June 15, 2025

(no music) (5 hours) Sunday ChitChat | LMBYTS #1375 | 15th June 2025

(no music) (5 hours) Sunday ChitChat | LMBYTS #1375 | 15th June 2025
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Hello, and welcome to Vinnie and me. This is let

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me boy, you to sleep. Then he's just he was

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in bed, were both having a little lie down. I

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got up and came in here, and now Vinnie's got

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up and he's just pushed the door open and come

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in and staring at me. For some reason, we're staring

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at me for Vidy, for for Vidy.

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H Oh.

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I had a little nap. I've been tired all day

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because I got up at half past one this morning

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to watch the boxing, and that went on to about four,

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maybe half past four, and then maybe five in fact.

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Then I went back to bed and I haven't really

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I haven't really got my sleep back as it were.

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I haven't really. Yeah, it's been a bit, a little

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bit tired, but I'm better. Now, that's better. I'll stop.

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Ordered good, I'll stop in a minute. Don't worry what

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door yawns will completed at some point. So this is

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let me boy to sleep. Please only listen when you

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can safely close your eyes. And today is Sunday, the

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fifteenth of June to dands and a twenty five. I

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haven't really necessarily particularly accomplished much today. I'm just trying

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to think, what have I done? Holy Shower and did

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a bit of work on the website, a little bit

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of work on the podcasts, or I did a new thing.

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A new thing. I put together all of the last

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seven days. Let me boy, just leap podcast episodes into

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just one recording. So I've done that today. And the

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problem with that is I had to put Whisper Wednesday

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last because I couldn't really have the Whisper Wednesday and

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then going back to talking at a kind of normal volume.

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It's yeah, it's just and work. So I had to

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I put that at the end of the recording. So yeah,

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I'm thinking of maybe doing that again next week. So

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basically it's Sunday to Saturday, and I do it on

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a Sunday, so it's those seven days. Openny. Then he's

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hearing some summer in the garden and he's very interested. Wow,

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I'm such a yawny head. I remember I got a

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message years ago someone saying I don't like it when

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you yawn. Oh wow, Just I don't like it when

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you Well, nobody, and I do mean nobody on the

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planet can tell me off for yawning. I don't know

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if I yawn I yawn would you. I don't like him, York,

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Who cares. I don't care if you like it or not.

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I'm not yawning to make people feel wonderful or to

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make people feel anything. Just yawning because I'm yawning. There's

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no hello, oh yawd it because I'm tired. I'm yawning

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because I'm thinking about yawning. And I'm probably yawning because

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I'm trying not to yawn, which is CAUs is in

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me to yawn even more. Yes, mm hmmm, sniffy, sniff.

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I was wondering if I've got a little bit of

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I get a little bit of a hay fever these days,

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because I've had a few a few days, a few times,

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maybe not the whole day, but where I just seemed

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to come down with a cold. But then then it's gone,

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I'm sniffling, coughing, sneezing, and then me, you know nothing,

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So I don't maybe that maybe maybe I am a

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little bit affected by the pollen. Perhaps I did live

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in the countryside, so there's no getting away from it. Really,

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it's this is this non it's non stop pollen I

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imagine around here. But yeah, no, it's not. It's not debilitating,

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so I don't it's not going to bother me. It's weird.

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I just get a little bit a bit sniffily, tho,

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I'm not a sniff keep sniffing because that's grim. I

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remember when I was in the call center. I think

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it was the last call center I rugged in. I

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had this bloke on the phone and he was sniffingly.

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I think, I like full on cold. It almost sounds

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like the phone was up his nose. Seriously, I could

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put the end of the phone up his nose and

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all I could to hear, and it was just I

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did not enjoy that phone call. You can't shout through

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the phone. Can you please blow your nose before we continue?

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I mean you could include that in the ripped, but

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probably gets sacked. You know the script that you said

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at the beginning, all course that recorded. I remember when

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I did that first, because I worked at Churchill September

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two thousand and one. I think it was the the ninth.

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I'm not sure. I don't have my calendar, but anyway,

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it's the Monday and whatever the Monday was that week,

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and it was pretty easy. I didn't realize how easy

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it was until it started getting more difficult because we

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just asked the questions and that was it. And then

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about six months seven months in, they walked around and

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handed us a script and they said, you're going to

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have to read or team leader said, you have to

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read this out to the customer right at the beginning

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of the call, before proceeding with a car quotation. I

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have to read the whole thing out. It was just

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one page, but it was a good thirty seconds of talking,

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and it was laminated, I think. So membized twiddle with

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it and flick it around so it turned around in

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my hand. I thought it might impress some of the girls.

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Oh was I So? I was nine at the time,

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you see. I remember looking at and thinking when the

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teamader said, oh, you have to read this big long

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script out before and then it gave us another script.

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You have to read this out and before taking payment,

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and you also have to read this script out before,

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you know, before the end of the call. I was

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really talking about Willis, and my team leader took me

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aside and said, stop calling me Willis. He didn't know

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what a reference was from because he was about I

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think he was about eleven. My team leader I was

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what thirty one, so he was a little bit younger

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than me. What are you talking about, Willis? He didn't

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he didn't get the reference. A lot of people won't

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get the reference. And it doesn't matter because all it

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does is make me look really old. It's really old.

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He was referencing something from the late seventies. Wow, I

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put it fall. Different person sounds similar when I do it,

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but I put it fall. There's the other one. I

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can't but oh I love it where I love it

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when I'm playing films together. That was him smoking a cigar. Yeah,

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the eighteen that was such a huge show. It's weird.

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I mean, are there any big TV shows now on television?

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I don't mean popular, but are there any shows which

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are just called the imagination of the population of the

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Western world in a sense of action? Figures and books, comics,

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Easter eggs with pictures of it on? You know? The toy,

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the toy, the main toy for Christmas that year is

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this thing? I mean, I don't know. I suppose pepper Pig.

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That's one thing that was pretty huge on it. SpongeBob

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sponge Pants was a big character, wasn't he Simpsons? But

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we're going back like quite a few years. I remember

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the Simpsons, right, I remember watching it, and then after

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a few years of watching it, it became for some reason,

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it became really popular. It's almost like it was around

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for a while and then the newspapers noticed it and

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it was put on. You know, the newspapers thought it

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was for kids, and it's not a kids show at all,

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never was a kids show, and it's an adult show.

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It's adult humor. Yeah, it was put on in this

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country like six o'clock in the afternoon, and the press

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were all focusing on Bart Simpson and eat my shorts

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and all this stuff, and as it was plastered everywhere,

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when Bart Simpson is not the star of the show.

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His dad is. And it's just really strange the way

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they interpreted it. I mean, it's e's A's star, but

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he's not the star. Homer is. He is the king

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of that show, and Marge is the queen. But it's

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about It's about Homer Simpson, isn't it. Do you know

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anyone now that says, oh, oh, oh like that they

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still do that? Do you know when that still does that?

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I suld know people that did that, and they do it,

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and they did it for decades, and I didn't know why.

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I knew why. I knew it was, you know, because

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Homer Simpson goes, oh, don't I know do isn't it dope?

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Don't whatever? And but I didn't kind of understand why

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humans were doing it. Dont does anyone know anyone who

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does that? Because I've known people some of the other

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days said they said, lowell to me. Now, I really

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like this person, so I'm not going to say anything bad.

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I just the other another person said it to me

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years ago. I liked like that person as well, so

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but I just found it like what loll not. They

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didn't laugh, they just went loll. I was like, Okay,

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I can't keep up. I can't keep up. I tell

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you what's needed, squeakies in the garden. I'll tell you

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what's needed. Is I think the old people, the old ones,

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the old ones, need to start doing their own language,

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put together their own sayings, their own little coded chat. Yeah,

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just to confuse the the youngins. Oh, we just can

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continue to confuse the young uns by talking how we've

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always talked. It's is sometimes it feels like a different language,

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a different language. I'm sounding ancient, and I like a

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like a dusty old It's got to say dummy, but

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not dummy, not model dummy. Is it a dummy, the

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dummy the other thing wrapped up in in bandages. Mummy,

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not dummy, mummy, it's mummy, you dummy, mummy? What would

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you call it? Mummy? Oh, by the way, happy Father's

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Day if you if you celebrate such a thing in

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the In UK, England, Britain, we have Mother's Day and

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Father's Day, but some other countries also celebrate it, having

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on a different date. So Mother's Day was ages ago

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and Father's Day in the UK is today. So yeah,

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happy fat as, happy fart as Day, wherever you may bee. Yeah.

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I never received a fart as Day card. Never. Never

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I've been a farther if. I father, father, sorry, father,

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I wonder what that's like to actually be a parent.

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I guess I'm never gonna know him. I but just imagine.

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I know a lot of people listen to this are

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parents and they know exactly what it's like. But I

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don't really don't. I can't. I can't really get my

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head around it. It's a little bit like what's it

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like to be a goldfish. I don't know goldfish. No,

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but I don't know what's it like to be six

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foot seven. I'm never going to know what it feels

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like to be six foot seven. I mean, even if

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I wore stilts to make myself a that height, you know,

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there's limits to what I can do. I can't like

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to spend my whole life with those stilts on supermarkets,

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for example, that they have an issue with stilts. I've

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never understood that they try and go into Sainsbury's Otescos

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in this country, which is a grocery supermarket. Oh, can

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you please take the stilts, officer, But they don't stop anyone.

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It's actually naturally six foot seven. They don't check them

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for stilts. Check me. That's the thing, right, If you're

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gonna wear stilts, don't wear shorts. That's the problem. You

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need to get extra long trousers so it looks and

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you need to sort of get some kind of so

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it looks like you've got feet to the stilts on,

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because otherwise it don't work. It was just like wooden pegs,

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because I'm sure you can get stilts to armwood, but

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I'm sticking to the old fashioned stilts. I used to

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have stilts when I was a kid. We used to

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make stilts. It used to be fun. I don't think

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i've ever been on a professional stilt. Is this such

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a thing as a professional stilt and a pogo stick?

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Wouldn't that be quite a good way to actually travel.

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It'd be a much faster way, wouldn't it, and potentially

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more fun. You're like a really good pogo stick, one

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that I'm not saying one that bounces really high, but

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bounces that are maybe mechanical bounce, you know, so you

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don't have to do anything. You just land and it

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just pushes you up and at a height that it

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wouldn't matter if you felt you could be fine. So

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maybe a height of two feet or three feet, so

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you're always going to be you know. Health and safety

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is important. That's why I went to where I wear

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a no I said that last time, so stilt. I

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started listening to some of my old recordings. I can't

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believe some of the things I say. Wow, honestly, some

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of the things that slip out on my bum now

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my mouth is ridiculous. It's just so silly. And the

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other day he might not heard it. I was talking

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about the different pronunciations in America and England. So there's

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like David Bowie. I mean, I know he's not American,

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but it was like, is it Bowie is a Bowie?

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No one cared, even he didn't care. It's Bowie, No,

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it's Bowie. I actually, as a kid, saw people get

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into an argument, like a proper, you know, emotional argument

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over how to pronounce David Bowie's name. Can't be I

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can't imagine there's anything less important to anyone else except

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David Bowie or David Bowie. And I think I was

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talking about like the soaps, because we used to say, well,

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there was an argument. In my it wasn't like a

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big argument, but there was definitely a heated discussion because

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in the early eighties, very early eighties, there was like

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so many soap operas from America that were coming over,

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and unlike the soaps here which would be on regularly,

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so Coronation Street would be on I think back then

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probably twice a week. It increased over the years, maybe

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three times a week, but it was on quite regularly.

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East Enders hadn't started yet. Emma Dale Farm was on

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a few times a week. I think Coronation Street, I'm

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not that might still been on a few times a week,

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maybe every night, but these American soaps were or we

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got to see them once a week, and they were

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huge compared to because ours were just grotty. We all

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just had really grotty, kind of dull, gray soaps, a

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bit like the country can be a bit like that,

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you know, in this country quite gray. And I said

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that the other day. It's still lovely, but it's very

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you know, it's not the most colorful place at times.

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I mean there's months and months where it's just gray.

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It's just what is going on. And Coronation Street and

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Emmadale Farm, which is based on a farm that was

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never going to be very particularly colorful. Coronation Street was

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based in these just old fashioned streets, and Emma Dale,

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I was it. Coronation Crossroads was based in a motel

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I liked. I liked Crossroads. We used to have actually hospital,

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hospital hospital. It was a soap bo It was about

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no is in the hospital, maybe doctors General. Was it

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General Hospital? I'm pretty sure it was English General Hospital.

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And I can't believe that I remember. I just had

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a memory that I have not had for years and

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years and years and years and years, and just when

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I lived in Newcastle, General Hospital was on and I

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think I was running downstairs to you know what. We

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could see a hospital from our I'm pretty sure from

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the from the flats that I lived in there was

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a big high rise flat block of flats. Could see

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a hospital. I'm sure I could. I just got these

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little memories of the hospital and the TV show though

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and where I lived at the time, and I used

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to watch it. Wow, there was a bloke on there

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with a bit with a mustache. Yeah, he had a

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mustache and a white coat. I don't remember the tune

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the you know, the theme tune Welcome to General Hospital.

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We are a hospital and we are general.

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I don't know.

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I don't know what the theme tune was. I can't

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really think of any other soaps in the early eighties

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that was on that I used to watch. I mean,

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in the middle eighties we got all the well, we

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got like a lot of the Australian soaps, so Neighbors

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which is a massive hit, and then Home and Away

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which is also a massive hit, and then I think

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then Prison Cell Block h I'm not sure when that

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came out I know, I used to watch it when

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I was probably about sixteen seventeen and probably say sixteen,

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I used to watch Prisoner Cell Block H but it

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used to be on late at night and B B

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was the the one in charge. B White B and

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Missus Mangle. She was in Neighbors, Henry Bishop was in

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Home and Away.

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Wow.

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But you know what the one Australian soap that I

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personally think was the best out of all of them

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and never got its credit because it wasn't on peak time.

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He used to be on in the afternoons. I don't

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know when they first started showing it, but I think

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it'd been around a long time. I got completely addicted

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to it in nineteen eighty six and it's called Sons

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and DAWs now. That show. It was on every day.

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It knew I think it was every day anyway. It

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knew how to do a cliffhanger. It did the best cliffhangers,

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like the I can't think of anything. Bearing in mind,

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I was a proper TV buff back then. You know,

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TV and books, and when I got to about twelve,

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you know, but generally TV and books was kind of

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my favorite thing. Yeah, Doctor who used to have good cliffhangers.

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But what I noticed happened even like the A Team,

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or it's kind of obvious that I don't know, like

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a TV show that was let's say it was the

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eighteen or wonder Woman. Wonder Woman was trapped inside a

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I don't know, chocolate chocolate box covered in cream, but

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it was seafrough so you could watch her get changed. No, no, sorry, no,

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I'm just saying that it was that was and she

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couldn't get out of it, but she the only way

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she could get out of it is by getting trying

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on lots of different costumes. See, I was a kid.

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This is what I used to think about back then.

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Not now, that's just wrong. I wouldn't think about that,

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but I was. I was a young and childish, So

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she'd be in this chocolate seafroit box trying on various nineties.

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I don't know why I'm Stuff like that just makes

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you feel ill, just like just cover up. That's how

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I feel now. But you know, I was a teenager

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as well as what ten whatever, so eleven ten nine.

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I love Wonder Woman, but now I'm just like God,

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that is so gratuitous, and really, you know, what about

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equal rights people. But back then I loved seeing her

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bounce around. Not now I've seen it recently, and I'm

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just disgusted that that used to be on television for

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the populace to look at that that TV show is

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on television. Not that as in her, but the TV show.

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I think they really took advantage of her good nature

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and getting a running around in that skimpy Wonder Woman costume.

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I feel only tell in the window as soon as

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you were getting hot in here. What was I talking about? Erection? No, no,

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h sons and daughters. Yeah, oh, they all the way

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they used to leave it. Cliffhangers, cliffhangers. Amazing. Now Doctor

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Who used to be really good at that. But I noticed,

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like I don't know when it started happening, not just

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Doctor Who, but even other TV shows. Something happened where

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they would so, for example, I was doing that was

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so wonder Woman. Let's just think of the scenario. So

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Wonder Woman's in this this steel cage, but it's see

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through again. Well there's a big X ray machine so

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you can see through the still no stop that, So

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Wonder Woman is she's chained by her ankles and she's

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hanging upside down and there is there's an animal on

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the floor. No one knows what the animal is because

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no one can remember because no one is looking at

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the animal. But you know she's in danger, imminent danger,

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and like do do do do do do do do

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do do, and like will she will wonder woman survive?

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Will wonder Woman succumb to this imminent threat? Will anyone

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be able to? Will anyone be able to tell us

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what the animal was that was on the floor?

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You know?

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So all week long, I'd be waiting. I mean I

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wouldn't just literally just be sitting there waiting if on

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the TV for a whole week till the next Saturday,

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because unfortunately, the schooling system we have here does not

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account for that doesn't take consideration for important television programs.

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And then I'd go back the next week and I'd wait,

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but I didn't go back. I'd be there because that's

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where I lived, but I'd be not in that cage

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with an X race so you could see through it. No,

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what I mean is at home, and we'd all be there.

