Sept. 17, 2025

(no music) #1433 Let me bore you to sleep | Trivia Tuesday

(no music) #1433 Let me bore you to sleep | Trivia Tuesday

(music) (5 hours) #1433 Let me bore you to sleep | Trivia Tuesday | Jason Newland | 16th September 2025 🎙 Title: Let Me Bore You to Sleep #1433 – Trivia Tuesday (Shortest Days, Longest Rambles) 📄 Description (Spreaker-formatted, ready to paste):...

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(music) (5 hours) #1433 Let me bore you to sleep | Trivia Tuesday | Jason Newland | 16th September 2025

🎙 Title: Let Me Bore You to Sleep #1433 – Trivia Tuesday (Shortest Days, Longest Rambles) 📄 Description (Spreaker-formatted, ready to paste): Hello and welcome to Let Me Bore You to Sleep, I’m Jason Newland. It's Trivia Tuesday... or actually Wednesday. I missed Tuesday. Oops. 😴 In this extra-dull, extra-soothing episode, I take you on a rambling journey that begins with the trivia of shortest and longest days around the world — and ends somewhere in a memory of selling comedy albums to a policeman and having cold hands in 1990. Also: Vinny cuddles, night shift chaos, and a Buddhist fire exit incident. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. 🙏
Website: LetMeBoreYouToSleep.com ⏱️ Timestamps: 0:00 – Intro & Lighting Talk
Why I didn’t record Tuesday. The morning is strangely dark. I ramble about windows and needing the lights on.

5:00 – Trivia Tuesday Begins

  • 🌍 Longest and shortest days by country
  • Ecuador, Kenya, UK, Australia, Iceland, the Poles
  • Wondering where the moon goes for 6 months 🤔
30:00 – Memory Lane (Night Shift Jobs)
  • My double-glazing canvassing job in 1990
  • Working night shift at a meter factory
  • Trying to do two jobs and sleeping like a vampire
55:00 – Living with My Dad
  • Staying at Dad’s while working two jobs
  • Heating issues and blackout curtains
  • How many towns were involved in getting me to move out?
1:05:00 – Comedy Dreams & Video Players
  • Selling all my comedy stuff for £250
  • Trying (and failing) to learn stand-up from tapes
  • Buying a broken VCR from a “friend”
1:20:00 – Vinny Gets Affectionate
  • Vinny cuddles up on my lap ❤️
  • I wonder if he’s just accepted his fate...
1:25:00 – Outro
  • Realizing I’ve completely abandoned the trivia
  • Reminders to be kind to yourself
  • “You deserve to be happy. You deserve to feel safe.”
🐾 Special Guest: Vinny the dog – occasional barking, cuddles, and sabotage.

🔑 Keywords: sleep podcast, longest day trivia, ASMR, Jason Newland, relaxing voice, bedtime story, night shift, UK nostalgia, Vinny the dog, Let Me Bore You to Sleep, meditation, boring podcast, fall asleep fast

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Hello, and welcome to let me bore you to sleep.

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My name's Jason Nuland and this is Trivia Tuesday now.

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To be honest, I don't like being honest, as you know,

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But to be honest, I'm doing this on Wednesday because

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yesterday I couldn't be bothered. I couldn't do it. I

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just I was busy, not busy, but a neighbor knocked

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and had a a chat, and time went by and

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before I knew it, it was time to go bye byes.

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So I didn't do it. And the weather's changed, not

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not that that should really be a reason, but it's

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nine twenty two in the morning, and really I need

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the light on. It's like early evening here lightwise inside

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days now. If I was going to read a book,

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I would need the light on, or a paper or something,

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you know, something like that. Luckily, with computers, you know,

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there's a light on in the behind the screen, isn't there,

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So I ain't got to worry about that. But if

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I was sitting here writing stuff down, I would need

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to have the light on at nine twenty three in

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the morning. It's kind of weird, honestly, And I haven't

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even got the curtains drawn, so the curtains are open.

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The windows are open because it's it was cold. I

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put the heating on and now it's too hot, so

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to opn the windows. Weird time, it's I mean, it's

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only what is it, the seventeenth of September two thous

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and and twenty five eve hmmm. That's kind of I

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think that's the thing about this time of year. Not

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this time of year, but like between now and March

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Octo and Janey, there's only six months and between you

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get a lot of these days. And you know, during

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any in England or where I live anyway, this is

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kind of standard sort of lighting during the day for

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a good couple of months, like December, January, maybe part

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of November. I don't remember it normally being quite like

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this in September. Mm hmm. It's just really I can't

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I can't really show you because if I took a picture,

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it doesn't give you a gauge. Really. I mean, it's

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never like super bright inside here anyway, because there is

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a tree that's blocking a fair bit of like sunlight

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when the sun's out. Yeah, it's a little bit dull.

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Please only listen when you can say for the close

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your eyes. My website is let me Bore you to

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sleep dot com. What else can I tell you? Not

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really much. I just yeah, everything's okay. I I slept

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last night and then I got up. I dreampt. Vinny

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is now in my dreams with me, which I don't

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know if that's normal or weird, I don't know, but yeah,

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he's in my dreams, so he accompanies me wherever I go,

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just like in real life. By the way, I've got

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Q and a Friday coming up this week, which is

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in two days. It's Wednesday today. So I have posted

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on my my Facebook group, which is Jason Newland's Boring Group,

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but I haven't had any questions yet. Had two people

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like it the post I put, but no questions. So

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please go to the page Jason Newland's Boring Group on

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Facebook and ask me some questions if you'd like to.

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And I should also say welcome to the newest members

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of the group, which would be Sue Brooke, Janice Patrick, Camilla, Melenis, Marina,

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Mary Forge, Vivek Fari Bada and Peter so Yeah and Andy.

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So there's like the last few that have joined. So

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thank you for being part of this Shoper growth group.

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The link is on my website if you want to

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find it. If you can't find it is I think

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it should be quite easy to find. So here we go.

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So this is time for trivia Tuesday. I need to

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figure out a for some reason, I'm very focused on

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light today. So what are the shortest day's longest days?

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Or shall I do weather? Because really weird because if

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I just what's the shortest days of the year, there's

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one short day, then there's one longest day, longest days

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in the summer, shortest days in I suppose probably December

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or beginning of January. Let's just shucked. I could just

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go through countries or the shortest and longest days. Please

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give me shortest, shortest if I could spell, and longest

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days days of the year by country. Got it? The

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shortest and longest days of the year, depending on letsitude,

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not the country itself. No, by country, Oh it is,

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oh okay, So it has example by country list all countries.

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The thing is it's probably going to be a lot

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of them. That's a huge list, almost two hundred countries.

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But I can absolutely create it for you before I

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dive in. I want to check list or countries. Yes,

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I just asked you. Just just do it, man, I'm

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a proper task master, mask tasker. Right. I'll start off

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with the general rules. It says equator equator zero latitude equator. Sorry,

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day length barely changes after twelve hours of daylight all year.

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Twelve hours of daylight all year in the equator, so

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it's like twelve hours daylight twelve hours night and the

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kind of stays the same length. I am kind of

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ad libbing, but fair enough. Tropics up to I don't

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know what that means. Variation is small. The longest thirteen hours,

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shortest is eleven hours, so there's not a lot of

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differences there. Mid latitudes, which would be UK, USA, Europe,

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China biggest swings. So longest days sixteen to seventeen hours,

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shortest days seven to eight hours, Arctic Antarctic circle at

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least one day with twenty four hour daylight midnight Sunday

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okay specific and one with twenty four hour darkness polar night.

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Does that mean continuous So twenty four hours of light,

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twenty four hours of darkness, twenty four hours of light,

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twenty four hour darkness. See if that's the case. That

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must have been really weird for people that were traveling

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up there to kind of try and climb a mountain

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or something and thinking, Wow, time just slows down when

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we're here. This is brilliant, this is been light for age. Yes,

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the days we've got so much done and then they

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go to sleep and think, God, it's like again, I

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feel so refreshed. I feel like I've been asleep forever.

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So polls one continuous six month day and one continuous

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six month night each year. Yeah, I've heard about that.

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That's got to be very, very strange. So that's a

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North and South Pole or North South Pole, one continuous

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six month day, one continuous six month night. I'd like

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to visit that just to see what that's like. It's

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got to be weird because so that means the moon

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never comes out. Where does the moon go? Where does

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the sun go? After the six months? The sun just

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goes on holiday meanwhile, and go somewhere hot with it.

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But what we're I mean the moon, what happens to

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the moon? So can you literally during the night, where

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does the sun go? For six months? That's strange, isn't it?

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Unless it's literally because of the mountains are so. Maybe

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it's because of the mountains. They're so big that the

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sun can't penetrate them. That's the problem. The sun's been

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trying to penetrate the mountains for years but he can't.

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Perhaps it just don't get on examples by country. So

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let's have a look. Here's a complete that's what I'm

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using chat GPT. Right, there's a huge list, almost two

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hundred countries. But I can actually absolutely absolutely create it

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for you. List all countries alphabetically with their shortest longest

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day lengths. M. It's not given it to me. It's

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just given me loads and loads of countries. Yes, I'm

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going to see if they can do that. Yes, please,

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because this offered me maybe to tell me ones that

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can give me the shortest and longest days. But before

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that has given me a list of some So Ecuador

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longest day twelve hours seven minutes, So that's Ecuador, Kenya

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near equator equator like keeps no Ecuador, Yeah, near equator Kenya,

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Keny is near the equator. Okay, I didn't know that.

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Longest day twelve hours seven minutes. Shortest day eleven hours

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fifty three minutes. So they have long days. It's basically

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like pretty much twelve twelve, isn't it. Twelve hours of dark,

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twelve hours of sun kind of all year round, with

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a few minutes in between. Literally, I mean that's seven

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minutes either way. So wow, it is fourteen minutes. So

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there can be fourteen minutes difference in the entire year

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between the longest day and the shortest day. That's absolutely

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And then you've got UK London. So oh, I was

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going to give me the actual date. That's nice. Around

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June twenty first, London. The longest day is sixteen hours

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forty minutes. The shortest day around the twenty first of December.

