July 19, 2025

(no music) Q&A Friday | LMBYTS #1396 | Jason Newland | 19th July 2025

(no music) Q&A Friday | LMBYTS #1396 | Jason Newland | 19th July 2025
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Hello, and welcome to Jasonnewland dot com. Me name is

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Jason Newland. This is Q Day Friday, Curday Friday. Please

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only listen when you can safety close short's and I

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just want to say thank you to Diana for your

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kind PayPal gift. Thank you very much. Yeah, I'm just

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trying to think what's happened since yesterday? No? Nothing, Yeah,

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I'm trying to nothing. I'm just trying to think. No,

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I can't think of anything. I can't think of anything

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that's happened ever today or later. Today is the heavyweight

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Boxing Championship of the World. I'll be watching that, Daniel

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Dubois against Alexander U. Sik Ussick and I'll be watching that. Also,

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there's another world title fight tonight, which is uh bam bam,

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regregious or what's going on here? Okay, Cliff Richard, Okay,

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it's just also one that I will not be paying for.

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I'll watch it on YouTube. Is many Pacquiao is fighting

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for a world title after about seventy five years of

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not actually fighting anyone. That's going to be weird. That's strange, Uh,

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But saying that that's a really really good bill, damn

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it or yeah, but I can't. It's way it's in

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the middle of the night. It's on Amazon Prime. That's

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confusing me. I'm sure all networks the Zone Saturday ninety

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Jesse Rodriguez, Oh, because they still call him Bam Bam,

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but it's actually yeah, so this is on to Zone.

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Jesse Rodriguez, which is called Bam Bam is defending his

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world title for two world titles against the Pumel CAFU.

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So I can watch that. That doesn't cost any extra.

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I'll watch that. Ah, I want to watch all of them.

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Oh well, hmm, we will see. I'm definitely watching Alexandra

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Ushik against Daniel Dynamite Dubois. Yes, because that's on during

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the daytime. Well, it's on this evening UK time. The

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others start probably two o'clock in the morning UK time,

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and I'm but honest with you, I think I might

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be asleep. Yes, all right, so let's move away from that.

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Se Q Day Friday as well. It's raided today, which

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I don't mind. I don't have a lot of saying it,

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really do I it's not really within my personal power

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many to take the out. And we missed a little shower.

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It started to rain, and we got back in time

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to not get wet, so it will be a little

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bit hit and miss I think today as far as

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taking them out, But I've got the weekend off. I'm

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not going up to the hospital unless there's an emergency,

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you know, of course, but i won't be going up

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there to this weekends. I want to have a little

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tidy up of my flat because it's messy, and I

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just I'm charging up the scrubber. I've got this mechanical

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scrubber thing that I can use to clean the sinks

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and the toilet and the bath and stuff like that.

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There's different headings on for each one. So I'm gonna

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I'm charging it up now and I'm going to have

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a little bit of a scrub later of the bathroom sink,

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the kitchen sink and the kitchen counters. Try and have

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a little tidy up, you know, maybe do a little

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bit of vacuum cleaning. Minimal, minimal, and I'd like to

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I don't know, i'd tell what concerns me a little bit.

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I just don't want to be yeah, I want to

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make I just want to make this place a little

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bit better, a little bit nicer, and if I put

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a bit of effort in, I could, you know, I

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could make the door frames nice. I could you know,

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save up and put new doors on to the different rooms.

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Because the doors at the moment I still got the

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same ones I had on ten years ago, and they've

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been there probably ten years or twenty years before that,

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and they were already all scratched the bits because the

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previous person had I think she had two massive dogs.

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So the whole you know, it's the doors are just

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they're not the night. They're not the most pleasant to

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look at. I don't spend a lot of time looking

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at them to be air. No, No, I don't really.

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I don't just sit there in front of the door

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and just look at it and I think.

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Oh.

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No, it's not a hobby. But I still see them.

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I sometimes think it'd be quite nice to just gut

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this whole flat, you know, just get rid of all

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the stuff, not get rid of everything, but redecorate it.

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Put a new decent carpet down, nice curtains, just little

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things like that, a decent sety, because the one I

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got now is falling apart. No, it's fairly comfortable. Perhaps

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just get myself a lazy boy something like that, because

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I had all an equivalent to that. I had a

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cheap version of that when the very first moved in.

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I think it cost me about one hundred and fifty

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quid and I had it for quite a few years.

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It was all right. Eventually it broke and fell apart.

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Would you imagine anything that I sit on is going

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to eventually fall apart? I don't know. Yahka. Moving on

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from that, but yeah, yeah, I have a little look.

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Some of the walls that still got looks like mold,

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but it's not. It's just the backing felt from when

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I had soundproofing up over there, because I took them

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off to put them into my shed, which I had

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in my bedroom. Didn't know, Vinny, you never got to

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see the bedroom shed, did you. No, you didn't. It

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was gone before you moved in. Yes it was, Yes,

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it was. You never got to see the bathroom shed,

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the bedroom shed, or the kitchen shed. So that that's

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gonna I probably need some kind of you know, one

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of those heat heat scrapers, torch scrapers things. I probably

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need something like that. Yeah I would, yes, Vinny, Yes

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they would, Yes, they would. Are you not going to

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have your breakfast, Finn. You can going to eat your breakfast,

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vinvin No, no why I woke up this morning. I

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went a bit about ten, three minutes past ten. It

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was woke up. I got up out of bed just

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after six this morning, and Vinnie was in the living room.

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He was in here asleep on the cety. So I

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don't know why. I do know why. It's because he

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wanted to come and sleep in here. But I don't

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know why he wanted to come and sleep in here,

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because he only ever does things he wants to do.

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Doesn't do anything he doesn't like, do you, Vinny, don't

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pretend you can't hear me now, is like precked right up.

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You're listening to me. I know you are. I know

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you are. Oh, so yeah this, I'm not gonna be

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going anywhere. I did my Oh because this is Saturday.

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This is Friday, Q and a Friday is Saturday. So

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I didn't make a recording yesterday because I started to think,

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wait a minute, I made a recording yesterday. So there's

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no point in telling you what the latest is. But

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I can tell you a little bit about the latest.

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The main thing is I left here at nine o'clock

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yesterday morning to go to the hopital. Got there in

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good time, it's fine. Got their probably ten past ten,

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that's fair enough. Left the hospital about ten past twelve

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because Uncle Sausages had his dinner. So when he gets

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his dinner, I leave so that he can, you know,

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a bit of piece. But I see he's watching the golf.

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He didn't I wasn't really needed to be fair. He's

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said that's what he was focusing on, which is good

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because he was looking forward to it. He's been looking

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forward to it for over a month and it started

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on Thursday. So he's watching that half half listening to me,

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half watching the golf. And he did say something that

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made me laugh though, because he's got I don't want

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to use the word paranoid because he doesn't like that word,

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but he's basically in, without going too deeply into medical stuff,

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his body is not filtering his blood, okay, so those

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toxins are going into his brain and it's a very

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standard thing in his situation. Happens to millions of people,

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and it's causing a thing called h E which I

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can't remember what it stands for, and it isn't Home

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economics I don't know what it is. It's I know

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what it is. I've been studying. Oh it's ridiculous. I

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know way more about the liver than I ever wanted

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to in my life before. All I knew is I

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didn't like liver. Tastes it horrible. That's all I knew.

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I didn't realize that it had a function. And then

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when you realize what its function is, how could you

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eat it? When you realize, like this is actually that,

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it's not something that Yeah, no, but hey he so

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he's not quite He's got a few like I'm trying

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to be careful how I word this. He yeah, he

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thinks he a couple of about a week ago, fought

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to the hospital. No, no, it's the beginning of this week.

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He thought the hospital would mess him with his food

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because he said the food tastes different. They're adding stuff

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to the food. And then he's concerned about the medication

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he's given getting given and why is he taking it?

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And he started hiding the tablets. So I sort of

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that side out. But I promised him on Thursday night

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that I would come into hospital speak to the nurse,

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get the nurse to come in speak to him explain

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to him exactly what the medication was for, what the

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medication is that he's getting, and what it's for, and

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whether he needs to take it or not in a

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way for him to understand and feel safe. And the

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other issue was he told me that one of the

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cares or nurses. It's hard to know who's who now

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because I think in hospitals it seems just from what

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I've seen that the support workers or the care workers

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are pretty much doing a nurse's job now, you know,

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or and like the nurses kind of in charge of

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them is you know, there's a lot of and it's

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hard to know who's who now, which ones that are nurses,

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not that it makes any difference, but they're doing they're

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doing all the I think the only thing they don't.

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You don't see a care worker generally with a telescope

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around the neck, so they don't have that, but they

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they seem to do everything else. I'm not sure whether

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or not they take bloods or of stuff. But but

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then when you've got the canicular thing that's or you know,

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it's like permanently in their arm, they can take blood.

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Anyone could take blood from that couldn't because it's quite easy,

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I imagine, but not they've ever done it. He wouldn't

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let me. I was like, please, uncle, so just let

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me just take a bit of blood. It's fun for me.

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He said, it's not fun for me. Okay. I said,

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I'll let you play with one of my Lego toys.

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He said, what I said, I'll let you play with

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one of my Lego toys. He said that what you said,

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But what do you mean Lego toys. Lego is a toy.

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It's not a Lego toys. It's a Legos. You build

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something with a Lego set. Yeah, yeah, but no one,

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no one calls it a Lego toy. Well, obviously I do.

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And then he went on a rent about Legos and

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Lego isn't just for kids, so therefore it's not a toy.

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It's for adults too, and everyone can be creative, and

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you know, it's it's a it's a great way to relax,

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to find some kind of mindfulness. In fact, possibly Lego

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and then you start talking about jigsaw puzzles. Lego and

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jigsaw puzzles were around long before mindfulness meditation became a

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thing in the West. And I said, well, what's that

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got to do with your tablets and he said nothing anyway,

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he said one of the nurses told him that he

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had to clear up after himself, so if there was

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any kind of situation, he had to clear up. So

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I went and spoke to the nurse and I explained

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to the nurse what he said to me, and she said,

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you know who it was and said that to him.

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I said, no, don't, So it was wrong. They shouldn't

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have said that. But apparently they also do try and

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encourage self sufficiency or if that's the right word. But

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to be fair, I don't think that's really an issue anymore.

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It's always going I'm just thinking it's always in a

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situation where they're in hospital and they have to learn

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to cope with a new type of lifestyle. Then helping

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them to learn to do things themselves. If they're going home,

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they're going to be on their own and live the

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next twenty thirty years. You know. It's but he's not

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in that situation, and he's an elderly man, and it's like,

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I just think people, all people deserve respect, but in

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that situation even more. I don't know why, but just

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there's something different about that kind of situation. This is

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like a short term I don't know what I'm trying

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to say. Anyway, It's got its own room. It's nice.

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It's better than some rooms I've lived in. Seriously, I

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would have been happy living in a room like that

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and not necessarily an environment, but getting food, getting someone

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clean in the bathroom. I'd get a big TV in there.

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I don't know if he's allowed to put his own

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TV in there, but you know, if it was, if

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it was in the room, then you could do he wanted,

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couldn't it. So he's on a short list to be

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getting a getting into a care home. That seems to

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be the next step because the hospice isn't probably going

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to happen because of the waiting list. So he's going

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to try and they're going to try and get him

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into a care home at the first opportunity. So he's

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now been moved to a room on his own, and

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I'm hoping by the end of next week he'll be

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moved because they're really on it, which is good, and

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he'll be happy. And he seems a bit happier now

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being in that room. He's not distracted by other people,

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is not Yeah, he's not quite as annoyed. However, yesterday

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he was in good spirits and he's watched He's got

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the golf on while he's talking to me. He's pretending

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to listen to what I'm saying. I can see he's

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just keeps looking down at the gulf on the laptop

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or on the iPad and he's watching it live on

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Sky Sports, and he is the food comes out, so

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I don't rush off as soon as if food gets there.

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I'm still talking to him. And he had what did

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he have? Oh? He had a potato, a jacket potato,

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two little bits of butter, you know the ones in

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the wrappers and tin tin you know, like I don't know,

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foil wrapper things. And he had a little tub well

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actually it wasn't tiny, but it was a tub of

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tuna fish. And then he also had a bowl of

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custard with some pudding in it. So I said, do

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you need a hand draw me to do anything? So

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he said yeah, And I basically I cut his potato

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open for him, and I said be careful, it was

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hot and he and he said, stop treating me like

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a child. And then he had a bite and it

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was hot. Why didn't you tell me now did So?

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I cut the potato open. I asked him what he

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wanted next. He wanted the butter put on, So I

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put one bit of batter on each bit. Let that

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soak in a bit. And then I said, Georgia, want

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done with a tuna fish. Now. He could have done

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all this himself, probably, but it felt quite nice doing

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it for him, you know it just it seems like

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a nice thing to do. I don't know why, just

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and plus he likes bossing me around. No, So I

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put some tuna fish on top of the potato, and

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I kind of I didn't mesh it, but I kind

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of pushed it in a little bit, you know, to

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make it a little bit whatever, just how I guess

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how I would have done it myself. And he said

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to me, m sure if I want to eat that?

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I said, well, okay, well if you had, if you

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you've had a jacket potato before, he said, yeah, of course.

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I said, if you've had tuna fish on a jacket

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potato and he said he mumbled something, and he said,

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why don't you Why don't you try it? I said, no,

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I'm not hungry, because it was like i'd had my

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I'd had a little snack. I had a cross on. Actually,

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I got a cross on from costUS. Didn't get a

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coffee because it was so hot yesterday, really sticky and not.

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I didn't find a particularly pleasant heat wise. It wasn't yeah,

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it was. I mean, remember when the sun was on me.

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It was too hot. It was kind of a little

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bit uncomfortable from my head. So I said, no, you're

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fine enough. I'm all right. I've already had to cross

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on half an hour ago. I'm not hungry. And I said,

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okay then, and he like seemed to be hesitant, but

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then he took a bit and he said, I've got

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to be careful because the last thing I had was

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too hot. Hot. And I said, well, why don't you

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touch it with your tongue gently like you you know,

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and just make sure that it's it's not too hot

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before you put in your mouth. And he said okay,

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and he put a big bit on his fork. He

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just he just put it right in his mouth. He

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didn't test it or nothing. So that is going to

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burn you if you do that, Bernie, Bernie. And but

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I can't tell someone else how to eat their food.

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I mean he's been doing it a lot longer than me,

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and he but, yeah, i'd be a bit careful, especially

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with potatoes. They really can hold the heat. So but

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it seemed fine and he said, yeah, it's all right.

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And he pointed at the dessert and I said yeah.

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He said, I said, what what is it? It's custod,

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isn't it. What's in it? He said, do you want

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to try that? I said what I said, you want

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to try try some of the dessert? I said, no,

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I really don't like custard. It's not I don't like custard.

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I cannot eat custard. It is beyond no. That's a

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no no, like a complete no no, like no it

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that would be it's going to be that. Yeah. It

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would be like eating something if you think something that

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you really don't would never eat. That's the same for me.

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It's the same as yeah no. See yeah. See if

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you if you put a bowler custard, chucked it in

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a bin and they won't put all their rubbish on

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top of it, and you pulled the custard bowl out

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and said, and it's got all full of and rubbish,

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would you eat that? It would be the same response

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as if there was, as if it was straight out

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of the oven or wherever custard comes from, whether it's born,

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I don't know. I just don't. I can't. It's one

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of those things. We've all got our little things, and

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we some people don't like crocodiles. I don't like custard.

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Don't judge me, baby, so and I said, no, I

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don't like custard. I didn't go into a big thing.

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I didn't talk about crocodiles or list of things that

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some people might like that, you know that I'm okay

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with that people don't like, and all that stuff. Didn't

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mention my my, you know, generally. And he looked at me,

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he smiled, and I'm like, okay, you seem in good spirits.

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I'm not going to I'm not going to rock the

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boat on that one. He seemed much in a better

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frame of mind than he had done all week, all

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month really, but all week definitely. And he said, yeah,

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he started talking about Henry the Eighth. I said, okay,

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I'm not quite sure why he's talking about Henry the Eighth.

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It seemed a bit random, you know, how did he

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manage to start? He just started talking about Henry the eighth,

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and he started talking and I wasn't really with him

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where he was going with this, and he started talking

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about how Henry the eighth had a food taster, and

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then I remembered my history all kings generally, I think

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back in the old days, he used to have food

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tasters to make sure that the food was safe, that

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they weren't being poisoned. He was using me as a

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food taster. He was making sure that the food wasn't poisoned.

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And when I realized what he was talking about, I

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couldn't stop laughing. It was proper barey laughing. And he

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was laughing as well because he found it funny. But

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I just couldn't believe that he meant it as well.

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He really wanted me to test his food and fought.

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I just found it hilarious that I said, okay, so

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what about me? Then? So if the food was poisoned,

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what about me? Then he started laughing even more, like okay, thanks,

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So that was kind of a funny funny thing. Another

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one he said, this is a couple of nights back

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because been having possible hallucinations, maybe weird dreams or something.

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But anyway, this previous to that, and this night he said, well,

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in the morning, he said, oh, last night I went

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into I was orbited into space. And I said, I

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think I perhaps he dreamt that he was in space,

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or he hallucinated that he was in space, you know,

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seeing the stars, the moon, galaxy, Milky Way or whatever

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and all that stuff. And I'm thinking I'm talking to him, like, okay,

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just going along with it. So I'm thinking he's talking

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about how he imagined he was actually in space and

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either hallucinated it or maybe he dreamt it, and it

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was so really believed it was true. That's not what

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he was talking about at all. What he's really trying

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to tell me is he was woken up by the

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biggest part of his life. His bum woke him up,

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and he said, it shot me. He banged his head

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on the ceiling. It was that powerful. It's like, ah,

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it's hard to keep track, but yeah, So that's Uncle

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Sausages yesterday. I'm going back on Monday. I've got the

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weekend off. I need the weekend off. It's this is

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my time. I'm not going to be around any humans

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at all, if at all possible, Me and Vinnie, nothing else,

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no one else. Pure bliss are lovely. No dramas, no conversations,

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And to be fair, I'm using the one that over talks.

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I'm an oversharer, and if someone's sitting there quietly, and

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then they're in a room with me, they're quiet, I

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would just keep talking. And that's why I'd be I'd

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be terrible in an interrogation room. If I was being interrogated,

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what I'd have to do is just sit down and

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just look at me, and they get my entire life story. Yeah.

