June 9, 2025

(no music) Picked Last | LMBYTS #1368 | 8th June 2025

(no music) Picked Last | LMBYTS #1368 | 8th June 2025
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Hello, and welcome to Jasonnewland dot com. My name's Jason

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Newland and this is let Me Buoy You to Sleep

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Sunday Edition. It's the Sunday Is it Sunday? Vinny some

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sitting down on my chair, crowded up to my little boy. Here,

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my little Vinnie, Vinnie Minilli. Hey, he hasn't had his

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dinner yet. We was having a proper punch up earlier.

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He was buying my feet while the straps on my

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on my pink crocs, bless him, and he was growling

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and everything. He was loving it. It's very aggressive, very aggressive.

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So I've just had a little bit to eat and

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they're gonna make this recording. Then I'm gonna go to bed. Yeah,

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I'm just gonna chill out. I made a recording earlier.

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It was yeah, I did it in bed. I was

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in bed in bed. That was weird. I havn't done

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one of them for a long time. I'm quite enjoying

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not sitting at the desk though, because I have to

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do that for the editing, and I'm not loving looking

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at a computer screen anymore, not for long periods of time.

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I think it's nice to just take a break from that.

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So when I do a recording, because you know, I

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never used to well, when I first started doing this

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let me Boy to Sleep recordings, I used to be

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in my black chair in the corner over there. I

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never had any equipment wide equipment. I mean, you know,

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as far as I was recording it, but I never

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had a laptop on my I was never looking at

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a laptop or looking at a phone or anything like that,

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as far as I remember, I'd just be reclined and

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trying not to move too much because that chair really

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squeaked a heck of a lot. So did I say,

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only listen when you can safely close your eyes. Also,

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my website's Jasonnewland dot com. All my recordings are on there.

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All the latest recordings are on the first page. When

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you go there, you can download them, you can stream them.

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You can even change the speed that you listen to them.

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So if I'm if I'm talking too fast, you can

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slow it down. I wonder how many people actually do that.

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You can also fast forward and stuff. What else O.

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My Facebook group is Jason Newland's Boring Group. Well that

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I've lost two members, I mean lost two people have

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either left the group, or come off of Facebook. I'm

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not sure. So if you are listening and you've left

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Facebook because I don't know, maybe I farted too much

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of something, I do apologize. But if you'd like to join,

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you're welcome. There's a link on my website directly to

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the Facebook group. He is a private group, but you're

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welcome to join, and you will be accepted as long

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as I don't know you in real life. Because I

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don't have real people, real people. I don't have family

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or friends on my Facebook group. That has annoyed a

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few people over the years, but it's fine. I'll try

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and explain it. I don't they have family and friends

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on Facebook full stop. You know if someone yeah, I

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just I did in the past. You know, in the

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early days, it's like because it was exciting, Facebook, Facebook

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me on Facebook. You like email? Remember when emails I'll

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email you or texting or texture, wow, someone's going to

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text me. Do you remember you get your first mobile

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phone and that very first text of the old d

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d D D D d d D whatever it used

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to be. It's like, wow, I'm popular. People really like me.

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They're sending me text is can't remember? Pretty like the nineties,

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late nineties, early two thousands, probably more than the nineties.

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The amount you'd hear in public did do do did

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dodd did or whatever the like texts coming through constantly,

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and that ping noise did did did? Did did? Or

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sometimes there'll be different sounds. It's like, come on, stop

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it stop. It don't seem to hear it so much.

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But then I'm not around humans, so I guess it

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might still be going on. But yeah, never really enjoyed it.

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I didn't even like hearing it myself on my own phone.

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As soon as the vibration option was available, I remember

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what was in a shop, in the mobile shop, and

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I got a new phone and they said I also

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has this new version has the option to vibrate, and

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I was very excited. Got a bit of a funny

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look from some of the staff. Why are you so

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excited about this really small phone that could fit in

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type places and it vibrates? Said no, I don't. It's

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not that. I just I don't want it going b

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b bepp. I'd rather just vibrate wherever I put it

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and let me know in my pocket I'm in, and

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let me know just that way. That's a much nicer way,

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even though I got my eyes closed and I can

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visualize that silver phone I used to have. Oh, I

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like that little phone. But two thousand and four, I

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think maybe two thousand and three, two thousand and four, Yeah,

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those was the days. My very first bobar phone was

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I think I got it in nineteen ninety either right

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near the end of ninety seven or early early nineteen

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ninety eight. It had an aerial on it, that's how

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old it was, and it was now then, but I

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had an aeriel. There was no I mean, this screen

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was kind of basic. I don't think. I'm not even

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sure if texts existed back then. It was phone calls.

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There was no vibrations on the phone, that is. Yeah,

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I don't think there was text then, and they're definitely

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not email. I mean email existed, but that was you know,

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Vira computer and I remember when text came in or

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you can send messages SMS? SMS what's that stand for

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Small Messaging Service? Wow, because it's on the phone's there's

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small messages. I'm pretty sure, I am I might be

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making this up. Pretty sure. There was a limit to

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the characters you could send a bit like Twitter. Remember

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when Twitter came out and you could only you could

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write like three words or something like that. But let's

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not talk about Twitter. Ah. I used to be on Twitter.

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I used to have a I used to post all

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my stuff on there, just the same as I did

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on Facebook and anywhere else that was available. But I

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just I don't know. I lost my account on Twitter.

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I've got locked out. I don't know. I just forgot

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what my password was, forgot what my email address was.

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Then I opened another one, and then I just I'm

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still on there, but it's just that hasn't been a

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post done in about five years, six years, because I

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can't get into the account. Do you know what my Space?

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I used to have about fifty thousand, over fifty thousand

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friends on there. I just wanted to tell someone I

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just remembered because every now and I want to talk

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about I took at my Space. And maybe I'm just

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trying to keep the memory alive of my Space, because

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I think there's maybe a lot of people, firstly, don't

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know what my Space is, don't realize that they were there.

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You know, if it wasn't for my Space, Facebook wouldn't exist.

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My Space was the first popular social networking site so popular,

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and then my space that was very straw Star Trek.

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He wasn't it dead Dead? I was turned into a

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Western soundtrack. Eha. I remember when I was a kid,

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I used to we used to dress up as cowboys

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and Indians. I liked being a cowboy because it had

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the guns, but I liked being in because of the

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head the head gear and stuff like that. Now I

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realized the term Indian isn't used anymore, but it was

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then so that that was the term of the game,

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cowboys and Indians, just as cops and robbers, you know,

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or if there was if there was an enemy, like

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if you were playing a football match and you were England,

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the other team would be Germany because there'd be the

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you know, they'd be the enemy because Germany. We had

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like an ongoing thing with Germany in football. For I

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say we I'm not into football, but Germany had just been.

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They're just really good footballers. They're just every country is

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good at football, especially compared to me. What I did

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once score a hat trick, and I remember those. I

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think I broke all the records at school for the

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most home for the most home goals in one match.

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In my case, it was three. So if someone had

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told me that you change sides halfway through, then I

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would have knew. You know, I didn't know. I was

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too busy spinning around until I got dizzy, pretending I

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was wonder woman, and then I'd just fall over and

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then wanted my stop. You know, it was no longer

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like dizzy. I'd get up and I'd spin around again,

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sometimes the opposite direction. So I wasn't always not always

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aware of the changes on the football pitch, because it's

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not like we were all we weren't wearing different costumes.

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Everyone was wearing the same stuff, you know, the same

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colored shirts, the same colored shorts. So it can be

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a bit confusing. You know, in a like professional or

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proper football match, you know there's blue shirts and yellow shirts.

