May 19, 2025

(music) SKOOLS | Monday’s Boring Objects | LMBYTS #1356 | 19th May 2025

(music) SKOOLS | Monday’s Boring Objects | LMBYTS #1356 | 19th May 2025
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Hello, and welcome to Jasonnewland dot com. My name is

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Jason Newland. Please add elicted where you can safety close

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your eyes. I said that as I yawned and scratched

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my beard at the same time. So yes, I can multitask.

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Thank you very much. This is let me boy to sleep.

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Number number is it? I don't know, one thousand, three

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hundred and one thousand, three hundruid. I have to check this.

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Let me go to one of my podcasts, one thousand,

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three hundred and fifty six. BlimE me, that's a lot

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in it. That's a lot. So yep, this is Monday's

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Boring Objects without an object to talk about. Now. What

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I thought I might do is if I look back

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on my Jason Newland's Boring group on Facebook, there was

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a question that at the time of answerering. I thought

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to myself, hmm, maybe that would be a good subject

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to converse about on my Monday's Boring Objects. But I'm

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going to have to find the question. I'd have a look. Okay, okay,

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give me two seconds. I do also have a YouTube

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channel which is at Jason Newland that's also my podcast,

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So every single recording I do goes on there. The

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website has all of my well it will do if

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I'm just in the middle of doing some playlists. But

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I've been I've been changing things, trying to make it

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a bit better. But I decided to be to There

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was a certain thing I was doing and it would

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take me forever, so I decided not to do that.

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It seemed a bit pointless. I may go back and

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do it in the future, but right now, I'm just

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going to stick to what I've got planned. So I

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do have all of the recordings uploaded to the podcast,

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each individual podcast on the website, which will be on

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the website when they are published. It's just going to

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take a little while to do that. I'm saving a

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quick look. Oh yeah, I also started a cult, if

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anyone wants to join, can we see? Right? It might

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have been about the hypnosis and creative writing, right. I

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was fought about talking about how I started in hypnosis,

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but I've probably done that so many times. I talked

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that one too to sleep. I think there's a few

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little things I probably haven't talked about. Let me just

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think I'm thinking the different jobs I've had, different places,

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have lived, h relationships, mm hmm people, mm hmmm. I

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wanted to talk about something that I haven't really mentioned before,

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something that's all kind of not surprised you, but maybe

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a little bit like, oh, you know, I mean that

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is kind of a sader surprise potentially, but just something

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where you're thinking, hmm, didn't know that about the juicy

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JJ man bloke person. I didn't know how old I

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was until I was seven. About that, I didn't know

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my day at birth till I was seven. That's a

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bit of a that's more trivia, isn't it. It's more

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trivia Tuesday. It is Monday today, isn't it? Is it Monday?

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I think it is Monday, the nineteenth of May twenty

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twenty five one two all weeks to the end of

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the month. It's the year man, and it's like we're

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nearly halfway through the year. Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle

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all the way. How much fun it is to ride

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in nos Oh. One of my favorite hymns was I

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talked about my I talked about my high school. So

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there's only two schools I really remember, I really remember

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I've been in I could just talk about schools in general.

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Let's talk about my schools in general. Okay, I have

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this memory of walking to school on the first day

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on my own, and this is when I was I

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don't know, five four or five or something. That's when

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I lived in Newcastle. But I have another memory of

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another school. It might be the same school, and it's

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really it was freaky. It was one of those freaky moments.

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And so I was in this school behind the school gates,

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the right side of the school, inside the school, not

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inside the school, but inside the playground part of the

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front of the school. Although that might have been the

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back of the school, I don't think it's really relevant.

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I think it was the front of the school or

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the side. It was able to side, the back or

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the front. And it definitely wasn't underground. It was definitely

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on top of the ground. And I was standing there

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on my own, looking through the fence, and my memory

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is it was it wasn't barbed wire or anything like that,

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but it was these metal fence. Now, because I was

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so little, probably looked really tall. It might have only

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been like five foot, but in my memory was like

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twenty foot high. And so I'm looking through the fence

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at this lady and she falls over. I lot dies

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with her, but I maun locked eyes. I mean, there

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was no locks involved. But I looked at her and

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she fell over, and I thought that I had caused

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her to fall over, which is kind of a weird thing.

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I believed that I had somehow made her fall over

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with my mind, which was a weird thing to think.

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I think at that age, at any age, really, and

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I don't remember too much about it. I think I

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might have gone back in school and told a teacher maybe,

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or just gone in a hidden because I didn't want

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to get in trouble. That was a very strange memory.

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Now I don't know where that was. That might have

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been in Newcastle, might be in South End, it might

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I don't know where it was. And then I remember

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there was another school which was almost overlooking. Sure there

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was like a motorway. This was in South End, I think,

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or Newcastle again. I think that was a different school,

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and I got the very vague memories of standing looking.

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I used to do a lot of looking back then

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and just could see it was very inner city school.

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I would say, well in around places it wasn't kind

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of I'm sure there was like a motorway that you

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could see. That's my memory of it. Anyway, I don't

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I remember walking to school through down a bypassed kind

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of this. I don't know. It was a some kind

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of bridge that would walk down. There was other kids

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as well. It wasn't just me, but walking to school.

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This would be in Newcastle, But again I don't remember

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much of the actual school itself. Have you hear? Vinnie's

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been really fidgety. We've just been out, just got back.

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I took his food out of the fridge because he

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wasn't eating it. I'm getting a little bit fed up

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with chucking it away. Was at the moment he's just

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eating dry food and he doesn't seem to want wet

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food at all. So I put it in the fridge,

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just brought it out, and he's ignoring it. And he's

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not ignoring it like he's not calling to him, but

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he's just I've got an actually beard. I don't know why.

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I think it might be a heat rash or flease.

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So I remember this vaguely remember that. But the first

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school that I really kind of have any any set

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of memories for was when I was seven and I've

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moved in with Papa and papa's new wife. It sounds

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like a song child, don't it. And there was this

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school just up the well, just up the road, but

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it was yeah, it wasn't wasn't far away from where

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the house was that we were living because we were

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living with my dad's new wife's mother that it was

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her house. So we were living there for I don't

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know how long because we went to school, I guess

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in the September. We moved there about in the summer

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during the summer holidays from South End Nazareth House in

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South End and went to school. I was seven, so

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I don't know what. We didn't have years back then

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the way they do now we do. But it wasn't

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it's like first, second, four fifth, It wasn't like year twelve,

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year fifteen or whatever. Didn't have that back then. And

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I was only there probably four maybe one term, perhaps

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two terms. And then we moved because the house we

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was in was I think it was derelict. It was

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basically falling apart. So they moved my stepmom's mum into

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a flat and we got a council house because we

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were overcrowded anyway, not that I cared, I didn't. I

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was fine. I like living there, so we I mean,

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it's like, okay, living in a room with one other kid,

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or even two other kids, it's better than living in

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a room with twelve other kids in my see know,

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That's how I kind of saw it. And then we

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moved to the house that my nan and grand had

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ended up living in for a long time, especially my

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name lived in there for a long, long, long time.

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So we moved into this new build on this new

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sort of state, and it was technically a three bedroom house.

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The third bedroom was some would argue wasn't big enough

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to be like a It was a very small bedroom.

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Some people might say it's just like a box room.

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Some people might just say, you know, there's lots of

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different things people can say. I was happy there because

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that was my room. For the first time in my life,

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I had my own bedroom. It was glorious. So I've

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talked about this before. My bruce Leaf poster on the wall,

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and even though I didn't know who Brucially was at

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that time, but I learned someone just sneezed the loudest

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sneeze I've ever heard in my life. So so we

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went about school. So we went to a different school,

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which was kind of about fifteen minute walk from there,

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so that was like, okay, So that was the second

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junior school I went to in that town. And it's

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kind of weird. I mean, we moved from one house

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that I really liked to another house that I really liked,

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and you know, it wasn't big enough for all of

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us really, plus another kid came along, so in reality,

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we couldn't have stayed there, but I would have happily

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stayed there because I had my own room. That wasn't

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just the only reason, because I ended up having my

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own room when we moved again, But it was just

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I liked that house. It was a lovely house, and

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I liked the school as well. I like the other school,

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and my memories of the first school in that town

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that I went to at seven was and I just

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turned seven, literally probably a week or two before the

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before going to school, and yeah, it was just nice.

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I liked it. I got into a little bit of

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trouble for stealing one of some one of the I

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think a girl who I liked found the keys or

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managed I don't know where she got the keys from

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to the tuck shop and told me about it. And

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invited me in to have a feast, and we got

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caught by the janitor after a few days of do

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it that, and the police came into the school and

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got me to stand up and her to stand up

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and told us all off. Now I assumed they hadn't

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told my parents because I didn't get told office at home,

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But in reality they probably did. All the teachers did.

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But because I only just moved there, they probably didn't

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feel they could really tell me off. Yeah, I had

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only been there for like a couple of months living

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with them. Unless I did tell me off and I

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just laughed, it's possible I just didn't hear them, didn't listen. Yeah,

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I don't know. And then there's another time when there

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was this cupboard that had all like the toys in

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so we were playing toys Lego, these big Lego definitely Lego,

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but these big bricks sticker bricks or whatever they were called,

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and had all his toys on the floor. The teacher

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came out of this room where all the toys were

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stored and said, somebody has made a dent in the wall.

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Now I remember even now, it was like a brick wall,

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big old bricks with paint covered in paint, but there

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was like a dent. And their teacher said, no one's

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going to lunch until we find out who did it.

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No one was owning up to it, so I just said,

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I did it, okay, and there's the teacher, so send

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everyone to lunch. Kept me behind, and the teacher said that.

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She said to me, okayn, new boy, show me how

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you did it. And I went in there and I thought, oh,

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now I'm on the spot. It's really hard. It's, you know,

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something you're not prepared for to if you if you

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lie to get out of doing something that you've done,

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you can kind of be prepared in a way, but

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to lie about doing something you haven't done is difficult.

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Find it very difficult, very difficult. So I pretty much said, well,

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I did it with this and it was like a

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lego brick, plastic plastic lego brick. Yeah, that's how I

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did it. And the teacher just laughed at me, said

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show me how you did it. Then, So I did

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this with this, like, yeah, that's how I did that,

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and I was robbing this thing against the wall. It's

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like the worst lie, not the worst lie, but it

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was it's like trying to escape from a prison cell

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with a toothbrush or some candy floss, not candy floss,

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you know, tooth floss, whatever is it? Just you could

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do it, probably, but it would take forever, you know,

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to break for a wall, to even scratch the wall

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would take more than I pressure than I had available,

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you know, with my little seven year old body, I

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mean I was a size for a five year old.

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And they said, did you really do it? I said yeah.

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They said, you do realize after the stealing this might

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mean you'll go to prison. I said, really, She said no,

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not really. I said, okay, But I'm not sure if

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I admitted that it wasn't me or not. But the

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weird thing about it is I felt like it was me.

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That's a strange thing. I felt like I'd done it. Weird.

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So I got moved. So I got expelled from that school.

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Now I didn't get expelled, I don't think I did.

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I left that school and we went to this other school,

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which is around the corner from the new housing the

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state were moved to. So I was moving towards I

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was probably yeah, seven and a half at this point.

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So I'm unless, unless that might be an eighty, so

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maybe I'd had the whole year there, but I think

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it was I might have had the whole year there.

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So I went to this other school between eight and nine,

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and I liked that school. I liked that school even

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more than the first school, because yeah, I wasn't at

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the other school long enough to make friends, so I

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might've only been there for one term, because I did

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make friends at the next school, like good friends, like

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my best friend who was called Andrew. I had two

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I had Ian and Andrew. Ian lived up the road

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and he was even on the same mistake as well.

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I was just living and went to school the same

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school all the same age. Ian's birthday was the same

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date as mine, exactly the same date. And we were

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good friends who were best friends in and out of

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each other's houses. Used to just spend all the times together, really,

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and I was probably that period between living in that house,

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whatever period that was. But I mean, you know, really,

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from a school very whispery, whistley loud, wasn't it from

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a school perspective. From a school perspective, possibly that was

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my favorite time, you know, where both school and house,

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school and home synchronization was really good. Every aspect was good.