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So I was hoping the rain would stop the the

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neighbors from being particularly loud, but they seem to have

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still doing that, so you might be able to hear

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that in the background. There's there's really nothing I can

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do about it. It's one of those things I can

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The only thing I could do is not make a recording,

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if you know, And I don't want to do that

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because this is what I'm supposed to be doing, isn't it. Yeah.

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I left about ten past twelve yesterday, got on a bus,

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waited for a while for a bus and got two wheels.

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You know, it's it's a two bus journey. Got there,

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got to the bus stop. I was going to get off.

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I had a choice of three different buses going past

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fort years. That's why I went there. I was there

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for about an hour waiting before a bus actually turned up,

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loads of other buses that weren't going where I was going.

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In fact, the bus that I got that same number

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bus came passed me about four times during that period,

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and I couldn't even see the bus numbers very clearly

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from a distance. So a couple of times I'm not

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put my hand out to stop the bus, and then

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when it got closer, realized no thanks, and I waved

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it off. Another time I stopped the bus asked because

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I didn't know the number, I didn't know what it was,

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I said, do you go to Do you go to

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my home? And they said no. But then eventually a

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bus did come because I'm here, but I got home

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called twenty three. Yes, it took two and a half,

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about two and a half hours to get home. I

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was it was tiring, itch or oh that's nice, so yeah,

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I was. I came home, I had SunNet to eat,

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I had an old chat with one of my neighbors.

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Then I went and had a nap and I did

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feel better after than a nap I did. Then I

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watched a what did I watch? But he watched a

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bit of TV, watched part of a movie, and I

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watched the end this morning, and then I went to

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bed just after ten. Yeah, listen to the radio. I

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fell asleep, woke up at one, did a we wi,

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turned the radio off, and then woke up again at

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six or might. I woke up at three and then six,

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and then that was it. So you're now up to

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date on my entire life. You see now what I

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call it? Let me boy you to sleep, because there's

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nothing interesting or exciting about anything that happens to me.

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It's all boring. So let's go through the questions. I

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got one, two, three, four, five. Hope asks me favorite candy?

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Do you have any? What are they?

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Oh?

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Thanks, Hope. We don't call it candy in this country.

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I know what you mean when you say candy. So

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you mean chocolate, don't you? Chocolate and sweets? So yeah,

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we don't call it that. I just thinking so, so

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chocolate is candy, but are sweets because you are sweets

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like you know, boiled sweets, humbugs for example, or bomb bombs,

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jelly babies, things like that. What would that would that

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come under candy as well? So I'm gonna I'm going

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to assume if I think of chocolate bars. Okay, so

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we just call them sweets. Really, it's what we call

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them because because they're sweet. Yeah, it kind of comes

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under the umbrella of sweets in this country. But I'm

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not going to be pedantics. I know, I know what

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you mean. The only candy I've ever had, So I

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have been sent stuff from America in the past, and

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it was those a couple of things. What of those

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little I think it was girshy was it a girshy bar?

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And those little twigglet dinkle wrinkle things that are just

466
00:38:34.840 --> 00:38:46.559
very sweet but yummy. I think the sweets, chocolate and

467
00:38:46.599 --> 00:38:54.760
stuff like that in America is possibly way better than

468
00:38:54.760 --> 00:38:57.440
in this country. I mean, I don't know, I've never

469
00:38:57.480 --> 00:39:02.639
been to America. I hope to God, I don't know how.

470
00:39:03.400 --> 00:39:05.159
I got no idea if I'll ever be able to

471
00:39:05.159 --> 00:39:10.159
do it. But if I ever go on tour, if

472
00:39:10.159 --> 00:39:12.800
I was to go on tour, I need to have

473
00:39:12.920 --> 00:39:17.960
enough money coming in to cover the cost of the travel,

474
00:39:19.800 --> 00:39:27.440
to cover the cost of the accommodation, and you know,

475
00:39:27.559 --> 00:39:34.320
the expenses so if you could organize a nice tour

476
00:39:34.400 --> 00:39:38.320
for me, anyone who would want to see me blow?

477
00:39:38.440 --> 00:39:41.760
Can you imagine me putting out Oh, I got a tour,

478
00:39:41.880 --> 00:39:44.880
and I imagine if I posted it on Facebook, I'll

479
00:39:44.920 --> 00:39:51.480
probably get maybe four likes. It's like, yeah, okay, that's

480
00:39:51.519 --> 00:39:54.079
really I don't think people would really want to do

481
00:39:54.159 --> 00:39:57.440
a meet in greet because in a way, I do

482
00:39:57.480 --> 00:39:59.639
a meet in greet every time I do a recording,

483
00:39:59.679 --> 00:40:03.000
don't I. I don't think I really need to be

484
00:40:03.079 --> 00:40:06.880
in the same room. But I think it might be

485
00:40:06.920 --> 00:40:11.599
distracting seeing me in person, especially if you don't know

486
00:40:11.599 --> 00:40:15.800
what I look like. If all you've got is the voice,

487
00:40:15.960 --> 00:40:19.239
and you imagine that I'm like blonde and six foot

488
00:40:19.400 --> 00:40:28.119
nine and hairy like a gorilla, I don't know however

489
00:40:28.199 --> 00:40:35.199
you imagined I am. It's probably not going to be

490
00:40:35.320 --> 00:40:40.800
how I am because no voice I say none, But generally,

491
00:40:41.480 --> 00:40:51.480
in my experience, voices rarely match a person physically if

492
00:40:51.519 --> 00:40:55.079
you hear the voice first. If I think, if I

493
00:40:55.199 --> 00:40:59.000
meet someone, sometimes a voice matches them perfectly, like yeah,

494
00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:04.920
you got that voice is perfect for you. But then

495
00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:08.599
if you think about someone like Earl Oh, what was

496
00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:13.519
his name? Darth Vader man the voice of Darth Vader,

497
00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:24.239
you could like that voice matched him. But then once

498
00:41:24.440 --> 00:41:28.880
it's like all we know, isn't it Earl Jones, Earl

499
00:41:28.920 --> 00:41:34.400
Gray Jones or something his or Morgan Freeman the voice

500
00:41:34.519 --> 00:41:43.559
matches his face. But then pee Wee Herman's voice would

501
00:41:43.599 --> 00:41:52.679
match Morgan Freeman's face if if that was his normal voice,

502
00:41:52.760 --> 00:41:57.559
if that's all we knew, so you know, in the

503
00:41:57.599 --> 00:42:02.840
Shore Shore Dank Predemption or whatever it was, Morgan Freeman

504
00:42:03.880 --> 00:42:06.880
they said we've got to an hour herp, We've got

505
00:42:06.880 --> 00:42:13.400
to get hour. I don't know, however, pe Wee Herman talks.

506
00:42:13.920 --> 00:42:16.360
I did like the way he talks. Maybe if maybe

507
00:42:16.519 --> 00:42:22.760
laugh and and it'd be almost like, okay, that that

508
00:42:22.960 --> 00:42:27.039
makes sense because you're used to it. But if you

509
00:42:28.119 --> 00:42:34.239
didn't know, and you heard Morgan Freeman's voice, which is

510
00:42:35.840 --> 00:42:38.840
pe Wee Herman's voice, and you heard that on the

511
00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:43.880
radio or you know, audio wise, and you didn't know

512
00:42:43.920 --> 00:42:46.079
what you look like, and then you saw Morgan Freeman,

513
00:42:46.599 --> 00:42:52.800
you might think that doesn't look like his voice, or

514
00:42:52.840 --> 00:42:54.880
that doesn't sound like his voice. It doesn't That's not

515
00:42:54.920 --> 00:42:58.880
what I would have mentioned. He would look like I

516
00:42:58.880 --> 00:43:04.119
suppose but I imagine I think in Morgan Freeman, if

517
00:43:04.119 --> 00:43:05.960
you had his voice and not knowing what it looks like,

518
00:43:06.079 --> 00:43:10.239
and I almost feel like you wouldn't be surprised because

519
00:43:12.800 --> 00:43:15.079
but then that's just because we know him. It's been

520
00:43:15.119 --> 00:43:20.639
around for so long. Yeah, it's a weird one, isn't it.

521
00:43:21.119 --> 00:43:26.840
But yeah, anyway, my voice does not match me. I've

522
00:43:26.880 --> 00:43:29.320
actually got a friend who likes listening to my voice,

523
00:43:29.679 --> 00:43:34.760
which is weird. She listens to my recordings. This is

524
00:43:34.800 --> 00:43:39.480
someone I've known for wow, over twenty years, and she

525
00:43:39.639 --> 00:43:49.079
listened to my recordings when she's at home. And why

526
00:43:50.320 --> 00:43:56.679
why I like your voice? Yeah, but come on, stop it.

527
00:43:58.280 --> 00:44:00.440
Favorite candy, So I'm want to say, I'm going to

528
00:44:00.480 --> 00:44:05.159
go for favorite chocolate bars, bearing in mind I'm not

529
00:44:05.199 --> 00:44:17.239
supposed to eat chocolate anymore. I'm going to go. I'm

530
00:44:17.239 --> 00:44:20.039
going to go. Yeah, my go to is. It's quite

531
00:44:20.119 --> 00:44:23.119
weird too, And they're kind of similar in a way,

532
00:44:24.119 --> 00:44:28.880
crunchy bars and mal teasers. And we've both got honeycomb

533
00:44:30.960 --> 00:44:35.679
and chocolate. It's a different flavor, different taste, but it's

534
00:44:35.679 --> 00:44:41.599
still you know, honeycomby. I used to love eating honeycomb,

535
00:44:41.880 --> 00:44:48.679
just honeycomb. When I was seventeen eight about eighteen, and

536
00:44:48.719 --> 00:44:52.559
I'd take a bar be wrapped up in plastic. I'd

537
00:44:52.599 --> 00:44:56.199
take a bar just to work with me, and I'd

538
00:44:56.239 --> 00:44:58.599
have it in my break time and literally it would

539
00:44:58.639 --> 00:45:01.679
be stuck to my teeth. My mouth would be stuck

540
00:45:01.719 --> 00:45:11.679
shut for about three hours. Literally. It was Oh, it

541
00:45:11.719 --> 00:45:17.400
was fun. Just love the taste. And sometimes I would

542
00:45:17.440 --> 00:45:21.000
lick it and make it into do you know people

543
00:45:21.199 --> 00:45:24.880
do the what do they call it? Whiddling tiddling widdling

544
00:45:25.480 --> 00:45:27.239
where they have a little knife and a bit of

545
00:45:27.280 --> 00:45:30.039
wood and they turn it into something. I did that

546
00:45:30.079 --> 00:45:33.320
with the honeycomb, but instead of a knife, I used

547
00:45:33.320 --> 00:45:36.960
my tongue and I would shape it and turn it

548
00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:46.559
into I don't know, just a distorted honeycomb bar. Really

549
00:45:46.800 --> 00:45:53.599
it didn't really, it didn't resemble anything. I enjoyed it.

550
00:45:53.199 --> 00:46:00.679
It was my temporary hobby. I used to see. I

551
00:46:00.679 --> 00:46:05.480
don't eat sweets much anymore due to the fact that

552
00:46:05.519 --> 00:46:08.639
I'm not really supposed to it because of my sugar levels,

553
00:46:09.159 --> 00:46:13.239
blood sugar levels and my weight. Again, I'm sort of

554
00:46:13.440 --> 00:46:17.119
losing some weight, so I stopped having sugar in my tea,

555
00:46:17.239 --> 00:46:21.400
and I don't I don't eat There was a time

556
00:46:21.400 --> 00:46:23.840
when I'd have like two chocolate bars a day, and

557
00:46:23.880 --> 00:46:29.639
I'd been drinking at least four cans of coca day.

558
00:46:29.840 --> 00:46:32.079
I don't do any of that anymore. I don't. I

559
00:46:32.079 --> 00:46:35.360
don't drink coke anymore. If I have a fizzy drink,

560
00:46:36.199 --> 00:46:39.519
which has been a bit more regular lately because I've

561
00:46:39.559 --> 00:46:42.559
been going up to hospital and it's been hot and

562
00:46:42.679 --> 00:46:48.599
water is okay. But I was getting cans or bottles

563
00:46:48.599 --> 00:46:52.519
of drink for Uncle's sausages, so I ended up getting

564
00:46:52.519 --> 00:46:59.519
myself a fenter. I quite like Fenta, but I don't

565
00:46:59.559 --> 00:47:06.239
drink coke, and so I don't drink faner it all

566
00:47:06.280 --> 00:47:09.039
the time. I did every day for a couple of

567
00:47:09.079 --> 00:47:15.159
weeks probably, but now I'm realizing that actually waters just

568
00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:27.400
better when it's hot. Love for myself personally, bon bonds,

569
00:47:30.119 --> 00:47:35.239
so they're kind of they like icin icing sugar on

570
00:47:35.519 --> 00:47:43.480
top of toffee, the balls, and sometimes they're flavored. So

571
00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:49.840
I quite like the plain ones. Strawberry ones. Yeah, that's

572
00:47:49.880 --> 00:47:53.239
kind of the ones I liked. I haven't had them

573
00:47:53.280 --> 00:47:58.920
for years. All other things. I used to love a

574
00:47:59.039 --> 00:48:07.599
curly whirly. But again, and also because I I'm trying

575
00:48:07.599 --> 00:48:09.159
to kind of be a bit more careful with my

576
00:48:09.199 --> 00:48:14.760
teeth as well, so I don't try to keep down

577
00:48:14.760 --> 00:48:16.800
a little bit when it comes to eating chocolate. And

578
00:48:18.320 --> 00:48:20.480
with chocolate, with chocolate bar, you can eat it and

579
00:48:20.639 --> 00:48:23.159
just you know it's gone. But if you eat something

580
00:48:23.239 --> 00:48:27.719
that's chewy, then that sugar's kind of staying around the

581
00:48:27.800 --> 00:48:30.920
teeth and stuff. I don't know if that makes sense.

582
00:48:33.679 --> 00:48:35.599
I mean, last time I had a Curly Warlier, I

583
00:48:35.679 --> 00:48:38.840
put it in the freezer, got it out. We're all

584
00:48:39.119 --> 00:48:44.119
looking forward to it. Oh, I was a bit into it,

585
00:48:44.239 --> 00:48:50.440
and it's well, it got stuck in my in my

586
00:48:50.519 --> 00:48:54.599
teeth and when I removed it, it also removed my filling.

587
00:48:56.920 --> 00:49:02.599
So that was not a good idea. And I think

588
00:49:02.639 --> 00:49:05.000
I did it another time and it broke my tooth

589
00:49:05.039 --> 00:49:08.440
in half because I didn't learn the first time. That

590
00:49:08.559 --> 00:49:13.239
wasn't the second bite. This was like a few months later. Okay,

591
00:49:13.920 --> 00:49:16.480
I fought by then. And you say, well, just have

592
00:49:16.679 --> 00:49:23.400
the curly Worthy without freezing it. The problem is Curly

593
00:49:23.440 --> 00:49:30.119
Worthies are They're very meltable, and I'm not really into

594
00:49:30.159 --> 00:49:37.280
melted chocolate unless it's on ice cream, So melted Curly

595
00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:43.960
Worthies weren't really my favorite thing. I suppose I could

596
00:49:43.960 --> 00:49:48.320
have put it in a fridge because it's still it

597
00:49:48.360 --> 00:49:54.119
wouldn't be like a rock hard the way it was

598
00:49:55.000 --> 00:49:59.639
when it was in the freezer, but it wouldn't be warm,

599
00:50:00.199 --> 00:50:07.639
soggy and dripping. That doesn't sound very pleasant, does it.

600
00:50:10.360 --> 00:50:12.840
I'm trying to think I could list all I don't

601
00:50:12.880 --> 00:50:19.039
have a Yeah, I'd say probably my favorite chocolate bar

602
00:50:19.480 --> 00:50:25.519
is a crunchy, my chocolate bar, as in, yeah, be

603
00:50:25.559 --> 00:50:32.119
a crunchy. I do like bars of chocolate, just chocolate

604
00:50:32.159 --> 00:50:40.320
as well, so Galaxy, I like that, Cabri's bar of chocolate.

605
00:50:40.400 --> 00:50:45.199
I like that. Fruit and ut I like that. And

606
00:50:47.800 --> 00:50:50.239
one of my favorite chocolate bars from the past, and

607
00:50:50.280 --> 00:50:54.440
I haven't eaten it for yeah, quite a long time,

608
00:50:54.519 --> 00:51:00.119
maybe years, is a toblern I used to love to

609
00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:04.360
grown and they do. It's a taste. He's got nugget

610
00:51:04.400 --> 00:51:11.280
in it or nougar. I call it nugget and it's

611
00:51:11.440 --> 00:51:12.159
very tasty.

612
00:51:12.760 --> 00:51:16.079
Oh.

613
00:51:16.239 --> 00:51:23.519
I used to eat them fairly regularly. One of the

614
00:51:23.599 --> 00:51:26.599
reasons I don't eat as much chocolate as they used

615
00:51:26.599 --> 00:51:30.280
to is because I no longer go to the petrol

616
00:51:30.320 --> 00:51:36.320
station I used to go to every day. It was

617
00:51:36.440 --> 00:51:40.719
more a luke thing. I'd go over there with him,

618
00:51:41.039 --> 00:51:44.559
so we'd take the take the boys for a walk,

619
00:51:45.119 --> 00:51:51.719
you know, and just i'd go and get something. I

620
00:51:52.199 --> 00:51:55.239
was able to take Vinnie in there, so we're going there.

621
00:51:55.320 --> 00:51:59.159
I'd get something, he'd get something, or I'd get something

622
00:51:59.159 --> 00:52:03.760
for him, and it'd stay outside with Logi. And quite

623
00:52:03.760 --> 00:52:07.599
often they had these special offers two for one pound

624
00:52:07.719 --> 00:52:11.760
fifty chocolate bars, so I'd get one for him and

625
00:52:11.800 --> 00:52:19.039
one for me, and you know, that'd be like a

626
00:52:19.119 --> 00:52:28.320
daily thing. And I kind of because someone those oh

627
00:52:28.360 --> 00:52:32.000
and oh yeah. Another I like is I do love

628
00:52:32.199 --> 00:52:41.239
a chocolate flake, or the galaxy version, which is I

629
00:52:41.239 --> 00:52:43.480
can't evenmber what it's called. I've eaten one. I've been

630
00:52:43.480 --> 00:52:46.280
eating them for forty years. I still don't remember what

631
00:52:46.320 --> 00:52:51.480
they're called. They're nice. They're crumbly as well, but not

632
00:52:51.519 --> 00:52:55.400
as crumbly as a flake. So I like cabrige flake.