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We'd all be there for different reasons, watching it. And

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my older brothers would I think my oldest brother would

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watch it for a little while. Then he'd leave, and

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then they'd come back, and then my other brother would

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leave and come back. I don't know what they were doing.

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I just seemed to be It's almost like they'd taken turns.

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I think they must have had a had bad stomachs

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or something. He didn't have that toilet And then my

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dad's moaning, where's the toilet roll gone? Where's it all gone? Well,

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I don't know. I'm watching Wonder Woman and I need

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toilet roll. Well we all need something, don't we. I

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need to be able to watch Wonder Woman in peace,

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is what I thought to myself. I'm not gonna be

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saying it out loud, and you'd see her escape so

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as she'd so wobble, not wobble, but like move from

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side to side and managed to I mean, the abdominal

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strength that she must have had to do that to

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be able to lift herself up and from that angle

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and and and get back and break the chains, but

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climb up so that she didn't land. Whatever. I don't

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know what the animal. Could have been a shark, I

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don't know, could have been a hedgehog, I don't know

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what the hell it was On the floor that she

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didn't want to land on, and yeah, she is. I

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mean she'd been there for I mean I was young,

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but I like, I was thinking, she's been there a week.

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Why has no one got on a sort of a

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cup of tea and a donut or something. She's been

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there because there was nothing on her face. She wasn't

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her face wasn't covering anything like you think, because if

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she was eating upside down, your face would like sugar

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on and all kinds of stuff, wouldn't it. Because I'm

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not messy anyway. When I eat, it goes all down

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my top. Trying to eat, even try to eat upside down,

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it's it's practically impossible. But if you was upside down

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for a week, you kind of have to, wouldn't you

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learn have to learn how to? But there was no mess.

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She looked exactly the same as she did a week ago,

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which is pretty amazing. I know she's a superhero and everything,

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but it was Yeah, I couldn't really get my head

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around that. But you know, I was, I was seven

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years old. Don't don't blame me. Wow, it's not my fault.

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I didn't write the script. I didn't. I didn't I

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didn't direct it. I didn't. I didn't know. I thought

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it was real. I thought it was a documentary. I

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waited all week for that. So I went and like

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and she escaped. Then that was exciting all week, waiting

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to find out if wonder Woman escaped from that being,

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you know, chained upside down in a some kind of box,

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seafrough box or something, I don't know, whatever it was. No,

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it's in a warehouse. It was in a warehouse or

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was she in a tree? I remember when she she

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spun around and she turned into her what was it

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like a swimmer? I mean. She also had an invisible plane.

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That was funny. I don't know even I found that

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a bit funny. It's an invisible plane. She wasn't invisible

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me I could argue it was a wonder woman. She

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wasn't the invisible wonder Woman. She was wonder woman. However,

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if you're an invisible plane, it doesn't really make sense

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if you can be seen, does it. Oh, there's this.

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It's fine. It sounds like a plane, but I can't

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see anything. Can't you see wonder Woman there sitting in

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the clouds? Oh? Yeah, was she sitting on I don't know.

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If it's making a lot of noise. Whatever it is

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in betwings his noise. It's a plane. It sounds like

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a plane. It's a big plane. It's a plane. But

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it's invisible. It can't be a plane or else would

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vibrate like that. It's a plane.

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I don't know.

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If it's a plane, it's got to be. It must

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be invisible. Yeah, that's that's what it is. It's an

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invisible plane. You think it'd make her invisible, though, wouldn't you.

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That's what I'm trying to point out. Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman,

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that was my favorite TV show. I probably preferred Wonder

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Woman over the Hulk, although I did love the Hulk

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as well. And a six million dollar man or a

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bionic man? Who else? Kung Fu? He was a superhero Batman,

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of course, but the Batman's were from the sixties and

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I was watching him in the eighties. Although it's still great.

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They still are great even now. I think the original

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Batman shows they're funny. I don't ever remember seeing Superman

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TV shows until Lewis and Clark in the nineties. Was

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it Lewis and Clark, Yeah, Lewis and Clark. That was

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huge hugely successful in this country. That was peak viewing

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time on a Saturday night. But now Doctor Who and

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a lot of shows for the last twenty odd years

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or even more, maybe they'd have a cliffhanger and then

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it's say next week, tune in next week. So you've

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got Doctor Who in a cage, you know, in a

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box and trapped, and then it's gonna happen as you

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it's a daralic. There's a darlic. Oh, a darlic eating

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a sandwich or whatever. And then oh no, the squirrel

466
00:44:30.679 --> 00:44:32.199
is going to get him. Always a dark going to

467
00:44:32.239 --> 00:44:34.880
get him first, or a squirrel. There's a there's a

468
00:44:34.920 --> 00:44:40.519
crazy squirrel, a baseball bat. And then they say tune

469
00:44:40.599 --> 00:44:43.360
in next week, and they show you him sort of

470
00:44:43.400 --> 00:44:50.880
in a hammock eating some war melon and we've playing

471
00:44:50.920 --> 00:44:55.159
a harpsichord or whatever. It's like not at the same time,

472
00:44:55.800 --> 00:44:59.480
but it's like, well, clearly he escaped. It's not much

473
00:44:59.519 --> 00:45:02.440
of a cliff if you tell us, not just tell us,

474
00:45:02.440 --> 00:45:07.239
but show us, show us, show us, show us that

475
00:45:07.599 --> 00:45:13.599
Doctor Who escaped. Dear jez and I just wanted to

476
00:45:13.639 --> 00:45:17.639
point out, firstly, I think the way you were talking

477
00:45:17.639 --> 00:45:23.039
about Wonder Woman was wrong. Secondly, I think that you

478
00:45:23.239 --> 00:45:27.000
need to know that it's not doctor who it's the doctor.

479
00:45:29.000 --> 00:45:31.920
And secondly, the way you were talking about your brothers

480
00:45:31.920 --> 00:45:34.719
going out from taking turns in the bathroom, we're into

481
00:45:34.719 --> 00:45:48.679
the toilet. Wow, dear Jason blind. So yeah, I am, oh, yeah,

482
00:45:48.679 --> 00:45:50.280
this is what I was talking about. I just came

483
00:45:50.360 --> 00:45:53.280
out of sounding really silly the other day. So the

484
00:45:53.320 --> 00:45:56.920
whole thing about is it dynasty or is it dynasty?

485
00:45:57.519 --> 00:46:03.000
So basically we were arguing about how to pronounce certain words.

486
00:46:03.559 --> 00:46:11.000
It started off with David Bowie David Bowie or David Bowie,

487
00:46:11.280 --> 00:46:14.800
Bowie or Bowie. I think there was someone else. I

488
00:46:14.840 --> 00:46:22.239
can't remember what's the other name. There was other names

489
00:46:22.320 --> 00:46:25.760
that were weren't sure. I mean there was a time

490
00:46:25.800 --> 00:46:29.840
when we didn't know. Yeah, when I was in Wales,

491
00:46:31.719 --> 00:46:38.800
Boy George or Culture Club. You know Culture Club were big, big,

492
00:46:40.079 --> 00:46:45.760
like just come out and they were huge, and they

493
00:46:45.760 --> 00:46:50.639
were even in the eighteen So guess a bit of

494
00:46:50.760 --> 00:46:54.559
nostalgia there. What Culture Club was in the A team?

495
00:46:55.280 --> 00:47:03.480
Yes they were, And I remember sitting around outside the

496
00:47:03.559 --> 00:47:09.719
tent in Wales. We were all discussing whether or not

497
00:47:11.119 --> 00:47:19.199
boy George was actually a woman or a man, boy George,

498
00:47:20.280 --> 00:47:22.320
whether or not he was a woman or a man,

499
00:47:22.679 --> 00:47:26.159
because he wore a dress and we're having this conversation,

500
00:47:26.920 --> 00:47:33.679
looks like a woman. Not one person said, but his

501
00:47:33.800 --> 00:47:39.199
name is boy George. There's a clue. There's a clue somewhere.

502
00:47:39.880 --> 00:47:47.920
I mean, it might be quite cryptic. It's yeah, I

503
00:47:47.960 --> 00:47:56.280
love boy George. Culture club was great as we am

504
00:47:56.440 --> 00:48:00.480
a man. See it's in the title with our bction,

505
00:48:01.599 --> 00:48:08.719
I am a man who doesn't know. I mean there

506
00:48:08.760 --> 00:48:14.639
was evidence, but I think we just used to argue

507
00:48:14.679 --> 00:48:20.239
about anything for no reason that was it always had

508
00:48:20.239 --> 00:48:26.800
to be an argument. So there's four brothers and parents

509
00:48:27.239 --> 00:48:29.760
and it was just kind of okay. One of the

510
00:48:29.840 --> 00:48:33.679
kids was tiny, so he wasn't that involved, but he

511
00:48:33.719 --> 00:48:37.360
did get involved after as soon as he could talk.

512
00:48:37.400 --> 00:48:44.760
He was arguing, causing trouble proper, trouble maker.

513
00:48:48.440 --> 00:48:49.360
Always arguing.

514
00:48:50.920 --> 00:48:53.679
In the end, I just used to just like kind

515
00:48:53.679 --> 00:48:59.000
of bothered with this. Why are you arguing? And then

516
00:48:59.079 --> 00:49:04.719
it's started, let's start another argument. We're not arguing. That's

517
00:49:04.760 --> 00:49:07.519
the whole feel of I remember seeing him big brother,

518
00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:14.960
this woman saying, yes, said, you seem so angry. I'm

519
00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:23.360
not angry. I'm passionate. Okay, okay, okay. That's the whole

520
00:49:23.360 --> 00:49:25.159
thing is how do you how do you make an

521
00:49:25.199 --> 00:49:33.760
angry person angry? Tell them they're angry? Wow, I'm not angry.

522
00:49:34.159 --> 00:49:49.239
I'm passion that I'm not hungry. Give me some food.

523
00:49:50.239 --> 00:49:57.280
Oh yeah. So the argument was all the discussion, but

524
00:49:57.320 --> 00:50:02.599
it was an argument is it dynasty or dynasty? Dynasty

525
00:50:02.880 --> 00:50:09.280
or dynasty. See, half of my family said it's dynasty.

526
00:50:10.159 --> 00:50:14.079
The other half was saying it's dynasty because it was

527
00:50:14.119 --> 00:50:16.920
pronounced nothing different in America or whatever. And this is

528
00:50:16.920 --> 00:50:18.280
what I was talking about this the other day in

529
00:50:18.280 --> 00:50:24.199
a podcast, and because I wanted to contribute, and we're

530
00:50:24.199 --> 00:50:28.079
already talking about David Bowie, ifde Bowie or David Bowie,

531
00:50:29.039 --> 00:50:35.920
and I showered out, what about Dallas? And we just

532
00:50:35.960 --> 00:50:37.840
stopped and looked at me. I said, I said, what

533
00:50:37.840 --> 00:50:38.239
do you mean?

534
00:50:38.679 --> 00:50:38.840
So?

535
00:50:38.880 --> 00:50:40.880
How do you say that? How do you pronounce that?

536
00:50:40.920 --> 00:50:41.159
One?

537
00:50:43.239 --> 00:50:47.480
I really thought I was contributing something to the argument.

538
00:50:47.159 --> 00:50:47.320
But.

539
00:50:49.679 --> 00:50:51.280
Just gave me the giggles. When I thought about it

540
00:50:51.320 --> 00:50:55.639
the other day. It's such a silly thing to say

541
00:50:55.679 --> 00:51:00.960
in it, what about Dallas. H It's not as funny now,

542
00:51:01.000 --> 00:51:04.199
but it was back then it felt funny because it

543
00:51:04.239 --> 00:51:11.880
was just I do like absurd, absurd I do. I

544
00:51:11.920 --> 00:51:21.000
don't know why, just tickles me a little bit, just

545
00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:30.000
just really silly things makes me laugh. So I did that. Yeah,

546
00:51:30.079 --> 00:51:36.519
put that podcast together with all the recordings from last week,

547
00:51:37.400 --> 00:51:39.559
with the last seven days, just to let me boy

548
00:51:39.639 --> 00:51:47.760
to sleep once or LMB white yes, LMB whitey yes,

549
00:51:48.679 --> 00:51:56.000
let me bore, LMB White yes, you to sleep, Yeah,

550
00:51:56.280 --> 00:52:06.239
LMB White Yes. I wanted to make a recording earlier,

551
00:52:06.320 --> 00:52:10.400
but I just couldn't do it. I wouldn't have been

552
00:52:10.400 --> 00:52:13.559
able to do it if I've fallen asleep. My voice

553
00:52:13.599 --> 00:52:22.400
is all deep now or deep I ball and star.

554
00:52:23.719 --> 00:52:25.760
I have to do that every time I every time

555
00:52:25.800 --> 00:52:28.760
I got a crocon, I have to cry and try

556
00:52:28.800 --> 00:52:29.880
and do the older.

557
00:52:31.239 --> 00:52:49.000
I ball, oh and star, rolling, move and moaning, sheepbag bragging, moving, rolling, moaning, moaning,

558
00:52:49.519 --> 00:52:50.119
raw hard.

559
00:52:52.559 --> 00:52:57.599
Yeah, I sometimes feel that I'm in the middle of

560
00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:06.000
It's almost like the end of an era, the beginning

561
00:53:06.039 --> 00:53:11.280
of an era, the end of that era, and then

562
00:53:11.320 --> 00:53:14.360
the beginning of another era. It might just be because

563
00:53:14.400 --> 00:53:20.000
I've lived so long, but it's like the end of

564
00:53:20.000 --> 00:53:25.719
the seventies seemed to give way to kind of a

565
00:53:25.800 --> 00:53:32.239
new period, and the music was quite different. The world

566
00:53:32.360 --> 00:53:36.760
seemed quite different. That's probably more to do with you know,

567
00:53:36.840 --> 00:53:40.039
I was just getting older. But the seventies, when I

568
00:53:40.039 --> 00:53:47.559
think of the seventies, I think were a very, very gray,

569
00:53:50.639 --> 00:53:56.320
very I just yeah, just I just remember a lot

570
00:53:56.360 --> 00:54:00.840
of the strikes and all that stuff, and it was, yeah,

571
00:54:01.000 --> 00:54:05.239
this didn't seem great. Some people loved the seventies, so

572
00:54:05.960 --> 00:54:07.679
I was a kid, so I didn't get to really

573
00:54:07.760 --> 00:54:13.559
experience the seventies in sort of an amazing way. But

574
00:54:18.400 --> 00:54:26.599
the eighties seemed different. Then there was the nineties. So

575
00:54:26.719 --> 00:54:33.079
for me, my years in a way were the eighties

576
00:54:33.119 --> 00:54:46.639
and nineties, so you know, from ten to thirty, because

577
00:54:46.679 --> 00:54:51.599
the twenties are quite I would say, important period, isn't it,

578
00:54:57.360 --> 00:55:06.960
And that period of going through teenage years and maneuvering

579
00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:12.320
the whole kind of leaving school, getting a job, perhaps

580
00:55:12.440 --> 00:55:19.079
having a relationship of some kind, and finding somewhere to

581
00:55:19.280 --> 00:55:23.440
live and you know, pain rent and all that stuff.

582
00:55:23.880 --> 00:55:27.800
Maybe for the first time it was Yeah, it was

583
00:55:27.840 --> 00:55:31.239
an interesting It wasn't interesting at all. Actually, I don't

584
00:55:31.239 --> 00:55:33.880
know why I said the word interesting, but it can be.

585
00:55:33.960 --> 00:55:41.719
I guess an interesting period for some people. No, I

586
00:55:42.000 --> 00:55:48.119
was never a big fan of pain rent. I'll be honest. Yeah,

587
00:55:48.280 --> 00:55:55.800
once I was. Once I got my flat above the

588
00:55:55.880 --> 00:55:58.440
chip shop when I was sixteen. Once I moved in there,

589
00:55:58.719 --> 00:56:03.719
paying forty pounds a week, I had forty seven pounds

590
00:56:03.719 --> 00:56:06.159
a week coming in. There's how much money I was

591
00:56:06.159 --> 00:56:08.960
earning a week. So I was paying forty pounds out

592
00:56:09.000 --> 00:56:17.599
of that for the rent. So you know, it was

593
00:56:20.239 --> 00:56:23.800
I was actually better off financially, better off when I

594
00:56:23.800 --> 00:56:26.440
had a paper round. When I was living at home

595
00:56:26.519 --> 00:56:28.199
and had a paper round, I had more money in

596
00:56:28.199 --> 00:56:31.360
my pocket than I had when I was working full time.

597
00:56:32.280 --> 00:56:34.119
And I was doing six days a week as well.

