July 1, 2025

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

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

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is Sweaty Jason. Oh, it's hot, it's very it's a

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stuffy day today. It's not. It's not it's not breezy.

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It's not. It's a bit o plus. Oh I was

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about to have a big moan. Then I won't. Okay,

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this is a big moan. Oh oh, that was a

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nice moan. Please only listen when you can safely close

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your eyes. So this morning about I wasn't actually supposed

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to go. We're not supposed but I decided that I

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was not going to go and visit my neighbor in

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hospital today. I was going to visit Wednesday Friday, Monday,

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Wednesday Friday this week. But after speaking to him this morning,

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he needed me to heed. Yeah, I needed to go

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up and see him. So I did that. But before

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I went up, there was a lot of noise in

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the garden, probably about nine o'clock ten o'clock, and it

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was the scaffolders. Now I've forgotten that they were coming.

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So they were putting scaffolding up to put some kind

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of knitting around the solar panels to stop the birds

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from nesting. Something like that they did. The councilor did

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call me about two three weeks ago to let me know.

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And because they're basically putting a scaffold in my side

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of the building. Now literally anyone can just walk up

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that ladder onto the scaffold in and just get into

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

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my windows closed. I've had them closed because I've got

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them on the latch, so there's a bit of air,

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but they're not open, which is how I would have

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them in this heat. And I kept them closed also

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because I didn't know how close to the windows the

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scaffolding was going to be and I needed to go out,

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so I couldn't leave Vinny in this living room that

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normally do it because it was too warm. So I

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had to leave the living room door open so he

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had the air so he could like go from room

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to room. So I he's had the access to the

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whole flat today, and I know that if he sits

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in a hallway, it's very cool in the hallway. There's

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no sun there and just you know, so he had

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a bit of a it's a lot of banging downstairs,

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a lot of door slamming. I don't know why people

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Why do people slam doors? What is it about door?

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

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it cause some kind of Is there a part of

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the brain that gets stimulated and it gives pleasure that

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I don't know about, because maybe I'll start slamming doors

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if it does give me some kind of doorgasm? Doorgasm?

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H I just I don't know if it's a pleasurable thing.

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See this, there's like seven times now the doors slammed,

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just in that short period of time. I don't know. Yes,

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So money, money mcmoney, Jason mcmoney, that's my name today.

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So now I've come back and all the scaffoldings put up,

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and there's literally it's just an entrance to my flat,

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to my windows. Which is not the best time year

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to have that, really, I mean, there's no good time.

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But I don't necessarily need the windows open in the winter.

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Well I do have to windows open in the winter,

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but at the moment then it's fairly important to have

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them open because of the stuffiness and the heat. But

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I can't go out and leave my flat with the

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windows open, because anyone can just walk up the ladder

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and just get into my flat and just take my stuff.

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And unfortunately, I live in an area where that is

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something that is very very likely to happen. Unfortunately, the

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flat downstairs got robbed about three months ago. So yeah,

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there's just you know, one in Oldish tangs. So it is.

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

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

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

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

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

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So I did eight days in a row. Then I

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

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

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

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

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

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the same tax driver more than once out of that

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whole period. The door's still slamming. Why is there one

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slamming the doors so much. How strange, very very strange, indeed,

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And so I went and visited him. I managed to

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get him some ice from Costa. So he's been talking

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about wanting ice in the hospital. I just need to

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get some ice. So you need to get well. You

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need to get some ice, so you do, which is

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not how he speaks at all. And I said, I'll

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get you some ice. He said, oh, it'd be good

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if it was in a flask, So it would I said,

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a flask, Yeah, we keep it icier for longer. Yeah,

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I'm okay. So I got him a cock. I got

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

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I actually thought he was going to be nil by

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Mouth because when I spoke to him, he said he

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was going to have a procedure done today. When I

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got there, hiss and and and nil by mouth NBM

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or whatever it is, it's normally it said nil nil

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by Mouth nb M. They put on his board underneath

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his name. I put a change it to d n R.

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I thought it was funny. And but there was nothing

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on there today that was on there the other day

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when he had to have a scan. But there was,

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And he got food he got his dinner delivered. He

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ordered his dinner, and I went to the nurse. I said,

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what what's going on? Isn't it you having a procedure done?

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Because I was going to go and get him some

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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people nicknames depending on what they give him. But now

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all the staff called him Uncle Sausages as well. Oh,

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sick on me. How weird would that be? Especially if

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

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tell you about Uncle Sausages. So it's yeah, it's I

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don't want to get into too much details, but it's

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not it's not noything's going particularly well. But I've gone

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to the nurse. I've phoned the doctor while I was

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

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be visiting a ward. So the nurse said to come

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there about between nine thirty and ten, so that I

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can be with Uncle Sausages when he gets his when

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the doctor tells him whatever the doctor needs to tell him.

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That way I can be with I can be there

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

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

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

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can talk to him about anything. So it just means

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I can ask questions or anything if they because Uncle

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

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

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Yet at the same time, I think the best time

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

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only on the ward for a little while, is when

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

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

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

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early tomorrow, going to get there by probably nine and

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then hear what the doctor has to say regarding treatment

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

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

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

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had a little bit of medication to try and clear

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

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

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he hasn't had as far as I'm aware, any medication

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outside of just to get rid of the jaundice. And

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he's had a scan like he had the cat scan

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when he've done the first day he was there, and

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then he's had another big, massive scan of his whole body,

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which they still haven't given him the proper results from,

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or if they have, he's not telling me something little

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He was a little bit confused. So yeah, it's a

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weird one. Really. I just hope that because he's now

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talking about going home, he wants to come home now

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he's had nothing there, which I completely understand. I mean,

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after halfter half an hour, I want to get out there.

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It's not it's not a place to it's not an

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enjoyable place to be. Less so for him obviously, but

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I just yeah, it's I mean, in some ways it's

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a bit freer than it is with some of the

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other wards, because some wards have very strict visit visiting times,

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and he just seems to have a little bit more

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freedom in some ways. And there's only four beds in

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a ward, which is quite a small amount compared to

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some other Some wards are quite big, aren't they. So

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there's always someone around, He's never everybody has to wait.

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There's always a nurse or a care worker within a

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few feet from him. So he's been looking at He's

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been looked after very well. It's just yeah, it's sister.

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I think he's just ready to leave the place. And

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his next door neighbor, who is the person in the

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bed next to him, Derek Trotter, he's actually been released,

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so he's not there anymore. He left today about eleven o'clock.

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Can you hear that? Listen to this? Can you hear that?

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That's where the windows closed. That's the RAF. I was

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gonna say bicycle then RAF thing. Oh, so that's the

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update on him. I'm just giving you an update for

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those that listen regularly. For those that don't listen regularly,

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probably not sure. You might not even know what I'm

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talking about, which is fine because that fits in with

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the podcast. Really, So this is this is Oh, I

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just clicked my collar bone. This is Tuesday, Trivia Tuesday.

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That's it. I forgot what I was doing then Trivia Tuesday,

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

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

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

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I did it last night, and then early this morning

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

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But I think I spent the first hour talking about

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my neighbor potentially and maybe some other stuff, and then

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

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I've visited and been in. But you know, it could

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have been to be Yeah, it could have been four

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or five hours long. If i'd have really focused on

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the things that I was going to talk about, it

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would have been a very, very long recording. And nobody

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wants Nobody wants that. Wow, five hours long.

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Woo woo woo, woo woo whoo.

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So I don't know what trivia. What trivia should I do?

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

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

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

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about the history of medication?

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No, no trivia about what would be the most random

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thing that we could talk about today?

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

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GPT list one hundred trivia facts about umbrellas? What about

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

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no fairy tales could know what There's got to be something.

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What could it be? What could it be? Something that

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I should be prepared tonight, just a little bit prepared

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

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knowing what I'm going to talk about. Would be a

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

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facts or Trivia Tuesday. I mean there was a time.

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

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already in front of me before i start talking, But

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that today is not that case. I'm not prepared at

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all other than just fitting here with my little boy

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

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he's tired. I think it's the heat. I think it

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be the heat which is making me tired. Oh, what

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list one hundred trivia facts about the weather weather if

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I can spell that correctly about summers in England over

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through history, through history history, So least one hundred trivia

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facts about summer summers in England throughout through history. I'm

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not going to ask it to fact check it. So

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if some of the stuff I might say that I'm

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reading off here maybe completely ridiculously wrong. However, I have

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looked into some of this stuff in the past just

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out of interest. And the very first one here is

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talking about something that I remember. The summer of nineteen

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seventy six was one of the hottest and dirtiest, no

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driest rother in English history. Now, I already knew that

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it's one of those things, even at the age of five,

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

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I knew that there was something weird going on. Even

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

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and yeah, I remember that super super super super hot

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really was. I got sunburnt, actually got ended up covered

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in blisters, which is a weird thing, but it's true.

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Or covered in blisters because I was in I was

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out in the sun fur without me top on, maybe

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just in me hunderpens. I don't know that would be weird.

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Maybe shorts or something, swimming trunks and we didn't have

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water nearby, so it's just playing on the playing field,

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I guess, and the it's quite. This is weird though, okay,

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because I remember that this in Newcastle and that makes

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me wonder because it just means I lived in Newcastle

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for a lot longer than I realized. But nineteen seventy

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six I was in Newcastle. So yeah, so from seventy

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seventy two to seventy six, I was saying about four years. Yeah,

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that's weird anyway. So I yeah, covered in blisters on

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my back, on my front, and I'm being put into

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

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I don't think blisters and a bath are a good combination.

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But I remember that, and it wasn't I remember all

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the laughter not coming from me. So June the two

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thousand and twenty three was officially the hottest June on

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record in England. June twenty twenty three twenty four, twenty five.

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I thought June this year was the hottest one, but

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maybe so that was something it was hot. There was

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

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the third once I read this in a minute. So

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the Great heat wave of nine nineteen eleven lasted over

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

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

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

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

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is there an abnormality, abnomenally anomaly? Anomenomally anomaly. England recorded

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its hottest temperature ever forty point three percent centigrade or

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one hundred and four point five fahrenheit in Lincolnshire on

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

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remember hm, I just have a memory that was it

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was really hot. There was one particular day when no

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one went outside apart from those people that did. It

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was really just phoning each other saying I'm naked, Are

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you naked? Yeah, I'm naked as well. And it was

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the only time my whole life that I've been able

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to phone people up and have that conversation, well, having

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a conversation where they say, yeah, I'm naked too. Yeah,

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it was good. The weird thing about it was I

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was phoning people up saying are you're naked, and no

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saying yeah you. I said, oh, yeah, I am. I

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didn't realize it was hot outside. I hadn't looked the

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summer of tooth. I don't even know it's outside the

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summer of two thousand and three because I put ice

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cubes on me that sum of two thousand and three

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saw two thousand plus. He okay, I'm not gonna read

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that out. It's horrible one oh stop it. The wettest

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summer on record in England was nineteen nine twelve, nineteen twelve. Oh,

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the wettest summer on record nineteen twelve. Are you sure?

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Because I remember some wet summers. Number seven. In July

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nineteen twenty one, London saw thirty two consecutive days without rain.

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Thirty two Actually just a month, isn't it? In this

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country it's weird because if we go more than three

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days that rain, there's a drought. There's a drought hose

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by ban and then three days later flood warnings. That's

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

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so short sightedness may be not all short memory, not

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remembering that the weather is constantly changing. And that's what

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

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In one day. It can be spring, summer, winter, all

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

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

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So what else have we got? Thunderstorms are more common

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in English summers than in winter. Yep, that's true. I'm

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agreeing with it. I can't remember the last time I

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heard a thunderstorm in the winter, because thunderstorms seemed to

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be more a heat related thing.

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You know.

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

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

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and I was probably five or six in Newcastle. This

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is when I was in the kids home and we

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were in this kind of yard and the building. There

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was a yard in the middle of this big building,

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so we could get in from different exits and stuff

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for different entrances. So we were sheltering on one side

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the building and I kept saying it's thunder and I said, no,

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

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kept soying, no, it's thunder, and I said it's thunder,

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and she walked off. It wasn't a very long conversation,

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but I just remember, and for some reason, I just

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remember that conversation. And then when about two thousand and three,

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I think it was Wow, there was a thunderstorm. It

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

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living quite high up in this building, not like super high,

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but not high enough to parachute out, but high enough

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

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to you need a rope or a rope ladder to

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get down, but it's not quite high enough for a

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parachute to really gain any kind of usefulness. Probably wouldn't

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even be open before you hit the ground. I never

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tried it. I haven't got a parachute, but yeah, it was.

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It was up high enough and there was nothing overlooking it,

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which is quite nice. So it kind of had all

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the sky and this thunderstorm so big and so lightningly

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and so thundery and loud, really loud. I loved it.

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It was wonderful. And it was during the summer as well,

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so this is two thousand and three in the and

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it was powerful, powerful, really good it was. It was

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a good moment. What other thunderstorms can I remember? Not many? Really, no, No,

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not many thunderstorms thunderstorms. Can I remember any thunderstormms? No,

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I don't seem to be able to remember any. There's

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been lots. I remember the day that Elvis left us

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in nineteen seventy seven. I think it thundered them that

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day during the day, and it was in the summer

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and the rain, the rain. We got absolutely drenched, but

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it was warm, so it wasn't an uncomfortable soaking. It

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was quite a nice soaking, in fact, and if you're

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ever going to get completely soaked, that seemed like quite

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a good time to have it happen. And it was

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quite a good day to have it happened as well,

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because a lot of people were sad that Elvis had

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left us, so it was not really weird weird day

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

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

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but I was I was six years old, so I

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wasn't so kind of up with who he was or

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what he did and he he sung stuff. So my

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oldest brother was upset because he was a massive fan.

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And all the TV because he was watching on the

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TV all the news, every channel had news stories about him.

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So all the other all the other programs were canceled.

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This was Saturday morning, and it's like you know, and

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I was upset because every channel had his were talking

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about him, and there's no cartoons on. So I was five,

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No six six in August two thousand and four. Oh

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there was one time I got drenched where oh yeah,

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I think it was a thunderstorm as well. And I

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walked to my dad's on Christmas Day. This would be

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ninety eighty nine, ninety ninety, maybe nineteen, yeah, maybe, I

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think so, probably about nineteen ninety Christmas Day. And one

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the way to his house, which wasn't wasn't a long journey.

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It's probably twenty twenty five minute walk. I got soaked.

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So I'm annoyed. I'm yeah, I'm er So I knock

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on his door, going completely drenched, and he said, oh,

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do you want to want to I've got some closing

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spare closing partly if you want, And I said no.

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I was so angry and I just stood there in

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his wet clothes. I couldn't sit down, I couldn't do anything.

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In the end that I just had to say, yeah, well,

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that's all right. So he's got me some a jumper

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and some tracksuit bottoms or something. But I was like,

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I was determined not to have anything. I was so

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how could the weather do this to me?

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Me?

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Me? I could have just got a tax and I

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couldn't have got a taxi Christmas Day. But I know

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if I'd just called my dad, he'd have come and

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got me. Well, I could have just said, look, i'll

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come around, but I'm going to wait until it stops raining,

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and then my dad would have come and got me.

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So or his wife would have come and got me.

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Didn't have to be a big deal. I just needed

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another controversial Christmas. Now. That was all right. After that,

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I can't think of any thunderstorms off hand. Some may

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come to me as I'm talking, this might be a

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subject of thunderstorms. It's weird. Didn't mean it to be.

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But if any, if any of the thunderstorms pop into

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my head, I will tell you. In August two thousand

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and four, boss, calm down wherever that is recorded a

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single day rainfall total of one hundred and twenty feet

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of of rain or millimeters of rain whatever that. I

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don't know what what's one hundred and twenty millimeters? Why

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do they just do it in feet? So is that

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

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

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I don't really know much about strawberries, but I feel

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like I already knew that fruit. I mean, you just

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take away the strawberries and just say bananas, apples. It

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doesn't all fruit ripe and faster in the warmth. Me

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me am, I being am I being a bit silly there.

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I don't know. It could be oh, summer traditions and festivals, Wimbledon,

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which has just started yesterday, Wimbledon, or as I like

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to call it, grumpled or not grumbled and gruntle grunt

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gruntled because they grunt a lot. Ah. Yeah, I used

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to actually want I lived alone in the house because

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I've moved around a lot over the years. Not for

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the last ten years, but before that a lot. I'm

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talking a lot lot started off when I was born,

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really like six months old, and I started moving. I'll

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packed me back. I did. I packed my bags up,

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and I thought, that's it. I'm out of here. So

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if I was in a shared house, I would put

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Wimbledon on Wimbledon to the two weeks. I would turn

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up the female matches really loud, so that my neighbors

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all could hear us ah ah ooh ah. So I

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thought that they might think that maybe I had a

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girlfriend and I knew ways to make her happy. I

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

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In my mind. It went quite well until the audience.

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

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I remember one one of my neighbors said, how big

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is your room? If you could fit an audience in

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

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

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

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as was the Olympics. I also think that Wimbledon was

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canceled during the Two Wars, the two World Wars as well.

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I'm just thinking about like the World Cup and stuff.

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I'm guessing Wimbledon would not be going ahead during the

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World War in this country, so I could look that up,

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but I can't be bothered. It's weird, isn't it. I mean,

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I'm actually talked about stuff and I just it just

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the idea of just pushing the keys on a keyboard

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just seems like a lot of effort. The notting Hill Carnival,

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a summer event, began in nineteen sixty six. So the

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notting Hill Carnival, for those who don't know what it is,

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it's a it's a very famous carnival in this country

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that has a degree of a notoriority about it. And

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I think it's basically because it's a street carnival and

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it's the police can't control it the way they can

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maybe if something's in a park, they can have a

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bit more control of something if it's kind of stuck

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in one place. But the notting Hill Carnival, it's on

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the move and there's millions of people probably turn up

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and from all over the world, and it's I get

465
00:41:55.679 --> 00:42:01.960
a sense it is kind of chaotic. I also get

466
00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:08.039
a sense that the press focused just on they don't

467
00:42:08.159 --> 00:42:12.719
they don't focus on the nice parts of it. And

468
00:42:12.760 --> 00:42:18.239
it's probably mainly really a good good vibe. I just

469
00:42:18.360 --> 00:42:20.800
I've never been there. I never wanted to, never really

470
00:42:20.800 --> 00:42:25.280
felt it's just for me. It's the crowds, too many people.

471
00:42:27.079 --> 00:42:30.880
I wouldn't really want to go to any festival or

472
00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:36.519
carnival or other just because of the amount of people.

473
00:42:36.559 --> 00:42:43.880
It's just like, Wow, I might go one day. Maybe

474
00:42:43.880 --> 00:42:46.679
that should be on my little my bucket list, to

475
00:42:46.719 --> 00:42:50.599
go to the notting Hill Carnival. I tell what I

476
00:42:50.639 --> 00:42:52.679
would like. I'd like to I'd like to be on

477
00:42:52.679 --> 00:42:56.159
one of the floats. I'd like if I was gonna

478
00:42:56.400 --> 00:42:58.119
think if I was going to do something like go

479
00:42:58.199 --> 00:43:03.079
to notting Hill Carnival, I'd like to be involved, even

480
00:43:03.119 --> 00:43:05.760
if it was just handing out bottles of water to

481
00:43:05.800 --> 00:43:09.400
people for free, something like that, Just to be involved

482
00:43:09.440 --> 00:43:12.239
in a positive way so that I can be part

483
00:43:12.280 --> 00:43:19.920
of it. But not a spectator, but also not a performer,

484
00:43:20.199 --> 00:43:25.960
you know, just kind of the background kind of person.

485
00:43:27.400 --> 00:43:29.440
That's kind of what I liked in a comedy club.

