July 1, 2025

(no music) (5 hours) ENGLISH SUMMERS | Trivia Tuesday | LMBYTS #1386 | Jason Newland | 1st July 2025

(no music) (5 hours) ENGLISH SUMMERS | Trivia Tuesday | LMBYTS #1386 | Jason Newland | 1st July 2025
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Hello, Hello, everybody. Welcome to Jasonnewland dot com. My name

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is Sweaty Jason.

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Oh, it's hot, it's very it's a stuffy day today.

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It's not. It's not it's not breezy. It's not. It's

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a bit o plus. Oh I was about to have

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a big moan. Then I won't. Okay, this is a

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big moan.

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Oh oh, that.

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Was a nice moan. Please only listen when you can

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safely close your eyes. So this morning.

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About I wasn't actually supposed to go. We're not supposed

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but I decided that I was not going to go

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and visit my neighbor in hospital today. I was going

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to visit Wednesday Friday, Monday, Wednesday Friday this week. But

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after speaking to him this morning, he needed me to.

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Heed. Yeah, I needed to go up and see him.

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So I did that. But before I went up, there

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was a lot of noise in the garden, probably about

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nine o'clock ten o'clock, and it was the scaffolders. Now

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I've forgotten that they were coming. So they were putting

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scaffolding up to put some kind of knitting around the

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solar panels to stop the birds from nesting. Something like

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that they did.

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The councilor did call me about two three weeks ago

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to let me know. And because they're basically putting a

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scaffold in my side of the building.

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Now literally anyone can just walk up that ladder onto

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the scaffold in and just get into my windows if

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my windows were open. So I've got my windows closed.

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I've had them closed. I've got them on the latch,

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so it's a bit of air, but they're not open,

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which is how I would have them in this heat.

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And I kept them closed also because I didn't know

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how close to the windows the scaffolding was going to

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be and I needed to go out, so I couldn't

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leave Vinny in this living room that normally do it

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because it was too warm. So I had to leave

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the living room door open so he had the air

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so he could like go from room to room. So

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I he's.

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Had the access to the whole flat today, and I

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know that if he sits in a hallway, it's very

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cool in the hallway. There's no sun there and just

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you know, so he had a bit of a it's

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a lot of.

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Banging downstairs, a lot of door slamming. I don't know

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why people Why do people slam doors? What is it

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about door?

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Is it?

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Is? It? Is it? I don't know. Does it cause

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some kind of.

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Is there a part of the brain that gets stimulated

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and it gives pleasure that I don't know about, because

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maybe I'll start slamming doors if it does give me

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some kind kind of.

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Doorgasm? Doorgasm? H I just I don't know if it's

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a pleasurable thing. See, there's like seven times now the

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doors slammed, just in that short period of time. I

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don't know. Yes, So money, money mcmoney, Jason mcmoney, that's

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my name today. So now I've come back and all

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the scaffoldings put up, and there's literally it's just an

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entrance to my flat, to my windows. Which is not

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the best time year to have that, really, I mean,

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there's no good time. But I don't necessarily need the

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windows open in the winter. Well I do have to

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windows open in the winter, but at the moment then

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it's fairly important to have them open because of the

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stuffiness and the heat. But I can't go out and

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leave my flat with the windows open, because anyone can

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just walk up the ladder and just get into my

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flat and just take my stuff. And unfortunately, I live

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in an area where that is something that is very

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likely to happen. Unfortunately, the flat downstairs got robbed about

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three months ago. So yeah, there's just you know, one

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in Oldish tangs, so it is.

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I went to So I went and see my neighbor today,

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got a taxi there, got a taxi back, same taxi driver,

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which is quite unusual. Well, it's unusual so far because

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I've had so many journeys over the last however many

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days it's been how many So I traveled there Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,

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So I did eight days in a row. Then I

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had Saturday and Sunday off, then I went on Monday,

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which is yesterday, and then I went again today, which

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is Tuesday. So I've you know, I've been a few times,

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never had the same taxi driver the whole time. You know,

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this is the first time I've had two taxi drives

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the same tax driver more than once out of that

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whole period.

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The door's still slamming. Why is everyone slamming the doors

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so much? How strange, very very strange, indeed, And so

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I went and visited him. I managed to get him

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some ice from Costa. So he's been talking about wanting

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ice in the hospital. I just need to get some ice.

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So you need to get well. You need to get

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some ice, so you do, which is not how he

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speaks at all. And I said, I'll get you some ice.

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He said, oh, it'd be good if it was in

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a flask, So it would I said, a flask.

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Yeah, we keep it icier for longer. Yeah, I'm okay.

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So I got him a cock. I got him a

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cock and a coke, got my bottle of coke. I

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actually thought he was going to be nil by mouth

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because when I spoke to him, he said he was

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going to have a procedure done today. When I got there,

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hiss and and and nil by mouth NBM or whatever it.

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Is, it's normally.

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It said nil nil by mouth nb M. They put

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on his board underneath his name. I put a change it.

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To d n R. I thought it was funny. And

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but there was nothing on there today that was on

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there the other day when he had to have a scan.

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But there was, And he got food, he got his

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dinner delivered, he ordered his dinner and I went to

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the nurse.

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I said, what what's going on? Isn't it you having

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a procedure done?

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Because I was going to go and get him some

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drink from Costers and I didn't want to get him

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a drink if he's not allowed to have liquids. And

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the nurse said, this is a head nurse. He said, no,

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he's not having a procedure today. I said, but he

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said he was, Well, he's not. He's always lying, isn't he.

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He's always lying. Uncle Sausages. That's that's what everyone calls him.

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Vinnie started it. So basically, Vinnie calls him my uncle

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Sausages because he gives him sausages. So he's got Nanny

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treats and Uncle sausages. That's the two people. It gives

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people nicknames depending on what they give him. But now

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all the staff called him Uncle Sausages as well. Oh

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tickle me. How weird would that be? Especially if there

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was bad news. I've got some bad news to tell

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you about Uncle Sausages. So it's yeah, it's I don't

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want to get into too much details, but it's not.

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It's not thing's going particularly well. But I've gone to

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the nurse. I phoned the doctor while I was there

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and asked the doctor what time he's going to be

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visiting the ward. So the nurse said to come there

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about between nine thirty and ten so that I can

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be with Uncle Sausages when he gets his when the

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doctor tells him whatever the doctor needs to tell him.

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That way I can be with I can be there

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with him. No one's got to give permission to talk

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to me or anything, because Uncle Sausages always gives permission,

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you know. When I'm there, Uncle Sausages said, yeah, you

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can talk to him about anything. So it just means

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I can ask questions or anything if they because Uncle

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Sosages doesn't always ask questions that perhaps I would ask.

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And I do feel like I'm interfering a little bit.

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Yet at the same time, I think the best time

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to ask a doctor a question, especially when the doctor's

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only on the ward for a little while, is when

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the doctor's on the ward. That's you know, it's kind

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of the only time, isn't it. So I'm going there

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tomorrow early. It's his birthday Friday, so I'm going to

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early tomorrow, going to get there by probably nine, and

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then hear what the doctor has to say regarding treatment

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or whatever, because he's been there for quite a long

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time now and he's had constant blood tests et cetera,

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you know, which is normal blood pressure being taken, and

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had a little bit of medication to try and clear

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his yellowness. But other than that, he hasn't He's not

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in any pain, he's not in anything like that. So

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he hasn't had as far as.

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I'm aware, any medication outside of just to get rid

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of the jaundice. And he's had a scan like he

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had the cat scan when he've done the first day

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he was there, and then he's had another big, massive

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scan of his whole body, which they still haven't given

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him the proper results from, or if they have, he's

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not telling me something little He was a little bit confused.

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So yeah, it's a weird one. Really. I just hope

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that because he's now talking about going home, he wants

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to come home now he's had nothing there, which I

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completely understand. I mean, after halfter half an hour, I

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want to get out there. It's not it's not a

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place to it's not an enjoyable place to be, less

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so for him obviously, but I just yeah, it's I mean,

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in some ways it's a bit freer than it is

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with some of the other wards, because some wards have

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very strict.

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Visit visiting times and he just seems to have a

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little bit more freedom in some ways. And there's only

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four beds in a ward, which is quite a small

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amount compared to some other Some wards are quite big,

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aren't they. So there's always someone around, he's never everybody

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has to wait. There's always a nurse or a care

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worker within a few feet from him. So he's been

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looking at he's been looked after very well. It's just yeah,

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it's just a I think he's just ready to leave

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the place. And his next door neighbor, who is the

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person in the bed next to him, Derek Trotter, he's

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actually been released, so he's not there anymore. He left

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today about eleven o'clock.

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Can you hear that? Listen to this?

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Can you hear that's with the windows closed? That's the RAF.

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I was gonna say bicycle then RAF thing.

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Oh, so that's the update on him. I'm just giving

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you an update for those that listen regularly. For those

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that don't listen, regularly. Probably not sure. You might not

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even know what.

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I'm talking about, which is fine because that fits in

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with the podcast.

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Really, So this is this is Oh, I just clicked

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my collar bone. This is Tuesday, Trivia Tuesday. That's it.

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I forgot what I was doing then Trivia Tuesday, so

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I thought it'd be nice to do something. I did.

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I kind of try to do Monday's boring Objects yesterday.

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I did it last night. I released it today, but

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I did it last night and then early this morning

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I edited it and uploaded it, processed it and stuff.

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But I think I spent the first hour talking about

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my neighbor potentially and maybe some other stuff, and then

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the last fifty minutes I've spent talking about hospitals that

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I've visited.

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And been in. But you know, it could have been

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to be, Yeah, it could have been four or five

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hours long. If i'd have really.

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Focused on the things that I was going to talk about,

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it would have been a very very long recording.

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And nobody wants Nobody wants that. Wow, five hours long.

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Woo woo woo, woo woo whoo.

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So I don't know what trivia, what trivia should I do?

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I seem to be. I kind of want to Yeah,

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I want to move away from hospitals. I've had enough

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of it. I want to talk about something different. What

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about the history of medication?

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No, no trivia about what would be the most random

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thing that we could talk about today?

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Most random trivia? Okay, list I'm going to use chat

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GPT list one hundred trivia facts about umbrellas? What about

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umbrella stuff? That's even too boring for me? The Smurfs,

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no fairy tales.

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Could know. There's got to be something. What could it be?

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What could it be?

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Something that I should be prepared tonight, just a little

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bit prepared for these recordings, like slightly prepared, just minimally,

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just by knowing what I'm going to talk about. Would

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be a good idea, wouldn't it, Especially with this you know,

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trivia facts or Trivia Tuesday.

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I mean there was a time.

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There have been times when I've already got the list

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already in front of me before i start talking, But

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that today is not that case.

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I'm not prepared at all, other than just fitting here

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with my little boy.

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By my thide. It is three twenty six in the afternoon. Annoy,

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he's tired.

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I think it's the heat. I think it be the

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heat which is making me tired. Oh what list one

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hundred trivia facts about the weather weather if I can

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spell that correctly about summers in England over through history,

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through history history, So at least one hundred trivia facts

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about summer summers in England throughout through history. I'm not

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going to ask it to fact check it.

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So if some of the stuff I might say that

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I'm reading off here maybe completely ridiculously wrong. However, I

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have looked into some of this stuff in the past

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just out of interest. And the very first one here

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is talking about something that I remember. The summer of

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nineteen seventy six was one of the hottest and dirtiest,

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no driest rother in English history.

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Now, I already knew that it's one.

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Of those things, even at the age of five, because

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I was five at that time, and even at five,

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I knew that there was something weird going on. Even

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I knew that, Wow, this is hot, this is really hot,

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and yeah, I remember.

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That super super super super hot really was I got sunburnt, actually.

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Got ended up covered in blisters, which is a weird thing,

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but it's true or covered in blisters because I was

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in I was out in the sunfur without me top on,

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maybe just in me hunderpens.

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I don't know that'd be weird. Maybe shorts or something,

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swimming trunks and we didn't have water nearby, so it's

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just playing on the playing field, I guess, and the

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it's quite.

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This is weird though, okay, because I remember that this

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in Newcastle and that makes me wonder because it just

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means I lived in Newcastle for a lot longer than

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I realized. But nineteen seventy six I was in Newcastle.

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So yeah, so from seventy seventy two to seventy six,

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I was.

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Saying about four years. Yeah, that's weird anyway.

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So I yeah, covered in blisters on my back, on

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my front, and I'm being put into a bath. I

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don't think that was the best idea. I don't think

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blisters and a bath are a good combination. But I

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remember that and it wasn't I remember all the laughter

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not coming from me. So June the two thousand and

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twenty three was officially the hottest June on record in England.

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June twenty twenty three, twenty four, twenty five.

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I thought June this year was the hottest one, but

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maybe so that was something. It was hot. There was

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some days when it was yeah, right, July. This is

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the first once I read this in a minute. So

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the Great heat wave of nine nineteen eleven lasted over

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ten weeks. I don't remember that one. So when people

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act like, oh, it's the hottest, it's never been this

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hot for so long, like, yeah, has actually one hundred

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and ten, one hundred and fourteen years ago. But you know,

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is there an abnormality, abnomenally anomaly, anomenomally anomaly. England recorded

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its hottest temperature ever forty point three percent centigrade or

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one hundred and four point five fahrenheit in Lincolnshire on

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the nineteenth of July twenty twenty two. Now if I remember, hm,

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I just have a memory that was it was really hot.

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There was one particular day when no one went outside

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apart from those people that did. It was really just

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phoning each other saying I'm naked, Are you naked? Yeah,

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I'm naked as well. And it was the only time

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my whole life that I've been able to phone people

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up and have that conversation, well, having a conversation where

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they say, yeah, I'm naked too. Yeah, it was good.

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The weird thing about it was I was phoning people

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up saying are you naked and saying yeah you I said, oh, yeah,

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I am. I didn't realize it was hot outside. I

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hadn't looked the summer of tooth. I dodn't even know

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it's outside the summer of two thousand and three because

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I put ice cubes on me. That sum of two

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thousand and three saw two thousand plus. He okay, I'm

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not gonna read that out. It's horrible one Oh stop it.

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The wettest summer on record in England was nineteen nine twelve,

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nineteen twelve. Oh, the wettest summer on record nineteen twelve.

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Are you sure? Because I remember some wet summers? Number seven.

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In July nineteen twenty one, London saw thirty two consecutive

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days without rain. Thirty two Actually just a month, isn't it?

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In this country it's weird because if we go more

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than three days of that rain, there's a drought. There's

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a drought, hose by bad.

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And then three days later flood warnings. That's how it

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is here. It's all I don't know.

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It's so short sightedness may be not all short memory,

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not remembering that the weather is constantly changing. And that's

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what this country is, England is it's a multiple seasonal country.

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In one day, it can be spring, summer, winter all

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in one day. And it might sound silly, but the

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changes in the weather can literally be that dramatic, that quick.

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So what else have we got?

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Thunderstorms are more common in English summers than in winter.

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Yep, that's true. I'm agreeing with it. I can't remember

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the last time I heard a thunderstorm in the winter,

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because thunderstorms seemed to be more a heat related thing.

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You know.

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The best thunderstorm I ever remember in my entire life, No,

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there's two. One was when I was really really little,

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and I was probably five or six in Newcastle. This

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is when I was in the kids home and we

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were in this kind of yard and the building. There

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was a yard in the middle of this big building,

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so we could get in from different exits and stuff

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for different entrances. So we were sheltering on one side

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the building and I kept saying it's thunder and I

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said no, it's thunder and I said no, yes, thunder,

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and they kept saying, no, it's thunder, and I said

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it's thunder.

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And she walked off.

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It wasn't a very long conversation, but I just remember,

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and for some reason, I just remember that conversation. And

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then when about two thousand.

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And three, I think it was Wow, there was a thunderstorm.

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It was the biggest thunderstorm I've ever seen. And I

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was living quite high up in this building, not like

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super high, but not high enough to parachute out, but

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high enough to to not you know, yeah, it's high enough,

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high enough to you need a rope or a rope

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ladder to get down, but it's not quite high enough

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for a parachute to really gain any kind of usefulness.

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Probably wouldn't even be open before you hit the ground.

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I never tried it. I haven't got a parachute, but yeah,

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it was. It was up high enough and there was

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nothing overlooking it, which is quite nice. So it kind

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of had all the sky and this thunderstorm so big

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and so lightningly and so thundery and loud, really loud.

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I loved it. It was wonderful. And it was during

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the summer as well. So this is two thousand and

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three in the and it was powerful, powerful, really good.

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It was. It was a good moment. What other thunderstorms

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can I remember? Not many? Really, No, No, not many

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thunderstorms thunderstorms. Can I remember any thunderstormms? No, I don't

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seem to be able to remember any. There's been lots.

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I remember the day that Elvis left us in nineteen

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seventy seven. I think it thundered them that day during

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the day, and it was in the summer and the rain,

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the rain. We got absolutely drenched, but it was warm,

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so it wasn't an uncomfortable soaking. It was quite a

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nice soaking, in fact, and if you're ever going to

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get completely soaked, that seemed like quite a good time

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to have it happen. And it was quite a good

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day to have it happened as well, because a lot

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of people were sad that Elvis had left us.

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So it's not really weird weird day that was. I

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was upset as well, but for different reasons. I mean,

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I'll be honest, I knew who Elvis was, but I

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was I was six years old, so I wasn't so

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kind of up with who he was or what he did.

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And he sung stuff so my oldest brother was upset

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because he was a massive fan and all the TV

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because he was watching on the TV all the news,

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every channel had news stories about him. So all the

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other all the other programs were canceled. This was Saturday morning,

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and it's like, you know, and I was upset because

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every channel had his were talking about him, and there's

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no cartoons on. So I was five, no, six six

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in August two thousand and four. Oh there was one

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time I got drenched where oh yeah, I think it

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was a thunderstorm as well. And I walked to my

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dad's on Christmas Day. This would be ninety eighty nine,

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ninety ninety, maybe nineteen yeah, maybe, I think so, probably

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about nineteen ninety Christmas Day, and gone the way to

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his house, which wasn't wasn't a long journey. It's probably

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twenty twenty five minute walk. I got soaked, so I'm annoyed.

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I'm yeah, I'm er.

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So I knock on his door, going completely drenched, and

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he said, oh, do you want to want to I've

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got some closing spare closing partly if you want. And

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I said no. I was so angry, and I just

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stood there in his wet clothes. I couldn't sit down,

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I couldn't do anything. In the end, I just had

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to say, yeah, well that's all right. So he's got

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me some a jumper and some tracksuit bottoms or something.

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But I was like, I was determined not to have anything.

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I was so how could the weather do this to me?

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Me?

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Me?

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I could have just got a tax and I couldn't

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have got a taxi Christmas Day. But I know if

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I'd just called my dad, he'd have come and got me. Well,

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I could have just said, look, i'll come around, but

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I'm going to wait until it stops raining, and then

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my dad would have come and got me. So or

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his wife would have come and got me. Didn't have

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to be a big deal. I just needed another controversial Christmas.

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Now that was all right. After that, I can't think

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of any thunderstorms off hand. Some may come to me

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as I'm talking, this might be a subject of thunderstorms.

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It's weird. It didn't mean it to be. But if any,

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if any of the thunderstorms pop into my head, I

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will tell you. In August two thousand and four, boss

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calm down wherever that is recorded a single day rainfall

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total of one hundred and twenty feet of of rain

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or millimeters of rain whatever that. I don't know what

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what's one hundred and twenty millimeters?

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Why do they just do it in feet? So is

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that a foot of rain two foot of rain? H h.

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Strawberries ripe and faster during long, warm English summers. See,

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I don't really know much about.

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Strawberries, but I feel like I already knew that fruit.

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I mean, you just take away the strawberries and just

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say bananas, apples. It doesn't all fruit ripe and faster

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in the warmth? Me am I being? Am I being

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a bit silly there? I don't know. It could be oh,

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summer traditions and festivals, Wimbledon, which has just started yesterday, Wimbledon,

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or as I like to call it, grumpled or not

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grumbled and gruntle grunt gruntled them because they grunt a lot. Ah. Yeah,

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I used to actually want I lived alone in the

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house because I've moved around a lot over the years.

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Not for the last ten years, but before that a lot.

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I'm talking a lot.

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Lot.

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Started off when I was born, really like six months old,

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and I started moving. I'll packed me back. I did

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I packed my bags up, and I thought, that's it.

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I'm out here. So if I was in a shared house,

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I would put Wimbledon on Wimbledon to the two weeks.

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I would turn up the female matches really loud, so

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that my neighbors all you could hear us.

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Ah ah ooh ah.

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So I thought that they might think that maybe I

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had a girlfriend and I knew ways to make her happy.

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I don't know. I don't really know what was going

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on in my mind. It went quite well until the audience.

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The audience applauded that that's when it felt like okay.

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I remember one one of my neighbors said, how big

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is your room? You could fit an audience in there

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and a tennis pitch. Oh dear. Wimbledon has been held

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nearly every summer since eighteen seventy seven. Now, I think

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Wimbledon was canceled in two ty twenty. I think, as

476
00:39:59.480 --> 00:40:03.880
was the Olympics.

477
00:40:05.880 --> 00:40:13.400
I also think that Wimbledon was canceled during the Two Wars,

478
00:40:13.480 --> 00:40:18.960
the two World Wars as well. I'm just thinking about

479
00:40:18.960 --> 00:40:23.159
like the World Cup and stuff. I'm guessing Wimbledon would

480
00:40:23.199 --> 00:40:24.599
not be going ahead during.

481
00:40:24.320 --> 00:40:28.599
The World War in this country. So I could look

482
00:40:28.639 --> 00:40:31.480
that up, but I can't be bothered. It's weird, isn't it.

483
00:40:32.159 --> 00:40:36.039
I mean, I'm actually talked about stuff and I just

484
00:40:36.360 --> 00:40:40.280
it just the idea of just pushing the keys on

485
00:40:40.280 --> 00:40:45.199
a keyboard just seems like a lot of effort. The

486
00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:52.880
notting Hill Carnival, a summer event, began in nineteen sixty six.

487
00:40:55.079 --> 00:40:58.519
So the notting Hill Carnival, for those who don't know

488
00:40:58.559 --> 00:41:05.760
what it is, it's a it's a very famous carnival

489
00:41:05.880 --> 00:41:10.400
in this country that has a degree of a notoriority

490
00:41:10.480 --> 00:41:17.440
about it. And I think it's basically because it's a

491
00:41:17.480 --> 00:41:26.119
street carnival and it's the police can't control it the

492
00:41:26.159 --> 00:41:32.960
way they can maybe if something's in a park, they

493
00:41:33.000 --> 00:41:36.239
can have a bit more control of something if it's

494
00:41:36.320 --> 00:41:43.400
kind of stuck in one place. But the notting Hill Carnival,

495
00:41:44.000 --> 00:41:47.719
it's on the move and there's millions of people probably

496
00:41:47.800 --> 00:41:52.679
turn up and from all over the world, and it's

497
00:41:55.360 --> 00:42:01.360
I get a sense it is kind of chaotic. I

498
00:42:01.400 --> 00:42:06.960
also get a sense that the press focused just on

499
00:42:07.679 --> 00:42:10.239
they don't they don't focus on the nice parts of it,

500
00:42:12.559 --> 00:42:18.039
and it's probably mainly really a good, good vibe. I

501
00:42:18.159 --> 00:42:20.519
just I've never been there. I never wanted to, never

502
00:42:20.559 --> 00:42:24.639
really felt it's just for me. It's the crowds, too

503
00:42:24.679 --> 00:42:28.440
many people. I wouldn't really want to go to any

504
00:42:28.519 --> 00:42:35.840
festival or carnival or other just because of the amount

505
00:42:35.920 --> 00:42:43.400
of people. It's just like, Wow, I might go one day.

506
00:42:43.599 --> 00:42:46.480
Maybe that should be on my little my bucket list,

507
00:42:46.599 --> 00:42:48.320
to go to the notting Hill Carnival.

508
00:42:50.079 --> 00:42:51.760
I tell you what I would like. I'd like to

509
00:42:51.920 --> 00:42:55.280
I'd like to be on one of the floats. I'd

510
00:42:55.280 --> 00:42:57.039
like if I was gonna think if I was going

511
00:42:57.119 --> 00:42:59.960
to do something like go to Notting Hill Carnival, I'd

512
00:43:00.159 --> 00:43:04.679
like to be involved, even if it was just handing

513
00:43:04.719 --> 00:43:08.199
out bottles of water to people for free, something like that,

514
00:43:08.400 --> 00:43:11.519
Just to be involved in a positive way so that

515
00:43:11.519 --> 00:43:15.559
I can be part of it. But not a spectator,

516
00:43:18.360 --> 00:43:21.880
but also not a performer, you know, just kind of

517
00:43:22.559 --> 00:43:25.960
the background kind of person.

518
00:43:27.400 --> 00:43:29.440
That's kind of what I liked in a comedy club.

519
00:43:29.599 --> 00:43:34.880
I liked the idea of.

520
00:43:32.800 --> 00:43:34.519
Being in the background, so I could be at the

521
00:43:34.559 --> 00:43:38.559
back of the club watching the acts, but also help

522
00:43:38.679 --> 00:43:41.599
with putting a show together, you know, getting the seats

523
00:43:41.599 --> 00:43:46.719
ready before the people got in, maybe emptying the tables

524
00:43:46.719 --> 00:43:52.039
of glasses throughout the breaks and just helping out in

525
00:43:52.239 --> 00:43:58.360
the background, So being part of the comedy night, but

526
00:43:58.559 --> 00:44:03.119
not being the focus the comedy night that I quite

527
00:44:03.280 --> 00:44:05.840
liked that. I'm not saying that I would have I

528
00:44:05.880 --> 00:44:10.079
would have loved to have been, you know, the main

529
00:44:10.400 --> 00:44:15.280
act on stage. That never happened, and that was that

530
00:44:15.360 --> 00:44:17.880
I wasn't destined to do that at that time.