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I thought it was around December time, seven hours fifty minutes.

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The good thing about the shortest day is knowing that

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every single day afterwards the day is going to get longer.

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And I don't know, just there's something quite nice about that.

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I mean, it takes a while, it does, but you know,

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there was a time when I'd be up till four

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in the morning, sometimes eight in the morning. I'd be

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awake all night for years and years and years. And

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what I noticed in the summer, like well, in the

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spring rather really, so when you get to like March

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April kind of those kind of months. It's light so

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early in the morning, and it really gets early quick.

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It's like the time seems to just I don't know's

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it's quite nice and the birds are up and singing,

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and you know you can look out and see them

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having a shower, brushing their teeth, you know, tucking into

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their corn flakes. They're all really getting ready. Okay, they're

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worn flakes. New York longest day is fifteen hours, shortest

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day is nine hours. So so far the UK has

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got the shortest day out of anyone. Also the longest day,

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oh no, yeah, just by ten minutes. Austraedia longest day

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December twenty first, it's the summer solstice fourteen hours twenty minutes,

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so it's not as long as we have. Well, so

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we're doing all right, and we really shortest days June

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twenty first, nine hours fifty minutes. So it's literally the

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exact opposite of us in the UK. In Australia it's

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like the mirror image sixteen out or the opposite image. Rather,

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that's not really a mirror image, is it. But then

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if you look at a mirror, it's back to front

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isn't it. People use the word in the mirriage, in

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the mirriage mirror image in the wrong way, don't they really?

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I think because when I say it was like looking

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at someone like a mirror image, which technically if someone

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looks right like you and you're facing them, and if

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they were your doppel ganger or whatever, or your twin,

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then that would be like looking in the mirror, and

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that'd be an imma mirriage. I can't say that my

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words well back to front these days, so an IMMI mirriage.

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But at the same time, it's also back to front,

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isn't it, So it's not really a mirror image. I

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wonder where imma merriage came from. Way, you'd think words,

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sentences would be quite easy for me, wouldn't you really

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consider an amount of talking I've done over the years.

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That's got to be weird. How do people in Australia

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get used to it being warm in the winter? How

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do you get used to that? Cauld you imagine like

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it's warm in the winter. But you know what Australia do.

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They do it wrong. They they do it back to front.

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They say, oh, the summertime is their winter. No, it's

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still summer. It's just you're getting bad weather December, November, December, January,

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February or whatever or January. That's winter still. Just because

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you're getting nice weather, it's still winter. I don't call

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it summer. You got it wrong. Canada longest day sixteen

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hours thirty minutes. Shortest day seven hours thirty minutes. So

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we're still ahead. Looks like we're still ahead. The UK

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is still ahead. For the longest day we so far

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have all these countries. Nope, just got to Iceland. Iceland. Wow,

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longest day twenty one hours daylight. Shortest day three to

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four hours daylight. But then if you look at the UK,

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where are we? Okay seven hours fifty minutes eight so

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it's double but okay, fair enough. We don't have the

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shortest day, but Iceland do three to four hours. So literally,

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what time does it get light in Iceland? That's got

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to be really weird just to think that you've got

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to get it pretty much, got to get everything done.

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So if you live in Iceland, maybe let us know,

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do you I mean, do the shops open outside of

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those four hours or does everything open and close? Because

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there's a lot of polar bears and stuff around. Isn't

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there in Iceland? I don't know. I might be was

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that Denmark or was that Greenland? Or I'm sure it's

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polar bears somewhere walking around. I don't mean like walking

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around doing their shopping, but walking around, not like fully

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clothed and gossiping about each other. But you know there's

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polar bears. But then twenty one hours daylight sometimes? So

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how does that regulate mood? And how does that? How

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does that affect sleep? Because I'm just going back to

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where is it Ecuador? Not Ecuador? The are right the

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poles to the north pole, south pole, one continuous six

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month day and one continue as six month night. So

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how does that affect people's sleeping habits? I mean, technically,

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I suppose if you're born there, you're acclimatized and you

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don't know any different. But I don't know, because I

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thought that the moon, the lunar kind of sequence and

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stuff had an effect. And that's as much as I know.

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I suppose you just got to get thick curtains, haven't you.

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Well though I can sleep in daylight, never used to

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be able to, but I can now. I can just

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go to bed in the middle of summer, you know,

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eleven o'clock in the morning or two in the afternoon,

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and I can go to sleep, just not like full

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eight hours sleep, but I have a nap and fall asleep. Fine,

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as long as Vinnie don't bark. Nothing else really bothers me,

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and I can have the curtains open, windows open. It's fine.

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I don't need it to be dark anymore. But there

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was a time back in nineteen ninety one, No, nineteen

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ninety I had this part time No, I had a

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full time job. I had two jobs atu you, but

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I moved away from London in you review. I think

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it was March nineteen ninety it might be in February,

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it's around that time. And then I got a job

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I was going back to doing. By the way, unless

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you in case you're wondering what the sound is in

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the background, it's Vinny chewing on one of these bony things. Okay,

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So I I still remember that conversation. It's weird because

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where I was living there was a phone at the

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bottom of the stairs, I think, and it was a payphone.

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So I phoned up my Actually I don't know if

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I phoned them up. Well, they phoned me up, but

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basically to let me know that there was a job.

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If I wanted it, I might have just phoned them

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up just to see how they are. And this person

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I used to work with, and they said, oh, there's

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a job. Jeff has taken on people again to do canvasing,

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and he was the body's no longer with us, but

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he was sort of in charge of the canvassin for

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double blazing, because that's what I was doing in eighty

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nine nineteen eighty nine, and then lost that job because

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the company, the main company we were working for, decided

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to invest their money in advertising on radio instead of canvassing.

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But then and that was kind of late summer, end

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of the summer, sort of autumn time in nineteen eighty nine,

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and then nineteen ninety the same man had found another

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company to work for, maybe more than one actually, and

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we went out between I think about four o'clock in

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the afternoon until about eight so it was four hours

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work and I think it was like one hundred and

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twenty pounds a week, so which is a good back then.

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So I was told there's a job if you want it,

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So I called up Jeff and he said, yeah, if

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you can get back here, we can start Monday. And

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so I phoned my dad up and told him, and

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my dad said, well, you can move in here for

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a little while, you can stay here for a little while.

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So I did. I packed my bags. Didn't have much

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stuff literally, just probably a couple of black bags of stuff,

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bin bags of stuff, and then got on the train,

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came back or went back to my dad's and I

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started working at this doing the canvasing. And then I

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started thinking, hmmm, it's not really I mean, it was

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more than what I was earning before. I was earning

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less than one hundred pounds a week before during that period,

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but one hundred and twenty pounds store wasn't like lots

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of money, but it was still, you know, twenty quid

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more than a while I was getting. But I wanted to.

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I was looking maybe get a job, like a proper job,

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and I applied to go and work at this meta

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factory that I'd already worked at twice before, so I

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knew people at work there, I knew some supervisors, and

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I kind of I didn't work my way back, but

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I managed to get a job interview and they took

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me on. But this time it was night shift, which

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is what I wanted because then I could continue to

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do the canvassing job, not really thinking too much about

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how much work that would be. It's a heck, you know,

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it's a long day. So I was starting work at

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ten in the evening and then I was finishing at

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six in the morning. I was, yeah, then I did.

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I'd go to bed, be in bed by seven, and

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i'd be up by two and i'd start working four,

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finish at eight. I'd normally get dropped off at home

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so I wouldn't have to travel, and then i'd get ready,

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maybe have signed to eat, and then just had a

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to work. So that's what my week was like for

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I don't know a couple of months until I just

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it was too much. It was It's a shame because

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I think I was doing Saturday mornings as well in

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the canvassing a lot extra overtime and when they needed me,

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so it was a little bit too much. In retrospect,

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I kind of wish i'd just stuck at it and

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saved some money, which I didn't because as soon as

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I started doing some money, I decided that I wanted

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to move back to London. And do stand up comedy.

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And instead of saving money, which is what I would

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need to do that, I every time I got paid,

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I would go to London and I would buy comedy

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albums and comedy videos. I suppose in a way trying

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to learn the craft without doing it. You know, maybe

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if I could learn something from watching the greats performing

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and I didn't. I learned nothing, but that kind of

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became my hobby. So I didn't save a penny. However,

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I think it was December time I did sell my

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entire collection of comedy stuff for about two hundred and

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fifty pound and I had loads of albums, tapes, video tapes,

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a lot, you know, lots of stuff. So I sold

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it all for two hundred and fifty and that did

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help me to move back to London, so it kind

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of worked, but it did. I mean, there was probably

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thousands of pounds worth of stuff there, but never mind,

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and i'd sort of the blokes that bought this stuff

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was a He did stand up comedy, but as a

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like for charity, so he was a policeman but at

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the charity gear. He did charity gigs where he did

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stand up and he just wanted the albums just to

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get new jokes for his stand up show. So yeah,

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it all worked out. I think he was a friend

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of my dad actually, unless my dad just gave him money.

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So just I don't care how much it costs, just

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pay him what he wants so that it will move away.

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That might be like he want him to move to London.

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Just come on. The whole of the town got together

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and put a pound in each. There was more than

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two hundred and fifty people living in that town. But

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you know, you get the idea. Everyone wanted me out.

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They are, they are. But then I remember I'm staying

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at my dad's. This was quite good, Like this was

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the best time that we kind of lived together because

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during the week he was at home. During the week,

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I was at work, like nearly all the time every night.

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So literally he'd get home, he go to worker with

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sometimes cross swords cross swords. Sometimes I'd see him in

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the morning. I'll be having my breakfast when he was

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getting up, and then I'd be going to bed. So

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sometimes i'd see him before he went to put to work,

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and I'd be gone before he got home. I might

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see him briefly for a few minutes at eight o'clock

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when I got back. But you know, that was kind

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of sometimes. And then he spent most of his weekends

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at his girlfriend's who ended up being his wife. So

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it was quite a good situation. We didn't really sort

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of annoy each other too much. Yeah, that was quite cool.