598
00:56:38.639 --> 00:56:41.360
Well we're evenings, you know, but you know, six different

599
00:56:41.440 --> 00:56:46.880
days I had Sunday off, and it was weird. It's like,

600
00:56:53.199 --> 00:56:55.559
it's really strange to think that some of the people

601
00:56:55.599 --> 00:57:07.320
I worked with there would be now pensioners. Some of

602
00:57:07.360 --> 00:57:13.920
them were probably had a good sort of I don't know,

603
00:57:15.119 --> 00:57:18.519
six seven years on me. Maybe they were twenty six,

604
00:57:18.719 --> 00:57:23.320
probably about five years maybe six years so twenty two,

605
00:57:23.440 --> 00:57:27.960
so it'd be in their sixties. And some of the

606
00:57:28.039 --> 00:57:31.719
waitresses that were maybe a year or so younger than me,

607
00:57:33.400 --> 00:57:37.159
so they'll be kind of my age. Now, possibly I

608
00:57:37.159 --> 00:57:45.760
had like loads of kids. Maybe maybe not. I didn't

609
00:57:45.760 --> 00:57:49.440
really keeping contact with them really. I think one of

610
00:57:49.440 --> 00:57:57.880
them had quite a few kids. Didn't have waiters there.

611
00:58:00.199 --> 00:58:02.800
It was like a chip shop restaurant. There was a

612
00:58:02.840 --> 00:58:06.760
restaurant there. There was not a lot of tables, but

613
00:58:06.800 --> 00:58:10.519
it was definitely it was a good size to make money.

614
00:58:10.679 --> 00:58:15.280
They were definitely making money. They have coaches, coach trips

615
00:58:15.320 --> 00:58:18.760
or pensioners come and eat in there on a thinker

616
00:58:18.880 --> 00:58:22.760
Tuesday and a Thursday. Because it was a seaside place,

617
00:58:24.239 --> 00:58:27.519
so even in the winter, people coaches would come down

618
00:58:27.599 --> 00:58:32.199
from I don't know, London maybe or Essex or different

619
00:58:32.199 --> 00:58:37.440
parts around the area that come down and go and

620
00:58:37.519 --> 00:58:40.880
eat in a restaurant or go for a walk on

621
00:58:40.920 --> 00:58:47.880
the beach or on a promenade. You know. Yeah, and

622
00:58:47.960 --> 00:58:52.719
I think there was an OAP discount. Can you hear

623
00:58:52.760 --> 00:58:58.360
all that screaming in the garden agame Wow, I can't

624
00:58:58.480 --> 00:59:04.559
escape it. Unfortunately, it's just I think it might just

625
00:59:04.639 --> 00:59:08.400
be a little with an echoy area. Maybe they're not

626
00:59:08.480 --> 00:59:13.679
shouting all the time, maybe they're talking just normal, normal

627
00:59:13.760 --> 00:59:20.559
kind of volume, but it's just echoing I mean, I

628
00:59:20.639 --> 00:59:23.280
don't know how else to say it. Maybe it's just

629
00:59:23.440 --> 00:59:33.239
like magnificated in itself. It's possible that's not what's happening,

630
00:59:33.280 --> 00:59:45.679
but it's possible. It might be. It might be m Yeah,

631
00:59:46.199 --> 00:59:52.880
And it's strange thinking about people that. Even my karate instructor,

632
00:59:55.199 --> 01:00:00.639
I think he's now in his seventies. I had when

633
01:00:00.639 --> 01:00:05.960
I was at school. So when I was what fourteen fifteen,

634
01:00:07.519 --> 01:00:12.800
he was a good twenty years older than me, or

635
01:00:12.840 --> 01:00:22.760
maybe fifteen he was maybe he was thirty, yeah, maybe,

636
01:00:22.920 --> 01:00:27.199
so it will be about seventy now it might have

637
01:00:27.280 --> 01:00:29.320
been a little bit. It might have been early thirties,

638
01:00:29.320 --> 01:00:32.320
but it was a fully grown out or he wasn't

639
01:00:32.320 --> 01:00:39.039
in his twenties anyway, he could have been twenty nine,

640
01:00:39.639 --> 01:00:41.800
but I would probably say he was about thirty at

641
01:00:41.840 --> 01:00:51.639
the time, so yeah, it'd be seventy. He was one

642
01:00:51.679 --> 01:00:55.679
of my heroes. I had heroes. I never told them.

643
01:00:55.760 --> 01:00:58.079
You can't really walk up to someone and say you're

644
01:00:58.159 --> 01:00:58.960
my hero.

645
01:01:00.639 --> 01:01:01.119
Bye.

646
01:01:01.599 --> 01:01:04.760
You know, It's it's just it's a bit weird, isn't it.

647
01:01:07.320 --> 01:01:09.039
But he was one of my heroes. He was my

648
01:01:09.119 --> 01:01:13.960
karate instructor, and you know, I had heroes that were

649
01:01:14.239 --> 01:01:20.920
famous and Bruce Lee and boxes that I've seen like

650
01:01:21.079 --> 01:01:25.239
Frank Bruno and you know, when I was a kid,

651
01:01:25.519 --> 01:01:33.480
TV characters, Wonder Woman and you know, they were heroes.

652
01:01:35.199 --> 01:01:42.239
But then he was like a real life person that

653
01:01:42.360 --> 01:01:46.639
I looked up to. I had no choice. It was

654
01:01:46.679 --> 01:01:50.039
about six or six, but you know, he looked up

655
01:01:50.039 --> 01:01:54.280
to him as a as a I don't know about

656
01:01:54.280 --> 01:01:56.280
a role model, because I had no idea what kind

657
01:01:56.320 --> 01:02:01.199
of life he led, but I just really liked him.

658
01:02:02.519 --> 01:02:06.360
And there was another instruck where he was a brown

659
01:02:06.440 --> 01:02:11.039
belt with this other person. He became a black belt shortly,

660
01:02:11.079 --> 01:02:13.360
you think after I left school or just before I

661
01:02:13.440 --> 01:02:17.360
left school, and I really looked up to him, and yeah,

662
01:02:17.639 --> 01:02:20.079
he was definitely a black belt before I left school.

663
01:02:20.719 --> 01:02:22.679
So I think he probably got his black belt when

664
01:02:22.679 --> 01:02:28.599
I was about fifteen fourteen, Maybe not my instructor, the

665
01:02:28.639 --> 01:02:32.840
main instructor was already like a second belt second day.

666
01:02:33.079 --> 01:02:39.599
I think he got his black belt in the seventies. Yeah,

667
01:02:39.719 --> 01:02:41.719
I think he got his black belt in the seventies.

668
01:02:42.239 --> 01:02:43.920
I could look it up. I can actually look up

669
01:02:43.960 --> 01:02:48.960
these information if I wanted, But I'm sitting down so

670
01:02:49.000 --> 01:02:51.880
I can't be bothered and it's so nice to not

671
01:02:51.920 --> 01:02:57.840
be looking at a computer screen. Oh oh, it's lovely.

672
01:03:02.679 --> 01:03:07.800
Just means I can't fact check any of my lies

673
01:03:09.119 --> 01:03:18.760
never mind never mind me what other people did I was,

674
01:03:19.199 --> 01:03:32.599
did I look up to real life people? I mean,

675
01:03:32.679 --> 01:03:34.800
there were real life people, but it's not people that

676
01:03:34.880 --> 01:03:39.679
I knew there were when I was in my twenties.

677
01:03:42.760 --> 01:03:47.400
There was comedians that I looked up to that I mean,

678
01:03:47.440 --> 01:03:54.760
there's loads that were just brilliant comedians. So not all

679
01:03:54.800 --> 01:03:57.159
of them liked me, or I say, like me, I

680
01:03:57.199 --> 01:03:58.760
don't know if any of them liked me, but not

681
01:03:58.840 --> 01:04:04.079
all of them gave me acknowledged my existence as it were.

682
01:04:05.599 --> 01:04:09.159
But some did, and they're the ones that I respected

683
01:04:09.239 --> 01:04:19.760
most because you know, Alan Davis, Harry Hill, people like

684
01:04:19.960 --> 01:04:28.639
Lee Mac, other ones that Lie Mac wasn't early nineties,

685
01:04:28.679 --> 01:04:31.880
but he by all these people that kind went on

686
01:04:31.920 --> 01:04:36.440
to have TV careers and they were friendly to me.

687
01:04:37.440 --> 01:04:40.239
I used to get on very well with Tim Vine,

688
01:04:41.079 --> 01:04:43.159
who went on to do a lot of TV work,

689
01:04:43.239 --> 01:04:50.400
and I kind of had a little at different periods.

690
01:04:51.000 --> 01:04:56.559
So when I was performing, I got to know kind

691
01:04:56.559 --> 01:05:01.440
of got to know everyone on the circuit, all the promoters,

692
01:05:02.280 --> 01:05:05.559
the club owners, you know, and all the comedians, the

693
01:05:05.599 --> 01:05:10.199
ones that were successful, the ones that were just plodding

694
01:05:10.239 --> 01:05:14.039
by and were happy to just do a few gigs

695
01:05:14.039 --> 01:05:17.000
a month and maybe get paid for it, and others

696
01:05:17.039 --> 01:05:21.840
that were aiming for bigger things, some that were on

697
01:05:21.880 --> 01:05:29.519
the way to being famous, some that were already famous

698
01:05:29.559 --> 01:05:34.199
but still tipping their toes, dipping their toes into the

699
01:05:34.280 --> 01:05:37.920
comedy scene, maybe do a few gigs here and there

700
01:05:38.519 --> 01:05:42.480
just to you know, practice some new material for an

701
01:05:42.559 --> 01:05:47.559
upcoming tour or something like that, you know. And then

702
01:05:47.599 --> 01:05:52.239
there was ones that were new like myself, who just

703
01:05:53.079 --> 01:05:56.719
starting out, didn't really know what they were doing. And

704
01:05:56.760 --> 01:05:59.239
then out of those new ones, there was those that

705
01:05:59.280 --> 01:06:03.239
went on to be famous, and they were good almost

706
01:06:03.280 --> 01:06:07.800
straight away. I wasn't in that category.

707
01:06:09.079 --> 01:06:09.400
I was.

708
01:06:09.719 --> 01:06:13.400
I probably classed as a newbie the whole time I'm

709
01:06:13.559 --> 01:06:20.800
doing it, really yeah, But so I had that eight

710
01:06:20.880 --> 01:06:27.599
years of being around comedians. I can't I can't even

711
01:06:27.920 --> 01:06:33.639
imagine how many performances stand up comedy performances I saw

712
01:06:34.960 --> 01:06:40.679
during that period. In fact, the only people that would

713
01:06:40.679 --> 01:06:43.360
have seen as many stand up performances as I have,

714
01:06:45.000 --> 01:06:47.719
as many probably and also maybe a lot more as well.

715
01:06:47.800 --> 01:06:51.000
But the only people that will have seen the amount

716
01:06:51.039 --> 01:06:55.079
of performances of stand up comedy as myself are those

717
01:06:55.280 --> 01:07:02.079
that either perform perform comedy or are in let's say

718
01:07:02.360 --> 01:07:08.880
they run a club. That's the only people that would

719
01:07:08.880 --> 01:07:14.480
have seen as much comedy as me during that time.

720
01:07:16.119 --> 01:07:19.199
I guess I suppose if someone went to comedy twice

721
01:07:19.239 --> 01:07:24.199
a week since nineteen ninety, then they'll see more comedy

722
01:07:24.239 --> 01:07:28.559
than me, because that's what like thirty odd years, isn't

723
01:07:28.599 --> 01:07:34.800
it thirty years of Yeah, so they'd seen more comedy

724
01:07:34.800 --> 01:07:37.679
than me. But I'm sure as an average person that

725
01:07:37.800 --> 01:07:41.159
maybe goes to see comedy once a week, that's an

726
01:07:41.239 --> 01:07:44.280
avid fan. Something that goes to see a comedy show

727
01:07:44.760 --> 01:07:50.920
once a week is a big comedy fan. But I

728
01:07:51.000 --> 01:07:57.039
used to go multiple times a week. But you know,

729
01:07:57.079 --> 01:07:59.880
I was trying to learn to do it. And then

730
01:08:00.239 --> 01:08:02.400
so I had some people I was friends with a

731
01:08:02.400 --> 01:08:09.519
lot of the open acts, the new people. And then

732
01:08:11.880 --> 01:08:15.800
when I was doing some DJing in a comedy club,

733
01:08:17.319 --> 01:08:20.800
I became friends with the comedians. The ones that were

734
01:08:20.800 --> 01:08:24.399
getting paid they're really they're the good ones. There was

735
01:08:24.439 --> 01:08:26.720
not that the ones that weren't getting paid much weren't good,

736
01:08:26.760 --> 01:08:31.119
but the established you know, and so many of them

737
01:08:31.159 --> 01:08:34.840
went on to do TV work and got their own

738
01:08:36.079 --> 01:08:41.680
some of them became really famous, like Jimmy Carr. I

739
01:08:41.720 --> 01:08:45.720
saw him for years and years and years. He was

740
01:08:46.119 --> 01:08:51.439
almost like the regular compare at this comedy club, and

741
01:08:51.479 --> 01:08:56.000
then he became it, started doing TV stuff and then

742
01:08:56.000 --> 01:09:00.840
he was headlining. I mean, he was successful very quickly

743
01:09:02.479 --> 01:09:08.720
and still is. So I used to see him also.

744
01:09:08.920 --> 01:09:16.079
He's his management was my friend, well two friends, my

745
01:09:16.199 --> 01:09:20.920
friend and a lady who she still manages him. But

746
01:09:22.199 --> 01:09:26.039
my friend also managed him because they did it with

747
01:09:26.079 --> 01:09:33.600
the comedy club. So it's Jimmy Carr's manager was my

748
01:09:33.720 --> 01:09:38.920
friend for I don't know how many years, a few years,

749
01:09:42.920 --> 01:09:47.760
and if you don't have is now with Chambers management.

750
01:09:49.800 --> 01:09:52.520
I used to know her, Hannah Chambers. I used to

751
01:09:52.560 --> 01:09:58.000
know how I haven't seen her for donkeys and zebras

752
01:09:58.000 --> 01:10:03.840
and long time. Last time I saw it was wow,

753
01:10:06.039 --> 01:10:13.520
long time ago, decades, decades and decades and decades. What

754
01:10:13.720 --> 01:10:16.399
was gone with her? I always like to as gone

755
01:10:16.439 --> 01:10:23.760
with her decades ago, decades and decades. It's really weird.

756
01:10:23.800 --> 01:10:27.319
She got herself an assistant and I used to still

757
01:10:27.359 --> 01:10:29.920
go up to London to visit and stuff, and I

758
01:10:29.920 --> 01:10:33.960
couldn't believe it. I walked into the office because she

759
01:10:34.079 --> 01:10:37.399
was still working from the above the comedy club, because

760
01:10:37.399 --> 01:10:41.079
that's where the agency was based, and there was a

761
01:10:41.119 --> 01:10:46.760
female there. It was just like a younger version of her.

762
01:10:47.640 --> 01:10:55.000
Not related, but honestly, same characteristics, had looked very similar,

763
01:10:55.560 --> 01:11:02.359
same same hair, curly hair, the same build of body.

764
01:11:02.520 --> 01:11:04.039
Is like, if.

765
01:11:03.960 --> 01:11:08.560
You you gotta be related, surely, surely actually like your

766
01:11:08.600 --> 01:11:13.720
youngest sister or something. Wasn't no relationship, no, no, like

767
01:11:13.960 --> 01:11:17.000
blood related relatives, relatives.

768
01:11:19.399 --> 01:11:23.560
It's just like that was just one of those weird moments,

769
01:11:23.640 --> 01:11:36.600
like wow, just remember that. I don't know if you

770
01:11:36.600 --> 01:11:37.039
can hear that.

771
01:11:37.640 --> 01:11:43.079
Where were were were w wow wow wow wow out

772
01:11:43.119 --> 01:11:54.279
there whore wow wow wow wow wow wow wow.

773
01:11:56.399 --> 01:12:06.399
So what was that all about? Oh yeah, but why

774
01:12:06.760 --> 01:12:11.880
was I talking about gigs? Comedy gigs? I don't know.

775
01:12:17.840 --> 01:12:22.640
It's kind of weird. How many of what did Who

776
01:12:22.640 --> 01:12:23.359
did I see?

777
01:12:23.560 --> 01:12:23.760
Oh?

778
01:12:23.960 --> 01:12:27.279
I saw a comedian. It was always older than me anyway,

779
01:12:27.319 --> 01:12:31.159
but not not by a huge amount. And I saw

780
01:12:31.239 --> 01:12:36.760
him on this particular comedian. He's been on TV loads

781
01:12:36.800 --> 01:12:40.399
and he's had a really good career, and I saw

782
01:12:40.479 --> 01:12:46.359
him on some game show, you know, question quiz show

783
01:12:46.439 --> 01:12:53.680
thing like a celebrity version, and I just looks so

784
01:12:53.840 --> 01:12:57.319
old now, I mean he is, but it's like, wow,

785
01:12:58.479 --> 01:13:04.840
he's just I just remember what he looked like in

786
01:13:04.880 --> 01:13:07.640
the early nineties. And no one looks the same as

787
01:13:07.640 --> 01:13:09.840
I did in the early nineties, and they shouldn't either.