531
00:44:20.079 --> 00:44:25.400
But outside of being the star I was, I quite

532
00:44:25.639 --> 00:44:26.199
liked just.

533
00:44:28.039 --> 00:44:32.920
I, okay, this is it in preference to being an

534
00:44:32.920 --> 00:44:36.679
audience member, because I used to go to loads of

535
00:44:36.760 --> 00:44:41.239
comedy clubs. I went to every I think apart from Jonglers,

536
00:44:41.719 --> 00:44:44.400
and that's the only comedy club I didn't never visit.

537
00:44:45.159 --> 00:44:48.280
I don't know why I never went to Jonglers in London,

538
00:44:50.400 --> 00:44:53.280
but pretty much every comedy club that was around in

539
00:44:53.320 --> 00:44:59.960
the nineties I visited, like every single one, every single one,

540
00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:01.840
and there's hundreds of.

541
00:45:01.840 --> 00:45:08.360
Caban went during that time. And I used to just

542
00:45:08.400 --> 00:45:10.119
turn up and people knew who I was.

543
00:45:11.480 --> 00:45:13.320
Quite a few of the people running the clubs were

544
00:45:13.320 --> 00:45:17.239
comedians themselves, so I knew them and I just hang

545
00:45:17.280 --> 00:45:20.639
around with them, or we stand at the bar and

546
00:45:20.800 --> 00:45:25.320
just watch the watch the acts maybe sometimes go on

547
00:45:27.559 --> 00:45:30.920
do a little spot maybe sometimes. But it was just

548
00:45:31.119 --> 00:45:33.079
nice to be in the background.

549
00:45:33.880 --> 00:45:38.800
I like that rather than being rather than sort of

550
00:45:38.840 --> 00:45:44.679
sitting in a in a chair with the audience. I

551
00:45:44.840 --> 00:45:48.719
liked to Yes, it's nice to just what am I

552
00:45:48.760 --> 00:45:51.199
talking about? While am I mentioning that? Oh? Yeah, the

553
00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:52.360
Notting Hill Carnival.

554
00:45:53.119 --> 00:45:53.320
Yeah.

555
00:45:53.320 --> 00:45:58.800
If I was participated in some way, then that would

556
00:45:58.840 --> 00:46:01.440
be cool, but in a positive way.

557
00:46:01.800 --> 00:46:06.639
You know. I wouldn't want to be not that I

558
00:46:07.079 --> 00:46:09.280
could do that, but like being part of I want

559
00:46:09.320 --> 00:46:12.920
to be working, like being a security or something, because

560
00:46:12.960 --> 00:46:17.840
that that doesn't that wouldn't be fun because then I

561
00:46:17.840 --> 00:46:22.800
wouldn't be relaxed. So maybe I'll go there, wouldn't they

562
00:46:24.360 --> 00:46:32.880
go to the dtig Hill Cardival. Morris dancing is traditionally

563
00:46:32.920 --> 00:46:38.440
performed in the summer, So Morris dancing. I just to

564
00:46:38.480 --> 00:46:41.039
do Morris dancing at school? Is that the one where

565
00:46:41.039 --> 00:46:46.960
you got you're going around the pole and you're dancing

566
00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:49.920
around the pole and you've got it's a different pole

567
00:46:50.079 --> 00:46:53.239
to one of my mum used to dance around. But

568
00:46:53.320 --> 00:46:56.039
this one is no one, no one chucks money at you.

569
00:46:57.000 --> 00:47:01.280
This one is you hold onto like a ribbon. Thing

570
00:47:01.320 --> 00:47:03.840
a colored ribbon, and you dance in and out of

571
00:47:03.880 --> 00:47:06.079
each other, but not literally in and out, but like,

572
00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:09.519
I don't know how it kind of makes a pattern

573
00:47:10.719 --> 00:47:15.719
on the pole, a pattern from the different bits of fabric.

574
00:47:16.760 --> 00:47:17.920
Is that Morris dancing?

575
00:47:18.280 --> 00:47:23.760
Or've I got it wrong? Or is that fairy dancing?

576
00:47:23.920 --> 00:47:28.000
Or that's a different, different type of dancing may pole?

577
00:47:28.480 --> 00:47:29.880
That's may pole dancing.

578
00:47:29.960 --> 00:47:36.119
Isn't it for may day may Pole dancing? So morrows dancing,

579
00:47:36.320 --> 00:47:44.079
that's a that's a Scottish thing, isn't it Morris? I'm

580
00:47:44.119 --> 00:47:49.559
not sure. I think Morris dancing Scottish dancing. I might

581
00:47:49.639 --> 00:47:57.760
be wrong. Pims Pims, a popular summer drink, was invented

582
00:47:57.760 --> 00:48:08.360
in eighteen forty. It is Pims ani seed. I think

583
00:48:08.400 --> 00:48:14.119
it might be someone's listening to a TV. It's really loud.

584
00:48:17.199 --> 00:48:20.599
Do you think people sometimes listen to really loud things

585
00:48:21.199 --> 00:48:25.519
because it distracts them from their own thoughts? Because I

586
00:48:25.559 --> 00:48:25.840
don't know.

587
00:48:25.880 --> 00:48:29.280
I had a neighbor who I visited, and I went

588
00:48:29.320 --> 00:48:33.119
in there and this neighbor was literally had the music

589
00:48:33.480 --> 00:48:34.519
so loud.

590
00:48:34.920 --> 00:48:38.039
I had to leave. I couldn't. It was too loud

591
00:48:38.079 --> 00:48:45.440
for me. And it's almost like it was well, it

592
00:48:45.440 --> 00:48:51.679
would be impossible for me to think. In fact, I

593
00:48:51.719 --> 00:48:57.719
think I'd struggle to do even the most simple task.

594
00:48:58.400 --> 00:49:01.039
So if you said to me, I'll just add these

595
00:49:01.119 --> 00:49:05.159
numbers up, basic numbers, you know something is it takes

596
00:49:05.400 --> 00:49:08.239
a little bit of brain power, but not much and

597
00:49:08.400 --> 00:49:12.880
even just working it out on a pad like two

598
00:49:12.920 --> 00:49:16.480
plaus four plus nine plus six plus nine plus five,

599
00:49:16.559 --> 00:49:18.840
but you know, just a few numbers, like okay, if

600
00:49:18.880 --> 00:49:23.000
I might take a few seconds to just figure it out,

601
00:49:24.360 --> 00:49:28.159
it'd be almost impossible with the volume of that music.

602
00:49:31.039 --> 00:49:35.559
That's what I mean. And I remember saying when I

603
00:49:35.599 --> 00:49:40.360
worked in evolution in Ipswich, I worked in the evolution shop,

604
00:49:40.400 --> 00:49:43.039
which was run by Buddhists, and.

605
00:49:45.159 --> 00:49:46.639
I said to them, because there.

606
00:49:46.559 --> 00:49:52.239
Was the front entrance, but the back entrance, So you

607
00:49:52.360 --> 00:49:55.239
went through there was a little office that's where the

608
00:49:55.280 --> 00:49:59.039
computer was and they did everything out there. But there

609
00:49:59.079 --> 00:50:03.159
was another sit out the back which was a fire escape,

610
00:50:03.320 --> 00:50:06.639
and out of there you could then walk through out

611
00:50:06.639 --> 00:50:09.159
of the other door, or there was a few different exits.

612
00:50:09.159 --> 00:50:11.800
There's some stairs you can go up, and that was

613
00:50:11.840 --> 00:50:15.719
where all the other surrounding shops kind of led into.

614
00:50:16.480 --> 00:50:22.280
That was their back entrances. And there was a key

615
00:50:24.039 --> 00:50:29.159
in the door, and there was there was a pushbar

616
00:50:29.400 --> 00:50:31.480
which opened the door, but it didn't work if the

617
00:50:31.559 --> 00:50:33.679
key was locked. If it was locked, it wouldn't work.

618
00:50:35.679 --> 00:50:38.920
And I said to the person, one of the people

619
00:50:38.920 --> 00:50:41.719
that was kind of managing the shop, I said, you

620
00:50:42.119 --> 00:50:45.920
have to leave that door unlocked when we're in the shop.

621
00:50:47.400 --> 00:50:49.000
Of course, you lock it at night when there's no

622
00:50:49.000 --> 00:50:50.960
one in there, but when we're in the shop, it

623
00:50:51.039 --> 00:50:53.559
has to be left open. So when you push the bar,

624
00:50:53.719 --> 00:50:58.159
the door opens. And his answer was, we see, it

625
00:50:58.280 --> 00:50:59.199
just turned the key.

626
00:50:59.239 --> 00:50:59.960
It's not that different.

627
00:51:01.960 --> 00:51:07.920
And I tried to explain to him that in an emergency,

628
00:51:09.519 --> 00:51:15.760
things that are very simple normally aren't always simple, and

629
00:51:15.960 --> 00:51:18.320
he didn't get it. He didn't understand what I meant,

630
00:51:18.960 --> 00:51:23.760
but he did stop locking the door because I made.

631
00:51:23.760 --> 00:51:26.000
Such a fuss. So I'm quite.

632
00:51:26.159 --> 00:51:31.239
I'm quite on the old health and safety things like that.

633
00:51:31.400 --> 00:51:35.480
I think it's just too important to ignore. He did

634
00:51:35.519 --> 00:51:39.000
get the ump, but he got over it. I'm sure

635
00:51:40.800 --> 00:51:43.480
it's twenty one years ago. I think he's I think

636
00:51:43.519 --> 00:51:44.280
he's recovered.

637
00:51:44.440 --> 00:51:46.079
I do I do, I do, I do I do?

638
00:51:50.360 --> 00:51:52.760
And I've been in that situation where I had to

639
00:51:52.760 --> 00:51:54.920
call for an I had to call for the police

640
00:51:54.960 --> 00:52:00.280
once and I couldn't get my phone to work. It

641
00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:06.400
was just a normal phone, probably a smartphone.

642
00:52:05.800 --> 00:52:07.639
It wasn't. I mean, it was a while ago, but

643
00:52:07.960 --> 00:52:10.360
it was a smartphone. And all I wanted to do

644
00:52:10.400 --> 00:52:13.840
is press nine to nine to nine, And because I

645
00:52:13.920 --> 00:52:22.719
was so h like not knowing what to do that,

646
00:52:22.800 --> 00:52:25.679
I was struggling just to press nine nine nine and

647
00:52:26.599 --> 00:52:29.960
to press the button for it to ring. Seriously, it

648
00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:32.800
took me about six attempts to do it because my

649
00:52:32.840 --> 00:52:37.119
hand was shaking, and it wasn't. It wasn't fear so much.

650
00:52:37.480 --> 00:52:38.559
Maybe it was fear, but.

651
00:52:38.760 --> 00:52:41.679
It wasn't fear for myself because I was trying to

652
00:52:41.719 --> 00:52:45.400
help someone else that was looked like they were in trouble.

653
00:52:46.199 --> 00:52:51.159
So I wasn't fearful for myself or anything. I just

654
00:52:52.280 --> 00:52:54.000
I guess panicked, I suppose.

655
00:52:54.920 --> 00:53:02.000
So, yeah, I don't know. I'm not quite sure. What's

656
00:53:02.039 --> 00:53:06.719
that got to do with Morris dancing. I don't know. Pims,

657
00:53:07.719 --> 00:53:16.960
Oh yeah, pims, because it's I don't know how I

658
00:53:16.960 --> 00:53:22.840
got onto that subject of doors that are locked. That's weird,

659
00:53:22.880 --> 00:53:31.599
isn't it so. Glastonbury Festival began in nineteen seventy and

660
00:53:32.079 --> 00:53:38.559
became a summer staple. So Glastonbury I think Glastonbury was

661
00:53:38.840 --> 00:53:49.679
our version of wood Woodcock? Is it Woodcock? Woodcock? You

662
00:53:49.719 --> 00:53:54.719
know the American really famous festival of nineteen sixty nine,

663
00:53:56.480 --> 00:54:03.280
would would would Cock Woodcock? I think it's wood Cock.

664
00:54:03.320 --> 00:54:06.719
But that was the That was a huge festival, wasn't it.

665
00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:12.960
Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones and.

666
00:54:12.920 --> 00:54:14.760
Stuff like that. I think it was sixty nine. It

667
00:54:14.840 --> 00:54:17.079
might have been sixty six. I think it was sixty nine.

668
00:54:18.000 --> 00:54:26.480
And would Stock, not Cock would Cock Stock, would would

669
00:54:27.159 --> 00:54:30.559
would Stock? Blimey.

670
00:54:31.000 --> 00:54:36.719
So I think Glastonbury was our version of would Stock,

671
00:54:38.239 --> 00:54:42.719
which was an America and I'm guessing other countries probably

672
00:54:42.719 --> 00:54:46.320
did the same. They copied and they had their own

673
00:54:47.679 --> 00:54:55.480
summer festivals. And Glastonbury I'm guessing because it's on at

674
00:54:55.480 --> 00:54:58.880
the moment, I think it's one, and there's lots of

675
00:54:58.920 --> 00:55:02.280
festivals in this kind of tree. I think is one

676
00:55:02.320 --> 00:55:05.519
of the biggest, if not the biggest festival in the

677
00:55:05.679 --> 00:55:06.440
entire country.

678
00:55:09.039 --> 00:55:11.360
No, I'm talking about England, so I think it is

679
00:55:11.400 --> 00:55:12.920
the biggest one.

680
00:55:13.119 --> 00:55:18.800
But I might be wrong. Okay, So don't don't send

681
00:55:18.840 --> 00:55:21.159
me shoes are too small for me as punishment. I'm

682
00:55:21.239 --> 00:55:24.239
just I don't know. I hopefully I might be right.

683
00:55:24.239 --> 00:55:25.400
I don't care if I'm right or not.

684
00:55:26.199 --> 00:55:31.800
It's just it seems to be the most famous one,

685
00:55:32.360 --> 00:55:35.239
you know, I went, I once wet, and I once

686
00:55:35.320 --> 00:55:35.920
wet myself.

687
00:55:35.960 --> 00:55:44.119
No, I once went to last night at the Summer.

688
00:55:46.000 --> 00:55:53.199
Orchestra or last night at the Proms. That's it. I

689
00:55:53.239 --> 00:56:02.400
was in Talky, Talky, Talky, Yeah, it was talkey. I

690
00:56:02.440 --> 00:56:08.039
was in Talky in two thousand and three. It was

691
00:56:08.079 --> 00:56:10.760
in the summer two thousand and three.

692
00:56:11.400 --> 00:56:17.039
Maybe September, And I went and visited me cousin who

693
00:56:17.079 --> 00:56:24.519
lived there with his girlfriend. Absolutely loved the place, love

694
00:56:25.280 --> 00:56:26.880
loved loved the place.

695
00:56:27.519 --> 00:56:29.960
It was lovely. I really liked it. It's one of

696
00:56:30.039 --> 00:56:32.559
my favorite favorite places I've ever been ever.

697
00:56:34.079 --> 00:56:38.960
And we went to the park, the local park, and

698
00:56:39.079 --> 00:56:41.679
last night the proms was on there and they were

699
00:56:41.800 --> 00:56:44.199
I think they were filming it for the TV and

700
00:56:44.239 --> 00:56:45.760
it was live or something like that.

701
00:56:46.599 --> 00:56:53.480
In the park. The park was all cordoned off and

702
00:56:53.519 --> 00:56:59.199
we couldn't get in or they were charging money to

703
00:56:59.239 --> 00:57:01.360
get in, and we did want to pay something like that.

704
00:57:01.920 --> 00:57:04.480
So what we did is we climbed over the fences

705
00:57:05.800 --> 00:57:07.800
and we just crept in.

706
00:57:08.000 --> 00:57:14.360
We snacked it, snack snacked. We sneaked. We crept and

707
00:57:14.440 --> 00:57:16.679
we sneaked snacked in.

708
00:57:19.599 --> 00:57:20.440
And it was cool.

709
00:57:21.159 --> 00:57:26.320
It was really nice. There were people asking for you know,

710
00:57:26.639 --> 00:57:29.599
proof of tickets and stuff. I don't quite know why,

711
00:57:29.639 --> 00:57:33.400
but we got asked to leave a couple of times.

712
00:57:33.840 --> 00:57:37.440
But it was It was still fun, though not as

713
00:57:37.480 --> 00:57:41.639
many people there as I thought there would be, but

714
00:57:41.719 --> 00:57:46.239
it was nice, It's really and the evening was lovely.

715
00:57:46.960 --> 00:57:51.960
It was one of those beautiful summer evenings. It wasn't hot,

716
00:57:52.400 --> 00:57:55.079
it wasn't like hot hot, it wasn't cold. It was

717
00:57:55.239 --> 00:57:58.880
just it was near the end of the summer. Maybe

718
00:57:58.960 --> 00:58:06.079
August time things about it. But it was really pleasant. Yeah,

719
00:58:06.559 --> 00:58:09.599
maybe it was July. It was nice during the day.

720
00:58:09.800 --> 00:58:12.840
I did get a suntan or I've got a bit burnt.

721
00:58:12.920 --> 00:58:15.880
Rather don't go and get sundown's got a bit burnt.

722
00:58:18.760 --> 00:58:28.679
But it was nice, very nice. And that's that's yeah.

723
00:58:28.760 --> 00:58:29.760
I just remembered that.

724
00:58:31.360 --> 00:58:42.559
Anyway, Summer Solstice celebrates at Stonehenge at dates back fairms

725
00:58:42.599 --> 00:58:48.960
of years, long before the people in this country or

726
00:58:48.960 --> 00:58:57.519
the royalty adopted things such as Christianity, So we used

727
00:58:57.559 --> 00:59:04.360
to be Pagans, I think in this country before the

728
00:59:04.480 --> 00:59:12.440
Romans came here trooping the color.

729
00:59:14.760 --> 00:59:20.039
The King's official birthday parade is held in Dewan, So yeah,

730
00:59:20.119 --> 00:59:21.480
that was we had that the.

731
00:59:21.440 --> 00:59:24.199
Other day a couple of weeks back.

732
00:59:24.719 --> 00:59:32.320
The loads of planes and stuff coming over here for

733
00:59:32.480 --> 00:59:43.360
his birthday, traveling towards London. The Henley Royal Regatta Regata

734
00:59:43.639 --> 00:59:53.880
regatta has taken place every summer since eighteen thirty nine. Well,

735
00:59:54.000 --> 00:59:56.760
let me tell you something. I know a little bit

736
00:59:56.760 --> 01:00:00.920
about the Henley Regatta because in the nine I got

737
01:00:00.960 --> 01:00:07.880
myself a job selling I don't really want to call them,

738
01:00:07.960 --> 01:00:15.360
basically trying to sell companies deals for their staff to

739
01:00:15.440 --> 01:00:22.800
go to the Henley Regatta. And it was expensive, expensive,

740
01:00:23.239 --> 01:00:25.639
and all the staff that they took on they didn't

741
01:00:25.639 --> 01:00:26.360
pay them anything.

742
01:00:27.199 --> 01:00:27.719
It was.

743
01:00:29.400 --> 01:00:35.519
Commission only and it was just a numbers game. So

744
01:00:35.639 --> 01:00:39.400
they had people that came along and did really well,

745
01:00:42.639 --> 01:00:43.880
and then they had people like me.

746
01:00:45.400 --> 01:00:49.239
That were desperate to earn some money, wanted to do

747
01:00:49.320 --> 01:00:53.360
really well, but couldn't be there long enough to do

748
01:00:53.440 --> 01:00:59.280
really well because I had maybe four days to earn

749
01:00:59.320 --> 01:01:02.960
some money before I couldn't afford to get in anymore.

750
01:01:02.960 --> 01:01:08.480
I couldn't afford to travel. But if i'd have had, well,

751
01:01:08.480 --> 01:01:10.159
I probably wouldn't have been allowed to stay there for

752
01:01:10.199 --> 01:01:12.400
three months. If I'd have had to do a good

753
01:01:12.440 --> 01:01:19.880
period of time, I would have learned more and perhaps

754
01:01:19.960 --> 01:01:26.360
being able to sell something. And the commission was good though.

755
01:01:26.519 --> 01:01:32.320
I mean we're talking thousands and thousands of pounds these

756
01:01:35.760 --> 01:01:39.199
ten twenty grand or whatever for these packages, so I'd

757
01:01:39.239 --> 01:01:44.599
be earning some good money in commission. But yeah, I

758
01:01:44.679 --> 01:01:50.599
remember that I was there for about three days. Three days.

759
01:01:51.639 --> 01:01:54.159
I had a lot of sales jobs and would talk

760
01:01:54.199 --> 01:01:57.239
about that one day because it is something that I

761
01:01:57.360 --> 01:02:00.440
never really spoken about. I mean I spoke about the

762
01:02:00.480 --> 01:02:04.599
sales jobs in insurance. I've talked a little bit about

763
01:02:04.639 --> 01:02:09.320
the sales job where I did the selling phone contracts

764
01:02:09.360 --> 01:02:14.119
to people, but I've not I thought, I've ever really

765
01:02:14.159 --> 01:02:19.239
gone into detail about some of the other sales jobs

766
01:02:19.360 --> 01:02:23.280
that I've had, And I'll try and listen them. Let

767
01:02:23.280 --> 01:02:31.440
me see if I could listen them for you Life Insurance.

768
01:02:32.000 --> 01:02:37.480
This is back in nineteen eighty nine or before that,

769
01:02:39.679 --> 01:02:47.000
in nineteen ninety I had a sales job selling time share.

770
01:02:49.840 --> 01:02:52.360
So that was the second or I had a sales

771
01:02:52.480 --> 01:02:57.920
job selling and this is in probably about eighty eight

772
01:02:58.039 --> 01:03:08.719
eighty nine, probably selling water filters, so that didn't quite

773
01:03:08.840 --> 01:03:17.039
work out, yes, the water filters. Then I had another

774
01:03:17.119 --> 01:03:24.920
job selling advertising, and another job selling printing. So that's

775
01:03:25.000 --> 01:03:31.400
going around going around the docks into buildings trying to

776
01:03:31.440 --> 01:03:38.960
sell basically just printing, printing costs and paper and stuff

777
01:03:39.000 --> 01:03:42.639
like that. A lot a few sales, but I didn't really.

778
01:03:44.360 --> 01:03:51.079
Go very far. Then I had the job selling life

779
01:03:51.119 --> 01:03:55.480
insurance door to door in nineteen eighty nine in London.

780
01:03:57.039 --> 01:04:01.760
Then I had a job it wasn't technically selling, but

781
01:04:01.880 --> 01:04:06.239
it was trying to get people to have this is

782
01:04:06.360 --> 01:04:14.079
door to door the satellite dishes for Sky and they'd

783
01:04:14.119 --> 01:04:15.480
have to satellite dish.

784
01:04:15.280 --> 01:04:18.880
For a month I think. And it was the baby.

785
01:04:18.960 --> 01:04:19.320
It was the.

786
01:04:20.840 --> 01:04:27.039
Puppy sales technique, so you'd give them. But you know,

787
01:04:27.039 --> 01:04:29.920
if you give someone a puppy for a month and

788
01:04:29.960 --> 01:04:31.440
then go and take it back, they're not going to

789
01:04:31.480 --> 01:04:33.280
want you to take the puppy back because they'll have a

790
01:04:33.280 --> 01:04:37.400
fall in love with puppy, and that's that's why it's

791
01:04:37.400 --> 01:04:37.760
called that.

792
01:04:38.360 --> 01:04:41.519
So if you leave something with someone for a period

793
01:04:41.559 --> 01:04:44.480
of time for free, and then you go and collect it,

794
01:04:44.639 --> 01:04:47.880
they're going to quite likely say no, I'll keep it

795
01:04:48.360 --> 01:04:54.639
and pay you. And that's how Sky did their their thing.

796
01:04:55.719 --> 01:04:56.039
Now.

797
01:04:56.519 --> 01:04:59.920
Part of the reason I stopped doing it because firstly,

798
01:05:00.079 --> 01:05:03.199
no one wanted to satellite dish because they were at

799
01:05:03.199 --> 01:05:04.360
the time there were a joke.

800
01:05:07.199 --> 01:05:10.960
It was it's one of those things that the newspapers

801
01:05:11.000 --> 01:05:13.840
were ridiculing them, like we would want one of those

802
01:05:13.920 --> 01:05:19.280
ugly things on the side of their their house, and

803
01:05:19.840 --> 01:05:23.039
the TV channels aren't much, and it was just it

804
01:05:23.079 --> 01:05:26.639
was kind of just starting up and it was not

805
01:05:26.800 --> 01:05:31.199
classed as a particularly good thing to have. And that

806
01:05:31.360 --> 01:05:36.559
changed over the years and they became a worldwide phenomenon

807
01:05:37.880 --> 01:05:42.559
with Rupert Modoc Murdoch who now owns Fox I think,

808
01:05:44.119 --> 01:05:50.039
or one of those massive TV stations, and he gets married.