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So it was nice, especially at the weekend. I kind

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of had the house to myself, not that I needed

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the whole house, but it was just nice to have

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the TV in the living room and instead of my

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black and white TV upstairs, which I could have got

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myself a color TV. I didn't, but I could have done.

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Unless I did, maybe I did have a colored TV,

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because I'm thinking, you know, if I had, because I've

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got this. Yeah, this is a thing. When I lived

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in nineteen eighty nine, I lived in a house, like

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in a room in a house, and I watched Eddie

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Murphy's Delirious on videotape, which meant I must have had

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a video recorder. There's no way I would have a

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video recorder with a black and white TV. That doesn't

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make sense. So I must have had a TV unless

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there was just one in a room that I was renting.

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As possible. It is possible, but I rented that delirious

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out from the video shop or borrowed it someone. I

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can't really remember. It's a long time ago now, I

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suppose I do remember the turning up for the job interview,

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and if nothing else, I was kind of having to

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explain why I had worked there twice already in the

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meter the meta factory, not meat but met like electric

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meters factory, and why I had left twice without even

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telling them. I just I had a habit of not

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telling people when I left, and because I've had like

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fifty odd jobs or something, so I think I had one.

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I had three jobs in one week once. I think

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this is like nineteen eighty eight. So what I did

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is I told the lady who was interviewing me the

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story of me going to Spain for the afternoon, and

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she found it so hilarious that she just gave me

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the job. I don't think she felt sorry for me,

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but I just you know the facts. I got ripped

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off by a taxi driver and I was left with

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no money and I just couldn't just had to come back,

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had no choice, and she I don't know, however, whatever

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it was, the way I told her the story. She

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found it very funny. I don't quite know what I said,

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but she found it humorous. And if I remember, she

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was almost crying. I don't know if it's because she

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was crying from boredom or I mean she was sitting there.

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Maybe she had piles, I don't know, but she just

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could have been hemorrhoid and induced tears. But she Yeah,

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she gave me the job and I started working. I

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had to be trained, so I think I had a

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week of days. So I wasn't able to do the

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canvasin or was I I worked nine till five. Maybe

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I was able to maybe they I don't know. I

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think I had to have a week off. But a

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problem I had at that time was I'd be going

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to sleep at seven in the morning, and because i'd

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get home, probably i'd probably get home about half six,

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have started to eat and then go to bed. So

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maybe it was half past seven, just trying to think

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to go to bed after eating. Who knows, But I

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really I struggled a little bit because of the light

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coming in. And I think my dad puts some extra

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thick curtains up and he he made it. He put

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his curtains up but it was like he made it

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from a big sign, so he pushed them over, so

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I had to put them over the thing. But it's

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this big like like fabricated sign like stitched to it

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as well. So when the curtains are open or clothes rather,

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and it was covering the whole window, it was completely black,

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but we could see a luminous is please leave. So

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I'm not quite sure what that was about, please move out.

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And I got used to it after a while. The

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hardest bit was the weekends really, because I'd be finishing

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at six on a Friday and I wouldn't be going

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back till ten on a Monday in the evening on

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a Monday, so you could say, technically I had three

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days off every week. I didn't, but I kind of did.

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I had all day Friday, all day Saturday, no Monday night,

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Tuesday night, Wednesday night, Thursday, Friday night, so Saturday Sunday,

447
00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:44.480
we'll talk about two days. What was I saying three days?

448
00:40:45.400 --> 00:40:47.199
I know, three days because then you've got the whole

449
00:40:47.239 --> 00:40:50.519
of Monday. So yeah, technically three days off. Bit's not

450
00:40:51.199 --> 00:41:00.840
you know, three whole days, but it's you know, I

451
00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:04.000
kind of wasn't sure what to do. I mean, when

452
00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:06.360
I first started, I thought, now I'm just go to bed,

453
00:41:07.400 --> 00:41:09.519
go to bed like normal, wake up at two or

454
00:41:09.559 --> 00:41:18.679
three in the afternoon, and then go back to bed.

455
00:41:18.800 --> 00:41:23.679
Maybe try and try and just have the normal sleep

456
00:41:23.719 --> 00:41:26.880
pattern and wake pattern as I normally do, you know,

457
00:41:27.360 --> 00:41:31.760
like night shift. But that was a little bit hard

458
00:41:31.800 --> 00:41:36.400
because you know, back then, there was no night television

459
00:41:36.440 --> 00:41:39.679
really to speak of. There was a few bits and

460
00:41:39.719 --> 00:41:41.880
bobs on at night, but there wasn't a lot going on.

461
00:41:44.760 --> 00:41:48.000
There wasn't really anything to do or anywhere to go.

462
00:41:49.199 --> 00:41:51.800
Unlike when I moved to London, there was always stuff

463
00:41:51.880 --> 00:41:53.880
to do, you know, providing I could afford to get

464
00:41:53.920 --> 00:41:58.920
there and afford a bottle of coke or whatever while

465
00:41:58.920 --> 00:42:03.559
I was there an entrance fee, I could just there's

466
00:42:03.599 --> 00:42:07.480
always be somewhere like in the West End or somewhere

467
00:42:07.519 --> 00:42:12.760
like that. But where I was living at the time,

468
00:42:14.440 --> 00:42:18.000
there was nothing there. There was it was it's a

469
00:42:18.079 --> 00:42:22.599
nice little town, but there was nothing to do really

470
00:42:22.679 --> 00:42:25.679
other than maybe going into pubs and stuff. And that's

471
00:42:26.360 --> 00:42:28.840
at the time that really wasn't me. I wasn't really

472
00:42:28.840 --> 00:42:36.239
a pubby person. I'm still not really, but I definitely wasn't.

473
00:42:36.239 --> 00:42:41.119
Then I didn't like pubs. I liked pubs when I

474
00:42:41.119 --> 00:42:45.559
was sixteen, but I didn't as well. I just liked

475
00:42:45.599 --> 00:42:50.880
it because I wasn't supposed to be in there, but

476
00:42:50.920 --> 00:42:55.519
it wasn't. Yeah, I never really never really got the

477
00:42:55.559 --> 00:42:59.679
point of it, never really saw the point of pubs.

478
00:43:02.199 --> 00:43:03.960
I can see the point of them in the past,

479
00:43:04.039 --> 00:43:13.199
you know, with the community getting together, and but I didn't.

480
00:43:13.360 --> 00:43:15.760
I was never really part of any kind of community,

481
00:43:17.599 --> 00:43:20.480
as in like lots and lots of different people or

482
00:43:20.559 --> 00:43:23.400
living together in a in a room, not in a

483
00:43:23.480 --> 00:43:27.000
room in a road. Rather, I suppose I lived in

484
00:43:27.199 --> 00:43:30.559
houses where there was like a community of people living

485
00:43:31.079 --> 00:43:35.199
not together but separately but kind of get to know

486
00:43:35.320 --> 00:43:39.800
them a bit. But that going into a pub and

487
00:43:40.679 --> 00:43:44.960
saying a load to your calm mechanic or the person

488
00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:48.239
who delivers your milk or your post or the local

489
00:43:48.280 --> 00:43:55.360
electrician or never really kind of had that. I suppose

490
00:43:55.360 --> 00:43:59.119
the only closest thing I got was maybe seeing people

491
00:43:59.159 --> 00:44:03.920
that I worked with. That would be probably the closest thing.

492
00:44:05.440 --> 00:44:09.360
And even when I moved to London, really I would

493
00:44:09.440 --> 00:44:12.719
say the only time I went to a pub is

494
00:44:12.760 --> 00:44:16.440
were people that I worked with outside of when I

495
00:44:16.519 --> 00:44:20.719
was going to comedy clubs or when I was dating,

496
00:44:20.960 --> 00:44:22.840
if I dated someone and would go to a pub.

497
00:44:32.760 --> 00:44:36.719
But became accustomed to being able to sleep during the day.

498
00:44:36.840 --> 00:44:41.440
And it wasn't the last time I did night shift either,

499
00:44:41.559 --> 00:44:45.800
So I did night shift in nineteen ninety. I finished

500
00:44:48.000 --> 00:44:53.159
I think October nineteen ninety because what they did is

501
00:44:53.199 --> 00:44:57.159
they got rid of the night shift and they moved

502
00:44:57.199 --> 00:45:02.079
me onto a double shift of one week being six

503
00:45:02.119 --> 00:45:04.800
in the morning till two at night, six in the

504
00:45:04.800 --> 00:45:08.039
morning till two in the afternoon other and then they'd

505
00:45:08.119 --> 00:45:10.960
following week two in the afternoon until ten at night.

506
00:45:12.480 --> 00:45:14.840
And I said, I don't want to do that, and

507
00:45:14.840 --> 00:45:18.000
they said, that's your new hours. I said, but I

508
00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:20.760
don't want to do it. And they were also making

509
00:45:20.760 --> 00:45:28.559
people redundant as well, and I just I wasn't pleased.

510
00:45:28.679 --> 00:45:30.800
I wasn't happy with it, so I left, just didn't

511
00:45:30.800 --> 00:45:34.840
go in because I only took the job on because

512
00:45:34.840 --> 00:45:38.360
it was a night shift. I never liked the double shifts.

513
00:45:38.519 --> 00:45:42.519
I did that two previous times I worked there. Didn't

514
00:45:42.559 --> 00:45:45.079
like it because it's hard to get really, I've found

515
00:45:46.280 --> 00:45:53.119
it was hard to get into any kind of routine.

516
00:45:53.880 --> 00:46:00.280
If the hours are the same every day, and it's

517
00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:03.960
a routine that I can get my head around. I mean,

518
00:46:04.719 --> 00:46:06.360
what are you doing? And he there? You go? Is

519
00:46:06.360 --> 00:46:14.679
you dinner? There? Do you want to hear? What is it?

520
00:46:15.320 --> 00:46:20.480
He's standing on the side of the settee looking at me.

