> 01:15:44.479
facial features, and I had to have him. There was

929
01:15:44.520 --> 01:15:48.119
no option. In fact, I think the man said that

930
01:15:48.159 --> 01:15:50.000
he was going to give him to the other bloke,

931
01:15:53.039 --> 01:15:57.119
and Luke said, he won't nobody, he won't know which one.

932
01:15:57.479 --> 01:16:00.880
He just knows he's going to get one. And I

933
01:16:00.920 --> 01:16:04.960
wouldn't have took the other one. However weird that sounds

934
01:16:07.039 --> 01:16:10.520
Andre it was him. It wasn't because Andre was a

935
01:16:10.560 --> 01:16:13.159
ferret that I wanted him. I didn't want a ferret,

936
01:16:15.000 --> 01:16:17.199
I wanted Andre he was. I just fell in love

937
01:16:17.239 --> 01:16:22.439
with him. He's just something about him. And so for

938
01:16:22.479 --> 01:16:25.159
the first two weeks I had him, and all he

939
01:16:25.199 --> 01:16:30.560
did was bite me. But I continued to pick him

940
01:16:30.640 --> 01:16:36.640
up at every single opportunity cuddle him. And he never

941
01:16:36.680 --> 01:16:38.720
bit me on the face. So I could literally put

942
01:16:38.720 --> 01:16:41.640
my face right up to his. He's probably scared, to

943
01:16:41.680 --> 01:16:44.800
be fair, imagine seeing my face so close up, probably

944
01:16:44.840 --> 01:16:48.319
scared the hell out of him. But he never bit

945
01:16:48.399 --> 01:16:51.359
me on the face. It's always my fingers. If he could.

946
01:16:55.560 --> 01:17:00.680
And after like a couple of weeks, by after destroyed

947
01:17:00.680 --> 01:17:03.720
loads of times. But I was just sitting down on

948
01:17:03.760 --> 01:17:07.119
a Saturday night watching the box in and he climbed

949
01:17:07.199 --> 01:17:11.800
up my leg and I was went dressing gown and

950
01:17:11.880 --> 01:17:14.119
he climbed up my left sleeve of my dressing gown

951
01:17:14.159 --> 01:17:19.520
and went to sleep. And from then on he was

952
01:17:19.880 --> 01:17:24.039
good as gold. We got on perfect. It never bit

953
01:17:24.119 --> 01:17:29.199
me again, not on purpose. He used to bite me

954
01:17:29.359 --> 01:17:31.680
when we played, when we had play fights. It bite

955
01:17:31.720 --> 01:17:35.039
me sometimes, you get very carried away. But all I

956
01:17:35.039 --> 01:17:40.439
had to say was gentle and it stopped. So if

957
01:17:40.439 --> 01:17:42.520
he bit me too hard to say, gentle it just

958
01:17:43.560 --> 01:17:48.039
released his jaws, so his teeth would just kind of

959
01:17:48.119 --> 01:17:55.640
touching my skin. We communicated quite well, which is a

960
01:17:55.640 --> 01:18:02.119
bit weird, I think. But yeah, I think perhaps I

961
01:18:02.159 --> 01:18:04.720
should have got I should have got another fer it maybe,

962
01:18:06.880 --> 01:18:10.760
But you know what, Vinnie came into my life. And

963
01:18:11.439 --> 01:18:16.199
you know, I'll be honest. When I lost Andre, it

964
01:18:16.239 --> 01:18:20.199
was it was too much. I mean, I don't I

965
01:18:20.239 --> 01:18:24.800
didn't really believe that I could be so attached to

966
01:18:27.640 --> 01:18:35.359
a little thing like that. I was, and you know

967
01:18:35.479 --> 01:18:37.479
my vow and a lot of people do that. They

968
01:18:37.520 --> 01:18:40.119
say I'll never get I never get another pet, that's it.

969
01:18:42.680 --> 01:18:45.319
And I definitely meant that I wasn't going to get anything,

970
01:18:45.399 --> 01:18:48.159
not a dog, not a cat, anything, not actually a

971
01:18:48.239 --> 01:18:51.439
cat anyway, but not up here. I'm on the first floor.

972
01:18:53.079 --> 01:19:02.640
The cat can't get out, however, you know. So this

973
01:19:02.720 --> 01:19:10.439
was in the summer two thousand and one, and then

974
01:19:10.479 --> 01:19:20.880
two thousand and two, November or December, Vinnie ran through

975
01:19:20.920 --> 01:19:24.680
my legs as I answered the door to Luke. He

976
01:19:24.760 --> 01:19:29.239
was laughing and this little thing ran through and LOGI

977
01:19:29.359 --> 01:19:31.479
was there like looking at me, and he ran in

978
01:19:31.520 --> 01:19:35.199
as well. It's like, what the heck is LOGI chasing.

979
01:19:37.199 --> 01:19:39.680
I thought for a second, I thought he'd got another

980
01:19:39.760 --> 01:19:44.399
Ferret and it wasn't. It was Vinny. But Vinnie was

981
01:19:44.439 --> 01:19:47.960
ten months old, so he was He wasn't a hugely

982
01:19:48.039 --> 01:19:52.640
smaller than years now, but he was smaller. And I

983
01:19:52.680 --> 01:19:55.159
mean I couldn't see him. He was moving so quick.

984
01:19:58.840 --> 01:20:00.319
And you know, that's how I ended up with him.

985
01:20:00.319 --> 01:20:03.199
But with Andre, that's how I ended up with him.

986
01:20:03.520 --> 01:20:10.840
It was just fall in love situation and no matter how,

987
01:20:11.039 --> 01:20:14.720
you know, the ending wasn't good and I just it

988
01:20:14.800 --> 01:20:19.880
was hard. But he did bring a lot of pleasure

989
01:20:19.920 --> 01:20:26.960
into my life. He made me laugh a lot, and yeah,

990
01:20:27.479 --> 01:20:32.560
I actually adored him, adored him. And I know that

991
01:20:32.600 --> 01:20:35.239
There's a couple of people over the years, as I've mentioned,

992
01:20:35.319 --> 01:20:38.560
like the same why why does he not to me?

993
01:20:38.640 --> 01:20:41.239
But like on the maybe on a Facebook group or

994
01:20:41.279 --> 01:20:44.399
on a Facebook page, why does he keep talking about Andre?

995
01:20:44.479 --> 01:20:49.439
He's being gone for ages? That's why. It's the same

996
01:20:49.479 --> 01:20:54.640
reason I talk about my nan and the same reason

997
01:20:55.159 --> 01:20:57.720
I'm probably still going to be talking about Uncle's sausages

998
01:20:58.720 --> 01:21:02.039
in ten years time. The reason I'm still talking about

999
01:21:02.119 --> 01:21:09.239
Luke because they were big parts of my life and

1000
01:21:10.039 --> 01:21:14.399
that doesn't change just because they're no longer here is

1001
01:21:16.039 --> 01:21:17.479
you know, they're not. I mean, they're no longer a

1002
01:21:17.520 --> 01:21:21.399
big part of my life day to day. But I

1003
01:21:21.399 --> 01:21:29.520
think once someone has that makes that impact. I mean

1004
01:21:29.640 --> 01:21:32.800
Uncle Sausages made his impact more really over the last year,

1005
01:21:33.079 --> 01:21:35.880
even though I've known him for ten years, and especially

1006
01:21:35.920 --> 01:21:38.880
more when he got unwell. I mean, that period that

1007
01:21:38.880 --> 01:21:43.239
we shared together is something that's kind of a bit

1008
01:21:43.319 --> 01:21:51.079
precious really, that whole situation, and there's no way I

1009
01:21:51.079 --> 01:21:55.920
could ever forget that. And yeah, so he's always going

1010
01:21:55.960 --> 01:22:04.239
to be remembered by me. I hope, I hope. And

1011
01:22:04.279 --> 01:22:09.760
even if he's not, the memories recorded it's on too,

1012
01:22:09.840 --> 01:22:12.159
you know what I mean. It's me talking about it.