633
00:52:56.800 --> 00:53:04.079
The weird thing about it is I like but on

634
00:53:04.159 --> 00:53:07.760
an ice cream. I love them Like an ice cream

635
00:53:08.320 --> 00:53:17.679
with a flake makes it so much more appealing. And

636
00:53:17.719 --> 00:53:22.199
that flake is it's all about the flake. Yeah, a

637
00:53:22.199 --> 00:53:27.480
flake on its own. If it's cold, I don't like

638
00:53:27.599 --> 00:53:36.039
warm flakes. It was cold it's nice. It's really Oh

639
00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:39.559
it's out of the fridge, not the freezer. Out of

640
00:53:39.559 --> 00:53:41.639
the fridge, although I suppose I could put it in

641
00:53:41.639 --> 00:53:45.280
a freezer. I want one. Now. I have no chocolate.

642
00:53:46.480 --> 00:53:49.840
There's no chocolate in here. I've got no biscuits, no chocolate,

643
00:53:50.760 --> 00:53:54.599
no treats. Even he hasn't got any treats. All his

644
00:53:54.679 --> 00:54:02.199
treats are gone now, damn it. I really if I

645
00:54:02.320 --> 00:54:08.480
had biscuits, I'd be eating them, honestly, just the odd biscuits.

646
00:54:08.519 --> 00:54:10.679
I mean, what I like to get is these stem

647
00:54:10.920 --> 00:54:23.000
ginger biscuits and they're it's from Saint's Breeze, but what

648
00:54:23.039 --> 00:54:24.719
do they call it as good as as good as

649
00:54:24.760 --> 00:54:29.320
it gets, or that they it's like a it's their

650
00:54:29.400 --> 00:54:35.679
home brand, but it's at a high level that that

651
00:54:35.719 --> 00:54:40.360
makes it sense, that makes sense to you. And they're

652
00:54:40.400 --> 00:54:44.039
they're a little bit more expensive, but they're so nice

653
00:54:46.000 --> 00:54:49.079
and the big old things and the ginger stem and

654
00:54:49.119 --> 00:54:54.920
I have them with a cup of tea and it's

655
00:54:55.000 --> 00:55:02.639
just all all yeah. But if I bought something the

656
00:55:02.679 --> 00:55:06.400
other day, that'll be gone if I honestly, within a

657
00:55:06.480 --> 00:55:13.000
day or two days of buying, and they're gone. So

658
00:55:13.199 --> 00:55:16.440
I didn't get any this week. I managed to just

659
00:55:16.679 --> 00:55:21.079
spend just the amount that I was able to spend,

660
00:55:22.320 --> 00:55:35.480
just on some milk and some breakfast cereal and not

661
00:55:35.559 --> 00:55:39.000
a lot else, to be fair, not much more. A

662
00:55:39.039 --> 00:55:46.639
few little bits of bread, a couple of frozen bits. Yeah,

663
00:55:47.079 --> 00:55:54.400
I'm just trying to think. I used to love tries, cream,

664
00:55:54.920 --> 00:56:00.039
chocolate cream, what have they called? Oh yeah, chocolate, and

665
00:56:02.159 --> 00:56:04.719
don't get them till the beginning of the year. But

666
00:56:04.880 --> 00:56:11.880
the chocolate eggs, Capri's cream egg I've been eating them forever.

667
00:56:14.440 --> 00:56:18.039
But again, it's only really what I get from the

668
00:56:18.079 --> 00:56:22.079
supermarket now online because I don't go to the petrol

669
00:56:22.119 --> 00:56:27.760
station anymore. So it's not like a daily thing anymore,

670
00:56:28.679 --> 00:56:32.480
which is good. It's a good thing. But you know,

671
00:56:32.559 --> 00:56:38.000
I had to Yeah, I was told at the beginning

672
00:56:38.039 --> 00:56:43.280
of the year last year I needed to lose weight

673
00:56:43.880 --> 00:56:48.800
because my blood sugar level, so I did lost over

674
00:56:48.840 --> 00:56:58.480
a stone. Favorite candy Do you have anyting? No? So

675
00:56:58.519 --> 00:57:03.679
that's my next answer. No, hope, I have a neur candy.

676
00:57:04.199 --> 00:57:13.000
I have no chocolate. All smarties as well. I love Smarties. Yeah,

677
00:57:13.320 --> 00:57:18.840
I love Smarties. I do what I do like, but

678
00:57:18.880 --> 00:57:24.119
I also don't like I love the taste of bounty

679
00:57:24.320 --> 00:57:27.960
a bounty bar. I love the smell, love the taste,

680
00:57:29.519 --> 00:57:33.880
but I struggle to be able to swallow coconut. It

681
00:57:33.920 --> 00:57:38.519
has a I just can't. I can, but it's almost

682
00:57:38.679 --> 00:57:42.559
like the coconut gets in my mouth and it sucks

683
00:57:42.840 --> 00:57:49.000
all of the liquid out of my body into the coconut.

684
00:57:49.440 --> 00:57:53.360
I mean, that's I'm sure that's not happening. But I

685
00:57:53.400 --> 00:57:55.960
have to have a drink in order to eat the coconut.

686
00:57:56.760 --> 00:58:02.679
But it tastes so good. So I don't eat bound

687
00:58:02.800 --> 00:58:08.360
the bounty bar because it's it. Although it tastes amazing,

688
00:58:09.039 --> 00:58:16.599
smells lovely, I the duh d Yeah, too much chewing involved,

689
00:58:17.159 --> 00:58:20.719
and I I just can't. It just doesn't seem to

690
00:58:20.760 --> 00:58:24.719
go down. So for what's so well as easy, I

691
00:58:24.840 --> 00:58:28.960
just remembered when I was a kid, I wasn't allowed

692
00:58:28.960 --> 00:58:31.159
to have alcohol. We as used to have wine at

693
00:58:31.159 --> 00:58:34.639
the dinner table, and at Christmas, maybe i'd have a

694
00:58:34.920 --> 00:58:38.119
bit more wine than I was normally would have, but

695
00:58:38.119 --> 00:58:40.440
we didn't have you know, I wasn't drinking whiskey or

696
00:58:40.480 --> 00:58:44.880
anything like that. But at Christmas we used to have

697
00:58:44.960 --> 00:58:51.920
these liqueurs, these chocolate liqueurs, and I would eat as

698
00:58:52.119 --> 00:58:57.320
many as I was able to, and I probably was

699
00:58:57.679 --> 00:59:01.920
a little bit tipsy on 'em. It was good. It's

700
00:59:02.159 --> 00:59:13.039
very good. Oh yes, who hadum trum? Trying to think

701
00:59:13.079 --> 00:59:23.400
what other chocolate bars? I like, just visualizing all chocolate clays,

702
00:59:23.840 --> 00:59:31.840
love myself, some chocolate clairs. So these are basically individual sweets.

703
00:59:32.159 --> 00:59:42.400
They're wrapped up and it's basically yeah, they're toffee on

704
00:59:42.440 --> 00:59:47.360
the outside and chocolate on the inside. But so nice,

705
00:59:48.199 --> 00:59:54.079
oh so nice. I can I can get through a

706
00:59:54.119 --> 00:59:59.519
pack really quickly because I one after another just ah.

707
01:00:00.199 --> 01:00:02.480
And you can mix in a bit of mint as well,

708
01:00:03.039 --> 01:00:09.719
which changes the taste. It's just all really nice. Just

709
01:00:09.760 --> 01:00:13.239
trying to think what other I used to In two

710
01:00:13.320 --> 01:00:19.679
thousand and nine, I went through a period when I

711
01:00:19.760 --> 01:00:31.840
was eating worms original sweets, and they're like boiled sweets,

712
01:00:32.199 --> 01:00:39.000
but toffee tastes so good, so good. And then they

713
01:00:39.039 --> 01:00:44.039
brought out toffee toffee Worver's original toffee, which you could

714
01:00:44.079 --> 01:00:48.280
just chew like you know, like toffee toffee. So good,

715
01:00:49.400 --> 01:00:55.039
so nice. But that was like a shorn a short

716
01:00:55.119 --> 01:00:59.000
term thing. I stopped eating them after a while, but

717
01:00:59.039 --> 01:01:02.480
I used to eat them regularly for a few months.

718
01:01:03.719 --> 01:01:09.280
I don't know why I stopped. Really, I remember one

719
01:01:09.320 --> 01:01:12.320
thing I used to do when I was a paper boy.

720
01:01:12.960 --> 01:01:15.960
I had this little period of time when I'd go

721
01:01:16.000 --> 01:01:23.760
and collect my papers in the afternoon after school, and

722
01:01:23.800 --> 01:01:32.840
I would have some what do I have toffees and

723
01:01:33.199 --> 01:01:45.000
soft bins, and I can mix them together, so be toffee, mint, oh,

724
01:01:45.039 --> 01:01:48.559
and maybe a bit of chocolate. Oh. I just mix

725
01:01:48.599 --> 01:01:54.039
it all together like in a I don't know, like

726
01:01:54.079 --> 01:01:57.920
a washing machine or something, or a tumble dryer, just

727
01:01:58.480 --> 01:02:01.320
or a mixer, I suppose mixing it like a blender.

728
01:02:02.480 --> 01:02:04.199
And it was like it was like a I was

729
01:02:04.280 --> 01:02:08.920
like a little walking experiment. It was lovely, But then

730
01:02:08.960 --> 01:02:12.599
I'd always feel a bit by the time I got

731
01:02:12.599 --> 01:02:16.039
home because I just stuffed all this stuff down and

732
01:02:17.400 --> 01:02:21.199
it was a little bit too much, a little bit

733
01:02:21.920 --> 01:02:28.360
too much sugar. Even then, I'm trying to think of

734
01:02:28.480 --> 01:02:33.360
any other chocolate bars that I really I do like Aeriel,

735
01:02:36.840 --> 01:02:48.800
the mint one I do, I quite like. I do

736
01:02:48.880 --> 01:02:57.199
quite like mint mint flavored stuff. What are they called mint? Oh,

737
01:02:58.199 --> 01:03:04.840
they're like boiled sweets. They have mints, mevvies, bevies, heaves, webbes,

738
01:03:06.079 --> 01:03:16.960
what they called mints, webbes, levies, TeVeS Murray's Mint Murray's. Oh,

739
01:03:16.960 --> 01:03:18.519
I don't know if they still make them, but I

740
01:03:18.599 --> 01:03:28.480
used to like them very nice. Now I'm just thinking

741
01:03:28.480 --> 01:03:32.599
about stuff that I used to enjoy because when I

742
01:03:32.760 --> 01:03:35.280
was young. I mean, there is a shop in town

743
01:03:35.320 --> 01:03:38.960
that does this still. But when I was young, all

744
01:03:39.159 --> 01:03:43.559
the well, I don't want to say all, but my

745
01:03:43.639 --> 01:03:50.320
local one anyway, news agents or we I used to

746
01:03:50.360 --> 01:03:53.239
call it sweet Shop, and it was on the corner.

747
01:03:53.480 --> 01:03:55.400
In fact, it wasn't a newsagent's, it was just a

748
01:03:55.400 --> 01:04:05.159
sweet shop. Yeah, it was on the corner. Oh my goodness, Wow,

749
01:04:06.719 --> 01:04:10.639
how weird is this? I just remembered something that i'd

750
01:04:10.639 --> 01:04:25.199
forgotten for like forty years. Can you believe that? Say,

751
01:04:25.320 --> 01:04:28.079
here's a memory I've not forgotten. This isn't a memory

752
01:04:28.079 --> 01:04:32.159
that i'd forgotten, but I've forgotten the complete memory. And

753
01:04:32.199 --> 01:04:38.360
now I realized where it was. So it was early eighties,

754
01:04:39.800 --> 01:04:47.920
maybe late nineties, but probably eighty maybe eighty one. Charlie's

755
01:04:47.960 --> 01:04:52.440
Angels was on TV, so it's possibly a Tuesday or

756
01:04:52.800 --> 01:05:02.159
Thursday evening. I went to the Sweet Shop, which was

757
01:05:02.199 --> 01:05:04.119
just around the corner. It wasn't far to go to

758
01:05:04.639 --> 01:05:08.360
from where I lived up the road. So basically, come

759
01:05:08.400 --> 01:05:17.239
out of the house and just turn left, then turn right,

760
01:05:18.559 --> 01:05:25.800
turn left, turn right or turn left, go up and

761
01:05:31.960 --> 01:05:38.280
turn right. But anyway, it wasn't far, but I just

762
01:05:38.400 --> 01:05:42.039
remembered because it's this shop. It was basically he had

763
01:05:42.039 --> 01:05:44.679
a ladder that used to get up to get all

764
01:05:44.719 --> 01:05:52.039
these tubs of sweets, boiled sweets, bomb bombs, chocolate saucers,

765
01:05:52.440 --> 01:05:58.960
sparkly things, all these kinds of yeah sweets, and it'd

766
01:05:58.960 --> 01:06:02.639
be all these big play stick containers, all high up

767
01:06:02.679 --> 01:06:05.960
and low down, and the big chocolate bars on the counter,

768
01:06:06.360 --> 01:06:09.039
and you'd say what you want, and he'd turn around

769
01:06:09.039 --> 01:06:15.639
and you go and get it, and only until this

770
01:06:16.440 --> 01:06:19.760
rite this not this second, but you know, a couple

771
01:06:19.800 --> 01:06:24.000
of minutes ago when I mentioned it, I have the

772
01:06:24.039 --> 01:06:27.360
memory of going there, and I had the memory of

773
01:06:27.400 --> 01:06:33.159
getting some sweets before Charlie's Angels was on TV, because

774
01:06:33.199 --> 01:06:40.760
back then Charlie's Angels was big, big show. And walking

775
01:06:40.800 --> 01:06:44.480
to that shop getting some sweets, coming home to eat

776
01:06:44.519 --> 01:06:49.519
the sweets whilst watching there was this one sweet It

777
01:06:49.639 --> 01:06:54.800
was like Bobby and flat, but a bit Bobby, and

778
01:06:54.880 --> 01:07:00.199
it was pink but it was mint and chewy. Can't

779
01:07:00.199 --> 01:07:06.159
remember what it's called I liked them. Well. I just

780
01:07:06.320 --> 01:07:11.519
realized that that shop, the sweet shop they used to

781
01:07:11.599 --> 01:07:17.000
go into for years, was the same place that I

782
01:07:17.239 --> 01:07:19.719
worked at when I was in the chip shop. It's

783
01:07:19.760 --> 01:07:25.920
the same building, it was the same entrance, and I

784
01:07:25.960 --> 01:07:32.239
didn't realize just till now. So I don't know what

785
01:07:32.320 --> 01:07:34.599
on earth was next to it, because it was a

786
01:07:34.599 --> 01:07:38.000
lot bigger than the shop. The shop was quite small,

787
01:07:39.719 --> 01:07:42.920
unless he lived in the back or something, and upstairs

788
01:07:43.000 --> 01:07:45.960
I don't know, and then maybe he just kept all

789
01:07:45.960 --> 01:07:51.360
his suits or stocked up. Oh, he had a really

790
01:07:51.360 --> 01:07:53.519
big bathroom. I don't know. But the place was that

791
01:07:53.719 --> 01:07:58.719
the building was not small, but his shop wasn't big,

792
01:07:59.719 --> 01:08:01.760
and go in and pretty much you walk in and

793
01:08:01.800 --> 01:08:04.360
you're pretty much you were at the counter when you

794
01:08:04.440 --> 01:08:08.000
got in there. There was no big long walk to

795
01:08:08.039 --> 01:08:18.399
get to the counter. And it was that exact building,

796
01:08:19.039 --> 01:08:22.520
that exact same shop as the chip shop that I

797
01:08:22.600 --> 01:08:32.319
ended up working in in eighty six. Wow, how strange

798
01:08:32.359 --> 01:08:40.680
is that I completely forgot until now? I wonder what

799
01:08:40.760 --> 01:08:47.520
other things I've forgotten, because this is the stuff that

800
01:08:47.640 --> 01:08:59.920
interests me, remembering things that you know, I guess I

801
01:09:00.239 --> 01:09:10.000
thought i'd forgotten, but was still there inside my memory.

802
01:09:10.840 --> 01:09:14.199
I mean, you know, arguably it wasn't the most exciting memory,

803
01:09:15.720 --> 01:09:22.000
perhaps not as intriguing and invigorating and yeah, on the

804
01:09:22.119 --> 01:09:29.159
edge of your chair sitting story that I thought it

805
01:09:29.239 --> 01:09:34.560
was when I told you. But I finally kind of

806
01:09:34.600 --> 01:09:39.640
interesting that I was able to remember something that i'd

807
01:09:39.760 --> 01:09:45.800
completely forgotten. In fact, I'd even forgotten that that used

808
01:09:45.800 --> 01:09:48.439
to be the sweet shop when I worked at the

809
01:09:48.560 --> 01:09:53.880
chip shop. So I've forgotten that that building was the

810
01:09:53.960 --> 01:09:57.680
chip shop and was the sweet shop. Sorry, I forgot.

811
01:10:00.079 --> 01:10:04.520
And then in nineteen eighty six, because it was a

812
01:10:04.560 --> 01:10:08.199
sweet shop probably until maybe nineteen eighty three eighty four.

813
01:10:14.479 --> 01:10:33.600
How weird. That's really strange, isn't it. Wow? Yeah, ooh, ooh, ooh.

814
01:10:33.680 --> 01:10:44.720
Do I only have other favorite chocolate or does ice

815
01:10:44.760 --> 01:10:50.520
cream count? I do? Like I too? You one of

816
01:10:50.560 --> 01:10:55.119
my oh what was it called? Oh? What's that chocolate?

