April 11, 2025

(no music) Q&A Friday | Let me bore you to sleep #1325 | 11th April 2025

(no music) Q&A Friday | Let me bore you to sleep #1325 | 11th April 2025
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Hello, and welcome to CUE and A Cunie Cune Friday,

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Cooney Cooney, cumbere Friday. My name's Jason Newland. This is

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Jason Newland dot com. Please only listen to one who

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can safely close your eyes. It is eleventh what Friday?

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The eleventh of April two thousand and twenty five. Now,

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little problem. No, I'm not talking about that. I'm talking

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about this what I don't really know what to do

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today because because because because because of the wonderful things

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he does, I haven't really had any questions hardly. Now

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does that mean we're at the end of the Q

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and A Friday? Does that mean that's kind of it

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now we sort of stop doing them? Or I don't know.

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I don't know what the what the solution is, if

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I'm honest. So I do have a couple of questions,

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but and I realized one question can take me the

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whole session. But the idea, what's going on? What's that? Right? Okay?

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So maybe my problem is I posted them on all

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the different pages and steady just on the Jason Newlands

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Boring group on Facebook. But I posted, like the any questions.

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I think the two things that have been problematic is

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first of all, I have produced probably too many recordings

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in a sense that the post hello, do you have

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any questions for this week's Q and A Friday, eleventh

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of April twenty twenty five, which I posted on the

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ninth Wednesday, has got kind of hidden by all the

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other posts that I've posted, because you know I've done.

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I did three recordings yesterday. This will be the second

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one today. I did two the day before that, two

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the day before that. So yes, quite a few, I guess.

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So I'm thinking what can I do to cover that?

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So I got questions from Hillary where in high landage

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of visit? And I've got another question from Sebastian. Oh,

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that wasn't a question. Will podcast win? Don't make me

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start on my own? So he didn't. I didn't ask

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a question. He posted a picture of do you know?

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On YouTube? But what on Facebook? At the moment there's

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all these pictures of like action figures done by AI

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and people are doing their own ones. Well, he's done

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one for me and it says Uncle Smellie hours of Boredom.

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And it's basically a very very short, plump man with

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hardly any hair, wearing pink glasses and it says comes with

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several cooled dysfunctionalities ages nine and up, not age is

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five and up. So it yeah, that was his thing

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for me, So it wasn't a question. So I say, hello,

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do you have any questions for this seach Q and

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a Friday Sebastian answers have aware of you of robbing

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yourself by and not talking to me. Never mind, I'll

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keep on barding your dms and one day you will

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have to face it. So I say, do you have

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an actual question? And he says, do you like your

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action figure I designed for you? So no, Sebastian, I

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don't like it. I mean, it's nice that you took

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the time to I don't even know what the right

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word is to be honest, uncle Smellie ours of boredom.

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I mean, the thing is, I don't want to say

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nice things about him. But Sebastian's been doing AI and

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images and stuff like that. Before AI was even about,

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he was doing making weird making weird images and videos

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like ten years ago. So I'm a little bit scared

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what he could come up with with the new technology.

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In some of the things he's actually posted are very funny,

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there's one he did where there's me in a dressing

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gown and suddenly all these people just pulled my dresser

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gown off and it's like a kung fu or karate dojo.

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So yeah, I do like the some of new stuff

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you post, but it's usually it's not aimed at making

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me feel good about myself? Is it a? So? Where all? Guess?

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Where did Thailand? We're entirely to go? So that's that one,

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seems there's any other questions, any other questions, any other questions?

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Nothing on Jason Newland's boring group Let Me Boy to Sleep.

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Let's see there's anything on that page? Oh? What come

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on Jason Newland Hypnosis. Let's all look on that page?

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Is there anything? You never know? There might be something? No,

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nothing on there, Let me Boy to Sleep? Anything on there?

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I wonder why trains make so much noise? Sometimes? Might

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not be a train? Actually, Oh, I didn't seem to

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post it on that one? Okay, fair enough? So did

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I post it on the Jason Newland Hypnotist? All one word?

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I didn't, okay fair enough? So the ones I posted

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on I didn't get any other responses, so only one

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question and I don't believe. If I'm correct, I've ever

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had only one question in a week, which is it.

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I'm not concerned as in like no, oh, no, what

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we're going to do, but a little bit like okay,

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because it seems a little bit of a shame to

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wave goodbye to the Q and a Friday, because I've

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kind of got a little bit used to it. It's

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it's almost the first regular thing that I've ever really done. Like,

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like I'm saying, like a lot today, don't I regular?

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As in, well, okay, we all know what regular means,

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don't me. But I don't know. I don't know what

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the solution is. So I'm thinking, if I go onto

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my website, is there a way general settings? Is there

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a way I can add something to the top of

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the page header and footer header layout, because I'm thinking

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if there is, I don't I need to I need

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to go to the page. So I go to pages

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because maybe if I can put so if I edit

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that homepage, if I can add a question or a

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button or voice message as well, no not voice menage

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contact form review form. I wonder what the review form

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would do write a review for hypnosis a sleeping deeply

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BlimE it no, okay that it brings up it brings

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up a different one for each podcast. So there's too

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many podcasts. It's a big, long old thing. So if

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I go to intake form, what's an intake form? Anyone

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intake form? Say? Look what this is? Intake form? Your name? Wow? Okay,

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that's a lot of stuff. What if I can Nopes

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not allow me to change stuff? That's no good. No,

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that's that's probably more for me to feell in, isn't it.

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I suppose so people can know where to go. So

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let's do another one, because I'm thinking if I can

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do what would be quite nice if I could just

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have a section and you can ask, So if I

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could put a contact form at the top. And I

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don't know if I'm able to edit the contact form layout.

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I suppose, Yeah, I could put something at the top

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so you could just put your name in email address

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and your message. I don't know if it allow me

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to edit what's in the form. Doesn't seem to, does

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it seem to. That's just added another one. That's no

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point to that. So maybe I'll do that. I'll put

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that at the top of the page for the Jasonnuland

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dot com website, and then you can just ask your question,

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you know, add a question that you want for Q

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and A Friday, and I will just write them down,

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keep a track of them, and answer them as I

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get them. Well, not i'll ever get them, but whatever

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I get before that Friday our answer, and then whatever

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I get the following week leading up by answer that

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as well. That makes sense, I think. So I need

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to put a header head in head in head in

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ask question for Q and A Friday. This is real time, baby,

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I'm doing this in real time. But how do I'm

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not used to doing it like this? How do I

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get it to be I don't want largest. I think

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H two is fine. I don't need largest, but I

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do need it to be in the middle. How do

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I get it into the center? Styles typography, font font

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font font font font font while I was in many

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choices book antiguy, Well that'd be it. I don't know

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old text A line that's it, got it in the middle.

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So is that useful? Ask question for Q and a

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Friday for the next for yeah, I'll update that. So

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let's have a look how it looks on my website

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on the on the phone Jess and new Land dot com. Yeah,

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BlimE me ask question for ask question for Q and

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a Friday? Should it be more than that? Should I

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ask questions? Ask question for ask a question for the

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next Q and a Friday. What would be the best

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way to word it? I don't know? Uh to do? Do? Do? Do?

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I'm going to ask Q and a chat GPT what's

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the best way to word a title? To inform asking

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for questions for the next Q and A Friday? And

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I can't do it myself. I just thought i'd be

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interested to see what it comes up with. Got a

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question for Q and a Friday? See this is better.

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This is ask me anything Q and a Friday submission

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or submit your question for Q and a Friday. I

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think they ask me anything. I quite like that, So

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what okay, let's take get rid of that. Ask me

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anything Q and a Friday submission. Do you think that's okay?

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I think it's what you're doing. So just on new

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Land ask me anything Q and a Friday submission. So

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from now on we'll just see, we'll see and see

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how it goes. So every time I do recording, I'll

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just say you can go to my website, ask a

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question for Q and a Friday and just go to

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in fact, what I could do? Oh I could? I

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mean it's going to come on the first page. I

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don't need to have it as a as a separate link.

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Do I really a separate page? I might do, though,

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but it's on the very first page. When you go

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to my website Jasonnewland dot com. Is there, ask me

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anything Q and a Friday submission and you just put

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in your name, put in your email address. You can

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put any email address, it doesn't matter. I'm not going

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to respond unless you want me to respond. And then

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there's just a question and just under your message, that's it.

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I could probably change it a little bit, getting make

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it a bit more flashy, but I think that's all right.

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That does the job, doesn't It don't need flashy, just

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need functional, I would argue, So let me know what

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you think about it. So the question really is Thailand?

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So what I thought i'd just maybe talk about Thailand

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as I don't really have. I mean, you know, what

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did I do? Where did I go? What did I So, yeah,

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I'll just talk about my time in Thailand as I

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don't it's the only question I've got, so thank you, Hillary,

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And yeah, that's what I do. I think the first

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time I really heard about Thailand, I mean I heard

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about it when I was a kid, to see it

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on TV, movies and stuff like that. I didn't realize

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the connection with Vietnam and all that stuff, didn't know

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the history of that. But I think it was more

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when I got into Buddhism and learned a bit more

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about Tibet and Japan, China, India, Burma, all the different

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places where Buddhism was and Thailand being a Buddhist country.

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I mean, how many Buddhist countries are there? Not many? Right,

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I need to spell countries correctly, Oh dear, I still

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have to look at the keyboard and the type. So

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there's twelve recognized Buddhist countries in the world where Buddhism

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plays a significant role in shaping the culture. So the

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top ten, really, why is it doing? Whoops? The page

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is gone? Why is the page gone? Right? The page

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is gone? Buddhist by country? Okay, here we go. So wow,

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there's some countries where there's none recognized. Oh, I was

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going to say Afghanistan is thirty one million, four hundred

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and ten Buddhists. But now that's the population of the country.

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There's about ten thousand Buddhists. This is estimate. I didn't

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realize there'd be any Buddhist in Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andra,

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Angola about ten thousand, Argentina about ten thousand, twenty thousand,

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Armenia ten thousand, Adulba ten thousand, Australia six hundred thousand. Well, no, Australia.

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Australia has got quite a link to Thailand. There's a

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link there. There's like, I don't know how to express it.

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There's a lot of Australian visitors to Thailand, and I

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think there's a lot of Thailand visitors to Australia. There's

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a rule, I think, a good positive connection. I might

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be wrong, but it seems like it's almost like a

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a family, like they're related in some way, A bit

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like maybe England and Ireland. There's always going to be

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that connection, regardless of the blamely some of the weird

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history that went on. There's I think the average person

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in England would think of Ireland as being what I do.

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Did I tell you I'm forty eight percent Irish, I

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would I'm going to you know, I'm going to be

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saying that until I'm ninety. It would never get boring

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for me. So yeah, I think Australia's a six hundred thousand.

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I dodn't think it would be that many, so it's

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quite a high. It's two point still only two point

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seven percent. Austria twenty thousand, alger Baijan ten thousand. I

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might mispronounce some of these words names, Bahamas ten thousand,

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and Bahrain thirty thousand, Bangladesh a million, a million and

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one thousand, so that doesn't surprise me. But there is

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one hundred and forty eight million, six hundred and ninety

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thousand people there, so it's still zero point six percent.

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So it's still a very very tiny percentage. But when

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you consider that India is where Buddhism came from, and

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the history of Bangladesh and all the other parts of

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that area sort of you know, with the religions and stuff.

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So yeah, the Barbados ten thousand, Blaris ten thousand, Belgium

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thirty thousand Buddhists, so it's zero it's still zero point

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two percent. That's weird. I just they've got ten million

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people in Belgium. Thirty thousand is zero point two percent,

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is it? Thirty thousand, three hundred thousand, three million? Yeah,

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I suppose blind me so it's a very small amount.

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Just it seems like quite a few people. So yeah,

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thirty thousand, believes ten thousand, ben In ten thousand, Bermuda

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ten thousand. Used to be more, but they just keep disappearing.

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Do do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do do.

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Don't hear about the Muda Triangle anymore? Do? We used

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to be such a big thing. It's like the Yetty

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and the Lockmoss Monster, and you know, there's TV shows

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and movies about it, and it's almost like no one

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cares anymore. I still care. Bhutan is one of the

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most famous Buddhist countries. Seventy four point seven percent of

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the country is Buddhist. Five hundred and forty thousand, so

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seven hundred and thirty thousand people live in Bhutan. Seventy

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four point seven percent is big. So I'd quite like

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to go there because for me, it's it might I

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know something that, oh, you're going to Thailand. It's just

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to have a party, lifestyle and stuff. It wasn't that

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party life. I've never been a party lifestyle person in

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my life, even when I was young and fruity. I didn't,

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never did never, just just wasn't really a crowd person.

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The only place I ever felt comfortable in my life

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as an adult, like out like socially, I mean, would

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be the comedy club that used to frequent and I

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loved that place. It was the only place I really

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felt at home. So Bolivia ten thousand, zero point one percent,

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Botswana ten thousand, So I'm surprised that there's any just

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because some of the cultures ten ten thousand, two million

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people in Botswana. Brazil two hundred and fifty thousand. Again,

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I'm surprised at that. I didn't realize there'd be that

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many in Brazil. Brunei thirty thousand, eight point six percent.

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So that's interesting because Brunei is I think it's not

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known for being a Buddhist place, is it, But it's

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got one of higher percentages in the world. You've got

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Bulgaria ten thousand. I didn't think there'd be any Buddhists

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in Bulgaria, Burkina Faso ten thousand, because these are very

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Catholic or Christian countries Bulgaria is I'm pretty sure Cambodia.