1013
01:22:12.199 --> 01:22:16.760
So even if in thirty years time, perhaps for whatever reason,

1014
01:22:16.960 --> 01:22:20.880
I don't have the actual memory, I can listen back

1015
01:22:22.439 --> 01:22:26.560
and hear about it and think, oh, he sounds nice.

1016
01:22:29.800 --> 01:22:34.800
Who's this bloke that's talking? Why has he got such

1017
01:22:34.840 --> 01:22:38.920
a squeaky voice? So yeah, that's how I got Andre.

1018
01:22:39.960 --> 01:22:44.039
Thank you for that, Rich asks Wedn's Finny's birthday. It's

1019
01:22:44.119 --> 01:22:51.319
the end of February, so you would have been born

1020
01:22:51.439 --> 01:22:58.520
in two thousand and yeah, end of Yeah, end of

1021
01:22:58.560 --> 01:23:05.600
February two thousand and twenty three, No, twenty two, So

1022
01:23:05.600 --> 01:23:09.720
the end of February twenty twenty two was when he

1023
01:23:09.800 --> 01:23:15.479
was born. The exact date I used to have. I

1024
01:23:15.479 --> 01:23:19.000
could probably get it because I used to have a

1025
01:23:19.119 --> 01:23:23.680
picture with a date on where he was literally a baby,

1026
01:23:23.840 --> 01:23:28.920
you know, like a It looked like a I don't know,

1027
01:23:29.079 --> 01:23:35.840
like pink little turnip or something. But yeah, so end

1028
01:23:35.880 --> 01:23:42.680
of February, he'll be four next year. Robin asks me,

1029
01:23:42.840 --> 01:23:46.720
have you ever been inside Hampton Court Palace. I'd love

1030
01:23:46.800 --> 01:23:52.600
to visit there. First of all, I thought I don't know,

1031
01:23:53.079 --> 01:23:58.840
But now I do know. Hampton Court Palace. I'm pretty

1032
01:23:58.840 --> 01:24:02.840
sure it's got a zoo. I don't know why, but

1033
01:24:02.880 --> 01:24:08.840
I have the feeling there's a zoo. That Hampton Court

1034
01:24:10.800 --> 01:24:30.880
Palace zoo. Uh hampter then Hampton Court man version right,

1035
01:24:31.000 --> 01:24:41.560
it doesn't look there's Hampton Court beasts. Okay, yeah, there

1036
01:24:41.640 --> 01:24:46.640
is is there? Okay? Does I'm going to change it

1037
01:24:46.680 --> 01:24:58.720
to does have a zoo. Hampton Court Palace does not

1038
01:24:58.800 --> 01:25:01.760
have a traditional zoo, but it's magic card and adventure

1039
01:25:01.800 --> 01:25:06.720
playground features mythical beasts. That's what I visited when I

1040
01:25:06.760 --> 01:25:09.439
was a kid, I thought they were real animals. Wow,

1041
01:25:11.439 --> 01:25:14.239
no wonder I was able to kiss a tiger on

1042
01:25:14.279 --> 01:25:22.239
the lips. All that bragging for years afterwards, thinking I

1043
01:25:22.359 --> 01:25:27.199
was more invincible than tars and when clearly I wasn't.

1044
01:25:27.720 --> 01:25:32.039
It wasn't they wasn't they wasn't. Yeah, I have been there,

1045
01:25:33.840 --> 01:25:35.920
even though I clearly don't know where it is. But

1046
01:25:35.960 --> 01:25:40.640
I have been there. And he started barking again and

1047
01:25:40.720 --> 01:25:47.000
the thunder. Yeah, I have been there. It's a long, long, long,

1048
01:25:47.039 --> 01:25:50.680
long time ago, like decades ago, so I don't really

1049
01:25:50.680 --> 01:25:57.560
remember it. But I've been to all the main tourist attractions,

1050
01:25:57.600 --> 01:26:00.000
either when I was very young or when I was

1051
01:26:00.119 --> 01:26:03.960
kind of in my twenties. I including all the museums,

1052
01:26:04.119 --> 01:26:09.119
met in two Sorts, Tower of London, the Palace, that

1053
01:26:09.199 --> 01:26:14.600
whole walk up to the palace, whatever that's called, the

1054
01:26:14.720 --> 01:26:20.439
Zoo London Zoo, the Library, the London Library or whatever.

1055
01:26:20.520 --> 01:26:24.159
So I've been. So I'm pretty much everywhere, but not

1056
01:26:24.279 --> 01:26:33.079
for a very very long time. Kathleen asks, what's the

1057
01:26:33.119 --> 01:26:38.840
best birthday present you ever received? Well, technically I would

1058
01:26:38.880 --> 01:26:41.319
say I know it's my birthday was three days ago.

1059
01:26:41.359 --> 01:26:45.520
But your question, Kathleen that's the birth that's the best

1060
01:26:45.720 --> 01:26:50.680
present I've ever had. I don't know, really best birthday present.

1061
01:26:54.279 --> 01:26:56.520
See when I was a kid, not nothing as an adult,

1062
01:26:56.560 --> 01:26:59.640
but when I was a kid, I enjoyed this year

1063
01:26:59.680 --> 01:27:02.920
because I got some payper gifts. Sounds really lovely kind

1064
01:27:02.960 --> 01:27:08.359
of I almost felt like I was, I don't know,

1065
01:27:08.840 --> 01:27:14.960
just felt quite nice. I felt very nice, I think

1066
01:27:15.039 --> 01:27:25.119
as a kid. As an adult, nothing I mean not nothing,

1067
01:27:25.159 --> 01:27:33.520
but yeah, nothing like particularly that I can think of

1068
01:27:33.520 --> 01:27:44.439
off the top of my head as a kid. Yeah,

1069
01:27:44.760 --> 01:27:48.920
nothing really stands out because they're all. The thing is

1070
01:27:48.960 --> 01:27:53.119
with my dad and his wife, they were very generous

1071
01:27:53.119 --> 01:27:56.600
when it came to Christmas and birthdays. I'm not saying

1072
01:27:56.600 --> 01:27:58.039
they weren't the rest of the time, but they were

1073
01:27:58.119 --> 01:28:01.800
very I always got lots suppressed for birthdays and Christmases

1074
01:28:02.399 --> 01:28:05.359
from the age of seven to fifteen, so.

1075
01:28:07.439 --> 01:28:07.960
It was.

