April 19, 2025

(no music) Q&A Friday | Let me bore you to sleep #1331 | 18th April 2025

(no music) Q&A Friday | Let me bore you to sleep #1331 | 18th April 2025
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Hello, and welcome to jasonnew Land dot com. Money is

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Jason a new Land. Please only listen when you can

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safely close your eyes. And this is Q and a Friday,

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Q and a Friday, but being recorded on a Saturday.

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So should have done this yesterday, good Friday, the eighteenth

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of April twenty twenty five, but I am now doing

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it instead on Saturday. The I suppose still a good Saturday,

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maybe nineteenth of April. Do let's say eighteenth of April yesterday,

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nineteenth of April today, twenty twenty five at seven forty

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four am. That's more information than any of us really needed,

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isn't it? And I'm wearing my pink crocs. I mean

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my right button is itchier than my left buttock. I mean,

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what what stuff do we really need to hear about? Awe? Okay,

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Vinnie wants a treat, but for some reason he's gone.

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He's on a cety, happy to clean himself if I

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crink all the thing. Oh yeah, he's noticed. Do you

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want to treat chewy chicken twists with one hundred natural

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chicken breast meat promotes dental hygiene? Good boy, it's called

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And let least say what is it. He's just looking

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at me like, who cares what it says on the packet?

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Just give me it a complete pet food. Okay, there

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you go, good boy. He loves them. Basically, he loves them.

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I would say it's probably his favorite treat that he's

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had ever. Sorry about all the noise, the chairs a

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bit clickery, clickery. So he's got that that will keep

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my occupied for about occupied. He'll keep him occupied for

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about ten minutes, I think, unlike most other treats, which

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keep him occupied for like treat treats will keep occupied

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and maybe ten seconds. You know, the ones that are edible.

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The only things that keep that last any amount of

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time is like a bone thing I'm nicking. That can

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keep him going for an hour or two? What an hour?

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Maybe an egg because he likes to break up the

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eggshell into a million pieces, so you know, that can

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keep him going for putting twenty minutes. I feel like

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I want to time him now just to see how

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long it actually takes, but I won't, So I'll briefly

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tell you about what happened last night. We yesterday, just

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because the reason gone bloody fleas. So I will tell

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you what happened yesterday because I posted yesterday on my

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Facebook group, which is Jason Newland's boring group, wasn't able

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to do Q and a Friday today due to some

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neighbor drama, but will try and do it tomorrow. I'm

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going to bed or I'm now going to bed now.

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That wasn't grammatically correct. I didn't put I wasn't able,

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just wasn't able. The English language is going downhill. The

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written English language is going downhill. And I understand why

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because there's so much stuff we don't need to really

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put in, because no one's gonna put wasn't able to

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do Q and a Friday. Is there anyone in the

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world reading that thinking who wasn't able to? Who's he

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talking about? Is he talking about Vinny? Is he talking

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about the Milkman? Is he talking about I don't know.

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I'm just confused. No, it's me, obviously, I'm the first person.

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But it isn't, you know, grammatically correct? Mmm. Mike wrote,

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I hope you update your son of drama in an

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upcoming episode. I will update you on a drama in

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this for this one, in this episode, I will tell

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you right now, well, in a minute, what happened because

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I've also got another message, but who is this? Oh?

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I did get all blame me, I did get a

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miss each a comment posted on my Facebook group by

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and we'll just want to welcome new a new member

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now I can't find it at Louisa welcome it says

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Hi Jason. Hi everyone. You've been my sandman for a

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couple of years now, and every single night I tell

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myself remember to join the Facebook group tomorrow, then forget

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the moment I wake up. But here I am. Lately,

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I've been really stressed. I have to leave London and

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move back to Paris, thanks Brexit, and you've helped me

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unwind and let my mind wander. I haven't subscribed to

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a YouTube channel yet, but I will soon. But over

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the years, I've built up this whole mental image of

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your flat, the windows, the guard and the setup, and

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I'm slightly scared would clash with my imagination. Are you

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planning to visit? Are you planning to move in? Don't worry,

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it's it. I'm sure. I don't know if I've actually done.

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I haven't done much videos of of the flat really.

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I did a video when I first moved in, when

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I got the carpet put in. So when I late,

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when I got the carpet laid, yeah, I was quite

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pleased because everything was immaculate, really, the whole faut only

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time ever that the flat was immaculate, and since then,

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because I moved in in April twenty fifteen, in November

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or maybe it was October, I don't know. I think

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about November time I got Andre in my little ferret,

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and from that moment on the flat was no longer

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immaculate and hasn't been since. He destroyed the setti that

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I had, like literally ripped it to bits. He destroyed

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the carpet, He pretty much destroyed the bottoms of all

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the doors. He yeah, he made it his own. And

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I still love him to bits, so, you know, even

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though he's not around anymore, but he yeah, I mean

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I made my impression as well. I mean it's not

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like he's the only one. Can't blame him for everything.

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And then then a couple of years ago, I got Vinnie,

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and he's pretty much done the same, you know, ripped

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up the carpet and done. You know, just he's a

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little dog and he's he is he keeps a place

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very messy, and it's good because I can blame him,

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even though probably most of the messes me. So I'm messy,

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I'm a bit messy. I'm better off. I mean, I

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don't have much stuff really other than the equipment to

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make the podcast, a television and some books. That's pretty

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much my belongings. I don't have lots and lots of belongings.

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I don't, so really it's I would say, it's relatively

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tidy in here. Just this stuff on the floor that

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I that needs to be picked up. These toys are

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all over the floor and the bedroom it's closed on

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the bedroom floor, you know, things like that, so you

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can help tidy up when you move in. Right, what's next?

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I they did eat yesterday? Wow, So I admit that

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I was running behind. I wasn't really feeling it yesterday anyway.

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I spent a lot of the day in bed. The

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morning I was relaxing, but I wasn't really I didn't

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have much in a way of energy. Okay. I took

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a little one out for a wa l k and

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it was you know, it was fine, said LOADS to

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a couple of people. It was nice enough. Came back,

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watched a bit of Telly and really just sort of

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spent a bit of time in bed in the afternoon,

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realizing that I still hadn't done anything. Bearing in mind

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I've been making two to three recordings a day for

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the last week or so, so I having not made

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one recording, and I didn't think did I even make

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a recording Thursday. I don't think I did, So I've

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gotten right downhill. My work ethic is ridiculously bad. It's

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terrible if it was a job. The last recording I

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did was the seventeenth of April. So yeah, it was Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

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So I did do a recording on Thursday, but I

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did one. But Wednesday I did one two. But on

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Tuesday I did one two two, Monday one two three. Yeah, wow,

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Sunday I did three blind me. Okay, well you want

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another one. That's the last one that didn't last ten minutes,

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did it? He thinks it's his food and it's not

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his food. It's not it's a treat, but he thinks

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it's his food. He didn't even eat his bottle of food.

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Like yesterday afternoon. Anyway, I get a phone call. I'm

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hearing a bit of commotion in the garden, not my garden,

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but a garden nearby. And I don't mean know what's

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going on. There's always a bit of drama around here,

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you know, people shouting and stuff like that. And then

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get a phone I get a phone call from my friend,

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a local neighbor. He said, can I just pop around

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and see you? I said, yeah, come around. He didn't

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seem very happy, but he came around, but his voice

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didn't seem great. So he his voice is fine, but

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he didn't seem in a good mood. That's what I mean.

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So anyway, he came around. I'm not going to go

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in to specifics, but he came around and just told

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me he'd had a there's some problems he was having.

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And then later on I saw a lady outside. Bearing

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in mind, I was in the middle of watching Big Brother,

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so I had two goals yesterday catch up with Big Brother,

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so that I watched the final you know, the fiction

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night live, having caught up with it, so I'd already

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watched one episode, so it was two episodes behind, and

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I was going to watch Thursday's episode and I got

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about ten minutes into it, so there was still quite

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a bit maybe fifteen minutes there's still quite a lot

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to go. But I paused it with my friend said

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he was going to come around my neighbor. So he

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came around, and then I fast forward a little bit.

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There was a lady outside the front of my building

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laying on the pavement, and it was like, okay, what's

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going on here? So I went into sort of she

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was unconscious at this point, but she was breathing, like

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you know, she was kind of moving around a bit.

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But there was cans of drink on the floor next

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to her, like alcoholic drinks. So I'm like, oh, okay,

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now this this, this whole this kind of surprised me

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a little bit, so I called for an ambulance. I said,

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They said, is she breathing? And said, yeah, what's her name?

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I don't know what her name is, which I didn't

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I did find out later and was saying, do you

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know what's wrong with us? Said no, that I've called

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for an ambulance. I don't really don't know. I just

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found her. She's lying on the floor on the pavement,

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and I'm just concerned that she needs medical help. So

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when I told them about the cans of alcohol, and

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I said, she does you know I think she might

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have been drinking immediately. It's almost like they lost interest

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in the conversation. Which was weird because I was talking

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to someone who literally was telling like, usually they're quite

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attentive and like they take it seriously. This bloke didn't

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seem to really be interested as soon as alcohol's involved.

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He wasn't like, oh, oh well. And I was kind

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of surprised at that, and I said, yeah, but she's

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a vulnerable female. She's not able to protect herself. She's

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not able to really stop anyone doing anything they want

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to do right now, and no one's helping her. The

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weird things that I said this, people were starting to stop.

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It turned out she'd been out there for three hours,

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but she'd been knocking on people's doors and some of

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the neighbors were actually keep an eye out on her.

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But because she was drunk, they just didn't know what

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to do with her, you know, they didn't want to

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let her in their house, and that she was given

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the She was given her dad's phone number to different

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neighbors and stuff, so she had that down in her head.

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This is a mobile number. She had both her mom

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and her dad's phone number lodged in her head. So

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I don't know. She don't know how drunk she could

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have been. And she was able to recall two mobile

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phone numbers. But maybe that's just how what I show

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my ignorance. Maybe I don't know. I just don't know

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how much of it was like it exaggerated. But at

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the time I didn't know she was drunk. Yeah she

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had some cans, but yeah she she she might have

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had as far as I was concerned, I didn't know.

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She might have tripped over and hurt herself. She might

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have had a seizure, she might have It's it's all

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kinds of weird things. You know. Just because someone's been

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drinking alcohol doesn't mean that they're exempt from medical attention.

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That's my opinion. So I mean, yeah, if it's self inflicted, okay,

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But lots of things are self inflicted. Someone driving really

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rubbishly and speeding, and if they have a crash, ambulance

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still come. They don't say how you were speeding. I'm

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not going to help you, do They? In fact, literally

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literal self inflicted wounds get treed by an ambulance. So

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then he stopped fidgeting, please mate, blind me. He's not

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even eating all of that treat so I accord an ambulance.

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I had this weird conversation and they said, is she injured?

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So I said, are you injured? Because at this point

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she had her eyes open and she's not a jess.

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I said, she's not in yes. Oh, I don't know

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what we're going to do, bloke. Really, I've never had

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a conversation with someone from embudence before. They usually like

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stick to the script. It just it's almost like you

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just put the script down and went for cigarette break

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and just talking to me while I was on a

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cigarette break. Yeah, well, you know, not much we can.

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What you do is ah, really, well, can you send

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the police or something because she's not in a good

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way and she's vulnerable, vulnerable female. Because I realized they're

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not that bothered about men, so maybe they'll be cared

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a bit more about women in that situation. But no,

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and it's weird, and they said, well, call call us back. Well,

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we'll call the police, but you know, whether we don't

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know if they're going to come or not, and if

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anything worse happened, and just call us back. Okay. So

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then she she's laying in the road, she's like half

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laying in the road, and I'm thinking, well, this is

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getting more dangerous now, because I mean luck, yeah, I was.

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I was standing in a road with her. I'm not

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going to push it in the road. No, I wasn't.

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I was standing in there with her to make sure

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no cars kind of ran her over because literally there

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was a car parked just in front, so as there's

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a bend, so it would have been quite easy for

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a car to drive around the other car not knowing

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that she was behind the car. You know, it was

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kind of a bit of a blind spot I could imagine,

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especially if they were driving into park and they could

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have they could have hit her potentially. So I stopped.

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I was just stood there to make sure no one

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did that. And then two neighbors parked up in their cars.

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It's quite weird. So they were kind of standing around,

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like what were you going to do? A bloke stopped

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with his dog who was another neighbor was walking his dog,

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and which I was. I was. I was glad to

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have that support, to be honest, I just didn't know

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what to do. I didn't know. And then so I

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called the police and the police are talking to me,

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and ah, so she's in the road. Can you not

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get her off the road? I said, I don't. I

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don't want to touch her. You know, she's, as I

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said before, she's a she's a female vulnerable. I don't

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want to be grabbing her. And I understand if there

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was it was a motorway, I'd have to have to

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think about it. But this is a very quiet road

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and there's no way anyone was going to hit her

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because I was stopping it. But she's like, oh, and

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she was telling me to get away from her, so

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that you know that that in itself wasn't particularly good.

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And he said, well, if you tried putting your trousers

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back on and then offering to help, And I said,

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I'm wearing trousers. What stupid? And he said, well, you

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know we can. That didn't That didn't happen. I don't

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know why I'm saying that. And she's it went weird

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after this that that wasn't the weird part. So I

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step away. She starts getting up, So she's getting up now,

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and she starts talking to someone else. She goes over

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to a car and starts trying to open a car door,

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pulling on it and hitting the car, not hard. And

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I said to the police, I was just trying to

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get in a car. Now that peaked their interest. If

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it was criminal damage, they'd come to that, so her

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welfare wasn't particularly important to them. But and I don't

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know why, but I guess just because she's drink drunk

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or whatever. But the idea that she was maybe hurting

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a car with that old criminal damage and they really

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grabbed old of that. Oh, so she's trying to get

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into a car. She's doing like yeah. But I told

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her to get off, and she did because it was

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a neighbor's car. So I said, can you get off?

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Actually I said it nicely, but Lee, can you leave

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that alone? And she looked at me, So that's a

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neighbor's car, Move away, and she did. I said, there's

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no damage, no damage, no harm done. You know, I

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wanted to get arrested. I wanted to get some help. Well,

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in the meantime, I'm talking to the police for about

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ten minutes, well not the police, but they're nine ninety nine.

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This bloke with a dog is he's actually on the

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phone because she's walked around the bushes and just she's

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falling down multiple times and you never see a toddler

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like balancing on a toy. You know that, a toddler

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in the gardens and they're balancing on a toy and

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it's like, oh, they're going to fall, They're going to fall,

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but they don't what. It was a bit like that

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with this woman, but she actually did fall. She's going

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to fall, she's yeah, she's gone, but she kept getting up.

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It's like a weeble, you know, weeble's wobble, but they

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don't fall down. I mean, she did fall down, but

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she did get up again. And I guess I'm the

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one that wobbles really anyway, she he got her telephone,

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her dad's telephone number. He's on the phone to her dad.

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He found a mom up. Mum, what didn't want to know?

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So this is this is someone that's in a I

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don't know, late thirties, possibly this this this lady maybe

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even early forties, middle thirties and early forties, I don't know,

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to be fair, yeah, probably thirties. So I did see

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her dad, so he was he founded. My mom didn't

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want to know. He found the dad up and her

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dad said, I'm already on my way because it's from London,

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like he's ten minutes away. That's why he said, he's

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ten minutes away. How can it be ten minutes away

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from London if you just called him? What turned out

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that she'd already the neighbor across the road had already

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phoned their dad, because you'd be knocking on everyone's doors.

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I didn't know this at this point, and it was weird.

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It was just a strange situation. Prior to that, between

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the ambulance and the police phone calls, I I was

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saying to her, so where are you? I don't know,

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trying to sort of see if try and get her

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an ambulance, you know, sort of said to her, and

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she started swearing at me and being abusive to me verbally,

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wasn't abusive to anyone else, just me for some reason,

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and telling me to go whatever to my dad and

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whatever to my mum, and okay, you're not helping yourself here,

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you know. I was trying to help and she said oh,

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I said where are you from? And said, oh, Stratford.

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I said, well, I know it Stratford. And you wouldn't get

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away with this behavior there. You know this, this, You

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would not get away, You would not this is be

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a very dangerous situation for you if you did this

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in Stratford. And she's like, and I was losing a

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bit of sympathy and understand I suppose why the police

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an ambulance. They get so much hassle when they go

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just to people that were drunk, try and help someone

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that won't let you help them. So I do understand that.

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I just at the same time, I can't ignore someone

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that's lying on them on the floor, can't even hardly walk.

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She couldn't walk. That puts her in such a dangerous situation,

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which it would do if it was a man. It

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would make no difference to me man or woman. I

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can't really ignore it. I don't think or I can't.

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So it turned out so this was half four. I finally,

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after all the stuff, I finally got back up here.

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Just yeah, the police. I didn't realize i'd had it. Yeah,

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it was about ten past six. I was born twenty six.

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I was back upstairs, So I mean, the whole thing

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didn't start a half past four, but probably five five.

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I don't know. I lose track of the timing, So

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we're probably out there for about an hour, and I

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had two miscalls from the police. The text and the

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police just after I think it was I can tell you, actually,

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what's this got to do with Q and A Friday?

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I don't know this was at how weird? Doesn't give

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me a time for the Texas I thought Texas had

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times yesterday eighteen o three. This is the Clinical Assessment

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Service of East Anglia Ambulance Service. We have attempted to

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contentate with fun. I've been known to be made a

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if there's been any worse than the patient's condition, please

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ring nine on nine. So I didn't have my phone

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switched on. It was on, but it wasn't on. If

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the volume wasn't on, then if it was on, I

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didn't hear it. But I think I might go on

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an editor mute just to forgot, because I thought I

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got it on mute most of the time. Oh dear,

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I wouldn't normally I would. I wouldn't do that if

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I you know, I didn't purposely do that. But I

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got a couple of emails, one saying we are continuing

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to rage. Help. This was probably about half an hour later.

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On an hour later. Actually the clinician may call you

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back from a withheld number. Please keep your phone lying clear.

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I only call nine nine nine again if the patient's

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condition worsens. Alternatively, should you no longer require help, please

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reply cancel. So I just sent a cancel. I didn't

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I thought they just that was it. They weren't bothering,

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but didn't tell me that the ambulance was still planning

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to come. But they just it wasn't a priority, which

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is fair enough. They've got their criteria, and when I

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called them, I didn't know if it's a priority or not. Unfortunately,

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I've had to call the ambulance and the police so

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many times since I've lived there, and I've been in

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this situation before with my neighbor downstairs, the one directly

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below me, and she Trea non was I say it

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was because she passed away. But she was only young.

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She only in a little bit older than me, about

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a year older than me or something. And this was

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too fat. Yeah, twenty nineteen or twenty twenty, right at

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the beginning of the year. She basically her mom knocked

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on the door and she wasn't answering, and I heard

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her mum banging on the windows, like the bedroom windows

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out of the back. So I went downstairs because I

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saw this woman and I thought, what was going on there?