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And that was the only period really between the ages

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of eight and nine. So I went to this school

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I liked, I had friends for the first time, not

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for the first time, but for the first time where

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was a degree of stability because we'd stayed. I've never

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been at a school for a whole year before, so

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I'd been there for over a year. And I guess

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because I do one term, said a year and nearly

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two years. I suppose you think about it because when

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I moved into the other house when I was seven, seven,

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maybe the beginning of the year nineteen seventy eight, so

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I was yeah, and then started at the other school

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and I was there until I was nine, and then

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we moved again and I went to a different school again,

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another junior school, and I liked that school as well,

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to be fair, but yeah, I wasn't enjoying the home

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life at that point then. But as far as schools

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go with I'd say I probably liked that school better.

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The third junior school I went to during that period,

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I liked the school better and I did make lots

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of friends because I was there for two years, so

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I kind of had, you know, I kind of got

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to make more deeper friendships. I don't know, like closer friendships,

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maybe a bit more stability in that sense. But the

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previous school it was just really nice because living on

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a council of State, it was a new build. Pretty

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much all the kids of my age group that moved

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onto that council of State were going to the same

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school as me, so we could hang out with each other.

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And then we moved and I lost all those friends,

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even though I was living in a little town. There

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was I think three or there was at least three

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junior school. It was probably a junior infant that's kind

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of the same thing. I think, you know, they went

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up to the age of eleven and in high schools

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from eleven onwards. Is Yeah, that was a shame because

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it was the first time that I'd had any kind

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of stable schooling. And I've been through quite a bit

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while I was there as well, because I had problems

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with my ears partially deaf, had an operation, and I

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liked the school and I like my friends, and I

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had a girlfriend as well. My first ever girlfriend was there,

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and so that was cool. I say, my first ever

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I kind of had her girlfriend at the other school,

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but she kept getting me into trouble. So yeah, I

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think he got moved away. That was the one with

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the keys to the tuck shop. Yeah, I had a

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girlfriend and we used to just chase each other and

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push each other over and stuff, pull each other's hair,

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you know, that's that kind of It was a very

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deep and loving friendship, a very very lot of romance.

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I was eight, but I did have my first ever

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date with her. I went to the cinema. I don't

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really remember what movies we went to see because it

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was Saturday matinee, so there was two movies, one old

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older one and one more newer one. I think I

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might have seen spider Man, the New Spote not the

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New spider Man now, but back then it was the

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new movie New spider Man movie, which was about nineteen

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seventy eight. I feel I need to check this up.

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Nineteen seventy eight Spider Man movie. It was nineteen seventy eight.

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I'll wait a minute. The film was that's weird spider Man.

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Let's have a look. I'm going to get this back.

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Nineteen seventy seven movie spider Man. For the first time.

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I loved it, and I remember going to watch it

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and on the what was it? The undercard were not

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The Undercan but the movie before was Sinbad in the

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Eye of the Tiger. I think or it might have been. No,

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I think it was that. I think it was I

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Love Spider Man. I'm not sure which came first, Spider

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Man or Superman. As far as like the new movies.

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It came out in the late seventies. It was so good,

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loved loved it. I mean, back then, superheroes were a

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big thing on TV. I mean there'd been a big

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thing forever really, but there was a real popular, popular

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thing we had, you know, that was on TV at

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the time. So we had we have the Incredible Hulk,

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Wonder Woman, the Bionic Man, kung Fu when kung Fu

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was kind of like a superhero, but it wasn't really

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but kind of was more like real life superhero, you know,

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because he did kung fu. That's why he was called

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kung Fu. What other ones was there? Well, a Bionic Woman.

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I don't know when they started calling it. It was a

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six million dollar man then I'm sure they just started

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calling it the Bionic Man eventually, and then Spider Man

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because Spider Man was also a TV show as well,

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And I'm trying to think of other and we used

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to have some of the older shows on as well,

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like some of the Superman shows, of the Lone Ranger,

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High Whole, Silvar, Rocketman. I'm trying to think of some

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of the others, like but these we were in black and white.

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Dick Tracy, I know Dick Tracy technically wasn't a superhero,

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but he kind of was. And yeah, there was a

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lot a lot on back then. I probably missed out

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some really obvious ones. Shall I check because I'm sure this,

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I'm sure there's some that I've missed out. So super

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hero TV shows, I'm going to go online nineteen seventies.

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I don't want images list of superhero television. She was

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just okay, it's going right away back from nineteen forty nine.

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So the Lone Ranger is that how old The Lone

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Ranger was? Flash Gordon. Flash Gordon still one of the

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greatest movies ever in my opinion, one of the greatest,

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greatest soundtrack. But they I used to watch the Flash

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Gordon TV show and this was from like nineteen fifty

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four to fifty five, but they used to show it

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on TV like in the late seventies early eighties Zoro.

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They used to show that on The Invisible Man. They

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used to show that. Again they were black and white.

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I think the Mighty Atom I don't remember seeing that.

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Sounds good though, I mean superheroes. I'm just looking. It's

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got stuff here that I can't I mean, mister Terrific,

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Captain Nice. I don't remember ever seeing those left in

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the sixties, Kung Fu. Yeah, to see. I thought that

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was I did think that was kind of like a

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superhero Mirror Man. Nope, the six Million Dollar Man nineteen

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seventy three to seventy eight. The Tomorrow People, of course,

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seventy three to seventy nine. And they were superheroes, weren't they.

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That was an English thing and they could do I

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think telepathy between each other and stuff. The Invisible Man

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again started here they I thought The Invisible Man was

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in the eighties. Maybe they just started another one. Because

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this is saying the Invisible Man was nineteen seventy Invisible

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Man nineteen seventy five to ninety seventy six. Surely it's

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not the one with McCullum producers. Why are they're saying

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who was in it? They're not. It starred David McCullum

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nineteen seventy five to nineteen Wow, I didn't realize that.

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I used to love that. So that was seventy five

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to seventy six. They were still showing it. They were

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showing repeats and stuff. So I used to watch that

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The Bionic Woman. Of course, I've already mentioned Man from Atlantis, yep,

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superhero that was Bobby Ewing. So Men from Atlantis another

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huge show. Anyone it's old enough to remember that huge.

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He was a pin up. He was a pin up

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for everyone, not just for adults but for kids as well.

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I used to have him on the wall because he

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was a superstar. He could breathe underwater. Come on, I

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kind of felt I was similar to him because I

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swam the way he did. Because I was not I

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had no way of keeping above the water. So I

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just thought, you know what, I'll swim the way the

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Man from Atlantis does, which has gone very wiggly, and

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I could go from one link to the other without

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without going above the water. So I thought I was

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quite good, but I couldn't swim. I used to bang

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into people as well. I remember once I did it,

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and I banged into the side and banging my face

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because I couldn't see where I was going. Monkey Monkey,

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So I remember Monkey nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty.

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Used to watch it on BBC two, and I remember

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watching that in the house we moved into when I

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was nine, watching it on TV while I was stripping

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the wallpaper in the living room. So we just moved

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in Buck Roger's in the twenty fifth century. It's a

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superhero may it didn't have any powers though, so I

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just let's you see all the different superheroes we had

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during that period. I'm going to miss seventies out Minimal

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nineteen eighty three. Now, I loved Minimal and then I didn't,

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So basically it was my favorite show. Was basically was

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a man that turned into an animal, hence Minimal. That's

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a dog barking now. And it didn't go down very

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well with the audience apparent. It wasn't only got one

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series and that was it. But I liked it a lot.

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But unfortunately, on the night that I was going to

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watch it, because I think I've seen a few episodes,

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the I got into trouble for something over nothing really

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but to do with my schoolwork, and I ended up

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getting big lecture and my dad just had a tantrum

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on me over a broken ruler, like a ruler my

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ruler had a chip in it. He wouldn't know why

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there was a chip in my ruler. I don't mean

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a chip as in, you know, potato, And I said,

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I don't know, and he just went on and on

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and on. So and then I went and sat in

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and I couldn't watch Manimal just looked at it like, nah,

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it's wet. It never been able to watch it since

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it's weird, isn't it? The A team those superheroes when

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they really but not didn't have powers. But then quite

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a few superheroes don't have powers. Batman doesn't have powers.

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Highway to Heaven that's not a super I mean, it's

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a brilliant show. I loved it. I watched that from

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all the way from the beginning to the end that one.

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I don't mean from the beginning of the episode to

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the end of the episode, but from eighty four to

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tw eighty nine. Loved Highway to Heaven. Why has the

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Incredible Hulk not been mentioned anyone? I've not mentioned a Hulk,

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have I? But it's not mentioned No Hulk, which was

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possibly one of the biggest biggest shows on TV at

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the time late seventies. The Hulk. No no Hulk on

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this list, so it's not a complete list. How can

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they not mention the Hulk? Anyway? I mentioned the Hulk

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Super Grand that was like eighty five to eighty seven,

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So that was funny, but it was a little bit.

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I watched it, but it was you know, it was

470
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kind of coming to leave school and left school at

471
00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:41.920
that point. Yeah, why if they put bay Watch down?

472
00:39:42.599 --> 00:39:45.320
This is supposed to be superheroes and might have got

473
00:39:45.320 --> 00:39:50.840
this right. Independence DC and Novel List is television series

474
00:39:50.880 --> 00:39:55.480
based on DC comics. Okay, let's look at that one

475
00:39:55.599 --> 00:40:00.000
adventure as a Superman Batman. So all these these are

476
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.000
the ones I was looking for, But these are in

477
00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:04.840
the six fifties and sixties. Wonder Woman seventy five to

478
00:40:04.880 --> 00:40:15.960
seventy nine, Superboy eighty eight to ninety two. Really, I

479
00:40:16.000 --> 00:40:22.000
don't remember ever seeing Superboy. Was it cartoon for the

480
00:40:22.079 --> 00:40:30.639
Chinese reality singing contest see Superboy TV series? Okay, it's

481
00:40:30.679 --> 00:40:33.840
an American television series based on the fictional DC comic

482
00:40:33.920 --> 00:40:38.039
character Superman's early years a Superboy. The show ran from

483
00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:41.519
eighty eight to ninety two. In syndication. It was renamed

484
00:40:41.519 --> 00:40:44.360
The Adventures as Superboy at the start of the third season,

485
00:40:51.639 --> 00:40:58.119
although they sold arises the first Beanna focused on Clark Kent. Really,

486
00:40:58.800 --> 00:41:01.360
I'd love to see that. I didn't know there was

487
00:41:01.400 --> 00:41:06.199
a Superboy. Why did they never showed that on TV

488
00:41:06.480 --> 00:41:11.519
in this country? I'm pretty sure i'd remember that. Shazam again,

489
00:41:11.599 --> 00:41:13.840
that was seventy for to seventy six. Never saw that.

490
00:41:16.400 --> 00:41:23.360
The Batman series, I mean, who hasn't. I mean maybe

491
00:41:23.360 --> 00:41:25.880
there are people that hasn't seen it, but the Batman

492
00:41:26.280 --> 00:41:29.760
shows sixty six sixty eight with some of the best

493
00:41:29.800 --> 00:41:36.880
television ever in my opinion. I loved it. The Flash

494
00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:44.719
nineteen ninety to ninety one, so that was funny. Lewis

495
00:41:44.800 --> 00:41:47.920
and Clark, The New Adventures of Superman, now that was

496
00:41:48.079 --> 00:41:51.920
huge in this country ninety three to ninety seven. Who

497
00:41:51.960 --> 00:41:54.199
used to be on a Saturday evening and it was

498
00:41:54.239 --> 00:41:58.760
one of the top rated shows like in this country

499
00:41:58.840 --> 00:42:05.639
at that time, huge viewership. And the Lewis Lane whatever

500
00:42:05.679 --> 00:42:11.280
her name was, she was absolutely like you couldn't It's

501
00:42:11.320 --> 00:42:14.679
almost like you couldn't look at a newspaper about seeing

502
00:42:14.679 --> 00:42:20.159
her face on there. Small Ville, Now, you know what

503
00:42:20.440 --> 00:42:25.800
is a weird thing. I didn't even know what small

504
00:42:25.880 --> 00:42:31.840
Ville was about, so started in two thousand and one.

505
00:42:32.159 --> 00:42:35.760
I came over it by accident in two thousand and two.