1076
01:28:10.800 --> 01:28:14.520
Yeah, it was like every year. I mean fifteen was

1077
01:28:14.640 --> 01:28:16.039
a bit of a slow one, but all the other

1078
01:28:16.119 --> 01:28:21.319
years it's you know, when the whole family was together. Yeah,

1079
01:28:21.359 --> 01:28:24.760
every year was good, you know, like Christmas as well.

1080
01:28:25.479 --> 01:28:29.600
I never there was never any disappointment. It was never like,

1081
01:28:29.680 --> 01:28:32.720
oh I didn't get enough presents because I always got

1082
01:28:32.880 --> 01:28:39.720
more presence than I ever needed, you know. It was

1083
01:28:40.279 --> 01:28:46.039
I was very, very fortunate, and the same as with birthdays.

1084
01:28:46.039 --> 01:28:52.079
I always got lots of presents and I liked all

1085
01:28:52.119 --> 01:28:56.039
of them. Really. I remember one year when I was

1086
01:28:56.640 --> 01:29:02.720
probably about ten, eleven, ten, I don't know, and I

1087
01:29:02.760 --> 01:29:06.439
had a video game, so that was cool, like a

1088
01:29:07.199 --> 01:29:12.359
kind of First Space Invaders Asteroids kind of game that

1089
01:29:12.479 --> 01:29:17.840
was handheld, but a big old thing. Batteries. Batteries were

1090
01:29:17.880 --> 01:29:20.840
the size of I can't there was a big thing,

1091
01:29:20.960 --> 01:29:31.560
but always loved it. Do Do Do Do Yeah, things

1092
01:29:31.600 --> 01:29:35.840
like that that was nothing like how it sounded. But

1093
01:29:35.920 --> 01:29:41.680
I can't think of any particular presence that had off

1094
01:29:41.720 --> 01:29:44.079
the top of my head. That is, I'm not saying

1095
01:29:44.119 --> 01:29:47.520
there wasn't any particular presence that I liked most of all.

1096
01:29:48.399 --> 01:29:52.640
And I'm trying to The big presents really, I think

1097
01:29:52.760 --> 01:29:57.079
were Christmas time, because I got a couple of the

1098
01:29:57.119 --> 01:30:04.520
two biggest presents I remember at Christmas. Oh no, I

1099
01:30:04.640 --> 01:30:10.239
got the best present I ever got for my birthday

1100
01:30:11.439 --> 01:30:14.560
was when I was seven. I mean it might have

1101
01:30:14.560 --> 01:30:16.840
not been on my birthday, it was around that time

1102
01:30:17.000 --> 01:30:19.319
because we all got bike, but it was a bike

1103
01:30:19.720 --> 01:30:22.920
I got a new and my first ever bike when

1104
01:30:22.920 --> 01:30:26.720
I was seven, my seventh birthday, and my dad taught

1105
01:30:26.720 --> 01:30:29.560
me to ride, and he did that whole thing where

1106
01:30:29.760 --> 01:30:32.279
he's like holding onto the because I had fallen off,

1107
01:30:33.640 --> 01:30:39.399
and he put stabilizers on, and he kind of he said,

1108
01:30:39.520 --> 01:30:42.279
I'm holding on. And he was behind me and I

1109
01:30:42.359 --> 01:30:48.520
was cycling and I said, he's still holding on. He said, yeah,

1110
01:30:49.359 --> 01:30:52.079
he's still holding on. He said, yeah, I was still

1111
01:30:52.119 --> 01:30:55.039
holding on. I'm thinking, why are you doing such a

1112
01:30:55.039 --> 01:31:02.600
soft voice. I said, he's still holding on? What? And

1113
01:31:02.600 --> 01:31:05.000
I shared, he's still holding on and my phone rings

1114
01:31:05.000 --> 01:31:08.279
and he said, yeah, I'm still holding on. And I'm

1115
01:31:08.279 --> 01:31:12.760
thinking my pilet phones aren't even invented yet since nineteen

1116
01:31:12.840 --> 01:31:17.239
seventy seven. This is really weird. One if it's real

1117
01:31:18.640 --> 01:31:21.279
and I look behind me and there's nowhere to be seen.

1118
01:31:25.359 --> 01:31:28.920
I'd cycled into a different town. I've been gone for

1119
01:31:28.960 --> 01:31:34.119
about six hours. Never really could gauge time back then,

1120
01:31:36.560 --> 01:31:40.000
So yeah, that's when I realized I could cycle without

1121
01:31:40.079 --> 01:31:45.359
him like holding on me. But I did have stabilizers.

1122
01:31:45.760 --> 01:31:48.840
Stabilizers are good. I think everyone should have stabilizers all

1123
01:31:48.840 --> 01:31:53.640
the time. It just makes sense, doesn't it, Because at

1124
01:31:53.720 --> 01:31:56.159
least then you can just stop your bike wherever you

1125
01:31:56.239 --> 01:31:59.920
are and just leave it standing up. There's no real

1126
01:32:00.319 --> 01:32:06.399
not to have stabilizers. I remember seeing someone years ago

1127
01:32:06.439 --> 01:32:09.039
in a park having to go at their kid because

1128
01:32:09.079 --> 01:32:12.960
they had stabilizers. Are almost like, you can't have still

1129
01:32:13.000 --> 01:32:17.479
have stabilizes. You're nine now, and me like, give the

1130
01:32:17.640 --> 01:32:31.039
kid a break, You know, what does it matter? Really? Yeah?

1131
01:32:31.079 --> 01:32:35.560
The bike that was the best present birthday present I

1132
01:32:35.640 --> 01:32:41.000
got was that bike. I did get another bike at

1133
01:32:41.039 --> 01:32:43.600
a Christmas quite a few years later when I was

1134
01:32:43.640 --> 01:32:52.439
about thirteen and maybe fourteen thirteen something like that, and

1135
01:32:52.520 --> 01:32:57.640
it was a racer and earlier on, but probably about

1136
01:32:57.720 --> 01:33:04.520
age ten nine ten or maybe leaven even. I got

1137
01:33:04.600 --> 01:33:09.239
a telescope for Christmas. I think it was Christmas. It

1138
01:33:09.319 --> 01:33:14.960
might have been for my birthday. It's possible. I don't

1139
01:33:15.760 --> 01:33:20.640
remember exactly, but yeah, I've got this telescope, really nice telescope.

1140
01:33:23.439 --> 01:33:26.520
But yeah, so I can't really would. I would go

1141
01:33:26.560 --> 01:33:29.319
with the bike, and it was a grift of I think,

1142
01:33:32.159 --> 01:33:33.760
and it was the first time I ever had a bike,

1143
01:33:35.359 --> 01:33:44.920
and I mean that was the best summer of my life.

1144
01:33:46.439 --> 01:33:49.920
It was There's no other summer. It wasn't about the heat.

1145
01:33:49.960 --> 01:33:51.920
It wasn't about the weather. You know, we may it

1146
01:33:52.079 --> 01:33:54.840
makes such a big deal about all. It wasn't as

1147
01:33:54.840 --> 01:33:58.720
hot as it normally is. What's been too hot? When

1148
01:33:58.760 --> 01:34:03.760
I was a kid, I couldn't care at all if

1149
01:34:03.760 --> 01:34:07.960
it was raining or if it was sunny. That was

1150
01:34:08.000 --> 01:34:14.199
my first time with a family, like an actual family living.