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That like makes it a little bit easier, and it's

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the same team. You know, you've got your same your

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team players. But at school, it's it's like everyone stressed

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the same. How am I supposed to remember who's on

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one side, especially as that side changed every time we played,

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so every every week or every twice a week, it

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would change, So it's like I don't know who who's

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on my side? I was always chosen last. And that's

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the thing I didn't really enjoy. Well it's not it's

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not the top thing, but it's one of the things

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I didn't really enjoy about. You know, going to school

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is that whole. The pe teacher or gym teacher, whatever

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you want to call him, he always like chose two

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of the like the top boys, his favorite look his favorites. Yeah,

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and then it'd say to them, you're the team leader.

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Now you choose who you want in your football team,

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or in your hockey team, or in your basketball team.

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There's an other sports was I don't mean in the world,

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but that we played. That's how I ever played rugby, cricket,

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played cricket, but I think I only played cricket junior school.

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But that didn't work out well because they learn quite

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early on that if you check a ball at me,

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well basically, don't check a ball at me if I've

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got a piece of wood in my hand, because if

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that ball hits me, I'm coming for you. And that

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is what I was like. Unfortunately, so I got banned

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from cricket in junior school because someone chucked a ball

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hit me in the knee. I was all padded up

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and everything with the with the bat hit me in

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the knee, but hit me in the wrong knee, so

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I think you only have only had one pad on her.

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And they were laughing, and I fought that almost hurt more.

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And I looked down at my knee, and then I

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looked down at the big, large cricket bat, which is

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probably as big as I was. And yeah, so I

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was not allowed to play cricket again. And then in

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high school we had hockey. And in hockey, as in football,

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there's a lot of fowling. And by that I don't

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mean like poohing on the pitch. What I mean is

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there's a lot of in football kicking and pushing stuff.

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But in hockey, even though again we've all padded up

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for some reason, hitting each other in his shins seemed

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to be acceptable but not to me, And it didn't

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make sense or to hit the ball at my face

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or why would they do that? So I'm thinking it's

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got to be a bit silly to do that when

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I have this big bit of wood in my hand.

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So yeah, I was chasing people. So I got banned

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band from playing hockey. I remember saying, like why why

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pe teacher. Mister Jim teacher, Why why are you banning me?

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He says, because of what you did. I said, I

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didn't do anything. He said, you literally chased someone around

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the field for half an hour waving the hockey stick.

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I said, yeah, that's what you're supposed to do, isn't it.

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I said, yeah, when you're on the field, you're not

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supposed to chase them out of the school. It's like, well,

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just sportsmanship. He said, you followed him home. You're banging

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on the window of his home. That's not on. It's

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not that I didn't like cheetahs, It's just I just

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didn't like people. Yeah, fowls, I didn't. Again, I'm not

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talking about poo on the pitch, I said. When I said,

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I'm not talking about it, I just talked about it twice,

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but I'm not literally talking about it, as in, this's

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have a big conversation. No, no, but fowling. Can you

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know a dog foul dog fouling on the grass? So well,

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that's a that's like an English word for poop, poop, poop.

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But yeah, I'm not talking about that. I think the

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most annoying thing though, with football, because I never got

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banned from football because that was the last sport. There

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was nothing else. They tried me with everything else, basketball

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that was pointless. I mean, I was just so sure.

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It was everybody was. I was pretty much. They got

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a point in high school where I came up to

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pretty much the chef of most of the other lads,

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the other boys in my ear, I came up to

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their chest. I was so sure. So I was. There's

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a lot of like adults really, so you know, they'd

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gone through the change, gone through the initial many pause

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the boys go through when they're twelve thirteen and turned

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and turned into little were wolves. And I was still

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a little boy. Really. I was still just talking with

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my high pitched voice, like now really and yeah, I do. Yeah.

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I didn't care when everyone else was a kid. But

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then when they started like getting well turned into men. Really,

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that's when I didn't really like it, didn't didn't, you know,

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because I was still a kid. So I couldn't physically

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match them, not that I could match them before because

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I was tiny. But is a little bit is a

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different energy, you know, it's a different a different kind

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of strength. You know, when someone's now, when someone's a

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man compared to a child, there is a different strength

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and they could run faster and I couldn't catch them

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with my hockey stick. No, I didn't tennis. I was

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only good at tennis against one person, and it was

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weird because no one else would play me at tennis

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because I wasn't very good. By a friend who would

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play me, but he was awful, And it was frustrating

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because now I know what it feels like to play myself.

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I now I know what it feels like for other

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people because I'm not very good. I wasn't very good

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at tennis. He was worse than me. I don't know

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if he was just doing it as a joke. It

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could be just as a little giggle, but it's frustrating.

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So I just hit the ball onto the roof and

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walked off. I mean, our relationship was starting to crumble

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a little bit at that point. Yeah, it's weird, but yeah,

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cops and robbers used to play that. You know, would

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wear a mask, so basically cops and robbers, one would

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be causing trouble bullying people and the other person would

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be a robber. So yeah, it was we didn't have

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to wear a big striped onesie with a mask and

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for some reason some French hat didn't have to do that.

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You know there's French hats. Actually that's not now, maybe

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I was getting muddled up between my artists. Do you

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know that my artists in France with the white makeup

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and the French hat. I can't remember what it's called

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off the Oh what was it called beret? No? But

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I don't think it was a beret. Maybe it was

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a beret and the big boots or white, but stripes

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down the top, maybe down the whole thing, and then

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a mask a little bit like sorrow sorrow. See, that's

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really skillful to be able to do that. Yeah, whenever

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he fought anyone sorrow, he was left a z on

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their chest but never come, never injured their chest, but

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managed to do it so it ripped open their their

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top just in the shape of a z. That's phenomenal,

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that is, though, isn't it. I mean, it's like, that's

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skillful to be able to do that and not cause

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any injury. Is that's a skill that I'll what's not

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skill I ever wanted, but it's just skillful. I always

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kind of thought that I'd be quite cool to be

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a fencer. I remember saying to my dad, would like

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to be a fencer. But you know, I don't think

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he really understood what I meant. I was thinking, he's

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going to go out and buy me a sword and

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maybe a nice mask. They brought me some varnish for

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a fense. Uh what's that stuff he used to Is

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it varnish? There's another thing, isn't there? Stick like really stinks.

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Got a varnished defense? You don't have to Yeah, it

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needs doing. Yeah, we don't have to do it, though,

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do it but needs doing. My windows need cleaning, but

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they're not being cleaned. My carpet needs vacuuming, it's not

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getting very vacuumed. My underpants need changing. That's when my

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dad just walks out of the room. It's like one

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day we'll finish, finish a conversation the amount of Christmases

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that he's walked out. So, yeah, I suppose using the

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term cowboys and Indians, that's what it was called back then.

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But back then we didn't we didn't have education about

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the indigenous people of different entries. That history wasn't really

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taught at the time. The thing is, it's going to

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be hard for a lot of people. Anyone I reckon

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under the age of fifty or forty five won't realize

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how much Western stuff there was on television, you know.

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And this is stuff from the fifties and the sixties

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and the seventies. It was still being shown constantly in

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the early eighties, Western movies, TV shows based on the West.

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Even Kung Fu was based on the Western era Klin

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Eastwood movies and all those old movies from the sixties

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like Paint My Wagon. I was bored and and stole

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you know, Lee Marvin and Doc Dallis Clinton's but as well,

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wasn't it. I think I've got a flies attacking me.

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Stop it. It's got a little hockey stick, and what

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should I said? Where's my hockey stick? Hockey sticks are

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quite good because it got a nice grip. So I remember,

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this is how bad it was. I was always picked last.

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So when we were queuing up, I didn't like I

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didn't like that system. I really didn't like the system.

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It's it seemed to me almost like a former bullion

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like to just or humiliation. You know, it's definitely humiliation

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because the teacher just seemed to be it just sit back,

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sit in a chair, starts smoking a cigar, you know,

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eating truffles, giggling. He just found it hilarious just watching

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us all squirm. And then it got down to like

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the last maybe three or four people, and neither of

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the leaders or the boys that were in charge of

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the teens, neither of them wanted to pick any of

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the ones that were left. We were like, I don't

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like a roast dinner. And always left was some cabbage.