506
00:42:36.679 --> 00:42:38.480
But it used to be on in a weird time,

507
00:42:38.559 --> 00:42:42.960
like on a Sunday afternoon, which is a strange time

508
00:42:43.039 --> 00:42:50.320
for something like a Superman show to be on. And

509
00:42:51.400 --> 00:42:54.280
I did not know, I said, I'm probably two thousand

510
00:42:54.280 --> 00:42:56.719
and three, sorry, not two thousand and two. Two thousand

511
00:42:56.760 --> 00:43:01.639
and three. I didn't know it was about Superman, and

512
00:43:01.679 --> 00:43:04.480
I saw a small villain. I thought that sounds familiar,

513
00:43:08.199 --> 00:43:11.679
and then I started watching it. I loved it, and

514
00:43:11.760 --> 00:43:15.239
I watched it every Sunday. I didn't see it from

515
00:43:15.719 --> 00:43:18.639
the beginning all the way to the end, because it

516
00:43:18.679 --> 00:43:21.440
went on to twenty eleven. I stopped watching it probably

517
00:43:21.480 --> 00:43:29.199
after a couple of years. And what I mean. Two

518
00:43:29.239 --> 00:43:31.480
things that amazed me about that, I mean it were

519
00:43:31.519 --> 00:43:39.800
not amazed me is he I was watching what's that

520
00:43:39.960 --> 00:43:46.039
name for the Devil? A TV show on Netflix All

521
00:43:51.079 --> 00:44:10.599
Not be Easy bub Netflix A Devil TV show. Lucifer Lucifer. Okay,

522
00:44:10.639 --> 00:44:15.159
so Lucifer. There was this character in Lucifer, and I

523
00:44:15.199 --> 00:44:20.960
thought he looks familiar. Where have I seen him before?

524
00:44:21.119 --> 00:44:23.559
And it was really good in the show, Like I

525
00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:29.440
don't know who he is. He was Superman. It was

526
00:44:29.519 --> 00:44:32.880
Smallvill Superman because he was I think he literally was

527
00:44:32.960 --> 00:44:35.599
a kid. He was like a teenager when he started

528
00:44:35.639 --> 00:44:41.480
doing that show. And it was so weird to see

529
00:44:41.519 --> 00:44:44.760
him all grown up because I I suppose he's in

530
00:44:44.840 --> 00:44:48.119
his forties now, maybe even older. I don't know. Shall

531
00:44:48.199 --> 00:44:52.239
we find out Let's find out camera, Let's find out

532
00:44:52.519 --> 00:44:58.760
Tom Willing forty eight. The weird thing about it, it

533
00:44:58.800 --> 00:45:01.840
looks better now than he did then, not as anything

534
00:45:01.840 --> 00:45:05.719
wrong with how he looked then, but he's just maybe

535
00:45:05.719 --> 00:45:08.119
he's just grown into his face. I don't know he's

536
00:45:12.079 --> 00:45:16.440
it just looks so it just looks. It's weird. I

537
00:45:16.480 --> 00:45:22.800
don't ways see what other things he done. I don't

538
00:45:22.840 --> 00:45:25.519
know why they can't have a little bit of continuity

539
00:45:25.599 --> 00:45:28.920
and just let him be Superman as an adult. But

540
00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:34.760
he didn't seem to want to. He's been in a

541
00:45:34.800 --> 00:45:41.559
few movies, being a few TV shows. He was a batwoman.

542
00:45:42.199 --> 00:45:53.559
He played Clark Kent really wow, but that was like

543
00:45:53.920 --> 00:46:02.199
eight years after Smallville finished. Mmmm, well, wait a minute,

544
00:46:02.360 --> 00:46:13.000
was this one professionals? Professionals? Okay, No, it's not the

545
00:46:13.039 --> 00:46:20.679
TV show that I used to love, but the point

546
00:46:20.760 --> 00:46:22.400
I was trying to make, if there was a point,

547
00:46:22.480 --> 00:46:26.039
I don't know. I used to shave my head while

548
00:46:26.039 --> 00:46:29.840
I watched small Ville. So I had these clippers and

549
00:46:29.880 --> 00:46:32.960
I just used to do that, and I had when

550
00:46:33.000 --> 00:46:35.360
I shaved my head, I didn't like rinse my hair

551
00:46:35.400 --> 00:46:40.599
off and everything, or rinse rinse my scalp in the bath,

552
00:46:43.280 --> 00:46:47.320
and then I would rub in this moisturizer into my

553
00:46:47.440 --> 00:46:53.599
scalp and just message my scalp while I watched small

554
00:46:53.679 --> 00:46:57.920
Ville on TV. And not only did it, it just

555
00:46:58.400 --> 00:47:08.239
it felt nice, how lovely. It's a really nice smell. Yeah,

556
00:47:08.280 --> 00:47:09.639
I just remember doing that. I don't know why I

557
00:47:09.639 --> 00:47:13.639
remember that. That was two thousand and three Sundays. This

558
00:47:13.760 --> 00:47:17.199
is when I was working in the call center selling

559
00:47:17.239 --> 00:47:27.119
car insurance. So maybe it was Spider Man I went

560
00:47:27.159 --> 00:47:29.239
to on that date with. I didn't go on a

561
00:47:29.280 --> 00:47:31.159
date with Spider Man, but I went on a date

562
00:47:31.280 --> 00:47:35.280
with the girl at school to see Spider Man, I think,

563
00:47:36.559 --> 00:47:39.480
because I think I went to see Superman with my brother.

564
00:47:41.039 --> 00:47:43.159
I definitely went to see Superman two with my brother,

565
00:47:44.519 --> 00:47:49.480
because I was dreaming about it the day before or

566
00:47:49.519 --> 00:47:53.960
the night before. I dreamt because we kept seeing I dreamt,

567
00:47:54.559 --> 00:47:56.599
we kept seeing the adverts, you know, with all the

568
00:47:57.400 --> 00:48:00.840
super villains that were in Superman three at Superman two,

569
00:48:01.800 --> 00:48:07.800
and yeah, I just I wanted to see that more

570
00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:12.559
than I wanted to see the first one. It excited me.

571
00:48:13.679 --> 00:48:16.079
But then I also got excited about seeing the third

572
00:48:16.079 --> 00:48:18.800
one because Richard Pryor was in it. And at the

573
00:48:18.840 --> 00:48:22.719
time Richard Pryor was he was the biggest Hollywood actor

574
00:48:24.239 --> 00:48:28.079
at the time because he'd done Stir Crazy and he

575
00:48:28.119 --> 00:48:30.880
was doing his due, you know, films with Gene Wilder,

576
00:48:30.960 --> 00:48:37.360
and he was huge star. And this is before I

577
00:48:37.400 --> 00:48:42.599
even discovered his stand up. Genuinly didn't know he did

578
00:48:42.719 --> 00:48:45.519
stand up. It's weird, isn't it. But then I was

579
00:48:45.719 --> 00:48:48.079
I was a little kid, so I didn't really I

580
00:48:48.159 --> 00:48:50.360
knew what stand up comedy was because we had stand

581
00:48:50.440 --> 00:48:55.199
up comedy on television, but it was a different It

582
00:48:55.239 --> 00:48:59.320
definitely wasn't. Richard Pryor didn't have that kind of adult

583
00:48:59.360 --> 00:49:06.360
comedy on that I got to see. Anyway, I remember

584
00:49:06.360 --> 00:49:11.079
I used to share give this girl my chocolate. So

585
00:49:11.199 --> 00:49:14.559
if i'd have a I'd ever, I'd ever packed lunch

586
00:49:15.199 --> 00:49:21.119
with sandwiches, packet of crisps, and maybe a chocolate bar,

587
00:49:22.039 --> 00:49:29.840
like a little chocolate bar, such as a penguin. Now

588
00:49:29.840 --> 00:49:34.079
I didn't like penguins. I don't know why. I just

589
00:49:34.079 --> 00:49:38.400
didn't like them. So i'd give them away or try

590
00:49:38.440 --> 00:49:40.760
and swap with someone if someone had a kit kat

591
00:49:41.000 --> 00:49:44.639
or you know, different kind of thing. And what i'd

592
00:49:44.719 --> 00:49:48.719
sometimes do is give away the penguin to someone, to

593
00:49:49.159 --> 00:49:53.039
this girl to show how much I loved her. Sometimes

594
00:49:53.079 --> 00:49:55.760
i'd pick flowers. I'd go up to her and say

595
00:49:58.239 --> 00:50:03.000
they go and she said, there nets And I'm like,

596
00:50:03.079 --> 00:50:04.320
check them on the floor. She said, why do you

597
00:50:04.400 --> 00:50:08.880
check them on the floor because I was stinging me. Oh,

598
00:50:09.280 --> 00:50:11.440
so you knew there was stinging net lers and nettles

599
00:50:11.519 --> 00:50:14.320
ended you because she used to slur sometimes when she spoke,

600
00:50:15.000 --> 00:50:19.880
and I said, what, I can't understand you because you're slurred.

601
00:50:20.280 --> 00:50:23.079
She said, so you knew that there was stinging nettles.

602
00:50:23.920 --> 00:50:27.440
I said, no, there were flowers, I thought, but he

603
00:50:27.480 --> 00:50:31.239
said there was stinging your fingers. I said, yeah, I

604
00:50:31.239 --> 00:50:34.599
didn't know why, but it makes sense. Now that's that

605
00:50:34.719 --> 00:50:37.159
if they sting, they're called stinging netles. That makes sense.

606
00:50:37.239 --> 00:50:41.480
The name very much applies to the topic that we're

607
00:50:41.480 --> 00:50:46.920
conversing about. She said, what I'm wondering if fin's eating

608
00:50:46.920 --> 00:50:51.039
his dinner now, he's eating his eating his wet food.

609
00:50:52.599 --> 00:50:55.760
He started looking on the floor for dry bits of

610
00:50:55.840 --> 00:50:58.559
dry food because sometimes dropped things on the floor when

611
00:50:58.599 --> 00:51:02.719
I'm putting them in the pocket, and he's been hunting

612
00:51:02.760 --> 00:51:06.639
around for them, and because he had no more, he's

613
00:51:06.639 --> 00:51:11.239
had to settle with a wet food. I don't know

614
00:51:11.239 --> 00:51:14.199
if you can hear that slurp in a way. I'm

615
00:51:14.199 --> 00:51:15.639
not going to give him any attention. I'm going to

616
00:51:15.679 --> 00:51:21.320
I'm not going to look at him or anything. I

617
00:51:21.360 --> 00:51:23.320
think that he's stopped. He might be looking at me.

618
00:51:25.639 --> 00:51:27.519
I think he did look up, and then he's continued.

619
00:51:29.559 --> 00:51:35.159
So I was at that school. Nothing particularly interesting occurred

620
00:51:35.199 --> 00:51:40.840
at that school that I can really remember, other than

621
00:51:42.280 --> 00:51:45.360
there was one incident. And this is really weird, but

622
00:51:45.400 --> 00:51:48.440
it's true. I had by two incidents. There was this

623
00:51:48.559 --> 00:51:52.519
bully there. Still remember his name. I won't say his

624
00:51:52.599 --> 00:51:56.239
name because I'm sure he's you know, it's sure he's

625
00:51:56.239 --> 00:51:59.400
a good bloke, just you know, at that time. He

626
00:51:59.480 --> 00:52:02.079
was a bit of a bit of a ruffian and

627
00:52:02.320 --> 00:52:10.559
used to try and cause trouble and he picked on

628
00:52:10.639 --> 00:52:16.000
my friend who was who had a I think he

629
00:52:16.039 --> 00:52:19.480
had like one one kid ney or something, my friend

630
00:52:19.800 --> 00:52:23.079
who lived three doors up from where I lived, and

631
00:52:23.119 --> 00:52:25.760
he was making fun of him because he because he

632
00:52:25.760 --> 00:52:29.360
had a bag and I had a bag thing. I

633
00:52:29.400 --> 00:52:32.039
didn't really understand it, but I knew that he was

634
00:52:32.119 --> 00:52:38.920
unwell and stuff. So this kid was making fun of him.