486
00:43:29.599 --> 00:43:33.920
I liked the idea of being in the background, so

487
00:43:33.960 --> 00:43:35.760
I could be at the back of the club watching

488
00:43:35.800 --> 00:43:40.519
the acts, but also help with putting a show together,

489
00:43:40.559 --> 00:43:43.400
you know, getting the seats ready before the people got

490
00:43:43.400 --> 00:43:49.599
in maybe emptying the tables of glasses throughout the breaks

491
00:43:50.199 --> 00:43:56.679
and just helping out in the background, So being part

492
00:43:56.719 --> 00:44:00.159
of the comedy night, but not being the focus the

493
00:44:00.159 --> 00:44:05.039
comedy night that I quite liked that. I'm not saying

494
00:44:05.079 --> 00:44:07.079
that I would have I would have loved to have been,

495
00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:13.400
you know, the main act on stage. That never happened,

496
00:44:13.440 --> 00:44:17.159
and that was that I wasn't destined to do that

497
00:44:17.280 --> 00:44:24.400
at that time. But outside of being the star I was.

498
00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:31.480
I quite liked just I prove, okay, this is it

499
00:44:31.519 --> 00:44:35.519
in preference to being an audience member, because I used

500
00:44:35.519 --> 00:44:38.719
to go to loads of comedy clubs. I went to

501
00:44:38.840 --> 00:44:42.480
every I think apart from Jonglers, and that's the only

502
00:44:42.519 --> 00:44:45.840
comedy club I didn't never visit. I don't know why

503
00:44:45.960 --> 00:44:51.320
I never went to Jonglers in London, but pretty much

504
00:44:51.480 --> 00:44:55.199
every comedy club that was around in the nineties I visited,

505
00:44:57.199 --> 00:45:01.760
like every single one, every single one, and there's hundreds

506
00:45:01.760 --> 00:45:08.199
of caban went during that time. And I used to

507
00:45:08.239 --> 00:45:11.679
just turn up and people knew who I was. Quite

508
00:45:11.679 --> 00:45:14.559
a few of the people running the clubs were comedians themselves,

509
00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:17.880
so I knew them and I just hang around with them,

510
00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:21.400
or we stand at the bar and just watch the

511
00:45:22.440 --> 00:45:28.119
watch the acts. Maybe sometimes go on do a little

512
00:45:28.159 --> 00:45:31.639
spot maybe sometimes. But it was just nice to be

513
00:45:32.199 --> 00:45:38.239
in the background. I like that rather than being rather

514
00:45:38.280 --> 00:45:41.960
than sort of sitting in a in a chair with

515
00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:46.400
the audience. I liked to Yes, it's nice to just

516
00:45:48.360 --> 00:45:51.079
what am I talking about? While am I mentioning that? Oh? Yeah,

517
00:45:51.119 --> 00:45:55.679
the notting Hill Carnival. Yeah. If I was participated in

518
00:45:55.679 --> 00:46:00.639
some way, then that would be cool, but in a

519
00:46:00.679 --> 00:46:06.440
positive way. You know. I wouldn't want to be not

520
00:46:06.480 --> 00:46:08.639
that what could do that? But like being part of

521
00:46:08.840 --> 00:46:12.599
Ill want to be working, like being a security or something,

522
00:46:12.639 --> 00:46:16.840
because that's that doesn't that wouldn't be fun because then

523
00:46:17.760 --> 00:46:22.639
I wouldn't be relaxed. So maybe I'll go there, wouldn't

524
00:46:22.639 --> 00:46:32.280
they go to the Dutig Hill Cardival. Morris dancing is

525
00:46:32.320 --> 00:46:38.280
traditionally performed in the summer, so Morris dancing. I just

526
00:46:38.480 --> 00:46:41.039
do Morrish dancing at school. Is that the one where

527
00:46:41.039 --> 00:46:46.960
you got you're going around the pole and you're dancing

528
00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:49.920
around the pole and you've got it's a different pole

529
00:46:50.079 --> 00:46:53.239
to one of my mum used to dance around. But

530
00:46:53.320 --> 00:46:56.039
this one is no one, No one chucks money at you.

531
00:46:57.039 --> 00:47:01.280
This one is you hold onto like a ribbon thing,

532
00:47:01.320 --> 00:47:03.840
a colored ribbon, and you dance in and out of

533
00:47:03.880 --> 00:47:06.079
each other, but not literally in and out, but like

534
00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:09.519
I don't know how, it kind of makes a pattern

535
00:47:10.719 --> 00:47:15.760
on the pole, a pattern from the different bits of fabric.

536
00:47:16.760 --> 00:47:22.480
Is that Morris dancing? Or've I got it wrong? Or

537
00:47:22.559 --> 00:47:26.119
is that fairy dancing? Or that's a different, different type

538
00:47:26.159 --> 00:47:31.280
of dancing may Pole? That's may pole dancing. Isn't it

539
00:47:31.320 --> 00:47:36.519
for may Day may Pole dancing? So Morrow's dancing? That's

540
00:47:36.559 --> 00:47:44.719
a that's a Scottish thing, isn't it Morris? I'm not sure.

541
00:47:45.840 --> 00:47:50.079
I think Morris dancing Scottish dancing. I might be wrong.

542
00:47:53.039 --> 00:48:00.880
Pims Pims, a popular summer drink, was invented in eighteen forty.

543
00:48:02.480 --> 00:48:11.199
It is Pim's Ani seed. I think it might be

544
00:48:11.440 --> 00:48:17.400
someone's listening to a TV. It's really loud. Do you

545
00:48:17.440 --> 00:48:21.679
think people sometimes listen to really loud things because it

546
00:48:21.760 --> 00:48:25.840
distracts them from their own thoughts? Because I don't know.

547
00:48:25.880 --> 00:48:29.280
I had a neighbor who I visited, and I went

548
00:48:29.320 --> 00:48:33.119
in there and this neighbor was literally had the music

549
00:48:33.480 --> 00:48:37.559
so loud. I had to leave. I couldn't. It was

550
00:48:37.559 --> 00:48:45.360
too loud for me, and it's almost like it was, well,

551
00:48:45.400 --> 00:48:50.880
it would be impossible for me to think. In fact,

552
00:48:51.599 --> 00:48:57.719
I think I'd struggle to do even the most simple task.

553
00:48:58.400 --> 00:49:01.039
So if you said to me, I'll just add these

554
00:49:01.119 --> 00:49:05.159
numbers up, basic numbers, you know, something is it takes

555
00:49:05.400 --> 00:49:08.239
a little bit of brain power, but not much and

556
00:49:08.400 --> 00:49:12.880
even just working it out on a pad like two

557
00:49:12.920 --> 00:49:16.480
plus four plus nine plus six plus nine plus five,

558
00:49:16.559 --> 00:49:18.840
but you know, just a few numbers, like okay, if

559
00:49:18.880 --> 00:49:23.000
I might take a few seconds to just figure it out,

560
00:49:24.360 --> 00:49:28.159
it'd be almost impossible with the volume of that music.

561
00:49:31.039 --> 00:49:35.559
That's what I mean. And I remember saying when I

562
00:49:35.599 --> 00:49:40.360
worked in evolution in Ipswich, I worked in the evolution shop,

563
00:49:40.400 --> 00:49:45.880
which was run by Buddhists, and I said to them,

564
00:49:45.920 --> 00:49:50.880
because there was the front entrance but the back entrance,

565
00:49:51.719 --> 00:49:54.960
so you went through there was a little office that's

566
00:49:54.960 --> 00:49:57.199
where the computer was and they did everything out there.

567
00:49:58.719 --> 00:50:01.599
But there was another sit out the back which was

568
00:50:01.639 --> 00:50:05.000
a fire escape, and out of there you could then

569
00:50:05.199 --> 00:50:08.079
walk through out of the other door, or there was

570
00:50:08.079 --> 00:50:10.800
a few different exits. There's some stairs you can go up,

571
00:50:11.360 --> 00:50:15.039
and that was where all the other surrounding shops kind

572
00:50:15.079 --> 00:50:21.679
of led into that was their back entrances, and there

573
00:50:21.719 --> 00:50:28.119
was a key in the door, and there was there

574
00:50:28.159 --> 00:50:31.039
was a pushbar which opened the door, but it didn't

575
00:50:31.079 --> 00:50:33.000
work if the key was locked. If it was locked,

576
00:50:33.000 --> 00:50:38.400
it wouldn't work. And I said to the person, one

577
00:50:38.440 --> 00:50:40.559
of the people that was kind of managing the shop,

578
00:50:40.599 --> 00:50:45.119
I said, you have to leave that door unlocked when

579
00:50:45.159 --> 00:50:48.360
we're in the shop. Of course, you lock it at

580
00:50:48.440 --> 00:50:50.199
night when there's no one in there, but when we're

581
00:50:50.239 --> 00:50:52.679
in the shop, it has to be left open. So

582
00:50:52.719 --> 00:50:56.000
when you push the bar, the door opens. And his

583
00:50:56.320 --> 00:50:59.440
answer was, we see, it just turned the key. It's

584
00:50:59.440 --> 00:51:04.119
not that different. And I tried to explain to him

585
00:51:04.440 --> 00:51:11.239
that in an emergency, things that are very simple normally

586
00:51:11.400 --> 00:51:17.199
aren't always simple, and he didn't get it. He didn't

587
00:51:17.280 --> 00:51:21.039
understand what I meant, but he did stop locking the

588
00:51:21.079 --> 00:51:26.079
door because I made such a fuss. So I'm quite.

589
00:51:26.159 --> 00:51:31.239
I'm quite on the old health and safety things like that.

590
00:51:31.400 --> 00:51:35.480
I think it's just too important to ignore. He did

591
00:51:35.519 --> 00:51:39.000
get the ump, but he got over it. I'm sure

592
00:51:40.800 --> 00:51:43.480
it's twenty one years ago. I think he's I think

593
00:51:43.519 --> 00:51:45.760
he's recovered. I do I do, I do, I do

594
00:51:45.800 --> 00:51:52.480
I do, And I've been in that situation where I

595
00:51:52.519 --> 00:51:54.320
had to call for an I had to call for

596
00:51:54.480 --> 00:51:58.440
the police once and I couldn't get my phone to work.

597
00:52:00.199 --> 00:52:06.199
It was just a normal phone, probably a smartphone, it wasn't.

598
00:52:06.239 --> 00:52:08.159
I mean, it was a while ago, but it was

599
00:52:08.159 --> 00:52:10.719
a smartphone. And all I wanted to do is press

600
00:52:10.840 --> 00:52:14.199
nine to nine to nine, And because I was so

601
00:52:20.119 --> 00:52:23.599
like not knowing what to do that, I was struggling

602
00:52:23.719 --> 00:52:27.159
just to press nine nine nine and to press the

603
00:52:27.159 --> 00:52:30.559
button for it to ring. Seriously, it took me about

604
00:52:30.559 --> 00:52:34.199
six attempts to do it because my hand was shaking,

605
00:52:34.480 --> 00:52:37.880
and it wasn't. I wasn't fear so much. Maybe it

606
00:52:37.920 --> 00:52:40.400
was fear, but it wasn't fear for myself because I

607
00:52:40.480 --> 00:52:44.480
was trying to help someone else that was looked like

608
00:52:44.559 --> 00:52:48.360
they were in trouble. So I wasn't fearful for myself

609
00:52:48.480 --> 00:52:59.760
or anything. I just I guess panicked, I suppose. So, yeah,

610
00:53:00.079 --> 00:53:02.360
I don't know, I'm not quite sure. What's that got

611
00:53:02.400 --> 00:53:08.800
to do with Morris dancing. I don't know. Pims, Oh yeah, pims,

612
00:53:10.360 --> 00:53:17.480
because it's I don't know how I got onto that

613
00:53:17.559 --> 00:53:23.199
subject of doors that are locked. That's weird, isn't it

614
00:53:27.320 --> 00:53:33.159
So Glastonbury Festival began in nineteen seventy and became a

615
00:53:33.440 --> 00:53:39.800
summer staple. So Glastonbury, I think Glastonbury was our version

616
00:53:40.239 --> 00:53:50.000
of wood Woodcock? Is it Woodcock? Woodcock? You know the

617
00:53:50.039 --> 00:53:57.440
American really famous festival of nineteen sixty nine, would would

618
00:53:57.480 --> 00:54:03.440
would Cock? Wood Cock? I think it's wood Cock. But

619
00:54:03.480 --> 00:54:06.719
that was the That was a huge festival, wasn't it.

620
00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:13.519
Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones and stuff like that.

621
00:54:13.559 --> 00:54:15.199
I think it was sixty nine. It might have been

622
00:54:15.280 --> 00:54:21.119
sixty six. I think it was sixty nine. And would Stock,

623
00:54:21.440 --> 00:54:30.559
not Cock would Cock Stock would would would Stock? Blimey.

624
00:54:31.000 --> 00:54:36.719
So I think Glastonbury was our version of would Stock,

625
00:54:38.239 --> 00:54:42.719
which was an America and I'm guessing other countries probably

626
00:54:42.719 --> 00:54:46.320
did the same. They copied and they had their own

627
00:54:47.679 --> 00:54:55.480
summer festivals. And Glastonbury I'm guessing because it's on at

628
00:54:55.480 --> 00:54:58.880
the moment, I think it's one, and there's lots of

629
00:54:58.920 --> 00:55:02.280
festivals in this kind of tree. I think it's one

630
00:55:02.320 --> 00:55:05.519
of the biggest, if not the biggest festival in the

631
00:55:05.679 --> 00:55:10.960
entire country. No, I'm talking about England, so I think

632
00:55:11.000 --> 00:55:14.519
it is the biggest one. But I might be wrong, Okay,

633
00:55:14.599 --> 00:55:20.119
so don't don't send me shoes are too small for

634
00:55:20.159 --> 00:55:23.559
me as punishment. I'm just I don't know. I hopefully

635
00:55:23.679 --> 00:55:25.079
I might be right. I don't care if I'm right

636
00:55:25.199 --> 00:55:28.760
or not. It's just it seems to be the most

637
00:55:29.360 --> 00:55:34.440
famous one, you know. I went. I once wet, and

638
00:55:34.920 --> 00:55:39.840
I once wet myself. No, I once went to last

639
00:55:39.960 --> 00:55:50.639
night at the Summer Orchestra or last night at the proms.

640
00:55:50.679 --> 00:56:01.079
That's it. I was in Talky, Talky Talky. Yeah, it

641
00:56:01.159 --> 00:56:07.599
was Talkey. I was in Turkey in two thousand and three.

642
00:56:07.840 --> 00:56:13.239
It was in the summer two thousand and three, maybe September,

643
00:56:14.760 --> 00:56:17.599
and I went and visited me cousin who lived there

644
00:56:17.679 --> 00:56:26.440
with his girlfriend. Absolutely loved the place, love loved loved

645
00:56:26.440 --> 00:56:29.760
the place. It was lovely. I really liked it. It's

646
00:56:29.800 --> 00:56:32.559
one of my favorite favorite places I've ever been ever.

647
00:56:34.079 --> 00:56:38.960
And we went to the park, the local park, and

648
00:56:39.119 --> 00:56:41.679
last night the proms was on there and they were

649
00:56:41.800 --> 00:56:44.199
I think they were filming it for the TV and

650
00:56:44.239 --> 00:56:48.159
it was live or something like that. In the park.

651
00:56:48.880 --> 00:56:54.159
The park was all cordoned off and we couldn't get

652
00:56:54.199 --> 00:56:59.639
in or they were charging money to get in, and

653
00:56:59.679 --> 00:57:02.159
we did want to pay something like that, so what

654
00:57:02.199 --> 00:57:06.880
we did is we climbed over the fences and we

655
00:57:07.119 --> 00:57:13.079
just crept in. We snacked it, snack snacked, We sneaked.

656
00:57:13.480 --> 00:57:20.440
We crept and we sneaked snacked in and it was cool.

657
00:57:21.159 --> 00:57:26.320
It was really nice. There were people asking for you know,

658
00:57:26.639 --> 00:57:29.599
proof of tickets and stuff. I don't quite know why,

659
00:57:29.639 --> 00:57:33.400
but we got asked to leave a couple of times.

660
00:57:33.840 --> 00:57:37.440
But it was It was still fun, though not as

661
00:57:37.480 --> 00:57:41.639
many people there as I thought there would be. But

662
00:57:41.719 --> 00:57:46.239
it was nice, It's really and the evening was lovely.

663
00:57:46.960 --> 00:57:51.480
It was one of those beautiful summer evenings. It wasn't hot,

664
00:57:52.400 --> 00:57:55.079
it wasn't like hot hot, it wasn't cold. It was

665
00:57:55.239 --> 00:57:58.880
just it was near the end of the summer. Maybe

666
00:57:58.960 --> 00:58:06.079
August time things about it. But it was really pleasant. Yeah,

667
00:58:06.519 --> 00:58:09.599
maybe it was July. It was nice during the day.

668
00:58:09.800 --> 00:58:12.840
I did get a suntan or I've got a bit burnt.

669
00:58:12.920 --> 00:58:15.920
Rather don't go and get sundown's got a bit burnt.

670
00:58:18.760 --> 00:58:28.679
But it was nice, very nice. And that's that's yeah.

671
00:58:28.760 --> 00:58:37.639
I just remembered that. Anyway, Summer Solstice celebrates at Stonehenge

672
00:58:39.719 --> 00:58:48.079
at dates back famous of years, long before the people

673
00:58:48.079 --> 00:58:56.320
in this country or the royalty adopted things such as Christianity.

674
00:58:56.760 --> 00:59:02.320
So we used to be Pagans, I think in this

675
00:59:02.440 --> 00:59:14.840
country before the Romans came here, trooping the color. The

676
00:59:14.920 --> 00:59:20.039
King's official birthday parade is held in Dewan, So yeah,

677
00:59:20.119 --> 00:59:23.199
that was we had that the other day a couple

678
00:59:23.239 --> 00:59:30.599
of weeks back, the loads of planes and stuff coming

679
00:59:30.639 --> 00:59:39.960
over here for his birthday, traveling towards London. The Henley

680
00:59:40.400 --> 00:59:46.840
Royal Regatta regatta. Regatta has taken place every summer since

681
00:59:46.960 --> 00:59:56.159
eighteen thirty nine. Well, let me tell you something. I

682
00:59:56.199 --> 00:59:59.559
know a little bit about the Henley Regatta because in

683
00:59:59.599 --> 01:00:06.760
the nine I got myself a job selling I don't

684
01:00:06.880 --> 01:00:11.199
really want to call them, basically trying to sell companies

685
01:00:13.119 --> 01:00:17.159
deals for their staff to go to the Henley Regatta.

686
01:00:19.320 --> 01:00:24.440
And it was expensive, expensive, and all the staff that

687
01:00:24.480 --> 01:00:27.599
they took on they didn't pay them anything. It was

688
01:00:29.400 --> 01:00:35.519
commission only and it was just a numbers game. So

689
01:00:35.639 --> 01:00:39.400
they had people that came along and did really well,

690
01:00:42.639 --> 01:00:46.239
and then they had people like me that were desperate

691
01:00:46.360 --> 01:00:51.519
to earn some money, wanted to do really well, but

692
01:00:51.639 --> 01:00:55.280
couldn't be there long enough to do really well because

693
01:00:55.480 --> 01:01:01.159
I had maybe four days to earn some money before

694
01:01:01.639 --> 01:01:03.559
I couldn't afford to get in anymore. I couldn't afford

695
01:01:03.599 --> 01:01:08.800
to travel. But if i'd have had, well, I probably

696
01:01:08.800 --> 01:01:10.719
wouldn't have been allowed to stay there for three months.

