Aug. 29, 2025

(no music) (5 hours) Q&A Friday | LMBYTS #1425 | Jason Newland | 29th August 2025

(no music) (5 hours) Q&A Friday | LMBYTS #1425 | Jason Newland | 29th August 2025
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Welcome to another episode of Q&A Friday on Let Me Bore You to Sleep with Jason Newland. In this relaxed and often humorous session, Jason answers listener questions ranging from comedy and pets to birthdays and glasses. As always, the conversation wanders into personal stories, reflections, and playful tangents that make this series so engaging. Episode Timestamps

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


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

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Are you well? Are you?

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Oh?

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It's nice?

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

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Newland and please only listen when you can safely close

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

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

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

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Vinnie was all calm and quiet and as soon as

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I start talking, he jumps down and decides to make

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as much sound as he can, bless his little bum.

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So yeah, it's.

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What is it? It's Friday the twenty night for August two

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thousand and twenty five. And by the way, I try

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to say thank you to everyone that sent me a

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PayPal gift, but there was I wasn't able to contact

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everyone because I could find a way to contact see

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on PayPal usually has like an email address or something,

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but on this one person it didn't, or a couple

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of people.

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So I do apologize. But I did post thank you

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

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

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

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

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for people that love listening to the Jason to the

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Let Me Buoy to Sleep podcasts.

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Yeah, okay, what we've done today.

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

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want to help me out, and this would really really

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help me out a lot to get more placed on

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Google is and also help the podcast out is wherever

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you're listening to me, could.

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You perhaps lead a review that'd be brilliant and maybe

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regularly as well. You know, if there's a recording you

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particular like, maybe you can just say what you like

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about it, Because the more reviews I get on my podcasts,

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whether it's on Spotify, if you're listening on I don't know,

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it's quite a few different places that you could be listening.

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Where we got what have we got? Apple podcasts, podcast Addict, Overcast, Spotify,

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

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pocket casts, Chrome and Tenor, pod Speaker, Android app, i

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Vook's Audible, VLC, Alexa, media Player, Roku, and many of us. Actually,

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if you.

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Can do that, that would be really really helpful because

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it could help me to reach more people and hopefully.

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

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

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took Vinoy out, and then we got rained on. It

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was raining, and.

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To start with, it's just like a little bit, you know,

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spitting as I say, just a little bit weird word,

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isn't it weird term for rain and being spat on?

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Like yeah, lovely? But that was okay, and then it

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started proper raining and I ran back. This is about

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eight o'clock in the morning, so I'm running back with Vinnie,

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and Vinnie decides he wants to start. He wants to

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start smelling things, sniffing things like why but yeah, memo,

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it's now warm in here. What'sn't warm? Earlier it wasn't

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hold but it was cool. I mean, I'm doing my top.

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Oh, it doesn't made no difference. Great, Just trying to

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look at some messages I got here, all right, So

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I'll get on with the recording, shall I don't normally

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just taking them out again. There's quite a lot of

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screaming outside, but it is in a distance, so I'm

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guessing it's possibly a like a party or something kids party,

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because it's very high pitched, so I'm guessing that's what

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that is. And it's it's not it's not close by

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unless it's in someone's flat, but it sounds like it's

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like a distance away.

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You might hear it, you might not hear it.

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I've got my curtains drawn, the windows are closed, which

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is probably why it's hot in it.

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They stuff it and for some reason this is weird.

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For some reason, there's a cobweb and it's moving around.

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So I'm wondering if the heatings come on, shouldn't really

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have come on. It's not that cold.

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

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feels it really does feel like autumn is approaching.

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It's a very Awetomny kind of ish, you know.

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I took him out again a little while ago, about

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

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this thing, like he never used to bark at dogs,

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and he always used to love to saying lo to everyone,

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including dogs.

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Now and then he changed and.

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He started to be a bit barking towards some dogs,

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but always like really friendly to all people. And more

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recently over the last few months. He's he knows who

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he likes and he you know, he's not.

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It's so, but he knows who he doesn't like. And

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there's this particular couple with a dog and he barks

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every time, and I don't know, they seem to be

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annoyed by it. I can't help him barking. I mean

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he does. That's what dogs do, isn't it. I make

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sure he keep him away, and he's it's not like

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he's a scary dog or anything. He's a tiny little

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jack Russell. But I don't know if.

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It's a dog or the people that he's barking at,

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because I'm pretty sure I saw them out without the

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dog once and he's barking at them.

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So I don't know.

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He's just got his own sense of I guess who

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he likes and who doesn't like, and I can't figure

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it out. So yeah, it's a shame because he barks

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at the wrong dogs as well.

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

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nice dogs. Not always.

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There's a few dogs that are not so good and

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they look like they want to eat him.

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But a few dogs he'll bark at and they're so gentle.

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But then He's got a handful of dogs that he

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loves that he spends time with, and you know, he

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doesn't necessarily play with them, but he's just happy to

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be around them. But he gives the attention to the owner,

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to the human. And then there's three dogs that he's

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friends with that he will play with, and he's not

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particularly interested in the owner. He is still I mean,

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he'll get treats. He's always around him.

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

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But at the same time, he also likes to play

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with the dog.

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I just can't keep track of I don't really I

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wish there was a way of communicating with him in

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a way that would make sense of his behavior. I'm

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no dog expert.

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And before anyone says, why don't you just watch those

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dog those programs on dogs and the dog expert TV programs,

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you can probably watch lots of them on YouTube, And

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the answer is no, I can't do that because as

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soon as a dog comes on the screen, Vinnie lets

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me know there's a dog on the screen, which is

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very annoying, especially when I'm watching a movie and it's

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like early hours of the morning or it's the evening

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time when I really don't want him to be barking,

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you know, like nine and ten at night.

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Well, I'm usually in bed by them, but if I'm

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watching a movie and a dog comes on, it's.

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So yeah, rare rah rah rah rah rah rah rah rah.

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

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

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

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

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So yeah, we went out earlier, came back. Downstairs flat

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is being refurbished. This is funny, Well it's not funny,

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but they're putting in a brand new kitchen.

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Now.

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The person lived down there for a year, because that's

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where Lucas lived.

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

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

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I didn't. I haven't had my kitchen done.

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She called the council. That's what she told me. This

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is the lady that was living in that flat for

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a year. She moved out recently.

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To say when am I getting my kitchen done about

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herself rather not about me?

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And they told her, But this is what she told me.

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She said they said to her that the kitchen had

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already been done a couple of years back, which I

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know is untrue because I probably would have remembered that,

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wouldn't I don't you think it's like.

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Nothing that interesting has happened.

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In his flat when he lived there, in a sense

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of anything. I mean, his windows were hanging on by

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a nail. Its front windows, they would like rattle when

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when it was windy, there'd be a breeze when all

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the windows were closed, they literally it'll blow you over.

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So because it was just like all loose, the counsel

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came around and the hammered a couple of nails in.

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That's it. It's like, wow, Okay.

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So when she moved in and she's like she wanted

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a new kitchen and a new barth room and all

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that stuff, and the council said no, because I've always

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been done, which I hadn't had been done but maybe

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twenty years ago.

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

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

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I don't think, but I've.

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Been in all the other flats, not like regularly, but

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I've seen the kitchens in every flat. I mean, downstairs

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is pretty much identical to my flat.

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Below me.

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It's the same layout and Luke's old flat. I'm imagining

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up stairs, the one that I know been in, would

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be the same design, the same layout. However, perhaps not

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actually because Uncle Sausages Flat. Yeah, that's weird. Uncle Sausages

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Flat was.

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Maybe not. Maybe it wasn't different, No.

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

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

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

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

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I know Uncle Sausages Flat layout quite well. And my

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own of course, and you know the one that my

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friend used to live in. I went in there a

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couple of times since the new person moved in. I

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should have moved down now, but by winning there a

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

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

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It was really if you close your eyes.

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And someone took you in there and you didn't know

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where you was, took you into one of the rooms,

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not the kitchen, the bathroom, because it looks the same,

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but it took you into one of the rooms and

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it's like you wouldn't necessarily know where you was to

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start with. I mean, the windows the same, but the

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deck or the furniture, it's very different, very different. It

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was much neater, tidier. Yeah, it's much more just nicer,

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very I would say, minimalist. Not that he was a hoarder,

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but it's you know, had less stuff in there, just different.

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Kitchen. The kitchen looked different as well, but then you

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know it had a new.

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Fridge, treeser, new cooker, new microwave, new toaster, new kettle.

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And how do I know that because I'm the one

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who bought it all yep, yeah, and a new TV.

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I got that for her as well. Why did you

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do that?

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is last summer, but yeah, hey, not this summer, but

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last year two thousand and twenty four. She did say

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she was going to give me, give me money back

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for it, but she didn't. So hm, I'm trying to think,

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what is that noise out there? Maybe it's a birthday party.

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needed complete silence, I mean, that's the ideal situation personally,

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the floor, there ain't going to be complete silence, And

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as long as I'm talking, it's not going to be

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complete silence. But because I can hear it, I don't

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know if you can hear it.

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It's it's not a distraction for me now, although I

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guess it is because I'm mentioning it, but not in

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a kind of annoying way. But if I was sitting

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here doing and like now, I'd like to foc you'd

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focus on your toenails. We're going to relax your toenails,

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and moving up to your pubes. It was that kind

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of where I would be trying to be all sensible

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and serious.

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And deeply relaxed. It's a bit of incongruence when internally

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I'm thinking, woll you shut up that noise, you.

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out the window and then sitting back down.

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don't know why that would happen, So I suppose I

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should just get on with the the point of the

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reason why I'm doing this recording, shouldn't I Q and

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a Friday No no jingle? Um, that's weet. Okay, there

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you go, there we go. I'm losing laugh.

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Oh okay, sorry, I just got a message from Kara.

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Thanks Carra, and that made me laugh. Your message made

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me laugh. I'm going to read it out because it's

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not private. It is private, it's not I'm my good.

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Oh my gracious, I'm losing my marbles laughing over Luke

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embarrassing you by saluting magpies.

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

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yesterday's recording.

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So, by the way, anyone who watched my little I

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did this little like blowing and kiss thing a couple

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of days ago, and it was Ai. I did say

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it was Ai. I said thank you again for all

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your birthday wishes. I created this Ai video from a

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photo I have better teeth here and it's been blowing

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and then this big smile and like perfect teeth. I mean,

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my teeth ain't awful, but like they're not it looks

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like a kind of I had my teeth done, you know,

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they were like perfectly sparkly white and in fact, I

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

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teeth doesn't show.

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If that makes sense, I'd have to lift my upper

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lift up. Look, I was just doing it and it

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didn't actually make sense. I can't. I can't tell you

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what I had to do and do it at the

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same time because you it's not understandable. So I would

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have to lift my upper lift up in order for

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my or staple of up. I say again, it didn't work,

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or you know, pushing them up somehow me trying to

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tell you that is this I have a favor in

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order for you to see all my teeth. See, it

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doesn't quite work. But it's quite amazing though, because the

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rest of me looks fine. My face looks the same.

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it is me, but there's part of.

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It which is quite amazing, I think because my face,

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because as you look at it like that is how

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my face would go generalely if I smiled. Apart from that,

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there wouldn't. It's not as much too Fidge.

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Yeah, AI is getting very clever, no.

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So Q and a.

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Friday, I posted a oh yeah, any questions for Q

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and a Friday. I posted it on Monday, I do believe.

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of weeks ago, I think I posted it on the

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Wednesday and I've got one question, so and I didn't

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do I didn't do it because one question wasn't enough

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for really to do a whole podcast, although technically it

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probably was. Thinking about it, I mean, I've not even

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started the questions yet and I'm still down nearly half

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an hour. I can't help it. I just can't stop talking.

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So I've got a new way of doing it now.

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So on a Monday, if I remember, I post this

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image which is on a post it on Jason Newland's

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boring group why Not Join, And it's just basically color thing,

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colored thing, and it says any questions for this week's

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Q and a Friday, Kiss Kiss Kiss, and then a

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couple of arrows either side pointing down to a yellow

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part of the image, and then the date when the

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Q and A Friday will be so, in this case

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to twenty ninth of April. And I'm going to post

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one of those if I remember, every Monday, but just

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change the date, you know me Next week's one will

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be why is this not opening?

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There?

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It is?

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

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

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

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I'm going to answer Dev's question first because, as it

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says here, Hello Jason. Also belated birthday greetings to you.

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Thank you Dev. This is a sort of rollover question

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from last week, but I probably posted it too late. Yeah,

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I think you posted it. I'd already made the recording

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at that point. So I'm going to answer Dev's question

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first because of that. Because this is from last week.

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As you were involved in the comedy scene, I wanted

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to know, are there any books or audiobooks, podcasts, etc.

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That you would recommend for learning about writing comedy? Thanks

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in advance. What I would advise I didn't do this myself,

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which explains why I wasn't very good. But there are

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comedy courses you can do depending on where you live,

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of course, so I'm based in England, but at the

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time I lived in London, which is still England, and

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they had a comedy course. I forget what it was called,

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but it was very popular. And I would say probably

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sixty percent of the new comedians have been on that course,

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maybe forty percent, but quite a few comedians have been

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on that course, and quite a few of them went

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on to do okay.

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So I went on to do really really well. I

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didn't do the course, and yeah, I didn't. I don't

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know why. I'm not sure.

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I kind of wish I had. I would have benefited

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from doing that. But then also I think I did

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go to a I did go to a Mandy Knight,

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

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

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and she was originally in a double act where she

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did improv.

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She's really good. She's a really funny, funny lady, and

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she held this improv class. So I went along to

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

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

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might have been better.

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At doing some kind of improv, you know, bouncing off

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other people. That might have been a better way for

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me to go instead of sit standing on stage just

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trying to, you know, remember something that I'd written down

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at home. So there's lots of different ways.

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To do it.

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So it's.

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I think if I'm going to come from the I mean,

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one answer to your question is that our books out there,

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there are where books on how to do stand up.

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So I'm going to do all the work for you

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instead of you going online and searching for yourself.

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I'll do it.

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Don't worry.

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I've got plenty of time.

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I'm not busy on Amazon. There is as a chicken.

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Two books I remember rightly. Okay, this is one I

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don't know, Old Richard Belzer. Okay, he's he's very famous

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comedian in America. How to be a stand up Comedian.

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So that's a hardback book. I've not read that. The

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uh where is it?

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This is a book I used to have called The

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Last Laugh The World of stand Up Comics. Now I

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

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cutting down on my books now. But if you want

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

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

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is an American thing.

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Really.

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They were doing alternative comedy in the fifties. We started

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doing it in the late seventies, you know, is.

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I say we? But in this country they've always been

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decades ahead of us, not anymore, not anymore, but for

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a long time. And the English stand up comedians we've

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kind of, when I say the newer breed, I'm talking

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last few decades, hugely influenced by American comedians, hugely influenced.

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But I would say possibly Americans are now influenced by us,

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maybe as well, because because of the Internet, everything's kind

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of in the same time span. Now we're not really

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behind anymore. But that book The Last Laugh won't teach

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you to do standard comedy, but it's really I used

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to have it in one of the first books on

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comedy I ever bought, in about nineteen ninety one. I

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lent it to someone and I never gave it back.

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Who was it?

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Did that? Anyway?

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It was a really good book, talks about I give

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you an example of the book.

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Out of it talks about Rodney d Dangerfield. So Rodney

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Danefield was a comedian in the sixties and he went

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he basically quit comedy for about ten years, and then

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he came back and he became famous in the seventies.

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But he was like a lot older. And you know,

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I mean, if you think about Rodney Dangerfield. Don't know,

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he's no longer with us, but I can't ever remember

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him being young. Of course he was at one point,

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we all was at one point, but he always that

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that look he had made it kind of fitted in

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with his comedy. So maybe he was too young before

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because a lot of the stand up comedy really kind

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of post war, post Second World War. They would, you know,

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you know, the forties, late forties, fifties, there'd be lots

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of coffee shops around America and people were performing coffee shops.

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They do nothing practically, but you know, there's there'd there'd

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be a whole.

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Alternative kind of culture, and that's where people like Lenny

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Bruce came up, and George Carlin and maybe Richard Pryor

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as well. And then in the sixties, Lenny Bruce was

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a huge star in America for a while, and Richard

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Pryor was in the sixties to start with. It probably

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started in the fifties actually, but he was in the sixties.

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He became well known in America for a while because

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he'd I think he said something, what did Richard Pryor say?

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He earned a really good living for about five years,

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mimicking Bill Cosby, and by that I mean like with

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the jokes, with the act, nothing else. And for those

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that don't know Bill Cosby, don't worry. I'm not going

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anywhere weird with this. I think a lot of people

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outside of America maybe don't realize how big Bill Cosby was.

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And I'm not talking about TV wise, I'm talking about

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before television, not before television was invented, but before television.

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He was on television. Like anyone in the Western world

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is probably very well aware of the Bill Cosby Show,

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or maybe remembers that if they're you know, over a

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certain age. Maybe I don't think it's shown very often

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now for some reason, the reruns aren't on TV anymore.

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So he was. He was the biggest paid star. It

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was weird because in about nineteen eighty nine, nineteen eighty

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eight something like that, the three biggest paid star, according

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to the newspapers I was reading, were all Americans. So

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the biggest paid stars in America anyway entertainers.

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So you had Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby, and Prince and

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they were all making like one hundred million a year

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something like that. Prince was constantly on tour, selling millions

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of albums.

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Bill Cosby was on TV.

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And his TV show was everywhere the most famous comedian

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

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

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

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he was called Bill Cosby because it was the It

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wasn't a Huxtable show, was It was the Cosby Show.

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Confuse me a little bit. That doesn't take much and

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

462
00:36:10.559 --> 00:36:15.320
saying that he was more famous, but he was a

463
00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:19.880
huge star long before the Bill Cosby Show that you know,

464
00:36:19.960 --> 00:36:27.360
Cosby's in America. He filled out arenas all over America

465
00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:33.119
with his stand up. He had best selling albums comedy

466
00:36:33.159 --> 00:36:41.639
albums in the sixties, huge star sixties and seventies. He

467
00:36:41.840 --> 00:36:46.119
was massive, and of course he was massive in the

468
00:36:46.159 --> 00:36:48.039
eighties as well, for a different thing.

469
00:36:48.639 --> 00:36:54.039
He was huge. It's really I don't mean to gush.

470
00:36:55.079 --> 00:36:56.840
That's a weird word, isn't it. I don't mean to

471
00:36:56.840 --> 00:36:59.519
be all gushy about it, especially as you know I'm

472
00:36:59.559 --> 00:37:02.199
forgetting about any personal stuff to do with him.

473
00:37:02.639 --> 00:37:06.920
But it was on a level that I don't think

474
00:37:08.039 --> 00:37:14.159
anyone really reached because he reached a much wider audience

475
00:37:14.280 --> 00:37:19.119
than someone like Richard Pryor, who are a lot of people,

476
00:37:19.639 --> 00:37:23.719
because a lot of comedians they would say, they may

477
00:37:23.760 --> 00:37:25.800
say maybe not now, but they used to say, this

478
00:37:26.559 --> 00:37:33.599
is Lenny Bruce was pretty much the most influential stand

479
00:37:33.679 --> 00:37:41.920
up comedian ever. But the king of comedy was Richard Pryor.

480
00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:48.719
And that used to be kind of the pretty much

481
00:37:48.760 --> 00:37:53.079
the understood accepted, I'm not going to say the word narrative,

482
00:37:53.199 --> 00:37:57.800
also just said it of stand up comedy. Like Lenny Bruce,

483
00:37:58.239 --> 00:38:05.280
he broke through barriers, He got arrested constantly, and he

484
00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:08.360
pretty much he died for his art, you could say.

485
00:38:09.880 --> 00:38:12.639
And he was funny, but then he got very he

486
00:38:12.679 --> 00:38:15.239
got caught up in all the court cases, and that's

487
00:38:15.280 --> 00:38:17.079
all he did on stage was just talk about his

488
00:38:17.119 --> 00:38:24.280
court cases. Richard Pryor, and he broke a lot of taboos,

489
00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:31.480
which more than probably anyone else at the time. But

490
00:38:31.519 --> 00:38:36.239
then when Richard Pryor went on stage, he got.

491
00:38:36.039 --> 00:38:40.559
Away with a lot more because it was you know,

492
00:38:40.920 --> 00:38:41.960
it was years later.

493
00:38:43.400 --> 00:38:45.840
And also.

494
00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:49.480
He could talk about being black and he couldn't get

495
00:38:49.480 --> 00:38:53.079
in trouble for that Lenny Bruce used to talk about

496
00:38:53.840 --> 00:38:57.960
the different things between the races in America, and he

497
00:38:58.039 --> 00:39:01.360
got in trouble for it, and people got upset. But

498
00:39:01.480 --> 00:39:05.039
Richard Pryor, I don't know why that's funny, but just.

499
00:39:05.079 --> 00:39:06.920
Richard Pryor did it in a day. I'm just thinking

500
00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:10.039
of I'm remembering Richard Pryor. That's all I'm laughing at.

501
00:39:10.159 --> 00:39:13.039
Is I remembering some of the stuff that he used.

502
00:39:12.880 --> 00:39:13.559
To talk about.

503
00:39:16.960 --> 00:39:19.280
John And I'll tell you one of his jokes from his albums,

504
00:39:19.360 --> 00:39:22.920
Richard Prior. I can't even tell you the name of

505
00:39:22.960 --> 00:39:30.920
the album, Okay, I mean, bearing in mind right now,

506
00:39:32.239 --> 00:39:36.320
you can't buy the album out. They put a sticker

507
00:39:36.400 --> 00:39:40.920
over the cut of the image of it, like if

508
00:39:40.960 --> 00:39:44.440
you watch it, if you go on Amazon or stuff

509
00:39:44.480 --> 00:39:46.159
like that, they will cover over the word.

510
00:39:47.639 --> 00:39:49.199
But in the seventies they didn't.

511
00:39:51.039 --> 00:39:56.880
But one of his names his albums was that N

512
00:39:56.960 --> 00:40:04.840
word is crazy by some by centennial N word and

513
00:40:05.199 --> 00:40:08.159
you know, and he used that word a lot, but

514
00:40:08.239 --> 00:40:12.039
the albums were named with that word on it. Now,

515
00:40:12.119 --> 00:40:17.960
Lenny Bruce, if he'd have done something like that, it'd

516
00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:21.719
still be in prison, would still be alive probably well,

517
00:40:24.760 --> 00:40:27.639
but Richard Pryor got away with that just shows you

518
00:40:27.679 --> 00:40:30.400
how different things were by the time Richard Pryor was famous.

519
00:40:32.079 --> 00:40:34.079
But one of his jokes on one of his albums

520
00:40:34.239 --> 00:40:43.360
is there's two brothers. As he said, two brothers stand

521
00:40:43.400 --> 00:40:47.360
because he was talking about the cliche of different body

522
00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:50.519
parts and sizes between races and stuff. I'm not going

523
00:40:50.599 --> 00:40:53.800
to it, but he said, I won't do that his voice.

524
00:40:53.800 --> 00:40:55.400
I used to be able to do his voice quite well.

525
00:40:56.239 --> 00:41:03.039
Two brothers standing on a bridge. Weewi's that's side by

526
00:41:03.079 --> 00:41:09.239
side wei in off a bridge and one of them says, oh,

527
00:41:09.840 --> 00:41:10.719
the war's.