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I just checked that she was all right because it

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seemed like a weird thing to be doing. Didn't look

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like a thief. But I think I just go and

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check it out. And I said all right. She said, yeah,

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I'm trying to get hold of my daughter. She's in there,

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but she's not. She should be in it because she

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arranged to pick her up. I think she had a

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doctor's appointment or something. And I said, oh, okay, and

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then she she said, well, no, I can hear her.

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She's in there, but I can't see where she is.

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She's not answering the door. Well, then she goes and

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she starts talking for letterbox to her and it turns

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out she owed her money and she just didn't want

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to pay it. No, that's not true. She'd collapsed. She

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was on the floor, collapsed, and she'd been like that

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for days apparently. So she was able to talk to

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her mum, but wasn't able to move right, there's no

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way of getting into the flat. Couldn't get into the flat. Well,

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I couldn't get into the flat. Luckily, I know some

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people that do know how to do stuff like that

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not luckily for the neighbors to get robbed. But yeah,

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I know people that know how to get into flats

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very quickly. So I got my my local my local

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break in service. Well, it's really weird. I know, if

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I ever, if I ever locked myself out up properly

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and I can't get a locksmith or whatever, a ladder,

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that's all the need. A ladder. If all the windows

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are locked, I know, something can get through the windows

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in for like thirty seconds. It's just like and they

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won't have to be quiet either, so probably even quite

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even quicker because I'll be with them if they had

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to do it quietly. They put it's like, yeah, it's strange.

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It's this weird, weird situation. But anyway, I called it.

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I said, you need to call an ambulance, and she said, no,

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my daughter would be in a minute. She'll know what

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to do because her other daughter was coming. She'd called her,

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and I said, I got angry, but it was like,

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you need to call an ambulance. She's lying on the

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floor and she can't move. That is not a good sign.

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I mean, I'm no doctor, but I can I can conclude.

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I can conclude that's not a good sign. And I

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was correct, and I wish I hadn't been correct. So

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I called an ambulance and the ambulance said, oh, forty

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five minutes, And I said what he said, Yeah, forty

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five minutes. That's it. I said, she's lying on the floor,

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she can't move. No, be forty five minutes. Now. The

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ambulances are brilliant. And I'm not saying anything about ambulances

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or at police or anything. They've always been, you know,

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pretty much been great and I'm grateful. You know, ambulance

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services saved my friend's life multiple times. And so yeah,

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it's not but I was just surprised at this. So

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I went, this is I say, this is a few

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years back, and it's never that. It's not. It's not

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their fault anyways. They can't be everywhere all at once.

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Even Superman can't be everywhere, can they can? Hey, you

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know it's like remember Superman and movie, the first one.

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I don't want to spoil it. I mean, it's fifty

465
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years ago, and since it came out, is it too

466
00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:17.119
soon to tell you what happened? But I think was

467
00:36:17.159 --> 00:36:20.199
it Superman one? Was this there was I don't know

468
00:36:20.280 --> 00:36:23.239
if it was a superhero movie where there was two

469
00:36:23.360 --> 00:36:28.599
missiles being sent at the same time. Yeah, it was two.

470
00:36:29.119 --> 00:36:32.480
It was Superman. So again, if you haven't seen it

471
00:36:32.480 --> 00:36:36.079
and you don't want to spoil it, the movie that

472
00:36:36.239 --> 00:36:40.760
was released in nineteen seventy five or was it nineteen

473
00:36:40.840 --> 00:36:43.920
seventy seven, but it's you know, it's nearly fifty years ago,

474
00:36:44.760 --> 00:36:53.039
and Lex Lufer launched two nuclear missiles or two missiles

475
00:36:53.079 --> 00:36:57.440
like really badness, so Superman couldn't and there were different areas.

476
00:36:57.519 --> 00:37:00.280
Superman couldn't get to both of them, so he had

477
00:37:00.280 --> 00:37:04.599
to choose one. He got to it and got rid

478
00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:07.039
of it, and he nearly got to the second one,

479
00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:09.639
I do believe, but he didn't get there in time

480
00:37:11.840 --> 00:37:15.920
and for some reason, I mean maybe it was just

481
00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:18.960
a fit the plot of the movie. But Lewis Lane

482
00:37:19.400 --> 00:37:24.840
or Lois Lois Lane, who was the love of his life?

483
00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:30.719
But was she? What about Lana Lange? The movie's never

484
00:37:30.760 --> 00:37:36.559
really dealt with Lana Lane. The more recent TV show did,

485
00:37:37.239 --> 00:37:40.360
but it was always like Clark Kent loves l l

486
00:37:42.239 --> 00:37:45.360
Is it Lewis Lane or is it Lowis Lane? Or

487
00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:51.239
is it Lana Lane? L L Who do you love Clark?

488
00:37:51.960 --> 00:37:56.840
I love it l L So it's you know, it

489
00:37:56.960 --> 00:37:59.679
was always that really, I mean in the movies it

490
00:37:59.800 --> 00:38:03.119
was was Lewis Lane. But yeah, the thing for you know,

491
00:38:03.280 --> 00:38:10.360
Lana Lang as well, and for some reason Lewis Lane

492
00:38:10.599 --> 00:38:20.440
loveis I can't can't speak like that, Olas Lane. The

493
00:38:20.440 --> 00:38:23.920
the other missile pretty much landed on her head, so

494
00:38:24.400 --> 00:38:29.840
it caused this big, you know, catastrophic feing or whatever

495
00:38:30.599 --> 00:38:34.000
in the desert. She happened to be there. I think

496
00:38:34.039 --> 00:38:35.719
he chose the other one beause it was going towards

497
00:38:35.719 --> 00:38:38.280
the city opposed to the one that was going towards

498
00:38:38.280 --> 00:38:45.079
the desert. And he finds her and he's like, oh,

499
00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:51.079
it's Lowis Lane, and she's not survived, and it's very sad,

500
00:38:51.679 --> 00:38:58.280
and he cries, and he then flies around the world

501
00:38:58.840 --> 00:39:07.320
lots of times and turns back time and it's very good.

502
00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:10.480
Why am I talking about Superman? Oh yeah, you can't.

503
00:39:10.599 --> 00:39:14.840
The ambulance they can't be everywhere. I mean, there's a

504
00:39:14.840 --> 00:39:16.960
lot more of them of them than there is a Superman.

505
00:39:17.599 --> 00:39:22.440
But at the same time, you know, I'm so grateful

506
00:39:22.440 --> 00:39:24.400
that we've got an ambulance service that we've got in an

507
00:39:24.480 --> 00:39:29.000
NHS here, there've got a police service, fire service, and

508
00:39:30.679 --> 00:39:35.159
you know, just I am. I'm grateful. We've got people

509
00:39:35.239 --> 00:39:41.239
to come and collect the rubbish, people that deliver the mail. Yeah,

510
00:39:41.360 --> 00:39:44.519
I am grateful for that. I don't always feel the gratitude,

511
00:39:44.519 --> 00:39:53.480
but you know, generally i'm quite I am grateful. So, yeah,

512
00:39:53.599 --> 00:39:57.400
my neighbor downstairs, I phone the police. Now I find

513
00:39:57.599 --> 00:40:03.119
I fhond the fires this next and I said, hello,

514
00:40:03.199 --> 00:40:05.079
I don't it. I don't know if you can help me.

515
00:40:07.840 --> 00:40:12.440
My neighbors on the floor downstairs. She's collapsed. She can't move,

516
00:40:13.679 --> 00:40:15.679
but she's locked out. I didn't know there's any way

517
00:40:15.719 --> 00:40:20.360
you can get into the place, you know, she's the

518
00:40:20.400 --> 00:40:24.159
front doors locked solid and we can't get in. And

519
00:40:24.159 --> 00:40:26.360
the ambulance would be here in about forty five minutes,

520
00:40:28.440 --> 00:40:30.280
and they said, what do you expect us to do?

521
00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:40.079
I'm like, okay, And it was one of those like yeah,

522
00:40:40.119 --> 00:40:43.280
I know I need a locksmith obviously, but I just

523
00:40:43.360 --> 00:40:45.719
thought maybe in a situation like that, they could come

524
00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:51.480
and remove the door in an emergency. It seemed like

525
00:40:51.519 --> 00:40:56.039
an emergency. It was an emergency. In fact, it was

526
00:40:56.159 --> 00:40:59.960
much more serious than realized. I just assumed it was,

527
00:41:01.360 --> 00:41:05.239
but no one else did. For some reason. And then

528
00:41:06.239 --> 00:41:10.199
I called up the police and again they said, what

529
00:41:10.280 --> 00:41:12.239
do you want us to do about it? Do you

530
00:41:12.480 --> 00:41:15.000
what do you expect us to do about it? I

531
00:41:15.079 --> 00:41:17.119
mean literally those words, which I was a little bit

532
00:41:17.159 --> 00:41:22.199
surprised about. I said, well, she's locked. We can't get

533
00:41:22.239 --> 00:41:24.360
in there. The ambulance said they're going to be forty

534
00:41:24.360 --> 00:41:30.000
five minutes, and they said, well what I said? I said, yeah,

535
00:41:30.039 --> 00:41:38.239
but I think she had a heart attack, and they said, oh, okay.

536
00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:43.039
Five minutes later the ambulance was here. And in that

537
00:41:43.119 --> 00:41:47.599
five minutes, I got my friend. I asked my friend

538
00:41:47.719 --> 00:41:50.519
to get into the flat, and he did. He didn't

539
00:41:50.519 --> 00:41:57.400
go in, he took He removed the window from the

540
00:41:57.440 --> 00:41:59.800
bathroom or the kitchen, I think it was the bathroom.

541
00:41:59.800 --> 00:42:04.960
When he removed that in seconds, and just as he

542
00:42:05.239 --> 00:42:09.639
had removed that, her sister turned up, who was actually

543
00:42:09.679 --> 00:42:17.239
able to fit through the window. And just as she

544
00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:20.440
was pretty much climbing through the window, the ambulance turned up.

545
00:42:22.840 --> 00:42:25.880
So she came in. She opened the door from the inside,

546
00:42:26.760 --> 00:42:28.840
the ambulance went in there. We're in there for about

547
00:42:28.880 --> 00:42:34.079
half an hour. Took her into the ambulance. The ambulance

548
00:42:34.079 --> 00:42:36.519
put you the paramentis. Rather took her into the ambulance

549
00:42:36.599 --> 00:42:40.840
and they were working on her in the ambulance for

550
00:42:40.880 --> 00:42:45.079
about an hour, maybe an hour and a half, and

551
00:42:45.119 --> 00:42:47.719
then it her that took her to the hospital and

552
00:42:47.880 --> 00:42:50.480
she died two days later. Now I'm not saying this

553
00:42:50.599 --> 00:42:53.400
is a sad story, although it is a sad story.

554
00:42:54.159 --> 00:42:57.639
The fact is she had had a heart attack, and

555
00:42:57.679 --> 00:43:02.679
she had another one in the ambulance. So there was

556
00:43:02.719 --> 00:43:06.400
part of me feeling guilty, like, am I lying saying

557
00:43:06.400 --> 00:43:09.400
that she said ah attack But I didn't say she had.

558
00:43:09.400 --> 00:43:12.000
I said I think she's had when I actually did

559
00:43:12.039 --> 00:43:17.360
believe that, and I was right. I just couldn't figure

560
00:43:18.039 --> 00:43:19.760
any other reason why she would be lying on the

561
00:43:19.800 --> 00:43:24.760
floor for a couple of days unable to move unless

562
00:43:24.800 --> 00:43:30.400
there was something really seriously had happened internally outside of

563
00:43:30.519 --> 00:43:34.280
like a fall or something like that. But she apparently

564
00:43:34.320 --> 00:43:38.800
she wasn't injured, wasn't physically like whatever, She hadn't broken

565
00:43:38.840 --> 00:43:42.039
a hip or anything, according to her mum. She just

566
00:43:42.079 --> 00:43:48.760
couldn't move. So I, yeah, I don't even know why

567
00:43:48.760 --> 00:43:50.960
I'm talking about this. I talked about it when it happened,

568
00:43:51.199 --> 00:43:53.360
But this just gives you an idea the kind of

569
00:43:53.400 --> 00:43:59.280
stuff that happens around here. And eventually, yesterday, this lady,

570
00:43:59.519 --> 00:44:06.280
she got to her a dad turned up. He said, right,

571
00:44:07.679 --> 00:44:10.119
he couldn't she wouldn't get up. He couldn't pick her

572
00:44:10.199 --> 00:44:12.760
up on his own. He called his wife over or

573
00:44:12.760 --> 00:44:18.559
his girlfriend over, and he shouted Ory Doris, I don't

574
00:44:18.599 --> 00:44:21.400
know what her name was. Can you come here, please?

575
00:44:21.519 --> 00:44:23.400
Can you bring the camera as well so we can

576
00:44:25.079 --> 00:44:28.239
take another picture for the photo album, for the family

577
00:44:28.280 --> 00:44:31.920
photo album. And then he was going on and it's

578
00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:34.880
like he's had years of this since she was a kid.

579
00:44:35.920 --> 00:44:39.719
And he looked drained. He looked so much. I don't know.

580
00:44:40.480 --> 00:44:42.960
I got no idea what the background is behind the

581
00:44:43.000 --> 00:44:47.280
whole thing. But there was no winners, that's for sure.

582
00:44:48.639 --> 00:44:52.239
And it's weird because I felt relief as he drove off,

583
00:44:54.440 --> 00:44:57.639
but at the same time, I knew that the journey

584
00:44:57.719 --> 00:45:02.920
was nowhere near ending for him or for her, and

585
00:45:03.800 --> 00:45:06.000
you know, it was over for me. I'd kind of

586
00:45:08.239 --> 00:45:11.800
I had a degree of relief. I still wasn't quite there,

587
00:45:11.840 --> 00:45:15.320
but I was. It completely shattered me dealing with all

588
00:45:15.320 --> 00:45:20.519
the different people. So I kind of felt for him,

589
00:45:20.599 --> 00:45:24.360
but I felt for her as well, because you know.

590
00:45:26.199 --> 00:45:31.280
It's this addiction, isn't it. It's a horrible, horrible thing.

591
00:45:31.360 --> 00:45:33.360
And I've had to deal with it with lots of

592
00:45:33.360 --> 00:45:40.199
different people for for a long time actually, over the years,

593
00:45:41.000 --> 00:45:44.960
for a good old twenty years. Really, I've dealt with

594
00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:48.159
my own issues and other people's issues. I had a

595
00:45:48.159 --> 00:45:51.280
little bit of a fling with alcohol when I was younger,

596
00:45:52.920 --> 00:45:59.119
but yeah, I was very strange and then my name,

597
00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:01.599
my other neighbor was it freaked out about some stuff

598
00:46:01.639 --> 00:46:07.639
and I just ended up ten to nine I think

599
00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:11.760
after taking him out, or maybe five to nine. I

600
00:46:11.800 --> 00:46:18.360
got home after sort of doing some other stuff, and

601
00:46:18.360 --> 00:46:22.599
then by the time I'd cooked some teacakes because I

602
00:46:22.639 --> 00:46:29.519
was hungry, the Big Brother Live episode was seven minutes in,

603
00:46:30.639 --> 00:46:34.360
so I couldn't watch yesterday's episode to see. I didn't

604
00:46:34.360 --> 00:46:40.119
even know who was evicted until, like I watched Disturb

605
00:46:40.199 --> 00:46:43.519
the live show. It just ruined it, you know, ruined

606
00:46:43.559 --> 00:46:46.840
the whole. I know, shouldn't all be about a TV show,

607
00:46:46.920 --> 00:46:58.440
but for me, this this is what I enjoy. So

608
00:46:58.519 --> 00:47:01.719
that's why I'm late doing a Q Friday. And it

609
00:47:01.760 --> 00:47:07.000
took me what an hour to tell you that, Oh

610
00:47:07.079 --> 00:47:10.519
my goodness, it really did take nearly fifty minutes to

611
00:47:10.559 --> 00:47:13.199
tell you that I'm sorry. I'm going to do a

612
00:47:13.280 --> 00:47:20.559
Q and a Friday now, BlimE me. Wow. This is

613
00:47:20.559 --> 00:47:23.599
what this is what happens. This is how things work here.

614
00:47:23.679 --> 00:47:27.360
So I sometimes go on a bit. I've also got

615
00:47:27.400 --> 00:47:34.000
YouTube channel by the way at Jason Newland, and it's

616
00:47:34.679 --> 00:47:39.599
it's a weird thing because it's just weird because I've

617
00:47:39.599 --> 00:47:44.480
been uploading the latest recordings all six and yeah, I

618
00:47:44.480 --> 00:47:48.440
don't think it's really working so well. But hey, oh well,

619
00:47:49.360 --> 00:47:52.360
so questions. Do I have any questions? Well, yes I do.

620
00:47:54.559 --> 00:48:04.840
I put a like a little form on my website

621
00:48:04.840 --> 00:48:07.079
that you can fill in if you've got questions for

622
00:48:07.159 --> 00:48:10.880
Q and a Friday, and I've had a few people

623
00:48:10.920 --> 00:48:13.880
fill it in this week. So I'm just check in,

624
00:48:14.239 --> 00:48:18.639
did did did did LYD, did lid so QN A

625
00:48:18.880 --> 00:48:22.920
fri Day? Where is it? I saved him in a

626
00:48:22.920 --> 00:48:29.880
folder one, two, three, four, five, six questions. This might

627
00:48:29.920 --> 00:48:32.760
be the longest Q and a Friday in the history.

628
00:48:32.880 --> 00:48:38.039
By the way, I'm going to go buy order. If

629
00:48:38.119 --> 00:48:41.679
I miss any out, I will answer them next week. Okay,

630
00:48:42.119 --> 00:48:44.480
So I don't want this to be like three hours long.

631
00:48:45.840 --> 00:48:50.599
Odd things to do So the first question is from Ann,

632
00:48:51.760 --> 00:48:54.320
if you don't mind me asking, I was wondering how

633
00:48:54.320 --> 00:49:04.800
old Andre was when he passed. Yeah, yeah, he was

634
00:49:04.840 --> 00:49:12.320
about six and a half. The reason what happened basically

635
00:49:12.440 --> 00:49:17.079
had spine injury. A little kid trod on him a

636
00:49:17.159 --> 00:49:23.039
year earlier, like stamped, probably stomped on him. And you

637
00:49:23.079 --> 00:49:25.280
know it wasn't anyone's fault. Is it was a little kid.

638
00:49:25.280 --> 00:49:26.960
It wasn't like a kid that knew what he was doing.