697
01:01:10.760 --> 01:01:13.159
If i'd have had to do a good period of time,

698
01:01:14.719 --> 01:01:21.239
I would have learned more and perhaps being able to

699
01:01:21.320 --> 01:01:26.960
sell something. And the commission was good. I mean we're

700
01:01:27.000 --> 01:01:36.840
talking thousands and thousands of pounds these ten twenty grand

701
01:01:36.920 --> 01:01:39.880
or whatever for these packages, so I'd be earning some

702
01:01:39.960 --> 01:01:45.280
good money in commission. But yeah, I remember that I

703
01:01:45.320 --> 01:01:51.920
was there for about three days. Three days. I had

704
01:01:51.960 --> 01:01:54.440
a lot of sales jobs. I wan to talk about

705
01:01:54.480 --> 01:01:57.519
that one day because it is something that I never

706
01:01:57.519 --> 01:02:00.760
really spoken about. I mean I spoke about the sales

707
01:02:00.840 --> 01:02:04.719
jobs in insurance. I've talked a little bit about the

708
01:02:04.760 --> 01:02:09.920
sales job where I did the selling phone contracts to people,

709
01:02:11.800 --> 01:02:14.679
but I've not I thought, I've ever really gone into

710
01:02:14.800 --> 01:02:20.280
detail about some of the other sales jobs that I've had,

711
01:02:21.840 --> 01:02:23.719
And I'll try and listen them. Let me see if

712
01:02:23.760 --> 01:02:32.280
I could list them for you Life Insurance. This is

713
01:02:32.320 --> 01:02:40.440
back in nineteen eighty nine or before that, in nineteen

714
01:02:40.559 --> 01:02:49.920
ninety I had a sales job selling time share, so

715
01:02:50.039 --> 01:02:53.000
that was the second or I had a sales job

716
01:02:53.400 --> 01:03:00.000
selling and this is in probably about eighty eight eighty nine,

717
01:03:00.480 --> 01:03:15.000
probably selling water filters, so that didn't quite work out, yes,

718
01:03:15.159 --> 01:03:18.920
the water filters. Then I had another job selling advertising,

719
01:03:20.920 --> 01:03:25.639
and another job selling printing, So that was going around

720
01:03:28.440 --> 01:03:34.639
going around the docks into buildings trying to sell basically

721
01:03:34.719 --> 01:03:39.360
just printing, printing costs and paper and stuff like that.

722
01:03:40.400 --> 01:03:44.559
A lot a few sales, but I didn't really go

723
01:03:45.079 --> 01:03:51.679
very far. Then I had the job selling life insurance

724
01:03:51.760 --> 01:03:57.199
door to door in nineteen eighty nine in London. Then

725
01:03:57.239 --> 01:04:01.960
I had a job It wasn't technically selling, but it

726
01:04:02.159 --> 01:04:06.480
was trying to get people to have this is daor

727
01:04:06.559 --> 01:04:14.199
to door the satellite dishes for Sky and they'd have

728
01:04:14.280 --> 01:04:18.159
to satellite dish for a month I think. And it

729
01:04:18.239 --> 01:04:22.719
was the baby. It was the puppy sales technique, so

730
01:04:23.360 --> 01:04:27.679
you'd give them. But you know, if you give someone

731
01:04:27.719 --> 01:04:30.599
a puppy for a month and then go and take

732
01:04:30.599 --> 01:04:32.079
it back, they're not going to want you to take

733
01:04:32.079 --> 01:04:34.320
the puppy back because they'll have fallen in love with puppy,

734
01:04:36.159 --> 01:04:38.880
and that's that's why it's called that. So if you

735
01:04:39.320 --> 01:04:43.320
leave something with someone for a period of time for free,

736
01:04:43.400 --> 01:04:45.119
and then you go and collect it, they're going to

737
01:04:46.119 --> 01:04:49.000
quite likely say no, I'll keep it and pay you.

738
01:04:50.360 --> 01:04:56.719
And that's how Sky did their their thing. Now. Part

739
01:04:56.760 --> 01:05:00.159
of the reason I stopped doing it because firstly, no

740
01:05:00.199 --> 01:05:03.280
one wanted to satellite dish because they were at the

741
01:05:03.320 --> 01:05:08.360
time there were a joke. It was it's one of

742
01:05:08.400 --> 01:05:12.880
those things that the newspapers were ridiculing them, like we

743
01:05:13.000 --> 01:05:15.199
would want one of those ugly things on the side

744
01:05:15.199 --> 01:05:21.440
of their their house, and the TV channels aren't much,

745
01:05:21.480 --> 01:05:24.199
and it was just it was kind of just starting

746
01:05:24.280 --> 01:05:28.920
up and it was not classed as a particularly good

747
01:05:28.960 --> 01:05:33.800
thing to have. And that changed over the years and

748
01:05:33.920 --> 01:05:41.039
they became a worldwide phenomenon with Rupert moder Murdoch who

749
01:05:41.159 --> 01:05:45.719
now owns Fox I think, or one of those massive

750
01:05:46.000 --> 01:05:50.880
TV stations, and he gets married. He's in his nineties

751
01:05:50.920 --> 01:06:00.039
now and he gets married every year or so. And

752
01:05:59.679 --> 01:06:04.400
I kind of wish I'd stuck with that, because that

753
01:06:04.519 --> 01:06:07.639
proved to be I think I was knocking on the

754
01:06:07.679 --> 01:06:12.159
wrong doors. I could have done that during the day,

755
01:06:12.239 --> 01:06:15.960
if I'd done that all the time as a job,

756
01:06:16.079 --> 01:06:19.360
if I'd have had the if i'd have had enough

757
01:06:19.400 --> 01:06:23.119
money because it was commission only. Of course, again, if

758
01:06:23.159 --> 01:06:26.960
I'd have just had enough to get me by for

759
01:06:27.079 --> 01:06:32.360
six months, I think I could have turned it into

760
01:06:32.400 --> 01:06:40.199
a very very successful enterprise and started to take on

761
01:06:40.320 --> 01:06:43.039
other people to work for me. I think I could

762
01:06:43.039 --> 01:06:45.840
have ended up being well. If I'd have done it

763
01:06:45.880 --> 01:06:48.760
like that, I'd have ended up being very very successful,

764
01:06:49.519 --> 01:06:53.519
very very young as well. And I knew about canvassing

765
01:06:53.519 --> 01:06:56.119
because I'd done that before. That was my job for

766
01:06:56.760 --> 01:07:02.400
a while in nineteen eighty nine, during like the whole

767
01:07:02.440 --> 01:07:07.440
of that summer, and I was I was what was

768
01:07:07.480 --> 01:07:11.000
like eighteen at the time, so I just turned nineteen

769
01:07:11.039 --> 01:07:18.800
when I was doing this the satellite dishes, So yeah,

770
01:07:18.840 --> 01:07:22.440
I could have. I just I was working during the

771
01:07:22.519 --> 01:07:25.920
day and I was naked, to be honest with you,

772
01:07:26.519 --> 01:07:29.760
I was just naked. I couldn't be bothered to and

773
01:07:29.800 --> 01:07:31.880
I wanted to earn some more money and try and

774
01:07:31.920 --> 01:07:35.840
do something. But it was winter and I wash, you know,

775
01:07:36.079 --> 01:07:41.480
beginning of the year in nineteen ninety, Yeah, nineteen ninety

776
01:07:42.079 --> 01:07:45.199
it's the beginning of the year. It's really cold and

777
01:07:45.320 --> 01:07:51.440
windy and wet. It wasn't much fun, but it was

778
01:07:51.480 --> 01:07:57.840
an opportunity. It really was. And then as I said,

779
01:07:57.880 --> 01:08:01.760
I did the Henry Regatta a few years later or

780
01:08:01.760 --> 01:08:08.119
a couple of years later, and then I did oh.

781
01:08:08.239 --> 01:08:12.960
I also did the time Share as well in nineteen ninety.

782
01:08:13.920 --> 01:08:16.199
That was weird because I actually did get a sale

783
01:08:16.359 --> 01:08:21.039
and then they changed their mind. But what I did

784
01:08:21.279 --> 01:08:23.399
in that thing, I had to sit on a table.

785
01:08:24.239 --> 01:08:28.479
That what they did is really weird. They they offered

786
01:08:28.479 --> 01:08:34.760
people a gift to come and listen to a presentation.

787
01:08:38.239 --> 01:08:41.720
That's what it was. So they'd go along. They'd think

788
01:08:41.840 --> 01:08:46.600
they were getting a new car as a gift. Some

789
01:08:46.640 --> 01:08:50.359
people actually came up on the train and said, well,

790
01:08:50.359 --> 01:08:53.439
where's a car. Then I came up on I came

791
01:08:53.520 --> 01:08:56.920
up on the train. I'm going to drive back like

792
01:08:57.000 --> 01:08:59.520
they were just going to be given a car. And

793
01:08:59.560 --> 01:09:01.880
what it was really is they were put into a raffle.

794
01:09:02.439 --> 01:09:07.039
If they attended watched the movie, which was probably twenty minutes,

795
01:09:07.880 --> 01:09:09.840
and then they sat down with one of us and

796
01:09:09.920 --> 01:09:12.880
talked to us and let us try and sell them Timeshare.

797
01:09:15.680 --> 01:09:18.159
And if they went through that process, then they would

798
01:09:18.159 --> 01:09:22.960
be entered into winning something. It might just be a

799
01:09:23.000 --> 01:09:27.479
box of nothing, or it might be it might be

800
01:09:27.520 --> 01:09:30.399
a discount in a supermarket. It might be a voucher,

801
01:09:30.680 --> 01:09:33.680
it could be anything, or could be a car. And

802
01:09:33.720 --> 01:09:36.640
they had a big car in the showroom, but one car.

803
01:09:37.319 --> 01:09:39.359
And you know, someone just turned up and said, well,

804
01:09:39.399 --> 01:09:41.920
how did I get in? Where's the keys? It's like, no,

805
01:09:43.720 --> 01:09:47.279
it's not quite you know. I'm not sure if the

806
01:09:47.319 --> 01:09:53.399
adverts were misleading. I don't know. Maybe I hope not,

807
01:09:55.439 --> 01:09:57.800
but I did. What I did notice is I was

808
01:09:57.840 --> 01:09:59.880
talking to these people and I was making them laugh

809
01:10:01.359 --> 01:10:04.600
and I quite liked that, quite enjoyed that. And I

810
01:10:04.640 --> 01:10:09.479
was just telling them stories about my life and they

811
01:10:09.520 --> 01:10:15.880
were laughing and it felt quite nice. And one person

812
01:10:15.960 --> 01:10:19.119
actually told me they'll take it, you know, they'll take

813
01:10:19.159 --> 01:10:26.520
the they'll they accepted the sale, and I'm like, wow,

814
01:10:26.800 --> 01:10:32.399
I didn't expect that. And then they passed me, they

815
01:10:32.439 --> 01:10:35.239
passed them over to the person they had to do

816
01:10:35.279 --> 01:10:41.479
the contracts, and then they changed their mind. I mean

817
01:10:41.520 --> 01:10:45.520
I was there for probably four days, maybe five days,

818
01:10:47.840 --> 01:11:00.359
and this was I would say October time, nineteen ninety

819
01:11:00.760 --> 01:11:04.680
and it was in a different town and I just like, ah,

820
01:11:05.239 --> 01:11:10.079
so I just came home and that was it. I

821
01:11:10.079 --> 01:11:12.359
don't know what other things, what other things have I done?

822
01:11:12.399 --> 01:11:16.920
I've got little memories of places. Oh yeah, I sold.

823
01:11:17.359 --> 01:11:20.359
This is actually a paid, paid job I had. This

824
01:11:20.560 --> 01:11:26.760
was selling till role, you know for tills, you know

825
01:11:26.920 --> 01:11:29.760
like in shops, just to till roll the role it

826
01:11:29.800 --> 01:11:35.800
goes in the till. And the amount of people that

827
01:11:35.880 --> 01:11:42.920
thought I was selling toilet roll, it just got it

828
01:11:43.079 --> 01:11:47.479
just got silly, like I don't need any toilet roll,

829
01:11:47.680 --> 01:11:52.600
no till role. So for some reason on the phone

830
01:11:54.319 --> 01:11:56.079
just wanted to hey, getting on with your till roll.

831
01:11:56.840 --> 01:12:00.119
It seems to sound like toilet roll. Who who do

832
01:12:00.119 --> 01:12:03.399
you get who supplies? Who supplies your toilet role? And

833
01:12:03.439 --> 01:12:08.319
they say toilet role, said no till roll. Then after

834
01:12:08.319 --> 01:12:12.680
a while I realized I was saying toilet role, and yeah,

835
01:12:12.680 --> 01:12:16.880
I got confusing. I think I managed to get a

836
01:12:16.920 --> 01:12:21.279
sale with my friend who had a comedy club and

837
01:12:21.520 --> 01:12:24.880
he took some roles on. I mean it was it

838
01:12:27.199 --> 01:12:32.520
was a legitimate company and you know so it wasn't

839
01:12:32.560 --> 01:12:35.960
like they were dodger or anything. They paid a basic

840
01:12:36.239 --> 01:12:39.640
plus a commission. I got the job because a friend

841
01:12:39.800 --> 01:12:41.880
had had a job and he got me the job

842
01:12:41.920 --> 01:12:51.479
there and our only source of leads was a Yellow

843
01:12:51.479 --> 01:12:56.720
Pages That was it. But from all over the country,

844
01:12:56.800 --> 01:13:00.439
so we dealt with the whole country, not just locally.

845
01:13:00.880 --> 01:13:02.800
In fact, we didn't deal real We did a little

846
01:13:02.800 --> 01:13:05.399
bit of local stuff in London, but it was the

847
01:13:05.439 --> 01:13:10.680
whole country. And I ended up doing Manchester or part

848
01:13:10.720 --> 01:13:13.600
of Manchester. I'm sure there was like there was different

849
01:13:14.199 --> 01:13:17.680
Manchester is quite a large area, so there was different

850
01:13:17.880 --> 01:13:25.880
different areas north, northeast, northwest or whatever, south, southeast, east, east, east,

851
01:13:26.840 --> 01:13:35.039
And yeah, I did, did, I did, I didn't. It

852
01:13:35.119 --> 01:13:46.119
was all right, but I didn't enjoy it, if honest.

853
01:13:46.520 --> 01:13:50.000
And this is a break I had between doing security.

854
01:13:50.479 --> 01:13:58.199
So I did security and I yeah, they sacked me

855
01:13:59.319 --> 01:14:04.760
because of it got blocked, and I found it so

856
01:14:05.000 --> 01:14:08.439
ridiculous that they were blaming me for a toilet I

857
01:14:08.439 --> 01:14:11.560
blocked toilet, not just that but the fact that they were.

858
01:14:12.840 --> 01:14:21.079
They suspended me, so I wasn't getting paid for the

859
01:14:21.079 --> 01:14:23.079
rest of the week. And then so this is like

860
01:14:23.840 --> 01:14:27.199
maybe it was a Tuesday, the toilet was blocked, They

861
01:14:27.279 --> 01:14:31.960
sent me home, suspended me until the following Monday when

862
01:14:31.960 --> 01:14:37.239
I went into the office for a disciplinary and I

863
01:14:37.279 --> 01:14:39.159
don't know if they were going to sack me or not,

864
01:14:39.319 --> 01:14:44.479
but I just laughed at them. I said You're ridiculous,

865
01:14:45.359 --> 01:14:50.119
absolutely ridiculous. I said, why would Why would I block

866
01:14:50.119 --> 01:14:53.479
a toilet up and not do anything? I mean, I'm

867
01:14:53.479 --> 01:14:56.399
an adult. I don't I said, someone's clearly done that

868
01:14:56.560 --> 01:15:01.800
after I've left. It's ridiculous to block not on me. Besides,

869
01:15:01.880 --> 01:15:05.039
I can't leave the reception once it gets because once

870
01:15:05.079 --> 01:15:09.800
I open the doors, so I'm there all night in

871
01:15:09.880 --> 01:15:12.359
this place. It was a it was a what was

872
01:15:12.399 --> 01:15:16.760
it called. It was a printing firm, not printed, but

873
01:15:16.800 --> 01:15:20.800
it was a like they printed magazines and newspapers and stuff.

874
01:15:20.840 --> 01:15:26.800
It was quite a Oh, I forget his name now, Henderson,

875
01:15:26.880 --> 01:15:35.600
not Henderson. He I think he did Kerrang to this

876
01:15:35.600 --> 01:15:43.039
this company. They did Korrang and like heavy metal magazines,

877
01:15:43.239 --> 01:15:51.000
really big famous magazines, and I think also computer magazines

878
01:15:51.079 --> 01:15:55.279
as well. And maybe they went and did some of

879
01:15:55.319 --> 01:15:59.680
the like i've like loaded and things like that. I'm

880
01:15:59.680 --> 01:16:02.399
not sure or later on, but they did. You know.

881
01:16:02.399 --> 01:16:04.399
I got really well with the people at work there,

882
01:16:05.159 --> 01:16:07.319
some of the people that were like late at night,

883
01:16:08.199 --> 01:16:11.399
I kin'd of just chat with them and stuff, because

884
01:16:11.439 --> 01:16:13.640
I'd start my shift at I think half three in

885
01:16:13.680 --> 01:16:22.000
the afternoon until I think it was half eight in

886
01:16:22.039 --> 01:16:30.159
the morning. So it was a half three, four or five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. No,

887
01:16:30.199 --> 01:16:32.319
wait a minute, half three, four or five or six

888
01:16:32.439 --> 01:16:37.640
or seven one off two or three or four or

889
01:16:37.680 --> 01:16:40.880
five or six or seven hour. No, it wouldn't be

890
01:16:40.960 --> 01:16:47.560
that long with it half three till maybe half four.

891
01:16:49.840 --> 01:16:52.239
It was about fifteen hours anyway, I was doing about

892
01:16:52.279 --> 01:16:56.960
fifteen hours shifts, so half four, half five, half four,

893
01:16:57.079 --> 01:17:00.760
then half four again as twelve, or was half four

894
01:17:00.840 --> 01:17:05.720
till half three, twelve, half five, half six, seven, eight,

895
01:17:05.720 --> 01:17:08.520
half nine enough ten, half eleven, enough twelve, half one,

896
01:17:08.640 --> 01:17:14.800
half two, half eleven and half two, half three, half four,

897
01:17:15.640 --> 01:17:18.439
half five, half six, half seven. Yeah, so I think

898
01:17:18.439 --> 01:17:24.560
it was half four to half seven, and unless it

899
01:17:24.600 --> 01:17:27.319
was sixteen hours. But sixteen hours seems a bit long,

900
01:17:27.359 --> 01:17:29.840
doesn't it. I think fifteen hours is what I did

901
01:17:30.560 --> 01:17:33.720
because sixteen hours seems a little bit. It's not enough

902
01:17:33.840 --> 01:17:36.760
ready to get enough sleep, is it? So I'd do

903
01:17:36.920 --> 01:17:48.880
fifteen hours five days a week, I think, and between

904
01:17:49.840 --> 01:17:53.000
I was loud on it. Between four point thirty and

905
01:17:54.960 --> 01:18:02.119
when the doors were locked, I really didn't leave the reception.

906
01:18:02.880 --> 01:18:07.159
I couldn't leave the reception, so when the front door

907
01:18:07.199 --> 01:18:10.000
was opened I had to be in the reception. I

908
01:18:10.119 --> 01:18:13.399
was security for the building. When the doors, the front

909
01:18:13.479 --> 01:18:17.199
doors were locked, then I could do patrols and do

910
01:18:17.279 --> 01:18:32.039
whatever I want. Really so yeah, so I in the morning,

911
01:18:32.279 --> 01:18:35.560
I would open the doors at about six in the morning,

912
01:18:36.960 --> 01:18:40.560
and I was there till seven point thirty. I couldn't

913
01:18:40.640 --> 01:18:47.600
leave the reception from six to seven thirty until the

914
01:18:47.640 --> 01:18:54.880
receptions came on and took over. So that was me.

915
01:18:55.000 --> 01:18:57.680
Or maybe it's eight thirty, there's something like that. Maybe

916
01:18:57.720 --> 01:19:01.520
it's half four till eight thirty. So I wasn't allowed

917
01:19:01.600 --> 01:19:06.680
to leave the reception until the receptionist was on and

918
01:19:06.720 --> 01:19:11.560
then I'd go home. So and I didn't use a

919
01:19:11.640 --> 01:19:18.840
toilet before going home. So how did I block that toilet?

920
01:19:20.600 --> 01:19:23.239
Because I can't use a toilet while the cleaners are in,

921
01:19:23.560 --> 01:19:25.600
because they're in. Once they're in, the front doors are

922
01:19:25.640 --> 01:19:28.960
open because the staff used to come in early hours,

923
01:19:29.399 --> 01:19:32.680
so six o'clock doors were open, the staff could come in,

924
01:19:33.000 --> 01:19:36.039
the cleaners would come in, and then they'd get deliveries.