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We were the cabbage, and maybe some of the fat

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off the beef, you know, the stuff that no one

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wants to actually eat. That's what was left. And perhaps

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a dead fly in the gravy. That's that's what I was.

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I was the I was the fly in the gravy.

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I was like, oh, it didn't really do myself esteem

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much good if I'm honest. I remember I was the

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amount of times I was chosen last. It was this

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is just standly for football, and I was chosen last.

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I wasn't was it football? Was it basketball? No, it's football,

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and I was chosen last. I was like, I went

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to the teacher, I said, look, this is just ridiculous.

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Is what were you talking about? Jews? And I said,

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because everyone did an impression of different strokes. Back then,

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we talked about Thomas, were talking about Bob like everyone

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did it, you know, different strikes with such a huge show.

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Even though I don't think it was even on. I

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think I don't know if it was on in the

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early eighties. I know it was on in the late seventies.

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Different Strong to Brule the World. More Commindy, Doo Doo

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do do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do

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Do Do Do Do do do do do. That's the

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wrong tune. I loved more Commindy. The thing about it

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with more Commindy is I think with a lot of

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firm sitcoms TV shows, rarely, in my humble opinion, do

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replacement characters or new characters improved the show. So there

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was a TV show called Bread and they replaced two

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of the main characters. Aveline was one of the main people,

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and she left and they got another person in and

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it wasn't the same because the first one was just

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so good. She know, she was one of the more

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memorable characters in the show. They were all memorable, but

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she was. I say that. I can't remember them. I

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remember one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, Yeah, nine, yes,

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I remember quite a few of them. But when they

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changed the characters, it didn't improve it. Or with Minder,

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when Terry left, they got in Arthur Day's nephew. I

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still watched it because I'm I'm loyal to a TV show,

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you know, especially when I was younger, I was very loyal.

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If I watch a TV show, I watched it every

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single week, every episode, regardless of what they did, I'd

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keep watching it. Not so loyal these days, perhaps, but

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back then I was. And I can't really remember too

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many times when the new characters have improved the show.

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With Minder, it it really didn't. It was fresh, you know,

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it's different, but it wasn't the same because Terry and

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Arthur Daily were a double act. You know that that

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this is mind of It's a It's a really famous

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TV show for the eighties, really, I suppose, and maybe

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nineties as well. But yeah, it lost it lost something.

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We lost Terry. So yeah, but then a couple of

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American shows managed to do it, and one of those

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was Cheers because when Diane Diane left the show, and

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I was a huge years fan, like really massive, I'd

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watch it every Friday, and I didn't really know what

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they're going to do. How are they gonna how can

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they replace her? They didn't replace her, They did kind

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of got a new female lead character or co co lead,

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and Kirse the Alli was brilliant, but just in a

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different way. Just so yeah, just literally I've never seen

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anyone that can cry well, I haven't met people who

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can cry easily, but like, just it was so funny

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just to start crying just out of nowhere. And Kirsty

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Allie was great, and I think it was quite good

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because her and Sam wass some Rebecca, wasn't it so

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Rebecca and Sam. It wasn't really about them. I know,

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there was a little bit of a thing, wasn't there.

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But it wasn't really about them. It was more about

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her and wanting to be with whoever whatever high flyer

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boss there was that had taken over the bar or

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that was. She wanted to be a billionaire. So that was, yeah,

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that was I like that. I can't think of the

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other one now because it's gone out of my head

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because I was talking so much about other stuff. Whatever. Replacement,

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oh more commindy now more comminded. There wasn't a replacement,

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but there was an addition, which I think actually improved

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the show. I love the show anyway, But when Mork

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and Mindy had a baby, Mirth and he was grown

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a fully grown adult, like a man in his sixties

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or whatever, fifties or sixties, fifties, I don't know how

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old he was when he did that show, probably fifties, forties, fifties.

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So funny like he was to me, even though I

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was a massive Robin Williams fan, massive Mark and Mindy,

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Mark Nanu nan who loved that. But Mirth was just hilarious.

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I didn't realize at the time because a kid didn't

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know he was a very famous comedian. Mirth and these

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name's gone out of my head. It was never in

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my head. But he's for those that no years. I

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don't know what I mean. He was known for telling

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stories and he yeah, was very, very famous in America,

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and that it was just perfect. At that part. I

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was going to say that probably no one else could

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have really done it, but that's one of those things.

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It's like it's easy to say that, isn't it, But

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in reality, loads of people probably could have done it.

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They just would have been different. I mean, it's like

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saying oh, no one else could have really pulled off

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the I'm trying to think, let's say the Rocky movies. Oh,

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no one could have done that. So Lester Stallone he

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made those his own. And yeah he did. I mean, yeah,

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there's no doubt in that one. But the idea that

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no one else could have played the character because initially

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the production company didn't want him to play the character,

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did they. They wanted another actor to do it. It

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would have been different, but it still might have been

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hugely successful because the story was great. So imagine, I

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don't know, someone like pee Herman or you know, some

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some Steve Martin or someone that was famous around that

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in the eighties, seventies or whatever. I don't know. I'm

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trying to think of so mentioned pee Wee Herman. I'm

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just thinking of him shouting at Adrian with his squeaky

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voice made me laugh. I don't I tried to watch

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his TV show and it was a little bit. I

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don't know. I liked the pee Wee Herman. Is it

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the p we Herman loses his bicycle or something, and

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just the way he talks and then shouts and the

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talks and very funny, very funny. Character. He wasn't really

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a huge star in the UK. I don't. I don't

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recall ever seeing pee Wee Herman, the p we Herman

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Show on television in this country, and I was a

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definite like TV adding really when I was a kid,

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I mean I didn't. Yeah, I didn't stay up till

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late in the early eighties. I didn't start staying up

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till late on our weeknight or school night until I

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got my own TV. So I had a black and

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white TV when I was about fourteen, and that's when

466
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I started watching late night Telly All. It was. It

467
00:43:35.760 --> 00:43:41.920
was among the most exciting time of my life because

468
00:43:41.960 --> 00:43:53.159
for the first time in privacy, I had complete control

469
00:43:55.119 --> 00:44:00.400
of a television. You know. I used to go into

470
00:44:00.440 --> 00:44:07.840
the living room after school. I'd watch Grange Hill and

471
00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:11.000
often I wouldn't be bothered because both my brothers were

472
00:44:11.000 --> 00:44:13.599
older they didn't watch it. They didn't watch that show.

473
00:44:14.280 --> 00:44:17.360
My little brother was too young, so he didn't watch it. So,

474
00:44:17.639 --> 00:44:21.159
you know, sometimes I'd have a nice hour where I

475
00:44:21.159 --> 00:44:28.599
could just watch TV on my own, but if one

476
00:44:28.639 --> 00:44:30.840
of my older brothers came in they decided they wanted

477
00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:33.440
to watch something else, they just turned the TV over

478
00:44:39.320 --> 00:44:41.840
or any minute, I could be called in to do something,

479
00:44:42.280 --> 00:44:45.960
you know, maybe it's dinner time or you know, something

480
00:44:46.000 --> 00:44:49.320
like that, so I could be disturbed. But when I

481
00:44:49.360 --> 00:44:52.119
was in my bedroom upstairs, right at the top of

482
00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:57.840
the house, oh it's lovely, I have all the lights off.