639
00:49:27.079 --> 00:49:31.679
Is like a little toddler really well, like three years old,

640
00:49:31.760 --> 00:49:35.760
four years old, and he just stomped on him. And

641
00:49:35.800 --> 00:49:41.360
at the time, Vinnie or Vinnie Andre seemed like he

642
00:49:41.440 --> 00:49:44.440
was just angry. I picked him up and he clung

643
00:49:44.519 --> 00:49:46.239
clung to me, but at the same time he wanted

644
00:49:46.280 --> 00:49:50.320
to have a fight with his kid. I thought nothing

645
00:49:50.360 --> 00:49:53.239
of it, really, I thought I didn't like it. But

646
00:49:53.599 --> 00:49:58.480
the mum was so but apologetic and basically she called

647
00:49:58.480 --> 00:50:00.880
me over, can you can my little boy have a

648
00:50:01.320 --> 00:50:03.599
little look sort of say loo to your ferret. And

649
00:50:04.800 --> 00:50:07.960
I've spoken to her numerous times. She's a very friendly person.

650
00:50:09.079 --> 00:50:11.440
Still speak to her husband. Don't see her anymore, but

651
00:50:11.480 --> 00:50:14.320
I see her husband regularly walking the dogs he's also

652
00:50:14.440 --> 00:50:19.320
really friendly. But the kids, we were just talking and

653
00:50:19.360 --> 00:50:22.280
the kid it happened so quick. I saw it in

654
00:50:22.280 --> 00:50:25.920
a peripheral and just see his leg rais and on

655
00:50:26.519 --> 00:50:30.719
Andre's scream. Anyway, I thought nothing of it. Really, she

656
00:50:30.920 --> 00:50:34.000
was like apologetics, like it's not your fault. We didn't

657
00:50:34.039 --> 00:50:39.559
know this was going to happen. And the next day

658
00:50:40.719 --> 00:50:44.039
Vinnie was struggling to walk. Vinckis so viny. Andre was

659
00:50:44.039 --> 00:50:49.920
struggling to walk, and he was basically he couldn't walk.

660
00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:55.480
It was limping really badly. And I left it a

661
00:50:55.559 --> 00:51:00.280
day because I thought, ah, see how I am. I

662
00:51:00.280 --> 00:51:03.679
didn't even connect the two. That's how slow I am.

663
00:51:03.760 --> 00:51:08.599
Sometimes didn't even connect it. And until I took him

664
00:51:08.599 --> 00:51:12.159
to the vets, and the vets said they did an

665
00:51:12.239 --> 00:51:18.119
X ray on his back. They said he's got spinal injury,

666
00:51:18.840 --> 00:51:22.800
like he's been trod on. It was like, all okay,

667
00:51:23.239 --> 00:51:26.199
I said, yeah, a kid did stomp on him, trod

668
00:51:26.239 --> 00:51:28.880
on him on purpose. I said, okay, that'll do it.

669
00:51:29.679 --> 00:51:34.400
And I said what now. Then he said, well, in

670
00:51:34.480 --> 00:51:41.199
these cases, quite often, especially with ferrets, I mean, they're

671
00:51:41.280 --> 00:51:44.519
prone to have this kind of thing because they're so bendy.

672
00:51:44.719 --> 00:51:49.599
If you take that flexibility away from them, it kind

673
00:51:49.599 --> 00:51:55.119
of ruins their life, really because they're so bendy and

674
00:51:55.239 --> 00:51:59.920
he once you take that away, it's you know, quality

675
00:52:00.159 --> 00:52:04.880
not great. The weird thing about it, he nearly parts

676
00:52:05.119 --> 00:52:06.760
unless it's going to say, I'm just talking about death

677
00:52:06.800 --> 00:52:12.320
and this one, but he nearly died with the anesthetic

678
00:52:12.920 --> 00:52:15.800
that he yet to have to have the the X

679
00:52:15.920 --> 00:52:19.039
ray because he he wouldn't stand still or sit still

680
00:52:19.079 --> 00:52:22.480
for a second. And I wasn't allowed to hold him

681
00:52:22.480 --> 00:52:27.360
because this is during the old mask covering it period,

682
00:52:28.000 --> 00:52:32.159
if you remember that. So I couldn't be in the vets,

683
00:52:32.440 --> 00:52:37.760
couldn't even be inside the building. I had to stand

684
00:52:37.760 --> 00:52:40.280
in the car park. I had to hand over the

685
00:52:40.320 --> 00:52:44.400
bag with him in it to the receptionist or to

686
00:52:44.480 --> 00:52:46.719
the vet who had a mask on. I had a

687
00:52:46.719 --> 00:52:49.840
mask on. I would stand outside. He put his long arm.

688
00:52:50.119 --> 00:52:52.119
I couldn't believe that long exam once it was about

689
00:52:52.159 --> 00:52:56.000
like eighteen foot long, and he picked it up and

690
00:52:56.039 --> 00:52:59.519
he took the bag in and I had to wait

691
00:52:59.559 --> 00:53:02.400
for him to I think he phoned me to let

692
00:53:02.480 --> 00:53:05.840
me know how he was getting on. And I had

693
00:53:05.880 --> 00:53:10.800
to pick him up the next day because he was

694
00:53:10.840 --> 00:53:15.960
really groggy with the whole anesthetic, and they didn't know

695
00:53:16.000 --> 00:53:18.599
what to do because he wasn't he was like, wasn't

696
00:53:18.599 --> 00:53:24.159
coming back, wasn't to be in fully aware. Well, in

697
00:53:24.199 --> 00:53:26.280
the end I came and got him, took him home,

698
00:53:26.760 --> 00:53:30.079
and it took about a day or so, two days

699
00:53:30.079 --> 00:53:32.719
I think, before he was normal again. He's just like

700
00:53:32.840 --> 00:53:34.960
just lying there, just looking at me. It was weird,

701
00:53:36.320 --> 00:53:42.639
like he was drunk or something. There wasn't really much

702
00:53:42.679 --> 00:53:46.039
they could do, but he recovered. I got videos of

703
00:53:46.079 --> 00:53:49.079
him limping around, and then a video of him. He

704
00:53:49.199 --> 00:53:51.000
still wanted to go for a walk, still wanted to

705
00:53:51.000 --> 00:53:55.119
do everything as before, And eventually he got it back.

706
00:53:55.320 --> 00:53:58.480
His leg was fine or his spine was fine, and

707
00:53:58.519 --> 00:54:03.679
his mobility was perfect, so I thought. And then a

708
00:54:03.760 --> 00:54:09.440
year later, for no reason other than just the injury,

709
00:54:10.119 --> 00:54:15.960
I guess that it got worse and he was limping again,

710
00:54:16.079 --> 00:54:22.239
and there was more war going on this time, and

711
00:54:22.280 --> 00:54:25.719
we were still in the masks the mask episode, but

712
00:54:25.800 --> 00:54:31.079
this time I was allowed inside the veterinary reception, but

713
00:54:31.079 --> 00:54:33.719
I wasn't allowed to be in Now I was. I

714
00:54:33.800 --> 00:54:36.639
was allowed to go in there with him, but were

715
00:54:36.679 --> 00:54:38.400
still you know, everyone had still had to wear a

716
00:54:38.440 --> 00:54:42.360
mask and stuff. So this was like two thousand and one,

717
00:54:42.880 --> 00:54:49.039
twenty twenty one, I think, And he just said he

718
00:54:49.119 --> 00:54:53.920
had another X ray. He said that the spine's gone,

719
00:54:54.239 --> 00:54:57.039
like there was just warn it was so damaged from

720
00:54:57.079 --> 00:55:01.280
before that it didn't heal proper plea. But it healed

721
00:55:01.360 --> 00:55:05.199
enough for him to because they've already determined old ferrets are.

722
00:55:06.039 --> 00:55:08.679
They don't care, they won't let anything get in their way.

723
00:55:08.719 --> 00:55:11.679
But he wasn't eating and that's a sign that he

724
00:55:11.760 --> 00:55:18.199
was in pain and there was no option. Really. Yeah,

725
00:55:23.360 --> 00:55:25.440
so that was it. That's so, yeah, six and a

726
00:55:25.440 --> 00:55:27.639
half years ago where it was the end, It was

727
00:55:27.679 --> 00:55:33.679
like June twoenty twenty one, wasn't six and a half

728
00:55:33.719 --> 00:55:35.159
years ago, but I think he was about six and

729
00:55:35.159 --> 00:55:37.119
a half years when I got in went when he

730
00:55:37.320 --> 00:55:43.480
passed away. Yeah, So I would try and lighten it

731
00:55:43.559 --> 00:55:50.719
up if I can. Jace, this is from Maria. Hi, Jason,

732
00:55:50.760 --> 00:55:52.679
what's the longest time you ever lived in one place?

733
00:55:53.360 --> 00:55:56.199
Are there any fond childhood memories that you can recall?

734
00:55:56.480 --> 00:56:01.760
Thank you? Oh, I can't think of any childhood memories.

735
00:56:01.880 --> 00:56:04.840
So the longest time I ever lived in one place

736
00:56:05.840 --> 00:56:10.519
is here, this place I never lived anywhere for ten

737
00:56:10.599 --> 00:56:16.800
years before. The second longest place was I guess like

738
00:56:16.880 --> 00:56:20.519
the family home would call it that I lived for

739
00:56:20.760 --> 00:56:26.480
between the ages of nine and fifteen, So what's that

740
00:56:26.920 --> 00:56:32.360
tenth nine and fifteen six, it's not that long as

741
00:56:32.400 --> 00:56:38.480
it really six years. Wow, it seemed like forever, but

742
00:56:38.519 --> 00:56:42.199
then I was young, So yeah, the second longest place

743
00:56:42.360 --> 00:56:48.800
was there was six years, and I did live at

744
00:56:48.800 --> 00:56:54.159
a couple of places for about four years each. When

745
00:56:54.159 --> 00:56:57.440
I first moved to Stratford from ninety one to ninety four,

746
00:57:00.199 --> 00:57:03.159
well three and a half years, so I spent three

747
00:57:03.199 --> 00:57:06.400
and a half years living in that room and there

748
00:57:06.440 --> 00:57:11.000
was another room in Stratford where I moved in. Was

749
00:57:11.039 --> 00:57:19.960
it probably about June to June nineteen ninety seven. I

750
00:57:20.039 --> 00:57:30.639
moved out the summer two thousand and one, so yeah,

751
00:57:30.639 --> 00:57:35.000
that's four I was there for about four years, evicted

752
00:57:35.000 --> 00:57:40.119
from there. And when I was at university, I stayed

753
00:57:40.119 --> 00:57:48.440
in a place in a room from November nineteen ninety

754
00:57:49.000 --> 00:58:00.639
two thousand and seven and I moved out. I spelled

755
00:58:00.639 --> 00:58:07.840
like March two thousand and eleven, two thousand and eleven, Yeah,

756
00:58:08.960 --> 00:58:15.440
so what's that two thousand and seven, November two thousand

757
00:58:15.480 --> 00:58:19.920
and eight, two thousand and nine, twenty ten, So again

758
00:58:20.039 --> 00:58:32.360
that three years and probably three months. Yeah, I mean

759
00:58:32.559 --> 00:58:38.760
I lived at the YMCA, the YMCA from September two

760
00:58:38.800 --> 00:58:48.079
thousand and one until about March two thousand and four,

761
00:58:48.639 --> 00:58:51.719
but I lived in three different studio apartments. There were

762
00:58:52.159 --> 00:58:55.760
studio flats, so I didn't stay in the same place,

763
00:58:56.400 --> 00:58:58.320
but I moved around because I just started trying to

764
00:58:58.320 --> 00:59:02.719
find somewhere quiet. But you know, technically in the same

765
00:59:02.920 --> 00:59:05.960
well not technically, I was literally in the same building.

766
00:59:06.639 --> 00:59:10.760
It's a very big building. From September two thousand and one,

767
00:59:11.480 --> 00:59:17.519
two thousand and two to two thousand and three. That's

768
00:59:17.679 --> 00:59:21.760
two years, and for two and a half years I

769
00:59:21.760 --> 00:59:25.880
suppose I was living there. This seemed a lot longer

770
00:59:26.159 --> 00:59:41.239
at the time. No, yes, no BlimE, me see weird

771
00:59:41.239 --> 00:59:43.360
because if I'd have stayed there, i'd have got I

772
00:59:43.400 --> 00:59:50.760
would have been shortlisted to get a council flat. That's

773
00:59:50.760 --> 00:59:52.239
not why I moved in there. I moved in there

774
00:59:52.239 --> 00:59:54.159
because that's the only place I could find anywhere to

775
00:59:54.159 --> 00:59:58.320
live when I moved from London, because I had a

776
00:59:58.400 --> 01:00:00.880
job to start and I could not find anywhere get

777
01:00:00.920 --> 01:00:08.559
a room or anything. And they basically I phoned them up.

778
01:00:09.199 --> 01:00:12.280
I had a friend say try to YMCA, so I did,

779
01:00:12.440 --> 01:00:14.639
and they said, yeah, we've got a place for you

780
01:00:15.119 --> 01:00:18.039
if you want to come never look tomorrow or Monday

781
01:00:18.119 --> 01:00:21.280
or whenever. Yeah, this is on I think this is

782
01:00:21.280 --> 01:00:24.320
on a Saturday. And I said, yeah, if you want

783
01:00:24.320 --> 01:00:30.360
to come Monday and have a look. Really yeah, because

784
01:00:30.360 --> 01:00:34.639
at the time I was staying in Yeah, I was

785
01:00:34.760 --> 01:00:37.559
staying in a bed and breakfast because I just started

786
01:00:37.599 --> 01:00:44.920
the job September I think it was the ninth. I

787
01:00:44.960 --> 01:00:48.039
think ninth September ninth, two thousand and one. It was

788
01:00:48.039 --> 01:00:54.719
a Monday, I think, and I I stayed in the

789
01:00:54.719 --> 01:01:01.480
bed and breakfast. I moved in on a Sunday, stayed

790
01:01:01.480 --> 01:01:04.519
in the bed and breakfast. I was still I was

791
01:01:04.599 --> 01:01:10.000
DJing in London, so so I had my weekend hobby

792
01:01:10.199 --> 01:01:13.719
as a DJ. I didn't want to give that up,

793
01:01:13.760 --> 01:01:18.280
but I had to. But luckily I had three weeks

794
01:01:18.280 --> 01:01:21.639
where I could still do it, and then I had

795
01:01:21.679 --> 01:01:24.159
to give it up because I was moving away. But

796
01:01:24.199 --> 01:01:27.239
at this point what I was doing is going to London,

797
01:01:28.280 --> 01:01:32.480
staying over in London, and then coming back Sunday evening.

798
01:01:34.480 --> 01:01:37.320
So I think I did two weeks in the bed

799
01:01:37.320 --> 01:01:42.719
and breakfast, but it was expensive. You know, I was not.

800
01:01:43.280 --> 01:01:47.320
I didn't have I hadn't hurt that I will learn

801
01:01:47.480 --> 01:01:52.199
to speak one day. I hadn't earned any money yet

802
01:01:54.440 --> 01:02:01.239
because I'd only done two weeks of work, so I

803
01:02:01.239 --> 01:02:04.199
I'm not quite sure how I got by, but I

804
01:02:04.280 --> 01:02:12.760
did stop moaning. Finny, you like, why can't the sounds

805
01:02:12.800 --> 01:02:20.840
you make make me feel nice? That like it winds

806
01:02:20.880 --> 01:02:25.719
me up because it's just like he's never never satisfied,

807
01:02:25.760 --> 01:02:30.400
don't you You're never satisfied? Well, no treat, but he

808
01:02:30.480 --> 01:02:34.480
had that whining just grates me a little bit. Sometimes

809
01:02:37.880 --> 01:02:43.280
it's like, come on, It's just like I wish they

810
01:02:43.280 --> 01:02:45.599
could talk so I could really know what he's talking about.

811
01:02:48.920 --> 01:02:51.199
And he's probably thinking, you know, I just want to

812
01:02:51.440 --> 01:02:53.320
Every time I go up to my daddy and I

813
01:02:53.360 --> 01:02:55.280
just want to talk about and ask him about his day,

814
01:02:55.320 --> 01:02:57.840
he sticks a treat in my mouth. I don't even

815
01:02:57.840 --> 01:02:59.599
want to treat. I don't even like him. I eat

816
01:02:59.599 --> 01:03:04.119
them just please him. I was just yeah, Okay, that's

817
01:03:04.159 --> 01:03:09.079
not likely, is it? So yeah, I'm trying to think,

818
01:03:09.239 --> 01:03:22.320
are there any fond childed memories that you can recall? Yeah,

819
01:03:22.360 --> 01:03:33.559
I'm sure there was loads. Recalling them is another thing.

820
01:03:34.760 --> 01:03:39.039
I mean, Christmases were always good, like during the period

821
01:03:39.119 --> 01:03:49.639
between the ages of seven and fourteen. Things when even fifteen,

822
01:03:49.679 --> 01:03:52.360
but things have got a bit stressed at home by then.

823
01:03:52.559 --> 01:04:00.159
But during that period Christmases were brilliant. So every Christmas

824
01:04:00.360 --> 01:04:05.119
was great pretty much when I was a kid at

825
01:04:05.159 --> 01:04:12.360
you know, between the ages of seven and fourteen, every Christmas,

826
01:04:13.760 --> 01:04:18.760
unless I'm forgetting stuff, but generally I don't have. I

827
01:04:18.800 --> 01:04:21.079
told you when I got a bike, that was cool

828
01:04:22.800 --> 01:04:25.760
because it was the only time I really got something.

829
01:04:26.079 --> 01:04:29.000
I was always happy what I got I got. That's

830
01:04:29.000 --> 01:04:33.840
the one thing about my parents at the time, very

831
01:04:33.880 --> 01:04:37.159
generous when it came to Christmas and birthdays and stuff

832
01:04:37.199 --> 01:04:40.599
like that. It can't be no way can they be

833
01:04:40.639 --> 01:04:47.000
faulted for that. It was so generous. I had multiple presents,

834
01:04:47.679 --> 01:04:50.960
loads and loads of loads, so it was brilliant. But

835
01:04:51.119 --> 01:04:54.800
only once did I you know that this I don't know,

836
01:04:54.880 --> 01:04:57.400
maybe it's the same four kids. There was that one

837
01:04:57.480 --> 01:05:02.679
present as a kid that you want, you want father

838
01:05:02.800 --> 01:05:07.639
Christmas to bring you and mine did. I did get

839
01:05:07.679 --> 01:05:09.280
that and it was a bike. It was a racer

840
01:05:10.440 --> 01:05:18.199
and I was probably thirteen at the time. I had

841
01:05:18.199 --> 01:05:22.000
a paper around and I just wanted I needed a

842
01:05:22.079 --> 01:05:24.559
bike to get me around because it was taking me

843
01:05:24.719 --> 01:05:28.880
so long. And I was yeah, so yeah, I got

844
01:05:28.960 --> 01:05:33.199
my bike for Christmas. It was brilliant. It's very very pleased,

845
01:05:33.239 --> 01:05:41.519
best present I ever had. I'm trying to think. Yeah,

846
01:05:41.559 --> 01:05:48.400
so that was always good. I used to like going

847
01:05:48.440 --> 01:05:53.119
to the library on my own. That was nice. When

848
01:05:53.159 --> 01:05:56.960
I discovered the library, the library became kind of like

849
01:05:57.000 --> 01:06:00.719
a second home for me. I just love it, loved

850
01:06:00.719 --> 01:06:04.920
going in there, reading the books, sitting down reading the books,

851
01:06:05.199 --> 01:06:08.440
going through every single book on the shelf, having a

852
01:06:08.440 --> 01:06:11.119
little dip. You know that sounded weird, but you know

853
01:06:11.159 --> 01:06:13.280
what I mean, dipping in and have a little read.