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Whoa bam van Cambodia. There's fourteen million, one hundred and

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forty thousand people living in Cambodia. How many people do

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you think are Buddhists according to these statistics, thirteen million,

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six hundred and ninety thousand, ninety six point nine percent

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in Cambodia. Wow, Cameroon ten thousand, Canada, Canada two hundred

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and eighty thousand, So that's cool, a very tiny amount

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percentage wise, it's thirty four million in Canada. Chad, I've

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got no idea where that is ten thousand? Which is Chad?

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Is it near Brazil? Chile? Ten thousand? China? See this

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surprises me. I know, it doesn't really surprise me, but

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it kind of surprises me now considering just the way

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that China is portrayed in the West media that there's

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no freedom. Well, according to this is two hundred and

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forty four million, one hundred and thirty thousand Buddhists in

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China out of one point three out of one point

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three billion, so as eighteen point two percent. Again, one

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of the countries that one of the world's highest proportions

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of Buddhists. So I'd like to go to China. I'd

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like to go and visit the Buddhist temples and maybe

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even stay in one for a while. But I don't

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know what the rules are anymore. Just I really don't

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know regarding going to China, and if we're allowed to

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go there, and I know there's Chinese people will listen

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to this recording. So hello, See there's people from Russia

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put it from China. There's people from all over the world,

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and some countries that block maybe the Western Internet, they

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just choose VPNs and they get through that way. So

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it looks like I've got someone from maybe I don't know,

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trying to feel the country, Holland or Brussels or Scotland.

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But actually they're listening from China because they've got a

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VPN and they just put more of a Western country

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down so they can listen. So hello, Hello my Chinese friends,

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my Russian friends, my Egyptian friends, Costa Rican friends, my

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Cuban friends, Denmark friends. But I can't might Bermuda friends,

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mind you. I used to have more more listeners from Bermuda,

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but for some reason they just keep vanishing. See I'm

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going to keep doing it. I can't help it. Sorry,

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I have no control. So China is definitely a place

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i'd like to go to visit because it's a because

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of the Buddhism. Really Costa Rica, Croatia, ten thousand, Cyprus, Kuba.

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I'm thinking this is just out loud, which is where

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they're put in ten thousand, is they don't know, they're

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just guessing. France there's two hundred. I imagine they're guessing anyway.

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But France, you've got two hundred and eighty thousand, which

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is zero point five percent out sixty two million, seven

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hundred and ninety. So France has got less people than

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the UK, more than the United Kingdom. Germany eighty two

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eighty two million, three hundred thousand, so they've got more people.

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But they've got two hundred and ten thousand Buddhists. Ghana

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ten thousand, Greece, Guam, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, they've

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all got about ten thousand. Hong Kong is got thirteen

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point two percent, which is nine hundred and thirty thousand.

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But that's in China, isn't it controversial? Sorry? Seven million,

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fifty and that's a separate place, but it's now part

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of China, isn't it Hong Kong? So it's nine hundred

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and thirty thousand. That's blimey, that's good amount. Hungary ten thousand,

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Iceland ten thousand, India nine million, two hundred and fifty thousand,

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which is where Buddhism originated from. Some people think it

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originated from China, but it was India originated from India

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one point two billion, so zero point eight percent still

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a small amount in India, I think used to be

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a Buddhist country and then changed. I think it's gone

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through different phrases over the years. Indonese year two million

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and two million and sixty two thousand, one hundred and

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fifty that's blidan. There's two hundred and sixty six million

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people and a half million people living there, so Iran

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ten thousand, Iraq ten thousand. See, I didn't that surprising me,

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just because I thought I didn't think they'd be allowed.

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But then that's just the way that these countries are

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portrayed on the news. Maybe there is more freedom, more

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religious freedom than is you know, presented in the media.

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What else we got Italy one hundred and ten thousand,

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out sixty million, Jamaica ten thousand, Japan forty five million,

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eight hundred and twenty thousand, so out of one hundred

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and twenty six and a half million, So it's thirty

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six point two percent. So I knew Japan would be

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large' I was well, I thought it might be larger,

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but nope, it's still thirty six point two percent. Still

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one of the largest ones in the country in the world.

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Keeps saying country South Korea eleven million, our forty eight

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millions is twenty two point nine percent. South Korea Kuwait

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is eighty thousand our two point seven million, So that's

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that's interesting. Laos four point one million million our six

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point two million, so sixty six point one percent. And

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you've got other countries leven and Latvia, lesofa Liberia, girl,

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you came and you changed my world, Libya, Leitchenstein, Lithuania, Luxeenbourg.

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They'd like ten thousand part of Libya's twenty thousand. According

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to this, Macau or Mecca Macau ninety thousand, seventeen point

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three percent. That's quite high. BPP. Malaysia five million out

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of twenty eight point four million, so that's nineteen point

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eight percent, Mexico, Mauritius, Martinic, Mutinik, Malta, Mally, Maldives ten thousand. Blimey,

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I didn't realize there's so many countries, so I just

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skipped to the ones where there's actually a lot of people,

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because this is getting ridiculous, This is not this is

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taken forever forever. I tell you Laos four million point

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one hundred Malaysia did I do that? Five million? So

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that's nineteen point eight percent, Mongolia one point five million,

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fifty five point one percent, Burma or Mayan mar thirty

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eight point four million, so it's eighty nine point nine percent,

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Nepal eight two point four million, eight point two percent

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New Zealand fifty two thousand. And then you've got Netherlands

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forty thousand, Norway thirty thousand, so it's still a small proportion.

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Then you've got fifty thousand in Peru, still a small

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proportion of the people, sixty thousand in Portugal, one hundred

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and seventy thousand in Russia. Wow, okay, cool ninety thousand

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and me it's one hundred and forty two point nine

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million people in Russia according to this, so it's zero

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point one percent so it's very small percentage ninety thousand

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in Saudi Arabia, Singapore one point seven million, so thirty

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three point nine percent. And then you've got Sri Lanka

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fourteen point four million, sixty nine point three percent, Taiwan

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four point nine million, it's twenty one point three percent,

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Thailand sixty four point four million, ninety three point two percent,

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and then you've got Vietnam fourteen point three million, sixteen

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point four percent. So really, if I go to the

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just to the percentages, just to the percentages. So Cambodia's

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top a ninety six point nine percent, thirteen point six million,

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but Thailand ninety three point two percent second, but it's

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got a lot more Buddhists sixty four point four million.

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So that's why I went to Thailand. That's why I

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wanted to go there for quite a few years. And

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there was a few things that appeal to me. Just

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seems like, what would it be like to be in

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a Buddhist environment, unlike here where the Buddhists go to

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a center and it's not this is not a Buddhist country,

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and this is where I live, and it's kind of

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all kind of behind closed doors, kind of for the Buddhists.

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I mean, it's you're free to practice in this country

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whatever you want to do. But I think the general

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public probably don't ever hear about Buddhists. They don't make

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a fuss, they don't you know, it's kind of quiet, quiet,

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i'd say. But in Thailand the thing, So I'll go

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through the thing. There's a thing in Thailand they've got.

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I saw this myself, and I've seen it on videos

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on YouTube. There is a the monks. Because I visited

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the monastery. It's on this massive, massive, massive hill and

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the steps and it was hard walking up there. If

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I was going to do it again and have to

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be early morning or in the evening because it's way

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too hot, or have someone carry me. When I say someone,

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I mean pretty someone dragged me. It'd have to be

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a horse or something. And the wow, China has got

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more Buddhists than anywhere. I just realized that, BlimE me,

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China's got the most Buddhists. China, it's just it's not

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the biggest percentage, but two hundred and forty four million

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Chinese Buddhists and then Thailand's second sixty four. So I

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realized I couldn't just go to China. There's visas and

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well it's visas for Thailand as well, but it's a

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lot easier what it was just to go to Thailand.

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And basically what happened is I wanted to go. I've

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not really talked about this, but I received a back

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payment which was owed to me from money that I

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should have been getting and I didn't going back for

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a few years, so they called me up and sent

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that to me. So what I did is I at

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the time, paid off my debts, paid off bills, paid

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off phone contracts, paid off all the different things, got

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some new equipment for this place, you know, for the recording,

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and gave some of it away to friends. And then

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that's when I went over to a fortun and go

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to Thailand. So I did got the did during there

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was still needed a COVID pass at that time, even

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though we was out out of it in Thailand. That

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was still all wearing masks and also in the airports

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and all that stuff, not in England but in Thailand

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and on the plane. If you can believe that I

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had to wear a mask for twelve hours, you know,

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when it came to eating because there was two meals

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during that time. I have never spent so long chewing

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on a little bit of food as I did that day.

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I must have spent about three hours eating my dinner

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because it was such a break to not have that

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mask on, because it was very, very stifling, you know,

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I had to sort of be stuck with it. And

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they kick around telling people, put your mask on, put

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your mask on. I mean, it's nice that, you know,

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the good thing about that period is I wasn't I

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was being asked to put a mask on because everyone

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else had to not just to cover up my face

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for other people because they were complaining. So it's nice,

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you know, there's a reason for it. And so got there.

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What was weird is so I got my friend to

464
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look after my flat. I wasn't gone for long anyway,

465
00:41:42.079 --> 00:41:44.920
a couple of weeks or whatever, but it just had

466
00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:55.079
to because I'd lost Andre a few months earlier, and

467
00:41:55.159 --> 00:41:57.159
I was very aimless at that time. You know, I

468
00:41:57.199 --> 00:41:58.800
was living on my own game. I didn't have anyone

469
00:41:58.840 --> 00:42:01.320
with me, but I had onto with me for six years,

470
00:42:01.360 --> 00:42:03.400
five to six and a half years or whatever. Five

471
00:42:03.440 --> 00:42:07.079
and a half years. It's before I got Vinnie. I

472
00:42:07.159 --> 00:42:08.880
got Vin at the end of the year of that year,

473
00:42:10.320 --> 00:42:19.559
two thousand and twenty three. I think it was so

474
00:42:19.639 --> 00:42:23.840
I just thought, or was it twenty two? I really

475
00:42:23.920 --> 00:42:29.360
lose track. I think it probably twenty two. Wasn't it

476
00:42:29.599 --> 00:42:36.320
twenty twenty one? Yeah, twenty twenty two ended twenty two,

477
00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:41.199
twenty three, twenty four, twenty yeah, yeah, twenty two. Yeah,

478
00:42:41.400 --> 00:42:46.960
So it's it was twenty twenty two, and so I

479
00:42:47.079 --> 00:42:55.320
go over I didn't. I booked a hotel, I booked.

480
00:42:55.400 --> 00:42:59.440
It's just, you know, just everything over there is fairly cheap,

481
00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:04.639
an expensive place to go. The airfares are now like

482
00:43:05.239 --> 00:43:08.039
they went up to about double three times the amount

483
00:43:08.639 --> 00:43:13.119
because just after that whole period the fuel went up.

484
00:43:14.159 --> 00:43:16.599
So I managed to go there before the air price

485
00:43:16.760 --> 00:43:23.199
the air flights went up. And I had a couple

486
00:43:23.239 --> 00:43:27.440
of things in mind what I wanted to do. I

487
00:43:27.480 --> 00:43:31.639
was open to the idea of meeting someone because I

488
00:43:31.880 --> 00:43:34.719
was led to believe it's a very friendly place and

489
00:43:35.119 --> 00:43:39.639
maybe I might meet a female and go on dates

490
00:43:39.639 --> 00:43:42.360
and who knows. I didn't know, but I was open

491
00:43:42.400 --> 00:43:45.559
to it. And that is the kind of place. It's

492
00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:50.440
very friendly. People are friendly there. There's no what I

493
00:43:50.519 --> 00:43:54.519
did find out is talking to some of the tie girls,

494
00:43:54.559 --> 00:44:01.159
the Thai ladies. To them, they're very very up front,

495
00:44:01.320 --> 00:44:06.400
very straight, don't mince their words. And one of them

496
00:44:06.480 --> 00:44:08.159
said to me, you know, you all look the same

497
00:44:08.199 --> 00:44:11.960
to us, So what do you mean, So do you

498
00:44:12.079 --> 00:44:13.960
just all are the same. You've all got big noses,

499
00:44:14.519 --> 00:44:19.840
because here I've got a big nose, but in Thailand

500
00:44:20.119 --> 00:44:22.880
pretty much all Westerners have got big noses because they've

501
00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:26.760
got little noses over there. So it's that in their mind,

502
00:44:26.840 --> 00:44:29.320
like you just got a big nose. You're English or

503
00:44:29.360 --> 00:44:33.079
you're American or European. They know straight away, and they've

504
00:44:33.119 --> 00:44:44.320
got names they've got like Arab, English, American. I think

505
00:44:44.719 --> 00:44:49.320
Arab kind of covers anyone from like in their mind

506
00:44:49.360 --> 00:44:54.159
that anyone from like India, from the the Arabian. You know,

507
00:44:54.199 --> 00:44:58.280
it's like they kind of class as an Arab, which

508
00:44:58.360 --> 00:45:00.719
is I was always fort you don't say the word Arab,

509
00:45:01.519 --> 00:45:07.079
but they just do. And also when it comes because

510
00:45:07.119 --> 00:45:09.719
I think, you know, I tell you that it's the

511
00:45:09.719 --> 00:45:15.280
best place to go if for a trans person, because

512
00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:18.039
if you want to walk down the street test it out,

513
00:45:18.480 --> 00:45:21.880
if you want to test out dressing the way that

514
00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:25.159
you want to dress. You can do that in Thailand

515
00:45:26.199 --> 00:45:29.920
and no one cares. I mean, technically, you can probably

516
00:45:29.960 --> 00:45:32.400
do it in London as well, maybe some of the

517
00:45:32.440 --> 00:45:35.480
other cities. And I've seen people in London walk around

518
00:45:35.599 --> 00:45:39.159
dressing gowns in the middle of winter in snow, eating

519
00:45:39.199 --> 00:45:43.280
and ice cream, So you know, I've seen some of

520
00:45:43.320 --> 00:45:46.800
the weirdest things. Probably the weirdest thing I saw in

521
00:45:46.840 --> 00:45:54.800
Thailand was someone on a bicycle with a ladder, but

522
00:45:54.880 --> 00:45:57.360
it was like it wasn't a foldable ladder. It's a

523
00:45:57.400 --> 00:46:04.679
full ladder, probably six foot but instead of having it

524
00:46:04.719 --> 00:46:07.679
on the side, he had it on front of him,

525
00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:11.679
so it was like stretching out both sides of the

526
00:46:11.800 --> 00:46:16.880
road and he's riding along like that. I was like,

527
00:46:17.159 --> 00:46:25.559
what how I was spanking the microphone and how how why?