809
01:05:50.039 --> 01:05:52.000
He's in his nineties now and he gets married every

810
01:05:52.079 --> 01:06:01.440
year or so. And I kind of wish I'd stuck

811
01:06:01.480 --> 01:06:06.960
with that, because that proved to be I think I

812
01:06:07.000 --> 01:06:09.679
was knocking on the wrong doors.

813
01:06:10.760 --> 01:06:12.559
I could have done that during the day, if I'd

814
01:06:12.679 --> 01:06:16.480
done that all the time as a job, if I'd

815
01:06:16.480 --> 01:06:19.880
have had the if i'd have had enough money, because

816
01:06:19.920 --> 01:06:23.400
it was commission only. Of course, again, if I'd have

817
01:06:23.559 --> 01:06:28.599
just had enough to get me by for six months,

818
01:06:30.280 --> 01:06:33.159
I think I could have turned it into a very

819
01:06:33.440 --> 01:06:40.880
very successful enterprise and started to take on other people

820
01:06:40.960 --> 01:06:43.440
to work for me. I think I could have ended

821
01:06:43.519 --> 01:06:46.239
up being well. If I'd have done it like that,

822
01:06:46.480 --> 01:06:50.000
I'd have ended up being very very successful, very very

823
01:06:50.039 --> 01:06:53.880
young as well. And I knew about canvassing because I've

824
01:06:53.920 --> 01:06:57.239
done that before. That was my job for a while

825
01:06:57.760 --> 01:07:03.119
in nineteen eighty nine, during like the whole of that summer,

826
01:07:03.880 --> 01:07:08.519
and I was I was what was like eighteen at

827
01:07:08.519 --> 01:07:11.440
the time, so I just turned nineteen when I was

828
01:07:11.480 --> 01:07:19.239
doing this the satellite dishes, So yeah, I could have.

829
01:07:19.800 --> 01:07:24.159
I just I was working during the day and I

830
01:07:24.199 --> 01:07:27.280
was naked, to be honest with you, I was just naked.

831
01:07:27.320 --> 01:07:30.599
I couldn't be bothered to and I wanted to earn

832
01:07:30.719 --> 01:07:33.760
some more money and try and do something. But it

833
01:07:33.800 --> 01:07:36.719
was winter and I wash, you know, beginning of the

834
01:07:36.800 --> 01:07:42.920
year in nineteen ninety. Yeah, nineteen ninety's the beginning of

835
01:07:42.960 --> 01:07:47.639
the year. It's really cold and windy and wet. It

836
01:07:47.719 --> 01:07:53.000
wasn't much fun, but it was an opportunity, it really was.

837
01:07:55.639 --> 01:07:59.440
And then as I said, did the Henry Regatta. This

838
01:07:59.559 --> 01:08:02.800
is a few years later or a couple of years later,

839
01:08:03.079 --> 01:08:09.800
and then I did. Oh. I also did the time

840
01:08:09.880 --> 01:08:14.840
share as well in nineteen ninety. That was weird because

841
01:08:14.840 --> 01:08:17.199
I actually did get a sale and then they changed

842
01:08:17.239 --> 01:08:22.199
their mind. But what I did in that thing, I

843
01:08:22.199 --> 01:08:25.159
had to sit on a table. That what they did

844
01:08:25.239 --> 01:08:32.600
is really weird. They they offered people a gift to

845
01:08:32.680 --> 01:08:39.039
come and listen to a presentation. That's what it was.

846
01:08:39.479 --> 01:08:42.880
So they'd go along. They'd think they were getting a

847
01:08:42.880 --> 01:08:47.600
new car as a gift. Some people actually came up

848
01:08:47.640 --> 01:08:51.199
on the train and said, well, where's a car. Then

849
01:08:52.159 --> 01:08:54.119
I came up on I came up on the train.

850
01:08:54.199 --> 01:08:57.479
I'm going to drive back like they were just going

851
01:08:57.520 --> 01:09:00.399
to be given a car. And what it was really

852
01:09:00.439 --> 01:09:03.600
is they were put into a raffle. If they attended

853
01:09:04.399 --> 01:09:08.119
watched the movie, which was probably twenty minutes, and then

854
01:09:08.159 --> 01:09:10.279
they sat down with one of us and talked to

855
01:09:10.359 --> 01:09:15.800
us and let us try and sell them timeshare. And

856
01:09:15.840 --> 01:09:18.239
if they went through that process, then they would be

857
01:09:18.439 --> 01:09:23.359
entered into winning something. It might just be a box

858
01:09:23.439 --> 01:09:27.600
of nothing, or it might be it might be a

859
01:09:27.640 --> 01:09:30.720
discount in a supermarket. It might be a voucher, it

860
01:09:30.760 --> 01:09:33.880
could be anything, or could be a car. And they

861
01:09:33.920 --> 01:09:36.640
had a big car in the showroom, but one car.

862
01:09:37.319 --> 01:09:39.359
And you know, someone just turned up and said, well,

863
01:09:39.399 --> 01:09:41.920
how did I get in? Where's the keys? It's like, no,

864
01:09:43.720 --> 01:09:47.279
it's not quite you know. I'm not sure if the

865
01:09:47.319 --> 01:09:48.600
adverts were misleading.

866
01:09:49.880 --> 01:09:56.119
I don't know. Maybe I hope not, but I did.

867
01:09:56.359 --> 01:09:58.479
What I did notice is I was talking to these

868
01:09:58.479 --> 01:10:01.880
people and I was making them laugh and I quite

869
01:10:01.960 --> 01:10:05.159
liked that, quite enjoyed that. And I was just telling

870
01:10:05.159 --> 01:10:12.600
them stories about my life and they were laughing and

871
01:10:12.600 --> 01:10:13.640
it felt quite nice.

872
01:10:15.159 --> 01:10:18.600
And one person actually told me they'll take it, you know,

873
01:10:18.640 --> 01:10:26.520
they'll take the They'll they accepted the sale, and I'm like, wow,

874
01:10:26.800 --> 01:10:32.399
I didn't expect that. And then they passed me. They

875
01:10:32.439 --> 01:10:35.239
passed them over to the person they had to do

876
01:10:35.279 --> 01:10:41.479
the contracts, and then they changed their mind. I mean

877
01:10:41.520 --> 01:10:46.560
I was there for probably four days, maybe five days,

878
01:10:47.840 --> 01:11:00.359
and this was I would say October time, nineteen ninety

879
01:11:00.760 --> 01:11:04.680
and it was in a different town and I just like, ah,

880
01:11:05.239 --> 01:11:06.680
so I just came home and.

881
01:11:06.600 --> 01:11:07.119
That was it.

882
01:11:10.000 --> 01:11:11.960
I don't know what other things, what other things have

883
01:11:12.000 --> 01:11:14.640
I done. I've got little memories of places.

884
01:11:15.640 --> 01:11:18.800
Oh yeah, I sold. This is actually a paid, paid

885
01:11:18.840 --> 01:11:24.520
job I had. This was selling till role, you know

886
01:11:24.640 --> 01:11:29.079
for tills, you know, like in shops, just to till

887
01:11:29.159 --> 01:11:35.000
roll the role it goes in the till. And the

888
01:11:35.039 --> 01:11:37.439
amount of people that thought I was selling toilet roll,

889
01:11:40.640 --> 01:11:46.479
it just got it just got silly, like I don't

890
01:11:46.479 --> 01:11:51.720
need any toilet roll, no till role. So for some

891
01:11:51.760 --> 01:11:55.319
reason on the phone just wanted to hey, getting on

892
01:11:55.359 --> 01:11:58.399
with your till roll. It seems to sound like toilet roll.

893
01:11:59.520 --> 01:12:01.960
Who who do you get who supplies this? Who supplies

894
01:12:02.039 --> 01:12:04.920
your toilet role? And they say toilet role, said no

895
01:12:05.119 --> 01:12:09.399
till roll. Then after a while I realized I was

896
01:12:09.560 --> 01:12:16.000
saying toilet role, and yeah, I got confusing. I think

897
01:12:16.000 --> 01:12:20.239
I managed to get a sale with my friend who

898
01:12:20.279 --> 01:12:22.560
had a comedy club and he took some roles on.

899
01:12:24.159 --> 01:12:29.840
I mean it was it was a legitimate company, and.

900
01:12:31.680 --> 01:12:34.000
You know, it wasn't like they were dodger or anything.

901
01:12:34.479 --> 01:12:38.439
They paid a basic plus a commission. I got the

902
01:12:38.560 --> 01:12:41.119
job because a friend had had a job and he

903
01:12:41.199 --> 01:12:47.359
got me the job there and our only source of

904
01:12:47.840 --> 01:12:55.840
leads was a Yellow Pages that was it, but from

905
01:12:55.880 --> 01:12:58.760
all over the country, so we dealt with the whole country,

906
01:12:59.279 --> 01:13:02.359
not just locally. In fact, we didn't deal real We

907
01:13:02.399 --> 01:13:04.199
did a little bit of local stuff in London, but

908
01:13:05.000 --> 01:13:07.239
it was the whole country. And I ended up doing

909
01:13:07.319 --> 01:13:11.319
Manchester or part of Manchester.

910
01:13:11.359 --> 01:13:14.880
I'm sure there was like there was different Manchester is

911
01:13:14.960 --> 01:13:20.119
quite a large area, so there was different different areas north, northeast,

912
01:13:20.199 --> 01:13:30.039
northwest or whatever, south, southeast, east, east, east, And yeah,

913
01:13:32.199 --> 01:13:35.199
I did, I did, I did. I didn't. It was

914
01:13:35.239 --> 01:13:46.640
all right, but I didn't enjoy it, ihll honest, And

915
01:13:46.680 --> 01:13:50.560
this is a break I had between doing security. So

916
01:13:50.600 --> 01:13:59.680
I did security, and I yeah, they sacked me because

917
01:13:59.680 --> 01:14:05.760
of it got blocked, and I found it so ridiculous

918
01:14:06.279 --> 01:14:09.359
that they were blaming me for a toilet I blocked toilet,

919
01:14:09.840 --> 01:14:11.560
not just that but the fact that they were.

920
01:14:12.840 --> 01:14:21.079
They suspended me, so I wasn't getting paid for the

921
01:14:21.119 --> 01:14:23.079
rest of the week. And then so this is like

922
01:14:23.840 --> 01:14:27.199
maybe it was a Tuesday, the toilet was blocked, They

923
01:14:27.279 --> 01:14:31.960
sent me home, suspended me until the following Monday when

924
01:14:31.960 --> 01:14:37.239
I went into the office for a disciplinary and I

925
01:14:37.279 --> 01:14:39.159
don't know if they were going to sack me or not,

926
01:14:39.319 --> 01:14:44.439
but I just laughed at them. I said, you're ridiculous,

927
01:14:45.359 --> 01:14:50.119
Absolutely ridiculous. I said, why would why would I block

928
01:14:50.119 --> 01:14:53.479
a toilet up and not do anything? I mean, I'm

929
01:14:53.479 --> 01:14:56.399
an adult. I don't I said, someone's clearly done that

930
01:14:56.560 --> 01:15:01.800
after I've left. It's ridiculous to block not on me. Besides,

931
01:15:01.880 --> 01:15:05.039
I can't leave the reception once it gets because once

932
01:15:05.079 --> 01:15:05.720
I open.

933
01:15:05.560 --> 01:15:10.239
The doors, so I'm there all night in this place.

934
01:15:10.279 --> 01:15:12.920
It was a it was a what was it called.

935
01:15:14.319 --> 01:15:17.039
It was a printing firm, not printed, but it was

936
01:15:17.079 --> 01:15:20.920
a like they printed magazines and newspapers and stuff. It

937
01:15:20.960 --> 01:15:26.760
was quite a Oh, I forget his name now, Henderson,

938
01:15:26.880 --> 01:15:35.600
not Henderson. He I think he did Kerrang to this

939
01:15:35.600 --> 01:15:43.079
this company. They did korrang and like heavy metal magazines,

940
01:15:43.239 --> 01:15:51.000
really big famous magazines, and I think also computer magazines

941
01:15:51.079 --> 01:15:51.560
as well.

942
01:15:53.079 --> 01:15:56.399
And maybe they went and did some of the like

943
01:15:57.680 --> 01:16:00.000
i've like loaded and things like that. I'm not sure

944
01:16:00.119 --> 01:16:02.199
or later on, but they did.

945
01:16:02.239 --> 01:16:03.800
You know. I got really well with the people at

946
01:16:03.840 --> 01:16:06.880
work there, some of the people that were like late

947
01:16:06.920 --> 01:16:10.319
at night, I kin'd of just chat with them and stuff,

948
01:16:11.159 --> 01:16:13.560
because I'd start my shift at I think half three

949
01:16:13.560 --> 01:16:21.880
in the afternoon until I think it was half eight

950
01:16:21.920 --> 01:16:25.560
in the morning, so it was a half three, four

951
01:16:25.640 --> 01:16:30.680
or five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, No wait a minute,

952
01:16:30.680 --> 01:16:35.760
half three four or five or six or seven one

953
01:16:36.159 --> 01:16:38.359
off two or three or four or five or six

954
01:16:38.479 --> 01:16:41.399
or seven hour. No, it wouldn't be that long with

955
01:16:41.479 --> 01:16:50.319
it half three till maybe half four. It was about

956
01:16:50.359 --> 01:16:53.880
fifteen hours anyway, I was doing about fifteen hours shifts.

957
01:16:53.920 --> 01:16:57.640
So half four, half five, half four, then half four

958
01:16:57.680 --> 01:17:02.079
again as twelve, or was half four till half three, twelve,

959
01:17:03.760 --> 01:17:06.640
half five, half six, seven eight after nine enough ten,

960
01:17:07.079 --> 01:17:11.880
half eleven, enough twelve, half one, half two, half eleven

961
01:17:12.239 --> 01:17:16.680
and half two, half three, half four, half five, half six,

962
01:17:16.720 --> 01:17:19.159
half seven. Yeah, so I think it was half four

963
01:17:19.199 --> 01:17:19.880
to half.

964
01:17:19.680 --> 01:17:26.600
Seven, and unless it was sixteen hours. But sixteen hours

965
01:17:26.600 --> 01:17:29.199
seems a bit long, doesn't it. I think fifteen hours

966
01:17:29.239 --> 01:17:32.439
is what I did because sixteen hours seems.

967
01:17:32.159 --> 01:17:32.680
A little bit.

968
01:17:33.159 --> 01:17:35.319
It's not enough really to get enough sleep, is it.

969
01:17:36.279 --> 01:17:41.560
So I'd do fifteen hours, five days a week, I think,

970
01:17:43.239 --> 01:17:51.479
and between I was loud on it. Between four point

971
01:17:51.520 --> 01:18:00.800
thirty and when the doors were locked, I really didn't

972
01:18:00.880 --> 01:18:06.600
leave the reception. I couldn't leave the reception, so when

973
01:18:06.600 --> 01:18:08.760
the front door was opened, I had to be in

974
01:18:08.800 --> 01:18:09.359
the reception.

975
01:18:09.960 --> 01:18:13.159
I was security for the building. When the doors, the

976
01:18:13.199 --> 01:18:16.159
front doors were locked, then I could do patrols and

977
01:18:17.119 --> 01:18:20.159
do whatever I want. Really so.

978
01:18:25.319 --> 01:18:32.960
Yeah, so I in the morning, I would open the

979
01:18:33.000 --> 01:18:37.359
doors at about six in the morning, and I was

980
01:18:37.399 --> 01:18:41.479
there till seven point thirty. I couldn't leave the reception

981
01:18:41.680 --> 01:18:48.760
from six to seven thirty until the receptions came on

982
01:18:49.199 --> 01:18:49.920
and took over.

983
01:18:54.239 --> 01:18:54.880
So that was me.

984
01:18:55.000 --> 01:18:57.680
Or maybe it's eight thirty, there's something like that. Maybe

985
01:18:57.720 --> 01:19:01.560
it's half four till eight thirty. So I wasn't allowed

986
01:19:01.600 --> 01:19:06.960
to leave the reception until the receptionist was on and then.

987
01:19:06.880 --> 01:19:07.439
I'd go home.

988
01:19:10.159 --> 01:19:14.520
So and I didn't use a toilet before going home.

989
01:19:17.319 --> 01:19:21.199
So how did I block that toilet? Because I can't

990
01:19:21.279 --> 01:19:24.159
use a toilet while the cleaners are in, because they're in.

991
01:19:24.239 --> 01:19:26.960
Once they're in, the front doors are open because the

992
01:19:27.000 --> 01:19:30.279
staff used to come in early hours, so six o'clock

993
01:19:30.399 --> 01:19:33.760
doors were open, the staff could come in, the cleaners

994
01:19:33.760 --> 01:19:38.479
would come in, and then they'd get deliveries. The machines

995
01:19:38.520 --> 01:19:43.159
would get filled in, you know, like because in London,

996
01:19:43.199 --> 01:19:45.560
because this is in the West End, a lot of

997
01:19:45.600 --> 01:19:49.920
deliveries had done very early because it's hard to park

998
01:19:50.000 --> 01:19:56.279
anywhere during the day and to get around. And some

999
01:19:56.359 --> 01:19:58.319
of the staff would be in really early as well.

1000
01:19:58.439 --> 01:20:00.399
Some of them be there late at night as well,

1001
01:20:00.439 --> 01:20:02.359
you know, the un till ten o'clock at night some

1002
01:20:02.399 --> 01:20:04.640
of them, and some would get in at six in

1003
01:20:04.680 --> 01:20:07.560
the morning or half six seven.

1004
01:20:10.760 --> 01:20:13.920
So I wasn't allowed to leave the reception, So if

1005
01:20:13.920 --> 01:20:16.359
I did go to the toilet, it had to be

1006
01:20:16.359 --> 01:20:22.800
before the reception opened, before the cleaners got there. Now,

1007
01:20:24.479 --> 01:20:30.359
I always did a patrol of the building. My last

1008
01:20:30.399 --> 01:20:33.119
patrol is just a go around, make sure everything's fine.

1009
01:20:33.680 --> 01:20:37.760
I always check the toilets. It wasn't really for floods.

1010
01:20:37.760 --> 01:20:41.079
I just like looking at toilets, and so I went

1011
01:20:41.119 --> 01:20:43.560
around and there was like toilets on each floor. I

1012
01:20:43.560 --> 01:20:45.159
think there's four floors.

1013
01:20:47.000 --> 01:20:53.840
Everything was fine, and I'm at home and I get

1014
01:20:53.840 --> 01:20:57.680
a phone call. Yeah, I get a phone call. So

1015
01:20:57.680 --> 01:20:59.279
I wasn't setting home so much. But I did get

1016
01:20:59.319 --> 01:21:06.520
a phone call at home saying, don't you can't go

1017
01:21:06.600 --> 01:21:09.439
in there anymore because you because the toilet was flooded.

1018
01:21:12.920 --> 01:21:14.960
I don't. I'm not even sure if they told me why.

1019
01:21:15.000 --> 01:21:17.239
They just said you can't go in anymore. You've been

1020
01:21:17.439 --> 01:21:24.640
you've been suspended from the building. And yeah, I think

1021
01:21:24.640 --> 01:21:26.560
it was when I got there on Mondays. This was

1022
01:21:26.560 --> 01:21:31.840
a Tuesday evening, or maybe the Monday, the Wednesday morning

1023
01:21:32.000 --> 01:21:34.039
they might have phone me. I was probably asleep.

1024
01:21:35.119 --> 01:21:39.560
And then the following Monday they told me it's because

1025
01:21:39.600 --> 01:21:43.640
I had blocked the toilet apparently, and it upset one

1026
01:21:43.680 --> 01:21:49.000
of the the cleaners and it had leaked and water

1027
01:21:49.039 --> 01:21:54.239
had gone everywhere. Uh, I've blocked a lot of toilets

1028
01:21:54.279 --> 01:22:01.680
in the past. I'll be honest with you. It's never overrun.

1029
01:22:02.920 --> 01:22:06.640
Toilets are built to not overrun that you know, the

1030
01:22:06.680 --> 01:22:08.680
water goes to a certain level, it doesn't go over

1031
01:22:09.840 --> 01:22:11.840
I've never had a toilet overflow ever.

1032
01:22:14.399 --> 01:22:16.600
So and I've blocked a lot.

1033
01:22:17.800 --> 01:22:21.640
I have blocked a lot of toilets over the years,

1034
01:22:21.640 --> 01:22:25.479
just like standard. I'm sure everyone has. It used to

1035
01:22:25.520 --> 01:22:29.760
be a hobby, but on this occasion, it wasn't me.

1036
01:22:30.319 --> 01:22:33.279
Maybe I'm maybe I'm just getting punished for previous blockages.

1037
01:22:34.720 --> 01:22:37.840
But they're making out that the water overflowed and completely

1038
01:22:38.399 --> 01:22:46.880
when everywhere, Like how that doesn't even make sense. But anyway,

1039
01:22:46.920 --> 01:22:53.560
I always blamed for that. And so when I went

1040
01:22:53.600 --> 01:23:01.399
in there and they told me, I laughed. Now, one

1041
01:23:01.439 --> 01:23:04.119
of the managers, Well, there was two owners of the business,

1042
01:23:04.640 --> 01:23:10.319
one like me, and he was he was more active

1043
01:23:10.760 --> 01:23:15.079
in the security company, so he'd he'd go around and

1044
01:23:15.159 --> 01:23:19.479
he'd do a lot more like dealing with the security guards,

1045
01:23:19.920 --> 01:23:22.520
and the other bloke would be in the office. So

1046
01:23:22.680 --> 01:23:25.279
I think they were both equal partners, both ex police

1047
01:23:25.399 --> 01:23:30.560
or something. But one of them was more in the background.

1048
01:23:30.560 --> 01:23:33.119
We didn't really get to see him. Apart from the disciplinaries,

1049
01:23:35.479 --> 01:23:38.800
I'd already had two previous disciplinaries.

1050
01:23:39.760 --> 01:23:47.840
Again both not my fault, so there and it.

1051
01:23:47.760 --> 01:23:58.920
Was it two disciplinaries, two disciplinaries.

1052
01:24:00.199 --> 01:24:05.079
All the three, not only discipline. The first discipline I

1053
01:24:05.159 --> 01:24:11.840
had was I was accused of drinking at work, and

1054
01:24:12.119 --> 01:24:15.600
at that time I didn't drink. I just didn't drink.

1055
01:24:16.399 --> 01:24:19.279
And apparently this is when I was working in the

1056
01:24:19.359 --> 01:24:20.039
nurses home.

1057
01:24:20.800 --> 01:24:25.439
Someone said that they saw me with a flask. Yeah,

1058
01:24:25.520 --> 01:24:28.199
I had a flask. It had a protein drink, like

1059
01:24:28.239 --> 01:24:31.439
a protein shake in it. So I'd go into the

1060
01:24:31.479 --> 01:24:34.680
gym every day and I was drinking a protein drink.

1061
01:24:34.760 --> 01:24:37.880
I was eating every two hours, you know. I was

1062
01:24:37.920 --> 01:24:40.840
trying to put a little bit of muscle on and

1063
01:24:43.439 --> 01:24:45.960
she's like, someone must have thought I was drinking alcohol.

1064
01:24:46.680 --> 01:24:53.920
And what's weird though, is because the the well, I

1065
01:24:54.000 --> 01:24:56.399
forget what they call him now, but a security guard

1066
01:24:56.439 --> 01:24:59.880
would come around and check everyone because I was doing

1067
01:25:00.199 --> 01:25:05.079
shift and they'd come along and I remember that there's

1068
01:25:05.159 --> 01:25:06.960
two different ones, as a lady and as a bloke,

1069
01:25:07.359 --> 01:25:09.359
and they both used to like sitting and chatting with me.

1070
01:25:10.079 --> 01:25:14.520
And both of them smelled the flask because they career

1071
01:25:14.600 --> 01:25:16.399
with what's in there. And I said, it's protein drink.

1072
01:25:16.640 --> 01:25:20.760
That's something if you want. I said, I have. I

1073
01:25:20.840 --> 01:25:23.680
have gobbed in it, but you can have some and

1074
01:25:23.720 --> 01:25:28.560
I said no, but it's like it was a protein

1075
01:25:28.680 --> 01:25:31.439
drink and they could smell there's no alcohol in it.

1076
01:25:33.279 --> 01:25:36.239
It's just saying, weird, why someone I don't know if

1077
01:25:36.279 --> 01:25:39.520
it was, I don't know the reason behind it. But

1078
01:25:39.640 --> 01:25:41.720
again I laughed during that one. I said, I don't

1079
01:25:41.800 --> 01:25:44.920
drink alcohol. You asked me that in the when the

1080
01:25:45.439 --> 01:25:49.039
had gave me the interview. I don't drink alcohol. I

1081
01:25:49.119 --> 01:25:51.640
just don't. And also I don't go out because I'm

1082
01:25:51.680 --> 01:25:56.199
working every night. You know, I was getting one night

1083
01:25:56.239 --> 01:26:00.159
off a week at that point. That's when I was

1084
01:26:00.199 --> 01:26:02.880
lucky if I didn't have to cover someone's shift. So

1085
01:26:02.880 --> 01:26:06.640
I'm getting like one night off a week. If I

1086
01:26:06.680 --> 01:26:08.960
did go out, I might have a drink, but generally,

1087
01:26:09.920 --> 01:26:12.680
you know, I didn't didn't drink alcohol. I definitely wouldn't

1088
01:26:12.760 --> 01:26:19.079
drink alcoholic work. People would know, trust me, if I

1089
01:26:19.159 --> 01:26:22.399
was drinking il cahol at work, everybody would know it.

