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(no music) Attempted Monday’s Boring Objects | LMBYTS #1385 | Jason Newland | 30th June 2025

(no music) Attempted Monday’s Boring Objects | LMBYTS #1385 | Jason Newland | 30th June 2025
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Hello, and welcome to Jasonnewland dot com. My name's Jason Newland.

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This is let me bore you to sleep. Please only

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listen when you can safely closer eze. Today is Monday,

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the thirtieth of Dewan Tall zero little five. Then he

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is carried up next to me on the sofa. Something's

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got his attention because he's is a pricked up and

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he's looking around. So haven't you heard something, haven't you? Yeah,

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he's not quite so angry with me today because although

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I did leave him on his own again visiting my

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day by in hospital m I I left early, so

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I got a left by it with another neighbor who

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took me to the hospital after dropping off his wife

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and kid at school and work. And I got there.

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I left here at half seven, got there about core

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past eight a m. And I left and BM B B.

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I'm not sure what I left. I left about one.

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I think I'm not exactly. Yeah, I'm not exactly. So

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I was home. I think I was home by two o'clock.

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I took Vinnie into the garden too, do wee wiz,

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But it's too hot outside for him to go out properly,

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so I'm not gonna you won't be going out until

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probably six seven six or something like that because it's

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just a bit too hot. He did have a nice

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w alk this morning, which was about half an hour out.

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We was out for about half an hour, but I

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think it because it was so early in the morning.

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I mean, we did wake up about I don't know,

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twenty to four, because we did. We went to bed

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about half eight last night and woke up about twenty

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to four, and so we got up. I got up,

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I had my breakfast. He got up as well, and

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we went for a walk about half six till. Yeah,

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it was about twenty five to seven till about five

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past seven, and then I had a shower, So I

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got back, had a shower, yeah, and then pretty much

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had about three minutes to get prepared to go downstairs

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and get a lift. So it all worked out okay. Potentially,

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Potentially I was maybe moving a bit too fast because normally,

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you know, I'm not I'm not necessarily set to a timer.

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So I found that I was making slightly more noise

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than usual when I was I was probably attempting to

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make less noise. I find that the try, the more

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I try to make less noise, the more noise I

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tend to make. So if I'm in the if I'm gons,

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I'm in the kitchen and I'm trying to wash up

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really quietly because it's early in the morning and I

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don't want to disturb, you know, the neighbors. That's when

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I start dropping stuff in the sink. It's weird, isn't

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it strange? And it's strange. So yeah, I just want

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to say thank you to everyone that's sent their well

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wishes for my neighbor. It's very kind of you, and

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I do appreciate your support. He So I'll give you

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the update. I know this is going to be Monday's

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boring objects. I'm going to talk about hospitals, but none

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of it is going to be medical or anything like that. Okay,

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so it was a little bit, but it's not really good.

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It's not It's all going to be tasteful, if that's

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the right word. I'll try and keep everything tasteful apart

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from some of my jokes. Maybe I don't know. Well,

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don't you tell jokes, do you? I've never remember you

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ever telling a joke. Okay, I don't if jokes is

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a correct word, I think they're jokes. Maybe other people

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don't know, they don't notice. So, yeah, hospitals is going

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to be and maybe I've even done that before, but

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we're doing it again, doing it again. So I will

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talk about my experiences in hospitals, including being in hospital

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twice myself, also going to hospital a few times for

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different things, and visiting people in hospital. The first time

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I did hypnosis with someone in hospital. Yeah, so this

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had a few little instances along the way, visiting my

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nan in hospital, but I mean that was that was

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a journey, and that took me about five hours, six

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hours to get there, and then when I get there,

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I'm told that it's closing time or yeah, kind of

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that wasn't good. So the update on me neighbor is

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two things. Really, his next door neighbor, his current next

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door neighbor that's in the bed next to him, is

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leaving tomorrow, so he won't be there. And they're they're close,

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They're really close. They've been together for a week and

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you can see there's a it's almost like a brotherly

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kind of thing going on there. It's nice. And this

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is ten this bloke's probably ten years younger than him.

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I mean, I think he's about sixty six. She's kind

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of in the middle between me and my neighbor. My

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neighbor's seventy eight on Friday, I think this week. The

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other neighbor this Friday, third Wednesday, froze whatever. I'm fifty four,

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he's sixty six, and everyone's sixty sixty eight, so it's

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kind of midway between us, and you can see there's

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a playfulness between them. I did discover something quite interesting

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about my neighbor today from his neighbor. His new neighbor. Now,

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my neighbor can't stop talking. He literally can't stop talking.

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He just talks, talks, talks. Apparently he talks when he's asleep.

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He doesn't even stop talking when he's asleep. So I

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don't know what and this, okay, I don't I was

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talking to the nurses about him talking because I was

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laughing about it, and they can't believe. I don't think

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they've ever met anyone who talks as much as him.

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They thought he was due to his condition, and I said, no,

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he's been like that since I've known him for ten years.

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I'm not saying that he's not affected by his condition,

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you know, I don't want to get in the way

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of any kind of medical intervention that might help. But yeah,

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they laughed, They said really, I said, yeah, there always

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been a chatterbox, But then I'm a chatterbox, and I

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do see myself in him. That sounds wrong, doesn't it,

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But I you know, I see myself. I tell I

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think part of the reason. It's not a conscious thing, but

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I think part of the reason why I I've helped

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him over the period the time I've been here and

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continue to do so, to try and help. Anyway, I'm

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not sure how helpful I am is because I see

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it's almost like I'm looking at him and that's me

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in twenty five years time, or twenty three years time,

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twenty six years time. Wait a minute, fifty four, fifty four,

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sixty four, seventy four, I'll be seventy five, it'll be

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seventy eight. That's twenty three years anyway, something like that.

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So you know, twenty three years, you know in some ways, Oh,

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it's a long time away, is it? Though? It is

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for someone who's ten, it is for someone who's twenty,

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It is for someone who's thirty, maybe someone who's forty.

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But it doesn't seem that far away now. I mean

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for someone who's twenty if you say, oh, in twenty

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twenty five years, don't look at you like really, I'll

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be an old age pinchner in twenty five years. Or

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if you say that to a twenty year old in

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twenty five years, like yeah, I remember when I was

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a kid. Okay, when I was a kid, when I

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was a younger man, in my twenties, even up to

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my mid twenties, I remember thinking, I'm not genuinely thinking

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if someone said, oh, you got some wrong on your leg,

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you're going to have to have it removed in twenty

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years time, wouldn't even care. It's like twenty years that's

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a lifetime away. I don't care about twenty years away now.

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If someone said that now, it'd be like, that's like

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telling me before Christmas, by the end of this year,

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you're going to have that. That's how close it seems,

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almost because it goes so quickly, so quickly. In twenty

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five years ago or twenty three years ago, even I

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was working in a core center in Churchill Insurance, and

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I felt old then. I felt old then. I think

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part of the reason was because I was working with

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when nearly everybody there was younger than me by a lot.

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So you know, I was thirty one, thirty two. There

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was people there in their early twenties, some even in

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late teens, and quite a few of them treated me

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like I was old, like really old. And there was

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this female I think she was probably about twenty, and

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she was in my team. She's quite new, and she

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oh god, I think I just finished to shift. So

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I get my phone out of my pocket. I'm just

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gonna look at it, so if I'd any texts or anything,

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and she starts laughing. She says, oh, ah, I didn't

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think you'd have a modern phone because it was a

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small phone. It's like, really, what did you think I'd

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have some kind of big satellite phone or bring out

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put out an egg cup with a bit of string

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attached to it, Like, what did you think I was

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going to use? It's a phone. It's just it is.

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It's some weird You may be using something something, something

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up to date. Yeah, and now as I get older,

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I'm thinking I was selling mobile phone contracts forty twenty

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four years ago. So my neighbor downstairs wasn't even live

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when I was selling mobile phone contracts. My neighbors stays.

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My neighbor downstairs. Wasn't I even alive when I was

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working at Churchill. I mean she was, Yeah, she wasn't alive.

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She wasn't even alive when I just when I'd finished

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working at Churchill. In fact, my neighbor downstairs was born

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a year before I started making recordings online. Because I've

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been doing it nineteen years. She's twenty. It's unbelievable, fully

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formed human being with her whole lifetime of experiences at

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the same time as me sitting here. We're not sitting

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here necessarily but making weird audios. And the youth it's

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beyond measure. I find a very confusing, I really do.

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And to make it worse, she's probably thirty times more

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mature than I am as a person like now. Not

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when when I was your age, I was like a

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what twenty I was? I was a child. Mentally I

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was a child. I can just hear like all many

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children when they entering in their age and no mental

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never grab up. Sure stop. This is about love, This

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is this is a gentle, loving place. Come on, come on,

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can't we just get along? He hey? Anyway, my neighbor

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he talks in his sleep. I didn't know that. I

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tried to explain that to his neighbor. I said, well,

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we don't sleep together. And I made a mistake. I

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said the wrong thing earlier. I've got a habit of

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doing this, just generally in life. I'm talking to one

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of the nurses and I'm just asking some questions and

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we just chatting. I said, oh, you've got lovely eyes.

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I didn't mean anything by it, and she punched me.

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Now she didn't. I said you got lovely eyes. I said, oh,

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sorry about that. And we carried on talking and apparently

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it was distracting her change in the cafeter but she

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didn't know it was behind the curtain. But it's and

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I thought, oh, bit, I might think. See. I didn't

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care about myself embarrassing myself. It's far. It's it's quite

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hard for me to embarrass myself these days. Although something

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did happen later on that was a bit embarrassing. Involved

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a toilet. I'll tell you that in a minute. Anyway,

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it started to bug me. I'm thinking she's at work,

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and this is someone that I've gotten quite well with

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ivid last week. It's really nice, very friendly. We have

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a laughing that, and I thought, that's that's that was

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just it was not on I can't be. It's you know,

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it's one thing if I was, even even if I was,

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I don't know, just paying someone a compliment. It's probably

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not the thing to do anymore. It used to be

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kind of okay when I was younger in my in

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my day, you know, in the seventeenth century. But and

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I thought, no, that's just can I apologize sins? I

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said it, And so I thought, you know what what

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I'll do is when there's no one else around, I

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just apologize to us. So I did. I said, Look,

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and then what I thought i'd do, okay, is i'd apologize.

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But it's part of me wanted to. I don't know,

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it's just it's just it's the cheeky, cheeky little monkey

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inside of me. So this is what I said to her.

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I said, I just I just want to apologize earlier

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if I was inappropriate when I said that you've got

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a lovely smile, and she said, oh, don't worry about it,

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and she's and she said, honestly, I said no, it

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was unprofession of me. And she laughed. And so now

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I'm thinking when she left, did she notice I said

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something different? Because before I said she had lovely eyes,

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and I said a lovely smile, and I thought, oh,

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that's wrong. I shouldn't, so I thought a better just

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changed side. As I left, I said, oh, by the

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way again before I go, I want to say so

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sorry for saying saying that you got already perky bum.

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I shouldn't. I didn't say that. I just I didn't.

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I actually didn't say goodbye to her because I didn't

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see her when I left. But I'm wondering if she

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if she noticed that I said something different. Is it

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just popped out in my mouth. It's a little bit like,

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I don't know. It's a bit like watching my my

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name try to eat more than one bald sweet at

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a time. One always seemed to pop out, one always

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fell on the floor. No, I didn't. I don't want

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to saying that. Leave my name alone. Blimey. It's like

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seeing it a hamster try and eat a gobstopper. Anyone's

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seen it. Everyone knows what a gobstopper is. Oh, my

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body's so sensitive. I'm just stroking my chest. I got

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a little it's a spot actually, I've thought it was

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a nipple. I thought, oh no, not a fifth nipple.

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So yeah, I he's all right. But he had he

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had this body scan, like a big old body scan

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on Friday morning, like you know, early hours before nine o'clock.

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I got Friday morning, and he still hasn't had the results,

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and I hung around hoping that he would get the

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results before I left. But by half a I think

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it was by about one o'clock, still no one had

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come to see him, and he was eating his dinner.

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So I just left him. I went downstairs to get

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him some stuff from the shop, and then I just

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came home. So I was going to give him a

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call tomorrow. I'm not going to go every single day

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this week because I don't think I can. I can't

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financially do it. But it's not just that I could

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get a bus. It's just a journey. I couldn't, you know.

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I got a taxi back today. I just couldn't face

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getting on a bus and two journeys and standing out

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in that sun. And so yeah, I just got the

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taxi back. And then I'm in the taxi just talking

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about technology and just some whatever, and just as we

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pull up outside my house. I notice he's got a camera.