528
00:46:26.079 --> 00:46:28.800
So that that was one of the weirdest things I saw.

529
00:46:31.719 --> 00:46:35.199
But when I got to I had this idea what

530
00:46:35.239 --> 00:46:42.159
I wanted to do. I needed a break from because

531
00:46:42.199 --> 00:46:45.199
I was taking care of my friend and I that

532
00:46:45.320 --> 00:46:48.159
was just getting harder and harder. I needed a break

533
00:46:48.199 --> 00:46:56.360
from that. I gave him some money and I just

534
00:46:56.559 --> 00:47:00.079
needed because it was just getting too much for me

535
00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:02.599
and having lost Andre and I don't want to go

536
00:47:02.599 --> 00:47:06.199
A was serious, but yeah, I needed I started having

537
00:47:08.199 --> 00:47:10.679
I started having panic attacks again for the first time,

538
00:47:11.000 --> 00:47:16.159
I mean regularly, for the first time in years, you know,

539
00:47:16.360 --> 00:47:20.679
like properly, full on, constantly all the time. Kind of

540
00:47:20.920 --> 00:47:25.320
that moment, that situation, and it was like reverting back

541
00:47:25.360 --> 00:47:28.880
to two thousand and six, and I didn't think that

542
00:47:28.920 --> 00:47:32.800
would happen again. And I couldn't get a grip of them.

543
00:47:32.840 --> 00:47:36.519
I couldn't seem to sort out it. It couldn't. Sort of,

544
00:47:38.400 --> 00:47:41.800
it's almost like I could. I was struggling, really struggling,

545
00:47:43.280 --> 00:47:49.840
And I was also getting what's that thing where your

546
00:47:50.400 --> 00:47:52.320
ears go and your kind of dizzy and stuff. I

547
00:47:52.360 --> 00:47:56.039
was getting that as well, So it was all weird.

548
00:47:56.159 --> 00:47:59.079
I was going through some weird, weird things at that time.

549
00:48:02.960 --> 00:48:05.559
And then I thought, you know, I'm just going to go.

550
00:48:06.599 --> 00:48:10.679
So I went out there on the plane, my ears popped,

551
00:48:12.119 --> 00:48:16.639
and that's the last time I had any ear problems,

552
00:48:17.440 --> 00:48:19.519
balance problems, whatever you call it. I forget them, but

553
00:48:19.639 --> 00:48:22.119
forget the term. I know the term, but I forget

554
00:48:22.199 --> 00:48:24.599
what it is. But it's the last time that happened.

555
00:48:24.599 --> 00:48:30.159
Because both my ears popped on the plane. An expensive

556
00:48:30.239 --> 00:48:35.639
cure to be fair, but it cleared whatever was going

557
00:48:35.679 --> 00:48:38.280
on in my ears in a vertigo. That's it. It

558
00:48:38.360 --> 00:48:41.719
cleared it. And I haven't had it since I used

559
00:48:41.760 --> 00:48:44.920
to have it a few years ago. But that was

560
00:48:45.000 --> 00:48:51.440
course through a burst ear drum. This seemed to be

561
00:48:51.519 --> 00:48:55.039
caused by stress or something. I don't know what it was, grief,

562
00:48:55.480 --> 00:48:59.599
it could be anything, all kinds of stuff. So I

563
00:48:59.679 --> 00:49:03.280
need to get away. So I got away. I went there,

564
00:49:04.000 --> 00:49:07.639
stayed in this hotel. I think one of my happiest memories,

565
00:49:07.639 --> 00:49:09.079
and it's going to be weird to say this, but

566
00:49:09.159 --> 00:49:12.679
one of my happy, happiest times was sitting on the verandah.

567
00:49:13.599 --> 00:49:16.159
And this hotel was in a back alley, so it

568
00:49:16.199 --> 00:49:19.480
wasn't even like a near the sea or anything. I

569
00:49:19.559 --> 00:49:23.320
wasn't far from the sea, and I was sitting on

570
00:49:23.360 --> 00:49:28.880
the verandah taking in the smells. And that's the one

571
00:49:28.920 --> 00:49:31.920
thing about I'm not doing about the whole of Thailand,

572
00:49:31.960 --> 00:49:36.559
but anywhere I went it smelt nice because of the food.

573
00:49:36.679 --> 00:49:39.679
It's like just there's a lot of street food and

574
00:49:39.719 --> 00:49:44.760
it just smelt nice. There was no horrible smells, and

575
00:49:45.119 --> 00:49:49.320
the Thai people probably amongst the cleanest people I've ever

576
00:49:49.360 --> 00:49:53.280
been around. They have multiple showers a day because of

577
00:49:53.320 --> 00:49:56.760
the heats it's so hot and stuff, and it's like, wow,

578
00:49:58.039 --> 00:49:59.559
I had more showers in a day than I do

579
00:49:59.599 --> 00:50:02.400
in a year. Yeah. I shouldn't say that out loud,

580
00:50:02.400 --> 00:50:06.639
should I? But yeah, it was very It was very clean,

581
00:50:07.159 --> 00:50:10.960
very clean place. From that perspective. From that perspective, what

582
00:50:11.079 --> 00:50:13.960
I did found weird though I did found I found

583
00:50:14.599 --> 00:50:21.119
I find itd weird is there was hardly any hot water.

584
00:50:21.760 --> 00:50:26.639
It was just warm like here I used to and

585
00:50:26.760 --> 00:50:29.599
I don't. I don't scold my hands when I wash

586
00:50:29.639 --> 00:50:32.960
my hands, but I wash my hands quite regularly every

587
00:50:32.960 --> 00:50:36.239
time I go out because we share the banister and stuff,

588
00:50:36.280 --> 00:50:39.800
you know, outside in the hallway, and I always wash

589
00:50:39.880 --> 00:50:43.199
my hands when I get back, just so that you know,

590
00:50:43.480 --> 00:50:46.760
got rid of any who knows what people have been

591
00:50:48.960 --> 00:50:51.519
doing with their hands. I don't know. I know what

592
00:50:51.559 --> 00:50:56.320
I've been doing with mine. So when I was out there,

593
00:50:56.639 --> 00:50:59.440
it just wasn't hot. The water wasn't hot to a

594
00:50:59.519 --> 00:51:05.000
level that I was used to, which is very strange.

595
00:51:06.719 --> 00:51:10.840
Maybe that's why they have so many showers, because it's

596
00:51:10.960 --> 00:51:14.719
like keeping a constant cleansing in a cleanly lotless miss

597
00:51:15.000 --> 00:51:22.920
ness nest thing, cleanly ness. I mean, I don't know

598
00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:25.760
if every single person has lots and lots of showers,

599
00:51:26.320 --> 00:51:32.239
but it's you know, the whole time I was out there,

600
00:51:32.320 --> 00:51:40.000
I didn't meet one bad smelling person at all, A

601
00:51:40.079 --> 00:51:46.119
type person that smell weird, not weird. But when it's hot,

602
00:51:46.880 --> 00:51:50.519
there's a tendency. You know, just naturally you're gonna come

603
00:51:50.559 --> 00:51:55.880
across yourd with you'red wiffy person. It's just natural. Especially

604
00:51:55.920 --> 00:51:58.719
blame me on the tube. That's the person I was

605
00:51:58.760 --> 00:52:01.199
always stuck under their eyes put armpit and I couldn't

606
00:52:01.239 --> 00:52:06.920
get out. That was always. Yeah, I love the tube

607
00:52:07.320 --> 00:52:14.840
and I didn't, so that was strange. I just I

608
00:52:14.920 --> 00:52:17.079
just not have any hot water. That threw me off

609
00:52:17.079 --> 00:52:20.519
a bit. But one of my happiest memories of being

610
00:52:20.559 --> 00:52:26.360
there was sitting on the verandah. The first few mornings

611
00:52:28.119 --> 00:52:32.199
I had there was no food in the restaurant because

612
00:52:32.199 --> 00:52:35.440
I had like a Thai restaurant part of the hotel.

613
00:52:35.960 --> 00:52:40.320
But because of that period, you know, two thousand and

614
00:52:40.360 --> 00:52:46.800
two twenty one, pretty much most of the tourism in Thailand,

615
00:52:46.840 --> 00:52:50.960
and I'd say probably the whole of the world pretty

616
00:52:51.039 --> 00:52:55.639
much closed down, So there was there wasn't a lot

617
00:52:55.679 --> 00:52:59.119
open when I went there. A lot of restaurants were closed,

618
00:52:59.320 --> 00:53:02.039
a lot of bars were closed, not that I'm really

619
00:53:02.079 --> 00:53:04.440
a bar person anyway, but there was a lot of

620
00:53:04.559 --> 00:53:12.800
things weren't open. They either hadn't they either they hadn't

621
00:53:12.880 --> 00:53:16.480
reopened them, or they were closed completely. There was parts

622
00:53:16.519 --> 00:53:21.159
of the area that were completely derelict that two years

623
00:53:21.159 --> 00:53:26.320
earlier had been really busy. So and the only real

624
00:53:26.800 --> 00:53:31.159
regular people they were getting was people that lived a

625
00:53:31.159 --> 00:53:35.079
bit closer. So they had people from India, they appeared

626
00:53:35.119 --> 00:53:39.519
from Emirates, they appealed from Australia coming over, but they

627
00:53:39.559 --> 00:53:42.760
didn't weren't getting a lot of They're still getting like

628
00:53:42.760 --> 00:53:47.960
Americans and English, but because of the the restrictions, they

629
00:53:48.000 --> 00:53:51.039
weren't getting as many as they would normally get. This

630
00:53:51.119 --> 00:53:54.880
is what I was told. None of the hotels were full,

631
00:53:56.480 --> 00:54:03.079
so it was fairly check the rooms. I mean, I

632
00:54:03.079 --> 00:54:07.480
think if that was in this country, what the people

633
00:54:07.559 --> 00:54:09.599
what to cut the hotels in this country would do

634
00:54:10.159 --> 00:54:12.280
is put the prices up to try and get their

635
00:54:12.280 --> 00:54:16.000
money back. But they didn't do that. They just treated

636
00:54:16.000 --> 00:54:19.039
people fairly because they were happy to have the customers.

637
00:54:20.119 --> 00:54:22.760
You know. The mentality in this country is, well, if

638
00:54:22.800 --> 00:54:26.079
you've if you've got a hundred rooms and I can

639
00:54:26.119 --> 00:54:28.679
only fill fifty, then we'll try and charge them twice

640
00:54:28.679 --> 00:54:31.199
a price. We can get the money back for the

641
00:54:31.199 --> 00:54:35.599
other fifty rooms that we not fill in. But the

642
00:54:35.639 --> 00:54:38.239
way they see it over there more is well, actually

643
00:54:39.199 --> 00:54:43.039
we're grateful to have fifty rooms full, so we'll let

644
00:54:43.079 --> 00:54:46.880
people have a cheaper have a cheaper time, you know,

645
00:54:47.000 --> 00:54:52.079
maybe stay for ten or twenty percent off the price

646
00:54:54.000 --> 00:54:56.559
because they've got such a choice of other hotels to

647
00:54:56.559 --> 00:55:01.079
stay in. So that's you know, that's I quite like that.

648
00:55:04.400 --> 00:55:08.760
But that was nice sitting on that veranda or that balcony. Rather,

649
00:55:10.719 --> 00:55:15.760
I bought some paper, some paper what are they called

650
00:55:17.679 --> 00:55:22.599
paper dishes, and some paper spoons or plastic spoons to eat,

651
00:55:22.719 --> 00:55:26.000
and I got some breakfast cereal, little boxes of breakfast cereal,

652
00:55:26.480 --> 00:55:29.159
and some milk put it in the fridge, and a

653
00:55:29.159 --> 00:55:32.440
cup of coffee, so I had coffee anyway there. So

654
00:55:32.480 --> 00:55:36.480
I had a cup of coffee and my corn flakes

655
00:55:37.599 --> 00:55:40.880
on the veranda the balcony. What's the difference to the

656
00:55:40.960 --> 00:55:47.079
veranda on the balcony. And I'm listening to my phone

657
00:55:47.119 --> 00:55:51.280
and I'm listening to LBC radio and it was Steve Allen,

658
00:55:51.760 --> 00:55:54.480
who does his four o'clock was what he used to

659
00:55:54.480 --> 00:55:57.480
do four till seven in the morning radio show, just

660
00:55:57.519 --> 00:56:00.039
a talk show where he just talked. He didn't and

661
00:56:00.199 --> 00:56:04.000
for phon ines, but he would read out, you know,

662
00:56:04.079 --> 00:56:09.280
text messages and stuff like that. And I just remember,

663
00:56:09.440 --> 00:56:11.039
I don't know what time of the day it was

664
00:56:13.079 --> 00:56:20.000
for me. It was BlimE me. It's probably mourning for me,

665
00:56:21.960 --> 00:56:25.519
maybe ten o'clock in the morning or something. But it

666
00:56:25.599 --> 00:56:35.639
was just nice. It's very peaceful, and it wasn't busy. Really,

667
00:56:36.440 --> 00:56:39.119
it wasn't really busy where I was. It was quite

668
00:56:39.239 --> 00:56:42.159
quite kind of a little area. It wasn't a lot

669
00:56:42.239 --> 00:56:46.719
going on. The tourism was probably i'd say probably ten

670
00:56:46.800 --> 00:56:50.920
percent what it would normally be, which is why it

671
00:56:51.000 --> 00:56:53.239
was only ten percent of the place is open, probably,

672
00:56:56.639 --> 00:56:59.519
And I just thought, oh, so I had at my

673
00:56:59.559 --> 00:57:02.360
dinner how many breakfasts. But the very first night I

674
00:57:02.440 --> 00:57:06.000
got there, I went and there to look around. I

675
00:57:06.039 --> 00:57:09.000
went for a walk. Didn't know where I was going.