528
00:41:10.440 --> 00:41:19.159
Cold, and everyone says, yeah, it's deep too, so it's yeah,

529
00:41:19.199 --> 00:41:20.119
it's quite a funny joy.

530
00:41:20.360 --> 00:41:25.880
It's funny when he says it. I just think that's

531
00:41:25.880 --> 00:41:27.719
some on the stard. I can't tell you this. You know,

532
00:41:28.039 --> 00:41:31.199
he's worth listening to if you've never I realized that's

533
00:41:31.239 --> 00:41:35.119
not the question. But if you want to hear something

534
00:41:35.159 --> 00:41:41.719
that you've perhaps never heard before, maybe check out a

535
00:41:41.840 --> 00:41:49.239
Richard Pryor album. Because if you've seen Richard prior just

536
00:41:49.320 --> 00:41:52.400
in movies and as I had up to the age

537
00:41:52.440 --> 00:41:57.000
of about eighteen or nineteen, I didn't know he did

538
00:41:57.079 --> 00:41:58.000
stand up comedy.

539
00:41:58.159 --> 00:42:00.960
Maybe eighteen, I knew he was in.

540
00:42:06.920 --> 00:42:11.559
Brewster's Millions and See No Evil, Hear No Evil and

541
00:42:12.639 --> 00:42:13.960
Stir Crazy and.

542
00:42:13.920 --> 00:42:15.800
All those movies that he did with.

543
00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:22.000
What's his Name and Superman three. So you know, I

544
00:42:22.039 --> 00:42:25.039
loved Richard Pryor when I was a little kid or

545
00:42:25.039 --> 00:42:25.559
growing up.

546
00:42:25.639 --> 00:42:26.599
I loved him.

547
00:42:26.920 --> 00:42:30.519
It was hilarious, but I didn't know he did stand

548
00:42:30.599 --> 00:42:33.400
up comedy. And there's no way in the world that

549
00:42:33.480 --> 00:42:35.599
anyone was going to show me his stand up comedy

550
00:42:35.920 --> 00:42:38.920
because I was a little kid, because it was adults

551
00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:42.320
rating and my dad was never into that kind of

552
00:42:42.320 --> 00:42:47.400
stuff anyway, so I never got to hear it. And

553
00:42:47.440 --> 00:42:52.440
then when I was nine to about eighteen, I I thought, well,

554
00:42:52.800 --> 00:42:55.400
I was in the second hand shop, I think, like

555
00:42:55.440 --> 00:42:58.400
a record shop, and I was looking through the albums

556
00:42:58.440 --> 00:43:05.039
because I started listening to albums like Steve Martin, Emo Phillips.

557
00:43:05.079 --> 00:43:08.119
I started buying albums as well, so Emo Phillips, Steve Martin,

558
00:43:08.280 --> 00:43:13.880
Steven Wright, Bill Cosby. There was quite a few Bill

559
00:43:13.960 --> 00:43:19.039
Cosby albums, and it was like I was so transfixed.

560
00:43:19.719 --> 00:43:21.159
And I started getting.

561
00:43:21.400 --> 00:43:25.400
Videos as well, so Steve Martin, as I said, comics

562
00:43:25.400 --> 00:43:32.440
from here, as well, Jerry Sadovich loads loads of sort

563
00:43:32.440 --> 00:43:34.719
of stand up to me. I had quite a nice

564
00:43:35.719 --> 00:43:43.079
library actually of videos, and I discovered Richard Pryor. So

565
00:43:43.320 --> 00:43:47.480
the two things that I really remember discovering was well,

566
00:43:48.280 --> 00:43:51.000
Steve Martin. I had no idea that he was a comedian.

567
00:43:52.159 --> 00:43:54.320
I've seen him in movies, and some of his early

568
00:43:54.440 --> 00:43:59.840
movies I loved long before he was famous in this country.

569
00:44:00.800 --> 00:44:02.960
I watched these films like dead Men, Don't Be a.

570
00:44:03.000 --> 00:44:05.559
Plaid and.

571
00:44:06.280 --> 00:44:09.400
Lonely Guy and The Man with Two Brains and stuff

572
00:44:09.440 --> 00:44:09.800
like that.

573
00:44:10.960 --> 00:44:14.800
What's the other one two of Me? Or I forget it,

574
00:44:14.840 --> 00:44:19.880
but they were good with Lily Tomlin that was so funny.

575
00:44:19.960 --> 00:44:22.880
And then he did the Jerk and he became more

576
00:44:23.320 --> 00:44:27.400
famous worldwide. It was famous in America already. I didn't

577
00:44:27.440 --> 00:44:32.199
know that he was selling out arenas doing stand up comedy. Now,

578
00:44:33.159 --> 00:44:36.639
Dev you're probably regretting asking me that question, because you've

579
00:44:36.639 --> 00:44:39.599
got me onto a subject that I didn't realize that

580
00:44:39.719 --> 00:44:43.519
still had a bit of passion for, which is weird.

581
00:44:46.800 --> 00:44:52.440
But yeah, when I discovered Richard Pryor's albums, I couldn't

582
00:44:52.440 --> 00:44:55.400
believe what I was listening to because it was stuff

583
00:44:55.440 --> 00:45:00.800
that I wasn't supposed to be saying, still not allowed

584
00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:04.000
to say, but it was. I hadn't heard, hadn't really

585
00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:10.480
heard other people say it. And then I discovered George Carlin,

586
00:45:11.159 --> 00:45:14.559
who in a way probably made me laugh even more.

587
00:45:16.800 --> 00:45:22.639
Some of his earlier stand up comic albums so funny,

588
00:45:22.760 --> 00:45:25.800
and I really got into him probably in the early

589
00:45:27.039 --> 00:45:30.239
probably about nineteen ninety and then ninety one, so I

590
00:45:30.280 --> 00:45:32.679
was listening to him quite a lot. Then when I

591
00:45:32.760 --> 00:45:39.039
kind of started out doing comedy, and I had it

592
00:45:39.119 --> 00:45:44.159
influenced me in no way. So I was listening in regularity, regularly,

593
00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:50.840
I was listening a lot to some of the greatest comedians,

594
00:45:51.519 --> 00:45:56.079
and it did not improve my performance. And also I

595
00:45:56.199 --> 00:46:02.039
was seeing in person some brilliant comedians regularly, like every week,

596
00:46:02.360 --> 00:46:07.239
sometimes two three times a week, including those that I

597
00:46:07.320 --> 00:46:09.400
used to be on the same bill with, and I

598
00:46:09.440 --> 00:46:11.800
still didn't get any better. Well, I got a little

599
00:46:11.800 --> 00:46:17.840
bit better, but I didn't. I didn't improve to the

600
00:46:17.880 --> 00:46:21.639
point where you kind of think I would do being around.

601
00:46:23.119 --> 00:46:26.039
Such talent, which I was for a long time.

602
00:46:27.519 --> 00:46:30.800
I mean I was involved with the comedy scene for

603
00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:32.800
a long time, a long long time.

604
00:46:35.920 --> 00:46:42.320
But anyway, Yes, so Derek and Clyde was another one

605
00:46:42.639 --> 00:46:49.440
was Derek and Clive, Derek and Clive, which was what

606
00:46:49.639 --> 00:46:57.320
was it, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. I discovered them

607
00:46:57.519 --> 00:47:02.760
in nineteen ninety or maybe it was nine, maybe nineteen ninety.

608
00:47:02.800 --> 00:47:05.199
I remember listening to it during my breaks at work

609
00:47:05.239 --> 00:47:09.960
with another colleague at work and we were just laughing

610
00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:14.840
because it was so funny because I'd never heard an

611
00:47:14.880 --> 00:47:19.320
English person talk like that say. The things that they

612
00:47:19.360 --> 00:47:25.280
were saying was so outrageous, so wrong on every level,

613
00:47:27.800 --> 00:47:31.239
but hilarious. I just found it absolutely hilarious.

614
00:47:32.199 --> 00:47:37.719
And there was three albums, I think, including the live ones,

615
00:47:37.760 --> 00:47:41.840
so there's ad Nauseum Come Again, and I think it

616
00:47:41.880 --> 00:47:45.360
was just a live one. I think, unless there was

617
00:47:45.400 --> 00:47:51.079
four albums, I think it was three. Anyway, as far

618
00:47:51.119 --> 00:47:55.960
as books go, yes, I've got a couple. I can't

619
00:47:56.000 --> 00:47:58.159
find the one I was looking for. So there are

620
00:47:58.239 --> 00:48:01.039
quite a few stand up books Stand Up Comic, How

621
00:48:01.039 --> 00:48:02.719
to Become a Stand Up Comic.

622
00:48:05.039 --> 00:48:12.360
On Amazon, so there's a few. But what I would

623
00:48:12.360 --> 00:48:15.480
probably recommend if you're living in London, or if you're

624
00:48:15.480 --> 00:48:19.920
in a city or just check there might be something local,

625
00:48:20.880 --> 00:48:24.960
is if you can find a course which you can

626
00:48:25.000 --> 00:48:31.320
go to you like a four week course, one evening

627
00:48:31.400 --> 00:48:34.519
a week or one Saturday afternoon a week for six

628
00:48:34.559 --> 00:48:40.199
weeks or whatever, because the benefit of that is firstly

629
00:48:41.199 --> 00:48:44.920
you'll be it'll be an introduction to the comedy world

630
00:48:47.519 --> 00:48:49.960
a much probably quite a gentle way to do it

631
00:48:50.559 --> 00:48:53.360
in some ways, because I think quite often the way

632
00:48:53.440 --> 00:48:58.559
they they like format it is you go along.

633
00:48:59.599 --> 00:49:03.639
You're in a room with maybe five, six, ten, twelve

634
00:49:03.760 --> 00:49:06.119
people that you've never met before, but they're in the

635
00:49:06.199 --> 00:49:09.199
same they're at the same level as you. They're the

636
00:49:09.280 --> 00:49:11.719
same if they're just starting out, or maybe they've done

637
00:49:11.760 --> 00:49:17.039
a few gigs, or maybe they've never done it, but

638
00:49:17.159 --> 00:49:19.760
what they were have in common with you is enthusiasm

639
00:49:20.920 --> 00:49:25.840
and you know, the dream of doing it, and maybe

640
00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:28.239
most of them have never been on stage before.

641
00:49:29.440 --> 00:49:36.199
As a comedian. And then you've got.

642
00:49:35.519 --> 00:49:38.559
The teacher who is going to be very much likely

643
00:49:38.960 --> 00:49:42.599
or have many many years of being a comedian.

644
00:49:44.320 --> 00:49:47.519
And thinking about this course. In London, they used to

645
00:49:47.639 --> 00:49:52.840
have headliners from the comedy circuit in London every week

646
00:49:52.960 --> 00:49:58.280
come along and talk to the group, which is something

647
00:49:58.320 --> 00:50:00.400
you're not going to get in any other city cuation.

648
00:50:02.440 --> 00:50:06.239
It's you know, it's I mean, you probably can go

649
00:50:06.280 --> 00:50:09.840
to comedy club and say hello to someone that's been

650
00:50:09.880 --> 00:50:12.840
on stage. You know, they'd a headliner and self, I

651
00:50:12.920 --> 00:50:17.559
really enjoyed your your performance, they might say thanks, But

652
00:50:17.599 --> 00:50:20.199
the chances of them sitting down for half an hour

653
00:50:20.960 --> 00:50:23.079
and actually going through what it's like to be a

654
00:50:23.079 --> 00:50:24.920
comedian and getting advice.

655
00:50:27.760 --> 00:50:31.559
Even I struggled to get that. And I was a

656
00:50:31.559 --> 00:50:35.960
comic and I knew these people, you know. Once I started,

657
00:50:36.000 --> 00:50:38.480
I got to know some people, and I didn't get

658
00:50:38.480 --> 00:50:43.119
hardly any advice. I think I was given up for

659
00:50:43.280 --> 00:50:46.199
as a lost cause first, very early on.

660
00:50:46.760 --> 00:50:51.480
And I just it seemed like the biggest joke of

661
00:50:51.519 --> 00:50:56.000
my comedy act was me. That was the biggest joke.

662
00:50:56.599 --> 00:51:05.760
Bless see, I'm sure I've either been either did Benivo

663
00:51:05.880 --> 00:51:09.880
or whatever. I used to have a book. But then

664
00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:13.519
another thing in the course they do is generally, as

665
00:51:13.519 --> 00:51:18.639
far as I know, they build up to you doing

666
00:51:19.679 --> 00:51:23.840
putting a nice five minutes together and you performing every

667
00:51:23.840 --> 00:51:25.800
week you go and performing something in front of the

668
00:51:25.800 --> 00:51:30.760
rest of the group, with the culmination of an actual

669
00:51:30.800 --> 00:51:33.559
gig at the end of it, and all of you

670
00:51:33.639 --> 00:51:35.800
will go on stage in front of a paid audience,

671
00:51:36.079 --> 00:51:38.079
or maybe a free audience at.

672
00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:43.000
A comedy club or come a comedy night or something

673
00:51:43.039 --> 00:51:45.719
like that. So there'll be an audience, an audience members

674
00:51:45.760 --> 00:51:50.039
will be there and you get a chance to perform

675
00:51:50.280 --> 00:51:55.440
in front of complete strangers, an actual proper comedy audience

676
00:51:55.480 --> 00:51:58.480
for the first time. And the good thing about that

677
00:51:58.599 --> 00:52:02.280
is the audience know what come into It's not like

678
00:52:02.599 --> 00:52:06.280
an ordinary open night, spot night where they might be

679
00:52:06.280 --> 00:52:09.719
coming to heckel and stuff. They're coming to support because

680
00:52:09.719 --> 00:52:12.880
they know that you've just gone through a course, a

681
00:52:13.000 --> 00:52:14.199
six week course or whatever.

682
00:52:14.519 --> 00:52:15.719
So they're going to be supportive.

683
00:52:16.280 --> 00:52:18.440
They're not going to laugh if it's not funny, but

684
00:52:18.440 --> 00:52:22.000
they're still they're not going to be hard on the

685
00:52:22.039 --> 00:52:27.119
comedians and be open to like it's nice.

686
00:52:28.480 --> 00:52:28.679
Now.

687
00:52:28.719 --> 00:52:31.119
I kind of I've got a lot of information from

688
00:52:31.239 --> 00:52:33.400
about these courses because I know a lot of people

689
00:52:33.400 --> 00:52:38.480
that went on them what I did. And yeah, so

690
00:52:38.559 --> 00:52:40.239
that's what I would recommend.

691
00:52:41.199 --> 00:52:43.760
The books are good. You can learn something from books.

692
00:52:43.760 --> 00:52:47.159
Of course, most of my learning has really come from books,

693
00:52:49.280 --> 00:52:57.440
I guess, but yeah, there's a lot. There's a lot

694
00:52:57.440 --> 00:52:59.760
of books on a stand up comedy that you can

695
00:52:59.800 --> 00:53:03.679
get hold of. I don't know which one I would

696
00:53:03.880 --> 00:53:05.199
necessarily recommend.

697
00:53:06.719 --> 00:53:15.880
I'm just looking down. All right, there's a Woody Ellen,

698
00:53:15.960 --> 00:53:19.639
but it's it's a stand up comic, Okay, so I

699
00:53:19.639 --> 00:53:21.360
can't figu out. I'm going to put Richard Pryor in

700
00:53:21.400 --> 00:53:24.480
because I just want to see what the if it's

701
00:53:24.519 --> 00:53:37.719
censored rich Prior Okay, pass I spell his name right,

702
00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:46.360
it would be better. Here we go, right, Oh, it's

703
00:53:46.400 --> 00:53:49.679
all of his films from eighty to ninety one and

704
00:53:49.840 --> 00:53:51.440
blu Ray.

705
00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:54.280
Richard Pryor is also whoa.

706
00:53:55.559 --> 00:53:59.679
There's a book about him called Prior Convictions, another book

707
00:53:59.679 --> 00:54:01.199
called Becoming Richard Pryor.

708
00:54:03.360 --> 00:54:10.840
Okay, he did. I still it's really childish.

709
00:54:10.920 --> 00:54:15.559
But there's a movie that he did and he's I

710
00:54:15.559 --> 00:54:19.440
think it's called The Toy and he's like looking after

711
00:54:19.480 --> 00:54:24.280
this little kid who's rich and I think he's kind

712
00:54:24.280 --> 00:54:26.239
of like the kid's toy, just just to.

713
00:54:26.199 --> 00:54:27.599
Do what the kid wants him to do.

714
00:54:28.760 --> 00:54:34.239
And he gets introduced to this little kid and so

715
00:54:34.400 --> 00:54:38.000
this is mister Pryor whatever his name was in the

716
00:54:38.039 --> 00:54:43.280
movie and said welcome and like you to meet your

717
00:54:43.320 --> 00:54:45.079
new boss, Master Bates.

718
00:54:47.840 --> 00:54:55.199
Now I saw that when I was what probably about

719
00:54:55.239 --> 00:55:00.440
fourteen thirteen, and I'm still laughing because I'm so child oldish.

720
00:55:01.159 --> 00:55:07.519
I still find it hilarious. It's weird of it. So yeah,

721
00:55:07.559 --> 00:55:14.119
that's my answer to your question, dev is try if

722
00:55:14.159 --> 00:55:23.960
you can find a place where you can maybe do

723
00:55:24.159 --> 00:55:30.840
some training, go to a course, a stand up comedy course,

724
00:55:31.639 --> 00:55:35.199
and dell include things like writing performance, how to hold

725
00:55:35.239 --> 00:55:38.320
a microphone, how far to have the microphone away from

726
00:55:38.400 --> 00:55:42.360
your from your mouth, where to look when you're on stage.

727
00:55:43.199 --> 00:55:46.400
I guess just you know things, all the things that

728
00:55:46.440 --> 00:55:52.199
I still don't know how to do. So thanks for

729
00:55:52.280 --> 00:55:56.119
that's a Maria Hijason. On a recent recording, you mentioned

730
00:55:56.119 --> 00:56:04.239
that you might need new glasses calls soon. Yep, yep, definitely.

731
00:56:04.559 --> 00:56:07.800
Would you have to be bifocal? Would they have to

732
00:56:07.800 --> 00:56:12.159
be by vocal or very focal? Have you ever worn

733
00:56:12.320 --> 00:56:16.480
contact lenses or it's something you consider doing? Thank you well,

734
00:56:16.519 --> 00:56:21.679
thanks Maria. I'll answer the.

735
00:56:21.639 --> 00:56:25.840
First the second question first, No, and no and no

736
00:56:26.039 --> 00:56:30.039
and no and no contact lenses.

737
00:56:30.119 --> 00:56:30.199
No.

738
00:56:30.599 --> 00:56:36.280
I could know, It's not something I would do. I

739
00:56:36.360 --> 00:56:39.159
know I understand why people do do it, especially like

740
00:56:39.280 --> 00:56:40.000
younger people.

741
00:56:41.000 --> 00:56:45.360
Not everyone likes glasses and to wearing glasses, and it

742
00:56:45.440 --> 00:56:47.400
can get in a way, you know, it gets.

743
00:56:47.199 --> 00:56:51.760
Steamed up at times and they get dirty and depending.

744
00:56:51.440 --> 00:56:52.039
On what you're doing.

745
00:56:55.920 --> 00:57:01.199
I mean, I'm a messy eater. But contact lenses, no,

746
00:57:02.119 --> 00:57:06.719
I don't know. It doesn't really appeal to me. Never has.

747
00:57:08.920 --> 00:57:13.840
As far as bifocals or verier focals, I'm not quite

748
00:57:13.880 --> 00:57:18.199
sure what very a focal is by focal, I think

749
00:57:18.199 --> 00:57:21.239
it's I think I have been very a focal is

750
00:57:21.239 --> 00:57:24.480
that where like the different parts kind of you can't see,

751
00:57:25.039 --> 00:57:28.280
but that yeah, you can see because the glasses.

752
00:57:28.280 --> 00:57:33.599
But my glass at the moment, the bottom part is

753
00:57:33.599 --> 00:57:38.800
for reading, and the middle part is for like distance,

754
00:57:39.719 --> 00:57:44.079
and supposedly the you know, the highest part is for

755
00:57:44.239 --> 00:57:48.519
like computer work, but generally it's the bottom parts for reading.

756
00:57:48.599 --> 00:57:53.199
And it's not big enough because I need separate reading glasses.

757
00:57:55.840 --> 00:58:01.559
And maybe that's what the very focal is. I used

758
00:58:01.599 --> 00:58:09.119
to have trifocals where I this is years ago when

759
00:58:09.159 --> 00:58:16.159
I was in the call center, and was it bifocals, Yeah,

760
00:58:16.400 --> 00:58:21.760
but they were almost that had like a line across

761
00:58:21.920 --> 00:58:27.360
so the I could read again read at the bottom.

762
00:58:27.559 --> 00:58:30.920
The middle was for distance, and it was really weird.

763
00:58:32.000 --> 00:58:35.119
It's very it felt very strange because I felt like

764
00:58:35.199 --> 00:58:37.360
I was taller.

765
00:58:40.360 --> 00:58:41.519
Than I would normally.

766
00:58:41.239 --> 00:58:45.880
Be because instead of like the distance, you know, it

767
00:58:45.920 --> 00:58:49.039
brings it closer, doesn't it. But the bottom part was

768
00:58:49.079 --> 00:58:52.960
pushing things further away for some reason. So I felt

769
00:58:53.000 --> 00:58:54.159
really tall.

770
00:58:54.320 --> 00:58:57.480
Which was nice, but I felt, you know, a bit

771
00:58:57.639 --> 00:58:58.440
stumbling a bit.

772
00:58:59.000 --> 00:59:03.239
I tripped over a couple of times, and I realized

773
00:59:03.239 --> 00:59:04.519
my shoelaces is what I'm done.

774
00:59:04.679 --> 00:59:05.199
No, I didn't.

775
00:59:05.320 --> 00:59:10.119
That was weird, but yeah, I think no, no contact lenses.

776
00:59:11.159 --> 00:59:13.880
But also no longer am I going to get any

777
00:59:13.960 --> 00:59:18.840
kind of bifocals. I'm going to stick to from now on.

778
00:59:19.480 --> 00:59:23.519
At least, I'm going to stick to glasses for read

779
00:59:23.760 --> 00:59:28.360
for reading, separate glasses for everyday use for distance, which

780
00:59:28.400 --> 00:59:33.480
I definitely need more than anything else, and maybe try

781
00:59:33.480 --> 00:59:38.000
and get some glasses for computer use. To three separate things.

782
00:59:40.119 --> 00:59:47.559
I do have anti glare. I think they're supposed to

783
00:59:47.599 --> 00:59:51.119
be anti glare, but I do, you know, video myself,

784
00:59:51.159 --> 00:59:53.760
and they do glare, so I'm not sure what that's about.

785
00:59:54.960 --> 01:00:01.000
They stare right at me, but the other act to

786
01:00:01.119 --> 01:00:03.719
light active active light or whatever.

787
01:00:03.760 --> 01:00:06.280
So they go they turn into kind of shades when

788
01:00:06.280 --> 01:00:11.440
I'm outside in the sunlight. That's something that I had

789
01:00:11.480 --> 01:00:17.880
because in my family we've got macro degeneration is kind

790
01:00:17.920 --> 01:00:24.159
of like a hereditary thing, and a few years back,

791
01:00:24.320 --> 01:00:32.760
my what's it opticians said yeah, the best thing to do,

792
01:00:32.840 --> 01:00:35.159
because he looked at the back of my eyes. He said, well,

793
01:00:35.960 --> 01:00:37.519
potentially the beginnings of that.