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There's a little not only a camera, but there's a

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little screen. It's shown me and him together. There's one

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thing having a camera. It's fine. I've never seen myself

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on a little screen like that, And I said, I

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don't know. It was a little bit annoying. I think

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I felt a little bit trest passed upon because if

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I knew i'd been filmed, I think there's one thing

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being filmed without sound, because you know, you need to

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be filmed if what you're doing, you know, I guess

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that's okay, but I didn't really want my conversation recorded.

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I don't know. It felt a little bit intrusive, a

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little bit, a little bit, you know. And I mean

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I've been in places, I've been in taxis and cars

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where there's a camera. I just I don't take much

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notice of it. But I've never been anywhere before where

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there's actually a screen that shows you yourself being recorded.

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It made it more real. And there's a reason I

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don't film myself anymore because I don't like being on camera,

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which is a shame because my YouTube channel's going completely

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to nothing. Really, even though every recording I do is

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uploaded onto YouTube. I'm losing subscribers. I don't know why.

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That's funny, but it's Yeah, it's weird. I thought it

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would be quite handy to have it as a as

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a separate like there's another place to listen to the podcast,

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but ootube doesn't seem to agree. Agree agree. Yeah. So

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it's Monday, Monday, and that's it. I don't think there's

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anything else going on with the hospital visit today went there,

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I found out my other neighbor because I knew he

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used to be in a band. He was quite one

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of the and I say originators, but he's one of

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the originators of the psychedelic movement in this country. It

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started in America, but he he built a group and

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he was in a lot of he worked with a

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lot of really famous people in the sixties when the

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psychedelic movement was around, which would be I don't probably

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late sixties, maybe early seventies, late sixties, yeah, late sixties,

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because I know the Beatles were influenced by the psychedelic

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movement in sixty six, sixty seven, sixty eight, something like that.

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And he's literally it's in London recording an album. You know,

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he's still and he's think he's over eighty I think now,

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and he's still going. And he knows loads of people.

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But to him it's not they're not famous people. They're

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just people that he's known for sixty years. And it's weird.

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He said, something just off. This is by the way,

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this is somebody that does not brag. That's the thing

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about He's not a bragger. I'm a bragger. I just

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don't have anything to brag about. That's why you don't

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really hear me bragging because there's nothing to brag about.

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He's got loads to brag about, and he doesn't. But

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he will ask. He will answer questions, and not all questions,

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but he will, you know, if I ask him stuff.

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And he said the only Beatle member that he didn't

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meet was Paul McCartney. He met the other three and

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I said to okay, well, you know the next question

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I'm going to ask. And he said, what's that? How

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did I get my name? I said, no, because he's

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got I won't say because you're be about to look

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it up because he's on a Wikipedia page. He's not.

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He was well known, but he's not kind of like

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famous famous in a sense of possibly. Anyone under the

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age of seventies will have heard of possibly, Like I

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mean as in the period of time that he was

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well known with the seventies, late sixties and seventies, and

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but he worked on albums with a lot of famous

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artists over a long period of time. So I'm bragging

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about him. But he doesn't brag, um won if he

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brags about me? So I'm bragging about him telling people

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or one of my neighbors used to be in famous

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bands and stuff in the sixties and seventies, and I

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know him. Do you think he's saying the same kind

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of thing about me? Yeah, I got a neighbor. He's

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got a dog. What else is it to say? Yeah,

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he's got a dog? What else? You know? He's quite

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a nice bloke. You want to be trapped at a

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lift with him because he was just talking a lot

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of rubbish. But other than that, h yeah, he was

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saying something about he was It was at this gig

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what was it? The Birds? The Birds were playing this

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One of the birds were like huge. The band called

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the Birds b y r Ds, I do believe, And

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they were at a small club in London, and all

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the names went to this club on this occasion because

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they wanted to see them in concert. So my neighbor

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went along and it was jam packed. He was telling

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me this this morning, because I was asking him about

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acause I said to him, no, what was John Linnan like?

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And he said, exactly the same as you'd think, because

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at that time, that's when he was in the Beatles.

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And he said, sarcastic, funny, full of energy, and he

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just was kind of what you saw on TV. You know. Yeah,

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obviously he could be serious as well, but great sense

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of humor and yeah, and he said, basically, my neighbor said,

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he got into this club it is so jam packed.

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I don't know if it was Johnny Scott's or whatever.

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It is one of those big places, and he ended

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up I think it was one of the I think

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Pink Floyd's manager was there and knew him and called

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him over and invited him to go and sit on

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the table with John Lennon, and he ended up sitting

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between John between Pink Floyd's manager and John Lennon's wife

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at that time, and John Lennon's wife was sitting next

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to John Lennon. So he's literally just he'd never met

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John Lennon, and to be fair, there was no one

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more famous in the world of entertainment at that time

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than the Beatles. So even you know, he was in

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I imagine he was in awe of beating him. He

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got chatting to him and stuff. But in that situation,

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you'd probably just be like an ordinary person really, because

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you can't treat someone like they're a superstar. I've always

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They're probably not going to want to talk to you.

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I'm guessing, in fact, I find that way. I find

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that in the past when I when I when I

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act like a superstar, people don't like to talk to me.

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Who actually just generally people don't like to talk to me.

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Apart from the people that do. They're the ones that

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worry me though, you know, the people that want to

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sit down and actually, oh, tell me more. Jason, I'm like,

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I'm not sure if I do want to a little

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bit worried. Ooh yeah, he's some of my neighbors. That's

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a different neighbor. So the neighboring hospital is just waiting

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for his tests. And it was weird because today he

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started asking me questions about myself. Now I was expecting

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him to use this as an excuse to start to

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talk about sports, which is what he sometimes does. He

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asks questions and then it can lead him on to

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talking about something he wants to talk about, or maybe

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there was a subject that he wanted to talk about

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and he was trying to get me there by drawing

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me in, you know, by pretending to be interested in

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what I used to do. But he seemed genuinely interested.

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And he was asking me about the comedy, about doing

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stand up comedy in London, because I think I must

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have mentioned to him at some point, and he was

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asking me about people that I'd met. I think, yeah,

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because I think I was telling about the neighbor what

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I just told you. I was telling him about that,

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and he started asking me about me, about me and saying, now,

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who did you meet? I said, in London, you haven't

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met any famous people? And I said, he said, specifically

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famous comedians when I was on the comedy circuit, because

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I used to be involved in comedy for about ten

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years or twenty years really, but ten years solidly. And

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he said that he kept he had follow up questions,

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where did I go? How much was the gigs that people?

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How much the people pay to get in. I felt

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a little bit like he was trying to catch me out,

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like I was just lying and he was trying to

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find out if I was just telling porky pies. But

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the thing is why I'd have to be a bit

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silly to lie about my failures, wouldn't I because I

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wasn't successful. I never made out I was successful. Ever.

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I had some good gigs. I had a few really

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really brilliant gigs, but not many, and a few average

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gigs but not many. I would say, probably if you're

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going to go buy an audience response or the comedy

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promoter's response or the comedy club promoter, percentage wise, I

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would say, if you broke it up into good, I'll

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leave good and really good in the same category. So

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good okay, not really good, not okay bad, I'm good,

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so okay would be a few laughs okay would be

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where they didn't the promoter didn't get kicked out of

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the club and told they're never going to be able

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to allowed to have another night there of comedy because

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of what I'd said, So that would be an okay gig,

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but not necessarily a good gig for me. A bad

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gig that I had lots of those, especially in the

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first couple of years. The first year, I don't think

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I was even aware that they were bad. I was,

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I wasn't the most I don't know. I don't know

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what's this got to do with hospitals. Well, this conversation

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occurred in the hospital, so it is still part of

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the boring objects Monday's buying objects A and percentage wise,

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I would say probably I worked out. I think I

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had bit about I did about I worked out once.

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I did about two hundred and fifty gigs twenty and

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fifty twenty fifty performances over the period, and things did

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start to slow down once I got to nineteen ninety five,

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and I went through periods when I didn't do any

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comedy at all for months and months. So nineteen ninety four,

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A lot of this was to do with accommodation jobs

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situations where you know, I was I just couldn't either

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I was not interested or I didn't have the money

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to get to gigs anyway, So I didn't bother because

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there were some gigs I could just turn up at,

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like a talent contest that was every Thursday or every

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Wednesday or every other Thursday. You know, I think it

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was a downstairs at the King's Head was once a

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month on a Thursday, I do believe. And at the

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Comedy Cafe every Wednesday there was a new Act Night,

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which I performed there a lot, many, many, many times,

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pretty much every Wednesday for most of nineteen ninety one. Yeah,

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it's true. Wow, and quite a few ninety two, quite

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a few ninety three, ninety four, ninety five, sub ninety six,

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ninety seven and ninety eight. So yeah, I performed there

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over an eight year period, but less and less as

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the years went by. In nineteen ninety six, I was

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a security guard and I couldn't do any gigs at

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all because I was doing weird shifts. And you know what,

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this is strange. I don't think I performed on stage.

465
00:39:18.199 --> 00:39:21.519
I might be wrong, but I'm not sure if I

466
00:39:21.639 --> 00:39:25.920
performed on stage the whole of nineteen ninety six. So

467
00:39:25.960 --> 00:39:28.280
I thinking at the beginning of the year I was

468
00:39:28.320 --> 00:39:35.159
homeless and then managed to find somewhere to live, I

469
00:39:35.280 --> 00:39:37.239
might go and done a few gigs at the beginning

470
00:39:37.280 --> 00:39:40.119
of the year, possibly, And then I got the security

471
00:39:40.239 --> 00:39:48.800
job in around March nineteen ninety six, and I had

472
00:39:48.880 --> 00:39:52.960
that security job all the way toward the summer nineteen

473
00:39:53.079 --> 00:40:01.639
ninety seven, still about probably June, maybe July time, maybe

474
00:40:01.960 --> 00:40:06.599
May June nineteen ninety seven, So I had that I

475
00:40:06.679 --> 00:40:09.480
worked for that security company the whole time, and I

476
00:40:09.599 --> 00:40:16.800
was doing night shifts weekends. It was almost impossible for

477
00:40:16.960 --> 00:40:23.639
me to plan to do gigs to even because most

478
00:40:23.679 --> 00:40:26.119
of the gigs I did were free. You know, nearly

479
00:40:26.840 --> 00:40:29.559
all my gigs were just ones that I'd do for nothing.

480
00:40:29.920 --> 00:40:32.760
I'd do an open spot or turn up at the

481
00:40:32.800 --> 00:40:37.239
comedy cafe on a Wednesday night. So I'm sure I

482
00:40:37.320 --> 00:40:40.559
probably did a couple during that period, but I didn't

483
00:40:40.599 --> 00:40:44.079
do much in ninety six. That was really the tail

484
00:40:44.239 --> 00:40:50.400
end of my comedy non career, as it were. But

485
00:40:50.519 --> 00:40:55.360
that was also at the time when I was I

486
00:40:55.480 --> 00:41:03.119
was getting better. I was able to be more topical,

487
00:41:04.719 --> 00:41:07.119
and I found that I was I'm not saying that

488
00:41:07.159 --> 00:41:13.079
I was good, but I was a better than before,

489
00:41:14.440 --> 00:41:18.400
and by talking about topical things, it was I don't know,

490
00:41:18.639 --> 00:41:21.639
it just sometimes you don't even have to be particularly funny.

491
00:41:21.679 --> 00:41:27.719
I found by just saying something a bit silly about

492
00:41:28.159 --> 00:41:31.400
something that's really big in the news, it's just like

493
00:41:31.480 --> 00:41:33.639
a silly line. Sometimes get a little it might just

494
00:41:33.679 --> 00:41:36.880
get a little smirk or something, but I was still

495
00:41:36.920 --> 00:41:41.280
better than what I was used to getting. Well, I

496
00:41:41.320 --> 00:41:43.199
did say to be making anyone angry, that was That

497
00:41:43.320 --> 00:41:54.840
was the good thing. And nineteen so ninety seven, from

498
00:41:54.920 --> 00:41:58.639
the summer ninety seven to the end of end of

499
00:41:58.719 --> 00:42:03.199
ninety seven, I did do a few gigs. Yeah, I did,

500
00:42:03.480 --> 00:42:05.679
I went, I did, and went to a few gigs

501
00:42:05.719 --> 00:42:09.280
as well. So I performed a bit more at the

502
00:42:09.760 --> 00:42:14.159
latter part of ninety seven because I was back involved

503
00:42:14.239 --> 00:42:20.239
in comedy again. So I did Yeah, on a probably

504
00:42:23.239 --> 00:42:26.000
never at the weekend because I was busy at the weekends.