1090
01:26:23.520 --> 01:26:27.520
I'm not. Yeah, I can't hide it when I'm drinking.

1091
01:26:28.239 --> 01:26:30.520
If I'm drunk, the whole world's going to know about it.

1092
01:26:32.359 --> 01:26:35.640
So I laughed that off, and they kind of just said, oh,

1093
01:26:35.800 --> 01:26:40.119
fair enough, because that's, you know, the one that was

1094
01:26:40.199 --> 01:26:43.399
very active with us, or he'd see me enough and

1095
01:26:43.680 --> 01:26:44.359
he believed me.

1096
01:26:44.439 --> 01:26:46.520
So that was cool. So I got. I went back

1097
01:26:48.720 --> 01:27:00.560
and then I got I got accused of something else

1098
01:27:00.720 --> 01:27:12.000
there as well. I can't remember what it was or

1099
01:27:12.000 --> 01:27:14.560
did I just leave? Did I did they move me?

1100
01:27:15.399 --> 01:27:18.439
They moved me from there. I'm sure there was another

1101
01:27:18.560 --> 01:27:25.439
reason I got. I got a disciplinary, So I got.

1102
01:27:25.520 --> 01:27:28.000
There's two that I remember. One was because of the

1103
01:27:28.600 --> 01:27:31.279
when I blocked the toilet and when I was accused

1104
01:27:31.279 --> 01:27:33.760
of blocking the toilet, sorry, any other one was when

1105
01:27:33.800 --> 01:27:36.680
I was drinking. I mean when I was accused of drinking.

1106
01:27:37.920 --> 01:27:40.960
Sure there was another one. There was a third in

1107
01:27:41.000 --> 01:27:46.520
the middle or second, but before the third it was.

1108
01:27:49.880 --> 01:27:53.439
Well, anyway, I got sacked, so that one with a toilet.

1109
01:27:54.039 --> 01:27:56.880
They sacked me because I was laughing in the interview

1110
01:27:57.119 --> 01:28:00.119
in the disciplinary I said, this is pathetic.

1111
01:27:59.680 --> 01:28:03.760
This is really really ridiculous. I said, after all the

1112
01:28:03.760 --> 01:28:07.279
dodgy things I've done while I've worked for you that

1113
01:28:07.319 --> 01:28:11.279
you don't know about, and this one thing, which the

1114
01:28:11.319 --> 01:28:12.960
all things I have done, and the one thing I

1115
01:28:12.960 --> 01:28:16.840
didn't do, I'm getting blamed for. And they said, well,

1116
01:28:16.840 --> 01:28:18.439
we just need to have a little chat together, and

1117
01:28:18.479 --> 01:28:24.039
they went out and they came back and said, yeah,

1118
01:28:24.479 --> 01:28:30.680
see you later, and they sacked me. What was the

1119
01:28:30.720 --> 01:28:33.720
other thing I did or not did, but that I

1120
01:28:33.760 --> 01:28:43.560
got accused of. Wasn't it stealing? But anyway, I was

1121
01:28:43.680 --> 01:28:46.840
doing this. I remembered that when I was started talking

1122
01:28:46.840 --> 01:28:48.319
about this, and then it kind of went out of

1123
01:28:48.359 --> 01:28:54.560
me head. I'm sure I had three disciplinaries. I'm so

1124
01:28:54.680 --> 01:28:57.920
proud of it. And I I was disciplined three times.

1125
01:28:58.000 --> 01:29:06.880
I got suspended three times. I got suspended at least twice.

1126
01:29:07.159 --> 01:29:08.960
Surely there was a third one. What would that be

1127
01:29:09.039 --> 01:29:16.359
about did I get accused of something else? Because I

1128
01:29:16.439 --> 01:29:22.359
definitely got mood from the nurses home for a reason.

1129
01:29:22.439 --> 01:29:31.319
I can't remember what that reason was. How strange, HM.

1130
01:29:32.479 --> 01:29:37.239
So I ended up working in the printer's Dennis Dennis

1131
01:29:37.279 --> 01:29:49.359
Printers or something that was called and or Dennis Publishing Publishers. Yeah,

1132
01:29:49.680 --> 01:29:51.520
so I worked there. So I got sacked.

1133
01:29:52.439 --> 01:29:56.720
I got suspended in sacked, went and worked at this

1134
01:29:57.479 --> 01:30:04.319
sales job trying to sell till roll and then after

1135
01:30:04.359 --> 01:30:06.960
two weeks of that, I found up the security company

1136
01:30:07.000 --> 01:30:09.239
and said, oh, please, can I come back?

1137
01:30:11.319 --> 01:30:17.920
Sorry, sorry for laughing, and they said, yeah, come back,

1138
01:30:17.960 --> 01:30:19.760
because that's what I was looking for people, I said.

1139
01:30:20.039 --> 01:30:23.399
They said, we've got a new site for you, and

1140
01:30:23.760 --> 01:30:27.680
they started putting me on the grottiest sites ever. Honestly,

1141
01:30:28.239 --> 01:30:30.520
they moved me around a lot, put me on some

1142
01:30:30.760 --> 01:30:37.600
really really bad sites, and.

1143
01:30:39.560 --> 01:30:42.319
Oh did I get suspended off one of those for drinking.

1144
01:30:42.760 --> 01:30:49.760
I wasn't drinking though, but I was with another another

1145
01:30:49.920 --> 01:30:54.079
guard who was drinking and he got through about I

1146
01:30:54.079 --> 01:30:57.319
don't know, eight cans of Lago during the night, but

1147
01:30:57.359 --> 01:31:01.960
instead of instead of putting them like hiding the cans,

1148
01:31:01.960 --> 01:31:05.640
he just put him in the waste waste paper basket

1149
01:31:06.159 --> 01:31:14.159
in the office, and the manager, who was a fiery fella,

1150
01:31:15.600 --> 01:31:19.920
got very angry, but as I said.

1151
01:31:20.359 --> 01:31:20.760
Wasn't me.

1152
01:31:21.680 --> 01:31:23.479
And they knew the other bloke and they knew what

1153
01:31:23.520 --> 01:31:28.119
he was around, and I think they suspended him and.

1154
01:31:28.159 --> 01:31:33.640
Told the man, the manager of that place, that they

1155
01:31:33.760 --> 01:31:35.720
had sacked him, but they didn't. They just moved him

1156
01:31:35.720 --> 01:31:39.439
to a different site. And then one day and this

1157
01:31:39.640 --> 01:31:49.800
was a former psychiatric hospital. It was according asylum back then,

1158
01:31:50.000 --> 01:31:52.760
but it was one of them places. Was one of

1159
01:31:52.800 --> 01:31:56.640
the biggest hospitals in Europe, one of the longest hospitals

1160
01:31:56.640 --> 01:31:59.720
in Europe, and it was in North London, massive bit

1161
01:31:59.760 --> 01:32:02.439
of waste ground, well that's a bit of ground, and

1162
01:32:02.479 --> 01:32:05.119
there was houses where some of the patients used to live,

1163
01:32:05.520 --> 01:32:08.079
where some of the doctors and nurses used to live.

1164
01:32:08.560 --> 01:32:12.000
And my job was just to parole this whole patrol

1165
01:32:12.079 --> 01:32:17.840
rather not parole patrol this whole area. And I could

1166
01:32:17.880 --> 01:32:21.439
not stand being in the same room as this bloke

1167
01:32:22.199 --> 01:32:24.760
who was in charge, because all he did was moan.

1168
01:32:25.760 --> 01:32:31.960
But it was a shelter just like yeah, yeah, yeah,

1169
01:32:32.159 --> 01:32:36.000
just about everything. So in the end I just decided

1170
01:32:36.039 --> 01:32:37.720
to do the patrol.

1171
01:32:39.560 --> 01:32:43.279
But just not go back to the office. I had

1172
01:32:43.279 --> 01:32:46.000
my radio on me and I phoned in every time

1173
01:32:46.560 --> 01:32:48.000
to let him know where I was, because you have

1174
01:32:48.079 --> 01:32:50.960
to phone in every hour or you know, patrol every

1175
01:32:51.079 --> 01:32:52.720
to let him know where I was and stuff. So

1176
01:32:53.039 --> 01:32:54.920
I was doing everything on my side that I was

1177
01:32:54.920 --> 01:32:58.399
supposed to do. But this manager, you know, when I

1178
01:32:58.520 --> 01:33:04.319
turned up perhaps six hours later, he accused me of

1179
01:33:04.439 --> 01:33:05.279
leaving the site.

1180
01:33:07.199 --> 01:33:10.680
He said, you've gone home. You went IHM and came back. Well,

1181
01:33:10.720 --> 01:33:12.199
first of all, I didn't go home because it take

1182
01:33:12.239 --> 01:33:14.720
me two hours to get there. So no, I didn't

1183
01:33:14.720 --> 01:33:17.760
go home and come back. What's the point. We'll go home,

1184
01:33:18.239 --> 01:33:20.640
sit down for five minutes, then come back, you know. No,

1185
01:33:22.079 --> 01:33:23.880
he said, I don't know where you live. I said,

1186
01:33:24.640 --> 01:33:28.720
I told you I live in. Where did I live?

1187
01:33:29.760 --> 01:33:36.119
Upton Park at the time. Yeah. Up. See. I got

1188
01:33:36.199 --> 01:33:41.039
sacked from there because apparently I thought I went off

1189
01:33:41.079 --> 01:33:44.159
site and I didn't. I stayed. I just I did

1190
01:33:44.159 --> 01:33:48.760
my patrol over and over again, and I phoned in,

1191
01:33:48.960 --> 01:33:52.479
you know, I called in my walkie talkie and I've called.

1192
01:33:52.239 --> 01:33:54.520
In every hour. I did everything by the book, but

1193
01:33:56.079 --> 01:34:01.000
he decided that I hadn't, so he sacked me. Or

1194
01:34:01.479 --> 01:34:04.439
he reported me and they told him that they'd sacked me,

1195
01:34:04.840 --> 01:34:08.119
and they just moved me to a different site.

1196
01:34:08.800 --> 01:34:14.560
And then I ended up on the Royal Opera House,

1197
01:34:14.760 --> 01:34:17.600
the new rural opera house that was being built back

1198
01:34:17.640 --> 01:34:23.399
in nineteen ninety seven. So I was there. I was

1199
01:34:23.399 --> 01:34:31.479
a security there and I'd be backing in lorries and

1200
01:34:31.520 --> 01:34:35.680
stopping traffic and stuff like that because they had non

1201
01:34:35.760 --> 01:34:40.880
stop concrete lorries coming and going, and I'd be stopping

1202
01:34:40.920 --> 01:34:47.239
people and opening barriers for cars that had businesses in

1203
01:34:47.279 --> 01:34:52.199
that little area. Yeah it was I didn't mind. It

1204
01:34:52.239 --> 01:34:59.520
wasn't it wasn't a bad little job. And yeah, it

1205
01:34:59.600 --> 01:35:01.600
was all right. Actually got on quite well with the

1206
01:35:01.640 --> 01:35:06.039
builders and the people involved. There was a couple of

1207
01:35:07.640 --> 01:35:11.560
annoying people, but there was is no I was one

1208
01:35:11.560 --> 01:35:17.720
of them. And then I got sacked from that job

1209
01:35:17.760 --> 01:35:22.800
for some reason. I can't remember why that was. Oh,

1210
01:35:23.439 --> 01:35:27.079
I just remember why I got disciplined. It was a

1211
01:35:27.239 --> 01:35:36.600
Canary wharf. Canary Wharf. I got disciplined of falling asleep. Right,

1212
01:35:39.760 --> 01:35:44.000
So I didn't fall asleep, Well I did fall asleep, Okay,

1213
01:35:44.079 --> 01:35:45.399
this is true. I did fall asleep.

1214
01:35:46.880 --> 01:35:53.000
So when I was at Canary Wharf, ninety six, probably

1215
01:35:53.439 --> 01:36:00.119
April April time ish, and my job was to who

1216
01:36:00.680 --> 01:36:03.479
just basically check people as they were coming in to

1217
01:36:05.199 --> 01:36:08.640
the floors that I was protecting. So I protected, I

1218
01:36:08.680 --> 01:36:12.279
was securing. So there is probably about.

1219
01:36:14.279 --> 01:36:19.319
Twelve of us, maybe a little bit more that would

1220
01:36:19.359 --> 01:36:24.119
and we had to think four floors, two or four

1221
01:36:24.199 --> 01:36:26.640
or five floors that it was part of the Mirror

1222
01:36:26.640 --> 01:36:32.199
group newspaper group, so I had to Racing Times and

1223
01:36:32.680 --> 01:36:37.880
Sunday Mirror, Daily Mirror, and possibly some other stuff. So

1224
01:36:39.000 --> 01:36:41.279
we were kind of securing that. So there'd be two

1225
01:36:41.319 --> 01:36:47.359
of us, sometimes just one on the main doors. So

1226
01:36:47.760 --> 01:36:51.439
have to check people's passes, have to check their purses,

1227
01:36:51.680 --> 01:36:55.800
their handbags, their bags. Because this was directly after a

1228
01:36:58.000 --> 01:36:59.600
very serious incident that had happened.

1229
01:37:00.039 --> 01:37:02.560
Why I got the job because I were taking on

1230
01:37:02.680 --> 01:37:06.079
new staff because originally I applied for the job and

1231
01:37:06.159 --> 01:37:09.159
he laughed at me and said, no, no, you're right,

1232
01:37:10.000 --> 01:37:11.159
we don't need thanks.

1233
01:37:11.279 --> 01:37:12.319
We're not that desperate.

1234
01:37:13.199 --> 01:37:16.239
And then they called up a week later after this

1235
01:37:16.399 --> 01:37:18.640
major event happened and they said, yeah, we are. We're

1236
01:37:18.680 --> 01:37:23.239
quite desperate now we are. Yeah, we're desperate enough to

1237
01:37:23.640 --> 01:37:24.279
employ you.

1238
01:37:24.960 --> 01:37:28.800
I said, oh, that's nice, and so I got that job.

1239
01:37:29.680 --> 01:37:33.560
Now I've got on really well with one of the owners,

1240
01:37:33.640 --> 01:37:37.239
the one that was around a lot, and I think

1241
01:37:37.279 --> 01:37:39.399
that's why I got away with so much stuff, because

1242
01:37:39.680 --> 01:37:41.880
I made him laugh and we had a laugh.

1243
01:37:41.960 --> 01:37:45.159
And even though I ended up getting sacked, he's still

1244
01:37:45.199 --> 01:37:47.359
I don't think he wanted to sack me. And he's

1245
01:37:47.399 --> 01:37:52.399
the one that gave me a job back. He came

1246
01:37:52.520 --> 01:37:54.640
up to me one night after I'd.

1247
01:37:54.520 --> 01:37:59.199
Done twelve hours. It was time for me to go home,

1248
01:38:00.560 --> 01:38:04.000
and he said, here year year, do some fear of

1249
01:38:04.000 --> 01:38:07.640
a warncher. I said, not again. I told you I've

1250
01:38:07.680 --> 01:38:10.319
got a girlfriend. He said, no, no, not that, and

1251
01:38:10.359 --> 01:38:13.039
he said can you He wanted me to stay for

1252
01:38:13.079 --> 01:38:17.159
another twelve hours. See if you get any normal job

1253
01:38:17.199 --> 01:38:20.079
and they say can you do some overtime, it's usually

1254
01:38:20.119 --> 01:38:23.560
like an hour or so, maybe two hours. This job

1255
01:38:23.720 --> 01:38:28.880
in security is another twelve hours, please. I said, that's

1256
01:38:28.920 --> 01:38:32.399
twenty four hours. He said I can count. I said,

1257
01:38:32.439 --> 01:38:35.359
I know, but I can't do twelve hours. I can't

1258
01:38:35.359 --> 01:38:41.600
do another twelve hours. I started at six this morning

1259
01:38:44.279 --> 01:38:47.439
or was it seven, eight of m I've been eight

1260
01:38:47.479 --> 01:38:50.319
in the morning, but I've been up since, you know,

1261
01:38:50.319 --> 01:38:52.479
I've been up two hours before I started my job,

1262
01:38:52.880 --> 01:38:56.399
so to getting up and then traveling. So I've been

1263
01:38:56.479 --> 01:39:00.399
up for a long time and he said, oh, go

1264
01:39:00.439 --> 01:39:07.640
on please. So my job was to go downstairs and

1265
01:39:07.720 --> 01:39:15.319
look after the main This was the big boss's office area,

1266
01:39:16.359 --> 01:39:20.319
the big Boss of the Mirror Group, who at the

1267
01:39:20.359 --> 01:39:23.920
time was Kelvin McKenzie. He was also editor of The

1268
01:39:23.960 --> 01:39:27.760
Son as well. Before that, I think I saw a

1269
01:39:27.800 --> 01:39:31.720
few times very very booming voice, not hugely tall, but

1270
01:39:31.840 --> 01:39:37.600
very booming voice, big bloke. And I was the.

1271
01:39:37.680 --> 01:39:41.680
Reception and his office was further up, so anyone that

1272
01:39:41.760 --> 01:39:47.399
came to visit him had to come to where I was. Now,

1273
01:39:47.640 --> 01:39:50.399
no one was going to ask for him because he

1274
01:39:50.560 --> 01:39:54.039
was gone. There was no one in his office at

1275
01:39:54.039 --> 01:39:56.680
that time. There was also another office where someone did

1276
01:39:56.720 --> 01:39:59.399
come for the and then I left, probably his.

1277
01:39:59.319 --> 01:40:00.800
Assistant something.

1278
01:40:02.640 --> 01:40:05.600
So or maybe he did come for a little while.

1279
01:40:05.640 --> 01:40:10.520
But after eight o'clock nine o'clock there was nothing, no activity.

1280
01:40:11.079 --> 01:40:15.960
So I was there on my own, nothing to do

1281
01:40:17.279 --> 01:40:22.920
at all. So I said to my boss before accepting

1282
01:40:22.960 --> 01:40:25.520
to do it. Well, first time, I said no, I

1283
01:40:25.600 --> 01:40:27.079
said go on please.

1284
01:40:28.079 --> 01:40:30.840
I said no, I said no, I can't do another

1285
01:40:30.880 --> 01:40:35.720
twelve hours. He said, I'll be a best friend. And

1286
01:40:38.560 --> 01:40:40.159
I was going to say no, but then he started

1287
01:40:40.159 --> 01:40:44.279
tickling me, and I just it's hard to resist, isn't it.

1288
01:40:44.359 --> 01:40:46.479
And I said, okay, but I just got to warn

1289
01:40:46.520 --> 01:40:48.560
you I will fall asleep. And he said, it doesn't matter,

1290
01:40:49.760 --> 01:40:53.439
it doesn't matter, just whatever. I just need this to

1291
01:40:53.479 --> 01:40:53.920
be covered.

1292
01:40:53.960 --> 01:40:57.159
It's so important because of that area being no one's

1293
01:40:57.199 --> 01:40:59.600
going to be down there, no one, you know, the

1294
01:40:59.600 --> 01:41:02.479
big he's gone, he's gone, he won't be back till

1295
01:41:02.479 --> 01:41:07.119
tomorrow morning. You'll be gone before he gets in. And

1296
01:41:09.680 --> 01:41:11.920
even said, I'll try and get the other security guards

1297
01:41:11.960 --> 01:41:13.800
come in a little bit early so you can get

1298
01:41:13.840 --> 01:41:17.960
off a little bit earlier. And I said, okay then,

1299
01:41:19.880 --> 01:41:23.840
and I sat down. It's a nice little gig. Actually

1300
01:41:23.880 --> 01:41:28.800
it was comfortable, no one else around, really comfortable. Like

1301
01:41:31.640 --> 01:41:36.359
it's like that's probably the nicest little area in those

1302
01:41:36.479 --> 01:41:40.600
all of those floors, because there was a bosses area,

1303
01:41:40.640 --> 01:41:40.920
I guess.

1304
01:41:40.960 --> 01:41:45.199
So he had a nice, really big, spacious and there

1305
01:41:45.239 --> 01:41:49.279
was a book there called there was like a crime

1306
01:41:49.279 --> 01:41:52.920
book that I started to read and I read a

1307
01:41:52.960 --> 01:41:53.479
lot of it.

1308
01:41:56.439 --> 01:42:01.399
So I'm reading this book and then and as I'm reading,

1309
01:42:01.479 --> 01:42:07.199
I hear this voice saying Jason, Jason, Like. I look

1310
01:42:07.279 --> 01:42:16.239
up and it's my boss, like the security boss. He said,

1311
01:42:16.279 --> 01:42:20.279
you're asleep, So no, I wasn't. I was reading a book.

1312
01:42:21.720 --> 01:42:26.359
He said, you're literally in a hammock with your pajamas on.

1313
01:42:26.600 --> 01:42:29.399
What would we And I said, I told you that

1314
01:42:29.439 --> 01:42:32.279
I would fall asleep. I didn't realize I'd fallen asleep.

1315
01:42:33.239 --> 01:42:37.439
But I said, look, I've done twelve hours, doing twenty

1316
01:42:37.479 --> 01:42:42.199
four hours without falling asleep. Is it's a ridiculous ask?

1317
01:42:44.239 --> 01:42:49.359
And he said, got to go home. I said really.

1318
01:42:49.920 --> 01:42:52.840
He said, yeah, I'll take over and I'll sit here.

1319
01:42:53.039 --> 01:42:58.600
You've got to leave. You're suspended. And I said to him,

1320
01:42:59.079 --> 01:43:00.439
I think I might have called it the name.

1321
01:43:00.479 --> 01:43:04.159
I said, you are whatever. I told you I'd fall

1322
01:43:04.199 --> 01:43:06.399
asleep and you said it didn't matter. He said, you're

1323
01:43:06.439 --> 01:43:11.239
on camera, You've been filmed, You've been seen fallen asleep.

1324
01:43:12.119 --> 01:43:16.600
How do you think we knew? I literally said to

1325
01:43:16.640 --> 01:43:20.279
you that I can't do another twelve hours about falling asleep,

1326
01:43:21.119 --> 01:43:23.840
and he said, I know, but you know.

1327
01:43:25.960 --> 01:43:30.760
You're suspended. So I went away. A couple of days later,

1328
01:43:30.800 --> 01:43:33.680
I went into the office in the London offices to

1329
01:43:34.479 --> 01:43:37.720
go to my disciplinary. So this would be my second

1330
01:43:37.760 --> 01:43:47.159
disciplinary out of three, and I had everything in my

1331
01:43:47.319 --> 01:43:50.880
arsenal for that one. The first one, I don't drink.

1332
01:43:51.359 --> 01:43:53.359
They could take it or leave it, whether I was

1333
01:43:53.399 --> 01:43:56.079
being honest, and it was true, I didn't drink, and

1334
01:43:56.079 --> 01:43:59.880
it's no way I would take alcohol to work with me,

1335
01:44:00.760 --> 01:44:03.359
especially when I was at a reception and it was

1336
01:44:03.399 --> 01:44:05.920
all glasses and loads of people coming and go in.

1337
01:44:07.039 --> 01:44:11.279
They could you know, it just seemed just wasn't what

1338
01:44:11.319 --> 01:44:13.439
I was going to do. And I really wasn't a

1339
01:44:13.520 --> 01:44:16.960
drinker at all. I'd go out and if I did

1340
01:44:17.000 --> 01:44:18.840
have a drink when I went out, it'd be like

1341
01:44:18.960 --> 01:44:22.760
one bottle of lager would last me the whole night.

1342
01:44:23.880 --> 01:44:25.760
I'd more than likely just have a glass of coke

1343
01:44:25.840 --> 01:44:28.279
or a couple of glasses of coke. Just wasn't my

1344
01:44:28.359 --> 01:44:34.000
thing back then. The year before Wow, I was putting

1345
01:44:34.039 --> 01:44:36.479
it away. But that year I just took a break.

1346
01:44:37.520 --> 01:44:41.279
And so the first one, it was like could have

1347
01:44:41.319 --> 01:44:45.039
gone either way, believe me or don't believe me. And

1348
01:44:45.079 --> 01:44:47.640
because they both one of them liked me, the other

1349
01:44:47.680 --> 01:44:50.560
one gave me the benefit of the doubt. So they

1350
01:44:51.560 --> 01:44:53.840
they moved me to a different place. No did they

1351
01:44:53.880 --> 01:44:56.079
move me. I think they kept me there, and then

1352
01:44:56.119 --> 01:44:59.359
I got moved again for some other Someone accused me

1353
01:44:59.399 --> 01:45:00.560
of something, so I don't know.

1354
01:45:02.159 --> 01:45:07.640
I can't remember what that was. And the second, the

1355
01:45:07.680 --> 01:45:11.760
second disciplinary, unlike the third one third one, I was

1356
01:45:11.840 --> 01:45:13.560
laughing and I got sacked.

1357
01:45:14.399 --> 01:45:16.960
But the second one I went in there and I

1358
01:45:17.079 --> 01:45:21.159
was not not because I knew the reason I was

1359
01:45:21.199 --> 01:45:27.640
in there for the first and the first and third time.

1360
01:45:27.640 --> 01:45:29.239
I don't think I knew until I got into the

1361
01:45:29.239 --> 01:45:34.319
disciplinary why I had been suspended. But the second time

1362
01:45:34.399 --> 01:45:36.840
I knew because it had already told me he needed

1363
01:45:36.880 --> 01:45:38.640
to go home because we found you asleep.

1364
01:45:39.239 --> 01:45:43.159
So I turned up there. I was r I was

1365
01:45:43.239 --> 01:45:43.880
proper like.