817
01:10:55.199 --> 01:11:00.439
That ice cream covered in chocolate and freckles of like nut,

818
01:11:01.039 --> 01:11:04.680
and then you buy into it and eventually you've got

819
01:11:04.760 --> 01:11:08.760
like a bit of chocolate on her. Oh, it's been

820
01:11:09.119 --> 01:11:15.039
so long since I've had an ice cream bar. I

821
01:11:15.119 --> 01:11:16.960
used to know all the names of the ice creams,

822
01:11:17.000 --> 01:11:23.199
but it's gone out. Of mied it's left mired for

823
01:11:23.199 --> 01:11:33.000
some reason. M right. Thanks to that, Maria asks you,

824
01:11:33.439 --> 01:11:39.119
do you have a favorite all time comedian from your

825
01:11:39.199 --> 01:11:44.680
time at the comedy club, famous or otherwise? Thank you? Okay, Maria,

826
01:11:44.760 --> 01:11:55.600
thanks for that all time favorite comedian the So what

827
01:11:55.840 --> 01:12:01.199
do I early focus on comedians that I've seen, whether

828
01:12:01.319 --> 01:12:04.960
at my comedy well, the comedy club that I was

829
01:12:05.000 --> 01:12:07.920
involved in, or any other comedy club, or someone that

830
01:12:07.960 --> 01:12:10.720
I performed with or you know, I was on the

831
01:12:10.720 --> 01:12:18.600
same bill. But no comedians. Not going to talk about

832
01:12:18.600 --> 01:12:22.399
any comedians that are around, that have come afterwards or

833
01:12:22.439 --> 01:12:26.279
that were before, or anyone in America apart from the

834
01:12:26.319 --> 01:12:31.840
ones that see live. So as far as comedians, there's

835
01:12:31.880 --> 01:12:37.479
two comedians that made me laugh the most in a

836
01:12:37.600 --> 01:12:43.359
live show in my memory, and one was Dennis Leary.

837
01:12:43.840 --> 01:12:47.720
So he came over from America, but I saw him.

838
01:12:47.840 --> 01:12:52.720
I basically followed him around for I think he was

839
01:12:52.760 --> 01:12:57.840
here for about two weeks and I went and saw

840
01:12:57.920 --> 01:13:02.399
him at every opportunity. I saw him at probably four

841
01:13:02.439 --> 01:13:06.680
different clubs, and he was just hilarious. I just, honestly

842
01:13:06.760 --> 01:13:10.279
is one of the first comedians that i'd seene that

843
01:13:10.479 --> 01:13:18.039
just had me laughing all the way through, uncontrollably laughing.

844
01:13:19.760 --> 01:13:24.359
Another one, very similar situation. Really, it was a little

845
01:13:24.399 --> 01:13:29.760
bit later. It was Jerry dru Sadovich and it was

846
01:13:29.800 --> 01:13:33.239
in a little club. I I'm not sure if I'd performed,

847
01:13:34.199 --> 01:13:36.600
if I was performing that night, well, I just went

848
01:13:36.640 --> 01:13:40.079
there to watch him. But it was in it's in

849
01:13:40.119 --> 01:13:43.800
a room above a pub. It wasn't a big audience,

850
01:13:44.640 --> 01:13:50.000
but he was so so funny. I mean, it wasn't

851
01:13:50.000 --> 01:13:52.640
a small audience, but there was probably couldn't have been

852
01:13:52.640 --> 01:13:55.319
more than like fifty sixty people there, so it wasn't

853
01:13:55.359 --> 01:13:58.359
a big space at a nice stage. He just stood

854
01:13:59.079 --> 01:14:04.039
on the same level as the audience. So funny. I

855
01:14:04.079 --> 01:14:09.640
was laughing. I really laughed loud, just like just so,

856
01:14:09.800 --> 01:14:16.800
they're the two that made me laugh the most at

857
01:14:16.800 --> 01:14:24.640
a performance, you know that. That. Yeah, so then too,

858
01:14:24.840 --> 01:14:29.159
they're not my favorite comedians, which is a probably weird

859
01:14:29.199 --> 01:14:32.039
thing to say, but if I was going to choose

860
01:14:32.039 --> 01:14:36.920
my favorite comedians, and I've got respect for any anyone

861
01:14:36.960 --> 01:14:42.840
that will go on stage and perform because it's not easy,

862
01:14:43.439 --> 01:14:48.399
and anyone that can actually be successful, like wow, that's

863
01:14:48.520 --> 01:14:54.199
that's amazing. It's like good, good for them. But as

864
01:14:54.239 --> 01:15:00.399
far as favorite performers, favorite comedians, I I do like

865
01:15:00.479 --> 01:15:04.680
Jimmy Carr. Jimmy Carr's funny. I find him funny, and

866
01:15:04.720 --> 01:15:07.560
I used to know him as well. So I saw

867
01:15:07.640 --> 01:15:12.640
him for years performing at comparing at the club, you know,

868
01:15:12.760 --> 01:15:15.479
so I knew him. I didn't know him really well,

869
01:15:15.520 --> 01:15:18.239
but I knew him to chat to and I saw

870
01:15:18.319 --> 01:15:25.399
him perform on stage probably at least a hundred times,

871
01:15:25.399 --> 01:15:28.680
if not more. So I kind of I knew his

872
01:15:28.760 --> 01:15:36.600
act inside and out at that time, but not anymore so.

873
01:15:38.319 --> 01:15:40.439
I guess I didn't appreciate him as much because I

874
01:15:40.520 --> 01:15:42.640
kept seeing him. He was doing a lot of the

875
01:15:42.680 --> 01:15:46.640
same stuff, which is just normal for comedians, you know,

876
01:15:46.800 --> 01:15:48.960
if they move around, they do the same They might

877
01:15:49.000 --> 01:15:52.479
have like five four gigs in one night and perform

878
01:15:52.560 --> 01:15:55.800
the same act four times in a row. But the

879
01:15:55.840 --> 01:15:58.840
audience to them is new because they've not seen him before,

880
01:15:59.600 --> 01:16:04.319
especially on the London circuit where most of the comedians

881
01:16:04.479 --> 01:16:09.319
are not famous, well a lot at that time, most

882
01:16:09.359 --> 01:16:12.279
of them weren't known, so people would see them for

883
01:16:12.319 --> 01:16:19.359
the first time. So what seemed like ad libbing or

884
01:16:19.359 --> 01:16:21.319
what seemed like it might seem like the comedian was

885
01:16:21.319 --> 01:16:24.439
making stuff up on the spot when actually they weren't.

886
01:16:24.479 --> 01:16:30.760
It was finely tuned, honed material from years of doing it.

887
01:16:34.640 --> 01:16:38.199
I'm just trying to think my favorite. That's the problem

888
01:16:38.199 --> 01:16:40.840
I had. One of the problems I had, apart from

889
01:16:40.880 --> 01:16:49.159
not being very good, is I didn't have the discipline

890
01:16:50.560 --> 01:16:54.439
to go on stage and perform the same material. It

891
01:16:54.560 --> 01:16:57.640
bored me performing the same material. I wanted to write

892
01:16:57.680 --> 01:17:02.680
new material, and the new material was no better than

893
01:17:02.680 --> 01:17:05.800
the old material, and none of it was particularly great.

894
01:17:05.880 --> 01:17:08.880
I had a few good with one liners, but it

895
01:17:08.960 --> 01:17:14.359
was I didn't and it. And also depending on what

896
01:17:14.439 --> 01:17:18.800
mood I was in about how I performed. And there's

897
01:17:18.840 --> 01:17:23.640
one gig I did where it's actually for the same promoter,

898
01:17:24.239 --> 01:17:26.560
so she would I. I only had two promoters that

899
01:17:26.640 --> 01:17:31.800
would give me regular gigs, paid gigs, and one was

900
01:17:31.880 --> 01:17:38.119
Dolly and every one was z And Dolly was a

901
01:17:38.159 --> 01:17:41.640
fellow comedian like me. She was quite new, but she

902
01:17:41.760 --> 01:17:44.279
was a good promoter and she we were friends, and

903
01:17:44.319 --> 01:17:48.000
she gave me a gigs wherever she was. She she

904
01:17:48.119 --> 01:17:51.239
opened up little clubs around the cut around London area.

905
01:17:51.880 --> 01:17:54.760
She had R one, a really good one, uh R

906
01:17:54.880 --> 01:17:57.960
big one in kind of men where it is now

907
01:17:59.039 --> 01:18:02.720
or where it was? If it's still it's still running.

908
01:18:02.840 --> 01:18:29.479
I'm going to check this now it's I wonder. I

909
01:18:29.720 --> 01:18:34.479
wonder now I've been running since two thousand and two.

910
01:18:35.079 --> 01:18:47.199
That's long after I was Mine was the nineties, I

911
01:18:47.239 --> 01:18:50.479
wonder if because Okay, so there was a comedy club

912
01:18:50.560 --> 01:18:54.600
called the Crack Comedy Club and she had to change

913
01:18:54.600 --> 01:18:58.319
her name to Crack as in the Irish version, which

914
01:18:58.359 --> 01:19:06.359
is c r A I k I think, and it

915
01:19:06.479 --> 01:19:13.760
was really good club, really good. I wonder, of course

916
01:19:13.920 --> 01:19:26.520
is Land stand up? Okay, so I'll go back if

917
01:19:26.520 --> 01:19:34.239
I put in the original name. What's going on? Okay,

918
01:19:34.359 --> 01:19:37.960
maybe it's not running anymore. It's possible. I mean sometimes

919
01:19:38.039 --> 01:19:43.520
even if a club's really all it is, it is

920
01:19:43.000 --> 01:19:49.720
it is, but it looks like this one is in Ireland,

921
01:19:52.960 --> 01:20:00.319
I said about the crack Den Comedy Club is where

922
01:20:00.319 --> 01:20:10.960
Ireland's best comedians take to the stage. So yes, in Ireland. No,

923
01:20:11.840 --> 01:20:18.039
I thought it was a Wimbledon the Crack then comedy Okay,

924
01:20:20.359 --> 01:20:31.439
do I remember her name, Dolly Dupre. It's weird. I

925
01:20:31.439 --> 01:20:34.239
don't remember her name, but I do. The comedy club

926
01:20:35.479 --> 01:20:41.439
must include Dolly Dupre. Dolly Dupre doty dopri doty dotty

927
01:20:41.479 --> 01:20:43.800
dotty dupre did.

928
01:20:43.640 --> 01:20:46.279
Do do do do do did did.

929
01:20:47.840 --> 01:20:50.000
No. I can't seem to find it, but she was

930
01:20:50.079 --> 01:20:53.159
really good to me, so that was nice. And Z

931
01:20:54.319 --> 01:20:58.520
my friend Zed. He had a club called Chicken Riggies

932
01:21:00.960 --> 01:21:05.239
and again he had like a really really big one

933
01:21:05.720 --> 01:21:09.760
on a Sunday night, big audience, but he also had

934
01:21:09.840 --> 01:21:14.039
other ones started around, like in pubs and stuff. So

935
01:21:15.119 --> 01:21:19.399
everyone loved Dead, they really did, because he was he

936
01:21:19.479 --> 01:21:23.159
was lovely. But he One of the things he did

937
01:21:23.640 --> 01:21:29.840
is he'd put on a comedy night and it all

938
01:21:30.000 --> 01:21:33.760
he'd get good acts. He'd also give people like me

939
01:21:33.960 --> 01:21:37.119
a chance. Plus he was my friend anyway, but he

940
01:21:37.239 --> 01:21:40.439
gave people like me, you know, an opportunity to do

941
01:21:41.079 --> 01:21:43.520
a gig, and if we did well, he'd give it pay.

942
01:21:44.680 --> 01:21:48.079
But something that he was known for is he always

943
01:21:48.119 --> 01:21:51.760
paid the acts, regardless of what the audience was, like,

944
01:21:52.479 --> 01:21:56.399
how many people turned up, even if no one turned up,

945
01:21:56.520 --> 01:21:59.640
he would still pay the acts. So he was able

946
01:21:59.680 --> 01:22:03.560
to get big names on the circuit to do his

947
01:22:03.640 --> 01:22:08.199
gigs because he would pay. He'd arrange a payment and

948
01:22:08.239 --> 01:22:11.439
he'd pay probably as much as any of the other clubs,

949
01:22:11.920 --> 01:22:14.399
maybe not the comedy store, but you know, like the

950
01:22:14.520 --> 01:22:17.680
normal club. So whether it was one hundred quid or

951
01:22:17.680 --> 01:22:23.520
whatever it was back then, that's it'd pay the acts

952
01:22:23.600 --> 01:22:30.800
that money, so guaranteed he got decent acts. And everyone

953
01:22:30.920 --> 01:22:35.319
liked him, everyone respected him, and he did compare himself.

954
01:22:37.399 --> 01:22:40.079
But the audience, because he was friends with the audience,

955
01:22:40.560 --> 01:22:43.039
it's almost like he invited his friends to come along

956
01:22:43.600 --> 01:22:47.680
and it was a z party. It was a really

957
01:22:47.800 --> 01:22:56.319
nice atmosphere, really really nice. So I'm thinking if I

958
01:22:56.399 --> 01:22:59.279
was going to say my favorite stand up to me

959
01:23:00.399 --> 01:23:04.039
edian in this country out of those that I met

960
01:23:04.680 --> 01:23:11.079
whilst doing comedy or ones that I saw on stage, Oh,

961
01:23:13.399 --> 01:23:24.279
Stewart Lee number one. Stewart Lee. Yeah, A short answer,

962
01:23:25.439 --> 01:23:30.880
So yeah, Stewart Lee was my I was going to

963
01:23:30.960 --> 01:23:37.239
say he's probably my favorite. Now the answer would have

964
01:23:37.239 --> 01:23:42.920
been different. In the nineties, I had a few. I

965
01:23:42.960 --> 01:23:45.880
would say my favorite. For a while, my favorite comedian

966
01:23:46.039 --> 01:23:50.880
was Mark Thomas. Absolutely loved Mark Thomas, and I wanted

967
01:23:50.880 --> 01:23:55.199
to be him. I was never going to be him,

968
01:23:55.760 --> 01:24:02.399
but I wanted to be him because I just it

969
01:24:02.479 --> 01:24:05.960
was nice to me. But that again, so was. I

970
01:24:06.079 --> 01:24:11.960
used to see Stewart Lee quite often I did quite

971
01:24:12.000 --> 01:24:14.720
a few gigs with him, and he was always nice

972
01:24:14.720 --> 01:24:17.439
to me, and he treated me as an equal, and

973
01:24:17.479 --> 01:24:23.600
I wasn't. You know. He was a headliner and he's

974
01:24:23.640 --> 01:24:27.560
got a huge following around the world. Actually, but he's

975
01:24:27.600 --> 01:24:30.680
got a huge following, and he does a lot of

976
01:24:30.720 --> 01:24:36.159
live gigs. I think he's written books, he's had DVD.

977
01:24:36.680 --> 01:24:41.000
You know, he's done specials on Amazon or Netflix, one

978
01:24:41.039 --> 01:24:47.600
of them. But he doesn't He was never up himself,

979
01:24:51.399 --> 01:24:54.479
and he never put me down, even though I was

980
01:24:54.680 --> 01:24:58.520
pretty much useless at the old stand up. He was

981
01:24:59.479 --> 01:25:02.920
nice to me. I did find that quite often with

982
01:25:03.000 --> 01:25:06.039
some of the really good comedians. They didn't need to

983
01:25:06.079 --> 01:25:14.920
be horrible because they were very secure, I guess in

984
01:25:14.960 --> 01:25:20.159
their own abilities. There's some other comedians I will mention,

985
01:25:20.319 --> 01:25:22.239
so Stewart Lee will be I put him at the top.

986
01:25:23.560 --> 01:25:30.600
Now in the nineties there was a few that it's

987
01:25:30.640 --> 01:25:39.439
one particular one, Mark Lamar. Now Mark Lamar did comedy.

988
01:25:40.319 --> 01:25:42.159
He didn't do it for a long time before he

989
01:25:42.279 --> 01:25:46.600
was discovered and got on TV. So I saw him

990
01:25:46.680 --> 01:25:50.840
quite I saw it quite a few times before he

991
01:25:50.880 --> 01:25:53.520
got on TV and he started doing a big brother,

992
01:25:53.720 --> 01:25:58.319
not a big Breakfast, rather the Word, and this is

993
01:25:58.479 --> 01:26:03.960
early nineties, and then he did the never Mind the

994
01:26:04.000 --> 01:26:08.560
buzz Cocks. He did a couple of other things as well,

995
01:26:08.640 --> 01:26:11.800
so he's you know, he established himself as a TV

996
01:26:11.920 --> 01:26:16.560
star and he's got radio shows. I think he still

997
01:26:16.560 --> 01:26:24.560
does radio shows now. I remember in about late nineties,

998
01:26:24.640 --> 01:26:35.039
maybe two thousand, he he was doing he came and

999
01:26:35.079 --> 01:26:39.119
did a gig, but he was doing a live I

1000
01:26:39.159 --> 01:26:41.199
don't know if he did a gig or he just no.

1001
01:26:41.239 --> 01:26:43.520
I think he actually did a gig. It was like

1002
01:26:44.359 --> 01:26:51.520
my friends, it was the celebration of the the tenth

1003
01:26:51.600 --> 01:26:55.680
anniversary of the Comedy Club something like that. So Mark Lamar,

1004
01:26:56.439 --> 01:26:58.760
quite a few other big names came along and did

1005
01:26:58.800 --> 01:27:01.199
a show. So it was a special, like one off thing.

1006
01:27:01.920 --> 01:27:05.600
Maybe it was for charity something like that. And so

1007
01:27:05.760 --> 01:27:08.800
Mark Laura was there and I said to him, I

1008
01:27:08.840 --> 01:27:10.560
didn't know, I don't even know if he remembers me,

1009
01:27:11.239 --> 01:27:13.239
if he remembered me at that point, because I've done

1010
01:27:13.319 --> 01:27:19.000
gigs with him, you know, eight nine years earlier. But

1011
01:27:19.079 --> 01:27:23.399
I said to him, you know what, it's really weird.

1012
01:27:24.800 --> 01:27:27.840
It's what's to tell you what's weird about you? And

1013
01:27:27.880 --> 01:27:33.760
he looked at me like, uh, huh, And I said,

1014
01:27:34.760 --> 01:27:40.680
what I don't understand is you go, You're on TV,

1015
01:27:42.920 --> 01:27:44.680
so you're big style, so you can making lots of

1016
01:27:44.720 --> 01:27:52.479
money and stuff, but you never you don't. I didn't,

1017
01:27:52.520 --> 01:27:55.920
I didn't say it rudely, but you don't come across

1018
01:27:56.800 --> 01:28:01.000
your your stand up ability does not come across on TV.

1019
01:28:02.600 --> 01:28:04.960
And he said, what do you mean. I said, it's

1020
01:28:05.920 --> 01:28:08.760
like when you're doing the word and when you were

1021
01:28:08.800 --> 01:28:13.840
doing what people don't realize is that you were one

1022
01:28:13.920 --> 01:28:20.840
of the best comedians this country had. So he started

1023
01:28:20.840 --> 01:28:25.359
listening to me. Now, what Mark Lamar could do is

1024
01:28:27.800 --> 01:28:31.520
I once saw him on stage and it was at

1025
01:28:31.560 --> 01:28:42.159
the looking forward to Christmas this year? Do do do? Do? Do?