505
00:42:26.599 --> 00:42:32.159
But on a on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday night, I'd

506
00:42:32.199 --> 00:42:35.880
probably end up going to gigs, whether to just watch

507
00:42:35.960 --> 00:42:40.239
my friends who are other comedians performing, or to perform myself.

508
00:42:40.519 --> 00:42:42.119
Ones that I could just turn up at and they'd

509
00:42:42.159 --> 00:42:47.519
let me on. So that was pretty cool. And then

510
00:42:47.599 --> 00:42:55.719
in ninety eight January, I just did my very last gig. Ever,

511
00:42:57.719 --> 00:42:59.639
I didn't realize just my last gig, but it was

512
00:42:59.760 --> 00:43:06.320
the last performance. And yeah, I've just heard him go.

513
00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:11.440
He started barking then because someone sneezing in the garden

514
00:43:12.159 --> 00:43:15.880
or well it was outside this building. It might have

515
00:43:15.880 --> 00:43:19.440
been in the building, but outside where I live. It

516
00:43:19.559 --> 00:43:27.679
was just a little sneeze and thinking, so yeah, I

517
00:43:30.119 --> 00:43:33.199
why oh yeah, because because my neighbor in hospital. He

518
00:43:33.280 --> 00:43:37.559
was just asking me all these questions, and I was thinking,

519
00:43:37.639 --> 00:43:41.039
what's the catch, How's he going to lead on to

520
00:43:41.920 --> 00:43:51.199
talking about football or sport? And yeah, he seemed almost

521
00:43:54.000 --> 00:44:02.239
almost interested in what I was saying. Weird, So because

522
00:44:02.239 --> 00:44:10.159
he's absolutely he's phonetic. It's a phonetic about sport. I

523
00:44:10.280 --> 00:44:16.280
mean on a level that I've never seen before. Loves sport. Oh.

524
00:44:16.360 --> 00:44:19.639
What I did do is because he was saying he

525
00:44:19.639 --> 00:44:22.960
didn't want the TV on, And they've got these TVs

526
00:44:23.320 --> 00:44:26.119
not like the some of the NHS TVs are not

527
00:44:26.639 --> 00:44:29.960
great quality screens. And there the ones that are the

528
00:44:30.159 --> 00:44:31.920
side of the bed and you have to pay five

529
00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:35.280
pounds a day to have it. These TVs are free

530
00:44:35.320 --> 00:44:40.880
to use and they're decent TVs. And his one was unplucked.

531
00:44:41.239 --> 00:44:43.840
So and the person next to hims had his TV

532
00:44:43.960 --> 00:44:48.079
on the whole time. Now, I didn't realize how good

533
00:44:48.440 --> 00:44:52.440
the screen was the picture because I've never looked at

534
00:44:52.519 --> 00:44:56.760
the other blokes TV. And I said to my neighbor

535
00:44:57.840 --> 00:45:02.039
in hospital. I said, I'm saying not that he's in hospital,

536
00:45:02.119 --> 00:45:05.199
because I've talked about a few different neighbors. I want

537
00:45:05.199 --> 00:45:08.960
you to know who we're talking about, who I'm gossiping about.

538
00:45:11.079 --> 00:45:14.599
I said to him, you know, Wimbledon's starting today, and

539
00:45:14.679 --> 00:45:20.639
he starts talking about Wimbledon, and I said, well, why

540
00:45:20.679 --> 00:45:24.039
don't you watch it? Oh no, I'm happy with my tablet.

541
00:45:24.519 --> 00:45:26.920
I said, you've got a good You've got a television

542
00:45:27.039 --> 00:45:32.280
up there, a big screen. Well compared to his little tablet.

543
00:45:32.320 --> 00:45:35.480
It's a big screen. It's not they're not they're not

544
00:45:35.599 --> 00:45:40.280
big TVs, but probably twenty four inches or thirty inches

545
00:45:40.400 --> 00:45:44.239
or something. They're not. They're not little, but they're not

546
00:45:44.960 --> 00:45:48.000
big A nice size. If you're in a really small

547
00:45:48.079 --> 00:45:54.480
room and it's up, it's kind of I think it's

548
00:45:56.679 --> 00:45:58.679
I wonder if they could be moved down. I'm going

549
00:45:58.760 --> 00:46:01.880
to ask that. I don't maybe they can be. I

550
00:46:01.920 --> 00:46:04.880
would need it moved down for me because with my

551
00:46:04.960 --> 00:46:12.000
eyesight and it, I would need it closer. And it

552
00:46:12.159 --> 00:46:14.920
was unplugged. So between me and his neighbor next to him,

553
00:46:15.679 --> 00:46:18.400
I got the TV plugged in because he said, oh,

554
00:46:18.480 --> 00:46:21.079
it's not working. I said, oh, and then we had

555
00:46:21.119 --> 00:46:24.599
to find remote control. A nurse went and got remote

556
00:46:24.599 --> 00:46:27.599
control that he could use, which was exactly the same

557
00:46:27.639 --> 00:46:29.840
as a remote control I've got here in my hand.

558
00:46:30.519 --> 00:46:32.400
And he might be thinking, why are you Why have

559
00:46:32.440 --> 00:46:35.800
you got a TV remote control in your hand? Because

560
00:46:35.800 --> 00:46:38.880
I just picked it up. That's why it's just there

561
00:46:38.960 --> 00:46:41.960
to the left. I've not had a remote control in

562
00:46:42.119 --> 00:46:44.920
my hand the whole time I've been talking. That would

563
00:46:44.960 --> 00:46:54.920
be strange. It might not be strange. I've had a

564
00:46:54.960 --> 00:47:00.880
can of whipped cream though. Yeah, so he said to me.

565
00:47:01.320 --> 00:47:03.280
I said to him, and then he said to me.

566
00:47:03.360 --> 00:47:05.599
Then I said to him, So I plucked it in,

567
00:47:05.760 --> 00:47:09.199
turned it on. We got the TV onto it was.

568
00:47:11.679 --> 00:47:16.000
It was a political program on BBC two and then

569
00:47:16.679 --> 00:47:21.840
the live coverage of Wimbledon starting at I think eleven

570
00:47:21.960 --> 00:47:28.800
thirty in the morning. And once it started, he started

571
00:47:28.880 --> 00:47:34.880
to be distracted by it, and I thought, yeah, this

572
00:47:35.079 --> 00:47:40.239
is good because once football is on, or rugby or cricket,

573
00:47:41.119 --> 00:47:46.760
he's now got a distraction. And it was kind of

574
00:47:46.800 --> 00:47:51.280
funny because we were talking and it was it was

575
00:47:51.320 --> 00:47:58.440
a women's tennis match and it was just grunting. It

576
00:47:58.559 --> 00:48:04.760
was like ah and it was. I don't know. I

577
00:48:04.880 --> 00:48:06.760
just found it quite funny because it seemed a little

578
00:48:06.760 --> 00:48:12.159
bit inappropriate for well, for where we were, just to

579
00:48:12.280 --> 00:48:15.360
hear because I kept thinking, I forgot the TV was on,

580
00:48:15.800 --> 00:48:18.679
because I've been going in there for however long and

581
00:48:18.760 --> 00:48:22.159
the TV has never been on, so any sounds like

582
00:48:22.280 --> 00:48:24.360
that I'm used to hearing. Maybe he is from a

583
00:48:24.440 --> 00:48:32.480
different ward, because there's there's six different wards on that ward.

584
00:48:33.800 --> 00:48:40.440
That makes sense, So yeah, it's a ward, but there's

585
00:48:40.559 --> 00:48:45.719
six different rooms with four beds in each, and then

586
00:48:45.760 --> 00:48:49.679
there's a couple of other kind of single rooms which

587
00:48:49.719 --> 00:48:55.159
I'm thinking might be private. Perhaps, I don't know, I'm

588
00:48:55.199 --> 00:49:01.480
not sure. So he it was weird. I don't know

589
00:49:01.559 --> 00:49:03.320
what other people must have thought, if they'd have heard

590
00:49:03.360 --> 00:49:06.360
all that grunting coming out of the TV or out

591
00:49:06.360 --> 00:49:11.599
of our ward. I think they're also single sex wards,

592
00:49:13.119 --> 00:49:17.880
so the men there's women in that big ward that

593
00:49:17.960 --> 00:49:22.440
he's in, but not in his particular ward. Does this

594
00:49:22.559 --> 00:49:25.440
make sense? It seems to be too many wards. I'm

595
00:49:25.519 --> 00:49:29.920
using the word ward too often. Four wards, six wards

596
00:49:29.960 --> 00:49:37.800
in one ward. But yeah, it's I've not been in

597
00:49:37.880 --> 00:49:40.599
the other wards, but I have. Actually I went in

598
00:49:40.679 --> 00:49:48.280
one by accident, and that was all females, and I thought, well,

599
00:49:48.360 --> 00:49:53.440
it looks like my neighbor, but it wasn't. Do you

600
00:49:53.480 --> 00:49:55.719
ever get that where you see someone and you just think, oh,

601
00:49:57.800 --> 00:50:03.079
and it's not the person. You try to adapt, so adapt,

602
00:50:03.239 --> 00:50:05.119
you know, scrunch your face up a little bit and

603
00:50:05.559 --> 00:50:09.039
close your eyes half half so it makes them look

604
00:50:09.039 --> 00:50:11.280
a bit more like the person that you think they

605
00:50:11.320 --> 00:50:23.760
should look like. No, okay, And then I left. So

606
00:50:25.239 --> 00:50:30.199
I spent probably four and a half five hours with him.

607
00:50:31.519 --> 00:50:37.239
I never left it half one or maybe it was one,

608
00:50:39.079 --> 00:50:42.679
and not sure. I think it was. He didn't eat

609
00:50:42.679 --> 00:50:45.480
his fish and chips. They're still on the side. No

610
00:50:45.519 --> 00:50:49.119
one's noticed. They're still on the side of his bed,

611
00:50:49.639 --> 00:50:53.840
like on his bedside cabinet thing. And it's going to

612
00:50:53.880 --> 00:50:57.719
start stinking at some point, isn't there fish? It's been

613
00:50:57.800 --> 00:51:03.320
there since Friday? No one's not. You're going to start noting.

614
00:51:03.360 --> 00:51:05.719
There's be going to be cats. Why is there so

615
00:51:05.800 --> 00:51:07.920
many cats in the ward? Where they're coming from? Why

616
00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:11.119
they're coming in there? They'll all be climbing up to

617
00:51:11.239 --> 00:51:14.079
the windows. Went now on a big ladder, a cat ladder?

618
00:51:15.400 --> 00:51:18.320
Is there such a thing as a cat ladder. I

619
00:51:18.360 --> 00:51:20.679
suppose they could all just climb on each other's backs

620
00:51:20.760 --> 00:51:26.880
and make a big heap. I don't know if that's possible. Oh,

621
00:51:27.119 --> 00:51:30.679
you know what I forgot to do today. I was

622
00:51:30.719 --> 00:51:34.079
going to ask somebody if I'm able to take Vinnie

623
00:51:34.159 --> 00:51:36.440
with me to see my neighbor, because he keeps asking

624
00:51:36.480 --> 00:51:40.679
about him and he wants to see him. And another

625
00:51:40.840 --> 00:51:46.320
person who walks their dog told me that sometimes the

626
00:51:46.440 --> 00:51:52.760
hospital does allow depending on the patient's situation. They do

627
00:51:52.920 --> 00:51:58.719
allow hospital visits with a dog, but in a specific

628
00:51:58.840 --> 00:52:02.519
part of the hospital. So he'd have to go to

629
00:52:02.639 --> 00:52:04.239
that part of the hospital and I'd have to take

630
00:52:04.320 --> 00:52:07.079
Vinnie there and he could sort of spend time with him.

