April 28, 2025

(no music) Monday’s Boring Objects | LMBYTS #1340 | 28th April 2025

(no music) Monday’s Boring Objects | LMBYTS #1340 | 28th April 2025
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Hello, Hello, and welcome to Jasonnewland dot com. My name's

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Jason Newland, and welcome to let Me boil you to sleep.

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This is Monday's Boring Objects and today it's Monday, the

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twenty eighth of April twenty twenty five. And I'll tell

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you what right, it's eleven twenty I don't know why.

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I mean, I haven't made a recording since the last

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recordinger did was Friday. I think I can't remember, do

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you do? I bought a dadda let me boil your

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pain away recording and in on Saturday. Possibly, Yeah, I

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did yad did so? I did Q and a Friday Friday.

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H that's weird, but yeah, so, but you know what,

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it's eleven eleven. At what time does say it was?

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It's eleven twenty one. I've had one hundred and eighty

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five downloads today, like the whole day, and I don't

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know what's going on. I can't I can't believe. I

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can't believe it. Oh yeah, So I've got a website,

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Jasonnewland dot com. If you like, you can send me

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messages on there. The website's pretty good. It's all got

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all my latest recordings. Ultimately, all my recordings are on there. Also,

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Jason Newland's boring group is my Facebook group, so that's

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pretty cool. And what else my YouTube channel at Jason

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Newland the YouTube channels again, it's ever since, right ever

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since I've been just uploading the latest recordings on there,

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it's gone a bit. I mean, I've had a couple

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of new subscribers to day. But so I can't really complain.

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But it's just it's not what it was. But is

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it my fault? I don't want to be on screen.

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I don't want to be on a video. It's not

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my fault. Videis why. For some reason, I was only

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a little lie down just now. Vin. He was on

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the window sill in the bedroom, was looking out and

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everything's peaceful. He's some bathing. I'm just having a little

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rest listening to an audio book. So I'm not really asleep.

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I'm just listening to an audio book, just laying down, rested,

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my body, rested, my eyes, rested, my mind and out

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of nowhere right right right like starts barking as I

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get up, and I say stop, stop, get down off there,

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And all I do is I touch him. I touch

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his back. I prodded him. I literally just put my

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hands on him, so that's get down. He's ground at

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me like it's like I can't. I know he's a dog,

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and I know the dog's bark Okay, I'm aware of that.

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I've been around the world and I've had him for

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two and a half years, so I know that he barks. However,

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I have to keep his barking to a minimum because

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there is a there's an after effect. There's consequences of

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him barking too much, and that is neighbors getting annoy

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Wait also other dogs barking as well, But none of

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that bothers me personally, I don't care, but it affects

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my neighbors. And then the sound, you know, then maybe

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music's put on it's very loud to cover up the

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bark barking. Then someone else puts their music up to

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cover up it's like to try and cover up that music.

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And it can just be that role on effect. So

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if I can keep him quiet. It's not that I

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expect people not to have music on. It's to do

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what they want. But I don't want people to feel

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they have to drown out his barking. Do you know

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what I mean in it you get me swear down.

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So I'm just trying to explain that I don't know.

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I'm not in one second moaning about my neighbors downstairs

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because they are brilliant neighbors, really brilliant. So yeah, I'm

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not not complaining. I mean, none of the neighbors really

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are an issue to me. They're all all right. So

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while we're while I'm being false, let's talk about what

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can I what my I thought about doing it like

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a three pronged thing, So what am I? We could

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not do it together? Maybe what am I? Yeah, that's it,

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and I write it down because I remember it. But

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it's it's one of those weird things that I was

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thinking about this last night in bed. So three, the three,

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I don't not to call them so so grateful. One

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thing I'm grateful about, one thing I forgive, and one

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thing I'm looking forward to. So I'm going to I'm

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going to just try and start doing that. In case

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I haven't already said it, please only listen to this

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when you can safely close your eyes. So I'm going

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to try. And this is just a new thing I

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used to do, the gratitude thing, three things you're grateful for.

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I struggled to find one sometimes, so I thought, I know,

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when I'm feeling grateful, the list is endless. Okay, So

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I thought, okay, listen instead of putting, because this isn't

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supposed to be a test. This isn't supposed to be

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something that puts you on the spot. It's just a relaxing, calm,

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chilled out thing. So one thing that we're grateful for,

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one thing that we're all that we all forgive. It

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might be something you've already forgiven. It might be something

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that you decide, yeah, I forgive that, I forgive that person,

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or I forgive whatever. It could just be something really small.

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But you know what, if we do a small thing

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every day, it means they're never build up. And then

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something we're looking forward to. And I know that the

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literal term of looking forward to something is you're thinking

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about something that's about it's going to happen in the future.

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Is literally the term looking forward to, but it's not

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used in that way, is it In the English language.

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Generally it's something you may be not necessarily excited about,

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maybe excited, but something that you're feeling positive about, something

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that you're feeling good, you know, you feel nice. You

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think about it and you feel nice. Maybe and I

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realized I've just explained the very simple term to people

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that know what it means. I'm sorry. Don't mean to

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be condescending, So I'm sorry about that. By the way,

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condescending is kind of it's like talking down to someone

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explaining to someone's explaining something to someone that maybe that

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they kind of obviously would understand. It's I guess being

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condescending is it's kind of expecting of a person not

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to be very very clever like that. That makes me laugh.

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I'm sorry, sorry about being your fold condescending. By the way,

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what condescending means is right grateful. So if you just

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think about this, what you're grateful for? What do you forgive?

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What you're looking forward to? So I'm want to say mine,

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you ain't got a join in with this, I mean

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it might be at home thinking shut up. I don't

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want to tell you what I'm grateful for. I don't

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want to tell you. I don't want to think about

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something I forgive. I don't want to look forward to anything.

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Just get on monkey boy and tell us about something boring.

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Just so that that might be what you're thinking, which

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is fine, okay, So what am I grateful for right

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this minute? I'm grateful that I'm sitting here doing this

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because an hour ago I didn't want to, and all

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weekend I didn't want to. So yeah, I'm grateful that

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I actually am sitting here making this recording. So that's

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what I'm grateful for. What are you grateful for? Maybe

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you could just post on YouTube or whatever what you're

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grateful for on my I don't know, maybe on the Facebook,

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on Jason Luland's boring group. Just maybe just put in

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what you're grateful if you want. If you don't, that's

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also fine. I don't mean like go and grab your

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phone and do it now, because this is chill out time.

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Something that you forget, something I forgive. Let me think

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I forgive one of my neighbors for Yeah, I forgive

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her for borrowing money not paying it back. Yeah, I

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forgive that. It's actually someone I saw yesterday and I

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got really well for and like, you know what, I

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don't care about it anymore, but you know I do.

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I forgive. I was holding on to it a bit,

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so I forgive that. And is there anything that you forgive.

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Maybe you can forgive me, forgive me for making all

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these recordings. So I'm trying to think next is something

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that we're looking forward to. I'm going to do this

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at the beginning of every recording, so you probably I

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don't Unless you don't want me to, then I won't. Okay.

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So I'm not here to. I'm not here to annoy people.

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I'm not here just to. It's not my only intention

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it's to annoy people. So something to look forward to?

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What am I? I want to do this genuinely rather

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than there might have to be things that I make

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up in a sense of like okay, or I might

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have to search for it rather than make it up.

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What am I looking forward to? Maybe you'd like to

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think of something that you're looking forward to, or maybe

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you've already done it. Maybe it's already there, maybe it's

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in your mind. Anyway, something am I looking forward to?

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M that's a good that's not supposed to be difficult,

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is it? Is it difficult? I'm looking for? This is

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what I'm looking forward to. I'm looking forward to getting

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myself some new glasses, going to the opticians, getting myself

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some new glasses and then getting back to reading a

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bit more like I used to. That's what I'm looking

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forward to, because I realized, I mean, I do listen

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to a lot of audio books, so technically I am

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reading in a sense, but I yeah, I missed that

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because that used to be part of my identity as

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a child, not just as a child, but as an adult,

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you know, for decades. So reading something that are actually

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physically looking at her book reading rather than looking at

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a computer screen. Yeah, so that's what I'm looking forward to,

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which means I need to make an appointment at the

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opticians and get that sorted. But it's just even though

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I do get discounts and stuff decent frames, they are

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quite expensive, and I get a for me, I don't

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care so much about the glasses that I'm reading with.

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If I'm at home reading or even well that's the

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only place I would a really be reading nowadays, but

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being out, you know, because I'm going to have separate

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gu I mean, he said separate glasses, Separate glasses for reading,

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separate glasses for day to day and maybe even ask

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if I can get some separate glasses for screenwork, because

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I think it's been affected my eyes so I don't

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care what they look like, the ones I use to

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look at a computer, the ones I used to read with,

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I don't care. They can be pink and have little

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I don't know, little fireworks shooting at of them. I

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don't know. It doesn't matter to me. Little windmills, remember

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those little windmills. You get a sea sea fronts on

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a stick. They can have those sticking out. I don't care, because, okay,

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I don't want them to have little windmills, but I

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wouldn't necessarily have that on my normal glasses that I

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was walking around in. But the reason it costs a

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bit for my normal glasses is because I think I'm

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going to be talking about glasses. This is the boring

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objects today. I probably talked about it before, but I'm

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going to do it again. Boring objects glasses. Here we go. See,

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I didn't know what I was going to talk about. Now, No,

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I'm going to talk about glasses. So I've kind of

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led into it, and I by by discussing classes. So

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I need to have actor like classes because I've got

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a heredity. There's a couple of hereditary things in my

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family on my dad's side. One is prostrate stuff which

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I've so far been okay with got tested with that,

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but three of my family members haven't been or they've

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been affected by it, like, you know, badly affected by it.

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So the other thing I just don't like saying a word,

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to be honest with you, I just don't don't that's yeah.

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And then the other thing is osteoporosis. But that seems

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to be effected in the female side rather than the

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male side. But it can affect I mean it's the

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percentage of male to female. I think it's higher for females.

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I'm going to check that, make sure I'm not osteo porosis.

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D did did it? Osteoporosis female to male two male ratio? Okay,

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here we go, here we go. So although female to

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ratio was three was three in several studies from the US,

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more recent data from Canada and Europe indicated of ratio

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of one four. Oh no, whoa, I think she used

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to do with bone density. Really, it's nothing to do

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with sex. Well maybe it is, but not sex like

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so I think in the old days it used to

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be called brittle bones. Like my nan had it really bad.

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And I think I think two of my aunties have

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got it so, but she was very old, elderly, my nan.

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She had to take this massive tablet. It's honestly, she

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had to like just suck on it for hours. Is

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it like vitmin d or something. Does she take like

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a calcium tablet? She take once once a once a week,

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I think. But so that's another thing. I don't know.

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It was questioned a bit of me because I've had

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so many breaks, so many broken bones over the last

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few years, that maybe there's some density issues. But then

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I spoke to my doctor about that. So I had

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to have a doctor's appointment on the phone, and he said, well,

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when you fractured your back falling down the stairs, that

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when you fractured your back trying to put your socks on,

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I don't think there's anything wrong with your back. Your

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back's fine, you know. No, when I fell down the

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stairs fractured my back and I had a CT scan.

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They we said they should sort of picked up on

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that if there were, you know, if there was an

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issue with your with your back, with you with your

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bones and stuffy, but they were if they're not looking

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for it, I don't know, hopefully not. You know, I'm

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not bothered but hopefully fine. But the other thing, let's

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talk about diseases. Yeah, no, it's macro degeneration, which is

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again it's in the family, which is my men had it,

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my dad's got it, which is an eye an eye thing.

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So macro degeneration, it's an eye condition or mecula, not

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macro mecula. Sorry, is a it's a common idea ie disorder,

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especially among older dudes, adults, where the central part of

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the retina, the macula, deteriorates. So it's kind of a

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what you're hustling me for? Vinnie? What is it? What

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do you want? He keeps trying to get into the

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window sill. Do you promise to behave if you go

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into the window sill? Right? Go on? Then go on?

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Good boy. So he's gone. I put him. I'm told him.

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I said get out. But what I mean is, please

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go through the door. All right, he doesn't, Vinnie, you can.

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I'm not leaving that door open. But if you want

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to go and go into the window sill in the bedroom,

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you can. But if you bark, you're gonna have to

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come in here. Nothing I do is good enough for him.

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It's not good enough, is it? I don't know what

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you want, mate, I can open this window. Is that

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what you want for me to pull the curtains as

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you go?

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Oh?

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Is that better? Is that more substantial? You've got a

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bit more bit more sun? Is that better for you? God?

