April 22, 2025

(no music) POPES | Trivia Tuesday | LMBYTS #1335 | 22nd April 2025

(no music) POPES | Trivia Tuesday | LMBYTS #1335 | 22nd April 2025
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Hello, and welcome to Jason Newland Vibe. As soon as

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I start and he's on me. Yeah, welcome to Jasonnewland

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dot com. I got this little wet nose sticking in

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my pocket. What is it I got? There is nothing

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in my pocket then, so yeah, this has let me

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bore you to sleep. It's Trivia Tuesday, and please only

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listen when you can safely close your eyes. And what

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I've thought to do, what I thought to do today,

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what i'd thought i'd do today is I'm going to

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focus on popes. Now. Just let you know, none of

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nothing I say is going to be controversial or anything

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like that. It's just I've looked for just trivia about popes.

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The problem I had because I did this little bit

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of research yesterday in preparation. Because I'm a good boy

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and I've done all my I've done all my homework,

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but I try to get them to put to Oh

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they did, they did, Okay, here we go. I wanted

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to because they kept having popes like Ivy and Evvy

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one one X and all that stuff. I don't know

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all that is. I do know what it is Roman

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Numa roles, but I'm not really a Roman numeral person.

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So I have saved it. Where is it? Where is it?

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Popes, popes, popes, popes popes.

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Why is it? That's weird? It should be in popes, popes,

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popes per popes. That's really I saved it. I one

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hundred percent saved it. Right, I'll download it again, download

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it again, open file notebook, which is a bit rubbish.

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So popes and their personal quirks to here we go.

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So just let you know. I do have a Facebook

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group called Jason Newland's Boring Group. I have a YouTube

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channel call or, which is at Jason Newland. I'm also

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in the middle in the process of putting together a

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shop where you can download podcasts, episodes the links on

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my website. But I'm not really going to publicize it.

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I just just be working on it. It's taken forever,

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for ever and ever never. So oh I did did

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I did? I? Did? I get some Yeah? I did?

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I got some messages. I'm going to read them out

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because that's important to do that. Dude, do do do

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do do? Here we go? Where are you? So? First

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of all, I need to say hello to a new

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member of the group, which is there's no other is

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there or any others. No, okay, So there's a new person,

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a new member of our group, Jason Newland's boring group. Sandy. Hi, Sandy,

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thirty ten hours ago. So I have not all Wow,

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I didn't even say a looa. That's weird to apologize.

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How can I have not said alone? So I'm gonna

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put welcome Sangie. Better try and spell your name right, Sandy.

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Unless there was someone else that added as well, that

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might maybe that was at night when I was asleep.

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It might have been. Yeah. Perhaps perhaps I saw it,

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you know, like got up in the night, looked at

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it and oh, gus nice and then just fell asleep.

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That's possible. I got where is it? It's oh yeah, yesterday.

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I don't think I mentioned this, but today mark seven

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years of Jason Newland's boying group. Thank you all for

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helping keep this community strong. So I posted a little

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thing there had a few replies, So Tammy seven years

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of keeping the community strong. Congratulations, Thank you and Maria

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most definitely a hero. I'll send you. I'll second that, Christine,

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So thank you, And where's Christine's message? Congratulations? Hope you

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feel good about that. You should make a lot of

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us get through things better than thanks to you yourself, Jason. Now,

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come on everyone, there's a hero. Ye, there's a hero

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if you look concerned your socks. So thank you? Was it?

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I've got some other messages on there that I've seen

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on a different post that Molly posted, and it might

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have been yeah, Kate asks hope you're doing well Molly.

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And because Molly posted this is on the seventeenth, so

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what was that? Thursday? Friday? Thanks Thursday. Thanks for all

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you do, Jason. I still listen every night. It's so

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helpful in taking my mind off stuff. Thanks Molly and

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some people like as I said, Maria, Maria our second

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at Thank you Jason. And how you getting on, Molly?

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From Kate, Kathleen me to your treasure. Thank you, thank

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you very much, figure very much. So back to popes now,

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I hope this isn't I'm not doing this in bad

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taste by the way. I'm doing it just as a

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I think it's a be an interesting subject. But my

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nan loved the pope and she was her pope. Well,

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she had more than one pope, but the pope that

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she had had was I think one of the longest

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running pope's ever it was a John Paul. Let's have

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a look longest Pope Rain. I don't know if rains

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are the right word. Pious, Okay, fair enough, thirty one years,

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but my name's Pope was definitely in there.

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Pope who, Pope, Peter, Pope, Pope.

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John Paul, Yeah, John Paul so he wow? So yeah,

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nineteen seventy eight to two thousand and five. So Mi

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n actually had a picture of him next to her,

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next to her chair in the bed in the not

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the bedroom, the living room. So from nineteen seventy eight,

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from the age of eight, so really most of my

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adult life. I was going to say, two thousand and

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five to yeah, so four well, okay, not for last

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twenty years. It hasn't been so for quite a big time.

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Seventy eight, eighty eight, ninety eight, two thousand, So twenty

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six years or twenty seven years. It's quite a long time,

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isn't it. Ifact It says it here exactly twenty six years,

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five months and seventeen days. But the oldest or the

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longest running monk monk Pope brother Saint Peter thirty four

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year year and that's thirty sixty four AD to thirty

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three sixty seven AD. I don't know what that means.

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It goes back a while, doesn't it. WHOA Okay, so

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let's go to the list. Let's see what sort of

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trivia there is. Pope Francis two thousand and thirteen till now.

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He hasn't been pope for that long, is he? I mean,

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I know he passed away a couple of days ago,

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but I didn't think he'd been PopEd for more than

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about five years time, don't afly? So he became pope

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just before my men left. So two thousand and thirty

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is it? Says present because this is not up to

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date with what's gone on this week. It was the

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first pope from Americas, from the Americas, and the first

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Jesuit pope. I don't know what that. I don't know

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what what is it. I don't know what a Jesuit

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pope is, and I don't know what I've from the Americas.

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So does that like, well, where was he from then?

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It was? I don't know. I really don't know. I

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don't know much about where people are from. I'm forty

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eight percent Irish though. Pope John Paul Is second nineteen

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seventy eight seventy eight to two thousand and five was

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an avid skier, and I'm sorry, I just had the

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image of him skiing in his attire, which just put

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a weird image in my head. It was an avid

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skier and continued to hit the slopes well in to

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his papacy. So I'm guessing the papacy is when he's

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the pope. So he was a skiered before that. I mean,

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I don't know why you'd need to stop. Well, I mean,

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the only thing is a heck of a lot of

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the popes, especially more recently, seemed to have been quite

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elderly when they become pope, So I don't know if

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that's all has been the case, to be fair. Pope

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Benedict Nope x v I two thousand and five to

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twoenty thirteen was known for his love of cats in

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classical music. Oh right, Pope John X I'm not even

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gonna I can't even do it. I'm just going to

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put Pope John because x x III nineteen fifty eight

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to nineteen sixty three was affectionately nicknamed Good Pope John

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for his warm personality. So I wonder how many popes

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my name's known. Then I don't know if my name

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ever got to meet the pope. Because she was a

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devout Catholic. She used to go to Lord's quite regularly,

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and she used to clean the church. And I used

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to go to midnight mess with her on like Christmas time,

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and when I lived in the same town as her,

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I used to go to Yeah, quite not often, I suppose,

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but yeah, over like my late teens, I'd go to

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church with her on a Sunday and then we're going

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to get tea and cakes and stuff in a coffee

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shop or something. Yeah, it was nice, So I do that,

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and my her sister in law used to come along,

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so my granddad's sister used to be there. She used

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to come. I might have also done it in nineteen

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ninety yen, I don't know, it's or probably sixteen seventeen,

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eighteen nineteen, yeah, period in twenty maybe, and then I

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moved away, so I wasn't really around anymore after that.

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I might have gone to church with her other times.

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I definitely went, like midnight mess, but when she after

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she broke her hip, she wasn't mobile enough to be going,

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and her eyes went as well. She didn't they didn't

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fall out when she fell over there. I mean her

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eyesight went so she couldn't see so well at night.

