Aug. 29, 2025

(no music) Q&A Friday | LMBYTS #1425 | Jason Newland | 29th August 2025

(no music) Q&A Friday | LMBYTS #1425 | Jason Newland | 29th August 2025
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Welcome to another episode of Q&A Friday on Let Me Bore You to Sleep with Jason Newland. In this relaxed and often humorous session, Jason answers listener questions ranging from comedy and pets to birthdays and glasses. As always, the conversation wanders into personal stories, reflections, and playful tangents that make this series so engaging. Episode Timestamps

  • 0:00 – 3:22 | Introduction, PayPal gifts, and Jason’s Facebook group.
  • 3:23 – 6:17 | Morning routine with Vinny, running in the rain, and early chatter.
  • 6:20 – 12:07 | Vinny’s barking habits, dog behavior, and Jason’s thoughts on pets.
  • 12:10 – 20:20 | Council flats, new kitchens, and noisy neighbors during recordings.
  • 20:23 – 23:10 | Listener message from Cara, AI video experiments, and teeth talk.
  • 23:15 – 27:28 | Setup for Q&A Friday, questions gathered from the Facebook group.
Listener Questions & Answers
  • 27:29 – 55:09 | Dev’s question: Books, audiobooks, and resources for writing comedy. Jason shares experiences in stand-up, recommendations, and reflections on Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Steve Martin, and others.
  • 55:11 – 1:01:47 | Maria’s question: Glasses—bifocals, varifocals, or contact lenses? Jason talks about his eyesight, glasses journey, and family history of macular degeneration.
  • 1:01:48 – 1:21:48 | Hope’s question: How did Jason end up adopting Andre the ferret? A heartfelt story about falling in love with Andre, bonding, and how he changed Jason’s life.
  • 1:21:50 – 1:23:36 | Rich’s question: When is Vinny’s birthday? Jason shares the details and a little backstory.
  • 1:23:38 – 1:25:49 | Robin’s question: Have you ever been inside Hampton Court Palace? Jason recalls his childhood visit and funny memories.
  • 1:25:49 – 1:36:11 | Kathleen’s question: What’s the best birthday present you’ve ever received? Jason reflects on childhood birthdays, his first bike, and sentimental family memories.
  • 1:36:14 – 1:43:00 | Mary’s question: How do you design your episode artwork? Jason explains using AI, Canva, and his creative process for images.


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Hello, Hello, Hello, everybody. How are you doing today? Everybody?

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Are you well? Are you? Oh? It's nice? Hello, and

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welcome to jasonnew Land dot com. My name's Jason Newland

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and please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.

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And welcome to Q and A Friday. This is Friday's

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version of let me bore you to sleep. LMB white yes,

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ELM maybe yeah, LMB white yes. And Vinnie was all

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calm and quiet and as soon as I start talking,

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he jumps down and decides to make as much sound

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as he can, bless his little bum. So yeah, it's

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what is it? It's Friday the twenty night for August

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two thousand and twenty five. And by the way, I

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try to say thank you to everyone that sent me

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a PayPal gift, but there was I wasn't able to

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contact everyone because I could find a way to contact

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see on PayPal usually has like an email address or something,

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but on this one person it didn't, or a couple

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of people. So I do apologize. But I did post

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thank you on my Facebook group, so I should let

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you know. I've got a Facebook group called Jason Newland's

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Boring Group, and as it says, as you imagine, it's

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probably not the most exciting place to be, but it's

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really just for people that love listening to the Jason

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to the Let Me Boy to Sleep podcasts.

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Yeah, Okay, what I've done today, I was going to say, actually,

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if you, if you want to help.

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Me out, and this would really really help me out

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a lot to get more placed on Google is and

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also help the podcast out. Is wherever you're listening to me,

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could you perhaps lead a review that'd be brilliant and

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maybe regularly as well. You know, if there's a recording

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you particular like, maybe you can just say what you

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like about it. Because the more reviews I get on

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my podcasts, whether it's on Spotify, if you're listening on

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I don't know, it's quite a few different places that

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you could be listening. Where we got what have we got?

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Apple podcasts, podcast Addict, Overcast, Spotify, my website, jasonnwland, dot com,

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cast box, Deezer, my Heart Radio, Edge pocket casts, Chrome

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and Tenor, pod Speaker, Android app, i Vook's Audible, VLC, Alexa,

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media Player, Roku, and many of us. Actually, if you

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can do that, that would be really really helpful because

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it could help me to reach more people and hopefully

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help more people. Thank you very much. So I haven't

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done a huge amount today. I woke up, had my breakfast,

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took Vinoy out, and then we got rained on. It

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was raining, and to start with, it's just like a

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little bit, you know, spitting as I say, just a

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little bit weird word, isn't it weird term for rain

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and being spat on? Like yeah, lovely? But that was okay,

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and then it started proper raining and I ran back.

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This is about eight o'clock in the morning, so I'm

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running back with Vinnie, and Vinnie decides he wants to start.

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He wants to start smelling things, sniffing things like why

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but yeah, memo, it's now warm in here. What'sn't warm?

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Earlier it wasn't hold but it was cool. I mean,

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I'm doing my top. Ah, it doesn't made no difference. Great,

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just trying to look at some messages I got here,

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all right, So I'll get on with the recording, shall

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I don't normally just taking them out again. There's quite

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a lot of screaming outside, but it is in a distance,

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so I'm guessing it's possibly a like a party or something.

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Kids party because it's very high pitched, so I'm guessing

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that's what that is. And it's it's not it's not

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close by unless it's in someone's flat, but it sounds

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like it's like a distance away. You might hear it,

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you might not hear it. I've got my curtains drawn,

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the windows are closed, which is probably why it's hot

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in it. They stuff it and for some reason this

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is weird. For some reason, there's a cobweb and it's

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moving around, so I'm wondering if the heating has come on.

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Shouldn't really have come on. It's not that cold. It's

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not warm outside, but it's not cold either. It feels

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it really does feel like autumn is approaching. It's a

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very Awetomny kind of ish, you know. Yeah. I took

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him out again a little while ago, about an hour ago.

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And it's weird because Vinny's got into this thing, like

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he never used to bark at dogs, and he always

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used to love saying lo to everyone, including dogs. Now

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and then he changed and he started to be a

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bit barking towards some dogs, but always like really friendly

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to all people. And more recently over the last few months,

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he's he knows who he likes and he you know,

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he's not it's so, but he knows who he doesn't like.

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And there's this particular couple with a dog and he

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barks every time, and I don't know, they seem to

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be annoyed by it. I can't help him barking. I

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mean he does. That's what dogs do, isn't it. I

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make sure he keep him away, and he's it's not

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like he's a scary dog or anything. He's a tiny

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little jack Russell. But I don't know if it's the

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dog or the people that he's barking at, because I'm

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pretty sure I saw them out without the dog once

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and he's barking at them. So I don't know. He's

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just got his own sense of I guess who he

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likes and who doesn't like, and I can't figure it out.

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So yeah, it's a shame because he barks at the

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wrong dogs as well. He's just the dogs that have

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got no like the nice dogs. Not always. There's a

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few dogs that are not so good and they look

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like they want to eat him. But a few dogs

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he'll bark at and they're so gentle. But then he's

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got a handful of dogs that he loves that he

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spends time with, and you know, he doesn't necessarily play

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with them, but he's just happy to be around them.