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It's constantly moaning. Yes, it's it's just a nice thing.

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It's it's digit it's just aging. It's an aging thing.

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I think, maybe not always, but it's more common in

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more older people. But older could I mean it's I'm

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technically in the older group now and I am fifty four.

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So my optician did say that it looked like I

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might have the beginning of it. So what they did did?

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They started? I started having actor like glasses to sort

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of protect me from the sun and sunlight and stuff.

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So I will continue that, but it's expensive. It adds

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some fair bit of money to the lenses. And I

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have anti glow as well or anti shine, I don't

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know what the right word, but yeah, I have that

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on there and it's like a coating thing. Although I

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think they might have actually come with them last time.

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I feel that I should maybe make an appointment the

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the opticians, now, shall I should I make an appointment

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should I do it on the phone so you can hear,

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But then I don't want to. I don't know I

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could do it. I can make an appointment on the phone.

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So I'm just gonna yeah. I think reading because the

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glasses I've got at the moment, it's got all. It's

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basically got all three. It's like three free lenses in one.

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So the middle is kind of I think the top

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the bottom is for reading, and I think the middle

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is the middle is for distance, and I think the

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top is for my computer. I'm not sure. Maybe it's

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only got two. It's a long time ago. It's been

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over three years since our last got my eyes tested.

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I need to get them tested again. I do who

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am I with eyes? Eyes? Not eyes? Are us eye spotters? Nope?

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Do you know I was actually in I was in Iceland,

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the store, not the country, and I didn't have a

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passport at the time, so the store was the closest

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I could get to that environment, and I'd think I

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basically there was a little QB on me. I'd put

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all my stuff through, and the I think I'd packed

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all my bags and the lady behind the counter, because

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one knows like lowered counters. I think it might have

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had a like all mechanical thing that pushes along. I

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forget what they called conveyor, conveyor belt or whatever. And

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she said, oh, you've forgotten something that I'm putting into

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the bag. I said, thanks, this lady, there's this lady.

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That lady, A lady who was waiting next to be said,

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shouted out, should have gone to spec Shavers. And I thought, really,

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because bearing in mind, I was wearing glasses. So you know,

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it's a disability, isn't it, you know, eyesight and stuff.

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I'm not that. I'm just like, I wasn't upset. Just

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it's just like, okay, So if I was troubling, if

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I was in a wheelchair struggling to get upper upper ramp,

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should have gone to a different weight, should have got

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a better wheelchair. Like no, I said, I just it's

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a human error. I just didn't see it. How couldn't

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you see it as a big pack of cokes? Okay,

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perhaps I need to get my ice tested. Perhaps you're

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right I should have gone to Specsavers. I did go

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to spect Savers. I mean, it's lots of different vets

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opticians over the years. I get my luck between them

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two the looks I get, and I just I just

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found it weird. It's one of those like she wasn't really.

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I don't know if she just watched it too much TV.

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Because it's an advert should have gone to spect savers.

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But it just seems weird to hear an advert being

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chucked out in a real life situation, especially as it's

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such an old phrase. It's like, what thirty years old

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since I've been having their adverts. Should have gone to

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spect things. I'm like, okay, And I just I didn't

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know really what to do or what to say. I

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just wanted to move on with my life. I just

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wanted to just to I suppose I should have put

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her down as one of the people I forgive. I thought,

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I advocate let it go, man, let it go. It

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was fifteen years ago, I know, I know it was.

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It was a long time ago. Fifteen years maybe not

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fifteen years, probably nine years, eight years maybe since I've

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been wearing glasses. So yeah, i'd been wearing glasses since.

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Were's the history. Here's the history of my glasses. I

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went to I started getting headaches. Actually, that's what it was.

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When I was about fifteen It's about fifteen, and I

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was getting headaches, so my mummy took me to the

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dentist because she was she wasn't too bright. No, she

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just took me to your doctors. Isn't it weird? I

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was fifteen, I was still going to the doctors with

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my mummy. That just shows I just wasn't. I didn't.

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I just did. Yeah, I didn't go to the doctors

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on my own until I was sixteen. I don't even

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I don't even know if that's normal. But I didn't

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want to go. I mean, if I'm honest with you,

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still don't. Oh what my mama? Mama and I. The

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doctor said to me, you've got looks like it's your eyes.

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And I said, yeah, I know, you're looking at my eyes,

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so they are my eyes. He said, no, No, I

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know they're your eyes. I said, well, you're looking at

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my eyes and saying it looks like it's your eyes.

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But if you're looking at my hand and said it

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looks like your eyes, that would be warming, wouldn't it

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if my hand looked like my eyes. But if my

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eyes or my eyes looked like my hands, Yeah, worrying

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if my eyes looked like my eyes then that's normal,

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isn't it. He looked at my mum and she just

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shook her head as well. She said, I've had nine

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years of this. He said really, He said, yeah, nine years.

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So how come he's fifteen while I've had since he

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was seven. Okay, it must be hard work, she said,

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it don't matter. I found a way to escape from him.

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I'm moving away. You haven't told him yet. I'm moving away. Oh,

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it's going to be so lovely. And I'm like, I'm

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right here, I can hear what you're saying. It's my

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eyes that the problem, not mears. And the doctor said,

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you are with them ears. I'm surprised you can't. There's

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nothing you can't hear. And they laughed, that's rude. Can't

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make fun of them. The size of my ears, he said,

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the size of your ears. The only reason no one

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mentions your is because your nose is so big. No

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one even notices your ears are massive. Wow. And I'm

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thinking you're supposed to be my doctor, and he said, no,

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let me tell you something, Jason. I'm not your doctor.

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I'm your mum's doctor. She brings me, She brings you

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to me when she moves away. I won't be seeing

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you again. You're gonna have to get your own doctor.

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I'm just seeing you as a favor to her. No

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one in this town wants to see you. It's like, wow,

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this is this is getting, this is getting why, he says,

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why all you do is fart everywhere you go? As

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far You're known famous in this town for farting everywhere

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you go. Fart far, far, far, far, far far far.

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You know how expensive it is to have to fumigate

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the entire doctor's surgery every time you walk past. What

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this is? Where is it all coming from? Well? Your bum? Apparently, Okay.

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I just wanted to a headache, that's all. I just

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wanted to get Jack checked out. He said, yeah, And

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luckily you can now go and see an opticians. He's

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a number three opticians. Go and make an appointment with opticians.

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So you're talking to me, he said, no, I'm not

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talking to you and talking to her. If you can

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go and make an opticians appointment, because I think it's

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his eyes, that's okay. So I go to the opticians

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and they this is a weird one. See, no one

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ever told me this. Apparently I had a won key eye.

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Maybe I still do, and no one tells me. But

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he said, I see again. I don't know if he

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was just friends with the doctors and he thought the

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doctor said, just wind him up. You know you're going

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to meet for the first time. You're going to think,

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lovely kid. But then he's going to let one go

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and it's going to stink the whole building out. So

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get in there first, make fun of him, do something

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like that, really get his self esteem down. So okay,

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So I think that's what happened, but that this is

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what happened. In the very first opticians I've ever been to,

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he said to me, right, you need glasses. I've realized

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over the years. I think that's the first thing people

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learn in optician college. It's the first thing I learned,

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is you need glass Everyone. Well, come to your first

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day of learning to be an optician. Now repeat after me,

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you need glasses. What do you mean? No, just everyone

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repeat you need glasses or you need new glasses. That's

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what you're going to have to say to every single

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person you see from now onwards. So when you're professional,

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when you're all qualified, whether they've already got glasses or

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whether they haven't got glasses. You need glasses or you

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need new glasses. What if they don't need them? Get out,

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get out? No, no, no, I've never ever ever known

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an oppetition to tell me that I didn't need glasses. Ever.

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I think that's it's just like what they're taught. So

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I went along. I didn't realize this at the time.

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I mean I did need glass think I did, but

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I don't. I mean, I don't personally think I needed

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them all the time, but they He said, you need

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them all time. He definitely don't for reading. So he

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gave me. I think he gave me different glasses for reading,

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or did he I'm not sure, but he gave me glasses. Now,

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I'm not sure if I needed Oh, he gave me glasses. Anyway,

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it's such a long time ago. I might have had

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two pairs, one for reading, one for you know, day

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to day. Just get a bit of extra money out

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of me. Well, I say out of me. I didn't

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pay for it. My mama paid for it, and she yeah,

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So it was weird. He said. This dentist said to me,

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you got a one KEI, I said, you got bad breath.

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You know, we've all got that wrong with us. He said.

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He came up to me. He said, missus Newland, do

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you want to pop out the room for a minute.

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She said why, He said, I just want to just

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I just want to punch your son. She said, really,

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you're going to punch him, she said, he said yeah.

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She said, okay, right, Anon, want me to wait outside

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for I'm like, wait a minute, excuse me, I'm fifteen.

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You know just what you're doing. Anyway, nothing bad happened

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in the end. They calmed down and I said, what

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do you mean I've got a wonky eye? Because I

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didn't really know what it meant. He said, well, okay,

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see I'm over here, right, and your right arm is

462
00:38:50.199 --> 00:38:54.920
looking over that. Your right arm, you're right, and well

463
00:38:55.559 --> 00:38:58.320
it was a funny moment. He really it cut through

464
00:38:58.320 --> 00:39:00.880
the attension to be fair, said, I didn't mean you're

465
00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:08.440
right your right arm and you're so you're left. I

466
00:39:09.039 --> 00:39:13.400
is looking at me. Your right eye is looking through

467
00:39:13.440 --> 00:39:20.199
the window the other side of the room. I said, So,

468
00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:24.760
I mean, that's quite a good thing. It's a safe

469
00:39:24.760 --> 00:39:27.440
thing to do. Isn't it be able to see three

470
00:39:27.559 --> 00:39:35.519
hundred and sixty degrees? That's quite a useful superpower, he said, yeah.

471
00:39:35.760 --> 00:39:37.840
If your eyes were at the side of your head,

472
00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:40.679
it would be. But they're not. They're both at the

473
00:39:40.679 --> 00:39:45.960
front of your head. So like, okay, so I've got

474
00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:50.920
a wonky eye. I said, which one is it? He said,

475
00:39:50.920 --> 00:39:53.599
it doesn't matter. I said, what do you mean it

476
00:39:53.639 --> 00:39:58.440
doesn't matter? He said, look, for the sake of the

477
00:39:58.480 --> 00:40:04.079
podcast that you're going to be doing in forty years time,

478
00:40:06.280 --> 00:40:10.599
you won't even remember which I it was, so there's

479
00:40:10.639 --> 00:40:13.840
no point even remembering it. You can make one up.

480
00:40:13.880 --> 00:40:16.280
You can say right or left. There are two choices. Really,

481
00:40:18.559 --> 00:40:23.360
it doesn't matter. It's gonna matter for now, isn't it.

482
00:40:23.599 --> 00:40:26.159
But you know, okay, it's not gonna matter in forty

483
00:40:26.239 --> 00:40:31.360
years time when I do the podcast, But it's it's

484
00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:36.199
going to matter now because this is now. This is

485
00:40:36.320 --> 00:40:41.280
nineteen ninety six or eighty five, eighty six, whatever year

486
00:40:41.280 --> 00:40:45.679
it was. And he said, you really don't know what

487
00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:48.960
year it is. At fifteen, you should know the year

488
00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:51.760
you're in. I said, come on, start having a go

489
00:40:51.840 --> 00:41:01.320
at me. And then I fighted and he changed his attitude.

490
00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:05.800
I think he was shocked. But anyway, what happened in

491
00:41:05.840 --> 00:41:10.760
the end, I was given a patch to wear. I

492
00:41:10.800 --> 00:41:13.559
think he was just making fun of me. He had

493
00:41:13.639 --> 00:41:21.400
me wearing a patch, and not only was it a patch,

494
00:41:21.400 --> 00:41:25.199
it was a pink patch. So I think somewhere along

495
00:41:25.239 --> 00:41:28.960
the line they were just winding me up. So I

496
00:41:28.960 --> 00:41:33.719
had to wear a patch over one eye, the normal eye,

497
00:41:33.840 --> 00:41:36.960
will was the one that wasn't one key, in order

498
00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:41.760
to get the other eye back to being where it

499
00:41:41.800 --> 00:41:49.119
should be. And I had to do these exercises where

500
00:41:49.239 --> 00:41:52.480
I'd look at a pencil with the patch on and

501
00:41:52.519 --> 00:41:56.440
I would just practice these exercises of following it. I

502
00:41:56.480 --> 00:41:57.559
felt I might have to do it with the other

503
00:41:57.599 --> 00:42:08.039
eye as well. I can't remember. And I went to school. See,

504
00:42:08.639 --> 00:42:14.280
I think I might have worn a patch at school

505
00:42:14.280 --> 00:42:16.000
as well. I don't think. I think I had to

506
00:42:16.039 --> 00:42:19.280
wear the patch at home, or you know, I didn't

507
00:42:19.320 --> 00:42:21.639
have to wear the patch when I went out, I think.