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And I said a question about that. She can't see

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I can't see anything any anytime. I said, oh, okay,

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just asking this, So, so are you going to go

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during the day? She makes no difference what time I go. Okay,

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I'm just offen to help, she laughed. So, yeah, I

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went to the last time I went to midnight Mass

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with her was two thousand and four. After that, she

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was never there again. She was never in that town

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at Christmas, so she went probably about five days before Christmas.

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She would go up to her daughter's with my aunt,

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and she'd spent Christmas there and New Year. And she

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did that every year until two thousand and four, two

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thousand and fourteen, So for pretty much ten years she

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did that, and that's where she she left us. Was

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actually there when she was at my aunt's. So I

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got quite fond memories of two thousand and four Christmas

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because it was one of the better ones, one of

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the ones where I suppose I felt more part of

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a family in a way, you know. I was staying

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with my nan, slept in the spare room with my nan.

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My aunt and uncle were in the other room, and

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then was in her room, and then I went to

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we did midnight Mass, and we got home and then

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I went to We opened some presents as well, because

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my Auntie had a tradition of opening little presents Christmas Eve,

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which is I think is a good one. Plus I

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hadn't had any chocolate for about six months, or I

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had some chocolate and it was wow. And then I

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went to my dad's for Christmas dinner, and then I

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came home in the evening, had my Christmas evening thing

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at my NaN's, and then Boxing Day, I think we

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all went back to my dad's or my dad came

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around to us, I can't remember exactly, probably one of them,

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one of them. And then I went back the day

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after Boxing Day. So it was a yeah, it was

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a really good Christmas. That was two thousand and four.

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Just I don't know, I just felt I think staying

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at my NaN's that's kind of what I should have

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done really all along, I say all along, but like

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I did stay at hers a fair bit, but it

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would have been easy. Yeah, I just would have been

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better to me to stay there, Like during the nineties,

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probably didn't stay there. I did, I did, but I

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can't remember. But it's weird because I'd be sleeping in

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the same room that I had when I was seven

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and eight, like the little room, because that's the house

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that we used to live in before my Nanogrande took

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it over, So that room always, that house always meant

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something to me. If I ever won the lottery or

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had some decent money come in, I would try and

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buy that house. Yeah, definitely try and buy that house

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just so I could go. And I don't know, I

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don't know if i'd want to live in it even

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but i'd definitely I'll probably would quite like to live

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in it. I kind of like it. I mean, not

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as a shrine to my men, but because it's not

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going to look the same anymore. You know, all the

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furniture's gone, it's not going to smell the same, it's

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not going to be the same house that it was

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when we lived there and when my nan lived there,

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because it always felt like home, because it was home.

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You know. It was the first time pretty much since

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I was It was the first time since I was

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three months old or six months old that I lived

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in a family home with two parents and all my

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brothers all too, my older brothers all together. It was

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the first time, so I was like eight or seven, yeah,

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about seven, So that was the first time. And then

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the house kind of stayed the same. It changed, but

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it was still, you know, still somewhere we went to regularly.

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Every single week. I used to go and see my nan,

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and even though my granddad was there, he didn't say

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hardly a word to me. I think I just annoyed him.

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I don't know why, but he was quite strict to

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my granddad, but he didn't say much to me yet.

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I had a couple of conversations with him. Mom was

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about boxing. I think it was the lead up to

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Frank Bruno fight, maybe when he fought Mike Tyson, so

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this would be like nineteen eighty nine. And because my

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granddad was next boxer, actually a boxing champion in the army.

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And see, I didn't even know this. I knew he

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was a boxer. I knew that, but I didn't know

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until long after he had passed away. And MYNN was

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showing me. She's going through stuff, showing me his medals

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and pictures of him holding trophies, and I don't even

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know if that was just in the army. He might

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have been a schoolboy amateur champion as well. I really

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don't know. I can't remember, but he was. Yeah, he

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was a champion in whatever context of a boxing didn't

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become professional in them days, BlimE me. I mean he left.

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He left the army at age twenty nine. I think

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the year before about nineteen thirty eight, so I think

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it was a year before the Second World War started,

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so he was twenty nine, which is bearing in mind

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he was only a lightweight. He probably would have been

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maybe lightweight well, or weight something like that, not that

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that's really thing, but you definitely don't start a professional

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career at twenty nine generally. I mean you can if

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you're an olympian, and some people do do it, but

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generally in them days, you know, he had well he didn't,

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because even if he had turned professional, he'd only wond

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if he would have had a year. And then he

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was in there and he you know, he went back

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in the army again. He was there the first people

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to get called back up, and so he was what

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thirty thirty seven before all finished, and then because he

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was missing an action as well, so they resumed no longer,

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which is weird because my nan actually spent half the

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war thinking he was gone, because she got sent a

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letter saying that he was gone, and then after the

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war finished, she got another letter saying or telegram probably oh,

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we found him. He was in It was in a camp,

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and so we found him, but we can't. You can't

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see him because we have to. We have to rehabilitate him,

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because we have because he's basically we need to feed

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him and get him back to being normal human size again.

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So they didn't. This is I don't know why to

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talk about this, but he this just like a kind

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of person he was. He didn't want fuss, even at

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the end of his life, he didn't want fuss at all.

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And so he was taken to an army base in

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the UK to recoup. I don't know if I'm sure

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my name was allowed to visit him. I have no

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doubt that once he was kind of on his way

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to recovery, she was allowed. And they have to do

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debriefings and stuff like that, I guess. But he was

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in one of the yeah, one of the camps, so

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he they what do they do? I think he had

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about three months, maybe six months in there, and then

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she got told he's coming home. He's coming home this

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weekend or this friday or whenever, you know, not this Friday. Now,

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this is a long time ago. This is nineteen forty five,

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forty six, whenever. And I don't quite know what month

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in nineteen forty five that the whole thing finished. I'm

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talking about the Second World War now, And that was

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not going to be my trivia Tuesday. Now, my trivia

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Tuesday is my granddad telling me stuff about my granddad.

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I'll tell you a bit my stuff about my granded

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if you want. I don't mind. It's a I've got.

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There isn't any set script for these recordings, to be fair,

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it's I don't normally mention him, really, you know, I do.

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I've talked about my nan a lot over the years,

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because she's the person I was closest to. It's can

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I tell you something right? I did something the other day. Now.

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I don't know why I did it. I don't know

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if it was the right thing to do or the

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wrong thing to do, or just pointless. But here's what

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I did. Don't worry. It's not going to be anything

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too weird. It is a bit weird. I actually read

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it out to you right there we go, you go, here,

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we go, here we go. Oh okay, so is something

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I got details. I don't know why. Again, because it

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was my dad's birthday on the nineteenth, So on Friday,

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I sent him a card and I sent him like

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a gift basket of beers and lager and whatever stuff

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like that Moonpig, because I couldn't get up there. I

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just couldn't face a travel while I was on Moon Pig.

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And this is not an advert for moon Peg by

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the way. If it is that, I'm not getting paid anything.

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It's just what I use. There are other places that

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you can use, right. I'm building this up to something,

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but it is kind of something to me. I had

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an idea I start because I've been thinking about my

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first step mom, you know, recently I did a podcast

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about a little while ago, and I thought to myself,

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m because Moonpig said anyone else, anyone else, And I thought, okay,

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I'll send her a card happy Easter card. Now she

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lives with my brother. My brother lives with her, so

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I know the address anything else, And I ended up

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sending some mixed tulips a bouquet, so and I thought,

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you know what, I'll take this opportunity to say something nice.