1026
01:28:43.840 --> 01:28:51.840
I want to celebrate Christmas because I want to make

1027
01:28:51.920 --> 01:28:54.640
some changes. I know I've moved on from I'm coming

1028
01:28:54.680 --> 01:28:58.640
back to Mark Lama. It's really got me thinking though

1029
01:28:58.840 --> 01:29:15.239
the last month is maybe miss introspection, isn't it, but

1030
01:29:15.359 --> 01:29:19.119
also outrospection because I'm also looking at my surroundings. It's

1031
01:29:19.119 --> 01:29:23.439
not really just how do I feel, but looking around

1032
01:29:24.520 --> 01:29:33.119
and having a different perspective because you know, since two

1033
01:29:33.159 --> 01:29:46.840
thousand this will be like one, two, three, four, potentially

1034
01:29:46.880 --> 01:29:53.279
four losses You know, just in those five years and

1035
01:29:54.399 --> 01:29:56.560
two of the biggest losses of my life was Luke

1036
01:29:56.800 --> 01:30:00.840
and Andre. So without getting all heavy and stuff is

1037
01:30:01.680 --> 01:30:06.880
and now we've Uncle sausages. I'm just like, perhaps I

1038
01:30:06.960 --> 01:30:12.840
need to be a bit more appreciative of what I

1039
01:30:12.920 --> 01:30:22.479
do have. Yeah, and I'm thinking I always loved Christmas

1040
01:30:22.520 --> 01:30:25.840
when I was a kid. I haven't loved Christmas since

1041
01:30:25.880 --> 01:30:29.359
I was a kid, but I do love the build

1042
01:30:29.439 --> 01:30:32.720
up to Christmas. Christmas itself is a time when I'm

1043
01:30:32.760 --> 01:30:37.279
on my own, and I don't I'm not particularly jolly,

1044
01:30:39.039 --> 01:30:43.399
but I do like the build up. And really I

1045
01:30:43.399 --> 01:30:51.399
think the thing that's missing is probably just being a

1046
01:30:51.479 --> 01:30:55.640
kid again, having loads of presents. You know, I suppose

1047
01:30:55.640 --> 01:30:59.399
I quite like to just go back to that. And

1048
01:30:59.600 --> 01:31:04.680
I can't go back to that, but just be opening

1049
01:31:04.720 --> 01:31:11.079
loads of presents on Christmas morning in my pajamas in

1050
01:31:11.159 --> 01:31:17.199
the park. Yeah, I don't know, but yeah, just just anyway,

1051
01:31:17.399 --> 01:31:24.399
back to Mark Lamar. I once saw him Stretten, not Stretton.

1052
01:31:26.760 --> 01:31:32.079
It wasn't Stretton. How it doesn't matter. If it was

1053
01:31:32.119 --> 01:31:38.680
a big, big, big gig. There was probably three hundred

1054
01:31:39.439 --> 01:31:42.199
people there at least that was quite big for a

1055
01:31:42.239 --> 01:31:45.039
gig like in a comedy circuit. But it was back

1056
01:31:45.079 --> 01:31:53.000
then and he'd just been to see what he said,

1057
01:31:53.000 --> 01:31:59.319
He had just been to see a what's his name?

1058
01:31:59.680 --> 01:32:11.199
The the wrapper. No, you can't fix this, do do

1059
01:32:11.199 --> 01:32:17.439
do not? Can't fix this, can't fix this, can't beat this,

1060
01:32:17.560 --> 01:32:27.399
can't mc hammer, what does this? Can't fix this? Whatever? Anyway,

1061
01:32:27.439 --> 01:32:29.560
it was mc hammer. So we went to see mc

1062
01:32:29.720 --> 01:32:36.319
hammer at Wembley. I think, well, maybe I'm sure he

1063
01:32:36.359 --> 01:32:38.840
said Hyde Park, but why would mc hammer be at

1064
01:32:38.920 --> 01:32:42.119
hyde Park? That's going to be it. I'm going to

1065
01:32:42.199 --> 01:33:00.119
google that mc hammer hammer at Hyde Park, Hyde Park

1066
01:33:01.119 --> 01:33:15.359
nineteen ninety, nineteen ninety one. Wow, images of mc hammer

1067
01:33:15.439 --> 01:33:29.359
at na Hyde Park in nineteen ninety one. Really, he

1068
01:33:29.479 --> 01:33:36.000
was like, what a weird thing to remember he did

1069
01:33:36.119 --> 01:33:39.239
forty eight concerts on his world tour in ninety one,

1070
01:33:40.039 --> 01:33:49.560
so let's just go to UK. So he did. He

1071
01:33:49.640 --> 01:33:56.600
came to the UK May twoententy thirteen. Wembley Stadium, Wembley Stadium,

1072
01:33:56.640 --> 01:34:04.199
Wendley Stadium, Wembley Stadium and then GMCH Center which is

1073
01:34:04.239 --> 01:34:09.800
in Manchester. Wembley Arena. I went to, Yeah, went well,

1074
01:34:09.800 --> 01:34:18.760
Wembley Arena, Wembley Arena, National Exhibition Center. That's third of May,

1075
01:34:20.399 --> 01:34:27.319
second of May. Let's go next. So where this this

1076
01:34:27.399 --> 01:34:36.760
sounds about right in the summer, But where is it?

1077
01:34:37.000 --> 01:34:40.520
Where does it say? Hyde Park? I'll not seen anything

1078
01:34:40.680 --> 01:34:50.079
any Hyde Park, Wembley Arena. Maybe it was just an appearance.

1079
01:34:50.119 --> 01:34:52.359
I don't know. I can't see any Hyde Park here.

1080
01:34:52.920 --> 01:34:54.600
But when I put it in it did come up

1081
01:34:55.399 --> 01:35:17.800
Hyde Park. Please don't hurt world tour. That's weird. There's

1082
01:35:17.800 --> 01:35:28.600
actually a video on YouTube. It says classic. Maybe it

1083
01:35:28.640 --> 01:35:33.000
was a Wembley. It was somewhere. I mean it was

1084
01:35:33.079 --> 01:35:35.680
quite late, to be fair. I think he went on

1085
01:35:35.720 --> 01:35:40.880
stage about eleven or ten or eleven. Mark Lamar did so.

1086
01:35:41.039 --> 01:35:43.520
Maybe he had been to the concert and he came

1087
01:35:43.560 --> 01:35:48.479
straight there. So but I said what he did. He

1088
01:35:48.520 --> 01:35:51.479
talked about mc hammer. But there was one point where

1089
01:35:51.479 --> 01:35:55.319
there was someone sitting on a table in front of

1090
01:35:55.359 --> 01:35:59.520
the stage and Mark Lamar looked down at him and

1091
01:35:59.560 --> 01:36:06.079
the bloke was just looking at the table and Mark

1092
01:36:06.159 --> 01:36:10.039
Lamar and sick, he says, Mark, Mark, he got about

1093
01:36:10.119 --> 01:36:14.199
ten minutes worth of material just by the person looking

1094
01:36:14.239 --> 01:36:20.159
at the table. He was that good. He just ad libbed.

1095
01:36:22.760 --> 01:36:25.920
That's what he was so good at I mean, I

1096
01:36:25.960 --> 01:36:29.199
know he had material and he probably used maybe he

1097
01:36:29.279 --> 01:36:31.359
used some of it before, you know, but he was

1098
01:36:32.079 --> 01:36:42.199
he could talk, he could it wasn't all rehearsed and

1099
01:36:42.439 --> 01:36:45.000
was so he was so good. Honestly, he's one of

1100
01:36:45.039 --> 01:36:49.239
the best stand up comedians I ever saw, as far

1101
01:36:49.319 --> 01:36:54.880
as skill and how he could just get material out

1102
01:36:54.880 --> 01:37:01.319
of nothing. And I remember saying that to him and

1103
01:37:01.359 --> 01:37:05.760
he said, well, he agreed with me. Actually, very few

1104
01:37:05.760 --> 01:37:08.960
people disagree when you tell them that they're great. But

1105
01:37:09.359 --> 01:37:14.560
he said, because he was on tour. He just finished

1106
01:37:14.600 --> 01:37:18.079
his tour and he hadn't been on tour for years.

1107
01:37:18.439 --> 01:37:21.359
He did a tour when he first got famous, and

1108
01:37:21.399 --> 01:37:24.520
he did another one. This is probably ninety nine, two

1109
01:37:24.560 --> 01:37:29.560
thousand something like that, and he said he couldn't believe

1110
01:37:29.560 --> 01:37:31.600
the amount of people that came up to him afterwards

1111
01:37:31.640 --> 01:37:35.159
and said, well, that was really funny. Didn't expeak to

1112
01:37:35.199 --> 01:37:39.439
be that funny. Why did you come and see me? Then?

1113
01:37:41.039 --> 01:37:42.600
So they were going to see him because he was

1114
01:37:42.640 --> 01:37:50.720
hosted never mind the Buzzcocks, he was a television celebrity,

1115
01:37:50.760 --> 01:37:53.560
but they did they didn't realize that he was really funny,

1116
01:37:54.439 --> 01:38:00.279
like I mean stand up, I mean, and yeah, h

1117
01:38:03.760 --> 01:38:12.279
i'd say, now, Stuart Lee, Oh wow, I forgot one

1118
01:38:12.319 --> 01:38:24.159
of the main the main people. What's his name, Sean Locke.

1119
01:38:24.319 --> 01:38:25.640
I'm trying to think. I was going to try and

1120
01:38:25.680 --> 01:38:31.119
look it up, but yeah, Sew Lock Sew Locke. He

1121
01:38:31.399 --> 01:38:35.560
I thoughtunate he's not around anymore, but he was. There

1122
01:38:35.640 --> 01:38:42.520
was two comedians comedians there was when I was on

1123
01:38:42.560 --> 01:38:47.760
the circuit. There was only two comedians that really everyone got.

1124
01:38:47.760 --> 01:38:49.960
All the other comedians seemed to get excited to watch.

1125
01:38:52.279 --> 01:38:59.119
One of them was Eddie Zard and the other album

1126
01:38:59.319 --> 01:39:04.359
was Sewn. Those two were the ones where people would

1127
01:39:04.560 --> 01:39:07.159
the comedians would go and see them or if they

1128
01:39:07.159 --> 01:39:09.720
were doing a gig. They'll say, if they were doing

1129
01:39:09.720 --> 01:39:11.600
a show in a theater or they're doing a gig,

1130
01:39:11.880 --> 01:39:15.760
they'd turn up to watch them perform because they were

1131
01:39:15.920 --> 01:39:20.880
so good. That Eddie Yeizard was he was the king

1132
01:39:22.239 --> 01:39:26.319
of stand up in the nineties. I mean he he'd

1133
01:39:26.359 --> 01:39:29.359
already yeah, I tell you what he did, Eddie Hazard

1134
01:39:29.439 --> 01:39:34.560
he or she now, but what Eddie? What Eddie did?

1135
01:39:35.279 --> 01:39:42.760
Eddie Eddie? What Eddie did was I think he actually

1136
01:39:42.840 --> 01:39:47.199
paid to rent out a theater in the West End

1137
01:39:47.960 --> 01:39:52.640
and he put on his own show, and it became

1138
01:39:53.640 --> 01:40:01.000
a huge success, and I think I swim twice live.

1139
01:40:01.680 --> 01:40:04.560
He compared this show it was like a small gig,

1140
01:40:05.159 --> 01:40:13.560
but it was it was his gig, and the audience

1141
01:40:13.600 --> 01:40:18.159
were there to see him, you know. They weren't there

1142
01:40:18.199 --> 01:40:20.399
to see the other acts they see. They there just

1143
01:40:20.439 --> 01:40:23.439
to see him, and they would have been happy just

1144
01:40:23.479 --> 01:40:26.279
to watch him all night because he was so good.

1145
01:40:27.520 --> 01:40:31.720
And Sean Locke was another one where people would the

1146
01:40:31.760 --> 01:40:35.199
other comedians would get excited to see him. So the

1147
01:40:35.239 --> 01:40:39.640
comedians comedian, both of them were kind of at the

1148
01:40:39.640 --> 01:40:43.439
top of the list back then. The amount of times

1149
01:40:43.479 --> 01:40:46.880
I heard people saying, Oh, Sean Lock's on at the

1150
01:40:48.680 --> 01:40:50.399
is at the comedy store tonight, or is at the

1151
01:40:50.399 --> 01:40:54.239
comedy cafe, lays at Jonglers, and the comedians that could,

1152
01:40:54.479 --> 01:40:58.479
they'd finished their night, they'd go and see him. It

1153
01:40:58.560 --> 01:41:05.600
happened less with Eddie is hard because he was famous earlier,

1154
01:41:07.159 --> 01:41:12.960
so he was doing sold out theaters and travel in

1155
01:41:12.960 --> 01:41:16.840
the world, you know, So he was kind of the

1156
01:41:16.920 --> 01:41:20.960
most famous comedian pretty much from the circuit at that time.

1157
01:41:27.520 --> 01:41:29.960
All time favorite comedians, Yeah, so I'm going to say

1158
01:41:30.479 --> 01:41:39.359
Stewart Lee, but I've respected lots of them, and Alan Davis.

1159
01:41:39.560 --> 01:41:42.520
I really liked him and he was always really nice

1160
01:41:42.520 --> 01:41:46.000
to me, although he was a little cheeky. So Alan

1161
01:41:46.119 --> 01:41:51.239
Davis's he's gone. He went on to do TV shows

1162
01:41:51.239 --> 01:41:58.960
and stuff, and he's, what is that. There's a TV

1163
01:41:59.000 --> 01:42:01.720
show that he's on regular A couple of TV shows

1164
01:42:01.760 --> 01:42:04.199
is on regularly. But I remember I did a gig

1165
01:42:04.239 --> 01:42:08.960
with him and I said to him, if this doesn't

1166
01:42:09.000 --> 01:42:11.479
go well, I'm quitting. Because he used to chat to me.

1167
01:42:11.840 --> 01:42:16.479
He was he was a headline act, clearly going places,

1168
01:42:16.600 --> 01:42:20.359
he'd won awards, and he was just so down to

1169
01:42:20.399 --> 01:42:25.600
earth and friendly to me. Didn't don't you know some

1170
01:42:25.680 --> 01:42:29.640
comedians weren't, but he was. So he's very friendly and

1171
01:42:30.520 --> 01:42:33.119
he just laughed and we just have a laugh and

1172
01:42:33.119 --> 01:42:35.960
he said, I said, if this doesn't work out tonight,

1173
01:42:36.000 --> 01:42:42.000
I'm quitting. And the next time I see him at

1174
01:42:42.000 --> 01:42:47.199
a gig, is it a different gig? But I walk in,

1175
01:42:47.279 --> 01:42:49.279
I sit down, and he said, oh, I thought you'd quit,

1176
01:42:51.800 --> 01:42:54.359
and he started laughing. And I thought it was so

1177
01:42:54.520 --> 01:42:57.319
cheeky because it didn't go very well that that gig

1178
01:42:57.359 --> 01:43:02.399
that I'd had, but like really and it really it

1179
01:43:02.439 --> 01:43:07.199
tickled him. The fact is he remembered me. It's like, okay,

1180
01:43:07.680 --> 01:43:10.840
it's nice. It's nice to be remembered by someone that

1181
01:43:11.880 --> 01:43:19.119
is in that world. He was a superstar, like Eddie Izzard,

1182
01:43:19.520 --> 01:43:26.600
Mark Lamar Mark, Thomas, Kevin Day. The list is quite long,

1183
01:43:26.640 --> 01:43:29.720
to be fair, but they were all really big stars

1184
01:43:29.840 --> 01:43:33.119
on the circuit. They were super even if they were

1185
01:43:33.239 --> 01:43:37.960
on TV. Yet Harry Hill, people like that, you just knew.

1186
01:43:39.039 --> 01:43:40.520
It was so obvious that they were going to go

1187
01:43:40.600 --> 01:43:45.960
on to be TV stars. Ardlow Handlon, although I never

1188
01:43:46.000 --> 01:43:52.680
met him, it's yeah. And then there was others that

1189
01:43:52.840 --> 01:43:56.239
never became TV stars, and they were just as good,

1190
01:43:56.479 --> 01:44:01.840
just as funny. For whatever reason, they didn't go on

1191
01:44:01.880 --> 01:44:07.680
to be big stars. Someone like booth By Grafo, phenomenal performer,

1192
01:44:09.680 --> 01:44:13.399
but he never went on to be a huge star.

1193
01:44:13.479 --> 01:44:16.880
There was another one, I forget his name, but he

1194
01:44:16.920 --> 01:44:22.000
was doing theaters. He was really doing well, but he

1195
01:44:22.079 --> 01:44:25.640
never went on to be a star, never went on

1196
01:44:25.680 --> 01:44:29.600
to be on TV or anything like that. And it's

1197
01:44:29.640 --> 01:44:35.560
not because his material was adults. It wasn't. I don't

1198
01:44:35.600 --> 01:44:42.000
know what happened. I just it's not. Everyone fits the mole,

1199
01:44:42.079 --> 01:44:46.439
I suppose or not. Everyone fits in with what the

1200
01:44:46.520 --> 01:44:56.760
TV people want yeah, I'm going to stick with Steward Lee.

1201
01:44:57.880 --> 01:45:02.560
But as far as heroes, I would say Mark Thomas,

1202
01:45:02.600 --> 01:45:05.800
for he was one of my heroes a comedy. But

1203
01:45:05.880 --> 01:45:08.479
I really I really liked Stuart Lee because we used

1204
01:45:08.520 --> 01:45:11.640
to chat and stuff, so he was always nice. He

1205
01:45:11.680 --> 01:45:16.439
actually he used to be able to forget what the

1206
01:45:16.520 --> 01:45:21.000
right word is, but he could break down someone's act

1207
01:45:23.840 --> 01:45:25.840
and tell me a joke. So he would tell me

1208
01:45:25.880 --> 01:45:33.600
a joke in another person's style. So for example, he said, oh,

1209
01:45:33.760 --> 01:45:36.640
Mark Thomas, because I think I was gushing about Mark

1210
01:45:36.680 --> 01:45:40.039
Thomas to him. He said, okay, here's what Mark Thomas does,

1211
01:45:40.479 --> 01:45:44.720
and he told me a joke. He basically said something

1212
01:45:44.720 --> 01:45:46.399
and this, this is a joke in the style of

1213
01:45:46.399 --> 01:45:52.479
Mark Thomas. And it was as like, okay, but it

1214
01:45:52.520 --> 01:45:56.119
didn't have the same delivery as Mark Thomas. Because Stewart

1215
01:45:56.239 --> 01:46:00.880
Lee's very laid back, very chilled out. Mark Thomas is

1216
01:46:02.199 --> 01:46:06.199
very kind of edgy. He was quite edgy back then,

1217
01:46:06.520 --> 01:46:11.520
and he wasn't He talked fast. And I absolutely adored

1218
01:46:11.560 --> 01:46:13.560
Mark Thomas, I really did. I used to see him

1219
01:46:13.600 --> 01:46:16.319
and he actually put me on the list, gave me

1220
01:46:16.359 --> 01:46:20.159
a telephone number, he put me on the What's it

1221
01:46:20.199 --> 01:46:23.239
a list for his Comedy Store performance. So I went

1222
01:46:23.279 --> 01:46:27.039
along and watched it, and he was really cool. And

1223
01:46:27.079 --> 01:46:30.760
he's also someone that remembers who remembers people. So I

1224
01:46:30.760 --> 01:46:34.000
saw him years later when I was dealing with the

1225
01:46:34.000 --> 01:46:36.600
comedy club and he walked in with his shorts on

1226
01:46:36.680 --> 01:46:40.000
because he was doing a charity gig and he turns up.