1151
01:34:16.359 --> 01:34:18.760
The next year was good as well, but that was

1152
01:34:18.800 --> 01:34:25.079
the first year, the first summer, which is nineteen seventy seven,

1153
01:34:25.239 --> 01:34:27.920
when I was well, I was lee, I was just

1154
01:34:27.960 --> 01:34:31.079
before I was seven, but yeah, I was seven in August.

1155
01:34:33.640 --> 01:34:38.880
So that was the best summer of my life, or

1156
01:34:38.960 --> 01:34:43.560
in my memory anyway. And the next year was really

1157
01:34:43.560 --> 01:34:48.840
good as well. So I basically seventy seven seventy eight

1158
01:34:49.319 --> 01:34:53.840
were the best summers that I ever had, But seventy

1159
01:34:53.880 --> 01:34:58.800
seven especially because we lived near the well, we lived

1160
01:34:58.840 --> 01:35:03.119
near the beach as well, actually lived near the beach

1161
01:35:04.319 --> 01:35:06.479
in the big family house, but this was like just

1162
01:35:06.560 --> 01:35:09.720
up the road from the beach, a bit of a

1163
01:35:09.800 --> 01:35:19.479
walk but not too far. It was a straight walk. Yeah,

1164
01:35:19.560 --> 01:35:22.760
So that's what I would say for that. The bike

1165
01:35:23.039 --> 01:35:25.479
that was my favorite, the best person I ever got,

1166
01:35:27.760 --> 01:35:30.479
but technically not really the best person. I ever got

1167
01:35:30.560 --> 01:35:33.279
was a family. If we're going to be if I'm

1168
01:35:33.279 --> 01:35:35.960
going to be sentimental, So we moved out of the

1169
01:35:36.000 --> 01:35:39.279
children's home and lived with my dad and his new

1170
01:35:39.279 --> 01:35:47.760
wife permanently the summer of nineteen seventy seven, possibly June,

1171
01:35:49.560 --> 01:35:53.800
maybe July. It was back in them days. A couple

1172
01:35:53.840 --> 01:35:55.880
of weeks was like a few months to a little

1173
01:35:55.920 --> 01:35:58.000
kid in it, it's like a long time. So he

1174
01:35:58.119 --> 01:36:03.439
probably moved there after school finished. So I went there,

1175
01:36:04.760 --> 01:36:08.479
left South End and we moved there instead of visiting

1176
01:36:08.479 --> 01:36:16.640
at weekends. Who moved there forever? And it was technically

1177
01:36:16.760 --> 01:36:19.760
that was like the best birthday present I ever had

1178
01:36:19.800 --> 01:36:24.880
because for the first time, well since I was a baby,

1179
01:36:25.640 --> 01:36:31.760
I was had two parents and my brothers all together

1180
01:36:31.840 --> 01:36:36.760
in one house. Yeah, so that was brilliant.

1181
01:36:38.439 --> 01:36:38.800
Yep.

1182
01:36:39.039 --> 01:36:43.199
And I was the baby for one more year, but

1183
01:36:43.359 --> 01:36:52.960
just for one year. Move on, Joe, Joe. Mary asks me,

1184
01:36:53.359 --> 01:36:56.159
how do you design the episode title? Artwork you use?

1185
01:36:56.680 --> 01:37:04.680
It's always so creative, Well, thank you. I use different things.

1186
01:37:04.680 --> 01:37:13.720
So I use a mixture of a canva and Chatch

1187
01:37:13.760 --> 01:37:21.760
Ept five and sometimes other things to put together maybe

1188
01:37:21.800 --> 01:37:25.479
some images I've got, maybe images that I've found online

1189
01:37:26.439 --> 01:37:29.000
to put together what I want to kind of express.

1190
01:37:30.079 --> 01:37:35.039
Usually it's something to do with the recording. It might

1191
01:37:35.079 --> 01:37:37.960
be hidden in the recording, but it's quite often there's

1192
01:37:37.960 --> 01:37:43.239
a little hint in the image, or sometimes I hide

1193
01:37:43.239 --> 01:37:46.520
a little things in the image where you'd have to

1194
01:37:46.560 --> 01:37:49.600
really have a closer look to see what it is.

1195
01:37:50.560 --> 01:37:55.920
But generally I have to think what I want, what

1196
01:37:56.000 --> 01:37:58.600
I want the record, what I want the image to be.

1197
01:38:00.119 --> 01:38:01.800
So I think that up and then I asked chat

1198
01:38:01.840 --> 01:38:07.760
GP two five to maybe create that image. This is

1199
01:38:07.760 --> 01:38:11.239
one way of doing it. And then I get it

1200
01:38:11.279 --> 01:38:14.720
to redo it and to change things. And it takes

1201
01:38:14.800 --> 01:38:19.760
quite a while, sometimes sometimes half hour an hour to

1202
01:38:19.800 --> 01:38:23.960
get the image done, depends on how well it comes

1203
01:38:23.960 --> 01:38:27.920
out first time. And then I go into Canva and

1204
01:38:27.960 --> 01:38:33.079
I edit the image. And sometimes I do multiple images

1205
01:38:33.119 --> 01:38:35.960
and put them all together, taken off the background to

1206
01:38:36.000 --> 01:38:38.880
put them into Canva, editing it so it looks like

1207
01:38:38.960 --> 01:38:45.600
one image. Yes, so that's kind of what I do.

1208
01:38:45.760 --> 01:38:49.119
I used to sometimes again, i'd take stuff from online

1209
01:38:49.159 --> 01:38:53.800
and i'd change the image editor or pictures of myself

1210
01:38:53.880 --> 01:38:59.640
or pictures of Vinnie, you know, just or put in

1211
01:38:59.640 --> 01:39:03.159
my picture and make me be in this scenario and

1212
01:39:03.560 --> 01:39:10.279
you know, things like that. So the quine Friday images

1213
01:39:10.760 --> 01:39:15.239
just generally just Queo Friday. But like I did an

1214
01:39:15.279 --> 01:39:21.239
image yesterday goodbye Uncle Sausages, and it was a nice image.

1215
01:39:21.279 --> 01:39:24.279
It was a picture, not when I made up, just

1216
01:39:24.359 --> 01:39:29.520
one that had been taken yesterday. So I do sometimes

1217
01:39:29.560 --> 01:39:33.960
do that as well. And there's pictures of me and

1218
01:39:34.079 --> 01:39:38.079
my secret at uniform, pictures of me in my karate

1219
01:39:38.399 --> 01:39:42.920
uniform when I was a kid, that is. So there's

1220
01:39:42.960 --> 01:39:47.079
lots of different images. I mean, I've done what fourteen

1221
01:39:48.640 --> 01:39:52.600
one thousand and four hundred, and I don't know how

1222
01:39:52.600 --> 01:39:56.479
many I've done. Now let's have a look. So yesterday's

1223
01:39:56.479 --> 01:40:00.800
one with number one four hundred and twenty four, So

1224
01:40:00.880 --> 01:40:03.359
this is one thing I was four hundred and twenty five.