635
00:52:38.960 --> 00:52:45.199
So I intervened and it didn't end well for him,

636
00:52:45.400 --> 00:52:50.519
to be fair, but it didn't seem to stop him

637
00:52:50.519 --> 00:52:54.960
from keep coming back. And then another time it was

638
00:52:55.320 --> 00:53:02.079
outside in the field. So at this point my other

639
00:53:02.199 --> 00:53:04.920
brother one who was two years older, was there as well,

640
00:53:05.480 --> 00:53:13.800
because I was eight and he was ten. Yeah, so

641
00:53:14.599 --> 00:53:17.119
he was like in his probably in the last year

642
00:53:17.199 --> 00:53:19.679
of that school. I still had a couple more left

643
00:53:20.559 --> 00:53:25.840
if I was going to stay there. And this kid,

644
00:53:26.280 --> 00:53:28.639
I think his name is Mark, I think I know

645
00:53:28.679 --> 00:53:31.239
what his name was, but it stayed with me for

646
00:53:31.280 --> 00:53:36.000
some reason. And I don't know if he I think

647
00:53:36.039 --> 00:53:40.920
he grabbed my bag or something, or he might have

648
00:53:40.960 --> 00:53:43.440
walked up and just pushed me over something like that.

649
00:53:43.480 --> 00:53:49.840
I don't know, and my brother, and this is totally true.

650
00:53:49.880 --> 00:53:53.280
It's not even made up, because well I could make

651
00:53:53.320 --> 00:53:55.559
it up. I could say anything, good night, but it

652
00:53:56.000 --> 00:54:02.039
really happened, which was quite impressive. He showered oe. He

653
00:54:02.119 --> 00:54:04.800
might not have said, oh, but he showered something out

654
00:54:06.159 --> 00:54:10.679
leave him alone, leave my brother alone, or whatever, something

655
00:54:10.719 --> 00:54:14.440
like that, and I think this kid shouted something back

656
00:54:14.480 --> 00:54:19.199
at him because there was quite a distance between them,

657
00:54:19.519 --> 00:54:23.400
and my brother chucked this tennis ball which he was

658
00:54:23.400 --> 00:54:26.159
playing with with his friends or whatever. Chucked it and it

659
00:54:26.360 --> 00:54:30.039
landed right in his eye, not my brother's eye, and

660
00:54:30.119 --> 00:54:31.639
then just chuck it in the air and look up,

661
00:54:32.159 --> 00:54:38.360
he chucked it at this kid. It landed in his eye, Like,

662
00:54:38.760 --> 00:54:42.440
how can you when he had to have his surgically removed,

663
00:54:42.920 --> 00:54:45.880
he didn't it landed. How could you even you could

664
00:54:45.920 --> 00:54:53.679
even plan something like that. I was like, honestly, I

665
00:54:53.760 --> 00:54:59.599
was probably the time that I had the most. I

666
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:04.400
pleased they pleased with my brother, and I didn't need

667
00:55:04.480 --> 00:55:06.599
him to look after me for that because I'd already

668
00:55:06.639 --> 00:55:08.280
dealt with him before and I could the game. But

669
00:55:09.000 --> 00:55:11.840
it was just nice. It's quite nice, you know, when

670
00:55:11.840 --> 00:55:17.559
a brother does something like that, and it's like such

671
00:55:17.599 --> 00:55:22.800
a good shot. Anyway, there was another time with my

672
00:55:22.880 --> 00:55:28.440
brother anyway, he's he's yeah, he did, he did. He

673
00:55:28.480 --> 00:55:31.480
did stand up for me a couple of times, so

674
00:55:31.480 --> 00:55:36.000
I'll give him that. So that school kind of left

675
00:55:38.320 --> 00:55:41.880
the ironic thing about it, right, here's a weird thing

676
00:55:41.920 --> 00:55:45.039
about it. We moved to different school, to a different

677
00:55:45.079 --> 00:55:51.840
house away from that school. But because he was in

678
00:55:51.880 --> 00:55:58.960
the final year, so I started a new junior school

679
00:55:59.320 --> 00:56:03.639
at age No, but my brother was eleven, so he

680
00:56:03.719 --> 00:56:06.159
went to the high school. But he went to a

681
00:56:06.159 --> 00:56:09.639
different high school. So both my brothers. My other brother

682
00:56:09.800 --> 00:56:11.960
was four years older than me, so he would have

683
00:56:11.960 --> 00:56:14.960
been in the second year of high school or third

684
00:56:15.000 --> 00:56:21.920
year of high school at this point. No, second year. No,

685
00:56:26.679 --> 00:56:33.880
this sounds weird. I can't remember nine ten eleven, so no,

686
00:56:34.000 --> 00:56:36.320
maybe my other brother still had one year left at

687
00:56:36.119 --> 00:56:42.519
that junior school. Yeah, eight, nine ten, I don't know anyway,

688
00:56:42.920 --> 00:56:45.320
I think he still had one year left there. And

689
00:56:45.360 --> 00:56:52.440
then my other brother went to the high school. But

690
00:56:52.480 --> 00:56:55.280
anyhow it ended up I went to a different junior school,

691
00:56:55.320 --> 00:57:01.119
another junior school that was miles away, so didn't have

692
00:57:01.119 --> 00:57:07.880
my friends anymore, made some new friends. Both my brothers

693
00:57:08.599 --> 00:57:14.599
went to a different high school to me. I mean

694
00:57:14.679 --> 00:57:17.840
there was no reason for it. I mean literally, there's

695
00:57:18.000 --> 00:57:20.280
like they went they just went to a different So

696
00:57:20.320 --> 00:57:22.440
I ended up going to a completely different high school

697
00:57:22.800 --> 00:57:24.840
because I was at this different junior school for two

698
00:57:24.920 --> 00:57:30.119
years and instead of just continuing to go to the

699
00:57:30.119 --> 00:57:33.079
school I was already at, which wouldn't have been hard

700
00:57:33.119 --> 00:57:40.239
to get to from where I was living. I mean, ironically,

701
00:57:40.320 --> 00:57:43.280
I think that sort of doing the correct word. This

702
00:57:43.519 --> 00:57:49.360
junior school that I was going to before was literally,

703
00:57:50.599 --> 00:57:52.840
I don't know, five minute walk from the high school

704
00:57:53.239 --> 00:57:56.159
that both my brothers ended up going to. So they

705
00:57:56.199 --> 00:57:58.239
were allowed it's why for them to walk there. But

706
00:57:59.159 --> 00:58:01.360
I could have just is easily continued going to the

707
00:58:01.440 --> 00:58:05.679
junior school. In fact, I could have gone with them,

708
00:58:05.719 --> 00:58:10.440
couldn't I could have walked with them, and walking there

709
00:58:10.480 --> 00:58:12.199
wasn't an issue because I was walking to school on

710
00:58:12.239 --> 00:58:17.039
my own anyway at that age. Long before that, yeah,

711
00:58:17.079 --> 00:58:20.960
I was walking to school at seven, not eight. Yeah,

712
00:58:21.000 --> 00:58:22.760
eight years old. I was walking to school on my own,

713
00:58:23.719 --> 00:58:25.800
so it wasn't an issue. And even when I went

714
00:58:25.840 --> 00:58:29.039
to the other junior school, I was walking to about

715
00:58:29.039 --> 00:58:33.039
fifty minutes forty minutes to get there and about two

716
00:58:33.039 --> 00:58:38.760
hours to get home because I was very slow. And

717
00:58:38.800 --> 00:58:43.320
that's something I noticed. When I was at that school.

718
00:58:43.320 --> 00:58:48.280
I used to walk around and just sing songs. And

719
00:58:50.320 --> 00:58:53.800
I went through a period when I thought I was

720
00:58:53.840 --> 00:59:04.360
a superhero and thought that I could become invisible. I

721
00:59:04.400 --> 00:59:07.719
didn't always tell people that I thought I was invisible.

722
00:59:12.039 --> 00:59:14.920
I remember I decided to do it once during the

723
00:59:15.000 --> 00:59:18.199
court the register call at school, so we'd always go

724
00:59:18.280 --> 00:59:20.599
in the first first part of the day and then

725
00:59:20.719 --> 00:59:23.280
call out a name. Maybe they did it in assembly,

726
00:59:23.320 --> 00:59:27.440
I can't remember. He who has to shout out, yes, sir,

727
00:59:27.599 --> 00:59:31.440
here's sir whatever. And I decided, I'm going to make

728
00:59:31.480 --> 00:59:36.800
myself invisible. So I made myself invisible and no one

729
00:59:36.880 --> 00:59:39.079
was looking at me, so I thought this is working.

730
00:59:42.719 --> 00:59:45.559
And then they called my name out. The teacher or

731
00:59:45.599 --> 00:59:49.800
the headmaster called my name out, and I thought, I

732
00:59:49.960 --> 00:59:52.199
just keep quiet because there's no point me talking because

733
00:59:52.199 --> 00:59:54.199
people aren't going to see me. They'll freak everyone out.

734
00:59:58.679 --> 01:00:01.800
It's really weird because they everyone was looking at my

735
01:00:01.920 --> 01:00:05.639
seat or where I would have been sitting, because no

736
01:00:05.679 --> 01:00:07.920
one sat on the seat. I suppose they must have

737
01:00:08.159 --> 01:00:10.880
just I don't know why they didn't sit on it

738
01:00:10.960 --> 01:00:12.800
because there was no one there because I was invisible.

739
01:00:13.320 --> 01:00:19.000
I was technically I was there, and the teacher.

740
01:00:18.760 --> 01:00:29.639
Kept saying Jason new Land, Jashon and people like, we're

741
01:00:29.679 --> 01:00:32.360
looking over in my direction, and I know they couldn't

742
01:00:32.360 --> 01:00:34.719
see me because I was invisible.

743
01:00:37.039 --> 01:00:53.000
Horace. Can you hear that? Hi? Horace? Hi? Mate? You're okay? Yeah?

744
01:00:53.760 --> 01:00:58.119
How you been? How's the kids? Well? I didn't want

745
01:00:58.119 --> 01:01:08.519
to talk. I bored him. He's gone. I think it

746
01:01:08.559 --> 01:01:11.400
was one of his kids that got stuck inside here

747
01:01:11.480 --> 01:01:14.199
to the other day, came in the back door. Back

748
01:01:14.239 --> 01:01:18.199
door was lodged open for some reason, and it comes

749
01:01:18.239 --> 01:01:20.400
up trying to get in and out of the top

750
01:01:20.480 --> 01:01:23.360
part where all the windows can't get through the windows.

751
01:01:24.639 --> 01:01:29.840
I used to think I could walk through walls. The

752
01:01:29.880 --> 01:01:33.599
best thing to in those situations is as long as

753
01:01:33.639 --> 01:01:39.079
you never test it, you can still believe it. Because

754
01:01:39.079 --> 01:01:45.000
there used to be this big wall just right. It

755
01:01:45.320 --> 01:01:47.719
had a gold painted on it, and it was just

756
01:01:47.760 --> 01:01:54.159
a random wall, very strange, and I used to believe

757
01:01:54.199 --> 01:02:01.280
I could walk through the wall, but I never tested it.

758
01:02:05.400 --> 01:02:10.320
I wonder why never tested it, but I did. I

759
01:02:10.400 --> 01:02:15.760
used to just remember once I actually, I think we're

760
01:02:15.760 --> 01:02:21.079
playing hide and seek or we're playing soldiers. And I

761
01:02:21.280 --> 01:02:24.719
was in the grass and I made myself invisible. I

762
01:02:24.719 --> 01:02:33.119
thought I'd made myself invisible, and no one found me.

763
01:02:36.800 --> 01:02:41.920
Was there the whole weekend? No one found me. It's like, Wow,

764
01:02:42.800 --> 01:02:48.119
I didn't realize that people were just ignoring me. Did

765
01:02:48.159 --> 01:02:49.679
you ever when you was a kid, did you ever

766
01:02:49.719 --> 01:02:53.119
turn up at school on a Saturday by accident and

767
01:02:53.239 --> 01:02:57.039
wonder why you couldn't get in? That happened to me.