631
00:52:08.320 --> 00:52:11.400
The alternative is if he comes outside. I know, I

632
00:52:11.440 --> 00:52:15.760
can take Vinnie outside the grounds of hospital and he

633
00:52:15.840 --> 00:52:22.840
could come downstairs. But he can't. Really, I don't know

634
00:52:22.920 --> 00:52:30.519
how to explain this, but he doesn't seem to the

635
00:52:30.639 --> 00:52:32.920
mobility he had a week ago doesn't seem to be

636
00:52:33.039 --> 00:52:38.239
there for some reason, you know, before. I think it's

637
00:52:38.320 --> 00:52:41.079
been going downhill a little bit. Just I think it's

638
00:52:41.119 --> 00:52:45.800
his age maybe. But the week before he went in hospital,

639
00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:49.719
he was walking around every day, going to the Petro

640
00:52:49.840 --> 00:52:55.719
station taking strides. You know, he wasn't like now, he's

641
00:52:55.760 --> 00:52:58.719
walking one foot next to another, next to the other

642
00:53:00.079 --> 00:53:02.199
when I take him outside. I couldn't take him outside

643
00:53:02.239 --> 00:53:04.639
today because I was waiting for the doctor and the

644
00:53:04.719 --> 00:53:06.679
other day we went out and the doctor came while

645
00:53:06.719 --> 00:53:16.639
we were out. Its not ideal. But he's really walking

646
00:53:17.159 --> 00:53:23.840
very very slowly and at times holding onto me. So

647
00:53:24.000 --> 00:53:27.079
I don't know. It might be a confidence thing. It

648
00:53:27.400 --> 00:53:30.719
might just he might have a similar thing to me

649
00:53:30.920 --> 00:53:37.719
where it's there's too many people. He's not used to that.

650
00:53:38.480 --> 00:53:42.320
He's not used to be walking down a hallway with

651
00:53:43.639 --> 00:53:48.119
let's face it, thousands of people coming and going, you know,

652
00:53:48.760 --> 00:53:52.639
and everyone's walking at different angles, different directions, people walking

653
00:53:52.719 --> 00:53:58.920
directly at you, and trolley's and you know, all sort

654
00:53:58.960 --> 00:54:06.840
of people on gurney and deliveries and all kinds of stuff.

655
00:54:08.440 --> 00:54:13.639
No parachutes and no elephants. But you know, I'm not

656
00:54:13.679 --> 00:54:15.559
saying everything's in the hallway, but it's quite a lot

657
00:54:15.599 --> 00:54:20.159
of stuff. So I don't know how much of it

658
00:54:20.320 --> 00:54:24.000
is that. But he doesn't go downstairs on his own.

659
00:54:24.760 --> 00:54:27.000
He doesn't go he doesn't go to the shop on

660
00:54:27.079 --> 00:54:31.639
his own, which a week ago he would have done

661
00:54:32.320 --> 00:54:35.400
before he went in there. He would have just you know,

662
00:54:36.000 --> 00:54:38.679
if he was visiting someone. Let's say, if he was

663
00:54:38.760 --> 00:54:41.400
visiting me and I said, oh, I need a bottle

664
00:54:41.400 --> 00:54:44.840
of coke, or can you get me some cheese, which

665
00:54:44.920 --> 00:54:49.000
is what he wanted today. Can you get me something

666
00:54:49.039 --> 00:54:52.239
from the shop? He just said, yeah, okay, you need

667
00:54:52.320 --> 00:54:58.840
have gone down and got it for me. So yeah,

668
00:54:58.920 --> 00:55:04.920
there's a that's a difference that I've noticed. And he's

669
00:55:04.960 --> 00:55:09.519
not talking as loudly as he used to. He's still

670
00:55:09.639 --> 00:55:13.679
talking unstop, but it is how much quieter talk because

671
00:55:13.679 --> 00:55:15.800
I can't hear him sometimes I kind of have to

672
00:55:15.920 --> 00:55:18.840
get closer to him and then he just goes boom

673
00:55:19.559 --> 00:55:27.880
in my ear makes me jump. So I was going

674
00:55:27.960 --> 00:55:31.360
to do some washing today, some laundry. What do I

675
00:55:31.480 --> 00:55:35.639
say to him? I said something, I've got to do

676
00:55:35.760 --> 00:55:42.519
some laundry today. He said, he thought I said something else.

677
00:55:45.119 --> 00:55:55.519
What sounds like laundry? Now for what I said, law degree,

678
00:55:58.400 --> 00:56:00.719
So I need to start. You need to do some

679
00:56:01.000 --> 00:56:08.960
law do some laundry. And he said, oh, when are

680
00:56:08.960 --> 00:56:13.519
you starting that? I said what I said, so afternoon.

681
00:56:13.599 --> 00:56:20.880
He said, oh, I said yeah. He so like, well,

682
00:56:20.920 --> 00:56:22.519
I didn't know why it was so interested in me

683
00:56:22.639 --> 00:56:27.000
doing my laundry, because I'll be honest now i'll break

684
00:56:27.039 --> 00:56:29.199
this to you. I don't want to come across as

685
00:56:29.280 --> 00:56:34.800
being ungrateful or negative, but I don't get a huge

686
00:56:34.880 --> 00:56:37.480
kick from doing the laundry. It doesn't give me the

687
00:56:38.239 --> 00:56:40.920
it doesn't give me everything I hoped I hoped out

688
00:56:40.920 --> 00:56:45.840
all life. You know. It's but at the same time,

689
00:56:45.920 --> 00:56:48.039
it's a hell of lot easier than going to the laundret,

690
00:56:48.880 --> 00:56:52.480
which is what I did for most of my adult life,

691
00:56:53.199 --> 00:56:57.840
well since the age of sixteen. So I do appreciate

692
00:56:57.960 --> 00:56:59.960
not going to the laundret. And if I didn't have

693
00:57:00.199 --> 00:57:04.239
washing machine, I would do my washing by hand. I'm

694
00:57:04.360 --> 00:57:10.960
never going to a laundrette again, especially as the Yeah,

695
00:57:11.119 --> 00:57:14.320
the local laundrette, what there isn't one. So the closest

696
00:57:14.360 --> 00:57:17.519
laundrette is about six miles away, six and a half

697
00:57:17.599 --> 00:57:22.760
miles away, So yeah, I'm not getting there. Yeah, but

698
00:57:22.800 --> 00:57:24.280
I used to because I used to live across the

699
00:57:24.360 --> 00:57:27.119
road from there. Even then it was it was a

700
00:57:27.320 --> 00:57:31.480
struggle still used to do. I used to wash my

701
00:57:31.559 --> 00:57:35.239
stuff by hands sometimes. Then I just couldn't face going

702
00:57:35.320 --> 00:57:39.800
over there. I guess I didn't have the same relationship

703
00:57:39.880 --> 00:57:43.199
with her the launderette ladies I did with the laundrette

704
00:57:43.280 --> 00:57:48.039
lady in Stratford in London, although I did end up

705
00:57:48.079 --> 00:57:52.400
being friends of her. There's two ways it can go.

706
00:57:53.880 --> 00:58:00.679
I found with someone that washes your underpants, okay, on

707
00:58:01.079 --> 00:58:08.880
a regular basis. So the relationship is probably in some

708
00:58:09.079 --> 00:58:13.280
ways the most intimate relationship I have ever had with

709
00:58:14.400 --> 00:58:26.480
a female. It's something very there's a lot of unsaid stuff,

710
00:58:27.639 --> 00:58:35.119
you know, It's like an understanding. I no amount of money,

711
00:58:35.639 --> 00:58:38.639
no amount of money that I gave my launderette ladies

712
00:58:39.480 --> 00:58:45.360
for washing my clothes was compensation enough for what they

713
00:58:45.440 --> 00:58:49.000
had to go through, is you know, for handling my

714
00:58:49.639 --> 00:58:55.880
washing my underpants or whatever. So I realized that, and

715
00:58:57.119 --> 00:59:01.760
I've always realized that right from an early age. I thought, yeah,

716
00:59:02.079 --> 00:59:05.360
it's a job I wouldn't particularly want to do out

717
00:59:05.519 --> 00:59:09.679
and I've had some really grotty jobs and I don't.

718
00:59:09.840 --> 00:59:12.039
It's just something I don't think i'd really I feel

719
00:59:12.039 --> 00:59:19.320
I'd rather I'd rather work down the sewers. I think

720
00:59:20.159 --> 00:59:25.320
they do that. It just yeah, it's so I had.

721
00:59:26.119 --> 00:59:29.599
But the difference is instead of like it's not looking

722
00:59:29.719 --> 00:59:35.159
down at someone doing a job is admiration. That's how

723
00:59:35.239 --> 00:59:38.440
I feel. I admire someone who can do something like that,

724
00:59:39.079 --> 00:59:44.239
something that I don't think I could do, and it's

725
00:59:44.480 --> 00:59:48.679
just because it would just it's I don't have the rights.

726
00:59:52.360 --> 00:59:55.159
There's a certain skill set that I just don't have

727
00:59:56.800 --> 01:00:00.239
to do something like that to do that kind of work.

728
01:00:00.400 --> 01:00:02.920
So I've got a lot of admiration. I do admire

729
01:00:02.960 --> 01:00:05.719
people that can do things that I can't do, which

730
01:00:05.800 --> 01:00:08.320
means I admire probably most of the people in the world.

731
01:00:08.880 --> 01:00:12.079
Because I can't really do too much. I can talk

732
01:00:12.440 --> 01:00:18.719
absolutely rubbish for an hour. I'm quite good at watching television.

733
01:00:21.960 --> 01:00:25.800
That's about it. Really, I ain't got much else to me.

734
01:00:26.039 --> 01:00:34.599
It's that's my skill. My skill is just talking absolute

735
01:00:35.599 --> 01:00:40.280
warbly bobbly for whatever, you know, an hour, hour and

736
01:00:40.360 --> 01:00:44.920
a half. I've been talking for an hour. I've not

737
01:00:45.000 --> 01:00:50.079
even got on to the subject of boring hospital stories.

738
01:00:51.119 --> 01:00:56.599
Apart from I guess this last hour being boring. I

739
01:00:56.719 --> 01:01:04.440
can't stop talking. What's going on. By the way, I don't.

740
01:01:05.159 --> 01:01:09.800
I don't want this podcast to turn into me talking

741
01:01:09.800 --> 01:01:13.159
about hospitals the whole time. That's that's not my intention.

742
01:01:13.840 --> 01:01:17.519
So if you feel that's happening, let me know. But

743
01:01:19.840 --> 01:01:22.559
over the years, what you may have noticed, if you've

744
01:01:22.639 --> 01:01:27.079
been following me for a while is I do talk

745
01:01:27.159 --> 01:01:30.440
about what's going on in my life as well as

746
01:01:32.360 --> 01:01:36.159
making up a lot of just silly stuff. This so

747
01:01:36.320 --> 01:01:39.599
this is one of those occasions where I'm I'm kind

748
01:01:39.639 --> 01:01:47.679
of intertwining reality and stupidity, I guess, instead of being

749
01:01:47.840 --> 01:01:54.360
mainly stupidity. So I try and mix it up a

750
01:01:54.480 --> 01:02:11.639
little bit, just just a little bit. And yeah, I said,

751
01:02:12.519 --> 01:02:17.400
I guess because I didn't do Did I do recording yesterday?

752
01:02:17.480 --> 01:02:19.639
I think I did? Didn't I I think I did.

753
01:02:19.840 --> 01:02:22.280
Didn't do one Saturday? Did a Q and a Friday.

754
01:02:22.840 --> 01:02:27.320
I think yesterday. By the way, you might be able

755
01:02:27.360 --> 01:02:32.360
to hear some background music. Sorry about that, but it's summer.

756
01:02:32.880 --> 01:02:38.840
Everyone's got their windows open rightly, so and you know

757
01:02:38.960 --> 01:02:44.400
what yesterday I was I'd made a recording in the afternoon,

758
01:02:46.679 --> 01:02:50.360
and I could hear the neighbors shouting as I was

759
01:02:50.440 --> 01:02:55.639
doing the editing, and I thought, wow, if you can

760
01:02:55.719 --> 01:03:00.880
hear that on this microphone, then that just shows you

761
01:03:01.039 --> 01:03:05.400
how loud it was. Because they're not in my garden,

762
01:03:05.599 --> 01:03:12.840
in a different garden, over a fence, just shows you

763
01:03:12.960 --> 01:03:19.400
how loud it was, but it didn't seem to be continuous.

764
01:03:20.679 --> 01:03:25.000
That was just a particular ra ra ra like that.

765
01:03:27.199 --> 01:03:29.159
I mean, I think I just made more sense than

766
01:03:29.639 --> 01:03:37.440
the person that was shouting. But yeah, kind of. So

767
01:03:37.559 --> 01:03:41.119
I've been in hospital twice. Oh, now we start the

768
01:03:41.199 --> 01:03:44.199
recording an hour into it. Begin to start, now, are

769
01:03:44.280 --> 01:03:51.480
we well? Okay, calm down. I've been hospital twice. I

770
01:03:51.559 --> 01:03:56.719
had my adenoids out when I was seven, I was

771
01:03:56.719 --> 01:03:59.639
about eight. I think it was even just before I

772
01:03:59.719 --> 01:04:02.559
was a or just after. I think it was just

773
01:04:02.639 --> 01:04:06.519
before I was eight years old. Now, the reason I

774
01:04:06.760 --> 01:04:10.880
had my adenoids out is because I was partially deaf.