794
01:00:37.559 --> 01:00:42.679
You need to just protect your eyes when you're outside.

795
01:00:42.920 --> 01:00:43.719
So that's what I do.

796
01:00:45.239 --> 01:00:47.920
And he said, but you can wear sunshades. I said, yeah,

797
01:00:47.960 --> 01:00:51.480
but I need glasses, so i'd have to get the

798
01:00:51.519 --> 01:00:57.000
sunshades in my prescription, so it'd be easier just to

799
01:00:57.000 --> 01:01:04.159
get the them shade, you know, to shade on their own. Yeah,

800
01:01:04.199 --> 01:01:07.239
I'm going to get some soon, maybe not for Christmas,

801
01:01:07.239 --> 01:01:10.039
but I will eventually want to get things sorted out.

802
01:01:10.039 --> 01:01:11.880
I've got a few bits going on, so once I

803
01:01:11.920 --> 01:01:15.400
get everything sorted out, I'm going to get myself some

804
01:01:15.440 --> 01:01:17.719
glasses and that'll be it.

805
01:01:17.800 --> 01:01:24.599
So that'd be good. Hope asks, how did you end

806
01:01:24.679 --> 01:01:35.079
up adopting Andre? Well, I didn't want a ferret. That

807
01:01:35.199 --> 01:01:37.440
was a good way to start to start.

808
01:01:37.199 --> 01:01:41.320
My story about the one of the loves of my life,

809
01:01:42.079 --> 01:01:43.000
which was.

810
01:01:44.639 --> 01:01:48.400
Still is. Actually I love that little boy. I will

811
01:01:48.480 --> 01:01:55.760
love him forever. My Luke downstairs had a ferret. When

812
01:01:55.760 --> 01:02:00.960
I moved in, he had a ferret, and I was like, okay.

813
01:02:02.159 --> 01:02:04.480
First of all, I was very a little bit scared,

814
01:02:04.800 --> 01:02:08.599
very a little bit a little bit very scared because

815
01:02:09.480 --> 01:02:15.400
I just didn't really know what to do with it.

816
01:02:15.400 --> 01:02:19.119
It moved very quick and very sharp teeth, and he

817
01:02:19.360 --> 01:02:24.639
was a bit which put me off. I think it's

818
01:02:25.199 --> 01:02:29.199
I think it might be thundering. So it put me off, okay,

819
01:02:29.800 --> 01:02:31.760
because I didn't want that. I didn't want something that

820
01:02:31.840 --> 01:02:34.920
was going to be biting people who came around. Not

821
01:02:34.960 --> 01:02:37.039
that I get a lot of people visiting, but I

822
01:02:37.079 --> 01:02:40.400
didn't want to be bitten myself. He found it funny

823
01:02:41.639 --> 01:02:45.719
it'd let l was the name of the ferry. He'd well,

824
01:02:45.800 --> 01:02:48.440
it's a pole cat, but he'd let him bite him

825
01:02:49.440 --> 01:02:54.440
and he just didn't care. He bit me once, like

826
01:02:55.039 --> 01:02:59.719
really bit me on the on my arm. And what

827
01:03:00.159 --> 01:03:02.079
it's to do is to do like the crocodile role.

828
01:03:04.519 --> 01:03:07.039
It's not good and it really hurt. I left the

829
01:03:07.119 --> 01:03:08.280
mark on there for weeks.

830
01:03:08.960 --> 01:03:09.920
This was early on.

831
01:03:09.840 --> 01:03:15.119
My time living there, so I thought no because I

832
01:03:15.159 --> 01:03:19.519
considered because I wanted to get a dog, and he said, oh,

833
01:03:20.039 --> 01:03:21.880
you could get a ferry. I said, no, you're right,

834
01:03:23.960 --> 01:03:26.280
and I was going to get a dog. And then

835
01:03:27.000 --> 01:03:29.559
the dog that I went and visited didn't like me

836
01:03:30.960 --> 01:03:35.559
a bit like Vinny. Just wasn't interested at all, and

837
01:03:35.599 --> 01:03:38.199
as a puppy, but it was in a like a shelter.

838
01:03:38.039 --> 01:03:40.320
You know, an animal place, and.

839
01:03:42.719 --> 01:03:49.239
I just like, I want my feeling, my theory, my

840
01:03:49.440 --> 01:03:52.559
idea if I ever got a dog of my own,

841
01:03:52.599 --> 01:03:56.400
would be to go and visit that dog, and maybe

842
01:03:56.480 --> 01:03:59.920
there's like six dogs and one comes up to me

843
01:04:00.920 --> 01:04:01.920
and chooses me.

844
01:04:03.039 --> 01:04:05.440
That's what I wanted. I wanted a dog to choose me.

845
01:04:06.760 --> 01:04:10.679
It didn't happen, so I kind of I visited twice,

846
01:04:11.800 --> 01:04:15.559
still didn't really fill any connection with the dog. So

847
01:04:15.599 --> 01:04:19.320
I decided not to get that dog. And they kept saying,

848
01:04:19.360 --> 01:04:21.519
they calling me, well, we've got other people that want

849
01:04:21.599 --> 01:04:24.599
to take it. I just do that then, because it

850
01:04:24.719 --> 01:04:29.000
just didn't feel a beautiful little dog. But it just

851
01:04:29.000 --> 01:04:34.079
just didn't seem like the dog liked me a bit

852
01:04:34.199 --> 01:04:39.800
like Finny. He doesn't seem to like me. I think

853
01:04:39.800 --> 01:04:43.000
he loves me, but he doesn't like me, I think sometimes.

854
01:04:44.199 --> 01:04:49.760
And so I didn't get an animality. End I didn't

855
01:04:49.800 --> 01:04:54.920
get a pet. And then around the November time, might

856
01:04:55.000 --> 01:05:00.159
be in October November ish, I normally say November. I

857
01:05:00.199 --> 01:05:05.320
don't know. And this is two thy fifteen, Luke says

858
01:05:05.320 --> 01:05:12.440
to me, Ah, I said yeah. He said, my friend

859
01:05:13.400 --> 01:05:22.679
who breathes ferrets has got two ferrets going needing new homes.

860
01:05:24.159 --> 01:05:27.719
And I said yeah. He said, are you interested in

861
01:05:27.800 --> 01:05:30.079
getting a ferret? Now?

862
01:05:31.199 --> 01:05:31.440
These?

863
01:05:31.840 --> 01:05:35.960
Well you might not know this. Andre was related to L.

864
01:05:36.159 --> 01:05:43.320
So L was Andre's uncle, like blood blood relative, because

865
01:05:43.320 --> 01:05:45.639
he had got L from there as well, from that

866
01:05:45.760 --> 01:05:51.079
same friend, like a couple few years earlier, so they

867
01:05:51.119 --> 01:05:58.239
were related. Anyway, I thought, yeah, maybe I will. But

868
01:05:58.280 --> 01:06:00.880
then I thought, you know, they did stink a bit.

869
01:06:02.360 --> 01:06:06.320
I personally loved the smell of Andre, but I know

870
01:06:06.360 --> 01:06:11.360
not everybody is into that kind of stinky stink. I

871
01:06:11.400 --> 01:06:14.480
think he's I mean, he didn't always smell good because

872
01:06:14.480 --> 01:06:16.440
they are kind of a bit skunky at times.

873
01:06:18.440 --> 01:06:24.719
Anyway, I thought about it. I thought yes, no, yes, no,

874
01:06:25.320 --> 01:06:30.199
And then I thought no, no, I've got a brand

875
01:06:30.199 --> 01:06:32.639
new carpet. It's only been in there for a few months,

876
01:06:33.920 --> 01:06:40.480
the flats looking good. I don't want it ruined. Well.

877
01:06:41.760 --> 01:06:46.519
I got a bit interrupted then because Phinnis started barking,

878
01:06:46.599 --> 01:06:48.960
and I couldn't figure out why he was barking.

879
01:06:49.639 --> 01:06:56.559
And then I heard some thunder. Now we've had thunder before.

880
01:06:57.920 --> 01:07:01.760
I don't mean, you know, in history, but you know,

881
01:07:01.800 --> 01:07:08.480
since I've had Finny, there's been thunder. And normally he

882
01:07:08.559 --> 01:07:13.880
doesn't seem to be too bothered. But it did. I

883
01:07:13.920 --> 01:07:14.519
fit norwally.

884
01:07:14.599 --> 01:07:16.719
You know, maybe there'd be the TV would beyond, so

885
01:07:16.840 --> 01:07:21.920
it kind of cover it up a little bit, but yeah,

886
01:07:22.119 --> 01:07:22.440
it was.

887
01:07:22.599 --> 01:07:23.400
He didn't like it.

888
01:07:24.960 --> 01:07:27.679
The only other time I've seen him really disturbed by

889
01:07:28.760 --> 01:07:31.599
anything outside, you know.

890
01:07:31.800 --> 01:07:33.840
Is fireworks.

891
01:07:33.840 --> 01:07:36.480
Once we was out at night and the fireworks were

892
01:07:36.480 --> 01:07:39.320
going off and he pulled me home, so we didn't

893
01:07:39.360 --> 01:07:44.119
like that. Another time he didn't like the aircraft going

894
01:07:44.159 --> 01:07:47.039
over to air display, because there was lots that he

895
01:07:47.079 --> 01:07:51.320
didn't like that. Accept's very noisy, and the air bloe

896
01:07:51.320 --> 01:07:53.719
in the other day, last week or whenever it was

897
01:07:54.440 --> 01:07:57.119
he pulled me home from that. He didn't didn't like that.

898
01:07:59.280 --> 01:08:03.360
Most things don't bother him, but just springs from the

899
01:08:03.440 --> 01:08:07.639
sky generally. I said to him, just don't look up,

900
01:08:09.039 --> 01:08:12.719
and he told me I was being silly. I haven't

901
01:08:12.719 --> 01:08:15.719
got to look up to hear the thunder. Have I,

902
01:08:15.719 --> 01:08:16.239
I said.

903
01:08:16.079 --> 01:08:21.520
All right, wow, so yeah, Andre.

904
01:08:21.960 --> 01:08:25.399
So at this point I'm thinking I don't want I'm

905
01:08:25.399 --> 01:08:27.119
thinking I don't want someone who's going to bite me.

906
01:08:28.399 --> 01:08:30.159
It's going to make a mess everywhere.

907
01:08:30.359 --> 01:08:37.199
And no, I really decided it was a firm negative,

908
01:08:37.399 --> 01:08:42.840
like no, no, not don't want one. I love l

909
01:08:43.159 --> 01:08:45.399
and I did. I mean, he was pretty good with me,

910
01:08:45.760 --> 01:08:48.119
as long as I remember to wear a long sleeved

911
01:08:48.159 --> 01:08:52.000
shirt or T shirt because if I kept off, God,

912
01:08:52.039 --> 01:08:55.439
they'd have a little nibble. But he was really it

913
01:08:55.479 --> 01:09:01.000
was a very loving ferrit you know, very cuddly. But

914
01:09:01.039 --> 01:09:03.159
at the same time, you know he'd like to lit'tle

915
01:09:03.159 --> 01:09:09.119
bite every now and then a little snack, treat himself

916
01:09:09.119 --> 01:09:15.199
to a bit of human So and one hundred percent Nope,

917
01:09:15.199 --> 01:09:18.119
don't want one. So I'm just like going about my

918
01:09:18.159 --> 01:09:21.640
life as I do. And I'm walking home. I don't

919
01:09:21.640 --> 01:09:25.039
know where i'd been, probably been to town or something,

920
01:09:25.800 --> 01:09:26.680
or to the garage.

921
01:09:26.720 --> 01:09:30.600
And I'm coming back and I see this bloke.

922
01:09:33.920 --> 01:09:37.479
Holding he's in looking in the back of a car

923
01:09:38.279 --> 01:09:42.439
and he's holding a cage. Then I see and this

924
01:09:42.560 --> 01:09:43.840
is outside the front.

925
01:09:43.600 --> 01:09:46.159
Of my building. And then I see Luke come out

926
01:09:46.239 --> 01:09:51.079
and he waves to me and he says, look, look there,

927
01:09:50.840 --> 01:09:54.479
these are the two ferrets, are two baby ferrets. I said,

928
01:09:54.479 --> 01:09:56.720
oh okay, and he said, come and have a look

929
01:09:56.720 --> 01:09:57.199
at them.

930
01:09:57.680 --> 01:10:00.000
He was so excited that That's one of the things

931
01:10:00.079 --> 01:10:04.840
about Luke. When he was excited, he brightened up so much.

932
01:10:05.000 --> 01:10:10.159
It was very contagious. So I kind of got very

933
01:10:10.199 --> 01:10:12.920
intrigued and I was excited as well to sort of

934
01:10:14.239 --> 01:10:19.640
have a look. With no intention I take him one on.

935
01:10:20.359 --> 01:10:22.359
I didn't want to take it. And bearing in mind

936
01:10:22.399 --> 01:10:25.680
the bloke didn't want any money. He wasn't doing it

937
01:10:25.680 --> 01:10:30.960
for money. He just loved ferrets. So there was two ferrets.

938
01:10:31.079 --> 01:10:33.800
One of them, you know, it was Andre. One of

939
01:10:33.800 --> 01:10:37.159
them was his brother, and one of them had to

940
01:10:37.239 --> 01:10:42.000
be that. He hadn't decided which one was already been

941
01:10:43.520 --> 01:10:47.560
adopted by someone else. But he was going to deliver

942
01:10:47.720 --> 01:10:53.159
that ferret I think a few days afterwards, because he

943
01:10:53.239 --> 01:10:55.560
had to get a cage and stuff for it. This

944
01:10:55.640 --> 01:11:03.680
bloke who was also a friend of Luke's. Instead of

945
01:11:03.760 --> 01:11:13.560
running around on the floor, I fell in love with Andre.

946
01:11:16.479 --> 01:11:20.880
I fell in love with him. See that that what

947
01:11:21.000 --> 01:11:24.800
I wanted to happen to me is, you know, like

948
01:11:24.880 --> 01:11:26.920
a dog wanting to I wanted a dog to fall

949
01:11:26.960 --> 01:11:28.840
in love with me and to come up to me

950
01:11:28.960 --> 01:11:35.159
and like just have that attachment. The reverse happened with Andre.

951
01:11:35.920 --> 01:11:40.960
I absolutely fell head over heels in love with that

952
01:11:41.039 --> 01:11:45.119
little boy in a way that I'm really so surprised about,

953
01:11:46.119 --> 01:11:49.760
because you know, if you just said to me a

954
01:11:49.800 --> 01:11:52.359
few years back before that, like one day, you're going

955
01:11:52.439 --> 01:11:56.199
to have a ferret running around your home, I would

956
01:11:56.239 --> 01:11:59.920
have I wouldn't have believed them, would I just laughed.

957
01:12:00.239 --> 01:12:03.840
It's like, no way. To me, a fairy was like

958
01:12:03.880 --> 01:12:08.199
a rat, you know, there was no difference. There's a

959
01:12:08.239 --> 01:12:10.600
big difference. But at the time I didn't really know.

960
01:12:10.720 --> 01:12:13.800
I just it was just some something that was very weak,

961
01:12:14.319 --> 01:12:20.319
very weakly, whibbly wobbly, moved very quickly and bit people.

962
01:12:20.359 --> 01:12:21.920
And I didn't want to I didn't want to know.

963
01:12:26.119 --> 01:12:27.800
At this time, I knew a little bit more about

964
01:12:27.800 --> 01:12:30.760
ferrets because I'd spent time with l and he used

965
01:12:30.800 --> 01:12:32.720
to come up here and it was as good as gold,

966
01:12:33.359 --> 01:12:36.960
apart from the occasional snack out of my arm.

967
01:12:37.800 --> 01:12:49.119
And so Vinny certainly, Vinnie Andre absolutely hated me.

968
01:12:50.880 --> 01:12:54.319
I picked him up and he bit me every opportunity.

969
01:12:54.359 --> 01:12:57.840
He bit me just on that occasion, he really grabbed

970
01:12:57.880 --> 01:12:59.640
me and his raisor teeth.

971
01:13:00.079 --> 01:13:02.560
Remember it is tiny at this point. You could like

972
01:13:02.600 --> 01:13:03.920
fit him in a pole my hand.

973
01:13:04.960 --> 01:13:10.600
And there's videos, there's probably pictures on Facebook, but there's

974
01:13:10.640 --> 01:13:12.840
loads of videos of him on my YouTube channel.

975
01:13:13.359 --> 01:13:19.920
Andre and I had to hold him. That the bloke

976
01:13:22.000 --> 01:13:23.800
who would brought the two.

977
01:13:23.760 --> 01:13:27.920
Around, he showed me how to handle the baby, and

978
01:13:28.079 --> 01:13:31.600
so did Luke. So there's a certain way you basically

979
01:13:31.680 --> 01:13:35.319
put your finger and thumb around the neck. Because the

980
01:13:35.359 --> 01:13:38.560
neck so tiny, you're not choking it. It's just basically

981
01:13:38.800 --> 01:13:42.119
there's a lot of loose, loose skin there. It just

982
01:13:42.199 --> 01:13:45.880
means that they can't maneuver their mouth to bite you.

983
01:13:47.560 --> 01:13:52.840
Another thing is it was just something that parents do

984
01:13:53.000 --> 01:13:58.560
to ferrets, is they pick him up by their neck

985
01:13:58.960 --> 01:14:01.600
so it doesn't hurt them the back of the neck,

986
01:14:01.640 --> 01:14:07.960
the skin, but they just completely stay still. They stop

987
01:14:08.039 --> 01:14:10.640
being naughty as soon as that happens. Or you can

988
01:14:10.720 --> 01:14:13.600
drag them back like that and they just stay still.

989
01:14:14.600 --> 01:14:24.000
So if it doesn't hurt them, but it makes them.

990
01:14:20.920 --> 01:14:25.560
Be passive, they give up. They kind of you know.

991
01:14:25.760 --> 01:14:29.960
So that's kind of something I learned to do, but

992
01:14:30.039 --> 01:14:31.840
the rest of it was just not made up as

993
01:14:31.880 --> 01:14:34.479
I went along. But Luke come taught me quite a

994
01:14:34.479 --> 01:14:43.720
bit I suppose as well. Yeah yeah, And I went

995
01:14:43.800 --> 01:14:46.520
from no way in the world or on those so

996
01:14:46.600 --> 01:14:48.359
many things in my flat.

997
01:14:51.039 --> 01:14:51.239
Too.

998
01:14:53.159 --> 01:14:56.760
I've never wanted anything as much as I ever did

999
01:14:56.840 --> 01:14:59.840
in my life. That's probably a bit of an exaggeration.

1000
01:15:00.159 --> 01:15:04.640
I really like the other one had no interest in

1001
01:15:06.560 --> 01:15:09.640
and it was just as cute as I'm sure every

1002
01:15:09.680 --> 01:15:12.239
baby ferret is just as cute as each other. But

1003
01:15:12.239 --> 01:15:15.479
there was something about Andre I don't know what it was.

1004
01:15:15.520 --> 01:15:18.199
There was something about him, something about his little face

1005
01:15:18.239 --> 01:15:21.920
and his little mask that he had, like almost like

1006
01:15:22.000 --> 01:15:25.039
he had an eye mask on him, like he was

1007
01:15:25.119 --> 01:15:30.079
a highway dick Turpin or you know, something like that

1008
01:15:31.640 --> 01:15:34.960
bank robber. Maybe maybe not, but yeah, it's just cute.

1009
01:15:35.039 --> 01:15:38.199
He's facial features, and.

1010
01:15:42.000 --> 01:15:46.680
I had to have him. There was no option. In fact,

1011
01:15:46.800 --> 01:15:48.720
I think the man said that he was going to

1012
01:15:48.720 --> 01:15:54.199
give him to the other bloke, and Luke said he

1013
01:15:54.239 --> 01:15:57.119
won't nobally, he won't know which one.

1014
01:15:57.520 --> 01:16:00.880
He just knows he's going to get one. So I

1015
01:16:00.920 --> 01:16:07.399
wouldn't have took the other one. However, weird that sounds Andre.

1016
01:16:07.720 --> 01:16:11.000
It was him. It wasn't because Andre was a ferret

1017
01:16:11.039 --> 01:16:15.079
that I wanted him. I didn't want a ferret. I

1018
01:16:15.079 --> 01:16:15.720
wanted Andre.

1019
01:16:16.159 --> 01:16:16.439
He was.

1020
01:16:16.479 --> 01:16:18.119
I just fell in love with him. He's just sung

1021
01:16:18.239 --> 01:16:18.720
about him.

1022
01:16:19.920 --> 01:16:24.760
And so for the first two weeks I had him,

1023
01:16:24.800 --> 01:16:29.840
and all he did was bite me. But I continue

1024
01:16:30.039 --> 01:16:35.319
to pick him up every single opportunity, cuddle him. And

1025
01:16:36.319 --> 01:16:38.199
he never bit me on the face. So I could

1026
01:16:38.239 --> 01:16:39.840
literally put my face right up to his.

1027
01:16:40.399 --> 01:16:43.159
He's probably scared, to be fair, imagine seeing my face

1028
01:16:43.199 --> 01:16:45.920
so close up, probably scared the hell out of him.

1029
01:16:46.960 --> 01:16:50.159
But he never bit me on the face. It's always

1030
01:16:50.239 --> 01:16:56.600
my fingers if he could. And after like a couple

1031
01:16:56.640 --> 01:17:01.359
of weeks, by after old destroyed loads of times. But

1032
01:17:01.439 --> 01:17:04.920
I was just sitting down on the Saturday night watching

1033
01:17:04.960 --> 01:17:10.680
the box in and he climbed up my leg and

1034
01:17:10.720 --> 01:17:12.560
I was went dressing gown and he climbed up my

1035
01:17:12.680 --> 01:17:14.840
left sleeve of my dressing gown and went to sleep.

1036
01:17:16.680 --> 01:17:21.039
And from then on he was good as gold. We

1037
01:17:21.159 --> 01:17:27.600
got on perfect. It never bit me again, not on purpose.

1038
01:17:28.239 --> 01:17:30.359
He used to bite me when we played, when we

1039
01:17:30.399 --> 01:17:33.079
had play fights, he bite me. Sometimes you'd get very

1040
01:17:33.119 --> 01:17:37.279
carried away, but all I had to say was gentle

1041
01:17:38.840 --> 01:17:41.399
and it stopped. So if he bit me too hard, I.

1042
01:17:41.399 --> 01:17:47.479
Say gentle, it just releases jaws. So his teeth were

1043
01:17:47.560 --> 01:17:55.199
just kind of touching my skin. We communicated quite well,

1044
01:17:55.239 --> 01:17:57.560
which is a bit weird, I think.

1045
01:17:59.000 --> 01:18:02.920
But yeah, I think perhaps I should have got I

1046
01:18:02.920 --> 01:18:05.880
should have got another ferret. Maybe.