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But he gives the attention to the owner, to the human.

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And then there's three dogs that he's friends with that

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he will play with, and he's not particularly interested in

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the owner. He is still I mean, he'll get treats.

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He's always around him. That's his main focus in life

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is to get treats. But at the same time, he

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also likes to play with the dog. I just can't

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keep track of I don't really I wish there was

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a way of communicating with him in a way that

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would make sense of his behavior. I'm no dog expert.

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And before anyone says, why don't you just watch those

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dog those programs on dogs and the dog expert TV programs,

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you can probably watch lots of them on YouTube, And

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the answer is no, I can't do that because as

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soon as a dog comes on the screen, Vinnie lets

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me know if there's a dog on the screen, which

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is very annoying, especially when I'm watching a movie and

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it's like early hours of the morning or it's the

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evening time when I really don't want him to be barking,

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you know, like nine and ten at night. Well, I'm

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usually in bed by them, but if I'm watching a

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movie and a dog comes on, it's so yeah, rare

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rah rah rah rah rah rah rah rah. Okay, he barks.

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He doesn't do the sound I made, but he barks.

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And there's been times I've had to turn the movie

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off because he won't stop barking, and it's just like,

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oh stop it, man, please store pet. So yeah, we

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went out earlier, came back. Downstairs flat is being refurbished.

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This is funny, Well it's not funny, but they're putting

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in a brand new kitchen. Now. The person lived down

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there for a year, because that's where Lucas lived. She

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moved in. Two people were getting their bathroom, their kitchen's done,

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Uncle sausages one of them, and another person downstairs. I didn't.

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I haven't had my kitchen done. She called the council.

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That's what she told me. This is the lady that

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was living in that flat for a year. She moved

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out recently to say when am I getting my kitchen done?

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About herself rather not about me? And they told her.

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But this is what she told me. She said they

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said to her that the kitchen had already been done

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a couple of years back, which I know is untrue

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because I probably would have remembered that, wouldn't I don't

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you think it's like nothing that interesting has happened in

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his flat when he lived there, in a sense of anything.

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I mean, his windows were hanging on by a nail.

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It's front windows. They would like rattle when when it

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was windy, there'd be a breeze when all the windows

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were closed, they literally it'll blow you over. So, because

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it was just like all loose, the counsel came around

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in a hammered a couple of nails in. That's it.

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It's like, wow, okay. So when she moved in and

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she's like she wanted a new kitchen and a new

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barth room and all that stuff, and the council said no,

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because I've always been done, which I hadn't had been

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done but maybe twenty years ago. And I've been in

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all the flats except one. Yeah, I've not been to

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one flat I've not been in I don't think, but

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I've been in all the other flats, not like regularly,

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but I've seen the kitchens in every flat. I mean,

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downstairs is pretty much identical to my flat below me.

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It's the same layout and Luke's old flat. I'm imagining

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up stairs, the one that I know been in, would

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be the same design, the same layout. However, perhaps not

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actually because Uncle Sausages Flat. Yeah, that's weird. Uncle Sausages

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Flat was maybe not. Maybe it wasn't different, No it

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probably No, it's the same layout, the same layout as

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downstairs as well. Yeah, same layout. I'm just trying to

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remember because I've not been in that flat very often.

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It's been a while since i've been in there, and

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I know Uncle Sausages Flat layout quite well. And my

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own of course, and you know the one that my

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friend used to live in. I went in there a

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couple of times since the new person moved in. I

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should have moved down now, but by went in there

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a couple of times. It was very weird. I didn't

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like being in there, although it looked nothing like it did.

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It was really if you close your eyes and someone

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took you in there and you didn't know where you was,

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took you into one of the rooms, not the kitchen,

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the bathroom, because it looks the same, but it took

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you into one of the rooms and just like you

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wouldn't necessarily know where you was to start with. I mean,

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the windows the same, but the deck or the furniture,

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it's very different, very different. It was much neater, tidier. Yeah,

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it's much more. It's just nicer, very I would say, minimalist.

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Not that he was a hoarder, but it's you know,

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had less stuff in there, just different kitchen. The kitchen

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looked different as well, but then you know, it had

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a new fridge, treeser, new cooker, new microwave, new toaster,

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new kettle. And how do I know that because I'm

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the one who bought it all. Yep, yeah, and a

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new TV. I got that for her as well. Why

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did you do that? Then? I don't know. I just

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wanted to help. And this is last summer, but yeah, hey,

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not this summer, but last year two thousand and twenty four.

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She did say she was going to give me, give

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me money back for it, but she didn't. So I'm

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trying to think, what is that noise out there? Maybe

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it's a birthday party. Good on them, that's the thing

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I try, you know, if there's if I was doing

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a recording where I needed complete silence, I mean, that's

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the ideal situation personally, But as long as I got

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Vinnie eating treats on the floor, there ain't going to

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be complete silence, And as long as I'm talking, it's

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not going to be complete silence. But because I can

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hear it, I don't know if you can hear it,

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it's it's not a distraction for me now, although I

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guess it is because I'm mentioning it, but not in

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a kind of annoying way. But if I was sitting

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here doing and like now, I'd like to foc you'd

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focus on your toenails. We're going to relax your toenails,

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and moving up to your pubes. It was that kind

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of where I would be trying to be all sensible

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and serious and deeply relaxed. It's a bit of incongruence

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when internally I'm thinking.

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Woll you shut up that noise, you.

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Know, and every now and then getting up and shouting

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out the window and then sitting back down and continue

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that feeling of your knees knocking together. I don't know

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why that would happen, So I suppose I should just

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get on with the the point of the reason why

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I'm doing this recording, shouldn't I Q and a Friday,

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No no jingle? Um, that's week. Okay, there you go,

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there we go. I'm losing laugh Oh okay, sorry, I

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just got a message from Kara. Thanks Carra. That made

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me laugh. Your message made me laugh. I'm going to

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read it out because it's not private. It is private,

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it's not Ohm my good, Oh my gracious, I'm losing

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my marbles laughing over Luke embarrassing you by saluting magpies.

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I love it so much. Thank you, Kara. That was

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yesterday's recording. So, by the way, anyone who watched my

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little I did this little like blowing and kiss thing

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a couple of days ago, and it was Ai. I

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did say it was Ai. I said thank you again

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for all your birthday wishes. I created this Ai video

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from a photo I have better teeth here and it's

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been blowing and then this big smile and like perfect teeth.

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I mean, my teeth ain't awful, but like they're not

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it looks like a kind of I had my teeth done,

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you know, they were like perfectly sparkly white and in fact,

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I don't think if I smile my teeth that amount

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of teeth doesn't show. If that makes sense, I'd have

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to lift my upper lift up. Look, I was just

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doing it and it didn't actually make sense. I can't.

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I can't tell you what I had to do and

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do it at the same time because you it's not understandable.

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in order for my or staple of up. I say again,

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it didn't work, or you know, pushing them up somehow

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me trying to tell you that is this. I have

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a favor on my up in order for you to

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see all my teeth. See, it doesn't quite work. But

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it's quite amazing though, because the rest of me looks fine.