768
01:02:58.679 --> 01:03:03.199
I mean, I woke up like, oh, I'm late, and

769
01:03:03.239 --> 01:03:08.360
I'm like running to school to get there, and I'm wondering, oh,

770
01:03:08.440 --> 01:03:11.000
everyone's gone, because I didn't realize they were all still

771
01:03:11.039 --> 01:03:15.599
in bed. There's no one here. Everyone said their lunch,

772
01:03:15.639 --> 01:03:19.280
they're gone, their breakfast. Rather, they're gone. So I'm rushing

773
01:03:20.559 --> 01:03:26.199
and get there, and then I realized it's Saturday. I laughed,

774
01:03:26.400 --> 01:03:29.760
I've just well. I waited till I caught my breath

775
01:03:29.760 --> 01:03:32.800
and then I laughed. And I get home and at

776
01:03:32.800 --> 01:03:36.159
this point people the family, people the family are having

777
01:03:36.159 --> 01:03:40.079
their breakfast, and I told them, and some of them laughed.

778
01:03:40.159 --> 01:03:46.800
Some of them just looked at me bewildered. I say bewildered,

779
01:03:46.800 --> 01:03:48.519
because that was a new word that I was trust

780
01:03:48.800 --> 01:03:52.199
trying out. Back then, I like to try a new

781
01:03:52.199 --> 01:03:56.800
word that I hadn't really used regularly, and I thought,

782
01:03:56.840 --> 01:04:06.280
you know what, because this was probably about nineteen eighty before,

783
01:04:06.360 --> 01:04:09.280
I've not used the word bewildered. I don't think I've

784
01:04:09.320 --> 01:04:13.480
ever used it every I know what it means, but

785
01:04:14.079 --> 01:04:17.960
in the context of a sentance. But don't I've ever

786
01:04:18.400 --> 01:04:20.760
used it in a sentence or in some kind of

787
01:04:21.719 --> 01:04:30.119
grammatical conversational format. But then I forgot to use it

788
01:04:30.920 --> 01:04:35.679
until now I was remembered. So yeah, thinking about it's

789
01:04:35.760 --> 01:04:44.280
kind of feeling is a bit bewildered, really. So I

790
01:04:44.320 --> 01:04:49.000
did like that school. There's a few things that I

791
01:04:49.159 --> 01:04:51.320
perhaps didn't like so much that. One of those things

792
01:04:51.559 --> 01:04:55.159
was they kept trying to teach me French, like, come on,

793
01:04:55.920 --> 01:05:00.280
are you kidding? What are you doing? I've never been

794
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:05.239
I've just for some reason, speaking different languages never really

795
01:05:05.320 --> 01:05:11.920
been something that I was particularly I wasn't interested in,

796
01:05:12.280 --> 01:05:18.079
but I also didn't really understand. Now, I think part

797
01:05:18.119 --> 01:05:21.360
of the reason for that, other than lack of intelligence

798
01:05:21.360 --> 01:05:27.480
on my part, probably is unlike the my dad's generation

799
01:05:27.639 --> 01:05:32.519
and my NaN's generation, we didn't learn Latin, and Latin

800
01:05:32.880 --> 01:05:40.440
is almost the root of so many of the European languages,

801
01:05:41.360 --> 01:05:47.239
so you can almost it's I think, I'm just this

802
01:05:47.280 --> 01:05:51.519
is just my interpretation. It is easier to learn another

803
01:05:51.639 --> 01:05:55.039
language when you know Latin. I mean, Latin is I

804
01:05:55.039 --> 01:05:58.880
guess another language? I suppose, but you can, you know,

805
01:05:58.920 --> 01:06:02.480
when it comes to French or German, You've got the

806
01:06:02.559 --> 01:06:05.199
Latin roots, so you can kind of get to know

807
01:06:05.239 --> 01:06:07.000
what things are, and it makes it a bit easier

808
01:06:07.039 --> 01:06:13.119
to connect together. At ten years old, I was still

809
01:06:13.199 --> 01:06:20.639
learning English, and I still am so I didn't really understand,

810
01:06:20.679 --> 01:06:22.880
and I didn't learn to read really till I taught

811
01:06:22.920 --> 01:06:28.320
myself pretty much. I did go to school, but I

812
01:06:28.519 --> 01:06:33.159
was what five, six six probably when I first got

813
01:06:33.159 --> 01:06:37.679
my first book, first got my first book. That's pretty

814
01:06:37.760 --> 01:06:40.800
much my only position, actually, that book, and I used

815
01:06:40.800 --> 01:06:42.440
to read it over and over and over and over

816
01:06:42.480 --> 01:06:46.159
and over and over and over again. And then when

817
01:06:46.199 --> 01:06:48.880
I went to junior school, this particular junior school, the

818
01:06:48.880 --> 01:06:53.800
one I'm talking about, I'd read and read and read

819
01:06:53.920 --> 01:06:56.840
and read, take books home, bring them back, read, you know,

820
01:06:57.920 --> 01:07:01.320
I read everything every single book they had pretty much

821
01:07:01.360 --> 01:07:06.800
in their little library. I read and yeah, I loved it,

822
01:07:07.119 --> 01:07:15.039
loved reading. That's the only kind of mildly intelligent thing.

823
01:07:15.719 --> 01:07:21.280
Flappy us there. I'm not saying intelligent, but yeah, the

824
01:07:21.320 --> 01:07:24.760
only thing that I really had is the love of reading.

825
01:07:25.960 --> 01:07:28.920
So I'm guessing there must have been some kind of

826
01:07:29.119 --> 01:07:34.920
brain activity going on inside my head. I don't know

827
01:07:35.000 --> 01:07:37.360
what or how much, but it was something going on.

828
01:07:39.400 --> 01:07:43.880
I loved to read. I'd like to get that passion

829
01:07:43.920 --> 01:07:45.880
back because I've kind of lost it a little bit.

830
01:07:46.239 --> 01:07:50.599
I mean, I do listen to audio books, but it's

831
01:07:50.719 --> 01:07:53.079
not the same. I mean, it can be that. I mean,

832
01:07:53.719 --> 01:07:58.599
I wouldn't be saying that if I was seriously visually impaired.

833
01:07:58.800 --> 01:08:03.679
I am visually impaired, but not seriously, so I think

834
01:08:03.719 --> 01:08:07.199
i'd take offense if people said, oh, you're not reading,

835
01:08:07.239 --> 01:08:12.199
because you'd not actually seen it with your eyes. But

836
01:08:13.079 --> 01:08:16.039
the problem is, when I listen to an audiobook, I

837
01:08:16.079 --> 01:08:23.560
do have a tendency of falling asleep, and I wouldn't

838
01:08:23.560 --> 01:08:25.760
class that as reading the book if I was reading

839
01:08:25.760 --> 01:08:28.960
the book and every time. The thing is, when you

840
01:08:29.000 --> 01:08:32.000
read a book, if you fall asleep reading the book,

841
01:08:32.920 --> 01:08:35.439
don't you're not on like page forty two. And then

842
01:08:35.439 --> 01:08:39.159
when you wake up. You're on page ninety three. You

843
01:08:39.199 --> 01:08:41.319
know you don't read why you're asleep? Do you? But

844
01:08:41.399 --> 01:08:45.000
you can listen while you're asleep, or the thing can

845
01:08:45.039 --> 01:08:47.880
still play. You're not still turning the pages when you're asleep,

846
01:08:48.640 --> 01:08:51.399
and then like, oh, what's happened? I don't know. It's

847
01:08:51.439 --> 01:08:53.600
like I've just gone through thirty seven pages and I

848
01:08:53.600 --> 01:08:57.720
don't know what's happened. Never mind, that's still classes reading

849
01:08:57.760 --> 01:09:04.000
the book. It wouldn't be, but it so, I don't

850
01:09:04.039 --> 01:09:07.880
know when it comes to listening to audio books, whether

851
01:09:07.920 --> 01:09:11.439
that's classed the same as reading a book. I like

852
01:09:11.520 --> 01:09:18.479
to think it is, but I don't know. I don't know.

853
01:09:21.479 --> 01:09:28.039
I'm not sure. I have read. From an audiobook perspective,

854
01:09:30.159 --> 01:09:38.319
how many audiobooks I've got? Where's I've got three hundred

855
01:09:38.319 --> 01:09:44.800
and eighty nine titles in my in my catalog, I've

856
01:09:44.960 --> 01:09:47.800
read more than that because you get some free. So

857
01:09:47.840 --> 01:09:51.520
I've read quite a few that were free. But recently

858
01:09:52.399 --> 01:09:55.000
I've had to go and going to read them and

859
01:09:55.039 --> 01:09:59.119
they're taking them off. But they got three hundred and eighty nine,

860
01:10:00.239 --> 01:10:05.720
three hundred and eighty three in my library. All are

861
01:10:05.760 --> 01:10:09.039
all three hundred and eighty nine all but three hundred

862
01:10:09.079 --> 01:10:16.279
and eighty three titles. I couldn't even tell you blind

863
01:10:16.359 --> 01:10:19.319
me the thing is a lot of it is not

864
01:10:20.760 --> 01:10:25.760
not story books. Most of it is kind of self help.

865
01:10:28.560 --> 01:10:36.520
I think like the art of war and philosophy, psychology, well,

866
01:10:36.560 --> 01:10:41.840
I do have the Beatrix Potter collection as a man

867
01:10:42.079 --> 01:10:47.399
thinking of the men, historic Goats, essentials or social psychology.

868
01:10:47.880 --> 01:10:52.600
The power of habit breaking, the habit of being just

869
01:10:52.760 --> 01:10:58.840
self breaking, the habit of breaking the habit, the habit

870
01:10:58.880 --> 01:11:05.439
of being yourself influenced Knew and Expanded Artfinish and Artificial

871
01:11:05.439 --> 01:11:11.880
Intelligence for Dummies. Borderline Personality Disorder Never Finished, The eighty

872
01:11:11.920 --> 01:11:17.079
twenty Principal chat P CHAT GPT Mastery twelve books in

873
01:11:17.119 --> 01:11:22.039
one Understanding Disorders of the Brain. Then You've Got Gold

874
01:11:22.159 --> 01:11:27.680
by zig Ziggler, The Jimp Paradox, Chimp Paradox Stephen Peters,

875
01:11:29.640 --> 01:11:34.880
The Crowd, a Study of psychology Under You Got Success,

876
01:11:34.920 --> 01:11:39.720
Habits The Law of Success Napoleon Hill Oh nineteen Goal

877
01:11:40.880 --> 01:11:45.840
The Stranger's Secret for Success. And then You've Got My

878
01:11:45.920 --> 01:11:48.239
Voice Will Go with You by Sidney rosen As a

879
01:11:48.319 --> 01:11:51.199
hypnosis one. The Therapist Guide to E D M R.

880
01:11:51.520 --> 01:11:55.359
E M D R R the Coage to be disliked,

881
01:11:55.800 --> 01:12:04.079
The Complex Borderline Personality Disorder, co Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz.

882
01:12:06.119 --> 01:12:10.479
And then you've got realer imagined outspark your outsmite your pain,

883
01:12:11.000 --> 01:12:15.720
the TENX mentor this grant cardone, the ten X Rule,

884
01:12:16.680 --> 01:12:22.720
Seven Power Principles for Success, Hypnosis About Trance by James Tripp,

885
01:12:23.359 --> 01:12:27.279
The Essence of Success by L. Nightingale, The Direct Line

886
01:12:27.279 --> 01:12:33.159
by L. Nightingale, Great Ideas by L. Nightingale, The Magic

887
01:12:33.199 --> 01:12:35.680
of Thinking Big. So quite a few of these I've

888
01:12:35.680 --> 01:12:39.000
read in the past, but these are audio versions. Napoleon

889
01:12:39.119 --> 01:12:44.000
Hill's Golden Rules by Napoleon Hill NLP, The ES Central Guide.

890
01:12:45.319 --> 01:12:48.000
I'm pretty sure I listened to that audiobook or that

891
01:12:48.079 --> 01:12:53.000
it was an audio recording back in ninety eight. BlimE me.

892
01:12:53.720 --> 01:12:57.119
Hypnosis there's no one understanding or as a start here,

893
01:12:57.560 --> 01:13:02.039
Advanced Hypnotherapy. Reason to Stay Alive but by Matt Haig.

894
01:13:02.880 --> 01:13:06.880
The Joy of Meditation by Sally Meryll Bedfield. I think

895
01:13:06.880 --> 01:13:10.640
her name is. That's the recording that I listened to

896
01:13:11.479 --> 01:13:18.239
back in nineteen no. Two thousand. In two thousand, I

897
01:13:18.359 --> 01:13:21.920
listened to that recording. I found it and I've got

898
01:13:21.960 --> 01:13:25.399
it saved on here, and I think I purchased it.