1227
01:46:40.479 --> 01:46:44.920
You're right, like like I saw him yesterday, and it

1228
01:46:45.000 --> 01:46:48.840
was just like a normal person. Neither a normal person.

1229
01:46:48.920 --> 01:46:53.319
But you know, to me, regardless whether he's still on

1230
01:46:53.399 --> 01:46:58.600
TV or not, he'll always be a star because he was.

1231
01:47:00.319 --> 01:47:05.039
He you know, another person you could say put it.

1232
01:47:06.359 --> 01:47:10.680
You could argue saying the most famous person is I

1233
01:47:10.760 --> 01:47:12.279
used to know. I used toteal a lot of gigs

1234
01:47:12.319 --> 01:47:14.279
with this person. And he's also someone that I used

1235
01:47:14.319 --> 01:47:18.279
to talk to quite a lot. He was nice. He

1236
01:47:18.359 --> 01:47:23.720
was at university while he was doing comedy, and then

1237
01:47:23.720 --> 01:47:26.119
he went on to be well known to be a

1238
01:47:26.119 --> 01:47:31.319
really headliner act and think and wrote books, did radio,

1239
01:47:31.520 --> 01:47:34.920
did some TV, all that kind of stuff. And Spider

1240
01:47:34.960 --> 01:47:41.800
Man's dad Tom Holland, not Tom Holland, Tom Holland's dad,

1241
01:47:42.159 --> 01:47:46.960
So he is, don't Spider Man Tom Holland. His dad

1242
01:47:47.000 --> 01:47:53.840
is Dominic Holland and he's a stand up comedian. It's

1243
01:47:53.920 --> 01:47:58.000
really weird because I met him long before Tom Holland

1244
01:47:58.079 --> 01:48:03.680
was born, before I guess before he was married, before

1245
01:48:04.199 --> 01:48:08.000
Dominic got married and stuff and had kids, still at university,

1246
01:48:11.800 --> 01:48:17.720
and it was so lovely, so friendly. Another one, Harry Hill,

1247
01:48:17.800 --> 01:48:23.119
was really friendly. He's a bit of She'll give you

1248
01:48:23.119 --> 01:48:29.960
a little bit of information about Harry Hill that you

1249
01:48:30.000 --> 01:48:35.439
wouldn't know unless I told you, unless you already knew.

1250
01:48:35.720 --> 01:48:37.960
You wouldn't know unless you know. If you already knew,

1251
01:48:38.039 --> 01:48:46.439
then there's nothing new. I think in about ninety I

1252
01:48:46.479 --> 01:48:51.960
think it was ninety two Harry Hill. It was almost

1253
01:48:52.039 --> 01:48:54.000
like they knew he was going to be a star,

1254
01:48:55.119 --> 01:48:57.439
and he went on to be a star. I mean,

1255
01:48:57.479 --> 01:49:00.600
he still is a star. He's a very famous TV

1256
01:49:00.760 --> 01:49:05.800
celebrity and I used to love watching him on TV

1257
01:49:06.000 --> 01:49:10.720
when he did his TV burp. It's funny, it's really funny.

1258
01:49:11.159 --> 01:49:18.720
So I saw him rife from the beginning. And they

1259
01:49:19.159 --> 01:49:23.760
announced in Time Out and maybe somewhere else that they

1260
01:49:23.800 --> 01:49:27.199
had changed his name because initially his name was Harry

1261
01:49:27.239 --> 01:49:33.720
Hall hh do bollell and they announced Harry Hall will

1262
01:49:33.760 --> 01:49:39.520
now be changing his name to Harry Hill because another

1263
01:49:39.720 --> 01:49:43.399
celebrity or performer had the name Harry Hall and they

1264
01:49:43.399 --> 01:49:47.359
were not happy that he was using that name and

1265
01:49:47.439 --> 01:49:55.680
they had it registered with whoever you register your name with.

1266
01:49:57.520 --> 01:50:01.479
So Harry Hall was his original name. Then he changed

1267
01:50:01.520 --> 01:50:05.960
it to Harry Hill. And let me see. So I'm

1268
01:50:05.960 --> 01:50:08.159
going to check this up and see what it comes

1269
01:50:08.239 --> 01:50:21.000
up on his So Harry Hill. Look at his Wikipedia page. Right,

1270
01:50:22.880 --> 01:50:32.000
born Matthew Keith Hall. That's his actual name. Is Harry

1271
01:50:32.119 --> 01:50:37.039
a short name for Matthew. I don't know. So his

1272
01:50:37.479 --> 01:50:48.199
original stand up name was Harry Hall. Blimey. He won

1273
01:50:48.279 --> 01:50:51.279
the Perrier Award for Best Newcomer at nineteen ninety two

1274
01:50:51.479 --> 01:50:57.039
Edward Festival Fringe Best Newcomer here I remember that, and

1275
01:50:57.079 --> 01:51:02.800
then he went on to He did Harry Hill's TV

1276
01:51:02.960 --> 01:51:09.800
Burp from two thousand and one to twenty twelve. Wow,

1277
01:51:10.840 --> 01:51:17.680
I still love watching that. Oh he did You've been framed? Yeah,

1278
01:51:17.720 --> 01:51:20.359
so he's but he's another one that was really lovely.

1279
01:51:21.399 --> 01:51:24.159
He seemed to turn into his character though, So he've

1280
01:51:24.199 --> 01:51:27.079
got this character on stage and I noticed that he

1281
01:51:27.159 --> 01:51:31.039
seemed to be when I saw him off stage, which

1282
01:51:31.079 --> 01:51:35.199
is fairly often before gigs. It seemed like he was

1283
01:51:35.239 --> 01:51:38.680
just turning into that person. Maybe that just was the person,

1284
01:51:42.359 --> 01:51:46.720
but he was definitely brilliant, brilliant comedian saw him loads

1285
01:51:46.760 --> 01:51:49.680
of times. Very funny. But yeah, I'm going to stick

1286
01:51:49.720 --> 01:51:56.960
with Stuart Lee because the deconstruction that he does are

1287
01:51:57.079 --> 01:52:02.560
like that, he kind of deconstrut ducks his own jokes

1288
01:52:03.600 --> 01:52:11.199
before he tells them, and it's so well written. And

1289
01:52:11.319 --> 01:52:14.880
my stomach's gurgling, which makes me think, when did I

1290
01:52:14.920 --> 01:52:20.000
have my breakfast? Six thirty seven? Almost time to have

1291
01:52:20.039 --> 01:52:27.319
something to eat? Yeah, Sostuart Lee. The next question ing

1292
01:52:27.960 --> 01:52:31.680
which member of the royal family do you like the most? Now,

1293
01:52:31.840 --> 01:52:36.560
I'm not saying this to be controversial, but none of them. No,

1294
01:52:36.640 --> 01:52:39.359
I'm not saying this to be controversial, but the only

1295
01:52:40.000 --> 01:52:44.039
member of the royal family that I ever really liked

1296
01:52:44.600 --> 01:52:50.479
other than the Queen would be Princess Diana. Princess Dinah

1297
01:52:50.520 --> 01:52:53.239
was my favorite. Now I realize you're probably talking about

1298
01:52:53.239 --> 01:52:58.000
ones that are still alive. I don't have any. I

1299
01:52:58.000 --> 01:53:00.880
don't really feel any connection with any of them. To

1300
01:53:00.920 --> 01:53:06.720
be honest with you, I felt, I don't know, not connection,

1301
01:53:06.880 --> 01:53:10.279
but I love Princess Diana, not loved her, but I

1302
01:53:10.399 --> 01:53:13.960
just she was from a very early age, she was

1303
01:53:15.039 --> 01:53:18.760
the princess. She was the most famous member of the

1304
01:53:18.840 --> 01:53:23.199
royal family really, and then you've got the Queen, and

1305
01:53:23.239 --> 01:53:30.920
I've grown up seeing the Queen. But I've never, I

1306
01:53:31.159 --> 01:53:36.159
really have not had much interest in a royal family ever.

1307
01:53:37.159 --> 01:53:42.920
I've seen. I've watched two raw weddings. I watched the

1308
01:53:42.960 --> 01:53:46.000
Princess Diana and Prince Charles at the time Prince Charles

1309
01:53:46.119 --> 01:53:52.600
now King Charles, and I watched the Prince Andrew and

1310
01:53:54.560 --> 01:54:00.640
Fergie get married Sarah Ferguson get married in was it

1311
01:54:01.720 --> 01:54:09.560
nineteen eighty seven. I think outside of that, I've not

1312
01:54:09.600 --> 01:54:16.960
watched any of the other weddings, and I think, really

1313
01:54:18.760 --> 01:54:28.880
the way that they're being treated by the press, and yeah,

1314
01:54:28.880 --> 01:54:32.840
I just don't I'm not. It's almost like the if

1315
01:54:32.880 --> 01:54:37.479
you read the newspapers so much about the royal family

1316
01:54:37.600 --> 01:54:41.039
and none of it interests me. So yeah, it's not

1317
01:54:41.119 --> 01:54:44.880
really if you're in this country, the royal families, either

1318
01:54:44.920 --> 01:54:49.680
you really like them or you're not bothered. I mean,

1319
01:54:49.680 --> 01:54:52.000
I know some people are anti, but I'm not anti

1320
01:54:52.119 --> 01:54:55.239
anything really, not really, you know, I'm not that interested

1321
01:54:55.279 --> 01:55:00.000
in it, to be against it, but yeah, not really.

1322
01:55:00.159 --> 01:55:04.640
He never really been that involved in the royal family

1323
01:55:04.680 --> 01:55:07.760
and many Even the other day, I was in the

1324
01:55:07.760 --> 01:55:10.840
hospital because I've been going up and down for a

1325
01:55:10.880 --> 01:55:16.119
month to the hospital to see mister Sausages, and a

1326
01:55:16.119 --> 01:55:18.359
couple of weeks ago, there was all these police and

1327
01:55:19.079 --> 01:55:23.880
security and cameras and stuff. I didn't realize it was

1328
01:55:24.560 --> 01:55:31.319
Prince Williams's wife was there. My stomach proper gurgling. I

1329
01:55:31.319 --> 01:55:33.760
didn't know she was there. I couldn't see her because

1330
01:55:33.800 --> 01:55:37.640
she was surrounded by police and camera people. It's only

1331
01:55:37.680 --> 01:55:41.119
when I left I was told, oh, yeah, Princess of

1332
01:55:41.199 --> 01:55:49.000
Wales was there. I thought, no, See this is how,

1333
01:55:52.319 --> 01:55:54.439
this is how my mind works, and it's very small

1334
01:55:54.479 --> 01:55:56.960
minded and it's very petty. There's only ever going to

1335
01:55:56.960 --> 01:56:02.439
be one Princess of Wells during my lifetime, and that

1336
01:56:02.600 --> 01:56:07.560
is Prince what's her name, Diana, And it's only ever

1337
01:56:07.600 --> 01:56:10.239
going to be one queen. And as the queen, I

1338
01:56:10.279 --> 01:56:12.239
know there's going to be other queens that there might

1339
01:56:12.600 --> 01:56:15.880
hopefully there'll be another queen in my lifetime if I'm

1340
01:56:15.920 --> 01:56:25.239
lucky enough to see Kate's become queen. But to me,

1341
01:56:27.439 --> 01:56:32.439
my queen is the queen, you know, the proper queen

1342
01:56:32.520 --> 01:56:35.399
that was a queen for thousands of years or whatever,

1343
01:56:35.720 --> 01:56:39.399
you know that passed away three years ago. She was

1344
01:56:39.439 --> 01:56:43.760
my queen, and Princess Diana was the only Prince of Wales,

1345
01:56:43.840 --> 01:56:49.359
Princess of Wales, and Prince Charles was the only only

1346
01:56:49.439 --> 01:56:53.000
Prince of Wales. It's weird. Although you know, his son's

1347
01:56:53.079 --> 01:56:56.840
now Prince of Wales. So I don't really recognize that, don't.

1348
01:56:57.600 --> 01:57:00.319
I don't not recognize it. It's just when I think

1349
01:57:00.359 --> 01:57:04.720
of the Princess or Wells, I think of Diana. I

1350
01:57:04.760 --> 01:57:07.800
can't help it. And I know that she hasn't been

1351
01:57:07.840 --> 01:57:11.560
around for twenty five years, but hey, no, nearly twenty

1352
01:57:11.680 --> 01:57:15.640
by twenty eight years. I just that's just what I remember.

1353
01:57:15.680 --> 01:57:22.840
That's what part of my memory, because there hasn't been

1354
01:57:22.880 --> 01:57:26.960
a Princess of Wells is there until more recently, like

1355
01:57:27.039 --> 01:57:30.359
I don't know whenever what's her name married Prince William.

1356
01:57:32.319 --> 01:57:36.600
So yeah, I don't like any of them. I don't

1357
01:57:36.640 --> 01:57:39.319
dislike them. Don't get me wrong. I've got no issue

1358
01:57:39.319 --> 01:57:42.600
with any of them, but I don't. I don't have

1359
01:57:42.680 --> 01:57:50.319
any kind of feelings about them. It just yeah, it's

1360
01:57:50.359 --> 01:57:59.159
a different world. They have a different life to me.

1361
01:57:59.319 --> 01:58:02.079
I've never had been anywhere close to that kind of lifestyle,

1362
01:58:02.680 --> 01:58:05.560
and I don't understand it, and they don't understand my

1363
01:58:05.680 --> 01:58:12.960
lifestyle is Yeah, it's beyond understanding to be raised in

1364
01:58:13.000 --> 01:58:18.520
a palace and having everything done for you, never ever

1365
01:58:18.640 --> 01:58:23.800
having to be concerned about money and you know, just

1366
01:58:23.960 --> 01:58:26.760
those kinds of things. But again, at the same time,

1367
01:58:28.199 --> 01:58:33.479
I don't have to be concerned about, you know, thinking

1368
01:58:33.560 --> 01:58:39.159
where am I going to? What? Where shall I go

1369
01:58:39.199 --> 01:58:45.000
on holiday? And where shall I what what kind of

1370
01:58:45.119 --> 01:58:47.680
really expensive food shall I today? Because that's what they've

1371
01:58:47.720 --> 01:58:52.520
got to worry about. H I don't know what it

1372
01:58:52.560 --> 01:58:57.279
would be like. I don't know, so I don't really

1373
01:58:57.319 --> 01:59:11.000
relate to it. That's a proper gurgley tummy wow. But

1374
01:59:11.119 --> 01:59:13.399
at the same time, I know that the royal family

1375
01:59:13.479 --> 01:59:19.680
is very popular in other countries, but here it's not

1376
01:59:19.920 --> 01:59:27.359
really It's like, I don't know, I don't get I mean,

1377
01:59:27.439 --> 01:59:31.239
I'm not really in touch with the common man woman.

1378
01:59:31.920 --> 01:59:35.199
I guess because I'm so secluded, so I probably I

1379
01:59:35.239 --> 01:59:41.439
can't really talk on behalf of anyone but myself. I

1380
01:59:41.479 --> 01:59:44.720
am aware that whenever there's a raw function the streets

1381
01:59:44.840 --> 01:59:48.760
are full of people, you know, whether it's a marriage,

1382
01:59:48.840 --> 01:59:52.760
whether whatever, the you know, millions of well hundreds of

1383
01:59:52.760 --> 01:59:58.439
thousands of people pave the streets. I also know it's

1384
01:59:58.479 --> 02:00:00.319
in London, and a lot of those people going to

1385
02:00:00.359 --> 02:00:04.199
be tourists, so they're not all going to be people

1386
02:00:04.199 --> 02:00:07.199
from England that are kind of you know, into the

1387
02:00:07.239 --> 02:00:12.119
royal family. So some people are. There's going to be

1388
02:00:12.159 --> 02:00:14.600
some people that are absolutely adareter or family and have

1389
02:00:14.680 --> 02:00:21.640
got nothing but royal memorabilia around their house. And there's

1390
02:00:21.680 --> 02:00:24.600
other people that are all about a republic and they

1391
02:00:24.600 --> 02:00:29.239
don't want royalty and allhite stuff. I'm not on either side.

1392
02:00:30.640 --> 02:00:35.840
It is what it is. It's here. I don't watch

1393
02:00:36.239 --> 02:00:41.119
any of the raw stuff on TV. Just don't. Yeah,

1394
02:00:41.199 --> 02:00:45.880
it's not really something. I did watch the coronation of

1395
02:00:46.560 --> 02:00:52.399
the Coronation Street of Prince Charles becoming King Charles. I

1396
02:00:52.439 --> 02:00:57.600
watched that because it was such an iconic moment and

1397
02:00:58.279 --> 02:01:03.960
the chance of seeing Harmonic being crowned is something that

1398
02:01:04.000 --> 02:01:10.079
I'd never seen before live. You know. I think they

1399
02:01:10.159 --> 02:01:12.479
might be film footage of the Queen being crowned in

1400
02:01:13.359 --> 02:01:16.279
eighteen forty two whatever when in chevysh was crowned, but

1401
02:01:18.199 --> 02:01:22.920
it was, Yeah, it's an iconic moment. So I watched that,

1402
02:01:23.479 --> 02:01:28.840
so I quite like that. I suppose if you'd have

1403
02:01:28.920 --> 02:01:39.399
asked me this question twenty years ago or fifteen years ago,

1404
02:01:40.319 --> 02:01:44.720
my favorite rules would have been William and Harry. So

1405
02:01:44.720 --> 02:01:46.239
when they were young men, when they were like in

1406
02:01:46.239 --> 02:01:53.439
their twenties, Harry was a funny lad. He was cheeky

1407
02:01:53.520 --> 02:01:57.800
and he was getting up to no good and you know,

1408
02:01:58.520 --> 02:02:01.199
and William Owes came across a nice Both of them

1409
02:02:01.279 --> 02:02:05.000
came across as nice. And then as they got older,

1410
02:02:05.439 --> 02:02:07.640
they both went and did a lot of stuff for charity.