508
00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:27.039
But I had to wear the patch at home, but

509
00:42:27.079 --> 00:42:29.320
I had glasses to wear at school, so you know,

510
00:42:29.360 --> 00:42:33.400
bearing in mind, I was fifteen, last year of school,

511
00:42:35.559 --> 00:42:40.760
probably either the end of the year nineteen eighty nineteen

512
00:42:40.800 --> 00:42:45.440
eighty five or the beginning of nineteen eighty six is

513
00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:53.599
around that kind of time. Yeah, around that time, And

514
00:42:53.920 --> 00:42:58.639
I so I wore glasses for the very first time,

515
00:42:59.320 --> 00:43:06.679
and I'm walking in, I'm walking to school. Even people

516
00:43:06.840 --> 00:43:12.840
I'd never spoken to were making fun of me. People

517
00:43:12.880 --> 00:43:17.599
that didn't even notice me in the past were laughing

518
00:43:17.639 --> 00:43:24.079
at me. It was absolutely ridiculous. I mean, I thought

519
00:43:24.119 --> 00:43:28.960
maybe a little bit of ribbon, but you'd have thought

520
00:43:28.960 --> 00:43:34.360
i'd have walked in with like a I don't know,

521
00:43:35.840 --> 00:43:38.159
a pizza on my head or something like that. The

522
00:43:38.199 --> 00:43:44.719
way everyone was like, oh, look that that is wearing.

523
00:43:44.800 --> 00:43:51.679
It's wearing glasses. And it got to the point where

524
00:43:51.679 --> 00:43:56.320
I took them off because I didn't enjoy it. If

525
00:43:56.320 --> 00:43:58.840
I'm honest, I might have enjoyed it a little bit,

526
00:43:58.960 --> 00:44:01.559
like my friend's a bit of ribbing, like okay, it's cool,

527
00:44:03.320 --> 00:44:09.360
but then it goes on a bit too long and

528
00:44:09.719 --> 00:44:12.760
I still get phone calls even, you know, got a

529
00:44:12.800 --> 00:44:15.920
phone call last night for someone from school, just randomly.

530
00:44:16.440 --> 00:44:19.760
They said, you right, goggles and hung up. It's like,

531
00:44:20.159 --> 00:44:29.519
come on, So I didn't. I didn't. I thought it

532
00:44:29.559 --> 00:44:31.320
was right to wear glasses. I didn't really have an

533
00:44:31.360 --> 00:44:36.599
issue with it, but other people seem to have an

534
00:44:36.639 --> 00:44:45.360
issue with it. So I took them off. And I

535
00:44:45.440 --> 00:44:53.920
did wear them because I remember wearing them just before

536
00:44:53.960 --> 00:44:55.880
I left school, So I'm thinking it.

537
00:44:55.840 --> 00:44:56.679
Might have been.

538
00:44:58.639 --> 00:45:04.480
Nineteen eighty six. So I left school in April March

539
00:45:04.519 --> 00:45:07.559
April time, nineteen eighty six, so it might have been

540
00:45:07.960 --> 00:45:11.199
that period leading up because I got the chip shop shop,

541
00:45:11.320 --> 00:45:16.400
the chip shop job before I left school. I just remembered.

542
00:45:16.440 --> 00:45:20.400
This isn't it weird? I got the chip shop job

543
00:45:20.599 --> 00:45:26.280
before I left school, and I worked on a Saturday

544
00:45:27.719 --> 00:45:31.320
and maybe a couple of evenings, and then when I

545
00:45:31.400 --> 00:45:38.000
left school, I went full time, and then the September

546
00:45:38.639 --> 00:45:43.800
nineteen eighty six, I went onto the YS. So when

547
00:45:43.800 --> 00:45:46.239
I was full time, I was earning sixty prad a week,

548
00:45:47.159 --> 00:45:50.920
which is more than i'd ever had who were like, yeah,

549
00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:57.559
never had sixty pounds a week cash. You know, I

550
00:45:57.599 --> 00:46:00.239
was still at school, and I wasn't still it was

551
00:46:00.239 --> 00:46:03.960
technically still at school, as in I had to go

552
00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:07.239
and do my exams, at least I thought I did.

553
00:46:07.320 --> 00:46:09.800
I didn't realize I didn't have to do anything, because

554
00:46:09.800 --> 00:46:11.360
once you leave school, you don't have to do any

555
00:46:11.400 --> 00:46:13.639
you know. I didn't have to go do my exams.

556
00:46:15.119 --> 00:46:20.960
There was no consequence for not doing them, And it

557
00:46:21.039 --> 00:46:23.440
was kind of weird because but I was still in

558
00:46:23.440 --> 00:46:28.079
that zone of being told what to do by schools,

559
00:46:29.360 --> 00:46:32.719
you know, that kind of I remember right before I

560
00:46:32.800 --> 00:46:38.400
left school, there was this deputy head teacher. I'd never

561
00:46:38.440 --> 00:46:42.360
had a run in with him ever, but for some reason,

562
00:46:43.639 --> 00:46:47.280
and this was the last week of school, he decided

563
00:46:47.320 --> 00:46:49.360
to have a go at me. And he came up

564
00:46:49.400 --> 00:46:54.639
to me and he started shouting in my face about something.

565
00:46:55.440 --> 00:46:57.800
I don't know what it was. He was used to

566
00:46:57.880 --> 00:47:03.519
teach French, so I didn't always understand what he was saying.

567
00:47:05.599 --> 00:47:08.119
I think he sometimes he forgot he'd go in and

568
00:47:08.199 --> 00:47:11.840
out of French. And it was a deputy head and

569
00:47:11.880 --> 00:47:15.360
he was known for being really strict, and he was

570
00:47:15.599 --> 00:47:21.679
just chatting in my face. And I went from being oh,

571
00:47:22.119 --> 00:47:26.519
you know, like to remember him. I only had three

572
00:47:26.599 --> 00:47:30.679
days left to school, and I just started laughing at him.

573
00:47:30.880 --> 00:47:35.159
I just walked off, like what are you gonna do? Literally,

574
00:47:35.199 --> 00:47:40.840
it's nothing. It's like, yeah, I could walk out of

575
00:47:40.840 --> 00:47:43.400
school now and it would make no difference. I'm just

576
00:47:43.440 --> 00:47:47.440
sticking around because it's like the last three days. Just

577
00:47:47.440 --> 00:47:50.719
to say goodbye to people I've been at school with

578
00:47:50.840 --> 00:47:57.000
for years. That's all it was. It wasn't say goodbye

579
00:47:57.079 --> 00:47:59.599
to some of the kids in the younger years that

580
00:47:59.679 --> 00:48:07.639
I was friends that I wasn't going to see regularly anymore. Oh,

581
00:48:07.719 --> 00:48:09.760
even the ones in the older years actually, because they

582
00:48:09.880 --> 00:48:14.960
had a levels back then, so there was some of

583
00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:18.440
my karate friends were in the higher levels as well.

584
00:48:20.519 --> 00:48:26.960
I remember, just like he was shating, like okay. But

585
00:48:27.000 --> 00:48:29.159
then there was another weird thing happened, and I still

586
00:48:29.199 --> 00:48:33.159
to this day don't know what happened, why happened. But

587
00:48:33.199 --> 00:48:38.920
I went into my classroom. This is my my the

588
00:48:39.039 --> 00:48:40.880
room that we went to first thing in the morning.

589
00:48:40.960 --> 00:48:43.440
We stayed in at breaks if we wanted to, and

590
00:48:43.480 --> 00:48:44.840
then would go in there at the end of the

591
00:48:44.920 --> 00:48:47.960
day and you do the register. So it was my

592
00:48:48.119 --> 00:48:50.719
form room. That's what they used to call it, isn't it.

593
00:48:50.800 --> 00:48:53.679
So it was my classroom for the entire year, and

594
00:48:53.719 --> 00:48:55.480
I had the same one for about three years in

595
00:48:55.519 --> 00:49:00.719
a row. I think, So I'm in there, I go

596
00:49:00.800 --> 00:49:02.880
in there in the last day. This is somewhere that

597
00:49:02.920 --> 00:49:06.679
I spend a fair bit of time on the time.

598
00:49:06.800 --> 00:49:08.519
In the times that I didn't want to go out

599
00:49:08.599 --> 00:49:10.239
or do anything, I wanted to be on my own,

600
00:49:10.400 --> 00:49:13.719
I'd go in there and there's be a color of

601
00:49:13.800 --> 00:49:15.719
us maybe just sitting on our own, just doing our

602
00:49:15.719 --> 00:49:21.719
own thing. You know. So I went in there and

603
00:49:21.760 --> 00:49:25.800
there was a couple of There was three kids, all

604
00:49:25.840 --> 00:49:29.880
three that didn't really know very well that I didn't

605
00:49:29.960 --> 00:49:33.239
really they weren't from that they weren't even in that class,

606
00:49:34.920 --> 00:49:38.639
and they were just in there and they were playing

607
00:49:39.119 --> 00:49:43.079
some song. I remember it was something that was it

608
00:49:43.320 --> 00:49:47.159
done think enoughing then your Chicks for Free. I own nothing.

609
00:49:48.400 --> 00:49:53.199
Whatever that song is, direstracted it, and I like, I

610
00:49:53.239 --> 00:49:56.840
went in there. I must have said something to annoy someone.

611
00:49:56.880 --> 00:50:01.559
I don't know what, but someone started on me and

612
00:50:01.559 --> 00:50:05.360
he was kicking me in the shins. I'm like, but

613
00:50:05.400 --> 00:50:07.679
it was surprised, Like I didn't know because he was

614
00:50:07.760 --> 00:50:10.079
I think this one was a judo man. We used

615
00:50:10.079 --> 00:50:12.079
to talk. Yeah, I didn't know him a little bit,

616
00:50:12.719 --> 00:50:16.199
and you know I was interested because he did judo.

617
00:50:16.280 --> 00:50:19.800
I did karate, and you know he was I think

618
00:50:19.840 --> 00:50:21.880
he was more advanced than me. He'd been doing judo

619
00:50:21.920 --> 00:50:25.760
a long time. But for some reason, you know, I

620
00:50:25.800 --> 00:50:28.800
kin'd have had that mutual respect for him because we

621
00:50:28.800 --> 00:50:32.159
were both doing something we both kind of understood what

622
00:50:32.199 --> 00:50:35.320
it was like to be passionate about a martial arts,

623
00:50:35.519 --> 00:50:39.000
you know, and he probably went through exactly the same

624
00:50:39.079 --> 00:50:43.239
thing of watching all the Bruce Lee movies and watching

625
00:50:43.280 --> 00:50:45.920
all the you know, all the kung fu movies and stuff,

626
00:50:45.960 --> 00:50:49.199
because that's just natural for anyone that does martial arts,

627
00:50:49.280 --> 00:50:53.719
especially when they're a kid. But he actually just kicked

628
00:50:53.760 --> 00:50:58.639
me in the shins and closed the door, slammed the

629
00:50:58.679 --> 00:51:00.920
door on me. Didn't want me in the class room, like,

630
00:51:04.400 --> 00:51:06.599
and I just I didn't understand. There was no one

631
00:51:06.639 --> 00:51:10.320
else around. I don't know where everyone else was. I

632
00:51:10.360 --> 00:51:13.079
think that was the very last day that I was there,

633
00:51:17.079 --> 00:51:19.719
and I was just like, I really didn't know it.

634
00:51:20.039 --> 00:51:23.239
Like to this day, I still not that it doesn't

635
00:51:23.280 --> 00:51:26.280
matter why, but it still bugged me, Like doesn't bug

636
00:51:26.320 --> 00:51:27.760
me now, but it bugged me for a long time.

637
00:51:29.000 --> 00:51:33.280
I never saw the kid again. Don't think I saw

638
00:51:33.320 --> 00:51:40.079
any of them again, and I didn't know why. And

639
00:51:42.800 --> 00:51:45.679
it was such a shock. I didn't get angry I

640
00:51:45.679 --> 00:51:51.599
did this. I was just confused because it didn't hurt. Well,

641
00:51:51.679 --> 00:51:53.679
probably a little bit, but it wasn't like they weren't.