854
01:06:15.639 --> 01:06:21.320
There was up upstairs. There was this I don't know,

855
01:06:21.519 --> 01:06:28.760
like partition thing upstairs where there was these kind of

856
01:06:28.800 --> 01:06:32.800
like encyclopedias and there's a big tables. So I suppose

857
01:06:32.920 --> 01:06:37.519
the research area maybe they would call it. And I

858
01:06:37.559 --> 01:06:42.719
went through a period when I was researching things that's

859
01:06:42.880 --> 01:06:47.360
very interested in. I don't want to say the occult

860
01:06:47.400 --> 01:06:49.679
because that sounds a bit bad, but I was really

861
01:06:49.719 --> 01:06:59.199
interested in were wolves and witches and vampires and all

862
01:06:59.239 --> 01:07:03.840
that stuff fascinated me. I was interested in UFOs, and

863
01:07:04.360 --> 01:07:08.599
I just I'd literally go in and I would do

864
01:07:08.719 --> 01:07:13.920
my own research on a subject. So I researched vampires

865
01:07:13.960 --> 01:07:17.880
and Dracula and I was led the Impaler, and I

866
01:07:18.039 --> 01:07:20.679
just I researched that. I went through all the different

867
01:07:20.719 --> 01:07:24.800
books and I copied out they what they wrote into

868
01:07:24.840 --> 01:07:28.920
my own pads, just for me. It was not for

869
01:07:29.239 --> 01:07:36.519
I wouldn't you wouldn't find me doing homework at all,

870
01:07:38.760 --> 01:07:42.639
but this, Yeah, I was. There was no reason for it.

871
01:07:42.719 --> 01:07:47.920
I just got obsessed. So that's what I did. That

872
01:07:48.039 --> 01:07:52.920
was brilliant. I spent hours doing that. I'd love that,

873
01:07:53.239 --> 01:07:56.719
and I'd have maybe three or four five big massive

874
01:07:56.760 --> 01:07:58.679
textbooks out and I'd just been looking at all the

875
01:07:58.719 --> 01:08:04.320
different pictures and yeah, loved it to Yeah, absolutely loved

876
01:08:04.360 --> 01:08:19.359
it and reading. I think my favorite bit was when

877
01:08:19.399 --> 01:08:21.720
none of the family were around, when I could just

878
01:08:21.760 --> 01:08:24.840
be I didn't mind obviously if they were around, but

879
01:08:25.239 --> 01:08:28.359
not around me, so I could be left on my

880
01:08:28.399 --> 01:08:34.039
own quiet. One of my favorite things to do. And

881
01:08:34.079 --> 01:08:41.680
I'm thinking back when I was like maybe ten eleven, ten, yeah,

882
01:08:41.720 --> 01:08:53.119
probably about ten, I would lie down on my Yeah,

883
01:08:53.279 --> 01:08:56.600
I'd lie down on the bed and i'd listen to

884
01:08:57.079 --> 01:09:00.920
classical music. There was an album which was basically the

885
01:09:03.359 --> 01:09:15.640
a lot of really really big movie scores. There's what

886
01:09:15.800 --> 01:09:19.760
was that Do Do Do Do Do? A million dollars?

887
01:09:20.399 --> 01:09:24.560
Fist full of million dollars or whatever, And there was

888
01:09:24.640 --> 01:09:31.279
the Pretty Stars and Superman. Definitely Superman because they had

889
01:09:31.279 --> 01:09:36.680
the long version where Louis Lane is actually talking in

890
01:09:36.720 --> 01:09:39.880
them in the song and it's the bit where they're

891
01:09:39.960 --> 01:09:44.960
singing no, it is a bit where they're yeah, there's

892
01:09:45.000 --> 01:09:48.439
a bit. There's some music from a Superman where she's

893
01:09:48.560 --> 01:09:51.399
flying with him or he's holding her and flying with her,

894
01:09:52.560 --> 01:09:54.640
and it's like a romantic one. And there's a song

895
01:09:55.359 --> 01:09:57.800
that it's really nice song. But anyway, I used to

896
01:09:57.840 --> 01:10:01.199
do that. I just lay down on a back listened

897
01:10:01.239 --> 01:10:06.439
to the music and relax. When I was about ten.

898
01:10:08.640 --> 01:10:15.000
So that was a nice memory. Every time we visited

899
01:10:15.079 --> 01:10:22.119
my uncle, my uncle Terry, that was a nice memory

900
01:10:22.159 --> 01:10:28.720
because he was so brilliant. It was just lovely. It

901
01:10:28.760 --> 01:10:31.439
was lovely. I mean, yeah, he had money, but that

902
01:10:31.560 --> 01:10:34.239
wasn't the reason he was lovely. He was just lovely.

903
01:10:35.960 --> 01:10:40.840
Best uncle you could wish for. So I visited him

904
01:10:41.159 --> 01:10:43.640
a few times, a couple of times when I was

905
01:10:43.640 --> 01:10:50.840
a bit older, when I was in my teens, and

906
01:10:50.880 --> 01:10:54.279
it always treated me with respect, always treated me like

907
01:10:54.359 --> 01:10:58.119
a human, but didn't talk down to me, didn't treat

908
01:10:58.159 --> 01:11:03.520
me like I was a kid. And he showed interest,

909
01:11:06.600 --> 01:11:09.560
and it was like almost like I was an equal

910
01:11:12.039 --> 01:11:14.319
in a way, in a weird way, and he was,

911
01:11:15.000 --> 01:11:17.039
you know, he's fairly well off. He was a wealthy

912
01:11:17.479 --> 01:11:20.479
owned his own shipping company. This is back in Dover,

913
01:11:21.520 --> 01:11:23.159
so he was, you know, as well off, lived in

914
01:11:23.159 --> 01:11:29.479
a really large house on the beach in deal or something.

915
01:11:29.600 --> 01:11:34.640
Can't deal with her so lovely though, And someone said

916
01:11:34.640 --> 01:11:36.079
to me, oh, yeah, it's easy to be nice if

917
01:11:36.079 --> 01:11:40.520
you're rich, Like, I don't think it's that simple. It's

918
01:11:40.600 --> 01:11:44.319
not that it's a very simple way to look at it.

919
01:11:44.319 --> 01:11:50.640
It's there's nothing wrong with being wealthy. And I've met

920
01:11:50.680 --> 01:11:56.640
plenty of people that weren't so nice. We're now wealthy,

921
01:11:57.279 --> 01:12:00.000
and I've met lots of people that were really nice

922
01:12:00.359 --> 01:12:05.960
when they were had no money, but also met really

923
01:12:06.880 --> 01:12:12.039
unpleasant people that had no money as well. It's I

924
01:12:12.039 --> 01:12:14.800
think it's down to the personality and not what's in

925
01:12:14.840 --> 01:12:19.680
their bank account. I'm guessing that's just my personal take

926
01:12:19.720 --> 01:12:24.319
on it, but it was lovely and it can't be

927
01:12:24.439 --> 01:12:30.079
changed that those memories. And I think the fact that

928
01:12:30.119 --> 01:12:32.079
he left me left me to do what I wanted

929
01:12:32.119 --> 01:12:34.880
to do. By that, I don't mean I was left

930
01:12:34.920 --> 01:12:37.359
on my own, but he's just like if I wanted

931
01:12:37.359 --> 01:12:39.800
to go into a different room and watch movies on

932
01:12:39.840 --> 01:12:46.600
my own, I could, and that was quite nice because

933
01:12:46.640 --> 01:12:49.079
I didn't really get to do that like at home

934
01:12:49.119 --> 01:12:53.319
because there were so many of us. So I think

935
01:12:53.840 --> 01:12:58.840
any time my family wasn't around, I was kind of happier.

936
01:13:00.239 --> 01:13:05.079
I think it was just crowd too many people constantly

937
01:13:05.199 --> 01:13:09.279
arguing between my brothers and me, they bring me into

938
01:13:09.319 --> 01:13:11.840
it as well. I'd probably argue more with my middle

939
01:13:11.880 --> 01:13:15.479
brother than with my oldest brother, but then he would

940
01:13:15.479 --> 01:13:20.800
probably argue with They would argue amongst themselves more as well,

941
01:13:20.840 --> 01:13:23.720
because it's like the age, because there was two years

942
01:13:23.760 --> 01:13:26.439
between me and my middle brother, those two years through

943
01:13:26.520 --> 01:13:30.560
my middle brother and my oldest brother, but that four

944
01:13:30.640 --> 01:13:35.439
year gap meant that we weren't really very different in age,

945
01:13:36.359 --> 01:13:40.439
so we didn't have so much to argue about. And

946
01:13:40.479 --> 01:13:42.479
then my little brother was eight years younger than me,

947
01:13:42.920 --> 01:13:47.319
so no one really argued with him until he got

948
01:13:47.319 --> 01:13:53.399
to about probably five or six and then yeah, it

949
01:13:53.479 --> 01:14:02.039
was a bit of a bit of a little ruffian. Yeah,

950
01:14:02.159 --> 01:14:07.119
so I don't what do I want memories? See one

951
01:14:07.119 --> 01:14:09.920
of my fondest memories. And it's going to be weird

952
01:14:09.920 --> 01:14:14.159
for anyone that from the UK that knows the person

953
01:14:14.199 --> 01:14:21.880
I'm mentioning. But my school, and I think it was

954
01:14:22.039 --> 01:14:31.520
nineteen seventy nine, maybe nineteen eighty. My school was on

955
01:14:31.560 --> 01:14:38.560
the Rolf Harris Show and we rehearsed for months before

956
01:14:38.600 --> 01:14:44.880
that before the filming. At the time, Rolf Harris was

957
01:14:45.079 --> 01:14:51.319
super famous in this country and it travel around different

958
01:14:51.399 --> 01:14:55.159
schools and they'd be singing and dancing and all that stuff.

959
01:14:56.279 --> 01:15:00.079
The thing is it wasn't filmed in the schools that

960
01:15:00.239 --> 01:15:03.680
their own studio that they filmed it in, but it

961
01:15:03.760 --> 01:15:06.119
was it was a school. It looked like a school,

962
01:15:06.920 --> 01:15:08.800
and it probably was a school, to be fair, but

963
01:15:09.119 --> 01:15:13.520
it was maybe they used it during the summertime, but

964
01:15:13.600 --> 01:15:16.960
then make out it was the school, you know, the

965
01:15:17.039 --> 01:15:20.199
actual school that makes sense, the school that they were visiting.

966
01:15:21.039 --> 01:15:27.479
So it wasn't just the it wasn't just the whole day,

967
01:15:27.680 --> 01:15:32.239
the traveling with all the kids, because you know, the

968
01:15:32.319 --> 01:15:35.960
whole school wasn't just like one year, so there's probably

969
01:15:37.399 --> 01:15:39.760
I don't know how many coachfuls of kids there was.

970
01:15:42.119 --> 01:15:48.079
We were all the rehearsing bit was really fun, so

971
01:15:48.079 --> 01:15:51.199
there's a lot of singing, a lot of dancing, you know.

972
01:15:52.960 --> 01:15:55.279
The sixth well I say six maybe maybe it was

973
01:15:55.279 --> 01:15:58.239
three months leading up to, but it seemed like quite

974
01:15:58.239 --> 01:16:04.119
a long time. And I think Rolf Harris came around

975
01:16:04.119 --> 01:16:07.239
and saw us first at the school to announce that

976
01:16:07.279 --> 01:16:10.640
he was going to be having us on his show,

977
01:16:10.760 --> 01:16:14.279
and it was one of the biggest shows on Saturday

978
01:16:14.359 --> 01:16:19.880
night TV, early TV, and he did a different different

979
01:16:20.119 --> 01:16:24.520
school each week, so it was exciting. The build up

980
01:16:24.640 --> 01:16:29.359
was exciting. The actual event was brilliant. I was on

981
01:16:29.439 --> 01:16:34.079
Camra quite a few times and I said I was

982
01:16:34.159 --> 01:16:37.960
like nine or ten. I'm not sure exactly that the

983
01:16:38.079 --> 01:16:41.560
act exact year is even nineteen seventy nine or ninety,

984
01:16:42.399 --> 01:16:47.079
nineteen eighty. It could be eighty one, because i'd have

985
01:16:47.119 --> 01:16:51.640
been ten in eighty one. Yeah, maybe it was eighty one.

986
01:16:51.720 --> 01:16:57.479
I think it was nineteen eighty. I think it was brilliant,

987
01:16:58.720 --> 01:17:04.479
absolutely one of the best days of my childhood. So yeah,

988
01:17:04.920 --> 01:17:10.560
I mean, Rolf Harris is no longer around, and see, yeah,

989
01:17:10.840 --> 01:17:14.560
things didn't go quite so well with him and his career,

990
01:17:14.640 --> 01:17:18.000
but it doesn't take away the fact that that was

991
01:17:18.039 --> 01:17:24.399
one of the highlights of my childhood positive highlights. What

992
01:17:24.560 --> 01:17:32.680
else childed fond chartered memories that I can recall. There

993
01:17:32.760 --> 01:17:34.720
was a period when my dad was in a good mood.

994
01:17:35.920 --> 01:17:40.680
I don't quite know why, but I remember coming home

995
01:17:40.760 --> 01:17:43.479
from school. So I was a teenager at this point,

996
01:17:43.560 --> 01:17:48.239
so I would have been probably thirteen, maybe twelve thirteen,

997
01:17:50.199 --> 01:17:57.119
and his I don't know what it is he went.

998
01:17:57.359 --> 01:17:59.840
There was this little period when he was buying stuff,

999
01:18:00.319 --> 01:18:05.079
so he bought a new computer. And even though I

1000
01:18:05.119 --> 01:18:08.760
don't have I had no interest in computers back then,

1001
01:18:11.680 --> 01:18:16.560
the fact that everyone was happy was nice. My dad

1002
01:18:16.680 --> 01:18:20.880
was excited, My brothers were excited. My middle brother was

1003
01:18:20.880 --> 01:18:24.359
more excited than anyone about the computer, and he was

1004
01:18:24.439 --> 01:18:29.920
learning to code and all kinds of stuff. But it

1005
01:18:30.000 --> 01:18:33.680
was just and yeah, it was nice because it was

1006
01:18:33.680 --> 01:18:37.840
a nice atmosphere. So that happened a few times. Those

1007
01:18:37.920 --> 01:18:48.000
kinds of things, Yeah, I did. I'm never really I

1008
01:18:48.000 --> 01:18:52.279
don't think I really felt like I am superstitious, but

1009
01:18:52.359 --> 01:18:56.159
I tried to do the exact same walk and tried

1010
01:18:56.199 --> 01:19:02.319
to do everything the same as I did that day

1011
01:19:02.439 --> 01:19:05.600
on the same day of the week to see if

1012
01:19:05.600 --> 01:19:08.319
I get the same result. So I got home and

1013
01:19:08.439 --> 01:19:12.199
things were nice. It's weird. I'd be like looking at

1014
01:19:12.239 --> 01:19:15.680
the floor at which bit did I walk on? How

1015
01:19:15.680 --> 01:19:19.199
did I feel? What was I listening to? Or do

1016
01:19:19.319 --> 01:19:22.359
you know? Just really trying to focus on getting into

1017
01:19:22.399 --> 01:19:26.800
that zone of if I could get into the same zone,

1018
01:19:27.159 --> 01:19:31.039
the same mindset, feeling exactly the same way as I

1019
01:19:31.079 --> 01:19:35.600
did the day when I got home and the computer

1020
01:19:35.680 --> 01:19:38.439
was there and he was in a good mood and

1021
01:19:38.560 --> 01:19:41.720
everyone was like happy past. If I could get into that,

1022
01:19:42.479 --> 01:19:45.439
then the same would happen again, not a new computer,

1023
01:19:45.520 --> 01:19:53.399
but just it'd be the same vibe. And yeah, that's

1024
01:19:53.439 --> 01:20:00.159
that's what I used to try and do. One of

1025
01:20:00.199 --> 01:20:03.920
my happy memories. I think when I was a kid,

1026
01:20:04.399 --> 01:20:08.319
Saturday evenings was nice. Quite often we'd all sit down

1027
01:20:08.479 --> 01:20:12.880
watch TV. When I was really young, I would sit

1028
01:20:13.600 --> 01:20:17.920
lay on my front watching TV. I'd be on the floor.

1029
01:20:18.880 --> 01:20:22.920
They want to go a bit older. I was well.

1030
01:20:22.960 --> 01:20:24.920
I was told I couldn't because my bomb was too big.

1031
01:20:25.039 --> 01:20:27.560
No one could see the TV. That's not true. I

1032
01:20:27.560 --> 01:20:30.840
don't know why I said it, And so we'd all

1033
01:20:30.920 --> 01:20:34.840
over dressing gowns on. Would have eaten at dinner, which

1034
01:20:34.880 --> 01:20:40.279
was usually like in the evening, like a snack kind

1035
01:20:40.319 --> 01:20:43.600
of like crisps, the buffet kind of thing that would have,

1036
01:20:43.760 --> 01:20:49.560
So that was nice. Then we'd watch TV or like

1037
01:20:49.760 --> 01:20:56.800
TV shows early evening and I'd probably be in bed

1038
01:20:56.800 --> 01:21:00.439
at eight or whatever time I don't know, by them

1039
01:21:00.439 --> 01:21:06.760
addressing gown on get a bag of sweets, which is cool.