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My face looks the same. It's it's kind of it

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does look like me. Well it is me, but there's

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part of it which is quite amazing, I think because

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my face because as you look at it like that

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is how my face would go generalely if I smiled.

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Apart from that, there wouldn't. It's not as much too Fidge. Yeah,

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AI is getting very clever, no so q and a Friday,

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I posted a oh yeah, any questions for Q and

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A Friday. I posted it on Monday, I do believe.

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So that's what I've tried to do because a couple

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of weeks ago, I think I posted it on the

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Wednesday and I've got one question, so and I didn't

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do I didn't do it because one question wasn't enough

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really to do a whole podcast, although technically it probably was.

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questions yet and I'm still down nearly half an hour.

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I can't help it. I just can't stop talking. So

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I've got a new way of doing it now. So

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on a Monday, if I remember, I post this image

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which is on a post it on Jason Newland's boring

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group why Not Join, And it's just basically color thing,

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colored thing, and it says any questions for this week's

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Q and a Friday, Kiss Kiss Kiss, and then a

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couple of arrows either side pointing down to a yellow

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part of the image, and then the date when the

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Q and A Friday will be so, in this case

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to twenty ninth of April. And I'm going to post

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one of those if I remember, every Monday, but just

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change the date, you know me Next week's one will

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be why is this not opening? Oh? There it is,

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So I want all all comments, right, got it? So

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I've got questions from Maria, Hope, Rich, Robin, Kathleen, Mary,

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Dev and Ryl. So I'm going to ask you. I'm

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going to answer Dev's question first because, as it says here,

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Hello Jason. Also belated birthday greetings to you. Thank you Dev.

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This is a sort of rollover question from last week,

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but I probably posted it too late. Yeah, I think

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you posted it. I'd already made the recording at that point.

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Because this is from last week. As you were involved

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in the comedy scene, I wanted to know, are there

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any books or audiobooks, podcasts, etc. That you would recommend

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for learning about writing comedy? Thanks in advance. What I

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would advise I didn't do this myself, which explains why

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I wasn't very good. But there are comedy courses you

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can do depending on where you live, of course, so

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I'm based in England, but at the time I lived

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in London, which is still England, and they had a

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comedy course. I forget what it was called, but it

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was very popular, and I would say probably sixty percent

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of the new comedians have been on that course, maybe

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forty percent, but quite a few comedians have been on

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that course, and quite a few of them went on

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to do okay. So I went on to do really

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really well. I didn't do the course, and yeah, I didn't.

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I don't know why. I'm not sure. I kind of

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wish I had. I would have benefited from doing that.

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I did go to a Mandy Knight, who was really

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I don't know if she's still doing comedy, but she was.

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I used to going really well with her, and she

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was originally in a double act where she did improv.

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She's really good. She's a really funny, funny lady, and

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she held this improv class. So I went along to

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do it, to do it, and thinking about it the

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way I've kind of turned out, I'm I reckon I

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might have been better at doing some kind of improv,

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you know, bouncing off other people. That might have been

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a better way for me to go instead of sit

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standing on stage just trying to, you know, remember something

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that I'd written down at home. So there's lots of

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different ways to do it. So it's I think if

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I'm going to come from the I mean, one answer

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to your question is that our books out there, there

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are where books on how to do stand up. So

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I'm going to do all the work for you instead

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of you going online and searching for yourself. I'll do it.

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Don't worry. I've got plenty of time. I'm not busy

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on Amazon.

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There is as a chicken.

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Two books if I remember rightly. Okay, this is one

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I don't know, Old Richard Belzer. Okay, he's very famous

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comedian in America. How to be a stand up Comedian.

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So that's a hardback book. I've not read that. The

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h where is it? This is a book I used

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to have called The Last Laugh The World of stand

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Up Comics. Now I almost want to get it again,

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but I'm kind of cutting down on my books now.

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stand up comedy in America, because that's pretty much where

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it originated. Stand up comedy is an American thing. Really.

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doing it in the late seventies, you know, is I

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say we? But in this country They've always been decades

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ahead of us, not anymore, not anymore, but for a

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long time. And the English stand up comedians we've kind of,

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when I say the newer breed, I'm talking last few decades,

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hugely influenced by American comedians, hugely influenced. But I would

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say possibly Americans are now influenced by us maybe as well.

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Because of the Internet. Everything's kind of in the same

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time span. Now we're not really behind anymore. But that

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book The Last Laugh won't teach you to do stand

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up comedy, but it's really I used to have it

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in one of the first books on comedy I ever bought,

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in about nineteen ninety one. I lent it to someone

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and I never gave it back. Who was it? Did that? Anyway?

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It was a really good book. Talks about I give

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you an example of the book. Out of it talks

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about Rodney Dan Dangerfield said. Rodney Dangerfield was a comedian

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in the sixties and he went he basically quit comedy

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for about ten years, and then he came back and

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he became famous in the seventies. But he was like

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a lot older. And you know, I mean, if you

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think about Rodney Dangerfield. I don't know, he's no longer with us,

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but I can't ever remember him being young. Of course

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he was at one point, we all was at one point,

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but he always that that look he had made it

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kind of fitted in with his comedy. So maybe he

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was too young before because a lot of the stand

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up comedy really kind of post war, post Second World War.

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there'd be lots of coffee shops around America and people

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were performing coffee shops. They did nothing practically, but you know,

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there's there'd there'd be a whole alternative kind of culture,

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and that's where people like Lenny Bruce came up, and

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George Carlin and maybe Richard Pryor as well. And then

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in the sixties, Lenny Bruce was a huge star in

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America for a while, and Richard Pryor was in the

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sixties to start with. It probably started in the fifties actually,

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but he was in the sixties. He became well known

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in America for a while because he'd I think he

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said something, what did Richard Pryor say? He earned a

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really good living for about five years mimicking Bill Cosby,

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and by that I mean like with the jokes, with

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the act, nothing else. And for those that don't know

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Bill Cosby, don't worry. I'm not going anywhere weird with this.

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I think a lot of people outside of America maybe

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don't realize how big Bill Cosby was. And I'm not

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talking about TV wise, I'm talking about before television, not

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before television was invented, but before television. He was on television.

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Like anyone in the Western world is probably very well

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aware of the Bill Cosby Show, or maybe remembers that

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if they're you know, over a certain age. Maybe I

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don't think it's shown very often now for some reason,

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the reruns aren't on TV anymore. So he was. He

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was the biggest paid star. It was weird because in

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about nineteen eighty nine, nineteen eighty eight something like that,

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the three biggest paid star, according to the newspapers I

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was reading, were all Americans. So the biggest paid stars

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in America anyway entertainers. So you had Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby,

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and Prince and they were all making like one hundred

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million a year something like that. Prince was constantly on

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tour selling millions of albums. Bill Cosby was on TV

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and his TV show was everywhere the most famous comedian

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in the world. Although I didn't know he was a comedian.

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I just knew he was Doctor Huxtable. I didn't know

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him as being didn't really know. I mean, I knew

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he was called Bill Cosby because it was the It

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wasn't a Huxtable show, was It was The Cosby Show.