1225
01:40:04.000 --> 01:40:08.520
So that's how many images I suppose I've done, although

1226
01:40:08.560 --> 01:40:10.760
I think some of the earlier ones didn't have images.

1227
01:40:12.000 --> 01:40:17.079
But I started doing images a few years back. I

1228
01:40:17.119 --> 01:40:19.760
do wonder, you know, because I listened to some of

1229
01:40:19.760 --> 01:40:24.760
my old stuff from I don't know, fifteen years ago,

1230
01:40:25.560 --> 01:40:27.640
and I think, oh, I can't believe I did stuff

1231
01:40:27.720 --> 01:40:32.880
that wasn't good at all, and I've really improved what

1232
01:40:33.000 --> 01:40:35.560
I do is I mean, the quality of the sound

1233
01:40:35.640 --> 01:40:39.720
is better that it used to be. But I wonder

1234
01:40:39.760 --> 01:40:42.000
if that's what it's going to be like in ten

1235
01:40:42.159 --> 01:40:45.800
years time. If I look back at let's say today's recording,

1236
01:40:45.840 --> 01:40:48.920
all the recordings that I've been doing in the last

1237
01:40:49.000 --> 01:40:53.520
year or so, I look back at these recordings, I think, Oh,

1238
01:40:53.560 --> 01:40:57.680
my goodness, I don't believe that I used to make

1239
01:40:57.760 --> 01:41:03.479
such recordings as that. I'm so glad that I managed

1240
01:41:03.520 --> 01:41:09.199
to improve the quality of the content. I don't know.

1241
01:41:09.840 --> 01:41:14.159
I might look back at this and think, God, what

1242
01:41:14.319 --> 01:41:23.960
was I doing. It's possible. So what was the question again,

1243
01:41:25.800 --> 01:41:26.840
what's the best birthday?

1244
01:41:26.960 --> 01:41:27.159
No?

1245
01:41:27.159 --> 01:41:29.840
No, how do you design an episode? Yeah? So that

1246
01:41:29.840 --> 01:41:36.000
that's kind of how I do it is they're creative,

1247
01:41:36.319 --> 01:41:40.399
but I have to say what I want, So I

1248
01:41:40.479 --> 01:41:43.640
have to create it kind of in my mind roughly

1249
01:41:43.720 --> 01:41:46.159
what I want, and then I have to find a

1250
01:41:46.159 --> 01:41:50.000
way to put that together because I'm not an artist.

1251
01:41:50.359 --> 01:41:58.279
Like as far as creative images, which you can do,

1252
01:41:58.439 --> 01:42:00.600
you know, there are there are programs that you could

1253
01:42:00.960 --> 01:42:03.840
put an image together and make it from scratch. That's

1254
01:42:04.079 --> 01:42:07.279
that's not something I could do or something that I

1255
01:42:07.319 --> 01:42:11.279
even want to learn to do. But I know what

1256
01:42:11.359 --> 01:42:15.399
I want. Does that make sense if I want, Like

1257
01:42:15.479 --> 01:42:18.439
the other day, I wanted an image of a baby

1258
01:42:18.520 --> 01:42:22.239
jumping out a cake, but chat ept wouldn't allow it,

1259
01:42:25.039 --> 01:42:27.880
even though it's basically just my little brother ruling my

1260
01:42:27.920 --> 01:42:31.199
eighth birthday party because it was just born the day

1261
01:42:31.239 --> 01:42:33.319
before my birthday party, and that's what it was supposed

1262
01:42:33.319 --> 01:42:35.840
to be, him jumping out of the cake, ruining my party,

1263
01:42:37.359 --> 01:42:42.560
like a jokey kind of thing. But they could they wouldn't.

1264
01:42:43.119 --> 01:42:45.279
It was hard to get it done because it was

1265
01:42:45.600 --> 01:42:49.159
it took ages to put that image together. Let me

1266
01:42:49.199 --> 01:42:53.560
ever look at it. I did that on my day

1267
01:42:53.600 --> 01:42:59.039
before my birthday. I think the internet's shut down for

1268
01:42:59.079 --> 01:43:06.720
some reason. Why. That's very strange? Oh it is? Why

1269
01:43:06.840 --> 01:43:07.560
is it hidden?

1270
01:43:08.439 --> 01:43:08.760
Oh?

1271
01:43:08.960 --> 01:43:13.399
I know why? So Okay, the image I ended up

1272
01:43:13.439 --> 01:43:19.159
with with how my brother ruined my eighth birthday, there's

1273
01:43:19.159 --> 01:43:22.560
a number one, four hundred and twenty two, so that

1274
01:43:22.720 --> 01:43:27.640
was on Monday, and it's an image of me frowning

1275
01:43:27.760 --> 01:43:32.680
with birthday borrow a T shirt. There's my dad with

1276
01:43:32.760 --> 01:43:40.439
his beard, there's my stepmom holding a new baby, and

1277
01:43:40.479 --> 01:43:44.279
then there's my oldest brother and my other brother. So

1278
01:43:44.319 --> 01:43:47.479
it's all kind of you know, planned and it's got

1279
01:43:47.600 --> 01:43:52.000
number eight. So on a birthday cake, everyone's laughing except me,

1280
01:43:52.079 --> 01:43:55.399
and I'm just frowning. And then there's a big speech

1281
01:43:55.479 --> 01:43:58.960
bubble aimed to supposed to be aiming towards the baby,

1282
01:43:59.039 --> 01:44:07.159
saying I'm the baby now. So it's not always easy

1283
01:44:07.279 --> 01:44:13.800
to put it all together, but other times it works

1284
01:44:13.920 --> 01:44:18.960
quite nice. So it's a very simple thing, like Vinnie

1285
01:44:19.000 --> 01:44:21.119
woke me up. This is what I did on the

1286
01:44:21.119 --> 01:44:29.920
twenty fourth of August, and I wanted to be like

1287
01:44:30.000 --> 01:44:33.720
an image of me. It never always comes up right,

1288
01:44:33.800 --> 01:44:37.079
but it's kind of an image of me in bed,

1289
01:44:37.560 --> 01:44:44.800
but I wanted me to be wearing old Victorian type bedclothes,

1290
01:44:45.560 --> 01:44:50.800
a bit like Scrooge Dickinson kind of thing. But then

1291
01:44:50.840 --> 01:44:53.840
it wouldn't allow that because that was copyright, and like, okay,

1292
01:44:53.840 --> 01:44:58.039
how can I get around that? And I wanted Vinnie

1293
01:45:00.079 --> 01:45:03.399
basically the same wake up and there's a little tag

1294
01:45:03.479 --> 01:45:06.640
with video on it. So I just kind of played

1295
01:45:06.680 --> 01:45:09.840
around and in the end managed to get an image

1296
01:45:10.359 --> 01:45:13.960
that kind of worked. And then the day before that,

1297
01:45:14.079 --> 01:45:19.479
I did call one called good Morning, and basically what

1298
01:45:19.520 --> 01:45:22.000
I was talking about was working at different jobs, and

1299
01:45:22.039 --> 01:45:23.800
I was at at one point. I was talking about

1300
01:45:23.880 --> 01:45:29.920
working in the bakery and how if the conveyor belt

1301
01:45:30.039 --> 01:45:35.520
never stopped hardly, so sometimes you'd end up with bread

1302
01:45:35.600 --> 01:45:38.600
rolls all over the floor. So I thought I wanted

1303
01:45:38.600 --> 01:45:43.119
an image of me with bread rolls kind of up

1304
01:45:43.119 --> 01:45:49.000
to my waist and then falling off the conveyor belt.