483
00:44:57.880 --> 00:45:00.199
While I had had one night i'd had that off,

484
00:45:01.239 --> 00:45:09.199
had the TV flickering away, and I started discovering what

485
00:45:09.400 --> 00:45:15.639
happened after bedtime because I didn't know during the week

486
00:45:15.840 --> 00:45:18.559
I was in bed at I don't know, eight thirty

487
00:45:18.679 --> 00:45:24.159
nine at that time. I'm not sure what the time,

488
00:45:24.280 --> 00:45:27.800
probably nine maybe, but you know, it was earlier when

489
00:45:27.800 --> 00:45:33.199
I was younger, apart from the weekends, so Saturday, I

490
00:45:33.199 --> 00:45:38.599
think maybe Friday night, Saturday we could But even then,

491
00:45:38.679 --> 00:45:45.119
because I had early morning paper rounds working in the yeah,

492
00:45:45.199 --> 00:45:49.039
in the bakery, I'd have to get up at like

493
00:45:49.159 --> 00:45:52.639
five in the morning, so I wasn't I wasn't staying

494
00:45:52.719 --> 00:45:57.599
up late at the weekends, but on a school night,

495
00:46:03.920 --> 00:46:05.920
regardless of what time I had to get up in

496
00:46:05.960 --> 00:46:11.800
the morning, because I wasn't going to watch it. I thought, well,

497
00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:14.840
I got TV. Brilliant. I never have to leave my

498
00:46:14.960 --> 00:46:19.239
room again. Then I thought, I'm going to have to eat.

499
00:46:20.320 --> 00:46:24.400
Why can't we have one of those lazy waiters is

500
00:46:24.519 --> 00:46:27.440
what they call them, where the food can be sent up.

501
00:46:30.360 --> 00:46:33.239
I did mention to my step mom, said, if I

502
00:46:33.679 --> 00:46:38.079
just if you keep twenty percent of my pocket money,

503
00:46:38.480 --> 00:46:41.400
can you just deliver my food to my door, to

504
00:46:41.440 --> 00:46:49.440
my bedroom room service? And she laughed the amount of

505
00:46:49.440 --> 00:46:51.239
times that she laughed at stuff I said when I

506
00:46:51.280 --> 00:46:55.639
was actually being serious, it's amazing. She probably thought I

507
00:46:55.679 --> 00:46:59.440
was quite a funny kid. But I was actually being like, no, really,

508
00:46:59.480 --> 00:47:06.079
will you just deliver my food to my door? Because

509
00:47:06.079 --> 00:47:08.159
I didn't want to leave because I had my television.

510
00:47:09.360 --> 00:47:18.199
That's all I needed. Television, my books, a little tape

511
00:47:18.239 --> 00:47:29.679
recorder to listen to music, my radio. For that little period,

512
00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:32.000
I mean, I must have been doing karate as well,

513
00:47:32.079 --> 00:47:39.840
so there was more going on. But something magical happened,

514
00:47:39.880 --> 00:47:46.119
because I remember thinking for years, what happens when I

515
00:47:46.159 --> 00:47:53.239
go to sleep a half eight in the evening? What

516
00:47:53.440 --> 00:48:00.400
happens because I hear things? There's people downstairs love laughing

517
00:48:01.360 --> 00:48:03.679
my fato because as I said, my brothers were a

518
00:48:03.719 --> 00:48:07.159
lot older, the parents were a lot older, and they'd

519
00:48:07.199 --> 00:48:11.840
be up to ten eleven or whatever, And I think,

520
00:48:12.239 --> 00:48:15.800
what are they watching? Sounds like they're watching television, but

521
00:48:15.920 --> 00:48:22.599
what is it? Sometimes they go downstairs and pretend to

522
00:48:22.719 --> 00:48:29.840
need a drink and I'd pop in and I'd see

523
00:48:30.159 --> 00:48:37.719
like maybe thirty seconds of an episode of Kojak, and

524
00:48:37.760 --> 00:48:42.880
I'd be thinking, Wow, spend the next week walking around

525
00:48:43.000 --> 00:48:47.440
saying who loves your baby? That's going to be lost

526
00:48:47.440 --> 00:48:54.440
on most people. What is he talking about? He loved

527
00:48:54.480 --> 00:48:59.360
sucking lollipops. That's what he was famous for, being bored

528
00:48:59.400 --> 00:49:04.840
and sucking lollypops and saying, who loves your baby? Great

529
00:49:04.960 --> 00:49:23.199
screen presence, Oh Kojak, very memorable, memorable, memorable voice. What

530
00:49:23.280 --> 00:49:28.760
of the things did I see on the Telly? Sure?

531
00:49:28.800 --> 00:49:32.960
There was another show that I wasn't allowed to watch? Well,

532
00:49:33.159 --> 00:49:39.199
shows that were on that I didn't get to see,

533
00:49:40.000 --> 00:49:43.920
maybe shows that I've never seen because they were on

534
00:49:44.239 --> 00:49:51.400
too late. The ten o'clock news. I sometimes thought to myself,

535
00:49:52.639 --> 00:49:57.199
what happens on that news? Is it different from the

536
00:49:57.960 --> 00:50:05.440
six o'clock news. What if something's happened I don't know

537
00:50:05.559 --> 00:50:12.119
about it, space invasion or something like that, not the game.

538
00:50:12.360 --> 00:50:23.320
But so I remember the the first night of having

539
00:50:23.360 --> 00:50:27.840
my own television, and I sat down on my bed,

540
00:50:27.880 --> 00:50:30.039
and I looked at it. Didn't turn it on, you.

541
00:50:31.039 --> 00:50:35.599
I just looked at it. I just let it all

542
00:50:35.679 --> 00:50:49.000
just soak in my own television, my own television, and

543
00:50:49.119 --> 00:50:57.360
I can choose to watch any channel I want, as

544
00:50:57.360 --> 00:51:03.559
long as it's BBC one, BBC two, ITV and channel

545
00:51:03.559 --> 00:51:08.239
four because that's what we had, four channels. It doesn't

546
00:51:08.280 --> 00:51:10.800
seem particularly exciting if you break it down like that,

547
00:51:10.920 --> 00:51:15.679
but I can watch all four. I can watch all

548
00:51:15.719 --> 00:51:23.760
four channels. Wow. There was no remote control. It was

549
00:51:23.800 --> 00:51:26.679
an old black and white one with a knob that

550
00:51:26.719 --> 00:51:29.800
you had to turn in order to turn it on,

551
00:51:30.039 --> 00:51:33.039
and then another one, so I think it was I think,

552
00:51:33.559 --> 00:51:36.159
I think about it. If you turn it, No, you

553
00:51:36.199 --> 00:51:39.119
had to put it out to turn it on, turn

554
00:51:39.199 --> 00:51:41.639
it for the volume. And then there was another dial

555
00:51:41.760 --> 00:51:48.480
around it which would tune the television into the different channels,

556
00:51:49.679 --> 00:51:54.559
which is kind of weird, that whole thing. So it

557
00:51:54.639 --> 00:51:59.159
was it was an aerial and your kind of It

558
00:51:59.239 --> 00:52:01.840
was a lucky dip really to see everyone like work,

559
00:52:05.360 --> 00:52:10.039
which is, you know, it's only four channels. But it

560
00:52:10.119 --> 00:52:14.000
was so exciting the first time I sat down and

561
00:52:14.840 --> 00:52:18.719
I was about to watch the news at ten, What

562
00:52:18.840 --> 00:52:22.079
is this secret thing. What are they going to be

563
00:52:22.119 --> 00:52:26.760
talking about? Exactly the same as the news at six,

564
00:52:27.760 --> 00:52:31.159
six o'clock news, ten o'clock news. It's the same, like

565
00:52:31.400 --> 00:52:34.480
what I mean, not every day, I mean, but like

566
00:52:34.719 --> 00:52:38.039
you know, it's just repeated pretty much the same stuff.

567
00:52:39.800 --> 00:52:51.039
Very disappointed, and I started delving. I started some research.