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Confuse me a little bit. That doesn't take much, but

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isn't that amazing? But before that, Bill Cosby, I'm not

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saying that he was more famous, but he was a

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huge star long before the Bill Cosby Show that you know,

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Cosby's in America. He filled out arenas all over America

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with his stand up. He had best selling albums comedy

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albums in the sixties, huge star sixties and seventies. He

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was massive, and of course he was massive in the

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eighties as well, for a different thing. He was huge.

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It's really I don't mean to gush. That's a weird word,

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isn't it. I don't mean to be all gushy about it,

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especially as you know I'm forgetting about any personal stuff

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to do with him. But it was on a level

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that I don't think anyone really reached because he reached

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a much wider audience than someone like Richard Pryor, who

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are a lot of people, because a lot of comedians

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they would say, they may say maybe not now, but

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they used to say, this is Lenny Bruce was pretty

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much the most influential stand up comedian ever. But the

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king of comedy was Richard Pryor. And that used to

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be kind of the pretty much the understood accepted, I'm

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not going to say the word narrative, also just said

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it of stand up comedy. Like Lenny Bruce, he broke

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through barriers, He got arrested constantly, and he pretty much

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he died for his art, you could say. And he

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was funny, but then he got very he got caught

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up in all the court cases, and that's all he

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did on stage was just talk about his court cases.

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Richard Pryor, and he broke a lot of taboos, which

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more than probably anyone else at the time. But then

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when Richard Pryor went on stage, he got away with

448
00:38:36.400 --> 00:38:41.119
a lot more because it was you know, it was

449
00:38:41.360 --> 00:38:48.599
years later. And also he could talk about being black

450
00:38:48.800 --> 00:38:52.039
and he couldn't get in trouble for that Lenny Bruce

451
00:38:52.159 --> 00:38:56.599
used to talk about the different things between the races

452
00:38:56.639 --> 00:38:59.719
in America, and he got in trouble for it, and

453
00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:03.599
people got upset. But Richard Pryor, I don't know why

454
00:39:03.679 --> 00:39:06.360
that's funny, but just Richard Pryor did it in a day.

455
00:39:06.360 --> 00:39:09.440
I'm just thinking of I'm remembering Richard Pryor. That's all

456
00:39:09.440 --> 00:39:12.480
I'm laughing at. Is I remembering some of the stuff

457
00:39:12.480 --> 00:39:18.039
that he used to talk about John. And I'll tell you

458
00:39:18.039 --> 00:39:21.480
one of his jokes from his albums, Richard Pryor, I

459
00:39:21.480 --> 00:39:26.199
can't even tell you the name of the album, Okay,

460
00:39:26.440 --> 00:39:33.159
I mean, bearing in mind right now, you can't buy

461
00:39:33.199 --> 00:39:37.440
the album out. They put a sticker over the cut

462
00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:41.559
of the image of it, like if you watch it,

463
00:39:43.159 --> 00:39:45.039
if you go on Amazon or stuff like that, they

464
00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:49.199
will cover over the word. But in the seventies they didn't.

465
00:39:51.039 --> 00:39:56.880
But one of his names is albums was that N

466
00:39:56.960 --> 00:40:04.840
word is crazy by some by centennial N word, and

467
00:40:05.199 --> 00:40:08.159
you know, and he used that word a lot, but

468
00:40:08.239 --> 00:40:12.039
his albums were named with that word on it. Now,

469
00:40:12.119 --> 00:40:17.960
Lenny Bruce, if he'd have done something like that, it'd

470
00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:21.760
still be in prison, would still be alive probably well,

471
00:40:24.719 --> 00:40:27.639
but Richard pry got away with that just shows you

472
00:40:27.679 --> 00:40:30.400
how different things were by the time Richard Pryor was famous.

473
00:40:32.079 --> 00:40:34.079
But one of his jokes on one of his albums

474
00:40:34.239 --> 00:40:43.360
is there's two brothers. As he said, two brothers stand

475
00:40:43.400 --> 00:40:47.360
because he was talking about the cliche of different body

476
00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:50.519
parts and sizes between races and stuff. I'm not going

477
00:40:50.599 --> 00:40:53.760
to it, but he said, I won't do that his voice.

478
00:40:53.800 --> 00:40:55.400
I used to be able to do his voice quite well.

479
00:40:56.239 --> 00:41:02.880
Two brothers standing on a bridge doing Weewie's that's side

480
00:41:02.880 --> 00:41:07.360
by side wei in off a bridge and one of

481
00:41:07.400 --> 00:41:13.880
them says, oh, the war's cold, and everyone says, yeah,

482
00:41:13.880 --> 00:41:20.119
it's deep too, so it's yeah, it's quite a funny joy.

483
00:41:20.320 --> 00:41:25.840
It's funny when he says it. I just think that's

484
00:41:25.880 --> 00:41:27.719
some on the stard. I can't tell you. You know,

485
00:41:28.039 --> 00:41:31.199
he's worth listening to if you've never I realized that's

486
00:41:31.239 --> 00:41:35.119
not the question. But if you want to hear something

487
00:41:35.159 --> 00:41:41.719
that you've perhaps never heard before, maybe check out a

488
00:41:41.840 --> 00:41:49.239
Richard Pryor album. Because if you've seen Richard prior just

489
00:41:49.320 --> 00:41:52.400
in movies and as I had up to the age

490
00:41:52.440 --> 00:41:57.000
of about eighteen or nineteen, I didn't know he did

491
00:41:57.079 --> 00:42:00.840
stand up comedy. Maybe eighteen, I knew he was in

492
00:42:06.920 --> 00:42:11.559
Brewster's Millions and See No Evil, Hear No Evil and

493
00:42:12.639 --> 00:42:15.559
Stir Crazy and all those movies that he did with

494
00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:22.000
What's his Name and Superman three. So you know, I

495
00:42:22.039 --> 00:42:25.039
loved Richard Pryor when I was a little kid or

496
00:42:25.039 --> 00:42:29.400
growing up. I loved him. It was hilarious, but I

497
00:42:29.440 --> 00:42:32.199
didn't know he did stand up comedy. And there's no

498
00:42:32.239 --> 00:42:34.440
way in the world that anyone was going to show

499
00:42:34.480 --> 00:42:37.159
me his stand up comedy because I was a little kid,

500
00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:41.599
because it was adults rating and my dad was never

501
00:42:41.639 --> 00:42:44.760
into that kind of stuff anyway, so I never got

502
00:42:44.760 --> 00:42:48.280
to hear it. And then when I was nine to

503
00:42:48.320 --> 00:42:53.239
about eighteen, I I thought, well, I was in the

504
00:42:53.320 --> 00:42:57.199
second hand shop, I think, like a record shop, and

505
00:42:57.280 --> 00:43:00.280
I was looking through the albums because I started listening

506
00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:05.840
to albums like Steve Martin, Emo Phillips. I started buying

507
00:43:05.880 --> 00:43:09.199
albums as well, so Emo Phillips, Steve Martin, Steven Wright,

508
00:43:11.400 --> 00:43:14.920
Bill Cosby. There was quite a few Bill Cosby albums,

509
00:43:15.320 --> 00:43:19.920
and it was like I was so transfixed. And I

510
00:43:20.159 --> 00:43:23.800
started getting videos as well, so Steve Martin, as I said,

511
00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:32.199
comics from here as well, Jerry Sadovich, loads loads of

512
00:43:32.280 --> 00:43:34.360
sort of stand up to me. I had quite a

513
00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:41.360
nice library actually of videos, and I discovered Richard Pryor.