642
00:51:53.719 --> 00:51:55.559
It wasn't like he was punching me or anything, but

643
00:51:56.440 --> 00:51:58.960
like you're kicking me in the shin the hell are

644
00:51:58.960 --> 00:52:05.719
you doing? And yeah, that's weird. That's just a really

645
00:52:05.760 --> 00:52:15.360
weird ending to being being at school. Unless I was

646
00:52:15.360 --> 00:52:17.119
in the other I might be maybe I was in

647
00:52:17.119 --> 00:52:21.400
the wrong room. Wait a minute, was that my school?

648
00:52:23.679 --> 00:52:27.239
I think it was my school? No me, I might

649
00:52:27.280 --> 00:52:29.039
have just gone into the wrong school and into some

650
00:52:29.199 --> 00:52:34.840
random classroom and sat down and maybe that annoyed them.

651
00:52:35.119 --> 00:52:43.400
It's possible. So there's one really quite a vivid memory

652
00:52:43.440 --> 00:52:46.719
I had when I first got my classes. Boy was

653
00:52:46.760 --> 00:52:49.960
too actually my little brother, he was old enough to.

654
00:52:49.960 --> 00:52:57.000
Be really annoying, really annoying, and he kept coming up

655
00:52:57.039 --> 00:53:01.000
to me and putting his putting his finger and thumb

656
00:53:01.119 --> 00:53:05.639
together to make some little glasses and he'd like get

657
00:53:05.800 --> 00:53:09.400
right close to me and look look through them, he said,

658
00:53:09.400 --> 00:53:10.000
can you see me?

659
00:53:12.440 --> 00:53:14.400
I mean he was like seven, I suppose at the time.

660
00:53:14.960 --> 00:53:20.280
And yeah, it was funny to start with, but he

661
00:53:20.400 --> 00:53:25.400
kept doing it, and he'd just like pick random objects up.

662
00:53:25.480 --> 00:53:31.639
Can you see this? That is quite funny when you

663
00:53:31.679 --> 00:53:34.639
think about it. But he just kept doing it, just

664
00:53:34.840 --> 00:53:40.039
it'd be random, like we was all watching TV. I

665
00:53:40.039 --> 00:53:43.039
think we were watching I say, all of us. At

666
00:53:43.039 --> 00:53:45.599
that point the family was a little bit split. One

667
00:53:45.599 --> 00:53:47.440
of my brothers had moved out. I think maybe the

668
00:53:47.480 --> 00:53:48.960
other one had moved out as well, so it was

669
00:53:49.000 --> 00:53:55.039
only really me and my little brother potentially at that time,

670
00:53:55.639 --> 00:53:59.400
and my little brother. I think we're just watching TV.

671
00:54:00.800 --> 00:54:03.599
My little brother gets up, stands by television and says,

672
00:54:04.960 --> 00:54:13.599
can you see this? Like it? Amused the family, Come on,

673
00:54:13.719 --> 00:54:17.440
leave me alone. I'm wearing glasses. It's not something to

674
00:54:17.480 --> 00:54:22.000
make fun of. And my dad was leave him alone.

675
00:54:22.239 --> 00:54:28.760
He's only seven. I said, who is He said, your brother?

676
00:54:29.639 --> 00:54:31.360
I said, no, I know, I know he's only seven.

677
00:54:32.679 --> 00:54:35.360
And then then my dad said he's sitting over there.

678
00:54:35.920 --> 00:54:37.880
I said, I know where he's sitting. I can see

679
00:54:37.880 --> 00:54:40.920
where he was doing it. Now, like, can you see

680
00:54:40.920 --> 00:54:44.519
where it is? He asked me to wash his van.

681
00:54:46.599 --> 00:54:52.360
I said, okay. He said it's on the driveway. I said,

682
00:54:52.360 --> 00:54:54.039
and it's a van. I'm not going to not know

683
00:54:54.079 --> 00:54:59.840
where it is. It's like, it's just so I don't

684
00:54:59.880 --> 00:55:02.159
know who started doing it, my dad or my little brother.

685
00:55:05.239 --> 00:55:08.199
But then I started getting a little bit touchy, because

686
00:55:08.239 --> 00:55:10.480
you know, some people do that they show you something,

687
00:55:11.599 --> 00:55:17.639
and I started to get a little bit oversensitive. Maybe

688
00:55:19.480 --> 00:55:23.679
we were the air show, and I remember my Auntie saying,

689
00:55:23.719 --> 00:55:26.840
oh that the red the Red Arrows are coming soon.

690
00:55:27.079 --> 00:55:28.800
So we're all waiting for the Red Arrows. But there's

691
00:55:28.840 --> 00:55:34.360
loads of other planes as well, and my Auntie said,

692
00:55:34.440 --> 00:55:37.840
the Red Arrows are coming. I said, okay, she said

693
00:55:37.840 --> 00:55:42.000
they're there. I was like, there there, Look, I said,

694
00:55:42.480 --> 00:55:45.639
I can see. I do have eyes, you know. But

695
00:55:45.760 --> 00:55:48.440
she wasn't being rude. She was just pointing where they were.

696
00:55:49.159 --> 00:55:52.000
And the fact is I couldn't see where they were.

697
00:55:52.400 --> 00:55:55.320
So I'm glad that she told me. It wasn't really

698
00:55:55.559 --> 00:55:58.440
you know. I only got hit by a car once

699
00:55:58.519 --> 00:56:01.159
because I was ignored someone that was telling me that

700
00:56:01.239 --> 00:56:05.280
the car was coming towards me because it annoyed me.

701
00:56:05.960 --> 00:56:10.280
So I'm walking across a zebra crossing and someone showing, wait, look,

702
00:56:10.320 --> 00:56:12.880
look is a car coming. It's not stopping because it

703
00:56:12.920 --> 00:56:15.559
was speeding and maybe I think, please are after it

704
00:56:15.639 --> 00:56:19.320
or something, and I'm like, can't you see it? Look,

705
00:56:19.360 --> 00:56:22.719
there's like shut up, I've got glasses. They're just glasses.

706
00:56:23.239 --> 00:56:24.559
And then I look over and I have to sort

707
00:56:24.559 --> 00:56:29.679
of jump out the way. Another time, I'm talking to

708
00:56:29.719 --> 00:56:33.079
a friend from karate and he's he's an adult. So

709
00:56:33.119 --> 00:56:37.480
he's working up above Tesco's in a shipping office. So

710
00:56:37.559 --> 00:56:39.480
I'm just looking at it, really high build. I'm just

711
00:56:39.519 --> 00:56:43.039
waving to him because saying alone, you know, because I

712
00:56:43.119 --> 00:56:47.400
was just on my way home and he started shouting, look,

713
00:56:47.760 --> 00:56:51.559
look and pointing behind me. I was like, oh, you're

714
00:56:51.639 --> 00:56:54.519
don't start now, come on. We were getting on, so, well,

715
00:56:54.559 --> 00:56:57.559
why have you got a start? It's bad enough it's

716
00:56:57.599 --> 00:57:01.800
at home, it's a school. Now it's karate people doing it.

717
00:57:02.760 --> 00:57:06.679
And he's like, well, it turned out it was a

718
00:57:06.760 --> 00:57:13.280
van backing and it bumped into me. Luckily it wasn't

719
00:57:13.320 --> 00:57:15.760
going fast, but it was backing study you know, when

720
00:57:15.800 --> 00:57:18.360
I go do do do do do like that, it

721
00:57:18.440 --> 00:57:21.199
was making a sound, but I didn't just wasn't listening

722
00:57:21.519 --> 00:57:23.360
because I was focusing on what I was, what I

723
00:57:23.440 --> 00:57:27.400
was talking about, and probably when he was talking, I

724
00:57:27.440 --> 00:57:29.119
was focusing on what I was going to say next,

725
00:57:29.159 --> 00:57:31.079
So I wasn't really listening to what he was saying.

726
00:57:32.360 --> 00:57:35.239
But when he started pointing, hey, look, look like, I

727
00:57:35.280 --> 00:57:43.000
really took offence stopped saying look like, I can't see anything. Yeah,

728
00:57:43.039 --> 00:57:45.679
So I had a bandack a van back over me.

729
00:57:46.000 --> 00:57:48.719
But luckily it just hit my back and knocked me,

730
00:57:49.159 --> 00:57:50.760
kind of knocked me out of the way, but it

731
00:57:50.880 --> 00:57:58.599
wasn't moving particularly fast. But one of my memories of

732
00:57:58.800 --> 00:58:03.679
wearing glasses when I first got them, and this is

733
00:58:04.440 --> 00:58:09.719
just explain how I was. I've always been like this.

734
00:58:09.719 --> 00:58:17.559
This was a it was one of them days. Of

735
00:58:18.280 --> 00:58:21.440
one of them days where I had to get away.

736
00:58:23.800 --> 00:58:29.599
I had to remove myself from the situation. I had

737
00:58:29.599 --> 00:58:33.400
to be on my own. I was semi running away

738
00:58:34.239 --> 00:58:35.719
cat to be on my own. It was one of

739
00:58:35.719 --> 00:58:40.400
them things. And I walked to the next town on

740
00:58:40.440 --> 00:58:47.559
my own, wearing my glasses, and I just followed the

741
00:58:47.559 --> 00:58:50.719
bus route so I could get back again, which was

742
00:58:50.719 --> 00:58:53.159
actually quick. It was a much longer route actually, but

743
00:58:53.800 --> 00:58:58.280
it meant I knew how to get back. So it

744
00:58:58.360 --> 00:59:06.960
took me probably five hours to get there, and I

745
00:59:07.960 --> 00:59:09.840
maybe seven hours. I think I might just got the

746
00:59:09.880 --> 00:59:17.519
bus back. But it was a sunny day probably I'm saying.

747
00:59:18.559 --> 00:59:26.639
I'm thinking maybe April time, just after leaving school, possibly

748
00:59:26.840 --> 00:59:38.360
on a weekday, and I I mean, technically it's probably

749
00:59:38.360 --> 00:59:40.440
not a good idea, but I was walking at the

750
00:59:40.440 --> 00:59:44.400
side of the road on the grass verge. There wasn't

751
00:59:44.440 --> 00:59:47.719
any pavements, most of the journey because once we got

752
00:59:47.760 --> 00:59:51.320
out of the town, a lot of countryside between or

753
00:59:51.400 --> 00:59:55.760
In England, it's just huge amounts of countryside surrounding everywhere.

754
00:59:55.880 --> 01:00:00.639
Every town, every village, every city, it's the countryside. So

755
01:00:00.719 --> 01:00:05.280
I'm just following the route. I've done the route many times,

756
01:00:06.480 --> 01:00:10.679
many times. I've I've done the route a few times.

757
01:00:11.400 --> 01:00:13.719
I hadn't really gotten a bust that many times as

758
01:00:13.760 --> 01:00:16.760
a kid on my own. Well, I don't think I

759
01:00:16.760 --> 01:00:19.480
ever went on my own. I was also with her friend.

760
01:00:20.079 --> 01:00:22.880
So yeah, so I'm walking and it was very peaceful,

761
01:00:23.000 --> 01:00:32.719
very meditative, very I don't know. I was just thinking

762
01:00:32.760 --> 01:00:37.760
about things and a real, real good think, real good.