1366
01:45:46.000 --> 01:45:46.239
I think.

1367
01:45:46.319 --> 01:45:50.640
First thing I said is you're out of order to

1368
01:45:51.199 --> 01:45:53.520
the bloke that was supposed to be my mate, what

1369
01:45:53.680 --> 01:45:56.079
my friend kind of was a boss, But I said,

1370
01:45:56.079 --> 01:45:56.800
you're out of order.

1371
01:45:56.880 --> 01:46:00.399
You know you are, and the other managed the other

1372
01:46:00.439 --> 01:46:07.439
boss said what's going on? And the one that I

1373
01:46:07.520 --> 01:46:11.560
knew started to talk and his partner said, no, wait, manut,

1374
01:46:11.560 --> 01:46:13.079
I want to hear it from Jason.

1375
01:46:13.520 --> 01:46:17.479
Mister Newland. So I told him. I said, he.

1376
01:46:19.079 --> 01:46:21.239
Asked me to stay twelve hours after just done a

1377
01:46:21.279 --> 01:46:23.159
twelve hour shift, So you wanted me to do a

1378
01:46:23.159 --> 01:46:26.479
twenty four hour shift? I told him point blank, I

1379
01:46:26.520 --> 01:46:32.079
would fall asleep, because what else do you do staying

1380
01:46:32.079 --> 01:46:35.479
away for twenty four hours? I said I'd fall asleep,

1381
01:46:35.720 --> 01:46:37.319
and he said it's okay, it doesn't matter.

1382
01:46:37.760 --> 01:46:41.960
Fell asleep. He sent me home suspended and without pay,

1383
01:46:42.159 --> 01:46:47.560
and ended up with disciplinary. He said, is that true?

1384
01:46:47.720 --> 01:46:50.000
And they went out and they came back and apologized

1385
01:46:50.000 --> 01:46:57.079
to me, apologized, and I went back.

1386
01:46:59.319 --> 01:47:01.479
To Canary War off and I went back and continued

1387
01:47:01.520 --> 01:47:07.600
working there until they Now that was my first disciplinary.

1388
01:47:08.520 --> 01:47:11.840
The second one was the alcohol one. So that was

1389
01:47:11.840 --> 01:47:15.520
the first disciplinary. So I'm sure there was another one

1390
01:47:15.520 --> 01:47:16.039
as well.

1391
01:47:18.680 --> 01:47:21.880
I can't remember what it was. I think, I'm not sure.

1392
01:47:21.880 --> 01:47:26.640
It's when the I think it was at the weekend

1393
01:47:26.760 --> 01:47:30.079
and a couple of vans pulled up and they said

1394
01:47:30.079 --> 01:47:31.920
they were just here to collect with stuff, and they

1395
01:47:31.960 --> 01:47:34.680
took a load of computers out and apparently they weren't

1396
01:47:34.720 --> 01:47:38.319
supposed to do that. Yeah, I think I got disciplined

1397
01:47:38.359 --> 01:47:45.720
for that as well. I wasn't to know, was I. Oh,

1398
01:47:45.760 --> 01:47:48.600
but we've been We've had millions of pounds robbed worth

1399
01:47:48.600 --> 01:47:52.920
of computers. Like, say, you should have told me, should

1400
01:47:52.920 --> 01:47:55.079
have told me that you weren't having any vans come

1401
01:47:56.199 --> 01:47:58.079
What do you mean, tell you that we're not having

1402
01:47:58.079 --> 01:48:00.920
any vans come in to collect the computers. Well, if

1403
01:48:00.960 --> 01:48:03.840
you'd done that when they knocked on a window saying

1404
01:48:04.159 --> 01:48:06.880
we come to collect the computers, then I'd know that

1405
01:48:06.960 --> 01:48:12.800
they weren't and they were robbers. I'm thinking that maybe

1406
01:48:12.840 --> 01:48:15.039
they made the excuse of the toilets up just to

1407
01:48:15.039 --> 01:48:30.800
get rid of me. Maybe hmm, the proms. So I

1408
01:48:30.920 --> 01:48:33.840
talked about the proms. Cheese rolling? Did you know the

1409
01:48:33.920 --> 01:48:40.079
cheese rolling down Cooper's Hill in Glaucus, Dyeshire is a

1410
01:48:40.119 --> 01:48:47.479
traditional summer event. Now it is cheese rolling. I think

1411
01:48:47.520 --> 01:48:52.119
the person rolls with the cheese and these are not

1412
01:48:52.159 --> 01:48:56.279
little bits of cheeses, are massive, massive bits of cheese.

1413
01:48:56.359 --> 01:49:00.720
It's very dangerous and people get injured doing it. Is

1414
01:49:02.800 --> 01:49:07.680
It's not as fun as you'd imagine, unless, of course,

1415
01:49:07.920 --> 01:49:08.399
it is.

1416
01:49:10.760 --> 01:49:16.239
Coastal and seaside culture. The Victorian era saw the boom

1417
01:49:16.439 --> 01:49:23.560
of British seaside holidays. What is a Victorian era is

1418
01:49:23.600 --> 01:49:28.039
that when my nan and grandad went on holiday, because

1419
01:49:28.039 --> 01:49:35.439
it'd have like handkerchiefs on their heads and stuff. Yeah,

1420
01:49:35.600 --> 01:49:38.760
I mean back then there wasn't such a thing as

1421
01:49:38.840 --> 01:49:45.520
going abroad on holiday, you know, Spain and France and

1422
01:49:45.560 --> 01:49:50.359
stuff like that. Wasn't It wasn't a flight a short

1423
01:49:50.359 --> 01:49:53.680
flight away like it is now what has been for

1424
01:49:53.720 --> 01:49:59.000
a long time. So people from London, like my nan,

1425
01:49:59.439 --> 01:50:03.640
she used to go to places like Brighton or South End.

1426
01:50:05.319 --> 01:50:08.680
On holiday. Now both of those places are not far

1427
01:50:08.720 --> 01:50:13.800
from London, both in or ones in Essex. Brighton is

1428
01:50:13.840 --> 01:50:18.920
in I don't know where it is is at Hertfordshire Brighton,

1429
01:50:19.600 --> 01:50:23.239
but both places are not a long way away from

1430
01:50:23.680 --> 01:50:27.119
London really, And.

1431
01:50:29.680 --> 01:50:31.800
They said they would go to places like that, maybe

1432
01:50:31.840 --> 01:50:36.079
Harriage even I'm not sure, and that would be a

1433
01:50:36.199 --> 01:50:40.039
nice summer holiday.

1434
01:50:40.119 --> 01:50:41.600
And apparently.

1435
01:50:42.800 --> 01:50:47.199
I'm partly making this up based on a very vague memory.

1436
01:50:48.920 --> 01:50:52.840
Sometimes I think they would stay in board in houses,

1437
01:50:55.960 --> 01:51:01.640
and they may even share rooms with complete strangers, and

1438
01:51:01.680 --> 01:51:05.239
there would be a landlady.

1439
01:51:04.880 --> 01:51:07.319
As this was kind of the cliche, a.

1440
01:51:07.399 --> 01:51:14.680
Very very mean landlady, and the landlady would make food

1441
01:51:15.039 --> 01:51:19.479
and give them dinner and everything, but they would have

1442
01:51:19.560 --> 01:51:22.640
to be in by a certain time in the evening

1443
01:51:23.079 --> 01:51:29.279
or the door would be locked. That's the cliche of that,

1444
01:51:30.079 --> 01:51:35.279
but I think some of it's true. Potentially, it doesn't

1445
01:51:35.319 --> 01:51:42.359
sound like particularly nice holiday, does it really. Brighton Pier

1446
01:51:42.560 --> 01:51:50.199
opened in eighteen ninety nine and became a summer hot spot. Yeah,

1447
01:51:50.239 --> 01:51:52.840
Brighton's changed over the years, but it was always a

1448
01:51:52.960 --> 01:51:56.439
very popular holiday destination.

1449
01:51:58.439 --> 01:52:09.119
And it's last time I went to Brighton. It ended

1450
01:52:09.159 --> 01:52:15.760
up with a sore bum because, yeah, I fell over

1451
01:52:15.840 --> 01:52:18.560
and I kind of banged. I fell over on my

1452
01:52:18.600 --> 01:52:20.960
bomb and I just banged myself and it's like, oh

1453
01:52:22.199 --> 01:52:24.920
and I remember. It's just it was weird because I

1454
01:52:24.960 --> 01:52:28.319
come home. Normally, you hurt yourself, you expect a little

1455
01:52:29.000 --> 01:52:32.000
I don't expect people to say, oh no, start crying.

1456
01:52:32.239 --> 01:52:35.479
You fell over and banged your bumb all. I didn't

1457
01:52:35.520 --> 01:52:40.359
expect that, but a little bit of caring, a little

1458
01:52:40.399 --> 01:52:45.680
bit of maybe interest or sympathy. But people come back

1459
01:52:45.720 --> 01:52:49.359
to work, how is your How was your holiday for

1460
01:52:49.520 --> 01:52:50.800
your weekend in Brighton?

1461
01:52:50.880 --> 01:52:57.279
And I said, oh, I got sore bumb And people

1462
01:52:57.359 --> 01:53:05.399
found that hilarious. I mean, someone actually who I hadn't

1463
01:53:05.439 --> 01:53:09.439
even told that i'd hurt my that I had my accident.

1464
01:53:10.039 --> 01:53:12.039
You know, the first person I'm getting to work with

1465
01:53:12.880 --> 01:53:15.000
and no one else had been in work. He was

1466
01:53:15.000 --> 01:53:17.319
the first person there and I got there next this

1467
01:53:17.520 --> 01:53:20.319
on the Monday morning, and he said, how is your

1468
01:53:20.720 --> 01:53:25.000
How is your your weekend in Brighton? Have you got

1469
01:53:25.000 --> 01:53:29.000
a saw bum? And I said, yeah, how do you know?

1470
01:53:30.560 --> 01:53:37.720
And he laughed and walked off, and I'm like, that's weird.

1471
01:53:38.600 --> 01:53:42.640
And then I told everyone and they laughed that I'd

1472
01:53:42.680 --> 01:53:46.479
fallen over, like you fall on your cocksix. It's not

1473
01:53:46.600 --> 01:53:50.039
a nice experience. The first time it ever happened when

1474
01:53:50.079 --> 01:53:52.600
I was in the chip shop, I got saw bumb

1475
01:53:52.640 --> 01:54:00.359
in there and the I was carrying a bag of potatoes,

1476
01:54:00.680 --> 01:54:05.960
which I would argue is probably heavier than me, maybe

1477
01:54:06.079 --> 01:54:10.520
not fifty fifty kilos. Possibly, I don't know if it'd

1478
01:54:10.560 --> 01:54:18.800
be fifty kilos, it was heavy. Fifty kilos would have

1479
01:54:18.880 --> 01:54:23.840
been how much I weighed at the time, so maybe

1480
01:54:23.880 --> 01:54:28.760
it was. Maybe it was forty kilos, maybe thirty kilos,

1481
01:54:30.039 --> 01:54:32.680
but it was heavy, that's all I know. And I

1482
01:54:32.760 --> 01:54:38.560
slipped over in the kitchen and the bag of spuds, unopened,

1483
01:54:39.039 --> 01:54:45.439
landed on top of me, and yeah, I was struggling

1484
01:54:45.479 --> 01:54:48.960
to walk. I mean, really, I should have gone to

1485
01:54:49.000 --> 01:54:52.119
the hospital. And got examined because it would have been

1486
01:54:52.880 --> 01:54:55.479
it took quite a few weeks for that to heal.

1487
01:54:58.199 --> 01:55:01.720
But back then I didn't have to time to take off.

1488
01:55:01.520 --> 01:55:09.520
And just got on with it. Really, but yeah, the

1489
01:55:09.560 --> 01:55:12.000
last time went to Brighton. Yes, it's been quite a while.

1490
01:55:16.359 --> 01:55:19.359
Fish and chips became a seaside favorite in the early

1491
01:55:19.399 --> 01:55:26.640
twentieth century. Really, I thought fish and chips, Yeah, seaside favorite.

1492
01:55:26.640 --> 01:55:31.760
But fish and chips is quite a traditional Friday meal Religiously,

1493
01:55:32.000 --> 01:55:36.880
I do believe, or at least fishes on a Friday,

1494
01:55:38.760 --> 01:55:42.079
because I think it's the Jesus powerable, isn't it. I

1495
01:55:42.119 --> 01:55:46.720
think that's when he he turned up. It was a Friday,

1496
01:55:46.800 --> 01:55:53.039
wasn't it. And he turned up, and the chip van

1497
01:55:53.159 --> 01:55:57.600
turned up, and there's loads of chips, and he said, okay,

1498
01:55:58.800 --> 01:56:00.279
now I've talked to you for a little bit. We're

1499
01:56:00.279 --> 01:56:03.520
all here. Let's go and let's get some chips out.

1500
01:56:03.560 --> 01:56:04.600
Let's fish and chips.

1501
01:56:05.199 --> 01:56:08.840
And the fish fan said oops, and he said, what

1502
01:56:09.039 --> 01:56:13.319
is it? He said, Jesus, sorry about this? He said, okay,

1503
01:56:13.600 --> 01:56:17.600
what so I'm a bit embarrassed. We've got loads of chips,

1504
01:56:18.560 --> 01:56:23.640
but we forgot the fish. And then someone showered from

1505
01:56:23.640 --> 01:56:27.399
the back. And wait a minute, we've got one fish.

1506
01:56:27.520 --> 01:56:29.920
He said, he got one fish. All those chips but

1507
01:56:30.159 --> 01:56:34.239
one fish. And Jesus said, I just hand it here,

1508
01:56:34.479 --> 01:56:38.720
and you know the rest is history. But that was

1509
01:56:38.720 --> 01:56:41.720
on a Friday, because Fridays when fish and chips was

1510
01:56:41.760 --> 01:56:47.800
a thing back in Jerusalem that the bathing machine was

1511
01:56:47.840 --> 01:56:53.680
a common sight on the nineteenth century beaches. I feel

1512
01:56:53.720 --> 01:56:54.159
we need.

1513
01:56:54.039 --> 01:57:00.479
More information about that, don't you. The bathing machine a

1514
01:57:00.560 --> 01:57:09.319
machine that bathes you. That sounds very pleasant. It sounds

1515
01:57:09.359 --> 01:57:19.640
almost oh, the bathing machine, unless it's kind of like

1516
01:57:19.680 --> 01:57:22.760
a thing with just a shower that just showers you

1517
01:57:23.680 --> 01:57:26.520
from different angles. But even that sounds nice, doesn't it

1518
01:57:26.600 --> 01:57:28.359
if it's at a decent temperature.

1519
01:57:33.720 --> 01:57:36.000
I've got to look this up. I'm sorry, this is

1520
01:57:36.000 --> 01:57:38.359
one of those moments where I can't not look it up.

1521
01:57:40.800 --> 01:57:47.840
Bathing machine eighteen hundreds. I'm going to look up images

1522
01:57:48.600 --> 01:57:54.319
just so I can look at it. What right, it's

1523
01:57:54.359 --> 01:58:00.159
only showing you the outside of it. The bathing machine

1524
01:58:00.720 --> 01:58:10.079
Collection of Ouque Bathing Machine eighteen hundreds, Victorian bathing machine.

1525
01:58:11.279 --> 01:58:15.239
But why is it not shown inside? Maybe it was

1526
01:58:15.359 --> 01:58:26.520
one of those things. Ah, it looks to me, it

1527
01:58:26.640 --> 01:58:31.399
was just somewhere that you can jump into the water from.

1528
01:58:31.760 --> 01:58:36.359
That doesn't that doesn't sound like a bathing machine. Let's

1529
01:58:36.399 --> 01:58:37.439
read out what it says.

1530
01:58:38.960 --> 01:58:43.920
You search the web for bathing machines, says Google, being

1531
01:58:44.199 --> 01:58:52.399
AI whatever. The victorian of bathing machine was in an

1532
01:58:51.640 --> 01:58:59.239
innovative mobile changing room designed to allow swimmers, particularly women,

1533
01:58:59.439 --> 01:59:05.000
to maintain in their modesties while bathing at the seaside. Okay,

1534
01:59:05.159 --> 01:59:08.479
so it's basically a changing room. It's a changing room.

1535
01:59:09.239 --> 01:59:15.319
Historical context, the bathing machine emerged during the eighteenth century

1536
01:59:15.319 --> 01:59:21.560
as the popularity of seaside resorts grew in Britain, at

1537
01:59:21.600 --> 01:59:25.319
a time when swimming costumes were not yet common and

1538
01:59:25.800 --> 01:59:33.000
modesty was paramount, especially for women. These wooden carts served

1539
01:59:33.079 --> 01:59:39.960
as both changing rooms and a means to discreetly enter

1540
01:59:40.159 --> 01:59:44.520
the water. The legal requirements for men and women to

1541
01:59:44.600 --> 01:59:50.640
bathe separately fostered the need for these machines, allowing females

1542
01:59:50.960 --> 01:59:55.840
to change into their bathing attire while remaining hidden from

1543
01:59:55.880 --> 01:59:56.560
public view.

1544
02:00:00.159 --> 02:00:04.640
Okay, so they the car. They were carts on wheels,

1545
02:00:05.000 --> 02:00:09.560
six foot high eight foot wide, and they were pulled

1546
02:00:09.560 --> 02:00:14.920
into the sea by horses and babies could just jump

1547
02:00:14.960 --> 02:00:18.359
into the water about being seen, and maybe curtains or

1548
02:00:18.439 --> 02:00:21.000
umbrellas to keep their modesty.

1549
02:00:24.880 --> 02:00:28.760
Oh look at this. Women used these machines. Mainly men

1550
02:00:28.800 --> 02:00:31.560
were allowed to bathe naked until the nineteenth century.

1551
02:00:32.960 --> 02:00:46.000
Oh hmm, right.

1552
02:00:46.640 --> 02:00:52.520
And the bathing costumes were ridiculous. It wasn't like I mean,

1553
02:00:52.600 --> 02:00:58.119
they were proper, full on, full on old attire.

1554
02:00:58.199 --> 02:00:58.600
It was.

1555
02:01:00.039 --> 02:01:03.840
The men always had to have stripy ones and the.

1556
02:01:06.399 --> 02:01:10.199
It doesn't look fun. And there's a woman there were

1557
02:01:10.279 --> 02:01:11.359
in a bathing costume.

1558
02:01:11.399 --> 02:01:13.520
It looks like she's getting ready to climb a mountain.

1559
02:01:15.239 --> 02:01:22.439
H wow, that's interesting, kind of I know, it's not

1560
02:01:22.439 --> 02:01:29.319
supposed to be sorry about that. The bucket and spades

1561
02:01:29.359 --> 02:01:36.640
sets have been popular since the early nineteen hundreds. I

1562
02:01:36.640 --> 02:01:43.359
should like bucket and spades, yeah, I did.

1563
02:01:45.199 --> 02:01:50.720
I should like to I should like to make sand

1564
02:01:50.840 --> 02:01:57.239
castles because it's fun, wasn't it If anyone did it,

1565
02:01:57.239 --> 02:02:03.760
it's just fun. And my brother equally liked to just

1566
02:02:03.960 --> 02:02:12.279
step on mine. For some reason. I did think about

1567
02:02:12.319 --> 02:02:14.720
trying to get hold of some explosions, but she couldn't

1568
02:02:14.720 --> 02:02:17.600
get any It's very hard when you're seven, the cold

1569
02:02:17.640 --> 02:02:21.239
of explosions explosives. I was going to put some underneath

1570
02:02:21.239 --> 02:02:24.399
the sand and when he stepped on it. I'll teach

1571
02:02:24.479 --> 02:02:27.760
him not to do that again. But yeah, I couldn't

1572
02:02:27.760 --> 02:02:32.640
get any spent a lot of my childhood in prison.

1573
02:02:32.800 --> 02:02:39.760
That was weird, and I was the youngest terrorist in history.

1574
02:02:40.640 --> 02:02:46.359
Ice Cream vans became widespread in the nineteen fifties. Oh,

1575
02:02:46.760 --> 02:02:52.439
ice cream vans. I loved myself some ice cream. Having

1576
02:02:52.760 --> 02:02:56.319
been to an ice cream van for a long, long, long,

1577
02:02:56.359 --> 02:03:01.760
long time. It amazes me that they come out in

1578
02:03:01.800 --> 02:03:05.039
all weathers. I saw one. It was freezing cold and

1579
02:03:05.119 --> 02:03:09.039
it came out because it was a Saturday, because it

1580
02:03:09.079 --> 02:03:12.479
was in June. It was raining and it was very

1581
02:03:12.520 --> 02:03:15.119
cold and windy. It was like a winter's day out there,

1582
02:03:15.720 --> 02:03:19.119
and they just decided, well to second of June, let's

1583
02:03:19.159 --> 02:03:25.199
go out. It's officially summer. Fly just landed on a microphone.

1584
02:03:26.479 --> 02:03:30.760
Punch and Judy shows were classic seaside entertainment. I don't

1585
02:03:30.800 --> 02:03:32.000
think they're allowed anymore.

1586
02:03:32.840 --> 02:03:40.439
That's study Gate. Blackpool Illuminations, though not autumnal, used to

1587
02:03:40.520 --> 02:03:50.920
start in late summer, so Blackpool Illuminations very very popular. Blackpool, well,

1588
02:03:50.960 --> 02:03:55.840
I think it was once classed as the Las Vegas

1589
02:03:55.920 --> 02:04:03.800
of England that like sinos and all kinds of stuff

1590
02:04:03.840 --> 02:04:08.560
in Blackpool, And I would have loved to have gone

1591
02:04:08.600 --> 02:04:14.760
there when it was busy, not busy busy, but that

1592
02:04:14.800 --> 02:04:16.920
in its kind of peak, just to see what it's like,

1593
02:04:17.880 --> 02:04:21.159
because I never did. I don't know what it's like now.

1594
02:04:21.199 --> 02:04:23.239
If it still gets really busy.

1595
02:04:23.560 --> 02:04:26.199
I hope it does for the people that you know,

1596
02:04:26.680 --> 02:04:31.880
work there and have businesses. But I went there once

1597
02:04:32.359 --> 02:04:34.279
and it was on the way to the Isle of

1598
02:04:34.399 --> 02:04:38.920
Man and it was the windiest day in history.

1599
02:04:41.039 --> 02:04:45.880
It was probably August July August.

1600
02:04:45.439 --> 02:04:54.319
Time, really windy, and we were going to Liverpool to

1601
02:04:54.439 --> 02:04:59.319
catch the ferry to the Isle of Man. The faerry

1602
02:04:59.439 --> 02:05:03.920
was canceled, but because we'd been in a car and

1603
02:05:03.960 --> 02:05:07.119
we've been traveling for ten minutes, my dad decided to

1604
02:05:07.159 --> 02:05:13.359
continue the journey anyway in a almost hurricane wind, which

1605
02:05:13.359 --> 02:05:15.640
is why the fairy had been canceled.

1606
02:05:18.119 --> 02:05:18.319
You know.

1607
02:05:18.680 --> 02:05:23.520
He decided, well, we've been going for ten minutes because

1608
02:05:23.560 --> 02:05:26.840
his sister, who would visit my auntie who we were visiting,

1609
02:05:27.479 --> 02:05:29.119
said don't bother coming.

1610
02:05:29.600 --> 02:05:36.119
There's no fairies. There is absolutely tremendous weather here and

1611
02:05:36.159 --> 02:05:41.680
the fairies are canceled for the formidable, future formidable, formidable

1612
02:05:41.720 --> 02:05:48.359
future formidable. It's very formidable. Formidable was like war that's

1613
02:05:48.439 --> 02:05:56.039
quite good formidable for dimmable bidable hm hm. Anyway, they

1614
02:05:56.039 --> 02:06:03.239
were canceled, but my dad said nah, and we stopped

1615
02:06:03.399 --> 02:06:08.159
at Blackpool because it's on the way to Liverpool.

1616
02:06:10.720 --> 02:06:12.680
And I was quite happy because I thought, all go

1617
02:06:12.720 --> 02:06:15.239
to see Blackpool Blackpool Tower.

1618
02:06:15.840 --> 02:06:16.840
There was no lights on.

1619
02:06:19.039 --> 02:06:24.119
Everything seemed to be closed because the wind was it

1620
02:06:24.199 --> 02:06:25.520
was almost hurricane level.

1621
02:06:25.560 --> 02:06:27.880
It was really strong.

1622
02:06:27.960 --> 02:06:30.800
I mean, we don't generally get hurricanes in this country,

1623
02:06:31.279 --> 02:06:33.920
but we do get very strong winds sometimes, and this

1624
02:06:34.000 --> 02:06:38.479
is one of those really really really windy days. My

1625
02:06:38.600 --> 02:06:48.680
name nearly blew away and she went into one of

1626
02:06:48.720 --> 02:06:53.560
these toilets and it was a.

1627
02:06:56.760 --> 02:07:04.600
What was it. It was a toilet. It's like a

1628
02:07:04.640 --> 02:07:05.479
porter toilet.

1629
02:07:05.880 --> 02:07:09.800
Okay, it was heavy enough so it wasn't being blown around,

1630
02:07:09.800 --> 02:07:12.039
but it was a portter toilet. She went in there

1631
02:07:12.359 --> 02:07:16.720
and she got locked in. She couldn't get out, and

1632
02:07:17.920 --> 02:07:21.279
my dad got a phone call from my auntie saying,

1633
02:07:21.560 --> 02:07:25.640
it looks like the next ferry is going to be

1634
02:07:26.319 --> 02:07:30.000
The winds calm down enough on their end that they

1635
02:07:30.039 --> 02:07:32.880
can sort of send the ferry out, so we had to.