514
00:43:43.000 --> 00:43:47.480
So the two things that I really remember discovering was well,

515
00:43:48.280 --> 00:43:51.000
Steve Martin. I had no idea that he was a comedian.

516
00:43:52.159 --> 00:43:54.400
I've seen him in movies, and some of his early

517
00:43:54.440 --> 00:43:59.840
movies I loved long before he was famous in this country.

518
00:44:00.800 --> 00:44:02.920
I watched these films like Dead Men, Don't Be a

519
00:44:03.000 --> 00:44:08.760
Plaid and Lonely Guy and The Man with Two Brains

520
00:44:08.840 --> 00:44:13.519
and stuff like that. What's the other one? Two of Me?

521
00:44:13.760 --> 00:44:17.000
Or I forget it, but they were good with Lily

522
00:44:17.000 --> 00:44:20.679
Tomlin that was so funny. And then he did the

523
00:44:20.800 --> 00:44:25.320
Jerk and he became more famous worldwide. It was famous

524
00:44:25.360 --> 00:44:28.039
in America already, but I didn't know that he was

525
00:44:28.079 --> 00:44:33.599
selling out arenas doing stand up comedy. Now, Dev you're

526
00:44:33.599 --> 00:44:36.920
probably regretting asking me that question, because you've got me

527
00:44:36.920 --> 00:44:40.079
onto a subject that I didn't realize that still had

528
00:44:40.079 --> 00:44:47.320
a bit of passion for, which is weird. But yeah,

529
00:44:48.239 --> 00:44:52.960
when I discovered Richard Pryor's albums, I couldn't believe what

530
00:44:53.039 --> 00:44:55.679
I was listening to because it was stuff that I

531
00:44:55.760 --> 00:45:01.079
wasn't supposed to be saying, still not allowed to say,

532
00:45:01.119 --> 00:45:04.440
but it was. I hadn't heard, hadn't really heard other

533
00:45:04.519 --> 00:45:11.400
people say it. And then I discovered George Carlin, who

534
00:45:12.519 --> 00:45:16.960
in a way probably made me laugh even more. Some

535
00:45:17.000 --> 00:45:22.920
of his earlier stand up comic albums so funny, and

536
00:45:23.480 --> 00:45:27.320
I really got into him probably in the early probably

537
00:45:27.320 --> 00:45:30.360
about nineteen ninety and then ninety one, so I was

538
00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:32.960
listening to him quite a lot. Then when I kind

539
00:45:32.960 --> 00:45:39.760
of started out doing comedy, and I had it influenced

540
00:45:39.800 --> 00:45:44.159
me in no way. So I was listening in regularity, regularly,

541
00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:50.760
I was listening a lot to some of the greatest comedians,

542
00:45:51.519 --> 00:45:56.119
and it did not improve my performance. And also I

543
00:45:56.199 --> 00:46:02.079
was seeing in person some brilliant comedians regularly, like every week,

544
00:46:02.360 --> 00:46:07.239
sometimes two three times a week, including those that I

545
00:46:07.320 --> 00:46:09.400
used to be on the same bill with, and I

546
00:46:09.440 --> 00:46:11.800
still didn't get any better. Well, I got a little

547
00:46:11.800 --> 00:46:17.840
bit better, but I didn't. I didn't improve to the

548
00:46:17.880 --> 00:46:20.679
point where you kind of think I would do being

549
00:46:20.760 --> 00:46:26.079
around such talent, which I was for a long time.

550
00:46:27.519 --> 00:46:30.800
I mean I was involved with the comedy scene for

551
00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:36.719
a long time, a long long time. But anyway, Yes,

552
00:46:36.840 --> 00:46:43.599
so Derek and Clyde was another one was Derek and Clive,

553
00:46:44.480 --> 00:46:52.679
Derek and Clive, which was what was it, Peter Cook

554
00:46:52.719 --> 00:46:59.559
and Dudley Moore. I discovered them in nineteen ninety or

555
00:46:59.599 --> 00:47:03.760
maybe it was nine, maybe nineteen ninety. I remember listening

556
00:47:03.800 --> 00:47:06.159
to it during my breaks at work with another colleague

557
00:47:06.159 --> 00:47:10.840
at work and we were just laughing because it was

558
00:47:11.039 --> 00:47:16.880
so funny because I'd never heard an English person talk

559
00:47:17.039 --> 00:47:20.679
like that say. The things that they were saying was

560
00:47:20.880 --> 00:47:29.239
so outrageous, so wrong on every level, but hilarious. I

561
00:47:29.280 --> 00:47:34.400
just found it absolutely hilarious. And there was three albums,

562
00:47:35.440 --> 00:47:39.000
I think, including the live ones, so there's ad Nauseum

563
00:47:39.440 --> 00:47:42.800
Come Again, and I think it was just a live one.

564
00:47:43.760 --> 00:47:46.440
I think, unless there was four albums, I think it

565
00:47:46.480 --> 00:47:54.239
was three. Anyway, as far as books go, yes, I've

566
00:47:54.239 --> 00:47:56.719
got a couple. I can't find the one I was

567
00:47:56.760 --> 00:47:59.480
looking for. So there are quite a few stand up

568
00:47:59.480 --> 00:48:01.960
books Stand Up Comic, How to Become a Stand Up

569
00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:12.039
Comic on Amazon, so there's a few. But what I

570
00:48:12.079 --> 00:48:15.280
would probably recommend if you're living in London, or if

571
00:48:15.320 --> 00:48:19.079
you're in a city or just check there might be

572
00:48:19.119 --> 00:48:24.639
something local, is if you can find a course which

573
00:48:24.639 --> 00:48:30.559
you can go to you like a four week course,

574
00:48:30.760 --> 00:48:33.800
one evening a week or one Saturday afternoon a week

575
00:48:33.880 --> 00:48:38.599
for six weeks or whatever, because the benefit of that

576
00:48:38.920 --> 00:48:44.039
is firstly you'll be it'll be an introduction to the

577
00:48:44.079 --> 00:48:49.599
comedy world a much probably quite a gentle way to

578
00:48:49.639 --> 00:48:53.039
do it in some ways, because I think quite often

579
00:48:53.079 --> 00:48:58.559
the way they they like format it is you go along.

580
00:48:59.599 --> 00:49:03.639
You're in a room with maybe five, six, ten, twelve

581
00:49:03.760 --> 00:49:06.119
people that you've never met before, but they're in the

582
00:49:06.199 --> 00:49:09.199
same they're at the same level as you. They're the

583
00:49:09.280 --> 00:49:11.719
same if they're just starting out, or maybe they've done

584
00:49:11.760 --> 00:49:17.039
a few gigs, or maybe they've never done it, but

585
00:49:17.159 --> 00:49:19.760
what they were have in common with you is enthusiasm

586
00:49:20.920 --> 00:49:25.840
and you know, the dream of doing it, and maybe

587
00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:29.639
most of them have never been on stage before as

588
00:49:29.679 --> 00:49:36.719
a comedian. And then you've got the teacher who is

589
00:49:36.760 --> 00:49:40.239
going to be very much likely or have many many

590
00:49:40.320 --> 00:49:45.800
years of being a comedian and thinking about this course.