1047
01:18:06.880 --> 01:18:10.760
But you know what, Vinnie came into my life. And

1048
01:18:11.439 --> 01:18:16.199
you know, I'll be honest. When I lost Andre, it

1049
01:18:16.239 --> 01:18:19.399
was it was too much. I mean, I don't I

1050
01:18:20.239 --> 01:18:24.800
didn't really believe that I could be so attached to

1051
01:18:27.640 --> 01:18:35.319
a little thing like that, but I was. And you know,

1052
01:18:35.479 --> 01:18:37.039
my vow and a lot of people do that is

1053
01:18:37.079 --> 01:18:39.359
that they say I'll never get I never get another.

1054
01:18:39.159 --> 01:18:44.520
Pet, that's it. And I definitely meant that I wasn't

1055
01:18:44.520 --> 01:18:46.920
going to get anything, not a dog, not a cat, anything,

1056
01:18:47.640 --> 01:18:49.720
not to have a cat anyway, but not up here

1057
01:18:50.199 --> 01:19:00.520
because I'm on the first floor. The cat can't get out, however,

1058
01:19:01.239 --> 01:19:04.399
you know. So this was in the summer two thousand

1059
01:19:04.479 --> 01:19:16.439
and one, and then two thousand and two, November or December,

1060
01:19:18.840 --> 01:19:23.279
Vinnie ran through my legs as I answered the door

1061
01:19:23.319 --> 01:19:27.560
to Luke. He was laughing and this little thing ran

1062
01:19:27.600 --> 01:19:31.000
through and LOGI was there like looking at me, and

1063
01:19:31.079 --> 01:19:33.880
he ran in as well. It's like, what the heck

1064
01:19:34.079 --> 01:19:39.039
is LOGI chasing? I thought for a second, I thought

1065
01:19:39.039 --> 01:19:43.000
he'd got another Ferret, and it wasn't.

1066
01:19:43.039 --> 01:19:45.279
It was Vinny. But Vinnie was ten months old, so

1067
01:19:45.319 --> 01:19:49.039
he was He wasn't a hugely smaller than he is now,

1068
01:19:49.079 --> 01:19:54.039
but he was smaller. And I mean I couldn't see him.

1069
01:19:54.079 --> 01:19:59.520
He was moving so quick. And you know, that's how

1070
01:19:59.520 --> 01:20:02.159
I ended up him. But with Andre, that's how I

1071
01:20:02.239 --> 01:20:05.920
ended up with him. It was just fall in love

1072
01:20:05.960 --> 01:20:12.680
situation and no matter how you know, the ending wasn't good,

1073
01:20:12.760 --> 01:20:17.800
and I just it was hard. But he did bring

1074
01:20:17.840 --> 01:20:21.800
a lot of pleasure into my life. He made me

1075
01:20:21.880 --> 01:20:31.600
laugh a lot, and yeah, I actually adored him, adored him,

1076
01:20:31.880 --> 01:20:33.760
And I know that There's a couple of people over

1077
01:20:33.760 --> 01:20:36.880
the years, as I've mentioned, like saying why why.

1078
01:20:37.199 --> 01:20:38.560
Does he not to me?

1079
01:20:38.640 --> 01:20:41.239
But like on the maybe on a Facebook group or

1080
01:20:41.279 --> 01:20:42.760
on a Facebook page.

1081
01:20:42.800 --> 01:20:45.039
Why does he keep talking about Andre? He's been gone

1082
01:20:45.079 --> 01:20:45.640
for ages.

1083
01:20:47.960 --> 01:20:50.359
That's why it is the same reason I talk about

1084
01:20:50.359 --> 01:20:56.039
my men, and the same reason I'm probably still going

1085
01:20:56.119 --> 01:20:59.880
to be talking about Uncle's sausages in ten years time.

1086
01:21:00.760 --> 01:21:05.640
The reason I'm still talking about Luke because there were

1087
01:21:05.680 --> 01:21:11.560
big parts of my life and that doesn't change just

1088
01:21:11.600 --> 01:21:14.479
because they're no longer here is.

1089
01:21:16.039 --> 01:21:17.479
You know, they're not. I mean, they're no longer a

1090
01:21:17.520 --> 01:21:21.399
big part of my life day to day. But I

1091
01:21:21.399 --> 01:21:27.680
think once someone has that makes that impact.

1092
01:21:29.279 --> 01:21:32.079
I mean, Uncle's sausages made his impact more really over

1093
01:21:32.119 --> 01:21:34.520
the last year, even though I've known him for ten years,

1094
01:21:35.119 --> 01:21:37.159
and especially more when he got unwell.

1095
01:21:37.960 --> 01:21:42.560
I mean, that period that we shared together is something

1096
01:21:42.600 --> 01:21:47.800
that's kind of a bit precious really, that whole you know, situation,

1097
01:21:50.359 --> 01:21:55.039
and there's no way I could ever forget that. And yeah,

1098
01:21:55.079 --> 01:22:01.680
so he's always going to be remembered by me. I hope,

1099
01:22:01.880 --> 01:22:02.479
I hope.

1100
01:22:04.119 --> 01:22:09.760
And even if he's not, the memories recorded it's onto,

1101
01:22:09.840 --> 01:22:11.920
you know what I mean, it's me talking about it.

1102
01:22:12.239 --> 01:22:16.800
So even if in thirty years time, perhaps for whatever reason,

1103
01:22:16.960 --> 01:22:20.880
I don't have the actual memory, I can listen back

1104
01:22:22.439 --> 01:22:27.520
and hear about it and think, oh, he sounds nice.

1105
01:22:29.800 --> 01:22:32.560
Who's this bloke that's talking?

1106
01:22:34.000 --> 01:22:37.640
Why has he got such a squeaky voice? So yeah,

1107
01:22:37.680 --> 01:22:40.479
that's how I got Andre. Thank you for that.

1108
01:22:41.039 --> 01:22:47.039
Rich asks when it's Finny's birthday. It's the end of February,

1109
01:22:50.199 --> 01:22:56.520
so you would have been born in two thousand and yeah,

1110
01:22:56.640 --> 01:23:03.840
end of yeah, end of February two thousand and twenty three, No,

1111
01:23:04.039 --> 01:23:09.800
twenty two, So end of February twenty twenty two was when.

1112
01:23:09.680 --> 01:23:13.399
He was born. The exact date I used to have.

1113
01:23:15.399 --> 01:23:17.279
I could probably get it because I used to have

1114
01:23:18.960 --> 01:23:21.359
a picture with a date on where he.

1115
01:23:21.399 --> 01:23:25.720
Was literally a baby, you know, like a it looked

1116
01:23:25.760 --> 01:23:26.159
like a.

1117
01:23:28.479 --> 01:23:33.960
I don't know, like pink little turn it or something.

1118
01:23:34.359 --> 01:23:39.319
But yeah, so end of February, he'll be foorn next year.

1119
01:23:41.600 --> 01:23:45.760
Robin asks me, have you ever been inside Hampton Court Palace.

1120
01:23:46.279 --> 01:23:52.000
I'd love to visit there. First of all, I thought

1121
01:23:52.039 --> 01:23:56.439
I don't know, But now I do know. Hampton Court Palace.

1122
01:23:58.319 --> 01:23:59.399
I'm pretty sure it's.

1123
01:23:59.279 --> 01:23:59.880
Got a zoo.

1124
01:24:00.079 --> 01:24:00.319
Kay.

1125
01:24:01.039 --> 01:24:05.000
I don't know why, but I have feeling there's a

1126
01:24:05.079 --> 01:24:09.119
zoo there. Hampton Court.

1127
01:24:10.800 --> 01:24:30.840
Palace zoo, uh hampter then Hampton Court mans first, right,

1128
01:24:31.000 --> 01:24:31.920
it doesn't look.

1129
01:24:33.600 --> 01:24:44.319
This Hampton Court beasts. Okay, yeah, there is is there. Okay,

1130
01:24:45.199 --> 01:24:47.439
does I'm going to change it to does.

1131
01:24:50.840 --> 01:24:58.960
Have a zoo. Hampton Court Palace does not have a

1132
01:24:59.039 --> 01:25:03.640
traditional zoo, but it's Magic Garden adventure playground features mythical beasts.

1133
01:25:04.880 --> 01:25:07.119
That's what I visited when I was a kid. I

1134
01:25:07.159 --> 01:25:12.039
thought they were real animals. Wow, no wonder I was

1135
01:25:12.079 --> 01:25:18.800
able to kiss a tiger on the lips, all that

1136
01:25:19.000 --> 01:25:23.840
bragging for years afterwards, thinking I was more invincible than

1137
01:25:23.960 --> 01:25:28.640
tiles and when clear I wasn't. It wasn't they wasn't

1138
01:25:28.720 --> 01:25:29.159
they wasn't.

1139
01:25:31.039 --> 01:25:35.239
Yeah, I have been there, even though I clearly don't

1140
01:25:35.279 --> 01:25:39.239
know where it is, but I have been there. Then

1141
01:25:39.279 --> 01:25:41.560
he started barking again the thunder.

1142
01:25:43.079 --> 01:25:46.479
And yeah, I have been there. It's a long, long,

1143
01:25:46.720 --> 01:25:50.279
long long time ago, like decades ago, so I don't

1144
01:25:50.359 --> 01:25:54.319
really remember it. But I've been to all the main

1145
01:25:55.560 --> 01:25:59.720
tourist attractions, either when I was very young or when

1146
01:25:59.760 --> 01:26:03.239
I was kind of in my twenties. I including all

1147
01:26:03.239 --> 01:26:08.680
the museums, met in Two Swords, Tower of London, the Palace,

1148
01:26:09.039 --> 01:26:12.359
that whole walk up to the palace whatever that's called,

1149
01:26:14.479 --> 01:26:20.319
the Zoo London Zoo, the library at London Library or whatever.

1150
01:26:20.520 --> 01:26:21.000
So I've been.

1151
01:26:21.119 --> 01:26:25.600
So I'm pretty much everywhere, but not for a very

1152
01:26:25.840 --> 01:26:34.039
very long time. Kathleen asks, what's the best birthday present

1153
01:26:34.079 --> 01:26:34.359
you ever?

1154
01:26:34.479 --> 01:26:39.880
Received. Well, technically I would say, I know it's my

1155
01:26:40.000 --> 01:26:44.159
birthday was three days ago. But your question, Kathleen, that's

1156
01:26:44.199 --> 01:26:46.600
the birth that's the best present I've ever had.

1157
01:26:47.159 --> 01:26:54.720
I don't know, really best birthday present. See, when I

1158
01:26:54.800 --> 01:26:56.840
was a kid, not nothing as an adult. But when

1159
01:26:56.880 --> 01:26:59.920
I was a kid, I enjoyed this year because I

1160
01:27:00.039 --> 01:27:02.960
got some payper gifts that was really lovely kind of

1161
01:27:04.399 --> 01:27:08.880
I almost felt like I was, I don't know, just

1162
01:27:09.479 --> 01:27:13.439
felt quite nice, felt very nice.

1163
01:27:14.560 --> 01:27:24.359
I think as a kid. As an adult, nothing I

1164
01:27:24.439 --> 01:27:25.239
mean not nothing, but.

1165
01:27:30.720 --> 01:27:33.680
Yeah, nothing like particularly that I can think of off

1166
01:27:33.720 --> 01:27:45.000
the top of my head as a kid. Noah, nothing

1167
01:27:45.079 --> 01:27:49.000
really stands out because they're all. The thing is with

1168
01:27:49.199 --> 01:27:53.279
my dad and his wife, they were very generous when

1169
01:27:53.319 --> 01:27:56.680
it came to Christmas and birthdays. I'm not saying they

1170
01:27:56.720 --> 01:27:58.279
weren't the rest of the time, but they were very

1171
01:27:58.760 --> 01:28:01.720
I always got lots of pressing for birthdays and Christmases

1172
01:28:02.399 --> 01:28:03.920
from the age of seven to fifteen.

1173
01:28:05.199 --> 01:28:07.800
So it was.

1174
01:28:10.800 --> 01:28:14.439
Yeah, it was like every year. I mean, fifteen was

1175
01:28:14.640 --> 01:28:16.000
a bit of a slow one, but all the other

1176
01:28:16.119 --> 01:28:20.720
years it's you know, when the whole family was together. Yeah,

1177
01:28:21.359 --> 01:28:24.640
every year was good, you know, like Christmas as well.

1178
01:28:25.479 --> 01:28:29.560
I never there was never any disappointment. There was never like,

1179
01:28:29.720 --> 01:28:32.640
oh I didn't get enough presents, because I always got

1180
01:28:32.880 --> 01:28:39.079
more presence than I ever needed, you know.

1181
01:28:39.359 --> 01:28:39.600
It was.

1182
01:28:40.279 --> 01:28:46.000
I was very, very fortunate, and the same as with birthdays.

1183
01:28:46.039 --> 01:28:47.720
I always got lots of presents.

1184
01:28:49.039 --> 01:28:55.319
And I liked all of them. Really. I remember one

1185
01:28:55.439 --> 01:28:59.479
year when I was probably about ten, eleven, ten, I

1186
01:28:59.520 --> 01:29:05.520
don't know, and I had a video game so that

1187
01:29:05.680 --> 01:29:11.279
was cool, like a kind of First Space Invaders Asteroids

1188
01:29:11.439 --> 01:29:14.119
kind of game that was handheld, but a big old

1189
01:29:14.199 --> 01:29:18.840
thing batteries. The batteries were the size of a car.

1190
01:29:20.039 --> 01:29:21.960
There was a big thing, but it was loved it.

1191
01:29:23.039 --> 01:29:23.720
Do Do Do.

1192
01:29:25.640 --> 01:29:32.399
Do Do Do doo? Yeah, things like that. That was

1193
01:29:32.520 --> 01:29:36.680
nothing like how it sounded. But I can't think of

1194
01:29:36.880 --> 01:29:42.439
any particular presence that had off the top of my head.

1195
01:29:42.479 --> 01:29:45.880
That is, I'm not saying there wasn't any particular presence

1196
01:29:45.960 --> 01:29:49.199
that I liked most of all, and I'm trying to

1197
01:29:50.880 --> 01:29:55.279
The big presents really, I think were Christmas time, because

1198
01:29:55.279 --> 01:29:58.399
I got a couple of the two biggest presents I

1199
01:29:58.600 --> 01:30:05.840
remember at Christmas. Oh no, I got the best present

1200
01:30:05.960 --> 01:30:12.880
I ever got for my birthday was when I was seven.

1201
01:30:13.920 --> 01:30:15.680
I mean, it might have not been on my birthday.

1202
01:30:15.720 --> 01:30:18.079
It was around that time because we all got bike,

1203
01:30:18.479 --> 01:30:20.600
but it was a bike. I got a new my

1204
01:30:20.760 --> 01:30:25.000
first ever bike when I was seven, my seventh birthday,

1205
01:30:25.880 --> 01:30:28.479
and my dad taught me to ride, and he did

1206
01:30:28.520 --> 01:30:31.479
that whole thing where he's like holding onto the because

1207
01:30:31.479 --> 01:30:36.079
I had fallen off, and he put stabilizers on and.

1208
01:30:37.960 --> 01:30:41.039
He kind of he said, I'm holding on. And he

1209
01:30:41.239 --> 01:30:46.600
was behind me and I was cycling, and I said,

1210
01:30:46.680 --> 01:30:50.159
you're still holding on. He said, yeah, he's still holding on.

1211
01:30:50.279 --> 01:30:54.199
He said, yeah, I'm still holding on. I'm thinking, why

1212
01:30:54.239 --> 01:30:56.920
are you doing such a soft voice. I said, he's

1213
01:30:56.920 --> 01:30:57.800
still holding.

1214
01:31:00.640 --> 01:31:04.279
What And I showed he's still holding on and my

1215
01:31:04.399 --> 01:31:06.439
phone rings, and he said, yeah, I'm still holding on.

1216
01:31:08.000 --> 01:31:12.239
And I'm thinking mobile phones aren't even invented yet since

1217
01:31:12.359 --> 01:31:16.800
nineteen seventy seven. This is really weird. One if it's

1218
01:31:16.960 --> 01:31:20.840
real and I look behind me and there's nowhere to

1219
01:31:20.920 --> 01:31:28.600
be seen. I'd cycled into a different town. I've been

1220
01:31:28.640 --> 01:31:33.479
gone for about six hours. Never really could gauge time

1221
01:31:33.680 --> 01:31:39.279
back then, So yeah, that's when I realized I could

1222
01:31:39.319 --> 01:31:43.760
cycle without him like holding on. I mean, but I

1223
01:31:43.840 --> 01:31:47.840
did have stabilizers. Stabilizers are good. I think everyone should

1224
01:31:47.840 --> 01:31:52.800
have stabilizers all the time. It just makes sense, doesn't it,

1225
01:31:53.199 --> 01:31:55.720
Because at least then you could just stop your bike

1226
01:31:55.760 --> 01:31:57.640
wherever you are and just leave it standing up.

1227
01:31:59.399 --> 01:32:01.720
There's no real not to have stabilizers.

1228
01:32:04.680 --> 01:32:07.960
I remember seeing someone years ago in a park having

1229
01:32:07.960 --> 01:32:11.119
a go at their kid because they had stabilizers, and

1230
01:32:11.279 --> 01:32:14.600
like almost like you can't have still have stabilizes, you're night.

1231
01:32:14.600 --> 01:32:20.960
Now, and me like give their kid a break, you know,

1232
01:32:21.079 --> 01:32:21.760
what does it matter?

1233
01:32:23.840 --> 01:32:24.119
Really?

1234
01:32:26.800 --> 01:32:26.960
Right?

1235
01:32:30.800 --> 01:32:31.000
Yeah?

1236
01:32:31.079 --> 01:32:31.680
The bike.

1237
01:32:33.439 --> 01:32:36.199
That was the best present birthday present I got was

1238
01:32:36.279 --> 01:32:42.479
that bike. I did get another bike at Christmas quite

1239
01:32:42.479 --> 01:32:48.520
a few years later, when I was about thirteen and

1240
01:32:49.479 --> 01:32:52.760
maybe fourteen thirteen something like that, and it was a

1241
01:32:52.920 --> 01:33:00.760
racer and earlier on, but probably about age ten, nine,

1242
01:33:01.000 --> 01:33:04.680
ten or maybe eleven even I got a.

1243
01:33:06.159 --> 01:33:09.439
Telescope for Christmas. I think it was Christmas. It might

1244
01:33:09.479 --> 01:33:12.680
have been for my birthday, It's possible.

1245
01:33:14.279 --> 01:33:19.479
I don't remember exactly, but yeah, I've got this telescope,

1246
01:33:19.520 --> 01:33:20.640
really nice telescope.

1247
01:33:23.439 --> 01:33:25.399
But yeah, so I can't really.

1248
01:33:25.640 --> 01:33:27.760
Would say I would go with the bike. And it

1249
01:33:27.880 --> 01:33:32.760
was a grifter I think, and it was the first

1250
01:33:32.800 --> 01:33:39.239
time I'd ever had a bike, And I mean that

1251
01:33:39.399 --> 01:33:41.239
was the best summer.

1252
01:33:43.600 --> 01:33:44.199
Of my life.

1253
01:33:46.439 --> 01:33:49.920
It was there's no other summer. It wasn't about the heat.

1254
01:33:49.960 --> 01:33:51.960
It wasn't about the weather. You know, we may it

1255
01:33:52.079 --> 01:33:55.039
makes such a big deal, like all wasn't as hot

1256
01:33:55.039 --> 01:33:58.720
as it normally is or it's been too hot. When

1257
01:33:58.760 --> 01:34:03.720
I was a kid, I couldn't care at all if

1258
01:34:03.760 --> 01:34:07.880
it was raining or if it was sunny. That was

1259
01:34:08.000 --> 01:34:13.560
my first time with a family, like an actual family living.

1260
01:34:16.359 --> 01:34:18.720
The next year was good as well, but that was

1261
01:34:18.800 --> 01:34:24.680
the first year. The first summer was just nineteen seventy

1262
01:34:24.800 --> 01:34:27.520
seven when I was well, I was lee, I was

1263
01:34:27.840 --> 01:34:30.479
just before I was seven, but yeah, I was seven

1264
01:34:30.560 --> 01:34:36.720
in August. So that was the best summer of my life.

1265
01:34:38.840 --> 01:34:43.239
Or in my memory anyway. And the next year was

1266
01:34:43.279 --> 01:34:44.119
really good as well.

1267
01:34:45.439 --> 01:34:49.880
So I basically seventy seven seventy eight were the best

1268
01:34:49.920 --> 01:34:55.279
summers that I ever had. But seventy seven especially because

1269
01:34:55.279 --> 01:34:59.520
we lived near the well, we're lived near the beach

1270
01:34:59.560 --> 01:35:04.720
as well, actually lived near the beach in the big

1271
01:35:04.800 --> 01:35:07.000
family house. But this was like just up the road

1272
01:35:07.039 --> 01:35:10.399
from the beach, a bit of a walk but not

1273
01:35:10.520 --> 01:35:19.880
too far. It was a straight walk. Yeah, so that's

1274
01:35:19.920 --> 01:35:23.279
what I would say for that. The bike that was

1275
01:35:23.359 --> 01:35:28.479
my favorite, the best person I ever got, but technically

1276
01:35:28.640 --> 01:35:30.279
not really the best present I ever.

1277
01:35:30.239 --> 01:35:33.159
Got was a family. If we're going to be if

1278
01:35:33.159 --> 01:35:35.880
I'm going to be sentimental, So we moved.

1279
01:35:35.720 --> 01:35:38.640
Out of the children's home and lived with my dad

1280
01:35:38.720 --> 01:35:44.039
and his new wife permanently the summer of nineteen seventy seven,

1281
01:35:46.359 --> 01:35:52.399
possibly June, maybe July. It was back in them days.

1282
01:35:53.439 --> 01:35:55.479
A couple of weeks was like a few months to

1283
01:35:55.600 --> 01:35:57.840
a little kid, and it's like a long time. So

1284
01:35:57.920 --> 01:36:05.239
we probably moved there after school finished. So I went there, left.

1285
01:36:05.159 --> 01:36:09.119
South End and we moved there instead of visiting at weekends.

1286
01:36:10.039 --> 01:36:17.119
Who moved there forever? And it was technically that was

1287
01:36:17.279 --> 01:36:20.720
like the best birthday present I ever had because for

1288
01:36:20.800 --> 01:36:25.680
the first time, well since I was a baby, I

1289
01:36:25.880 --> 01:36:31.880
was had two parents and my brothers all together in

1290
01:36:31.960 --> 01:36:38.640
one house. Yeah, so that was brilliant. Yep.

1291
01:36:39.039 --> 01:36:43.159
And I was the baby for one more year, but

1292
01:36:43.399 --> 01:36:52.920
just one year, move on, Joe Joe. Mary asks me,

1293
01:36:53.359 --> 01:36:55.680
how do you design the episode title artwork?

1294
01:36:55.760 --> 01:37:00.840
You use? It's always so creative, Well, thank you. I

1295
01:37:02.760 --> 01:37:08.119
use different things, So I use a mixture of a

1296
01:37:08.560 --> 01:37:15.760
Canva and Chatch EPT five.

1297
01:37:17.960 --> 01:37:22.439
And sometimes other things to put together, maybe some images

1298
01:37:22.560 --> 01:37:26.800
I've got, maybe images that I've found online to put

1299
01:37:26.880 --> 01:37:28.880
together what I want to kind of express.