925
01:19:37.880 --> 01:19:41.520
The machines would get filled in, you know, like because

926
01:19:42.600 --> 01:19:45.359
in London, because this is in the West End, a

927
01:19:45.399 --> 01:19:47.760
lot of deliveries had done very early because it's hard

928
01:19:47.800 --> 01:19:54.760
to park anywhere during the day and to get around.

929
01:19:56.000 --> 01:19:57.960
And some of the staff would be in really early

930
01:19:58.000 --> 01:19:59.960
as well. Some of them be there late at night

931
01:20:00.079 --> 01:20:01.960
as well, you know, the un till ten o'clock at

932
01:20:02.039 --> 01:20:04.279
night some of them, and some would get in at

933
01:20:04.319 --> 01:20:11.680
six in the morning or half six seven. So I

934
01:20:11.720 --> 01:20:14.199
wasn't allowed to leave the reception, So if I did

935
01:20:14.199 --> 01:20:17.279
go to the toilet, it had to be before the

936
01:20:17.359 --> 01:20:25.000
reception opened, before the cleaners got there. Now, I always

937
01:20:25.039 --> 01:20:31.000
did a patrol of the building. My last patrol is

938
01:20:31.039 --> 01:20:34.319
just a go around, make sure everything's fine. I always

939
01:20:34.399 --> 01:20:38.079
check the toilets. It wasn't really for floods. I just

940
01:20:38.159 --> 01:20:41.920
like looking at toilets, and so I went around and

941
01:20:41.920 --> 01:20:43.880
there was like toilets on each floor. I think there's

942
01:20:43.960 --> 01:20:53.439
four floors. Everything was fine, and I'm at home and

943
01:20:53.560 --> 01:20:57.560
I get a phone call. Yeah, I get a phone call.

944
01:20:57.600 --> 01:20:59.159
So I wasn't sent home so much. But I did

945
01:20:59.159 --> 01:21:06.439
get a phone call at home saying, don't you can't

946
01:21:06.439 --> 01:21:09.439
go in there anymore because you because the toilet was flooded.

947
01:21:12.920 --> 01:21:14.960
I don't. I'm not even sure if they told me why.

948
01:21:15.000 --> 01:21:17.239
They just said you can't go in anymore. You've been

949
01:21:17.439 --> 01:21:24.640
you've been suspended from the building. And yeah, I think

950
01:21:24.640 --> 01:21:26.560
it was when I got there on Mondays. This was

951
01:21:26.560 --> 01:21:31.840
a Tuesday evening, or maybe the Monday, the Wednesday morning

952
01:21:32.000 --> 01:21:36.520
they might have phone me. I was probably asleep. And

953
01:21:36.560 --> 01:21:39.720
then the following Monday they told me it's because I

954
01:21:39.720 --> 01:21:43.760
had blocked the toilet apparently, and it upset one of

955
01:21:43.840 --> 01:21:49.159
the the cleaners and it had leaked and water had

956
01:21:49.159 --> 01:21:54.359
gone everywhere. Ah, I've blocked a lot of toilets in

957
01:21:54.399 --> 01:22:01.680
the past. I'll be honest with you. It's never overrun.

958
01:22:02.920 --> 01:22:06.640
Toilets are built to not overrun that you know, the

959
01:22:06.680 --> 01:22:08.680
water goes to a certain level, it doesn't go over

960
01:22:09.840 --> 01:22:16.000
I've never had a toilet overflow ever. So and I've

961
01:22:16.000 --> 01:22:19.479
blocked a lot. I have blocked a lot of toilets

962
01:22:19.479 --> 01:22:23.560
over the years, just like standard. I'm sure everyone has.

963
01:22:24.920 --> 01:22:28.079
It used to be a hobby, but on this occasion,

964
01:22:28.920 --> 01:22:32.000
it wasn't me. Maybe I'm maybe I'm just getting punished

965
01:22:32.039 --> 01:22:36.399
for previous blockages. But they're making out that the water

966
01:22:36.520 --> 01:22:44.159
overflowed and completely when everywhere, Like how that doesn't even

967
01:22:44.199 --> 01:22:52.920
make sense. But anyway, I always blamed for that. And

968
01:22:52.960 --> 01:22:54.720
so when I went in there and they told me,

969
01:22:56.920 --> 01:23:02.680
I laughed. Now, one of the managers, Well, there was

970
01:23:02.720 --> 01:23:07.159
two owners of the business, one like me, and he

971
01:23:07.439 --> 01:23:13.760
was he was more active in the security company, so

972
01:23:13.800 --> 01:23:16.800
he'd he'd go around and he'd do a lot more

973
01:23:16.880 --> 01:23:20.680
like dealing with the security guards, and the other bloke

974
01:23:20.760 --> 01:23:23.119
would be in the office. So I think they were

975
01:23:23.159 --> 01:23:26.960
both equal partners, both ex police or something. But one

976
01:23:27.000 --> 01:23:31.039
of them was more in the background. We didn't really

977
01:23:31.039 --> 01:23:36.079
get to see him. Apart from the disciplinaries, I'd already

978
01:23:36.119 --> 01:23:45.640
had two previous disciplinaries, again both not my fault, so

979
01:23:45.840 --> 01:23:47.840
there and it.

980
01:23:47.760 --> 01:23:58.920
Was it two disciplinaries, two disciplinaries.

981
01:24:00.199 --> 01:24:05.079
All the three, not only discipline. The first discipline I

982
01:24:05.159 --> 01:24:11.840
had was I was accused of drinking at work, and

983
01:24:12.119 --> 01:24:15.600
at that time I didn't drink. I just didn't drink.

984
01:24:16.399 --> 01:24:19.279
And apparently this is when I was working in the

985
01:24:19.359 --> 01:24:25.439
nurses home. Someone said that they saw me with a flask. Yeah,

986
01:24:25.520 --> 01:24:28.199
I had a flask. It had a protein drink, like

987
01:24:28.239 --> 01:24:31.399
a protein shake in it. So I'd go into the

988
01:24:31.479 --> 01:24:34.680
gym every day and I was drinking a protein drink.

989
01:24:34.760 --> 01:24:37.880
I was eating every two hours, you know. I was

990
01:24:37.920 --> 01:24:40.840
trying to put a little bit of muscle on and

991
01:24:43.439 --> 01:24:45.960
she's like, someone must have thought I was drinking alcohol.

992
01:24:46.680 --> 01:24:53.920
And what's weird though, is because the the well, I

993
01:24:54.000 --> 01:24:56.399
forget what they call him now, but a security guard

994
01:24:56.439 --> 01:24:59.880
would come around and check everyone because I was doing

995
01:25:00.239 --> 01:25:05.079
shift and they'd come along and I remember that there's

996
01:25:05.159 --> 01:25:06.960
two different ones, as a lady and as a bloke,

997
01:25:07.359 --> 01:25:09.359
and they both used to like sitting and chatting with me.

998
01:25:10.079 --> 01:25:14.560
And both of them smelled the flask because they career

999
01:25:14.600 --> 01:25:16.399
with what's in there. And I said, it's protein drink.

1000
01:25:16.640 --> 01:25:20.800
That's something if you want. I said, I have. I

1001
01:25:20.840 --> 01:25:23.680
have gobbed in it, but you can have some. And

1002
01:25:23.720 --> 01:25:28.560
I said no, but it's like it was a protein

1003
01:25:28.680 --> 01:25:31.439
drink and they could smell there's no alcohol in it.

1004
01:25:33.279 --> 01:25:36.239
It's just saying, weird, why someone I don't know if

1005
01:25:36.279 --> 01:25:39.520
it was, I don't know the reason behind it. But

1006
01:25:39.640 --> 01:25:41.479
again I laughed during that one. I said, well, I

1007
01:25:41.520 --> 01:25:44.840
don't drink alcohol. You asked me that in the when

1008
01:25:44.840 --> 01:25:47.920
the had gave me the interview. I don't drink alcohol.

1009
01:25:48.920 --> 01:25:51.479
I just don't. And also I don't go out because

1010
01:25:51.479 --> 01:25:55.960
I'm working every night. You know, I was getting one

1011
01:25:56.039 --> 01:26:00.079
night off a week at that point. That's when I

1012
01:26:00.119 --> 01:26:02.560
was lucky if I didn't have to cover someone's shift.

1013
01:26:02.840 --> 01:26:06.520
So I'm getting like one night off a week. If

1014
01:26:06.560 --> 01:26:08.960
I did go out, I might have a drink, but generally,

1015
01:26:09.920 --> 01:26:12.720
you know, I didn't didn't drink alcohol. I definitely wouldn't

1016
01:26:12.760 --> 01:26:19.079
drink alcoholic work. People would know, trust me, if I

1017
01:26:19.159 --> 01:26:22.399
was drinking our call at work, everybody would know it.

1018
01:26:23.520 --> 01:26:27.520
I'm not. Yeah, I can't hide it when I'm drinking.

1019
01:26:28.239 --> 01:26:30.520
If I'm drunk, the whole world's going to know about it.

1020
01:26:32.359 --> 01:26:35.640
So I laughed that off, and they kind of just said, oh,

1021
01:26:35.800 --> 01:26:40.119
fair enough, because that's, you know, the one that was

1022
01:26:40.199 --> 01:26:43.399
very active with us, or he'd see me enough and

1023
01:26:43.439 --> 01:26:45.800
he believed me. So that was cool. So I got.

1024
01:26:45.840 --> 01:26:59.520
I went back and then I got I got accused

1025
01:26:59.560 --> 01:27:03.600
of something else there as well. I can't remember what

1026
01:27:03.640 --> 01:27:13.960
it was or did I just leave? Did I did

1027
01:27:14.000 --> 01:27:17.880
they move me? They moved me from there. I'm sure

1028
01:27:17.960 --> 01:27:24.680
there was another reason I got. I got a disciplinary,

1029
01:27:25.039 --> 01:27:27.239
So I got. There's two that I remember. One was

1030
01:27:27.279 --> 01:27:30.600
because of the when I blocked the toilet and when

1031
01:27:30.600 --> 01:27:33.279
I was accused of blocking the toilet, sorry, any other

1032
01:27:33.319 --> 01:27:35.399
one was when I was drinking. I mean when I

1033
01:27:35.399 --> 01:27:39.199
was accused of drinking. Sure there was another one. There

1034
01:27:39.279 --> 01:27:43.640
was a third in the middle or second, but before

1035
01:27:43.680 --> 01:27:52.239
the third it was well, anyway, I got sacked, so

1036
01:27:52.399 --> 01:27:55.640
that one with a toilet. They sacked me because I

1037
01:27:55.680 --> 01:27:58.760
was laughing in the interview in the disciplinary I said,

1038
01:27:58.760 --> 01:28:02.640
this is pathetic. This is really really ridiculous. I said,

1039
01:28:02.680 --> 01:28:06.119
after all the dodgy things I've done while I've worked

1040
01:28:06.159 --> 01:28:09.880
for you that you don't know about, and this one thing,

1041
01:28:10.159 --> 01:28:12.680
which the all things I have done, and the one

1042
01:28:12.720 --> 01:28:16.840
thing I didn't do, I'm getting blamed for. And they said, well,

1043
01:28:16.840 --> 01:28:18.439
we just need to have a little chat together, and

1044
01:28:18.479 --> 01:28:24.000
they went out and they came back and said, yeah,

1045
01:28:24.479 --> 01:28:30.680
see you later, and they sacked me. What was the

1046
01:28:30.720 --> 01:28:33.720
other thing I did or not did, but that I

1047
01:28:33.760 --> 01:28:43.560
got accused of. Wasn't it stealing? But anyway, I was

1048
01:28:43.680 --> 01:28:46.840
doing this. I remembered it when I was started talking

1049
01:28:46.880 --> 01:28:48.319
about this, and then it kind of went out of

1050
01:28:48.359 --> 01:28:54.560
me head. I'm sure I had three disciplinaries. I'm so

1051
01:28:54.680 --> 01:28:57.920
proud of it. And I I was disciplined three times.

1052
01:28:58.000 --> 01:29:06.880
I got suspended three times. I got suspended at least twice.

1053
01:29:07.159 --> 01:29:08.960
Surely there was a third one. What would that be

1054
01:29:09.039 --> 01:29:16.359
about did I get accused of something else? Because I

1055
01:29:16.439 --> 01:29:22.359
definitely got mood from the nurses home for a reason.

1056
01:29:22.439 --> 01:29:31.319
I can't remember what that reason was. How strange, HM.

1057
01:29:32.479 --> 01:29:37.239
So I ended up working in the printer's Dennis Dennis

1058
01:29:37.279 --> 01:29:49.359
Printers or something that was called and or Dennis Publishing Publishers. Yeah,

1059
01:29:49.680 --> 01:29:52.800
so I worked there. So I got sacked. I got

1060
01:29:52.840 --> 01:29:58.279
suspended and sacked, went and worked at this sales job

1061
01:29:58.720 --> 01:30:04.880
trying to sell till roll. And then after two weeks

1062
01:30:04.880 --> 01:30:08.439
of that, I phoned up the security company and said, oh, please,

1063
01:30:08.479 --> 01:30:17.199
can I come back? Sorry, sorry for laughing, and they said, yeah,

1064
01:30:17.399 --> 01:30:19.319
come back, because that's what I was looking for people,

1065
01:30:19.359 --> 01:30:21.840
I said. They said, we've got a new site for you.

1066
01:30:23.159 --> 01:30:27.640
And they started putting me on the grottiest sites ever. Honestly,

1067
01:30:28.239 --> 01:30:30.520
they moved me around a lot, put me on some

1068
01:30:30.760 --> 01:30:40.920
really really bad sites, and oh did I get suspended

1069
01:30:40.920 --> 01:30:43.800
off one of those for drinking. I wasn't drinking though,

1070
01:30:43.840 --> 01:30:51.039
but I was with another another guard who was drinking

1071
01:30:51.800 --> 01:30:55.079
and he got through about I don't know, eight cans

1072
01:30:55.079 --> 01:30:58.920
of Lago during the night, but instead of instead of

1073
01:30:58.960 --> 01:31:02.600
putting them like hiding the cans, he just put him

1074
01:31:02.640 --> 01:31:08.039
in the waste waste paper basket in the office, and

1075
01:31:08.079 --> 01:31:17.920
the manager, who was a fiery fella, got very angry,

1076
01:31:18.840 --> 01:31:22.359
but as I said, wasn't me. And they knew the

1077
01:31:22.399 --> 01:31:24.239
other bloke and they knew what he was around, and

1078
01:31:24.279 --> 01:31:31.560
I think they suspended him and told the man, the

1079
01:31:31.600 --> 01:31:34.640
manager of that place, that they had sacked him, but

1080
01:31:34.680 --> 01:31:38.000
they didn't. They just moved him to a different site.

1081
01:31:38.239 --> 01:31:46.000
And then one day and this was a former psychiatric hospital.

1082
01:31:48.239 --> 01:31:50.479
It was according asylum back then, but it was one

1083
01:31:50.479 --> 01:31:53.920
of them places. It was one of the biggest hospitals

1084
01:31:53.960 --> 01:31:57.159
in Europe, one of the longest hospitals in Europe, and

1085
01:31:57.199 --> 01:32:00.840
it was in North London, massive bit of wastect well

1086
01:32:01.000 --> 01:32:03.640
mass a bit of ground and there was houses where

1087
01:32:03.680 --> 01:32:06.039
some of the patients used to live, where some of

1088
01:32:06.039 --> 01:32:09.159
the doctors and nurses used to live. And my job

1089
01:32:09.319 --> 01:32:12.880
was just to parole this whole patrol rather not parole

1090
01:32:13.159 --> 01:32:19.880
patrol this whole area. And I could not stand being

1091
01:32:19.920 --> 01:32:23.439
in the same room as this bloke who was in charge,

1092
01:32:23.439 --> 01:32:26.319
because all he did was moan. But it was a

1093
01:32:26.399 --> 01:32:33.960
shelter just like yeah, yeah, yeah, just about everything. So

1094
01:32:34.039 --> 01:32:37.720
in the end I just decided to do the patrol.

1095
01:32:39.560 --> 01:32:43.279
But just not go back to the office. I had

1096
01:32:43.279 --> 01:32:46.000
my radio on me and I phoned in every time

1097
01:32:46.560 --> 01:32:48.039
to let him know where I was, because you have

1098
01:32:48.079 --> 01:32:50.960
to phone in every hour or you know, patrol every

1099
01:32:51.079 --> 01:32:52.720
to let him know where I was and stuff. So

1100
01:32:53.039 --> 01:32:54.920
I was doing everything on my side that I was

1101
01:32:54.920 --> 01:32:58.399
supposed to do. But this manager, you know, when I

1102
01:32:58.520 --> 01:33:04.319
turned up perhaps six hours later, he accused me of

1103
01:33:04.439 --> 01:33:08.600
leaving the site. He said, you've gone home. You went

1104
01:33:08.640 --> 01:33:11.479
ihme and came back. Well, first of all, I didn't

1105
01:33:11.479 --> 01:33:13.319
go home because it take me two hours to get there.

1106
01:33:13.960 --> 01:33:15.920
So no, I didn't go home and come back. What's

1107
01:33:15.960 --> 01:33:19.479
the point. We'll go home, sit down for five minutes,

1108
01:33:19.479 --> 01:33:22.720
then come back, you know. No, he said, I don't

1109
01:33:22.720 --> 01:33:25.399
know where you live. I said, I told you I

1110
01:33:25.479 --> 01:33:34.720
live in. Where did I live? Upton Park at the time. Yeah,

1111
01:33:34.880 --> 01:33:39.079
upon p see, I got sacked from there because apparently

1112
01:33:39.760 --> 01:33:42.920
I thought I went off site and I didn't. I stayed.

1113
01:33:42.960 --> 01:33:45.920
I just I did my patrol over and over again,

1114
01:33:48.039 --> 01:33:49.760
and I phoned in, you know, I called in. I

1115
01:33:49.800 --> 01:33:53.000
have my walkie talkie and I've called in every hour.

1116
01:33:53.119 --> 01:33:57.359
I did everything by the book, but he decided that

1117
01:33:57.439 --> 01:34:02.359
I hadn't, so he sacked me, or he reported me

1118
01:34:02.479 --> 01:34:05.079
and they told him that they'd sacked me, and they

1119
01:34:05.119 --> 01:34:09.159
just moved me to a different site. And then I

1120
01:34:09.279 --> 01:34:15.319
ended up on the Royal Opera House, the new rural

1121
01:34:15.399 --> 01:34:20.840
opera house that was being built back in nineteen ninety seven.

1122
01:34:22.439 --> 01:34:28.399
So I was there. I was a security there and

1123
01:34:28.479 --> 01:34:33.039
I'd be backing in lorries and stopping traffic and stuff

1124
01:34:33.119 --> 01:34:38.000
like that because they had non stop concrete lorries coming

1125
01:34:38.039 --> 01:34:43.760
and going, and i'd be stopping people and opening barriers

1126
01:34:43.800 --> 01:34:50.600
for cars that had businesses in that little area. Yeah

1127
01:34:50.640 --> 01:34:53.039
it was I didn't mind. It wasn't it wasn't a

1128
01:34:53.039 --> 01:35:00.479
bad little job. And yeah, it was all right. Actually

1129
01:35:00.640 --> 01:35:04.159
got on quite well with the builders and the people involved.