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Bearing in mind I haven't really seen her, had any

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regular contact with us since nineteen eighty seven, which is

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quite a long time, isn't It was that nearly forty years. Yeah,

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about March nineteen eighty seven April nineteen eighty seven. I've

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seen her a couple of times. There was once when

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I did visit her. I think twice I tried. I

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traveled up there and I stayed over, and another time

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I started over one night. And this was probably around

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that time, unless that was maybe that was eighty six

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before she moved up there. But I did travel up

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there and I hitchhiked all the way there. It took

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me about twelve hours, and she said I wasn't. She

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did give me something to something to eat, took me

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back to the to the took me to the train station,

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and I think she might have even paid for me

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to get back on the train. But there was no

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room for me to stay because someone else from my

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town where we were staying. So that was that was

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a weird one. So that was an I think I

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ever saw her again really, other than when my dad

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would go and visit my little brother. Sometimes they'd just

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kind of park up. It would be like a almost

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like a like a kidnap, a hostage swap, you know,

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and like he'd get out of the car and she'd

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get he'd get into her car and he'd drive off,

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or she'd drive he'd get into our car and we'd

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take him for the weekend. So I used to go

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for the ride sometimes in my sort of seventeen eighteen,

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nineteen eighteen, yeah, seventeen eighteen years old, just for the

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just for the ride really. And I saw her when

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my brother had appendicitis when he was in hospital as

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appendix burst and so he yeah, sepsis. It was really bad,

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but he survived, so it's good. This is back BlimE

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me in the nineties, i'd say maybe early two thousands,

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possibly late nineties, early two thousands, maybe late I can't remember.

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I'd have to ask him. But and that was weird

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because we're all in the we were in the hospital

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room and she walks in. It's like it was an

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uncomfortable experience. Really, I could see, like my dad's his

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wife now. It was just it's an uncomfortable situation because

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they're not they don't really know each other or anything.

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But of course she's got every right to be there

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because if someone was in hospital. So I'm not saying

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anything about bad by me, but everyone left very quickly

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and I had to follow, and I kind of wanted

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to stay and spend some time with her, but I

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couldn't because they were out of there as soon as

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she got there, and that was my you know. So

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that's the last time I saw her. So that was

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probably twenty odd twenty five, twenty five, thirty years ago

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or whatever. Twenty five years ago, let's say, maybe more.

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And that was briefly for what about three or four minutes,

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and I had no contact with her really nothing. I

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did send her like Christmas, a big Christmas present thing once.

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I think that might have been early early nineties when

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I had a job and I just sort of sent

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a big, a big thing, but or maybe it was

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during the nineties and during the late eighties maybe, but

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since then nothing and that was it. So it's been

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kind of weird, and she's had some health issues and

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things on to go into details, but my little brothers,

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obviously it's really close it's his mum, so he's super

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close to her. And I had this conversation with my

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friend Luke. You know, his attitude is well, his opinion

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was just contact her. I said, I can't, I can't

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do it. He said, well, if you leave it too late,

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you regret it. Just do it. And I know he's right.

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I knew, you know, I know that's the right thing

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to do, but I didn't know how to do it.

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Now I've kind of done it, but I've not done

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it in a way that I've not really opened up

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any dialogue. So but what i'd done so I sent

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a card. I sent a bouquet of flowers. On the card,

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I wrote, dear pooh head, No, I didn't, where's my

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bloody birthday presents for the last forty years? Now? I didn't.

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I didn't do that because I didn't swear you owe

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me thirty eight years worth of Christmas presents, not to

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mention the Easter eggs. Wow, all those presents I never got.

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I basically saved a lot of money in it, really

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thousands if you think about it over the years, even

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if like what spend twenty cod a year, twenty quid

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forty quid let's say fifty quid. Fifty quid a year

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on presents, you know, including birthdays, Christmas, including cards, maybe

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an Easter egg. So that's fifty for a year times

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by ten years is five hundred pound. It's nearly forty well,

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it's nearly forty years. So let's say five hundreds, two

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thousand pounds take off a couple of years, so one

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thousand and nine hundred pound, about one thoy nine hundred

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she's saved. It's not bad, is it? And anyway, so

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what I wrote I didn't know that was going to

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come out of my mouth. What I wrote down is

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go away with Anny, please, thank you. I do know

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what she thought about that. Who's Vinnie? Why is she saying?

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Why's he saying?

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Go away?

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Vinnie? He's staring at me again? What what you got

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to play with? Oh? This is weird. He got to

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play with Archie earlier. But I've got now. And neighbor

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gave me a long lead in the one's extendable leads.

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Just go with it to me, because Vinnie was trying to

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play with her dog and he kept basically kept wrapping around.

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He couldn't do it. One the lead I had, so

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Vinny's is staring at the food that's been out there

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too long now, So the foods. I've seen him eat

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stuff off the floor, which is just wrong. Yeah, you

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won't eat food that's been out too long. I'll get

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you something in a minute, mate, if you're that hungry,

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I will get you something, I promise. But he's had

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loads of when he's out, he has treats, but it's

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this dog food. It's not treats really. Oh yeah, he's

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doing a poo right. Archie goes up and literally sticks

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his nose just right where it's.

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Like, what are you doing?

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Move? It was weird. It's very very strange. I mean

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they've got a very close relationship. But you know, m

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it's just a it was an unusual moment. So what

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I wrote was, thank you for everything you did for

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me when I was a kid. You were the bestest mummy.

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I know you gave up a lot to take on

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me and my brothers. I am grateful, So dear Mum.

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Happy used to love Jason. So that that was it.

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Now there's not a lot of room on a moon

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Peak card. You know, I'm going to write my life story.

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But everything there was true. She was a great mum,

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and she did give up a lot. I mean, she

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was twenty one years old when she took on three kids,

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one who was seven, one who was nine, and when

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it was eleven. And then within a year she had

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another baby. She had a baby, you know, like I said,

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she had four kids. So by the age of being

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like twenty two, she had she went within one year

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pretty much no kids to four kids. And then she

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was looking at this massive house. Well it was a

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big house because we were quite a lot light of us.

469
00:37:28.960 --> 00:37:30.480
There was a lot of us. You know, we were

470
00:37:30.559 --> 00:37:33.679
very messy, if I can get the words out or

471
00:37:33.719 --> 00:37:38.719
what wolff? What's a WOLFS mean? A lot of us.

472
00:37:43.320 --> 00:37:45.400
It was a lot to take on. And I think

473
00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:48.559
at the time I didn't really appreciate it. I didn't

474
00:37:48.599 --> 00:37:53.559
appreciate I mean, I adored her, I appreciated her, I

475
00:37:53.599 --> 00:37:57.079
loved her to bits, but I didn't appreciate what I

476
00:37:57.079 --> 00:38:03.719
guess she was sacrifice and I guess I mean she

477
00:38:03.760 --> 00:38:06.960
adopted us, so we were her you know, legal she

478
00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:15.760
was my legal guardian. Yeah, so it's I mean she

479
00:38:15.800 --> 00:38:23.280
was only like what thirty when she moved away, or yeah, thirty,

480
00:38:24.039 --> 00:38:33.719
because I lived with her from nineteen seventy seven till

481
00:38:33.960 --> 00:38:41.199
nineteen eighty seven, but it's like less than that, so

482
00:38:41.280 --> 00:38:47.239
it's just less than ten years we were together, so

483
00:38:47.440 --> 00:38:51.639
nine years really, but nearly ten years I suppose technically,

484
00:38:53.960 --> 00:38:57.480
so she was only like thirty thirty one. She was

485
00:38:57.519 --> 00:39:04.440
just still young and she had grown up sons because

486
00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:07.079
at that point when she was thirty, when I say

487
00:39:07.159 --> 00:39:13.039
nineteen eighty seven, when she left, I was sixteen. My

488
00:39:13.079 --> 00:39:17.360
other brother was eighteen, and the other one was twenty. So,

489
00:39:17.920 --> 00:39:21.400
you know, to be thirty one with a twenty year old,

490
00:39:21.840 --> 00:39:25.599
eighteen year old and a sixteen year old kid kids

491
00:39:25.880 --> 00:39:30.119
plus an eight year old as well, you know, that's

492
00:39:31.679 --> 00:39:36.440
it's a lot. So I'm telling you, don't tell anyone else.

493
00:39:36.519 --> 00:39:41.239
I'm just just sharing this with you. I don't know why.

494
00:39:41.400 --> 00:39:43.119
I kind of keep forgetting about it, and then I

495
00:39:43.159 --> 00:39:49.280
remember and I didn't. I didn't put my dress on there.

496
00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:52.039
I did put my name? Did I put my name?