1040
01:21:08.640 --> 01:21:14.000
So yeah, those were nice. And then there was the

1041
01:21:14.039 --> 01:21:16.960
period when because we didn't always do it, but there

1042
01:21:17.000 --> 01:21:23.000
was appeared when we had Yeah, we used to get videos,

1043
01:21:24.720 --> 01:21:26.960
not every week, but when we did get videos, we'd

1044
01:21:26.960 --> 01:21:30.920
get like four movies maybe on a Friday night, maybe

1045
01:21:30.960 --> 01:21:33.279
Saturday night, and we'd be able to keep it for

1046
01:21:33.319 --> 01:21:35.840
the weekend and take it back on the Sunday or

1047
01:21:35.880 --> 01:21:38.920
the Monday or something like that. This is like early

1048
01:21:39.039 --> 01:21:46.239
days of the video take cosette, and that used to

1049
01:21:46.279 --> 01:21:50.680
be brilliant, going down to the video shop and we'd

1050
01:21:50.680 --> 01:21:55.319
all go down together and try and choose some movies

1051
01:21:55.359 --> 01:22:03.199
together and yeah, great, yeah, I think we were allowed

1052
01:22:03.239 --> 01:22:05.119
to take it back Monday. So what we did is

1053
01:22:05.199 --> 01:22:09.520
we took it back so we'd rent or is it

1054
01:22:09.640 --> 01:22:13.359
Sunday afternoon, So my dad would take us up there

1055
01:22:13.960 --> 01:22:16.039
in the car and we'd get the stuff, and then

1056
01:22:16.079 --> 01:22:17.800
one of us or a couple of us would walk

1057
01:22:17.800 --> 01:22:21.159
back and take the tapes backs down the seafront. It's

1058
01:22:21.159 --> 01:22:30.159
probably about thirty forty minute walk. Unless it was Monday,

1059
01:22:30.199 --> 01:22:32.800
we had to take it back. It's not really that relevant,

1060
01:22:32.800 --> 01:22:37.359
but yeah, that was cool. That was nice. I liked that.

1061
01:22:37.600 --> 01:22:44.439
I used to look forward to that childhood memories. Probably

1062
01:22:44.640 --> 01:22:47.960
some of my favorite childhood memories was when I got

1063
01:22:48.039 --> 01:22:55.520
my first television and I was fourteen, and it was

1064
01:22:55.560 --> 01:23:02.640
a black and white Porboll TV, and it was the

1065
01:23:02.680 --> 01:23:08.600
first time that I had any kind of say of

1066
01:23:08.680 --> 01:23:13.960
all what I watched outside of being in the living

1067
01:23:14.039 --> 01:23:16.760
room on my own, you know, because there's stuff I

1068
01:23:16.800 --> 01:23:17.920
used to be able to watch when I was a

1069
01:23:18.000 --> 01:23:22.399
kid that no one else watched, like Grange Hill. My

1070
01:23:22.439 --> 01:23:26.079
little brother was too young to watch it, and both

1071
01:23:26.119 --> 01:23:28.479
my older brothers were too old to watch it. So

1072
01:23:28.520 --> 01:23:30.359
it was a time when I had the TV to

1073
01:23:30.399 --> 01:23:34.439
myself for about an hour and a half two hours sometimes,

1074
01:23:34.560 --> 01:23:38.239
you know, when I was around about the maybe twelve mark,

1075
01:23:39.920 --> 01:23:44.239
i'd watch Yeah, I'd watch Grange Hill, for example. My

1076
01:23:44.279 --> 01:23:47.159
brothers were too old, they'd like, wouldn't watch that no more.

1077
01:23:48.520 --> 01:23:56.279
I remember watching Mister Merlin. But then there was a

1078
01:23:56.319 --> 01:23:59.239
period when when my little brother was old enough, we

1079
01:23:59.319 --> 01:24:05.039
used to watch cartoons together, so things like Musket Hounds,

1080
01:24:06.680 --> 01:24:21.399
what other ones, Danger Mouse, Mighty Mouse, Scooby Doo, the

1081
01:24:21.479 --> 01:24:29.159
Muppet Babies. So this is something. I don't think my

1082
01:24:29.199 --> 01:24:33.119
little brother even remembered this, but he there was this.

1083
01:24:33.319 --> 01:24:35.520
It was a film. I sent him a birthday card

1084
01:24:35.560 --> 01:24:37.439
with it once on it, and he didn't I think

1085
01:24:37.479 --> 01:24:40.720
he remembered how to point out what it was. And

1086
01:24:40.760 --> 01:24:46.720
it was a movie called Animal Olympics, Animal Impics. He

1087
01:24:46.800 --> 01:24:54.000
watched it over and over and over and over and

1088
01:24:54.039 --> 01:24:58.880
over and over again. I mean probably hundreds of times.

1089
01:24:59.760 --> 01:25:05.119
That is his favorite movie. He just loved watching it.

1090
01:25:06.039 --> 01:25:08.239
I'm not sure how much he understood what was going

1091
01:25:08.279 --> 01:25:11.279
on because he was little, really little, but he loved

1092
01:25:11.319 --> 01:25:14.319
watching it. And I sent him a birthday card a

1093
01:25:14.359 --> 01:25:17.720
couple of years back with like an image from that,

1094
01:25:18.800 --> 01:25:22.840
and he didn't know what it was. I don't think

1095
01:25:23.600 --> 01:25:26.359
I should tell him one day, well, you has to

1096
01:25:26.399 --> 01:25:28.800
live and you want another treat. Yeah, that's what it is.

1097
01:25:30.119 --> 01:25:34.720
This is what we're doing. You're just feeding, feeding, feeding,

1098
01:25:34.840 --> 01:25:40.119
feeding food food. Right, I'll put it on there. I'll

1099
01:25:40.119 --> 01:25:44.479
see if he takes up. Yeah, when he really wants something,

1100
01:25:44.760 --> 01:25:47.840
I could put it on a chandelier, like I've got

1101
01:25:47.840 --> 01:25:50.840
a chandelier, but I could put it like high up

1102
01:25:50.840 --> 01:25:54.479
on the ceiling and still get to it. Any our

1103
01:25:54.560 --> 01:25:57.399
childhood memories, there probably are a few. Can't really think

1104
01:25:57.439 --> 01:26:05.479
of anything right now. Yeah, just a few little bits

1105
01:26:05.520 --> 01:26:09.399
every now and then. Having my appendix out, that's one

1106
01:26:09.439 --> 01:26:13.159
of the best memories of my life. That was brilliant

1107
01:26:13.159 --> 01:26:16.199
being in hospital again, I think partly because I was

1108
01:26:16.199 --> 01:26:18.800
away from the family. It was a bit of peace

1109
01:26:18.840 --> 01:26:25.239
and quiet really, and yeah, I loved that. That was brilliant.

1110
01:26:26.479 --> 01:26:33.279
Another time would be I had it by in my

1111
01:26:33.359 --> 01:26:39.800
mind just now and it's gone. Well, that was weird

1112
01:26:39.840 --> 01:26:42.560
my stomach. Oh yeah, chicken pox. I loved having chicken

1113
01:26:42.560 --> 01:26:47.319
pox because I didn't have to go to school. Oh,

1114
01:26:47.319 --> 01:26:50.439
it was brilliant, and it was snowing outside, so I

1115
01:26:50.520 --> 01:26:53.840
was there. Basically, I think my oldest brother got it first.

1116
01:26:54.439 --> 01:26:56.359
We all kind of took turns getting it, so it

1117
01:26:56.399 --> 01:26:59.239
was only I think it was a point where I

1118
01:26:59.319 --> 01:27:02.119
had to stay home because too many of my family

1119
01:27:02.159 --> 01:27:06.920
had it. So I got like two weeks off work,

1120
01:27:06.960 --> 01:27:11.640
off work, off school, I think because I had to

1121
01:27:11.680 --> 01:27:16.840
be contaminated or whatever they call it contained. And I

1122
01:27:16.880 --> 01:27:21.359
did get it, and it was brilliant. It was so

1123
01:27:21.479 --> 01:27:24.119
cool to not have to go to school. I mean,

1124
01:27:24.359 --> 01:27:27.119
that's one of the benefits of having the appendix out.

1125
01:27:27.439 --> 01:27:29.359
Didn't have to go to school for a couple of weeks,

1126
01:27:30.560 --> 01:27:38.000
didn't have to go to school with the older chicken pox.

1127
01:27:39.840 --> 01:27:44.359
I just remember sitting indoors, drawing and things like that.

1128
01:27:44.399 --> 01:27:48.239
It was snowing outside, maybe a bit of music playing.

1129
01:27:48.279 --> 01:27:50.640
I don't know, there was. The whole family was in,

1130
01:27:50.720 --> 01:27:54.560
but everyone was quite chilled out. We were just enjoying,

1131
01:27:54.960 --> 01:28:03.520
enjoying it. Yeah, that was nice. Basically, illness, anything involved illness,

1132
01:28:04.239 --> 01:28:07.479
it might I wasn't ill with it. I wasn't ill

1133
01:28:07.520 --> 01:28:10.199
with chicken pox. I mean, I got it. I had

1134
01:28:10.199 --> 01:28:14.800
the blotches, b itchy, that's it. It wasn't nothing for me.

1135
01:28:15.000 --> 01:28:22.000
That wasn't being ill. And appendicitis. I I didn't really

1136
01:28:22.079 --> 01:28:26.560
have it. I don't think I had appendicitis. I was

1137
01:28:26.640 --> 01:28:29.640
trying to get off school, so I kept using the

1138
01:28:29.640 --> 01:28:31.600
thing about having a stomach ache, and I did have

1139
01:28:31.640 --> 01:28:35.680
a stomach ache, but I don't know if it was appendicitis.

1140
01:28:35.720 --> 01:28:38.039
I think it might have been grumbling appendix or something.

1141
01:28:38.840 --> 01:28:41.640
But they took it out anyway, which was a win

1142
01:28:41.720 --> 01:28:47.039
win situation for me. It was just great. I just yeah.

1143
01:28:48.039 --> 01:28:50.279
I mean, I was thinking, at this rate, I'm going

1144
01:28:50.359 --> 01:28:52.279
to run out of body parts, because I was trying

1145
01:28:52.279 --> 01:28:55.159
to work out what else can I have removed to

1146
01:28:55.199 --> 01:28:59.399
get another two weeks off school, But it didn't come

1147
01:28:59.439 --> 01:29:11.359
to that. Other things there's a few bits and bobs.

1148
01:29:11.359 --> 01:29:17.359
That's a few of them anyway. So Georgie asks, do

1149
01:29:17.399 --> 01:29:20.720
you have a hidden talent? I don't have. I don't.

1150
01:29:21.159 --> 01:29:24.319
I don't even have any on show, never mind any

1151
01:29:24.359 --> 01:29:33.439
hidden ones. I ain't got no talents. No, I don't. Yeah,

1152
01:29:33.520 --> 01:29:38.520
I do think so, I don't know. I used to

1153
01:29:38.560 --> 01:29:43.199
think I could sing, and I think I could when

1154
01:29:43.199 --> 01:29:46.039
I was younger. Everything's when I was younger, really, isn't it.

1155
01:29:46.079 --> 01:29:48.479
But I used to think I could sing, and I

1156
01:29:48.479 --> 01:29:55.840
think I could now not so much. But hidden talents

1157
01:29:56.840 --> 01:30:04.600
I can be annoying. It's not so hidden, is it. No,

1158
01:30:04.720 --> 01:30:09.640
I don't think there is. I can't No, there's nothing. Really.

1159
01:30:09.720 --> 01:30:13.119
I don't think there's anything that I can do that

1160
01:30:13.359 --> 01:30:24.760
would surprise anybody. I'm just trying to think. Mm hmmm, Vinny,

1161
01:30:24.880 --> 01:30:30.319
I'm seeing my peripheral begging, begging. I tell you, you're begging again.

1162
01:30:30.960 --> 01:30:36.760
Stop begging. Do you ever see it on TV or

1163
01:30:36.840 --> 01:30:43.159
movies where they're showing someone's doing something and the person,

1164
01:30:43.760 --> 01:30:45.960
like the start of show, can't see them doing it,

1165
01:30:46.560 --> 01:30:49.199
but it's literally in their peripherals. In no way you

1166
01:30:49.199 --> 01:30:52.520
would not see that person moving around to the side

1167
01:30:52.520 --> 01:30:56.800
of you, but they don't because it's a movie. It's like,

1168
01:30:57.079 --> 01:31:00.680
wait a minute, even the actor can see that person.

1169
01:31:02.199 --> 01:31:04.479
I can see, Vinny. I'm not looking at him, but

1170
01:31:04.520 --> 01:31:07.479
I can see him moving around and doing his little

1171
01:31:08.600 --> 01:31:11.880
I haven't eaten him for a thousand years. My daddy

1172
01:31:11.920 --> 01:31:17.359
never gives me anything, you know, not Tom Sawyer, what

1173
01:31:17.479 --> 01:31:25.359
is it? The little kid? Tom? Please, sir? Can I

1174
01:31:25.399 --> 01:31:31.880
have some millwhere? Oliver Twist, that's it. So I looked

1175
01:31:31.920 --> 01:31:33.680
at him. As soon as I saw him, I thought, yeah,

1176
01:31:33.720 --> 01:31:37.279
Oliver Twist, Oliver, I'm gonna call you Oliver now. I'm

1177
01:31:37.279 --> 01:31:39.720
gonna call you Oliver Twist. And you've got some food

1178
01:31:39.760 --> 01:31:46.079
on your on your mouth, clean up after yourself. Oh

1179
01:31:46.159 --> 01:31:48.199
the other day, and I talked about it, but I

1180
01:31:48.199 --> 01:31:51.720
still can't believe that I went out. I had a

1181
01:31:51.760 --> 01:31:55.560
little bit of chocolate and the toffee was all over

1182
01:31:55.560 --> 01:31:58.920
my beard from the bit of chocolate I had, and

1183
01:31:58.960 --> 01:32:02.359
I went out took him out. I was talking to

1184
01:32:02.560 --> 01:32:05.279
different people. I was talking to two people when I

1185
01:32:05.359 --> 01:32:08.359
got back as well, not one punched person mentioned the

1186
01:32:08.399 --> 01:32:10.960
fact that I had this and it was stretched out

1187
01:32:10.960 --> 01:32:14.920
as well. It wasn't like just a little bit. Why

1188
01:32:14.920 --> 01:32:24.720
didn't anyone mention it? It was just do I don't

1189
01:32:24.760 --> 01:32:32.159
have any hidden talents? I don't think I really. I

1190
01:32:32.239 --> 01:32:41.000
used to write poems, I used to write songs, but again,

1191
01:32:41.800 --> 01:32:47.159
not something I would call talents. I suppose things that

1192
01:32:47.199 --> 01:32:52.239
I wanted to do. The poems were more just as

1193
01:32:52.279 --> 01:32:56.439
an expression, to be fair, the songs that was more

1194
01:32:56.520 --> 01:33:00.399
to do with romance. I was trying to be roman antick.

1195
01:33:02.319 --> 01:33:06.520
You know, it's a long time ago. No, I can't

1196
01:33:06.520 --> 01:33:10.000
think of any. Maybe I do, but they're hidden. They

1197
01:33:10.079 --> 01:33:16.000
must be hidden, very very well hidden, because I don't

1198
01:33:20.000 --> 01:33:27.720
really No, I don't think I have any. But then

1199
01:33:27.840 --> 01:33:30.439
you know, if they're hidden, I wouldn't know in a sense.

1200
01:33:30.479 --> 01:33:31.960
I know you're talking about. Have I've got any hidden

1201
01:33:32.000 --> 01:33:35.520
talents that I kind of don't tell anyone about. But

1202
01:33:35.600 --> 01:33:39.079
I don't think I have. But you know, I do

1203
01:33:39.159 --> 01:33:45.039
believe that we're all we've all got hidden talents that

1204
01:33:45.159 --> 01:33:49.159
maybe we never find out about, you know, not just

1205
01:33:49.159 --> 01:33:54.079
just one thing, multiple things that you know, I might

1206
01:33:54.159 --> 01:33:58.560
be or you might be really really good. It's something

1207
01:33:58.560 --> 01:34:01.479
that you've never even attempted to do, but because you

1208
01:34:01.560 --> 01:34:05.800
got no interest in it yet, if you did have

1209
01:34:05.880 --> 01:34:09.840
a go at it and you realized that you were

1210
01:34:09.920 --> 01:34:17.239
naturally gifted, I'm guessing that would make you interested in it. Oh, Okay,

1211
01:34:17.680 --> 01:34:20.079
I do have a talent, it's not hidden so much.

1212
01:34:20.680 --> 01:34:24.279
I am very good on the phone, and I was

1213
01:34:24.399 --> 01:34:30.520
very good at sales, but I didn't enjoy it. I

1214
01:34:30.520 --> 01:34:34.000
didn't enjoy the pressure or the stress. So yeah, and

1215
01:34:34.039 --> 01:34:40.760
I was very good at listening. I'm good at listening.

1216
01:34:41.279 --> 01:34:44.960
My job, apart from being a counselor and stuff, later on,

1217
01:34:45.439 --> 01:34:48.239
I did have a job where my whole job was

1218
01:34:48.279 --> 01:34:51.800
listening to phone calls and making sure that the people

1219
01:34:54.239 --> 01:34:57.600
the staff calls that they were doing their job properly

1220
01:34:57.920 --> 01:35:01.640
and they was sticking to the script. And you know,

1221
01:35:02.840 --> 01:35:07.840
I had to mark these calls and I was I'd

1222
01:35:07.880 --> 01:35:10.680
say I was pretty good at that, But I don't

1223
01:35:10.680 --> 01:35:15.199
know if that's much of a hidden talent. Being pedantic really,

1224
01:35:15.239 --> 01:35:17.279
isn't it. I don't know if I mean literally my

1225
01:35:17.399 --> 01:35:27.439
job was being pedantic, being quite inflexible. So yeah, I've

1226
01:35:27.439 --> 01:35:33.319
got hidden talent. I'm very inflexible, but that's not so hidden,

1227
01:35:33.359 --> 01:35:39.279
I don't think. If you ask me that question again

1228
01:35:39.359 --> 01:35:42.119
a different day, I will be thinking about that. It's

1229
01:35:42.199 --> 01:35:46.279
quite weird because Georgia. I used to know someone called

1230
01:35:46.359 --> 01:35:52.600
Georgia Georgia, and I was drooping about it last night.

1231
01:35:53.079 --> 01:36:00.000
It's really weird. It's had some very very strange dreams

1232
01:36:00.079 --> 01:36:06.520
last night, and I had this conversation with this this

1233
01:36:06.680 --> 01:36:15.159
female that I used to work with, and I I

1234
01:36:15.159 --> 01:36:17.880
had this thing. I never ever dated waitresses that I

1235
01:36:17.920 --> 01:36:23.439
worked with, just basically because I kind of did nearly

1236
01:36:23.479 --> 01:36:26.760
once and it was awkward. So I thought, no, I'm

1237
01:36:26.760 --> 01:36:32.439
not doing that anymore, and because you know, I got

1238
01:36:32.479 --> 01:36:35.760
to work with them if it doesn't work out as awkward.

1239
01:36:38.600 --> 01:36:41.359
So there was this one waitress who I really liked

1240
01:36:43.199 --> 01:36:44.760
as a friend, you know, I just really liked that,

1241
01:36:46.800 --> 01:36:48.880
and she started giving me some hints that maybe she

1242
01:36:49.119 --> 01:36:54.000
liked me in a more you know, my more I

1243
01:36:54.000 --> 01:36:55.840
don't know for romance is the right word, but in

1244
01:36:55.840 --> 01:37:01.399
a more physical way and sort of telling me stuff whatever.