763
01:00:39.159 --> 01:00:42.800
It was like a separation from all the stuff that

764
01:00:42.920 --> 01:00:53.920
was going on, and it felt nice. I was hungry, though,

765
01:00:55.719 --> 01:00:58.559
but it felt nice. So it took me six six

766
01:00:58.719 --> 01:01:02.559
to seven hours walking in it and probably got blisters

767
01:01:02.559 --> 01:01:08.599
and all that stuff, but got the bus home. No

768
01:01:08.599 --> 01:01:10.960
one knew I was gone, no one noticed I hadn't

769
01:01:10.960 --> 01:01:15.239
been around. But there was no reason for them too anyway,

770
01:01:15.280 --> 01:01:20.400
because at that time the whole family was busy. People

771
01:01:20.440 --> 01:01:24.639
were just busy doing stuff, and two of my brothers

772
01:01:24.639 --> 01:01:34.079
weren't really around anymore. My little brother was what seven eight, yeah,

773
01:01:34.119 --> 01:01:37.760
seven or eight, so he was kind of doing his

774
01:01:37.800 --> 01:01:46.000
own thing as well. Both parents were working, so yeah,

775
01:01:46.159 --> 01:01:49.719
I was kind of just you know, I think kind

776
01:01:49.760 --> 01:01:53.159
of the family had pretty much at that point, the

777
01:01:53.239 --> 01:01:57.920
family had kind of come to an end. And then

778
01:01:59.400 --> 01:02:07.039
you know, by by this summer, the summer, I don't

779
01:02:07.039 --> 01:02:14.039
know when it was, it might have been May, maytime,

780
01:02:15.199 --> 01:02:21.239
maybe June, we moved out and stayed in my step

781
01:02:21.280 --> 01:02:28.960
mom's mom's flat until she moved away. So that was, Yeah,

782
01:02:31.320 --> 01:02:35.400
that was kind of a weird, weird period. And I

783
01:02:35.400 --> 01:02:40.599
didn't wear my glasses at all after that, like never

784
01:02:42.039 --> 01:02:47.679
ever again, didn't wear them. And then I the next

785
01:02:47.719 --> 01:02:51.159
time I went to see if I needed glasses was

786
01:02:53.480 --> 01:02:57.639
again I was. It was nineteen eighty nine. So so

787
01:02:57.639 --> 01:03:01.880
a few years later, nineteen eighty nine in London, and

788
01:03:02.440 --> 01:03:07.239
I wanted to get back to reading again because I'd

789
01:03:07.280 --> 01:03:10.840
had a break from reading. We're not a complete break,

790
01:03:10.840 --> 01:03:12.880
but I hadn't really read much for a little while

791
01:03:13.239 --> 01:03:16.320
for a few months, and I thought, and I didn't

792
01:03:16.360 --> 01:03:19.559
have any hardly any of my belongings in London because

793
01:03:19.559 --> 01:03:24.599
I'd left them at my dad's just store in storage

794
01:03:26.360 --> 01:03:29.639
and not they had much stuff, but I think it

795
01:03:29.719 --> 01:03:32.719
was under a bed. But there's a lot of the

796
01:03:32.840 --> 01:03:37.360
videos and some books and stuff, you know. So what

797
01:03:37.400 --> 01:03:45.679
I did is I went to the opticians thinking, and

798
01:03:45.719 --> 01:03:50.079
they said, I just need glasses for reading. Don't need

799
01:03:50.119 --> 01:03:53.840
them all the time, just for reading. I said, okay, cool.

800
01:03:54.960 --> 01:03:57.840
So and that's when I started. I bought a couple

801
01:03:57.880 --> 01:04:01.199
of books and I got back into reading again because

802
01:04:02.000 --> 01:04:06.800
it was always a passion, and I not always I

803
01:04:06.920 --> 01:04:11.920
was born reading, but I kind of taught myself to read.

804
01:04:12.000 --> 01:04:17.119
Really with my book, it's over there somewhere on the bookcase.

805
01:04:17.159 --> 01:04:23.599
It was a Jack Andry still I've literally memorized. I

806
01:04:23.760 --> 01:04:27.440
memorized it. And this is bearing in mind I haven't

807
01:04:27.519 --> 01:04:31.199
watched I haven't read this book since I was a

808
01:04:31.239 --> 01:04:34.239
little kid, okay, but I learned to read with it.

809
01:04:35.159 --> 01:04:40.320
And in the first the first page is a little rhyme,

810
01:04:40.880 --> 01:04:43.039
I'll tell you a story about Jack and Ry, and

811
01:04:43.079 --> 01:04:48.760
now my story I'll tell you story. When I said,

812
01:04:48.760 --> 01:04:52.960
I memorized it, I'll tell you a story about Jack

813
01:04:53.039 --> 01:04:56.199
and Ry, and now my story has begun. I'll tell

814
01:04:56.239 --> 01:04:58.320
you another about Jack and his brother, and now my

815
01:04:58.400 --> 01:05:04.599
story is done. I tried to look for it the

816
01:05:04.679 --> 01:05:06.519
other day. I think while I was doing a recording,

817
01:05:06.639 --> 01:05:09.920
I could not find it. It's definitely there because I

818
01:05:09.960 --> 01:05:16.239
found it online. Because it's basically about Jack, Jack and

819
01:05:16.280 --> 01:05:18.559
the bean Stalk, and I think there's a few different

820
01:05:18.599 --> 01:05:23.400
stories about Jack, and that was what Jack and Noy

821
01:05:23.559 --> 01:05:26.840
was based on, which was a really famous TV show

822
01:05:27.679 --> 01:05:31.320
where people would just tell a story. They'd read out

823
01:05:31.320 --> 01:05:36.840
of a book and tell a story. And I, I said,

824
01:05:36.960 --> 01:05:39.559
taught myself to read. I mean, I'm sure that you

825
01:05:39.599 --> 01:05:43.159
know I did go to school and stuff at that time,

826
01:05:45.320 --> 01:05:50.199
but because I was what six, maybe six five or six,

827
01:05:51.079 --> 01:05:56.840
I moved around so much that I didn't I don't

828
01:05:56.840 --> 01:06:01.480
think I really had any kind of stable education as

829
01:06:01.519 --> 01:06:07.000
it were. And then when I moved to with my dad,

830
01:06:07.559 --> 01:06:15.880
I was seven and I was told by one of

831
01:06:15.920 --> 01:06:21.159
my parents that I was behind. Basically, I was behind

832
01:06:21.280 --> 01:06:24.280
because I was told I've been taught the wrong way.

833
01:06:25.960 --> 01:06:30.400
That's what the teachers told her. That it sounded like

834
01:06:30.400 --> 01:06:32.440
I've been told I've been taught the wrong way. I

835
01:06:32.480 --> 01:06:35.559
was behind, I mean, probably just being hind to me,

836
01:06:35.639 --> 01:06:37.159
trying to explain it to me in a way that

837
01:06:37.199 --> 01:06:43.320
I might understand it. So basically what it meant I

838
01:06:43.440 --> 01:06:54.079
was in educational terms. Now, I guess remedial or special

839
01:06:54.119 --> 01:07:00.239
needs educational terms. Back then, I was a dunce. You know,

840
01:07:00.280 --> 01:07:01.920
it was a little bit different. Back then. This is

841
01:07:02.039 --> 01:07:10.119
nineteen seventy seven, someone that was behind educationally was called

842
01:07:10.119 --> 01:07:16.039
a dance. It's not good, really, it's not now, but

843
01:07:17.000 --> 01:07:20.360
that's what I was kind of classed as. But that's

844
01:07:20.400 --> 01:07:23.079
not how she she said that. She told me I

845
01:07:23.159 --> 01:07:26.119
was special. Now I didn't realize that meant special needs.

846
01:07:27.000 --> 01:07:29.880
But when she said I was special, I felt special,

847
01:07:31.199 --> 01:07:38.840
like loved like I was, you know, special. Maybe she

848
01:07:38.960 --> 01:07:41.719
was about to say needs, but I just like made

849
01:07:41.760 --> 01:07:45.199
such a big I was so gushy and smiling when

850
01:07:45.239 --> 01:07:48.719
she said special. She thought, perhaps I won't say the

851
01:07:48.760 --> 01:07:55.760
word needs. Had a conversation with my dad later in

852
01:07:55.800 --> 01:07:58.639
the evening. Probably didn't they. So did you have a

853
01:07:58.679 --> 01:08:01.440
chat with him? Yeah, did you tell him that he

854
01:08:01.519 --> 01:08:06.920
special needs? Well? I told him part of it. But

855
01:08:06.920 --> 01:08:11.639
he seems so happy, he said, yeah, but he's happy.

856
01:08:11.639 --> 01:08:13.320
All you've got to do is just wave a banana

857
01:08:13.360 --> 01:08:17.560
around and that gets his attention. He's happy. That's not true.

858
01:08:18.399 --> 01:08:25.800
I do like bananas, but not quite that distractable. Give

859
01:08:25.880 --> 01:08:30.520
him a cardboard but give him a cardboard box. That's

860
01:08:30.560 --> 01:08:36.800
all he needs. It's like, no, I mean, cardboard boxes

861
01:08:36.800 --> 01:08:41.319
were fun, but it's not all I needed. Also, I

862
01:08:41.359 --> 01:08:49.000
love television, So anyway, i'd kind of taught myself, I think,

863
01:08:49.039 --> 01:08:52.600
to read. Maybe I'll taught myself wrongly to read, but

864
01:08:55.479 --> 01:09:02.279
I think I ended up quite okay verbally. I think

865
01:09:02.319 --> 01:09:07.239
I was. I don't think I was behind verbally, And

866
01:09:07.279 --> 01:09:12.119
there's advantages to there's advantages to moving around a lot

867
01:09:12.119 --> 01:09:15.600
when you're little. From a verbal perspective, I think you

868
01:09:15.680 --> 01:09:20.399
get to learn quite you know, verbally, get to not always.

869
01:09:20.399 --> 01:09:22.960
But I think in my case, I think I became

870
01:09:23.119 --> 01:09:27.680
verbally quite competent being around adults a lot. That's another thing.

871
01:09:28.880 --> 01:09:31.479
Living in a kid's home with lots of other kids,

872
01:09:32.479 --> 01:09:36.000
there's lots of conversations all the time, you know, it's

873
01:09:36.680 --> 01:09:40.079
living in dormitories and stuff like that. So I didn't

874
01:09:40.359 --> 01:09:42.880
really get any time to myself, but there was a

875
01:09:42.920 --> 01:09:45.439
lot of conversations going on, So I was hearing a

876
01:09:45.439 --> 01:09:55.560
lot of verbal stuff and absorbing that. So I think,

877
01:09:55.720 --> 01:09:58.279
you know, I think that my verbal skills would probably

878
01:09:58.319 --> 01:10:03.079
be quite good. But everything else was may being not

879
01:10:04.680 --> 01:10:11.560
so good. My mathematics skills was still Yeah, it was

880
01:10:11.640 --> 01:10:13.520
never really a thing for me, and it wasn't really

881
01:10:14.840 --> 01:10:20.680
it wasn't really my forte as it were, nor science,

882
01:10:20.760 --> 01:10:27.359
nor geography, nor history anything. Really. The only subject I

883
01:10:27.520 --> 01:10:34.920
liked too Ari and English Ari because I suppose in

884
01:10:34.960 --> 01:10:37.920
a way, I had a little bit of an advantage

885
01:10:38.560 --> 01:10:41.000
being part, you know, for a couple of years being

886
01:10:41.079 --> 01:10:44.279
raised by nuns kind of church every day. I kind

887
01:10:44.279 --> 01:10:52.119
of understood the groundings of like Christianity or Catholicism or

888
01:10:52.159 --> 01:10:54.000
you know that kind of stuff. I guess I had

889
01:10:54.039 --> 01:10:57.319
a little bit more of an understanding of it, so

890
01:10:57.359 --> 01:11:04.840
it wasn't too difficult. Plus, both the IRA teachers I had,

891
01:11:04.880 --> 01:11:07.640
because I only had two IRA teachers this is religious

892
01:11:07.760 --> 01:11:11.840
education and throughout my high school. And they were both lovely.

893
01:11:12.079 --> 01:11:16.319
They're both to my best teachers. So I wasn't interested

894
01:11:16.359 --> 01:11:22.239
in the subject really not to start with. But it was,

895
01:11:22.600 --> 01:11:26.319
you know, it was more they were lovely. I liked

896
01:11:26.319 --> 01:11:29.760
being in the class because the teachers were lovely, and

897
01:11:30.760 --> 01:11:32.880
which is something that I think a lot of teachers

898
01:11:32.920 --> 01:11:42.159
could learn from. Is actually sometimes just I think just

899
01:11:42.199 --> 01:11:47.239
being nice, just being nice in them days there was

900
01:11:47.279 --> 01:11:53.840
a lot of strict teachers. It was where I was,

901
01:11:54.000 --> 01:11:58.359
it wasn't I think it was kind of like children

902
01:11:58.359 --> 01:12:03.840
should be seeing, not heard kind of attitude. So it's

903
01:12:03.880 --> 01:12:06.319
a little bit different to how it is now. I

904
01:12:06.359 --> 01:12:08.239
don't know how it is now. I don't have kids,

905
01:12:09.640 --> 01:12:13.079
and I live on a council estate, so kids are

906
01:12:13.079 --> 01:12:16.199
definitely not treated that they should be seen and not heard.

907
01:12:16.760 --> 01:12:22.600
They're definitely heard. So it's I don't know what it's

908
01:12:22.680 --> 01:12:29.520
like in the mainstream country people around the country. But

909
01:12:32.159 --> 01:12:34.760
I'm talking about glasses and I'm talking about reading now.

910
01:12:37.000 --> 01:12:43.640
It's just I was in like a remedial class once

911
01:12:43.680 --> 01:12:46.039
a week. I was just taken that. And I've talked

912
01:12:46.079 --> 01:12:49.079
about this before, but I had my maths teacher, mister Johnson.