497
00:39:52.480 --> 00:39:54.920
I think I put my name. I mean she might

498
00:39:54.960 --> 00:40:00.519
not know who I am. She might have forgotten. She

499
00:40:00.559 --> 00:40:04.000
should remember me, shouldn't she. That's ten years she should

500
00:40:04.119 --> 00:40:11.920
I mean I remember things. I mean something that's happened

501
00:40:11.960 --> 00:40:14.639
for ten years, knowing someone for ten years. I remember those.

502
00:40:15.840 --> 00:40:22.880
I remember people from when I was a kid. But

503
00:40:23.000 --> 00:40:25.679
I said, we're all different. I mean, she's moved on.

504
00:40:25.840 --> 00:40:28.400
She might she might be thinking, who the hell is

505
00:40:28.400 --> 00:40:38.320
this Jason? Yeah, and why is there a picture of

506
00:40:38.360 --> 00:40:41.920
a cake and flowers? Why couldn't you just give me

507
00:40:41.960 --> 00:40:43.920
a picture of some flowers and a nice big cake

508
00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:50.679
to eat? Yum yum, yum yum. I don't know, but yeah,

509
00:40:50.679 --> 00:40:54.960
that's what I did. Again. This is trivia Tuesday talking

510
00:40:54.960 --> 00:40:58.719
about popes. Believe it or not, I really am. I'm

511
00:40:58.719 --> 00:41:06.679
talking about popes. Oh, my granddad. He so he was

512
00:41:06.719 --> 00:41:10.599
coming back my nan or just not mine, just like

513
00:41:10.760 --> 00:41:13.519
not just my name, but like the whole street put

514
00:41:13.559 --> 00:41:19.559
on a street party, welcoming him, welcome hing, welcome him, well,

515
00:41:19.840 --> 00:41:32.760
come in him back. Words are complicated today. So I

516
00:41:32.760 --> 00:41:35.199
think they put banners up and all kinds of stuff

517
00:41:35.400 --> 00:41:38.800
because he was he grew up in that area. I think,

518
00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:41.760
so he knew them. They all knew him and everything.

519
00:41:42.719 --> 00:41:48.599
Maybe they knew his family, so it was like, well

520
00:41:48.679 --> 00:41:53.639
come back Ted. That was his name, But I guess

521
00:41:53.639 --> 00:41:55.159
it would be his name, wouldn't it if they were putting

522
00:41:55.159 --> 00:41:58.280
banners up same way if they put well, come back Bob,

523
00:41:58.599 --> 00:42:00.440
that would have been weird, wouldn't it if it wasn't

524
00:42:00.440 --> 00:42:08.360
his name anyway, And I don't know how much of

525
00:42:08.360 --> 00:42:12.119
a party it was, but I don't know, but it was,

526
00:42:12.280 --> 00:42:15.599
you know, he was he was a hero, like everyone

527
00:42:15.599 --> 00:42:17.679
that came back from the Second World War. They were

528
00:42:17.679 --> 00:42:21.519
all heroes. It's just he was a bit late coming back.

529
00:42:22.719 --> 00:42:25.400
So they.

530
00:42:27.400 --> 00:42:29.559
They put a party on in the street, party to

531
00:42:29.599 --> 00:42:31.480
welcome him back. He was supposed to come back on

532
00:42:31.519 --> 00:42:35.239
her I think it's probably a Saturday afternoon or whatever.

533
00:42:36.840 --> 00:42:39.360
He did come back on exactly the right day, but

534
00:42:39.440 --> 00:42:42.480
he came in the back way, came in through the

535
00:42:42.480 --> 00:42:48.239
back gate, and went straight upstairs to bed or he

536
00:42:48.239 --> 00:42:54.280
didn't want the fuss. I remember my name telling me that.

537
00:42:54.320 --> 00:42:58.000
She's like, he didn't want the fuss. He didn't even

538
00:42:58.440 --> 00:43:00.840
come and say hello to people. I'm sure he did

539
00:43:00.880 --> 00:43:04.360
in his own time, probably individually, but he didn't want

540
00:43:04.400 --> 00:43:12.320
that fanfare, which is ultimately there's no way of knowing

541
00:43:12.800 --> 00:43:15.039
how another person feels. That's how he felt, and that's

542
00:43:15.159 --> 00:43:20.840
that's it. That's it, and it really, I mean, I

543
00:43:20.880 --> 00:43:23.599
do suppose, yeah, he wouldn't expect him to be doing,

544
00:43:23.639 --> 00:43:31.280
you know, cartwheels and stuff down the road. But I'm

545
00:43:31.280 --> 00:43:32.920
guessing some of the neighbors would have been a bit

546
00:43:32.920 --> 00:43:37.440
annoyed though when you put on some effort. Yeah, I

547
00:43:37.440 --> 00:43:41.360
don't know, but it was liked a liked person. It's

548
00:43:41.440 --> 00:43:46.519
one of these really neat and tidy. Always wore trousers

549
00:43:46.559 --> 00:43:57.119
and a shirt, shoes, always polished. I remember my name

550
00:43:57.199 --> 00:44:01.760
was there and a dressing gown, and I said, because

551
00:44:01.800 --> 00:44:04.079
I stayed over one. I stayed there for a couple

552
00:44:04.119 --> 00:44:07.760
of weeks, No, a week when my stepmom is on

553
00:44:07.840 --> 00:44:11.960
holiday on I stayed with her in the flat before

554
00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:16.000
she moved away. And my nan was in a dressing

555
00:44:16.079 --> 00:44:20.320
gown ready for bed, and I was getting ready for bed,

556
00:44:20.400 --> 00:44:22.159
and I said to him, and they said, I were

557
00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:25.440
going to bed. And I said, how come Grandad hasn't

558
00:44:25.519 --> 00:44:30.239
changed into his pajamas because he's standing there with a shirt,

559
00:44:31.360 --> 00:44:41.800
trousers like brown, polished shoes, trill bey hat overcoat. And

560
00:44:41.840 --> 00:44:46.440
she said, no, that is his pajamas. So it was yeah,

561
00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:50.000
apparently he used to every time he woke up. Maybe

562
00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:55.320
not every time he woke up, because anyone that's older

563
00:44:55.320 --> 00:44:59.199
than thirty or whatever will know that sleeping all the

564
00:44:59.199 --> 00:45:03.320
way through was a thing due to we Weiz. We

565
00:45:03.480 --> 00:45:07.800
either needs to do we wiz sometimes. But when he

566
00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:09.960
got out of bed in the morning, he would do

567
00:45:10.039 --> 00:45:15.159
press ups and sit ups right right, you know, even

568
00:45:15.159 --> 00:45:27.199
when he was elderly. One thing I didn't realize he

569
00:45:27.280 --> 00:45:29.039
did a really nice thing for me once, and I

570
00:45:29.039 --> 00:45:34.159
didn't realize it was nice. I didn't realize he was

571
00:45:34.239 --> 00:45:40.719
kind of reaching out to me. Phinney's doing them. Started

572
00:45:40.800 --> 00:45:46.320
to look around. Hinney's looks like he's trying to about

573
00:45:46.360 --> 00:45:50.199
to do something, get something off the little table next

574
00:45:50.239 --> 00:45:56.840
to the settee. I don't know why, you don't know

575
00:45:56.880 --> 00:46:01.800
why make it some noise. I was a big brother tonight.

576
00:46:02.159 --> 00:46:05.320
It's on at nine o'clock, Big Brother of Viction, and

577
00:46:05.519 --> 00:46:10.320
three people are being evicted. I've never been so excited

578
00:46:10.920 --> 00:46:11.719
in my life.

579
00:46:13.440 --> 00:46:14.400
Three people.

580
00:46:15.519 --> 00:46:21.239
Wow. Yeah, Vin, he's really playing up now for some reason.

581
00:46:23.199 --> 00:46:28.360
So my granddad, I think I just moved into my flat,

582
00:46:29.760 --> 00:46:34.960
my first flat, which was above this shop, a chip shop.

583
00:46:37.519 --> 00:46:43.239
I'm falling asleep talking about it, and he gave me

584
00:46:43.920 --> 00:46:47.760
he took me into his shed. I thought I was

585
00:46:47.800 --> 00:46:56.920
in trouble, and he said, can you hear him? How

586
00:46:57.000 --> 00:47:03.079
much noise can It's basically that's what he was trying

587
00:47:03.119 --> 00:47:05.719
to get from the table. I gave it to him,

588
00:47:06.199 --> 00:47:09.360
but it's a bag that had treats him. But the bag,

589
00:47:09.880 --> 00:47:13.400
it's an empty bag, but he's ripping it the bits.