521
00:46:20.679 --> 00:46:23.360
He doesn't really do that. He's on the armorist but

522
00:46:23.480 --> 00:46:25.480
on this side of where I don't sit. Do you

523
00:46:25.519 --> 00:46:28.880
want to get on my lap? You want to get

524
00:46:28.880 --> 00:46:34.360
on my lap? Come on, it's all right. One of

525
00:46:34.360 --> 00:46:41.159
the problems he has he loves to cuddle, but he

526
00:46:41.280 --> 00:46:46.599
doesn't like cuddling, which is a weird one and it's

527
00:46:46.599 --> 00:46:52.199
hard to explain. Is like if he is like he's

528
00:46:53.159 --> 00:46:56.679
he doesn't know whether to do it or not. So

529
00:46:56.719 --> 00:46:58.360
if I had to pick him up, he'll run away.

530
00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:04.480
But actually what he really wants is probably to lay

531
00:47:04.519 --> 00:47:09.480
on my lap. And he looked like he was trying

532
00:47:09.480 --> 00:47:12.480
to get onto my lap from over there, But as

533
00:47:12.480 --> 00:47:14.719
soon as I went to reach out to help him,

534
00:47:14.920 --> 00:47:22.280
he ran off, jumped off the chair. Don't you whether

535
00:47:22.360 --> 00:47:25.039
it's just that he wants attention and I wasn't giving

536
00:47:25.079 --> 00:47:30.000
it to him. Hey, you get my attention now, aren't you?

537
00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:34.119
You definitely get my attention when you bark. That's not

538
00:47:34.159 --> 00:47:38.880
the kind of attention you want, though, is it. No, No,

539
00:47:38.960 --> 00:47:44.440
it's not. He's been a little bit more affectionate these

540
00:47:44.519 --> 00:47:52.800
days to me. Maybe he's he's just succumbed to the

541
00:47:52.880 --> 00:47:57.480
idea that he's stuck with me. Perhaps that's what it is.

542
00:47:57.480 --> 00:48:00.800
Maybe all his dreams have just faded and he's given

543
00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:04.679
up the hope of getting out of here, and he's

544
00:48:04.800 --> 00:48:08.920
just accepted his fate, that he's stuck with his old man.

545
00:48:10.159 --> 00:48:13.880
Is that what it is? Then, if you just accepted

546
00:48:13.920 --> 00:48:19.920
your fate. He doesn't have it too bad, he can't.

547
00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:23.199
I mean, he gets out at least three times a day.

548
00:48:23.480 --> 00:48:27.880
I mean, it sounds like a prison, isn't it. Like

549
00:48:28.360 --> 00:48:36.960
he's released, he has exercise three times a day. I

550
00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:40.079
think he has it okay. I don't know. It's hard

551
00:48:40.079 --> 00:48:43.679
to tell, isn't it. But he seems it seems okay.

552
00:48:43.920 --> 00:48:51.480
He seems fairly fairly content, all right. So I've had

553
00:48:53.280 --> 00:48:57.119
night shift jobs. So I had the one at the

554
00:48:57.199 --> 00:49:01.360
factory making meters, but I was doing a different job

555
00:49:01.440 --> 00:49:06.320
this time. I was actually instead of packing the meters,

556
00:49:06.320 --> 00:49:08.760
which is what I did the last two previous times

557
00:49:08.800 --> 00:49:15.760
I worked there I was doing more meter work, as

558
00:49:15.800 --> 00:49:24.920
in testing meters, putting meters together, you know, building them,

559
00:49:25.280 --> 00:49:29.599
taking them apart, fixing and stuff like that. So there's

560
00:49:29.599 --> 00:49:32.239
a lot more technical stuff and it's a lot more

561
00:49:32.320 --> 00:49:35.320
interesting as well. But then sometimes I'd be on the

562
00:49:35.519 --> 00:49:38.800
conveyor belt where all I was doing was just putting

563
00:49:38.800 --> 00:49:42.559
a screw in. You know, there's the conveyor belt would

564
00:49:42.559 --> 00:49:47.519
be huge. It's start off with like an empty case,

565
00:49:48.159 --> 00:49:49.760
and then by the end of it there'd be a meter,

566
00:49:51.199 --> 00:49:55.039
you know, a complete met I put together. Now, I'm

567
00:49:55.119 --> 00:49:59.000
pretty sure that that wouldn't be done by hand anymore,

568
00:49:59.199 --> 00:50:05.840
probably hasn't been for a long time. But it was

569
00:50:05.920 --> 00:50:11.400
weird because at the time. So when I moved, and

570
00:50:11.440 --> 00:50:15.559
because I've lived around a lot, every time I saw

571
00:50:15.639 --> 00:50:19.039
electric meter, I look at it and think that could

572
00:50:19.039 --> 00:50:22.559
have been one of the ones that I touched. You

573
00:50:22.599 --> 00:50:24.440
could argue, well, I just touch it now and then

574
00:50:24.440 --> 00:50:28.159
you know it is, But no, I mean it's something nice.

575
00:50:28.239 --> 00:50:30.239
I suppose that you know, if you make toilet seats

576
00:50:31.239 --> 00:50:33.719
and you visit someone and you sit down the toilet seat,

577
00:50:33.880 --> 00:50:35.760
instead of thinking about all the different people who sat

578
00:50:35.800 --> 00:50:39.400
down on that toilet seat doing poos, you can think, oh,

579
00:50:40.480 --> 00:50:45.920
I might have helped make that seat when it was clean.

580
00:50:49.800 --> 00:50:52.159
It's I don't know, It's just I kind of looked

581
00:50:52.159 --> 00:50:58.440
at the meters and thinking, ah, because you imagine I

582
00:50:58.480 --> 00:51:03.159
saw thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of these

583
00:51:03.239 --> 00:51:07.880
electric meters. They were all black. They all looked the same.

584
00:51:09.280 --> 00:51:14.000
And I've seen loads of them since no open back

585
00:51:14.039 --> 00:51:19.000
in the past. Not so much recently, but it used

586
00:51:19.039 --> 00:51:23.800
to have. They used to have their little logo on

587
00:51:23.840 --> 00:51:25.760
it and stuff. But I think they were the main

588
00:51:26.480 --> 00:51:32.920
provider of electric meters in Europe. Maybe not the world,

589
00:51:32.960 --> 00:51:37.159
but in Europe, and they had more than one factory,

590
00:51:37.719 --> 00:51:40.480
but they were big. That was pretty much the main

591
00:51:40.760 --> 00:51:45.480
place to get employment in that town outside of the docks.

592
00:51:46.599 --> 00:51:51.599
So it was the I think it was the biggest

593
00:51:52.480 --> 00:51:56.679
poor in Europe for a while. So you know, it's

594
00:51:56.719 --> 00:51:59.840
sort of it was doing quite well. Or maybe this

595
00:52:00.119 --> 00:52:04.519
second maybe Dover was up, you know, higher up, but

596
00:52:06.719 --> 00:52:11.320
it is at loads and loads of jobs from trawling,

597
00:52:11.760 --> 00:52:14.159
you know, tralling the seas and stuff or whatever, And

598
00:52:14.760 --> 00:52:16.920
I think, what do they do? They take the ships

599
00:52:16.920 --> 00:52:25.360
out to the sea they called trawlers. Two working in

600
00:52:25.519 --> 00:52:32.920
the export agencies. Two I mean I worked on the

601
00:52:32.960 --> 00:52:46.800
docks one, one, two, three, four at least four times.

602
00:52:47.639 --> 00:52:51.000
Three of those times were for cleaning jobs, and the

603
00:52:51.079 --> 00:53:00.400
other time was in a who was it, Oh, it

604
00:53:00.519 --> 00:53:06.679
was a haulage company for chemicals, so liquid chemicals and

605
00:53:06.719 --> 00:53:10.760
these big tankers would that that was what my job

606
00:53:10.920 --> 00:53:19.440
was working in the office. I remember that. I remember

607
00:53:19.880 --> 00:53:22.239
because I had a lot well, I knew quite a

608
00:53:22.239 --> 00:53:25.320
few people that worked on the docks, because that was

609
00:53:25.400 --> 00:53:28.679
the main place really to get jobs outside of retail

610
00:53:28.920 --> 00:53:36.639
or in the factory, unless you was I suppose delivering

611
00:53:36.679 --> 00:53:40.079
post or milk, or a builder or you know, just

612
00:53:40.119 --> 00:53:46.079
the other kind of things. But as far as condensed jobs,

613
00:53:46.239 --> 00:53:49.320
like lots of jobs in one place, they were the

614
00:53:49.519 --> 00:53:54.920
two main ones in that town. But then if you

615
00:53:54.960 --> 00:53:57.519
go to the next town, there was a sugar factory

616
00:53:59.199 --> 00:54:07.000
and so that employed huge amounts of people. I'm not

617
00:54:07.039 --> 00:54:09.440
sure what else they had there. It turned into be

618
00:54:09.559 --> 00:54:14.199
in the pretty much the capital of insurance, like nearly

619
00:54:14.199 --> 00:54:17.880
every insurance company was held there as well. In the

620
00:54:18.000 --> 00:54:22.719
ninety in the two thousands, I made like so many

621
00:54:22.760 --> 00:54:29.159
different companies in one place. So yeah, I worked in

622
00:54:29.760 --> 00:54:40.679
two and in both those companies I I actually worked

623
00:54:40.719 --> 00:54:45.519
with I think I had three, possibly three or four

624
00:54:45.559 --> 00:54:51.559
people came in from the previous company. One was already there,

625
00:54:52.400 --> 00:54:58.760
so Jody he I remember Jody like he was just

626
00:54:58.920 --> 00:55:01.679
the number one sales per in Churchill. When I worked

627
00:55:01.679 --> 00:55:06.159
at Churchill, I was kind of number two. Sometimes Jody

628
00:55:06.239 --> 00:55:10.239
was number two, but that was rare. He was overall

629
00:55:10.360 --> 00:55:17.079
number one, and I didn't really I did not talk

630
00:55:17.119 --> 00:55:18.599
to him, but I didn't really kind of get to

631
00:55:18.639 --> 00:55:21.000
know him because he was in a different team to me,

632
00:55:23.039 --> 00:55:25.840
and we didn't really have an opportunity to just wander

633
00:55:25.880 --> 00:55:31.480
around and talk to each other, and you know, so

634
00:55:31.519 --> 00:55:33.400
I didn't really I knew him to sort of slo to,

635
00:55:34.119 --> 00:55:38.719
and he knew me because we were on the leader

636
00:55:38.760 --> 00:55:41.199
board and you know, on the wall, so everyone kind

637
00:55:41.239 --> 00:55:46.039
of knew who we were. And he'd been there for

638
00:55:46.079 --> 00:55:51.079
a long time, I think. So he left and I

639
00:55:51.079 --> 00:55:55.360
didn't see him for probably a couple of years, maybe

640
00:55:55.400 --> 00:56:01.400
a year. And this is in two thousand and I'm

641
00:56:01.440 --> 00:56:08.320
working in the It's like a gift shop, a Buddhist

642
00:56:08.360 --> 00:56:17.199
gift shop, selling some nice stuff, some absolute just yeah,

643
00:56:17.960 --> 00:56:21.280
it depends on what you like. But there was incest

644
00:56:22.159 --> 00:56:32.599
you could buy. There was ornaments, cushions, curtains they did have.