676
00:57:10.320 --> 00:57:12.880
But the good thing about you know, if you go

677
00:57:13.000 --> 00:57:18.159
to a seaside resort in Thailand. Again, I don't know

678
00:57:18.199 --> 00:57:21.320
if all the places are same, but it's well lit.

679
00:57:22.000 --> 00:57:24.920
There's a lot of people around because it's a tourist destination.

680
00:57:26.199 --> 00:57:29.519
It's the safest I've ever felt walking around at two

681
00:57:29.559 --> 00:57:36.239
in the morning. I mean ever, never ever felt safe really,

682
00:57:36.280 --> 00:57:38.280
because the only time I'd walk around at two in

683
00:57:38.280 --> 00:57:41.719
the morning was when I was in London, and i'

684
00:57:41.800 --> 00:57:45.760
me in London two in the morning is not. Yeah,

685
00:57:45.760 --> 00:57:48.519
it's never. Even as a young person, it wasn't. I

686
00:57:48.559 --> 00:57:51.119
was worried, but I never really felt kind of I

687
00:57:51.159 --> 00:57:54.599
felt on guard. But here I didn't feel on guard

688
00:57:54.800 --> 00:58:00.840
at all. It seemed like the sort of place where, yeah,

689
00:58:00.920 --> 00:58:04.119
if you want trouble, you can have it. It's like,

690
00:58:04.159 --> 00:58:06.159
if you want trouble, they give it to you, but

691
00:58:06.199 --> 00:58:11.000
if you don't, they're fine. You know, it's not anywhere

692
00:58:10.719 --> 00:58:13.039
if you want to be a trouble maker. It's very

693
00:58:13.039 --> 00:58:16.519
easy to get into trouble anywhere you go, but there

694
00:58:17.119 --> 00:58:23.599
it's you won't. My experiences, I felt safe, That's pretty

695
00:58:23.679 --> 00:58:27.039
much what I'm saying. And I got to know a

696
00:58:27.039 --> 00:58:31.840
few of the people and some of the some of

697
00:58:31.880 --> 00:58:36.480
the Buddhist parts of their life. It's basically they're indoctrinated

698
00:58:36.519 --> 00:58:42.519
into it. They're born into Buddhism now they have Buddhist holidays.

699
00:58:43.840 --> 00:58:50.360
They also absolutely love their royal family out there. I mean,

700
00:58:50.599 --> 00:58:54.519
like in a way that maybe we used to in

701
00:58:54.519 --> 00:59:03.079
this country. They're really important to them. I mean, I

702
00:59:03.119 --> 00:59:05.119
know there are people out there in this country that

703
00:59:05.199 --> 00:59:07.880
love the royal family, but I'm talking as a nation.

704
00:59:08.719 --> 00:59:11.719
There's a real loyalty to the royal family in Thailand.

705
00:59:12.880 --> 00:59:18.159
It's they're almost like say royalty, I suppose, but they're

706
00:59:18.280 --> 00:59:23.280
very yeah there. It's hard to explain what I mean,

707
00:59:24.360 --> 00:59:28.840
but it's huge. And when there's a birthday, there's no

708
00:59:28.920 --> 00:59:34.400
alcohol sold when there's a public a royal day. So

709
00:59:34.480 --> 00:59:37.599
if it's the King's birthday or whatever something like that,

710
00:59:37.960 --> 00:59:42.480
no alcohol during that day. They're still open. Bars will

711
00:59:42.519 --> 00:59:45.199
still open, but it will be soft drinks only, and

712
00:59:45.239 --> 00:59:48.039
they'll actually tell people. Because I went in on the

713
00:59:48.119 --> 00:59:52.400
day I went The day after I went there, it

714
00:59:52.440 --> 00:59:57.760
was a bank holiday due to a remember the royal family.

715
00:59:58.079 --> 01:00:01.440
I think it was a king's birthday. And I went

716
01:00:01.519 --> 01:00:07.400
in and there was this bar, and I wasn't bored

717
01:00:07.400 --> 01:00:11.039
about drinking alcohol anywhere. I was still a bit jet lagged.

718
01:00:11.599 --> 01:00:17.519
I needed something to eat, and so I sat down

719
01:00:17.559 --> 01:00:20.719
and The first thing I was told is you can't

720
01:00:21.079 --> 01:00:26.880
serve your alcohol. I said, that's all right, and she

721
01:00:27.000 --> 01:00:31.719
said what. I said, that's okay. I'm not bothered. I

722
01:00:31.760 --> 01:00:35.639
don't care if I drink alcohol and out. She couldn't

723
01:00:35.639 --> 01:00:42.559
speak English. She said what too. Was surprised because I

724
01:00:42.599 --> 01:00:46.119
think most people that go there are going to drink.

725
01:00:46.400 --> 01:00:49.559
And I wasn't really that bothered. So I had something

726
01:00:49.599 --> 01:00:53.280
to eat. I can't remember what I had, well, I

727
01:00:53.280 --> 01:00:57.039
have to. I found a burger and chips and the coke.

728
01:00:58.719 --> 01:01:01.719
That's back in the days when I drinking Coca cola.

729
01:01:02.000 --> 01:01:06.039
I'm like now when I just drink water, don't even

730
01:01:06.119 --> 01:01:21.320
drink alcohol anymore. BlimE me and I think the So

731
01:01:21.360 --> 01:01:25.440
there was a lady called Ella there. I really I

732
01:01:25.440 --> 01:01:28.239
don't know. I just like really liked her because we

733
01:01:28.239 --> 01:01:30.159
were talking and she had the same kind of energy

734
01:01:30.159 --> 01:01:34.639
as me, quite low key. I'm quite low energy, really,

735
01:01:34.719 --> 01:01:37.039
and in my moments, I do have my moments, but

736
01:01:37.079 --> 01:01:42.360
it doesn't everyone, but I'm quite low in she're quite quiet.

737
01:01:44.199 --> 01:01:51.239
I don't get I'm not the most excitable person. Really,

738
01:01:51.559 --> 01:01:56.320
you know, I'm not particularly loud, and we seem to

739
01:01:56.400 --> 01:02:04.639
get on quite well. Now you're gonna just probably I

740
01:02:04.639 --> 01:02:09.719
don't know I'm telling you this, but anyway, she was

741
01:02:09.760 --> 01:02:12.000
it Ella or is it Bella? Or was it Stella?

742
01:02:12.840 --> 01:02:15.199
Or was it Gee or was it nom? I don't know.

743
01:02:15.800 --> 01:02:19.199
I forget what her name was, but she invited me.

744
01:02:20.840 --> 01:02:23.119
I think of Ella because it's someone a big brother Cordella.

745
01:02:23.400 --> 01:02:27.000
That's what I'm thinking of. That word, that name, she said.

746
01:02:27.840 --> 01:02:29.199
So I went in there a couple of days in

747
01:02:29.239 --> 01:02:38.599
a row. I think the first night. She I'm always

748
01:02:38.599 --> 01:02:40.480
at the second night because I went in there because

749
01:02:40.480 --> 01:02:45.199
I quite liked the vibe in there, and she said,

750
01:02:45.760 --> 01:02:48.119
I was got talking to another bloke. It was from

751
01:02:48.119 --> 01:02:51.639
Ireland and he just, you know, he was just chatting

752
01:02:51.679 --> 01:02:56.559
and stuff, and they were closing up and we're going out,

753
01:02:56.599 --> 01:03:01.119
and the he was going back with the other waitress

754
01:03:01.679 --> 01:03:04.079
or the other there was like two managers. He was

755
01:03:04.239 --> 01:03:06.320
I don't know if that was his girlfriend or what.

756
01:03:07.079 --> 01:03:11.280
And she said, I'll bring bring Jason back and the

757
01:03:11.320 --> 01:03:17.559
other one said no, don't know, and I thought, I

758
01:03:17.599 --> 01:03:22.239
don't care, it's fine, I don't know. I didn't ask

759
01:03:22.280 --> 01:03:26.719
to go anywhere. Anyway. Well, a couple of nights later

760
01:03:26.760 --> 01:03:29.760
I went back and she's just there on her own,

761
01:03:29.800 --> 01:03:32.920
and at the end of the night she offered to

762
01:03:32.960 --> 01:03:39.400
take me home. And this is a bit where I

763
01:03:40.320 --> 01:03:43.119
should be saying, well, I'd like to be saying I

764
01:03:43.199 --> 01:03:45.960
went home. It was the best night of my life.

765
01:03:46.760 --> 01:03:51.559
We fell in love, and you know, we got married

766
01:03:51.719 --> 01:03:55.599
and we're going to spend the rest of my life

767
01:03:55.679 --> 01:03:58.519
with our I say, I bet the rest of our

768
01:03:58.559 --> 01:04:02.159
lives together. But she's but younger than me. I don't

769
01:04:02.199 --> 01:04:08.440
know how much I would say. It's hard to guess

770
01:04:08.679 --> 01:04:12.800
under thirty. I would say, maybe maybe older, but it's hard,

771
01:04:14.000 --> 01:04:17.239
you know. I it's someone else that I got on with.

772
01:04:17.360 --> 01:04:21.960
She was thirty eight and didn't look I couldn't. I

773
01:04:22.000 --> 01:04:24.880
would never have guessed her age. I'm no good at

774
01:04:24.920 --> 01:04:29.960
guessing ages anymore. Not that ever was. I don't if

775
01:04:29.960 --> 01:04:32.639
I ever was that good. But I think there was

776
01:04:32.639 --> 01:04:34.880
a period when I was in my twenties and I

777
01:04:34.880 --> 01:04:39.559
could kind of gauge in age, gauge and age, you know,

778
01:04:39.639 --> 01:04:44.159
if someone was nineteen, or someone was like late twenties,

779
01:04:44.320 --> 01:04:50.639
maybe early thirties. But as I got older, people in

780
01:04:50.679 --> 01:04:54.400
the early twenties look just some of them are really

781
01:04:54.480 --> 01:05:00.159
really young. And then some people in their sixties, yes,

782
01:05:01.239 --> 01:05:05.679
look really really young, like how can you can't be?

783
01:05:06.280 --> 01:05:10.159
I know a couple of people and they're both BlimE me.

784
01:05:10.280 --> 01:05:14.440
I think they're both like nearly eighty, and neither of

785
01:05:14.480 --> 01:05:20.719
them look it. It's like, how can you be nearly eighty?

786
01:05:20.960 --> 01:05:27.320
So it's uh. Someone did say to me and said,

787
01:05:27.719 --> 01:05:30.159
you said, well, you look younger than you are. But

788
01:05:30.159 --> 01:05:32.320
it probably wouldn't do if you took your glasses off

789
01:05:32.599 --> 01:05:35.199
and we could see your eyes, because I've got like

790
01:05:35.360 --> 01:05:39.440
shades some of my glasses actor like or whatever. Though

791
01:05:39.440 --> 01:05:42.960
it's a bit rude. If anything, I'll probably look younger

792
01:05:43.000 --> 01:05:52.199
without the glasses. Probably not. So in those situations, all

793
01:05:52.239 --> 01:05:53.960
you can do you can argue, or you can just

794
01:05:55.199 --> 01:05:59.239
silently fart and walk away. So I chose to do that.

795
01:06:01.920 --> 01:06:06.960
So I yeah, So we didn't have a romance, and

796
01:06:07.000 --> 01:06:13.039
I didn't. What I did is first of all, I thought, yeah,

797
01:06:13.079 --> 01:06:14.920
But it wasn't do you want to come back to mine?

798
01:06:15.119 --> 01:06:23.280
It was let's go then, And she called two mopeds,

799
01:06:23.760 --> 01:06:27.840
two moped taxis. She had her own moped, but she

800
01:06:27.920 --> 01:06:29.920
left it there because she had a couple of drinks.

801
01:06:30.719 --> 01:06:33.480
So she got a moped taxi for herself and one

802
01:06:33.519 --> 01:06:38.679
for me, and I said no. I said, no way

803
01:06:38.719 --> 01:06:40.239
in the world am I getting on the back of that.

804
01:06:42.920 --> 01:06:50.159
And I'm not sure days gone past when I wish

805
01:06:50.760 --> 01:06:52.760
that I'd just got on the back of the moped

806
01:06:53.719 --> 01:07:02.760
because I put fear ahead of pleasure, maybe fear ahead

807
01:07:02.760 --> 01:07:06.000
of I wasn't scared of her. I was just scared

808
01:07:06.000 --> 01:07:12.960
of the motor journey to being on a moped, just

809
01:07:12.960 --> 01:07:16.679
just having seen the way they ride those mopeds in

810
01:07:16.719 --> 01:07:19.519
and out of traffic, like seeing that and then thinking

811
01:07:19.599 --> 01:07:22.639
this is going to happen at eleven o'clock at night

812
01:07:23.239 --> 01:07:26.400
or half eleven at night, and it was dark at

813
01:07:26.400 --> 01:07:31.679
that point, and I didn't know where we were going.