590
00:47:16.159 --> 00:47:23.400
He's not happy. It's really not And I didn't know.

591
00:47:23.599 --> 00:47:27.440
I knew my dad, my granddad was really into gardening,

592
00:47:27.760 --> 00:47:32.719
like really into it. And I do sometimes think that

593
00:47:34.280 --> 00:47:37.599
that's noisy. I do think that perhaps that should have

594
00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:44.599
been his career because he loved it so much. But

595
00:47:44.679 --> 00:47:46.639
he had a garden and he made it beautiful and

596
00:47:46.760 --> 00:47:50.639
he had a shed thin he Come on, mate, it's

597
00:47:50.679 --> 00:48:06.039
way too much noise. Please as if thanks completely ignores me, so.

598
00:48:10.119 --> 00:48:13.599
Sh sh sh.

599
00:48:17.039 --> 00:48:25.840
Okay. I don't know why it's funny. It's not even

600
00:48:25.960 --> 00:48:28.719
like I mean, I know, it's nice to hear him

601
00:48:28.719 --> 00:48:33.320
in the background sometimes just pit a pattern around, maybe

602
00:48:33.360 --> 00:48:42.440
having a drink of water. But if this was a

603
00:48:42.559 --> 00:48:45.760
human being, you know, it's say if I had a

604
00:48:45.800 --> 00:48:49.760
friend that was sitting over there and they didn't want

605
00:48:49.760 --> 00:48:51.440
to be alone by it to make a recording.

606
00:48:51.480 --> 00:48:55.480
So so I'll just just sit there quietly. I'll just

607
00:48:55.519 --> 00:48:58.280
be half an hour, an hour or whatever. So I'm

608
00:48:58.320 --> 00:49:01.760
talking and they're doing that, eating out some crisps and

609
00:49:01.880 --> 00:49:02.840
crisp packet.

610
00:49:04.760 --> 00:49:09.320
When I'm dancing. To be quiet, and that's them being

611
00:49:09.400 --> 00:49:23.679
quiet as those that you that when you go to

612
00:49:23.719 --> 00:49:27.960
the cinema you like to, you know, give yourself some

613
00:49:27.960 --> 00:49:32.159
popcorn or some treats and sweets, and you've got plastic bags.

614
00:49:35.079 --> 00:49:37.800
This is what the people around you are hearing all

615
00:49:37.800 --> 00:49:48.920
the way through the movie. Make sure you almost want

616
00:49:48.920 --> 00:49:56.119
to be considerate, don't it. Well, I think this should

617
00:49:56.159 --> 00:49:57.840
be is the band on plastic. I mean there's a

618
00:49:57.840 --> 00:50:00.760
band on plastic nearly everywhere else. Now have a band

619
00:50:00.760 --> 00:50:10.239
on plastic in cinemas. Just no plastic. Shample, no plastic.

620
00:50:10.719 --> 00:50:14.360
He's finished, now good. So my granddad took me into

621
00:50:14.400 --> 00:50:19.119
the shed and I never realized he was a mister

622
00:50:19.239 --> 00:50:32.800
Maggie Maggie mcgooney, mcgannymany mcganny. Yeah, like the in Maggie

623
00:50:33.039 --> 00:50:41.639
your Meggy, the karate kid in Meggie, mister mcgaggy, mister miyaggy,

624
00:50:41.719 --> 00:50:46.760
that's me Eggy. He wasn't actually that person. It was

625
00:50:46.800 --> 00:50:53.599
my granddad, but he had bonds eye trees. I thought

626
00:50:53.639 --> 00:50:59.480
it was a Japanese thing. I know mister Maaggiaggy or

627
00:50:59.480 --> 00:51:02.000
Maeggy had one had them in America, But I didn't

628
00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:04.880
think we had Bonzie trees here. And I wasn't even

629
00:51:04.920 --> 00:51:07.280
sure they were a real either, like it's on tea,

630
00:51:07.320 --> 00:51:08.960
it's a movie. I didn't know if they were real.

631
00:51:11.760 --> 00:51:13.559
I thought, maybe it's a made up thing to make

632
00:51:13.559 --> 00:51:18.599
this story more interesting. But my grandther had these Bonzi

633
00:51:18.760 --> 00:51:25.400
trees that he'd spent years cultivating and he gave me.

634
00:51:25.719 --> 00:51:29.199
He gave me one of them. It was kind of

635
00:51:29.239 --> 00:51:32.440
like a flat warming because it was the first time

636
00:51:32.480 --> 00:51:34.320
I was living on my own, so I was sixteen.

637
00:51:35.280 --> 00:51:41.039
I never lived on my own really before that, and

638
00:51:41.119 --> 00:51:43.119
it was a lovely gift. I didn't look after it.

639
00:51:44.960 --> 00:51:55.199
Yeah it's true I didn't, so it didn't last. But

640
00:51:55.199 --> 00:51:58.719
what it's just lovely. I didn't appreciate it at the time.

641
00:51:58.960 --> 00:52:02.480
I didn't, you know, I wish I'd been a bit more.

642
00:52:05.280 --> 00:52:08.119
I was sixteen, I get at the time, I was

643
00:52:08.199 --> 00:52:13.480
very immature for my age. I mean, I think I

644
00:52:13.559 --> 00:52:17.320
hit puberty at about thirty two, you know, a very very

645
00:52:17.400 --> 00:52:22.559
late developer. I said it lovely, Thanks, Vinn, A bit

646
00:52:22.559 --> 00:52:30.159
more noise please, He stops and listens to me. I

647
00:52:30.159 --> 00:52:33.840
know he's looking at me. If I look around, He's

648
00:52:33.880 --> 00:52:36.960
not only looking at me, he's staring at me. His

649
00:52:37.119 --> 00:52:42.480
tail's wagging, waggling, wiggling, waggling. Does your tam do your

650
00:52:42.519 --> 00:52:45.239
tails do all kinds of weird things? Isn't it spinning?

651
00:52:45.599 --> 00:52:55.519
Spinning around? So another pope, Pope Pious, had a personal

652
00:52:55.599 --> 00:52:58.239
barber who was the only one allowed to cut his hair.

653
00:53:02.719 --> 00:53:06.159
So that was ninth. Oh, look at this, so I

654
00:53:06.280 --> 00:53:11.000
read a few of these out. Pope Paul the Ie

655
00:53:12.320 --> 00:53:14.679
sixty three to seventy eight was the first pope to

656
00:53:14.719 --> 00:53:21.400
travel by plane. Pope Leo eighteen seventy eight to nineteen

657
00:53:21.440 --> 00:53:24.400
oh three was the oldest pope living to the age

658
00:53:24.440 --> 00:53:30.760
of ninety three. Pope John PAULA First nineteen seventy eight

659
00:53:31.239 --> 00:53:36.119
had the shortest papacy of the twentieth century. Lasted only

660
00:53:36.199 --> 00:53:45.840
thirty three days. Uh dear did le dear Pope Leo

661
00:53:46.480 --> 00:53:51.599
I four forty to four sixty one, so it was

662
00:53:51.639 --> 00:53:56.400
only twenty one years old. He convinced Attila the hundred

663
00:53:56.440 --> 00:53:59.719
turned back from invade in Italy and four point fifty two.

664
00:54:01.280 --> 00:54:10.000
He was a very young pope, wasn't he Pope Gregory

665
00:54:11.760 --> 00:54:18.280
Pope Beneface nineteen twelve ninety four to thirteen O three

666
00:54:18.440 --> 00:54:26.119
declared the first jubilee year in thirteen hundred. Pope Pius

667
00:54:26.400 --> 00:54:31.400
x IX eighteen forty six to eighteen seventy eight, longest,

668
00:54:31.559 --> 00:54:35.039
serving for thirty one years. I mentioned it earlier, didn't I?