645
00:56:32.639 --> 00:56:35.079
I mean, I can't remember they had like these hairy

646
00:56:35.119 --> 00:56:40.599
curtains that you could buy. It's like, wow, it's really weird.

647
00:56:42.039 --> 00:56:45.599
I remember this one time because I worked in the

648
00:56:45.639 --> 00:56:47.920
same shop in a different town when I was doing

649
00:56:47.960 --> 00:56:56.559
my degree, and the manager at the shop, it's spent

650
00:56:56.639 --> 00:57:05.639
about five hours putting together this curtain display, like really

651
00:57:05.679 --> 00:57:09.559
put a lot of energy into it in time. And

652
00:57:09.599 --> 00:57:11.320
he said, what do you think. I said, I think

653
00:57:11.360 --> 00:57:16.599
it's lovely. However, he said, what do you mean? However?

654
00:57:18.000 --> 00:57:21.960
I said, you put it right in front of the

655
00:57:21.960 --> 00:57:30.079
fire exit and he said, so, now, what go explain?

656
00:57:30.920 --> 00:57:34.719
Is what I noticed with some of my Buddhist friends.

657
00:57:35.440 --> 00:57:41.559
It wasn't that they didn't care about stuff like that.

658
00:57:41.599 --> 00:57:50.320
They were so focused on the moment that he just

659
00:57:50.400 --> 00:57:55.800
didn't really have like I would. In some ways, I'm

660
00:57:55.840 --> 00:58:03.079
a bit too prepared for things like that. Hopefully nothing

661
00:58:03.239 --> 00:58:05.119
like that happens, but I'm kind of if I get

662
00:58:05.159 --> 00:58:11.000
on a ship, I know where the lifeboats are and

663
00:58:11.400 --> 00:58:14.159
you know, I'm ready. I've got a dress. I walk

664
00:58:14.199 --> 00:58:17.880
around with a full dress underneath my clothes in case

665
00:58:17.960 --> 00:58:20.880
they go. You know, like only women and children I'm

666
00:58:20.880 --> 00:58:25.079
on there. None of that stuff. I'm getting out of there.

667
00:58:26.480 --> 00:58:28.480
I'm someon going to stand there because I've got a

668
00:58:28.519 --> 00:58:31.199
WILLI No, you don't get to go on a ship

669
00:58:31.239 --> 00:58:34.599
because you've got a WILLI no, it doesn't work like that. Sorry.

670
00:58:35.360 --> 00:58:41.760
In fact, on the Titanic, I can't believe it. I

671
00:58:41.920 --> 00:58:47.719
just I understand children that get I understand that, Well,

672
00:58:47.719 --> 00:58:51.000
you go against women, then they are you a misoginist?

673
00:58:52.079 --> 00:58:56.039
Are you sexist? Well, sometimes when I brush my hair

674
00:58:56.079 --> 00:58:59.079
and have a bath, I would say that I'm pretty

675
00:58:59.119 --> 00:59:04.159
sexist sometimes get attention. No, that's not what it means.

676
00:59:05.559 --> 00:59:16.440
So I I like to be fairly prepared. And when

677
00:59:16.480 --> 00:59:18.840
I said that to him, he's like, oh, it's all right,

678
00:59:18.840 --> 00:59:23.000
I don't matter, and he went upstairs, and I thought,

679
00:59:23.480 --> 00:59:28.960
it does matter. But at the same time, he'd just

680
00:59:29.000 --> 00:59:35.639
spent about five hours putting it together, and I did

681
00:59:35.679 --> 00:59:39.639
feel for him because it was a lovely display and

682
00:59:40.159 --> 00:59:46.239
he's very artistic, and he'd been doing that job for

683
00:59:46.320 --> 00:59:49.480
a long time, also in the other shop that I

684
00:59:49.559 --> 00:59:51.719
used to work in, because that's he got me that

685
00:59:51.840 --> 00:59:57.719
job originally in the other shop back in two thousand

686
00:59:57.800 --> 01:00:08.199
November two thousand and two and yeah, I felt bad,

687
01:00:08.239 --> 01:00:11.719
but like, you know what, a fire exit's there for

688
01:00:11.760 --> 01:00:15.039
a reason, and you don't need it till you need it.

689
01:00:19.199 --> 01:00:20.920
I was going to say, like a condom, but it's

690
01:00:20.960 --> 01:00:26.360
not really good analogy, is it, But you know, generally,

691
01:00:27.039 --> 01:00:29.719
But anyway, he went upstairs, he had the up. He

692
01:00:29.760 --> 01:00:32.760
did have the up with me. He was like. Then

693
01:00:32.800 --> 01:00:34.920
he came down and he started taking the stuff down

694
01:00:36.840 --> 01:00:38.519
and I helped him. I said, look, well, just move

695
01:00:38.559 --> 01:00:40.400
it to a different part of the part of the shop,

696
01:00:41.159 --> 01:00:45.719
and he said, yeah, I suppose, and he probably didn't

697
01:00:45.760 --> 01:00:50.559
say that. I did feel a bit bad because that

698
01:00:50.719 --> 01:00:56.599
where the fire exit was was really he couldn't kind

699
01:00:56.599 --> 01:01:00.159
of have anything there, and it looked at a place

700
01:01:00.840 --> 01:01:07.159
it was very kind of bear area, and there was

701
01:01:07.239 --> 01:01:15.000
like a little courtyard outside. So although a fire exit if, yeah,

702
01:01:15.920 --> 01:01:19.440
I wouldn't want to be stuck in that courtyard. To

703
01:01:19.440 --> 01:01:23.199
be fair, they you could get onto the roofs, which

704
01:01:23.239 --> 01:01:26.920
I sometimes did. There was one member of staff that

705
01:01:26.920 --> 01:01:30.159
I didn't get on with, and she used to pick

706
01:01:30.199 --> 01:01:32.239
on me. Basically. She used to be just say rude

707
01:01:32.239 --> 01:01:37.920
things to me for no reason. And I think there

708
01:01:38.000 --> 01:01:41.480
was that safety of working with Buddhists and she wasn't

709
01:01:41.480 --> 01:01:45.079
a Buddhist, but she felt safe that she could probably

710
01:01:45.159 --> 01:01:50.920
get away with more stuff than she would normally, And

711
01:01:51.000 --> 01:01:55.960
in the end I just had to let the management

712
01:01:56.079 --> 01:02:00.920
know that I wouldn't work with her anymore. It's weird,

713
01:02:01.000 --> 01:02:03.719
and it's like, this is supposed to be a peaceful environment,

714
01:02:04.320 --> 01:02:08.599
but that was my opinion. It should it should be peaceful.

715
01:02:09.119 --> 01:02:11.320
And I wasn't out to cause trouble. I was just

716
01:02:12.800 --> 01:02:16.280
unfortunately being criticized at every turn and by her for

717
01:02:16.360 --> 01:02:21.559
no reason. And then every now and I thought, no,

718
01:02:21.639 --> 01:02:24.599
I'm not talking to her anymore. She'd draw me in

719
01:02:24.760 --> 01:02:28.159
by asking me a question about myself, knowing that I

720
01:02:28.239 --> 01:02:31.119
love to talk about myself, and she'd draw me in

721
01:02:31.480 --> 01:02:35.239
being friendly, and then she'd criticize something I just said,

722
01:02:35.559 --> 01:02:39.719
or she'd pull apart what I just said. It's like ah,

723
01:02:40.280 --> 01:02:42.800
and then she said she kept going about, I'm angry,

724
01:02:43.119 --> 01:02:48.679
what's its own? I'm at Cambridge, I'm at Cambridge University.

725
01:02:48.679 --> 01:02:52.559
I'm at Cambridge. She used to love saying that. It

726
01:02:52.679 --> 01:02:57.199
turned out she was an angler ruskin in Cambridge, which

727
01:02:57.239 --> 01:02:59.840
is not the same as being at Cambridge. There's an

728
01:03:00.000 --> 01:03:06.960
England rusking at Chelsford Angler Ruskin University is not the

729
01:03:07.039 --> 01:03:10.280
same as going to Cambridge just because it's in Cambridge.