788
01:13:10.520 --> 01:13:12.800
If you find someone that looks the same as I

789
01:13:12.840 --> 01:13:16.880
did in the early nineties, call the police there's something

790
01:13:16.960 --> 01:13:24.479
going on. I remember Steve Coogan, I never knew. I

791
01:13:24.520 --> 01:13:30.319
never never spoke to Steve Coogan. He was already pretty

792
01:13:30.359 --> 01:13:33.359
much a big shot long before I was even on

793
01:13:33.399 --> 01:13:37.239
the scene. He was I think he was doing voiceovers

794
01:13:37.239 --> 01:13:45.640
for Spitting Image, and he was already really successful. He

795
01:13:45.760 --> 01:13:48.439
wasn't like famous yet, but he was on its way.

796
01:13:49.039 --> 01:13:56.239
And to me, Steve Coogan's probably the the Alan Partridge

797
01:13:56.279 --> 01:14:00.920
character is the best commonly character I think think for

798
01:14:01.039 --> 01:14:07.359
me personally, I think it's the best comedy character ever created.

799
01:14:07.920 --> 01:14:11.439
And there's been There's been so many in Billco's one,

800
01:14:11.520 --> 01:14:24.920
isn't it? Just for example? But Borat Inspector, Cluso, Inspectaclusa.

801
01:14:25.680 --> 01:14:27.880
I mean, yeah, I don't compare any of them with

802
01:14:27.960 --> 01:14:35.279
each other, but what what he's done is the substance

803
01:14:35.319 --> 01:14:37.800
he's added and the fact that he's been doing the

804
01:14:37.800 --> 01:14:52.199
same character since for thirty five odd years is phenomenal.

805
01:14:54.199 --> 01:14:58.479
It is something almost unrivaled, I would say, I mean,

806
01:14:58.640 --> 01:15:08.079
is there some people was Dame Edna Everidge, so she

807
01:15:08.399 --> 01:15:15.840
was that was a character and she was probably doing

808
01:15:15.880 --> 01:15:20.119
that for like forty odd years, if not more, or

809
01:15:20.159 --> 01:15:23.119
he was doing that for forty odd years. But I can't.

810
01:15:23.199 --> 01:15:26.199
And Lily Savage, but Lily, well, both of them no

811
01:15:26.239 --> 01:15:30.479
longer here are they. Lily Savage, it's not weird. It

812
01:15:30.520 --> 01:15:38.760
was not weird, but Lily Savage never really wasn't really

813
01:15:38.840 --> 01:15:43.000
my thing, didn't really I don't know what it was

814
01:15:43.560 --> 01:15:48.239
because I know it's a character and that's what he

815
01:15:48.640 --> 01:15:52.079
became famous for, and you know, I think he won

816
01:15:52.079 --> 01:15:58.119
the Perier for it in the early nineties. And what

817
01:15:58.279 --> 01:16:02.600
I liked, though, is when he just was himself and

818
01:16:02.680 --> 01:16:06.319
he did a TV show during the day and it

819
01:16:06.399 --> 01:16:12.840
was such a good show. It was funny, it was

820
01:16:13.000 --> 01:16:19.399
just I don't know, he was almost like the perfect

821
01:16:19.960 --> 01:16:25.600
TV host. It was so good. He loved dogs and

822
01:16:25.760 --> 01:16:28.000
I can't remember his name now, Oh Dowd. Isn't it

823
01:16:28.079 --> 01:16:38.960
something O'Leary, not do it O'Leary. Did I say his

824
01:16:39.079 --> 01:16:47.640
name is it's from Liverpool. What was his I can't

825
01:16:47.680 --> 01:16:52.359
remember what the female name was. Now that's terrible in it.

826
01:16:53.600 --> 01:16:56.920
But he was so good. I really liked him a lot.

827
01:16:57.640 --> 01:17:01.640
Just I never got to see the performance on stage

828
01:17:01.680 --> 01:17:06.880
of him doing his act likes comedy act, because he

829
01:17:06.960 --> 01:17:10.079
was pretty much already famous or on his way to

830
01:17:10.079 --> 01:17:14.520
be a famous. He was already doing shows like touring

831
01:17:14.560 --> 01:17:17.800
and stuff like that before I had even arrived. He

832
01:17:17.960 --> 01:17:22.319
was big pretty much straight away. Not straight away, but

833
01:17:22.359 --> 01:17:38.760
he was popular. Oleary. I can't think Lee Mack, who's

834
01:17:38.880 --> 01:17:43.119
very well known in this country. He once said to

835
01:17:43.159 --> 01:17:47.760
me that he liked my act. So there. He might've

836
01:17:47.800 --> 01:17:49.960
just been saying it just to be kind, but he

837
01:17:50.039 --> 01:18:00.319
said it. This was in nineteen ninety seven or eight

838
01:18:00.600 --> 01:18:08.720
ninety eight, probably ninety seven ninety eight, one of them,

839
01:18:08.960 --> 01:18:12.840
and I said thank you. I said, you're not too bad.

840
01:18:14.960 --> 01:18:16.840
I reckon, if you keep going, you might be able

841
01:18:16.840 --> 01:18:23.119
to get some paid gigs. Now he's probably one of

842
01:18:23.159 --> 01:18:25.840
the most famous comedians in the country. Actually a limac

843
01:18:28.720 --> 01:18:34.560
is that a great career? Very quick now, I know

844
01:18:35.159 --> 01:18:39.199
because we told me his biggest hero was Tim Vine,

845
01:18:40.039 --> 01:18:42.479
who I also knew because I started at the same

846
01:18:42.520 --> 01:18:46.439
time as Tim Vine, and Tim went on to be

847
01:18:48.199 --> 01:18:52.159
he He's said, this is something that, this is trivia,

848
01:18:52.239 --> 01:18:57.560
this is a trivia Tuesday thing. When Channel five launched

849
01:18:58.680 --> 01:19:04.119
in I think it was nineteen ninety seven, could have

850
01:19:04.159 --> 01:19:06.840
been ninety six, but I think it was ninety seven,

851
01:19:07.399 --> 01:19:12.399
like beginning of the year ish. Yeah, I think it

852
01:19:12.439 --> 01:19:19.680
was ninety seven, nineteen ninety seven. Tim Vine was the

853
01:19:19.840 --> 01:19:23.520
face of the new channel. Now, bear in her mind

854
01:19:23.560 --> 01:19:27.399
we only had four channels BBC one, BBC two, ITV

855
01:19:28.199 --> 01:19:33.199
and Channel four. Would had Channel four since put about

856
01:19:33.279 --> 01:19:38.840
nineteen eighty two, so before that, you know three channels.

857
01:19:39.520 --> 01:19:44.319
So in a country that only has four channels, a

858
01:19:44.399 --> 01:19:50.239
fifth channel is a big deal and it was huge publicity.

859
01:19:51.760 --> 01:19:57.359
So when Channel five launched, Tim Vine launched it not

860
01:19:57.479 --> 01:20:00.239
just on his own, but he was the face of

861
01:20:00.319 --> 01:20:05.920
tim of Channel five in the same way that Jimmy

862
01:20:05.920 --> 01:20:09.319
Carr became the face of Channel four, although Channel four

863
01:20:09.359 --> 01:20:13.680
was already established, but Jimmy Carr was like he was

864
01:20:13.720 --> 01:20:17.479
on lots of different things. Tim Vine was on lots

865
01:20:17.520 --> 01:20:23.840
of different things on Channel five. He had I think

866
01:20:23.880 --> 01:20:29.359
at least two game shows and some other stuff. So

867
01:20:29.439 --> 01:20:40.119
he was flying proper flying, which was great. I think

868
01:20:40.119 --> 01:20:50.800
the last time I saw it was about nineteen ninety nine. Yeah,

869
01:20:51.239 --> 01:20:59.279
oh yeah, So why am I mentioning him? What's his name?

870
01:20:59.479 --> 01:21:05.399
Lee Mack absolutely like his hero. His comedy hero was

871
01:21:05.479 --> 01:21:10.920
Tim Vine, and he wanted to be like Tim Vine.

872
01:21:12.319 --> 01:21:14.079
But it was never going to be like Tim Vine

873
01:21:14.079 --> 01:21:16.600
because he just had a different act. But I think

874
01:21:16.640 --> 01:21:20.319
they enjoyed the puns because Tim Vine was kind of

875
01:21:20.319 --> 01:21:27.800
the king of puns. And and I think he held

876
01:21:27.840 --> 01:21:32.760
the world record for the most jokes told in a

877
01:21:32.800 --> 01:21:37.119
specific amount of time. He is like quick fire jokes, black

878
01:21:37.199 --> 01:21:48.640
man mak like really but he was, Yeah, he I

879
01:21:48.720 --> 01:21:51.640
used to see him. I remember what his is weird, right,

880
01:21:52.640 --> 01:21:54.760
So Tim Vine went on really, you know, he had

881
01:21:54.800 --> 01:21:58.720
a really good career, and he did work with Lee Mack.

882
01:21:58.840 --> 01:22:02.359
They worked together a couple of times. Actually, I think

883
01:22:02.359 --> 01:22:05.439
they had are called the stand Up Show and then

884
01:22:05.479 --> 01:22:09.279
they did another one not going Out, So he was

885
01:22:09.319 --> 01:22:12.159
in his work with they both worked together.

886
01:22:15.399 --> 01:22:15.960
I was.

887
01:22:21.359 --> 01:22:25.279
Two things I remember about Tim Vine, Right, it's weird.

888
01:22:25.319 --> 01:22:27.520
I'm just talking about I'm talking about people that you

889
01:22:27.680 --> 01:22:29.439
might not have ever heard of, especially if you're not

890
01:22:29.960 --> 01:22:33.520
maybe from this country, but you might want to google

891
01:22:33.560 --> 01:22:37.840
it at some point google him or then the different

892
01:22:37.840 --> 01:22:44.239
comedians I've mentioned. So, the first time I saw Tim

893
01:22:44.359 --> 01:22:52.439
Vine was an open act evening and he got laughs,

894
01:22:54.000 --> 01:22:58.039
but the comedians were not happy because he was doing

895
01:22:58.520 --> 01:23:04.399
he did some old jokes. What's his name? Just like

896
01:23:04.439 --> 01:23:08.319
that that comedian he did, So he did some old

897
01:23:08.399 --> 01:23:11.239
jokes and some of the comedians are being really vicious

898
01:23:11.239 --> 01:23:15.760
to him or about him rather, and it was it

899
01:23:15.840 --> 01:23:19.039
was his first time on stage, like come on, maybe

900
01:23:19.039 --> 01:23:21.079
he's not his very first time, but his first sort

901
01:23:21.119 --> 01:23:25.600
of thing. And he went away and he came back

902
01:23:25.680 --> 01:23:31.560
with his own stuff, but Tommy Cooper, but they didn't

903
01:23:31.600 --> 01:23:35.399
realize what he was doing was he was He showed

904
01:23:35.439 --> 01:23:42.079
that he had star ability, that he had to be

905
01:23:42.079 --> 01:23:45.159
able to stand in front of an audience talking into

906
01:23:45.319 --> 01:23:51.640
a camera a microphone. Is it might not be quite

907
01:23:51.640 --> 01:23:56.439
as easy as it looks. I'm just going to say

908
01:23:56.479 --> 01:23:58.239
that a lot, there's a lot of people would not

909
01:23:58.560 --> 01:24:04.720
just can't do it, wouldn't ever even attempted. So he

910
01:24:04.800 --> 01:24:07.760
obviously showed that he had he had the bottle to

911
01:24:07.840 --> 01:24:11.039
do it, and then he went away and he came

912
01:24:11.079 --> 01:24:14.920
back and he started getting good and yeah. Three. I

913
01:24:15.000 --> 01:24:18.359
got two memories of him after that. Remember once he

914
01:24:18.479 --> 01:24:21.760
said to me, I was in the comedy club and

915
01:24:22.159 --> 01:24:26.680
he said, the comedy store are going to give me

916
01:24:26.720 --> 01:24:29.840
some gigs. I got an interview with them to do

917
01:24:29.880 --> 01:24:32.640
a gig there, and I told them that I've decided

918
01:24:32.720 --> 01:24:35.680
because he was I think he was still working while

919
01:24:35.680 --> 01:24:37.279
he was doing a comedy at that at this point

920
01:24:37.319 --> 01:24:39.239
he had a job and he said, I'm going to

921
01:24:39.279 --> 01:24:41.800
give up my job. I can hear his voice now,

922
01:24:41.960 --> 01:24:43.960
said I'm want to give up my job and I

923
01:24:43.960 --> 01:24:48.520
want to do comedy full time and I want to

924
01:24:48.560 --> 01:24:52.199
put everything into it and I will be successful. And

925
01:24:52.239 --> 01:24:55.560
he said to me, that's what he told the person

926
01:24:55.560 --> 01:24:57.600
at the comedy store, the owner of the comedy store.

927
01:24:58.600 --> 01:25:07.000
And he did and he did, and he was another

928
01:25:07.119 --> 01:25:10.000
memory I've had of him. And this was probably before

929
01:25:10.119 --> 01:25:16.039
that conversation. We both did. We both did this gigav together.

930
01:25:16.239 --> 01:25:19.279
It was a middle of nowhere. It really was right

931
01:25:19.319 --> 01:25:26.079
in the sticks kind of Middlesex area. If you've got Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Essex,

932
01:25:26.720 --> 01:25:29.840
all these little areas that are like outside of London

933
01:25:30.800 --> 01:25:33.119
and you can end up in the middle of like

934
01:25:33.680 --> 01:25:37.000
in a place that there's nothing around, like one pub,

935
01:25:38.119 --> 01:25:40.800
six houses and a post box, you know, it's like

936
01:25:41.720 --> 01:25:44.640
and a train stop. So people might live there and

937
01:25:44.680 --> 01:25:47.600
get the train into London, but there's nothing to do

938
01:25:47.680 --> 01:25:49.680
when they're home a part of and be at home.

939
01:25:50.279 --> 01:25:55.119
There's nothing there, and some people wanted to they like that,

940
01:25:56.159 --> 01:25:58.159
and it's a little bit like here. Really, I guess

941
01:25:58.279 --> 01:26:03.439
this is probably like that. Thinking about it. Anyway, we're

942
01:26:03.479 --> 01:26:05.159
in the middle of this place, in the middle of nowhere,

943
01:26:05.159 --> 01:26:08.439
and with it at this venue. I think it was

944
01:26:08.479 --> 01:26:13.760
like an arts theater or arts center, unless it was

945
01:26:13.840 --> 01:26:18.239
upstairs in a pub. Anyway, Tim Vine was doing a

946
01:26:18.319 --> 01:26:27.279
comparing so he came on. He didn't like it. They

947
01:26:27.279 --> 01:26:31.520
didn't like him, so he introduced the first act. He

948
01:26:31.640 --> 01:26:38.920
came on again, audience didn't like him. I did my act.

949
01:26:39.560 --> 01:26:40.960
I don't even know if I was on, I probably

950
01:26:41.000 --> 01:26:44.680
was on. He came on again, audience didn't like him.

951
01:26:46.079 --> 01:26:50.640
Third act like another short one, and he if and

952
01:26:50.720 --> 01:26:53.560
we were just laughing because they just didn't like they'd

953
01:26:53.680 --> 01:26:56.359
really like, were hostile towards him, and he was doing

954
01:26:56.399 --> 01:26:59.800
exactly the same as you always ever did, which normally

955
01:26:59.880 --> 01:27:03.279
was he's really successful because it was a very likable person.

956
01:27:04.720 --> 01:27:07.760
So what he did is he came back on stage

957
01:27:09.239 --> 01:27:17.359
wearing a plant pot on his head. There was a

958
01:27:17.359 --> 01:27:20.319
proper plant pot, mud everywhere all over the place, all

959
01:27:20.319 --> 01:27:28.960
over his head, dripping down his face, and it got

960
01:27:29.039 --> 01:27:34.680
everyone's attention and he said, oh, that last compare was crap.

961
01:27:34.720 --> 01:27:38.840
When he and they laughed, and from that second they

962
01:27:38.880 --> 01:27:43.479
loved him. And he didn't do any different material than

963
01:27:43.479 --> 01:27:46.159
what he would have done anyway. You know, he just

964
01:27:46.199 --> 01:27:49.079
carried on with his act and they loved him, but

965
01:27:49.119 --> 01:27:55.920
they didn't like him before. Fickle, very It's very strange

966
01:27:56.640 --> 01:28:01.279
how that can happen. I've actually seen more than once

967
01:28:02.680 --> 01:28:06.600
a comedian go on stage do exactly the same act.