913
01:12:49.239 --> 01:12:57.000
It was lovely, big beard, lovely man, really friendly and

914
01:12:57.399 --> 01:13:00.640
he actually I think if I'd ever had him as

915
01:13:00.680 --> 01:13:06.239
my master teacher all the way through high school. I'm

916
01:13:06.239 --> 01:13:10.279
not saying that I would have gone on to do

917
01:13:10.359 --> 01:13:14.800
a level or anything like that, or even well, I

918
01:13:14.800 --> 01:13:18.000
think I might have gone on to do GCSA, which

919
01:13:18.039 --> 01:13:20.439
I didn't did. I wasn't even that level to do.

920
01:13:20.560 --> 01:13:23.079
I had to. I did CS which is something you

921
01:13:23.199 --> 01:13:26.520
get like City and Guilds. That's the kinds of things

922
01:13:26.520 --> 01:13:31.359
you get for block clearing, toilets and stuff back then.

923
01:13:32.479 --> 01:13:35.439
And I think it's a bit higher now, but it

924
01:13:35.560 --> 01:13:39.159
was very low when it comes to it's City and

925
01:13:39.239 --> 01:13:43.600
Gills of people that are not academic. Really back then

926
01:13:43.640 --> 01:13:50.520
it was it was the lowest level, and it's different now.

927
01:13:50.560 --> 01:13:53.399
So I'm saying I'm not not going to be rude

928
01:13:53.399 --> 01:13:55.560
against City and Gills because there's going to be people

929
01:13:55.560 --> 01:14:00.720
probably taking City and girls now. But back then, City

930
01:14:00.760 --> 01:14:05.880
and Gills and maths was not an accomplishment. Necessarily it

931
01:14:05.880 --> 01:14:08.279
would have been for me because I didn't pass it.

932
01:14:08.319 --> 01:14:10.439
So if I had passed the City in Guilds, it

933
01:14:10.439 --> 01:14:14.640
would have been a really good accomplishment. But I didn't

934
01:14:14.680 --> 01:14:25.359
get any qualifications. I got you, which apparently is it

935
01:14:25.399 --> 01:14:30.960
stands for unclassified, So I got unclassified for every single thing.

936
01:14:32.760 --> 01:14:34.880
I'm not sure if I got a bit higher grade

937
01:14:34.880 --> 01:14:41.600
for English. If I'm honest, I think I might have

938
01:14:41.640 --> 01:14:43.960
actually passed English or might have been, but it still

939
01:14:44.000 --> 01:14:50.199
would have been low. Although English was the only, probably

940
01:14:50.199 --> 01:14:59.119
the only subject that I was adequate in. But the

941
01:14:59.159 --> 01:15:04.800
problem with English is I didn't like it. I did

942
01:15:04.800 --> 01:15:10.279
to start with when I was in junior school. Loved English, practicing, writing, practicing, handwriting,

943
01:15:10.960 --> 01:15:15.279
reading books. I would take I got. I read every

944
01:15:15.319 --> 01:15:18.079
single book in the library. They had a little library

945
01:15:18.119 --> 01:15:21.479
in the English room, and it was just you know,

946
01:15:21.520 --> 01:15:24.119
little books. But I'd take them home and i'd finish them.

947
01:15:24.199 --> 01:15:27.239
So it would start reading them in class, would take

948
01:15:27.479 --> 01:15:30.640
turns reading it out loud and things. I'd take the

949
01:15:30.680 --> 01:15:32.600
book home with me and i'd read it overnight and

950
01:15:32.640 --> 01:15:35.640
bring it back. And I did it to every single book.

951
01:15:36.359 --> 01:15:38.439
Sometimes I take like two or three home at night

952
01:15:38.520 --> 01:15:43.079
the weekend. I'd bring them back and i'd get permission.

953
01:15:43.119 --> 01:15:46.159
I wouldn't just take them because I was a good boy.

954
01:15:48.720 --> 01:15:53.239
And this is possibly before I got my library card,

955
01:15:58.279 --> 01:16:00.680
although it might not have been if I don't know.

956
01:16:00.720 --> 01:16:06.319
Maybe it was because yeah, I was nine, I'm not sure.

957
01:16:06.319 --> 01:16:09.079
I don't think I had my library card. It nine.

958
01:16:10.479 --> 01:16:17.560
And so I loved English. I was more interested in

959
01:16:17.600 --> 01:16:21.119
crafts than doing other things. So I think like history,

960
01:16:23.520 --> 01:16:25.279
you know, it would be talking about Romans, and I'm thinking,

961
01:16:25.279 --> 01:16:29.319
what are you telling me about Romans? For? What are

962
01:16:29.359 --> 01:16:31.359
you telling me about the Saxons? Are you telling me

963
01:16:31.439 --> 01:16:38.079
about the why? What are you talking about Napoleon? For

964
01:16:39.680 --> 01:16:43.560
it is just I think the only interesting thing about

965
01:16:43.600 --> 01:16:47.880
history would be probably about if they'd done the history

966
01:16:47.960 --> 01:16:50.039
of the town I was living in, or if they

967
01:16:50.079 --> 01:16:55.000
had talked about the history of television or the history

968
01:16:55.199 --> 01:17:02.520
of my family or something like that would have been

969
01:17:02.560 --> 01:17:08.960
interesting to me, I guess. So I kind of went

970
01:17:08.960 --> 01:17:11.079
along with it, and I just sat at the back

971
01:17:11.159 --> 01:17:19.319
and and just hid really and then I I was

972
01:17:19.359 --> 01:17:27.199
another thing. Oh yeah, that when I was eight, I

973
01:17:27.439 --> 01:17:31.840
was I had my adnoids out because I was having

974
01:17:31.880 --> 01:17:34.479
problems with my ears. I was getting earaches, and then

975
01:17:34.520 --> 01:17:40.279
I had had my head hit. It turned out I

976
01:17:40.359 --> 01:17:45.199
was partially deaf in one ear, so I had my

977
01:17:45.640 --> 01:17:49.279
adnoids out because I was blocked. Basically the ear was

978
01:17:49.319 --> 01:17:55.439
blocked so to clear it out so I should be okay.

979
01:17:55.640 --> 01:17:58.000
So this is eight years old, so I was partially

980
01:17:58.039 --> 01:18:02.279
deaf for however many years didn't even know it, didn't

981
01:18:02.279 --> 01:18:07.199
even know it, didn't even show it. I remember being

982
01:18:07.199 --> 01:18:11.000
in hospital and like listening to the and I had

983
01:18:11.000 --> 01:18:16.520
to like tap every time, and I could, like I

984
01:18:16.640 --> 01:18:19.600
do it both ears. One ear was really clear, which

985
01:18:19.600 --> 01:18:23.199
I think is my left ear still is right right

986
01:18:23.239 --> 01:18:26.239
ear it's not so good as the left ear. So

987
01:18:26.279 --> 01:18:30.079
the right ear was like, I mean, it's it's all

988
01:18:34.399 --> 01:18:37.680
it feels it's to me, it seems like the volume

989
01:18:37.800 --> 01:18:41.119
is lower when I talk on my right phone, if

990
01:18:41.119 --> 01:18:42.960
I put my if I put my phone on my

991
01:18:43.039 --> 01:18:47.119
right ear, it feels like the volume is lower. But

992
01:18:47.159 --> 01:18:48.960
I did have an eye test a few years ago,

993
01:18:49.159 --> 01:18:51.880
and eye test and ear test, but it was at

994
01:18:51.960 --> 01:18:55.640
Specsavers had ear tests and they said, yeah, here's fine.

995
01:18:56.000 --> 01:19:01.920
So it might just be psychological. I don't know, but anyway,

996
01:19:02.039 --> 01:19:05.239
this was real. So I definitely had a like a

997
01:19:05.279 --> 01:19:10.439
hearing issue, but it was fixable. I remember. It's so

998
01:19:10.560 --> 01:19:17.880
funny because after I'd had the op, came home for

999
01:19:17.920 --> 01:19:22.159
the next year or so, whenever someone called over to

1000
01:19:22.199 --> 01:19:25.560
me and I said, I didn't hear them, maybe I

1001
01:19:25.600 --> 01:19:28.600
was focusing on something else. I didn't hear them. My

1002
01:19:28.680 --> 01:19:31.079
dad would shout out, that's it. We're going back to

1003
01:19:31.119 --> 01:19:33.880
the doctors. We're going to get his ears tested. Like

1004
01:19:35.840 --> 01:19:38.520
it's like, because I was in a house full of

1005
01:19:38.600 --> 01:19:45.239
three four kids, including myself and two adults, I had

1006
01:19:45.279 --> 01:19:49.479
to block off that sound. It was too much. I

1007
01:19:49.520 --> 01:19:52.079
had to kind of go inside myself to block it off.

1008
01:19:52.479 --> 01:19:56.439
So when someone did shout out my name or I

1009
01:19:56.520 --> 01:20:01.840
would sometimes I wouldn't hear it because I had to

1010
01:20:01.960 --> 01:20:04.079
in order for me to watch TV in a room

1011
01:20:04.159 --> 01:20:08.800
with how many people was at three for five other people?

1012
01:20:10.880 --> 01:20:15.560
Do sase three kids? Four kids and two adults. So

1013
01:20:16.439 --> 01:20:21.000
three other kids, two adults watching the TV. Even if

1014
01:20:21.039 --> 01:20:23.720
they weren't talking, there was like rustling of bags and

1015
01:20:23.880 --> 01:20:29.840
food and fidgeting, and there was maybe traffic outside and

1016
01:20:30.199 --> 01:20:34.760
you know, just general sounds. I had to really zone

1017
01:20:34.840 --> 01:20:37.319
them out in order to watch the TV and hear it.

1018
01:20:39.680 --> 01:20:41.720
So they were talking to me and I wouldn't hear them.

1019
01:20:42.159 --> 01:20:44.720
It wasn't because I wasn't listening. It's just because I

1020
01:20:44.800 --> 01:20:50.800
was focused. I had zoned them out. I'd removed them

1021
01:20:50.960 --> 01:20:57.439
from the situation, removed them from my peripheral vision, removed

1022
01:20:57.439 --> 01:21:01.680
them from my thoughts, sort of just focused on the TV.

1023
01:21:02.920 --> 01:21:06.319
And this is the only way I could really watch it.

1024
01:21:06.560 --> 01:21:10.000
I mean, even now, it seems like I'm just talking

1025
01:21:10.000 --> 01:21:13.840
about my inadequacies, doesn't it. But maybe I am. Maybe

1026
01:21:13.880 --> 01:21:18.520
that's what it is. But wearing glasses is not an inadequacy.

1027
01:21:18.720 --> 01:21:22.000
Wearing glasses is just it's just a natural thing. Millions

1028
01:21:22.000 --> 01:21:25.000
and millions of people with them, including me, and there's

1029
01:21:25.039 --> 01:21:30.800
nothing wrong with it. So but this, for some reason,

1030
01:21:32.439 --> 01:21:39.439
I can't have someone sitting next to me, like if

1031
01:21:39.840 --> 01:21:42.359
when I'm at home, Bearing in mind, this is the

1032
01:21:42.399 --> 01:21:46.039
most relaxed place I'm going to be. Really is being here,

1033
01:21:46.840 --> 01:21:49.239
apart from I mean, the most relaxed place I probably

1034
01:21:49.239 --> 01:21:52.159
ever was before this was my name's. If I was

1035
01:21:52.199 --> 01:21:54.319
sitting in the room with my name, I was relaxed

1036
01:21:56.079 --> 01:21:59.800
in a way that probably I wasn't. I mean, it's

1037
01:22:00.279 --> 01:22:03.920
more safety thing, to be fair, emotionally, I felt safe

1038
01:22:03.960 --> 01:22:11.279
with her, but I was relaxed with her here. It's

1039
01:22:11.279 --> 01:22:13.199
probably the only place that I would say I'd probably

1040
01:22:13.279 --> 01:22:16.840
feel relaxed when that front door was locked and I

1041
01:22:16.960 --> 01:22:19.680
got Finny cuddled up next to me and I'm just

1042
01:22:19.760 --> 01:22:22.840
stroking him or got my arm resting on him. It's

1043
01:22:22.880 --> 01:22:29.439
relaxing and relaxed. Put someone put up human beings sitting

1044
01:22:29.439 --> 01:22:33.560
next to me, and I will not feel relaxed. And

1045
01:22:33.640 --> 01:22:38.520
I'm not talking like some random stranger, just anyone, anyone

1046
01:22:38.560 --> 01:22:40.439
I know. I don't want them sitting next to me.