899
01:13:25.399 --> 01:13:27.479
It was like too could or something. I think, but

900
01:13:29.000 --> 01:13:34.079
love that recording. And you've got the Quantum Revelation, the

901
01:13:34.159 --> 01:13:38.880
Quantum Rules. I forgot about that. I was really into quantum,

902
01:13:39.079 --> 01:13:42.199
wasn't I quantum stuff for a couple of weeks and

903
01:13:42.199 --> 01:13:46.680
I seem to have, I don't know, seemed to have

904
01:13:46.720 --> 01:13:50.600
moved away from it. I'm really interested in all that stuff.

905
01:13:52.199 --> 01:13:57.520
So you got Depak Chopra Chopra, The Quantum Doctor, The

906
01:13:57.520 --> 01:14:04.680
Power of Your Subconscious, Quantum Entanglement, Quantum Physics, Simplified Reality

907
01:14:04.760 --> 01:14:09.760
is Plastic. That's a hypnosis book. Quantum Physics. The Mountain

908
01:14:09.840 --> 01:14:13.439
is You. Think and Grow Rich. The Pain Habit Story

909
01:14:13.479 --> 01:14:16.600
of Earl Nightingale. That's quite a recent one. Think and

910
01:14:16.600 --> 01:14:21.239
Grow Rich. The Secret Million Dollar Weekend Money, The Ultimate

911
01:14:21.279 --> 01:14:25.119
Bob Propter Library. I'm Worth I've had that for years.

912
01:14:25.199 --> 01:14:29.760
That one I'm Worth More by Bob Moore, Before and

913
01:14:30.079 --> 01:14:34.520
Laughter as Jimmy Carr Napoleon Hill, The Road to Riches,

914
01:14:35.199 --> 01:14:39.720
Napoleon Hill's master Course, The Way Out to Anyone's Success.

915
01:14:40.239 --> 01:14:46.119
Secrets of Success by Brian Brian Brian Brian Tracy. You

916
01:14:46.239 --> 01:14:51.720
are a bad ass at making money clearly not the odds,

917
01:14:51.720 --> 01:14:56.720
but Napoleon Hill, Napoleon Hill's Keys to Positivity The Power

918
01:14:56.960 --> 01:14:59.680
of Ambition, which is what I was listening to earlier today,

919
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:04.000
it's only three minutes left for that one. And Beatrix

920
01:15:04.079 --> 01:15:08.680
Potter Collection, which I accidentally clicked on earlier. That's just

921
01:15:08.800 --> 01:15:12.840
some of the ones that I've listened to. Wow, quite

922
01:15:12.880 --> 01:15:19.760
a few. So then that was the junior school. Then

923
01:15:19.800 --> 01:15:24.479
what happened is I moved. I played the violin in

924
01:15:24.600 --> 01:15:27.239
junior school, so that was pretty good. I also learned

925
01:15:27.239 --> 01:15:34.720
to swim, like technically, I still I had swimming lessons.

926
01:15:35.199 --> 01:15:37.199
Put it this way, I'm better at swimming than I

927
01:15:37.399 --> 01:15:41.399
was before because when I was I had a bit

928
01:15:41.399 --> 01:15:44.319
of an accident in the swimming pool, not not that

929
01:15:44.399 --> 01:15:50.880
kind of accident, just yeah, I was saved by the lifeguard.

930
01:15:51.640 --> 01:15:53.720
So after that, and that was when I was very little,

931
01:15:53.760 --> 01:15:59.319
probably about four so or maybe five. So I didn't

932
01:15:59.479 --> 01:16:04.520
like I didn't like swimming pools or anything. And the

933
01:16:04.560 --> 01:16:07.640
swimming instructor we actually had a swimming pool in this school,

934
01:16:08.279 --> 01:16:13.840
which is pretty amazing, and the the sw I had

935
01:16:13.840 --> 01:16:18.319
swimming lessons for quite a while and he was so

936
01:16:18.520 --> 01:16:22.840
patient with me, absolutely lovely, and the good thing about

937
01:16:22.880 --> 01:16:28.319
it is I got to swim, but without having anyone

938
01:16:28.359 --> 01:16:29.920
else around. I mean, there was a couple other people

939
01:16:29.920 --> 01:16:33.319
having lessons, But what I found is when everyone got

940
01:16:33.319 --> 01:16:36.279
into this to the swimming pool together, they'll all be

941
01:16:36.359 --> 01:16:40.079
jumping on top of each other. And that was not

942
01:16:40.199 --> 01:16:43.680
good for me because I just didn't feel safe and

943
01:16:43.680 --> 01:16:48.159
I didn't feel comfortable with that. And I also had

944
01:16:48.640 --> 01:16:52.119
had violin lessons, so I went learned the violin for

945
01:16:53.439 --> 01:16:55.880
probably about a year, maybe a look, maybe longer than

946
01:16:55.920 --> 01:16:58.800
a year. I was at that school for two years,

947
01:16:58.880 --> 01:17:01.840
so playing violin for maybe a year and a half,

948
01:17:04.079 --> 01:17:05.640
maybe two years, I don't know. I think it was

949
01:17:05.640 --> 01:17:09.520
at least over a year anyway. And then I went

950
01:17:09.560 --> 01:17:12.960
to high school when I was eleven, just turned eleven

951
01:17:13.079 --> 01:17:20.720
in nineteen eighty one. Yeah, nineteen eighty one, in September.

952
01:17:20.840 --> 01:17:27.640
That's when I went to high school. And yeah, that

953
01:17:27.720 --> 01:17:29.960
was a whole news story. That was that was weird.

954
01:17:30.560 --> 01:17:33.840
I remember we went there for the afternoon, probably a

955
01:17:33.880 --> 01:17:37.560
few months before going there for properly, just to kind

956
01:17:37.600 --> 01:17:39.199
of have a tour of the place, and that was

957
01:17:39.479 --> 01:17:43.640
huge and I was tiny. I mean, it just take

958
01:17:43.720 --> 01:17:45.840
off two years and that's the kind of size I was.

959
01:17:47.039 --> 01:17:49.039
So I was eleven, so I looked about the size

960
01:17:49.039 --> 01:17:54.800
of a nine year old, absolutely tiny, and apart from

961
01:17:54.840 --> 01:17:56.880
the fact I was also one of the youngest there

962
01:17:56.920 --> 01:17:59.760
as well, because it had to be eleven to be

963
01:17:59.800 --> 01:18:03.439
an the first year of high school. But some of

964
01:18:03.479 --> 01:18:06.399
the kids, after being there for a few weeks, a

965
01:18:06.439 --> 01:18:09.760
couple of weeks, two three weeks, would turning twelve. So

966
01:18:09.880 --> 01:18:12.079
it's a lot of the kids were nearly a year

967
01:18:12.119 --> 01:18:16.600
older than me, and that really showed later on in school.

968
01:18:16.680 --> 01:18:20.319
So when like at thirteen, when I was twelve and

969
01:18:20.359 --> 01:18:23.319
they were thirteen, there was there was a lot of

970
01:18:23.359 --> 01:18:27.479
size difference. There's some kids that had beards and you know,

971
01:18:27.479 --> 01:18:31.039
they were grown like almost like adults, and I was

972
01:18:31.119 --> 01:18:39.880
still a kid, and that was weird. And yeah, I

973
01:18:39.880 --> 01:18:42.119
mean that's a difference as a whole new conversation that

974
01:18:42.279 --> 01:18:46.600
high school. But I just remember just looking around thinking, Wow,

975
01:18:47.880 --> 01:18:50.760
I got lost. I got lost all the way. For

976
01:18:50.800 --> 01:18:55.359
five years, I would get lost in that place. Honestly,

977
01:18:55.520 --> 01:18:59.239
I had to. I needed help to navigate to know

978
01:18:59.600 --> 01:19:03.560
where because we have a roster, you know, what classes

979
01:19:03.600 --> 01:19:06.159
we had to go to and where we needed to

980
01:19:06.199 --> 01:19:09.359
be next and I needed help. I could find my

981
01:19:09.399 --> 01:19:15.359
way around the whole time I was there. It's just

982
01:19:15.560 --> 01:19:18.600
I didn't know what classes, what number classes they were,

983
01:19:18.680 --> 01:19:24.800
and oh and there's one I had a different form room,

984
01:19:24.960 --> 01:19:26.680
which was like where we go in the morning, and

985
01:19:26.760 --> 01:19:28.600
we'd then go back at the end of the day

986
01:19:29.319 --> 01:19:33.640
to sign and kind of sign out kind of, and

987
01:19:33.680 --> 01:19:36.039
we could go there during breaks, so that I used

988
01:19:36.079 --> 01:19:40.479
to just stay there during the breaks sometimes because I

989
01:19:41.159 --> 01:19:44.640
was worried I wouldn't get back in time for lunch

990
01:19:45.000 --> 01:19:47.119
or after lunch, we had to go back there as well.

991
01:19:47.920 --> 01:19:58.800
I think, yeah, anyway that I think that school deserves

992
01:19:58.000 --> 01:20:03.880
a boring record on its own. But there was good thing.

993
01:20:04.000 --> 01:20:06.840
I liked all of the junior schools, the three junior

994
01:20:06.880 --> 01:20:11.640
schools that I remember, I liked all of them. I

995
01:20:13.079 --> 01:20:19.199
liked the second one more than the first one because

996
01:20:19.199 --> 01:20:26.880
I made some new friends and at that time, the home,

997
01:20:28.199 --> 01:20:31.039
the home situation was as good as a school situation.

998
01:20:31.039 --> 01:20:34.560
It was just really nice. Everything was nice. So that

999
01:20:34.720 --> 01:20:38.359
was my favorite. That's my favorite time during childhood really

1000
01:20:38.439 --> 01:20:43.520
round up age of eight, between eight and nine, well

1001
01:20:43.520 --> 01:20:50.159
between seven and nine really, because we was also even

1002
01:20:50.199 --> 01:20:52.880
I was in the other school and everything. So that

1003
01:20:53.000 --> 01:20:58.199
period of time, those two years, but between eight and nine.

1004
01:21:00.199 --> 01:21:03.199
Like I'm not saying it's like a Disney movie, but

1005
01:21:06.159 --> 01:21:08.039
it also like a Disney movie. But it was not.

1006
01:21:08.199 --> 01:21:12.920
I liked it. It was Everything was very simple, you know.

1007
01:21:14.600 --> 01:21:17.479
We lived in a new house. Nothing needed to be done.

1008
01:21:18.159 --> 01:21:22.079
Everything was good. We had snow. I built an iceberg,

1009
01:21:22.239 --> 01:21:27.560
not not an iceberg, an igloo. You know, it was good.

1010
01:21:27.680 --> 01:21:29.319
We used to used to hang around all the others,

1011
01:21:29.479 --> 01:21:32.279
the kids that were local. We used to go into

1012
01:21:32.319 --> 01:21:35.560
the fields and jump out of trees, climb trees, things

1013
01:21:35.640 --> 01:21:37.800
like that. I used to get pushed out of trees.

1014
01:21:37.840 --> 01:21:41.640
It was yeah, it was fun. We used to climb

1015
01:21:41.640 --> 01:21:43.319
into trees to get away from the other kids. It

1016
01:21:43.399 --> 01:21:47.560
was It was good fun. So then then we moved

1017
01:21:47.840 --> 01:21:50.439
and it was weird because one land and ground. They've

1018
01:21:50.479 --> 01:21:54.079
moved in straight away to that house from London, and

1019
01:21:54.119 --> 01:21:57.159
we moved into a bigger house because of the family growing.

1020
01:21:58.279 --> 01:22:02.439
So I'd be backing forward to that house constantly. So

1021
01:22:02.479 --> 01:22:05.439
for a short while, I would keep contact with my

1022
01:22:05.520 --> 01:22:10.520
friends Ian and Andrew. Ian was my bestest friend. Andrew

1023
01:22:10.720 --> 01:22:15.239
was another good friend that lived few doors up. Andrew

1024
01:22:15.279 --> 01:22:19.119
lived just around the corner. Literally it was like a

1025
01:22:19.239 --> 01:22:24.600
minute's walk. But as time went by, I wasn't at

1026
01:22:24.600 --> 01:22:31.039
school with him anymore and I kind of lost contact

1027
01:22:31.079 --> 01:22:34.359
with him. But for some reason I kept contact with

1028
01:22:34.399 --> 01:22:38.119
Andrew because because he lived literally two three doors up,

1029
01:22:38.399 --> 01:22:41.119
I used to see him or see his mum and

1030
01:22:41.199 --> 01:22:43.359
dad and they were friends with my nan and granddad.