1305
01:45:50.119 --> 01:45:53.520
And it took quite a while for me to get

1306
01:45:53.520 --> 01:45:56.479
it done, you know, lots of different versions, and then

1307
01:45:56.479 --> 01:46:01.319
I found it. So even though the image is it

1308
01:46:01.319 --> 01:46:03.840
probably looks like quite an easy image to do, it

1309
01:46:03.920 --> 01:46:09.479
took a while to kind of put it together. And

1310
01:46:09.520 --> 01:46:14.319
then I did one last week, twenty second August twenty

1311
01:46:14.399 --> 01:46:23.319
twenty five. It was it Friday, last Friday, and I

1312
01:46:23.359 --> 01:46:25.680
wanted to talk about bottles because I've got ninety six

1313
01:46:25.680 --> 01:46:30.159
bottles of water delivered and I wanted a house made

1314
01:46:30.159 --> 01:46:35.159
of bottles. And in the end, it didn't come out

1315
01:46:35.159 --> 01:46:38.560
how I wanted it to come out as but I had,

1316
01:46:38.600 --> 01:46:40.279
you know, I spent so long on it, I just

1317
01:46:40.319 --> 01:46:46.760
thought it's going to have to do. So you know

1318
01:46:47.359 --> 01:46:51.880
I did that. I wasn't I wasn't crazy about the text,

1319
01:46:54.000 --> 01:46:55.960
but you know, it ended up okay. I shouldn't know

1320
01:46:56.399 --> 01:47:00.199
if I did any game now i'd make a few changes,

1321
01:47:00.720 --> 01:47:03.600
and I didn't run the day before, I bought myself

1322
01:47:03.640 --> 01:47:10.159
to sleep. So I've got a sheep in a chair

1323
01:47:10.399 --> 01:47:17.880
asleep but dreaming or thinking or whatever, dreaming of Instead

1324
01:47:17.880 --> 01:47:21.319
of sheep jumping running around, he's got humans. So he's

1325
01:47:21.359 --> 01:47:24.359
got a human jumping over a fence and two humans

1326
01:47:24.439 --> 01:47:29.600
like running around. It's just little things like that. It's

1327
01:47:29.640 --> 01:47:32.199
another one called thin Legs that I did the day before,

1328
01:47:33.800 --> 01:47:39.399
and it's basically a caricature of me with a big

1329
01:47:39.760 --> 01:47:46.079
upper body and tiny little legs because I bought some Yeah,

1330
01:47:47.000 --> 01:47:53.159
I bought some tracksuponds. And then Teddy Bears. That's Trivia

1331
01:47:53.239 --> 01:47:58.159
Tuesday last week. So I've got a picture of a

1332
01:47:58.199 --> 01:48:03.319
Teddy Bear picnic, three pre bears, all of hats on

1333
01:48:03.600 --> 01:48:09.199
drinking through straws out for some glasses, with some burgers

1334
01:48:09.239 --> 01:48:14.800
and stuff, you know, on the on the blanket, checkered blanket,

1335
01:48:15.279 --> 01:48:17.359
but in the background, because in the park in the

1336
01:48:17.359 --> 01:48:20.319
background like all these humans just running away around screaming

1337
01:48:20.319 --> 01:48:27.399
and running away screaming. So I like that. And then

1338
01:48:27.439 --> 01:48:31.680
another one mental health review. I seem to be doing

1339
01:48:31.680 --> 01:48:34.359
one every day if I have. I've been quite good recently.

1340
01:48:35.840 --> 01:48:40.720
Mental health review is there's bugs bunny sitting on it

1341
01:48:42.439 --> 01:48:47.159
like a psychiatrist's couch, and a psychiatrist is looks a

1342
01:48:47.159 --> 01:48:52.399
bit like Freud and there's that whole thing, you know,

1343
01:48:52.600 --> 01:48:56.479
Christine pointing out what's up, doc, and it is the cult. Yeah,

1344
01:48:56.640 --> 01:48:58.960
so it's quite because I just had a mental health

1345
01:48:58.960 --> 01:49:03.279
review on the Monday, and then I got one. I

1346
01:49:03.279 --> 01:49:05.239
don't know what I'm telling you. You might already know this.

1347
01:49:05.319 --> 01:49:08.159
You might have seen them. I have to go outside

1348
01:49:08.279 --> 01:49:12.159
and this was I think this was Sunday the eighteenth,

1349
01:49:13.119 --> 01:49:15.720
So it's me, what's kind of not really me, but

1350
01:49:15.760 --> 01:49:18.720
it's kind of a me kind of picture a middle

1351
01:49:18.760 --> 01:49:23.039
aged man, more hair, and it's like I have to

1352
01:49:23.039 --> 01:49:25.520
go outside at the top, but he's in a kind

1353
01:49:25.520 --> 01:49:29.000
of a very gray kind of room and there's a doorway,

1354
01:49:29.079 --> 01:49:33.680
but everything outside the doorway is very bright, right and colorful,

1355
01:49:34.479 --> 01:49:36.640
kind of like the Wizard of Oz. So that was

1356
01:49:36.680 --> 01:49:40.600
what I was looking for. It took a while to

1357
01:49:40.600 --> 01:49:47.159
get that together, but I was pleased. I mean, I

1358
01:49:47.199 --> 01:49:49.479
had to make a lot of changes to get it

1359
01:49:49.560 --> 01:49:57.760
to where it was. So yeah, that's kind of.

1360
01:49:59.720 --> 01:49:59.880
Is that.

1361
01:50:03.640 --> 01:50:09.279
Sometimes it's quite easy, you know, like Trivia Tuesday a

1362
01:50:09.319 --> 01:50:13.600
couple of weeks ago, I was talking about vikings. I think,

1363
01:50:14.720 --> 01:50:18.119
so I just wanted to be a Viking with green

1364
01:50:18.199 --> 01:50:23.880
Beard with a helmet with a title Trivia Tuesday, and

1365
01:50:23.920 --> 01:50:27.119
that's what it did, and it did it very quickly. Well,

1366
01:50:27.119 --> 01:50:32.159
I took a few seconds, maybe ten seconds. Adam was

1367
01:50:32.159 --> 01:50:35.840
pretty much perfect straightaway. So there's times like that when

1368
01:50:35.880 --> 01:50:39.680
it's really good and other times when it takes absolutely

1369
01:50:40.800 --> 01:50:48.119
what it seems to take a long time, and sometimes

1370
01:50:48.159 --> 01:50:51.560
I can't even bothered. It's like, just I don't want

1371
01:50:51.560 --> 01:50:54.840
to spend so long working on images to want to

1372
01:50:54.880 --> 01:50:58.439
get the thing out. I've made the recording, just doing

1373
01:50:58.439 --> 01:51:02.840
the editing, and there's been times where I've actually just

1374
01:51:02.840 --> 01:51:05.279
put it out without an image because I just like, no,

1375
01:51:06.039 --> 01:51:09.279
it's it's taken way too long, especially when I had

1376
01:51:09.319 --> 01:51:12.800
to keep going up to the hospital, so I'd edit

1377
01:51:12.880 --> 01:51:16.199
and then I'd just like post it without an image.