730
01:03:11.639 --> 01:03:16.840
It's like me working in McDonald's in Cambridge and saying, yeah,

731
01:03:17.559 --> 01:03:23.760
I'm at Cambridge. It's not exactly the same. But she

732
01:03:23.880 --> 01:03:31.440
really was acting like she was at Cambridge University campus

733
01:03:32.519 --> 01:03:36.039
and she wasn't. I found it funny. I laughed for

734
01:03:36.079 --> 01:03:43.159
about an hour. Solid she didn't enjoy that because someone

735
01:03:43.199 --> 01:03:48.280
asked her because she said something that her car broke down,

736
01:03:49.719 --> 01:03:51.480
and I think she was on the phone saying, yeah,

737
01:03:51.639 --> 01:03:54.519
if you picked the car up yet, because she had

738
01:03:54.559 --> 01:03:59.079
to get I think she got a lift back, and

739
01:03:59.199 --> 01:04:02.159
she was saying that. She was saying to the address,

740
01:04:02.920 --> 01:04:07.519
it's in the car park at the university in Cambridge,

741
01:04:08.199 --> 01:04:11.079
and I think they were asking, like what, Cambridge University

742
01:04:11.960 --> 01:04:15.360
and she's like, yeah, well we're in here now, we

743
01:04:15.400 --> 01:04:25.760
can't see it. And then she says Anglia Ruskin and

744
01:04:25.880 --> 01:04:29.599
they laugh about ten minutes. And there's nothing wrong with

745
01:04:29.679 --> 01:04:31.719
Angler Ruskin, by the way, it's a really good place,

746
01:04:31.880 --> 01:04:39.119
but pretending you're somewhere that you're not. I could go

747
01:04:39.159 --> 01:04:46.039
to Anglo Ruskin, but I couldn't go to Cambridge. I

748
01:04:46.039 --> 01:04:50.360
could go to Angler Ruskin in Cambridge potentially said I could.

749
01:04:50.400 --> 01:04:52.400
I don't know if I could, but I you know,

750
01:04:52.440 --> 01:04:59.599
I mean, I'm qualified probably enough to go and do that. However,

751
01:05:02.719 --> 01:05:04.760
there's no way on this planet I would get into

752
01:05:04.760 --> 01:05:12.159
Cambridge University because I'm not of that ilk. I'm not.

753
01:05:14.199 --> 01:05:17.199
I'm not. I'm not in that on that level of education.

754
01:05:17.559 --> 01:05:24.079
Just not. Oh but Jason, I'm sure you could do

755
01:05:24.119 --> 01:05:28.639
it if you really tried. No, not even if I tried,

756
01:05:29.039 --> 01:05:32.639
What if you tried really hard? No, not even if

757
01:05:32.639 --> 01:05:36.639
I gave it at least ten percent, I couldn't. Well,

758
01:05:36.639 --> 01:05:39.480
why don't you give it more than ten percent? Because

759
01:05:39.480 --> 01:05:44.519
I'm lazy? Where have you been? Have you not been observing? Okay,

760
01:05:44.599 --> 01:05:51.400
don't got to be rude, you're rude. De de dere.

761
01:05:55.039 --> 01:06:00.280
I think the next time I did night shift. Oh yeah,

762
01:06:00.440 --> 01:06:05.239
So I went back to London. This is how Cheico was.

763
01:06:05.360 --> 01:06:07.440
I went back to the job that I had before

764
01:06:07.639 --> 01:06:10.159
in London that I didn't give them notice. I didn't

765
01:06:10.199 --> 01:06:12.639
go back and I went back to him and said

766
01:06:12.679 --> 01:06:17.360
there's any chance of another job? And I suppose rightly.

767
01:06:17.480 --> 01:06:23.519
So they said no, we're fall now, sorry bye, just

768
01:06:23.639 --> 01:06:32.760
like okay, And this is January nineteen ninety one. So

769
01:06:32.800 --> 01:06:40.039
I've moved there. I'd paid rent probably two weeks in

770
01:06:40.119 --> 01:06:45.199
advance or something like that. I was in this grotty room.

771
01:06:45.320 --> 01:06:48.960
I lived for four years, believe it or not. Nearly

772
01:06:48.960 --> 01:06:51.280
four years, was it? All the way through ninety one,

773
01:06:51.400 --> 01:06:54.880
ninety two, ninety three and up to the summer ninety four,

774
01:06:55.119 --> 01:07:03.000
So three and over three and a half years. And

775
01:07:04.480 --> 01:07:07.800
there was this when I moved in, there no central heating,

776
01:07:09.719 --> 01:07:12.119
and there was a little bathroom heater on the wall.

777
01:07:12.480 --> 01:07:14.719
The other side of the room to where I was

778
01:07:14.920 --> 01:07:22.920
my bed was a draft come in the window, and

779
01:07:24.000 --> 01:07:27.480
there was a meter, an electric meter. So I wasn't

780
01:07:27.519 --> 01:07:34.320
even getting that heating for free electric meter fifty pence pieces,

781
01:07:35.920 --> 01:07:44.639
so I pretty much I had that. Eventually it broke,

782
01:07:47.119 --> 01:07:50.480
but it was like a little bathroom. You know, there's ones.

783
01:07:50.599 --> 01:07:53.400
I don't know if they still exist, but I think

784
01:07:53.440 --> 01:07:59.760
it was like two bars. And it shouldn't have been

785
01:07:59.800 --> 01:08:05.199
on a bedroom war Why would you not have central heating.

786
01:08:05.360 --> 01:08:10.079
I mean, central heating is not a new thing. It wasn't.

787
01:08:10.159 --> 01:08:13.639
It wasn't like in nineteen ninety one. Oh we don't

788
01:08:13.639 --> 01:08:19.399
know that central heating. No, that's that's uh that's the

789
01:08:19.479 --> 01:08:24.239
devil's work. That is. No, if God had wanted me

790
01:08:24.279 --> 01:08:30.119
to be warm, he'd have made me warm. I don't

791
01:08:30.159 --> 01:08:37.560
know what the answer would be. It's like, we're supposed

792
01:08:37.600 --> 01:08:39.159
to be cold. That's why we were born in a

793
01:08:39.199 --> 01:08:44.439
cold country. Yes, it builds character. Shivering in your bed

794
01:08:44.800 --> 01:08:49.920
builds character. Yeah, builds an attitude, I'll tell you that's

795
01:08:50.000 --> 01:08:54.560
that's for sure. After decades of that, living in places

796
01:08:54.560 --> 01:09:01.039
that we're cold, I won't be cold anymore. So the

797
01:09:01.079 --> 01:09:03.039
heating goes on. If it's cold, the heat goes on.

798
01:09:03.560 --> 01:09:05.439
I don't care what time of the year it is.

799
01:09:06.079 --> 01:09:10.800
I'm not going to sit here being cold. I know

800
01:09:10.920 --> 01:09:13.920
some people are. Nope, the heating goes off in March

801
01:09:14.439 --> 01:09:17.000
and it comes back on at the end of September.

802
01:09:17.600 --> 01:09:21.319
That's it. No heating throughout that whole time, regardless of

803
01:09:21.359 --> 01:09:25.159
how cold it is. I don't do that. I know

804
01:09:25.239 --> 01:09:27.319
a lot of people do do that because I've done

805
01:09:27.359 --> 01:09:32.680
a survey. I haven't done a survey, but I've just

806
01:09:33.000 --> 01:09:36.279
known a lot of people that have said that, and

807
01:09:36.319 --> 01:09:38.800
they were literally with his cold put an extra pair,

808
01:09:39.239 --> 01:09:44.760
but another jumper on it. It's cold. No, the way

809
01:09:44.800 --> 01:09:46.920
I see it is I don't put a jumper on

810
01:09:47.079 --> 01:09:51.600
if I'm cold. I put a jumper on if I'm

811
01:09:51.640 --> 01:09:57.119
not warm enough. There's a difference there. To me, there's

812
01:09:57.119 --> 01:09:59.680
a difference between like I've got a little cardigan on now,

813
01:10:02.920 --> 01:10:05.159
if I don't have this on, it's a little bit

814
01:10:05.159 --> 01:10:13.920
too cool. It's not cold, it's a little bit too cool.

815
01:10:14.439 --> 01:10:20.199
I'm not shivering, That's what I mean. I don't put

816
01:10:20.199 --> 01:10:23.319
the jumper on and then have cold hands and a

817
01:10:23.359 --> 01:10:27.960
cold face when I'm indoors. I just don't allow that

818
01:10:28.039 --> 01:10:33.520
to happen. Because I had decades of it. That's why.

819
01:10:35.000 --> 01:10:37.079
I mean, even when I was a kid, it was

820
01:10:37.119 --> 01:10:41.880
the same. Like so really from up to the age

821
01:10:41.920 --> 01:10:47.640
of forty four, So I had forty four years of

822
01:10:48.319 --> 01:10:51.159
living in places that I had no control over the

823
01:10:51.279 --> 01:10:58.960
heating pretty much, forty four years where I couldn't decide

824
01:10:59.119 --> 01:11:02.720
whether or not I could be warm. It's a long time.

825
01:11:04.399 --> 01:11:10.560
So now I have the heating on all summer. It's

826
01:11:10.640 --> 01:11:13.840
like a greenhouse in here. I've got tomatoes grown out

827
01:11:13.840 --> 01:11:23.880
of my ears. It's brilliant. No phillis turned into a cactus. No,

828
01:11:23.960 --> 01:11:27.279
I don't have the heating them. If it's cold, if

829
01:11:27.319 --> 01:11:29.479
it's like a really cold night, which we do have

830
01:11:29.920 --> 01:11:33.800
in this country. We have really cold nights in the summer.

831
01:11:33.840 --> 01:11:36.039
Sometimes if I need the heating, and I'll put the

832
01:11:36.039 --> 01:11:39.640
heating on for a little while. I got no issue.