1636
02:07:34.920 --> 02:07:38.359
I had to leave Menanda, And yeah, she's still there

1637
02:07:38.359 --> 02:07:42.439
as far as I know. That was twenty twenty one

1638
02:07:42.520 --> 02:07:43.000
years ago.

1639
02:07:43.159 --> 02:07:46.720
I hope she's all right. I've heard it.

1640
02:07:46.720 --> 02:07:55.520
They're quite comfortable places, those porter toilets, porter potty.

1641
02:07:55.720 --> 02:08:00.039
She did actually get locked in. It was funny, but

1642
02:08:00.239 --> 02:08:04.319
in the same sense, obviously it wasn't funny, but it

1643
02:08:04.359 --> 02:08:06.560
was funny. We got out, We got her out. We

1644
02:08:06.640 --> 02:08:12.399
managed to do the lot from the outside. I think

1645
02:08:12.439 --> 02:08:14.319
I knew how to do that. And my dad looked

1646
02:08:14.319 --> 02:08:16.760
at me very strangely that I was able to open

1647
02:08:16.800 --> 02:08:19.119
a toilet, a public toilet from the outside that was

1648
02:08:19.119 --> 02:08:21.800
locked from the inside. But it was just like a coin.

1649
02:08:22.000 --> 02:08:29.039
It was very simple and a drill. I happened to

1650
02:08:29.079 --> 02:08:31.840
have the tools on me. Don't judge me.

1651
02:08:32.960 --> 02:08:37.800
Lie dose or outdoor pools gained popularity in the nineteen thirties.

1652
02:08:39.479 --> 02:08:44.239
Yeah, they were popular. They were popular. I was going

1653
02:08:44.319 --> 02:08:48.319
to say they're popular in my day. But outdoor pool

1654
02:08:48.399 --> 02:08:53.880
like little pools, like the blow up ones and the

1655
02:08:53.960 --> 02:08:58.880
lie dose, and they like the big beds, floaty beds

1656
02:08:58.920 --> 02:09:02.760
made of plastic. They were quite popular even when I

1657
02:09:02.800 --> 02:09:07.600
was a kid, because you could you could lay on

1658
02:09:07.720 --> 02:09:13.680
them on in the garden, and then you can lay

1659
02:09:13.720 --> 02:09:16.640
on them on the water as well.

1660
02:09:19.680 --> 02:09:24.920
You've got beach huts in places like south Wold and

1661
02:09:25.199 --> 02:09:30.800
Bourne Mouth are worth tens of thousands of pounds. Now

1662
02:09:30.840 --> 02:09:33.760
that surprised me, because that doesn't surprise me. I already

1663
02:09:33.800 --> 02:09:38.000
knew that because where my dad lives, the peach, the

1664
02:09:38.039 --> 02:09:44.199
beach huts are like thirty grand, thirty five grand. There's

1665
02:09:44.279 --> 02:09:46.680
not enough room to do anything in them, hardly.

1666
02:09:47.520 --> 02:09:51.760
Literally. You can you can sit in it, that's it.

1667
02:09:54.640 --> 02:09:56.680
You can't sleep in it. I suppose you could, but

1668
02:09:56.720 --> 02:10:07.279
you're not allowed to sleep in it, not overnight. You

1669
02:10:07.359 --> 02:10:13.960
can't have braves agriculture and nature. Some is a I

1670
02:10:13.960 --> 02:10:16.760
don't think you even own the land, so it'd be

1671
02:10:16.800 --> 02:10:19.640
different if you owned the land and you bought all

1672
02:10:19.720 --> 02:10:27.840
those beach huts along the prom Technically you could perhaps

1673
02:10:27.920 --> 02:10:32.319
own enough land to start building on it. I don't know,

1674
02:10:32.399 --> 02:10:35.880
put a fence up or something. Some it is peak

1675
02:10:35.920 --> 02:10:39.800
harvest season for many English crops. I didn't know that.

1676
02:10:39.880 --> 02:10:46.840
I don't know a lot about crops. If we if

1677
02:10:46.920 --> 02:10:57.359
AI manages to extend life to almost infinity, you know,

1678
02:10:57.479 --> 02:11:01.439
so that all organs can be replaced with pished, and

1679
02:11:02.439 --> 02:11:05.000
you know that we just like could stay a life forever.

1680
02:11:06.960 --> 02:11:08.399
I'm going to study.

1681
02:11:09.720 --> 02:11:14.359
About harvests and crop growing because it does interest me,

1682
02:11:14.439 --> 02:11:15.239
but not that much.

1683
02:11:16.199 --> 02:11:17.279
I don't think I'm going to.

1684
02:11:17.239 --> 02:11:19.640
Have enough time in my life to really put too

1685
02:11:19.720 --> 02:11:23.920
much effort into it. But it's something that is I

1686
02:11:23.960 --> 02:11:28.239
know it's really important, but I just, yeah, I'd like

1687
02:11:28.279 --> 02:11:32.239
a bit more time. I'd like a bit more, a

1688
02:11:32.279 --> 02:11:34.600
bit more time added to my sentence so that I

1689
02:11:34.600 --> 02:11:40.520
could actually, you know, devote that time to studying English

1690
02:11:40.560 --> 02:11:42.359
crops and harvest seasons.

1691
02:11:45.000 --> 02:11:50.760
The next one is strawberry picking. Strawberry picking became a

1692
02:11:50.800 --> 02:11:53.399
popular summer pastime in the twentieth century.

1693
02:11:54.479 --> 02:11:56.279
Did you know this? This is something that you probably

1694
02:11:56.319 --> 02:11:58.439
never heard before. I don't know who told me this,

1695
02:11:58.560 --> 02:12:02.399
but apparently straw brees ripen much quicker when it's hot.

1696
02:12:05.800 --> 02:12:09.119
The smell of cut grass is a nostalgic trigger.

1697
02:12:08.920 --> 02:12:16.800
For many Brits. Yeah, there's definitely a certain smell, isn't

1698
02:12:16.800 --> 02:12:21.439
there connected to that cut and grass. You're not like

1699
02:12:21.479 --> 02:12:33.399
grass in the garden I'm talking about. Hmmm, So what

1700
02:12:33.560 --> 02:12:44.880
we got here? Hay fever, known medically as allergic rhinitis

1701
02:12:45.600 --> 02:12:49.239
rhinoceros spikes in English sellar dudes of pollen.

1702
02:12:52.880 --> 02:12:58.239
I think that's the same everywhere, isn't it? What else

1703
02:12:58.319 --> 02:13:02.640
has we got here? Blue bells? Blue bells finish blooming

1704
02:13:02.720 --> 02:13:08.119
by early summer. Blooming blue bells finish blooming by early

1705
02:13:08.199 --> 02:13:19.159
summer in English woodlands. Ooh, Butterflies, especially the red admiral

1706
02:13:19.840 --> 02:13:25.000
and peacock, are abundant in English summers.

1707
02:13:25.920 --> 02:13:28.920
That's good. I love myself a bit of butterfly action.

1708
02:13:30.720 --> 02:13:33.560
That sounds wrong, doesn't it. I really love butterflies though

1709
02:13:34.840 --> 02:13:38.000
they're so beautiful. And moths I like moths as well.

1710
02:13:38.680 --> 02:13:41.640
To me, a butterfly is just a moth. It's a

1711
02:13:41.720 --> 02:13:46.760
daytime moth, and a moth is a nighttime butterfly. It's

1712
02:13:46.800 --> 02:13:52.439
the same, isn't it? For me? Just how I see it?

1713
02:13:53.720 --> 02:13:57.159
I suppose to me, a moth is like a a

1714
02:13:57.199 --> 02:14:02.479
butterfly thats been bitten by a vampire maybe, or a

1715
02:14:02.520 --> 02:14:09.159
butterfly that's mated with a bat. You know that's that

1716
02:14:09.199 --> 02:14:14.920
would be messy. H The English oak releases most of

1717
02:14:14.960 --> 02:14:21.720
its pollen in the summer. Oh thanks. Hedgehogs are more

1718
02:14:21.840 --> 02:14:27.279
visible in summer evenings. Most things are more visible in

1719
02:14:27.359 --> 02:14:31.039
summer evenings because you can see because it's lighter.

1720
02:14:32.199 --> 02:14:36.600
Even a lampposts are more visible. The hedges are more visible,

1721
02:14:36.960 --> 02:14:40.319
the trees are more visible, the grass is more visible,

1722
02:14:42.000 --> 02:14:50.439
the ladybirds are more visible. But my roller skates are

1723
02:14:50.479 --> 02:14:55.680
more you know. The dog's barking again, so yeah.

1724
02:14:55.560 --> 02:15:01.960
It's hedgehogs. Wish that dog would stop. I managed to

1725
02:15:01.960 --> 02:15:07.199
stop Vinney from barking. He did start, and I said

1726
02:15:07.239 --> 02:15:11.319
to him, Oh, come on, baby, don't be doing that. Man,

1727
02:15:11.359 --> 02:15:14.319
little baby boy, we don't want to do that. We

1728
02:15:14.359 --> 02:15:17.359
don't want to be barking, do we. We don't want

1729
02:15:17.399 --> 02:15:21.399
to be barking because you're such a good boy. You

1730
02:15:21.479 --> 02:15:24.720
are a good boy, aren't you. You're my favoritest little

1731
02:15:24.800 --> 02:15:29.520
boy in the whole wide world. You are my little son,

1732
02:15:30.279 --> 02:15:33.319
my little Vinnie Minilli, Yes you are.

1733
02:15:35.680 --> 02:15:38.439
The English oak releases most of its pollic. Okay, I

1734
02:15:38.439 --> 02:15:39.039
would have done that.

1735
02:15:39.039 --> 02:15:45.520
One. Wasp season peaks in late summer, particularly August. Brilliant

1736
02:15:46.800 --> 02:15:51.279
summer thunderstorms help cool the air, but often follow hot

1737
02:15:51.479 --> 02:15:52.560
whom it spells.

1738
02:15:54.000 --> 02:15:54.239
Well.

1739
02:15:54.960 --> 02:15:57.399
It probably wouldn't help cool the air if the air

1740
02:15:57.439 --> 02:15:59.359
was already cool with it, so it kind of has

1741
02:15:59.439 --> 02:16:03.199
to follow a hot, humid spells. It sort of makes sense,

1742
02:16:03.680 --> 02:16:06.720
I think, or might just be im pedantic.

1743
02:16:09.119 --> 02:16:09.319
Right.

1744
02:16:11.640 --> 02:16:18.000
Historical events, the Spanish Armada was defeated in the summer

1745
02:16:18.039 --> 02:16:23.680
of fifteen eighty eight. The Great Fire of London began

1746
02:16:23.800 --> 02:16:27.439
during a dry summer of nine eight of sixteen sixty six.

1747
02:16:30.119 --> 02:16:32.200
None of this is nice stuff, so I'm gonna just

1748
02:16:33.719 --> 02:16:34.120
leave that.

1749
02:16:34.799 --> 02:16:37.799
It's all at wars and stuff. The Queen Victoria regularly

1750
02:16:37.840 --> 02:16:49.200
summered in the Isle of Wight. That's nice food and drink.

1751
02:16:49.360 --> 02:16:56.040
Eaton mess is a summer dessert originated at Eton College.

1752
02:16:56.360 --> 02:17:00.680
So is that what Eton musk drinks.

1753
02:17:02.200 --> 02:17:06.239
Or eats. Pim's Number one cup is traditionally served with

1754
02:17:06.280 --> 02:17:14.120
fruit and mint. Okay, cream cream teas are a summer

1755
02:17:14.159 --> 02:17:24.600
staple in Devon and corn Wall. I knew that Devon cream. Yeah.

1756
02:17:24.719 --> 02:17:30.200
Cucumber sand witches became popular as a cooling summer treat,

1757
02:17:32.399 --> 02:17:43.600
and barbecues became fashionable in English gardens in the nineteen eighties. Okay,

1758
02:17:43.959 --> 02:17:48.920
barbecues became fashionable in the nineteen eighties. I was around

1759
02:17:48.959 --> 02:17:53.040
in the nineteen eighties, so were they not popular before that?

1760
02:17:53.159 --> 02:17:57.360
I just thought everyone I remember the early eighties. I

1761
02:17:57.399 --> 02:18:04.639
remember even the late seventies seeing barbecues. Oh, it's interesting.

1762
02:18:05.639 --> 02:18:07.879
I just thought it was something that's been around for ages,

1763
02:18:08.479 --> 02:18:15.719
and it has now, But before then, ice cream cones

1764
02:18:16.000 --> 02:18:24.319
regularly gained popularity in England after w W One. Rhubarb

1765
02:18:24.399 --> 02:18:30.159
and gooseberries are commonly harvested in early summer. Rhubarb rubab

1766
02:18:30.280 --> 02:18:35.520
is one of those. I mean, isn't it technically a

1767
02:18:35.600 --> 02:18:42.760
vegetable because it's a root, isn't it? But it's a fruit?

1768
02:18:43.840 --> 02:18:44.200
Is it? If?

1769
02:18:44.280 --> 02:18:46.600
I don't know, I think it's a vegetable. But anyway,

1770
02:18:47.319 --> 02:18:53.760
rubarb is both disgusting and beautiful. It's weird now, it's

1771
02:18:53.799 --> 02:19:01.879
sour and like funny face making taste. If it's not

1772
02:19:02.000 --> 02:19:04.120
done in a way that I like it, I've got

1773
02:19:04.120 --> 02:19:08.200
to just talk for myself really, But if it has

1774
02:19:08.239 --> 02:19:12.000
the right amount of sugar in taste and it's in

1775
02:19:12.040 --> 02:19:17.040
a rubarb crumble, okay, the difference of rubob pie can

1776
02:19:17.079 --> 02:19:20.280
be a little bit sour rubob crumble, but it's done properly,

1777
02:19:21.680 --> 02:19:23.040
the most beautiful.

1778
02:19:23.639 --> 02:19:28.760
Oh, I can't even say the word. I'm so excited, Oh, honestly,

1779
02:19:28.959 --> 02:19:37.079
and with some cream or ice cream, absolutely gorgeous Summer

1780
02:19:37.159 --> 02:19:41.159
puddings made with berries and bread are a traditional dessert.

1781
02:19:42.639 --> 02:19:46.399
I've got funny story for one of my neighbors and

1782
02:19:48.239 --> 02:19:50.840
asked me for some bread the other day, and I said,

1783
02:19:50.879 --> 02:19:57.760
you've got any bread? Texted me. I said, yeah, all right, yeah,

1784
02:19:58.879 --> 02:20:00.559
and then she said, I wait a minute, I'm not

1785
02:20:00.600 --> 02:20:05.639
allowed to have bread because I'm diabetic. I said, okay,

1786
02:20:06.159 --> 02:20:07.719
I've got a pizza in the freeze if you want to.

1787
02:20:07.840 --> 02:20:14.520
She said, oh, that'd be nice, and pizza's many bread,

1788
02:20:14.520 --> 02:20:16.559
isn't it. So just that's what I was trying to

1789
02:20:20.639 --> 02:20:23.479
I think the can I have some bread? That was

1790
02:20:23.520 --> 02:20:26.639
the equiminal saying oh, can I some bread? And water?

1791
02:20:27.840 --> 02:20:30.479
Thinking I'd say, no, wait a minute, let me let

1792
02:20:30.520 --> 02:20:35.760
me order your take out. Yeah, no I can't. I'm

1793
02:20:35.799 --> 02:20:37.520
unable to. I'd like to be able to do that,

1794
02:20:38.200 --> 02:20:43.319
but I can't. I can you do it? Lemon barley

1795
02:20:43.319 --> 02:20:48.680
water was made famous by wimbled Dune. Some are puddings

1796
02:20:48.719 --> 02:20:52.680
made with berries and bread. Okay, it's traditional dessert, berries

1797
02:20:52.719 --> 02:20:56.879
and bread, But that's bread and butter pudding, though, isn't it.

1798
02:20:56.879 --> 02:21:01.399
It's saying summerre puddings, but bread and butter pudding, bread

1799
02:21:01.639 --> 02:21:06.680
and butter, jelly and ice cream remain a nostalgic summer

1800
02:21:07.200 --> 02:21:17.040
party favorite. The phrase British summer began in nineteen sixteen

1801
02:21:17.159 --> 02:21:22.559
with daylight saving okay, fair enough as they changed ordinary.

1802
02:21:22.600 --> 02:21:26.920
Then BBC weather forecasts for summer holidays became part of

1803
02:21:27.079 --> 02:21:32.520
family planning, and the nineteen sixties saw a surge in

1804
02:21:32.799 --> 02:21:38.280
seaside postcard humor. Ah, so that's when it started. I

1805
02:21:38.280 --> 02:21:40.079
should love all those because it used to just be

1806
02:21:40.239 --> 02:21:45.159
rude and lots of rude pictures. Last of the Summer

1807
02:21:45.200 --> 02:21:49.680
Wine a sitcom man from nineteen seventy three to twenty ten.

1808
02:21:51.159 --> 02:21:53.239
It's just got some in a title that's not really

1809
02:21:53.280 --> 02:21:57.799
relevant to what I'm talking about. But this next bit

1810
02:21:58.200 --> 02:22:01.840
is Summer Holiday Cliff Richard. It's a Cliff Richard movie

1811
02:22:02.719 --> 02:22:07.000
from nineteen sixty three, like we are going on a

1812
02:22:07.159 --> 02:22:12.879
Summahanaday normal working for week or two. I love that song.

1813
02:22:14.000 --> 02:22:18.879
Gaverness Stacy's Barry Island scenes became iconic summer TV moments.

1814
02:22:19.399 --> 02:22:21.600
I've got no idea what that is. I know Gavin

1815
02:22:21.600 --> 02:22:25.319
and Stacey, but I don't know the moment they're talking about.

1816
02:22:27.120 --> 02:22:29.680
And they're just talking about things like Love Island, Top

1817
02:22:29.719 --> 02:22:34.760
of the Pops, the Radio one road show, Doctor Who's

1818
02:22:34.799 --> 02:22:38.120
Summer Specials, just things that be on TV in the summer.

1819
02:22:39.520 --> 02:22:42.440
Summer is probably one of the worst times on English television.

1820
02:22:43.680 --> 02:22:45.920
They just don't put a lot on TV. There's a

1821
02:22:45.959 --> 02:22:50.520
bit of sport for those that love sport, Wimbledon and

1822
02:22:51.719 --> 02:22:54.360
the World Cup or the European Cup if that's song

1823
02:22:54.479 --> 02:22:59.559
of that year. So there's things like that, cricket, but

1824
02:23:00.079 --> 02:23:04.799
as far as entertainment programs, there's not always a huge

1825
02:23:04.840 --> 02:23:10.559
amount on that kind of starts in autumn. Oh then

1826
02:23:10.559 --> 02:23:15.840
it's got outdoor activities. It's got crickets, tennis of course,

1827
02:23:17.479 --> 02:23:20.760
kite flying, I don't know. Kite flying is something you

1828
02:23:20.760 --> 02:23:24.840
need a lot of wind. For a lot of wind wind.

1829
02:23:26.239 --> 02:23:31.200
Bicycle cells spike every summer. Well, we all buy things

1830
02:23:31.200 --> 02:23:35.079
we don't use that caravan and there's a classic English

1831
02:23:35.159 --> 02:23:40.520
summer tradition. Paddle Boats on lakes became popular in the

1832
02:23:40.600 --> 02:23:48.639
Victorian era, and children's summer camps began growing in popularity

1833
02:23:49.200 --> 02:23:57.680
post WW two. Village fates with tombolas and coconut shies

1834
02:23:58.120 --> 02:24:04.120
are summer traditions, and schools out for summer signals. Mass

1835
02:24:04.159 --> 02:24:10.120
family holidays starting in July, so it's July to one today.

1836
02:24:11.000 --> 02:24:14.600
This is quite apt, isn't it really? For talking about?

1837
02:24:18.239 --> 02:24:24.360
What are we actually talking about? What is the subject? Oh, summers? Okay,

1838
02:24:24.399 --> 02:24:30.239
we're talking about summers right all. The term staycation became

1839
02:24:30.319 --> 02:24:37.959
popular during summer's post two thousand and eight staycation. I

1840
02:24:38.000 --> 02:24:40.840
think it got to the point where going abroad was

1841
02:24:40.879 --> 02:24:45.200
no longer a really really cheap option as much as

1842
02:24:45.239 --> 02:24:47.520
it used to be in the past. It used to

1843
02:24:47.559 --> 02:24:49.399
be a cheaper option in it. I think it just

1844
02:24:49.440 --> 02:24:54.239
became more expensive. Maybe I don't know. Butlin's holiday camps

1845
02:24:54.239 --> 02:24:58.719
were summer institution from the nineteen thirties. I used to

1846
02:24:58.719 --> 02:25:02.399
work at Butlin's for a season in the winter of

1847
02:25:03.079 --> 02:25:08.120
some time in the nineties. My tummy's gurgling for some reason.

1848
02:25:09.040 --> 02:25:14.239
Cornwall and Devon have been popular summer destinations for centuries.

1849
02:25:16.200 --> 02:25:22.159
It's a beautiful coven. Cornwall and Devon lovely places. Never

1850
02:25:22.239 --> 02:25:25.159
been to Lake District. I'd like to go there. It

1851
02:25:25.239 --> 02:25:28.760
sees the peaking visits during the summer. I've never been there.

1852
02:25:28.760 --> 02:25:29.399
It'd be nice.

1853
02:25:30.520 --> 02:25:33.879
The Great British q can be seen at every seaside

1854
02:25:33.959 --> 02:25:36.760
chip shop in July. Yeah, I'm not a big fan

1855
02:25:36.799 --> 02:25:41.440
of the old queue in I'll be honest with you. Nah,

1856
02:25:41.719 --> 02:25:49.520
rail excursions to the coast became common in the eighteen hundreds.

1857
02:25:47.639 --> 02:25:49.079
So yeah, that.

1858
02:25:50.879 --> 02:25:54.319
Guess because we had railway tracks end didn't we Before that?

1859
02:25:54.399 --> 02:25:59.280
We had to go by horse and cart, I suppose

1860
02:26:00.600 --> 02:26:08.040
or ride on sheep. Caravans and motor homes often clog

1861
02:26:08.239 --> 02:26:12.840
English roads in August. I was just wondering, Like with horses,

1862
02:26:12.879 --> 02:26:14.639
you put a carroat in front of them, so they run.

1863
02:26:15.079 --> 02:26:18.440
What would you put in front of a sheep? What

1864
02:26:18.520 --> 02:26:21.559
does sheep eat grass?

1865
02:26:21.920 --> 02:26:23.559
So I suppose you could. You could travel on a

1866
02:26:23.639 --> 02:26:27.920
cow and just put like some grass or a little

1867
02:26:27.920 --> 02:26:30.399
plant or something dangling in front of it, and they

1868
02:26:30.479 --> 02:26:34.719
just follow that try and get to the grass. Maybe

1869
02:26:36.639 --> 02:26:43.319
bank holiday weekends are peak travel periods. That's true. It

1870
02:26:43.399 --> 02:26:48.520
says caravans and motor homes often clog English roads in August. Okay,

1871
02:26:48.559 --> 02:26:51.159
we don't ever go at them. It's not their fault,

1872
02:26:51.280 --> 02:26:54.280
is it. Why are having to go at people in

1873
02:26:54.319 --> 02:26:57.639
caravans and motor homes. They don't take up a huge

1874
02:26:57.680 --> 02:27:02.319
amount more space and cars. It is that, you know,

1875
02:27:03.239 --> 02:27:05.159
Like the other day I went into Okay, I want

1876
02:27:05.120 --> 02:27:10.000
to you about that, but okay, I was in the hospital.

1877
02:27:10.479 --> 02:27:14.239
I needed the toilet. I needed the toilet but it

1878
02:27:14.280 --> 02:27:15.840
was just a weir read but I needed to go.

1879
02:27:17.959 --> 02:27:21.440
Went to the men's toilets it and I walked past

1880
02:27:22.159 --> 02:27:27.280
I think five disabled toilets to get to the men's toilets.

1881
02:27:27.840 --> 02:27:30.280
It was blocked off because it was being cleaned. I

1882
02:27:30.319 --> 02:27:37.520
went back. There was multiple disabled toilets, but I were empty,

1883
02:27:38.120 --> 02:27:40.360
so I went in one did my quick wee wee

1884
02:27:41.280 --> 02:27:45.639
came out as guaranteed. There was a lady there in

1885
02:27:45.680 --> 02:27:48.319
a wheelchair waiting, and the woman that was with her

1886
02:27:48.520 --> 02:27:51.280
was looking at me like I just committed every crime

1887
02:27:52.040 --> 02:27:56.440
in history upon her person. Honestly, it was like really,

1888
02:27:57.559 --> 02:27:59.079
And I said, oh, was sorry about that. I just

1889
02:27:59.120 --> 02:28:04.399
needed to go, And neither of the master answered me

1890
02:28:04.440 --> 02:28:10.040
even acknowledge my existence. And honestly, I was there for

1891
02:28:10.639 --> 02:28:13.559
I was in there maybe twenty seconds, half a minute,

1892
02:28:13.639 --> 02:28:17.200
so it wasn't a long time. So I didn't feel great.