968
01:28:07.279 --> 01:28:11.439
This is someone Earl Oakin and he was I don't

969
01:28:11.439 --> 01:28:15.000
know if he's still doing it, but he looked a

970
01:28:15.000 --> 01:28:22.760
bit like Roy Orbison at the glasses and he had

971
01:28:23.039 --> 01:28:28.680
a guitar. It was like a middle aged man and

972
01:28:28.720 --> 01:28:36.880
he was singing. And I've never seen him before. This

973
01:28:36.960 --> 01:28:39.000
is the first time I'd ever seen no. I had

974
01:28:39.039 --> 01:28:42.000
seen him once before at the Comedy Store, but this

975
01:28:42.079 --> 01:28:43.880
is the first time, you know, I hadn't seen him

976
01:28:43.920 --> 01:28:49.760
for years and years. So he came on stage, sat down,

977
01:28:50.119 --> 01:28:54.359
and people were literally booing him, and I think someone

978
01:28:54.399 --> 01:28:57.840
even chucked stuff on the stage. They did not like

979
01:28:57.920 --> 01:29:01.840
him at all. This is the Friday night and he

980
01:29:01.960 --> 01:29:05.920
got off after probably about ten minutes, didn't do his

981
01:29:06.000 --> 01:29:12.640
full set, and they were really hostile to him. There's

982
01:29:12.640 --> 01:29:14.640
about two hundred people in the audience. It wasn't like

983
01:29:14.680 --> 01:29:17.760
a huge amount of people, but still it wasn't nice.

984
01:29:17.880 --> 01:29:24.159
It wasn't a nice atmosphere. The Saturday night, he still

985
01:29:24.199 --> 01:29:29.439
turned up to do his gig and possibly had one

986
01:29:29.439 --> 01:29:32.399
of the best performances I've ever seen any comedian have

987
01:29:33.760 --> 01:29:40.039
as far as an audience reaction standing ovation after standing ovation.

988
01:29:40.560 --> 01:29:46.560
Now I'm exaggerating for effect, but it really was an

989
01:29:46.640 --> 01:29:50.520
amazing gig. The audience loved him from the second they

990
01:29:50.560 --> 01:29:57.880
saw him, and they laughed at everything. And this was

991
01:29:57.920 --> 01:30:01.000
a season pro that had probably been doing for twenty years.

992
01:30:01.840 --> 01:30:08.239
He knew every sound, he did, every facial expression. He'd

993
01:30:08.239 --> 01:30:14.039
probably done hundreds and hundreds of times before to perfect

994
01:30:14.159 --> 01:30:19.520
the act. And it was a great act, really funny.

995
01:30:20.720 --> 01:30:23.800
But the first night, Friday night, they weren't having it.

996
01:30:24.319 --> 01:30:34.039
Saturday night like a different audience. But still, and the

997
01:30:34.079 --> 01:30:36.800
weird thing is I found myself being swayed by the

998
01:30:36.840 --> 01:30:42.039
audience because I watched both performances, and he did look

999
01:30:42.119 --> 01:30:46.600
rubbish on the Friday night. On the sad Saturday night,

1000
01:30:46.600 --> 01:30:52.119
he looked amazing, but he wasn't doing anything different. I've

1001
01:30:52.159 --> 01:30:55.319
no doubt that being bowed and showered at would have

1002
01:30:55.319 --> 01:30:59.560
affected his performance of Friday Night, but you know the

1003
01:30:59.680 --> 01:31:05.319
start if he was doing everything the same. And he's

1004
01:31:05.359 --> 01:31:09.760
one of the best performances I've ever seen on stage.

1005
01:31:09.760 --> 01:31:10.640
And I've seen.

1006
01:31:13.039 --> 01:31:13.760
I don't know.

1007
01:31:16.239 --> 01:31:20.720
How many have I seen, thousands, probably if you include

1008
01:31:20.720 --> 01:31:23.000
all the ones I see on YouTube and stuff since,

1009
01:31:23.079 --> 01:31:27.279
but thousands on stage live, even if it was like

1010
01:31:27.319 --> 01:31:32.359
only five or ten minutes slot. I've seen a lot of. Yeah,

1011
01:31:32.640 --> 01:31:36.279
over that twenty year period of sort of going to

1012
01:31:36.399 --> 01:31:43.439
comedy clubs, ten really intensive years, and then I'm still

1013
01:31:43.479 --> 01:31:54.279
going back during the following ten years. Yeah. In fact,

1014
01:31:54.279 --> 01:31:59.760
I was still involved in twenty sixteen something my friend did,

1015
01:31:59.800 --> 01:32:04.560
but I just just didn't want to travel to London anymore.

1016
01:32:04.560 --> 01:32:07.920
I just didn't fill up to it, which is a

1017
01:32:07.960 --> 01:32:10.159
shame I kind of wish I had.

1018
01:32:10.239 --> 01:32:10.399
Now.

1019
01:32:11.039 --> 01:32:18.039
I went a couple of times I did help out.

1020
01:32:18.079 --> 01:32:25.439
I did some volunteering at a local center. I don't

1021
01:32:25.439 --> 01:32:29.600
know what it's called, but it's like a venue. I

1022
01:32:29.600 --> 01:32:34.039
think it's a charity, but it's a venue where that music, dancing,

1023
01:32:35.119 --> 01:32:39.560
stuff like that, and I volunteered there for a few times,

1024
01:32:40.359 --> 01:32:44.560
but again I couldn't one day, I couldn't face going

1025
01:32:44.600 --> 01:32:48.079
in and kind of messed up for myself. But I

1026
01:32:48.079 --> 01:32:52.479
saw a couple of comedians there and it was so

1027
01:32:52.640 --> 01:32:55.960
different to see it commit For me, it was so

1028
01:32:56.000 --> 01:33:00.479
different to see a comedian on stage with an all audience,

1029
01:33:01.039 --> 01:33:05.800
especially probably more than two hundred people as well, but

1030
01:33:06.439 --> 01:33:09.880
I've seen audiences of much more than two hundred, but

1031
01:33:10.800 --> 01:33:15.119
it's just not being in London. To see a stand

1032
01:33:15.159 --> 01:33:22.079
up comedian outside of London, it was just weird but

1033
01:33:22.319 --> 01:33:32.600
so funny, and I never really understood why people laugh

1034
01:33:32.720 --> 01:33:35.920
as much as they do sometimes at comedy gig like

1035
01:33:36.039 --> 01:33:42.039
the audience. I didn't understand it as an audience member

1036
01:33:42.439 --> 01:33:45.680
because I never really felt like an audience member. Really,

1037
01:33:47.119 --> 01:33:49.479
I have been thousands of times, but not really because

1038
01:33:49.479 --> 01:33:55.000
I was kind of either part of the show or

1039
01:33:55.119 --> 01:33:57.920
just hanging around with the other comedians, you know, So

1040
01:33:57.960 --> 01:34:02.600
I was kind of there or working, but we had

1041
01:34:02.640 --> 01:34:08.760
a by second insurance job. We had a night out.

1042
01:34:09.319 --> 01:34:13.399
Everyone went and it was an ipswitch football ground BlimE me.

1043
01:34:13.439 --> 01:34:17.000
It was Yeah, had a night out and they put

1044
01:34:17.000 --> 01:34:22.720
on a comedy show. It was hilarious, and there was

1045
01:34:22.760 --> 01:34:26.319
comedians that I'd already seen before. They hadn't No one

1046
01:34:26.960 --> 01:34:28.880
think they didn't see me because I was in the order.

1047
01:34:28.920 --> 01:34:31.199
I was like in the dark in the crowd. But

1048
01:34:32.880 --> 01:34:35.319
it was so weird because they were making fun of

1049
01:34:35.359 --> 01:34:40.039
people that I worked with. It made it funnier. So

1050
01:34:40.159 --> 01:34:42.960
their ad libs and they're put downs were way more

1051
01:34:43.000 --> 01:34:47.520
funnier as an audience member knowing the person that were

1052
01:34:47.520 --> 01:34:52.159
put down or putting down than if it had just

1053
01:34:52.199 --> 01:34:54.680
been in a like a normal crowd of people. I

1054
01:34:54.680 --> 01:35:00.920
didn't know. It was hilarious. It's plus I suppose I

1055
01:35:00.960 --> 01:35:04.159
was drinking as well. But it was great, great night,

1056
01:35:06.359 --> 01:35:08.680
just like yeah. Still a big comedy fan.

1057
01:35:08.800 --> 01:35:09.079
Really.

1058
01:35:13.680 --> 01:35:19.159
So this is my Sunday Sunday chit chat. I don't

1059
01:35:19.199 --> 01:35:23.960
know what I've been talking about, so if I'm gonna go,

1060
01:35:24.520 --> 01:35:30.640
I have to take this one out for walk. So

1061
01:35:30.800 --> 01:35:36.000
thank you for listening. Tomorrow I will do Monday's boarding

1062
01:35:36.000 --> 01:35:42.680
objects Tuesday, I will do Tuesday's yeah, what is it?

1063
01:35:42.800 --> 01:35:48.279
Trivia Tuesday? Wednesday, hopefully I'll do Whisper Wednesday, and then

1064
01:35:48.279 --> 01:35:53.760
i'll do a queue I Friday again. Now just let

1065
01:35:53.800 --> 01:35:57.479
you know if you're still awake. My neighbor opposite me

1066
01:35:57.640 --> 01:36:05.039
is having his bathroom fitted either tomorrow or Tuesday. I

1067
01:36:05.079 --> 01:36:11.000
think it's tomorrow actually, which means there's going to be

1068
01:36:13.119 --> 01:36:17.520
a lot of noise. So if for any reason I

1069
01:36:17.560 --> 01:36:20.680
can't make a recording on any of those days or

1070
01:36:20.720 --> 01:36:25.279
all of those days, just you know, please forgive me,

1071
01:36:28.279 --> 01:36:31.520
because there's only so much noise I can allow when

1072
01:36:31.560 --> 01:36:36.800
I'm doing a recording in the background, and there's going

1073
01:36:36.840 --> 01:36:38.680
to be a lot of door slamming and stuff like

1074
01:36:38.720 --> 01:36:41.640
that as well, which means Old Vinny here will be

1075
01:36:41.680 --> 01:36:46.680
barking quite a lot. So you know this, I've got

1076
01:36:46.720 --> 01:36:50.159
a maneuver myself around this whole thing. But I would

1077
01:36:50.199 --> 01:36:53.439
definitely do a Q and A Friday, even if i'd

1078
01:36:53.479 --> 01:37:02.159
do it in the evening on Friday. But I'll try

1079
01:37:02.199 --> 01:37:06.279
and do normal recordings this week if it's all possible.

1080
01:37:07.960 --> 01:37:12.399
So thank you for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself,

1081
01:37:12.720 --> 01:37:17.560
because you do deserve to be happy. And be gentle

1082
01:37:17.600 --> 01:37:23.760
with yourself, because you do deserve to feel safe, lots

1083
01:37:23.760 --> 01:37:45.039
of love bye, relax in a more deep and meaningful way,

1084
01:37:47.520 --> 01:37:52.720
maybe in a way that can not just allow you

1085
01:37:53.079 --> 01:38:02.560
to feel calmer now and through out the time we

1086
01:38:02.720 --> 01:38:11.000
spend together here, not just relaxed at the end of

1087
01:38:11.039 --> 01:38:15.600
the recording when it's finished and you can enjoy that

1088
01:38:16.159 --> 01:38:33.039
sense of comfort and peace, but also I think it

1089
01:38:33.039 --> 01:38:48.840
would be nice to have those feelings of relaxation continue

1090
01:38:49.119 --> 01:39:00.960
for longer after the recording has ended, so that you

1091
01:39:01.039 --> 01:39:13.439
can still benefit from listening to my voice, maybe in

1092
01:39:13.520 --> 01:39:26.119
a few hours time, perhaps tomorrow, and then by listening regularly,

1093
01:39:29.199 --> 01:39:33.840
especially if you find like some people do, and myself

1094
01:39:33.880 --> 01:39:38.439
as well. I sometimes I find one particular recording that

1095
01:39:38.640 --> 01:39:47.359
really resonates with me, and I'll just listen to it

1096
01:39:47.399 --> 01:40:00.279
over and over again every morning, every evening. There was

1097
01:40:00.319 --> 01:40:07.439
this recording from We're going back to about nineteen ninety nine.

1098
01:40:07.720 --> 01:40:13.159
It wasn't hypnosis, but it was a guided visualization, so

1099
01:40:13.159 --> 01:40:20.159
it kind of was hypnosis really, and I managed to

1100
01:40:20.239 --> 01:40:23.760
find it again and it still has the same effect

1101
01:40:24.239 --> 01:40:35.880
on me, And part of it was the person's voice

1102
01:40:36.279 --> 01:40:46.520
relaxed me just felt so peaceful, and I'd look forward

1103
01:40:46.960 --> 01:40:54.560
to listening to her in the morning and in the evening.

1104
01:41:00.079 --> 01:41:09.039
And I knew before even pressing the play button that

1105
01:41:09.359 --> 01:41:13.760
since I've done that, pressed the play button. This is

1106
01:41:14.119 --> 01:41:25.119
in the days of CD players press the play button.

1107
01:41:28.520 --> 01:41:31.399
I fact, it might have even been a tape tape recorder.

1108
01:41:32.640 --> 01:41:41.039
I'd lie down on the bed and then even without

1109
01:41:41.560 --> 01:41:54.520
necessarily listening to her words because I had to memorized. Really,

1110
01:41:59.199 --> 01:42:05.199
it was as if my body knew exactly what to do,

1111
01:42:09.960 --> 01:42:31.800
and the muscles just almost went into automatic relaxation, and

1112
01:42:31.960 --> 01:42:45.600
I remember my mind would slow down. Now. Now, I

1113
01:42:46.000 --> 01:42:52.239
was listening to this recording in the early days of

1114
01:42:52.319 --> 01:43:03.039
learning hypnosis, and long before I ever made any videos

1115
01:43:03.159 --> 01:43:07.840
or audio recordings myself, because I didn't start doing that

1116
01:43:08.000 --> 01:43:10.199
till two thousand and six.

1117
01:43:16.760 --> 01:43:22.840
I knew, I knew how.

1118
01:43:24.199 --> 01:43:38.000
Helpful I found being able to just let go, to

1119
01:43:38.119 --> 01:43:43.319
have that trust in the person that I'm listening to,

1120
01:43:50.960 --> 01:43:59.039
knowing that it's going to be just as relaxing, if

1121
01:43:59.119 --> 01:44:08.119
not more so. Yeah, each time you hear my voice,

1122
01:44:08.439 --> 01:44:20.079
you may feel the same. Some people have been listening

1123
01:44:20.119 --> 01:44:34.079
to me for over a decade, maybe not solidly, obviously,

1124
01:44:34.079 --> 01:44:40.560
not twenty four hours a day, but maybe people come back.

1125
01:44:42.399 --> 01:44:56.079
Some people may be listen every day. That's something that

1126
01:44:56.159 --> 01:45:09.159
I do which you may not realize by listening, is

1127
01:45:13.239 --> 01:45:27.600
when I record these recordings. Now, for example, I also

1128
01:45:29.079 --> 01:45:40.319
am affected by the words that I say. So if

1129
01:45:40.359 --> 01:45:50.720
I set you focus on your feet, notice your feet relaxing,

1130
01:45:54.199 --> 01:46:02.119
I will be focusing on my feet. I will be

1131
01:46:02.199 --> 01:46:20.319
noticing my feet relaxing. If I said, focus on your hands,

1132
01:46:23.079 --> 01:46:32.600
and maybe notice the difference between each hand. Perhaps notice

1133
01:46:32.720 --> 01:46:39.960
the the air in the room, the temperature of the room.

1134
01:46:40.680 --> 01:46:51.079
On the backs of your hands. You may start to

1135
01:46:51.640 --> 01:46:59.680
notice what almost feels like a very light breeze, even

1136
01:46:59.720 --> 01:47:04.000
though there may not be any type of breeze at

1137
01:47:04.039 --> 01:47:17.039
all where you are right now. And as you become

1138
01:47:17.680 --> 01:47:32.039
aware of your hands, I'm also aware of how relaxed

1139
01:47:32.319 --> 01:47:56.119
my hands our feeling now. And when it comes to

1140
01:47:57.640 --> 01:48:04.720
potentially drifting off sleep, which may be the reason you're listening,

1141
01:48:10.439 --> 01:48:25.039
I also feel drowsy when I make these recordings. I

1142
01:48:25.199 --> 01:48:43.640
also notice my mind drifting. In fact, at times I've

1143
01:48:43.680 --> 01:48:58.079
actually fallen asleep without even noticing, and then I carry

1144
01:48:58.119 --> 01:49:09.399
on talking. And it's only when I listen back to

1145
01:49:09.720 --> 01:49:18.760
do the editing I hear snoring, and I think, I

1146
01:49:18.800 --> 01:49:29.479
don't remember snoring. I remember talking. This snoring was a

1147
01:49:29.600 --> 01:49:35.880
pick turned up. That's why I sound like when I

1148
01:49:36.000 --> 01:49:54.720
snare and I get really into the whole experience. I

1149
01:49:54.760 --> 01:50:04.199
don't know how you feel, how relaxed you feel in

1150
01:50:04.239 --> 01:50:14.720
your feet, how relaxed you feel in your hands.

1151
01:50:29.800 --> 01:50:31.439
I have noticed.

1152
01:50:33.439 --> 01:50:42.720
More and more.

1153
01:50:40.319 --> 01:50:41.479
That the more.