1300
01:37:30.039 --> 01:37:33.680
Usually it's something to do with the recording.

1301
01:37:34.680 --> 01:37:36.920
It might be hidden in the recording, but it's quite

1302
01:37:36.920 --> 01:37:42.720
often there's a little hint in the image, or sometimes

1303
01:37:42.800 --> 01:37:46.399
I hide a little things in the image where you'd.

1304
01:37:46.239 --> 01:37:48.680
Have to really have a closer look to see it

1305
01:37:49.000 --> 01:37:52.359
what it is. But generally I.

1306
01:37:54.479 --> 01:37:57.279
Have to think what I wanted, what I want the record,

1307
01:37:57.399 --> 01:38:00.479
what I want the image to be. So I think

1308
01:38:00.560 --> 01:38:02.720
that up and then I asked chat GP two five

1309
01:38:03.880 --> 01:38:06.359
to maybe create that image.

1310
01:38:07.439 --> 01:38:10.760
This is one way of doing it. And then I

1311
01:38:10.920 --> 01:38:13.600
get it to redo it and to change things.

1312
01:38:13.720 --> 01:38:18.520
And it takes quite a while, sometimes sometimes half hour

1313
01:38:18.600 --> 01:38:23.119
an hour to get the image done, depends on how

1314
01:38:23.279 --> 01:38:26.640
well it comes out first time. And then I go

1315
01:38:26.680 --> 01:38:31.880
into Canva and I edit the image. And sometimes I

1316
01:38:32.000 --> 01:38:35.199
do multiple images and put them all together, taking off

1317
01:38:35.239 --> 01:38:38.439
the background, put them into Canva, editing it so it

1318
01:38:38.520 --> 01:38:39.479
looks like one image.

1319
01:38:44.000 --> 01:38:45.560
Yes, so that's kind of what I do.

1320
01:38:45.760 --> 01:38:49.119
I used to sometimes again, I'd take stuff from online

1321
01:38:49.159 --> 01:38:53.239
and i'd change the image edit it, or pictures of

1322
01:38:53.319 --> 01:38:59.439
myself or pictures of Vinnie, you know, just or put

1323
01:38:59.520 --> 01:39:02.239
in my picture and make me be in this.

1324
01:39:02.319 --> 01:39:04.319
Scenario, and you know, things like that.

1325
01:39:05.840 --> 01:39:09.199
So the Q and A.

1326
01:39:09.319 --> 01:39:14.920
Friday images just generally just Queo Friday. But like I

1327
01:39:15.000 --> 01:39:20.439
did an image yesterday goodbye Uncle Sausages, and it was

1328
01:39:20.479 --> 01:39:23.560
a nice image. It was a picture, not one I

1329
01:39:23.680 --> 01:39:25.680
made up, just one that had been taken.

1330
01:39:27.159 --> 01:39:32.159
Yesterday. So I do sometimes do that as well. And

1331
01:39:32.479 --> 01:39:36.760
there's pictures of me and my seecret at uniform, pictures

1332
01:39:36.800 --> 01:39:40.680
of me in my karate uniform when I was a kid,

1333
01:39:40.760 --> 01:39:44.880
that is. So there's lots of different images. I mean,

1334
01:39:45.800 --> 01:39:50.359
I've done what fourteen one thousand and four hundred, and

1335
01:39:52.000 --> 01:39:53.840
I don't know how many I've done. Now let's have

1336
01:39:53.920 --> 01:39:58.560
a look. So yesterday's one with number one, four hundred

1337
01:39:58.560 --> 01:40:01.720
and twenty four. So this is one for I was

1338
01:40:01.880 --> 01:40:05.199
four hundred and twenty five. So that's how many.

1339
01:40:06.560 --> 01:40:09.039
Images I suppose I've done, although I think some of

1340
01:40:09.079 --> 01:40:12.560
the earlier ones didn't have images, but I did. I

1341
01:40:12.640 --> 01:40:17.600
started doing images a few years back. I do wonder,

1342
01:40:17.680 --> 01:40:20.199
you know, because I listened to some of my old

1343
01:40:20.279 --> 01:40:26.319
stuff from I don't know, fifteen years ago and I think, oh,

1344
01:40:26.399 --> 01:40:29.199
I can't believe I did stuff that wasn't good at all,

1345
01:40:31.560 --> 01:40:34.359
and I've really improved. What I do is I mean,

1346
01:40:34.439 --> 01:40:36.439
the quality of the sound is better than it used

1347
01:40:36.479 --> 01:40:40.439
to be. But I wonder if that's what it's going

1348
01:40:40.520 --> 01:40:43.760
to be like in ten years time. If I look

1349
01:40:43.880 --> 01:40:47.000
back at let's say today's recording, all the recordings that

1350
01:40:47.119 --> 01:40:50.239
I've been doing in the last year or so, well,

1351
01:40:50.279 --> 01:40:54.119
I look back at these recordings, I think, oh, my goodness,

1352
01:40:55.600 --> 01:40:58.800
I don't believe that I used to make such recordings

1353
01:40:59.000 --> 01:40:59.520
as that.

1354
01:41:01.680 --> 01:41:06.000
I'm so glad that I managed to improve the quality

1355
01:41:06.520 --> 01:41:10.520
of the content. I don't know. I might look back

1356
01:41:10.560 --> 01:41:16.960
at this and think, God, what was I doing. It's possible.

1357
01:41:21.039 --> 01:41:26.840
So what was the question again, what's the best birthday?

1358
01:41:26.960 --> 01:41:27.000
No?

1359
01:41:27.159 --> 01:41:29.079
No, how do you design an episode?

1360
01:41:29.239 --> 01:41:29.399
Yeah?

1361
01:41:29.479 --> 01:41:30.920
So that that's kind of how I do it.

1362
01:41:34.119 --> 01:41:38.319
Is they're creative, but I have to say what I want,

1363
01:41:40.119 --> 01:41:42.079
so I have to create it kind of in my

1364
01:41:42.239 --> 01:41:45.720
mind roughly what I want, and then I have to

1365
01:41:45.800 --> 01:41:49.239
find a way to put that together because I'm not

1366
01:41:49.319 --> 01:41:49.920
an artist.

1367
01:41:50.359 --> 01:41:54.760
Like, as far as creative images.

1368
01:41:57.319 --> 01:41:59.479
Which you can do, you know, there are there are

1369
01:41:59.600 --> 01:42:02.359
programs that you can put an image together and make

1370
01:42:02.439 --> 01:42:05.439
it from scratch. That's that's not something that I could

1371
01:42:05.479 --> 01:42:08.199
do or something that I even want to learn to do.

1372
01:42:10.640 --> 01:42:14.119
But I know what I want. Does that make sense

1373
01:42:14.199 --> 01:42:14.880
if I want?

1374
01:42:15.319 --> 01:42:18.000
Like the other day, I wanted an image of a

1375
01:42:18.119 --> 01:42:21.279
baby jump and O have a cake, but chatch Ebt

1376
01:42:21.359 --> 01:42:26.800
wouldn't allow it, even though it's basically just my little

1377
01:42:26.800 --> 01:42:30.640
brother ruling my eighth birthday party because it was just

1378
01:42:30.720 --> 01:42:32.640
born the day before my birthday party, and that's what

1379
01:42:32.760 --> 01:42:34.520
it was supposed to be, him jumping out of the

1380
01:42:34.600 --> 01:42:38.479
cake ruling my party, like auld jokey kind of thing.

1381
01:42:41.159 --> 01:42:42.399
But they could they wouldn't.

1382
01:42:43.079 --> 01:42:45.159
It was hard to get it done because it was

1383
01:42:45.600 --> 01:42:48.520
it took ages to put that image together.

1384
01:42:48.960 --> 01:42:49.720
Let me ever look at it.

1385
01:42:52.079 --> 01:42:56.079
I did that on the day before my birthday. I

1386
01:42:56.159 --> 01:42:59.600
think the internet's shut down for some reason.

1387
01:43:00.000 --> 01:43:00.159
Why.

1388
01:43:02.880 --> 01:43:04.199
That's very strange.

1389
01:43:04.359 --> 01:43:04.880
Oh it is?

1390
01:43:06.439 --> 01:43:11.680
Why is it hidden? Oh? I know why? So okay,

1391
01:43:11.760 --> 01:43:17.399
the image I ended up with with how my brother

1392
01:43:17.520 --> 01:43:18.439
ruined my eighth.

1393
01:43:18.279 --> 01:43:21.800
Birthday, there's a number one, four hundred and twenty two,

1394
01:43:22.319 --> 01:43:25.560
So that was on Monday, and it's an image of

1395
01:43:26.880 --> 01:43:32.119
me frowning with birthday bor my T shirt, there's my

1396
01:43:32.279 --> 01:43:37.479
dad with his beard, there's my stepmm holding a new baby,

1397
01:43:40.319 --> 01:43:43.560
and then there's the my oldest brother and my other brother.

1398
01:43:44.119 --> 01:43:47.239
So it's all kind of you know, planned, and it's

1399
01:43:47.279 --> 01:43:51.359
got number eight. So on a birthday cake, everyone's laughing

1400
01:43:51.439 --> 01:43:54.279
except me, and I'm just shrowning. And then there's a

1401
01:43:54.359 --> 01:43:58.920
big speech bubble aimed supposed to be aiming towards the baby,

1402
01:43:59.039 --> 01:44:00.960
saying I'm the baby now.

1403
01:44:03.600 --> 01:44:06.800
So it's not always.

1404
01:44:06.800 --> 01:44:13.359
Easy to put it all together, but other times it

1405
01:44:13.479 --> 01:44:17.800
works quite nice. So it's a very simple thing, like

1406
01:44:18.680 --> 01:44:20.960
Vinnie woke me up. This is what I did on

1407
01:44:21.000 --> 01:44:29.640
the twenty fourth of August, and I wanted to be

1408
01:44:29.840 --> 01:44:33.680
like an image of me. It never always comes up right,

1409
01:44:33.800 --> 01:44:36.880
but it's kind of an image of me in bed.

1410
01:44:37.560 --> 01:44:44.760
But I wanted me to be wearing old Victorian type bedclothes,

1411
01:44:45.560 --> 01:44:50.279
a bit like Scrooge Dickenson kind of thing.

1412
01:44:50.600 --> 01:44:53.039
But then it wouldn't allow that because that was copyright,

1413
01:44:53.119 --> 01:44:56.239
and like, okay, how can I get around that? And

1414
01:44:57.239 --> 01:44:58.359
I wanted Vinnie.

1415
01:45:00.079 --> 01:45:03.359
Basically the same wake up and there's a little tag

1416
01:45:03.479 --> 01:45:06.600
with video on it. So I just kind of played

1417
01:45:06.640 --> 01:45:09.800
around and in the end managed to get an image

1418
01:45:10.359 --> 01:45:13.920
that kind of worked, and then the day before that,

1419
01:45:14.079 --> 01:45:19.439
I did call one called good Morning, and basically what

1420
01:45:19.520 --> 01:45:22.000
I was talking about was working at different jobs, and

1421
01:45:22.039 --> 01:45:23.760
I was at at one point I was talking about

1422
01:45:23.880 --> 01:45:29.880
working in the bakery and how if the conveyor belt

1423
01:45:30.039 --> 01:45:35.479
never stopped hardly so sometimes you'd end up with bread

1424
01:45:35.600 --> 01:45:36.840
rolls all over the floor.

1425
01:45:37.560 --> 01:45:38.239
So I thought I.

1426
01:45:38.279 --> 01:45:42.800
Wanted an image of me with bread rolls kind of

1427
01:45:42.960 --> 01:45:48.960
up to my waist and then falling off the conveyor belt.

1428
01:45:50.119 --> 01:45:53.479
And it took quite a while for me to get

1429
01:45:53.520 --> 01:45:56.439
it done, you know, lots of different versions, and then

1430
01:45:56.479 --> 01:46:01.279
I found it. So even though the image is it

1431
01:46:01.319 --> 01:46:03.800
probably looks like quite an easy image to do, it

1432
01:46:03.920 --> 01:46:09.359
took a while to kind of put it together. And

1433
01:46:09.520 --> 01:46:14.319
then I did one last week twenty second August twenty

1434
01:46:14.399 --> 01:46:14.960
twenty five.

1435
01:46:20.279 --> 01:46:21.000
Was it Friday?

1436
01:46:21.119 --> 01:46:24.880
Last Friday, And I wanted to talk about bottles because

1437
01:46:24.880 --> 01:46:27.199
I've got ninety six bottles of water delivered.

1438
01:46:29.000 --> 01:46:33.319
And I wanted a house made of bottles. And in

1439
01:46:33.439 --> 01:46:35.760
the end, it didn't come out how I wanted it

1440
01:46:35.880 --> 01:46:38.840
to come out as but I had, you know, I

1441
01:46:38.920 --> 01:46:43.840
spent so long on it, I just thought it's you

1442
01:46:43.920 --> 01:46:47.800
going to have to do. So you know I did that.

1443
01:46:48.199 --> 01:46:54.319
I wasn't it wasn't crazy about the text, but you

1444
01:46:54.399 --> 01:46:56.600
know it ended up okay. I should know. If I

1445
01:46:56.680 --> 01:47:00.760
did any game now, i'd make a few changes. And

1446
01:47:00.920 --> 01:47:04.079
I didn't run. The day before, I bought myself to sleep.

1447
01:47:05.319 --> 01:47:06.560
So I've got a.

1448
01:47:08.600 --> 01:47:15.640
Sheep in a chair asleep but dreaming or thinking or whatever,

1449
01:47:15.760 --> 01:47:20.720
dreaming of Instead of sheep jumping running around, he's got humans.

1450
01:47:21.079 --> 01:47:23.000
So he's got a human jumping over a fence and

1451
01:47:23.640 --> 01:47:25.199
two humans like running around.

1452
01:47:26.239 --> 01:47:27.399
It's just little things like that.

1453
01:47:29.439 --> 01:47:31.560
It's another one called thin Legs that I did the

1454
01:47:31.640 --> 01:47:38.640
day before, and it's basically a caricature of me with

1455
01:47:38.800 --> 01:47:44.439
a big upper body and tiny little legs because I

1456
01:47:44.560 --> 01:47:51.600
bought some Yeah, I bought some tracksup bonds and then

1457
01:47:51.840 --> 01:47:57.239
Teddy Bears. That's Trivia Tuesday last week. So I've got

1458
01:47:57.279 --> 01:48:01.239
a picture of a Teddy Bear picnic, three pre bears,

1459
01:48:02.479 --> 01:48:07.960
all hats on, drinking through straws for some glasses, with

1460
01:48:08.159 --> 01:48:13.680
some burgers and stuff, you know, on the on the blanket,

1461
01:48:13.960 --> 01:48:17.119
checkered blanket, but in the background, because in the park

1462
01:48:17.199 --> 01:48:19.359
in the background, like all these humans just running away

1463
01:48:19.479 --> 01:48:22.399
around screaming and running away screaming.

1464
01:48:22.520 --> 01:48:25.399
So I like that.

1465
01:48:27.119 --> 01:48:31.279
And then another one, mental health review. I seem to

1466
01:48:31.359 --> 01:48:33.399
be doing one every day. If I have, I've been

1467
01:48:33.479 --> 01:48:39.560
quite good recently. Mental health review is there's bugs Bunny

1468
01:48:40.199 --> 01:48:46.279
sitting on a like a psychiatrist's couch, and a psychiatrist.

1469
01:48:45.680 --> 01:48:51.840
Is looks a bit like Freud, and there's that whole thing,

1470
01:48:52.079 --> 01:48:55.560
you know, Christine pointing out what's up, doc, and it

1471
01:48:55.720 --> 01:48:57.840
is the could. Yeah, So it was quite because I

1472
01:48:58.000 --> 01:49:01.319
just had a mental health review on a Monday, and

1473
01:49:02.279 --> 01:49:03.039
then I got one up.

1474
01:49:03.159 --> 01:49:05.000
I don't know what I'm telling you. You might already

1475
01:49:05.039 --> 01:49:07.399
know this. You might have seen them. I have to

1476
01:49:07.479 --> 01:49:11.439
go outside, and this was I think this was Sunday

1477
01:49:11.560 --> 01:49:14.560
the eighteenth. So it's me, Well it's.

1478
01:49:14.520 --> 01:49:16.600
Kind of not really me, but it's kind of a

1479
01:49:16.720 --> 01:49:19.880
me kind of picture. A middle aged man, more hair,

1480
01:49:22.000 --> 01:49:24.039
and there's like I have to go outside at the top,

1481
01:49:24.720 --> 01:49:27.119
but he's in a kind of a very gray kind

1482
01:49:27.159 --> 01:49:30.079
of room and there's a doorway, but everything outside the

1483
01:49:30.119 --> 01:49:34.880
doorway is very bright, light and colorful, kind of like

1484
01:49:34.920 --> 01:49:35.680
the Wizard of Us.

1485
01:49:36.239 --> 01:49:39.680
So that was what I was looking for. It took

1486
01:49:39.760 --> 01:49:44.399
a while to get that together. But I was pleased.

1487
01:49:45.640 --> 01:49:48.640
I mean, I had to make a lot of changes

1488
01:49:48.720 --> 01:49:57.079
to get it to where it was, so, yeah, that's

1489
01:49:57.319 --> 01:49:57.640
kind of.

1490
01:49:59.399 --> 01:49:59.880
What is that.

1491
01:50:00.079 --> 01:50:09.079
Yeah, sometimes it's quite easy, you know, like Trivia Tuesday.

1492
01:50:09.199 --> 01:50:13.159
A couple of weeks ago, I was talking about vikings,

1493
01:50:13.199 --> 01:50:16.399
I think, so I just wanted to be a.

1494
01:50:16.520 --> 01:50:18.840
Viking with green Beard.

1495
01:50:20.039 --> 01:50:24.079
With a helmet with a title Trivia Tuesday, and that's

1496
01:50:24.119 --> 01:50:27.119
what it did, and it did it very quickly. Well,

1497
01:50:27.119 --> 01:50:32.119
I took a few seconds, maybe ten seconds. Adam was

1498
01:50:32.159 --> 01:50:35.840
pretty much perfect straightaway. So there's times like that when

1499
01:50:35.840 --> 01:50:40.960
it's really good, and other times when it takes absolutely well.

1500
01:50:41.039 --> 01:50:48.199
It seems to take a long time, and sometimes I

1501
01:50:48.279 --> 01:50:51.600
can't be bothered. It's like, just I don't want to

1502
01:50:51.640 --> 01:50:54.800
spend so long working on images. Do you want to

1503
01:50:54.880 --> 01:50:58.880
get thing out. I've made the recording, just doing the editing,

1504
01:51:01.239 --> 01:51:03.039
and there's been times where I've actually just put it

1505
01:51:03.119 --> 01:51:06.199
out without an image because I just like, no, it's

1506
01:51:06.199 --> 01:51:09.359
it's taken way too long, especially when I had to

1507
01:51:09.439 --> 01:51:12.920
keep going up to the hospital, so I'd edit and

1508
01:51:13.000 --> 01:51:17.760
then I'd just like post it without an image. So

1509
01:51:17.880 --> 01:51:21.800
that's kind of my creative take on that. So some

1510
01:51:21.920 --> 01:51:24.760
would argue maybe that it's not creative at all because I'm.

1511
01:51:24.640 --> 01:51:28.000
Not the one really doing anything. I've given the instructions,

1512
01:51:30.840 --> 01:51:33.199
but yeah, it's coming out of my head. It's coming

1513
01:51:33.199 --> 01:51:36.079
out of my mind a lot of it, and I

1514
01:51:36.199 --> 01:51:38.199
also have to do the editing, and I know what

1515
01:51:38.279 --> 01:51:42.600
I'm looking for. So yeah, thank you for that. So

1516
01:51:42.800 --> 01:51:48.359
Cheryl asks, since you seem concerned about your forehead getting larger,

1517
01:51:51.760 --> 01:51:56.399
oh my goodness, would you consider getting their hair piece?

1518
01:51:57.199 --> 01:51:57.239
No?

1519
01:51:58.840 --> 01:52:08.640
Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, However, I think the only

1520
01:52:08.800 --> 01:52:12.359
reason only time I would ever get a hair piece,

1521
01:52:14.000 --> 01:52:18.520
it would be probably in the event of if I

1522
01:52:18.640 --> 01:52:20.479
was in a play or if I was in in

1523
01:52:20.680 --> 01:52:24.399
some kind of fancy dress situation. Then you know, perhaps

1524
01:52:24.439 --> 01:52:30.239
I would wear like a wig or something. But and

1525
01:52:30.520 --> 01:52:35.199
you know, I do understand why people do need to

1526
01:52:35.359 --> 01:52:39.760
wear hair pieces and wigs and stuff, but I don't,

1527
01:52:41.640 --> 01:52:44.560
especially as although I go on about my hair and stuff,

1528
01:52:45.239 --> 01:52:48.720
I've spent many years bored. I've been shaving my head

1529
01:52:48.760 --> 01:52:53.119
on purpose. It's hard to do it accidentally. But you know, basically,

1530
01:52:53.239 --> 01:52:56.159
I don't care that much. I'm just a little bit

1531
01:52:56.199 --> 01:52:58.680
annoyed that I don't have control over it anymore.

1532
01:52:59.239 --> 01:53:01.880
Because before I shave it off, and I was in control.

1533
01:53:02.640 --> 01:53:04.560
Now I don't have to shave it all off because

1534
01:53:04.600 --> 01:53:06.199
it kind of does it doesn't.

1535
01:53:05.920 --> 01:53:11.399
Grow back, so it's a little bit annoying. My forehead

1536
01:53:11.439 --> 01:53:12.079
getting larger.

1537
01:53:12.560 --> 01:53:12.960
I like that.

1538
01:53:14.840 --> 01:53:19.880
No, never, No, I wouldn't. I don't.

1539
01:53:20.119 --> 01:53:26.319
I understand, you know, like some famous people they I

1540
01:53:26.399 --> 01:53:30.960
don't think i'd look younger because that's the thing, like, Okay,

1541
01:53:31.199 --> 01:53:34.039
I could be in my sixties while I'm nearly fifty

1542
01:53:34.119 --> 01:53:34.520
five now.

1543
01:53:36.520 --> 01:53:40.439
I don't think I'm going to look younger with a

1544
01:53:40.560 --> 01:53:44.960
hair piece. I think the only thing that would make

1545
01:53:45.000 --> 01:53:46.840
me perhaps look a bit younger if I didn't have

1546
01:53:46.920 --> 01:53:49.880
the gray. But then my hair is not that gray.

1547
01:53:50.079 --> 01:53:53.119
It's gray, but it's gray in at the sides at

1548
01:53:53.159 --> 01:53:56.920
the top. But there's a lot of.

1549
01:53:57.000 --> 01:54:02.079
Hair that's still dark dark brown my head, but my

1550
01:54:02.239 --> 01:54:06.199
beard less. So I got Yeah, my beard's definitely gone

1551
01:54:06.239 --> 01:54:08.319
much more grayer than my hair on my head.

1552
01:54:11.159 --> 01:54:16.319
And no, I wouldn't. I wouldn't get a hair piece.

1553
01:54:18.000 --> 01:54:20.800
And I think if I met someone and they kind

1554
01:54:20.880 --> 01:54:23.680
of were really like, well, I want you to get

1555
01:54:23.720 --> 01:54:26.279
a hair piece, I don't like. I don't like being

1556
01:54:26.479 --> 01:54:27.359
with someone that's baled.