814
01:07:32.960 --> 01:07:34.639
You know, It's like a part of me thinking and

815
01:07:34.679 --> 01:07:37.400
that this is my friend's He put this image in

816
01:07:37.440 --> 01:07:40.159
my head. He kept saying, well, be careful. You don't

817
01:07:40.199 --> 01:07:42.000
go home with someone and wake up in a bar

818
01:07:42.079 --> 01:07:45.119
full of ice and one of your organs missing. It's

819
01:07:45.159 --> 01:07:48.719
like brilliant, Like thanks for that. I really wanted that

820
01:07:48.760 --> 01:07:54.320
in my head, and I kept I was thinking this,

821
01:07:54.320 --> 01:08:00.480
this lady's seriously, we're gonna say up my street. You know.

822
01:08:00.519 --> 01:08:03.519
As far as she just really lovely, I liked her

823
01:08:03.559 --> 01:08:12.159
a lot, but I did think well, maybe, I don't know.

824
01:08:12.199 --> 01:08:15.519
I might just is she gonna sort of try and

825
01:08:15.559 --> 01:08:18.920
make some money from me by I'm going to wake

826
01:08:19.000 --> 01:08:25.159
up with only one liver, you know, So I thought maybe.

827
01:08:26.439 --> 01:08:28.359
But there was that was it was more than moped

828
01:08:28.479 --> 01:08:34.039
to be fair. And then there was also I'm thinking,

829
01:08:34.039 --> 01:08:36.600
maybe she's just being friendly and she takes me back

830
01:08:36.640 --> 01:08:40.760
to her place and introduces me to a boyfriend or

831
01:08:40.760 --> 01:08:45.600
a husband, and she's just being friendly, just a friendly person.

832
01:08:46.520 --> 01:08:50.359
Because that happened in Bulgaria, I was I spent all

833
01:08:50.439 --> 01:08:55.279
day talking to a wait to she was work behind

834
01:08:55.279 --> 01:08:57.079
the bar, so I think she's like a bar manager

835
01:08:58.199 --> 01:09:03.039
all day in the hotel. This is when I went snowboarding,

836
01:09:03.520 --> 01:09:07.319
but I'd spent the day before traveling down a mountain

837
01:09:07.399 --> 01:09:11.920
on my face, so I took a day off. I

838
01:09:12.000 --> 01:09:15.439
was teaching her English, she was teaching me Bulgarian. It's

839
01:09:15.479 --> 01:09:18.039
just me and her pretty much for hours and hours.

840
01:09:20.520 --> 01:09:24.359
And then in the evening, when my fellow travelers that

841
01:09:24.439 --> 01:09:27.720
I traveled there with got back from the mountain slopes,

842
01:09:29.680 --> 01:09:33.760
you know, we were another dinner, trying not to laugh

843
01:09:33.800 --> 01:09:39.960
at the the music act. And then it's just I

844
01:09:39.960 --> 01:09:42.079
don't know, I'm not used to having music being played

845
01:09:42.079 --> 01:09:45.000
on meeting. You know when Summer starts playing a harpt

846
01:09:45.119 --> 01:09:49.479
chord and it's like what starts dancing. It's like, I'm

847
01:09:50.520 --> 01:09:59.079
this is this is confusing my senses. And we're in

848
01:09:59.079 --> 01:10:01.720
this bar, which is part of our hotel. Where I

849
01:10:01.760 --> 01:10:04.159
went to was part of another kind of hotel part

850
01:10:04.840 --> 01:10:07.000
because all part of this big old complex and there's

851
01:10:07.039 --> 01:10:10.560
this like underground trapped tunnels and stuff. And I just

852
01:10:10.600 --> 01:10:13.640
followed them until I found new other places to go

853
01:10:13.680 --> 01:10:18.199
to what didn't seem to even be part of the hotel.

854
01:10:18.359 --> 01:10:22.319
It was like part of something else. Anyway, I'm in

855
01:10:22.359 --> 01:10:27.920
the in the bar, another bar with my my friends

856
01:10:28.000 --> 01:10:39.279
that have traveled to Bulgaria with and this this bloke

857
01:10:39.359 --> 01:10:43.560
came up to me, tapped me on the shoulder and

858
01:10:43.720 --> 01:10:47.600
he looked exactly how he was. He was a gangster,

859
01:10:49.800 --> 01:10:56.600
like proper gangster. It's like it's it's hard to explain,

860
01:10:56.720 --> 01:11:00.439
but I would bet any money I had that he

861
01:11:00.479 --> 01:11:04.720
had a gun on him and I and he said

862
01:11:04.760 --> 01:11:09.880
he pointed, he put pointed and he's like, he's the

863
01:11:09.960 --> 01:11:12.399
lady that I've been talking to all day. He says,

864
01:11:12.600 --> 01:11:19.880
that's my fiance. M m m mmm. I mean, that's

865
01:11:19.880 --> 01:11:21.880
when I thought, I'm really am gonna wake up in

866
01:11:22.000 --> 01:11:28.800
nice on a mountain, a mountain. And she comes over

867
01:11:31.039 --> 01:11:34.239
and he says, and I thought, oh god, I don't

868
01:11:34.239 --> 01:11:36.960
know what to say here, because I really liked her,

869
01:11:38.600 --> 01:11:41.359
and I didn't realize she was I didn't ask if

870
01:11:41.359 --> 01:11:44.119
she had a boyfriend or anything, because I was just

871
01:11:44.199 --> 01:11:47.640
chatting to her. It was nothing. I wasn't flirting really,

872
01:11:47.760 --> 01:11:54.079
just having a nice conversation during that whole day. And

873
01:11:54.159 --> 01:11:58.239
she said, and she came over smiling, and I thought,

874
01:11:58.239 --> 01:12:03.279
I wonder if he's smiling. I didn't look, and I

875
01:12:03.279 --> 01:12:06.920
think might still have his hand on my shoulder. And

876
01:12:07.920 --> 01:12:12.840
my knees were shaking. My knees were shaking. That sounds

877
01:12:12.880 --> 01:12:15.119
like a song, isn't it. And the hips were weak.

878
01:12:17.159 --> 01:12:21.079
And he said, I understand in it an accent. You've

879
01:12:21.119 --> 01:12:24.560
been teaching. You've been teaching whatever her name was, to

880
01:12:24.880 --> 01:12:27.319
some English words, and she's been I said, she's been

881
01:12:27.359 --> 01:12:31.199
teaching you some Bulgaria And I said yeah. He said, oh,

882
01:12:31.319 --> 01:12:40.319
very good, very good. I'm blame me. He it's so

883
01:12:40.479 --> 01:12:44.199
cool because he I think it's probably the only time

884
01:12:44.359 --> 01:12:47.439
ever that I've been thankful that I wasn't good looking

885
01:12:49.359 --> 01:12:53.600
because I clearly was not a threat to him in

886
01:12:53.640 --> 01:12:56.319
any way. And I don't mean this physically, but I

887
01:12:56.399 --> 01:13:01.840
wasn't like a threat to his relationship. I was some handsome, strapping,

888
01:13:03.800 --> 01:13:06.720
you know, handsome guy that's gonna try and steal his

889
01:13:06.800 --> 01:13:10.800
fiance away. He didn't see any any threating that or

890
01:13:11.000 --> 01:13:16.840
at all, which was good for me. Really. It's the

891
01:13:16.880 --> 01:13:18.880
only time I've ever been grateful that I would look

892
01:13:19.000 --> 01:13:24.600
like I do and he liked me, brought me a

893
01:13:24.680 --> 01:13:29.600
drink and he was chatting to me, and they were chatting,

894
01:13:31.199 --> 01:13:35.279
and she was like, you know, talking to me, and

895
01:13:35.279 --> 01:13:42.399
it's like really nice. I didn't know what to do next.

896
01:13:43.800 --> 01:13:48.000
I still wasn't sure because I'd seen the Sopranos. I mean,

897
01:13:48.000 --> 01:13:51.600
the Sopranos hadn't finished. The Sopranos were still going strong

898
01:13:51.640 --> 01:13:55.479
in those days, because this was two thousand and two,

899
01:13:55.680 --> 01:14:01.199
probably about March time, so the Sopranos are still you know, No,

900
01:14:01.319 --> 01:14:04.079
it's infancy because it went on to about twenty ten,

901
01:14:04.079 --> 01:14:08.880
didn't it. Well I suppose infancy, yeah, I guess, but

902
01:14:08.920 --> 01:14:10.840
I wasn't sure how this was going to play out.

903
01:14:13.199 --> 01:14:17.319
But it went Okay, I'm here, so it's fine. And

904
01:14:17.359 --> 01:14:30.560
then I, yeah, that was just strange, very strange. Yeah,

905
01:14:30.680 --> 01:14:34.880
she was, it was I didn't. Yeah, I mean, it's

906
01:14:34.920 --> 01:14:42.039
not Thailand. It's a different story. It's just when I

907
01:14:42.159 --> 01:14:45.319
go abroad, or in the past, when I've gone abroad,

908
01:14:45.760 --> 01:14:51.359
I seemed to be different, maybe a bit more confident,

909
01:14:51.439 --> 01:14:58.119
maybe maybe a bit more relaxed, maybe a bit freer.

910
01:15:00.279 --> 01:15:04.880
I don't put any effort in. Yeah, I'm not kind

911
01:15:04.880 --> 01:15:10.279
of like trying to get to know anyone. Just see

912
01:15:10.279 --> 01:15:18.279
what happens. Let it happen naturally. But on that occasion,

913
01:15:18.319 --> 01:15:24.359
I got to know three four women, five actually five,

914
01:15:25.680 --> 01:15:28.760
So there was the first waitress was the I say,

915
01:15:28.800 --> 01:15:31.439
when I get to know. I didn't do anything with anyone,

916
01:15:31.439 --> 01:15:34.520
but we've got to know them. The first one was

917
01:15:34.640 --> 01:15:37.720
the very first waitress that served us and I had

918
01:15:37.880 --> 01:15:41.279
cheese toasty sandwich and it was the very first day

919
01:15:41.279 --> 01:15:46.920
we got there to the hotel, and she smiled at me.

920
01:15:52.119 --> 01:15:55.000
I mean some would view it and say she caught

921
01:15:55.000 --> 01:15:57.720
me looking down a top, but I'm just going to

922
01:15:57.800 --> 01:16:00.920
stick to she smiled at me, and she did smile

923
01:16:00.960 --> 01:16:04.960
at me when she caught me. She smiled and we

924
01:16:05.000 --> 01:16:07.439
had a bit of a connection. That chatted to me,

925
01:16:07.520 --> 01:16:14.079
and the next hour was in there and we we

926
01:16:14.239 --> 01:16:22.039
decided to go out on a date. Yeah, I think

927
01:16:22.159 --> 01:16:26.399
like the next night, next evening, when she finished work,

928
01:16:26.960 --> 01:16:29.520
I'm going to go to a restaurant or something. So

929
01:16:29.720 --> 01:16:31.600
I went into the bar to see her, and there

930
01:16:31.640 --> 01:16:34.000
was this other bar the other side of the place,

931
01:16:34.800 --> 01:16:37.680
in the middle of nowhere. Again, I kind of found

932
01:16:37.680 --> 01:16:40.159
my way around these places because I spent a lot

933
01:16:40.199 --> 01:16:45.640
of time on my own just wandering around. And the

934
01:16:46.960 --> 01:16:50.319
I got in there and she was just basically talking

935
01:16:50.359 --> 01:16:54.880
to another bloke and she waved to me, but then

936
01:16:54.880 --> 01:16:57.359
she carried on talking to this bloke. So I left.

937
01:16:59.680 --> 01:17:04.840
The day I went to a pizza place that was

938
01:17:04.840 --> 01:17:10.560
there that I found, and I got really well with

939
01:17:10.000 --> 01:17:15.920
the lady in the pizza place, and we were like

940
01:17:16.000 --> 01:17:24.439
talking and maybe talking about maybe doing something. And then

941
01:17:24.479 --> 01:17:26.279
I got to know the other one in the other bar,

942
01:17:26.439 --> 01:17:30.000
the one that I told you about the beginning. So

943
01:17:30.159 --> 01:17:35.079
what happened is it's very strange. The one that I

944
01:17:35.119 --> 01:17:39.359
was supposed to go on a date with and she

945
01:17:39.560 --> 01:17:45.000
was talking to another bloke. I saw her two days later.

946
01:17:45.039 --> 01:17:46.800
I think she might have had the day off. Saw

947
01:17:46.800 --> 01:17:51.680
her two days later and the first thing she said

948
01:17:51.720 --> 01:17:54.199
is where were you? I said, I was there. I'm

949
01:17:54.199 --> 01:17:55.680
not you know you saw me. I wave to you,

950
01:17:56.239 --> 01:17:58.079
So where did you go? I said? We was talking

951
01:17:58.079 --> 01:18:02.199
to some bloke. Okay, and she had she had the

952
01:18:02.239 --> 01:18:05.800
help with me, Like I said, what's wrong? She said,

953
01:18:06.359 --> 01:18:10.840
I got talking to a friend of mine. I said, okay,

954
01:18:11.720 --> 01:18:14.199
she said, yeah, I told her. She said to me,

955
01:18:14.279 --> 01:18:18.319
I just met just met this this english man is

956
01:18:18.319 --> 01:18:20.239
really lovely and I've got me really well with him.

957
01:18:20.840 --> 01:18:24.119
And I said, yeah, same here and we both said,

958
01:18:24.199 --> 01:18:27.920
what's his name is? Jason? It's you. We both we

959
01:18:28.039 --> 01:18:31.720
both met you and like I was playing them against

960
01:18:31.720 --> 01:18:34.800
each other, which I wasn't. I just only met them.