591
00:49:45.880 --> 00:49:50.840
In London, they used to have headliners from the comedy

592
00:49:50.840 --> 00:49:54.920
circuit in London every week come along and talk to

593
00:49:54.960 --> 00:49:59.159
the group, which is something you're not going to get

594
00:49:59.199 --> 00:50:05.199
in any other city cuation. It's you know, it's I mean,

595
00:50:05.360 --> 00:50:07.639
you probably can go to a comedy club and say

596
00:50:07.760 --> 00:50:11.119
hello to someone that's been on stage. You know, they'd

597
00:50:11.119 --> 00:50:15.599
a headliner and self, I really enjoyed your your performance,

598
00:50:15.760 --> 00:50:18.920
they might say thanks, But the chances of them sitting

599
00:50:19.000 --> 00:50:22.400
down for half an hour and actually going through what

600
00:50:22.400 --> 00:50:28.039
it's like to be a comedian and getting advice. Even

601
00:50:28.119 --> 00:50:31.920
I struggled to get that. And I was a comic

602
00:50:32.679 --> 00:50:35.960
and I knew these people, you know, once I started,

603
00:50:36.000 --> 00:50:38.480
I got to know some people, and I didn't get

604
00:50:38.480 --> 00:50:43.440
hardly any advice. I think I was given up as

605
00:50:43.440 --> 00:50:49.119
a lost cause first, very early on, and I just

606
00:50:49.960 --> 00:50:52.320
it seemed like the biggest joke of my comedy act

607
00:50:52.400 --> 00:51:00.679
was me. That was the biggest joke. Bless see. I'm

608
00:51:00.679 --> 00:51:06.280
sure I've I've been either did Benivo or whatever. I

609
00:51:06.400 --> 00:51:10.599
used to have a book. But then another thing in

610
00:51:10.639 --> 00:51:14.039
the course they do is generally, as far as I know,

611
00:51:16.960 --> 00:51:20.199
they build up to you doing to put in a

612
00:51:20.400 --> 00:51:24.159
nice five minutes together and you performing every week you

613
00:51:24.199 --> 00:51:26.079
go and performing something in front of the rest of

614
00:51:26.079 --> 00:51:32.079
the group, with the culmination of an actual gig at

615
00:51:32.119 --> 00:51:33.920
the end of it, and all of you will go

616
00:51:34.000 --> 00:51:36.400
on stage in front of a paid audience or maybe

617
00:51:36.440 --> 00:51:41.920
a free audience at a comedy club or come a

618
00:51:41.960 --> 00:51:44.639
comedy night or something like that. So it'll be an audience,

619
00:51:44.800 --> 00:51:48.960
an audience members will be there and you get a

620
00:51:49.079 --> 00:51:53.800
chance to perform in front of complete strangers, an actual

621
00:51:54.119 --> 00:51:57.880
proper comedy audience for the first time. And the good

622
00:51:57.880 --> 00:52:00.679
thing about that is the audience know what come into

623
00:52:01.719 --> 00:52:05.639
It's not like an ordinary open night, spot night where

624
00:52:05.760 --> 00:52:08.679
they might be coming to heckel and stuff. They're coming

625
00:52:08.719 --> 00:52:11.679
to support because they know that you've just gone through

626
00:52:11.679 --> 00:52:14.840
a course, a six week course or whatever. So they're

627
00:52:14.840 --> 00:52:17.679
going to be supportive. They're not going to laugh if

628
00:52:17.679 --> 00:52:19.840
it's not funny, but they're still they're not going to

629
00:52:19.920 --> 00:52:25.079
be hard on the comedians and be open to like

630
00:52:26.239 --> 00:52:30.079
it's nice now. I kind of I've got a lot

631
00:52:30.079 --> 00:52:32.880
of information from about these courses because I know a

632
00:52:32.920 --> 00:52:34.760
lot of people that went on them what I did,

633
00:52:37.039 --> 00:52:41.639
and yeah, so that's what I would recommend. The books

634
00:52:41.639 --> 00:52:44.199
are good. You can learn something from books. Of course,

635
00:52:45.199 --> 00:52:49.719
most of my learning has really come from books, I guess,

636
00:52:49.800 --> 00:52:57.800
but yeah, there's a lot there's a lot of books

637
00:52:57.880 --> 00:53:00.559
on a stand up comedy that you can get hold of.

638
00:53:01.920 --> 00:53:06.960
I don't know which one I would necessarily recommend. I'm

639
00:53:06.960 --> 00:53:16.079
just looking down. All right, there's a Woody Ellen, but

640
00:53:16.079 --> 00:53:20.159
it's a stand up comic, Okay, so I can't figu out.

641
00:53:20.159 --> 00:53:21.840
I'm going to put Richard Pryor in because I just

642
00:53:21.840 --> 00:53:36.280
want to see what the if it's censored. Rich Ar Prior. Okay,

643
00:53:36.400 --> 00:53:38.360
pass I spell his name right, it would be better.

644
00:53:43.119 --> 00:53:47.280
Here we go, right, Oh, it's all of his films

645
00:53:47.320 --> 00:53:52.599
from eighty to ninety one and blu Ray. Richard Pryor

646
00:53:52.599 --> 00:53:58.000
is also whoa. There's a book about him called Prior Convictions,

647
00:53:59.039 --> 00:54:09.079
another book called Becoming Richard Pryor. Okay, he did. I

648
00:54:09.159 --> 00:54:12.119
still it's really childish. But there's a movie that he

649
00:54:12.159 --> 00:54:17.960
did and he's I think it's called The Toy, and

650
00:54:18.000 --> 00:54:22.679
he's like looking after this little kid who's rich and

651
00:54:23.519 --> 00:54:25.840
I think he's kind of like the kid's toy, just

652
00:54:25.920 --> 00:54:27.599
just to do what the kid wants him to do.

653
00:54:28.760 --> 00:54:34.239
And he gets introduced to this little kid and so

654
00:54:34.400 --> 00:54:38.000
this is mister Pryor whatever his name was in the

655
00:54:38.039 --> 00:54:43.280
movie and said welcome and like you to meet your

656
00:54:43.320 --> 00:54:51.480
new boss, Master Bates. Now I saw that when I

657
00:54:51.559 --> 00:54:58.480
was what probably about fourteen thirteen, and I'm still laughing

658
00:54:58.639 --> 00:55:02.639
because I'm so child oldish. I still find it hilarious.

659
00:55:02.920 --> 00:55:08.559
It's weird of it. So yeah, that's my answer to

660
00:55:08.599 --> 00:55:18.519
your question, dev is try if you can find a

661
00:55:20.199 --> 00:55:28.599
place where you can maybe do some training, go to

662
00:55:28.679 --> 00:55:32.559
a course, a stand up comedy course, and dell include

663
00:55:32.559 --> 00:55:36.559
things like writing performance, how to hold a microphone, how

664
00:55:36.639 --> 00:55:39.639
far to have the microphone away from your from your mouth,

665
00:55:40.440 --> 00:55:44.079
where to look when you're on stage. I guess just

666
00:55:44.239 --> 00:55:48.880
you know things, all the things that I still don't

667
00:55:48.920 --> 00:55:54.519
know how to do. So thanks for that, Sir Maria Hijason.