568
00:52:53.719 --> 00:52:59.079
The thing is I didn't have a TV guide. There

569
00:52:59.159 --> 00:53:05.800
was a TV guide downstairs, but it was surrounded by

570
00:53:05.920 --> 00:53:10.519
humans watching television, and I was in bed and I

571
00:53:10.559 --> 00:53:14.199
was supposed to be asleep, so I couldn't go down

572
00:53:14.239 --> 00:53:23.519
there because they might notice me, so I thought, so

573
00:53:23.559 --> 00:53:28.000
I had to pretty much. I guess it's the equivalent

574
00:53:28.360 --> 00:53:36.599
of surfing the internet. I don't know if anyone uses

575
00:53:36.639 --> 00:53:42.440
that term surfing the internet anymore, like Cowboys and Indians

576
00:53:42.519 --> 00:53:45.000
is not used anymore. That's why I would never use it.

577
00:53:48.559 --> 00:53:52.239
I think. The thing that annoyed me most about getting

578
00:53:52.320 --> 00:53:58.920
picked last is there was this one time. It's not

579
00:53:58.960 --> 00:54:02.480
even a joke. It's one time the kid in a

580
00:54:02.519 --> 00:54:08.880
wheelchair was picked before me. It's not as serious as

581
00:54:08.880 --> 00:54:17.800
seriously happened, as like, it's just no respect. I've got

582
00:54:17.880 --> 00:54:22.440
no respect. He was in a wheelchair because of his weight,

583
00:54:23.119 --> 00:54:28.119
basically had a glandular thing. Really nice bloke. Not really

584
00:54:28.159 --> 00:54:32.840
talked to him. I used to say he loo to

585
00:54:32.920 --> 00:54:38.920
him because I thought, you know, no one's talking to him,

586
00:54:40.679 --> 00:54:45.400
and just because, like, because he looks a bit different.

587
00:54:46.000 --> 00:54:48.000
I know what it's like. I've always looked a little

588
00:54:48.000 --> 00:54:54.079
bit different. Really, I've just been too good looking. That's

589
00:54:54.079 --> 00:54:58.079
one of the problems I've had over the years, too attractive.

590
00:55:01.159 --> 00:55:04.000
And I remember us talking to him and said, all right,

591
00:55:04.639 --> 00:55:07.760
and he said to me, why are you Why are

592
00:55:07.840 --> 00:55:10.920
you talking to me? I said, what do you mean?

593
00:55:11.079 --> 00:55:13.760
He said, why are you talking? Do you keep saying

594
00:55:13.800 --> 00:55:18.840
helone and asking me how I am? I said, I

595
00:55:18.920 --> 00:55:22.840
don't know, just I don't really know what to say

596
00:55:22.840 --> 00:55:28.320
to him. And he said, it's just really weird. I

597
00:55:28.360 --> 00:55:31.400
said why. He said, well, there is I don't know

598
00:55:31.480 --> 00:55:34.480
how many people in this year, how many people in

599
00:55:34.519 --> 00:55:40.400
this school, hundreds of people in this school. Right, Nobody

600
00:55:40.440 --> 00:55:51.119
talks to me, but you do. And I said, okay,

601
00:55:51.880 --> 00:55:54.920
I said, well why why why do you look so sad?

602
00:55:54.960 --> 00:55:57.880
He said, because you're You're the last person I want

603
00:55:57.920 --> 00:56:00.239
to talk to. Why do Why do I get stuck? You?

604
00:56:00.960 --> 00:56:03.519
All those other people and they get stuck with you.

605
00:56:05.519 --> 00:56:07.719
I mean, if you not noticed or even more unpopular

606
00:56:07.800 --> 00:56:12.280
than me, you get picked last. And I thought it's

607
00:56:12.280 --> 00:56:16.519
a bit ungrateful. I just offered to eat half of

608
00:56:16.519 --> 00:56:22.079
his sandwich. But no, some people just don't appreciate anything.

609
00:56:25.519 --> 00:56:30.440
There was this one girl and just shows you how wrong,

610
00:56:31.599 --> 00:56:37.639
how wrong to judge someone from the thing is I

611
00:56:37.719 --> 00:56:40.079
was judging her from years and years and years of

612
00:56:40.119 --> 00:56:42.719
being in a classroom with her. So it wasn't like

613
00:56:42.800 --> 00:56:47.079
judging her from appearance or judging her from meeting her

614
00:56:47.119 --> 00:56:50.599
once or twice. I literally was in a classroom with

615
00:56:50.719 --> 00:56:59.679
her multiple times a week for four years, and I

616
00:56:59.719 --> 00:57:02.559
was all so in the dances class with her for

617
00:57:02.599 --> 00:57:06.360
about six months or a year. So yeah, I knew her,

618
00:57:07.079 --> 00:57:14.519
but I knew her as an observed her. She would

619
00:57:14.519 --> 00:57:18.119
not talk to anybody, she would not talk to a teacher,

620
00:57:18.559 --> 00:57:24.159
she would not do any work. She refused. Sometimes she'd

621
00:57:24.159 --> 00:57:27.480
have her tantrum and leave, but generally she would not

622
00:57:27.599 --> 00:57:34.440
do anything. And in the last year of school, we

623
00:57:34.519 --> 00:57:40.559
were all given wasn't work experience, because I had work

624
00:57:40.599 --> 00:57:43.719
experience in a building firm, but this was a separate thing.

625
00:57:44.280 --> 00:57:48.679
It is part of some lesson and schools full of

626
00:57:48.679 --> 00:57:53.199
those things and it lessens. So I was sent to

627
00:57:53.280 --> 00:57:58.199
this nursery like a children's not not with plants, but

628
00:57:58.280 --> 00:58:03.639
a children's place where the kids go at nursery school.

629
00:58:03.920 --> 00:58:12.079
So I was sent there on a Friday afternoon I

630
00:58:12.119 --> 00:58:22.000
think it was, or maybe yeah, Friday afternoon, and I

631
00:58:22.039 --> 00:58:25.760
got picked to go with her or she got picked

632
00:58:25.760 --> 00:58:32.000
to go with me, one of them. And I was like, ah,

633
00:58:32.360 --> 00:58:34.360
I don't know who was more disappointed me or her

634
00:58:35.719 --> 00:58:38.559
it was, you know, I think we both. I just

635
00:58:38.599 --> 00:58:40.599
thought she was a weirdo and she probably thought I

636
00:58:40.719 --> 00:58:47.719
was a weirdo. And it's really strange because we had

637
00:58:47.760 --> 00:58:51.639
to walk why. I think they were just making fun

638
00:58:51.679 --> 00:58:55.480
of us, because not only did they send us together

639
00:58:55.800 --> 00:58:59.920
knowing that we never ever talked, never had a conversation

640
00:59:00.239 --> 00:59:06.000
in four years, knowing that she was probably the most

641
00:59:06.000 --> 00:59:11.039
difficult person in the classroom in the whole year, maybe

642
00:59:11.039 --> 00:59:13.719
I was the most annoying. So that's why they did it.

643
00:59:16.719 --> 00:59:19.599
And we had to walk to the other side of town.

644
00:59:20.039 --> 00:59:23.960
I'm not even exaggerating. It was a good hour walk

645
00:59:24.519 --> 00:59:31.599
to get to this place. Okay, from school. Our walk

646
00:59:31.639 --> 00:59:38.280
there and by the same back, I suppose, and we

647
00:59:38.360 --> 00:59:42.800
started walking than the first time, and we were just

648
00:59:42.840 --> 00:59:46.679
walking separate. I was trying to get ahead of her,

649
00:59:46.679 --> 00:59:53.360
but she was taller than me. It turned out we

650
00:59:53.440 --> 01:00:05.119
became best friends, but only during that listen how weird.

651
01:00:05.679 --> 01:00:11.000
We would chat and laugh, mess about, you know, just

652
01:00:11.119 --> 01:00:15.360
really have a good time. As we walked there and

653
01:00:15.480 --> 01:00:19.239
on our way back where we were there, it was

654
01:00:19.320 --> 01:00:24.920
like fun. But as soon as we got close to

655
01:00:24.960 --> 01:00:27.800
the school, that was it. She stopped talking to me

656
01:00:28.159 --> 01:00:39.320
and ignored me until the next Friday. It was like,

657
01:00:39.639 --> 01:00:46.800
this is strange because it's almost that she had this.