669
00:54:38.519 --> 00:54:42.039
John Pope the Second nineteen seventy eight to two thousand

670
00:54:42.079 --> 00:54:45.360
and five was the first non Italian pope in four

671
00:54:45.440 --> 00:54:53.960
hundred and fifty five years. Wasn't he German? Oh? I

672
00:54:54.000 --> 00:55:02.079
can't remember. Oh, Pope Julius Second fifteen oh three to

673
00:55:02.119 --> 00:55:06.159
fifteen thirteen. Oh, these are the years that there was pope,

674
00:55:06.320 --> 00:55:08.519
not the years he was around. I was going to

675
00:55:08.559 --> 00:55:11.239
say that. Blow me now, So I was to think

676
00:55:11.320 --> 00:55:13.440
that bloke was like twenty three years old. The other

677
00:55:13.480 --> 00:55:24.079
pope commissioned Michelangelo to paint the seedling of the Sistine Chapel. Okay.

678
00:55:25.039 --> 00:55:30.199
Pope Sixtus I v Fourteen seventy one to fourteen eighty

679
00:55:30.280 --> 00:55:35.679
four restored the Aqua Virgin Aqueduct, improving Rome's water supply.

680
00:55:38.760 --> 00:55:43.760
Pope Buyer Pius X one one or II thirty nine

681
00:55:43.800 --> 00:55:47.599
to fifty eight opened the Vatican Archives to scholars for

682
00:55:47.639 --> 00:55:55.079
the first time. Pope John Paul the Second nineteen seventy

683
00:55:55.119 --> 00:55:57.800
eight to two thousand and five, he visited one hundred

684
00:55:57.840 --> 00:56:02.199
and twenty nine countries during his papacy. There was only

685
00:56:02.239 --> 00:56:04.480
one hundred and twenty three countries in the world, so

686
00:56:04.519 --> 00:56:13.599
that's not bad as a Pope Francis. Pope Benedict x

687
00:56:13.760 --> 00:56:18.920
v I two thousand and five to twenty thirteen was

688
00:56:18.960 --> 00:56:23.480
the first pope to use Twitter. I think he was

689
00:56:23.519 --> 00:56:31.440
one of the first popes to retire as well. I

690
00:56:31.440 --> 00:56:33.960
remember there's a big deal about that when he retired.

691
00:56:36.039 --> 00:56:39.079
Pope Paul v I was the first pope to visit

692
00:56:39.079 --> 00:56:45.960
the Holy Land in modern times. Pope John x XIII

693
00:56:46.840 --> 00:56:49.840
nineteen fifty eight to sixty three sent a message to

694
00:56:49.880 --> 00:56:57.960
the moon Junior Pollo eleven mission, what kind of message?

695
00:56:59.000 --> 00:57:03.199
Pope Adrian First seven seventy two to seven ninety five,

696
00:57:04.239 --> 00:57:11.519
oldest pope at the time of his election at aged eighty. Wow,

697
00:57:11.760 --> 00:57:18.599
Pope Urban v II. No, wait a minute, Pope Benedict

698
00:57:19.480 --> 00:57:23.639
x I X ten thirty two to ten forty four,

699
00:57:24.159 --> 00:57:27.320
ten forty five, and then ten forty seven to ten

700
00:57:27.440 --> 00:57:30.880
forty eight. I don't know how I didn't realize you

701
00:57:30.880 --> 00:57:36.599
could be pope three times. That's that's I don't understand

702
00:57:36.599 --> 00:57:38.639
what that is. I'd have to look into the into

703
00:57:38.639 --> 00:57:42.480
the reason for that. But I'm just not interested enough

704
00:57:42.519 --> 00:57:47.320
to be honest. But it's pequed my interest mildly. He

705
00:57:47.519 --> 00:57:51.000
was the youngest pope, one of the youngest popes, possibly

706
00:57:51.000 --> 00:57:59.960
the youngest. Twelve. Pope John x I I nine fifty

707
00:58:00.159 --> 00:58:04.519
five to nine sixty four elected poper around eighteen years old.

708
00:58:05.239 --> 00:58:10.519
So this now they're generally, you know, fairly elderly. Wasn't

709
00:58:10.760 --> 00:58:15.440
was the case. And he was a pope from nine

710
00:58:15.440 --> 00:58:22.039
to fifty five to nine sixty four, I mean, an

711
00:58:22.079 --> 00:58:24.159
eighteen year old. I just wonder what he got up to.

712
00:58:28.760 --> 00:58:32.480
This is Pope Martin IV twelve eighty one to twelve

713
00:58:32.800 --> 00:58:41.920
eighty five had a fondness for eels. Okay, Pope John

714
00:58:41.960 --> 00:58:45.199
the Second seventy eight to two thousand and five enjoyed

715
00:58:45.199 --> 00:58:51.239
a Polish cream cake called cram Wacker cramlca. Was he Polish?

716
00:58:51.840 --> 00:58:56.239
Wasn't German? Wasn't he Polish? John Paul second? I'm just

717
00:58:56.280 --> 00:58:59.360
thinking because if he enjoyed Polish cream cake, maybe he

718
00:58:59.480 --> 00:59:04.400
was Polish. But from the sounds of it. Kramalca, that

719
00:59:04.559 --> 00:59:07.880
sounds like a really nice cake. So I don't think

720
00:59:07.960 --> 00:59:09.760
you know, you'd need to be polish to enjoy it.

721
00:59:10.440 --> 00:59:14.920
I imagine I'd enjoy that cake myself. In fact, I've

722
00:59:14.960 --> 00:59:16.679
never wanted to eat your cake as much as I

723
00:59:16.719 --> 00:59:19.280
do right now, And that's the only cake I ever

724
00:59:19.280 --> 00:59:30.159
want to eat. Cramalca, Oh, sounds lovely, Pope Benedicts, it

725
00:59:30.280 --> 00:59:38.239
says Pope Benedict. Pope Paul six, Pope Paul, Pope Paul

726
00:59:38.480 --> 00:59:42.719
the I nineteen sixty three to nineteen seventy eight preferred

727
00:59:42.719 --> 00:59:51.039
a light scotch and soda in the evenings. Wow. Pope

728
00:59:51.119 --> 00:59:58.280
Clement v I thirteen forty two to thirteen fifty two,

729
00:59:59.079 --> 01:00:02.840
this is interesting, enjoyed lavish meals, but was the only

730
01:00:02.920 --> 01:00:10.119
one allowed to use a knife at his table. Historical

731
01:00:10.639 --> 01:00:15.760
artistic endeavors let said, a look, Pope Innocent eight. Some

732
01:00:15.840 --> 01:00:18.480
of these names are pretty cool, isn't they? So that

733
01:00:18.519 --> 01:00:26.000
he was the eighth Pope Innocent fourteen eighty four to

734
01:00:26.119 --> 01:00:31.559
fourteen ninety two. That's a long time ago, isn't it,

735
01:00:32.519 --> 01:00:37.199
fourteen fifteen sixty? I mean some of these like seven

736
01:00:40.119 --> 01:00:44.119
seven how many years? When was the first pope, because

737
01:00:44.119 --> 01:00:49.079
it wasn't there one here like seven four forty four forty,

738
01:00:51.320 --> 01:00:58.360
so it's four forty. I mean it's two outs. Just

739
01:00:58.760 --> 01:01:04.639
six hundred years ago, is that right? Yeah? Six hundred

740
01:01:04.719 --> 01:01:09.559
years ago. Nearly six hundred years ago. BlimE me, that's

741
01:01:09.599 --> 01:01:15.159
a few lifetimes, isn't it. Pope Innocent eight eighteen forty

742
01:01:15.199 --> 01:01:19.519
eight to fourteen ninety two accepted a gift of chess

743
01:01:19.559 --> 01:01:25.400
men made of sugar from King Ferdinand of Spain and

744
01:01:25.519 --> 01:01:30.039
Pope six to five fifteen eighty five to fifteen ninety

745
01:01:30.639 --> 01:01:36.199
once had really once had a fake mountain built in

746
01:01:36.239 --> 01:01:40.440
the Vatican gardens so you could climb it for exercise. Brilliant,

747
01:01:43.119 --> 01:01:45.559
that's just brilliant. You can't knock that, and so I can't.