1154
01:50:41.319 --> 01:50:58.399
Relaxed, deeper level of comfort you feel, the easier your

1155
01:50:58.439 --> 01:51:22.000
breathing becomes. It's almost like that additional muscle relaxation. So

1156
01:51:22.079 --> 01:51:45.279
this allows you the breve easier without necessarily focusing on

1157
01:51:45.319 --> 01:52:14.199
your breath, however, being able to notice the ease in

1158
01:52:14.359 --> 01:52:41.560
which you breathe so naturally. You breathe so very easily

1159
01:52:43.119 --> 01:53:29.880
and smoothly. Whenever I imagine my breathing improving, when I've

1160
01:53:29.920 --> 01:53:45.720
got my eyes closed, I tend to visualize a beautiful

1161
01:53:45.880 --> 01:54:02.960
field with trees and flowers producing all that life giving oxygen.

1162
01:54:23.199 --> 01:54:38.880
It feels nice to, if nothing else, just taking some

1163
01:54:39.319 --> 01:55:22.039
time away from everything, enjoying that feeling of peace serenity

1164
01:55:33.600 --> 01:56:02.800
with a joyful heart. Time seems to just.

1165
01:56:04.560 --> 01:56:06.039
Drip by.

1166
01:56:10.359 --> 01:57:00.239
So very slowly, relaxed, so deeply peaceful, completely unattached to

1167
01:57:01.079 --> 01:57:58.039
any thoughts whatsoever in this moment, completely free. Notice that

1168
01:58:05.600 --> 01:58:52.159
your mind has slowed down. Slowed down because nothing really

1169
01:58:52.359 --> 01:59:22.960
requires your attention. You can enjoy the physical sensations of

1170
01:59:23.119 --> 01:59:36.119
allowing the stress rip out of your body, to appear

1171
01:59:36.439 --> 01:59:59.840
out of every part of your body and being rel

1172
02:00:00.039 --> 02:00:38.399
faste from your brain in your mind slowly but surely,

1173
02:00:45.279 --> 02:00:48.359
the muscles, sing les.

1174
02:01:03.119 --> 02:01:15.640
Relax res re.

1175
02:01:20.960 --> 02:01:33.920
So very deeply, relas.

1176
02:01:38.319 --> 02:02:03.720
So deeply in the feeings, the pleasant feelings in your

1177
02:02:04.039 --> 02:02:31.840
arms and shoulders, deepening each part of your body further

1178
02:02:36.800 --> 02:03:10.119
and deeper and deeper. Noticine, the feelings in the back

1179
02:03:10.199 --> 02:04:11.920
of your neck, the feelings in your wrists, muscles, in

1180
02:04:12.199 --> 02:04:49.159
front of your body, I all say, feeling peaceful deeply,

1181
02:05:06.159 --> 02:05:38.079
there's a sense of peace spreads through your very core.

1182
02:05:46.920 --> 02:06:06.840
Even when you focus on your mind. Her mind becomes

1183
02:06:14.199 --> 02:07:36.239
eve and slower, even deeper, relaxing, so very slow. Your

1184
02:07:36.520 --> 02:08:32.920
stomach pas for in you's stomach, your back. Notice Notice

1185
02:08:32.960 --> 02:08:51.520
how relaxed you'd never feel in the hole of your back.

1186
02:09:16.560 --> 02:09:17.720
You spy.

1187
02:09:21.479 --> 02:09:26.199
From your brain all the way down the middle of

1188
02:09:26.239 --> 02:09:43.079
your back, sending and receiving millions of messages every day.

1189
02:09:49.000 --> 02:11:09.560
Deep comfort, increasing, deep play ex niles, spreading these signals

1190
02:11:09.800 --> 02:11:18.520
down a spine or cord into air, every part of

1191
02:11:18.640 --> 02:12:04.880
your body, your chins and your calf, muscles, your elbows,

1192
02:12:21.159 --> 02:12:38.600
Feelings of peace and tranquility spreading through your body, tips

1193
02:12:38.640 --> 02:12:54.600
of your toes, to your eyes, your fingers, all the

1194
02:12:54.600 --> 02:13:56.800
way to your lower back. Lettinker, re thinker, peace, drifting

1195
02:14:04.199 --> 02:14:32.680
mind just wandering away, happy to let go, let go completely,

1196
02:14:35.119 --> 02:15:33.159
let go, so tranquil, the whole body enjoying a sensor

1197
02:15:57.840 --> 02:16:07.399
lett him go, he no.

1198
02:17:12.440 --> 02:17:58.639
Peace, fur enjoy the space, this space.

1199
02:18:01.120 --> 02:20:09.079
Of peace and safety, so firy, fury relaxed, letting go.

1200
02:20:27.000 --> 02:20:34.600
Maybe we can just focus on the different parts of

1201
02:20:34.719 --> 02:21:09.399
your body, just to notice a forehead in your eyes,

1202
02:21:42.239 --> 02:22:29.440
dure so lose, noticing the sense of complete freedom, absolute freedom.

1203
02:23:14.920 --> 02:23:15.719
Brif.

1204
02:23:27.600 --> 02:24:26.399
Pria, he's fall energy peace to breeze, such easier.

1205
02:25:07.200 --> 02:25:07.559
Loose.

1206
02:25:28.799 --> 02:26:33.920
You may have or may not have noticed. Your mind drifted, peaceful, moveingly,

1207
02:26:34.040 --> 02:26:54.280
even more deeply in the direction of total blissful peace,

1208
02:26:58.440 --> 02:29:02.280
blissful peace, arrest, total peace. Come so calm, let him go,

1209
02:29:27.159 --> 02:30:38.120
peace with mind Rex forty So relaxed, so relaxed, your

1210
02:30:38.280 --> 02:31:19.600
body feels almost invisible, so very next, I'm peaceful so peaceful,

1211
02:31:35.479 --> 02:32:21.280
relies liquor, wounds base, and you could start to notice

1212
02:32:21.639 --> 02:32:30.719
that you are feeling more relaxed, even though I've not

1213
02:32:32.399 --> 02:32:43.120
purposely focused your mind upon that sense of physical comfort

1214
02:32:43.840 --> 02:32:50.719
that is growing within you throughout your body, and your

1215
02:32:50.760 --> 02:33:01.479
mind starts to slow down, and that could be almost

1216
02:33:01.520 --> 02:33:09.840
in recognition of I guess my speech not being particularly

1217
02:33:10.680 --> 02:33:27.719
fast and things just generally feel calmer. Just by listening

1218
02:33:27.959 --> 02:33:36.680
to my voice, you give yourself an opportunity to take

1219
02:33:36.719 --> 02:33:43.319
a break from the day, take a break from your

1220
02:33:43.360 --> 02:33:50.479
life as it is, and to give yourself a rest,

1221
02:33:53.040 --> 02:34:00.360
giving yourself permission to take some time off, and to

1222
02:34:00.440 --> 02:34:06.360
allow your body to relax and allow your mind to

1223
02:34:06.520 --> 02:34:17.840
slow down, which in turn releases the tension and it

1224
02:34:18.079 --> 02:34:27.000
stresses that you had in your body. It's almost as

1225
02:34:27.000 --> 02:34:32.840
if the parts of your body just open up, allowing

1226
02:34:32.920 --> 02:34:44.920
the negativity out and at the same time replacing that

1227
02:34:45.079 --> 02:34:54.719
negativity with positive heathing energy, which then fills your body

1228
02:34:54.799 --> 02:35:07.479
up and your mind to also starts to appreciate those

1229
02:35:07.799 --> 02:35:25.479
feelings of increasing confidence, an almost uplifting feeling, positive healing,

1230
02:35:28.639 --> 02:35:36.639
an energy that spreads through your body like.

1231
02:35:36.639 --> 02:35:37.600
A wave.

1232
02:35:39.520 --> 02:35:51.680
Of comfort. And all this comes from just allowing yourself

1233
02:35:54.520 --> 02:35:59.680
a few minutes, maybe half an hour, however long you

1234
02:35:59.719 --> 02:36:12.440
want to to be, to just rest and allow your

1235
02:36:12.479 --> 02:36:23.040
mind and your body to almost reset itself to the

1236
02:36:23.079 --> 02:36:38.959
settings of comfort and relaxation, calmness, which allows more room

1237
02:36:39.440 --> 02:36:52.520
for feelings of pleasure and happiness to move around your

1238
02:36:52.559 --> 02:37:01.000
body and into your mind, almost as if your mind

1239
02:37:01.079 --> 02:37:11.760
and your body are sinking together, almost mirroring each other

1240
02:37:12.760 --> 02:37:27.040
with that growing positivity and calmness. And it feels nice.

1241
02:37:27.200 --> 02:37:33.239
It really does feel nice to know that you are

1242
02:37:33.239 --> 02:37:43.440
the one that has allowed yourself to feel more comfort

1243
02:37:46.680 --> 02:37:59.840
and to experience more of this deep relaxation spreading through

1244
02:38:00.079 --> 02:38:12.280
out your body. And as I focus on each part

1245
02:38:12.399 --> 02:38:22.120
of your body, you can notice that that part becomes

1246
02:38:24.319 --> 02:38:34.799
even more relaxed just by focusing on it. It becomes

1247
02:38:34.959 --> 02:38:48.120
even more calm and comfortable just by focusing. And as

1248
02:38:48.159 --> 02:38:56.239
I move down your body, starting at your head, the

1249
02:38:56.360 --> 02:39:04.319
parts that you've already focused on willtenue to relax deeply,

1250
02:39:07.079 --> 02:39:13.120
and those parts that we've not yet focused on or

1251
02:39:13.280 --> 02:39:25.120
just automatically release any remain intention in anticipation of even

1252
02:39:25.479 --> 02:39:38.040
more comfort about to come. Now, I'm going to start

1253
02:39:38.120 --> 02:39:45.360
by focusing on your forehead, just being aware of the

1254
02:39:45.399 --> 02:39:55.719
feelings of your forehead and any background sounds like mister

1255
02:39:55.959 --> 02:40:01.920
Herbert Opigeon can just allow you feel even more relaxed.

1256
02:40:05.879 --> 02:40:12.000
Just means you're in the moment. This isn't this isn't

1257
02:40:12.000 --> 02:40:20.040
a sterile environment. This is the world. I live in

1258
02:40:20.079 --> 02:40:32.440
the countryside, so there's lots of nature sounds around. So

1259
02:40:32.479 --> 02:40:37.719
as you focus on your forehead, just notice how it

1260
02:40:37.879 --> 02:40:47.799
becomes even more relaxed as you focus only on my

1261
02:40:48.040 --> 02:40:57.639
voice and that part of your body. Moving down to

1262
02:40:57.760 --> 02:41:10.799
your eyes, focusing on your eyes, noticing how your eyelids

1263
02:41:10.920 --> 02:41:18.120
feel so heavy yet so light at the same time,

1264
02:41:21.319 --> 02:41:23.239
and all the muscles around your.

1265
02:41:23.040 --> 02:41:26.959
Eyes relaxing completely.

1266
02:41:31.639 --> 02:41:39.319
Moving your focus down to your mouth, your lips, your tongue,

1267
02:41:40.479 --> 02:41:48.479
your teeth, and your gumbs, the whole of your mouth relaxing,

1268
02:41:51.959 --> 02:42:02.239
calm and loose. As you focus out on your jaw,

1269
02:42:05.239 --> 02:42:08.840
not just the parts of your jaw near your mouth

1270
02:42:09.600 --> 02:42:13.920
and your chin, but all the way up the size

1271
02:42:13.959 --> 02:42:20.840
of your face to your ears, a hole of your jaw,

1272
02:42:23.440 --> 02:42:30.559
feeding more relaxed.

1273
02:42:34.000 --> 02:42:42.559
And calm.

1274
02:42:42.879 --> 02:42:52.040
Focusing on your neck, the front of your neck and

1275
02:42:52.079 --> 02:43:05.120
your throat, relaxing and loose and calm. The sides of

1276
02:43:05.200 --> 02:43:10.520
your neck, the right and left side of your neck

1277
02:43:13.399 --> 02:43:29.280
relax and loose and calm, and now the back of

1278
02:43:29.360 --> 02:43:42.200
your neck. Focusing on the back of your neck, letting

1279
02:43:42.399 --> 02:43:47.079
go of any tension that may have been there before,

1280
02:43:48.840 --> 02:44:02.959
and enjoying that sense of increasing comfort and relief that

1281
02:44:03.200 --> 02:44:13.600
you can experience in the back of your neck. Moving

1282
02:44:13.840 --> 02:44:20.680
down your back and moving either side of your spine

1283
02:44:21.719 --> 02:44:22.959
right from the top of.

1284
02:44:22.920 --> 02:44:23.719
Your back.

1285
02:44:25.399 --> 02:44:29.079
All the way down to the bottom of your back

1286
02:44:35.040 --> 02:44:46.399
down to your lower back. And as you move up

1287
02:44:46.440 --> 02:44:55.239
and down your spine, you can feel the muscles either

1288
02:44:55.360 --> 02:45:08.959
side of your spine relaxing even more. And as those

1289
02:45:09.079 --> 02:45:18.520
muscles relax, that sense of comfort starts to spread outwards

1290
02:45:20.079 --> 02:45:29.760
from your spine into both sides of your back, the

1291
02:45:29.799 --> 02:45:33.319
top of your back, the middle and your lower back.

1292
02:45:36.799 --> 02:45:44.000
And as you scan gently and slowly up and down

1293
02:45:44.159 --> 02:45:49.239
your back, there's the muscles in the top of your

1294
02:45:49.319 --> 02:45:59.280
back relax and become looser. The muscles in the middle

1295
02:45:59.280 --> 02:46:06.079
of your back, okay, also seem to just almost divide

1296
02:46:06.440 --> 02:46:19.680
from each other, separating and almost melting, And in your

1297
02:46:19.799 --> 02:46:26.879
lower back it seems to be an extra special feeling

1298
02:46:30.840 --> 02:46:42.360
of comfort. The spreads into your hips sit down your

1299
02:46:42.440 --> 02:46:50.399
lower back, into your hips, into the area where your

1300
02:46:50.559 --> 02:46:59.520
cosis are, and into your buttocks, and all those muscles

1301
02:46:59.639 --> 02:47:04.360
that spread.

1302
02:47:03.920 --> 02:47:05.280
From your lower back.

1303
02:47:07.440 --> 02:47:19.680
Into your hip area start to melt, start to really

1304
02:47:20.879 --> 02:47:31.840
let go. I don't even nowhere about to focus on

1305
02:47:31.879 --> 02:47:40.959
your shoulders. Your back and your spine will continue to

1306
02:47:41.200 --> 02:48:00.200
let go, continue to relax so calmly. As you focus

1307
02:48:00.200 --> 02:48:07.879
on your shoulders, you may notice that they're already feeding,

1308
02:48:11.120 --> 02:48:43.879
really loose, they're already feeding, calm and fearing. Those muscles

1309
02:48:43.920 --> 02:48:56.280
then move from your neck into your shoulders feel so

1310
02:48:56.280 --> 02:49:25.319
soft and gentle, so smooth and calm, and the feeling

1311
02:49:25.440 --> 02:49:38.319
in your shoulders seems to spread deep into your shoulders,

1312
02:49:40.360 --> 02:49:49.639
that sense of relaxation, not just traveling deeply into your muscles,

1313
02:49:53.079 --> 02:50:06.000
but also relaxing the bones and moving all the way

1314
02:50:06.200 --> 02:50:14.959
to underneath your arms, relaxing that whole area between the

1315
02:50:15.079 --> 02:50:29.639
tops of your shoulders and underneath your arms healing. You

1316
02:50:29.760 --> 02:50:43.319
feel so relaxed and comfortable in your shoulders, which sends

1317
02:50:43.600 --> 02:51:05.079
that deep healing message into your arms, and you may

1318
02:51:05.319 --> 02:51:10.600
feel almost as if your arms are not even there

1319
02:51:12.120 --> 02:51:48.840
because they're so relaxed, so deeply relaxed, so so calm,

1320
02:51:49.120 --> 02:52:11.440
so loose, not feeling spreading all the way down your arms,

1321
02:52:13.719 --> 02:52:44.280
two elbows, including your elbows circumforts spreads or away into wrists,

1322
02:52:46.600 --> 02:53:01.680
your forearments and your wrists feeling so heavy, yet at

1323
02:53:01.879 --> 02:53:42.479
the same time sunlight and gentle fut sive.

1324
02:53:44.840 --> 02:53:46.360
Now on.

1325
02:53:48.520 --> 02:54:42.200
Your hands, my hands, so peaceful in your hands. There's

1326
02:54:42.239 --> 02:55:07.920
a sense of real peace. Just seems to feel so

1327
02:55:08.319 --> 02:55:44.239
familiar when your hands relax deeply. Mhm els. Your thing

1328
02:55:44.559 --> 02:57:21.719
is you things sidles you think it tips. Moving your

1329
02:57:21.760 --> 02:57:51.319
attention to the front of your body, so comfortable, moving

1330
02:57:51.600 --> 02:59:35.600
your focus to your legs, musculs in your thighs, your

1331
02:59:35.680 --> 03:00:16.600
knees so relaxed, a carved mussels and just shins co

1332
03:00:17.040 --> 03:02:31.040
puzzy four and the feathing in your feet. Sir, peaceful, so.

1333
03:02:31.319 --> 03:03:23.479
Calm, so peaceful, so calm, so peaceful, sycom.