658
01:00:49.159 --> 01:00:52.519
I think she was just pretending to be awkward because

659
01:00:52.559 --> 01:01:06.679
she was really nice, actually very funny and good company.

660
01:01:06.719 --> 01:01:15.320
It was, yeah, very very strange. And I don't know.

661
01:01:15.639 --> 01:01:17.599
I don't know what she thought of me. She probably

662
01:01:18.559 --> 01:01:20.360
I don't know what anyone. I really don't know what

663
01:01:20.400 --> 01:01:26.519
anyone's ever thought about me. Really, I can't read minds.

664
01:01:28.119 --> 01:01:30.960
That's what a lot of people say that this. You can't.

665
01:01:31.000 --> 01:01:33.280
You can't read minds. He thinks he can, but you can't.

666
01:01:35.119 --> 01:01:37.320
The amount of people I've met that seem to know

667
01:01:37.920 --> 01:01:40.239
that if they think they know what other people are thinking,

668
01:01:41.599 --> 01:01:52.320
and they don't, they really don't. Okay, And if it's

669
01:01:52.360 --> 01:01:54.000
a good thing that we don't know what each other

670
01:01:54.039 --> 01:02:01.760
are thinking. BlimE me. I can't think of any other

671
01:02:01.800 --> 01:02:09.119
TV shows that where there's been a change in characters.

672
01:02:11.199 --> 01:02:16.239
Probably The Cosby Show when they brought in because remember,

673
01:02:17.119 --> 01:02:23.119
is it Hailey? Who was Claire Haley the little girl

674
01:02:24.599 --> 01:02:28.639
who was hilarious when The Cosby Show first came out,

675
01:02:30.280 --> 01:02:33.840
and then she got old and they brought in another

676
01:02:33.880 --> 01:02:39.079
little girl. I don't know if it was someone they adopted,

677
01:02:39.280 --> 01:02:41.760
or maybe it's one of their kids' daughters or something,

678
01:02:42.920 --> 01:02:48.639
and then she was really funny, So that was not Claire,

679
01:02:48.840 --> 01:03:04.639
because Claire is his wife. Claire. I can't remember Hayley. Oh,

680
01:03:04.719 --> 01:03:10.519
it's Huxtable. I know that's a surname. I don't even

681
01:03:10.559 --> 01:03:19.719
remember what his name was in it, doctor Huxtable. H

682
01:03:25.239 --> 01:03:29.840
There was a weird TV show right, and this was

683
01:03:29.880 --> 01:03:34.239
in in the early eighties called Blake seven. Blake was

684
01:03:34.280 --> 01:03:37.599
only in the very first series and then he wasn't

685
01:03:37.599 --> 01:03:42.920
in it anymore. I think they messed up a little

686
01:03:42.960 --> 01:03:46.039
bit with the title of that, didn't they He wasn't

687
01:03:46.039 --> 01:03:50.000
in it now. I don't think he knew he wasn't

688
01:03:50.000 --> 01:03:52.000
going to be in it because it was clearly the

689
01:03:52.039 --> 01:03:54.840
start of the show because they called it Blake seven

690
01:03:55.840 --> 01:03:59.719
because there was seven people with Blake, or there might

691
01:03:59.719 --> 01:04:06.679
have been six people with Blake, and Blake made the seventh. Well,

692
01:04:06.679 --> 01:04:08.559
I guess he would have made the first because he

693
01:04:08.639 --> 01:04:21.440
was the leader. Hm hmm. Goodies and Baddies used to

694
01:04:21.480 --> 01:04:27.000
be kind of another kind of game, you know, because

695
01:04:27.000 --> 01:04:28.360
there was a lot of that. There's a lot of

696
01:04:30.039 --> 01:04:35.519
cop shows on TV, like CHIPS. I remember riding about

697
01:04:35.559 --> 01:04:41.159
on my on my bike and thinking I was in Chips.

698
01:04:42.119 --> 01:04:48.239
I was a police motorbike person and what he used

699
01:04:48.239 --> 01:04:50.440
to do. I wasn't the only one who did this.

700
01:04:52.360 --> 01:04:58.519
We used to cut up a plastic what's it called

701
01:04:58.880 --> 01:05:03.519
that fairy liquid bottle and then attach it with pegs

702
01:05:04.119 --> 01:05:08.280
to the spokes so it clicked when the wheel went round.

703
01:05:09.400 --> 01:05:16.280
That was us turning our little bikes into powerful motorbikes.

704
01:05:20.079 --> 01:05:23.079
Apparently I didn't look so good. I'd look better if

705
01:05:23.119 --> 01:05:28.960
I hadn't got stabilizers, which is a bit rude. I

706
01:05:28.960 --> 01:05:33.159
think all bikes should have stabilizers so that when you

707
01:05:33.360 --> 01:05:36.519
just get off it, it stays standing up. That makes sense,

708
01:05:38.000 --> 01:05:40.760
it does, don't it. And all these bikes that have

709
01:05:43.840 --> 01:05:48.599
the crossbar, or not the crossbar as the crowbar. You

710
01:05:48.639 --> 01:05:50.719
know that bit where you have to put your leg

711
01:05:50.800 --> 01:05:56.840
over on a man's bike because the female bikes they're

712
01:05:56.840 --> 01:05:59.599
still officially called men's and females bikes. If you're looking

713
01:06:00.920 --> 01:06:03.039
look in the shops there, they're there. I checked this

714
01:06:03.079 --> 01:06:05.039
out the other day, so I'm not going to get

715
01:06:05.039 --> 01:06:09.320
in trouble. Yeah, but you said the cowboys and Indians.

716
01:06:09.880 --> 01:06:12.159
I said, no, I'm not saying that's the correct term.

717
01:06:12.480 --> 01:06:14.559
It's just what that's what it was called back then.

718
01:06:15.920 --> 01:06:18.360
So you know, I'm not trying to cause offense or

719
01:06:18.400 --> 01:06:21.639
anything when that carries Why do you keep mentioning it?

720
01:06:21.960 --> 01:06:31.280
I don't know. I realized I said it, and I thought, ah,

721
01:06:31.440 --> 01:06:34.559
or I can't really backtrack. You could have just edited

722
01:06:34.559 --> 01:06:37.360
it out and just carried on. I said, I know,

723
01:06:38.000 --> 01:06:41.039
that's the thing. You're right. I could just edit it out,

724
01:06:41.599 --> 01:06:43.559
but it's going to be impossible now because I've mentioned

725
01:06:43.599 --> 01:06:47.000
it too many times and it won't make sense unless

726
01:06:47.000 --> 01:06:53.920
I leave it in the original time. Ah. I think

727
01:06:53.920 --> 01:06:57.920
this is what they called first world problems. I don't know.

728
01:06:57.960 --> 01:07:01.920
I'm not into that whole first, second, fifth, fourth world

729
01:07:02.000 --> 01:07:09.280
or whatever. Come on, So A bit of equality TV.

730
01:07:11.320 --> 01:07:18.840
Two TV shows that I remember, like for that period

731
01:07:19.400 --> 01:07:24.679
that i'd firstly never see before and also became my

732
01:07:24.800 --> 01:07:29.719
two favoritist programs in the whole world. But it was

733
01:07:29.719 --> 01:07:35.320
a secret, It's my little secret, because I wasn't supposed

734
01:07:35.320 --> 01:07:38.880
to be watching it. I was supposed to be asleep.