668
00:55:54.559 --> 00:55:57.519
On a recent recording, you mentioned that you might need

669
00:55:57.800 --> 00:56:05.199
new glasses calls soon. Yep, yep, definitely. Would you have

670
00:56:05.320 --> 00:56:08.719
to be bifocal? Would they have to be by vocal

671
00:56:08.880 --> 00:56:13.360
or very focal? Have you ever worn contact lenses or

672
00:56:13.400 --> 00:56:19.679
it's something you consider doing? Thank you well, Thanks Maria.

673
00:56:20.920 --> 00:56:24.760
I'll answer the first the second question first, no, and

674
00:56:24.880 --> 00:56:30.199
no and no and no and no contact lenses. No.

675
00:56:30.599 --> 00:56:36.280
I could know, It's not something I would do. I

676
00:56:36.360 --> 00:56:39.159
know I understand why people do do it, especially like

677
00:56:39.280 --> 00:56:45.159
younger people. Not everyone likes glasses and to wearing glasses,

678
00:56:45.159 --> 00:56:46.840
and it can get in a way. You know, it

679
00:56:46.920 --> 00:56:50.880
gets steamed up at times and they get dirty and

680
00:56:51.039 --> 00:56:57.719
depending on what you're doing. I mean, I'm a messy eater.

681
00:56:59.079 --> 00:57:03.679
But contact lenses, no, I don't know. It doesn't really

682
00:57:03.719 --> 00:57:11.760
appeal to me. Never has. As far as bifocals or

683
00:57:11.960 --> 00:57:15.000
verier focals, I'm not quite sure what very a focal

684
00:57:15.079 --> 00:57:19.880
is by focal. I think it's I think I have

685
00:57:20.039 --> 00:57:22.280
been very a focal is that where like the different

686
00:57:22.320 --> 00:57:27.000
parts kind of you can't see, but that yeah, you

687
00:57:27.039 --> 00:57:31.320
can see because the glasses. But my glass at the moment,

688
00:57:32.519 --> 00:57:36.159
the bottom part is for reading, and the middle part

689
00:57:36.480 --> 00:57:42.920
is for like distance, and supposedly the you know, the

690
00:57:43.039 --> 00:57:47.079
highest part is for like computer work, but generally it's

691
00:57:47.119 --> 00:57:49.760
the bottom parts for reading. And it's not big enough

692
00:57:49.800 --> 00:57:58.239
because I need separate reading glasses. And maybe that's what

693
00:57:58.360 --> 00:58:07.039
the very focal is. I used to have trifocals where

694
00:58:07.519 --> 00:58:09.639
I this is years ago when I was in the

695
00:58:09.679 --> 00:58:16.880
call center, and was it bifocals. Yeah, but they were

696
00:58:16.880 --> 00:58:23.760
almost that had like a line across so the I

697
00:58:23.800 --> 00:58:28.360
could read again read at the bottom. The middle was

698
00:58:28.400 --> 00:58:32.960
for distance, and it was really weird. It's very it

699
00:58:33.000 --> 00:58:36.880
felt very strange because I felt like I was taller

700
00:58:40.360 --> 00:58:45.119
than I would normally be because instead of like the distance,

701
00:58:45.159 --> 00:58:48.239
you know, it brings it closer, doesn't it. But the

702
00:58:48.280 --> 00:58:52.280
bottom part was pushing things further away for some reason.

703
00:58:52.320 --> 00:58:56.719
So I felt really tall, which was nice, but I felt,

704
00:58:56.760 --> 00:58:59.639
you know, a bit stumbling a bit. I tripped over

705
00:58:59.679 --> 00:59:04.719
a couple times, and I realized my shoelaceers what I'm done? No,

706
00:59:04.840 --> 00:59:09.079
I didn't, that was weird, but yeah, I think no,

707
00:59:09.079 --> 00:59:13.360
no contact lenses, but also no longer am I going

708
00:59:13.400 --> 00:59:17.280
to get any kind of bifocals. I'm going to stick

709
00:59:17.480 --> 00:59:21.480
to from now on. At least, I'm going to stick

710
00:59:21.519 --> 00:59:27.039
to glasses for read for reading, separate glasses for everyday

711
00:59:27.159 --> 00:59:31.039
use for distance, which I definitely need more than anything else,

712
00:59:32.480 --> 00:59:35.599
and maybe try and get some glasses for computer use.

713
00:59:36.119 --> 00:59:46.360
To three separate things. I do have anti glare. I

714
00:59:46.360 --> 00:59:50.039
think they're supposed to be anti glare, but I do,

715
00:59:50.079 --> 00:59:52.400
you know, video myself, and they do glare, so I'm

716
00:59:52.400 --> 00:59:56.400
not sure what that's about. They stare right at me,

717
00:59:57.480 --> 01:00:03.440
but the other act to light active active light or whatever,

718
01:00:03.760 --> 01:00:06.280
so they go they turn into kind of shades. When

719
01:00:06.280 --> 01:00:11.440
I'm outside in the sunlight. That's something that I had

720
01:00:11.480 --> 01:00:17.880
because in my family we've got macro degeneration is kind

721
01:00:17.920 --> 01:00:24.159
of like a hereditary thing, and a few years back,

722
01:00:24.320 --> 01:00:32.519
my what's it opticians said yeah, the best thing to

723
01:00:32.599 --> 01:00:34.360
do because he looked at the back of my eyes.

724
01:00:34.480 --> 01:00:37.880
He said, well, potentially the beginnings of that. You need

725
01:00:37.960 --> 01:00:43.239
to just protect your eyes when you're outside. So that's

726
01:00:43.280 --> 01:00:47.280
what I do. And he said, but you can wear sunshades.

727
01:00:47.320 --> 01:00:51.039
I said, yeah, but I need glasses, so i'd have

728
01:00:51.119 --> 01:00:56.320
to get the sunshades in my prescription, so it'd be

729
01:00:56.320 --> 01:00:59.159
easier just to get the them shade, you know, to

730
01:00:59.239 --> 01:01:05.360
shade on their own. Yeah, I'm going to get some soon,

731
01:01:06.000 --> 01:01:09.039
maybe not for Christmas, but I will eventually want to

732
01:01:09.079 --> 01:01:11.159
get things sorted out. I've got a few bits going on,

733
01:01:11.199 --> 01:01:14.719
so once I get everything sorted out, I'm going to

734
01:01:14.719 --> 01:01:18.199
get myself some glasses and that'll be it. So that'd

735
01:01:18.199 --> 01:01:30.440
be good. Hope asks, how did you end up adopting Andre? Well,

736
01:01:30.639 --> 01:01:35.719
I didn't want a ferret. That was a good way

737
01:01:35.719 --> 01:01:40.280
to start to start my story about the one of

738
01:01:40.360 --> 01:01:46.000
the loves of my life, which was still is. Actually

739
01:01:46.320 --> 01:01:49.360
I love that little boy. I will love him forever.