1557
01:54:30.199 --> 01:54:30.439
Mate.

1558
01:54:31.039 --> 01:54:31.399
I don't.

1559
01:54:31.520 --> 01:54:33.359
Yeah, I'd probably just say well I'll see you.

1560
01:54:33.439 --> 01:54:36.840
Then, you know, find someone else that's got hair or

1561
01:54:36.920 --> 01:54:40.119
just willing to wear a hair piece because I don't.

1562
01:54:40.359 --> 01:54:43.479
Don't date someone that's bald. If you don't want to

1563
01:54:43.520 --> 01:54:45.640
be with someone that's baled. That's the way I see

1564
01:54:45.720 --> 01:54:49.159
it is, if you want to date someone that's tall,

1565
01:54:49.399 --> 01:54:52.399
don't date someone as short. Or if you want someone

1566
01:54:52.439 --> 01:54:55.319
that's short, don't date someone that's tall, expect them to

1567
01:54:55.399 --> 01:54:58.680
crouch all the time, walk on their knees.

1568
01:54:59.520 --> 01:54:59.720
You know.

1569
01:55:00.920 --> 01:55:02.800
It's like things like that.

1570
01:55:02.880 --> 01:55:07.720
Are controllable, not meeting someone that you feel you know,

1571
01:55:08.319 --> 01:55:10.840
you might meet someone that they've ticked all the other boxes,

1572
01:55:10.880 --> 01:55:19.760
but ultimately, why walk up to someone and start talking

1573
01:55:19.800 --> 01:55:20.119
to them?

1574
01:55:20.640 --> 01:55:23.840
If it's a big no no.

1575
01:55:24.239 --> 01:55:28.119
Then being seven foot tall and maybe you're four foot

1576
01:55:28.199 --> 01:55:32.119
five and you know your limit of height is only

1577
01:55:32.760 --> 01:55:33.239
it only go.

1578
01:55:33.239 --> 01:55:34.680
As high as six foot two.

1579
01:55:35.479 --> 01:55:40.520
As for a partner, you know, or you want someone shorter,

1580
01:55:43.960 --> 01:55:46.760
or if you've got to really if that's the thing,

1581
01:55:47.479 --> 01:55:53.840
if you've got to really a thing, you know, whatever

1582
01:55:54.199 --> 01:55:56.920
the person is, whether you're a male, female or.

1583
01:55:56.880 --> 01:56:05.119
Whatever, if you've got a particular like so, I would

1584
01:56:05.159 --> 01:56:10.000
say go with that, like, go with it. Whether you've.

1585
01:56:10.880 --> 01:56:15.039
Really got a thing for someone with a certain color hair,

1586
01:56:16.039 --> 01:56:19.560
or someone with a type of maybe from a certain

1587
01:56:19.600 --> 01:56:22.800
part of the world, or someone.

1588
01:56:23.800 --> 01:56:29.800
Who's really really really tall or whatever.

1589
01:56:30.039 --> 01:56:33.920
If you've got something, if that really has a big

1590
01:56:34.000 --> 01:56:37.920
impact on how you feel physically and emotionally, then it

1591
01:56:38.079 --> 01:56:42.680
makes sense to kind of go towards that, you know,

1592
01:56:43.159 --> 01:56:46.600
or body size even but then body size.

1593
01:56:46.560 --> 01:56:49.079
Like height is not really going to change. Is it

1594
01:56:49.199 --> 01:56:51.239
going to get a bit shorter with age, It's not

1595
01:56:51.359 --> 01:57:04.159
really going to change too much classes you know, you know.

1596
01:57:04.319 --> 01:57:06.600
I guess if you're dating someone who doesn't have glasses

1597
01:57:06.640 --> 01:57:08.279
and they start wearing glasses.

1598
01:57:08.439 --> 01:57:10.439
Maybe you've got an issue with people wearing glasses.

1599
01:57:10.560 --> 01:57:11.159
Some people do.

1600
01:57:12.640 --> 01:57:18.000
I used to be a bit weird towards glasses where wearers,

1601
01:57:18.560 --> 01:57:22.159
even though I wore glasses myself. My attitude was, why

1602
01:57:22.199 --> 01:57:25.600
would I want to date someone that's wears glasses, because

1603
01:57:25.600 --> 01:57:31.000
it'd be like having a relationship through a window. Because

1604
01:57:31.039 --> 01:57:33.319
I wear glasses as well, it'd be like wearing you know,

1605
01:57:33.880 --> 01:57:35.319
or I didn't wear them all the time, but it'd

1606
01:57:35.319 --> 01:57:39.039
be like having a relationship through a window, which is rude.

1607
01:57:40.079 --> 01:57:42.199
And I shouldn't have said that out to people loud

1608
01:57:42.520 --> 01:57:46.960
in public, but I thought it was kind of funny.

1609
01:57:48.600 --> 01:57:50.720
But at the time, I didn't wear glasses all the time.

1610
01:57:51.560 --> 01:57:56.239
I just had to wear them for reading. So I

1611
01:57:56.319 --> 01:57:59.000
don't feel that way anymore. It's not like having a

1612
01:57:59.039 --> 01:58:02.079
relationship through all. You know, if I date song glasses,

1613
01:58:02.920 --> 01:58:05.479
it's what it's double glazing now, isn't it?

1614
01:58:06.560 --> 01:58:18.239
Pretty much? And yeah, what was I gonna say? What

1615
01:58:18.439 --> 01:58:18.920
was the question?

1616
01:58:19.760 --> 01:58:19.920
Oh?

1617
01:58:20.039 --> 01:58:25.000
Hair pieces? So yeah, i'd yeah, I see a lot

1618
01:58:25.039 --> 01:58:29.920
of the old movie stars, like from the old days.

1619
01:58:29.960 --> 01:58:30.640
It used to wear.

1620
01:58:30.560 --> 01:58:37.399
Wigs, and you could see it with wigs, but it

1621
01:58:37.560 --> 01:58:44.399
kind of didn't matter. It's kind of one of those

1622
01:58:44.439 --> 01:58:52.479
weird things is if I'm boarding, I'm not like I've

1623
01:58:52.520 --> 01:58:53.960
got a board patch at the back.

1624
01:58:54.439 --> 01:58:58.600
I'm receding. I've been receding for decades and my hair

1625
01:59:01.520 --> 01:59:02.520
and I moan about it.

1626
01:59:02.800 --> 01:59:04.920
But firstly, I can't see the back of my head,

1627
01:59:04.920 --> 01:59:06.920
so I can't see the board patch. I forget it's

1628
01:59:07.000 --> 01:59:09.960
there most of the time until people just start laughing

1629
01:59:10.000 --> 01:59:11.399
at me when I'm walking down the street.

1630
01:59:14.119 --> 01:59:17.199
But I wouldn't I mean, I wouldn't get you can't

1631
01:59:17.199 --> 01:59:17.920
really get bald.

1632
01:59:18.039 --> 01:59:20.560
You can't get the hair piece just for one tiny

1633
01:59:20.600 --> 01:59:26.399
little board patch, can you, Or one average size, growing

1634
01:59:27.079 --> 01:59:28.920
ever increasing bald patch.

1635
01:59:30.760 --> 01:59:31.319
I don't care.

1636
01:59:31.600 --> 01:59:35.399
I'm at an age now where having a board patch

1637
01:59:36.239 --> 01:59:38.479
there's no shame. There's no shame in never having a

1638
01:59:38.520 --> 01:59:42.000
board patch. But I'm fifty five. I'm allowed to have

1639
01:59:42.760 --> 01:59:43.640
a board patch.

1640
01:59:44.960 --> 01:59:50.039
Without having to explain myself, you know, I mean everyone is.

1641
01:59:50.119 --> 01:59:52.359
It doesn't matter what age you are. Some people go

1642
01:59:52.520 --> 01:59:54.600
baled and in their teenage years.

1643
01:59:55.239 --> 01:59:57.800
I know people. I know a girl that went completely

1644
01:59:57.840 --> 02:00:03.800
gray when she was fourteen, and it's like she dyed

1645
02:00:03.840 --> 02:00:06.640
her hair. Of course she dyed her hair. What else

1646
02:00:06.800 --> 02:00:11.520
was she going to do? But nowadays having gray hair

1647
02:00:11.680 --> 02:00:15.000
is almost a fashion, isn't it with young people? Or

1648
02:00:15.079 --> 02:00:21.279
blue hair or green hair. So yeah, I don't. I

1649
02:00:21.279 --> 02:00:25.399
would never wear it. Well, I do do. Actually, sometimes

1650
02:00:28.880 --> 02:00:45.199
there's a lot of banging around whatever that is. It's weird.

1651
02:00:46.920 --> 02:01:03.439
I oh, I don't think I was talking about. I

1652
02:01:03.520 --> 02:01:05.960
can't remember what I was talking about now, but yeah, no,

1653
02:01:06.039 --> 02:01:11.119
I wouldn't. I wouldn't wear a hair piece. I think

1654
02:01:11.119 --> 02:01:14.720
it's okay. Love me for how I am and love

1655
02:01:14.840 --> 02:01:20.279
me for how I will be because you can't have

1656
02:01:20.399 --> 02:01:23.680
how I used to be because that's gone. So all

1657
02:01:23.720 --> 02:01:26.600
you've got is how I am now. And if you

1658
02:01:26.640 --> 02:01:29.760
want to stick around, you'll be. You see how I

1659
02:01:30.079 --> 02:01:35.119
will be, mind you, if you listen to the podcast,

1660
02:01:35.199 --> 02:01:37.520
you'll find out how I was as well, because I

1661
02:01:37.600 --> 02:01:40.479
do talk about the past. It's hard to talk about

1662
02:01:40.520 --> 02:01:43.239
the future, isn't it, because it hasn't happened yet apparently,

1663
02:01:46.800 --> 02:01:50.800
and I do believe or that is all the questions.

1664
02:01:53.840 --> 02:01:56.680
So thank you very much for listening. Remember to be

1665
02:01:56.800 --> 02:01:58.880
kind to yourself, and thank you for all the questions.

1666
02:01:58.920 --> 02:02:06.520
I say you were Hope, Rich Robin, Kathleen, Mary, dev Sheryl,

1667
02:02:06.960 --> 02:02:10.239
So thank you all of you for your questions, and

1668
02:02:10.319 --> 02:02:12.920
remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve

1669
02:02:13.000 --> 02:02:16.600
to be happy and be gentle with yourself. You deserve

1670
02:02:16.760 --> 02:02:21.399
to feel safe, lots of love.

1671
02:02:24.760 --> 02:02:25.039
Bye.

1672
02:02:30.760 --> 02:02:45.279
Relax in a more deep and meaningful way, maybe in

1673
02:02:45.399 --> 02:02:50.880
a way that can not just allow you to feel

1674
02:02:52.319 --> 02:03:01.399
calmer now and throughout the time we've and together here,

1675
02:03:03.560 --> 02:03:09.239
not just relaxed at the end of the recording when

1676
02:03:09.279 --> 02:03:15.920
it's finished and you can enjoy that sense of comfort

1677
02:03:16.119 --> 02:03:31.000
and peace, But also I think it would be nice

1678
02:03:31.159 --> 02:03:45.159
to have those feelings of relaxation continue.

1679
02:03:46.279 --> 02:03:47.319
For longer.

1680
02:03:50.600 --> 02:04:00.399
After the recording has ended, so that you can still

1681
02:04:01.079 --> 02:04:10.920
benefit from listening to my voice, maybe in a few

1682
02:04:11.000 --> 02:04:26.800
hours time, perhaps tomorrow, and then by listening regularly, especially

1683
02:04:26.840 --> 02:04:31.319
if you find like some people do and myself as well.

1684
02:04:31.479 --> 02:04:38.439
I sometimes I find one particular recording that really resonates

1685
02:04:38.560 --> 02:04:44.840
with me, and I just listen to it over and

1686
02:04:44.960 --> 02:04:58.319
over again every morning, every evening. There was this recording

1687
02:04:58.600 --> 02:05:04.880
from We're going back to about nineteen ninety nine. It

1688
02:05:05.039 --> 02:05:10.199
was it wasn't hypnosis, but it was a guided visualizations.

1689
02:05:10.319 --> 02:05:17.239
It kind of was hypnosis, really, and I managed to

1690
02:05:17.359 --> 02:05:20.840
find it again and it still has the same effect

1691
02:05:21.399 --> 02:05:21.720
on me.

1692
02:05:24.359 --> 02:05:25.640
And part of it was.

1693
02:05:29.279 --> 02:05:42.439
The person's voice relaxed me, just felt so peaceful, and

1694
02:05:42.520 --> 02:05:49.359
I'd look forward to listening to her in the morning

1695
02:05:49.840 --> 02:06:00.880
and in the evening. And I knew before even pressing

1696
02:06:01.039 --> 02:06:08.960
the play button that since I've done that, pressed the

1697
02:06:09.039 --> 02:06:09.720
play button.

1698
02:06:10.520 --> 02:06:12.000
This is in the days of.

1699
02:06:17.119 --> 02:06:26.239
CD players, press the play button, if that it might

1700
02:06:26.279 --> 02:06:30.560
have even been a tape tape recorder. I'd lie down

1701
02:06:30.640 --> 02:06:43.199
on the bed and then even without necessarily listening to

1702
02:06:43.439 --> 02:06:56.560
her words, because I had to memorized really, it was

1703
02:06:56.600 --> 02:07:07.159
as if my body knew exactly what to do, and

1704
02:07:07.399 --> 02:07:29.119
the muscles just almost went into automatic relaxation, and I

1705
02:07:29.239 --> 02:07:34.079
remember my mind would slow down.

1706
02:07:39.720 --> 02:07:39.920
Now.

1707
02:07:42.119 --> 02:07:48.760
Now, I was listening to this recording in the early

1708
02:07:48.920 --> 02:07:56.680
days of learning hypnosis, and long before I ever made

1709
02:07:57.279 --> 02:08:04.560
any video or audio recordings myself, because I didn't start

1710
02:08:04.640 --> 02:08:14.399
doing that till two thousand and six. But I knew,

1711
02:08:18.319 --> 02:08:31.399
I knew how helpful I found being able to just

1712
02:08:31.600 --> 02:08:39.600
let go, to have that trust in the person that

1713
02:08:39.640 --> 02:08:53.479
I'm listening to, knowing that it's going to be just

1714
02:08:53.680 --> 02:08:56.920
as relaxing, if not more so.

1715
02:08:59.600 --> 02:09:06.159
Each time time you hear my voice, you may feel

1716
02:09:06.199 --> 02:09:06.560
the same.

1717
02:09:12.960 --> 02:09:14.079
Some people.

1718
02:09:16.359 --> 02:09:28.680
Have been listening to me for over a decade, maybe

1719
02:09:28.800 --> 02:09:34.199
not solidly, obviously not twenty four hours a day, but

1720
02:09:36.359 --> 02:09:41.199
maybe people come back. Some people may be listen every day.

1721
02:09:52.439 --> 02:09:58.359
There's something that I do which you may not realize

1722
02:10:00.800 --> 02:10:19.359
by listening, is when I record these recordings. Now, for example,

1723
02:10:23.920 --> 02:10:29.760
I also am affected by the words.

1724
02:10:31.000 --> 02:10:31.680
That I say.

1725
02:10:37.000 --> 02:10:37.560
So if I.

1726
02:10:40.479 --> 02:10:47.800
Set you focus on your feet, notice your feet relaxing,

1727
02:10:51.319 --> 02:10:59.039
I will be focusing on my feet. I will be

1728
02:10:59.359 --> 02:11:16.600
noticing and my feet relaxing. If I said focus on

1729
02:11:16.720 --> 02:11:24.399
your hands and maybe notice the difference between each hand,

1730
02:11:28.560 --> 02:11:35.279
Perhaps notice the the air in the room, the temperature

1731
02:11:35.399 --> 02:11:47.239
of the room. On the backs of your hands. You

1732
02:11:47.399 --> 02:11:51.399
may start to notice what almost feels like a very

1733
02:11:51.640 --> 02:11:59.880
light breeze, even though there may not be any type

1734
02:11:59.880 --> 02:12:12.840
of breeze at all where you are right now. And

1735
02:12:13.000 --> 02:12:24.199
as you become aware of your hands, I'm also aware

1736
02:12:26.880 --> 02:12:52.239
of how relaxed my hands our feeling now and when

1737
02:12:52.319 --> 02:12:59.239
it comes to potentially drifting off to sleep, which may

1738
02:12:59.319 --> 02:13:15.680
be the reason you're listening, I also feel drowsy when

1739
02:13:15.720 --> 02:13:24.079
I make these recordings. I also notice.

1740
02:13:25.680 --> 02:13:26.680
My mind.

1741
02:13:28.439 --> 02:13:48.319
Drifting. In fact, at times I've actually fallen asleep without

1742
02:13:48.439 --> 02:14:02.399
even noticing, and then I carry on talking. And it's

1743
02:14:02.439 --> 02:14:11.479
only when I listen back to do the editing I

1744
02:14:11.640 --> 02:14:20.840
hear snoring and I think, I don't remember snoring. I

1745
02:14:20.960 --> 02:14:27.600
remember talking. Is this snoring was a pick turned up?

1746
02:14:31.680 --> 02:14:39.039
That's why I sound like when I snare and I

1747
02:14:39.119 --> 02:14:52.560
get really into the whole experience. I don't know how

1748
02:14:52.720 --> 02:15:05.279
you feel, how relaxed you feel in your feet, how

1749
02:15:05.479 --> 02:15:28.479
relaxed you feel in your hands. I have noticed.

1750
02:15:30.600 --> 02:15:31.760
More and more.

1751
02:15:37.479 --> 02:15:48.079
That the more relaxed, deeper level of comfort.

1752
02:15:49.600 --> 02:15:50.359
You feel.

1753
02:15:53.800 --> 02:16:09.960
The easier your breathing becomes. It's almost like that additional

1754
02:16:13.119 --> 02:16:20.039
muscle relaxation. So this allows you.

1755
02:16:24.960 --> 02:16:51.520
Debree easier without necessarily focusing on your breath, however, being

1756
02:16:51.600 --> 02:17:08.120
able to notice the ease.

1757
02:17:11.239 --> 02:17:12.040
In which.

1758
02:17:19.360 --> 02:17:41.959
You breathe so naturally, you breathe so very easily and smoothly.

1759
02:18:09.719 --> 02:18:27.360
Whenever I imagine my breathing improving when I've got my

1760
02:18:27.520 --> 02:18:46.159
eyes closed, I tend to visualize a beautiful field with

1761
02:18:46.520 --> 02:18:59.920
trees and flowers producing all that life giving oxygen.

1762
02:19:00.040 --> 02:19:00.319
Mhm.

1763
02:19:20.159 --> 02:19:35.440
And it feels nice too, if nothing else, just taking

1764
02:19:35.760 --> 02:20:13.399
some time away from everything m enjoying that feeling of peace,

1765
02:20:18.440 --> 02:20:59.799
serenity with a joyful heart. Time seems to just.

1766
02:21:01.680 --> 02:21:03.159
Drip by.

1767
02:21:07.479 --> 02:21:57.319
So very slowly, relaxed, so deeply peaceful, completely unattached to

1768
02:21:58.200 --> 02:22:27.559
any thought whatsoever in this moment, completely free.

1769
02:22:54.079 --> 02:23:03.879
Notice that your mind.

1770
02:23:11.200 --> 02:23:51.120
Has slowed down, slowed down because nothing really requires your attention.

1771
02:24:07.639 --> 02:24:21.920
You can enjoy the physical sensations of allowing the stress

1772
02:24:22.280 --> 02:24:33.920
to rip out of your body, to appear out of

1773
02:24:34.440 --> 02:25:03.200
every part of your body, and being released from your

1774
02:25:03.319 --> 02:25:43.799
brain in your mind, slowly but surely, the muscles in

1775
02:25:43.920 --> 02:26:36.520
your lex relax rs really so very deeply, rights so deeply,

1776
02:26:54.319 --> 02:27:01.479
and the feeings, the pleasant feeling things in your arms

1777
02:27:03.399 --> 02:27:33.959
and shoulders, deepening each part of your body further and

1778
02:27:34.639 --> 02:28:07.360
deeper and deeper. Noticine, the feelings in the back of

1779
02:28:07.440 --> 02:29:09.799
your neck, feelings in your wrists, muscles, in front of

1780
02:29:09.920 --> 02:30:03.559
your body, I all say, feeling peaceful deeply, there's a

1781
02:30:03.799 --> 02:30:13.559
sense of peace spreads through your very core.

1782
02:30:44.079 --> 02:31:04.680
Even when you focus on your mind, the mind becomes.

1783
02:31:11.319 --> 02:32:33.360
Eve and slower, even deeper, relaxing, so very slow. Your

1784
02:32:33.639 --> 02:33:31.280
stomach PA's forin's stomach, your back. Notice, Notice how relaxed

1785
02:33:35.680 --> 02:33:48.479
you'd never fear in the hole of your back.

1786
02:34:13.680 --> 02:34:14.760
You spy.

1787
02:34:18.600 --> 02:34:23.280
From your brain all the way down the middle of

1788
02:34:23.360 --> 02:34:35.040
your back, sending and receiving millions of messages every day,

1789
02:34:46.120 --> 02:35:03.040
decomfort increasing, deep playing ri.

1790
02:35:33.760 --> 02:35:34.440
You mes.

1791
02:36:00.120 --> 02:36:08.639
Reles, spreading those signals down your spine.

1792
02:36:08.319 --> 02:36:09.159
Or cord.

1793
02:36:13.239 --> 02:36:32.120
Into air, every part of your body, your shins and

1794
02:36:32.239 --> 02:37:23.799
your calf, muscles, your elbows, Feelings of peace and tranquility

1795
02:37:27.760 --> 02:37:41.719
spreading through your body, tips of your toes, to your eyes,

1796
02:37:46.159 --> 02:38:04.680
your fingers, all the way to your lower back. On

1797
02:38:05.000 --> 02:39:17.959
I thinker, retinker, peace, drifting mind just wandering away, happy

1798
02:39:18.840 --> 02:39:19.600
to let go.

1799
02:39:23.040 --> 02:39:24.000
Let go.

1800
02:39:28.840 --> 02:40:29.440
Completely, let go, so tranquil, the whole body enjoying a

1801
02:40:29.760 --> 02:42:55.600
sensor listing go peace for enjoy the space, this space.

1802
02:42:58.200 --> 02:42:59.239
Of peace.

1803
02:43:02.520 --> 02:43:03.520
And safety.

1804
02:43:26.319 --> 02:45:25.120
So firy fy relaxed day, letting go. Maybe we can

1805
02:45:25.440 --> 02:45:36.639
just focus on the different parts of your body, just

1806
02:45:37.159 --> 02:46:46.040
to notice a forehead in your eyes Uo so lose,

1807
02:47:05.760 --> 02:47:26.559
noticing a sense of complete freedom, absolute freedom.

1808
02:48:12.079 --> 02:48:12.799
Drif.

1809
02:48:24.799 --> 02:49:23.399
Drift hee's for energy peace to breeze much easier.

1810
02:50:04.319 --> 02:50:04.639
Loose.

1811
02:50:25.920 --> 02:50:26.920
You may have.