775
01:04:11.840 --> 01:04:32.800
We have a drink of water. Ah, yeah, so it's

776
01:04:32.920 --> 01:04:40.119
basically just start. It started with h So I was

777
01:04:40.159 --> 01:04:42.800
in junior school and I started having to go to

778
01:04:43.480 --> 01:04:49.519
the nurse. So I was getting earaches, and progressively it

779
01:04:49.599 --> 01:04:55.440
was kind of becoming really really regular. I don't know

780
01:04:55.559 --> 01:04:57.760
how much I was skiving. If I'm honest with you,

781
01:05:00.280 --> 01:05:02.639
I might have just liked the nurse. I don't know,

782
01:05:02.800 --> 01:05:08.800
I can't remember, but I think I might. I told

783
01:05:08.840 --> 01:05:14.880
her she had nice eyes. It's possible this inappropriateness started

784
01:05:15.079 --> 01:05:24.039
many very very young. I said, oh, yeah, I had

785
01:05:24.239 --> 01:05:28.719
my I didn't know what was going on. And then

786
01:05:28.800 --> 01:05:31.119
I started going to the I get sent to the doctors.

787
01:05:31.599 --> 01:05:35.320
Then I got son to the hospital, and they started

788
01:05:35.400 --> 01:05:40.159
testing my ears and to see what was wrong with

789
01:05:40.199 --> 01:05:42.840
my ears. And they started testing my ears as in

790
01:05:43.480 --> 01:05:48.119
not just looking through them and stuff through them. I've

791
01:05:48.159 --> 01:05:51.880
been through them, but into them with those little eye

792
01:05:51.960 --> 01:05:58.400
things that they do. But they started to give me

793
01:05:58.480 --> 01:06:03.239
hearing tests and I was partially deaf in my ear. Now,

794
01:06:04.000 --> 01:06:08.639
they said, that explains why I'm so behind at school,

795
01:06:11.519 --> 01:06:13.480
and it's really weird. I seem to be the only

796
01:06:13.559 --> 01:06:17.559
one that was surprised at that statement. I didn't know

797
01:06:17.559 --> 01:06:25.639
I was behind a school. I said, look, it's Andre

798
01:06:25.760 --> 01:06:30.119
and I'm behind. I'm wow. I finished staring at me.

799
01:06:30.199 --> 01:06:33.320
Are you staring at me for? Were you staring at

800
01:06:33.360 --> 01:06:36.519
You're deady for? I think he's just happy to have

801
01:06:36.679 --> 01:06:40.559
me home. I spent the whole weekend with him here

802
01:06:40.719 --> 01:06:46.519
this weekend, and it was boring, but he seemed so

803
01:06:46.679 --> 01:06:49.519
much happy to have me here. He was cuddled up

804
01:06:49.599 --> 01:06:52.000
to me. Weren't you You were happy to have your

805
01:06:52.039 --> 01:06:54.679
daddy back? Wasn't here for a couple of days and

806
01:06:54.760 --> 01:06:56.920
I'm here tomorrow as well, So I'll spend all day

807
01:06:56.960 --> 01:07:01.840
with him tomorrow, and then I'll go on Wednesday for

808
01:07:01.960 --> 01:07:05.599
a bit visit, and then Thursday, I'll have all day

809
01:07:05.679 --> 01:07:08.880
with my little baby again on Thursday, won't I Yeah,

810
01:07:09.760 --> 01:07:13.679
then I'll go up to visit uncle. My uncle sausages,

811
01:07:13.800 --> 01:07:17.000
that's what Vinny calls him, Uncle's sausages because he gives

812
01:07:17.079 --> 01:07:25.480
him sausages. And I will then have the weekend off again.

813
01:07:26.119 --> 01:07:27.800
So I'm not going to go up at the weekends,

814
01:07:27.840 --> 01:07:34.599
and I'm going to go on Monday, Wednesday free right day. Yeah, depending,

815
01:07:34.679 --> 01:07:39.039
of course, I'm upon the situation. You know, if he

816
01:07:39.119 --> 01:07:41.159
called me up and said, can you please come tomorrow,

817
01:07:41.159 --> 01:07:45.480
I'll go. There's not an issue with that. But generally

818
01:07:45.719 --> 01:07:49.519
I told him i'll be there Wednesday. I'll call him

819
01:07:49.519 --> 01:07:52.000
tomorrow I see how he is. But if he needed

820
01:07:52.119 --> 01:07:56.440
me to go up, then I would go up. I mean,

821
01:07:56.679 --> 01:07:58.280
if he needed me to go up now, i'd go up.

822
01:07:58.320 --> 01:08:00.719
Now you know, I'll go back, So it's not that

823
01:08:00.800 --> 01:08:05.119
ain't no problem. You know, I've told him my phone

824
01:08:05.199 --> 01:08:07.800
is on anytime if he needs to call me in

825
01:08:07.840 --> 01:08:14.280
which he did over the weekend, and I'm kind of

826
01:08:14.400 --> 01:08:18.079
his I could say lifeline, that's very dramatic. But I'm

827
01:08:19.359 --> 01:08:22.479
I'm someone that he can just contact if he just

828
01:08:22.560 --> 01:08:28.159
wants to just update me on stuff, you know, even

829
01:08:28.199 --> 01:08:32.920
if it's And he phoned me up yesterday to talk

830
01:08:32.960 --> 01:08:37.119
about Jaws the movie, and him and his neighbor in

831
01:08:37.239 --> 01:08:40.079
there they were having like a little quiz quizzy game

832
01:08:40.560 --> 01:08:46.000
talking about movies, and they were trying to remember the

833
01:08:46.880 --> 01:08:51.680
main character that the actual actors in Jaws. So you

834
01:08:51.800 --> 01:08:58.960
add Robert Shaw, David schne or Snyder. I forget what

835
01:08:59.079 --> 01:09:04.680
his first name is, and I've lost his name again.

836
01:09:04.720 --> 01:09:12.560
I did remember it. He was in Uh do Do

837
01:09:12.880 --> 01:09:18.399
Do Do do? That movie something of the Close Encounters

838
01:09:18.439 --> 01:09:22.279
of the third kind. So it's those three that were

839
01:09:22.319 --> 01:09:28.399
in that movie. They were the stars and Schneider who

840
01:09:28.560 --> 01:09:32.640
what was his first name? But Robert Shaw was the

841
01:09:33.279 --> 01:09:36.560
He was a captain, the captain of the of the

842
01:09:37.439 --> 01:09:45.760
the boat and what's his name? Do do do do do? That?

843
01:09:46.039 --> 01:09:53.680
That bloke he was also in it is it Schneider

844
01:09:53.760 --> 01:09:55.760
that says, oh, you need to get a bigger boat.

845
01:09:56.199 --> 01:09:59.319
I think how's a good line in it need to

846
01:09:59.319 --> 01:10:05.600
get a bigger boat. There was a movie called The

847
01:10:05.720 --> 01:10:09.319
Perfect Storm, and I think this is in the two thousands,

848
01:10:10.399 --> 01:10:14.039
and it was basically a really big storm as basically

849
01:10:14.079 --> 01:10:19.039
what was around a boat in a storm, really big

850
01:10:19.119 --> 01:10:26.279
boat in a really bigger storm. And I remember seeing

851
01:10:26.560 --> 01:10:33.880
the trailer for this movie on television and in the

852
01:10:34.000 --> 01:10:37.079
trailer this is when it was like being released at

853
01:10:37.119 --> 01:10:40.600
the cinema. In the trailer, it was a bloke from

854
01:10:41.039 --> 01:10:47.119
a beautiful mind what's his name, and Gladiator, so he

855
01:10:47.319 --> 01:10:51.840
was the star of this movie. In the trailer, there's

856
01:10:51.880 --> 01:10:57.520
a part where there's this massive wave coming and Gladiator,

857
01:10:57.520 --> 01:11:05.479
a beautiful mind man shouts out hold on. At that point,

858
01:11:05.560 --> 01:11:10.159
I thought, I'm never going to watch that movie. If

859
01:11:10.279 --> 01:11:14.479
that's going to be the hook word hold on. If

860
01:11:14.520 --> 01:11:16.680
that's the best they can do in a situation like that,

861
01:11:16.880 --> 01:11:18.880
just shout hold on, then no, I'm not going to

862
01:11:18.920 --> 01:11:22.800
watch it. Sorry. If that, if that's the level of dialogue,

863
01:11:25.239 --> 01:11:29.399
I just I don't know why it just But there again,

864
01:11:29.520 --> 01:11:33.920
I had the same I had the same opinion about Gladiator.

865
01:11:34.319 --> 01:11:36.079
I thought, I'm not watching this, but it was a

866
01:11:36.159 --> 01:11:39.199
great movie. I've found it to be a great movie.

867
01:11:41.039 --> 01:11:43.199
I need to be specific, and I mean it was

868
01:11:43.279 --> 01:11:49.239
class is a great movie. By the critics and by

869
01:11:49.319 --> 01:11:57.560
the audience members. But I can only go by what

870
01:11:57.760 --> 01:12:02.640
I found, and it was I partly watched Gladiator too,

871
01:12:04.840 --> 01:12:09.600
But I made this error because I got this little

872
01:12:10.239 --> 01:12:15.600
walking machine. It's really cheap, nasty for members, and I

873
01:12:15.720 --> 01:12:19.199
got it about a year and a half ago. But

874
01:12:19.319 --> 01:12:26.439
it's really honestly, it's it doesn't feel safe even walking

875
01:12:26.479 --> 01:12:30.800
on it like a treadmill. Bit. It's really tacky, and

876
01:12:31.960 --> 01:12:35.560
I'm a little bit worried about the carpet underneath. Seriously,

877
01:12:37.359 --> 01:12:39.279
but I thought, you know what, I'm going to give

878
01:12:39.279 --> 01:12:44.359
it a go. So I started watching Gladiator, and I thought,

879
01:12:44.399 --> 01:12:46.000
I'm only going to walk and I walked on it

880
01:12:46.039 --> 01:12:49.359
for about an hour, no half an hour maybe, So

881
01:12:49.359 --> 01:12:51.079
I said, I'm only going to walk on it when

882
01:12:51.119 --> 01:12:56.239
I watched Gladiator. Actually that's not what I thought. I thought,

883
01:12:56.279 --> 01:13:00.640
I'm never going to walk on it again, because it's rubbish. No,

884
01:13:00.640 --> 01:13:03.720
I didn't think. I did feel like I was actually

885
01:13:04.239 --> 01:13:08.079
touching the carpet, which is not supposed to happen. And

886
01:13:08.159 --> 01:13:11.600
I was a bit concerned about my neighbor downstairs because

887
01:13:11.640 --> 01:13:17.840
she did see me a few days later and she said,

888
01:13:20.039 --> 01:13:25.159
were you dancing upstairs? I said, no. She said, you

889
01:13:25.239 --> 01:13:28.960
were doing something because the whole flat was shaking. I said, no,

890
01:13:30.359 --> 01:13:34.680
I don't even live there anymore. She said what I said,

891
01:13:34.720 --> 01:13:36.279
I do live there. I don't know why I said that,

892
01:13:36.479 --> 01:13:39.000
but yeah, it wasn't me, he said it. Who else

893
01:13:39.039 --> 01:13:42.239
would it be? I said that I'm pigeons, maybe in

894
01:13:42.319 --> 01:13:50.680
the loft. Pigeons often are naughty in the loft. She said,

895
01:13:50.680 --> 01:13:53.960
how would the pigeons, said the loft affect my flat

896
01:13:54.520 --> 01:13:58.520
when your whole flat is in between me and the loft.

897
01:14:01.239 --> 01:14:03.680
I said, I don't have the answers to every question.

898
01:14:05.079 --> 01:14:10.479
You know, I'm not. I'm not a the thoras. She said,

899
01:14:12.239 --> 01:14:18.239
a theuthill left. I said yeah. She said, well, if

900
01:14:18.279 --> 01:14:21.600
you're trying to say thesaurus, that doesn't have the answers

901
01:14:21.640 --> 01:14:26.359
to any questions. That's just descriptions of words and various

902
01:14:26.399 --> 01:14:32.199
different versions of the same word. Really, and I said yeah.