1130
01:35:04.159 --> 01:35:09.039
There was a couple of annoying people, but there was

1131
01:35:09.119 --> 01:35:16.560
is no I was one of them. And then I

1132
01:35:16.600 --> 01:35:18.720
got sacked from that job for some reason. I can't

1133
01:35:18.760 --> 01:35:24.439
remember why that was. Oh, I just remembered why I

1134
01:35:24.479 --> 01:35:32.239
got disciplined. It was a canary wharf. Canary wharf. I

1135
01:35:32.399 --> 01:35:42.760
got disciplined of falling asleep. Right, So I didn't fall asleep,

1136
01:35:42.800 --> 01:35:44.600
Well I did fall asleep, Okay, this is true. I

1137
01:35:44.640 --> 01:35:48.319
did fall asleep. So when I was at Canary Wharf

1138
01:35:49.960 --> 01:35:58.920
ninety six, probably April April time ish, and my job

1139
01:35:59.319 --> 01:36:02.279
was to who just basically check people as they were

1140
01:36:02.319 --> 01:36:07.520
coming in to the floors that I was protecting. So

1141
01:36:07.640 --> 01:36:11.720
I protected, I was securing, and so there is probably

1142
01:36:11.720 --> 01:36:18.960
about twelve of us, maybe a little bit more that

1143
01:36:19.039 --> 01:36:23.920
would and we had to think four floors, two or

1144
01:36:23.920 --> 01:36:26.239
four or five floors that it was part of the

1145
01:36:26.279 --> 01:36:32.079
Mirror Group newspaper group, so I had to Racing Times

1146
01:36:32.119 --> 01:36:37.079
and Sunday Mirror, Daily Mirror, and possibly some other stuff.

1147
01:36:37.800 --> 01:36:41.039
So we were kind of securing that. So there'd be

1148
01:36:41.079 --> 01:36:47.159
two of us, sometimes just one on the main doors.

1149
01:36:47.199 --> 01:36:51.439
So have to check people's passes, have to check their purses,

1150
01:36:51.680 --> 01:36:55.800
their handbags, their bags. Because this was directly after a

1151
01:36:58.000 --> 01:37:00.520
very serious incident that had happened. Why I got the

1152
01:37:00.640 --> 01:37:04.960
job because I were taking on new staff because originally

1153
01:37:05.079 --> 01:37:06.800
I applied for the job and he laughed at me

1154
01:37:06.840 --> 01:37:11.159
and said, no, no, you're right, we don't need thanks.

1155
01:37:11.279 --> 01:37:14.920
We're not that desperate. And then they called up a

1156
01:37:14.960 --> 01:37:17.840
week later after this major event happened and they said,

1157
01:37:17.880 --> 01:37:22.239
yeah we are. We're quite desperate now we are, Yeah,

1158
01:37:22.239 --> 01:37:27.079
we're desperate enough to employ you. I said, oh, that's nice,

1159
01:37:27.279 --> 01:37:30.239
and so I got that job. Now, I got on

1160
01:37:30.359 --> 01:37:34.000
really well with one of the owners, the one that

1161
01:37:34.119 --> 01:37:37.680
was around a lot, and I think that's why I

1162
01:37:37.720 --> 01:37:40.159
got away with so much stuff, because I made him

1163
01:37:40.199 --> 01:37:43.600
laugh and we had a laugh. And even though I

1164
01:37:43.680 --> 01:37:45.840
ended up getting sacked, he's still I don't think he

1165
01:37:45.920 --> 01:37:47.920
wanted to sack me. And he's the one that gave

1166
01:37:47.920 --> 01:37:53.159
me a job back. He came up to me one

1167
01:37:53.239 --> 01:37:58.399
night after I'd done twelve hours. It was time for

1168
01:37:58.439 --> 01:38:03.119
me to go home, and he said, here, jee jear,

1169
01:38:03.239 --> 01:38:06.560
do some fear of a warncher. I said, not again.

1170
01:38:06.680 --> 01:38:09.279
I told you I've got a girlfriend. He said, no, no,

1171
01:38:09.319 --> 01:38:12.319
not that, and he said can you He wanted me

1172
01:38:12.359 --> 01:38:16.279
to stay for another twelve hours. See if you get

1173
01:38:16.319 --> 01:38:18.800
any normal job and they say can you do some overtime,

1174
01:38:19.479 --> 01:38:21.920
it's usually like an hour or so, maybe two hours.

1175
01:38:22.960 --> 01:38:28.680
This job in security is another twelve hours, please. I said,

1176
01:38:28.680 --> 01:38:32.399
that's twenty four hours. He said I can count. I said,

1177
01:38:32.439 --> 01:38:35.359
I know, but I can't do twelve hours. I can't

1178
01:38:35.359 --> 01:38:41.600
do another twelve hours. I started at six this morning

1179
01:38:44.279 --> 01:38:47.439
or was it seven eight? And m I've been eight

1180
01:38:47.479 --> 01:38:50.319
in the morning, but I've been up since you know,

1181
01:38:50.319 --> 01:38:52.479
I've been up two hours before I started my job,

1182
01:38:52.880 --> 01:38:56.399
so to getting up and then traveling, so I've been

1183
01:38:56.479 --> 01:39:00.399
up for a long time. And he said, oh, go

1184
01:39:00.439 --> 01:39:07.640
on please. So my job was to go downstairs and

1185
01:39:07.720 --> 01:39:15.319
look after the main This was the big boss's office area,

1186
01:39:16.359 --> 01:39:20.319
the big Boss of the Mirror Group, who at the

1187
01:39:20.359 --> 01:39:23.920
time was Kelvin McKenzie. He was also editor of The

1188
01:39:23.960 --> 01:39:27.760
Son as well. Before that, I think I saw him

1189
01:39:27.760 --> 01:39:31.479
a few times, very very booming voice, not hugely tall,

1190
01:39:31.640 --> 01:39:37.560
but very booming voice, big bloke. And I was the

1191
01:39:37.680 --> 01:39:41.680
reception and his office was further up, so anyone that

1192
01:39:41.760 --> 01:39:47.399
came to visit him had to come to where I was. Now,

1193
01:39:47.640 --> 01:39:50.399
no one was going to ask for him because he

1194
01:39:50.560 --> 01:39:54.039
was gone. There was no one in his office at

1195
01:39:54.039 --> 01:39:56.680
that time. There was also another office where someone did

1196
01:39:56.720 --> 01:39:59.800
come for the and then I left, probably his assistant

1197
01:40:00.079 --> 01:40:05.600
something so or maybe he did come for a little while.

1198
01:40:05.640 --> 01:40:10.520
But after eight o'clock nine o'clock there was nothing, no activity.

1199
01:40:11.079 --> 01:40:15.960
So I was there on my own, nothing to do

1200
01:40:17.279 --> 01:40:22.920
at all. So I said to my boss before accepting

1201
01:40:22.960 --> 01:40:25.520
to do it. Well, first time, I said no, I

1202
01:40:25.600 --> 01:40:29.920
said go on please, I said no, I said no.

1203
01:40:30.039 --> 01:40:32.720
I can't do another twelve hours. He said, I'll be

1204
01:40:32.760 --> 01:40:39.439
a best friend. And I was going to say no,

1205
01:40:39.479 --> 01:40:41.960
but then he started tickling me, and I just it's

1206
01:40:41.960 --> 01:40:45.399
hard to resist, isn't it. And I said, okay, but

1207
01:40:45.680 --> 01:40:47.520
I just got to warn you I will fall asleep.

1208
01:40:47.560 --> 01:40:51.640
And he said, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, just whatever.

1209
01:40:52.439 --> 01:40:54.760
I just need this to be covered. It's so important

1210
01:40:54.800 --> 01:40:57.520
because of that area being no one's going to be

1211
01:40:57.560 --> 01:41:01.000
down there, no one, you know, the big He's gone,

1212
01:41:01.239 --> 01:41:03.680
he's gone, he won't be back till tomorrow morning. You'll

1213
01:41:03.680 --> 01:41:10.319
be gone before he gets in. And even said, I'll

1214
01:41:10.359 --> 01:41:12.479
try and get the other security guards coming a little

1215
01:41:12.520 --> 01:41:14.760
bit early so you can get off a little bit earlier.

1216
01:41:16.399 --> 01:41:22.600
And I said, okay then and I sat down. It's

1217
01:41:22.640 --> 01:41:26.000
a nice little gig. Actually it was comfortable, no one

1218
01:41:26.000 --> 01:41:32.960
else around, really comfortable. Like it's like, that's probably the

1219
01:41:33.119 --> 01:41:39.680
nicest little area in those all of those floors, because

1220
01:41:39.680 --> 01:41:41.319
there was a bosses area, I guess. So he had

1221
01:41:41.359 --> 01:41:45.680
a nice, really big, spacious and there was a book

1222
01:41:45.720 --> 01:41:49.800
there called there was like a crime book that I

1223
01:41:49.840 --> 01:41:53.479
started to read and I read a lot of it.

1224
01:41:56.439 --> 01:42:01.399
So I'm reading this book and then and As I'm reading,

1225
01:42:01.479 --> 01:42:07.199
I hear this voice saying Jason, Jason Like. I look

1226
01:42:07.279 --> 01:42:16.239
up and it's my boss, like the security boss. He said,

1227
01:42:16.279 --> 01:42:20.279
you're asleep, So no, I wasn't. I was reading a book.

1228
01:42:21.720 --> 01:42:26.359
He said, you're literally in a hammock with your pajamas on.

1229
01:42:26.600 --> 01:42:29.399
What would we And I said, I told you that

1230
01:42:29.439 --> 01:42:32.279
I would fall asleep. I didn't realize i'd fallen asleep,

1231
01:42:33.239 --> 01:42:37.439
but I said, look, I've done twelve hours, doing twenty

1232
01:42:37.479 --> 01:42:42.199
four hours without falling asleep. Is it's a ridiculous ask?

1233
01:42:44.239 --> 01:42:49.359
And he said, got to go home. I said really.

1234
01:42:49.920 --> 01:42:52.840
He said, yeah, I'll take over and I'll sit here.

1235
01:42:53.039 --> 01:42:58.600
You've got to leave. You're suspended. And I said to him,

1236
01:42:59.079 --> 01:43:00.840
I think I might have called the name. I said,

1237
01:43:00.920 --> 01:43:04.640
you are whatever. I told you I'd fall asleep and

1238
01:43:04.680 --> 01:43:06.960
you said it didn't matter. He said, you're on camera,

1239
01:43:08.319 --> 01:43:12.359
You've been filmed, You've been seen fallen asleep. How do

1240
01:43:12.359 --> 01:43:17.000
you think we knew? I literally said to you that

1241
01:43:17.239 --> 01:43:21.239
I can't do another twelve hours about falling asleep, and

1242
01:43:21.239 --> 01:43:28.119
he said, I know, but you know you're suspended. So

1243
01:43:28.199 --> 01:43:31.000
I went away. A couple of days later, I went

1244
01:43:31.039 --> 01:43:34.800
into the office in the London Offices to go to

1245
01:43:34.920 --> 01:43:38.560
my disciplinary. So this would be my second disciplinary out

1246
01:43:38.560 --> 01:43:47.800
of three, and I had everything in my arsenal for

1247
01:43:47.840 --> 01:43:51.800
that one. The first one, I don't drink. They could

1248
01:43:51.800 --> 01:43:53.960
take it or leave it, whether I was being honest,

1249
01:43:54.239 --> 01:43:56.399
and it was true, I didn't drink, and it's no

1250
01:43:56.439 --> 01:44:01.199
way I would take alcohol to work with me, especially

1251
01:44:01.199 --> 01:44:03.600
when I was at a reception and it was all

1252
01:44:03.640 --> 01:44:07.199
glasses and loads of people coming and go in. They

1253
01:44:07.239 --> 01:44:11.399
could you know. It just seemed just wasn't what I

1254
01:44:11.439 --> 01:44:13.920
was going to do. And I really wasn't a drinker

1255
01:44:14.359 --> 01:44:17.079
at all. I'd go out and if I did have

1256
01:44:17.119 --> 01:44:19.199
a drink when I went out, it'd be like one

1257
01:44:19.279 --> 01:44:24.039
bottle of lager would last me the whole night. I'd

1258
01:44:24.079 --> 01:44:25.920
more than likely just have a glass of coke or

1259
01:44:25.920 --> 01:44:28.560
a couple of glasses of coke. Just wasn't my thing

1260
01:44:28.760 --> 01:44:34.399
back then. The year before Wow, I was putting it away.

1261
01:44:34.439 --> 01:44:39.199
But that year I just took a break. And so

1262
01:44:39.279 --> 01:44:41.960
the first one, it was like could have gone either way,

1263
01:44:42.960 --> 01:44:45.800
believe me or don't believe me. And because they both

1264
01:44:46.079 --> 01:44:48.720
one of them liked me, the other one gave me

1265
01:44:48.720 --> 01:44:52.159
the benefit of the doubt. So they they moved me

1266
01:44:52.239 --> 01:44:54.640
to a different place. No, did they move me. I

1267
01:44:54.640 --> 01:44:57.159
think they kept me there, and then I got moved

1268
01:44:57.199 --> 01:45:00.119
again for some other Someone accused me of something, so

1269
01:45:00.159 --> 01:45:05.600
I don't know. I can't remember what that was. And

1270
01:45:05.800 --> 01:45:11.319
the second, the second disciplinary, unlike the third one third one,

1271
01:45:11.439 --> 01:45:15.000
I was laughing and I got sacked. But the second

1272
01:45:15.039 --> 01:45:19.520
one I went in there and I was not, not

1273
01:45:19.640 --> 01:45:21.560
because I knew the reason I was in there. For

1274
01:45:25.800 --> 01:45:27.920
the first and the first and third time, I don't

1275
01:45:27.920 --> 01:45:30.359
think I knew until I got into the disciplinary why

1276
01:45:30.359 --> 01:45:34.760
I had been suspended. But the second time I knew

1277
01:45:34.760 --> 01:45:37.079
because it had already told me you needed to go

1278
01:45:37.159 --> 01:45:40.199
home because we found you asleep. So I turned up there,

1279
01:45:40.239 --> 01:45:46.680
I was, I was proper, like I think. First thing

1280
01:45:46.720 --> 01:45:52.159
I said is you're out of order to the bloke

1281
01:45:52.239 --> 01:45:54.119
that was supposed to be my mate, what my friend

1282
01:45:54.239 --> 01:45:56.800
kindly was a boss, But I said, you're out of order.

1283
01:45:56.880 --> 01:46:00.399
You know you are, and the other managed the other

1284
01:46:00.439 --> 01:46:07.439
boss said what's going on? And the one that I

1285
01:46:07.520 --> 01:46:11.560
knew started to talk and his partner said, no, wait, manut,

1286
01:46:11.560 --> 01:46:15.479
I want to hear it from Jason, mister Newland. So

1287
01:46:15.520 --> 01:46:19.960
I told him, I said, he asked me to stay

1288
01:46:19.960 --> 01:46:22.039
twelve hours after I just done a twelve hour shift,

1289
01:46:22.279 --> 01:46:24.119
So you wanted me to do a twenty four hour shift?

1290
01:46:24.439 --> 01:46:28.640
I told him point blank, I would fall asleep, because

1291
01:46:30.199 --> 01:46:33.359
what else do you do staying away for twenty four hours?

1292
01:46:34.279 --> 01:46:36.680
I said I'd fall asleep, and he said it's okay,

1293
01:46:36.680 --> 01:46:40.279
it doesn't matter. Fell asleep. He sent me home suspended

1294
01:46:40.960 --> 01:46:46.960
and without pay, and ended up with disciplinary. He said,

1295
01:46:47.039 --> 01:46:49.079
is that true? And they went out, and they came

1296
01:46:49.079 --> 01:46:56.800
back and apologized to me, apologized, and I went back

1297
01:46:59.319 --> 01:47:01.479
to Canary War off and I went back and continued

1298
01:47:01.520 --> 01:47:07.600
working there until they Now that was my first disciplinary.

1299
01:47:08.520 --> 01:47:11.840
The second one was the alcohol one. So that was

1300
01:47:11.840 --> 01:47:15.520
the first disciplinary. So I'm sure there was another one

1301
01:47:15.520 --> 01:47:21.319
as well. I can't remember what it was. I think,

1302
01:47:21.359 --> 01:47:25.920
I'm not sure. It's when the I think it was

1303
01:47:25.960 --> 01:47:28.760
at the weekend and a couple of vans pulled up

1304
01:47:29.520 --> 01:47:31.680
and they said they were just here to collect with stuff,

1305
01:47:31.680 --> 01:47:34.319
and they took a load of computers out and apparently

1306
01:47:34.319 --> 01:47:37.640
they weren't supposed to do that. Yeah, I think I

1307
01:47:37.720 --> 01:47:43.399
got disciplined for that as well. I wasn't to know,

1308
01:47:43.640 --> 01:47:47.800
was I. Oh, but we've been We've had millions of pounds,

1309
01:47:47.880 --> 01:47:52.159
robbed worth of computers, Like, say, you should have told me,

1310
01:47:52.640 --> 01:47:55.079
should have told me that you weren't having any vans come.

1311
01:47:56.199 --> 01:47:58.079
What do you mean, tell you that we're not having

1312
01:47:58.079 --> 01:48:00.920
any vans come in to collect the computers. Well, if

1313
01:48:00.960 --> 01:48:03.840
you'd done that when they knocked on a window saying

1314
01:48:04.159 --> 01:48:06.880
we come to collect the computers, then I'd know that

1315
01:48:06.960 --> 01:48:12.800
they weren't and they were robbers. I'm thinking that maybe

1316
01:48:12.840 --> 01:48:15.039
they made the excuse of the toilets up just to

1317
01:48:15.039 --> 01:48:30.920
get rid of me. Maybe hmm, the proms. So I've

1318
01:48:30.920 --> 01:48:33.840
talked about the proms. Cheese rolling? Did you know the

1319
01:48:33.920 --> 01:48:40.079
cheese rolling down Cooper's Hill in Glaucus, Dyeshire is a

1320
01:48:40.119 --> 01:48:47.479
traditional summer event. Now it is cheese rolling. I think

1321
01:48:47.520 --> 01:48:52.119
the person rolls with the cheese and these are not

1322
01:48:52.159 --> 01:48:56.279
little bits of cheeses are massive, massive bits of cheese.

1323
01:48:56.359 --> 01:49:00.720
It's very dangerous and people get injured doing it. Is

1324
01:49:02.800 --> 01:49:07.680
It's not as fun as you'd imagine, unless, of course,

1325
01:49:07.920 --> 01:49:15.520
it is coastal and seaside culture. The Victorian era saw

1326
01:49:15.600 --> 01:49:23.439
the boom of British seaside holidays. What is the Victorian era?

1327
01:49:23.520 --> 01:49:25.359
Is that when my nan and grandad went on holiday

1328
01:49:27.800 --> 01:49:35.439
because it'd have like handkerchiefs on their heads and stuff. Yeah,

1329
01:49:35.600 --> 01:49:38.760
I mean back then, there wasn't such a thing as

1330
01:49:38.840 --> 01:49:45.520
going abroad on holiday, you know, Spain and France and

1331
01:49:45.560 --> 01:49:50.359
stuff like that. Wasn't it wasn't a flight a short

1332
01:49:50.359 --> 01:49:53.680
flight away like it is now what has been for

1333
01:49:53.720 --> 01:49:59.000
a long time. So people from London, like my nan,

1334
01:49:59.439 --> 01:50:03.199
she used to go to places like Brighton or South

1335
01:50:03.319 --> 01:50:08.439
End on holiday. Now both of those places are not

1336
01:50:08.520 --> 01:50:13.560
far from London, both in or ones in Essex. Brighton

1337
01:50:13.680 --> 01:50:16.760
is in I don't know where it is is at

1338
01:50:16.800 --> 01:50:21.640
Hertfordshire Brighton, but both places are not a long way

1339
01:50:21.640 --> 01:50:30.520
away from London really, And they said they would go

1340
01:50:30.520 --> 01:50:33.199
to places like that, maybe Harriage even I'm not sure,

1341
01:50:35.000 --> 01:50:40.960
and that would be a nice summer holiday. And apparently

1342
01:50:42.800 --> 01:50:47.199
I'm partly making this up based on a very vague memory.

1343
01:50:48.920 --> 01:50:52.840
Sometimes I think they would stay in board in houses

1344
01:50:55.960 --> 01:51:01.640
and they may even share rooms with complete strangers, and

1345
01:51:01.680 --> 01:51:05.920
there would be a landlady, as this was kind of

1346
01:51:05.960 --> 01:51:12.199
the cliche, a very very mean landlady, and the landlady

1347
01:51:12.239 --> 01:51:18.800
would make food and give them dinner and everything, but

1348
01:51:18.920 --> 01:51:21.840
they would have to be in by a certain time

1349
01:51:21.880 --> 01:51:27.960
in the evening or the door would be locked. That's

1350
01:51:28.039 --> 01:51:32.239
the cliche of that, but I think some of it's true.