735
01:07:40.920 --> 01:07:45.039
They must have known. You don't give a fourteen year

736
01:07:45.039 --> 01:07:50.320
old a television in his bedroom and expect him to

737
01:07:50.360 --> 01:07:54.760
go to sleep. I don't mean not ever, but you know,

738
01:07:54.960 --> 01:08:00.400
generally i'd leave it on all night. Oh and but

739
01:08:00.480 --> 01:08:03.559
the two TV shows that I really remember from those

740
01:08:04.039 --> 01:08:06.719
or three now I've got another one I remember, but

741
01:08:06.800 --> 01:08:10.920
the ones at night, late at night or at a

742
01:08:10.960 --> 01:08:18.600
time when I should have been in bed, Cheers, which

743
01:08:18.640 --> 01:08:25.840
I suppose maybe that was on a Friday night at nine,

744
01:08:26.279 --> 01:08:38.319
and Mesh, not Mesh, Mesh Mesh, the medical drama that

745
01:08:38.439 --> 01:08:47.159
was Mesh, wasn't it, or Mesh Meke Smash Mesh. Yeah

746
01:08:47.279 --> 01:08:55.800
it's Mesh, yeah, Mesh. So yeah, medical Army something. Yes,

747
01:08:55.840 --> 01:08:58.880
So I used to watch that. I loved them, Hawkeye

748
01:08:59.039 --> 01:09:08.119
and Clinger and all those people loved it. And watching

749
01:09:08.239 --> 01:09:15.640
Cheers that was when Dan was in Cheers, because you know,

750
01:09:17.039 --> 01:09:23.760
I watched Cheers all the way through until the last episode,

751
01:09:23.960 --> 01:09:26.760
which was in the early nineties, so went on for

752
01:09:26.840 --> 01:09:29.439
quite a while, didn't it. Was it the early nineties

753
01:09:29.520 --> 01:09:36.159
or like eighties. I can't completely remember, but I think

754
01:09:36.199 --> 01:09:40.720
I started watching Cheers quite early on, because I think

755
01:09:40.760 --> 01:09:45.000
it started about eighty four roughly, so I must have

756
01:09:45.119 --> 01:09:51.239
watched it, although at that time might still be the case.

757
01:09:52.159 --> 01:09:59.279
But at that time England or the UK were always

758
01:09:59.359 --> 01:10:07.439
about quite a few months behind America with the TV shows.

759
01:10:08.640 --> 01:10:12.840
It's a weird one because what we would get, let's say,

760
01:10:12.880 --> 01:10:17.880
there'd be sitcoms or like a really famous show that

761
01:10:17.920 --> 01:10:20.880
we watched here that was American that was big in

762
01:10:20.920 --> 01:10:24.520
America as well, we would get the Christmas episodes during

763
01:10:24.560 --> 01:10:32.119
the summer. Is this ridiculous? It was? I mean it

764
01:10:32.199 --> 01:10:35.319
might It might have been the same for America getting

765
01:10:35.520 --> 01:10:41.800
the Christmas British shows in the summer, you know, because

766
01:10:41.960 --> 01:10:45.560
there was there was a lag, a time lag of

767
01:10:47.039 --> 01:10:52.960
quite a few months. That might have changed now I

768
01:10:53.039 --> 01:10:58.560
know with this streaming services there's there's not a lot

769
01:10:58.560 --> 01:11:04.760
of difference in time. Now usually the release date would

770
01:11:04.800 --> 01:11:08.279
be the same date in England as well as being

771
01:11:08.520 --> 01:11:12.600
in America. Or Canada or Australia. They've kind of had

772
01:11:12.600 --> 01:11:20.680
the same release date quite often. Yeah, But Cheers and

773
01:11:20.800 --> 01:11:27.960
Mash those was the two shows that I really remember

774
01:11:28.039 --> 01:11:34.880
watching and just being like wow. So Mash was on

775
01:11:35.159 --> 01:11:38.640
BBC two. Still sounds like it's the wrong name for

776
01:11:38.680 --> 01:11:41.760
the TV show, but it is this the right name?

777
01:11:41.840 --> 01:11:48.880
It just sounds weird, And Cheers was on Channel four.

778
01:11:51.399 --> 01:11:53.359
There was another show I used to like to watch

779
01:11:54.399 --> 01:11:57.520
where it's boxing. There's a boxing show on as well,

780
01:11:57.960 --> 01:12:01.079
but I'm pretty sure that used to be in the evening,

781
01:12:01.199 --> 01:12:09.319
but I might be wrong. Yeah, once I had that television,

782
01:12:09.399 --> 01:12:13.680
I didn't need to go downstairs to watch TV. It

783
01:12:13.760 --> 01:12:16.800
just didn't seem any point. Even though it was a

784
01:12:16.840 --> 01:12:22.359
big colored TV and all that stuff. I kind of

785
01:12:22.720 --> 01:12:29.039
rather just watch my black and white TV on my own.

786
01:12:29.319 --> 01:12:33.680
I've always preferred. I've just preferred watching TV on my

787
01:12:33.760 --> 01:12:39.520
own generally. I mean, I like doing it with Vinnie,

788
01:12:39.760 --> 01:12:47.079
providing he doesn't bark. But you know, I think it'd

789
01:12:47.079 --> 01:12:52.119
be different if I was if I was in a

790
01:12:52.199 --> 01:12:56.520
room with someone that was enjoying what I was enjoying,

791
01:12:57.199 --> 01:13:03.319
So someone that loved boxing or someone that loves I

792
01:13:03.359 --> 01:13:05.479
don't know, kind of movies or the kind of box

793
01:13:05.520 --> 01:13:17.399
sets that I like. Yeah, I think i'd be quite comfortable. Yeah,

794
01:13:19.520 --> 01:13:26.760
I don't know, really, I wonder how long I've been

795
01:13:26.800 --> 01:13:34.199
talking for. I really don't know. It's dark out there now,

796
01:13:37.039 --> 01:13:50.159
not that long, seventy four minutes. I just want to

797
01:13:50.239 --> 01:13:53.039
check because I'm going to be going to bed soon.

798
01:13:53.680 --> 01:13:57.760
I don't know what time it is. It's half ten,

799
01:13:59.039 --> 01:14:02.720
so it's time him to go to bed, pretty much,

800
01:14:05.000 --> 01:14:09.760
and what I would do, hopefully this has been bored

801
01:14:09.880 --> 01:14:17.039
enough to send you off to sleepy land. I will

802
01:14:17.239 --> 01:14:20.439
edit this first thing in the morning and upload it.

803
01:14:22.279 --> 01:14:29.880
Hopefully there won't be too much editing necessary, hopefully. And

804
01:14:30.000 --> 01:14:33.399
then he's been very quiet. I think he's proper deep

805
01:14:33.439 --> 01:14:38.119
into a sleep. I know that if I go to

806
01:14:38.159 --> 01:14:41.199
get up, he'll growl at me. If he's asleep. They'm

807
01:14:41.199 --> 01:14:48.199
not being disturbed when he's when he's bye byes. This

808
01:14:48.239 --> 01:14:59.199
would be quite nice because I'm not any not had

809
01:14:59.239 --> 01:15:06.079
any distractions, no one at the door, know nothing out

810
01:15:06.119 --> 01:15:11.239
in the guard and not been looking at a computer screen,

811
01:15:12.760 --> 01:15:17.760
not been looking at my phone, having had the light on,

812
01:15:19.520 --> 01:15:29.720
just relaxing and chatting about who knows what My black

813
01:15:29.760 --> 01:15:35.359
and white TV. Maybe I don't know. I'm not sure

814
01:15:35.760 --> 01:15:43.359
how I got to this subject. But I loved that TV.

815
01:15:45.359 --> 01:15:51.000
I really did. I'm not really sure what happened to it.