1245
01:37:03.359 --> 01:37:08.520
And she gave me three really massive hints over time,

1246
01:37:09.720 --> 01:37:13.960
you know, three different occasions. Once she danced with me,

1247
01:37:15.520 --> 01:37:18.880
and other times she told me some things that she liked.

1248
01:37:19.760 --> 01:37:23.159
And on the third time she told me I'm not

1249
01:37:23.159 --> 01:37:25.039
going to use the words, but it was on the

1250
01:37:25.159 --> 01:37:29.319
leaving do she said, you like, I'm going to say blank,

1251
01:37:30.199 --> 01:37:35.359
and I've got blank. I still didn't take the hint,

1252
01:37:36.760 --> 01:37:43.560
and because I was just nervous, I just didn't know.

1253
01:37:44.520 --> 01:37:46.399
I felt like I was being watched by the other

1254
01:37:46.439 --> 01:37:50.439
people in the room, and I just yeah, I didn't

1255
01:37:50.479 --> 01:37:55.560
know really what to do, so I didn't pursue. I didn't,

1256
01:37:55.880 --> 01:38:01.600
which I kind of regret. And even now, our dream

1257
01:38:01.680 --> 01:38:05.760
about her really weird. I mean literally last night, but

1258
01:38:05.840 --> 01:38:11.479
over the years. It's twenty twenty four years ago, so

1259
01:38:11.560 --> 01:38:15.800
it's way too long to be and it didn't seem

1260
01:38:15.840 --> 01:38:24.000
to bother me at the time, but like this literally

1261
01:38:24.000 --> 01:38:27.880
had a I was conversing with her, explaining to us.

1262
01:38:27.880 --> 01:38:30.039
So I just apologize and saying I know that you

1263
01:38:31.000 --> 01:38:32.960
I wish i'd kind of done something and we didn't,

1264
01:38:34.319 --> 01:38:37.359
you know. Blahlah blah blah blah. It's weird, very weird.

1265
01:38:38.880 --> 01:38:43.560
And Hillary asked me, Okay, let's try again. Where entireland

1266
01:38:43.600 --> 01:38:46.880
did you go? I've been there many times, too many

1267
01:38:46.880 --> 01:38:50.000
different parts. Just interested where you went? So I went

1268
01:38:50.079 --> 01:38:59.640
near bang Kok bang Kok, and it's yeah, I suppose

1269
01:38:59.720 --> 01:39:03.279
I don't go into great detail about where I've been.

1270
01:39:03.640 --> 01:39:06.159
I don't really judge because that's where I went is

1271
01:39:06.199 --> 01:39:10.720
a little bit of a I think the class is

1272
01:39:10.880 --> 01:39:13.520
some of it like sex tourists, and I wasn't that.

1273
01:39:14.640 --> 01:39:16.760
It wasn't for that reason. I was just going because

1274
01:39:16.960 --> 01:39:21.399
it's a Buddhist country and I wanted I needed to

1275
01:39:21.439 --> 01:39:24.359
get away. I was talking to a friend about this.

1276
01:39:26.239 --> 01:39:30.359
After I lost Andrea, I started going back and my

1277
01:39:30.439 --> 01:39:34.119
panic attacks came back, not like the occasional one or

1278
01:39:34.199 --> 01:39:36.800
the like the standard kind of stuff that I have,

1279
01:39:37.239 --> 01:39:42.960
but like really became really bad again. And I think

1280
01:39:43.039 --> 01:39:45.800
part of that because I lost Andrea, I no longer

1281
01:39:45.840 --> 01:39:51.079
had the emotional what Vinnie gives me, and what Andre

1282
01:39:51.239 --> 01:39:56.159
gave me is emotional support. I suppose, really, in reality,

1283
01:39:56.640 --> 01:40:07.399
it's emotional support, it's an emotional or emotional whatever. And

1284
01:40:07.479 --> 01:40:09.760
so I was up here on my own, and I

1285
01:40:09.800 --> 01:40:12.680
was also dealing with all the drama of downstairs and

1286
01:40:12.720 --> 01:40:16.880
my neighbor and all that came with that, and it

1287
01:40:16.960 --> 01:40:26.000
got too much. So I managed to go away. And

1288
01:40:26.039 --> 01:40:29.600
I just basically chose the first place because I'd done

1289
01:40:29.600 --> 01:40:32.520
a big research, gone on YouTube, and every time I

1290
01:40:32.640 --> 01:40:37.159
put in Thailand there was like Pattire came up and

1291
01:40:37.560 --> 01:40:43.720
Bouquette Bangkok, those kinds of areas, so I thought, yeah,

1292
01:40:43.720 --> 01:40:48.960
I had there, That's why I did. So I just

1293
01:40:48.960 --> 01:40:55.920
went there and just found somewhere to stay. And yeah,

1294
01:40:56.840 --> 01:40:59.439
it was all right the first time I went twice.

1295
01:40:59.439 --> 01:41:02.199
The second time rainy season, so that wasn't so good.

1296
01:41:03.800 --> 01:41:07.079
At the moment, they've got Sangrin Sangron, I think it's

1297
01:41:07.119 --> 01:41:09.600
just come to an end where there's basically two weeks

1298
01:41:09.600 --> 01:41:16.199
of covering each other with water like a New Year.

1299
01:41:16.479 --> 01:41:20.880
I think it's like the Thailand New Year celebration Songrin

1300
01:41:21.399 --> 01:41:25.319
song Grand or Songrin. I wouldn't want to be there

1301
01:41:25.399 --> 01:41:30.920
during that. Something I noticed about myself is weird. Even

1302
01:41:30.960 --> 01:41:36.479
though I was technically on holiday, the bipolar didn't stay

1303
01:41:36.520 --> 01:41:42.159
at home. It's weird. Honestly, I thought in my mind,

1304
01:41:43.800 --> 01:41:49.239
bearing in mind that I hadn't really been anywhere since

1305
01:41:49.560 --> 01:41:55.600
two thousand and three was the last time I'd already

1306
01:41:55.680 --> 01:42:00.760
gone anywhere, like on my own holiday, so that's yeah,

1307
01:42:00.840 --> 01:42:05.880
twenty years or whatever. Nearly I thought I'd just go

1308
01:42:06.000 --> 01:42:10.479
away and I'd be oh so happy, And no, it

1309
01:42:10.520 --> 01:42:15.680
wasn't like that. It was there was the relief of

1310
01:42:15.760 --> 01:42:18.439
not having to deal with people that were here, but

1311
01:42:18.479 --> 01:42:22.239
then I had to deal with new people, although most

1312
01:42:22.239 --> 01:42:24.000
of those people were nice, but there was a lot

1313
01:42:24.000 --> 01:42:28.560
of It was quite It wasn't busy like it normally

1314
01:42:28.640 --> 01:42:32.840
is because of the the because it was a mask

1315
01:42:33.039 --> 01:42:39.720
wearing times. It was just after that or during that period,

1316
01:42:41.079 --> 01:42:43.439
but there was still a fair bit of people around.

1317
01:42:45.840 --> 01:42:50.279
And yeah, that's where it went. So I've met a

1318
01:42:50.359 --> 01:42:52.880
couple of people actually around here that went to Thailand

1319
01:42:53.920 --> 01:42:58.640
and they went to those parts. The thing is, there's

1320
01:42:58.680 --> 01:43:00.880
lots of islands that I could have gone. I could

1321
01:43:00.920 --> 01:43:04.560
have gone on excursions. There was a big old fairy

1322
01:43:04.800 --> 01:43:08.319
full of little little boats which I could have traveled

1323
01:43:08.359 --> 01:43:13.920
to multiple different islands. Because it is pretty much paradise,

1324
01:43:14.000 --> 01:43:20.199
isn't it. Out there. The thing is, once I got

1325
01:43:20.239 --> 01:43:26.119
out there, I just the first time. So I went

1326
01:43:26.119 --> 01:43:32.119
out twice. The first time I broke my rib because

1327
01:43:32.119 --> 01:43:36.239
I just had like a genuine message, like a proper

1328
01:43:36.640 --> 01:43:42.079
time message. And this bloke he just pressed on my

1329
01:43:42.199 --> 01:43:46.000
back and my and all I heard was click, a

1330
01:43:46.039 --> 01:43:50.279
really loud click. He found it funny. I couldn't breathe.

1331
01:43:50.960 --> 01:43:53.479
I didn't find it quite as funny. I mean, maybe

1332
01:43:53.520 --> 01:43:54.920
if I was able to breathe, I might have been

1333
01:43:54.920 --> 01:44:00.239
able to laugh. But you know, and from and that

1334
01:44:00.399 --> 01:44:04.880
was I think the second day in so from then

1335
01:44:04.920 --> 01:44:09.680
on I was I just couldn't really do much. It

1336
01:44:09.760 --> 01:44:13.760
didn't stop me getting around, but I couldn't you know.

1337
01:44:14.199 --> 01:44:17.479
I wasn't sleeping really, I wasn't able to, you know.

1338
01:44:17.560 --> 01:44:21.000
It was just it was very uncomfortable, to the point

1339
01:44:21.039 --> 01:44:23.720
where I left early. I got an early flight back.

1340
01:44:25.600 --> 01:44:28.600
But I did manage to give food out, so that

1341
01:44:28.680 --> 01:44:31.039
was really good. I loved that bit. So I made

1342
01:44:31.079 --> 01:44:33.439
to give loads of food out to people who were hungry.

1343
01:44:34.359 --> 01:44:40.600
So the second time I went, I thought I deserve

1344
01:44:40.920 --> 01:44:45.000
on my Once my rob was held up, it started

1345
01:44:45.000 --> 01:44:48.720
getting bad again downstairs, and I thought, no more, I've

1346
01:44:48.720 --> 01:44:53.520
got to get out of here and I had to

1347
01:44:53.520 --> 01:44:56.359
go somewhere, so I just thought, yeah, I'm to go there.

1348
01:44:56.760 --> 01:44:59.920
Just got a flight, didn't book a hotel or anything.

1349
01:45:00.039 --> 01:45:03.000
I just like just went there, got to Bangkok and

1350
01:45:03.039 --> 01:45:09.000
decided where to go next. And I ended up in

1351
01:45:09.039 --> 01:45:12.720
a sports bar, really nice. It was full of Australians,

1352
01:45:12.840 --> 01:45:17.279
run by Australians, full of Australian customers. I was the

1353
01:45:17.319 --> 01:45:24.319
only brick there, I think, and it was really well.

1354
01:45:24.439 --> 01:45:26.239
It was a sports bar. It was aimed at all

1355
01:45:26.239 --> 01:45:29.159
the different sports. The good thing they did have boxing

1356
01:45:29.239 --> 01:45:32.000
on once, so that was one of the highlights of

1357
01:45:32.039 --> 01:45:37.399
the holiday, sitting there having me breakfast watching heavyweight boxing fight.

1358
01:45:38.399 --> 01:45:49.000
It was and Uize and and Uiez and Otis Otis

1359
01:45:49.199 --> 01:45:52.039
was it. I forget his name, but yeah, it was

1360
01:45:52.079 --> 01:45:54.600
really it was a Cuban fighter. But anyway, that was

1361
01:45:54.640 --> 01:46:01.239
that was good. So technically things are going well there. Yeah.

1362
01:46:02.039 --> 01:46:09.399
I got there just before my birthday and I had

1363
01:46:09.439 --> 01:46:12.720
a really good birthday. Went on this big pub crawl.

1364
01:46:13.680 --> 01:46:16.359
It was part of another bar and it took us

1365
01:46:16.359 --> 01:46:23.119
all around different places, different pubs and stuff. And the

1366
01:46:23.159 --> 01:46:26.079
next day I had a chest infection. I was feeling

1367
01:46:26.119 --> 01:46:29.319
ill during that day as well as it was going on,

1368
01:46:29.920 --> 01:46:33.920
and I had a chest infection that lasted about ten days,

1369
01:46:34.680 --> 01:46:39.720
so I was in bed and then I tried to

1370
01:46:39.760 --> 01:46:43.000
get a ticket early to go home, couldn't, so I

1371
01:46:43.079 --> 01:46:46.359
ended up staying there for two and a half weeks,

1372
01:46:46.399 --> 01:46:53.079
three weeks, I can't remember. And then I was well

1373
01:46:53.119 --> 01:46:57.319
for about I was probably I was still coughing a bit,

1374
01:46:57.399 --> 01:47:01.039
but I was on my way to getting better. Wasn't

1375
01:47:01.079 --> 01:47:05.560
completely healed, wasn't completely back, but I probably had a

1376
01:47:05.600 --> 01:47:09.680
couple of days of feeling better, and I'd had probably

1377
01:47:10.399 --> 01:47:13.279
four days of being able to go out and walk around.

1378
01:47:14.800 --> 01:47:16.840
I waited until it was evening when there wasn't so

1379
01:47:16.880 --> 01:47:21.760
many people around because unfortunately I dan't cough in public

1380
01:47:22.800 --> 01:47:29.560
because somebody would always shout out a certain word beginning

1381
01:47:29.600 --> 01:47:36.079
to see and then ended with it's That was weird.

1382
01:47:36.560 --> 01:47:39.439
So yeah, but I didn't realize because they were putting

1383
01:47:39.439 --> 01:47:44.439
adverts on TV in Thailand that was just scaring everyone,

1384
01:47:45.000 --> 01:47:52.359
like proper, Yeah, it's weird, weird seeing what other countries do.

1385
01:47:54.479 --> 01:47:58.640
So Michelle, how did you decide to start the boy

1386
01:47:58.680 --> 01:48:02.560
You let me bore you to sleep? Podcasts? They eat great,

1387
01:48:02.600 --> 01:48:06.840
bay Away, Thank you, The grips bad away. I'm slow

1388
01:48:06.920 --> 01:48:09.840
in today. Am I slurring or I'm I just being

1389
01:48:09.960 --> 01:48:14.359
lazy A little bit both, a bit tired. Yesterday I

1390
01:48:14.479 --> 01:48:17.479
was shattered, like at the end of it, I had

1391
01:48:17.520 --> 01:48:21.239
to go to bed early. I just I hadn't eaten

1392
01:48:21.399 --> 01:48:25.399
really much, just like it drained everything out of me.

1393
01:48:26.359 --> 01:48:28.760
So I woke up today. I'm still feel like I'm

1394
01:48:28.800 --> 01:48:32.199
a little bit recovering from that. It's weird. I'm not

1395
01:48:32.239 --> 01:48:38.680
built for that stuff anymore, taking on other people's stuff, like, oh,

1396
01:48:38.840 --> 01:48:43.399
I'm not so I think they let me boy to sleep.

1397
01:48:43.439 --> 01:48:49.399
It was twenty eighteen, had I did have precursors to

1398
01:48:49.600 --> 01:48:54.800
let me boy to sleep? In two thousand and ten,

1399
01:48:58.960 --> 01:49:06.720
I did a hypno chats, which was basically a mixture

1400
01:49:06.800 --> 01:49:12.359
between chatting and hypnosis. So I would just talk about

1401
01:49:12.399 --> 01:49:17.239
my day about a subject, and then I would ease

1402
01:49:17.359 --> 01:49:25.600
into a hypnosis session and I'd end up doing like

1403
01:49:25.760 --> 01:49:31.119
a a relaxation session at the end of it, so

1404
01:49:31.840 --> 01:49:35.760
that that's the hypno chats, and I'd choose a subject

1405
01:49:35.800 --> 01:49:37.840
and it could be all kinds of weird different things.

1406
01:49:38.720 --> 01:49:42.239
Weird things. I mean, I do still have them, but

1407
01:49:42.279 --> 01:49:43.760
no one ever listened to them. So I just got

1408
01:49:43.880 --> 01:49:46.439
rid of them, but I've still got them on here

1409
01:49:47.760 --> 01:49:57.720
on my Really that's weird. Oh okay, hypno Chats? Is

1410
01:49:57.760 --> 01:50:07.239
it hypno hip no Chats? Yeah? I do still got

1411
01:50:07.279 --> 01:50:12.560
it on it. Still got the recordings I've got twenty twenty, Yeah,

1412
01:50:12.600 --> 01:50:18.039
twenty different ones. They range, They do range different subjects.

1413
01:50:19.039 --> 01:50:22.840
Number one was future. Number two is public transport and

1414
01:50:22.920 --> 01:50:27.760
sending healing energy. Wow, I one. If it tells me

1415
01:50:28.119 --> 01:50:33.159
what year it was, No, it doesn't. It says twenty fifteen,

1416
01:50:34.920 --> 01:50:42.119
but it was long before that. Yeah. And then so

1417
01:50:42.159 --> 01:50:47.840
I did Hipno Chats. Then I did another version talking

1418
01:50:47.920 --> 01:51:00.319
out talking out loudly or thinking out loudly, I don't know,

1419
01:51:00.359 --> 01:51:02.760
something like that, which was like another version of this

1420
01:51:03.520 --> 01:51:06.680
where I just talked about stuff. And then I did

1421
01:51:07.119 --> 01:51:13.199
hypnotic Buffet hip not tick buffet. See if that's still

1422
01:51:13.199 --> 01:51:19.760
around on my Oh it's not hypnotic Buffet. Have I

1423
01:51:19.760 --> 01:51:23.199
lost all those recordings of way? Okay, I may have

1424
01:51:23.279 --> 01:51:29.399
lost them all. Never mind, Oh no, I don't. I

1425
01:51:29.399 --> 01:51:31.319
don't really want to have lost them all, to be fair.

1426
01:51:32.520 --> 01:51:37.920
Hypnotic Buffet. Oh no, they are still on air. I

1427
01:51:37.960 --> 01:51:40.600
was looking at the wrong in the wrong folder. So

1428
01:51:40.760 --> 01:51:47.119
there are thirty one hypnotic buffets, and the last one

1429
01:51:47.159 --> 01:51:58.640
I did was where's that's weird? I don't want to

1430
01:51:58.680 --> 01:52:04.319
see properties. That's it. According to this The last one

1431
01:52:04.359 --> 01:52:06.640
I did was the six of all was twenty eighteen,

1432
01:52:08.359 --> 01:52:14.119
but that I don't think that would be true. It

1433
01:52:14.159 --> 01:52:18.800
says created eleventh of September twenty eighteen. Yeah, I don't

1434
01:52:18.840 --> 01:52:24.960
think that's true either. Before that, so yeah, I did those.

1435
01:52:25.119 --> 01:52:31.279
Did I have those named? I don't know it's look

1436
01:52:32.960 --> 01:52:40.560
or Yeah. The underlying thing was so hypnotic buffet thoughts

1437
01:52:40.600 --> 01:52:46.800
and ideas to transform lives every Monday. So this is

1438
01:52:46.800 --> 01:52:54.720
what I did, probably two thousand, well maybe it was

1439
01:52:54.760 --> 01:53:02.039
twenty fifteen. Did what was it two thousand, twoy eighteen? No,

1440
01:53:02.399 --> 01:53:06.399
it wouldn't have been twenty eighteen. I don't think so anyway.