1351
01:51:32.479 --> 01:51:38.800
Potentially doesn't sound like a particularly nice holiday, does it really.

1352
01:51:41.399 --> 01:51:46.279
Brighton Pier opened in eighteen ninety nine and became a

1353
01:51:46.439 --> 01:51:52.239
summer hot spot. Yeah, Brighton's changed over the years, but

1354
01:51:52.279 --> 01:51:59.800
it was always a very popular holiday destination. And it's

1355
01:52:02.399 --> 01:52:09.359
last time I went to Brighton. I ended up with

1356
01:52:09.359 --> 01:52:16.199
a sore bum because, yeah, I fell over and I

1357
01:52:16.279 --> 01:52:18.960
kind of banged. I fell over on my bomb and

1358
01:52:18.960 --> 01:52:22.680
I just banged myself and it's like, oh, and I remember.

1359
01:52:22.960 --> 01:52:26.319
It's just it was weird because I come home. Normally,

1360
01:52:26.680 --> 01:52:29.680
you hurt yourself, you expect a little I don't expect

1361
01:52:29.680 --> 01:52:32.840
people to say, oh no, start crying. You fell over

1362
01:52:32.880 --> 01:52:36.279
and banged your bumb all. I didn't expect that, but

1363
01:52:36.399 --> 01:52:41.239
a little bit of caring, a little bit of maybe

1364
01:52:41.600 --> 01:52:46.640
interest or sympathy. But people come back to work, how

1365
01:52:46.720 --> 01:52:50.800
is your How was your holiday for your weekend in Brighton?

1366
01:52:50.880 --> 01:52:57.279
And I said, oh, I got sore bumb And people

1367
01:52:57.359 --> 01:53:05.399
found that hilarious. I mean, someone actually who I hadn't

1368
01:53:05.439 --> 01:53:09.439
even told that I'd hurt my that I had my accident,

1369
01:53:10.039 --> 01:53:12.039
you know, the first person I'm getting to work with,

1370
01:53:12.880 --> 01:53:15.000
and no one else had been in work. He was

1371
01:53:15.000 --> 01:53:17.319
the first person there and I got there next this

1372
01:53:17.520 --> 01:53:20.319
on the Monday morning, and he said, how is your

1373
01:53:20.720 --> 01:53:25.000
How is your your weekend in Brighton? Have you got

1374
01:53:25.000 --> 01:53:29.000
a saw bum? And I said, yeah, how do you know?

1375
01:53:30.560 --> 01:53:35.800
And he laughed and walked off, and I'm like, that's weird.

1376
01:53:38.600 --> 01:53:42.640
And then I told everyone and they laughed that I'd

1377
01:53:42.680 --> 01:53:46.479
fallen over, like you fall on your cocksix. It's not

1378
01:53:46.600 --> 01:53:50.039
a nice experience. The first time it ever happened when

1379
01:53:50.079 --> 01:53:52.600
I was in the chip shop, I got saw bumb

1380
01:53:52.640 --> 01:54:00.359
in there and the I was carrying a bag of potatoes,

1381
01:54:00.680 --> 01:54:05.960
which I would argue is probably heavier than me, maybe

1382
01:54:06.079 --> 01:54:10.520
not fifty fifty kilos. Possibly, I don't know if it'd

1383
01:54:10.560 --> 01:54:18.800
be fifty kilos, it was heavy. Fifty kilos would have

1384
01:54:18.880 --> 01:54:23.840
been how much I weighed at the time, so maybe

1385
01:54:23.880 --> 01:54:28.800
it was. Maybe it was forty kilos, maybe thirty kilos,

1386
01:54:30.039 --> 01:54:32.680
but it was heavy, that's all I know. And I

1387
01:54:32.760 --> 01:54:38.560
slipped over in the kitchen and the bag of spuds, unopened,

1388
01:54:39.039 --> 01:54:45.439
landed on top of me, and yeah, I was struggling

1389
01:54:45.479 --> 01:54:48.960
to walk. I mean, really, I should have gone to

1390
01:54:49.000 --> 01:54:52.119
the hospital and got examined, because it would have been

1391
01:54:52.880 --> 01:54:55.479
it took quite a few weeks for that to heal.

1392
01:54:58.199 --> 01:55:00.680
But back then I didn't didn't have to time to

1393
01:55:00.960 --> 01:55:09.439
take off and just got on with it. Really, but yeah,

1394
01:55:09.479 --> 01:55:11.640
the last time went to Brighton. Yes, it's been quite

1395
01:55:11.640 --> 01:55:18.960
a while. Fish and chips became a seaside favorite in

1396
01:55:19.000 --> 01:55:25.479
the early twentieth century. Really, I thought fish and chips, yeah,

1397
01:55:25.640 --> 01:55:28.520
seaside favorite. But fish and chips is quite a traditional

1398
01:55:29.039 --> 01:55:33.920
Friday meal Religiously, I do believe, or at least fishes

1399
01:55:34.720 --> 01:55:41.399
on a Friday, because I think it's the Jesus powable,

1400
01:55:41.479 --> 01:55:45.600
isn't it. I think that's when he he turned up.

1401
01:55:45.720 --> 01:55:49.119
It was a Friday, wasn't it. And he turned up,

1402
01:55:50.680 --> 01:55:55.840
and the chip van turned up, and there's loads of chips,

1403
01:55:56.640 --> 01:55:59.680
and he said, okay, now I've talked to you for

1404
01:55:59.680 --> 01:56:02.560
a little bit. We're all here. Let's go and let's

1405
01:56:02.600 --> 01:56:05.359
get some chips out. Let's some fish and chips. And

1406
01:56:05.680 --> 01:56:09.319
the fish fan said oops, and he said, what is it?

1407
01:56:09.800 --> 01:56:13.680
He said, Jesus, sorry about this? He said, okay, what

1408
01:56:14.600 --> 01:56:17.600
so I'm a bit embarrassed. We've got loads of chips.

1409
01:56:18.560 --> 01:56:23.640
But we forgot the fish, and then someone showered from

1410
01:56:23.640 --> 01:56:27.399
the back and wait a minute, we've got one fish.

1411
01:56:27.520 --> 01:56:29.960
He said, he got one fish. All those chips but

1412
01:56:30.159 --> 01:56:34.239
one fish. And Jesus said, I just hand it here,

1413
01:56:34.479 --> 01:56:38.720
and you know the rest is history. But that was

1414
01:56:38.720 --> 01:56:41.720
on a Friday, because Fridays when fish and chips was

1415
01:56:41.760 --> 01:56:47.800
a thing back in Jerusalem that the bathing machine was

1416
01:56:47.840 --> 01:56:53.680
a common sight on the nineteenth century beaches. I feel

1417
01:56:53.720 --> 01:56:57.199
we need more information about that, don't you. The bathing

1418
01:56:57.720 --> 01:57:06.920
machine a machine that bathes you. That sounds very pleasant.

1419
01:57:08.720 --> 01:57:19.399
It sounds almost oh, the bathing machine, unless it's kind

1420
01:57:19.399 --> 01:57:22.000
of like a thing with just a shower that just

1421
01:57:22.119 --> 01:57:25.960
showers you from different angles. But even that sounds nice,

1422
01:57:26.000 --> 01:57:34.199
doesn't it if it's at a decent temperature. I've got to

1423
01:57:34.199 --> 01:57:36.479
look this up. I'm sorry, this is one of those

1424
01:57:36.479 --> 01:57:43.399
moments where I can't not look it up. Bathing machine

1425
01:57:45.000 --> 01:57:48.800
eighteen hundreds. I'm going to look up images just so

1426
01:57:48.840 --> 01:57:54.880
I can look at it. What right, it's only showing

1427
01:57:54.920 --> 01:58:01.359
you the outside of it. The bathing machine Collection of

1428
01:58:01.520 --> 01:58:11.600
Ouque bathing Machine eighteen hundreds, Victorian bathing machine. But why

1429
01:58:11.680 --> 01:58:15.600
is it not shown inside? Maybe it was one of

1430
01:58:15.600 --> 01:58:27.000
those things. Ah, it looks to me it was just

1431
01:58:27.359 --> 01:58:31.960
somewhere that you can jump into the water from. That

1432
01:58:32.039 --> 01:58:36.600
doesn't That doesn't sound like a bathing machine. Let's read

1433
01:58:36.640 --> 01:58:41.880
out what it says. You search the web for bathing machines,

1434
01:58:42.119 --> 01:58:49.479
says Google, being AI whatever. The victorian of bathing machine

1435
01:58:50.159 --> 01:58:57.279
was in an innovative mobile changing room designed to allow swimmers,

1436
01:58:57.920 --> 01:59:02.399
particularly women, to maintain in their modesties while bathing at

1437
01:59:02.520 --> 01:59:07.279
the seaside. Okay, so it's basically a changing room. It's

1438
01:59:07.319 --> 01:59:14.039
a changing room. Historical context, the bathing machine emerged during

1439
01:59:14.079 --> 01:59:18.720
the eighteenth century as the popularity of seaside resorts grew

1440
01:59:18.880 --> 01:59:23.760
in Britain, at a time when swimming costumes were not

1441
01:59:23.880 --> 01:59:31.319
yet common and modesty was paramount, especially for women. These

1442
01:59:31.359 --> 01:59:37.640
wooden carts served as both changing rooms and a means

1443
01:59:37.760 --> 01:59:43.760
to discreetly enter the water. The legal requirements for men

1444
01:59:43.840 --> 01:59:48.840
and women to bathe separately fostered the need for these machines,

1445
01:59:49.279 --> 01:59:55.239
allowing females to change into their bathing attire while remaining

1446
01:59:55.319 --> 02:00:03.119
hidden from public view. Okay, so they the car. They

1447
02:00:03.119 --> 02:00:07.880
were carts on wheels, six foot high, eight foot wide,

1448
02:00:08.159 --> 02:00:12.720
and they were pulled into the sea by horses and

1449
02:00:12.840 --> 02:00:16.520
babies could just jump into the water about being seen,

1450
02:00:17.039 --> 02:00:25.279
and maybe curtains or umbrellas to keep their modesty. Oh

1451
02:00:25.319 --> 02:00:28.920
look at this. Women used these machines. Mainly men were

1452
02:00:28.960 --> 02:00:31.640
allowed to bathe naked until the nineteenth century.

1453
02:00:32.960 --> 02:00:46.000
Oh hmm, right.

1454
02:00:46.640 --> 02:00:52.520
And the bathing costumes were ridiculous. It wasn't like I mean,

1455
02:00:52.600 --> 02:00:58.279
they were proper, full on, full on old attire. It

1456
02:00:58.439 --> 02:01:03.279
was the men always had to have stripy ones and

1457
02:01:03.680 --> 02:01:10.279
the it doesn't look fun. And there's a woman there

1458
02:01:10.039 --> 02:01:12.319
were in a bathing costume. It looks like she's getting

1459
02:01:12.319 --> 02:01:20.640
ready to climb a mountain. H wow, that's interesting, kind

1460
02:01:20.680 --> 02:01:27.560
of I know, it's not supposed to be sorry about that.

1461
02:01:27.640 --> 02:01:32.039
The bucket and spades sets have been popular since the

1462
02:01:32.119 --> 02:01:42.920
early nineteen hundreds. I should like bucket and spades, yeah

1463
02:01:42.960 --> 02:01:49.920
I did. I used to like to. I should like

1464
02:01:50.000 --> 02:01:56.600
to make sand castles because it's fun, wasn't it If

1465
02:01:56.600 --> 02:02:02.920
anyone did it, it's just fun. And my brother equally

1466
02:02:03.039 --> 02:02:11.479
liked to just step on mine. For some reason. I

1467
02:02:11.520 --> 02:02:14.000
did think about trying to get hold of some explosions,

1468
02:02:14.039 --> 02:02:16.640
but she couldn't get any. It's very hard when you're seven.

1469
02:02:17.159 --> 02:02:20.680
The cold of explosions, explosives. I was gonna put some

1470
02:02:20.800 --> 02:02:24.119
underneath the sand, and when he stepped on it, I'll

1471
02:02:24.199 --> 02:02:27.399
teach him not to do that again. But yeah, I

1472
02:02:27.399 --> 02:02:32.640
couldn't get any spent a lot of my childhood in prison.

1473
02:02:32.760 --> 02:02:39.720
That's weird. And I was the youngest terrorist in history.

1474
02:02:40.640 --> 02:02:46.319
Ice Cream vans became widespread in the nineteen fifties. Ooh,

1475
02:02:46.760 --> 02:02:52.439
ice cream vans. I loved myself some ice cream. Having

1476
02:02:52.760 --> 02:02:56.319
been to an ice cream van for a long, long, long,

1477
02:02:56.359 --> 02:03:01.760
long time. It amazes me that they come out in

1478
02:03:01.800 --> 02:03:05.039
all weathers. I saw one. It was freezing cold and

1479
02:03:05.119 --> 02:03:09.039
it came out because it was a Saturday, because it

1480
02:03:09.079 --> 02:03:12.479
was in June. It was raining and it was very

1481
02:03:12.520 --> 02:03:15.119
cold and windy. It was like a winter's day out there,

1482
02:03:15.720 --> 02:03:19.119
and they just decided, well to second of June, let's

1483
02:03:19.159 --> 02:03:25.199
go out. It's officially summer. Fly just landed on a microphone.

1484
02:03:26.479 --> 02:03:30.760
Punch and Judy shows were classic seaside entertainment. I don't

1485
02:03:30.800 --> 02:03:37.840
think they're allowed anymore. That's study giterate. Blackpool Illuminations, though

1486
02:03:37.840 --> 02:03:45.840
not autumnal, used to start in late summer, so Blackpool

1487
02:03:45.880 --> 02:03:51.399
Illuminations very very popular. Blackpool, well, I think it was

1488
02:03:51.439 --> 02:04:00.520
once classed as the Las Vegas of England, that like

1489
02:04:00.840 --> 02:04:07.439
sinos and all kinds of stuff in Blackpool. And I

1490
02:04:07.479 --> 02:04:12.960
would have loved to have gone there when it was busy,

1491
02:04:13.680 --> 02:04:15.760
not busy busy, but that in its kind of peak,

1492
02:04:15.920 --> 02:04:19.279
just to see what it's like, because I never did.

1493
02:04:19.840 --> 02:04:22.359
I don't know what it's like now. If it still

1494
02:04:22.359 --> 02:04:25.479
gets really busy. I hope it does for the people

1495
02:04:25.720 --> 02:04:31.039
that you know work there and have businesses. But I

1496
02:04:31.079 --> 02:04:33.439
went there once and it was on the way to

1497
02:04:33.800 --> 02:04:37.960
the Isle of Man and it was the windiest day

1498
02:04:38.199 --> 02:04:47.399
in history. It was probably August July August time, really windy,

1499
02:04:49.279 --> 02:04:55.439
and we were going to Liverpool to catch the ferry

1500
02:04:55.520 --> 02:05:02.159
to the Isle of Man. The faerry was canceled, but

1501
02:05:02.279 --> 02:05:04.800
because we'd been in a car and we've been traveling

1502
02:05:04.840 --> 02:05:08.039
for ten minutes, my dad decided to continue the journey

1503
02:05:08.079 --> 02:05:13.760
anyway in a almost hurricane wind, which is why the

1504
02:05:14.399 --> 02:05:20.119
fairy had been canceled. You know. He decided, well, we've

1505
02:05:20.119 --> 02:05:25.319
been going for ten minutes because his sister who visit

1506
02:05:25.319 --> 02:05:29.119
my auntie who we were visiting, said don't bother coming.

1507
02:05:29.600 --> 02:05:36.119
There's no fairies. There is absolutely tremendous weather here and

1508
02:05:36.159 --> 02:05:41.680
the fairies are canceled for the formidable future Formidable, formidable

1509
02:05:41.720 --> 02:05:48.359
future formidable. It's very formidable. Formidable was like war that's

1510
02:05:48.439 --> 02:05:56.000
quite good formidable for dimmable bidable hm hm. Anyway, they

1511
02:05:56.039 --> 02:06:03.239
were canceled, but my dad said nah, and we stopped

1512
02:06:03.399 --> 02:06:10.920
at Blackpool because it's on the way to Liverpool. And

1513
02:06:11.039 --> 02:06:12.840
I was quite happy because I thought, all go to

1514
02:06:12.840 --> 02:06:19.680
see Blackpool Blackpool Tower. There was no lights on. Everything

1515
02:06:20.560 --> 02:06:24.239
seemed to be closed because the wind was it was

1516
02:06:24.319 --> 02:06:28.319
almost hurricane level. It was really strong. I mean, we

1517
02:06:28.359 --> 02:06:31.800
don't generally get hurricanes in this country, but we do

1518
02:06:31.880 --> 02:06:34.359
get very strong winds sometimes, and this is one of

1519
02:06:34.359 --> 02:06:40.520
those really really really windy days. My name nearly blew

1520
02:06:40.520 --> 02:06:52.720
away and she went into one of these toilets and

1521
02:06:52.760 --> 02:07:02.119
it was a what was it? It was a toilet,

1522
02:07:04.520 --> 02:07:08.840
a porter toilet. Okay, it was heavy enough so it

1523
02:07:08.880 --> 02:07:10.840
wasn't being blown around, but it was a portter toilet.

1524
02:07:11.239 --> 02:07:13.479
She went in there and she got locked in. She

1525
02:07:13.520 --> 02:07:19.159
couldn't get out, and my dad got a phone call

1526
02:07:20.119 --> 02:07:24.279
from my auntie saying, it looks like the next ferry

1527
02:07:25.079 --> 02:07:28.720
is going to be The winds calmed down enough on

1528
02:07:28.800 --> 02:07:31.560
their end that they can sort of send the ferry out.

1529
02:07:32.319 --> 02:07:37.760
So we had to. We had to leave Menanda. And yeah,

1530
02:07:37.840 --> 02:07:41.000
she's still there as far as I know. That was

1531
02:07:41.239 --> 02:07:44.079
twenty twenty one years ago. I hope she's all right.

1532
02:07:46.279 --> 02:07:51.520
I've heard it. They're quite comfortable places, those porter toilets,

1533
02:07:52.359 --> 02:07:59.640
porter potty. She did actually get locked in. It was funny,

1534
02:07:59.800 --> 02:08:04.079
but in the same sense, obviously it wasn't funny, but

1535
02:08:04.159 --> 02:08:06.439
it was funny. We got out, We got her out.

1536
02:08:06.479 --> 02:08:12.159
We managed to do the lot from the outside. I

1537
02:08:12.199 --> 02:08:14.039
think I knew how to do that. And my dad

1538
02:08:14.079 --> 02:08:16.439
looked at me very strangely that I was able to

1539
02:08:16.479 --> 02:08:18.920
open a toilet, a public toilet from the outside that

1540
02:08:19.039 --> 02:08:21.319
was locked from the inside. But it was just like

1541
02:08:21.359 --> 02:08:28.560
a coin. It was very simple and a drill. I

1542
02:08:28.640 --> 02:08:31.840
happened to have the tools on me. Don't judge me.

1543
02:08:32.960 --> 02:08:39.800
Lie dose or outdoor pools gained popularity in the nineteen thirties. Yeah,

1544
02:08:40.399 --> 02:08:44.359
they were popular. They were popular. I was going to

1545
02:08:44.359 --> 02:08:48.479
say they're popular in my day. But outdoor pool like

1546
02:08:48.520 --> 02:08:54.520
little pools, like the blow up ones and the lie dos,

1547
02:08:55.640 --> 02:08:59.680
and they like the big beds, floaty beds made of plastic.