816
01:15:57.239 --> 01:16:13.600
Hm hmm. I spent most of my most of the

817
01:16:13.760 --> 01:16:22.319
nineties watching black and white TVs, or at least the

818
01:16:22.359 --> 01:16:28.039
first half of the nineties and then the first part

819
01:16:28.079 --> 01:16:33.279
of the two thousands as well, watching black and white TVs,

820
01:16:34.840 --> 01:16:38.560
which is there was no reason for it. Not really.

821
01:16:43.560 --> 01:16:45.800
I think I had a or did I I might

822
01:16:45.800 --> 01:16:48.880
have had a colored TV. Surely, why would I have

823
01:16:48.920 --> 01:16:54.680
a black and white TV? Maybe I did. No, I

824
01:16:54.760 --> 01:17:04.239
must have had a colored TV in the nineties. Now,

825
01:17:04.239 --> 01:17:06.640
that would have been impossible to I wouldn't have wanted

826
01:17:06.680 --> 01:17:10.000
to watch stuff on there on a black and white tea.

827
01:17:10.039 --> 01:17:12.000
It must have fair. It was a portable TV. It

828
01:17:12.079 --> 01:17:16.680
must have been color. I like to think it was.

829
01:17:20.760 --> 01:17:23.239
But in two thousand and one, I had a black

830
01:17:23.239 --> 01:17:32.319
and white portable TV for a year or two. I

831
01:17:32.319 --> 01:17:36.039
could have got I had enough money coming in, I

832
01:17:36.079 --> 01:17:42.680
could have bought the biggest TV. I just didn't. Just didn't.

833
01:17:42.760 --> 01:17:46.960
I don't know why. I just watched this black and

834
01:17:47.000 --> 01:17:54.800
white TV. I don't know why. I really don't it's

835
01:17:55.000 --> 01:17:59.319
very strange. I was working full time, I was doing

836
01:18:00.239 --> 01:18:13.239
fairly well. Yeah, yeah, I don't know why. This is

837
01:18:14.960 --> 01:18:26.079
one of those weird, weird things, really weird questions. I

838
01:18:26.079 --> 01:18:30.520
remember I've got a portable TV with a built in

839
01:18:30.920 --> 01:18:36.000
video or no DVD player in two thousand and four.

840
01:18:39.119 --> 01:18:51.960
DVD player or video player? Oh, that is the question

841
01:18:52.079 --> 01:18:57.279
in that What was it DVDP DVD player or video player.

842
01:19:00.319 --> 01:19:10.840
I'm pretty sure I was still getting videos. I think

843
01:19:10.840 --> 01:19:13.920
it might have been a video player because I used

844
01:19:13.920 --> 01:19:16.039
to go to Blockbusters and I was pretty much the

845
01:19:16.039 --> 01:19:21.840
only person left that was renting videos most of the

846
01:19:21.880 --> 01:19:26.960
places in every it's mainly DVDs, and I was. I

847
01:19:27.039 --> 01:19:31.520
just would not. I wouldn't. I just wouldn't. I didn't

848
01:19:31.520 --> 01:19:36.039
want to. I wanted videos. That's what I was used to,

849
01:19:38.760 --> 01:19:41.840
even though hardly anyone in the world used them anymore,

850
01:19:42.079 --> 01:19:45.479
not in this country anyway, not in the two thousands,

851
01:19:47.279 --> 01:19:59.640
not for years, but I was. And now DVDs aren't

852
01:19:59.680 --> 01:20:06.439
even you used anymore already. It seems to be streaming streaming.

853
01:20:14.560 --> 01:20:18.000
I used to have loads of DVDs. I had loads

854
01:20:18.039 --> 01:20:21.279
of videos when I was when I was living at

855
01:20:21.279 --> 01:20:26.279
the YMCA. Yeah, I did have a colored TV because

856
01:20:26.279 --> 01:20:34.319
I had a video player, and I had loads of videos. Loads.

857
01:20:34.439 --> 01:20:38.479
I'd buy them. Though I didn't go to Blockbusters. I

858
01:20:38.600 --> 01:20:45.520
bought the videos and I'd buy loads, and one day

859
01:20:45.520 --> 01:20:49.039
I thought, I'm going to get rid of these. So

860
01:20:49.079 --> 01:20:52.439
what I did is I donated them to the YMCA

861
01:20:55.079 --> 01:20:58.760
homeless place, so they had like videos to watch and stuff.

862
01:20:59.119 --> 01:21:04.600
There's loads of today videos. I had a pretty pretty

863
01:21:04.640 --> 01:21:11.279
good collection. Actually, I don't know why. Why didn't I

864
01:21:11.359 --> 01:21:15.880
just Yeah, why didn't I to go to Blockbusters? It

865
01:21:15.920 --> 01:21:23.239
was literally at the end of the road. Maybe I couldn't.

866
01:21:24.319 --> 01:21:28.039
Maybe I didn't know. Maybe I didn't Yeah, I don't know.

867
01:21:30.039 --> 01:21:31.600
I can't really say I didn't know where it was

868
01:21:31.640 --> 01:21:33.319
because I had to walk past it every day to

869
01:21:33.359 --> 01:21:37.359
go to work. I knew where it was, but it

870
01:21:37.439 --> 01:21:39.319
was across the road. So maybe I just couldn't be

871
01:21:39.319 --> 01:21:48.880
bothered across. Oh. The thing is, back then, I remember

872
01:21:49.039 --> 01:21:57.520
standing in Virgin as either Virgin or HMV, and I'd

873
01:21:57.600 --> 01:22:05.359
be upstairs in the video department looking for something to

874
01:22:05.479 --> 01:22:11.279
spend my money on, and I'd be there till close

875
01:22:11.359 --> 01:22:18.119
in time. I just couldn't decide what to buy. And

876
01:22:18.159 --> 01:22:20.239
part of the reason I when in late is because

877
01:22:20.960 --> 01:22:24.319
there's less people around at that time. It just meant

878
01:22:24.399 --> 01:22:27.880
I could have more of a fiddle, you know, like

879
01:22:28.000 --> 01:22:30.840
have a little go through the stuff and look at

880
01:22:30.880 --> 01:22:33.720
all the covers and the backs of the covers, and

881
01:22:34.680 --> 01:22:38.960
without having to move away whenever someone's because as there's

882
01:22:39.039 --> 01:22:44.560
that kind of protocol, isn't there. If you're standing somewhere

883
01:22:45.039 --> 01:22:48.640
looking at something and someone sort of moved towards you,

884
01:22:49.399 --> 01:22:52.720
it's almost it's time to move away to let them

885
01:22:52.960 --> 01:22:58.640
go there. Well, you don't have to do that there's

886
01:22:58.640 --> 01:23:04.520
no one around. It's yeah, I've done that myself. It's

887
01:23:04.600 --> 01:23:07.399
like someone's standing there and I've kind of moved towards

888
01:23:07.399 --> 01:23:11.279
them and They've moved away. I remember saying to the

889
01:23:13.199 --> 01:23:17.840
a friend who worked beyond the counter at HMV and said,

890
01:23:17.960 --> 01:23:22.119
I mentioned it to him. I said, it's amazing that technique.

891
01:23:22.279 --> 01:23:27.960
It's like human nature. You you walk up towards someone

892
01:23:28.600 --> 01:23:31.119
and they just move away so and they they're so

893
01:23:31.279 --> 01:23:34.359
polite and they let you look at the stuff. And

894
01:23:34.399 --> 01:23:36.520
he said, that's not the reason, it's because you stink

895
01:23:37.239 --> 01:23:50.279
that what he laughed, have abof I did? At some point,

896
01:23:52.399 --> 01:23:59.680
I think Finny just did a burp so I'm going

897
01:23:59.760 --> 01:24:04.079
to go, oh can it go? So thank you for listening.

898
01:24:04.359 --> 01:24:10.319
Remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve

899
01:24:10.479 --> 01:24:16.239
to be happy, and also be gentle with yourself. You

900
01:24:16.359 --> 01:24:29.279
deserve to feel safe. Lots of love, bye,