961
01:18:35.159 --> 01:18:40.279
I had gone out with either of them really some

962
01:18:40.359 --> 01:18:42.479
kind of playboy. But it wasn't like that at all.

963
01:18:44.640 --> 01:18:51.039
But she wasn't happy, and she yeah. Ironically, the very

964
01:18:51.119 --> 01:18:55.760
very first night when I got there, the receptionist, I

965
01:18:55.800 --> 01:18:57.840
really liked the receptionist. I feel I was going through

966
01:18:57.840 --> 01:19:02.840
little phase of liking people. I really liked the receptionist

967
01:19:03.119 --> 01:19:05.479
who you know, we spoke to ready for it first

968
01:19:05.479 --> 01:19:08.279
of all, and then she disappeared. Didn't see her till

969
01:19:08.319 --> 01:19:14.800
the very last night, and She came up to me

970
01:19:15.159 --> 01:19:18.159
the very last night and were sort of talking to me,

971
01:19:18.199 --> 01:19:21.119
and I was like, okay, yeah, I just I don't know.

972
01:19:22.159 --> 01:19:23.960
I couldn't be bothered to talk to anyone. I thought

973
01:19:23.960 --> 01:19:28.359
I'd had enough of people by then, but I'd maybe

974
01:19:28.359 --> 01:19:31.239
had enough to drink and stuff. But the next day,

975
01:19:31.239 --> 01:19:32.880
because I didn't know, I didn't recognize her, because she

976
01:19:32.960 --> 01:19:36.199
hadn't been there the whole week other than that one

977
01:19:36.720 --> 01:19:40.880
time when we first got there. So we go to logout,

978
01:19:41.079 --> 01:19:42.600
you know, to I think we had to collect that

979
01:19:42.640 --> 01:19:47.640
past sports and whatever to leave, and she's on a reception.

980
01:19:47.760 --> 01:19:53.079
I was like, oh my god, it's you. She said, yeah.

981
01:19:53.680 --> 01:19:55.600
I didn't realize that her. She was trying to talk

982
01:19:55.640 --> 01:19:58.359
to me the night before, and I just couldn't be bothered.

983
01:19:58.960 --> 01:20:01.840
Not in a rude I just I think I just

984
01:20:01.880 --> 01:20:07.560
had enough. I wanted to go home, really, And she

985
01:20:07.720 --> 01:20:10.920
came out and followed me to the coach and saw

986
01:20:10.960 --> 01:20:13.680
me off on the coach and gave me a big hug,

987
01:20:13.720 --> 01:20:15.960
and I'm not sure she gave me a kiss. I

988
01:20:16.000 --> 01:20:23.119
can't remember. We made love in the snow. We didn't well,

989
01:20:23.119 --> 01:20:26.399
everyone watched from the bus. We were on the top

990
01:20:26.439 --> 01:20:29.119
of the bus. No, we wouldn't know, nothing like that happened,

991
01:20:29.119 --> 01:20:31.840
but she did, like give me a big hug and everything,

992
01:20:31.920 --> 01:20:35.840
like what's going on? White, It's almost like I was

993
01:20:38.159 --> 01:20:44.560
suddenly became attractive to women out of nowhere for a week,

994
01:20:44.920 --> 01:20:46.560
and then when I got back to the UK, I

995
01:20:46.600 --> 01:20:54.560
went back to being invisible again. It's like brilliant. Then.

996
01:20:56.319 --> 01:20:58.520
I think three days or two days before we left,

997
01:20:59.840 --> 01:21:06.319
I met this other lady from Germany and we would

998
01:21:06.439 --> 01:21:08.640
just chat in and we went for a little walk

999
01:21:08.720 --> 01:21:12.119
and she grabbed me and start kissing me and everything,

1000
01:21:13.359 --> 01:21:16.560
and she she palls me to the actually the elevator,

1001
01:21:16.680 --> 01:21:20.159
to the lift to go up to my room. Right

1002
01:21:22.800 --> 01:21:25.000
just as a lift the lift doors about to close.

1003
01:21:25.319 --> 01:21:31.319
What happens, This hand comes through and stops the doors

1004
01:21:31.319 --> 01:21:35.720
from closing. And it's her friend. Her friend doesn't want

1005
01:21:35.760 --> 01:21:40.319
it to have fun. So there's a term. There's a

1006
01:21:40.399 --> 01:21:46.840
term for that, now, isn't there. It's two words. One's blocking.

1007
01:21:47.840 --> 01:21:55.520
I was blocked by her and it was weird. I

1008
01:21:55.560 --> 01:22:02.560
was like, okay, fair enough, yeah, just google both both

1009
01:22:02.600 --> 01:22:08.439
of us. Probably a little bit tipsy or whatever. But

1010
01:22:09.000 --> 01:22:11.520
she's the one that kind of made the moves. But

1011
01:22:11.640 --> 01:22:14.439
her friend blame me. She didn't want to. She didn't

1012
01:22:14.439 --> 01:22:18.800
want her friend to have any fun. So that was

1013
01:22:18.840 --> 01:22:22.039
that done as well. I just had to accept, okay,

1014
01:22:22.039 --> 01:22:27.119
fair enough, see you, I need to pooh anyway. By

1015
01:22:28.000 --> 01:22:30.920
I was poohing a lot when I went there. I

1016
01:22:30.920 --> 01:22:35.000
couldn't believe it. It's really changed my whole body being there.

1017
01:22:35.159 --> 01:22:37.439
So I don't know if it was the altitude or

1018
01:22:37.479 --> 01:22:40.319
if it was the food. Maybe a little bit too

1019
01:22:40.359 --> 01:22:48.159
much alcohol, I don't know, but yeah, nice fresh air though.

1020
01:22:48.199 --> 01:22:55.159
That was nice. And then there was the twins. Now

1021
01:22:55.199 --> 01:23:05.560
there wasn't I just h so I I did. I

1022
01:23:05.600 --> 01:23:09.479
did go and say goodbye to all three of the

1023
01:23:09.520 --> 01:23:11.960
women that I kind of got to know a little bit.

1024
01:23:12.960 --> 01:23:15.880
Not the German one. I didn't see her again. I

1025
01:23:15.880 --> 01:23:17.840
don't think I might have done. I think she was

1026
01:23:17.880 --> 01:23:20.439
with a family though it's like family holidays, so I

1027
01:23:20.520 --> 01:23:25.479
was like, okay, got to keep away. But I went

1028
01:23:25.560 --> 01:23:29.239
to see the other three. So there's one that worked

1029
01:23:29.279 --> 01:23:32.840
in one bar, there's another one worked in the pizza place,

1030
01:23:33.199 --> 01:23:35.840
and the other worked one worked in the restaurant downstairs.

1031
01:23:36.560 --> 01:23:38.720
Not need a reception. So I went to each one

1032
01:23:38.720 --> 01:23:44.760
and say goodbye, and it was just like I thought, well,

1033
01:23:44.920 --> 01:23:49.079
I've not dated anyone, I've not actually gone out anywhere,

1034
01:23:51.359 --> 01:23:53.239
so I'll just say goodbye, you know. And they were

1035
01:23:53.279 --> 01:23:57.079
all one of them that even took me into a

1036
01:23:57.239 --> 01:24:01.720
room I wait from the bar, and it was like

1037
01:24:01.720 --> 01:24:04.319
a storage room and there was nothing in there but

1038
01:24:04.560 --> 01:24:08.239
just empty. But it was a few storage I guess,

1039
01:24:08.319 --> 01:24:12.479
and crates of coke cans or whatever, and that was it,

1040
01:24:12.640 --> 01:24:16.399
and closed the door and just looked at me as like,

1041
01:24:18.760 --> 01:24:22.239
what I'm supposed to do now? I literally had about

1042
01:24:22.279 --> 01:24:25.960
half an hour to get on the bus, and I

1043
01:24:26.000 --> 01:24:31.399
didn't know what I didn't know what she wanted. And

1044
01:24:33.399 --> 01:24:39.319
because I was so naive and very I was quite

1045
01:24:39.319 --> 01:24:45.479
a young person back then. I was only thirty one. Yeah,

1046
01:24:45.479 --> 01:24:48.479
I was still thirty one, so I was young, and

1047
01:24:48.520 --> 01:24:54.159
then I was only a youngster. I really was. I

1048
01:24:54.159 --> 01:24:56.960
didn't know, I didn't know what to do. But Obs

1049
01:24:57.199 --> 01:24:59.479
gave me a big hug, didn't see no way, let

1050
01:24:59.479 --> 01:25:03.720
me go, picked me up, rattled me around a little bit.

1051
01:25:04.880 --> 01:25:16.560
I didn't mind, to be honest, I mean, yeah, I

1052
01:25:16.600 --> 01:25:19.000
feel quite happy. We would have brought a home with

1053
01:25:19.079 --> 01:25:26.880
me and possibly got married. I know that life doesn't

1054
01:25:26.920 --> 01:25:29.359
work like that. I'll just bring someone home and get married.

1055
01:25:29.359 --> 01:25:34.279
But and there seemed to be a connection. Maybe there wasn't.

1056
01:25:35.119 --> 01:25:37.359
I feel like I'm making this up. Maybe I'm not.

1057
01:25:37.720 --> 01:25:44.840
I don't know. Maybe I am the the bomber boom boom,

1058
01:25:45.000 --> 01:25:52.279
boom boom what else. So yeah, that was good. And

1059
01:25:52.319 --> 01:25:58.279
then I did give I got the address. Oh, one

1060
01:25:58.319 --> 01:26:01.479
of them gave me an address and telephone number. But

1061
01:26:01.560 --> 01:26:07.319
I tried to contact but didn't seem to do. I

1062
01:26:07.359 --> 01:26:10.039
gave me my tele I tried to phone. That's it.

1063
01:26:10.119 --> 01:26:13.920
I tried to phone. I've got one of those you know,

1064
01:26:14.000 --> 01:26:16.520
those cards that you can phone abroad and stuff, but

1065
01:26:17.399 --> 01:26:22.279
it didn't seem to work. It was Yeah, the language

1066
01:26:22.359 --> 01:26:25.600
barrier was definitely an issue. It'd be easier now with

1067
01:26:26.159 --> 01:26:31.039
all the different apps. And this is before Facebook and whatsappened,

1068
01:26:32.079 --> 01:26:35.399
all the different ways to communicate with people. There's no

1069
01:26:35.600 --> 01:26:41.479
smartphones back then, and it would have been easy, you know,

1070
01:26:42.119 --> 01:26:48.479
much easier to sort of keep in contact with someone.

1071
01:26:49.079 --> 01:26:52.640
So what happened then is in my Thailand. So I

1072
01:26:52.640 --> 01:26:58.960
did meet someone else, but at this point I had

1073
01:26:59.479 --> 01:27:06.720
a can rib and I wasn't really interested in her

1074
01:27:06.880 --> 01:27:10.359
as a as a other than just as a tourist guide.

1075
01:27:10.359 --> 01:27:14.560
Really she showed me around, but she did sort of

1076
01:27:16.279 --> 01:27:18.760
try and take advantage of me, I think financially a

1077
01:27:18.800 --> 01:27:25.239
little bit. But I wasn't that bothered. And then she

1078
01:27:26.640 --> 01:27:30.239
in a place. This is where I met her because

1079
01:27:30.239 --> 01:27:32.720
a couple of this man said I can you buy

1080
01:27:32.760 --> 01:27:35.680
me some foods? I said, all right. Then he actually

1081
01:27:35.720 --> 01:27:37.720
came up to me. He said, you got any money?

1082
01:27:39.159 --> 01:27:42.279
I said, have you you asking me if I've got

1083
01:27:42.279 --> 01:27:44.960
any money for? What's in your wallet? What's in your wallet?

1084
01:27:45.640 --> 01:27:47.439
And he got his wallet out and said, look nothing,

1085
01:27:48.399 --> 01:27:50.800
And he was a taxi driver, but there was no customers.

1086
01:27:52.520 --> 01:27:55.720
I said, so why are you asking? Well, you showed

1087
01:27:55.760 --> 01:27:59.119
me your wallet for and he said, I'm hungry. You

1088
01:27:59.119 --> 01:28:01.479
can I have some food? I said, I'm sure you'll

1089
01:28:01.479 --> 01:28:03.640
find someone to give you food. He said, well, you

1090
01:28:03.640 --> 01:28:07.399
get me some food. I said, yeah, right, and he

1091
01:28:07.439 --> 01:28:10.359
said what is this way? And he led me. I

1092
01:28:10.359 --> 01:28:12.199
didn't realize he owned the place he led me to

1093
01:28:13.119 --> 01:28:15.399
actually had his name on the front. And I don't

1094
01:28:15.399 --> 01:28:17.000
know if he owned it or rented it or it

1095
01:28:17.039 --> 01:28:21.720
was a family thing, but I mean he was hungry

1096
01:28:21.760 --> 01:28:24.600
as well. There was no customers, There was no one

1097
01:28:24.600 --> 01:28:29.119
in there. There's this little bar restaurant. There wasn't really

1098
01:28:29.119 --> 01:28:35.359
a restaurant, more takeaway. So I gave him the food,

1099
01:28:35.720 --> 01:28:39.560
gave his fellow taxi driver I like, because I had

1100
01:28:39.600 --> 01:28:45.119
moped taxis, gave them food, and then I just left

1101
01:28:45.840 --> 01:28:50.079
wait for a walk. Later on in the evening, I

1102
01:28:50.119 --> 01:28:52.279
forget all about it, and I walked past and they

1103
01:28:52.319 --> 01:28:56.159
all start shouting for me to come in. And I

1104
01:28:56.159 --> 01:28:58.119
didn't know who they were because I didn't realize where

1105
01:28:58.159 --> 01:29:01.680
I was because it was all still new, and they

1106
01:29:01.800 --> 01:29:04.840
was all, come in, let me buy you, give you

1107
01:29:04.880 --> 01:29:07.960
a drink, and they were like all over me, like

1108
01:29:08.039 --> 01:29:12.479
being nice to me and stuff, very very friendly. So

1109
01:29:12.560 --> 01:29:14.960
I stayed in there for a couple of hours, had

1110
01:29:15.000 --> 01:29:21.439
some drinks, and met this person that was a bit

1111
01:29:21.479 --> 01:29:24.479
friendly as well. But you know, it sort of became

1112
01:29:24.560 --> 01:29:27.680
my tour guide for a few days, showed me around

1113
01:29:27.760 --> 01:29:36.119
and that I had this idea. But maybe it was

1114
01:29:36.119 --> 01:29:39.119
a little bit drunk, but I had an idea, I thought,

1115
01:29:39.920 --> 01:29:42.479
And this is something I'd thought about before because I'd

1116
01:29:42.520 --> 01:29:49.439
seen on YouTube during twenty twenty and twenty twenty one,

1117
01:29:49.920 --> 01:29:59.119
because the tourists pretty much had disappeared, like completely for

1118
01:29:59.159 --> 01:30:05.399
about two years, they the people that would normally work

1119
01:30:06.039 --> 01:30:08.600
didn't have any money for food, didn't have any food.