1548
02:09:00.199 --> 02:09:03.239
They were quite popular even when I was a kid,

1549
02:09:05.640 --> 02:09:09.920
because you could. You could lay on them on in

1550
02:09:09.960 --> 02:09:14.319
the garden, and then you can lay on them on

1551
02:09:15.680 --> 02:09:22.399
the water as well. You've got beach huts in places

1552
02:09:22.520 --> 02:09:29.000
like south Wold and Bourne Mouth are worth tens of

1553
02:09:29.119 --> 02:09:32.800
thousands of pounds. Now that surprised me, because that doesn't

1554
02:09:32.800 --> 02:09:35.760
surprise me. I already knew that because where my dad lives,

1555
02:09:37.439 --> 02:09:41.399
the peach, the beach huts are like thirty grand, thirty

1556
02:09:41.439 --> 02:09:48.000
five grand. There's not enough room to do anything in them, hardly. Literally.

1557
02:09:48.279 --> 02:09:54.720
You can you can sit in it, that's it. You

1558
02:09:54.760 --> 02:09:56.880
can't sleep in it. I suppose you could, but you're

1559
02:09:56.920 --> 02:10:07.279
not allowed to sleep in it, not overnight. Ah, you

1560
02:10:07.359 --> 02:10:13.960
can't have raves, agriculture and nature. Some is a I

1561
02:10:13.960 --> 02:10:16.760
don't think you even own the land, so it'd be

1562
02:10:16.800 --> 02:10:19.640
different if you owned the land and you bought all

1563
02:10:19.720 --> 02:10:27.840
those beach huts along the prom Technically you could perhaps

1564
02:10:27.920 --> 02:10:32.319
own enough land to start building on it. I don't know,

1565
02:10:32.399 --> 02:10:35.880
put a fence up or something. Some it is peak

1566
02:10:35.920 --> 02:10:39.800
harvest season for many English crops. I didn't know that.

1567
02:10:39.880 --> 02:10:46.840
I don't know a lot about crops. If we if

1568
02:10:46.920 --> 02:10:57.359
AI manages to extend life to almost infinity, you know,

1569
02:10:57.479 --> 02:11:01.439
so that all organs can be replaced with plenished and

1570
02:11:02.439 --> 02:11:05.000
you know that we just like could stay a life forever.

1571
02:11:06.960 --> 02:11:13.439
I'm going to study about harvests and crop growing because

1572
02:11:13.479 --> 02:11:16.520
it does interest me, but not that much. I don't

1573
02:11:16.560 --> 02:11:18.439
think I'm going to have enough time in my life

1574
02:11:18.479 --> 02:11:22.720
to really put too much effort into it. But it's

1575
02:11:22.840 --> 02:11:27.680
something that is I know it's really important, but I just, yeah,

1576
02:11:27.840 --> 02:11:31.199
I'd like a bit more time. I'd like a bit more,

1577
02:11:32.159 --> 02:11:34.479
a bit more time added to my sentence so that

1578
02:11:34.520 --> 02:11:39.680
I could actually, you know, devote that time to studying

1579
02:11:40.079 --> 02:11:48.439
English crops and harvest seasons. The next one is strawberry picking.

1580
02:11:49.520 --> 02:11:52.439
Strawberry picking became a popular summer past time in the

1581
02:11:52.479 --> 02:11:55.840
twentieth century. Did you know this? This is something that

1582
02:11:55.840 --> 02:11:58.199
you've probably never heard before. I don't know who told

1583
02:11:58.239 --> 02:12:01.960
me this, but apparently straw brees ripen much quicker when

1584
02:12:01.960 --> 02:12:08.159
it's hot. The smell of cut grass is a nostalgic

1585
02:12:08.239 --> 02:12:16.479
trigger for many Brits. Yeah, there's definitely a certain smell,

1586
02:12:16.560 --> 02:12:21.319
isn't there connected to that cut and grass. You're not

1587
02:12:21.359 --> 02:12:23.000
like grass in the garden I'm talking about.

1588
02:12:23.960 --> 02:12:27.000
Hmmm, So.

1589
02:12:33.319 --> 02:12:43.520
What we got here hay fever known medically as allergic

1590
02:12:43.880 --> 02:12:52.960
rhinitis rhinoceros spikes in English selling dudes of pollen. I

1591
02:12:53.000 --> 02:12:58.399
think that's the same everywhere, isn't it? What else has

1592
02:12:58.439 --> 02:13:02.880
we got here? Blue bells? Blue bells finish blooming by

1593
02:13:03.079 --> 02:13:08.560
early summer. Blooming blue bells finish blooming by early summer

1594
02:13:08.680 --> 02:13:21.239
in English woodlands. Ooh, butterflies, especially the red admiral and peacock,

1595
02:13:22.159 --> 02:13:27.680
are abundant in English summers. That's good. I love myself

1596
02:13:27.680 --> 02:13:32.000
a bit of butterfly action. That sounds wrong, doesn't it.

1597
02:13:32.119 --> 02:13:36.920
I really love butterflies though they're so beautiful, and moths.

1598
02:13:36.960 --> 02:13:39.960
I like moths as well. To me, a butterfly is

1599
02:13:40.039 --> 02:13:43.840
just a moth. It's a daytime moth, and a moth

1600
02:13:43.960 --> 02:13:48.680
is a nighttime butterfly. It's the same, isn't it? For me?

1601
02:13:49.439 --> 02:13:54.760
Just how I see it? I suppose to me, a

1602
02:13:54.800 --> 02:13:58.640
moth is like a a butterfly thats been bitten by

1603
02:13:58.680 --> 02:14:04.479
a vampire maybe, or a butterfly that's mated with a bat.

1604
02:14:05.840 --> 02:14:13.920
You know that's that would be messy. The English oak

1605
02:14:14.079 --> 02:14:16.680
releases most of its pollen in the summer.

1606
02:14:17.159 --> 02:14:18.479
Oh thanks.

1607
02:14:20.279 --> 02:14:26.520
Hedgehogs are more visible in summer evenings. Most things are

1608
02:14:26.520 --> 02:14:30.239
more visible in summer evenings because you can see because

1609
02:14:30.239 --> 02:14:35.600
it's lighter. Even a lampposts are all visible. The hedges

1610
02:14:35.760 --> 02:14:39.439
are more visible, the trees are more visible, the grass

1611
02:14:39.520 --> 02:14:48.880
is more visible, the ladybirds are more visible. But my

1612
02:14:49.000 --> 02:14:53.439
roller skates are more you know. The dog's barking again,

1613
02:14:54.960 --> 02:15:01.479
so yeah, it's hedgehogs. Wish that dog would stop. I

1614
02:15:01.560 --> 02:15:06.760
managed to stop Vinney from barking. He did start, and

1615
02:15:06.840 --> 02:15:10.600
I said to him, Oh, come on, baby, don't be

1616
02:15:10.680 --> 02:15:13.840
doing that. Man, little baby boy, we don't want to

1617
02:15:13.880 --> 02:15:16.520
do that. We don't want to be barking, do we.

1618
02:15:16.520 --> 02:15:19.920
We don't want to be barking because you're such a

1619
02:15:19.960 --> 02:15:23.520
good boy. You are a good boy, aren't you. You're

1620
02:15:23.560 --> 02:15:26.680
my favoritest little boy in the whole wide world. You

1621
02:15:26.880 --> 02:15:33.279
are my little son, my little Vinnie Minilli, Yes you are.

1622
02:15:35.680 --> 02:15:38.439
The English oak releases most of its pollic. Okay, I

1623
02:15:38.439 --> 02:15:42.039
would have done that. One. Wasp season peaks in late summer,

1624
02:15:42.279 --> 02:15:49.479
particularly August. Brilliant summer thunderstorms help cool the air, but

1625
02:15:49.640 --> 02:15:55.800
often follow hot whom it spells. Well, it probably wouldn't

1626
02:15:56.079 --> 02:15:58.039
help cool the air if the air was already cool

1627
02:15:58.079 --> 02:16:00.239
with it, so it kind of has to follow a hot,

1628
02:16:00.359 --> 02:16:04.960
humid spells. It sort of makes sense, I think, or

1629
02:16:05.079 --> 02:16:15.920
might just being pedantic right. Historical events, the Spanish Armada

1630
02:16:16.680 --> 02:16:20.840
was defeated in the summer of fifteen eighty eight. The

1631
02:16:22.199 --> 02:16:25.000
Great Fire of London began during a dry summer of

1632
02:16:25.119 --> 02:16:30.720
nine eight of sixteen sixty six. None of this is

1633
02:16:30.800 --> 02:16:35.120
nice stuff, so I'm gonna just leave that. It's all

1634
02:16:35.159 --> 02:16:38.399
at wars and stuff. The Queen Victoria regularly summered in

1635
02:16:38.479 --> 02:16:49.719
the Isle of Wight. That's nice food and drink. Eaton

1636
02:16:49.959 --> 02:16:56.440
mess is a summer dessert originated at Eton College, So

1637
02:16:58.280 --> 02:17:04.120
is that what Eton musk drinks? Eats Pim's Number one

1638
02:17:04.120 --> 02:17:10.959
cup is traditionally served with fruit and mint. Okay, creams

1639
02:17:11.680 --> 02:17:16.719
cream teas are a summer staple in Devon and corn Wall.

1640
02:17:18.479 --> 02:17:27.239
I knew that Devon cream Yeah, Cucumber sand witches became

1641
02:17:27.319 --> 02:17:35.639
popular as a cooling summer treat, and barbecues became fashionable

1642
02:17:35.840 --> 02:17:45.120
in English gardens in the nineteen eighties. Okay, barbecues became

1643
02:17:45.200 --> 02:17:49.120
fashionable in the nineteen eighties. I was around in the

1644
02:17:49.200 --> 02:17:53.280
nineteen eighties, so were they not popular before? That I

1645
02:17:53.360 --> 02:17:57.719
just thought everyone. I remember the early eighties, I remember

1646
02:17:57.760 --> 02:18:05.719
even the late seventies seeing barbecues. Oh, it's interesting. I

1647
02:18:05.799 --> 02:18:07.879
just thought it was something that's been around for ages.

1648
02:18:08.639 --> 02:18:16.719
It has now, but before then, ice cream cones regularly

1649
02:18:17.040 --> 02:18:24.520
gained popularity in England after w W One. Rhubarb and

1650
02:18:24.559 --> 02:18:30.319
gooseberries are commonly harvested in early summer. Rhubarb rubarb is

1651
02:18:30.360 --> 02:18:36.000
one of those. I mean, isn't it technically a vegetable

1652
02:18:36.040 --> 02:18:42.799
because it's a root, isn't it? But it's a fruit?

1653
02:18:43.840 --> 02:18:45.840
Is it? If I don't know, I think it's a vegetable.

1654
02:18:46.000 --> 02:18:53.159
But anyway, rhubarb is both disgusting and beautiful. It's weird now,

1655
02:18:53.239 --> 02:19:01.719
it's sour and like funny face making taste. If it's

1656
02:19:01.799 --> 02:19:03.959
not done in a way that I like it, I've

1657
02:19:03.959 --> 02:19:07.959
got to just talk for myself really, But if it

1658
02:19:08.040 --> 02:19:11.840
has the right amount of sugar in taste, and it's

1659
02:19:11.920 --> 02:19:16.680
in a rubarb crumble, okay, the difference of rubob pie

1660
02:19:16.879 --> 02:19:19.639
can be a little bit sour rubob crumble, but it's

1661
02:19:19.639 --> 02:19:25.319
done properly, the most beautiful. Oh, I can't even say

1662
02:19:25.319 --> 02:19:29.479
the word. I'm so excited, oh, honestly, and with some

1663
02:19:29.680 --> 02:19:38.200
cream or ice cream, absolutely gorgeous. Summer puddings made with

1664
02:19:38.319 --> 02:19:43.319
berries and bread are a traditional dessert. I've got funny

1665
02:19:43.319 --> 02:19:48.639
story for were one of my neighbors and asked me

1666
02:19:48.680 --> 02:19:51.040
for some bread the other day and I said, you've

1667
02:19:51.040 --> 02:19:57.760
got any bread? Texted me. I said, yeah, all right, yeah,

1668
02:19:58.879 --> 02:20:00.559
and then she said, I wait a minute, I'm not

1669
02:20:00.600 --> 02:20:05.520
allowed to have bread because I'm diabetic. I said, okay,

1670
02:20:06.159 --> 02:20:07.719
I've got a pizza in the freeze if you want to.

1671
02:20:07.719 --> 02:20:14.520
Actually said, oh, that'd be nice. And pizza's many bread,

1672
02:20:14.520 --> 02:20:16.559
isn't it. So just that's what I was trying to

1673
02:20:20.639 --> 02:20:23.479
I think the can I have some bread? That was

1674
02:20:23.520 --> 02:20:26.639
the ecriminal saying, oh can I some bread and water?

1675
02:20:27.840 --> 02:20:30.479
Thinking I'd say, no, wait a minute, let me let

1676
02:20:30.520 --> 02:20:35.760
me order your take out. Yeah, no, I can't. I'm

1677
02:20:35.799 --> 02:20:37.520
unable to. I'd like to be able to do that,

1678
02:20:38.200 --> 02:20:43.319
but I can't. I can you do it? Lemon barley

1679
02:20:43.319 --> 02:20:48.639
water was made famous by wimbled Dune. Some are puddings

1680
02:20:48.719 --> 02:20:52.680
made with berries and bread. Okay, it's additional dessert berries

1681
02:20:52.719 --> 02:20:56.879
and bread. But that's bread and butter pudding though, isn't it.

1682
02:20:56.879 --> 02:21:01.559
It's saying summer puddings but bread and butter pudding, bread

1683
02:21:01.639 --> 02:21:06.680
and butter, jelly and ice cream remain a nostalgic summer

1684
02:21:07.200 --> 02:21:17.040
party favorite. The phrase British summer began in nineteen sixteen

1685
02:21:17.159 --> 02:21:22.520
with daylight saving Okay, fair enough as they changed ordinate.

1686
02:21:22.600 --> 02:21:26.920
Then BBC weather forecasts for summer holidays became part of

1687
02:21:27.079 --> 02:21:32.520
family planning, and the nineteen sixties saw a surge in

1688
02:21:32.799 --> 02:21:38.280
seaside postcard humor. Ah, so that's when it started. I

1689
02:21:38.280 --> 02:21:40.079
should love all those because it used to just be

1690
02:21:40.239 --> 02:21:44.760
rude and that lots of rude pictures. Last of the

1691
02:21:44.799 --> 02:21:48.479
Summer Wine a sitcom man from nineteen seventy three to

1692
02:21:48.559 --> 02:21:52.840
twenty ten. It's just got some in a title that's

1693
02:21:52.879 --> 02:21:57.200
not really relevant to what I'm talking about. But this

1694
02:21:57.319 --> 02:22:01.120
next bit is Summer Holiday Cliff Richard. It's a Cliff

1695
02:22:01.200 --> 02:22:06.399
Richard movie from nineteen sixty three, like we are going

1696
02:22:06.440 --> 02:22:11.879
on a Summahanaday normal working for week or two. I

1697
02:22:12.079 --> 02:22:16.760
love that song. Gavin and Stacey's Barry Island scenes became

1698
02:22:17.040 --> 02:22:20.840
iconic summer TV moments. I've got no idea what that is.

1699
02:22:21.000 --> 02:22:23.760
I know Gavin and Stacey, but I don't know the

1700
02:22:23.920 --> 02:22:28.319
moment they're talking about. And they're just talking about things

1701
02:22:28.319 --> 02:22:33.040
like Love Island, Top of the Pops, the Radio one

1702
02:22:33.200 --> 02:22:37.040
road show, Doctor Who's Summer specials, just things that be

1703
02:22:37.120 --> 02:22:40.440
on TV in the summer. Summer is probably one of

1704
02:22:40.479 --> 02:22:44.639
the worst times on English television. They just don't put

1705
02:22:44.639 --> 02:22:47.000
a lot on TV. There's a bit of sport for

1706
02:22:47.000 --> 02:22:52.920
those that love sport, Wimbledon and the World Cup or

1707
02:22:52.920 --> 02:22:55.799
the European Cup if that song of that year. So

1708
02:22:55.840 --> 02:23:03.040
there's things like that, cricket, but as far as entertainment programs,

1709
02:23:03.639 --> 02:23:06.760
there's not always a huge amount on That kind of

1710
02:23:06.799 --> 02:23:12.440
starts in autumn. Oh, then it's got outdoor activities, it's

1711
02:23:12.440 --> 02:23:19.559
got crickets, tennis of course, kite flying, I don't know.

1712
02:23:19.719 --> 02:23:21.680
Kite flying is something you need a lot of wind.

1713
02:23:21.840 --> 02:23:30.399
For a lot of wind wind, bicycle cells spike every summer, well,

1714
02:23:30.399 --> 02:23:33.840
we all buy things we don't use that caravan and

1715
02:23:33.879 --> 02:23:38.360
there's a classic English summer tradition. Paddle boats on lakes

1716
02:23:38.399 --> 02:23:46.920
became popular in the Victorian era, and children's summer camps

1717
02:23:47.000 --> 02:23:55.239
began growing in popularity post WW two. Village fates with

1718
02:23:55.639 --> 02:24:02.440
tombolas and coconut shies are summer traditions, and schools out

1719
02:24:02.479 --> 02:24:08.440
for summer signals mass family holidays starting in July, so

1720
02:24:08.520 --> 02:24:12.159
it's July to one today. This is quite apt, isn't

1721
02:24:12.159 --> 02:24:19.639
it really? For talking about? What are we actually talking about?

1722
02:24:19.680 --> 02:24:25.600
What is the subject? Oh? Summers? Okay, we're talking about summers,

1723
02:24:26.040 --> 02:24:32.280
all right. All The term staycation became popular during summer's

1724
02:24:32.280 --> 02:24:38.520
post two thousand and eight staycation. I think it got

1725
02:24:38.600 --> 02:24:42.479
to the point where going abroad was no longer a

1726
02:24:42.520 --> 02:24:45.719
really really cheap option as much as it used to

1727
02:24:45.760 --> 02:24:48.120
be in the past. It used to be a cheaper

1728
02:24:48.159 --> 02:24:50.520
option in it. I think it just became more expensive.

1729
02:24:50.559 --> 02:24:55.479
Maybe I don't know. Butlin's holiday camps were summer institution

1730
02:24:55.639 --> 02:24:59.520
from the nineteen thirties. I used to work at Butlin's

1731
02:25:00.159 --> 02:25:03.719
for a season in the winter of some time in

1732
02:25:03.760 --> 02:25:10.000
the nineties. My tummy's gurgling for some reason. Cornwall and

1733
02:25:10.280 --> 02:25:16.440
Devon have been popular summer destinations for centuries. It's a

1734
02:25:16.479 --> 02:25:22.520
beautiful coven. Cornwall and Devon lovely places. Never been to

1735
02:25:22.639 --> 02:25:25.559
Lake District. I'd like to go there. It sees the

1736
02:25:25.639 --> 02:25:28.959
peaking visits during the summer. I've never been there. It'd

1737
02:25:29.000 --> 02:25:33.040
be nice. The Great British q can be seen at

1738
02:25:33.079 --> 02:25:36.319
every seaside chip shop in July. Yeah, I'm not a

1739
02:25:36.319 --> 02:25:38.719
big fan of the old queue in I'll be honest

1740
02:25:38.760 --> 02:25:44.719
with you. Nah, rail excursions to the coast became common

1741
02:25:44.760 --> 02:25:51.360
in the eighteen hundreds, so yeah, that guess because we

1742
02:25:51.440 --> 02:25:54.719
had railway tracks end didn't we Before that? We had

1743
02:25:54.760 --> 02:26:01.000
to go by horse and cart. I suppose or ride

1744
02:26:01.040 --> 02:26:09.120
on sheep. Caravans and motor homes often clog English roads

1745
02:26:09.159 --> 02:26:12.920
in August. I was just wondering, Like with horses, you

1746
02:26:13.000 --> 02:26:14.639
put a carroat in front of them, so they run.

1747
02:26:15.079 --> 02:26:18.440
What would you put in front of a sheep? What

1748
02:26:18.520 --> 02:26:23.000
does sheep eat grass? I suppose you could. You could

1749
02:26:23.040 --> 02:26:25.959
travel on a cow and just put like some grass

1750
02:26:27.479 --> 02:26:30.159
or a little plant or something dangling in front of it,

1751
02:26:30.200 --> 02:26:33.239
and they just follow that try and get to the grass.