1411
02:02:10.039 --> 02:02:17.239
I think Harry did the Invictor games, William did a

1412
02:02:17.239 --> 02:02:23.279
lot for mental health charities. And it's I've always I

1413
02:02:23.319 --> 02:02:25.920
think I've always had a little bit of a soft

1414
02:02:25.920 --> 02:02:29.039
spot for those kids. Firstly because I saw them, remember

1415
02:02:29.079 --> 02:02:32.399
seeing them being not being born, but like on TV

1416
02:02:32.720 --> 02:02:36.760
as little babies, and they was their mother was Princess Diana,

1417
02:02:36.800 --> 02:02:43.720
who was the future kick so she was the future queen. Yes,

1418
02:02:43.800 --> 02:02:46.079
that's what kind of was supposed to have happened, isn't it?

1419
02:02:46.560 --> 02:02:55.199
The future queen and the most famous royal all of them?

1420
02:02:58.079 --> 02:03:04.640
And then yeah, I kind of felt for the kids.

1421
02:03:06.239 --> 02:03:10.239
I felt for the two youngs, you know, Harry and William,

1422
02:03:10.760 --> 02:03:13.680
and as I sat them grow up, I just thought, yeah,

1423
02:03:13.760 --> 02:03:19.479
they're good lads. They're just they're about ten years younger

1424
02:03:19.479 --> 02:03:26.600
than me, I suppose, because what maybe twelve years thirteen years,

1425
02:03:26.640 --> 02:03:29.760
not a huge age difference, but I think what they

1426
02:03:29.800 --> 02:03:39.079
were born in the early eighties, weren't they. Yeah, so

1427
02:03:39.199 --> 02:03:50.239
I'm thinking Princess Diana. But out of who's around now,

1428
02:03:52.319 --> 02:03:55.800
I suppose the King, the King really is. He's the

1429
02:03:55.840 --> 02:04:00.640
only one that I've that's been there the whole time.

1430
02:04:01.479 --> 02:04:04.560
Prince William, now King Prince William, Prince Charles and now

1431
02:04:04.640 --> 02:04:12.079
King Charles. Everyone else and you know, Prince William and

1432
02:04:12.159 --> 02:04:17.239
Prince Harry, they're the three that I really that kind

1433
02:04:17.239 --> 02:04:26.199
of stayed in the spotlight. Really, So I suppose I'd

1434
02:04:26.239 --> 02:04:28.960
probably say Harry and William would be my favorite two

1435
02:04:29.079 --> 02:04:38.399
favorites for different reasons. I think they're both if you

1436
02:04:38.520 --> 02:04:40.319
if you change the question to who would I like

1437
02:04:40.439 --> 02:04:43.039
to meet? So if I say the question was who

1438
02:04:43.039 --> 02:04:45.359
would I like to meet? Out of the royals, it

1439
02:04:45.399 --> 02:04:48.119
would be the three. He would be the King and

1440
02:04:48.239 --> 02:04:53.319
his two sons. I'd quite like to meet Fergie. I know,

1441
02:04:53.439 --> 02:04:57.000
technically she's probably not Roalty anymore because she divorced Andrew,

1442
02:04:57.680 --> 02:05:00.760
but I've seen her do interviews and she comes across

1443
02:05:00.800 --> 02:05:05.720
as really nice person and she's done a lot for

1444
02:05:05.840 --> 02:05:10.439
charities as well as a lot of the Royal family have,

1445
02:05:12.640 --> 02:05:18.399
because you know, just by getting that rawal seal can

1446
02:05:18.520 --> 02:05:23.479
boost a charity and people fund and give donations to

1447
02:05:23.600 --> 02:05:26.479
that charity because it's got the raw seal, and it

1448
02:05:26.520 --> 02:05:30.039
can be the difference between them being around for a

1449
02:05:30.079 --> 02:05:32.720
few years and then running out of money and stuff

1450
02:05:33.119 --> 02:05:38.720
and being around for decades and decades and decades helping

1451
02:05:38.960 --> 02:05:47.319
hundreds and thousands of people. Kate, what was your favorite

1452
02:05:47.399 --> 02:05:50.680
band musician during your high school years? What did your

1453
02:05:50.680 --> 02:05:54.920
friends listen to? I realized that's two questions. I don't

1454
02:05:54.920 --> 02:05:56.600
know what my friends listened to because I took a

1455
02:05:56.720 --> 02:05:59.880
notice of that, so I can answer that one straight away.

1456
02:06:00.399 --> 02:06:03.039
I didn't care what anyone else did when I was

1457
02:06:03.079 --> 02:06:06.479
a kid, I knew what I liked and that was it.

1458
02:06:07.239 --> 02:06:12.920
I'd never listened to music with anyone else. I used

1459
02:06:12.920 --> 02:06:17.439
to like to listen to Elvis music with my oldest brother,

1460
02:06:19.079 --> 02:06:21.760
but it wasn't current, you know, because he was gone

1461
02:06:21.800 --> 02:06:28.319
in seventy seven. So my childhood really music wise, i'd say,

1462
02:06:28.399 --> 02:06:35.600
started around seventy nine and early eighties, and I had

1463
02:06:35.640 --> 02:06:39.880
no friends really to share that with, or at least

1464
02:06:39.880 --> 02:06:43.960
I might have had, but I didn't ask anyone. I didn't. Yeah,

1465
02:06:44.119 --> 02:06:49.880
but I loved Top of the Pops I loved. I

1466
02:06:49.960 --> 02:06:54.159
loved pretty much most of the music that was around

1467
02:06:54.199 --> 02:06:57.600
in the early eighties. There were certain certain songs that

1468
02:06:57.640 --> 02:06:59.760
I loved more than others, and some that I didn't

1469
02:06:59.760 --> 02:07:04.520
really cared too much about. But my favorite singer was

1470
02:07:04.560 --> 02:07:12.279
Shaken Stevens, my favorite singer. My favorite bands back then,

1471
02:07:18.880 --> 02:07:22.920
I can't remember. Did I have any favorite bands? Wham,

1472
02:07:23.199 --> 02:07:30.079
That's a band, wasn't it. That's a Wham Wham one

1473
02:07:30.079 --> 02:07:39.520
of my favorite bands Bross But that was like late eighties. Yeah,

1474
02:07:39.560 --> 02:07:49.439
sticking to the eighties. Madness, I love Madness, Culture Club,

1475
02:07:49.479 --> 02:07:54.239
I love Culture Club. Poor Young as a singer, I

1476
02:07:54.239 --> 02:08:03.479
love Poor Young, ub forty Do Do Do Do what's

1477
02:08:03.520 --> 02:08:10.640
the stand and oliver your money or your life? That

1478
02:08:10.640 --> 02:08:17.920
that band so Adam and the Ants I did. Also,

1479
02:08:18.199 --> 02:08:20.399
I noticed I quite like some of the older stuff.

1480
02:08:20.439 --> 02:08:23.920
So I love Buddy Holly, So Buddy Holly you know

1481
02:08:24.159 --> 02:08:29.000
me was he wasn't around in the eighties, but I

1482
02:08:29.039 --> 02:08:32.359
loved his songs. And the Monkeys, that's another band I

1483
02:08:32.439 --> 02:08:35.720
absolutely adored. So I used to listen to Buddy Holly

1484
02:08:36.119 --> 02:08:40.880
Greatest Hits and the Monkey's Greatest Hits, possibly more than

1485
02:08:40.960 --> 02:08:46.640
any other album during the eighties, well during the middle

1486
02:08:46.840 --> 02:08:52.000
early to middle eighties, late eighties, I mean I wasn't

1487
02:08:52.239 --> 02:08:55.880
a child anymore technically, but the late eighties I got

1488
02:08:55.960 --> 02:09:04.840
much more into like George Michael's solo career, Bross, Stevie Wonder.

1489
02:09:05.439 --> 02:09:08.800
Middle eighties onwards, I fell I really loved Stevie Wonder,

1490
02:09:09.680 --> 02:09:18.760
discovered him. Michael Jackson, Wow. Yeah, So in my early

1491
02:09:20.560 --> 02:09:24.560
childhood I would have listened to Michael Jackson, but not

1492
02:09:24.680 --> 02:09:31.840
necessarily knew who he was. In my really by the

1493
02:09:31.920 --> 02:09:37.760
time I got to about ten, like nine ten, Michael

1494
02:09:37.840 --> 02:09:43.079
Jackson was like when I was nine, he was pretty

1495
02:09:43.159 --> 02:09:46.439
much an adult at that point, and he was doing

1496
02:09:46.520 --> 02:09:50.800
sort of off the wall, can you Feel It, can

1497
02:09:50.840 --> 02:09:53.319
You Feel It? You know, those kind of songs, and

1498
02:09:53.359 --> 02:09:59.279
it was I didn't really follow Michael Jackson. And then

1499
02:09:59.319 --> 02:10:05.800
of course he Thriller, which nobody pretty much in the

1500
02:10:05.840 --> 02:10:08.359
Western world would have not heard about because it was

1501
02:10:08.760 --> 02:10:16.079
just constant thriller, this, thriller that, and I liked it.

1502
02:10:16.159 --> 02:10:18.920
I mean I remember what. I watched the Thriller video

1503
02:10:19.039 --> 02:10:21.960
on Channel four for the first time it was ever

1504
02:10:22.800 --> 02:10:25.640
shown on British TV. I was allowed to sta U

1505
02:10:25.760 --> 02:10:30.520
late to watch it, and yeah, I loved it. But

1506
02:10:30.640 --> 02:10:35.159
I got bored with the songs because they were overplayed.

1507
02:10:36.439 --> 02:10:38.600
It's like every time I turn a TV on, Michael

1508
02:10:38.680 --> 02:10:41.079
Jackson was singing and I've got a little I just

1509
02:10:41.079 --> 02:10:44.439
got a bit fed up with it. I don't want

1510
02:10:44.479 --> 02:10:48.359
to hear it no more, which is weird considering how

1511
02:10:48.560 --> 02:10:50.319
how much of a big fan of came of his

1512
02:10:51.359 --> 02:10:58.720
in well eighty six because Bad was my favorite album.

1513
02:10:59.199 --> 02:11:04.359
I preferred Bad over Thriller for some reason I don't know,

1514
02:11:06.800 --> 02:11:10.039
But probably the most listened to album I've ever listened

1515
02:11:10.079 --> 02:11:21.840
to probably is Bad Bibel Jackson's Bad. And there's two

1516
02:11:22.039 --> 02:11:26.920
songs from the eighties that I really even today are

1517
02:11:26.960 --> 02:11:31.840
two of my favorite songs. One is Men Men at

1518
02:11:31.920 --> 02:11:36.079
Work down Under and Totally Clips at the Heart by

1519
02:11:36.119 --> 02:11:40.039
Bonnie Tyler, two of my favorite songs from the eighties

1520
02:11:40.720 --> 02:11:43.560
from my childhood. But then if you go back a

1521
02:11:43.600 --> 02:11:48.199
little bit. Greece. Loved Greece every song on the Grease album.

1522
02:11:48.279 --> 02:11:56.039
Loved it, still do. So there was that period of

1523
02:11:56.079 --> 02:11:59.880
time in the eighties when I would have the radio

1524
02:12:00.039 --> 02:12:01.840
on and it'd play, and it'd wake me up in

1525
02:12:01.840 --> 02:12:04.640
the morning ready for school, and I'd be listening to it.

1526
02:12:04.680 --> 02:12:11.319
And there's for me, it was individual songs, not so

1527
02:12:11.439 --> 02:12:15.079
because I didn't really buy albums back then. I just

1528
02:12:15.159 --> 02:12:24.039
listened on the radio. So meat Loaf and Share Addicted

1529
02:12:24.079 --> 02:12:26.880
to Love. I think it was called that one that

1530
02:12:27.000 --> 02:12:30.920
was my favorite song. But then you know, mid ladies,

1531
02:12:31.319 --> 02:12:34.640
watch the color of Money? What's the color of Mourney?

1532
02:12:34.800 --> 02:12:39.560
Some people thinking, and me, you know, it's weird. That's

1533
02:12:39.640 --> 02:12:43.119
one Hollywood Beyond I think that was, And I love

1534
02:12:43.199 --> 02:12:47.560
that song. Just weird or you don't have to take

1535
02:12:47.600 --> 02:12:50.560
your clothes half to have a good time. Oh no,

1536
02:12:51.199 --> 02:12:54.520
I love that song. Are the wings of Love only

1537
02:12:54.560 --> 02:12:57.439
the two us to go a flow? You know? I

1538
02:12:57.560 --> 02:13:01.039
love that song. Like there was individual songs, but I'd

1539
02:13:01.119 --> 02:13:04.119
never used to listen to their albums. First of all,

1540
02:13:04.119 --> 02:13:11.319
I didn't buy their albums. And so for me, when

1541
02:13:13.319 --> 02:13:16.960
now that's what I call music came out and it'd

1542
02:13:16.960 --> 02:13:20.119
be like the best hits of the year, or maybe

1543
02:13:20.119 --> 02:13:22.039
they do two a year, maybe three a year, so

1544
02:13:22.199 --> 02:13:25.399
just like break it down. I used to start buying

1545
02:13:25.439 --> 02:13:33.239
those tapes and I liked that a lot, and I'd

1546
02:13:33.279 --> 02:13:39.279
really listen to it over and over again. And so yeah,

1547
02:13:39.479 --> 02:13:43.840
that was again individual songs. I didn't care about the albums.

1548
02:13:43.920 --> 02:13:46.920
I didn't want to listen to the albums. I mean,

1549
02:13:47.159 --> 02:13:51.279
I did have albums earlier on in my life. So

1550
02:13:51.439 --> 02:13:54.880
when I was like nine ten, I had albums. I

1551
02:13:54.920 --> 02:13:59.960
had the Beg's album I had I used to listen

1552
02:14:00.159 --> 02:14:05.960
to I had, Yeah, I had Shaken Stevens albums Shaken

1553
02:14:05.960 --> 02:14:17.399
Stevens in the Sunsets, And I'm sometimes listening to some

1554
02:14:17.520 --> 02:14:20.800
other albums that my dad had or that they both had,

1555
02:14:20.960 --> 02:14:31.319
which like music, film score music, so things like you know,

1556
02:14:32.239 --> 02:14:39.600
what's it called the Spaghetti Westerns with what's his name?

1557
02:14:43.760 --> 02:14:46.079
The men were no name in the town, were no name.

1558
02:14:46.920 --> 02:14:52.199
How does it get male? What was it called? Good? Bad,

1559
02:14:52.239 --> 02:14:56.359
and ugly and things like that, and then Star Wars

1560
02:14:56.439 --> 02:15:00.439
and Superman and those kind of scores and music, and

1561
02:15:00.920 --> 02:15:04.479
as just laid down and listened to that and was lovely.

1562
02:15:05.119 --> 02:15:08.039
He used to really relax me and This is before

1563
02:15:08.079 --> 02:15:10.079
I moved up to the room upstairs at the top

1564
02:15:10.119 --> 02:15:13.479
of the house, so I must have been around ten

1565
02:15:13.720 --> 02:15:24.960
eleven back then. I'm trying to think what else. Yes,

1566
02:15:25.079 --> 02:15:29.520
so I would say that in Shaken Stephens number one,

1567
02:15:30.800 --> 02:15:36.560
that was he was my favorite. And also incidentally, Shaken

1568
02:15:36.640 --> 02:15:43.560
Stephens was the number one recording artist you singer not banned,

1569
02:15:43.960 --> 02:15:47.800
the number one recording artist in the UK for had

1570
02:15:47.840 --> 02:15:51.079
the whole of the eighties. No one sold more records

1571
02:15:51.079 --> 02:16:00.960
than him in the UK a UK artist, so he

1572
02:16:00.000 --> 02:16:06.720
he was the king of the eighties, Shaken Stephens behind

1573
02:16:06.760 --> 02:16:11.760
the Green Dole. There was a time when I really

1574
02:16:11.840 --> 02:16:17.800
loved listening to fifties music, fifties and sixties like rubber

1575
02:16:17.880 --> 02:16:23.319
Ball Up and Bound Zoom back to You Who, and

1576
02:16:23.760 --> 02:16:26.000
some of that stuff that was from my dad's that

1577
02:16:26.119 --> 02:16:30.079
he had on these eight track tapes, really old tapes

1578
02:16:30.079 --> 02:16:33.559
that plug just pushed them in, but they were good

1579
02:16:33.639 --> 02:16:38.840
quality sound and he had them from his childhood because

1580
02:16:39.040 --> 02:16:47.680
my dad was born forty six I think no, yes,

1581
02:16:47.920 --> 02:16:52.959
nineteen forty six my dad was born, so his childhood

1582
02:16:53.040 --> 02:16:56.520
was really through the fifties when he was listening to music,

1583
02:16:58.000 --> 02:17:04.040
and then he was I guess he turned fifteen in

1584
02:17:04.319 --> 02:17:08.799
nineteen sixty one, so it was like his late teens

1585
02:17:08.840 --> 02:17:17.200
and adult years, you know, in the sixties. So yeah,

1586
02:17:17.639 --> 02:17:19.680
I used to love listening to that. And I know

1587
02:17:19.719 --> 02:17:23.159
I think when we went on holiday, we went to Wales,

1588
02:17:23.920 --> 02:17:27.079
long long journey, so US kids would be in the

1589
02:17:27.120 --> 02:17:30.120
back of the car, there'd be a trailer on the back,

1590
02:17:32.600 --> 02:17:35.840
my dad would be driving. I think they'd take turns driving,

1591
02:17:37.280 --> 02:17:42.559
and he used to play these a lot of it.

1592
02:17:42.600 --> 02:17:45.600
They'd be a mixture of Beatles songs. That's a big

1593
02:17:45.639 --> 02:17:52.760
Beatles fan, and like rock music, gidget all around in

1594
02:17:53.319 --> 02:17:55.840
here on now, how are we that one? A lot

1595
02:17:55.840 --> 02:18:00.200
of songs like that which were really good for driving too.