1812
02:50:30.440 --> 02:51:31.040
Or may not have noticed your mind drifting peaceful, moveingly,

1813
02:51:31.159 --> 02:51:33.360
even more deeply.

1814
02:51:38.360 --> 02:51:39.680
In the direction of.

1815
02:51:44.799 --> 02:53:47.040
Total blissful pace, blissful peace, Christ total peace. Come, so calm,

1816
02:53:58.760 --> 02:54:26.760
letting go peace with mind.

1817
02:54:36.079 --> 02:55:10.600
Rex foty, sir vexed. So relaxed.

1818
02:55:35.079 --> 02:56:01.879
Your body feels almost invisible, so very relaxed. I'm peaceful,

1819
02:56:08.280 --> 02:57:16.520
so peaceful, relies lika once so peaceful, And you could

1820
02:57:16.680 --> 02:57:26.760
start to notice that you are feeling more relaxed, even

1821
02:57:26.879 --> 02:57:37.959
though I've not purposely focused your mind upon that sense

1822
02:57:38.440 --> 02:57:44.600
of physical comfort that is growing within you throughout your body.

1823
02:57:47.479 --> 02:57:48.479
And your mind.

1824
02:57:50.319 --> 02:57:58.719
Starts to slow down, and that could be almost in

1825
02:57:59.559 --> 02:58:08.200
recognission of I guess my speech not being particularly fast,

1826
02:58:14.760 --> 02:58:19.200
and things just generally feel calmer.

1827
02:58:22.719 --> 02:58:30.680
Just by listening to my voice, you give yourself an

1828
02:58:30.760 --> 02:58:38.680
opportunity to take a break from the day, take a

1829
02:58:38.799 --> 02:58:46.440
break from your life as it is, and to give

1830
02:58:46.479 --> 02:58:54.600
yourself a rest, giving yourself permission to take some time

1831
02:58:54.760 --> 02:59:02.159
off and to allow your body to relax and allow

1832
02:59:02.360 --> 02:59:12.680
your mind to slow down, which in turn releases the

1833
02:59:12.920 --> 02:59:17.360
tension and he stresses that you had in your body.

1834
02:59:23.319 --> 02:59:27.200
It's almost as if the parts of your body just

1835
02:59:27.520 --> 02:59:39.200
open up, allowing the negativity out and at the same

1836
02:59:39.319 --> 02:59:50.600
time replacing that negativity with positive heathing energy which then

1837
02:59:50.799 --> 02:59:59.840
fills your body up and your mind to also starts

1838
03:00:00.159 --> 03:00:17.559
to appreciate those feelings of increasing confidence, an almost uplifting feeling,

1839
03:00:19.639 --> 03:00:33.639
positive healing, an energy that spreads through your body like

1840
03:00:33.760 --> 03:00:44.040
a wave of comfort, and all this comes and just

1841
03:00:47.639 --> 03:00:56.360
allowing yourself a few minutes, maybe half an hour, however

1842
03:00:56.520 --> 03:01:01.079
long you want it to be, just rest.

1843
03:01:06.159 --> 03:01:07.120
And allow.

1844
03:01:09.319 --> 03:01:19.319
Your mind and your body to almost reset itself to

1845
03:01:20.000 --> 03:01:35.639
the settings of comfort and relaxation, calmness, which allows more

1846
03:01:35.799 --> 03:01:40.520
room for feelings of pleasure.

1847
03:01:42.719 --> 03:01:43.959
And happiness.

1848
03:01:47.520 --> 03:01:56.319
To move around your body and into your mind, almost

1849
03:01:57.120 --> 03:02:01.719
as if your mind and your body are sinking together,

1850
03:02:06.000 --> 03:02:15.680
almost mirroring each other with that growing positivity and calmness,

1851
03:02:20.760 --> 03:02:27.959
and it feels nice. It really does feel nice to

1852
03:02:28.159 --> 03:02:33.840
know that you are the one that has allowed yourself

1853
03:02:37.319 --> 03:02:46.639
to feel more comfort and to experience.

1854
03:02:48.399 --> 03:02:49.559
More of this.

1855
03:02:51.319 --> 03:03:06.479
Deep relaxation spreading throughout your body. And as I focus

1856
03:03:08.040 --> 03:03:13.799
on each part of your body, you can notice that

1857
03:03:14.040 --> 03:03:28.559
that part becomes even more relaxed just by focusing on it.

1858
03:03:31.079 --> 03:03:40.760
It becomes even more calm and comfortable just by focusing.

1859
03:03:44.799 --> 03:03:50.559
And as I move down your body, starting at your head,

1860
03:03:53.280 --> 03:03:59.879
the parts that you've already focused on will continue to

1861
03:04:00.200 --> 03:04:07.799
relax deeply, and those parts that we've not yet focused

1862
03:04:07.840 --> 03:04:21.159
on or just automatically release any remaining tension in anticipation

1863
03:04:21.600 --> 03:04:34.639
of even more comfort about to come. Now, I'm going

1864
03:04:34.680 --> 03:04:41.600
to start by focusing on your forehead. Just being aware

1865
03:04:41.920 --> 03:04:50.520
of the feelings of your forehead and any background sounds

1866
03:04:52.319 --> 03:04:57.159
like mister Herbert the pigeon can just allow you to

1867
03:04:57.360 --> 03:05:04.559
feel even more relaxed. Just means you're in the moment.

1868
03:05:07.719 --> 03:05:10.719
This isn't this isn't a sterile environment.

1869
03:05:12.079 --> 03:05:13.079
This is the world.

1870
03:05:16.520 --> 03:05:22.559
I live in the countryside, so there's lots of nature

1871
03:05:23.079 --> 03:05:33.559
sounds around. So as you focus on your forehead. Just

1872
03:05:33.840 --> 03:05:41.600
notice how it becomes even more relaxed as you focus

1873
03:05:43.920 --> 03:05:48.399
only on my voice and that part of your body.

1874
03:05:53.600 --> 03:06:01.879
Moving down to your eyes, focusing on your eyes, noticing

1875
03:06:04.360 --> 03:06:14.040
how your eyelids feel so heavy yet so light at

1876
03:06:14.120 --> 03:06:22.239
the same time, and all the muscles around your eyes relaxing.

1877
03:06:23.399 --> 03:06:30.520
Completely. Moving your focus.

1878
03:06:31.559 --> 03:06:38.200
Down to your mouth, your lips, your tongue, your teeth,

1879
03:06:38.280 --> 03:06:43.280
and your gums, the whole of your mouth.

1880
03:06:44.840 --> 03:06:49.879
Relaxing, calm.

1881
03:06:51.000 --> 03:07:02.399
And loose, as you focus now on your jaw, not

1882
03:07:02.760 --> 03:07:06.799
just the parts of your jaw near your mouth and

1883
03:07:06.920 --> 03:07:11.159
your chin, but all the way up the size of

1884
03:07:11.239 --> 03:07:21.440
your face to your ears, the hole of your jaw, feeding.

1885
03:07:25.159 --> 03:07:44.760
More relaxed and calm. Focusing on your.

1886
03:07:44.760 --> 03:07:53.000
Neck, the front of your neck and your throat relaxing

1887
03:07:53.440 --> 03:08:04.920
and loose and calm. The side of your neck, the

1888
03:08:05.120 --> 03:08:11.840
right and left side of your neck, relax and.

1889
03:08:13.399 --> 03:08:26.799
Loose and calm. And now the back of your.

1890
03:08:26.760 --> 03:08:39.559
Neck, focusing on the back of your neck, letting go

1891
03:08:40.280 --> 03:08:46.040
of any tension that may have been there before, and

1892
03:08:46.719 --> 03:09:00.319
enjoying that sense of increasing comfort and release that you

1893
03:09:00.520 --> 03:09:11.280
can experience in the back of your neck. Moving down

1894
03:09:11.760 --> 03:09:19.040
your back and moving either side of your spine right

1895
03:09:19.159 --> 03:09:24.079
from the top of your back all the way down

1896
03:09:24.760 --> 03:09:37.159
to the bottom of your back, down to your lower back,

1897
03:09:42.239 --> 03:09:49.239
and as you move up and down your spine, you

1898
03:09:49.360 --> 03:09:56.479
can feel the muscles either side of your spine relaxing

1899
03:09:57.200 --> 03:10:10.559
even more. And as those muscles relax, that sense of

1900
03:10:10.840 --> 03:10:21.479
comfort starts to spread outwards from your spine into both

1901
03:10:21.719 --> 03:10:29.479
sides of your back, the top of your back, the middle, and.

1902
03:10:29.600 --> 03:10:35.319
Your lower back. And as you scan.

1903
03:10:36.639 --> 03:10:44.479
Gently and slowly up and down your back, there's the

1904
03:10:44.600 --> 03:10:50.440
muscles in the top of your back relax and become looser.

1905
03:10:54.799 --> 03:11:00.799
The muscles in the middle of your back also seem

1906
03:11:00.920 --> 03:11:10.440
to just almost divide from each other, separating and almost melting,

1907
03:11:16.200 --> 03:11:22.200
and in your lower back there seems to be an

1908
03:11:22.239 --> 03:11:36.440
extra special feeling of comfort. The spreads into your hips,

1909
03:11:38.760 --> 03:11:46.559
sit down your lower back, into your hips, into the

1910
03:11:46.760 --> 03:11:55.520
area where your coxis are, and into your buttocks, and

1911
03:11:55.600 --> 03:11:58.840
all those muscles that spread.

1912
03:12:01.040 --> 03:12:06.040
Bring your lower back into your hip area.

1913
03:12:08.879 --> 03:12:25.520
Start to melt, start to really let go, and even

1914
03:12:25.639 --> 03:12:32.639
nowhere about to focus on your shoulders, your back and

1915
03:12:32.840 --> 03:12:44.440
your spine will continue to let go, continue to relax

1916
03:12:47.959 --> 03:13:00.200
so calmly, and as you focus on your shoulders, you

1917
03:13:00.360 --> 03:13:16.239
may notice that they're already feeling really loose, They're already

1918
03:13:19.280 --> 03:13:42.479
feeding calm and feeling those muscles then move from your

1919
03:13:42.639 --> 03:14:02.000
neck into your shoulders. Feel so soft and gentle, so

1920
03:14:02.479 --> 03:14:31.440
smooth and calm, and the feeling in your shoulders seems

1921
03:14:31.680 --> 03:14:39.399
to spread deep into your shoulders. That sense of relaxation,

1922
03:14:40.600 --> 03:14:52.840
not just traveling deeply into your muscles, but also relaxing.

1923
03:14:54.959 --> 03:14:56.280
The bones.

1924
03:15:01.719 --> 03:15:08.360
And moving all the way to underneath your arms, relaxing

1925
03:15:10.239 --> 03:15:15.000
the whole area between the tops of your shoulders and

1926
03:15:15.239 --> 03:15:16.719
underneath your arms.

1927
03:15:20.799 --> 03:15:21.280
Healing.

1928
03:15:26.680 --> 03:15:27.360
You feel so.

1929
03:15:29.319 --> 03:15:35.920
Relaxed and comfortable in your shoulders.

1930
03:15:39.479 --> 03:16:01.840
Who sends that deep healing message into your arms? You

1931
03:16:02.000 --> 03:16:07.719
may feel almost as if your arms are not even there,

1932
03:16:09.239 --> 03:16:10.200
because they're.

1933
03:16:10.479 --> 03:16:25.680
So relaxed, so deeply relaxed, so.

1934
03:16:29.920 --> 03:16:46.319
So calm, so.

1935
03:16:53.000 --> 03:17:03.040
Pose not feeling spreading.

1936
03:17:05.280 --> 03:17:18.479
All the way down your arms, two elbows, including.

1937
03:17:18.799 --> 03:17:32.159
Your elbows their comforts, spreads.

1938
03:17:36.440 --> 03:17:37.159
Or away.

1939
03:17:39.559 --> 03:17:45.920
Into wrists, your forearments and.

1940
03:17:46.120 --> 03:17:47.520
Your wrists.

1941
03:17:52.639 --> 03:18:12.719
Feeling so heavy, yet at the same time sunlight and

1942
03:18:13.479 --> 03:18:39.799
gentle ful. You see.

1943
03:18:42.000 --> 03:18:43.000
Now on.

1944
03:18:45.680 --> 03:19:39.319
Your hands, my hands, so peaceful in your hands, there's

1945
03:19:39.639 --> 03:19:40.280
sense of.

1946
03:19:43.760 --> 03:20:06.799
Real peace. It just seems to I feel so familiar.

1947
03:20:09.600 --> 03:20:42.239
When your hands relax deeply. Is your fingers.

1948
03:21:13.879 --> 03:21:14.959
A thing is.

1949
03:21:18.000 --> 03:21:48.440
Said? Less a thing?

1950
03:21:48.639 --> 03:21:49.280
It tips.

1951
03:22:17.879 --> 03:22:37.079
Moving your attention to the front of your body, so comfortable,

1952
03:22:48.040 --> 03:24:15.799
Moving your focus to your legs, love muscles in your thighs,

1953
03:24:32.559 --> 03:25:10.000
your knees, so relaxed, a calf muscles and just shains

1954
03:25:13.680 --> 03:27:17.600
co pusya four and the feathing and your feet.

1955
03:27:24.360 --> 03:28:15.200
So peaceful, so calm, so peaceful, so calm, so peaceful,

1956
03:28:18.920 --> 03:28:24.200
so calm, so.

1957
03:28:26.200 --> 03:28:37.959
Peace fa RelA sin.

1958
03:28:43.079 --> 03:28:44.840
Peace fall.

1959
03:28:48.200 --> 03:29:02.760
So calm, loving that deep relaxation. Yeah, just spread your

1960
03:29:03.280 --> 03:29:18.920
chest and your stum, letting go.

1961
03:29:23.040 --> 03:29:23.719
Everything.

1962
03:29:34.959 --> 03:29:40.959
So I'm gonna start counting down now from twenty down

1963
03:29:41.040 --> 03:29:49.120
to one. You can imagine in a way it's like

1964
03:29:49.959 --> 03:29:56.399
just walking down some steps and each step or twenty steps,

1965
03:29:56.479 --> 03:30:07.000
and each step represents eleven of comfort. Each step represents

1966
03:30:09.600 --> 03:30:22.040
a deepening of that comfort, and the fervies you walk

1967
03:30:22.159 --> 03:30:27.840
down those steps that a deeper and more relaxed you feel.

1968
03:30:34.600 --> 03:33:10.280
So starting with number twenty twenty, nineteen, eighteen, seventeen, sixteen.

1969
03:34:25.000 --> 03:35:08.600
Eight four.

1970
03:36:08.159 --> 03:42:34.760
Four see too well, fire fight nine eight seven.

1971
03:43:26.000 --> 03:43:34.799
U s.

1972
03:45:26.719 --> 03:51:14.879
Five four two one. And now.

1973
03:51:19.239 --> 03:51:31.920
As you focus on your eyes, We're gonna count down

1974
03:51:32.280 --> 03:51:48.079
from ten tout one, focusing just on your eyes, your eyelids,

1975
03:51:48.520 --> 03:51:57.239
the muscles around your eyes, your eye walls themselves, a

1976
03:51:57.440 --> 03:52:14.360
whole area that makes up your eye. And as we

1977
03:52:14.600 --> 03:52:23.159
count down from ten down to one, whilst focusing on

1978
03:52:23.319 --> 03:52:39.280
your eyes, you'll become twice is relaxed with each number

1979
03:52:40.319 --> 03:52:41.319
counting down.

1980
03:52:45.280 --> 03:52:46.959
That you may find.

1981
03:52:50.760 --> 03:52:55.760
The all you want to do is just to drift

1982
03:52:56.319 --> 03:53:05.719
off to sleep. And if that's what you want, then

1983
03:53:05.959 --> 03:53:18.559
just allow yourself to do that. Now, focus in on

1984
03:53:18.719 --> 03:53:24.120
your eyes. I'm going to begin counting down.

1985
03:53:25.360 --> 03:53:27.360
From ten down to one.

1986
03:53:31.399 --> 03:58:51.000
Right now, ten nine eight at seven five four.

1987
03:59:45.239 --> 04:00:04.639
E three.

1988
04:01:10.040 --> 04:02:55.239
Two one. So count down from ten to one.

1989
04:02:57.079 --> 04:02:59.760
Ten nine.

1990
04:03:01.239 --> 04:03:21.360
Eight seven six five four three two one.

1991
04:03:28.399 --> 04:03:31.280
And maybe that was a bit too quick in order

1992
04:03:31.360 --> 04:03:35.280
to relax. Maybe it's a bit too fast for you

1993
04:03:35.600 --> 04:03:45.319
to notice the calming of your body, maybe even a

1994
04:03:45.360 --> 04:03:49.200
little bit of pressure there, Like you're counting down from

1995
04:03:49.280 --> 04:03:49.920
ten to one.

1996
04:03:50.040 --> 04:03:51.440
What do you expect me to do?

1997
04:03:51.760 --> 04:03:51.959
Man?

1998
04:03:52.879 --> 04:03:57.440
Expect me to stick old floppy just because you're counting down.

1999
04:04:03.040 --> 04:04:07.120
We can try again, but this time I go this lower.

2000
04:04:09.360 --> 04:04:14.200
This time, as you focus on the whole of your

2001
04:04:14.280 --> 04:04:21.319
body before we focus on your legs, just notice.

2002
04:04:22.479 --> 04:04:23.760
How your body does.

2003
04:04:25.319 --> 04:04:38.479
Start to feel more relaxed with every number that I

2004
04:04:38.639 --> 04:05:19.040
count down ten nine, eight, seven, six, five.

2005
04:05:29.159 --> 04:05:37.440
Four three.

2006
04:05:50.639 --> 04:06:28.319
Two one, And just notice how how you feel, generally,

2007
04:06:28.760 --> 04:06:43.079
how your body feels. It's not necessarily even about counting

2008
04:06:43.239 --> 04:06:50.319
down from ten to one. It's that space that you have,

2009
04:06:51.680 --> 04:07:10.120
that space between being active physically or mentally to just

2010
04:07:14.879 --> 04:07:20.040
sitting or lying down, just being there, not doing anything,

2011
04:07:20.239 --> 04:07:26.840
not saying anything, nor deeding to think about anything. So

2012
04:07:27.559 --> 04:07:30.559
it opens up a space, you know, a bit of

2013
04:07:30.639 --> 04:07:41.600
a space, a gap. And the more I camped down

2014
04:07:41.680 --> 04:07:49.040
from ten to one, the bigger that gap becomes. So

2015
04:07:49.159 --> 04:08:01.559
there's that gap of calmness, of comfort, relaxation. It's a

2016
04:08:01.719 --> 04:08:15.760
nice feeling, and it moves those stresses or discomforts physically

2017
04:08:15.920 --> 04:08:18.440
or emotionally, moves them.

2018
04:08:19.959 --> 04:08:20.319
Away.

2019
04:08:27.120 --> 04:08:28.079
Allows you.

2020
04:08:30.760 --> 04:08:31.280
To just.

2021
04:08:34.280 --> 04:08:41.000
Slow down, someone to count again from ten down to one,

2022
04:08:41.440 --> 04:08:42.559
and notice.

2023
04:08:42.959 --> 04:08:49.079
That gap widening the gap.

2024
04:08:50.600 --> 04:08:51.040
And as it.

2025
04:08:51.120 --> 04:08:57.639
Widens, it's almost like the stress and attention falls into

2026
04:08:57.719 --> 04:09:15.719
the gap and gives you that distance, that space.

2027
04:09:18.079 --> 04:09:23.479
Now ten.

2028
04:09:27.879 --> 04:10:07.879
Nine eight, seven, six, five.

2029
04:10:18.760 --> 04:11:28.840
Four three two one. And how does your body feel.

2030
04:11:30.719 --> 04:11:30.920
Now?

2031
04:11:43.639 --> 04:11:56.719
Can you notice that? Do you feeling calmer? Do you feeling.

2032
04:11:58.639 --> 04:11:59.840
More relaxed?

2033
04:12:22.399 --> 04:12:26.719
As we now focus on your legs, just your legs,

2034
04:12:42.719 --> 04:13:02.879
We're just gonna start with focusing on your thighs. Of course,

2035
04:13:03.000 --> 04:13:07.879
it's not the most exciting thing to be doing, because

2036
04:13:11.319 --> 04:13:13.959
I'm sure, like most of your body is not a

2037
04:13:14.079 --> 04:13:26.479
lot going on right now. Just focusing on the whole

2038
04:13:26.639 --> 04:13:33.040
of your thighs, the tops of your thighs, the sides

2039
04:13:33.159 --> 04:13:40.159
of your thighs, the bottoms of your thighs, your outer thighs,

2040
04:13:40.280 --> 04:13:45.159
and your inner thighs. Basically the whole of your thigh

2041
04:13:45.280 --> 04:13:54.600
that leads into your hip and it goes down to your.

2042
04:13:56.520 --> 04:14:08.399
Knee joints. Now, this is a big area. It's a

2043
04:14:08.520 --> 04:14:09.600
very heavy area.

2044
04:14:10.120 --> 04:14:16.440
It's very strong, probably the strongest muscles in your body.

2045
04:14:16.799 --> 04:14:28.760
Or in your thighs. But I don't think we.

2046
04:14:30.479 --> 04:14:43.079
Perhaps will give enough attention to our thighs. Perhaps we

2047
04:14:43.200 --> 04:14:53.840
don't acknowledge how important our thighs are to our lives,

2048
04:15:05.360 --> 04:15:14.760
how much they actually do for us all for our lives.

2049
04:15:21.920 --> 04:15:27.520
And it may seem to sound really weird, but I

2050
04:15:27.639 --> 04:15:29.319
think that all of our body.

2051
04:15:29.120 --> 04:15:39.680
Parts, especially our thighs, need some TLC, a bit of

2052
04:15:39.879 --> 04:15:59.440
love shown, a bit of acknowledgement, thank you, gratitude for

2053
04:15:59.719 --> 04:16:08.399
our ad guyers do for us. And I know this

2054
04:16:08.719 --> 04:16:10.600
may sound a bit strange.

2055
04:16:13.200 --> 04:16:16.239
Maybe you think, why am I sure? How I should

2056
04:16:16.239 --> 04:16:19.280
be out in the garden hugging a tree or something.

2057
04:16:20.879 --> 04:16:27.520
Well, it's hard to set a microphone up on a tree.

2058
04:16:28.559 --> 04:16:30.799
That's why I'm doing this indoors. Otherwise I would be

2059
04:16:30.840 --> 04:16:34.600
outside hugging a tree. Now I can't see the television

2060
04:16:34.639 --> 04:16:35.120
from the tree.

2061
04:16:41.799 --> 04:16:43.600
If you move down to your knees.

2062
04:16:45.120 --> 04:16:53.079
Gain such an important part. And I think we don't

2063
04:16:53.159 --> 04:17:00.280
necessarily I'll speak for myself here, I don't necessary really

2064
04:17:00.360 --> 04:17:07.719
appreciate all that my knees do for me until I

2065
04:17:07.840 --> 04:17:11.280
have a problem with my knee. It's occasionally, if.

2066
04:17:11.159 --> 04:17:11.479
I ever.

2067
04:17:12.959 --> 04:17:16.920
Maybe i'll bash it or it's aching for some reason.

2068
04:17:18.639 --> 04:17:21.319
It's then that I realize.