1441
01:53:08.479 --> 01:53:11.359
But I started to let me boy to sleep in.

1442
01:53:13.399 --> 01:53:23.560
That was previous versions general. Yeah, eleventh of September two

1443
01:53:23.560 --> 01:53:27.159
thousand and eight, that's just when they were transferred. So

1444
01:53:28.199 --> 01:53:35.479
after that, so I did the three different things I

1445
01:53:35.560 --> 01:53:38.399
used to do Jason Chats, which was just a blog

1446
01:53:38.560 --> 01:53:40.880
about my life and I just talk about that and

1447
01:53:40.960 --> 01:53:45.319
someone posted I think it was on YouTube. They said, oh,

1448
01:53:45.359 --> 01:53:51.319
I was fall asleep. Whenever you do your blogs. Part

1449
01:53:51.359 --> 01:53:53.239
of me, it was a little bit like, oh, that's

1450
01:53:53.239 --> 01:53:55.800
a bit rude, a little bit rude. You know, I'm

1451
01:53:55.840 --> 01:54:00.439
talking about my life and you're falling asleep. Dumber's go

1452
01:54:00.520 --> 01:54:03.720
and it's time for food, baby food, food food. But

1453
01:54:03.800 --> 01:54:08.399
then another party fought hmm, there's something in that. So

1454
01:54:08.960 --> 01:54:15.760
regardless what I talk about, you're bored. Guess what the

1455
01:54:15.800 --> 01:54:18.119
person said, you just bore me and I fall asleep.

1456
01:54:19.439 --> 01:54:23.119
They might have been trying to be rude, but I

1457
01:54:23.239 --> 01:54:30.319
thought about it and I thought, okay, So I started

1458
01:54:30.319 --> 01:54:32.960
a podcast, let Me Boy You to Sleep, which was

1459
01:54:38.000 --> 01:54:48.199
when was it, Let Me Bore You to Sleep? Twenty

1460
01:54:48.279 --> 01:54:53.520
seventh of March twenty eighteen. That was the very first

1461
01:54:53.560 --> 01:54:59.880
so we have I missed that. I could have put

1462
01:55:00.079 --> 01:55:07.680
down the what was it eighteen nineteen twenty? I could have.

1463
01:55:10.800 --> 01:55:13.279
I could have done a seventh year anniversary episode, but

1464
01:55:13.319 --> 01:55:20.600
I didn't think about it. Oh well, so yeah, it's

1465
01:55:20.880 --> 01:55:24.680
it was. So that was the very very very first

1466
01:55:25.000 --> 01:55:31.039
recording after Let Me Boy to Sleep. Now, I didn't

1467
01:55:31.079 --> 01:55:33.479
do any research. I didn't look online to see if

1468
01:55:33.520 --> 01:55:37.079
anyone else was doing boring recordings. I just did it.

1469
01:55:37.680 --> 01:55:41.680
There is another podcast something like Bore Me to Sleep

1470
01:55:41.880 --> 01:55:45.039
that's been around a few more years than me, and

1471
01:55:45.199 --> 01:55:48.079
someone was saying, oh, you're just copying them, Like, No,

1472
01:55:48.680 --> 01:55:53.520
first of all, I didn't know they existed. Secondly, I

1473
01:55:53.520 --> 01:55:57.199
don't think anyone does what I do. I don't mean

1474
01:55:57.239 --> 01:55:59.399
it in a good way, because you know, I'll probably

1475
01:55:59.399 --> 01:56:02.319
be better off if I did copy other people. But

1476
01:56:03.640 --> 01:56:06.840
this is what I do is unique. Even if even

1477
01:56:06.880 --> 01:56:10.439
if it was the identical type of thing, it would

1478
01:56:10.479 --> 01:56:13.920
still be different. Yeah, if you got if you like

1479
01:56:13.960 --> 01:56:21.279
gave a topic talk about watching tennis, and you gave

1480
01:56:21.359 --> 01:56:23.680
that topic to any other podcasts and you gave it

1481
01:56:23.720 --> 01:56:26.479
to me, mine's going to be different from theirs, and

1482
01:56:26.520 --> 01:56:28.439
there is probably going to be different from everyone else's

1483
01:56:28.439 --> 01:56:32.960
as well. It's gonna be different. So that's how I

1484
01:56:33.119 --> 01:56:38.319
ended up doing this. And I didn't expect it to

1485
01:56:38.520 --> 01:56:42.520
lead anywhere. I really didn't. I didn't think it would

1486
01:56:42.520 --> 01:56:51.560
be Yeah, I didn't. I didn't really think anything of it.

1487
01:56:51.560 --> 01:56:53.600
It was just a new thing. I thought maybe i'd

1488
01:56:53.640 --> 01:56:58.520
do perhaps ten twenty, you know, like the Hypnotic Buffet

1489
01:56:58.760 --> 01:57:05.119
or the hypno Chats. I didn't think it would lead

1490
01:57:05.159 --> 01:57:09.920
to anything sort of a lot ongoing, but it did,

1491
01:57:10.960 --> 01:57:15.279
and seven years over, seven years later, here we are.

1492
01:57:17.239 --> 01:57:20.600
And I think it's because I was getting feedback. People

1493
01:57:20.600 --> 01:57:24.800
were telling me they're very relaxing regardless of what I

1494
01:57:24.880 --> 01:57:27.720
talk about. And some people like the fact that it's

1495
01:57:29.000 --> 01:57:32.159
I'm real. I do make stuff up, obviously. I think

1496
01:57:32.159 --> 01:57:36.680
that's obvious. I do that as well. I don't generally

1497
01:57:36.720 --> 01:57:42.279
take myself too seriously. I can see the funny side

1498
01:57:42.319 --> 01:57:47.479
to a lot of things. And also something that I

1499
01:57:47.479 --> 01:57:50.319
didn't know would happen is I was getting a lot

1500
01:57:50.319 --> 01:57:52.399
of people over the years telling me that I'm company

1501
01:57:53.199 --> 01:57:56.680
that actually it's a friendly voice to listen to. It's

1502
01:57:56.720 --> 01:58:00.199
like you get to know me, and do you to

1503
01:58:00.239 --> 01:58:05.199
listen to me every day? And it's something that some

1504
01:58:05.239 --> 01:58:11.439
people look forward to. So that's in some ways that's

1505
01:58:11.439 --> 01:58:19.800
probably more of a compliment. And yeah, I mean, that's

1506
01:58:19.880 --> 01:58:23.079
partly why there's a couple of if I see an

1507
01:58:23.119 --> 01:58:26.600
elderly person, not just elderly, but if I see someone

1508
01:58:27.640 --> 01:58:31.520
in the park, they're on their own because generally I

1509
01:58:31.520 --> 01:58:34.279
only talk to dog walkers because Vinnie wants to say

1510
01:58:34.359 --> 01:58:37.159
low to them. He loves people, but he loves dog

1511
01:58:37.159 --> 01:58:40.520
walkers because they've got treats. There's a few dog that

1512
01:58:40.560 --> 01:58:45.119
says a low too as well. But Vinny wants to

1513
01:58:45.159 --> 01:58:50.079
say low to everybody. So if the person looks okay,

1514
01:58:50.399 --> 01:58:53.880
some people don't look approachable, to be fair, but if

1515
01:58:53.920 --> 01:58:58.920
the person looks approachable, I'll let Vinnie take me up

1516
01:58:58.960 --> 01:59:00.800
to them and I'll just say, can he say hello?

1517
01:59:02.479 --> 01:59:05.720
He wants to say hello, And no one's ever said

1518
01:59:05.720 --> 01:59:07.960
go away yet. I think I did have one person

1519
01:59:08.039 --> 01:59:13.840
ignored me and just walk on, and but it's that

1520
01:59:13.960 --> 01:59:18.600
as my mom, so you sho had a reason. So

1521
01:59:18.760 --> 01:59:23.880
I and a couple of times. One recently a man

1522
01:59:24.039 --> 01:59:31.199
said that will be my only contact today, so thank you.

1523
01:59:32.800 --> 01:59:36.600
I was like, oh, so I'm avoiding from now on

1524
01:59:37.520 --> 01:59:41.119
and joking. And then I think yesterday or the day

1525
01:59:41.159 --> 01:59:46.159
before that, it was a bloke and a man he said, oh,

1526
01:59:46.520 --> 01:59:48.680
thank you for stopping, thank you for talking to me.

1527
01:59:52.119 --> 01:59:54.319
So these are like people that live on the estate.

1528
01:59:54.760 --> 01:59:58.239
Maybe they don't see anyone. I don't know, but Finny

1529
01:59:58.439 --> 02:00:04.560
absolutely loves people and he knows when a person's friendly,

1530
02:00:04.760 --> 02:00:08.319
because that's when this bloke, I think yesterday he said,

1531
02:00:08.319 --> 02:00:14.319
oh he just wants to come if he must like everyone.

1532
02:00:14.399 --> 02:00:17.439
I said, no, not necessarily. He does love people, but

1533
02:00:17.479 --> 02:00:20.760
he knows people. There's people he doesn't want to go

1534
02:00:20.800 --> 02:00:22.880
and so lo to. He can tell who's friendly and

1535
02:00:22.920 --> 02:00:27.199
who's not friendly. He knows. I think dogs actually do know.

1536
02:00:28.600 --> 02:00:32.439
They can tell a dog lover from someone that isn't

1537
02:00:32.439 --> 02:00:36.800
a dog lover. Maybe not instantly, but you know, there's

1538
02:00:36.840 --> 02:00:41.319
people that clearly that I kind of know that don't

1539
02:00:41.520 --> 02:00:44.079
like Vinnie, but not don't like him, but kn't of

1540
02:00:44.159 --> 02:00:46.720
keep the distance from him, not really into dogs, and

1541
02:00:46.760 --> 02:00:49.760
he knows that. You know, he gets excited to see them,

1542
02:00:49.960 --> 02:00:52.960
but he doesn't try and jump up, he doesn't doesn't

1543
02:00:52.960 --> 02:00:56.520
really take much notice of them really, so he knows.

1544
02:00:56.600 --> 02:00:59.760
And this bloke was so happy that I was telling

1545
02:00:59.840 --> 02:01:02.239
him that, yeah, he's fussy who he says hello to,

1546
02:01:03.680 --> 02:01:07.720
because he doesn't he knows if someone's not friendly. And

1547
02:01:07.800 --> 02:01:11.640
he seemed to really appreciate that, so that was nice.

1548
02:01:11.720 --> 02:01:16.159
I don't know how I got onto that subject. Last

1549
02:01:16.239 --> 02:01:22.760
question Brooke brook Brook, my friend Brooke. What is hypnosis

1550
02:01:22.760 --> 02:01:25.119
and why does it work? What are some myths about

1551
02:01:25.159 --> 02:01:31.199
hypnosis are important to dispel? What is your best tofu recipe? Okay,

1552
02:01:31.399 --> 02:01:33.159
the last one I don't have one, so I want

1553
02:01:33.159 --> 02:01:36.479
to skip that one. Now. If you said toffee recipe,

1554
02:01:37.159 --> 02:01:40.760
I'd say I love anything with toffee, especially ones where

1555
02:01:40.920 --> 02:01:42.760
that I get ended up with bits of toffee and

1556
02:01:42.840 --> 02:01:49.359
my beard scaring the neighbors. Would you tell someone though,

1557
02:01:49.399 --> 02:01:51.479
if you if you were talking to someone I'm not

1558
02:01:51.520 --> 02:01:54.359
talking about a complete stranger, but someone that you see regularly.

1559
02:01:55.560 --> 02:01:57.960
You know, something you may see daily, even and you

1560
02:01:58.000 --> 02:02:01.960
saw they had toffee sticking out their beer? Would you

1561
02:02:02.079 --> 02:02:05.319
mention it to them? And there's ways of mentioning it

1562
02:02:05.359 --> 02:02:10.920
without being rude, isn't there is? You know, It's like

1563
02:02:10.960 --> 02:02:13.640
if I'm going out and I've got gravy all down

1564
02:02:13.720 --> 02:02:17.279
my top and I scream on my head like, okay,

1565
02:02:17.359 --> 02:02:21.880
perhaps we shouldn't mention that because there's something going on there,

1566
02:02:22.039 --> 02:02:28.039
but just a little I would have preferred, mind you,

1567
02:02:29.279 --> 02:02:32.560
something happened yesterday and I wasn't particularly pleased with. Let's

1568
02:02:32.600 --> 02:02:36.800
talking to my neighbor and I was saying, oh, I

1569
02:02:36.880 --> 02:02:38.880
wear a hack, so I don't like to because I'm

1570
02:02:39.800 --> 02:02:43.800
I'm a bit conscious about my my board patch on

1571
02:02:43.840 --> 02:02:45.640
the top of my head, And he said, what about

1572
02:02:45.680 --> 02:02:48.079
the one at the front of your head? What do

1573
02:02:48.159 --> 02:02:50.159
you mean, he said, the one on the front where

1574
02:02:50.159 --> 02:02:53.640
you've got a comb over. I said, I do not

1575
02:02:53.840 --> 02:02:56.640
have a comb over. My hair is not long enough.

1576
02:02:56.760 --> 02:02:59.159
I can't even brush my hair. It's not long enough

1577
02:02:59.159 --> 02:03:04.720
to brush. He said, there's none there. I said, technically,

1578
02:03:04.760 --> 02:03:09.119
you're correct, that is probably the reason. But from the

1579
02:03:09.159 --> 02:03:11.319
distance he could see that, like the front of the

1580
02:03:11.399 --> 02:03:20.279
hair is pretty much just disappearing, which means, and I

1581
02:03:20.560 --> 02:03:25.239
really am not pleased to say this, it means what

1582
02:03:25.359 --> 02:03:30.640
I'm going to have is hair around the side, and

1583
02:03:31.880 --> 02:03:35.199
I've already got the ball patch at the back. It's

1584
02:03:35.279 --> 02:03:44.960
fitling out on top. There's yeah, I don't know how

1585
02:03:44.960 --> 02:03:49.159
long it's going to take. Now, my decision will have

1586
02:03:49.199 --> 02:03:51.880
to be this if it does in fact happen. So

1587
02:03:52.039 --> 02:03:57.159
the board patch grows and the one at the front

1588
02:03:57.279 --> 02:04:01.079
kind of grows to the point of eating in the middle.

1589
02:04:04.680 --> 02:04:08.159
What do I do with a straight hair the stray hairs? Do?

1590
02:04:08.199 --> 02:04:11.159
I let them grow really long and pretend that that's

1591
02:04:11.239 --> 02:04:17.520
hair and hold on to that because I know people

1592
02:04:17.560 --> 02:04:22.399
who do that. They literally they cherish those hairs, even

1593
02:04:22.439 --> 02:04:27.279
though there's only like a little fuzz now, because it's

1594
02:04:27.319 --> 02:04:31.399
their hair, they cherish it. They it's important to them,

1595
02:04:32.560 --> 02:04:37.680
regardless of how ridiculous it might look. They love it,

1596
02:04:37.760 --> 02:04:40.640
they keep it. And I'm now in that position where

1597
02:04:40.640 --> 02:04:43.920
I'm thinking, yeah, I might have to keep that, have

1598
02:04:43.920 --> 02:04:49.479
a little bit of fuzz on top, like a little

1599
02:04:49.479 --> 02:04:53.520
brillo pad. I don't know, just I don't know what,

1600
02:04:54.399 --> 02:04:57.039
because I used to have an attitude when I was

1601
02:04:57.079 --> 02:05:00.000
younger just to shave my head. I still do show

1602
02:05:00.079 --> 02:05:03.359
my head sometimes, like it doesn't matter. If I ever

1603
02:05:03.399 --> 02:05:05.560
go bored, it will not affect me at all, because

1604
02:05:05.560 --> 02:05:11.079
I've walked around for years with a bald head. Being

1605
02:05:11.159 --> 02:05:15.920
bored would not affect me at all. Now, it's easy

1606
02:05:16.000 --> 02:05:18.039
to say that when you're not bald, when you're not

1607
02:05:18.159 --> 02:05:22.680
naturally bald. So shaving my head bald is a lot

1608
02:05:22.760 --> 02:05:27.039
difference from actually not need, not needing to save my

1609
02:05:27.079 --> 02:05:35.600
head bald because it's doing it naturally. Ah. Yeah, I

1610
02:05:35.640 --> 02:05:40.399
didn't realize that, you know what, It's not as non

1611
02:05:40.800 --> 02:05:49.239
affecting me as I thought. And Brooke might be listening

1612
02:05:49.279 --> 02:05:51.439
to this thinking what's that got to do with how

1613
02:05:51.520 --> 02:05:58.079
hypnosis works? Okay, I'll go back to that hypnosis. All

1614
02:05:58.119 --> 02:06:00.560
I can do is my understanding because I've so many

1615
02:06:00.600 --> 02:06:03.920
books I know what the theories are, all the different theories,

1616
02:06:04.840 --> 02:06:08.840
and like the myths about hypnosis, what's important to dispel

1617
02:06:11.640 --> 02:06:15.760
Even now I see on Facebook and places the idea

1618
02:06:15.920 --> 02:06:24.199
hypnosis if you like, it's somehow harmful given away control

1619
02:06:24.279 --> 02:06:26.880
to someone and they can do make you do whatever

1620
02:06:26.920 --> 02:06:30.199
they want you to do, and it's it's not true.

1621
02:06:30.439 --> 02:06:35.920
It's really not. It's it's not how it works. If

1622
02:06:37.039 --> 02:06:41.359
I mean, maybe there's a degree of I suppose if

1623
02:06:41.359 --> 02:06:45.880
you was hypnotizing someone every day and you wanted to,

1624
02:06:46.279 --> 02:06:48.119
you know, you could sort of play around of it

1625
02:06:48.159 --> 02:06:57.600
and have fun with it, but ultimately can't just control

1626
02:06:57.720 --> 02:07:01.560
someone completely. I don't think maybe some people can. I

1627
02:07:01.600 --> 02:07:09.760
don't have that. I mean everyone's manipulatively, manipuitaable, maniputable, able

1628
02:07:09.800 --> 02:07:13.960
to be manipulated, and as people were public we are.

1629
02:07:14.039 --> 02:07:18.439
That's why as adverts on TV constantly, everyone's being at

1630
02:07:18.520 --> 02:07:21.640
least are trying to manipulate us. And that is in

1631
02:07:21.720 --> 02:07:24.720
no way a conspiracy thing. It's just a factual thing.

1632
02:07:25.800 --> 02:07:30.720
And hypnosis has been used in advertising. It's one of

1633
02:07:30.720 --> 02:07:37.800
the first things that was used for Like generally hypnosis

1634
02:07:37.800 --> 02:07:40.760
are used for advertising because they knew that it worked.