1378
01:51:17.720 --> 01:51:21.159
So that's kind of my creative take on that. So

1379
01:51:21.760 --> 01:51:24.159
some would argue maybe that it's not creative at all,

1380
01:51:24.199 --> 01:51:27.039
because I'm not the one really doing anything. I've given

1381
01:51:27.079 --> 01:51:32.720
the instructions, but yeah, it's coming out of my head.

1382
01:51:32.760 --> 01:51:34.920
It's coming out of my mind. A lot of it,

1383
01:51:35.880 --> 01:51:37.920
and I also have to do the editing, and I

1384
01:51:38.000 --> 01:51:42.399
know what I'm looking for, So yeah, thank you for that.

1385
01:51:42.560 --> 01:51:47.520
So Sharyl asks, since you seem concerned about your forehead

1386
01:51:47.560 --> 01:51:55.760
getting larger, oh my goodness, would you consider getting their

1387
01:51:55.840 --> 01:51:56.479
hair piece?

1388
01:51:57.199 --> 01:51:57.359
No?

1389
01:51:58.840 --> 01:52:08.720
Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, However, I think the only

1390
01:52:08.800 --> 01:52:12.399
reason that only time I would ever get a hair piece,

1391
01:52:14.000 --> 01:52:18.600
it would be probably in the event of if I

1392
01:52:18.640 --> 01:52:20.600
was in a play or if I was in in

1393
01:52:20.680 --> 01:52:24.399
some kind of fancy dress situation. Then you know, perhaps

1394
01:52:24.479 --> 01:52:30.319
I would wear like a wig or something. But and

1395
01:52:30.520 --> 01:52:35.279
you know, I do understand why people do need to

1396
01:52:35.359 --> 01:52:39.800
wear hair pieces and wigs and stuff, but I don't,

1397
01:52:41.640 --> 01:52:44.640
especially as although I go on about my hair and stuff,

1398
01:52:45.239 --> 01:52:48.720
I've spent many years bored. I've been shaving my head

1399
01:52:48.760 --> 01:52:53.119
on purpose. It's hard to do accidentally. But you know, basically,

1400
01:52:53.239 --> 01:52:56.159
I don't care that much. I'm just a little bit

1401
01:52:56.199 --> 01:52:59.560
annoyed that I don't have control over it anymore, because

1402
01:52:59.560 --> 01:53:01.960
before I shave it off and I was in control.

1403
01:53:02.640 --> 01:53:04.560
Now I don't have to shave it all off because

1404
01:53:04.600 --> 01:53:07.279
it kind of does it. It doesn't grow back. So

1405
01:53:07.319 --> 01:53:12.640
it's a little bit annoying. My forehead getting larger. I

1406
01:53:12.760 --> 01:53:20.960
like that. No, never, No, I wouldn't. I don't. I understand,

1407
01:53:22.760 --> 01:53:27.319
you know some famous people. I don't think i'd look

1408
01:53:27.399 --> 01:53:31.600
younger because that's the thing, like, Okay, I could be

1409
01:53:31.640 --> 01:53:36.600
in my sixties, what I'm nearly fifty five now. I

1410
01:53:36.640 --> 01:53:41.119
don't think I'm going to look younger with a hair piece.

1411
01:53:43.520 --> 01:53:45.359
I think the only thing that would make me perhaps

1412
01:53:45.439 --> 01:53:47.960
look a bit younger if I didn't have the gray.

1413
01:53:48.119 --> 01:53:50.680
But then my hair is not that gray. It's gray,

1414
01:53:50.720 --> 01:53:53.960
but it's gray in at the sides, at the top.

1415
01:53:54.640 --> 01:53:59.039
But there's a lot of hair that's still dark dark

1416
01:53:59.079 --> 01:54:04.600
brown my head, but my beard less. So I got Yeah,

1417
01:54:05.119 --> 01:54:07.640
my beard's definitely got much more grayer than my hair

1418
01:54:07.680 --> 01:54:15.680
on my head. And no, I wouldn't. I wouldn't get

1419
01:54:15.720 --> 01:54:19.640
a hair piece. And I think if I met someone

1420
01:54:19.960 --> 01:54:23.319
and they kind of were really like, well, I want

1421
01:54:23.359 --> 01:54:25.439
you to get a hair piece, I don't like. I

1422
01:54:25.439 --> 01:54:31.760
don't like being with someone that's bored, mate, I don't. Yeah,

1423
01:54:31.800 --> 01:54:34.359
I'd probably just say well i'll see it. Then, you know,

1424
01:54:34.479 --> 01:54:37.520
find someone else that's got hair or just willing to

1425
01:54:37.560 --> 01:54:41.239
wear a hair piece, because I don't don't date someone

1426
01:54:41.279 --> 01:54:43.960
that's bald. If you don't want to be with someone

1427
01:54:44.000 --> 01:54:47.840
that's bored. That's the way I see it is, if

1428
01:54:47.840 --> 01:54:50.199
you want to date someone that's tall, don't date someone

1429
01:54:50.239 --> 01:54:53.159
as short. Or if you want someone that's short, don't

1430
01:54:53.279 --> 01:54:56.399
date someone that's tall. Expect them to crouch all the time,

1431
01:54:57.800 --> 01:55:02.600
walk on their knees. You know. It's like things like

1432
01:55:02.720 --> 01:55:07.840
that are controllable, not meeting someone that you feel. You know,

1433
01:55:08.319 --> 01:55:10.880
you might meet someone that they've tick all the other boxes,

1434
01:55:10.880 --> 01:55:19.760
but ultimately, why walk up to someone and start talking

1435
01:55:19.800 --> 01:55:24.760
to them? If it's a big no no. Then being

1436
01:55:24.920 --> 01:55:29.479
seven foot tall and maybe you're four foot five, and

1437
01:55:30.560 --> 01:55:33.159
you know your limit of height is only it only

1438
01:55:33.199 --> 01:55:37.159
go as high as six foot two. As for a partner,

1439
01:55:38.319 --> 01:55:44.319
you know, or you want someone shorter, or if.

1440
01:55:44.239 --> 01:55:48.039
You've got a really if that's a thing, if you've

1441
01:55:48.039 --> 01:55:55.000
got to really a thing, you know, whatever the person is,

1442
01:55:55.319 --> 01:55:57.119
whether you're a male, female.