1334
03:03:27.000 --> 03:04:00.479
So peace for re sin peace for c come allowing

1335
03:04:00.559 --> 03:04:07.799
that deep relaxation, just spread your chest and your stomach,

1336
03:04:20.840 --> 03:04:39.920
letting go of everything. So I'm gonna start counting down now,

1337
03:04:42.559 --> 03:04:51.280
from twenty down to one. You can imagine in a

1338
03:04:51.319 --> 03:04:57.159
way it's like just walking down some steps and each

1339
03:04:57.319 --> 03:05:02.440
step or twenty steps, and each step step represents a

1340
03:05:02.639 --> 03:05:16.280
level of comfort. Each step represents a deepening of that comfort,

1341
03:05:22.879 --> 03:05:27.959
and the furvies you walk down those steps that the

1342
03:05:28.159 --> 03:05:39.360
deeper and more relaxed you feel. So starting with number

1343
03:05:39.440 --> 03:11:11.920
twenty twenty nineteen, eighteen seventeen sixsting eight four four see

1344
03:12:18.040 --> 03:26:16.719
too well five five nine eight seven five four two one.

1345
03:26:17.040 --> 03:26:33.840
And now as you focus on your eyes, we're going

1346
03:26:33.920 --> 03:26:45.639
to count down from ten out one, focusing just on

1347
03:26:45.680 --> 03:26:56.639
your eyes, your eyelids, the muscles around your eyes, your

1348
03:26:56.719 --> 03:27:16.000
eye walls themselves, a whole area that makes up your eye.

1349
03:27:16.680 --> 03:27:24.200
And as we count down from ten down to one,

1350
03:27:24.479 --> 03:27:38.440
whilst focusing on your eyes, you'll become twice is relaxed

1351
03:27:40.639 --> 03:27:53.799
with each number counting down that you may find the

1352
03:27:53.840 --> 03:28:00.479
all you want to do is just drift off to sleep.

1353
03:28:03.319 --> 03:28:10.000
And if that's what you want, then just allow yourself

1354
03:28:10.040 --> 03:28:24.440
to do that. Now, focus in on your eyes. I'm

1355
03:28:24.479 --> 03:28:33.840
going to begin counting down from ten down to one

1356
03:28:34.239 --> 03:31:37.959
right now, ten nine eight seven ye.

1357
03:32:42.239 --> 03:33:53.799
Five four.

1358
03:34:36.920 --> 03:35:07.559
S three.

1359
03:36:12.920 --> 03:37:41.760
Two one.

1360
03:37:47.680 --> 03:38:09.959
Two. Count down ten to one nine eight seven six

1361
03:38:12.159 --> 03:38:22.159
five four three two.

1362
03:38:24.000 --> 03:38:30.600
One.

1363
03:38:31.280 --> 03:38:34.200
And maybe that was a bit too quick in order

1364
03:38:34.239 --> 03:38:38.200
to relax. Maybe it's a bit too fast for you

1365
03:38:38.479 --> 03:38:48.239
to notice the calming of your body, maybe even a

1366
03:38:48.239 --> 03:38:52.120
little bit of pressure there, Like you're counting down from

1367
03:38:52.159 --> 03:38:54.920
ten to one. Would you expect me to do? Man,

1368
03:38:55.760 --> 03:38:59.479
expect me to stick go with floppy just because you're

1369
03:38:59.520 --> 03:39:09.040
counting down. We can try again, but this time I

1370
03:39:09.159 --> 03:39:16.440
go this lower. This time, as you focus on the

1371
03:39:16.479 --> 03:39:20.920
whole of your body before we focus on your legs.

1372
03:39:23.040 --> 03:39:32.280
Just notice how your body does start to feel more

1373
03:39:32.639 --> 03:40:32.399
relaxed with every number that I count down ten nine, eight, seven, six, five, four,

1374
03:40:39.719 --> 03:41:31.239
three two one, And just notice how how you feel, generally,

1375
03:41:31.639 --> 03:41:46.000
how your body feels. It's not necessarily even about counting

1376
03:41:46.079 --> 03:41:53.360
down from ten to one. It's that space that you have,

1377
03:41:54.559 --> 03:42:13.040
that space between being active physically or mentally to just

1378
03:42:17.719 --> 03:42:22.959
sitting or lying down and just being there, not doing anything,

1379
03:42:23.120 --> 03:42:29.799
not saying anything, not needing to think about anything. So

1380
03:42:30.440 --> 03:42:33.479
it opens up a space, you know, a bit of

1381
03:42:33.479 --> 03:42:44.520
a space, a gap. And the more I came down

1382
03:42:44.520 --> 03:42:51.959
from ten to one, the bigger that gap becomes. So

1383
03:42:52.040 --> 03:43:04.479
there's that gap of calmness, of comfort, relaxation. It's a

1384
03:43:04.600 --> 03:43:18.719
nice feeling, and it moves those stresses or discomforts physically

1385
03:43:18.799 --> 03:43:31.440
or emotionally, moves them away, allows you.

1386
03:43:33.639 --> 03:43:34.239
To just.

1387
03:43:37.159 --> 03:43:43.920
Slow down, someone to count again from ten down to one,

1388
03:43:44.319 --> 03:43:54.559
and notice that gap widening, the gap, And as it widens,

1389
03:43:54.600 --> 03:44:00.680
it's almost like the thestress and attention falls into the

1390
03:44:00.719 --> 03:45:22.319
gap and gives you that distance, that space. Now ten nine, eight, seven, six, five, four.

1391
03:45:40.200 --> 03:46:22.760
Three two.

1392
03:46:15.479 --> 03:46:15.719
One.

1393
03:46:27.280 --> 03:46:31.719
Now, how does your body feel.

1394
03:46:33.600 --> 03:46:45.559
Now?

1395
03:46:46.479 --> 03:46:59.200
Can you notice that? Do you feeling calmer, the feeling

1396
03:47:01.520 --> 03:47:29.000
more relaxed as we now focus on your legs, just

1397
03:47:29.079 --> 03:47:50.520
your legs. We're just gonna start with focusing on your thighs.

1398
03:48:05.239 --> 03:48:09.600
Of course, it's not the most exciting thing to be doing,

1399
03:48:10.360 --> 03:48:16.760
because I'm sure like most of your body is not

1400
03:48:16.799 --> 03:48:29.040
a lot going on right now. Just focusing on the

1401
03:48:29.120 --> 03:48:35.200
whole of your thighs, the tops of your thighs, the

1402
03:48:35.479 --> 03:48:42.120
sides of your thighs, the bottoms of your thighs, your

1403
03:48:42.200 --> 03:48:47.559
outer thighs, and your inner thighs. Basically the whole of

1404
03:48:47.600 --> 03:48:55.440
your thigh that leads into your hip and it goes

1405
03:48:56.440 --> 03:49:09.399
down to your knee joint. Now, this is a big area.

1406
03:49:11.040 --> 03:49:16.000
It's a very heavy area. It's very strong, probably the

1407
03:49:16.079 --> 03:49:30.799
strongest muscles in your body or in your thighs. But

1408
03:49:30.840 --> 03:49:39.360
I don't think we perhaps give enough attention to our thighs.

1409
03:49:45.200 --> 03:49:55.959
Perhaps we don't acknowledge how important our thighs are to

1410
03:49:56.120 --> 03:50:16.799
our lives, how much they actually do for us all

1411
03:50:16.840 --> 03:50:27.319
through our lives. And it may seem to sound really weird,

1412
03:50:27.399 --> 03:50:35.760
but I think that all of our body parts, especially

1413
03:50:35.879 --> 03:50:43.520
our thighs, need some TLC, a bit of love shown,

1414
03:50:44.520 --> 03:51:02.760
a bit of acknowledgement, thank you, gratitude for what our

1415
03:51:02.879 --> 03:51:12.280
thighs do for us. And I know this may sound

1416
03:51:12.319 --> 03:51:18.559
a bit strange. Maybe you think, why am I sure

1417
03:51:18.600 --> 03:51:21.200
that I should be out in the garden hugging a

1418
03:51:21.280 --> 03:51:29.639
tree or something. Well, it's hard to set a microphone

1419
03:51:29.719 --> 03:51:32.799
up on a tree. That's why I'm doing this indoors.

1420
03:51:32.840 --> 03:51:36.360
Otherwise I would be outside hugging a tree. Now I

1421
03:51:36.399 --> 03:51:45.159
can't see the television from the tree. If you move

1422
03:51:45.239 --> 03:51:55.159
down to your knees gaining such an important part, and

1423
03:51:55.159 --> 03:51:59.680
I think we don't necessarily I'll speak for myself here,

1424
03:52:02.120 --> 03:52:07.239
I don't necessarily appreciate all that my nees do for

1425
03:52:07.319 --> 03:52:13.840
me until I have a problem with my knee. It's occasionally,

1426
03:52:13.879 --> 03:52:18.840
if I ever maybe i'll bash it or it's aching

1427
03:52:19.000 --> 03:52:25.479
for some reason. It's then that I realize how much

1428
03:52:25.520 --> 03:52:29.959
it does. You know, the benefit of being able to

1429
03:52:30.079 --> 03:52:39.360
use my legs without any kind of physical discomfort is

1430
03:52:40.120 --> 03:52:48.920
a beautiful thing that's possibly not appreciated until it's temporarily removed.

1431
03:52:50.000 --> 03:52:57.120
You know, that's comfort. But as you focus on your knees,

1432
03:52:59.159 --> 03:53:04.840
regardless of how your knees feel, you can have that

1433
03:53:05.079 --> 03:53:11.280
sense of gratitude and love to your knees for all

1434
03:53:11.360 --> 03:53:23.680
that they do for you, And you can still have

1435
03:53:23.719 --> 03:53:27.959
that attention on your thighs and maybe notice how your

1436
03:53:28.000 --> 03:53:39.879
thighs feel. Maybe you've noticed that they are relaxing more

1437
03:53:41.639 --> 03:53:53.399
deeply as you focus now on the bottoms of your legs,

1438
03:53:53.760 --> 03:53:59.200
your shins and your calf muscles and the bones between

1439
03:53:59.319 --> 03:54:05.479
your knees and your feet incorporate, and of course, your

1440
03:54:05.600 --> 03:54:17.639
ankles so important. You know, anyone that's had even like

1441
03:54:17.760 --> 03:54:24.639
the slightest sprain of an ankle knows how how much

1442
03:54:24.799 --> 03:54:34.680
we take our ankles for granted. And it's kind of

1443
03:54:34.719 --> 03:54:40.120
strange in a way when you think that. You know, logically,

1444
03:54:40.440 --> 03:54:43.520
our wrists are a lot thinner than the rest of

1445
03:54:43.559 --> 03:54:48.440
our arms, which is okay, it doesn't can't see any

1446
03:54:48.440 --> 03:54:53.440
problem with that because we're just picking stuff up. But

1447
03:54:53.520 --> 03:55:00.200
our ankles so much thinner than the rest of our legs.

1448
03:55:06.000 --> 03:55:10.399
And from a physics perspective or logical even it doesn't

1449
03:55:10.440 --> 03:55:16.639
really make sense that all this weight would ultimately be

1450
03:55:17.559 --> 03:55:27.639
resting on your ankles then leading to your feet, that

1451
03:55:28.159 --> 03:55:37.200
thin area, thin bone. Yeah, it does so much great work.

1452
03:55:39.280 --> 03:55:49.000
Supports us, supports our body for a lifetime, helps us

1453
03:55:49.479 --> 03:55:58.879
to balance, helps you to get around and be mobile.

1454
03:56:05.200 --> 03:56:13.200
And there's the calf muscles. Of course, when I was younger,

1455
03:56:13.360 --> 03:56:16.680
I couldn't see the point in calf muscles. Didn't seem

1456
03:56:16.719 --> 03:56:21.879
to do anything. Okay, if I walked around on tiptoes,

1457
03:56:22.600 --> 03:56:26.479
then my calf muscles get some work. But of course

1458
03:56:26.520 --> 03:56:30.680
that's not true. The calf muscles are being used whenever

1459
03:56:30.719 --> 03:56:42.680
we use our legs and your shins there to protect

1460
03:56:44.600 --> 03:56:53.319
your lower legs, shaped in a way, almost as a

1461
03:56:53.319 --> 03:57:05.760
protector for the bone, leading of course to your ankles

1462
03:57:09.000 --> 03:57:15.639
and your feet. But we're not going to focus on

1463
03:57:15.680 --> 03:57:17.879
your feet. We're just going to focus on the legs.

1464
03:57:19.879 --> 03:57:24.479
I realize, But now that I've mentioned your feet, it

1465
03:57:24.600 --> 03:57:29.559
probably focuses on them anyway, So maybe I should focus

1466
03:57:29.600 --> 03:57:35.479
on your feet a little bit. You can have them

1467
03:57:35.479 --> 03:57:41.280
in your awareness the same as you have your thighs

1468
03:57:41.319 --> 03:57:45.719
in your awareness. Even though we haven't been focusing on

1469
03:57:45.760 --> 03:57:52.000
your thighs a few minutes, we've been focusing on your ankles,

1470
03:57:57.639 --> 03:58:07.959
there's still that since station of comfort in your thighs

1471
03:58:12.840 --> 03:58:20.799
in this that movement of energy because the thighs hold

1472
03:58:22.159 --> 03:58:27.680
lots of different sensations. Of course, there's the muscles, the

1473
03:58:27.719 --> 03:58:40.239
big straw muscles that we have in our thighs. But

1474
03:58:40.360 --> 03:58:46.479
the skin on the outside of the thighs, as in

1475
03:58:46.520 --> 03:58:52.319
the outside of all of our body, can be very sensitive,

1476
03:58:56.200 --> 03:59:09.479
sensitive to the touch, sensitive to temperature, and inside your

1477
03:59:09.520 --> 03:59:17.000
thighs the bones, there's the muscle, there's the blood, vessels,

1478
03:59:17.120 --> 03:59:23.360
the arch trees, all this stuff that's inside your thighs.

1479
03:59:27.239 --> 03:59:30.440
And I guess sometimes it'd be nice if you could

1480
03:59:30.440 --> 03:59:36.000
actually put your fingers inside your thighs and a message,

1481
03:59:38.120 --> 03:59:41.719
so you can message on the outside, of course, but

1482
03:59:41.799 --> 03:59:44.959
to be able to get deep into the muscles, and

1483
03:59:45.000 --> 03:59:50.159
to be able to just message inside your thighs, message

1484
03:59:50.159 --> 03:59:58.920
in the bones of your leg, message in all the veins,

1485
03:59:59.079 --> 04:00:09.319
and just gent healing your thighs, and you could move

1486
04:00:09.520 --> 04:00:16.040
down message and inside your knees, just a message in

1487
04:00:16.120 --> 04:00:23.479
those bones, but with healing fingertips, spreading that healing energy

1488
04:00:24.239 --> 04:00:33.959
deep into the joints of your knees. Of course, there's

1489
04:00:34.000 --> 04:00:37.920
the back of your your knee, you know, the inside

1490
04:00:38.079 --> 04:00:45.319
crease where your knee is. It's a very sensitive area.

1491
04:00:46.239 --> 04:00:50.639
Very it feels very nice when you stroke it. That

1492
04:00:50.760 --> 04:00:54.479
might be because it's an area that's not really touched

1493
04:00:54.639 --> 04:01:01.239
very often. It's almost like a hidden part, that crease

1494
04:01:03.360 --> 04:01:09.840
in your legs. It's almost like a part that has

1495
04:01:10.120 --> 04:01:20.879
a sensitivity which is a little bit different. Of course,

1496
04:01:20.920 --> 04:01:31.440
it's protected by your legs, So you can imagine putting

1497
04:01:32.280 --> 04:01:42.200
your fingers into that crease in your legs. Fold in

1498
04:01:42.239 --> 04:01:46.239
between your legs, you can just message with your fingertips.

1499
04:01:47.399 --> 04:01:56.559
Imagine your fingertips going inside, massage in the muscle tissue.