833
01:11:39.680 --> 01:11:41.760
I mean, most of the summer the heating is turned off,

834
01:11:41.920 --> 01:11:45.520
like off off, so I don't leave it on automatics,

835
01:11:45.520 --> 01:11:49.359
so it comes on if it's cold, I'll decide. In

836
01:11:49.399 --> 01:11:51.479
the winter, I've got it on automatics, so if it

837
01:11:51.520 --> 01:11:55.319
gets below a certain temperature, it comes on. In the summer,

838
01:11:55.359 --> 01:12:00.680
I don't do that, but sometimes it's cold, just because

839
01:12:00.720 --> 01:12:08.439
it's July or June, which is pretty much the hottest

840
01:12:08.479 --> 01:12:10.960
months of the year in this country, and we have

841
01:12:11.359 --> 01:12:17.439
We've had some really hot days this year, but only

842
01:12:17.640 --> 01:12:22.920
I would say, only a few hot nights. There's been

843
01:12:22.920 --> 01:12:28.279
a few nights where it's been like, oh, a little bit,

844
01:12:28.439 --> 01:12:35.199
a little bit stuffy, but the real heat. I didn't

845
01:12:35.960 --> 01:12:40.760
really experience the real heat at home this year because

846
01:12:40.800 --> 01:12:45.840
I was visiting Uncle Sausages, so I experienced the heat

847
01:12:45.880 --> 01:12:49.359
as in, you know, going there in a taxi or

848
01:12:49.399 --> 01:12:55.359
on the bus, mainly taxis to start with, and then

849
01:12:55.520 --> 01:13:01.439
but then the getting side the hospital and it wasn't

850
01:13:01.439 --> 01:13:06.520
warm inside the hospital because there's air conditioning everywhere. It

851
01:13:06.600 --> 01:13:09.560
wasn't cold everywhere, but it wasn't you know, it's definitely

852
01:13:09.560 --> 01:13:19.039
a different temperature to being in outside. So I didn't. Yeah,

853
01:13:19.079 --> 01:13:23.119
I didn't really get the full extent of the summer

854
01:13:23.600 --> 01:13:30.600
because I spent well six weeks or something going backward

855
01:13:30.640 --> 01:13:33.239
and forward, so I can't. I spent most of the

856
01:13:33.319 --> 01:13:44.359
summer pretty much from the end of June, the end

857
01:13:44.399 --> 01:13:50.720
of June. That's it. You come to me, good boy,

858
01:13:51.600 --> 01:13:55.119
good boy. We don't do that too it, No, we don't.

859
01:13:55.159 --> 01:13:59.520
We don't bark. We don't bark because you're a good boy.

860
01:14:00.159 --> 01:14:02.319
You're not just a good boy. You're a clever boy.

861
01:14:03.399 --> 01:14:07.319
You're very clever. You're the most beautifullest boy in the

862
01:14:07.479 --> 01:14:09.920
whole wide world. Yes you why Yes you are yes?

863
01:14:10.000 --> 01:14:13.000
You are yes. You are yes. You are yes. You

864
01:14:13.119 --> 01:14:17.279
are yes. You are yes. You are yes, you are yes,

865
01:14:17.399 --> 01:14:38.720
you were you you unique? Yeah, good boy. Come on.

866
01:14:45.319 --> 01:14:48.359
Vinie's decided he wants to come and sit on my lap.

867
01:14:48.520 --> 01:14:52.640
So he's doing that. He put his poor out literally

868
01:14:52.640 --> 01:14:55.520
to try and get onto my knee. So he's not.

869
01:14:55.680 --> 01:14:57.119
I've let him get on my lap and he's not

870
01:14:57.119 --> 01:14:59.680
trying to get down. So it's clearly where he wants

871
01:14:59.720 --> 01:15:06.439
to be, isn't it. You're happy? Yeah, I can't rich

872
01:15:06.520 --> 01:15:12.000
and hurt my neck the other times. So yeah. When

873
01:15:12.039 --> 01:15:17.159
I couldn't get that job in the at the place,

874
01:15:17.199 --> 01:15:20.760
when I moved back to London, I said to my landlady,

875
01:15:20.800 --> 01:15:25.279
I said, oh, excuse me, landlady. She said, yes, tenant.

876
01:15:26.279 --> 01:15:31.000
I said, I'm not sure what I'm going to do.

877
01:15:31.239 --> 01:15:33.680
She said, what do you mean? I said, well, you

878
01:15:33.720 --> 01:15:37.039
know that job I told you I had. She said yeah.

879
01:15:38.199 --> 01:15:43.119
I said, I lied. There's no job there. There never was.

880
01:15:44.479 --> 01:15:47.479
She said, does it not exist? I said, yeah, it exists,

881
01:15:47.640 --> 01:15:51.159
But I just thought I could go back there. But

882
01:15:51.239 --> 01:15:57.600
I was wrong. I misinformed you. Please forgive me. Can

883
01:15:57.640 --> 01:16:02.399
you ever forgive me? And she said probably not. I said, okay, thanks.

884
01:16:03.600 --> 01:16:05.079
She said, why are you thanking me? I just said

885
01:16:05.119 --> 01:16:08.319
I won't forgive you. I said no, But I just

886
01:16:10.159 --> 01:16:12.079
it's a new thing I'm trying out. I'd just like

887
01:16:12.159 --> 01:16:15.840
to say thanks to people. Just stop trying to make

888
01:16:15.880 --> 01:16:18.399
new friends, you see. So if I say thanks to everyone,

889
01:16:19.079 --> 01:16:23.159
maybe it will cause a more peaceful society and catch

890
01:16:23.199 --> 01:16:29.239
on and end up with some kind of world stability

891
01:16:29.800 --> 01:16:35.000
politically and emotionally. Maybe. She said, so you didn't get

892
01:16:35.000 --> 01:16:37.079
the job. What can you pay the rent next week?

893
01:16:37.880 --> 01:16:45.439
I said well, and she said, you're joking me. I said,

894
01:16:45.479 --> 01:16:47.600
I wish I was not very funny joke, is it.

895
01:16:48.079 --> 01:16:52.119
She said no. She said what you're going to do?

896
01:16:52.319 --> 01:16:54.680
I said, I don't know. I guess I'm just going

897
01:16:54.720 --> 01:16:58.239
to have to move back. And she said what would

898
01:16:58.239 --> 01:17:02.359
your dad say? I said, what do you mean? She

899
01:17:02.439 --> 01:17:04.439
said nothing, don't worry. I said, what do you mean?

900
01:17:04.439 --> 01:17:05.960
What would my dad say? What do you know about

901
01:17:06.000 --> 01:17:11.840
my dad? She said nothing? And then she looked away

902
01:17:11.920 --> 01:17:15.680
and started humming and whistling, which I thought quite weird behavior.

903
01:17:16.720 --> 01:17:19.479
And I said, have you spoken to my dad? She

904
01:17:19.640 --> 01:17:24.880
said no? I said, come on, have you spoken to

905
01:17:24.920 --> 01:17:30.560
my dad? She said well? I said, come on, did

906
01:17:30.600 --> 01:17:33.479
you taken ages? Have you spoken to my dad? She

907
01:17:33.560 --> 01:17:38.800
did yes, I have? I said how? She said, well,

908
01:17:39.319 --> 01:17:42.600
when he helped you move? He said no. I said,

909
01:17:42.600 --> 01:17:45.079
wait a minute, he didn't help me move. Someone else

910
01:17:45.119 --> 01:17:52.119
helped me move. Okay, Well, you gave him the telephone

911
01:17:52.199 --> 01:17:54.920
number for the house, didn't you. I said, yes, will

912
01:17:54.960 --> 01:18:00.079
he phoned me up? Why to warn me about you? What?

913
01:18:00.119 --> 01:18:03.560
Do you mean warn you about me, just to let

914
01:18:03.600 --> 01:18:11.680
me know how annoying you were? I said, what, that's

915
01:18:11.720 --> 01:18:13.880
all it was. It's nothing rude, nothing bad. You just

916
01:18:13.880 --> 01:18:16.399
want to let me know, warn me in you know

917
01:18:16.439 --> 01:18:19.600
ahead of time that you're just a bit of annoying,

918
01:18:19.680 --> 01:18:23.600
bit of a pain to live with. I said, I'm

919
01:18:23.640 --> 01:18:26.680
not really living with you, amn't I you're downstairs. I'm upstairs.

920
01:18:27.000 --> 01:18:30.600
I got my own room. She said yeah, but we

921
01:18:30.680 --> 01:18:36.239
have to share a kitchen in a bathroom. I said yeah,

922
01:18:36.600 --> 01:18:39.680
And she said, well, he just warned me. What do

923
01:18:39.720 --> 01:18:44.439
you mean warned you? She said, it doesn't matter. All

924
01:18:44.479 --> 01:18:48.000
I can tell you is that you might not want

925
01:18:48.039 --> 01:18:51.840
to tell him you're coming back. What do you mean

926
01:18:52.039 --> 01:19:01.359
tell him I'm going back? What I think he's moved moved? Yeah,

927
01:19:01.399 --> 01:19:03.600
he waited till you left and went came back to

928
01:19:03.640 --> 01:19:08.840
London and he moved. Did he give you an address? No?

929
01:19:10.439 --> 01:19:13.319
And she looked away and started whistling and humming. I said, look,

930
01:19:14.199 --> 01:19:16.279
I've I kind of figured out that when you do that,

931
01:19:16.319 --> 01:19:22.199
you're lying. And she said, wow, you are clever. I

932
01:19:22.239 --> 01:19:28.119
wasn't sure she's being sarcastic or not. And I said

933
01:19:28.159 --> 01:19:31.560
to her, well, where's he moved to? She said, I

934
01:19:31.600 --> 01:19:41.439
can't tell you, so why not swore me to secrecy? Okay, well,

935
01:19:43.399 --> 01:19:47.279
I guess I have to stay here. She said, it's okay,

936
01:19:49.000 --> 01:19:53.279
it's okay. Actually, I said why, so why? He said

937
01:19:53.319 --> 01:19:56.439
that when you lose your job, he'll pay for the

938
01:19:56.479 --> 01:20:00.479
first month and then I can kick you out if

939
01:20:00.520 --> 01:20:07.119
you haven't found anything. So you're telling me that you're

940
01:20:07.159 --> 01:20:10.760
going to be phoning them up tomorrow or whatever to

941
01:20:10.840 --> 01:20:12.920
let him know that I haven't got myself a job,

942
01:20:13.279 --> 01:20:16.640
so that he pays rent for the next month. She

943
01:20:16.720 --> 01:20:21.199
said no, I said, good, said no, I've already spoke

944
01:20:21.279 --> 01:20:25.520
to him. He's already sent the money. He's sent a check.

945
01:20:25.840 --> 01:20:35.359
It's going to be here tomorrow probably. I like, so

946
01:20:35.560 --> 01:20:38.039
you've basically he's sent you one hundred and sixty pound.

947
01:20:38.880 --> 01:20:41.359
She said, yeah, there's forty pound a week back then.