1893
02:28:17.840 --> 02:28:21.040
I'll be honest. I mean, I am registered, I'm technically

1894
02:28:21.040 --> 02:28:25.840
disabled anyway, I'm disabled, but not just not physically. And

1895
02:28:27.319 --> 02:28:32.520
I start thinking and I'm a little bit inside as

1896
02:28:32.520 --> 02:28:42.440
I'm walking out. I'm just thinking, you know what, Okay,

1897
02:28:43.079 --> 02:28:50.840
disabled toilets there for disabled people, fair enough. However, in

1898
02:28:50.920 --> 02:28:55.520
what world does anyone expect to be able to just

1899
02:28:55.559 --> 02:28:57.399
walk up the toilet, open the door, and go in

1900
02:28:58.000 --> 02:29:00.840
without queuing, without waiting, without some else being in there.

1901
02:29:05.399 --> 02:29:07.440
No one does that with the men's toilets or for

1902
02:29:07.479 --> 02:29:10.639
the women's toilets. I can't believe there's someone in there.

1903
02:29:10.719 --> 02:29:13.200
Why are you in there? It should be available for

1904
02:29:13.239 --> 02:29:15.559
me just to walk in. I suppose I shouldn't use

1905
02:29:15.559 --> 02:29:18.840
the word walking, but just to use the toilet without

1906
02:29:18.879 --> 02:29:19.520
having to wait.

1907
02:29:24.000 --> 02:29:27.239
I mean, firstly I have to wait. It's like, I mean,

1908
02:29:27.280 --> 02:29:35.959
she was sitting down waiting, and why would she have

1909
02:29:36.040 --> 02:29:38.159
to be what? It's just it's just kind of like,

1910
02:29:38.440 --> 02:29:41.360
wait a minute. If I was in there for hours,

1911
02:29:41.440 --> 02:29:43.760
or if I was in there doing a long long time,

1912
02:29:45.159 --> 02:29:48.840
but why should it Why should that toilet be available

1913
02:29:48.959 --> 02:29:55.200
instantly when I also need to go to the toilet.

1914
02:29:57.440 --> 02:29:58.959
It's just that's I started to think.

1915
02:29:58.959 --> 02:30:01.280
They're like, wait a minute, I'm feeling bad here, but

1916
02:30:01.319 --> 02:30:06.280
I don't need to really, because if there is a

1917
02:30:06.399 --> 02:30:11.760
queue of people, let's say, abled bodied people queuing outside

1918
02:30:12.319 --> 02:30:15.040
as so there as two people queueing outside the disabled

1919
02:30:15.440 --> 02:30:18.719
then she's within her right to say, oh, bug her off,

1920
02:30:19.239 --> 02:30:22.479
this is for this is for me, this is my toilet.

1921
02:30:22.520 --> 02:30:25.280
I own this toilet, this toilet is built just for me,

1922
02:30:26.040 --> 02:30:27.440
and she's got a right to kind of.

1923
02:30:29.520 --> 02:30:32.760
I don't know, run them over. I guess in a

1924
02:30:32.879 --> 02:30:38.200
chair she wants. But that wasn't the situation. So the

1925
02:30:38.319 --> 02:30:43.559
idea that she should be just spelled to just open

1926
02:30:43.559 --> 02:30:46.520
the door and go in and never ever have.

1927
02:30:46.559 --> 02:30:51.120
To wait to use a toilet. That's not real real life,

1928
02:30:51.200 --> 02:30:53.440
is it. Sometimes we have to wait to use a

1929
02:30:53.440 --> 02:30:56.000
toilet because there's other people on the planet.

1930
02:30:58.239 --> 02:31:03.760
So I felt less guilty. I would have felt less

1931
02:31:03.760 --> 02:31:06.559
guilty if I hadn't actually said that to her, and

1932
02:31:06.600 --> 02:31:11.959
then I felt more guilty, But you know, we live,

1933
02:31:12.120 --> 02:31:16.959
we learn sometimes. But I did think about that, like, Okay,

1934
02:31:17.479 --> 02:31:21.360
I needed the toilet. It's either that or go into

1935
02:31:21.360 --> 02:31:26.000
the women's toilets, and these days that's round upon. But

1936
02:31:26.040 --> 02:31:29.159
there was only one woman's toilet, there's only one men's toilet.

1937
02:31:30.280 --> 02:31:35.920
There was I think four four or five what's it

1938
02:31:36.000 --> 02:31:39.200
name toilets, because you can go in there as well

1939
02:31:39.239 --> 02:31:41.319
if you've got a baby to change as well, so

1940
02:31:42.000 --> 02:31:48.520
you know, it's not just for disabled people. And I

1941
02:31:48.520 --> 02:31:51.399
did a quick weewie. I didn't go there, and I

1942
02:31:51.440 --> 02:31:56.639
wasn't in there, knitting a jumper for Vinnie, drinking a

1943
02:31:56.680 --> 02:32:00.360
cup of coffee, watching the I don't know, Wimbledon tennis

1944
02:32:01.239 --> 02:32:01.920
on my phone.

1945
02:32:02.000 --> 02:32:06.559
I wasn't in there for ages. I was just there

1946
02:32:06.639 --> 02:32:11.399
was a quick zip in there, unzip and then zip

1947
02:32:11.479 --> 02:32:14.920
up again. Actually there's no zipping because I was wearing

1948
02:32:18.280 --> 02:32:22.120
what's it tracksuit bottoms. It was more of a shake

1949
02:32:22.319 --> 02:32:26.479
kind of not wanting drippage anyway more than you need

1950
02:32:26.520 --> 02:32:28.159
to know, so it was a little bit of shaking.

1951
02:32:28.840 --> 02:32:30.319
It's just, you know, just.

1952
02:32:30.280 --> 02:32:36.799
Washing my hands and stuff like that. And then I

1953
02:32:36.840 --> 02:32:39.719
and I left open the door because the thing is

1954
02:32:39.760 --> 02:32:41.840
they were trying to open the door. I kept pulling it,

1955
02:32:42.559 --> 02:32:44.040
rattling the door like anything.

1956
02:32:44.479 --> 02:32:46.479
It's okay, it's not opening now. It's not going to

1957
02:32:46.559 --> 02:32:49.840
open if you keep pulling it. There's clearly someone in there,

1958
02:32:50.920 --> 02:32:56.680
and seemed like quite an angry person, both of them. Really.

1959
02:32:57.959 --> 02:33:01.440
I think seeing my lovely face didn't help when I

1960
02:33:01.479 --> 02:33:08.520
opened the door. And it's the first time I've ever

1961
02:33:08.559 --> 02:33:12.399
felt bad for not being in a wheelchair. It was like,

1962
02:33:13.840 --> 02:33:17.520
it's not my fault that I've also got to do weewies.

1963
02:33:18.239 --> 02:33:20.200
I can't do it in the hallway, can't do it

1964
02:33:20.200 --> 02:33:23.520
in the bin. We're in a hospital, supposed to be

1965
02:33:24.200 --> 02:33:28.879
kind of sanitary, isn't it. And it's quick. It's not

1966
02:33:28.879 --> 02:33:32.559
like I had to sit down, you know, I didn't.

1967
02:33:33.040 --> 02:33:33.680
It's just like.

1968
02:33:35.680 --> 02:33:41.000
Probably half a minute if that. And they were nowhere

1969
02:33:41.040 --> 02:33:43.479
to be seen when I went in there, so I'm

1970
02:33:43.479 --> 02:33:47.559
taking I'm figuring it probably took them at least fifteen

1971
02:33:47.639 --> 02:33:51.239
seconds to get there, So they were waiting for fifteen seconds,

1972
02:33:51.760 --> 02:33:57.040
because that's that door started rattling, probably thirteen or fourteen

1973
02:33:57.120 --> 02:33:59.920
seconds before I'd finished. So at this point I was

1974
02:34:00.120 --> 02:34:04.920
in the shaken section of the adventure.

1975
02:34:06.200 --> 02:34:08.360
I needed to wash my hands, so I washed my hands.

1976
02:34:08.360 --> 02:34:11.280
In anyway, being in a hospital, I might have blowed

1977
02:34:11.319 --> 02:34:13.239
me nose as well, So maybe I didn't need to

1978
02:34:13.280 --> 02:34:16.120
do that. But it's always nice to get prepared for

1979
02:34:16.159 --> 02:34:21.239
when I go outside, just to make myself look nice

1980
02:34:22.079 --> 02:34:26.120
and make sure there's no drippages and stuff, and just yeah,

1981
02:34:26.239 --> 02:34:28.600
make sure my shirt covers that area in case there is.

1982
02:34:29.520 --> 02:34:31.959
And then I walk out and I'm faced with these

1983
02:34:32.239 --> 02:34:37.959
two angry faces. It's like, Okay, I think it's the

1984
02:34:38.000 --> 02:34:42.520
first time ever in my life that I've been caught.

1985
02:34:43.879 --> 02:34:48.760
And the weird thing about it, right is, I think

1986
02:34:48.920 --> 02:34:52.879
two days earlier or now remembe it was last week.

1987
02:34:53.200 --> 02:34:58.120
I went to use the toilet and the cleaner said,

1988
02:34:58.200 --> 02:35:01.000
I'll just choose the disabled ones. When these are closed,

1989
02:35:01.040 --> 02:35:06.120
you just have to use the sobered ones. And everyone

1990
02:35:06.200 --> 02:35:10.879
going in there was just every people, including nurses, doctors,

1991
02:35:10.920 --> 02:35:13.840
just anyone going in there and using them because there's

1992
02:35:13.920 --> 02:35:16.920
four empty toilets or five empty toilets, not just going

1993
02:35:16.959 --> 02:35:22.280
to leave walk the other side of the hospital, because

1994
02:35:22.319 --> 02:35:25.399
this is right near the exit of the building or

1995
02:35:25.440 --> 02:35:32.200
the entrance to the buildings exit and entrance. Yeah, this

1996
02:35:32.399 --> 02:35:41.440
is I mean, I I tell you, sand in your

1997
02:35:41.440 --> 02:35:48.120
sandwiches is an avoidable, unavoidable British beach memory and donkeys

1998
02:35:48.120 --> 02:35:56.520
on the beach are an English summer tradition. British people

1999
02:35:56.760 --> 02:35:59.840
rushed to the garden at the first site of so

2000
02:36:01.600 --> 02:36:03.719
I think you're getting a little bit caught up in

2001
02:36:04.079 --> 02:36:08.159
British people. Every single person in England they see some

2002
02:36:08.319 --> 02:36:10.719
sudden they rush into the garden. I'm not sure if

2003
02:36:10.719 --> 02:36:16.319
that's true. Socks and sandals are an infamous or infamous

2004
02:36:16.719 --> 02:36:27.200
English summer fashion fo par or fox pass. I don't.

2005
02:36:28.200 --> 02:36:32.120
I don't think there's anything wrong with having socks. What

2006
02:36:32.319 --> 02:36:37.639
I think it's discovered the stir the little old fly again,

2007
02:36:37.760 --> 02:36:43.760
bless him. Pubs spill out on pavements every summer evening.

2008
02:36:45.239 --> 02:36:50.079
That can happen, I definitely can happen. I remember there

2009
02:36:50.120 --> 02:36:52.840
was a pub in London just knew where the comedy

2010
02:36:52.840 --> 02:36:58.200
club that I used to be regularly at, and it

2011
02:36:58.280 --> 02:37:01.799
would be jam backed and this is a little road

2012
02:37:02.360 --> 02:37:04.319
that went all the way down and it was it

2013
02:37:04.440 --> 02:37:07.959
wasn't a big road, but the people would stand outside

2014
02:37:07.959 --> 02:37:13.120
the pub and there'd be hundreds of people outside. I'm

2015
02:37:13.200 --> 02:37:17.319
talking to a lot of people, and I went in

2016
02:37:17.319 --> 02:37:19.840
the pub once. I thought, it's got to be a

2017
02:37:19.840 --> 02:37:23.040
big pub if all those people are inside, then they

2018
02:37:23.079 --> 02:37:24.399
come outside in the summer.

2019
02:37:24.920 --> 02:37:27.200
It wasn't big inside at all. They just had more

2020
02:37:27.239 --> 02:37:31.920
people visiting in the summer. And it wasn't locals because

2021
02:37:31.920 --> 02:37:36.319
it wasn't It was in the middle of what's just

2022
02:37:36.479 --> 02:37:41.520
near the the city center kind of you know, the

2023
02:37:41.799 --> 02:37:46.680
financial place near Liverpool Street. So that wasn't a particularly

2024
02:37:46.799 --> 02:37:51.920
residential place. It was the city, it was the financial district,

2025
02:37:52.879 --> 02:37:58.120
although Canary warforso was. But there wasn't a lot going

2026
02:37:58.120 --> 02:38:01.559
on at the weekend. Generally, especially during the day, super

2027
02:38:01.559 --> 02:38:05.319
busy during a week in the daytime. Sometimes on a

2028
02:38:05.319 --> 02:38:12.040
Saturday morning, you'd see oddly anyone. People moan when it's cold,

2029
02:38:12.319 --> 02:38:17.719
and they moan when it's too hot. Yeah, I'm sure

2030
02:38:17.760 --> 02:38:26.680
that's not just an English thing. It's called moaning, although

2031
02:38:26.719 --> 02:38:30.920
I imagine English people did invent it. To be fair.

2032
02:38:33.760 --> 02:38:36.559
Fans sell out in shops every time there's a mini

2033
02:38:36.600 --> 02:38:41.120
heat wave. Yeah, we're very it's a very short term

2034
02:38:41.319 --> 02:38:42.159
in this country.

2035
02:38:43.079 --> 02:38:49.840
It's yeah, is if you if you want to if

2036
02:38:49.840 --> 02:38:54.079
the government right, if there was suddenly a huge amount

2037
02:38:54.120 --> 02:38:59.399
of bread, too much bread's being made, and you know,

2038
02:38:59.520 --> 02:39:02.680
I mean millions and millions and millions of pounds worth

2039
02:39:02.719 --> 02:39:07.479
of bread over made, and all the bakeries got together

2040
02:39:07.559 --> 02:39:09.440
and said, look what we're going to do, because we're

2041
02:39:09.440 --> 02:39:12.719
going to lose millions of pounds over the next two days,

2042
02:39:12.920 --> 02:39:14.639
because we're never going to sell all this bread that

2043
02:39:14.639 --> 02:39:17.319
we've accidentally made. And they went to the government and

2044
02:39:17.360 --> 02:39:19.840
told them, and the government put out a warning saying

2045
02:39:20.360 --> 02:39:29.079
bread shortage. Every every single shop would sell out our bread.

2046
02:39:29.799 --> 02:39:34.239
Within a few hours, there'd be no bread left. So

2047
02:39:36.399 --> 02:39:41.719
it's quite clever the way it works. Water fights with

2048
02:39:41.840 --> 02:39:45.760
host pipes or balloons or a childhood staple. I tell

2049
02:39:45.799 --> 02:39:47.840
you what me and my two brother my two older

2050
02:39:47.879 --> 02:39:52.559
brothers used to do. There was this pond where used

2051
02:39:52.600 --> 02:39:54.360
to have like a boat rides in that down near

2052
02:39:54.440 --> 02:39:57.799
the beach. So we used to have buckets and we'd

2053
02:39:57.840 --> 02:40:00.840
fill the buckets up and just pour water over each other.

2054
02:40:03.159 --> 02:40:07.319
And sometimes we do it in the summer. It was great.

2055
02:40:09.440 --> 02:40:12.479
Paddling pools and ice lollies make even the simplest summer

2056
02:40:12.559 --> 02:40:18.719
day feel magical. Yeah, I suppose it's something I don't

2057
02:40:18.719 --> 02:40:23.159
really do because i don't have a paddling pool, and

2058
02:40:23.200 --> 02:40:27.799
I've got a kind of share a garden with the

2059
02:40:27.840 --> 02:40:31.079
other people that live in this area, so it's a

2060
02:40:31.120 --> 02:40:34.559
communal garden and it's not really a place to put

2061
02:40:34.559 --> 02:40:38.280
a paddling pool. Really, Whether I did, I did think

2062
02:40:38.319 --> 02:40:42.879
about doing something like that for this little one. I

2063
02:40:42.920 --> 02:40:44.799
thought it might be nice, But it's a lot of water,

2064
02:40:44.959 --> 02:40:50.440
isn't it to be fair? And I don't know if

2065
02:40:50.440 --> 02:40:55.399
it'd even want to do it because it doesn't like baths.

2066
02:40:56.120 --> 02:40:58.760
He avoids puddles. He will drink out of puddles, but

2067
02:40:58.799 --> 02:41:01.719
he doesn't he won't walk in a So I'm wondering

2068
02:41:01.760 --> 02:41:03.360
whether or not you'd even want to get into the

2069
02:41:03.399 --> 02:41:06.719
paddling pool? Would you? Would you get in the paddling pool?

2070
02:41:07.639 --> 02:41:09.120
Would you be a good girl and get in the

2071
02:41:09.120 --> 02:41:15.879
paddling pool with your auntie JJ? Would you? That?

2072
02:41:16.319 --> 02:41:19.280
I do believe is everything. I managed to get through

2073
02:41:19.319 --> 02:41:23.479
all one hundred pretty much. I missed out a couple

2074
02:41:23.559 --> 02:41:26.920
that were like there, but yeah, most of them are done.

2075
02:41:29.520 --> 02:41:33.879
So I want to say thank you for listening. And

2076
02:41:35.399 --> 02:41:37.040
I am going to do a Q and A Friday

2077
02:41:37.040 --> 02:41:42.079
this week, so maybe i'll put up I'll probably post

2078
02:41:42.120 --> 02:41:46.520
something on Wednesday tomorrow asking for questions on my Jason

2079
02:41:46.559 --> 02:41:48.680
Newland's boying group on Facebook.

2080
02:41:50.879 --> 02:41:53.799
So thank you for listening. Remember to be kind to

2081
02:41:53.840 --> 02:42:08.360
yourself because you do deserve to be happy. Lots of love. Bye.

2082
02:42:08.959 --> 02:42:23.520
Relax in a more deep and meaningful way, Maybe in

2083
02:42:23.559 --> 02:42:29.120
a way that can not just allow you to feel

2084
02:42:30.479 --> 02:42:39.719
calmer now and throughout the time we spend together here,

2085
02:42:41.760 --> 02:42:47.440
not just relaxed. At the end of the recording, when

2086
02:42:47.479 --> 02:42:54.079
it's finished, and you can enjoy that sense of comfort

2087
02:42:54.319 --> 02:43:09.239
and peace. But also I think it would be nice

2088
02:43:09.319 --> 02:43:29.120
to have those feelings of relaxation continue for longer after

2089
02:43:29.200 --> 02:43:39.799
the recording has ended, so that you can still benefit

2090
02:43:42.680 --> 02:43:49.920
from listening to my voice, maybe in a few hours time,

2091
02:43:51.840 --> 02:44:05.319
perhaps tomorrow, and then by listening regularly, especially if you

2092
02:44:05.520 --> 02:44:10.760
find like some people do and myself as well. Sometimes

2093
02:44:10.760 --> 02:44:17.040
I find one particular recording that really resonates with me,

2094
02:44:21.399 --> 02:44:23.879
and I just listen to it over and over again

2095
02:44:26.040 --> 02:44:39.040
every morning, every evening. There was this recording from We're

2096
02:44:39.120 --> 02:44:44.879
going back to about nineteen ninety nine. It wasn't hypnosis,

2097
02:44:44.920 --> 02:44:50.239
but it was a guided visualizations. It kind of was hypnosis, really,

2098
02:44:52.719 --> 02:44:57.920
and I managed to find it again and it still

2099
02:44:58.000 --> 02:45:03.600
has the same effect on me. And part of it

2100
02:45:03.719 --> 02:45:18.479
was the person's voice relaxed me, just felt so peaceful,

2101
02:45:20.600 --> 02:45:27.040
and I'd look forward to listening to her in the

2102
02:45:27.159 --> 02:45:37.840
morning and in the evening. And I knew before even

2103
02:45:38.600 --> 02:45:47.079
pressing the play button that since I've done that pressed

2104
02:45:47.079 --> 02:45:55.639
the play button. This was in the days of CD

2105
02:45:55.840 --> 02:46:04.520
players pressed the play button. In fact, it might have

2106
02:46:04.600 --> 02:46:08.920
even been a tap tape recorder. I'd lie down on

2107
02:46:08.959 --> 02:46:21.799
the bed, and then even without necessarily listening to her

2108
02:46:22.000 --> 02:46:34.920
words because I had them memorized. Really, it was as

2109
02:46:34.959 --> 02:46:45.680
if my body knew exactly what to do, and the

2110
02:46:45.840 --> 02:47:07.879
muscles just almost went into automatic relaxation, and I remember

2111
02:47:07.959 --> 02:47:22.040
my mind would slow down. Now. Now, I was listening

2112
02:47:22.079 --> 02:47:28.840
to this recording in the early days of learning hypnosis,

2113
02:47:31.399 --> 02:47:39.239
and long before I ever made any videos or audio

2114
02:47:39.280 --> 02:47:44.079
recordings myself, because I didn't start doing that till two

2115
02:47:44.079 --> 02:48:03.360
thousand and six, I knew, I knew how helpful I

2116
02:48:03.479 --> 02:48:13.920
found being able to just let go, to have that

2117
02:48:14.120 --> 02:48:26.760
trust in the person that I'm listening to, knowing that

2118
02:48:26.840 --> 02:48:35.159
it's going to be just as relaxing, if not more so.

2119
02:48:37.799 --> 02:48:44.799
Each time you hear my voice, you may feel the same.

2120
02:48:51.159 --> 02:49:05.840
Some people have been listening to me for over a decade,

2121
02:49:06.600 --> 02:49:10.639
maybe not solidly, obviously not twenty four hours a day,

2122
02:49:12.360 --> 02:49:22.239
but maybe people come back. Some people maybe listen every day.

2123
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That's something that I do which you may not realize

2124
02:49:39.000 --> 02:49:57.600
by listening, is when I record these recordings. Now, for example,

2125
02:50:02.120 --> 02:50:14.200
I also am affected by the words that I say.

2126
02:50:15.200 --> 02:50:24.520
So if I set you focus on your feet, notice

2127
02:50:24.639 --> 02:50:31.840
your feet relaxing, I will be focusing on my feet

2128
02:50:36.719 --> 02:50:54.120
I will be noticing my feet relaxing. If I said,

2129
02:50:54.239 --> 02:51:01.879
focus on your hands and maybe notice the difference between

2130
02:51:02.000 --> 02:51:12.239
each hand. Perhaps notice the the air in the room,

2131
02:51:12.760 --> 02:51:24.360
the temperature of the room. On the backs of your hands.

2132
02:51:25.399 --> 02:51:29.280
You may start to notice what almost feels like a

2133
02:51:29.399 --> 02:51:37.360
very light breeze, even though there may not be any

2134
02:51:37.879 --> 02:51:48.600
type of breeze at all where you are right now.

2135
02:51:50.959 --> 02:52:01.600
And as you become aware of your hands, I'm also

2136
02:52:01.920 --> 02:52:30.120
aware of how relaxed my hands our feeling now and

2137
02:52:30.280 --> 02:52:37.239
when it comes to potentially drifting off to sleep, which

2138
02:52:37.280 --> 02:52:52.799
may be the reason you're listening, I also feel drowsy

2139
02:52:53.680 --> 02:53:07.159
when I make these recordings. I also notice my mind drifting.

2140
02:53:15.040 --> 02:53:27.639
In fact, at times I've actually fallen asleep without even noticing,

2141
02:53:32.520 --> 02:53:43.559
and then I carry on talking. It's only where I

2142
02:53:43.639 --> 02:53:53.079
listen back to do the editing, I hear snoring, and

2143
02:53:53.120 --> 02:54:00.360
I think I don't remember snoring. I remember taking can

2144
02:54:03.040 --> 02:54:10.040
is this snaw? Amy was a pig turned up? That's

2145
02:54:10.040 --> 02:54:17.520
why it sounds like when I snaw, how I get

2146
02:54:17.559 --> 02:54:31.600
really into the whole experience. I don't know how you feel.