1635
02:07:41.239 --> 02:07:45.119
They knew that they wanted to advertise in this manipulation

1636
02:07:45.479 --> 02:07:47.840
to try and get you to buy a product or

1637
02:07:47.920 --> 02:07:53.239
to think a certain way. So yeah, it works. That

1638
02:07:53.359 --> 02:08:01.920
stuff works. It's I don't know he hypnosis some of

1639
02:08:01.960 --> 02:08:06.199
the myths with it. I would say, I think it's

1640
02:08:06.199 --> 02:08:10.640
a standard thing. Some people think that the hypnotists will

1641
02:08:10.640 --> 02:08:15.479
get them to do silly things, like like with stage hypnosis.

1642
02:08:16.079 --> 02:08:25.359
But that's not the case. The idea that maybe you'd

1643
02:08:25.359 --> 02:08:29.000
be under you being hypnosis and you're completely unconscious and

1644
02:08:29.079 --> 02:08:32.159
you don't know anything that's going on. I would say

1645
02:08:32.159 --> 02:08:38.039
that's not the case either, because the fact that the

1646
02:08:38.159 --> 02:08:43.520
unconscious you might be consciously unaware the unconsciously aware. But

1647
02:08:44.079 --> 02:08:46.199
you've got to remember, your unconscious is looking out for

1648
02:08:46.239 --> 02:08:50.560
you all the time. That's the thing that pulls your

1649
02:08:50.640 --> 02:08:53.560
hand back when it touches a hot surface. Not your

1650
02:08:53.600 --> 02:08:59.680
conscious mind. Your unconscious, your automatic reflexes is looking out

1651
02:08:59.720 --> 02:09:03.640
for you. It's not your conscious mind that sees that

1652
02:09:03.680 --> 02:09:07.720
speeding car coming as you're walking. You're about to walk

1653
02:09:07.760 --> 02:09:12.359
out on the road between two cars. You're about to

1654
02:09:12.399 --> 02:09:16.079
walk out. You don't see it, but you move back

1655
02:09:17.680 --> 02:09:22.159
like in an instant. It's not your conscious minded does that,

1656
02:09:22.840 --> 02:09:25.760
because as your conscious minded does that, you'd get hit

1657
02:09:25.800 --> 02:09:30.399
by the car. Our conscious minds don't move that quickly.

1658
02:09:31.439 --> 02:09:35.119
So your unconscious mind or your subconscious mind, or whatever

1659
02:09:35.119 --> 02:09:41.520
you want to call it, I call it unconscious because

1660
02:09:41.520 --> 02:09:43.880
we're not really conscious of it. That's all. It's not

1661
02:09:43.960 --> 02:09:51.159
unconscious like being asleep. I like to believe it's looking

1662
02:09:51.199 --> 02:09:58.479
out for us, has our best interest at heart. But

1663
02:09:58.560 --> 02:10:01.239
when it comes to hypnosis, I suppose, going back to

1664
02:10:01.560 --> 02:10:04.960
theory and how it works, it doesn't always know what's right.

1665
02:10:07.239 --> 02:10:09.479
It can see if a car's coming towards us, that's

1666
02:10:09.760 --> 02:10:11.039
the right thing is to get out of the way.

1667
02:10:11.479 --> 02:10:13.560
If you put your hand on hot stove, you take

1668
02:10:13.560 --> 02:10:17.640
it away, it's the right thing. Things like that. Protecting

1669
02:10:17.680 --> 02:10:25.720
our bodies is standard but sometimes but when it comes

1670
02:10:25.760 --> 02:10:32.640
to things like phobias and being worried about things and

1671
02:10:32.680 --> 02:10:37.119
stuff like that, the unconscious mind doesn't always know. It

1672
02:10:37.199 --> 02:10:43.000
needs help, needs us to let it know what's I mean.

1673
02:10:43.039 --> 02:10:44.800
You could say in a way like a computer, but

1674
02:10:44.960 --> 02:10:51.000
programming it needs guidance, needs supervision. So the unconscious mind

1675
02:10:51.119 --> 02:10:54.520
just needs to be It needs us to let it

1676
02:10:54.600 --> 02:11:02.119
know what it needs. And I think we need to

1677
02:11:02.159 --> 02:11:06.239
be quite specific as well, and there's different ways you

1678
02:11:06.239 --> 02:11:12.000
can do that just by you know, you can do affirmations,

1679
02:11:12.039 --> 02:11:15.159
you can do hypnosis, you can do all this stuff,

1680
02:11:15.159 --> 02:11:19.520
but you could also just just live the life. So

1681
02:11:19.640 --> 02:11:28.439
Brooke for example, and Brook, you're living the life. You're

1682
02:11:28.479 --> 02:11:32.359
doing what you do helping people have had strokes, and

1683
02:11:35.199 --> 02:11:38.439
you know you're living. If you live the life do

1684
02:11:38.479 --> 02:11:42.319
you want to live? Your unconscious mind helps you to

1685
02:11:42.399 --> 02:11:46.520
continue to live the life you live. So if you're

1686
02:11:46.800 --> 02:11:55.159
thinking positive things, your unconscious mind is basically hearing that, like, oh,

1687
02:11:55.239 --> 02:11:58.680
you want to you want to be positive, you want

1688
02:11:58.720 --> 02:12:04.279
to think more more positive thoughts. If you've got kind

1689
02:12:04.319 --> 02:12:06.439
of love in your heart and you're thinking about people

1690
02:12:06.479 --> 02:12:11.279
that you care about, your unconscious mind realize that and

1691
02:12:11.279 --> 02:12:16.680
if you need more of that. So our unconscious mind's

1692
02:12:16.720 --> 02:12:20.840
always listening to our thoughts. So what we say to

1693
02:12:20.880 --> 02:12:27.720
ourselves is hugely important. In technically you say, that's not hypnosis,

1694
02:12:27.760 --> 02:12:30.960
it's just the brain, it's the mind. So yeah, fair enough,

1695
02:12:31.000 --> 02:12:34.720
but it's still part of that whole thing. You get

1696
02:12:34.760 --> 02:12:36.960
what you think about, you get more of what you

1697
02:12:37.000 --> 02:12:42.920
think about. We come what we think about. And there's

1698
02:12:43.039 --> 02:12:51.079
so many examples of this around us. You can see it.

1699
02:12:52.520 --> 02:13:01.920
If you know someone that's constantly complaining, like constantly, you

1700
02:13:02.000 --> 02:13:09.399
can see even in their face, their behavior, their interactions,

1701
02:13:10.039 --> 02:13:14.840
you can see how they even their voice, even their

1702
02:13:14.880 --> 02:13:23.439
health is affected by that negativity, by that internal looking

1703
02:13:23.479 --> 02:13:32.960
at things in a negative way. So even I guess

1704
02:13:33.520 --> 02:13:36.720
because some people, some of the funniest people can be

1705
02:13:36.760 --> 02:13:42.880
really negative, like proper funny. But then some of those

1706
02:13:42.920 --> 02:13:48.520
people are not very happy. So it's one of those things.

1707
02:13:48.199 --> 02:13:51.680
What do you focus on? We get what we focus on,

1708
02:13:54.560 --> 02:14:00.199
and it's not like an instant thing, but it's it's

1709
02:14:00.279 --> 02:14:02.600
kind of like it works in different ways. So you

1710
02:14:02.640 --> 02:14:04.880
get what we get what we focus on. So if

1711
02:14:04.920 --> 02:14:09.000
you let's say itchy bum, Let's say I'll focused on

1712
02:14:09.000 --> 02:14:14.760
having an itchy bum, it gets itcher. That's actually a

1713
02:14:14.800 --> 02:14:17.880
good example, you know, if you're kind of thinking of too,

1714
02:14:18.199 --> 02:14:20.880
and it works with the unconscious mind. It doesn't understand

1715
02:14:21.399 --> 02:14:25.119
negative and positive. Really, it's just focus on what you're

1716
02:14:25.159 --> 02:14:30.560
thinking about. So if you're thinking, oh, I don't want

1717
02:14:30.600 --> 02:14:33.319
to have that itch in the bottom of my foot,

1718
02:14:35.079 --> 02:14:36.720
I don't want to have that itch in the bottom

1719
02:14:36.760 --> 02:14:39.079
of my foot, all your unconscious mind is really going

1720
02:14:39.119 --> 02:14:42.119
to get from that is focus on the itch in

1721
02:14:42.199 --> 02:14:47.600
your foot, just going to focus on it. So if

1722
02:14:47.640 --> 02:14:49.640
you put in a different language, I like my foot

1723
02:14:49.640 --> 02:14:54.479
to feel relaxed and calm, and you know, by imagining

1724
02:14:54.520 --> 02:15:02.079
that that might change it that way. And also our

1725
02:15:02.159 --> 02:15:05.039
brains don't know that. And this is scientists say this.

1726
02:15:05.960 --> 02:15:09.079
Our brains don't know the difference between imagined and real

1727
02:15:09.880 --> 02:15:16.239
in a sense of if we imagine feeling relaxed, lying

1728
02:15:16.279 --> 02:15:20.800
on a beach, on a hammock or whatever, and actually

1729
02:15:20.840 --> 02:15:26.399
doing it, we have the same physiological effect on our

1730
02:15:26.439 --> 02:15:29.279
bodies and on our minds as if we were actually there.

1731
02:15:31.359 --> 02:15:33.079
I'm not saying that you can get sun tanned, but

1732
02:15:33.079 --> 02:15:38.800
I'm just you know, generally, our unconscious mind or our mind,

1733
02:15:38.840 --> 02:15:43.159
our brain doesn't know the difference. And I think that's

1734
02:15:43.239 --> 02:15:51.479
quite interesting actually. So my motto is not my motto.

1735
02:15:52.279 --> 02:15:57.000
I took it from Earld Nightingale, but it is become

1736
02:15:57.039 --> 02:16:01.079
what we think about. And I try and remember that

1737
02:16:01.159 --> 02:16:07.960
every single day. Become what we think about. So if

1738
02:16:07.960 --> 02:16:14.600
you think about what do you want to become. If

1739
02:16:14.640 --> 02:16:19.600
someone wants to stay let's say someone wants to stay unhappy,

1740
02:16:20.279 --> 02:16:24.680
then just think about unhappy things. It's kind of basic really,

1741
02:16:25.279 --> 02:16:27.720
and I don't think anyone could argue that that would

1742
02:16:28.199 --> 02:16:32.959
probably help the person to feel rubbish inside if that's

1743
02:16:33.000 --> 02:16:38.760
all they focus on. And that's why I don't watch

1744
02:16:40.479 --> 02:16:44.000
these like true crime things. I'm not knocking anyone does,

1745
02:16:44.079 --> 02:16:47.239
but I just don't find it. It's useful for me

1746
02:16:48.639 --> 02:16:52.680
my mental states. It's really interesting, that's for sure. I

1747
02:16:52.719 --> 02:16:57.079
know that I understand why people get caught up in it,

1748
02:16:57.559 --> 02:16:59.920
especially the ones where you see all the film footage

1749
02:17:00.120 --> 02:17:04.280
the police arresting the people and then the interrogation makes

1750
02:17:04.280 --> 02:17:07.280
me want to watch it now. But I've spent two

1751
02:17:07.360 --> 02:17:12.719
hours watching one of them, and it's so fascinating, but

1752
02:17:12.799 --> 02:17:19.040
at the same time, I don't feel good afterwards. It's

1753
02:17:19.360 --> 02:17:23.440
you know, there's been so much horrible stuff I've just ingested.

1754
02:17:24.799 --> 02:17:29.520
That's pretty much poison, really think about it, poison for

1755
02:17:29.559 --> 02:17:36.360
the mind, negativity. So yeah, we become what we think about.

1756
02:17:37.000 --> 02:17:42.719
So I try and remember that every day and try

1757
02:17:43.040 --> 02:17:49.000
to focus. I focus on doing these recordings helping people,

1758
02:17:50.600 --> 02:17:57.440
and that's my life. That is everything to me. So

1759
02:17:57.639 --> 02:18:02.360
that's kind of so I've can't I don't know if

1760
02:18:02.399 --> 02:18:06.239
I have, but I feel like I've become this in

1761
02:18:06.280 --> 02:18:13.520
a way, but with moods, with an unstable personality. But

1762
02:18:13.799 --> 02:18:20.360
I've become this person that I wanted to become, or

1763
02:18:20.520 --> 02:18:25.000
I've just become me. In some ways, I feel like

1764
02:18:25.040 --> 02:18:30.559
I've found my voice. It took a long time, but

1765
02:18:30.600 --> 02:18:32.559
I seem to have found my voice since I've been

1766
02:18:33.040 --> 02:18:38.760
doing these let Me Boy the Sleeps recordings. I do

1767
02:18:38.799 --> 02:18:42.520
feel like I've found me and I can just be me.

1768
02:18:44.079 --> 02:18:46.600
And I know that I do censor myself a lot

1769
02:18:47.399 --> 02:18:50.719
sometimes when I do these, I think because I don't

1770
02:18:50.760 --> 02:18:55.040
not upset anyone, and I try not to swear, and

1771
02:18:55.879 --> 02:18:58.360
my natural would probably be to swear a little bit.

1772
02:18:59.280 --> 02:19:09.840
And but it's still ultimately just me being me, And

1773
02:19:09.959 --> 02:19:11.959
in a way, he can't really be anything more than

1774
02:19:11.959 --> 02:19:16.280
ourselves can we. There's got to come a point, especially

1775
02:19:16.280 --> 02:19:18.760
at my age, I was like, maybe I am good enough.

1776
02:19:23.239 --> 02:19:26.760
I may be better. I may become better. I just

1777
02:19:26.799 --> 02:19:29.200
remember years ago I was in the Buddhist Center and

1778
02:19:29.959 --> 02:19:33.399
I said to someone because they pointed out one of

1779
02:19:33.399 --> 02:19:38.040
my flaws, which is sometimes Buddhists have a tendency to do,

1780
02:19:38.520 --> 02:19:44.440
especially when I'm around them, and I said, well, I'm

1781
02:19:44.479 --> 02:19:47.920
not doing this. I don't want to be perfect and

1782
02:19:47.959 --> 02:19:49.840
he was confused by that. So, what do you mean

1783
02:19:49.840 --> 02:19:52.079
he don't want to be perfect? I said, no, no,

1784
02:19:52.319 --> 02:19:56.799
I'm not trying to be perfect, and that when against

1785
02:19:56.840 --> 02:20:01.639
how he was I guess attempting his life to be perfect.

1786
02:20:03.639 --> 02:20:05.600
I don't want to be I never wanted to be perfect.

1787
02:20:07.799 --> 02:20:12.719
I just wanted to be better. I wanted to be

1788
02:20:14.479 --> 02:20:18.280
I want to leave something, you know, I want to

1789
02:20:18.280 --> 02:20:25.799
be useful. I didn't want to be useful, not when

1790
02:20:25.840 --> 02:20:29.239
I was in my twenties, but since the age of

1791
02:20:30.479 --> 02:20:32.520
probably much since two thousand and six, when I was

1792
02:20:32.520 --> 02:20:38.319
thirty five. Orthough I started before then, but I didn't

1793
02:20:38.360 --> 02:20:41.719
really manage to do much until till two thousand and six.

1794
02:20:43.760 --> 02:20:47.719
I wanted to help people, but knowing that I'm not

1795
02:20:48.120 --> 02:20:53.440
really I don't. It's a struggle being around people for

1796
02:20:53.559 --> 02:20:58.159
any length of time. Generally not all people I meet.

1797
02:20:58.159 --> 02:21:03.159
The occasional person that I can spend time, but it's yeah,

1798
02:21:03.360 --> 02:21:08.200
it I had to make that decision, Like, you know what,

1799
02:21:08.319 --> 02:21:12.440
I can help one person, I could spend fifty minutes

1800
02:21:12.600 --> 02:21:15.920
or four hours, and I can help four people in

1801
02:21:16.000 --> 02:21:23.600
the four hours, Or I can make a recording online

1802
02:21:23.760 --> 02:21:31.159
and help hundreds of people with just one recording uploaded

1803
02:21:31.239 --> 02:21:36.159
to YouTube or Facebook or wherever I was doing it,

1804
02:21:37.120 --> 02:21:42.120
whatever podcast host I was using at that time, and

1805
02:21:43.079 --> 02:21:50.760
MySpace to start with. And then when the videos were

1806
02:21:50.799 --> 02:21:58.079
getting thousands of views, it made sense that instead of

1807
02:21:58.120 --> 02:22:01.120
doing a group session where I was seeing maybe twelve,

1808
02:22:02.200 --> 02:22:08.079
sometimes as eighteen people, I can reach a thousand people

1809
02:22:10.239 --> 02:22:23.200
or five hundred people. And that's a large audience. I mean,

1810
02:22:23.239 --> 02:22:27.159
the found between a thousand and two thousand people. That's

1811
02:22:27.200 --> 02:22:38.399
a big old theater. So that's pretty much why I

1812
02:22:38.440 --> 02:22:49.799
went in this direction. What is hypnosis? How does it work?

1813
02:22:50.040 --> 02:22:51.959
I don't know if I've really answered that question, but

1814
02:22:53.559 --> 02:22:56.920
I've kind of given a my version of what I think.

1815
02:22:57.159 --> 02:23:00.200
It's more than just having someone talk to you you

1816
02:23:00.280 --> 02:23:04.000
and get you to relax and focus on this and whatever.

1817
02:23:06.040 --> 02:23:12.239
It's It's about thoughts, it's about attitude. It's about expectation.

1818
02:23:13.399 --> 02:23:16.440
What do you believe is going to happen? Belief is

1819
02:23:16.600 --> 02:23:23.239
so strong, so powerful, like the most powerful thing. What

1820
02:23:23.319 --> 02:23:26.959
you expect to happen, what you really expect to happen,

1821
02:23:27.120 --> 02:23:33.639
has such an impact on what does actually happen. So

1822
02:23:33.760 --> 02:23:41.600
expect things to go well, you know, just an idea, right,

1823
02:23:41.719 --> 02:23:45.840
The noisy people are back in the garden and so

1824
02:23:46.760 --> 02:23:49.280
they clearly you don't have a break at Easter. Bless them.

1825
02:23:50.040 --> 02:23:52.479
So I'm going to go, so thank you for listening.

1826
02:23:53.120 --> 02:23:55.639
Remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve

1827
02:23:55.680 --> 02:23:59.760
to be happy. Thank you to Anne, Maria, Georgie, Hillary,

1828
02:24:00.200 --> 02:24:05.399
Michelle and Brooke for your questions. I hope of answer

1829
02:24:05.479 --> 02:24:12.879
them and saw the introduction, so long, take care, lots

1830
02:24:12.879 --> 02:24:16.959
of love. Bye,