1120
01:30:10.159 --> 01:30:14.520
So there was charities and there was YouTubers and all

1121
01:30:14.560 --> 01:30:22.600
stuff giving out food to people queuing up along the beach.

1122
01:30:23.159 --> 01:30:25.159
Some people were running along to get the food and

1123
01:30:25.159 --> 01:30:27.720
they was giving food out off the back of trucks

1124
01:30:27.760 --> 01:30:32.000
and stuff like that. I didn't see that when I

1125
01:30:32.039 --> 01:30:35.319
got there, but I did think to myself before I

1126
01:30:35.359 --> 01:30:39.479
got there, I want to give some food out. I

1127
01:30:39.520 --> 01:30:41.279
wasn't expecting to do it the way I did it,

1128
01:30:41.600 --> 01:30:45.199
but I was thinking, I want to. It's been a dream,

1129
01:30:46.039 --> 01:30:49.560
really to be able to do something like that on

1130
01:30:49.600 --> 01:30:57.560
a more a bigger scale than just giving someone a

1131
01:30:57.600 --> 01:31:04.239
burger for McDonald's. Who's sitting in a a shop, a

1132
01:31:04.279 --> 01:31:09.880
shop what do you call it? A shop entrance? And

1133
01:31:12.840 --> 01:31:17.800
I thought it'd be nice to do something that was

1134
01:31:18.560 --> 01:31:21.880
like a one off situation that I'm possibly never going

1135
01:31:21.960 --> 01:31:25.479
to be able to do again. So what I decided

1136
01:31:25.720 --> 01:31:30.960
is I said to the lady who was running this

1137
01:31:32.399 --> 01:31:35.600
place which sells food and it's like a little bar

1138
01:31:35.760 --> 01:31:38.399
as well where I got the food from during the

1139
01:31:38.479 --> 01:31:43.840
day for the taxi drivers or the motorbike taxi drivers.

1140
01:31:44.000 --> 01:31:48.159
I said to her, Actually, I said to the person

1141
01:31:48.199 --> 01:31:51.520
I was talking to, that became my guide. I got

1142
01:31:51.560 --> 01:31:59.840
an idea. She said, what's that? I said, what if?

1143
01:31:59.880 --> 01:32:02.520
I because she was telling me how people were hungry

1144
01:32:02.760 --> 01:32:05.159
and how there was no like there was. She was

1145
01:32:05.199 --> 01:32:07.920
pointing out the bar she used to work out, which

1146
01:32:08.000 --> 01:32:09.720
had a pool table, and it was just like a

1147
01:32:09.760 --> 01:32:14.560
small bar, but it was empty. She was living upstairs

1148
01:32:14.560 --> 01:32:19.399
and then pretty much a derelict room, didn't have anything,

1149
01:32:19.479 --> 01:32:22.000
didn't have you know, she was like living from one

1150
01:32:22.079 --> 01:32:27.479
day to the next. And I kind of became a

1151
01:32:27.600 --> 01:32:31.199
meal ticket for a little while, which, you know, it

1152
01:32:31.399 --> 01:32:36.840
is what it is. It is fine. But she sort

1153
01:32:36.880 --> 01:32:39.439
of pointed me towards the lady that was in charge

1154
01:32:39.439 --> 01:32:41.800
of that place, of the place we were sitting in,

1155
01:32:42.760 --> 01:32:46.119
and I said, well, how much would it cost to

1156
01:32:46.239 --> 01:32:53.840
give away a meal and a drink? Like a meal

1157
01:32:54.039 --> 01:32:58.119
and a bottle of water? I think something like that,

1158
01:33:00.760 --> 01:33:03.000
And she was working out. She did, how many do

1159
01:33:03.039 --> 01:33:05.039
you want to do? I said, well, it depends how

1160
01:33:05.079 --> 01:33:08.359
much they are each. Bear in mind I had to

1161
01:33:08.399 --> 01:33:11.560
try and figure it out. The currency change, you know,

1162
01:33:12.199 --> 01:33:20.560
from pounds to tie bart or tie bart to pounds,

1163
01:33:20.600 --> 01:33:26.560
you know, conversion and I was like, okay, well you

1164
01:33:26.560 --> 01:33:30.680
know roughly what would it be? And I couldn't even

1165
01:33:30.680 --> 01:33:34.279
tell you how much it was per meal, but we

1166
01:33:34.399 --> 01:33:45.720
decided to do a lot of meals. I don't know

1167
01:33:45.720 --> 01:33:47.720
what it was at one hundred, two hundred and fifty

1168
01:33:47.800 --> 01:33:51.600
two hundred, I can't remember. And then so we did

1169
01:33:51.640 --> 01:33:54.319
that and when they were all like stacked up. There's

1170
01:33:54.359 --> 01:33:56.880
actually a photograph of me on one of my podcasts

1171
01:33:58.319 --> 01:34:06.279
with the staff there. They're all like hugging me. And

1172
01:34:06.319 --> 01:34:08.399
most of the people I gave the food out too,

1173
01:34:09.239 --> 01:34:14.920
were coming on mopeds because even though the job was

1174
01:34:16.199 --> 01:34:25.600
taxi drivers, they didn't really have any customers. So I

1175
01:34:25.680 --> 01:34:29.279
gave out not just me, the other staff did as well.

1176
01:34:29.600 --> 01:34:31.840
The other like everyone kind of muck did and gave

1177
01:34:31.880 --> 01:34:35.600
out the food. But I was it went really quickly,

1178
01:34:36.079 --> 01:34:40.079
like really quickly, and then they kept cooking more and

1179
01:34:40.119 --> 01:34:42.520
said you want me to cook more? She said, I

1180
01:34:42.560 --> 01:34:46.439
bought more. I can cook it if you want. And

1181
01:34:46.720 --> 01:34:51.880
I lost track. I lost track of what I was spending.

1182
01:34:52.239 --> 01:34:55.399
I lost track of what I was given away. And

1183
01:34:56.680 --> 01:34:58.359
I did it the next day as well. I think

1184
01:34:58.399 --> 01:35:03.840
I did twice as much the next day. Yeah, I

1185
01:35:03.960 --> 01:35:10.680
spent a lot, a lot on that. It's the most Yeah,

1186
01:35:10.800 --> 01:35:13.960
it's yeah, a lot. I think I've never never spent

1187
01:35:14.000 --> 01:35:16.800
that much money in one day. I don't think it

1188
01:35:17.359 --> 01:35:22.239
for that kind of thing before. But it was one

1189
01:35:22.279 --> 01:35:27.039
of the best experiences of my life, given away food

1190
01:35:27.199 --> 01:35:30.359
to people that were hungry. I can't think of anything

1191
01:35:30.439 --> 01:35:34.079
really better than that. Want to be more more useful

1192
01:35:34.319 --> 01:35:42.399
in a way. I know it's short term solution, but

1193
01:35:42.479 --> 01:35:46.760
it's still I mean, it might be a short term solution,

1194
01:35:47.800 --> 01:35:49.239
but it's going to mean a hell of a lot

1195
01:35:49.319 --> 01:35:51.800
to the person that's eating. And how do I know

1196
01:35:51.880 --> 01:35:55.760
just because I've given out a meal to someone, they

1197
01:35:55.840 --> 01:35:59.800
might be sharing that with three people, they might be

1198
01:35:59.800 --> 01:36:03.439
taking at home to their kid and not eating anything themselves,

1199
01:36:04.680 --> 01:36:11.800
you know, I don't know. I find out after the

1200
01:36:11.840 --> 01:36:16.920
third day, and this is weird. I find out, how

1201
01:36:17.000 --> 01:36:23.439
to the third day that I was being charged Western

1202
01:36:24.199 --> 01:36:30.720
prices for the food. So I was being charged the

1203
01:36:30.760 --> 01:36:33.319
same amount as I would have been charged if I'd

1204
01:36:33.359 --> 01:36:39.279
have gone in there as a tourist to order a meal.

1205
01:36:39.800 --> 01:36:41.640
That's how much I would have been charged. And I

1206
01:36:41.680 --> 01:36:46.000
got charged that amount for each and every meal. But

1207
01:36:46.079 --> 01:36:48.119
if I had been a tie I'd have gone in

1208
01:36:48.119 --> 01:36:50.319
there and ordered the same thing. It would have been

1209
01:36:50.359 --> 01:36:58.279
probably one third of the price, but they charged me

1210
01:36:58.359 --> 01:37:05.880
the full price. And the lady that was going to

1211
01:37:05.960 --> 01:37:08.479
be like give me a bit as a tour guide.

1212
01:37:09.800 --> 01:37:13.439
She told me after about the fourth day, she said

1213
01:37:13.439 --> 01:37:15.880
she couldn't. She fell out with them over it, but

1214
01:37:15.920 --> 01:37:19.039
she said she couldn't tell me because I seemed so

1215
01:37:19.119 --> 01:37:22.159
happy doing what I was doing, And they told her,

1216
01:37:22.159 --> 01:37:25.039
don't you dare tell them, because I think she was

1217
01:37:25.039 --> 01:37:28.039
also her boss for the other bar when it reopens,

1218
01:37:28.079 --> 01:37:31.880
and just I didn't go back there after that. I

1219
01:37:31.920 --> 01:37:36.640
didn't go back, didn't. I just you know, once I

1220
01:37:36.680 --> 01:37:40.239
found that out, I was a bit because it wasn't

1221
01:37:40.239 --> 01:37:42.920
even about the money. It was about the simple fact

1222
01:37:43.039 --> 01:37:51.279
that I could have given twice three night well, I

1223
01:37:51.319 --> 01:37:54.880
was only given away one given away. I was only

1224
01:37:54.960 --> 01:37:57.000
given away one third of what I could have been

1225
01:37:57.000 --> 01:38:00.000
given away. I could have given away two thirds more

1226
01:38:00.399 --> 01:38:06.239
food and meals to people that needed it, and I wasn't.

1227
01:38:08.319 --> 01:38:12.000
And that's hundreds of meals that I didn't get to

1228
01:38:12.000 --> 01:38:18.800
give away. So that was, yeah, I didn't like that.

1229
01:38:18.560 --> 01:38:22.159
That kind of left a little bit of her horrible.

1230
01:38:24.439 --> 01:38:26.600
I mean, I understand they want to get paid for

1231
01:38:26.640 --> 01:38:28.399
the work because they were cooking and it was hard

1232
01:38:28.439 --> 01:38:31.439
working it. But wouldn't they get paid. Don't they take

1233
01:38:31.479 --> 01:38:35.479
that out of the that would be the wages they

1234
01:38:35.520 --> 01:38:38.680
would take anywhay, isn't it if they're not going to

1235
01:38:38.720 --> 01:38:41.720
work for nothing when they give away the food to

1236
01:38:41.800 --> 01:38:44.000
the tie people, they're still going to make a profit,

1237
01:38:44.319 --> 01:38:46.760
still going to cover their wages and cover their costs.

1238
01:38:48.239 --> 01:38:52.600
And bearing in mind how many there's no I can't

1239
01:38:52.600 --> 01:38:56.359
imagine any day in her history that she would have

1240
01:38:56.359 --> 01:39:01.840
sold as many meals as that in a day. Ever, uh,

1241
01:39:02.359 --> 01:39:04.560
the what she did that day, those two days with me,

1242
01:39:08.279 --> 01:39:09.800
and all she had to do was cook. She didn't

1243
01:39:09.800 --> 01:39:11.800
have to she didn't have to deal with anyone else.

1244
01:39:14.600 --> 01:39:16.680
And at the end, I think you said, oh, can

1245
01:39:16.720 --> 01:39:19.199
you pay can you pay my system? Give her a

1246
01:39:19.199 --> 01:39:24.439
bit more money? Like I just said yes, But I thought,

1247
01:39:24.760 --> 01:39:27.600
BlimE me, that's this is before I realized I've been

1248
01:39:27.640 --> 01:39:32.960
ripped off. So yeah, I said, it wasn't about the

1249
01:39:33.039 --> 01:39:37.000
money rather than about I could have given more free

1250
01:39:37.039 --> 01:39:42.680
stuff out. So that was that was weird. Some of

1251
01:39:42.680 --> 01:39:48.920
the I quite liked some of the Buddhists rituals that

1252
01:39:48.960 --> 01:39:53.279
they do. I like the bowing. That's nice, it's very respectful.