2147
02:54:37.760 --> 02:54:44.360
How relaxed do you feel in your feet, How relaxed

2148
02:54:48.159 --> 02:55:09.280
you feel in your hands. I have noticed more and

2149
02:55:09.479 --> 02:55:28.399
more that the more relaxed, deeper level of comfort you feel,

2150
02:55:32.000 --> 02:55:48.159
the easier your breathing becomes. It's almost like that additional

2151
02:55:51.319 --> 02:56:12.280
muscle relaxation. So this allows you h debreath easier without

2152
02:56:13.760 --> 02:56:44.639
necessarily focusing on your breath, however, being able to notice

2153
02:56:45.120 --> 02:57:14.879
the ease in which you breathe so naturally. You breathe

2154
02:57:15.399 --> 02:58:00.360
so very easily and smoothly. Whenever I imagine my breathing improving, HM,

2155
02:58:04.799 --> 02:58:18.159
when I've got my eyes closed, I tend to visualize

2156
02:58:20.280 --> 02:58:34.639
a beautiful field with trees and flowers producing all that

2157
02:58:36.680 --> 02:59:09.479
life giving oxygen. It feels nice two if nothing else,

2158
02:59:12.680 --> 02:59:46.799
just taking some time away from everything, enjoying that feeling

2159
02:59:47.200 --> 03:00:37.680
of peace serenity with a joyful heart. Time seems to

2160
03:00:37.959 --> 03:01:13.079
just drip by, so very slowly, relaxed, so deeply peaceful,

2161
03:01:23.000 --> 03:02:31.520
completely unattached to any thoughts whatsoever in this moment, completely free,

2162
03:02:32.239 --> 03:03:00.799
noticing that your mind has slowed down, slowed boded down

2163
03:03:23.239 --> 03:03:51.760
because nothing really requires your attention. You can enjoy the

2164
03:03:51.760 --> 03:04:03.719
physical sensations of allowing the stress to rip out of

2165
03:04:03.799 --> 03:04:23.840
your body, d appear out of every part of your body,

2166
03:04:33.799 --> 03:04:59.639
and being released from your brain in your mind m

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03:05:06.920 --> 03:05:50.840
slowly but surely, the muscles, sing, legs relax res re

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03:05:56.280 --> 03:06:37.000
so very deeply, relas so deeply, and the feelings, the

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03:06:37.159 --> 03:07:02.520
pleasant feelings in your arms and shoulders, deepening each part

2170
03:07:02.639 --> 03:07:43.600
of your body further and deeper and deeper. Noticing the

2171
03:07:43.719 --> 03:08:45.079
feelings in the back of your neck, feelings in your wrists, muscles,

2172
03:08:47.159 --> 03:09:37.920
in front of your body. I also mhm feeling peaceful deeply.

2173
03:09:41.440 --> 03:09:51.719
There's a sense of peace spreads through your very core.

2174
03:10:22.280 --> 03:10:23.799
Even when you.

2175
03:10:26.719 --> 03:10:42.879
Focus on your mind, your mind becomes.

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03:10:49.520 --> 03:12:11.440
Be and slower, heven, deeper, relaxing, so very slow his

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03:12:11.840 --> 03:13:08.079
stomach pas for in your stomach, look back. Notice notice

2178
03:13:08.280 --> 03:13:26.680
how relaxed you'd now feel in the hole of your back.

2179
03:13:51.879 --> 03:14:01.040
Your spy form your brain all the way down the

2180
03:14:01.079 --> 03:14:11.760
middle of your back, sending and receiving millions of messages

2181
03:14:12.479 --> 03:15:38.920
every day, deep comfort, increasing deeply relaxed, your knees, les,

2182
03:15:42.840 --> 03:15:52.079
spreading those signals down a spine or cord into air,

2183
03:15:52.360 --> 03:16:11.760
every part of your body, your shins and your calf muscles.

2184
03:16:39.000 --> 03:17:06.719
We're outbos. Feelings of peace mm hmm, and tranquility spreading

2185
03:17:07.479 --> 03:17:19.959
through your body, tips of your toes to your eyes,

2186
03:17:24.319 --> 03:18:15.600
your fingers all the way to your lower back. Lettinger retinker, peace,

2187
03:18:31.440 --> 03:19:02.079
drifting mind just wandering away. Happy to let go, Let

2188
03:19:02.120 --> 03:20:07.559
go completely, let go, so tranquil, the whole body enjoying

2189
03:20:07.600 --> 03:22:23.200
a sensor, lett him go, he even more peece, enjoy

2190
03:22:28.920 --> 03:23:13.959
the space, this space of peace and safety, so fury relaxed,

2191
03:24:43.680 --> 03:25:08.440
letting go. Maybe we can just focus on the different

2192
03:25:08.799 --> 03:25:43.600
parts of your body, just to notice your forehead and

2193
03:25:43.840 --> 03:26:50.319
your eyes uture so loose, noticing the sense of complete freedom,

2194
03:27:02.319 --> 03:28:17.719
absolute freedom, drest, peace.

2195
03:28:17.479 --> 03:28:17.559
For.

2196
03:28:19.600 --> 03:30:04.200
Energy, peace to breathe, so much ease, Yeah LEAs you

2197
03:30:04.399 --> 03:30:54.280
may have or may not have noticed your mind drifting, peaceful,

2198
03:31:08.280 --> 03:31:29.600
move even more deeply in the direction of total blissful pace,

2199
03:31:33.760 --> 03:32:04.799
blissful pace, terreft.

2200
03:32:52.239 --> 03:32:53.520
Go to pace.

2201
03:33:18.200 --> 03:34:11.959
Come on, so cam let him go, peace with mind

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03:34:14.280 --> 03:35:18.559
rexed forty so relaxed, so relaxed. Your body feels almost invisible,

2203
03:35:33.719 --> 03:36:18.639
so very relaxed. I'm peaceful, so pa so h leka

2204
03:36:42.040 --> 03:36:58.079
or fair. And you could start to notice that you

2205
03:37:00.079 --> 03:37:11.520
feeling more relaxed, even though I've not purposely focused your

2206
03:37:11.680 --> 03:37:20.079
mind upon that sense of physical comfort that is growing

2207
03:37:20.200 --> 03:37:29.079
within you throughout your body, and your mind starts to

2208
03:37:29.159 --> 03:37:39.520
slow down and that could be almost in recognition of

2209
03:37:41.520 --> 03:37:53.600
I guess my speech not being particularly fast, and things

2210
03:37:53.959 --> 03:38:06.440
just generally feel calmer. Just by listening to my voice,

2211
03:38:07.120 --> 03:38:14.120
you give yourself an opportunity to take a break from

2212
03:38:14.120 --> 03:38:20.719
the day, take a break from your life as it is,

2213
03:38:24.079 --> 03:38:31.719
and to give yourself a rest, given yourself permission to

2214
03:38:31.799 --> 03:38:37.079
take some time off and to allow your body to

2215
03:38:37.200 --> 03:38:46.959
relax and allow your mind to slow down, which in

2216
03:38:47.040 --> 03:38:54.879
turn releases the tension and he stresses that you had

2217
03:38:54.879 --> 03:39:04.680
in your body. It's almost as if the parts of

2218
03:39:04.719 --> 03:39:16.680
your body just open up, allowing the negativity out and

2219
03:39:16.799 --> 03:39:25.239
at the same time replacing that negativity with positive heathing energy,

2220
03:39:28.319 --> 03:39:32.959
which then fills your body up and your mind to

2221
03:39:34.559 --> 03:39:52.959
also starts to appreciate those feelings of increasing confidence, an

2222
03:39:53.040 --> 03:40:10.159
almost uplifting feeling, positive healing, an energy the spreads through

2223
03:40:10.200 --> 03:40:20.879
your body like a wave of comfort. And all this

2224
03:40:21.200 --> 03:40:33.280
comes from just allowing yourself a few minutes, maybe half

2225
03:40:33.319 --> 03:40:37.159
an hour, however long you want it to be, to

2226
03:40:37.479 --> 03:40:51.319
just rest and allow your mind and your body to

2227
03:40:51.440 --> 03:41:08.479
almost reset itself to the settings of comfort and relaxation, calmness,

2228
03:41:12.280 --> 03:41:21.680
which allows more room for feelings of pleasure and happiness.

2229
03:41:25.680 --> 03:41:34.799
To move around your body and into your mind, almost

2230
03:41:35.319 --> 03:41:39.920
as if your mind and your body are sinking together,

2231
03:41:44.159 --> 03:41:55.360
almost mirroring each other, with that growing positivity and calmness.

2232
03:41:58.920 --> 03:42:05.040
And it feels nice. Yes, it really does feel nice

2233
03:42:06.079 --> 03:42:10.280
to know that you are the one that has allowed

2234
03:42:11.440 --> 03:42:27.440
yourself to feel more comfort and to experience more of

2235
03:42:27.639 --> 03:42:43.719
this deep relaxation spreading throughout your body. And as I

2236
03:42:44.159 --> 03:42:51.799
focus on each part of your body, you can notice

2237
03:42:51.959 --> 03:43:05.440
that that part becomes e and more relaxed just by

2238
03:43:05.799 --> 03:43:14.959
focusing on it. It becomes even more calm and comfortable

2239
03:43:17.479 --> 03:43:25.559
just by focusing. And as I move down your body,

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03:43:26.840 --> 03:43:34.159
starting at your head, the parts that you've already focused

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03:43:34.200 --> 03:43:43.719
on will continue to relax deeply, and those parts that

2242
03:43:43.799 --> 03:43:55.479
we've not yet focused on or just automatically release any

2243
03:43:55.879 --> 03:44:10.360
remain intention in anticipation of even more comfort about to come. Now,

2244
03:44:12.520 --> 03:44:18.760
I'm going to start by focusing on your forehead. Just

2245
03:44:18.879 --> 03:44:27.360
being aware of the feelings of your forehead and any

2246
03:44:27.440 --> 03:44:34.959
background sounds like mister Herbert the pigeon can just allow

2247
03:44:35.079 --> 03:44:42.200
you to feel even more relaxed. Just means you're in

2248
03:44:42.280 --> 03:44:50.360
the moment. This isn't this isn't a sterile environment. This

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03:44:50.520 --> 03:44:58.360
is the world. I live in the countryside, so there's

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03:44:58.440 --> 03:45:08.840
lots of nature sounds around. So as you focus on

2251
03:45:08.879 --> 03:45:16.520
your forehead, just notice how it becomes even more relaxed

2252
03:45:16.840 --> 03:45:25.840
as you focus only on my voice and that part

2253
03:45:25.920 --> 03:45:36.760
of your body. Moving down to your eyes, focusing on

2254
03:45:36.799 --> 03:45:50.159
your eyes, noticing how your eyelids feel so heavy yet

2255
03:45:50.399 --> 03:45:57.639
so light at the same time, and all the muscles

2256
03:45:57.680 --> 03:46:10.200
around your eyes relaxing completely. Moving your focus down to

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03:46:10.239 --> 03:46:17.319
your mouth, your lips, your tongue, your teeth, and your gumbs,

2258
03:46:19.639 --> 03:46:34.399
the whole of your mouth relaxing, calm and loose. As

2259
03:46:34.440 --> 03:46:42.520
you focus now on your jaw, not just the parts

2260
03:46:42.520 --> 03:46:46.959
of your jaw near your mouth and your chin, but

2261
03:46:47.120 --> 03:46:51.280
all the way up the side of your face to

2262
03:46:51.360 --> 03:47:05.159
your ears, the hole of your jaw, feeding more relaxed

2263
03:47:09.280 --> 03:47:26.719
and calm. Focusing on your neck, the front of your

2264
03:47:26.799 --> 03:47:39.319
neck and your throat relaxing and loose and calm. The

2265
03:47:39.639 --> 03:47:45.319
side of your neck, the right and left side of

2266
03:47:45.360 --> 03:48:04.040
your neck, relax and loose and calm. And now the

2267
03:48:04.120 --> 03:48:11.239
back of your neck. Focusing on the back of your neck,

2268
03:48:17.159 --> 03:48:22.399
letting go of any tension that may have been there before,

2269
03:48:24.159 --> 03:48:38.280
and enjoying that sense of increasing comfort and release that

2270
03:48:38.520 --> 03:48:48.920
you can experience in the back of your neck, moving

2271
03:48:49.159 --> 03:48:55.719
down your back and moving either side of your spine

2272
03:48:57.040 --> 03:49:01.760
right from the top of your back all the way

2273
03:49:01.959 --> 03:49:14.680
down to the bottom of your back down to your

2274
03:49:14.719 --> 03:49:27.200
lower back. And as you move up and down your spine,

2275
03:49:27.399 --> 03:49:33.600
you can feel the muscles either side of your spine

2276
03:49:34.040 --> 03:49:48.639
relaxing even more. And as those muscles relax, that sense

2277
03:49:48.719 --> 03:49:59.239
of comfort starts to spread outwards from your spine into

2278
03:49:59.399 --> 03:50:06.079
both sides eads of your back, the top of your back,

2279
03:50:06.879 --> 03:50:13.159
the middle and your lower back. And as you scan

2280
03:50:14.840 --> 03:50:22.680
gently and slowly up and down your back, there's the

2281
03:50:22.799 --> 03:50:28.680
muscles in the top of your back relax and become looser.

2282
03:50:33.000 --> 03:50:39.000
The muscles in the middle of your back also seem

2283
03:50:39.120 --> 03:50:49.559
to just almost divide from each other, separating and almost melting.

2284
03:50:54.399 --> 03:51:00.440
And in your lower back it seems to be an

2285
03:51:00.440 --> 03:51:14.680
extra special feeling of comfort that spreads into your hips

2286
03:51:16.920 --> 03:51:24.879
sit down your lower back, into your hips, into the

2287
03:51:24.959 --> 03:51:33.760
area where your cosicks are, and into your buttocks, and

2288
03:51:33.799 --> 03:51:43.040
all those muscles that spread from your lower back into

2289
03:51:43.079 --> 03:51:56.680
your hip area start to melt, start to really let go,

2290
03:52:03.280 --> 03:52:10.040
and even nowhere about to focus on your shoulders, your

2291
03:52:10.200 --> 03:52:21.639
back and your spine will continue to let go, continue

2292
03:52:21.680 --> 03:52:37.200
to relax so calmly, and as you focus on your shoulders,

2293
03:52:38.319 --> 03:52:53.719
you may notice that they're already feeding, really loose. They're

2294
03:52:53.760 --> 03:53:19.840
already feeding ya calm and fearing. Those muscles then move

2295
03:53:20.200 --> 03:53:36.079
from your neck into your shoulders. Feel so soft and gentle,

2296
03:53:40.159 --> 03:54:09.600
so smooth and calm. The feeding in your shoulders seens

2297
03:54:09.879 --> 03:54:17.639
to spread deep into your shoulders, that sense of relaxation,

2298
03:54:18.799 --> 03:54:30.319
not just traveling deeply into your muscles, but also relaxing

2299
03:54:33.159 --> 03:54:43.159
the bones and moving all away to underneath your arms,

2300
03:54:45.840 --> 03:54:51.920
relaxing that whole area between the tops of your shoulders

2301
03:54:53.159 --> 03:55:08.399
and underneath your arms. He Then you feel so relaxed

2302
03:55:10.920 --> 03:55:22.920
and comfortable in your shoulders, which sends that deep healing

2303
03:55:26.239 --> 03:55:43.760
message into your arms. You may feel almost as if

2304
03:55:43.840 --> 03:55:50.360
your arms are not even there, because they're so relaxed,

2305
03:55:53.520 --> 03:56:39.719
so deeply relaxed, so so calm, so loose, not feeling

2306
03:56:40.040 --> 03:56:55.319
spreading all the way down your arms, two elbows, including

2307
03:56:57.000 --> 03:57:23.799
your elbows circumforts spreads or away into the rests of forearments,

2308
03:57:24.000 --> 03:57:50.959
induists so heavy. Yet at the same time, sunlight and

2309
03:57:51.680 --> 03:58:55.920
gentle fork seve now on your hands, my hands, so peaceful,

2310
03:58:57.680 --> 03:59:35.319
in your hands. There's a sense of real peace. It

2311
03:59:35.440 --> 03:59:45.079
just seems to I feel so familiar.

2312
03:59:47.799 --> 03:59:52.000
When your hands relax deeply.

2313
04:00:00.920 --> 04:01:27.520
Fies. I thing is you fingers, slids you thing you tips,

2314
04:01:56.079 --> 04:02:15.280
moving your attention to the front, your body so comfortable,

2315
04:02:26.239 --> 04:03:51.600
moving in your focus, your legs, why my souls.

2316
04:03:52.959 --> 04:04:11.879
In your thighs, your knees.

2317
04:04:15.440 --> 04:06:52.559
So relaxed, carved mussels and just chins compresedly. Four the

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04:06:52.799 --> 04:07:51.959
father you feats, sir, peaceful sircm say peaceful sircom sir,

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04:07:52.600 --> 04:08:23.559
peaceful saclm so peace fall RelA sin peace fall.

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So calm.

2321
04:08:35.440 --> 04:08:43.040
Loveing that deep relaxation to spread your chest, in your stomach,

2322
04:08:46.799 --> 04:09:14.559
so RelA, letting go everything. So I'm gonna start counting

2323
04:09:14.639 --> 04:09:26.399
down now, from twenty down to one. You can imagine

2324
04:09:26.399 --> 04:09:30.159
in a way it's like just walking down some steps

2325
04:09:32.079 --> 04:09:36.440
and each step or twenty steps, and each step represents

2326
04:09:37.680 --> 04:09:50.760
a level of comfort. Each step represents a deepening of

2327
04:09:50.799 --> 04:10:01.719
that comfort, and the furvies walk down those steps that

2328
04:10:03.239 --> 04:10:14.159
the deeper and more relaxed you feel. So starting with

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04:10:14.360 --> 04:15:46.680
number twenty twenty, nineteen, eighteen, stein, sixteen fifteen, fourteen four

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04:15:46.959 --> 04:17:53.479
two two five.

2331
04:19:03.799 --> 04:23:12.040
Eight nine hey seven.

2332
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Four five four s one. And now as you focus

2333
04:30:58.440 --> 04:31:11.639
on your eyes, we're gonna count down from ten down

2334
04:31:11.639 --> 04:31:26.799
to one, focusing just on your eyes, your eyelids, the

2335
04:31:26.920 --> 04:31:36.040
muscles around your eyes, your eye waves themselves, our whole

2336
04:31:36.280 --> 04:31:53.159
area that makes up your eye. And as we count

2337
04:31:53.280 --> 04:32:01.200
down from ten down to one, just to focus in

2338
04:32:01.319 --> 04:32:16.040
on your eyes, you will become twice is relaxed with

2339
04:32:16.399 --> 04:32:29.479
each number counting down, and you may find the all

2340
04:32:29.559 --> 04:32:35.680
you want to do is just drift off to sleep.

2341
04:32:38.639 --> 04:32:45.319
And if that's what you want, then just allow yourself

2342
04:32:45.360 --> 04:32:59.680
to do that. Now, focus in on your eyes. I'm

2343
04:32:59.719 --> 04:33:09.119
going to begin counting down from ten down to one

2344
04:33:09.560 --> 04:33:10.200
right now.

2345
04:33:18.599 --> 04:42:16.639
Ten nine eight seven five four three two one.

2346
04:42:23.000 --> 04:42:34.919
So counted down from ten to one.

2347
04:42:35.279 --> 04:42:59.080
Ten nine eight seven six five four three two.

2348
04:42:59.319 --> 04:43:05.439
One.

2349
04:43:06.599 --> 04:43:09.520
And maybe that was a bit too quick in order

2350
04:43:09.560 --> 04:43:13.520
to relax. Maybe it's a bit too fast for you

2351
04:43:13.799 --> 04:43:23.560
to notice the calming of your body, maybe even a

2352
04:43:23.560 --> 04:43:24.880
little bit of pressure there.

2353
04:43:24.959 --> 04:43:28.159
Like you'll count it down from ten to one.

2354
04:43:28.240 --> 04:43:31.639
Would you expect me to do? Man, expect me to

2355
04:43:31.680 --> 04:43:41.439
stick go floppy just because you're counting down. If you

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04:43:41.560 --> 04:43:45.279
try it again, but this time, I go this slower

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this time, As you focus on the whole of your

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04:43:52.439 --> 04:44:00.840
body before we focus on your legs. Just notice how

2359
04:44:00.919 --> 04:44:15.040
your body does start to feel more relaxed with every

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04:44:15.159 --> 04:44:48.240
number that I count down ten nine, eight, seven, six,

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04:44:56.639 --> 04:46:05.599
five four three two one. And just notice how how

2362
04:46:05.680 --> 04:46:15.799
you feel, generally, how your body feels. It's not necessarily

2363
04:46:15.880 --> 04:46:26.360
even about counting down from ten to one. It's that

2364
04:46:26.560 --> 04:46:46.319
space that you have, that space between being active physically

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04:46:46.439 --> 04:46:56.080
or mentally to just sitting or lying down, just being there,

2366
04:46:56.799 --> 04:47:02.279
not doing anything, not saying anything, not needing to think

2367
04:47:02.360 --> 04:47:08.279
about anything. So it opens up a space, you know,

2368
04:47:08.439 --> 04:47:10.000
a bit of a space.

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04:47:10.439 --> 04:47:10.959
A gap.

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04:47:17.159 --> 04:47:20.720
And the more I came down from ten to one,

2371
04:47:21.840 --> 04:47:30.159
the bigger that gap becomes. So there's that gap of calmness,

2372
04:47:31.360 --> 04:47:47.560
of comfort, relaxation. It's a nice feeling, and it moves

2373
04:47:48.599 --> 04:47:58.560
those stresses or discomforts physically or emotionally, moves them away.

2374
04:48:05.279 --> 04:48:06.360
Allows you.

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04:48:08.959 --> 04:48:09.560
To just.

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04:48:12.479 --> 04:48:19.240
Slow down, someone to count again from ten down to one,

2377
04:48:19.599 --> 04:48:29.880
and notice that gap widening the gap. And as it widens,

2378
04:48:29.919 --> 04:48:36.000
it's almost like the stress and attention falls into the

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04:48:36.040 --> 04:49:01.520
gap and gives you that distance, that space. Now ten

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04:49:06.080 --> 04:50:41.639
nine eight, seven, six, five four three.

2381
04:50:32.119 --> 04:51:03.720
Two one, And how does your.

2382
04:51:05.759 --> 04:51:07.040
Body feel.

2383
04:51:08.919 --> 04:51:21.759
Now?

2384
04:51:21.799 --> 04:51:23.000
Can you notice that.

2385
04:51:24.040 --> 04:51:36.919
Do you feeling calmer, do you feeling.

2386
04:51:36.840 --> 04:52:04.240
More relaxed as we now focus on your legs, just

2387
04:52:04.360 --> 04:52:24.799
your legs. We're just going to start with focusing on

2388
04:52:25.080 --> 04:52:44.240
your thighs. Of course, it's not the most exciting thing

2389
04:52:44.360 --> 04:52:50.919
to be doing, because I'm sure like most of your

2390
04:52:50.919 --> 04:53:03.400
body is not not going on right now. Just focusing

2391
04:53:04.040 --> 04:53:09.759
on the whole of your thighs, the tops of your thighs,

2392
04:53:10.439 --> 04:53:15.959
the sides of your thighs, the bottoms of your thighs,

2393
04:53:17.240 --> 04:53:22.720
your outer thighs, and your inner thighs. Basically the whole

2394
04:53:22.799 --> 04:53:26.319
of your thigh that leads into your hip.

2395
04:53:30.040 --> 04:53:32.360
And it goes down to.

2396
04:53:32.439 --> 04:53:46.520
Your knee joints. Now, this is a big area. It's

2397
04:53:46.520 --> 04:53:52.040
a very heavy area. It's very strong, ply the strongest

2398
04:53:53.000 --> 04:54:06.240
muscles in your body or in your thighs. But I

2399
04:54:06.279 --> 04:54:14.680
don't think we perhaps would give enough attention to our thighs.

2400
04:54:20.520 --> 04:54:31.279
Perhaps we don't acknowledge how important our thighs are to

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04:54:31.439 --> 04:54:52.080
our lives, how much they actually do for us all

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04:54:52.159 --> 04:55:02.639
through our lives. And it may see him sound really weird,

2403
04:55:02.680 --> 04:55:11.799
but I think that all of our body parts, especially advice,

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04:55:12.799 --> 04:55:20.119
needs some TLC, a bit of love shown, a bit

2405
04:55:20.159 --> 04:55:39.479
of acknowledgement. Thank you gratitude for what advis do for us.

2406
04:55:46.000 --> 04:55:51.599
And I know this may sound and a strange. Maybe

2407
04:55:51.639 --> 04:55:54.720
you think why am I? Surely I should be able

2408
04:55:55.200 --> 04:56:03.919
in the garden hugging a tree or something. It's hard

2409
04:56:03.959 --> 04:56:07.119
to set a microphone up on a tree. That's why

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04:56:07.119 --> 04:56:09.799
I'm doing this indoors. Otherwise I would be outside hugging

2411
04:56:09.840 --> 04:56:19.119
a tree. Now I can't see the television from the tree.

2412
04:56:20.119 --> 04:56:25.560
You move down to your knees gain such an important part,

2413
04:56:29.799 --> 04:56:35.400
and I think we don't necessarily I'll speak for myself here,

2414
04:56:37.400 --> 04:56:42.520
I don't necessarily appreciate all that my needs do for

2415
04:56:42.639 --> 04:56:48.520
me until I have a problem with my knee. It's

2416
04:56:48.560 --> 04:56:54.159
occasionally if either maybe i'll pash it or it's aching

2417
04:56:54.319 --> 04:57:00.759
for some reason. It's then that I realize how much

2418
04:57:00.840 --> 04:57:05.279
it does. You know, the benefit I've been able to

2419
04:57:05.439 --> 04:57:15.439
use my legs without any kind of physical discomfort is

2420
04:57:15.439 --> 04:57:24.720
a beautiful thing that's possibly not appreciated until it's temporarily removed.

2421
04:57:25.319 --> 04:57:32.279
You know that's comfort. Don't you focus on your needs

2422
04:57:34.479 --> 04:57:40.159
regardless of how your needs feel. You can have that

2423
04:57:40.400 --> 04:57:46.599
sense of gratitude and love to your needs for all

2424
04:57:46.680 --> 04:57:59.119
that they do for you. You can still have that

2425
04:57:59.240 --> 04:58:04.159
attention your thighs. Maybe you notice how your thighs feel,

2426
04:58:06.319 --> 04:58:24.919
Maybe notice that they are relaxing more deeply. You focus

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04:58:25.080 --> 04:58:32.919
now and gotten the Coxes

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Means