2069
04:17:21.920 --> 04:17:23.079
How much it does.

2070
04:17:24.719 --> 04:17:27.920
You know, the benefit of being able to use my

2071
04:17:28.200 --> 04:17:35.479
legs without any kind of physical discomfort.

2072
04:17:36.399 --> 04:17:38.319
Is a beautiful thing.

2073
04:17:39.680 --> 04:17:46.000
That's possibly not appreciated until it's temporarily removed.

2074
04:17:47.120 --> 04:17:53.840
You know that's comfort. But as you focus on your.

2075
04:17:53.840 --> 04:18:01.760
Knees, regardless of how your knees feel, you can have

2076
04:18:01.879 --> 04:18:07.959
that sense of gratitude and love to your knees for

2077
04:18:08.159 --> 04:18:20.559
all that they do for you. And you can still

2078
04:18:20.639 --> 04:18:24.799
have that attention on your thighs and maybe notice how

2079
04:18:24.879 --> 04:18:34.120
your thighs feel. Maybe you've noticed that they are relaxing

2080
04:18:36.719 --> 04:18:49.799
more deeply as you focus now on the bottoms of

2081
04:18:49.879 --> 04:18:54.719
your legs, your shins, and your calf muscles, the bones

2082
04:18:55.799 --> 04:19:02.639
between your knees and your feet, incorporating the course. Your

2083
04:19:02.760 --> 04:19:14.680
ankles so important. You know, anyone that's had even like

2084
04:19:14.879 --> 04:19:21.760
the slightest sprain of an ankle knows how how much

2085
04:19:21.920 --> 04:19:31.760
we take our ankles for granted. And it's kind of

2086
04:19:31.840 --> 04:19:37.200
strange in a way when you think that. You know, logically,

2087
04:19:37.559 --> 04:19:40.639
our wrists are a lot thinner than the rest of

2088
04:19:40.680 --> 04:19:45.360
our arms, which is okay, it doesn't I can't see

2089
04:19:45.399 --> 04:19:47.879
any problem with that because.

2090
04:19:47.600 --> 04:19:51.959
We're just picking stuff up. But our ankles.

2091
04:19:53.200 --> 04:20:03.159
So much thinner than the rest of our legs, and

2092
04:20:03.280 --> 04:20:07.799
from a physics perspective or logical even it doesn't really

2093
04:20:07.879 --> 04:20:11.159
make sense that all this weight.

2094
04:20:12.600 --> 04:20:13.600
Would ultimately be.

2095
04:20:14.680 --> 04:20:24.719
Resting on your ankles then leading to your feet. That

2096
04:20:25.280 --> 04:20:34.239
thin area, thin bone. Yeah, it does so much great work.

2097
04:20:36.440 --> 04:20:45.920
Supports us, supports our body for a lifetime, helps us

2098
04:20:46.639 --> 04:20:55.959
to balance, helps you to get around and be mobile.

2099
04:21:02.319 --> 04:21:10.120
And there's the calf muscles. Of course, when I was younger,

2100
04:21:10.479 --> 04:21:13.799
I couldn't see the point in calf muscles didn't seem

2101
04:21:13.840 --> 04:21:18.920
to do anything. Okay, if I walked around on tiptoes,

2102
04:21:19.719 --> 04:21:23.559
then my calf muscles get some work. But of course

2103
04:21:23.639 --> 04:21:27.760
that's not true. The calf muscles are being used whenever

2104
04:21:27.840 --> 04:21:39.760
we use our legs and your shins there to protect

2105
04:21:41.760 --> 04:21:50.399
your lower legs, shaped in a way, almost as a

2106
04:21:50.479 --> 04:22:03.239
protector for the bone, leading of course to your ankles.

2107
04:22:06.159 --> 04:22:12.680
And your feet. But we're not going to focus on

2108
04:22:12.799 --> 04:22:14.879
your feet. We're just going to focus on the legs.

2109
04:22:17.000 --> 04:22:21.600
I realize that now that I've mentioned your feet, it

2110
04:22:21.760 --> 04:22:26.639
probably focuses on them anyway, So maybe I should focus

2111
04:22:26.719 --> 04:22:32.559
on your feet a little bit. You can have them

2112
04:22:32.600 --> 04:22:38.159
in your awareness the same as you have your thighs

2113
04:22:38.440 --> 04:22:41.399
in your awareness. Even though we haven't.

2114
04:22:41.159 --> 04:22:46.760
Been focusing on your thighs for a few minutes, we've

2115
04:22:46.799 --> 04:22:57.760
been focusing on your ankles, there's still that sensation of.

2116
04:23:00.920 --> 04:23:05.319
Comfort in your thighs.

2117
04:23:09.959 --> 04:23:17.319
In this that movement of energy, because the thighs hold

2118
04:23:19.239 --> 04:23:24.520
lots of different sensations. Of course, there's the muscles, the

2119
04:23:24.840 --> 04:23:28.520
big straw muscles that we have in our thighs.

2120
04:23:37.280 --> 04:23:43.120
But the skin on the outside of the thighs, as.

2121
04:23:43.079 --> 04:23:47.600
In the outside of all of our body, can be

2122
04:23:47.840 --> 04:24:05.520
very sensitive, sensitive to the touch, sensitive to temperature. And

2123
04:24:05.719 --> 04:24:14.079
inside your thighs the bones, there's the muscle, there's the blood, vessels,

2124
04:24:14.239 --> 04:24:24.520
the archrees, all this stuff that's inside your thighs. I

2125
04:24:24.600 --> 04:24:28.079
guess sometimes it'd be nice if you could actually put

2126
04:24:28.120 --> 04:24:35.479
your fingers inside your thighs and a message, so you

2127
04:24:35.520 --> 04:24:39.079
can message on the outside, of course, but to be

2128
04:24:39.120 --> 04:24:42.479
able to get deep into the muscles, to be able

2129
04:24:42.520 --> 04:24:48.040
to just message inside your thighs, message in the bones

2130
04:24:48.959 --> 04:24:49.840
of your leg.

2131
04:24:51.799 --> 04:24:52.479
Message in.

2132
04:24:55.079 --> 04:25:05.600
All the veins, and just gently even your thighs, and

2133
04:25:05.760 --> 04:25:12.360
you could move down message and inside your knees. It's

2134
04:25:12.360 --> 04:25:19.079
a message in those bones, but with healing fingertips spreading

2135
04:25:19.200 --> 04:25:20.440
that healing.

2136
04:25:20.280 --> 04:25:24.920
Energy deep into the joints of your knees.

2137
04:25:30.319 --> 04:25:34.079
Of course, there's the back of your your knee, or

2138
04:25:34.159 --> 04:25:40.159
the inside crease where your knee is. It's a very

2139
04:25:40.360 --> 04:25:46.239
sensitive area. Very it feels very nice when you stroke it.

2140
04:25:47.639 --> 04:25:51.000
That might be because it's an area that's not really

2141
04:25:51.200 --> 04:25:57.680
touched very often. It's almost like a hidden part, that

2142
04:25:58.000 --> 04:26:04.760
crease in your legs it's almost it's like a part

2143
04:26:04.879 --> 04:26:09.719
that has a sensitivity, which is a little bit different.

2144
04:26:17.559 --> 04:26:27.479
Of course, it's protected by your legs, so you can

2145
04:26:27.559 --> 04:26:32.920
imagine putting your fingers into that crease in your legs,

2146
04:26:38.719 --> 04:26:43.319
folding between your legs, you can just massage with your fingertips.

2147
04:26:44.520 --> 04:26:51.319
Imagine your fingertips going inside, massage in the muscle or tissue.

2148
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You can, of course feel the bones of your knee

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04:27:00.200 --> 04:27:03.520
is healing through your fingertips.

2150
04:27:10.920 --> 04:27:12.360
And then as you go down.

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04:27:15.000 --> 04:27:17.799
To your calf muscles, and that's the part I'd like

2152
04:27:17.879 --> 04:27:22.559
to be able to really put my fingertips deep inside

2153
04:27:23.360 --> 04:27:32.680
my calf muscles, massage in every single tissue of that muscle.

2154
04:27:33.879 --> 04:27:42.399
Healing every part. And then doing the.

2155
04:27:42.520 --> 04:27:50.639
Same for my shins, massage in gently stroking the bones,

2156
04:27:52.399 --> 04:27:58.079
gently stroking them, healing in a loving way, because they

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04:27:58.200 --> 04:28:04.559
deserve to be treated as the precious bones that they are.

2158
04:28:06.200 --> 04:28:09.399
Our legs are so precious as in all the other

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04:28:09.559 --> 04:28:15.239
parts of our body, and more precious of any jure.

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04:28:17.639 --> 04:28:30.079
On the planet. When when you start to think about

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04:28:33.479 --> 04:28:42.280
your legs in this way, it can change your perspective.

2162
04:28:45.040 --> 04:28:46.239
It might sound a bit.

2163
04:28:49.239 --> 04:28:53.520
A bit silly to start with the idea of having

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04:28:54.399 --> 04:29:04.399
love for your legs, showing appreciation for your thighs, wanting

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04:29:04.520 --> 04:29:08.399
to be able to put your hands in your thighs

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04:29:10.399 --> 04:29:16.840
the massage the muscles and the bones, and to get

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04:29:16.879 --> 04:29:22.079
your fingers deep in there, releasing all tension.

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04:29:24.959 --> 04:29:25.920
Just to show.

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04:29:27.559 --> 04:29:34.879
How much you care about your legs, how much you

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04:29:35.040 --> 04:29:43.559
care for what your legs do for you regularly, your knees,

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04:29:43.840 --> 04:29:56.680
your calves, your ankles, the strength of your ankles, considering

2172
04:29:56.879 --> 04:30:01.360
how thin they are compared to the rest of your legs,

2173
04:30:01.559 --> 04:30:15.200
especially your thighs. Yeah, they're so strong, so flexible, absolutely

2174
04:30:15.479 --> 04:30:16.799
amazing things.

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04:30:18.040 --> 04:30:24.840
Your ankles are truly a gift.

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04:30:26.879 --> 04:30:36.000
Because of what they do for you, supporting all that weight,

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04:30:38.000 --> 04:30:42.479
regardless of how what weight you are, even if you're

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04:30:42.520 --> 04:30:46.520
only eight stone, there's still a.

2179
04:30:46.600 --> 04:30:49.120
Lot of weight for these little ankles.

2180
04:30:52.719 --> 04:30:53.600
Now, I'm a lot.

2181
04:30:53.680 --> 04:31:03.639
Heavier than mate stone double down, yet my ankles support

2182
04:31:03.719 --> 04:31:11.079
my body all the time, or they do give off

2183
04:31:11.120 --> 04:31:13.000
a sigh of relief when I sit down.

2184
04:31:15.319 --> 04:31:23.159
That's we've have my whole legs though my feet feet

2185
04:31:23.200 --> 04:31:48.920
also go, my toes clap. I'm so happy. Your legs

2186
04:31:50.799 --> 04:31:56.440
really are amazing, and I know.

2187
04:31:57.159 --> 04:32:00.760
Talking about talking about your legs is probably.

2188
04:32:02.799 --> 04:32:06.600
Possibly one of the most most boring things you've ever

2189
04:32:07.239 --> 04:32:08.200
heard anyone say.

2190
04:32:09.120 --> 04:32:13.440
Possibly you're boring or not.

2191
04:32:15.040 --> 04:32:30.520
Everything I said is true. Your legs are amazing. Your

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04:32:30.639 --> 04:32:41.440
legs deserve not just respect, they deserve to relax.

2193
04:32:42.840 --> 04:32:43.239
Deeply.

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04:32:50.520 --> 04:32:53.879
They deserve to take some time out of the day

2195
04:32:56.079 --> 04:33:24.799
to just let go completely. The legs really can relax.

2196
04:33:32.439 --> 04:33:36.560
And because the legs are so such a most, you know,

2197
04:33:36.799 --> 04:33:42.759
very important part of your body and your relax your legs,

2198
04:33:42.840 --> 04:33:50.080
the rest of your body also naturally follows in that

2199
04:33:53.799 --> 04:34:04.639
journey of comfort. I can feel it in my hips.

2200
04:34:06.040 --> 04:34:13.159
My hips feel really loose, and also my lawyer back

2201
04:34:13.200 --> 04:34:13.599
as well.

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04:34:15.639 --> 04:34:16.479
My lower back.

2203
04:34:16.599 --> 04:34:22.119
Really feels it feels stretched, even though I'm just sitting

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04:34:22.200 --> 04:34:28.200
in a chair and there's no stretching as far as

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04:34:28.240 --> 04:34:31.279
I'm aware that I'm doing. It's almost as if the

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04:34:31.400 --> 04:34:35.360
muscles are just relaxed so much that there is a

2207
04:34:35.560 --> 04:35:00.200
natural stretch as the tension has reduced a lot. And

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04:35:00.279 --> 04:35:03.680
I'm now going to count down from ten downs to one,

2209
04:35:08.000 --> 04:35:09.880
and you can continue.

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04:35:11.119 --> 04:35:15.159
To fill wonderfully relaxed.

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04:35:18.400 --> 04:35:42.560
Ten nine, eight, seven, six, five, four.

2212
04:35:45.639 --> 04:35:50.439
Three two.

2213
04:35:54.599 --> 04:36:01.520
One relax.

2214
04:36:09.400 --> 04:36:13.240
So I'm just going to count down and fire down

2215
04:36:13.319 --> 04:36:17.759
to one. And as a countdown, if you just focus

2216
04:36:17.840 --> 04:36:25.759
on the numbers, just the numbers counting down, and notice

2217
04:36:26.680 --> 04:36:29.040
how you feel.

2218
04:36:31.400 --> 04:36:35.959
In this moment as you hear the numbers counting down,

2219
04:36:37.040 --> 04:36:39.360
knowing that those numbers.

2220
04:36:41.520 --> 04:36:52.159
Counting down represents you feeling calmer, not just in your body,

2221
04:36:52.319 --> 04:37:00.720
but also relaxing your mind. I'll just notice how you felt.

2222
04:37:01.599 --> 04:37:07.479
There's nothing to do, there's nothing to say, there's nothing

2223
04:37:07.639 --> 04:37:14.759
to think about, starting with number.

2224
04:37:14.599 --> 04:37:44.639
Five, four, three, two.

2225
04:37:50.400 --> 04:37:59.720
One oh.

2226
04:38:00.319 --> 04:38:06.479
As you notice the gradual.

2227
04:38:08.759 --> 04:38:17.319
Letting go, that the tension in your body, you may

2228
04:38:17.400 --> 04:38:23.279
also begin to notice and be aware of how your

2229
04:38:23.479 --> 04:38:32.200
mind is starting to slow down. This is just a

2230
04:38:32.360 --> 04:38:35.000
natural thing that happens.

2231
04:38:37.639 --> 04:38:40.080
It's not really a special procedure.

2232
04:38:41.400 --> 04:38:46.560
It's just natural because as your body relaxes, your mind

2233
04:38:46.680 --> 04:38:52.439
also starts to relax. And the more your mind relaxes,

2234
04:38:52.560 --> 04:38:57.200
the more your body relaxes. It's just a continuous circle

2235
04:38:57.279 --> 04:39:11.000
of relaxation. And there's that calmness that comes from relative quietness.

2236
04:39:12.560 --> 04:39:17.479
You know, even even if there's background sounds either your

2237
04:39:17.639 --> 04:39:18.919
side online.

2238
04:39:20.360 --> 04:39:24.200
Is still going to be quite calm.

2239
04:39:25.880 --> 04:39:28.479
You know, you haven't got the television on, there's no

2240
04:39:28.840 --> 04:39:33.040
music in the background unless you're listening to the recorded

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04:39:33.119 --> 04:39:40.520
with music. Of course, you're very likely not going to

2242
04:39:40.560 --> 04:39:43.639
be sitting in a room with other people. Of course

2243
04:39:43.720 --> 04:39:48.200
you might be, but generally it's more ideal if you

2244
04:39:48.319 --> 04:39:59.200
can do this on your own, so no distractions, and

2245
04:39:59.319 --> 04:40:14.520
when you stop thinking about stuff, relaxation automatically rises, a

2246
04:40:14.639 --> 04:40:25.319
sense of comfort starts to grow, and without trying to

2247
04:40:25.439 --> 04:40:36.599
build it up into something fantastical, something magical, this is

2248
04:40:36.799 --> 04:40:38.439
just a natural.

2249
04:40:38.200 --> 04:40:46.479
Process, something that's easy to accomplish.

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04:40:49.279 --> 04:40:53.680
In fact, it's almost you know, the sense of relaxing

2251
04:40:54.520 --> 04:41:00.240
completely happens really when you put no effort in to it.

2252
04:41:01.240 --> 04:41:06.959
It's not something that you can really force. It's something

2253
04:41:07.119 --> 04:41:17.840
that happens naturally. And parts of the process of this

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04:41:18.159 --> 04:41:20.759
recording and others.

2255
04:41:22.119 --> 04:41:31.919
Is simply two allow you to take advantage of this

2256
04:41:33.240 --> 04:41:40.560
space this time. It's just.

2257
04:41:44.759 --> 04:41:45.040
Let go.

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04:41:48.159 --> 04:41:56.400
To just be here, to be in tune with how

2259
04:41:56.479 --> 04:42:09.880
you feel, yet with the intention of wanting to relax

2260
04:42:10.000 --> 04:42:16.520
deeply and maybe even.

2261
04:42:17.919 --> 04:42:22.319
To fall asleep, depending on what it is that you

2262
04:42:23.439 --> 04:42:27.680
wish for yourself in this moment.

2263
04:42:34.639 --> 04:42:44.000
As we know, relaxing is the majority of the process

2264
04:42:44.159 --> 04:42:49.319
of falling asleep. The actual falling asleep part is the

2265
04:42:49.439 --> 04:42:56.840
tiny bit at the end, the deeper relaxed you.

2266
04:42:56.919 --> 04:43:06.040
Become, the easier you find.

2267
04:43:07.319 --> 04:43:23.360
Yourself drifting. You can also, if you choose, stay focused

2268
04:43:24.520 --> 04:43:48.439
on my voice and really enjoy the process, gradually relaxing

2269
04:43:52.759 --> 04:43:54.319
each muscle.

2270
04:43:58.520 --> 04:43:59.599
In your body.

2271
04:44:04.360 --> 04:44:20.639
Effortlessly and just observing the sensation.

2272
04:44:25.360 --> 04:44:33.479
Of letting go completely.

2273
04:44:39.520 --> 04:44:41.479
This time, I'm gonna count from.

2274
04:44:41.520 --> 04:44:52.000
Six down to one, and you can notice your mind.

2275
04:44:54.319 --> 04:45:09.319
Calming down more with each number. Can you hear me say, naturally, fear.

2276
04:45:11.200 --> 04:45:18.680
Calm, slow, beeaceful.

2277
04:45:23.840 --> 04:46:43.599
Six, five, four, three.

2278
04:47:12.599 --> 04:48:13.080
Two four, being aware.

2279
04:48:15.919 --> 04:48:18.479
How your mind to slow.

2280
04:48:20.319 --> 04:48:31.959
Right down, sinking deeply into relaxation.

2281
04:48:45.680 --> 04:48:52.439
And as you focus on your mind, you may notice

2282
04:48:52.680 --> 04:49:02.479
that there's some thoughts still there, maybe some stubborn thoughts

2283
04:49:02.680 --> 04:49:10.759
that for some reason perhaps need your attention.

2284
04:49:17.680 --> 04:49:19.040
It's what you can do is.

2285
04:49:24.599 --> 04:49:32.400
Send love to those thoughts. Sprinkle those thoughts.

2286
04:49:36.560 --> 04:49:37.080
With love.

2287
04:49:38.840 --> 04:49:43.040
I all petals from a flower. Just sprinkle over them,

2288
04:49:44.520 --> 04:49:51.639
petals filled with love towards those thoughts. To let those

2289
04:49:51.880 --> 04:49:52.799
thoughts over.

2290
04:49:52.840 --> 04:49:55.599
There's a lot.

2291
04:49:55.439 --> 04:50:01.319
Of banding a number. You just need them to require

2292
04:50:01.400 --> 04:50:12.479
them to just calm down, slow down, quiet down.

2293
04:50:16.159 --> 04:50:16.520
For now.

2294
04:50:24.439 --> 04:50:27.880
So as you focus on those remaining.

2295
04:50:27.520 --> 04:50:31.279
Thoughts as to count down this time, from.

2296
04:50:31.360 --> 04:50:35.680
Seven down to one of each number.

2297
04:50:38.680 --> 04:50:51.919
Just imagine sprinkling those flower petals of love, kindness, gratitude.

2298
04:50:54.439 --> 04:51:03.840
Over those thoughts, which will allow them to just not

2299
04:51:04.080 --> 04:51:19.880
a way relaxed deeply the fife number they thoughts would become.

2300
04:51:19.759 --> 04:51:32.360
More and more relaxed, starting.

2301
04:51:35.240 --> 04:52:14.279
One number seven, six, five.

2302
04:52:27.279 --> 04:53:45.400
Four, what.

2303
04:54:02.439 --> 04:54:02.799
Meed you?

2304
04:54:03.000 --> 04:54:03.159
Now?

2305
04:54:07.479 --> 04:54:08.560
Notice how.

2306
04:54:10.159 --> 04:54:15.840
Relaxed you a feeling.

2307
04:54:19.040 --> 04:54:19.959
In your body?

2308
04:54:28.319 --> 04:54:30.240
You can to focus.

2309
04:54:33.680 --> 04:54:35.080
On your hands.

2310
04:54:40.880 --> 04:54:46.799
Is the more relaxed your hands are, the more relaxed

2311
04:54:47.080 --> 04:54:49.479
your body and my do.

2312
04:55:04.759 --> 04:55:04.799
This?

2313
04:55:06.560 --> 04:55:10.520
Do you think this on your hands your fingers?

2314
04:55:16.080 --> 04:55:18.159
There's nothing needed.

2315
04:55:17.919 --> 04:55:23.040
To be done. There's no French of this, or I

2316
04:55:23.200 --> 04:55:27.200
haven't seen nothing is or anything like that. Mm hmmm,

2317
04:55:32.919 --> 04:55:39.439
it's just a notice want to say on your hands.

2318
04:55:46.119 --> 04:55:46.720
Not to sin?

2319
04:55:46.840 --> 04:56:02.959
The holy feels.

2320
04:56:03.080 --> 04:56:04.000
The more.

2321
04:56:05.959 --> 04:56:17.400
Relates Joannes fill the calm mind feels and no more

2322
04:56:20.200 --> 04:56:34.279
help you feel about the booty see may.

2323
04:56:36.520 --> 04:56:41.560
Have word.

2324
04:56:43.919 --> 04:57:01.119
They tiste feel mind m whats.

2325
04:57:04.720 --> 04:57:05.000
Do that?

2326
04:57:19.360 --> 04:57:24.919
S just the my things?

2327
04:57:26.080 --> 04:57:34.520
One thing wis a ch.

2328
04:57:37.439 --> 04:57:38.240
Spears?

2329
04:57:42.159 --> 04:57:44.959
Do me wuld that be that?

2330
04:57:45.319 --> 04:57:45.680
Sous?

2331
04:57:47.639 --> 04:58:18.240
My things? Bogus oh oh eight down to the boy

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04:58:26.200 --> 04:58:26.240
h