748
01:01:46.159 --> 01:01:54.119
That's just great. Yeah, if you can't get to the mountain,

749
01:01:54.719 --> 01:01:57.360
bring the mountain to you. There's an old saying, isn't

750
01:01:57.400 --> 01:02:03.639
it boo the mountainto the pope if the Pope can't

751
01:02:03.639 --> 01:02:09.559
get to the mountain. I haven't been to the Vatican,

752
01:02:11.039 --> 01:02:15.199
but I assume there's lots of stairs, lots of steps.

753
01:02:17.280 --> 01:02:19.920
But then I suppose if it's indoors, it's not the

754
01:02:19.960 --> 01:02:23.719
same as being outdoors, and you can't climb up a

755
01:02:23.920 --> 01:02:27.000
bigger loads of steps and feel like you've climbed a mountain,

756
01:02:27.400 --> 01:02:30.400
even though you might have actually done the equivalent of that.

757
01:02:31.599 --> 01:02:35.599
So I suppose having a mountain built in the garden

758
01:02:36.239 --> 01:02:41.079
was useful, wasn't it. Oh that's something I would do.

759
01:02:41.199 --> 01:02:53.079
I like that, and so looks some historical highlights. Pope

760
01:02:53.159 --> 01:02:56.679
France is twenty thirteen to present used to take public

761
01:02:56.719 --> 01:03:02.679
buses in Buena Aris and still prefers modest living. Okay,

762
01:03:02.719 --> 01:03:05.239
this is the pope that has passed. Sorry it's saying

763
01:03:05.239 --> 01:03:08.920
to present. It's not up to date. Here still prefers

764
01:03:09.679 --> 01:03:17.719
modest living quarters in the Vatican guesthouse. Pope John Paul

765
01:03:17.920 --> 01:03:21.159
second seventy eight to two thousand and five was the

766
01:03:21.280 --> 01:03:29.079
very first pope to visit a synagogue, and Pope Benedict

767
01:03:31.559 --> 01:03:35.119
two thousand and five to twenty thirteen visited the Blue

768
01:03:35.199 --> 01:03:45.440
Mosque in Istanbul, fostering interfaith relations. Oh, I didn't know this.

769
01:03:45.599 --> 01:03:49.559
Pope Adrian second eight sixty seven to eight seventy two

770
01:03:50.239 --> 01:03:53.519
was married before his election, and his wife and daughter

771
01:03:53.639 --> 01:04:00.639
lived with him in the Lateran Palace. They are like kings,

772
01:04:00.639 --> 01:04:06.599
aren't they really the popes almost like higher than kings,

773
01:04:07.039 --> 01:04:13.400
like the higher than royalty. Pope Benedict the ninth, Okay,

774
01:04:13.519 --> 01:04:18.840
that's already done that one. Pope John Is twenty second,

775
01:04:19.199 --> 01:04:29.679
which was thirteen sixteen to thirteen thirty four, once banned

776
01:04:29.880 --> 01:04:35.880
chess from clergy, possibly because monks were gambling over it. Oh.

777
01:04:39.320 --> 01:04:44.199
Pope Adlexander the seventh sixteen fifty five to sixteen sixty

778
01:04:44.280 --> 01:04:47.199
seven had a bed that could be folded up and

779
01:04:47.320 --> 01:04:50.760
hidden behind a curtain. It's good, though, because you never

780
01:04:50.840 --> 01:04:59.800
know when you need a nap Pope Pope in this

781
01:05:00.239 --> 01:05:05.320
the second sixteen seventy six to eighty nine, known for

782
01:05:05.440 --> 01:05:10.320
being extremely thrifty. He even reduced the Vatican's sugar allowance.

783
01:05:13.920 --> 01:05:18.320
And Pope Clement seven fifteen twenty three to thirty four

784
01:05:19.079 --> 01:05:23.880
had a personal astrologer and planned major events according to

785
01:05:24.000 --> 01:05:27.679
the stars. I wonder if they knew at the time

786
01:05:29.360 --> 01:05:34.599
that he was doing that. And when is it going

787
01:05:34.679 --> 01:05:42.079
to be a female pope? That's just a question. I

788
01:05:42.119 --> 01:05:44.119
don't know. I don't know what the rules are when

789
01:05:44.159 --> 01:05:47.119
the rules are no female popes. I know because I

790
01:05:47.239 --> 01:05:52.559
looked at all the people that will be basically people

791
01:05:52.559 --> 01:05:57.079
will be voting for them all men, and there's never been,

792
01:05:57.639 --> 01:06:03.760
according to this, never been a female pope. So I

793
01:06:03.840 --> 01:06:07.559
mean's a pope ess? I mean the one that was

794
01:06:07.679 --> 01:06:16.480
married was she's I don't know, I don't know who

795
01:06:16.599 --> 01:06:25.440
knows all Pope Joan maybe there was, oh as I

796
01:06:25.599 --> 01:06:33.679
said that. Wow, Pope Joan legendary ninth century, so this

797
01:06:33.880 --> 01:06:38.519
might not be true. While likely a medieval legend, the

798
01:06:38.679 --> 01:06:42.320
tale of a woman who became pope disguised as a

799
01:06:42.440 --> 01:06:48.880
man has intrigued storytellers for centuries. It still is intriguing people.

800
01:06:48.920 --> 01:06:52.840
It's intrigued me. Now. How ironic the fact that I

801
01:06:53.000 --> 01:06:59.159
was just talking about females not ever being a pope.

802
01:07:00.000 --> 01:07:05.079
Now that came up. Wow, It's almost like I'm in

803
01:07:05.199 --> 01:07:07.760
sync with the screen in front of me. Maybe I

804
01:07:07.880 --> 01:07:12.199
just read it now, I didn't. I did read it,

805
01:07:12.280 --> 01:07:23.840
but not until afterwards. Pope Gregory nine twelve twenty seven

806
01:07:23.920 --> 01:07:29.639
to forty one had a papal PayPal papal bull that

807
01:07:29.840 --> 01:07:36.280
declared black cats were associated with satan Ah. That's good, Lisa,

808
01:07:36.360 --> 01:07:43.480
no superstition. Pope Nicholas the Fifth fourteen forty seven to

809
01:07:43.599 --> 01:07:48.639
fourteen fifty five loved books so much he began the

810
01:07:48.800 --> 01:07:58.519
Vatican Library. Wow, Pope Paul the Second fourteen sixty four

811
01:07:58.719 --> 01:08:18.159
to fourteen seventy one loved collecting classical statues and watermelons. Okay, right,

812
01:08:19.000 --> 01:08:21.039
there's a few. There's a few other bits in here

813
01:08:21.079 --> 01:08:30.680
that I won't read that just because it's not I

814
01:08:30.800 --> 01:08:33.199
can't have covered most of the stuff on here. Actually

815
01:08:33.720 --> 01:08:36.159
I thought there was more than that. I'm sure there

816
01:08:36.239 --> 01:08:44.680
was more. I went through quite a few earlier artistic endeavors,

817
01:08:44.920 --> 01:09:00.880
global influence, unique papal facts. Okay, global influence already kind

818
01:09:00.920 --> 01:09:08.640
of covered most of these artistic endeavors. Michelangelo one had

819
01:09:08.680 --> 01:09:18.640
done that. The viaduct, done that opening for the two

820
01:09:18.680 --> 01:09:24.880
scholars for the first time, done that one historical highlights.

821
01:09:28.039 --> 01:09:31.760
Pope Adrian I V was the only English pope born

822
01:09:31.920 --> 01:09:37.479
Nicholas Breakspear in Hertfordshire. Wow, I did not know that.

823
01:09:40.279 --> 01:09:46.279
Pope Clement V moved the papacy to Avignon, France, initiating

824
01:09:46.399 --> 01:09:52.399
the Avignon Papacy period. So the pope was in France

825
01:09:52.479 --> 01:09:58.800
for a while. Pope Pius v I I was imprisoned

826
01:09:58.840 --> 01:10:06.439
by Napoleon for ruper refuse him to anal his brother's marriage. Oh,

827
01:10:08.960 --> 01:10:10.399
I don't know about that. I don't know what that

828
01:10:14.880 --> 01:10:19.399
and null, and I also get sort of undo the marriage.