1596
02:18:04.440 --> 02:18:06.520
I need to ask him one day what those songs were,

1597
02:18:06.520 --> 02:18:08.760
because a lot of them I couldn't even tell you.

1598
02:18:11.799 --> 02:18:15.200
Hinnie Snores did never tell you that, Okay, so I

1599
02:18:15.239 --> 02:18:19.559
feared I covered that. Anne asks me, do you play

1600
02:18:19.799 --> 02:18:28.399
any instruments? The answer is no. It's not a very

1601
02:18:28.600 --> 02:18:33.680
long answer to that one. I used to play. When

1602
02:18:33.719 --> 02:18:36.680
I was in junior school, I played the violin, not

1603
02:18:36.840 --> 02:18:44.360
very well. When I was in high school, I played

1604
02:18:46.239 --> 02:18:48.399
I was in the Ciccrets, and I played the bugle

1605
02:18:49.239 --> 02:18:54.440
not very well. And then I played the drums in

1606
02:18:54.479 --> 02:18:58.719
the ciccretts not very well. Then I played the glocking

1607
02:18:58.840 --> 02:19:06.920
spill even worse us and then I what else did

1608
02:19:06.920 --> 02:19:12.319
I play? I'm sure I played something else. That's enough,

1609
02:19:12.360 --> 02:19:18.159
isn't it? I did. I did learn kind of learned

1610
02:19:18.159 --> 02:19:23.719
to play the guitar in the mid nineties, ninety six

1611
02:19:24.239 --> 02:19:29.319
ninety seven, not very well again, but I did learn

1612
02:19:29.360 --> 02:19:33.239
the chords, and I had this. Really I splashed out

1613
02:19:33.280 --> 02:19:37.159
a little bit on a nice guitar. It was I

1614
02:19:37.159 --> 02:19:39.239
think I spent like two hundred and fifty pounds on

1615
02:19:39.280 --> 02:19:42.159
this guitar, so it was a good quality. There was

1616
02:19:42.239 --> 02:19:44.959
quite a lot of money back then. It was good quality,

1617
02:19:45.920 --> 02:19:50.120
and the strings were good, the sound well. Basically, what

1618
02:19:50.440 --> 02:19:55.399
I decided is if I'm going to sound a bit rubbish,

1619
02:19:56.399 --> 02:19:58.079
then I might as well do it on a nice guitar,

1620
02:19:59.040 --> 02:20:01.879
because even a rubbi sound sounds better on a good guitar.

1621
02:20:04.360 --> 02:20:10.639
And I figured out that I wasn't motivated to get this,

1622
02:20:10.840 --> 02:20:13.680
get to the sounds correct and get the chords right

1623
02:20:14.719 --> 02:20:18.559
if the guitar. If the guitar sounded rubbish as well,

1624
02:20:20.040 --> 02:20:22.280
So I kind of got a decent guitar with a

1625
02:20:22.319 --> 02:20:31.959
really nice sound, good strings, good quality. So it was

1626
02:20:32.040 --> 02:20:37.280
more enjoyable listening to it, and it was easier to

1627
02:20:37.440 --> 02:20:43.360
learn to play it because the sound was nice. So

1628
02:20:43.440 --> 02:20:47.639
when I did manage to get the chords right, it

1629
02:20:47.799 --> 02:20:54.319
sounded nice. It might not have sounded correct, but it

1630
02:20:54.440 --> 02:21:00.799
sounded nice. But then I was sharing a flat. This

1631
02:21:01.040 --> 02:21:05.360
was like nine, late ninety six, ninety seven, early ninety seven,

1632
02:21:05.440 --> 02:21:08.440
and I had this guitar, and my friend who was

1633
02:21:08.479 --> 02:21:13.159
sharing a flat with me, really didn't seem to enjoy

1634
02:21:13.319 --> 02:21:16.479
my practicing. And remember he said to me, all I

1635
02:21:16.520 --> 02:21:19.079
can hear is this, and it was.

1636
02:21:19.120 --> 02:21:21.600
Like do do do do do do do do do

1637
02:21:21.600 --> 02:21:23.760
do do do do do do do do do do

1638
02:21:23.760 --> 02:21:26.000
do do do do do do do do do do

1639
02:21:26.000 --> 02:21:28.159
do do do do do do do do do do

1640
02:21:28.159 --> 02:21:31.680
do do do do do do do do do do

1641
02:21:31.680 --> 02:21:33.920
do do do do Do Do Do Do Do Do

1642
02:21:33.920 --> 02:21:36.079
do do Do do do Do Do Do do do

1643
02:21:36.079 --> 02:21:38.559
do do do do do do do do do do

1644
02:21:38.360 --> 02:21:40.840
do do do do do do do do do do

1645
02:21:40.840 --> 02:21:41.239
do do do.

1646
02:21:42.959 --> 02:21:48.159
Do He said that all I hear all day long,

1647
02:21:48.959 --> 02:21:50.440
do do do do do do do Do Do Do

1648
02:21:50.600 --> 02:21:52.399
Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do do

1649
02:21:52.520 --> 02:21:55.239
do do. And it was like, I said, I'm practicing.

1650
02:21:55.799 --> 02:22:00.200
He said what for? I had no answer for that

1651
02:22:00.399 --> 02:22:04.000
is like, why are you practicing? Are you going to

1652
02:22:04.040 --> 02:22:09.799
be in a band? No? Are you? He got Sophie.

1653
02:22:09.799 --> 02:22:13.159
He said, do something else, Play a different song, a

1654
02:22:13.239 --> 02:22:19.319
different tune. He really was, I was annoying him a

1655
02:22:19.319 --> 02:22:25.239
little bit. So I went into my bedroom and I

1656
02:22:25.360 --> 02:22:32.559
decided I was going to play the same tune, but

1657
02:22:32.760 --> 02:22:36.040
just try and do it louder so he could really

1658
02:22:36.239 --> 02:22:42.520
enjoy it. I tried. I tried the Malthforgan. So when

1659
02:22:42.559 --> 02:22:44.600
I was working as a security gul, I thought, you

1660
02:22:44.719 --> 02:22:49.159
know what, I can learn a new instrument. Malthforgan's small.

1661
02:22:51.920 --> 02:22:56.200
I've literally got twelve hours in a night to just practice,

1662
02:22:57.079 --> 02:23:01.719
so maybe I could be quite good at this. But

1663
02:23:01.799 --> 02:23:04.000
I realized once I started that I didn't like it,

1664
02:23:06.799 --> 02:23:09.479
so I never bothered. I kind of gave it up.

1665
02:23:12.200 --> 02:23:16.360
And then a few years ago, quite a few probably

1666
02:23:16.600 --> 02:23:20.840
six seven years ago, I bought a ukulele. Still in

1667
02:23:20.920 --> 02:23:23.360
my cupboard, still in the same box that I bought it.

1668
02:23:24.719 --> 02:23:32.239
I've had it out about three times. It's still in

1669
02:23:32.399 --> 02:23:37.319
there and maybe one day you might maybe you might

1670
02:23:37.360 --> 02:23:40.040
not believe me. Perhaps one day, maybe the next recording

1671
02:23:40.079 --> 02:23:43.280
I do, I'll get my ukulele out and I'll play

1672
02:23:43.319 --> 02:23:45.799
it for you. When I say I play it for you,

1673
02:23:46.040 --> 02:23:48.479
I don't know how to play it. I never learned.

1674
02:23:51.319 --> 02:24:00.959
I think i'd need lessons I did. My stepmom did

1675
02:24:01.079 --> 02:24:04.479
teach me a bit of piano, like chopsticks, you know,

1676
02:24:04.719 --> 02:24:07.920
stuff like that. But she did because she was I

1677
02:24:08.000 --> 02:24:10.319
think she had an a level in piano. She was

1678
02:24:10.520 --> 02:24:14.719
very good, and she taught me the basics. And at

1679
02:24:14.760 --> 02:24:19.319
the time I could read music because I'd been playing

1680
02:24:19.440 --> 02:24:22.360
the violin, so I knew how to read music. So

1681
02:24:22.399 --> 02:24:25.319
it was quite easy to know where the keys were.

1682
02:24:27.159 --> 02:24:30.000
In a sense now I don't know, because I've not

1683
02:24:30.200 --> 02:24:38.040
read music for quite some time. But back then, you know,

1684
02:24:38.120 --> 02:24:40.959
it's quite easy. But it's very difficult because in a

1685
02:24:41.040 --> 02:24:45.440
sense of my hands running little, the keyboard or the

1686
02:24:46.000 --> 02:24:50.760
piano keys were quite large. It wasn't like a it

1687
02:24:50.879 --> 02:24:54.319
was one of those pianos that you put against the wall.

1688
02:24:54.520 --> 02:24:57.639
It's like a proper old fashioned piano, but it wasn't.

1689
02:24:58.879 --> 02:25:04.200
It wasn't, you know, like huge piano. But there was

1690
02:25:04.200 --> 02:25:06.760
a certain amount of strength you needed to press down

1691
02:25:06.879 --> 02:25:09.440
and I just wasn't used to that. So it was

1692
02:25:09.440 --> 02:25:11.600
a little bit different because I was what probably ten

1693
02:25:12.680 --> 02:25:15.799
at the time, so it's very different. But I did

1694
02:25:16.040 --> 02:25:22.920
like it, but not enough to really get involved, which

1695
02:25:22.959 --> 02:25:27.200
is a shame, because I do I do think to

1696
02:25:27.360 --> 02:25:30.680
having a skill like that, being able to play a

1697
02:25:31.200 --> 02:25:38.680
musical instrument is such an amazing skill to have, and

1698
02:25:38.799 --> 02:25:42.600
bearing in mind I've played multiple musical instruments over the years,

1699
02:25:43.639 --> 02:25:48.000
not for a long time, but I kind of had

1700
02:25:48.040 --> 02:25:54.079
the opportunity. If I was stuck at the violin, I

1701
02:25:54.159 --> 02:25:57.120
could have been I could have ended up being really

1702
02:25:57.159 --> 02:26:00.000
good at it. I did it for about a year.

1703
02:26:01.399 --> 02:26:08.200
I was adequate, but a year maybe a year. Yeah,

1704
02:26:08.200 --> 02:26:10.920
I did it for a while, but maybe I could

1705
02:26:10.959 --> 02:26:17.159
have been really good. But I quit. Like many things,

1706
02:26:17.879 --> 02:26:20.399
I stopped doing it because I didn't I don't know why.

1707
02:26:20.399 --> 02:26:22.879
I didn't like it anymore, but I was having lessons,

1708
02:26:23.680 --> 02:26:27.440
unlike the drums or the bugle or whatever. I actually

1709
02:26:27.520 --> 02:26:32.600
went to lessons I think twice a week at junior

1710
02:26:32.680 --> 02:26:37.719
school for the violin, and we did concerts and stuff

1711
02:26:37.760 --> 02:26:41.520
like that. You know. So there's one one time I

1712
02:26:41.680 --> 02:26:44.399
was on stage with one other person playing the violin.

1713
02:26:45.040 --> 02:26:49.000
My parents were watching, and that was a bit nerve

1714
02:26:49.040 --> 02:26:53.239
wracking because the orchestra were all doing it together. Then

1715
02:26:53.319 --> 02:26:58.680
suddenly it's almost harder to do it with someone than

1716
02:26:58.760 --> 02:27:01.559
just do it on your own, I found, because if

1717
02:27:01.600 --> 02:27:05.120
I did it on my own, it would just sound

1718
02:27:05.159 --> 02:27:08.639
how it sounds, But to do it with someone else,

1719
02:27:09.520 --> 02:27:15.760
it's to have to be in sync. We did it.

1720
02:27:16.399 --> 02:27:18.479
I don't know how bad or good it was. I've

1721
02:27:18.479 --> 02:27:25.559
got no idea, but we managed to do it. That

1722
02:27:25.760 --> 02:27:27.479
is one thing that I wish I kind of stuck

1723
02:27:27.520 --> 02:27:33.079
at because I think I might have been I think

1724
02:27:33.079 --> 02:27:35.319
I had quite a good ear for music, quite a

1725
02:27:35.360 --> 02:27:42.879
good ear for tone, and potentially I could have been

1726
02:27:42.959 --> 02:27:48.200
quite good. Yeah, So I think if I was, if

1727
02:27:48.200 --> 02:27:50.840
I was going to start, which which musical instrument would

1728
02:27:50.840 --> 02:27:53.280
I have stuck with? If I could kind of go

1729
02:27:53.440 --> 02:27:57.040
back and do that, the violin would be the one.

1730
02:27:58.639 --> 02:28:02.520
The bugle was living did I found. I learned the

1731
02:28:02.600 --> 02:28:07.840
bugle and it was just easy, and the glocking spill

1732
02:28:08.559 --> 02:28:12.719
difficult but doable. But it's very kind of lots of

1733
02:28:12.760 --> 02:28:20.159
different keys and remember which goes where. The drums probably

1734
02:28:20.239 --> 02:28:23.200
more enjoyable because I got to hit things, do.

1735
02:28:23.280 --> 02:28:26.879
A little little little do a little little did a

1736
02:28:26.920 --> 02:28:29.159
little little, a little little, a little a little.

1737
02:28:32.799 --> 02:28:35.440
I just I enjoyed it, but at the same time

1738
02:28:35.520 --> 02:28:37.200
it was a lot of hassle because the big it

1739
02:28:37.319 --> 02:28:39.719
was as big as me a drum. I was like

1740
02:28:39.840 --> 02:28:42.959
walking around with his finger that was really heavy, because

1741
02:28:43.000 --> 02:28:46.120
I was said, I was like ten to eleven big

1742
02:28:46.200 --> 02:28:54.399
old things. So I would have preferred if I was

1743
02:28:54.440 --> 02:28:56.760
going to choose two instruments that I would have been

1744
02:28:56.840 --> 02:28:59.600
good at that. If I you know, if I could

1745
02:28:59.680 --> 02:29:02.760
choose two instruments to be good at, it would be

1746
02:29:02.879 --> 02:29:08.399
the guitar or the piano. I've had multiple keyboards over

1747
02:29:08.440 --> 02:29:12.079
the years. I once bought a piano back in two

1748
02:29:12.120 --> 02:29:14.920
thousand and four, bought it and sold it then within

1749
02:29:15.040 --> 02:29:19.079
about three days back to the same person and lost

1750
02:29:19.120 --> 02:29:24.440
about one hundred quid. And yeah, it's one of those

1751
02:29:26.280 --> 02:29:35.639
moments of silliness. But I liked just have this idea

1752
02:29:35.719 --> 02:29:38.440
of like being good at something. I think that's what

1753
02:29:38.559 --> 02:29:40.360
it was. I wanted to be good at something, but

1754
02:29:40.440 --> 02:29:44.280
I never found anything that I was if I wasn't

1755
02:29:44.920 --> 02:29:50.479
interested enough in it to progress to a point of

1756
02:29:50.600 --> 02:29:53.600
being any good or I just wasn't very good at it.

1757
02:29:56.600 --> 02:30:01.399
You know. It's I'd love to being a good breakdancer

1758
02:30:01.719 --> 02:30:07.760
or a brilliant breakdancer. I'm not a dancer. There's certain

1759
02:30:07.840 --> 02:30:12.600
things that I'm just that's not me. It wasn't you know.

1760
02:30:12.799 --> 02:30:14.600
It's kind of like it'd be good to be a

1761
02:30:14.680 --> 02:30:19.479
basketball player, but that would be I mean, I'm not

1762
02:30:19.559 --> 02:30:21.760
saying it wouldn't be impossible, but it would be very

1763
02:30:21.799 --> 02:30:25.159
difficult at five to eight to become a basketball player

1764
02:30:25.719 --> 02:30:30.440
where most of them are like six' five. Plus you,

1765
02:30:30.520 --> 02:30:40.040
know there's a big. Advantage so, YEAH i think basketball

1766
02:30:40.159 --> 02:30:42.920
was the only sport THAT i thought was quite cool

1767
02:30:43.520 --> 02:30:46.520
because you, know chucking at getting a ball in a

1768
02:30:46.600 --> 02:30:49.680
basket or, hoop that was quite fun if there was

1769
02:30:49.719 --> 02:30:52.639
no one else. Around SO i quite enjoyed doing, that you,

1770
02:30:52.680 --> 02:30:55.200
know from a distance and just trying to get the ball.

1771
02:30:55.280 --> 02:30:57.719
In AND i could spend hours doing, that but not

1772
02:30:57.799 --> 02:30:59.840
if other people were. AROUND i didn't want anyone getting

1773
02:30:59.879 --> 02:31:02.479
an Way i'll try to get the ball off. Me

1774
02:31:03.479 --> 02:31:12.200
that just took the fun out of it for. Me so,

1775
02:31:12.360 --> 02:31:15.959
yeah in, short really, NO i don't play any, instruments

1776
02:31:16.200 --> 02:31:20.879
but AND i never will. NOW i think those days are.

1777
02:31:20.920 --> 02:31:25.600
GONE i don't have any interest in playing instruments, now

1778
02:31:28.719 --> 02:31:34.120
BUT i very much admire people that. Can, YEAH i do.

1779
02:31:38.520 --> 02:31:40.520
SO i suppose the THING i was best, at out

1780
02:31:40.559 --> 02:31:44.040
of all the instruments THAT i did, play probably would

1781
02:31:44.079 --> 02:31:46.600
have been the, violin because that's the one THAT i

1782
02:31:47.840 --> 02:31:53.840
practiced the. Most AND i also i've my family home

1783
02:31:54.000 --> 02:31:57.479
enjoyed it listening to, it to the. Screeching but that

1784
02:31:57.639 --> 02:31:59.479
is the ONE i practiced, most and it's the ONE

1785
02:31:59.520 --> 02:32:09.200
i was actually having musical lessons. For, anyway that seems

1786
02:32:09.239 --> 02:32:11.879
to bring us to the end of this, recording And

1787
02:32:11.959 --> 02:32:14.040
i'm going to go and get myself something to. EAT

1788
02:32:16.399 --> 02:32:18.719
i Hope i've answered you. QUESTIONS i know there's been a.

1789
02:32:18.760 --> 02:32:22.719
FEW i probably got off the subject a little bit

1790
02:32:22.799 --> 02:32:26.639
every now and. Then APOLOGIES i apollo as my, frienes

1791
02:32:28.040 --> 02:32:31.200
but thank you for. Listening remember to be kind to

1792
02:32:31.280 --> 02:32:37.520
yourself because you do deserve to be happy and be

1793
02:32:37.639 --> 02:32:44.040
gentle with. Yourself you deserve to feel. Safe lots of. Love,

1794
02:32:46.559 --> 02:32:46.799
bye