948
01:20:43.439 --> 01:20:44.920
And she said it's that why there was such a

949
01:20:45.000 --> 01:20:47.159
pause between you talking just then, because you have to

950
01:20:47.199 --> 01:20:50.640
try and add it up in your head. I said, yeah,

951
01:20:51.079 --> 01:20:53.479
I was going to say one hundred and twenty, and

952
01:20:53.520 --> 01:20:57.560
then I realized that's three fours. So I thought, how

953
01:20:57.600 --> 01:21:02.319
else can I work it out? And I realized if

954
01:21:02.359 --> 01:21:06.760
I do eighty times by two, it's one hundred and sixty.

955
01:21:07.680 --> 01:21:12.279
She said, yeah. I said thanks. She said, yeah, I

956
01:21:12.319 --> 01:21:16.279
wasn't really congratulating you. I'm just you know, acknowledging and

957
01:21:16.399 --> 01:21:21.359
what you said. And I said to her, look instead

958
01:21:21.399 --> 01:21:25.279
of just being a little bit gnarly, a little bit ugh,

959
01:21:25.720 --> 01:21:28.359
a little bit you know, looking down at me, a

960
01:21:28.399 --> 01:21:36.479
little bit judgmental, perhaps you could be helpful, caring, kind. Baby.

961
01:21:38.279 --> 01:21:46.039
He just gives me kisses, just gives me kisses. And

962
01:21:46.159 --> 01:21:51.720
she said, well, okay, I suppose I could try and help.

963
01:21:52.479 --> 01:21:56.279
I said that'd be nice. She said, are you any

964
01:21:56.279 --> 01:22:01.319
good at cleaning toilets? I said, what? She said, I

965
01:22:01.359 --> 01:22:04.079
could give you like two pounds discount a week if

966
01:22:04.119 --> 01:22:07.840
you clean the bog. I said, no, one's called it

967
01:22:07.880 --> 01:22:10.359
a bog for years. She said, I do. I love

968
01:22:10.399 --> 01:22:12.840
calling it a bog makes her feel really down to earth.

969
01:22:14.880 --> 01:22:17.439
Should we call it a toilet? And she said, no

970
01:22:17.479 --> 01:22:22.000
one can call it a bog? And I was like, okay,

971
01:22:22.039 --> 01:22:25.199
fair enough, No, I said, I'm not cleaning the toilet

972
01:22:25.199 --> 01:22:29.920
for two pound. How's that going to make a difference

973
01:22:29.960 --> 01:22:33.079
to my rent? Just two pounds off a week off

974
01:22:33.119 --> 01:22:37.319
of forty? She said, well that a minlonio thirty eight pound.

975
01:22:40.000 --> 01:22:43.479
It wasn't a literal question. I know it leave me

976
01:22:43.520 --> 01:22:47.039
with thirty eight pounds to pay. She said, well, that's

977
01:22:47.119 --> 01:22:53.079
what you just asked me. And obviously i'd done her

978
01:22:53.119 --> 01:22:55.359
accent different because she was Italian, so she had a

979
01:22:55.439 --> 01:22:59.439
very very strong Italian accent, but I didn't do her

980
01:22:59.479 --> 01:23:05.760
accent there. Yeah, I hope you're pleased. I hope, I

981
01:23:05.800 --> 01:23:16.680
hope you appreciate me. Thank you very much. Yeah, and

982
01:23:17.439 --> 01:23:22.840
what else? Yeah, anyway, she came through and she gave

983
01:23:22.880 --> 01:23:29.720
me a shower json Jason Jason. So I go down

984
01:23:29.760 --> 01:23:34.720
and I said, yeah, she said, come down the stairs please.

985
01:23:36.319 --> 01:23:39.960
So I went downstairs and there was this other lady

986
01:23:40.000 --> 01:23:45.800
there and I said all, I said hello, She said yeah,

987
01:23:46.000 --> 01:23:52.920
and this is my friend Cantabella. I said, he she

988
01:23:53.000 --> 01:23:56.560
wants to to talk to you, do I said, okay,

989
01:23:56.600 --> 01:23:59.920
fair enough, So I'm talking to her. She ends up.

990
01:24:00.039 --> 01:24:02.880
It ends up that she's the HR. She's in charge

991
01:24:02.920 --> 01:24:07.279
of the HR department in a bakery, a huge bakery

992
01:24:07.439 --> 01:24:12.600
in London, East London. And she said to me there's

993
01:24:12.600 --> 01:24:15.600
a job going in a canteen and you can work

994
01:24:15.640 --> 01:24:20.720
there or you can apply it to work there. I said, okay,

995
01:24:21.640 --> 01:24:27.039
told me the hours, told me the wages. So she

996
01:24:27.199 --> 01:24:29.000
was helping me out, but she was helping a friend

997
01:24:29.039 --> 01:24:30.640
out so that she got her rent, but at the

998
01:24:30.680 --> 01:24:34.720
same time helping me out. And I went along for

999
01:24:34.760 --> 01:24:39.039
the job interview, got the job. Turned out the chef

1000
01:24:39.239 --> 01:24:41.560
who was in charge of the kitchen didn't have a

1001
01:24:41.640 --> 01:24:43.680
choice about whether I worked there or not. And he

1002
01:24:43.720 --> 01:24:46.800
told me that he wouldn't have employed me, which is nice,

1003
01:24:47.039 --> 01:24:49.920
how lovely, And that's what he told me that after

1004
01:24:49.920 --> 01:24:55.079
wear'd become friends. Yeah, he still he liked me at

1005
01:24:55.079 --> 01:24:56.840
that point when he said he wouldn't have employed me,

1006
01:24:57.119 --> 01:25:01.319
and he still wouldn't, so hey, nice. And he sold

1007
01:25:01.319 --> 01:25:06.039
me a dodgy video player that didn't work, but I've

1008
01:25:06.039 --> 01:25:13.439
forgiven him twenty five pounds that cost me. I didn't

1009
01:25:13.439 --> 01:25:18.279
get that money back when I I, how could you

1010
01:25:18.399 --> 01:25:24.479
do that to someone? Admittedly, he'd stopped working there, so

1011
01:25:24.560 --> 01:25:27.039
he'd left and I was still working at the factory,

1012
01:25:27.880 --> 01:25:30.399
so he Yeah, I guess he was just trying to

1013
01:25:30.399 --> 01:25:33.399
make a little bit of money in that, but seem

1014
01:25:33.439 --> 01:25:39.119
a bit rude. So Vinnie's still lying on my lap

1015
01:25:39.399 --> 01:25:44.079
and cuddling up to me normally it might do it

1016
01:25:44.119 --> 01:25:46.680
and hold him and I want to get down, but

1017
01:25:46.720 --> 01:25:49.560
he doesn't want to get down. He seems happy to

1018
01:25:49.800 --> 01:25:57.279
just be cuddling. It's weird. It's almost like he's become

1019
01:25:57.319 --> 01:26:04.800
an affectionate turning into a dog, like a nice friendly doggie. Hey,

1020
01:26:06.680 --> 01:26:11.840
I don't understand. But anyway, I ended up working after that.

1021
01:26:11.920 --> 01:26:18.479
I worked in the actual factory, the bakery itself, not

1022
01:26:18.600 --> 01:26:26.600
the canteen, and I was doing what was I doing?

1023
01:26:34.560 --> 01:26:38.000
I was doing all kinds of shifts, including night shift,

1024
01:26:39.560 --> 01:26:42.520
So yeah, I did a night shift. Was I doing

1025
01:26:42.640 --> 01:26:47.079
night shift? Yeah, I'm pretty certain I was doing night shift,

1026
01:26:48.199 --> 01:26:50.560
and then sometimes a night shift led me to do

1027
01:26:50.680 --> 01:26:58.800
days as well. Yeah, yeah, so that It was kind

1028
01:26:58.800 --> 01:27:00.359
of all over the place. But that that was my

1029
01:27:00.399 --> 01:27:04.880
second night shift job. My third night shift job would

1030
01:27:05.000 --> 01:27:12.720
be working in security in nineteen ninety six, and I

1031
01:27:12.760 --> 01:27:37.640
had one, two, three, four, five. I'm just trying to

1032
01:27:37.640 --> 01:27:40.560
think at least five different places that I did night

1033
01:27:40.560 --> 01:27:44.600
shift on. I did day shift on a few places,

1034
01:27:44.600 --> 01:27:54.840
but predominantly night shift. I don't think I did night

1035
01:27:54.880 --> 01:27:57.600
shift again after that. I think that was it. That

1036
01:27:57.720 --> 01:28:00.319
was the last time I did night shift, But I

1037
01:28:00.359 --> 01:28:07.640
did that for a while. It was okay if there

1038
01:28:07.720 --> 01:28:11.600
was people around. If I was on my own the

1039
01:28:11.640 --> 01:28:14.760
whole time, I'd end up having to go to sleep,

1040
01:28:16.359 --> 01:28:19.399
even though I was sleeping during the day. Now, the

1041
01:28:19.399 --> 01:28:22.760
problem is, back then there was no internet, nothing that

1042
01:28:22.920 --> 01:28:25.279
was reading. But I struggled to read when I was

1043
01:28:25.640 --> 01:28:29.560
tired at night. But I could have built websites and stuff.

1044
01:28:29.560 --> 01:28:32.079
And you know, if it had been ten years later,

1045
01:28:33.079 --> 01:28:43.800
I could have really made use of that time. Let

1046
01:28:43.880 --> 01:28:50.560
me just have a look and see what the I

1047
01:28:50.600 --> 01:28:53.680
was supposed to be talking about longest days and shortest days,

1048
01:28:53.720 --> 01:28:59.119
And I'll be honest, I've lost interest in that never mind,

1049
01:29:00.399 --> 01:29:04.000
So thank you for listening. Remember to be kind to

1050
01:29:04.039 --> 01:29:07.159
yourself because you do deserve to be happy and be

1051
01:29:07.279 --> 01:29:16.479
gentle with yourself. You deserve to feel safe. Lots of love, Bye,