1047
01:22:40.560 --> 01:22:45.960
I cannot sit next to someone on a sofa, and

1048
01:22:46.000 --> 01:22:50.239
that includes even Luke, my friend downstairs, he'd always sit

1049
01:22:50.279 --> 01:22:54.039
on a different chair. I'd have a chair separate for him,

1050
01:22:54.479 --> 01:22:55.920
or he could sit on the sofa and I'd sit

1051
01:22:55.960 --> 01:22:58.680
on a chair. You know, I wouldn't like he'd have

1052
01:22:58.680 --> 01:23:01.520
a choice, so he'd sit on the sofa if I

1053
01:23:01.560 --> 01:23:03.479
was at the table. So if I was at my desk,

1054
01:23:04.560 --> 01:23:07.720
he'd sit on the sofa and we'd watch TV together,

1055
01:23:07.880 --> 01:23:12.359
or I'd be doing stuff and we'd chat. But if

1056
01:23:12.439 --> 01:23:14.720
I was sitting if we were watching TV together, which

1057
01:23:15.000 --> 01:23:17.560
we didn't do that much, but like if we're watching boxing,

1058
01:23:20.000 --> 01:23:21.920
I like to be comfortable when I'm watching boxing, and

1059
01:23:22.359 --> 01:23:25.000
I like to be in the sofa with my legs

1060
01:23:25.079 --> 01:23:27.800
up or in the chair with my legs up because

1061
01:23:27.800 --> 01:23:32.279
I used to have accl not recycling reclining chair. That's it.

1062
01:23:32.439 --> 01:23:38.640
I used to have a reclining chair, and I had

1063
01:23:38.640 --> 01:23:41.159
that for a few years. I've had this one for

1064
01:23:43.279 --> 01:23:45.239
I probably had these world for a few years there

1065
01:23:45.319 --> 01:23:52.960
as well. But the last few years he was with

1066
01:23:53.039 --> 01:23:56.840
the boxing, he would sit on a chair while I

1067
01:23:56.840 --> 01:23:59.399
sat on the sofa because and I'd always make sure

1068
01:23:59.439 --> 01:24:02.520
that it was stuff on the other because there's two chairs,

1069
01:24:02.800 --> 01:24:06.720
two seats on the sofa. The other side of the sofa,

1070
01:24:06.720 --> 01:24:13.159
it's always got stuff on it. It's never empty. This

1071
01:24:13.279 --> 01:24:18.319
is before I got Vinnie. I used to just keep that.

1072
01:24:18.319 --> 01:24:20.560
That's where that's just stuff, where it's a book where

1073
01:24:20.600 --> 01:24:23.800
I can write stuff in a book I'm reading, whether

1074
01:24:23.840 --> 01:24:27.000
it's laptop, whatever, it's all stuff that's my little like

1075
01:24:27.039 --> 01:24:34.039
a little desk kind of People don't sit there, and

1076
01:24:34.119 --> 01:24:39.960
I can't sit next to someone. I can't. It's especially

1077
01:24:40.479 --> 01:24:44.520
I mean TV or just it's about doable, but I

1078
01:24:44.560 --> 01:24:45.880
can't do it. I don't do it if I don't

1079
01:24:45.920 --> 01:24:50.960
have to. But having a conversation it's too close. I

1080
01:24:51.000 --> 01:24:53.560
need distance when I'm talking to someone, I need distance.

1081
01:24:53.600 --> 01:24:57.399
I need at least maybe six to ten foot or

1082
01:24:57.479 --> 01:25:02.039
six foot probably just not a far enough away so

1083
01:25:02.159 --> 01:25:06.279
that I need binoculars, but just you know, or that

1084
01:25:06.319 --> 01:25:11.199
they need to use a loud speaker. But I do.

1085
01:25:12.680 --> 01:25:15.439
I need that distance because I struggle to focus with

1086
01:25:15.479 --> 01:25:19.840
my eyes if someone is too close, Like I don't

1087
01:25:19.840 --> 01:25:26.159
know what that is. Which makes being on a bus

1088
01:25:26.359 --> 01:25:29.840
a little bit difficult. And it's it's great if there's

1089
01:25:29.840 --> 01:25:34.239
no one on the bus, but a busy bus all

1090
01:25:35.680 --> 01:25:44.319
I'd rather stand. I'd rather stand and pretty much be

1091
01:25:44.439 --> 01:25:47.439
sniffing someone's arm pit. No, I don't want to smith

1092
01:25:47.479 --> 01:25:49.960
sniff someone's arm p. I'm saying I'd rather stand and

1093
01:25:50.079 --> 01:25:53.079
be like squashed standing up than have someone sitting next

1094
01:25:53.079 --> 01:25:59.039
to me. It's you know, I suppose it's because my

1095
01:25:59.119 --> 01:26:03.399
belly does give me distance. Song might be in it

1096
01:26:03.560 --> 01:26:05.600
on my bum. We've got such a big bum, big

1097
01:26:05.600 --> 01:26:09.920
belly that people can't really get too close to me

1098
01:26:11.720 --> 01:26:16.800
if I'm standing up, which is good. Oh, I really

1099
01:26:16.840 --> 01:26:23.960
paint a terrible picture of my body, That's what I

1100
01:26:24.000 --> 01:26:32.239
was going to say. Oh yeah, So it turned out

1101
01:26:33.119 --> 01:26:37.640
that after I had my ears thing done, the teachers

1102
01:26:37.640 --> 01:26:41.520
were saying they now, they said, oh, he's so behind

1103
01:26:41.600 --> 01:26:44.560
because he couldn't hear what was being said in the classroom,

1104
01:26:44.880 --> 01:26:46.399
and he was always sitting at the back of the

1105
01:26:47.039 --> 01:26:48.720
talking about me always sitting at the back of the

1106
01:26:48.720 --> 01:26:58.399
classroom and didn't didn't pretty much. I wasn't able to

1107
01:26:58.439 --> 01:27:03.680
hear what was going on well enough. It's like they

1108
01:27:03.680 --> 01:27:08.399
were trying to make excuses for me not listening. But

1109
01:27:08.439 --> 01:27:10.159
the fact is, I mean, it might have been true,

1110
01:27:10.239 --> 01:27:11.520
it might have been part of the reason why I

1111
01:27:11.560 --> 01:27:16.439
was so behind, but I genuinely wasn't interested in what

1112
01:27:16.479 --> 01:27:20.640
the teachers were talking about, and anything that did interest

1113
01:27:20.760 --> 01:27:26.439
me did it stuck. You know, if I'm interested in something,

1114
01:27:26.600 --> 01:27:30.119
I'll look it up now, and that information generally stays

1115
01:27:30.479 --> 01:27:41.319
with me. I think sitting at the back was a

1116
01:27:41.319 --> 01:27:43.319
good place to be. I don't want to be I

1117
01:27:43.640 --> 01:27:48.560
never liked people being behind me. I never really enjoyed that.

1118
01:27:49.319 --> 01:27:53.680
Even when I go to a theater. When I was

1119
01:27:53.720 --> 01:27:57.239
really little, I didn't care, like, if I go to

1120
01:27:57.239 --> 01:27:59.920
the cinema, like go in the front row. Because I

1121
01:28:00.119 --> 01:28:04.119
was so little, I didn't My head didn't even really

1122
01:28:04.159 --> 01:28:08.520
fit to the top of the headrest. So technically people

1123
01:28:08.560 --> 01:28:10.920
were behind me, but it didn't feel like they were

1124
01:28:11.560 --> 01:28:13.920
because I was. They probably didn't even know I was there.

1125
01:28:15.319 --> 01:28:17.520
And I spread my legs out and I was lovely,

1126
01:28:17.760 --> 01:28:20.560
even though I had little legs. I spread my legs

1127
01:28:20.560 --> 01:28:24.199
out wherever I was in the cinema, but it was

1128
01:28:24.279 --> 01:28:25.960
I used to love to sit at the front and

1129
01:28:26.039 --> 01:28:34.319
had this big, massive screen, And yeah, that's what I

1130
01:28:34.319 --> 01:28:37.199
always used to do. When I was older, i'd moved

1131
01:28:37.199 --> 01:28:42.720
to the back. Now. I haven't been to cinema for

1132
01:28:42.760 --> 01:28:47.239
a long time, but now i'd probably choose if possible,

1133
01:28:49.159 --> 01:28:53.119
like a middle aisle, but away from anyone. I don't

1134
01:28:53.159 --> 01:28:55.640
want people sitting near me or in front of me

1135
01:28:55.720 --> 01:28:58.960
or behind me. I just want my I want my

1136
01:28:59.000 --> 01:29:05.920
own cinema based sick, but enough distance, you know, I'm

1137
01:29:05.920 --> 01:29:09.039
gonna actually have seat. In the past, I'm sure I

1138
01:29:09.079 --> 01:29:11.039
was in the cinema once and someone just walked up

1139
01:29:11.399 --> 01:29:18.920
and sat right next to me. And I remember saying,

1140
01:29:19.960 --> 01:29:23.119
why you are all these other seats in this cinema

1141
01:29:23.239 --> 01:29:26.439
is probably two hundred seats in the cinema and there's

1142
01:29:26.479 --> 01:29:28.880
only like five people in there. Why did you come

1143
01:29:28.880 --> 01:29:32.000
and sit next to me? You know what I heard?

1144
01:29:32.039 --> 01:29:36.560
You know what response was. We came together. We came

1145
01:29:36.640 --> 01:29:38.760
to what do you mean why am I sitting next

1146
01:29:38.760 --> 01:29:41.239
to you? I've just been out to go and get

1147
01:29:41.279 --> 01:29:45.239
some popcorn for us. So that's the point where I

1148
01:29:45.239 --> 01:29:51.399
thought maybe the relationship wasn't gonna work out. Just going

1149
01:29:51.439 --> 01:29:54.000
to the cinema as someone doesn't it doesn't mean that

1150
01:29:54.039 --> 01:30:03.079
I want to sit with them. That was weird. So yeah,

1151
01:30:03.199 --> 01:30:12.720
I had glasses. Oh yeah, the eighty nine got them again,

1152
01:30:12.800 --> 01:30:16.920
started reading, started like using them to read a bit more.

1153
01:30:17.000 --> 01:30:26.520
That was nice and really between nineteen eighty nine and

1154
01:30:26.680 --> 01:30:32.760
two thy thirteen just reading glasses. All those years just

1155
01:30:32.840 --> 01:30:37.760
reading glasses. I go back, just need them for reading.

1156
01:30:39.159 --> 01:30:41.600
Never mentioned a one kei. Maybe I've still got one

1157
01:30:41.680 --> 01:30:45.279
kei and no one's told me. But I've had photographs taken.

1158
01:30:45.359 --> 01:30:48.560
It doesn't seem to be. Well, you know what. I've

1159
01:30:48.600 --> 01:30:50.680
had enough people in my life that would tell me.

1160
01:30:51.439 --> 01:30:54.159
They just make fun of me to my face about

1161
01:30:54.199 --> 01:30:59.319
having a one kei, So maybe I do, but I'm

1162
01:30:59.319 --> 01:31:09.840
pretty sure they tell me. I actually met someone who

1163
01:31:09.880 --> 01:31:16.399
had a one kei and there's a health spa thing,

1164
01:31:16.600 --> 01:31:19.279
and she's one of the people that have been most

1165
01:31:20.039 --> 01:31:22.640
I was most attracted to in my entire life was her.

1166
01:31:23.920 --> 01:31:28.520
I didn't met her once as a one kid. I

1167
01:31:28.600 --> 01:31:30.399
just liked just looking in a different direction. And I

1168
01:31:30.399 --> 01:31:32.560
had a friend. I had a friend who had like

1169
01:31:32.840 --> 01:31:37.119
an eye like that, like who cares, He's got to

1170
01:31:37.119 --> 01:31:40.960
focus on one eye. But you can't look You can't

1171
01:31:41.039 --> 01:31:44.039
look at both eyes anyway, can you? Or can you?

1172
01:31:44.239 --> 01:31:48.560
I can't. I'm not uglyzed over a little bit when

1173
01:31:48.560 --> 01:31:53.399
I look at people, but I can't unless it's a distance.

1174
01:31:53.439 --> 01:31:55.119
I need a real distance if I'm gonna be able

1175
01:31:55.159 --> 01:31:59.199
to get an idea of focusing on both eyes too

1176
01:31:59.239 --> 01:32:08.039
close and and I can't focus on either. I so

1177
01:32:08.159 --> 01:32:15.880
twoenty thirteen between Actually, yeah, I wore I wore glasses

1178
01:32:15.880 --> 01:32:21.800
for reading a lot during the twenties, during my twenties,

1179
01:32:21.880 --> 01:32:27.000
rather not the nineteen twenties, because I was reading a lot.