1031
01:22:43.920 --> 01:22:46.920
They so it's kind of kind of kept in contact

1032
01:22:46.960 --> 01:22:50.760
with him into my early twenties. Still used to visit

1033
01:22:50.800 --> 01:22:54.560
him in my early twenties, which bearing in mind I

1034
01:22:54.640 --> 01:22:57.760
moved out of that place when I was nine, so

1035
01:22:58.239 --> 01:23:01.960
was that nineteen to so yeah, over probably fIF thirteen

1036
01:23:02.079 --> 01:23:05.560
fourteen years. But I lost contact of Ian. And he

1037
01:23:05.680 --> 01:23:10.960
was my bestest friends and he was on the same

1038
01:23:11.039 --> 01:23:14.640
date of birth as me, but my name you should

1039
01:23:14.680 --> 01:23:17.000
tell me stuff because she kind of knew what was

1040
01:23:17.039 --> 01:23:19.560
going on around and she'd sort of update me on

1041
01:23:19.600 --> 01:23:24.800
how he was doing. Even in my thirties. She'd tell, oh, yeah,

1042
01:23:24.840 --> 01:23:27.920
he's he's got married or whatever, and she just keep

1043
01:23:28.039 --> 01:23:31.000
up to date with some of the kids that are

1044
01:23:31.000 --> 01:23:36.640
now like fully grown adults what they're up to. But

1045
01:23:36.720 --> 01:23:43.680
it's weird because I that't It's just I don't know

1046
01:23:43.680 --> 01:23:47.039
why we kind of didn't keep in touch. Maybe it's

1047
01:23:47.079 --> 01:23:49.920
just a bit harder, you know, but it was so

1048
01:23:50.079 --> 01:23:52.840
close to me and him, really close. And then I

1049
01:23:52.920 --> 01:23:56.359
got my new best friend Dean in high school now

1050
01:23:56.399 --> 01:23:58.479
in junior school. That the last two years of junior

1051
01:23:58.520 --> 01:24:04.079
school and most of the way through high school. In

1052
01:24:04.159 --> 01:24:06.560
the last year of high school, we became a little

1053
01:24:06.560 --> 01:24:12.239
bit estranged, you know. I think there was yeah, we

1054
01:24:12.920 --> 01:24:17.079
didn't get on so well, but all the years previous

1055
01:24:17.119 --> 01:24:23.399
to that we were inseparable. Is yeah, So that was

1056
01:24:24.840 --> 01:24:28.600
what's that. Another friend called Ian no Ivan who lived

1057
01:24:28.640 --> 01:24:31.520
around the corner used to come to my house, and

1058
01:24:31.720 --> 01:24:35.960
another friend Neil. So it's really I had three friends

1059
01:24:36.039 --> 01:24:40.439
that were known by my family that were welcome in

1060
01:24:40.479 --> 01:24:43.439
the house to come visit, and you know, they'd just

1061
01:24:43.520 --> 01:24:46.680
like go upstairs, upstairs, so they just come up. So

1062
01:24:46.720 --> 01:24:51.279
I had three three friends, and that's the only friends

1063
01:24:51.319 --> 01:24:55.159
I had that I'm pretty sure they would just walk

1064
01:24:55.159 --> 01:24:56.840
in the back. To be fair, I don't think they'd

1065
01:24:56.840 --> 01:24:58.520
even knock on the front door. Walk in the back

1066
01:24:58.560 --> 01:25:03.800
and knock on the back door, or shout up at

1067
01:25:03.840 --> 01:25:10.359
my bedroom standing all in the little alleyway. Oy juicy there.

1068
01:25:11.520 --> 01:25:15.119
One of them did sound like a like a pirate,

1069
01:25:16.119 --> 01:25:22.039
and that was Ian, not like Ian Ivan. So they

1070
01:25:22.079 --> 01:25:24.279
were cool. I had other friends, but I didn't. I

1071
01:25:24.359 --> 01:25:28.279
used to go around Pill's houses and get banned from

1072
01:25:28.359 --> 01:25:32.039
the wasn't allowed to go around anymore, never allowed to

1073
01:25:32.159 --> 01:25:35.079
go into well, I'm not allowed to go into. But

1074
01:25:36.520 --> 01:25:41.000
Dean's dad didn't like me, so it was always like,

1075
01:25:41.039 --> 01:25:44.720
way on a doorstep, I'll go and get him, and

1076
01:25:44.800 --> 01:25:46.840
he let I went in once. But he did live

1077
01:25:46.840 --> 01:25:49.600
in an old people's home like he was. That was

1078
01:25:49.640 --> 01:25:54.239
the family business, so I didn't care about that. But

1079
01:25:54.359 --> 01:25:57.680
I don't think his that just didn't. He didn't didn't

1080
01:25:57.680 --> 01:26:05.000
take to me, but my parents let it. Literally, Dean

1081
01:26:05.039 --> 01:26:09.319
would just come in to go upstairs. He was in

1082
01:26:09.359 --> 01:26:13.319
some ways I think part of the family really. Yeah,

1083
01:26:13.359 --> 01:26:16.800
we were always together, and then Nil was a bit

1084
01:26:16.880 --> 01:26:19.239
like that as well. Niels used to come around and

1085
01:26:19.359 --> 01:26:22.079
he'd come up, and the same with Ivan. But there

1086
01:26:22.079 --> 01:26:24.039
were the only three really that I used to have

1087
01:26:24.199 --> 01:26:31.800
come around regularly to my house and I'd go around Ivans,

1088
01:26:32.439 --> 01:26:34.520
but I didn't used to hang around in his house,

1089
01:26:34.720 --> 01:26:37.279
but I used to wait for him, and his mom

1090
01:26:37.359 --> 01:26:39.119
was lovely. He used to talk to his mum and

1091
01:26:39.159 --> 01:26:42.079
it is. Yeah. Ivan's mom was lovely. He had two

1092
01:26:42.079 --> 01:26:44.960
older brothers I think that were into motorbikes. But he

1093
01:26:45.079 --> 01:26:46.920
was a good bloke. He was a good lad and

1094
01:26:47.000 --> 01:26:49.840
that his brothers were nice. And his mom was absolutely lovely,

1095
01:26:50.159 --> 01:26:55.159
so friendly, and so he was well proned my house

1096
01:26:55.199 --> 01:26:58.560
as well, but I didn't used to spend too much

1097
01:26:58.600 --> 01:27:01.640
time in his house. Used to be just like waiting

1098
01:27:01.680 --> 01:27:07.000
for him and would go out and then Ian. So

1099
01:27:07.079 --> 01:27:13.680
I wasn't allowed really into Dean's house. But Neil and

1100
01:27:13.720 --> 01:27:16.640
I don't know why, but his parents liked me. They

1101
01:27:16.720 --> 01:27:18.439
just welcomed me. I don't think they liked They just

1102
01:27:18.439 --> 01:27:22.159
put up with me, and they tolerated me, and they'd

1103
01:27:22.199 --> 01:27:25.880
let me in, always, always let me in. I'd stay over,

1104
01:27:26.600 --> 01:27:32.760
we'd go in the garden, we'd cause trouble and they

1105
01:27:32.840 --> 01:27:36.479
just kept letting me. They just let me in. And

1106
01:27:36.520 --> 01:27:38.960
they were lovely, both of them, both the father and

1107
01:27:39.000 --> 01:27:42.720
the mother both lovely. And when I got when I

1108
01:27:42.760 --> 01:27:46.760
moved up into the chip shop flat above the flat

1109
01:27:46.800 --> 01:27:50.119
when I was sixteen, they gave me stuff for the flat.

1110
01:27:50.439 --> 01:27:54.680
I could, you know, toaster, cutlery, stuff like that. It's

1111
01:27:54.720 --> 01:27:58.520
lovely and this is after some of the weird stuff

1112
01:27:58.520 --> 01:28:01.640
I got up to in their house. I mean once

1113
01:28:01.760 --> 01:28:03.880
I got drunk, or we all got drunk, but I

1114
01:28:03.920 --> 01:28:07.640
got particularly drunk, and for some reason we thought it

1115
01:28:07.640 --> 01:28:10.119
would be a funny thing to I think it was

1116
01:28:10.119 --> 01:28:15.359
about fifteen fourteen maybe, and we thought it'd be funny

1117
01:28:15.399 --> 01:28:18.039
too because we had like a half day that I

1118
01:28:18.039 --> 01:28:21.159
think it was a school teacher strike or something like that,

1119
01:28:22.199 --> 01:28:27.600
and we went around to me. Dean and Neil were

1120
01:28:27.920 --> 01:28:34.239
in Neil's house. We thought, let's raid the alcohol cupboard,

1121
01:28:35.039 --> 01:28:37.960
so we were drinking out of pint glasses and just

1122
01:28:38.079 --> 01:28:42.960
mixing everything. Really silly idea to do, very very dangerous

1123
01:28:43.000 --> 01:28:46.479
as well, so I would never do that now, but

1124
01:28:46.560 --> 01:28:51.359
I did on that occasion, and I don't The other

1125
01:28:51.399 --> 01:28:56.800
two got drunk, but not like I got. They thought

1126
01:28:56.840 --> 01:28:59.720
it'd be a funny idea to take me up to

1127
01:29:01.880 --> 01:29:04.000
their mom and dad's his mom and dad's bed and

1128
01:29:04.159 --> 01:29:08.520
wrapped me in the douvet like a sausage roll. Okay,

1129
01:29:08.920 --> 01:29:12.720
wrapped me in the douvet. And that was not a

1130
01:29:12.720 --> 01:29:16.239
good idea because, as I kept saying to them, I

1131
01:29:16.359 --> 01:29:21.399
need to get to the bathroom. So I won't really

1132
01:29:21.439 --> 01:29:23.439
go into what happens next. But I made a real

1133
01:29:23.560 --> 01:29:29.800
mess of the bed, the bed in the the house. Really,

1134
01:29:30.319 --> 01:29:33.760
I mean I was because I was very drunk. I

1135
01:29:33.840 --> 01:29:43.520
completely destroyed the house and then I left. They thought

1136
01:29:43.520 --> 01:29:47.119
it was hilarious, not the parents. I never saw the

1137
01:29:47.159 --> 01:29:51.119
parents result reaction because they weren't there. They were at work.

1138
01:29:53.039 --> 01:29:55.920
I left and did my paper round and then I

1139
01:29:55.960 --> 01:30:01.560
went home, went to bed, and then I got up

1140
01:30:01.760 --> 01:30:10.159
about half six and it was dinner time, and I

1141
01:30:10.199 --> 01:30:13.199
had boiled eggs. That was my dinner. I did not

1142
01:30:13.279 --> 01:30:15.760
want eggs. Eggs was the one thing I'm probably out

1143
01:30:15.760 --> 01:30:17.720
of the whole world of food. I did not want

1144
01:30:17.720 --> 01:30:21.640
to eat. And I had a headache. And Tucker's Luck

1145
01:30:21.720 --> 01:30:25.319
was on TV, so I can guess get the actual

1146
01:30:25.439 --> 01:30:29.600
year from Tucker's Luck. Tucker's Luck used to be on

1147
01:30:29.800 --> 01:30:35.640
BBC two. Tucker's Luck BBC two. I'm sure it was

1148
01:30:35.720 --> 01:30:42.119
used to be on a Tuesday BBC two. Tucker's Luck

1149
01:30:44.520 --> 01:30:46.880
is eighty three to eighty five. Tucker's Luck was on,

1150
01:30:48.479 --> 01:30:56.000
so I wonder if it tells me okay. Series three

1151
01:30:56.159 --> 01:30:59.159
went on to twenty second of October nineteen eighty five,

1152
01:31:00.199 --> 01:31:06.520
so I would have been just turned fifteen at that point,

1153
01:31:07.920 --> 01:31:09.720
so I reckon it was probably a little bit before that.