903
01:14:33.399 --> 01:14:37.039
She said we didn't make sense. I said, you don't

904
01:14:37.079 --> 01:14:45.520
make sense. Yeah. It was one of the better conversations

905
01:14:45.560 --> 01:14:49.279
I've had this year, actually, But then I didn't go

906
01:14:49.399 --> 01:14:53.800
back on the treadmill, if you want to call it that.

907
01:14:54.920 --> 01:14:56.880
So I'm not and it's weird because I want to

908
01:14:56.920 --> 01:14:58.560
watch the rest of the movie. But every time I

909
01:14:58.640 --> 01:15:02.319
go to like watch it, I think, no, I need

910
01:15:02.399 --> 01:15:04.119
to need to get on the treadmill to watch that.

911
01:15:06.239 --> 01:15:15.000
How strange, isn't it? Isn't that a weird one? So

912
01:15:15.279 --> 01:15:19.319
I was having my ears tested and they said, oh, yeah,

913
01:15:19.439 --> 01:15:21.840
I was partly I don't even know which ear it was,

914
01:15:23.680 --> 01:15:25.359
right ear or left it. I couldn't even tell you

915
01:15:25.560 --> 01:15:28.039
such a long time ago I knew at the time,

916
01:15:29.680 --> 01:15:33.880
and it said, yeah, you're partially deaf in one ear,

917
01:15:34.239 --> 01:15:41.199
which explains why you're well, they didn't tell that. My

918
01:15:41.359 --> 01:15:44.560
parents said that to me. It's why I'm so behind

919
01:15:44.680 --> 01:15:48.000
at school, so they've first all they blamed while I

920
01:15:48.119 --> 01:15:50.920
was so behind at school on the fact that I

921
01:15:51.079 --> 01:15:54.119
moved around so much as a little kid, so I

922
01:15:54.239 --> 01:15:57.000
never stayed in any school for a very long period

923
01:15:57.039 --> 01:16:03.079
of time. So pretty much taught myself to read. And

924
01:16:03.439 --> 01:16:07.079
my writing wasn't up to much at the age of seven,

925
01:16:08.479 --> 01:16:11.800
but you know I did. I picked it up and

926
01:16:11.960 --> 01:16:18.159
I loved reading, so I definitely wasn't. I wasn't behind.

927
01:16:18.279 --> 01:16:21.159
I personally wouldn't say that I was behind in reading

928
01:16:23.600 --> 01:16:28.000
whether I understood what I was reading. It's still an issue.

929
01:16:28.079 --> 01:16:30.680
Now I'm not sure how much I understand, but I

930
01:16:32.600 --> 01:16:39.000
and writing. I learned to do joined up writing when

931
01:16:39.039 --> 01:16:44.399
I was about nine, nine or ten. That's when I

932
01:16:44.520 --> 01:16:55.159
learned to start doing joined up writing. And writing was okay.

933
01:16:55.239 --> 01:17:00.319
I was okay with writing. I didn't necessarily understand or

934
01:17:00.640 --> 01:17:08.760
the apostrophees and commas and stuff. I understood full stops

935
01:17:08.840 --> 01:17:17.319
made sense. So I wasn't necessarily grammatically correct, but I

936
01:17:17.520 --> 01:17:24.640
did as far as writing goes. But reading, yeah, reading

937
01:17:24.880 --> 01:17:30.000
was something that I just adored. I loved reading. And

938
01:17:30.640 --> 01:17:33.960
something happened the other day. I was watching a YouTube channel,

939
01:17:34.399 --> 01:17:36.800
a YouTube video, and it was about the Wizard of Oz.

940
01:17:38.479 --> 01:17:42.159
Now i'd forgotten or I didn't know, but I think

941
01:17:42.199 --> 01:17:44.920
I did previously. I think I did previously know, but

942
01:17:45.000 --> 01:17:48.880
I think i'd forgotten it. The Wizard of Oz books.

943
01:17:49.039 --> 01:17:54.079
There was a lot of books, like a lot, and

944
01:17:54.159 --> 01:17:58.000
the bloke who wrote The Wizard of Oz wrote lots

945
01:17:58.000 --> 01:18:02.159
of books about Oz and the different characters in US. Now,

946
01:18:04.760 --> 01:18:06.720
this is a memory that I'm not sure if it's

947
01:18:06.800 --> 01:18:10.159
true or not, but I'm pretty certain I read most

948
01:18:10.199 --> 01:18:13.760
of those books because I would get a book like

949
01:18:13.840 --> 01:18:16.560
that and i'd read it overnight. Or over a couple

950
01:18:16.560 --> 01:18:19.840
of days, because I was just it was almost like

951
01:18:22.760 --> 01:18:25.640
it was like being really thirsty and drinking a lot

952
01:18:26.520 --> 01:18:29.920
of water. That was almost a bit like that for me.

953
01:18:30.039 --> 01:18:32.880
When I was reading, I just thought, oh, more, more

954
01:18:32.880 --> 01:18:36.399
and more and more loved it. And when I talk

955
01:18:36.399 --> 01:18:38.760
about it, it makes me hard, No, it makes me

956
01:18:39.239 --> 01:18:43.880
not horn. It makes me I didn't mean to say that.

957
01:18:44.000 --> 01:18:51.279
It makes me kind of damp. No, not damp. It

958
01:18:51.720 --> 01:18:53.119
makes me kind of want to do it, That's what

959
01:18:53.159 --> 01:18:55.439
I mean. It makes me want to kind of gets

960
01:18:55.560 --> 01:18:59.920
my juices going. Again. That probably sounds wrong to get

961
01:19:00.119 --> 01:19:03.960
a book, and I'm not even talking about factual books,

962
01:19:04.000 --> 01:19:07.920
which is something that I've focused on for most of

963
01:19:08.000 --> 01:19:12.760
my adult life. Really, I'd like to get back to

964
01:19:13.000 --> 01:19:23.199
maybe reading some what do you call it fiction? I

965
01:19:23.279 --> 01:19:29.680
guess yeah, story books and perhaps not most of supposed

966
01:19:29.720 --> 01:19:31.399
to call them story books, but that's what they are,

967
01:19:31.479 --> 01:19:34.279
isn't as a story. I'd like to get back to that.

968
01:19:36.279 --> 01:19:43.720
And maybe I did think about writing my own romantic novel,

969
01:19:44.359 --> 01:19:46.119
but doing it in my own, you know, doing my

970
01:19:46.199 --> 01:19:51.359
own little way. I did do a Oh, I did

971
01:19:51.439 --> 01:19:57.560
this recording. I think it was a video, or it

972
01:19:57.680 --> 01:20:01.720
might have been an audio and I posted it online

973
01:20:02.119 --> 01:20:08.439
and a few this is back when I was fairly

974
01:20:08.760 --> 01:20:12.920
doing quite well on YouTube. They got quite quite a

975
01:20:12.960 --> 01:20:18.640
positive response. But I lost it. I lost the recording

976
01:20:18.720 --> 01:20:22.279
somewhere along the line. But it was quite funny and

977
01:20:22.399 --> 01:20:25.840
it was just a story of me a romantic encounter

978
01:20:26.640 --> 01:20:29.399
on a train and I was just saying all the

979
01:20:29.479 --> 01:20:32.760
wrong things and it was but this is I mean,

980
01:20:34.000 --> 01:20:37.560
we're talking like two tenty twelve. I think I did

981
01:20:37.640 --> 01:20:43.640
this recording, and yeah, well I wish I had it,

982
01:20:43.760 --> 01:20:48.079
just so I could have a little listen. I also

983
01:20:48.159 --> 01:20:55.680
did a recording based on Andre talking and it was

984
01:20:55.760 --> 01:20:58.239
a whole recording of him just making fun of me.

985
01:20:59.079 --> 01:21:02.680
I think I lost that as well, so that would

986
01:21:02.680 --> 01:21:04.239
have been it would be good to be able to

987
01:21:04.359 --> 01:21:09.840
listen to. Lost a lot of recordings over the years,

988
01:21:10.800 --> 01:21:14.520
a good few hundred videos and recordings, audio recordings. I've

989
01:21:14.560 --> 01:21:26.319
lost some that will potentially not too awful. Potentially I reckon.

990
01:21:26.399 --> 01:21:31.039
Over the nineteen years I've been doing these things, there

991
01:21:31.079 --> 01:21:33.359
must be I've got to have at least a handful

992
01:21:34.039 --> 01:21:39.720
of decent recordings, ones that are just good. There's got

993
01:21:39.840 --> 01:21:42.560
to be. There's got to be a few little gems

994
01:21:42.640 --> 01:21:53.079
there surely, even if it was accidental. So the doctor

995
01:21:53.359 --> 01:21:58.560
regarding my hearings said, well, it's going to be pretty

996
01:21:58.640 --> 01:22:03.159
much one of two things. Either I was born that

997
01:22:03.279 --> 01:22:06.399
way so I've always been partially deaf in one ear.

998
01:22:08.000 --> 01:22:11.319
Or I'd had an accident and bang my head when

999
01:22:11.359 --> 01:22:14.720
I was a kid little, which did happen, but I

1000
01:22:14.800 --> 01:22:16.600
think it happens for a lot of kids, don't it.

1001
01:22:16.720 --> 01:22:19.560
But I remember I fell down some concrete steps once

1002
01:22:19.800 --> 01:22:26.840
when I was about five, four or five, And yeah,

1003
01:22:27.840 --> 01:22:31.159
health and safety wasn't really a thing back then in

1004
01:22:31.239 --> 01:22:37.399
the seventies, So yeah, I did take a Yeah, definitely

1005
01:22:37.520 --> 01:22:40.319
had a few bashes on the head over my childhood.

1006
01:22:42.680 --> 01:22:44.399
But I might also have been born like this. I

1007
01:22:44.439 --> 01:22:50.359
don't know. So what they did is they it was

1008
01:22:50.560 --> 01:22:54.359
It's basically just a blockage. So my adinoids were blocking

1009
01:22:55.119 --> 01:23:01.880
or causing a blockage in one of my ears, maybe

1010
01:23:01.960 --> 01:23:04.760
both my ears, but I think it was one. So

1011
01:23:04.960 --> 01:23:10.600
they took my had aenoids out when I was I

1012
01:23:10.800 --> 01:23:15.439
was either eight or just before I was eight. My

1013
01:23:15.560 --> 01:23:20.439
biggest memory of that two things. First of all, I've

1014
01:23:20.479 --> 01:23:23.720
made Teddy Bear with me, which was nice. I love

1015
01:23:23.800 --> 01:23:27.199
my little Teddy Bear. And I might have called him

1016
01:23:27.279 --> 01:23:31.560
Teddy and you might think, oh that's original, oh Teddy,

1017
01:23:32.279 --> 01:23:35.760
like okay, Well, my granddad was called Teddy and my

1018
01:23:35.880 --> 01:23:41.079
uncle was called Edward, so both of them because in

1019
01:23:41.199 --> 01:23:47.840
this country, ted is another name for Edward and Eddie

1020
01:23:48.039 --> 01:23:50.760
is another name for Edward. So my granddad was called

1021
01:23:50.800 --> 01:23:54.159
ted and my uncle was called Eddie, but they were

1022
01:23:54.199 --> 01:24:01.720
both called Edward. And I called my Teddy ted or Teddy,

1023
01:24:02.279 --> 01:24:04.880
probably after my granddad. Probably maybe I called him ted,

1024
01:24:05.600 --> 01:24:09.399
But I wouldn't dare call my granddad ted. No, it

1025
01:24:09.520 --> 01:24:16.560
was Granddad. He didn't play those games. Oh no, he

1026
01:24:16.640 --> 01:24:22.319
would have. I there was that. And the other thing

1027
01:24:22.800 --> 01:24:28.439
is I had botherel for the first time, which was

1028
01:24:28.479 --> 01:24:32.720
a bad idea because that was the last drink of

1029
01:24:32.760 --> 01:24:34.600
the day and I think that was just before I

1030
01:24:34.640 --> 01:24:37.279
had the operation, so I wasn't allowed any more water

1031
01:24:37.479 --> 01:24:40.439
or anything, any food or anything. And as borel, which

1032
01:24:40.520 --> 01:24:42.880
meant I mean that to me, it was just like

1033
01:24:42.960 --> 01:24:47.279
having a a mouth of mud, mouthful of mud, liquid mud.

1034
01:24:48.119 --> 01:24:52.880
It was. It wasn't my thing. Bother reel wasn't my

1035
01:24:53.319 --> 01:24:56.840
It's kind of like liquid marmite. I would say, it's

1036
01:24:56.880 --> 01:25:03.760
a yeast extract drink, and I wasn't pleased with that.

1037
01:25:04.760 --> 01:25:07.399
It wasn't a good decision. But I remember. It's really

1038
01:25:07.479 --> 01:25:10.079
weird because bearing in mind it's such a long time ago.