1752
02:26:33.280 --> 02:26:42.600
Maybe bank holiday weekends are peak travel periods. That's true.

1753
02:26:43.280 --> 02:26:46.959
It says caravans and motor homes often clog English roads

1754
02:26:47.000 --> 02:26:50.479
in August. Okay, we don't ever go at them. It's

1755
02:26:50.520 --> 02:26:53.600
not their fault, is it. Why are they having to

1756
02:26:53.600 --> 02:26:56.920
go at people in caravans and motor homes. They don't

1757
02:26:56.959 --> 02:27:01.680
take up a huge amount more space and cars. It

1758
02:27:01.760 --> 02:27:04.079
is that you know, like the other day I went

1759
02:27:04.079 --> 02:27:07.879
into Okay, I want to you about that, but okay,

1760
02:27:09.040 --> 02:27:12.959
I was in the hospital. I needed the toilet. I

1761
02:27:13.159 --> 02:27:14.959
needed the toilet but it was just a weir read

1762
02:27:15.000 --> 02:27:19.239
but I needed to go. Went to the men's toilets

1763
02:27:20.200 --> 02:27:24.440
it and I walked past I think five disabled toilets

1764
02:27:24.920 --> 02:27:28.559
to get to the men's toilets. It was blocked off

1765
02:27:28.559 --> 02:27:31.920
because it was being cleaned. I went back. There was

1766
02:27:32.040 --> 02:27:38.559
multiple disabled toilets, but I were empty, so I went

1767
02:27:38.600 --> 02:27:44.440
in one, did my quick way. We came out as guaranteed.

1768
02:27:44.479 --> 02:27:47.319
There was a lady there in a wheelchair waiting, and

1769
02:27:47.360 --> 02:27:49.159
the woman that was with her was looking at me

1770
02:27:49.319 --> 02:27:55.319
like I just committed every crime in history upon her person. Honestly,

1771
02:27:55.319 --> 02:27:58.559
it was like really, And I said, oh, was sorry

1772
02:27:58.559 --> 02:28:02.520
about that. I just needed to go, And neither of

1773
02:28:02.520 --> 02:28:09.159
the master answered me even acknowledge my existence. And honestly,

1774
02:28:09.280 --> 02:28:12.319
I was there for I was in there maybe twenty seconds,

1775
02:28:12.840 --> 02:28:16.079
half a minute, so it wasn't a long time. So

1776
02:28:16.200 --> 02:28:19.079
I didn't feel great. I'll be honest. I mean, I

1777
02:28:19.120 --> 02:28:22.799
am registered, I'm technically disabled anyway, I'm disabled, but not

1778
02:28:22.879 --> 02:28:30.559
just not physically. And I start thinking and I'm I'm

1779
02:28:30.799 --> 02:28:37.239
a little bit inside. As I'm walking out, I'm just thinking,

1780
02:28:37.280 --> 02:28:45.760
you know what, Okay, disabled toilets there for disabled people,

1781
02:28:47.000 --> 02:28:54.959
fair enough. However, in what world does anyone expect to

1782
02:28:55.000 --> 02:28:57.000
be able to just walk up the toilet, open the door,

1783
02:28:57.040 --> 02:29:00.239
and go in without queuing, without waiting, without some else

1784
02:29:00.280 --> 02:29:06.559
being in there. No one does that with the men's

1785
02:29:06.600 --> 02:29:10.120
toilets or for the women's toilets. I can't believe there's

1786
02:29:10.120 --> 02:29:12.159
someone in there. Why are you in there? It should

1787
02:29:12.159 --> 02:29:15.399
be available for me just to walk in. I shouldn't

1788
02:29:15.479 --> 02:29:17.879
use the word walking, but just to use the toilet

1789
02:29:18.520 --> 02:29:25.399
without having to wait. I mean, firstly I have to wait.

1790
02:29:25.840 --> 02:29:31.920
It's like, I mean, she was sitting down waiting, and

1791
02:29:34.959 --> 02:29:37.559
why would she have to be what? It's just, it's

1792
02:29:37.559 --> 02:29:40.399
just kind of like, wait a minute, if I was

1793
02:29:40.479 --> 02:29:42.360
in there for hours, or if I was in there

1794
02:29:42.399 --> 02:29:46.280
doing a long long time, but why should it Why

1795
02:29:46.319 --> 02:29:54.239
should that toilet be available instantly when I also need

1796
02:29:54.280 --> 02:29:58.680
to go to the toilet. It's just that's I started

1797
02:29:58.680 --> 02:30:01.200
to think. They're like, wait a minute, I'm feeling bad here,

1798
02:30:01.200 --> 02:30:06.159
but I don't need to really, because if there is

1799
02:30:06.200 --> 02:30:11.760
a queue of people, let's say, abled bodied people, queuing outside.

1800
02:30:12.280 --> 02:30:15.600
As there as two people queueing outside the disabled, then

1801
02:30:15.639 --> 02:30:18.719
she's within her right to say, oh, bug her off,

1802
02:30:19.239 --> 02:30:22.479
this is for this is for me, This is my toilet.

1803
02:30:22.520 --> 02:30:25.280
I own this toilet, this toilet was built just for me,

1804
02:30:26.040 --> 02:30:29.879
and she's got a right to kind of I don't know,

1805
02:30:30.959 --> 02:30:33.719
run them over. I guess in a chair she wants.

1806
02:30:35.920 --> 02:30:40.319
But that wasn't the situation. So the idea that she

1807
02:30:40.440 --> 02:30:44.319
should be just spelled to just open the door and

1808
02:30:44.360 --> 02:30:47.239
go in and never ever have to wait to use

1809
02:30:47.239 --> 02:30:52.440
a toilet. That's not real real life, is it. Sometimes

1810
02:30:52.440 --> 02:30:54.879
we have to wait to use a toilet because there's

1811
02:30:54.879 --> 02:31:01.559
other people on the planet. So I felt less guilty.

1812
02:31:02.879 --> 02:31:04.760
I would have felt less guilty if I hadn't actually

1813
02:31:04.799 --> 02:31:07.719
said that to her, and then I felt more guilty,

1814
02:31:09.719 --> 02:31:15.159
But you know, we live, we learn sometimes. But I

1815
02:31:15.200 --> 02:31:18.639
did think about that, like, Okay, I needed the toilet.

1816
02:31:20.319 --> 02:31:22.360
It's either that or go into the women's toilets, and

1817
02:31:22.440 --> 02:31:26.680
these days that's round upon. But there was only one

1818
02:31:26.680 --> 02:31:31.639
woman's toilet, there's only one men's toilet. There was I

1819
02:31:31.680 --> 02:31:38.120
think four four or five what's it name toilets, because

1820
02:31:38.159 --> 02:31:39.680
you can go in there as well if you've got

1821
02:31:39.719 --> 02:31:42.760
a baby to change as well, so you know, it's

1822
02:31:42.840 --> 02:31:49.600
not just for disabled people. And I did a quick weewie.

1823
02:31:50.159 --> 02:31:53.280
I didn't go there, and I wasn't in there, knitting

1824
02:31:53.280 --> 02:31:57.799
a jumper for Vinnie, drinking a cup of coffee, watching

1825
02:31:58.079 --> 02:32:02.079
the I don't know, Wimbledon tennis on my phone. I

1826
02:32:02.159 --> 02:32:06.680
wasn't in there for ages. I was just there was

1827
02:32:06.719 --> 02:32:11.959
a quick zip in there, unzip and then zip up again.

1828
02:32:13.200 --> 02:32:18.639
Actually there's no zipping because I was wearing what's it

1829
02:32:19.760 --> 02:32:22.680
tracksuit bottoms. It was more of a shake kind of

1830
02:32:22.879 --> 02:32:26.719
not wanting drippage anyway more than you need to know,

1831
02:32:27.040 --> 02:32:29.280
so it was a little bit of shaking. It's just,

1832
02:32:29.360 --> 02:32:32.719
you know, just washing my hands and stuff like that.

1833
02:32:33.200 --> 02:32:38.959
And then I and I left open the door because

1834
02:32:39.000 --> 02:32:40.799
the thing is they were trying to open the door.

1835
02:32:40.840 --> 02:32:45.000
I kept pulling it, rattling the door like anything. It's okay,

1836
02:32:45.040 --> 02:32:46.920
it's not opening now. It's not going to open if

1837
02:32:46.959 --> 02:32:51.120
you keep pulling it. There's clearly someone in there, and

1838
02:32:53.520 --> 02:32:56.719
seemed like quite an angry person, both of them. Really.

1839
02:32:57.959 --> 02:33:01.440
I think seeing my lovely face didn't help when I

1840
02:33:01.479 --> 02:33:08.520
opened the door. And it's the first time I've ever

1841
02:33:08.559 --> 02:33:12.399
felt bad for not being in a wheelchair. It was like,

1842
02:33:13.840 --> 02:33:17.520
it's not my fault that I've also got to do weewies.

1843
02:33:18.239 --> 02:33:20.200
I can't do it in the hallway, can't do it

1844
02:33:20.200 --> 02:33:23.559
in the bin. We're in a hospital, supposed to be

1845
02:33:24.200 --> 02:33:28.879
kind of sanitary, isn't it. And it's quick. It's not

1846
02:33:28.879 --> 02:33:32.559
like I had to sit down, you know, I didn't.

1847
02:33:33.040 --> 02:33:40.280
It's just like probably half a minute if that. And

1848
02:33:39.680 --> 02:33:42.520
they were nowhere to be seen when I went in there,

1849
02:33:43.159 --> 02:33:46.719
so I'm taking I'm figuring it probably took them at

1850
02:33:46.840 --> 02:33:49.840
least fifteen seconds to get there, so they were waiting

1851
02:33:49.879 --> 02:33:54.879
for fifteen seconds, because that's that door started rattling, probably

1852
02:33:55.920 --> 02:33:59.399
thirteen or fourteen seconds before I'd finished. So at this

1853
02:33:59.479 --> 02:34:04.920
point I was in the shaken section of the adventure.

1854
02:34:06.200 --> 02:34:08.360
I needed to wash my hands, so I washed my hands.

1855
02:34:08.360 --> 02:34:11.280
In anyway, being in a hospital, I might have blowed

1856
02:34:11.319 --> 02:34:13.239
me nose as well, So maybe I didn't need to

1857
02:34:13.280 --> 02:34:16.120
do that. But it's always nice to get prepared for

1858
02:34:16.159 --> 02:34:21.479
when I go outside, just to make myself look nice

1859
02:34:22.079 --> 02:34:26.120
and make sure there's no drippages and stuff, and just yeah,

1860
02:34:26.239 --> 02:34:28.600
make sure my shirt covers that area in case there is.

1861
02:34:29.520 --> 02:34:31.959
And then I walk out and I'm faced with these

1862
02:34:32.239 --> 02:34:37.920
two angry faces. It's like, Okay, I think it's the

1863
02:34:38.000 --> 02:34:42.520
first time ever in my life that I've been caught.

1864
02:34:43.879 --> 02:34:48.760
And the weird thing about it, right is, I think

1865
02:34:48.920 --> 02:34:52.879
two days earlier or now remembe it was last week.

1866
02:34:53.200 --> 02:34:58.120
I went to use the toilet and the cleaner said,

1867
02:34:58.200 --> 02:35:01.000
I'll just choose the disabled ones. When these are closed,

1868
02:35:01.040 --> 02:35:06.120
you just have to use it sobered ones. And everyone

1869
02:35:06.200 --> 02:35:10.879
going in there was just every people, including nurses, doctors,

1870
02:35:10.920 --> 02:35:13.879
just anyone going in there and using them because there's

1871
02:35:13.920 --> 02:35:16.920
four empty toilets or five empty toilets, not just going

1872
02:35:16.959 --> 02:35:22.280
to leave walk the other side of the hospital, because

1873
02:35:22.319 --> 02:35:25.399
this is right near the exit of the building or

1874
02:35:25.440 --> 02:35:32.200
the entrance to the buildings exit and entrance. Yeah, this

1875
02:35:32.399 --> 02:35:41.440
is I mean, I I tell you, sand in your

1876
02:35:41.479 --> 02:35:48.120
sandwiches is an avoidable, unavoidable British beach memory and donkeys

1877
02:35:48.120 --> 02:35:56.520
on the beach are an English summer tradition. British people

1878
02:35:56.760 --> 02:35:59.840
rushed to the garden at the first site of so

1879
02:36:01.600 --> 02:36:03.719
I think you're getting a little bit caught up in

1880
02:36:04.079 --> 02:36:08.159
British people. Every single person in England they see some

1881
02:36:08.319 --> 02:36:10.719
sudden they rush into the garden. I'm not sure if

1882
02:36:10.719 --> 02:36:16.319
that's true. Socks and sandals are an infamous or infamous

1883
02:36:16.719 --> 02:36:27.200
English summer fashion fo par or fox pass. I don't.

1884
02:36:28.200 --> 02:36:32.120
I don't think there's anything wrong with having socks. What

1885
02:36:32.319 --> 02:36:37.159
I think it's discovered the the the little Old fly

1886
02:36:37.319 --> 02:36:43.760
again bless him. Pubs spill out on pavements every summer evening.

1887
02:36:45.239 --> 02:36:50.079
That can happen, I definitely can happen. I remember there

1888
02:36:50.120 --> 02:36:52.840
was a pub in London just near with the comedy

1889
02:36:52.840 --> 02:36:58.200
club that I used to be regularly at, and it

1890
02:36:58.280 --> 02:37:01.799
would be jam backed and this is a little road

1891
02:37:02.360 --> 02:37:04.319
that went all the way down and it was it

1892
02:37:04.440 --> 02:37:07.959
wasn't a big road, but the people would stand outside

1893
02:37:07.959 --> 02:37:13.120
the pub and there'd be hundreds of people outside. I'm

1894
02:37:13.200 --> 02:37:17.319
talking to a lot of people, and I went in

1895
02:37:17.319 --> 02:37:19.840
the pub once. I thought, it's got to be a

1896
02:37:19.840 --> 02:37:23.040
big pub if all those people are inside, then they

1897
02:37:23.079 --> 02:37:26.200
come outside in the summer. It wasn't big inside at all.

1898
02:37:26.520 --> 02:37:30.000
They just had more people visiting in the summer. And

1899
02:37:30.360 --> 02:37:34.639
it wasn't locals because it wasn't It was in the

1900
02:37:35.200 --> 02:37:41.079
middle of what's just near the the city center kind

1901
02:37:41.079 --> 02:37:44.520
of you know, the financial place near Liverpool Street. So

1902
02:37:44.639 --> 02:37:50.079
that wasn't a particularly residential place. It was the city,

1903
02:37:50.159 --> 02:37:54.600
It was the financial district, although Canary warf also was.

1904
02:37:54.760 --> 02:37:59.200
But there wasn't a lot going on at the weekend. Generally,

1905
02:37:59.360 --> 02:38:02.799
especially during the day, super busy during a week in

1906
02:38:02.840 --> 02:38:10.280
the daytime, sometimes on a Saturday morning, you'd see oddly anyone.

1907
02:38:10.319 --> 02:38:13.719
People moan when it's cold, and they moan when it's

1908
02:38:13.760 --> 02:38:19.159
too hot. Yeah, I'm sure that's not just an English thing.

1909
02:38:21.360 --> 02:38:29.479
It's called moaning, although I imagine English people did invent it.

1910
02:38:30.239 --> 02:38:35.959
To be fair Fans sell out in shops every time

1911
02:38:36.000 --> 02:38:40.000
there's a mini heat wave. Yeah, we're very it's a

1912
02:38:40.120 --> 02:38:48.239
very short term in this country. It's yeah, is if

1913
02:38:48.280 --> 02:38:51.200
you if you want to if the government right, if

1914
02:38:51.200 --> 02:38:55.600
there was suddenly a huge amount of bread, too much

1915
02:38:55.639 --> 02:39:00.520
bread's being made, and you know, I mean millions and

1916
02:39:00.639 --> 02:39:05.760
millions and millions of pounds worth of bread over made,

1917
02:39:05.920 --> 02:39:08.520
and all the bakeries got together and said, look what

1918
02:39:08.559 --> 02:39:10.440
we're going to do, because we're going to lose millions

1919
02:39:10.440 --> 02:39:13.520
of pounds over the next two days, because we're never

1920
02:39:13.559 --> 02:39:15.600
going to sell all this bread that we've accidentally made.

1921
02:39:16.200 --> 02:39:18.079
And they went to the government and told them, and

1922
02:39:18.159 --> 02:39:24.479
the government put out a warning saying bread shortage. Every

1923
02:39:26.840 --> 02:39:30.239
every single shop would sell out our bread. Within a

1924
02:39:30.239 --> 02:39:36.920
few hours, there'd be no bread left. So it's quite

1925
02:39:36.920 --> 02:39:42.479
clever the way it works. Water fights with host pipes

1926
02:39:42.559 --> 02:39:45.879
or balloons or a childhood staple. I tell you what

1927
02:39:46.040 --> 02:39:48.399
me and my two brother my two older brothers used

1928
02:39:48.440 --> 02:39:52.680
to do. There was this pond where used to have

1929
02:39:52.799 --> 02:39:54.799
like a boat rides in that down near the beach.

1930
02:39:55.239 --> 02:39:58.120
So we used to have buckets and we'd fill the

1931
02:39:58.440 --> 02:40:03.360
buckets up and just pour water over each other. And

1932
02:40:05.200 --> 02:40:07.319
sometimes we do it in the summer. It was great.

1933
02:40:09.440 --> 02:40:12.479
Paddling pools and ice lollies make even the simplest summer

1934
02:40:12.559 --> 02:40:18.719
day feel magical. Yeah, I suppose it's something I don't

1935
02:40:18.719 --> 02:40:23.159
really do because i don't have a paddling pool and

1936
02:40:23.200 --> 02:40:27.799
I've got a kind of share a garden with the

1937
02:40:27.840 --> 02:40:31.079
other people that live in this area, so it's a

1938
02:40:31.120 --> 02:40:34.559
communal garden and it's not really a place to put

1939
02:40:34.559 --> 02:40:38.280
a paddling pool really, although I did, I did think

1940
02:40:38.319 --> 02:40:42.879
about doing something like that for this little one. I

1941
02:40:42.920 --> 02:40:44.799
thought it might be nice. But it's a lot of water,

1942
02:40:44.959 --> 02:40:50.440
isn't it to be fair? And I don't know if

1943
02:40:50.440 --> 02:40:55.440
you'd even want to do it because he doesn't like baths.

1944
02:40:56.120 --> 02:40:58.760
He avoids puddles. He will drink out of puddles, but

1945
02:40:58.799 --> 02:41:01.719
he doesn't he won't walk in a So I'm wondering

1946
02:41:01.719 --> 02:41:03.360
whether or not you'd even want to get into the

1947
02:41:03.399 --> 02:41:06.719
paddling pool? Would you? Would you get in the paddling pool?

1948
02:41:07.639 --> 02:41:09.120
Would you be a good girl and get in the

1949
02:41:09.159 --> 02:41:16.440
paddling pool with your auntie JJ? Would you? That? I

1950
02:41:16.479 --> 02:41:19.440
do believe is everything. I managed to get through all

1951
02:41:19.440 --> 02:41:23.639
one hundred pretty much. I missed out a couple that

1952
02:41:23.719 --> 02:41:26.920
were like there, but yeah, most of them are done.

1953
02:41:29.520 --> 02:41:33.879
So I want to say thank you for listening. And

1954
02:41:35.399 --> 02:41:37.040
I am going to do a Q and A Friday

1955
02:41:37.040 --> 02:41:42.079
this week, so maybe i'll put up I'll probably post

1956
02:41:42.120 --> 02:41:46.479
something on Wednesday tomorrow asking for questions on my Jason

1957
02:41:46.559 --> 02:41:52.000
Newland's boying group on Facebook. So thank you for listening.

1958
02:41:52.159 --> 02:41:56.000
Remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve

1959
02:41:56.040 --> 02:42:02.680
to be happy. Lots of love five