1180
01:32:27.039 --> 01:32:30.520
I'd read a lot of books, had a lot of books.

1181
01:32:31.319 --> 01:32:33.439
That stupid flies in this room. It was in the

1182
01:32:33.520 --> 01:32:36.239
kitchen earlier. Now it's here unless it's just come in

1183
01:32:36.239 --> 01:32:38.720
the window and it's a different fly, or it's got

1184
01:32:38.760 --> 01:32:40.720
out of a window in the kitchen and coming this way.

1185
01:32:42.319 --> 01:32:49.159
It's harassing me. I'm being earth by a fly. And

1186
01:32:53.960 --> 01:32:57.079
I don't know why I went to the opticians in

1187
01:32:57.119 --> 01:33:02.920
twenty thirteen. I think I might have been getting a

1188
01:33:02.960 --> 01:33:04.840
bit of eyes strained because I was working in a

1189
01:33:04.920 --> 01:33:10.000
call center, and yeah, I was told, yeah, you need

1190
01:33:10.039 --> 01:33:12.840
to wear glasses, and you need to need to wear

1191
01:33:12.840 --> 01:33:17.680
glasses all the time or act. You know what they

1192
01:33:17.840 --> 01:33:24.560
call them lenses? You know what's your names? Do you

1193
01:33:24.600 --> 01:33:28.560
put in your eye? Them lenses things? I can't remember

1194
01:33:28.560 --> 01:33:31.439
the name because I will never wear them ever contact

1195
01:33:31.520 --> 01:33:39.880
lenses No, never, never, never, never never, and I never

1196
01:33:39.960 --> 01:33:43.199
never never never know. No, no, no, no, no, I

1197
01:33:43.199 --> 01:33:48.960
mean for vanity. I understand why people do. Maybe because

1198
01:33:49.000 --> 01:33:51.880
glasses can cover up the face and if someone's particularly

1199
01:33:53.680 --> 01:33:57.079
you know, if I was particularly facially attractive, I didn't

1200
01:33:57.119 --> 01:33:59.399
want my face to be covered up, then maybe I

1201
01:33:59.399 --> 01:34:06.600
would wear contact lenses. I probably wouldn't have wanted to

1202
01:34:06.640 --> 01:34:09.079
wear glasses in my twenties. I'll be honest with you.

1203
01:34:09.159 --> 01:34:13.000
I wouldn't. I wouldn't know. I wouldn't not have been

1204
01:34:13.039 --> 01:34:17.119
happy wearing glasses all the way through my twenties and

1205
01:34:17.880 --> 01:34:24.640
probably not even through my thirties either. I didn't mind

1206
01:34:24.640 --> 01:34:29.960
wearing them. I don't mind wearing reading glasses in front

1207
01:34:30.000 --> 01:34:32.439
of people, but I don't think I would have particularly

1208
01:34:32.479 --> 01:34:37.920
wanted to be wearing glasses. Yeah. Yeah, it wasn't really

1209
01:34:38.000 --> 01:34:41.960
for me. I'm used to it now. It's been what

1210
01:34:42.239 --> 01:34:48.479
twelve years now since I've been wearing them. And it

1211
01:34:48.560 --> 01:34:51.239
was really weird because the first paid glasses, it was

1212
01:34:51.800 --> 01:35:00.119
three lenses, and the reading one was more powerful. I

1213
01:35:00.159 --> 01:35:02.880
don't know what is. It made me look taller. I

1214
01:35:02.920 --> 01:35:07.199
felt taller because the ground was further away, it looked

1215
01:35:07.399 --> 01:35:09.239
because that was the reading part, so they were a

1216
01:35:09.239 --> 01:35:15.399
bit more I don't know, but it just looked I

1217
01:35:15.560 --> 01:35:18.520
felt that I was like at least five foot tall.

1218
01:35:19.840 --> 01:35:22.880
It was amazing, but at the same time, it was

1219
01:35:22.920 --> 01:35:29.039
trippy because I was literally I was tripping over the vet,

1220
01:35:29.199 --> 01:35:37.319
not the vet. And the optician did say, you're you know,

1221
01:35:37.359 --> 01:35:38.720
you get used to it, but it might be a

1222
01:35:38.720 --> 01:35:44.279
bit weird to start with. I said, thanks. She says,

1223
01:35:44.399 --> 01:35:46.199
it's a little bit like a prostate exam, you know.

1224
01:35:47.000 --> 01:35:50.119
I said what she said, I said, don't worry. So

1225
01:35:50.159 --> 01:35:53.720
what are you talk about prostate exams? She said, well,

1226
01:35:53.760 --> 01:35:57.279
it's a bit weird. So what's weird about prostate exam?

1227
01:35:58.359 --> 01:36:03.199
She said, I'm an optician. I'm not supposed to give them.

1228
01:36:03.840 --> 01:36:06.800
I was, okay, that's this a go in a weird direction.

1229
01:36:07.119 --> 01:36:10.960
I just left. They came running after me. You gotta pay,

1230
01:36:11.159 --> 01:36:16.159
you gotta pay. I said, okay, I'll pay. I don't

1231
01:36:16.159 --> 01:36:17.800
want to come back and give you the money. She said,

1232
01:36:17.840 --> 01:36:20.000
but you got to come back. I said why. She said,

1233
01:36:20.000 --> 01:36:25.560
you left your trousers here. Okay, But it was weird

1234
01:36:25.680 --> 01:36:29.920
wearing glasses all the time to start with, And I

1235
01:36:29.960 --> 01:36:33.359
think some people because I've got active lights or active

1236
01:36:33.439 --> 01:36:37.079
lights so that it go dark in the in the sun,

1237
01:36:37.319 --> 01:36:43.560
sunlight all year round, so I think some people think

1238
01:36:43.600 --> 01:36:45.239
I'm walking around well, actually, a couple of people have

1239
01:36:45.319 --> 01:36:47.760
said it in the past, a lot of other dog walkers.

1240
01:36:48.199 --> 01:36:52.159
Why are you wearing shades in the winter, I said,

1241
01:36:52.199 --> 01:36:56.399
I'm not wearing shades. These are my glasses. They just

1242
01:36:56.479 --> 01:37:00.920
go they block out the sunlight in my eyes to

1243
01:37:01.199 --> 01:37:09.159
try and protect my eyes. Oh okay, So I think

1244
01:37:09.199 --> 01:37:11.920
some people think I'm walking around with sunglasses on in

1245
01:37:11.960 --> 01:37:16.880
the winter or when I first go into a place.

1246
01:37:17.159 --> 01:37:18.680
So if I go and listen, I was going to

1247
01:37:18.680 --> 01:37:23.840
go into the pet shop in the winter, I would

1248
01:37:23.880 --> 01:37:26.039
look like I was wearing sunglasses because it takes a

1249
01:37:26.039 --> 01:37:28.239
while for the lens to go down from dark to

1250
01:37:28.319 --> 01:37:32.520
be clear again. So the whole time I'm in that

1251
01:37:32.560 --> 01:37:39.279
pet shop, they might be thinking he's wearing sunglasses and

1252
01:37:39.319 --> 01:37:51.680
it's December, strange and raining. But they go dark. It's

1253
01:37:51.720 --> 01:37:55.479
just what they do. So I'm pretty sure my first

1254
01:37:55.560 --> 01:38:04.600
muma had some like this, our very first mother. I

1255
01:38:04.680 --> 01:38:07.560
just have a memory of her wearing dark glasses. Maybe

1256
01:38:07.560 --> 01:38:10.640
they were just sunshades, but she definitely wore glasses. So

1257
01:38:11.239 --> 01:38:16.000
I don't know when when. Okay, let me check when

1258
01:38:17.000 --> 01:38:35.079
did actor like? Okay, did glasses have history of people's glasses?

1259
01:38:35.680 --> 01:38:45.079
Some look sempty star glasses acting like? What is actor

1260
01:38:45.239 --> 01:38:52.600
like glasses through the decades? Oh, I can't believe did

1261
01:38:52.760 --> 01:39:02.560
act aviators not aviators? What are they called? Oh? I

1262
01:39:02.640 --> 01:39:08.000
can't see the glass has been around? What since nineteen twenties?

1263
01:39:08.680 --> 01:39:13.319
They around since before then? Weren't he eyeglasses history? I

1264
01:39:13.319 --> 01:39:17.920
don't really want to go through the whole eyeglasses history.

1265
01:39:18.239 --> 01:39:22.560
So history now, I'm just going to go for history

1266
01:39:22.800 --> 01:39:34.159
history of dark glasses. Dark glasses semi peppees an ingredient

1267
01:39:35.279 --> 01:39:40.640
Samuel Peppe Poor Peppe's has been credited with ordering the

1268
01:39:40.680 --> 01:39:46.720
first dark glasses made by English optician John Turlington, but,

1269
01:39:46.800 --> 01:39:50.720
according to his diary, used more for ogland women in

1270
01:39:50.840 --> 01:39:58.720
church than to shield his eyes from sunlight. Okay, I

1271
01:39:58.760 --> 01:40:00.439
didn't know that was going to be I mean up

1272
01:40:01.840 --> 01:40:06.920
the hinted of I suppose they would be called tinted.

1273
01:40:06.960 --> 01:40:12.159
But like mine aunt sunglasses, they just go dark. I

1274
01:40:12.239 --> 01:40:17.520
might get some, really, I might get some glasses just

1275
01:40:17.560 --> 01:40:24.000
to annoy people go down like a bit of you.

1276
01:40:24.399 --> 01:40:27.399
Remember Elton John back in well, I'm not the same.

1277
01:40:27.479 --> 01:40:29.920
Remember him. He's still around, but remember when he was

1278
01:40:29.960 --> 01:40:32.000
like in the seventies and the eighties, he'd be wearing

1279
01:40:32.039 --> 01:40:38.119
like really crazy glasses, and I might do that or

1280
01:40:38.239 --> 01:40:44.199
Danny LaRue, was it Danny LaRue Liberaci. Yeah, I might

1281
01:40:44.239 --> 01:40:49.600
go down a Liberaci route just wear really colorful spectacles,

1282
01:40:51.920 --> 01:40:55.640
or I might just get some normal glasses. I quite

1283
01:40:55.720 --> 01:41:02.880
like these frames. But last time, because they've got reading

1284
01:41:02.880 --> 01:41:05.800
bits at the bottom, I got two pairs of the

1285
01:41:05.840 --> 01:41:09.479
same glasses. So this is the second pair, warning the

1286
01:41:09.479 --> 01:41:12.960
other ones out. This is the second pair, and needs

1287
01:41:12.960 --> 01:41:16.560
are nearly worn out as well. It's been I think

1288
01:41:16.720 --> 01:41:20.760
three or four years, maybe four maybe longer since I

1289
01:41:20.840 --> 01:41:28.199
last had these. Yeah, I've talked myself into it. I'm

1290
01:41:28.199 --> 01:41:31.840
going to go and get an eyeglass, eyeglass test, eye

1291
01:41:31.840 --> 01:41:39.600
test for glasses. It's not really much of a history

1292
01:41:39.640 --> 01:41:43.560
of my glasses, is it. But that's that's kind of it.

1293
01:41:43.680 --> 01:41:45.920
I remember that when I bought I got my glasses

1294
01:41:46.000 --> 01:41:50.439
nineteen eighty nine, and they were my first reading only glasses,

1295
01:41:50.439 --> 01:41:57.199
I think, And when I got them, I was so excited,

1296
01:41:57.359 --> 01:42:00.720
went in collected Duman I think I'd already bought a

1297
01:42:00.720 --> 01:42:02.760
book to read and I was waiting for the to

1298
01:42:02.800 --> 01:42:06.119
get the glasses to anoint the book as it were,

1299
01:42:06.520 --> 01:42:13.319
or anoint the glasses with the book, and I sat

1300
01:42:13.399 --> 01:42:16.039
on them. I put them on the bed and I

1301
01:42:16.119 --> 01:42:22.159
sat down and I basically, yeah, sat on them. I

1302
01:42:22.159 --> 01:42:28.640
had to take them back and get them reshaped. And

1303
01:42:28.680 --> 01:42:35.479
that's it for me. So this is my Jason's was

1304
01:42:35.520 --> 01:42:41.159
it Monday's boring objects glasses? So thank you for listening.

1305
01:42:41.399 --> 01:42:44.039
Remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve

1306
01:42:44.079 --> 01:42:48.319
to be happy, and be gentle with yourself because you

1307
01:42:48.399 --> 01:43:00.119
do deserve to feel safe. Lots of love, Bye, let

1308
01:43:00.279 --> 01:43:00.920
Se