1039
01:25:10.399 --> 01:25:16.520
Now I remember the because I was an award Bloody

1040
01:25:16.560 --> 01:25:20.399
Dogs again, can you hear that? I wait till it

1041
01:25:20.439 --> 01:25:26.199
stops and I'll start talking again. So I just remember

1042
01:25:26.279 --> 01:25:29.159
this that. I don't think it was anyone else in

1043
01:25:29.279 --> 01:25:32.920
the ward. Maybe one other person. There was a children's ward,

1044
01:25:32.920 --> 01:25:37.079
I think, but it was grim. It was like underground,

1045
01:25:38.359 --> 01:25:41.680
no windows, it was. It wasn't a nice ward. It

1046
01:25:41.800 --> 01:25:44.159
was in a really old hospital that I think got

1047
01:25:44.199 --> 01:25:48.079
shut down because it was it'd been there since the

1048
01:25:48.680 --> 01:25:56.039
Civil War, I think, and the one in France, and

1049
01:25:56.640 --> 01:26:03.920
I I thought, so the lady came down with this

1050
01:26:05.199 --> 01:26:13.520
trolley full of different things, tea, coffees, cocoa, bov real water,

1051
01:26:14.239 --> 01:26:21.319
juice probably, I don't know if there be any fizzy drinks,

1052
01:26:21.319 --> 01:26:27.560
probably not, but just that kind of stuff aholics and

1053
01:26:28.520 --> 01:26:30.720
no coffee that I don't think they had coffee for

1054
01:26:30.880 --> 01:26:36.359
kids back then. It didn't want me running around or

1055
01:26:36.600 --> 01:26:42.760
whizzing being excited, and I couldn't make my mind up.

1056
01:26:42.960 --> 01:26:45.800
This has been an issue I had all through my

1057
01:26:45.880 --> 01:26:52.079
childhood and still today struggle to make my mind up

1058
01:26:52.159 --> 01:26:59.079
about anything. Really, I mean, it was an issue more

1059
01:26:59.119 --> 01:27:02.119
for other people than me. It was annoying for me

1060
01:27:02.560 --> 01:27:06.279
where it was trustrating. For me, it was I suppose

1061
01:27:06.319 --> 01:27:08.920
it got really annoying for other people, you know, if

1062
01:27:08.920 --> 01:27:14.079
who was in a who were ordering food or you know,

1063
01:27:14.279 --> 01:27:20.479
things like that, choosing a video to watch. Even up

1064
01:27:20.600 --> 01:27:23.600
to the last time I went into Blockbusters, which would

1065
01:27:23.640 --> 01:27:35.399
have been two when the Blockbusters shut down, so over

1066
01:27:35.479 --> 01:27:39.680
ten years ago. In it twelve years ago, so the

1067
01:27:39.760 --> 01:27:43.199
last time I went into Blockbusters, and every other time,

1068
01:27:44.640 --> 01:27:46.960
and every other time that I went to any video shop,

1069
01:27:49.039 --> 01:27:57.800
I would spend an absolute age trying to decide which

1070
01:27:58.000 --> 01:28:03.039
video to get. Unless I went there for a specific thing.

1071
01:28:03.840 --> 01:28:06.079
So if I went there for the new season of

1072
01:28:06.319 --> 01:28:11.920
the Sopranos box set, then it was quite simple. I'd

1073
01:28:11.960 --> 01:28:17.079
get that. But if I was if I if there

1074
01:28:17.159 --> 01:28:23.640
was a particular movie, but outside of that, I would

1075
01:28:23.720 --> 01:28:27.560
be there for ages. And I did the same thing

1076
01:28:27.840 --> 01:28:32.680
as a kid. I'd spend probably hours. I'm not even joking,

1077
01:28:32.680 --> 01:28:35.880
I be I'd go and look at the back cover

1078
01:28:36.119 --> 01:28:41.640
of every single video now in Blockbusters that's not you

1079
01:28:41.760 --> 01:28:44.840
don't you know things were in cases when't they uh,

1080
01:28:44.920 --> 01:28:51.199
the Blockbuster cases. But in the original video shops, well

1081
01:28:51.239 --> 01:28:54.560
at least where I lived, all the videos were still

1082
01:28:54.720 --> 01:28:58.880
in the video case with you know, the picture of

1083
01:28:58.920 --> 01:29:01.640
the movie on the front, who was in the movie

1084
01:29:01.680 --> 01:29:07.039
on the back, the synopsis of the movie, Pluster videotape

1085
01:29:07.159 --> 01:29:10.600
was in there, so everything was kind of there. So

1086
01:29:10.960 --> 01:29:17.800
I'd go through every video looking for something that peaked

1087
01:29:18.199 --> 01:29:29.159
my peakiness, got my juices going, made me moist, I

1088
01:29:29.199 --> 01:29:38.439
don't know, whatever got me excited, and it would take forever. Honestly,

1089
01:29:38.520 --> 01:29:43.720
I'd be in there for an hour and a half.

1090
01:29:45.680 --> 01:29:48.000
And none of these shops were big, by the way,

1091
01:29:49.359 --> 01:29:52.560
they were jam packed, but they like we videos. And

1092
01:29:52.600 --> 01:29:54.439
I only did this when there's no one else around,

1093
01:29:55.520 --> 01:29:57.720
So I wouldn't do this if it was busy, if

1094
01:29:57.760 --> 01:30:01.239
there was a lot of other customers, it was you know,

1095
01:30:01.399 --> 01:30:05.720
and they all got to know me because I think

1096
01:30:07.399 --> 01:30:10.720
one of the owner of the video shop once said

1097
01:30:10.760 --> 01:30:21.680
to me, do you what did he say? It's says

1098
01:30:21.720 --> 01:30:23.399
something like, oh, by the way, just let you know

1099
01:30:23.840 --> 01:30:28.039
you're going to be getting a pay rise next month.

1100
01:30:29.399 --> 01:30:32.239
And I said what he said, and he just liked,

1101
01:30:32.640 --> 01:30:36.319
he laughed. So I forgot you don't work here. I

1102
01:30:36.399 --> 01:30:39.600
was there so often. He thought I worked there. He

1103
01:30:39.760 --> 01:30:44.520
was the boss, he was the owner. They had no staff.

1104
01:30:45.319 --> 01:30:53.680
It was a family run business. They lived there. I

1105
01:30:53.760 --> 01:30:57.479
mean once I say he started moaning, because so used

1106
01:30:57.520 --> 01:31:00.520
to me. He once he has started moaning. It was

1107
01:31:00.640 --> 01:31:05.640
moaning nuns. He said, Jason, can you please stop leaving

1108
01:31:05.720 --> 01:31:07.800
dirty dishes in the sink, but can you wash up

1109
01:31:07.840 --> 01:31:13.640
after yourself? I said, I don't live with you. You're

1110
01:31:13.680 --> 01:31:19.920
not my dad. What's going on? And he just forgot.

1111
01:31:20.079 --> 01:31:22.640
I thought I was actually one of his kids because

1112
01:31:22.640 --> 01:31:28.079
I was always there looking at the videos. Now, technically

1113
01:31:28.239 --> 01:31:29.920
that would have been a really good job for me

1114
01:31:30.680 --> 01:31:37.520
because not only was I an avid video watcher, I

1115
01:31:37.640 --> 01:31:40.399
knew where all the videos were. I knew where all

1116
01:31:40.640 --> 01:31:44.279
the titles were. So if you just said to me, oh,

1117
01:31:45.199 --> 01:31:48.199
if you got the Big Boss Bruce Lee's movie, or

1118
01:31:48.279 --> 01:31:54.039
if you've got I don't know anything like a Disney movie,

1119
01:31:54.119 --> 01:31:56.159
or if you've got I could say yes or no

1120
01:31:57.279 --> 01:32:02.479
because I knew what was on the shelves. I was

1121
01:32:02.520 --> 01:32:05.399
always It's really weird. I just knew where everything was

1122
01:32:06.640 --> 01:32:08.159
so cause I was in there any of the every

1123
01:32:08.239 --> 01:32:13.640
day looking for the next video. And that's what I did.

1124
01:32:13.960 --> 01:32:17.479
And it was so cheap. It was probably like fifty

1125
01:32:17.560 --> 01:32:21.119
pence forty pence or something to rent a video out

1126
01:32:21.920 --> 01:32:26.399
for one day, and so i'd get At times I

1127
01:32:26.439 --> 01:32:32.880
would be in there every day, especially during the holidays. Oh,

1128
01:32:33.159 --> 01:32:40.079
such a nice I liked those times. With Blockbusters. It

1129
01:32:40.239 --> 01:32:44.840
was more a weekly thing because I was working, and

1130
01:32:47.319 --> 01:32:51.439
it'd be probably like a lot of people would, I guess,

1131
01:32:51.600 --> 01:32:56.720
do go on a Friday evening or Saturday evening and

1132
01:32:57.000 --> 01:33:00.239
just rent out like maybe two or three videos for

1133
01:33:00.359 --> 01:33:08.199
the weekend and bring them back on a Monday. So yeah,

1134
01:33:08.279 --> 01:33:14.239
I lived just up the road from Yeah, I did

1135
01:33:14.319 --> 01:33:23.199
lift just up the road from the video shop. Yeah,

1136
01:33:23.600 --> 01:33:28.279
but it's actually two different places I lived just the

1137
01:33:28.399 --> 01:33:31.279
next place was just around the corner. The other place

1138
01:33:31.520 --> 01:33:34.600
was a lot further away. But the place before that

1139
01:33:34.960 --> 01:33:41.399
was I and it wasn't far probably fifteen minute walk,

1140
01:33:42.840 --> 01:33:49.760
so it wasn't far. Really. I used to love it though,

1141
01:33:49.760 --> 01:33:56.000
it's I love getting videos out. It's strange how things

1142
01:33:56.039 --> 01:34:00.880
had changed because now because of all the streaming, I mean,

1143
01:34:00.920 --> 01:34:04.720
Blockbusters closed down in this country anyway. I don't know

1144
01:34:04.720 --> 01:34:08.239
if the video shops elsewhere, but I don't think video

1145
01:34:08.319 --> 01:34:14.479
shops exist anymore, or DVD shops, but they still sell DVDs,

1146
01:34:15.000 --> 01:34:22.399
I think. But it's streaming. But the thing is what

1147
01:34:22.520 --> 01:34:28.840
I noticed with the streaming companies the channels is they

1148
01:34:28.920 --> 01:34:31.640
don't keep the same stuff on there. They tend to

1149
01:34:31.720 --> 01:34:36.319
take stuff off. Even Netflix doesn't keep the same stuff

1150
01:34:36.359 --> 01:34:39.760
on there. Forever they have stuff, and then they'll take

1151
01:34:39.840 --> 01:34:42.560
it off. I don't know why I repeat myself then,

1152
01:34:43.800 --> 01:34:55.840
and that is slightly disappointing to myself, because because because

1153
01:34:55.920 --> 01:35:01.159
of the wonderful thing he does, I'm thinking of what,

1154
01:35:01.680 --> 01:35:07.159
maybe reading all of the Wizard of Oz books, maybe

1155
01:35:07.319 --> 01:35:09.960
getting them all and just reading them. I mean, that

1156
01:35:10.000 --> 01:35:12.079
would be the point of reading them, isn't it. I'd

1157
01:35:12.119 --> 01:35:17.680
have to get them first. And I was also thinking

1158
01:35:17.680 --> 01:35:21.600
about writing a book, not a Wizard of Oz book,

1159
01:35:24.079 --> 01:35:29.520
but I did wonder sometimes the idea of creating a

1160
01:35:29.640 --> 01:35:35.359
new world. Now it's been done, of course well by

1161
01:35:35.439 --> 01:35:44.359
lots of people, but more famously what's her name? But

1162
01:35:44.399 --> 01:35:47.439
what's a Harry Potter. You've got the Wizard of Oz,

1163
01:35:47.520 --> 01:35:55.279
you've got Narnia, you've got Discworld, you've got the uh

1164
01:35:59.319 --> 01:36:04.520
token and whatever may be my precious, that that thing,

1165
01:36:05.359 --> 01:36:11.479
the hobbit, or that kind of world. So I do think,

1166
01:36:11.920 --> 01:36:17.239
you know, I thought about making a world up, but

1167
01:36:17.359 --> 01:36:19.600
that's it looks like it looks like a lot of effort,

1168
01:36:21.199 --> 01:36:26.680
and remember on all the different characters. I don't know,

1169
01:36:29.000 --> 01:36:32.039
I thought. I did think maybe introducing some new characters

1170
01:36:32.159 --> 01:36:40.000
to my podcasts, or perhaps having a guest, a guest

1171
01:36:40.159 --> 01:36:46.800
come in and like a you know, a different personality

1172
01:36:47.039 --> 01:36:52.760
come and talk once a week, or maybe Vinnie doing

1173
01:36:52.840 --> 01:37:00.600
a show. I don't know. When I have my appendix out.