829
01:10:19.479 --> 01:10:23.640
I suppose that that that's what that means. Pope Leo

830
01:10:24.119 --> 01:10:36.760
x H the Pope Gregory x III introduced the Gregorian

831
01:10:36.920 --> 01:10:40.319
calendar in fifteen eighty two, which is still in use today.

832
01:10:41.960 --> 01:10:44.640
No one do what that means? Does that mean that

833
01:10:44.800 --> 01:10:50.800
the like January February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, Noven, December.

834
01:10:53.079 --> 01:10:59.239
Did what's the only name? What's the only first name

835
01:10:59.319 --> 01:11:02.800
you can get out of if you go for the

836
01:11:02.920 --> 01:11:08.399
first letters of the calendar January, February, March, all the

837
01:11:08.399 --> 01:11:10.800
way down, So it's the only name that comes out

838
01:11:10.840 --> 01:11:15.199
of the calendar from January to December. If you look

839
01:11:15.239 --> 01:11:18.159
at the first letters, the only name that comes out.

840
01:11:19.439 --> 01:11:31.960
Should I touch, I spell out here, So you've got January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October,

841
01:11:32.359 --> 01:11:38.399
November Jason, the only name that is spelled with the

842
01:11:38.520 --> 01:11:44.600
first letters of the of the calendar. The only name

843
01:11:47.119 --> 01:11:55.239
Jason June, July, nothing, July, August, September, October, November, December,

844
01:11:55.600 --> 01:11:59.159
Jaysond But I don't think there's any name called Jason.

845
01:12:00.239 --> 01:12:11.880
That might be January, February, June, and March April, May, March, April,

846
01:12:12.319 --> 01:12:23.760
mem that's not really your name, though, is it? June? July? August? Yeah,

847
01:12:26.560 --> 01:12:33.800
November December, you know, so it's not October November, December.

848
01:12:35.439 --> 01:12:37.319
I mean, it might might be a name called odd

849
01:12:39.760 --> 01:12:43.439
Sond September, October, November, December, So there might be a

850
01:12:43.520 --> 01:12:50.680
name called Sond August. Maybe there is a name called Essend,

851
01:12:51.439 --> 01:12:54.039
but it's definitely not a name that I've heard of.

852
01:12:57.159 --> 01:13:00.720
Jason to the only one really, the only one any

853
01:13:00.720 --> 01:13:03.840
way that I've heard of. I mean, I you know,

854
01:13:05.520 --> 01:13:09.319
I have heard of that name. Jason, quite a good name.

855
01:13:09.359 --> 01:13:11.640
I don't know why more people don't call their kids Jason.

856
01:13:15.159 --> 01:13:20.239
Just seems like an opportunity missed. That's all I want.

857
01:13:20.279 --> 01:13:22.840
I don't want much for my listeners. I just want

858
01:13:22.880 --> 01:13:27.079
you to have babies and call your children Jason, regardless

859
01:13:27.119 --> 01:13:29.560
of their sex. Just call them Jason. Please, thank you.

860
01:13:30.560 --> 01:13:34.960
Here's my daughter Jason. I don't care. Just just one person,

861
01:13:35.079 --> 01:13:38.760
ONTs please call your kid Jason, and don't call it

862
01:13:38.920 --> 01:13:42.159
kid Jason because of some of you know, another reason

863
01:13:42.520 --> 01:13:45.880
and then pretend that you call it Jason for me.

864
01:13:46.560 --> 01:13:49.000
I want you to genuinely want to call your kid

865
01:13:49.119 --> 01:13:54.600
Jason because of me. Now, some would argue that's a

866
01:13:54.640 --> 01:14:07.119
bit egotistical, a bit narsisistic. You're probably right. Oh anyway,

867
01:14:08.159 --> 01:14:09.920
I think i've I mean, I know, I went off

868
01:14:10.239 --> 01:14:13.880
track a little bit. Pope's in their personal quirk quirks.

869
01:14:15.479 --> 01:14:20.159
Pope Leo X one one was the first Pope he filmed,

870
01:14:20.560 --> 01:14:24.000
appearing in a short silent movie in eighteen ninety six.

871
01:14:25.399 --> 01:14:33.800
I didn't know they had movies back then. Pope Clement

872
01:14:34.359 --> 01:14:38.800
x I V was a skilled botanist and had a

873
01:14:38.880 --> 01:14:43.439
particular interest in the study of plants. Isn't that what

874
01:14:43.560 --> 01:14:48.760
a botanist is? Someone who studies plants? Or am I wrong?

875
01:14:51.520 --> 01:14:55.560
John Paul, Pope John Paul's second was an avid outsdoorman

876
01:14:56.159 --> 01:15:07.039
outdoorman outdoorsman enjoying hiking. Pope Paul v I first pope

877
01:15:07.119 --> 01:15:11.399
to visit six continents, earning him the nickname the Pilgrim Pope.

878
01:15:15.479 --> 01:15:20.640
Pope Pius X one one had a passion for acting

879
01:15:20.760 --> 01:15:30.520
and performed in amateur dramatics before his ecclesiastical career. What

880
01:15:30.960 --> 01:15:36.880
Pope Francis Pope Francis. This is our Pope Francis was

881
01:15:36.920 --> 01:15:39.079
a fan of the tango and even worked as a

882
01:15:39.199 --> 01:15:44.439
nightclub bouncer in his youth. Wow, I just don't see

883
01:15:44.439 --> 01:15:48.439
a pope think I bet he used to be a bouncer,

884
01:15:48.720 --> 01:15:50.279
but he used to be on the door of a nightclub.

885
01:15:50.760 --> 01:15:55.479
I've never never thought that, But then I think it's

886
01:15:56.600 --> 01:16:00.279
I think it's sometimes hard to even imagine someone used

887
01:16:00.359 --> 01:16:04.560
they used to be young, even though we've all we

888
01:16:04.720 --> 01:16:07.399
all were young with me. We were all little kids,

889
01:16:07.439 --> 01:16:20.560
once teenagers, young adults, middle aged. Pope Benedict's x V

890
01:16:20.920 --> 01:16:28.920
I was accomplished penis pianist, often playing works by Mozart,

891
01:16:29.880 --> 01:16:43.479
his favorite composer. Wow, how cool culinary tales. I've already

892
01:16:43.560 --> 01:16:52.479
kind of covered this right, Global influence, artistic endeavors, historical highlights,

893
01:16:54.359 --> 01:16:58.359
popes and their personal quots are kind of I covered

894
01:16:58.520 --> 01:17:08.239
most of these or the yep, it's kind of all done.

895
01:17:08.560 --> 01:17:11.319
I've covered everything. I mean, I don't. I'm not saying

896
01:17:11.319 --> 01:17:14.520
I've covered every single thing about popes since the beginning

897
01:17:14.560 --> 01:17:18.319
of time. I haven't. Probably about ninety percent, but not

898
01:17:18.399 --> 01:17:22.760
all of it. So thank you for listening. I'm going

899
01:17:22.840 --> 01:17:29.880
to go now. Oh yes, it's half past eight, which

900
01:17:30.039 --> 01:17:33.680
means Big Brother will be on in about half an hour,

901
01:17:33.920 --> 01:17:36.520
less than half an hour. So what I'll do I

902
01:17:36.680 --> 01:17:41.720
probably will because it finishes at half ten. I'll probably

903
01:17:41.720 --> 01:17:46.680
go to bed then. So what I'll do is edit

904
01:17:46.800 --> 01:17:50.079
this process it in the morning, so though it would

905
01:17:50.079 --> 01:17:54.319
be Wednesday, it will be early Wednesday, unless, of course,

906
01:17:54.680 --> 01:17:58.520
I decide to do it tonight. There's always a chance.

907
01:17:59.399 --> 01:18:02.000
You never know. I don't make I can't. I just

908
01:18:02.119 --> 01:18:07.279
don't know. I don't know, So thank you for listening.

909
01:18:08.319 --> 01:18:12.039
Remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve

910
01:18:12.079 --> 01:18:17.720
to be happy. Be gentle with yourself because you deserve

911
01:18:17.800 --> 01:18:27.119
to feel safe. Lots of love. Bye bye, bye bye,