1253
01:39:54.840 --> 01:40:02.960
The what I'm going to say, Oh yeah, even when

1254
01:40:03.000 --> 01:40:05.640
they're drinking, they'll chuck a bit of the drink into

1255
01:40:05.680 --> 01:40:11.039
the street. It's like an offering to the Buddha. So

1256
01:40:11.079 --> 01:40:15.479
it's kind of even though they're doing technically as a

1257
01:40:15.479 --> 01:40:20.119
Buddhist really it is like a non toxicant religion. You

1258
01:40:20.119 --> 01:40:24.199
don't take toxicants. It's one of the one of the

1259
01:40:24.279 --> 01:40:27.680
I don't say rules are one of the things, but

1260
01:40:30.680 --> 01:40:35.359
it's less that their Buddhists, as in not meditating and

1261
01:40:35.520 --> 01:40:41.279
not practicing, but they have a monk practice for them.

1262
01:40:42.199 --> 01:40:44.800
So the monk will come down from the mountain or

1263
01:40:44.800 --> 01:40:50.359
from the monastery and they will give offerings to the

1264
01:40:50.399 --> 01:40:58.840
monk in the form of usually food, and then the

1265
01:40:58.880 --> 01:41:04.359
monk will say some prayers for them, and they'll sit

1266
01:41:04.439 --> 01:41:07.640
there and just have the monk offer prayers to them.

1267
01:41:08.079 --> 01:41:11.520
So it's a give and take situation. So the monk

1268
01:41:11.800 --> 01:41:16.800
sits in the monastery all day meditating and practicing for

1269
01:41:18.479 --> 01:41:21.399
the rest of the people in Thailand, and they can

1270
01:41:21.479 --> 01:41:25.439
just get on with their lives and not have to

1271
01:41:25.479 --> 01:41:29.239
do that. So it's a very different way to how

1272
01:41:29.279 --> 01:41:35.600
the Western meditators work. Really, I mean, it isn't it

1273
01:41:35.640 --> 01:41:40.319
isn't we don't I say, we are not that involved.

1274
01:41:40.920 --> 01:41:44.159
I haven't been involved for years. Really, in my mind

1275
01:41:44.199 --> 01:41:56.399
I am, but in practice I'm not. Yeah, I'm trying

1276
01:41:56.439 --> 01:42:03.439
to think other things. What this is the irony? When

1277
01:42:03.439 --> 01:42:11.600
I got back this my tour guide started contacting me,

1278
01:42:11.960 --> 01:42:15.840
asking me for stuff. So I ended up buying a television,

1279
01:42:16.840 --> 01:42:21.000
ended up sending her money all these kinds of things

1280
01:42:21.520 --> 01:42:25.279
by I forget what was called some app And in

1281
01:42:25.319 --> 01:42:27.000
the end I just had to cut her off because

1282
01:42:27.000 --> 01:42:30.600
she was just kept asking for more, more, more, more

1283
01:42:30.600 --> 01:42:35.159
and more and more. But she was a good tour guide.

1284
01:42:35.800 --> 01:42:39.840
So I paid her to do to take me around,

1285
01:42:40.199 --> 01:42:43.439
paid her for everything that she needed. Food, We went

1286
01:42:43.800 --> 01:42:48.479
and fed the dogs. We got food off her. What's it.

1287
01:42:49.760 --> 01:42:55.640
There's this uh street food vendor and he was making

1288
01:42:55.680 --> 01:42:59.319
these like meat stick things on sticks, almost like kembabs,

1289
01:42:59.359 --> 01:43:03.800
I suppose, and there'd be three in a pack, and

1290
01:43:03.880 --> 01:43:07.880
maybe they'd had vegetables on them as well. And I

1291
01:43:07.920 --> 01:43:12.159
bought the entire store and we walked through the beach.

1292
01:43:12.680 --> 01:43:15.239
And it's good to have her with me because she

1293
01:43:15.319 --> 01:43:21.039
knew who not to approach. She said, don't go near them.

1294
01:43:21.319 --> 01:43:24.960
They don't like foreigners. Because some people didn't like the

1295
01:43:25.039 --> 01:43:30.159
you know people, she just knew who was who. So

1296
01:43:31.439 --> 01:43:37.000
we would give out the food along the beach, and

1297
01:43:37.039 --> 01:43:40.079
I thought, And then we walked back after doing that.

1298
01:43:41.960 --> 01:43:45.199
I couldn't believe that stall was full again, full of food.

1299
01:43:46.640 --> 01:43:50.039
I thought I'd done him a favor, you go home now. Nope,

1300
01:43:50.840 --> 01:43:53.760
it just appeared out of nowhere. It's almost like he

1301
01:43:53.840 --> 01:43:55.520
just shook it like a magic trick and all the

1302
01:43:55.520 --> 01:43:59.760
food is there again. Wow. So we've got a load

1303
01:43:59.800 --> 01:44:03.880
of more food and fed the dogs. So there's a

1304
01:44:03.880 --> 01:44:07.640
lot of stray dogs around, so we start feeding dogs.

1305
01:44:08.239 --> 01:44:11.199
Some of them just have to kind of chuck the

1306
01:44:11.239 --> 01:44:13.560
meat and let them eat it. And there was this

1307
01:44:13.640 --> 01:44:20.399
big pound of massive gait and there's that waste ground

1308
01:44:20.439 --> 01:44:24.319
or whatever, and there was huge amounts of dogs behind there.

1309
01:44:26.239 --> 01:44:31.199
So I'd be chucking food over there fallen and it

1310
01:44:31.319 --> 01:44:36.000
was cool. I got to do things that I probably

1311
01:44:36.079 --> 01:44:40.479
never would get to do here. I mean, I can't

1312
01:44:40.520 --> 01:44:43.560
go around feeding stray dogs in the UK because there

1313
01:44:43.560 --> 01:44:51.359
ain't none. Really, there's not going to walk on a

1314
01:44:51.399 --> 01:44:55.680
beach and give out food to people some bathing on

1315
01:44:55.720 --> 01:44:59.640
a beach because they probably don't want that. It's a

1316
01:44:59.680 --> 01:45:02.640
different scenario. Plus, people aren't sleeping on the beach at

1317
01:45:02.760 --> 01:45:05.960
night in this kind well maybe they are. I don't know.

1318
01:45:06.000 --> 01:45:08.159
I've not been everywhere, but there was a lot of

1319
01:45:08.159 --> 01:45:12.640
people were on the beach late at night just sleeping.

1320
01:45:14.640 --> 01:45:17.880
So there was that, I know if I quite liked

1321
01:45:18.600 --> 01:45:21.600
there was this. This sounds like I'm just bragging about

1322
01:45:21.600 --> 01:45:23.119
what I did, but this is just what I did.

1323
01:45:23.199 --> 01:45:28.600
It's not really bragging and just it was something I'm

1324
01:45:29.079 --> 01:45:33.439
I'm glad I got to do. And yeah, so I

1325
01:45:33.439 --> 01:45:35.079
did a few other things like that as well, but

1326
01:45:38.520 --> 01:45:46.000
I'm glad I've got to do that. Yeah, I am.

1327
01:45:46.560 --> 01:45:49.880
It's a shame too. I don't think it kind of

1328
01:45:49.920 --> 01:45:53.119
worked out so well that's what I would have wanted

1329
01:45:53.159 --> 01:45:56.800
it to, but it's it was a great experience to

1330
01:45:56.800 --> 01:46:02.880
be able to do that. So yeah, that was my Thailand,

1331
01:46:03.760 --> 01:46:06.680
one of my one of my Thailand journeys. I think

1332
01:46:06.720 --> 01:46:11.479
I've talked forever about this now, so I didn't have

1333
01:46:11.520 --> 01:46:20.720
any other questions. So yeah, thank you, thank you. What

1334
01:46:20.760 --> 01:46:22.279
I'm going to do wait a minute, I'm going to

1335
01:46:22.319 --> 01:46:28.520
go into my website Okay, go into my website and

1336
01:46:28.600 --> 01:46:30.680
let me see if it works. If I go to

1337
01:46:30.800 --> 01:46:36.279
Jasonnewland dot com, ask me anything Q and a Friday

1338
01:46:36.319 --> 01:46:39.399
submission right at the top of the page. So I'm

1339
01:46:39.399 --> 01:46:51.119
going to put in right Willie Warmer email Willi Warmer

1340
01:46:52.319 --> 01:47:08.359
at booby So my question have you I'd like to

1341
01:47:08.399 --> 01:47:21.720
give different weird, funny names. Have you always been so handsome? Right?

1342
01:47:21.760 --> 01:47:25.399
So that's the question. So I'll see what comes through.

1343
01:47:25.560 --> 01:47:28.479
I said, Look, so I'm let's submit that all it's

1344
01:47:28.520 --> 01:47:30.319
asking me. Am I a robot? No, I'm not a

1345
01:47:30.439 --> 01:47:35.039
robot sending the message was sent successfully, so let me

1346
01:47:35.079 --> 01:47:39.760
see if the message came up in the junk mail

1347
01:47:40.439 --> 01:47:50.479
it has. Let me click. So the message from Williwarmer. Oh,

1348
01:47:50.920 --> 01:47:55.560
this message sent from Jason dot com Williwarmer email Williwarmer

1349
01:47:55.680 --> 01:48:00.279
at boobies dot com form type contact have you always

1350
01:48:00.319 --> 01:48:03.439
been so handsome? There's no D in that, so I

1351
01:48:03.439 --> 01:48:07.039
should have done it wrong. So it works. So if

1352
01:48:07.119 --> 01:48:14.960
you have questions for next Friday. For next Friday, you

1353
01:48:15.000 --> 01:48:19.079
can start adding now so that next Friday I can

1354
01:48:19.119 --> 01:48:24.800
actually answer some questions rather than I mean, this has

1355
01:48:24.840 --> 01:48:28.239
been like a more like an ordinary Let me boy

1356
01:48:28.319 --> 01:48:34.359
to sleep, really, isn't it? Which is fine, but it's

1357
01:48:34.399 --> 01:48:39.600
just weird. I didn't think I have a ever have

1358
01:48:39.760 --> 01:48:43.680
a week where it was just one question, because I

1359
01:48:43.720 --> 01:48:47.920
haven't the whole time i've been doing this, and the

1360
01:48:48.000 --> 01:48:51.039
Q and a Friday is wonder was the first one.

1361
01:48:51.479 --> 01:48:52.760
I don't know if I've got it. I've got a

1362
01:48:53.520 --> 01:48:57.039
the's something like Q and a Friday one hundred and

1363
01:48:57.159 --> 01:49:00.159
seventy two episodes. Okay, that's with all the different ones.

1364
01:49:00.600 --> 01:49:03.640
So let's see when was the first one? And the

1365
01:49:03.680 --> 01:49:11.279
first one was, oh my goodness, you won't even believe this.

1366
01:49:14.000 --> 01:49:16.600
That you might be asleep now, but if you are awake,

1367
01:49:16.720 --> 01:49:22.560
you won't believe it. The very first Q and a

1368
01:49:22.880 --> 01:49:30.119
Friday was a tenth of April twenty twenty four, and

1369
01:49:30.159 --> 01:49:34.479
it's now the eleventh of April twenty twenty five. So

1370
01:49:34.560 --> 01:49:47.880
I have literally done every single week since then. I

1371
01:49:48.039 --> 01:49:51.479
don't know if I've missed any out. I'm pretty sure

1372
01:49:52.079 --> 01:49:57.880
I've done every week. In fact, i'm pretty sure I

1373
01:49:57.920 --> 01:50:13.279
have blimey wow wow a year. So this is a

1374
01:50:13.479 --> 01:50:15.600
year of letting boy to sleep and it's probably the

1375
01:50:15.600 --> 01:50:23.000
worst one yet. One question I should have put that

1376
01:50:23.079 --> 01:50:25.159
if I have known that I could have put the

1377
01:50:25.199 --> 01:50:30.399
first year anniversary Q and A Friday. I think he's

1378
01:50:30.479 --> 01:50:35.800
moaning now I don't know what he wants. Wow, blimey. Okay, anyway,

1379
01:50:36.359 --> 01:50:39.960
I'm going to go. Thank you for listening. Remember Q

1380
01:50:40.119 --> 01:50:44.600
and it. Oh, tonight is the fiction night for Celebrity

1381
01:50:44.600 --> 01:50:49.239
Big Brother. I think that's on at nine o'clock. So

1382
01:50:49.279 --> 01:50:52.720
I've been watching that at nine. It's now caught past seven,

1383
01:50:53.439 --> 01:51:01.039
which means probably get myself some food and then I

1384
01:51:01.079 --> 01:51:05.840
will watch the end of a movie that I started

1385
01:51:05.840 --> 01:51:10.079
to watch. Well, actually know what I'll do play watch,

1386
01:51:10.439 --> 01:51:12.920
I watch something while I do that. Well, maybe i'll

1387
01:51:12.960 --> 01:51:16.680
try and edit this now. I want to get this

1388
01:51:16.880 --> 01:51:21.640
edited before people Brother starts. It's even out. I'll do

1389
01:51:21.680 --> 01:51:24.760
it first thing in the morning. I'd kind of like

1390
01:51:24.840 --> 01:51:31.319
to do it tonight. Yeah, we'll see. So thank you

1391
01:51:31.319 --> 01:51:35.039
for listening, Thank you Hillary for your question. And sorry

1392
01:51:35.039 --> 01:51:38.920
there was only one one answer to give, so please

1393
01:51:40.680 --> 01:51:43.039
thank you for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself

1394
01:51:44.359 --> 01:51:47.760
and also be gentle with yourself. Could you deserve to

1395
01:51:47.800 --> 01:51:52.640
be happy and you do deserve to feel safe? Lots

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of love, Bye,