1500
04:01:58.799 --> 04:02:03.200
You can of course feel the bones of your knees

1501
04:02:04.559 --> 04:02:15.040
healing through your fingertips. And then as you go down

1502
04:02:17.840 --> 04:02:20.680
to your calf muscles. Now that's the part I'd like

1503
04:02:20.760 --> 04:02:25.479
to be able to really put my fingertips deep inside

1504
04:02:26.200 --> 04:02:35.159
my calf muscles, massage in every single tissue of that muscle,

1505
04:02:36.760 --> 04:02:46.680
healing every part, and then doing the same for my shins,

1506
04:02:49.840 --> 04:02:56.760
massage in and gently stroking the bones gently stroking them,

1507
04:02:57.639 --> 04:03:01.840
healing in a loving way, because they deserve to be

1508
04:03:01.959 --> 04:03:09.200
treated as the precious bones that they are, Because our

1509
04:03:09.280 --> 04:03:12.879
legs are so precious as in all the other parts

1510
04:03:12.920 --> 04:03:20.559
of our body, and more precious of any jure on

1511
04:03:20.680 --> 04:03:37.079
the planet. When you start to think about your legs

1512
04:03:37.120 --> 04:03:48.239
in this way, it can change your perspective. It might

1513
04:03:48.440 --> 04:03:55.159
sound a bit a bit silly to start with the

1514
04:03:55.200 --> 04:04:03.440
idea of having love for your legs, showing appreciation for

1515
04:04:03.479 --> 04:04:09.600
your thighs, wanting to be able to put your hands

1516
04:04:10.520 --> 04:04:17.479
in your thighs the message the muscles and the bones,

1517
04:04:19.239 --> 04:04:24.959
and to get your fingers deep in there, releasing all tension,

1518
04:04:27.840 --> 04:04:36.639
just to show how much you care about your legs,

1519
04:04:37.360 --> 04:04:41.120
how much you care for what your legs do for

1520
04:04:41.239 --> 04:04:54.920
you regularly, your knees, your calves, your ankles, the strength

1521
04:04:55.000 --> 04:05:02.440
of your ankles, considering how or thin they are compared

1522
04:05:03.000 --> 04:05:09.600
to the rest of your legs, especially your thighs. Yeah,

1523
04:05:09.680 --> 04:05:21.959
they're so strong, so flexible, absolutely amazing things. Your ankles

1524
04:05:22.120 --> 04:05:31.360
are truly a gift because of what they do for you,

1525
04:05:36.680 --> 04:05:43.680
supporting all that weight, regardless of how what weight you are,

1526
04:05:44.840 --> 04:05:49.639
even if you only ate stone, there's still a lot

1527
04:05:49.680 --> 04:05:56.360
of weight for these little ankles. Now, I'm a lot

1528
04:05:56.559 --> 04:06:04.319
heavier than eight stone double dot h. Yet my ankles

1529
04:06:06.079 --> 04:06:13.760
support my body all the time, or they do give

1530
04:06:13.799 --> 04:06:19.360
off a sigh of relief when I sit down. I've

1531
04:06:19.399 --> 04:06:26.600
got my whole legs do my feet? Feet also go,

1532
04:06:28.559 --> 04:06:56.319
my toes clap, We're so happy. Your legs really are amazing.

1533
04:06:58.879 --> 04:07:02.600
And I know that talking about talking about your legs

1534
04:07:02.680 --> 04:07:09.280
is probably possibly among the most most boring things you've

1535
04:07:09.319 --> 04:07:16.360
ever heard anyone say. Possibly, but or boring or not,

1536
04:07:17.920 --> 04:07:33.440
everything I said is true. Your legs are amazing. Your

1537
04:07:33.520 --> 04:07:46.120
legs deserve not just respect, they deserve to relax deeply.

1538
04:07:53.399 --> 04:07:56.760
They deserve to take some time out of the day

1539
04:07:58.959 --> 04:08:27.719
to just let go completely. The legs really can relax.

1540
04:08:35.319 --> 04:08:39.479
And because the legs are so such a most, you know,

1541
04:08:39.680 --> 04:08:45.639
very important part of your body. When you relax your legs,

1542
04:08:45.719 --> 04:08:52.959
the rest of your body also naturally follows in that

1543
04:08:56.680 --> 04:09:07.600
journey of comfort. I can feel it in my hips.

1544
04:09:08.920 --> 04:09:16.040
My hips feel really loose, and also my lwer back

1545
04:09:16.079 --> 04:09:22.719
as well. My lower back really feels it feels stretched,

1546
04:09:23.799 --> 04:09:26.879
even though I'm just sitting in a chair and there's

1547
04:09:26.959 --> 04:09:32.239
no stretching. As far as I'm aware that I'm doing,

1548
04:09:33.159 --> 04:09:35.799
but it's almost as if the muscles are just relaxed

1549
04:09:35.840 --> 04:09:41.440
so much that there is a natural stretch as the

1550
04:09:41.559 --> 04:10:03.840
tension has reduced a lot. And I'm now going to

1551
04:10:03.920 --> 04:10:11.479
count down from ten down to one, and you can

1552
04:10:11.479 --> 04:10:36.840
continue to fill wonderfully relaxed ten nine, eight, seven, six,

1553
04:10:39.959 --> 04:11:12.840
five four three two one relax. So I'm just going

1554
04:11:12.920 --> 04:11:17.680
to count down from five down to one, and as

1555
04:11:17.680 --> 04:11:23.680
a countdown, if you just focus on the numbers, just

1556
04:11:23.799 --> 04:11:34.399
the numbers counting down, and notice how you feel in

1557
04:11:34.479 --> 04:11:40.200
this moment as you hear the numbers counting down, knowing

1558
04:11:40.360 --> 04:11:54.000
that those numbers counting down represent you feeling calmer, not

1559
04:11:54.200 --> 04:12:02.040
just in your body, but also relaxing your mind. I

1560
04:12:02.239 --> 04:12:07.600
just notice how you feel. There's nothing to do, there's

1561
04:12:07.680 --> 04:12:15.639
nothing to say, there's nothing to think about, starting with

1562
04:12:17.079 --> 04:13:07.840
number five, four three two one. And as you notice

1563
04:13:08.120 --> 04:13:16.319
the gradual letting go that the tension in your body,

1564
04:13:19.879 --> 04:13:25.680
you may also begin to notice and be aware of

1565
04:13:25.719 --> 04:13:34.760
how your mind is starting to slow down. This is

1566
04:13:34.879 --> 04:13:41.520
just a natural thing that happens. It's not really a

1567
04:13:41.600 --> 04:13:48.680
special procedure. It's just natural because as your body relaxes,

1568
04:13:48.879 --> 04:13:54.360
your mind also starts to relax. And the more your

1569
04:13:54.399 --> 04:13:57.639
mind relaxes, the more your body relaxes. It's just a

1570
04:13:57.799 --> 04:14:10.399
continuous circle of relaxation. And there's that calmness that comes

1571
04:14:10.479 --> 04:14:14.079
from relative quietness.

1572
04:14:15.440 --> 04:14:17.319
You know, even even if there's.

1573
04:14:17.159 --> 04:14:24.600
Background sounds either your side, online, it's still going to

1574
04:14:24.760 --> 04:14:30.479
be quite calm. You know, you haven't got the television on,

1575
04:14:31.040 --> 04:14:35.319
there's no music in the background unless you're listening to

1576
04:14:35.360 --> 04:14:43.079
the recording. With music, of course, you're very likely not

1577
04:14:43.159 --> 04:14:45.280
going to be sitting in a room with other people.

1578
04:14:46.159 --> 04:14:50.799
Of course you might be, but generally it's more ideal

1579
04:14:50.879 --> 04:14:57.360
if you can do this on your own, so no distractions,

1580
04:15:02.040 --> 04:15:15.040
and when you stop thinking about stuff, relaxation automatically rises.

1581
04:15:17.360 --> 04:15:28.120
A sense of comfort starts to grow, and without trying

1582
04:15:28.159 --> 04:15:37.079
to build it up into something fantastical or something magical,

1583
04:15:39.159 --> 04:15:51.799
this is just a natural process, something that's easy to accomplish.

1584
04:15:52.159 --> 04:15:59.559
In fact, it's almost the sense of relaxing completely happens

1585
04:15:59.680 --> 04:16:04.520
really when you put no effort into it. It's not

1586
04:16:04.639 --> 04:16:13.200
something that you can really force. It's something that happens naturally.

1587
04:16:16.120 --> 04:16:23.840
And part of the process of this recording and others.

1588
04:16:25.000 --> 04:16:26.639
Is simply.

1589
04:16:27.840 --> 04:16:40.120
Two allow you to take advantage of this space. This time,

1590
04:16:42.879 --> 04:16:54.120
it's just let go, to just be here, to be

1591
04:16:54.520 --> 04:17:07.959
in tune with how you feel, yet with the intention

1592
04:17:10.200 --> 04:17:21.680
of wanting to relax deeply and maybe even to fall asleep,

1593
04:17:22.799 --> 04:17:28.040
depending on what it is that you wish for yourself

1594
04:17:29.760 --> 04:17:45.799
in this moment. As we know, relaxing is the majority

1595
04:17:46.040 --> 04:17:50.520
of the process of falling asleep. The actual falling asleep

1596
04:17:50.559 --> 04:17:57.520
part is the tiny bit at the end. The deeper

1597
04:17:58.680 --> 04:18:11.479
relaxed do you become, the easier you find yourself drifting.

1598
04:18:21.040 --> 04:18:27.719
You can also if you choose stay focused on my

1599
04:18:27.879 --> 04:18:56.799
voice and really enjoy the process, gradually relaxing each muscle

1600
04:19:01.399 --> 04:19:28.280
in your body effortlessly and just observing the sensation of

1601
04:19:28.520 --> 04:19:44.200
letting go completely. This time, I'm going to count from

1602
04:19:44.399 --> 04:19:57.159
six down to one, and you can notice your mind

1603
04:19:57.200 --> 04:20:10.639
calming down more with each number that you hear me say, naturally,

1604
04:20:11.680 --> 04:22:23.920
feeling calm and slow and peaceful, six, five, four, three,

1605
04:22:24.239 --> 04:23:23.920
two four, being aware how your mind to slowed right down,

1606
04:23:27.159 --> 04:23:51.639
sinking deeply into relaxation. And as you focus on your mind,

1607
04:23:50.840 --> 04:24:03.360
you may notice that there are some thoughts still there,

1608
04:24:03.399 --> 04:24:12.959
maybe some stubborn thoughts that for some reason perhaps need

1609
04:24:13.040 --> 04:24:28.239
your attention. That's what you can do is send love

1610
04:24:28.440 --> 04:24:41.959
to those thoughts. Sprinkle those thoughts with love. I do

1611
04:24:42.239 --> 04:24:47.920
petals from a flower. Just sprinkle it over them, petals

1612
04:24:47.920 --> 04:24:55.120
filled with love towards those thoughts, to let those thoughts

1613
04:24:55.360 --> 04:25:02.200
know that you're not abandon in them. You just need them.

1614
04:25:03.399 --> 04:25:14.520
You require them to just calm down, slow down, quiet

1615
04:25:14.840 --> 04:25:30.840
down for now, so as you focus on those remaining thoughts.

1616
04:25:32.040 --> 04:25:37.440
As a countdown this time from seven down to one.

1617
04:25:37.680 --> 04:25:51.799
With each number, just imagine sprinkling those flower petals of love, kindness,

1618
04:25:53.360 --> 04:26:05.239
gratitude over those thoughts, which will allow them to just

1619
04:26:06.680 --> 04:26:21.719
not away and relax deeply. With every number, those thoughts

1620
04:26:21.760 --> 04:26:59.239
will become more and more relaxed, starting with number seven, six.

1621
04:27:16.680 --> 04:29:07.799
Five, four, three one, And lets you now.

1622
04:29:10.360 --> 04:29:31.600
Notice how relaxed you're feeling in your body. We're going

1623
04:29:31.680 --> 04:29:45.399
to focus on your hands, because the more relaxed your

1624
04:29:45.559 --> 04:29:52.479
hands are, the more relaxed your body and mind are.

1625
04:30:07.360 --> 04:30:08.000
And there's.

1626
04:30:09.520 --> 04:30:19.680
You focus on your hands and your fingers. There's nothing

1627
04:30:20.200 --> 04:30:24.959
needed to be done. There's no clenching of fists or

1628
04:30:26.000 --> 04:30:36.319
dancing the fingers or anything like that. Mhmm. It's just

1629
04:30:36.799 --> 04:30:50.840
noticing and focusing on your hands, noticing how they feel.

1630
04:31:05.440 --> 04:31:16.079
Because the more relaxed your hands feel, the calmly your

1631
04:31:16.159 --> 04:31:28.079
mind feels, and the more comforts you feel throughout your body.

1632
04:31:33.280 --> 04:32:03.680
And you may have already noticed your mind is starting

1633
04:32:07.280 --> 04:32:30.200
to dress mas sense just on your hands and fingers,

1634
04:32:34.719 --> 04:32:48.559
allowing them to experience how real deepening of that relaxation

1635
04:32:50.280 --> 04:33:08.200
in your hands and fingers, more and more relaxed with

1636
04:33:08.360 --> 04:33:27.040
each number from eight down to one. You can almost

1637
04:33:28.799 --> 04:33:38.560
few that healing and relaxing energy spreading into your hands

1638
04:33:39.479 --> 04:33:57.759
and fingers, becoming year and more relaxing with each number

1639
04:34:00.200 --> 04:34:19.439
year coming down from eight down to one, drifting drifting

1640
04:34:19.560 --> 04:34:38.639
again starting with number eight.

1641
04:35:01.680 --> 04:35:29.880
Seven u.

1642
04:36:20.720 --> 04:36:46.080
F four.

1643
04:37:05.560 --> 04:37:05.799
NYE.

1644
04:38:25.520 --> 04:38:35.040
Just being here now, nothing to think about, nothing to do,

1645
04:38:36.439 --> 04:38:50.759
nothing to say, and everything just feels calm. This is

1646
04:38:51.840 --> 04:38:58.639
your natural state of being. This is how you just

1647
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normal feel. When you take away all that other stuff.

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That we add, you know, things like.

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Stress and worrying and overthinking, anxiety, tension, just generally thinking

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about stuff.

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You take that away, which is what we do. What

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we do now.

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You're left with a real sense of peacefulness which comes

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to you very quickly.

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Because I was relief.

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It's just a feeling, a feeling of comfort, almost as

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if you've gone inside yourself and you've found a special

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place where everything is peaceful, a place where you can

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feel relaxed and your natural sense of comfort, A place

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where you can be you, where you can accept yourself

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for who you are, the place where you're not trying

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04:40:58.560 --> 04:41:09.360
to please anybody else everyone, A place where you can

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actually not just love yourself, but in some ways more importantly,

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you can like yourself, appreciate who you are. A sense

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of gratitude.

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Is in the air all around you.

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That's also a place where.

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You can actually feel.

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The healing any geep soaking into your body, healing energy

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soaking into your body, and that healing energy spreads through

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your veins, traveling to each and every single part of

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your body. When you start to realize that actually that

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healing energy.

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It's not just entered into your brain, it's.

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Become part of your brain, and the spinal fluid.

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Is now mixed with healing energy, just.

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Allowing you to feel so much more relaxed and healthy

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04:43:23.319 --> 04:43:34.159
in this moment. But also you start to realize that

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04:43:34.360 --> 04:43:45.639
actually what's happening now without a healing, relaxing energy spreading

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through your body, it's actually changing your life. It's actually

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changing the way you're going to feel, not just now,

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but tomorrow and the next days. Your health improves, not

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just your physical health, but your mental health. Things that

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used to bother you in the past, for some reason,

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04:44:28.919 --> 04:44:36.520
no longer have the effect that they used to because

1686
04:44:36.599 --> 04:44:48.319
something has changed deep within you. Maybe things that used

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04:44:48.319 --> 04:44:58.799
to cause you to feel anger no longer have that

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04:44:59.599 --> 04:45:03.959
power one to control you.

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The way they seem to be able to before.

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As you realize that you're the one who decides what

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affects you, You're the one who decides to feel relaxed

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04:45:36.159 --> 04:45:49.080
and calm when you choose to enjoy noticing these natural

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developments and the healing continue to grow and improve your

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life day by day, including of course your ability to

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04:46:16.080 --> 04:46:31.680
relax so much easier and sleeping. It's the most natural

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thing in the world to you because for in, the

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sleep is something that you've done so many times.

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In your life, and you know that you were born,

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as we.

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All were, with the ability to.

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Fall asleep naturally.

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The door, with that ability to just drift on into a.

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Deep, healing sleep. Even when we're kids.

1704
04:47:31.919 --> 04:47:34.840
Sometimes will fall asleep when we don't even want to

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04:47:36.840 --> 04:47:41.479
try to even stay awake. Maybe it's a birthday in

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04:47:41.520 --> 04:47:45.840
the morning, night it's Christmas or holiday or something.

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We look forward to. I don't want to go to sleep.

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But the more we want to stay.

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Awake, the more we just start to drift.

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And the more he fights drifting.

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Or we try to stop yourself from drift in a.

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Safe the depot is stronger without drifting becomes because we're

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born not just with the need to relax.

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Deeply than to naturally fall asleep, but it's.

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Our birthright, it's part of our DNA, and sometimes as

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we get older in life, perhaps at times we have

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04:48:53.040 --> 04:49:09.599
forgotten that relaxing completely. It's not only a wonderfully pleasant experience.

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It's also really easy. It's very, very easy to let go,

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because that's all it is.

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It is just.

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Deciding to let go. And when you press the play

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button on my recordings, you have given permission.

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From my voice to elect you. When you press that

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play button, you've given.

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Me permission for my words to effect you are positive

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only a positive way. Opening up.

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Your mind.

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To useful.

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And healing.

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Suggestions can have such an amazing effect allow you feel

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right now, as well as those changes that can continue

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long after the recording ends. Those changes with the continue

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to flourish and grow, transfforming your life in pre positude

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04:51:48.799 --> 04:51:58.680
beautiful way, allowing you to move bord in your life.

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The diet, the eats.

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For yourself. This feeling, this feeling experience of safety, comfort, harmness.

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This feels so nice that such a healthy.

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Place to be.

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And that positivity rules.

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