1443
01:55:56.840 --> 01:56:04.840
Or whatever, if you've got a particular like so I

1444
01:56:04.880 --> 01:56:08.680
would say go with that, like go with it. Whether

1445
01:56:08.720 --> 01:56:13.920
you've really got a thing for someone with a certain

1446
01:56:14.000 --> 01:56:19.119
color hair, or someone with a type of maybe from

1447
01:56:19.119 --> 01:56:25.720
a certain part of the world, or someone who's really really,

1448
01:56:25.800 --> 01:56:31.680
really tall, or whatever. If you've got something. If that

1449
01:56:31.880 --> 01:56:35.840
really has a big impact on how you feel physically

1450
01:56:35.880 --> 01:56:39.279
and emotionally, then it makes sense to kind of go

1451
01:56:39.439 --> 01:56:45.600
towards that, you know, or body size even but then

1452
01:56:45.640 --> 01:56:48.640
body size, like height is not really going to change,

1453
01:56:48.960 --> 01:56:50.680
is it going to get a bit short of age,

1454
01:56:50.960 --> 01:56:59.880
It's not really going to change too much. Glasses, you know,

1455
01:57:00.000 --> 01:57:06.000
you know, I guess if you're date someone who doesn't

1456
01:57:06.039 --> 01:57:08.960
have glasses and they start wearing glasses, maybe you've got

1457
01:57:09.000 --> 01:57:12.720
an issue of people wearing glasses. Some people do. I

1458
01:57:12.800 --> 01:57:17.520
used to be a bit weird towards glasses where I

1459
01:57:17.560 --> 01:57:21.880
wearers even though I wore glasses myself. My attitude was,

1460
01:57:22.000 --> 01:57:24.479
why would I want to date someone that's wears glasses,

1461
01:57:25.399 --> 01:57:29.199
because it'd be like having a relationship through a window.

1462
01:57:30.760 --> 01:57:33.119
Because I wear glasses as well, it'd be like wearing

1463
01:57:33.159 --> 01:57:35.079
you know, or I didn't wear them all the time,

1464
01:57:35.079 --> 01:57:37.399
but it'd be like having a relationship through a window,

1465
01:57:38.359 --> 01:57:41.399
which is rude and I shouldn't have said that out

1466
01:57:41.439 --> 01:57:45.359
to people loud in public, but I thought it was

1467
01:57:46.319 --> 01:57:49.800
kind of funny. But at the time, I didn't wear

1468
01:57:49.840 --> 01:57:52.520
glasses all the time. I just had to wear them

1469
01:57:52.520 --> 01:57:57.960
for reading, So I don't feel that way anymore. It's

1470
01:57:58.000 --> 01:58:00.840
not like having a relationship through a you know, if

1471
01:58:00.880 --> 01:58:05.199
I date song of glasses, it's what it's double glazing now,

1472
01:58:05.239 --> 01:58:16.439
isn't it? Pretty much? And yeah, what was I gonna say?

1473
01:58:18.199 --> 01:58:18.960
What was the question?

1474
01:58:19.760 --> 01:58:24.840
Oh? Hair pieces? So yeah, i'd yeah, I see a

1475
01:58:24.880 --> 01:58:29.960
lot of the old movie stars, like from the old days.

1476
01:58:29.960 --> 01:58:32.880
It used to wear wigs, and you could see it

1477
01:58:32.920 --> 01:58:43.720
with wigs, but it kind of didn't matter. It's kind

1478
01:58:43.720 --> 01:58:51.359
of one of those weird things is if I'm boarding,

1479
01:58:51.640 --> 01:58:54.000
I'm not like I've got a bald patch at the back.

1480
01:58:54.439 --> 01:58:58.680
I'm receding. I've been receding for decades and my hair

1481
01:59:01.520 --> 01:59:04.199
and I moan about it. But firstly, I can't see

1482
01:59:04.239 --> 01:59:05.640
the back of my head, so I can't see the

1483
01:59:05.680 --> 01:59:08.039
ball patch. I forget it's there most of the time

1484
01:59:08.520 --> 01:59:10.800
until people just start laughing at me when I'm walking

1485
01:59:10.840 --> 01:59:16.680
down the street. But I wouldn't. I mean, I wouldn't

1486
01:59:16.680 --> 01:59:18.920
get You can't really get balled. You can't get the

1487
01:59:18.960 --> 01:59:21.760
hair piece just for one tiny little ball patch, can you?

1488
01:59:22.800 --> 01:59:30.840
Or one average size, growing ever increasing bald patch. I

1489
01:59:30.880 --> 01:59:34.800
don't care. I'm at an age now where having a

1490
01:59:34.840 --> 01:59:38.159
board patch there's no shame. There's no shame in never

1491
01:59:38.239 --> 01:59:41.840
having a ball patch. But I'm fifty five. I'm allowed

1492
01:59:41.840 --> 01:59:47.399
to have a board patch without having to explain myself,

1493
01:59:47.439 --> 01:59:50.800
you know. I mean everyone is. It doesn't matter what

1494
01:59:50.840 --> 01:59:53.880
age you are. Some people go bored and in their

1495
01:59:53.880 --> 01:59:57.079
teenage years. I know people. I know a girl that

1496
01:59:57.119 --> 02:00:02.680
went completely gray when she was fourteen, and it's like

1497
02:00:03.359 --> 02:00:05.439
she dye her hair. Of course she dyed her hair.

1498
02:00:06.279 --> 02:00:10.000
What else is she going to have done? But nowadays

1499
02:00:10.800 --> 02:00:13.359
having gray hair is almost a fashion, isn't it with

1500
02:00:13.600 --> 02:00:20.159
young people? Or blue hair or green hair. So yeah,

1501
02:00:20.279 --> 02:00:24.079
I don't. I would never wear it. Well, I do do. Actually,

1502
02:00:24.760 --> 02:00:33.039
sometimes there's a lot of banging around what they is.

1503
02:00:44.680 --> 02:00:55.239
It's weird. I oh, so I don't think I was

1504
02:00:55.279 --> 02:01:05.039
talking about I can't remember what I was talking about now,

1505
02:01:05.479 --> 02:01:09.159
but yeah, no, I wouldn't. I wouldn't wear a hair piece.

1506
02:01:10.840 --> 02:01:13.159
I think it's okay. Love me for how I am,

1507
02:01:14.399 --> 02:01:19.840
and love me for how I will be because you

1508
02:01:19.920 --> 02:01:22.439
can't have how I used to be because that's gone.

1509
02:01:23.399 --> 02:01:25.760
So all you've got is how I am now. And

1510
02:01:25.760 --> 02:01:29.439
if you want to stick around, you'll be you'll see

1511
02:01:29.439 --> 02:01:34.600
how I will be. Mind you. If you listen to

1512
02:01:34.600 --> 02:01:36.760
the podcast, you'll find out how I was as well.

1513
02:01:37.119 --> 02:01:40.079
Because I do talk about the past. It's hard to

1514
02:01:40.079 --> 02:01:42.039
talk about the future, isn't it, because it hasn't happened

1515
02:01:42.119 --> 02:01:50.840
yet apparently, and I do believe that is all the questions.

1516
02:01:53.840 --> 02:01:56.720
So thank you very much for listening. Remember to be

1517
02:01:56.800 --> 02:01:58.920
kind to yourself, and thank you for all the questions.

1518
02:01:58.920 --> 02:02:06.520
I say you were Hope, Rich, Robin, Kathleen, Mary, dev Sheryl,

1519
02:02:06.920 --> 02:02:10.279
So thank you all of you. A few questions, and

1520
02:02:10.319 --> 02:02:12.920
remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve

1521
02:02:13.000 --> 02:02:16.640
to be happy, a be gentle with yourself. You deserve

1522
02:02:16.760 --> 02:02:30.520
to feel safe. Lots of love, Bye,