1174
01:37:00.600 --> 01:37:02.920
When I was about twelve, that was brilliant. I loved that.

1175
01:37:03.279 --> 01:37:06.640
I loved everything about that. There was a few moments

1176
01:37:06.680 --> 01:37:11.520
when I was embarrassed. There was one particular time when

1177
01:37:13.960 --> 01:37:19.720
I all I wanted to do is I don't know

1178
01:37:19.960 --> 01:37:23.279
why I didn't just go over there, but I think

1179
01:37:23.359 --> 01:37:25.640
at this point I wasn't really supposed to leave my

1180
01:37:25.720 --> 01:37:28.479
bed because it was just after the op, so they

1181
01:37:28.520 --> 01:37:30.920
didn't want me putting pressure on the stitches and stuff.

1182
01:37:34.920 --> 01:37:38.279
But I thought I got a way around this, so

1183
01:37:38.359 --> 01:37:43.760
I put my hand up, I said miss, and I

1184
01:37:43.880 --> 01:37:47.439
actually got up and I started walking towards the hallway

1185
01:37:47.760 --> 01:37:49.840
because that's where there was a box of comics and

1186
01:37:49.920 --> 01:37:53.239
I wanted to have a look at the comics to

1187
01:37:53.359 --> 01:37:55.439
see what was in there. I think there was like

1188
01:37:55.680 --> 01:37:59.439
X Men comics and stuff like that. And the nurse

1189
01:38:00.800 --> 01:38:04.159
we're going. I said, I'm just going to go to

1190
01:38:04.239 --> 01:38:06.880
the toilet. She said, no, turn around. You know you're

1191
01:38:06.880 --> 01:38:10.199
not allowed to walk around until the stitches are a

1192
01:38:10.319 --> 01:38:17.960
bit more cemented. I said, okay, so I go just

1193
01:38:18.039 --> 01:38:19.520
to get back in bed. She said, no, no, if

1194
01:38:19.520 --> 01:38:26.720
you just if you can just stand there, and she

1195
01:38:26.880 --> 01:38:34.960
pulled out this. I actually thought they were hats, but

1196
01:38:35.039 --> 01:38:41.560
they're not hats, like a cardboard hat, and she yeah,

1197
01:38:42.399 --> 01:38:47.920
she pulled one of them out. Apparently I thought people

1198
01:38:48.079 --> 01:38:51.920
laughing because they were enjoying my dance in my comedy routine,

1199
01:38:52.000 --> 01:38:56.600
but apparently it's because that's not what they were for.

1200
01:38:59.079 --> 01:39:01.399
So she got me to she said, well, now do

1201
01:39:01.920 --> 01:39:04.760
we weies in? I don't know. She said those words

1202
01:39:05.319 --> 01:39:06.960
when I was twelve, so I don't know if that

1203
01:39:07.159 --> 01:39:14.119
was the right thing. But anyway, at this point, at

1204
01:39:14.159 --> 01:39:18.439
this junction in my life, I was a teenager. I

1205
01:39:18.520 --> 01:39:24.159
was getting onto being a teenager. I was self conscious

1206
01:39:24.199 --> 01:39:28.520
about my body. I also had a huge interest in

1207
01:39:29.479 --> 01:39:33.680
the ladies. In females at this time, especially older women

1208
01:39:33.880 --> 01:39:38.920
loved really. Yeah, they had no interest in me. I

1209
01:39:39.079 --> 01:39:42.960
was interested in them. And there was a particular nurse Therecord,

1210
01:39:43.079 --> 01:39:47.960
Nurse Nichols, that I was in love with. I've been

1211
01:39:48.039 --> 01:39:51.039
in love many times, especially when I was a kid,

1212
01:39:51.199 --> 01:40:00.600
constantly in love with women, and yeah, but anyway, I

1213
01:40:00.680 --> 01:40:02.760
don't think it was Nurse Nichols, but it's a different

1214
01:40:02.840 --> 01:40:07.039
nurse another. They were all nice, but she came like friendly.

1215
01:40:07.079 --> 01:40:10.720
I mean, she came over and she said, just do

1216
01:40:10.800 --> 01:40:12.319
it in here. I said, it's okay. He says, no,

1217
01:40:12.399 --> 01:40:16.479
that's right. I hold it. This is the cardboard thing,

1218
01:40:16.560 --> 01:40:22.319
I mean. And it was among the most embarrassing things

1219
01:40:22.600 --> 01:40:26.359
that I've done because I didn't need to go to

1220
01:40:26.479 --> 01:40:29.760
the toilet, I didn't need a we wi. So I'm

1221
01:40:29.800 --> 01:40:39.279
standing there with my you know, aimed and nothing happened,

1222
01:40:42.600 --> 01:40:48.439
and I was talking to her. I just wish you'd

1223
01:40:48.479 --> 01:40:50.079
look at me in the eyes. That's all I wanted.

1224
01:40:50.680 --> 01:40:52.920
Just just look up here. My face is up here.

1225
01:40:54.079 --> 01:40:59.800
And it was so embarrassing. The weird thing about it

1226
01:40:59.840 --> 01:41:02.800
is even more embarrassing really when I think about it,

1227
01:41:02.920 --> 01:41:09.359
because at the time. She was an old woman. You know,

1228
01:41:09.520 --> 01:41:13.680
I was twelve. She was I mean old as in

1229
01:41:13.800 --> 01:41:19.279
she was as old. But in reality, the nurses might

1230
01:41:19.279 --> 01:41:23.079
have only been like eighteen nineteen, so they were young.

1231
01:41:23.800 --> 01:41:26.239
But because I was so young, they all seemed really old.

1232
01:41:26.399 --> 01:41:30.840
They might be like twenties. So the fact is these

1233
01:41:30.920 --> 01:41:37.119
were young women, which makes it more embarrassing. But I

1234
01:41:37.239 --> 01:41:47.760
was I couldn't, I couldn't go weeries and yeah, that wasn't.

1235
01:41:47.840 --> 01:41:52.279
I didn't didn't enjoy that, which just goes to show

1236
01:41:52.279 --> 01:41:59.880
I suppose that was another another you know, learning moment

1237
01:42:00.199 --> 01:42:05.399
about not lying. I suppose, but I didn't. I didn't

1238
01:42:05.479 --> 01:42:13.000
really feel that I was lying, although technically I suppose

1239
01:42:13.079 --> 01:42:17.920
I was, but it didn't really feel that way. I

1240
01:42:18.079 --> 01:42:24.720
was just telling FIBs because I wanted to. I wanted

1241
01:42:24.760 --> 01:42:31.439
to read a comic. But the problem is at that

1242
01:42:31.760 --> 01:42:37.279
time I was still getting the Dandy and looking and

1243
01:42:37.399 --> 01:42:39.479
I was probably a bit too old for those comics,

1244
01:42:39.600 --> 01:42:43.159
so I said, don't bring them in. But the comics

1245
01:42:43.199 --> 01:42:45.159
they had for the kids were a little bit older

1246
01:42:45.760 --> 01:42:51.760
than what I would normally look at, and I've never

1247
01:42:51.880 --> 01:42:55.119
seen any of the whole thing you've noticed is a

1248
01:42:55.199 --> 01:42:59.520
fly again. I've never seen any of these superhero comics

1249
01:42:59.600 --> 01:43:03.560
before because my brothers didn't used to get those kind

1250
01:43:03.600 --> 01:43:07.800
of comics, although I think one of them did start to.

1251
01:43:08.640 --> 01:43:14.079
But I used to get Looking and the Dandy every week.

1252
01:43:16.279 --> 01:43:18.840
My brother that was two years older than me used

1253
01:43:18.840 --> 01:43:24.840
to get The Beano and Wizard and Chips. And my

1254
01:43:25.000 --> 01:43:28.600
oldest brother, who was four years older than me, I

1255
01:43:28.720 --> 01:43:33.359
think he used to get a football magazine and a

1256
01:43:33.560 --> 01:43:36.680
war magazine because there used to be a lot of

1257
01:43:36.720 --> 01:43:43.840
that stuff back in the late seventies early eighties. There's

1258
01:43:45.079 --> 01:43:49.039
but yeah, I think he might have had a Roy

1259
01:43:49.119 --> 01:43:53.119
of the Rovers or something was a comic that he

1260
01:43:53.239 --> 01:43:57.439
might have gotten, and but of course it might changed.

1261
01:43:57.840 --> 01:44:02.880
I'm sure one of them started getting superhero comics. So

1262
01:44:02.920 --> 01:44:09.680
I got this this memory of seeing Wolverine, and I

1263
01:44:09.960 --> 01:44:14.840
struggled to follow this story because the graphics were amazing,

1264
01:44:15.399 --> 01:44:19.800
but I couldn't always see figure out who was saying

1265
01:44:19.920 --> 01:44:23.640
what and why, And because the story is carried on

1266
01:44:23.840 --> 01:44:28.960
from the previous week or the previous comic, there seemed

1267
01:44:29.000 --> 01:44:33.279
to be a lack of consistency, or I suppose maybe

1268
01:44:33.319 --> 01:44:38.600
too much consistency depends on how you look at it. Yeah,

1269
01:44:38.800 --> 01:44:42.880
So I just wanted to look at the comics, That's

1270
01:44:42.920 --> 01:44:46.359
all it was. But other than that, it was the

1271
01:44:46.720 --> 01:44:52.239
bestest time of my childhood. Being in that hospital was brilliant.

1272
01:44:52.439 --> 01:44:56.800
So not all the everyone, one of the doctors, not

1273
01:44:56.920 --> 01:45:05.760
so much, but all of the nurses. You know, it

1274
01:45:06.000 --> 01:45:15.520
was Yeah, it was okay, it was more than okay.

1275
01:45:15.640 --> 01:45:18.920
I enjoyed it. It was a nice time. It was

1276
01:45:19.079 --> 01:45:21.760
lovely to have a break from school, have a break

1277
01:45:21.840 --> 01:45:26.119
from family life. That was lovely. Just to be away

1278
01:45:26.159 --> 01:45:33.359
from everyone. It was just spectacularly wonderful. I stayed in

1279
01:45:33.479 --> 01:45:38.039
there for a long time because I loved it. I

1280
01:45:38.159 --> 01:45:43.199
got so well with the other kids, and yeah, I

1281
01:45:43.279 --> 01:45:47.319
didn't feel I mean, I just didn't feel out of

1282
01:45:47.359 --> 01:45:51.760
my depth. I didn't feel self conscious. We just had

1283
01:45:51.840 --> 01:45:56.359
fun and I probably never laughed as much as I

1284
01:45:56.439 --> 01:46:01.520
did then as the first time I'd laughed. It's almost

1285
01:46:01.560 --> 01:46:05.439
like the first time I felt free, really without restrictions

1286
01:46:05.479 --> 01:46:09.399
of I suppose adults in a way, and brothers, so

1287
01:46:09.439 --> 01:46:11.920
I didn't have any known people around and I could

1288
01:46:12.000 --> 01:46:18.279
just be myself without I don't know, there was I

1289
01:46:18.319 --> 01:46:20.279
don't know how to explain it. It was just nice.

1290
01:46:20.600 --> 01:46:25.800
It was so nice. I loved it, and I'm going

1291
01:46:25.880 --> 01:46:29.000
to go because Vinnie started barking a few doors, Bear slammed,

1292
01:46:29.039 --> 01:46:33.399
and music's gone up downstairs. So I realized I haven't

1293
01:46:33.520 --> 01:46:38.319
really gone in depth about talking about being boring, hospital,

1294
01:46:38.920 --> 01:46:46.960
boring objects and stuff. I attempted it, So give me

1295
01:46:47.479 --> 01:46:49.760
two out of ten. Please give me a even know

1296
01:46:49.760 --> 01:46:52.239
if it's a low mark, give me a low mark.

1297
01:46:52.319 --> 01:46:58.359
I don't mind, So thank you for listening. Remember to

1298
01:46:58.439 --> 01:47:01.159
be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be

1299
01:47:01.239 --> 01:47:05.640
happy and be gentle with yourself. You deserve to feel safe.

1300
01:47:07.039 --> 01:47:10.920
Lots of Love by