1154
01:31:09.720 --> 01:31:12.960
So when I was about fourteen and he used to

1155
01:31:12.960 --> 01:31:20.600
be on thirteenth of March, I wonder if it's a

1156
01:31:20.840 --> 01:31:22.319
it's going to bug me down. I'm sure it's a

1157
01:31:22.399 --> 01:31:26.319
Tuesday or Wednesday. I don't know why, but I just

1158
01:31:26.560 --> 01:31:38.800
had this feeling, Oh my goodness, wow, thirteenth of March. Okay,

1159
01:31:39.239 --> 01:31:43.319
and this was this is the second series of Tucker's Luck.

1160
01:31:44.479 --> 01:31:49.039
Tucker's Luck, second series, episode one, so it might have

1161
01:31:49.119 --> 01:31:51.079
been anyway. It was the same day of the week,

1162
01:31:51.119 --> 01:31:54.199
so it might have been a different episode, but it

1163
01:31:54.279 --> 01:31:58.920
was a Tuesday. In fact, let's have a look at

1164
01:31:58.920 --> 01:32:03.960
the tenth of tenth of March sebrather or not. Now

1165
01:32:03.960 --> 01:32:10.840
it's nineteen eighty three, so let's just look at this one.

1166
01:32:11.720 --> 01:32:16.960
That was a Thursday. So that was the very first

1167
01:32:17.039 --> 01:32:28.800
series and the third series. For some reason, the date's

1168
01:32:28.840 --> 01:32:31.840
not coming up. Oh yeah it is. That was a Tuesday.

1169
01:32:32.520 --> 01:32:37.199
So the first and the second and third series was

1170
01:32:37.239 --> 01:32:42.920
on a Tuesday. THIRSD series was on a Wednesday Thursday rather,

1171
01:32:43.760 --> 01:32:50.279
so I'm pretty certain it would have been eighty four. Wow.

1172
01:32:50.399 --> 01:33:00.159
So I was fourteen, probably thirteen fourteen, fourteen probably, and

1173
01:33:00.199 --> 01:33:07.920
they were still lovely to me, like just found I

1174
01:33:07.960 --> 01:33:09.840
don't I'm sure they didn't find it funny, but it

1175
01:33:09.880 --> 01:33:12.239
was one of those things that just for some reason,

1176
01:33:12.279 --> 01:33:15.760
they were just nice. And I did get banned from

1177
01:33:15.800 --> 01:33:18.399
some of the people, like friends from school. I'd go

1178
01:33:18.399 --> 01:33:22.520
around their houses and get told I wasn't allowed to

1179
01:33:22.600 --> 01:33:26.520
go back because I don't know, say the wrong thing,

1180
01:33:26.640 --> 01:33:32.760
do the wrong thing, whatever. And I'm when there was

1181
01:33:32.760 --> 01:33:36.359
this one kid and he had this big pile of

1182
01:33:36.680 --> 01:33:42.000
mud and decided he wanted to wrestle, so I kept

1183
01:33:42.039 --> 01:33:48.399
climbing onto the parlor, jumping onto him, and his mum

1184
01:33:48.640 --> 01:33:53.800
didn't like it. Apparently I was getting too excited, Like okay,

1185
01:33:53.800 --> 01:34:00.239
I should wephrase out, but I was getting excited. Yeah,

1186
01:34:00.239 --> 01:34:01.920
I was just like getting pumped up, and I was

1187
01:34:02.279 --> 01:34:05.920
perhaps being a bit too over the top, maybe too

1188
01:34:06.199 --> 01:34:08.199
Maybe it seemed like I was being aggressive or whatever,

1189
01:34:08.239 --> 01:34:11.079
but I was just like running up and jump in,

1190
01:34:11.159 --> 01:34:14.840
and you know, I didn't have a sword or anything,

1191
01:34:15.000 --> 01:34:17.479
but I was I definitely thought I was a Viking.

1192
01:34:17.520 --> 01:34:19.600
I think at the time I was going through a

1193
01:34:19.600 --> 01:34:30.680
little Viking phrase phrase phase phrase. There was another two. Yeah,

1194
01:34:30.720 --> 01:34:34.079
I remember I went around another kid's house, and I

1195
01:34:34.119 --> 01:34:39.199
wasn't gonnowed to go back there again. My favorite place,

1196
01:34:39.279 --> 01:34:42.960
the favorite place I ever went to was this girl's.

1197
01:34:43.199 --> 01:34:45.800
I really liked her and I was hoping that she

1198
01:34:45.880 --> 01:34:48.680
was going to be my girlfriend. And she invited me

1199
01:34:48.760 --> 01:34:51.960
to a birthday party. And it was the first birthday party,

1200
01:34:54.199 --> 01:34:56.840
probably the only birthday party I was ever invited to

1201
01:34:56.920 --> 01:35:00.159
as a kid. Not that I've really been invited to

1202
01:35:00.520 --> 01:35:03.279
many as an adult, eva really, but that was the

1203
01:35:03.319 --> 01:35:07.079
first one, first and only one. And I was in

1204
01:35:07.119 --> 01:35:10.159
this Her dad was like a vicar, so it was

1205
01:35:10.199 --> 01:35:14.119
in this not monastery but vicarage. Just said huge house,

1206
01:35:14.439 --> 01:35:18.439
huge house. And I went to a birthday party. And

1207
01:35:20.720 --> 01:35:23.279
I was probably in the first year put it the

1208
01:35:23.279 --> 01:35:27.520
first year of high school. I'd say, I think, And

1209
01:35:27.560 --> 01:35:32.039
I loved her, okay, And she took me aside and

1210
01:35:32.079 --> 01:35:36.760
said just two things. I said, yeah, what can you

1211
01:35:37.239 --> 01:35:40.680
stop looking through my under my underwear draw please? And

1212
01:35:40.720 --> 01:35:45.000
I said, okay, what's the second thing? She said, I'm moving.

1213
01:35:46.239 --> 01:35:47.720
I said, just because at the end of I was

1214
01:35:47.760 --> 01:35:51.880
just I was looking for some binoculars. She said, why, why,

1215
01:35:52.039 --> 01:36:04.239
why this is a weird can't you bother? Why would

1216
01:36:04.279 --> 01:36:06.439
my binoculars be in your underwear draws, so that's what

1217
01:36:06.520 --> 01:36:15.479
I keep mine. Okay, so I didn't I wasn't looking through,

1218
01:36:15.479 --> 01:36:18.359
but I did do that as an older age. Yeah,

1219
01:36:18.359 --> 01:36:20.159
I got kicked out of a few people's houses for

1220
01:36:20.199 --> 01:36:23.720
that as well. That's enough of my date in the

1221
01:36:23.800 --> 01:36:27.319
history in my twenties, so I yeah, So I'm just

1222
01:36:27.359 --> 01:36:32.680
basically she takes me aside and said I've got some news.

1223
01:36:32.720 --> 01:36:39.920
I said, okay, I thought weird. She said, I'm moving away.

1224
01:36:40.159 --> 01:36:43.640
I said, what do you mean, well, because this is

1225
01:36:43.720 --> 01:36:47.680
just at the end of school, the school break, and said, oh,

1226
01:36:47.680 --> 01:36:51.359
I'm not coming back to school again. I'm moving. My

1227
01:36:51.840 --> 01:36:55.760
parents are moving to a different district. He's going to

1228
01:36:55.760 --> 01:36:59.000
be a vicar of a different place the other side

1229
01:36:59.039 --> 01:37:09.039
of the country. And she seemed generally genuinely concerned for

1230
01:37:09.159 --> 01:37:13.479
my welfare, for my well being. So I think she

1231
01:37:13.560 --> 01:37:17.399
might liked me a bit. I know it's very both

1232
01:37:17.479 --> 01:37:21.079
very young. We were like eleven twelve or whatever, but

1233
01:37:21.319 --> 01:37:23.600
just like, it was so nice the fact that she

1234
01:37:23.680 --> 01:37:26.920
invited me to a birthday party, and also that she

1235
01:37:27.359 --> 01:37:29.520
told me that she was moving away, and she seemed

1236
01:37:29.520 --> 01:37:35.000
to care that she was moving away, and I said, well,

1237
01:37:35.000 --> 01:37:37.399
we can still keep in touch. She said, nah, I

1238
01:37:37.439 --> 01:37:40.880
don't really want to. I said, okay, that's to be fair.

1239
01:37:40.960 --> 01:37:46.079
I think that's support the moment. It did, and I

1240
01:37:46.119 --> 01:37:47.680
think her trying to push me out of a window

1241
01:37:47.680 --> 01:37:51.880
didn't help either. But I just yeah, but before that,

1242
01:37:51.920 --> 01:37:59.960
it was romantic, not romantic, but it was kind of nice. Yeah,

1243
01:38:00.199 --> 01:38:02.000
there was a bit of a problem with the toilet lid.

1244
01:38:02.159 --> 01:38:08.239
And when I got back to school after the holiday,

1245
01:38:08.359 --> 01:38:11.680
the school holidays, there was a few other kids that

1246
01:38:11.760 --> 01:38:14.439
were at that party. I want to keep going on

1247
01:38:14.439 --> 01:38:20.119
about as about the blocked toilet, and whenever they mentioned

1248
01:38:20.159 --> 01:38:22.880
block toilets, for the next four years of school, everyone

1249
01:38:22.920 --> 01:38:27.560
would look at me, even if the toilet. You know,

1250
01:38:27.600 --> 01:38:31.359
so I mentioned block toilets in a different classroom where

1251
01:38:31.359 --> 01:38:35.079
I wasn't even there. Everyone would walk from that classroom

1252
01:38:35.600 --> 01:38:38.119
to the other side of the school and look in

1253
01:38:38.159 --> 01:38:40.039
the door and look at me. Some people would go

1254
01:38:40.039 --> 01:38:42.119
out out the front or out of the side, look

1255
01:38:42.199 --> 01:38:46.479
through the window and look at me and then walk off.

1256
01:38:46.520 --> 01:38:51.640
It was a very strange, strange environment. I had nothing

1257
01:38:51.640 --> 01:38:55.680
to do with the block toilet, Okay, maybe I did.

1258
01:38:56.800 --> 01:39:02.119
I think sometimes block toilets just it's just not sometimes.

1259
01:39:02.760 --> 01:39:04.880
I mean, I don't think toilets are or they're not

1260
01:39:04.960 --> 01:39:10.560
suited for all sizes, are they? You know, there's sometimes

1261
01:39:11.880 --> 01:39:14.960
just needed a wider I was going to say a

1262
01:39:14.960 --> 01:39:17.039
bigger mouth, but that's probably not the right term for

1263
01:39:17.039 --> 01:39:21.760
a toilet, is it a bigger it's you know, it's

1264
01:39:21.800 --> 01:39:24.000
like when you're hungry. It'd be nicer if we had

1265
01:39:23.600 --> 01:39:26.720
a bigger hole to put the food in when we

1266
01:39:26.720 --> 01:39:32.119
were really really hungry. Mind you, I suppose we are

1267
01:39:32.159 --> 01:39:40.560
supposed to chew on we technically right, I've talked for

1268
01:39:40.680 --> 01:39:43.600
much longer than I expected because this was supposed to

1269
01:39:43.680 --> 01:39:48.840
be not supposed to be, but I was hoping to eat,

1270
01:39:49.800 --> 01:39:54.239
to get some food, and a little bit earlier than this,

1271
01:39:54.359 --> 01:40:00.399
because it's now nearly half past eight, it's I've been

1272
01:40:00.439 --> 01:40:05.720
talking for well over an hour, probably over an hour

1273
01:40:05.760 --> 01:40:08.119
and a half, I think, maybe even longer than that.

1274
01:40:10.960 --> 01:40:13.479
And I still didn't manage to cover all the schools.

1275
01:40:14.039 --> 01:40:23.960
So this is Monday's boring objects schools, junior schools. So

1276
01:40:24.000 --> 01:40:27.359
that's it. That's the end of this recording. It's I

1277
01:40:27.439 --> 01:40:30.760
hope it's been as exciting for you as it as

1278
01:40:30.800 --> 01:40:38.520
it was for me. So Please remember to be kind

1279
01:40:38.520 --> 01:40:42.239
to yourself because you do deserve to be happy, and

1280
01:40:42.359 --> 01:40:48.000
remember to be gentle with yourself. You deserve to feel safe.

1281
01:40:50.760 --> 01:40:54.840
Lots of love, bye,