740
01:01:53.039 --> 01:01:56.280
My Luke downstairs had a ferret. When I moved in,

741
01:01:58.960 --> 01:02:02.480
he had a ferret, and I was like, okay. First

742
01:02:02.480 --> 01:02:05.000
of all, I was very a little bit scared, very

743
01:02:05.079 --> 01:02:11.559
a little bit a little bit very scared because I

744
01:02:11.599 --> 01:02:15.559
just didn't really know what to do with it. It

745
01:02:15.599 --> 01:02:19.119
moved very quick and had very sharp teeth, and he

746
01:02:19.360 --> 01:02:24.639
was a biter, which put me off. I think it's

747
01:02:25.199 --> 01:02:29.199
I think it might be thundering. So it put me off, okay,

748
01:02:29.800 --> 01:02:31.760
because I didn't want that. I didn't want something that

749
01:02:31.840 --> 01:02:34.920
was going to be biting people who came around. Not

750
01:02:34.960 --> 01:02:37.039
that I get a lot of people visiting, but I

751
01:02:37.079 --> 01:02:40.400
didn't want to be bitten myself. He found it funny.

752
01:02:41.639 --> 01:02:45.719
It'd let l was the name of the ferry. He'd well,

753
01:02:45.760 --> 01:02:49.280
it's a pole cat, but he'd let him bite him

754
01:02:49.440 --> 01:02:54.440
and he just didn't care. He bit me once, like

755
01:02:55.039 --> 01:02:59.719
really bit me on the on my arm. And what

756
01:03:00.159 --> 01:03:02.039
it's to do is to do like the crocodile role.

757
01:03:04.519 --> 01:03:07.039
It's not good and it really hurt. I left a

758
01:03:07.119 --> 01:03:09.920
mark on there for weeks. This was early on my

759
01:03:10.000 --> 01:03:15.559
time living there, so I thought no because I considered

760
01:03:15.559 --> 01:03:19.599
because I wanted to get a dog, and he said, oh,

761
01:03:20.039 --> 01:03:21.880
you could get a ferry. I said, no, you're right,

762
01:03:23.960 --> 01:03:26.480
and I was going to get a dog. And then

763
01:03:27.000 --> 01:03:29.559
the dog that I went and visited didn't like me

764
01:03:30.960 --> 01:03:35.559
a bit like Vinny. Just wasn't interested at all. And

765
01:03:35.599 --> 01:03:37.280
it was a puppy, but it was in a like

766
01:03:37.320 --> 01:03:43.480
a shelter, you know, an animal place, and I just like,

767
01:03:45.159 --> 01:03:51.360
I want my feeling, my theory, my idea if I

768
01:03:51.400 --> 01:03:53.519
ever got a dog of my own, would be to

769
01:03:53.599 --> 01:03:57.320
go and visit that dog, and maybe there's like six

770
01:03:57.440 --> 01:04:01.920
dogs and one comes up to me and chooses me.

771
01:04:03.039 --> 01:04:05.440
That's what I wanted. I wanted a dog to choose me.

772
01:04:06.760 --> 01:04:10.679
It didn't happen, so I kind of I visited twice,

773
01:04:11.800 --> 01:04:15.559
still didn't really fill any connection with the dog. So

774
01:04:15.639 --> 01:04:19.320
I decided not to get that dog. And they kept saying,

775
01:04:19.360 --> 01:04:21.519
they calling me, well, we've got other people that want

776
01:04:21.599 --> 01:04:24.599
to take it us. Just do that then, because it

777
01:04:24.719 --> 01:04:29.000
just didn't feel a beautiful little dog. But it just

778
01:04:29.000 --> 01:04:34.079
just didn't seem like the dog liked me a bit

779
01:04:34.199 --> 01:04:39.800
like Finny. He doesn't seem to like me. I think

780
01:04:39.800 --> 01:04:43.000
he loves me, but he doesn't like me, I think sometimes.

781
01:04:44.199 --> 01:04:49.760
And so I didn't get an animality. End I didn't

782
01:04:49.800 --> 01:04:54.920
get a pet. And then around the November time, might

783
01:04:55.000 --> 01:05:00.159
be in October November ish, I normally say November. I

784
01:05:00.199 --> 01:05:05.320
don't know. And this was two thy fifteen. Luke says

785
01:05:05.320 --> 01:05:12.440
to me, Ah, I said yeah. He said, my friend

786
01:05:13.400 --> 01:05:22.679
who breeds ferrets has got two ferrets going needing new homes.

787
01:05:24.159 --> 01:05:27.719
And I said yeah. He said, are you interested in

788
01:05:27.800 --> 01:05:32.800
getting a ferret? Now? These? Well you might not know this.

789
01:05:33.039 --> 01:05:38.079
Andre was related to L. So L was Andre's uncle,

790
01:05:41.079 --> 01:05:44.320
like blood blood relative, because he had got L from

791
01:05:44.320 --> 01:05:48.320
there as well, from that same friend, like a couple

792
01:05:48.360 --> 01:05:56.320
few years earlier, so they were related. Anyway, I thought, yeah,

793
01:05:56.320 --> 01:05:59.840
maybe I will. But then I thought, you know, they

794
01:05:59.840 --> 01:06:05.159
did stink a bit. I personally loved the smell of Andre,

795
01:06:05.679 --> 01:06:07.960
but I know not everybody is into that kind of

796
01:06:09.199 --> 01:06:13.079
stinky stink. I think he's I mean, he didn't always

797
01:06:13.079 --> 01:06:15.840
smell good because they are kind of a bit skunky

798
01:06:15.880 --> 01:06:24.719
at times. Anyway, I thought about it. I thought yes, no, yes, no,

799
01:06:25.320 --> 01:06:30.199
And then I thought no, no, I've got a brand

800
01:06:30.199 --> 01:06:32.639
new carpet, It's only been in there for a few months,

801
01:06:33.920 --> 01:06:40.480
the flats looking good. I don't want it ruined. Well.

802
01:06:41.760 --> 01:06:46.519
I got a bit interrupted then because Phinnis started barking

803
01:06:46.599 --> 01:06:49.719
and I couldn't figure out why he was barking, and

804
01:06:49.760 --> 01:06:56.559
then I heard some thunder. Now we've had thunder before.

805
01:06:57.920 --> 01:07:01.760
I don't mean, you know, in history, but you know,

806
01:07:01.800 --> 01:07:08.519
since I've had Finny, there's been thunder. And normally he

807
01:07:08.559 --> 01:07:14.519
doesn't seem to be too bothered. But it did. I fit. Normally,

808
01:07:14.880 --> 01:07:17.199
maybe there'd be the TV would beyond, so it kind

809
01:07:17.239 --> 01:07:22.440
of cover it up a little bit, but yeah, it was.

810
01:07:22.599 --> 01:07:26.119
He didn't like it. The only other time I've seen

811
01:07:26.199 --> 01:07:33.840
him really disturbed by anything outside, you know, is fireworks.

812
01:07:33.840 --> 01:07:36.480
Once we was out at night and the fireworks were

813
01:07:36.480 --> 01:07:39.320
going off and he pulled me home, so we didn't

814
01:07:39.360 --> 01:07:44.119
like that. Another time he didn't like the aircraft going

815
01:07:44.159 --> 01:07:47.039
over to air display, because there was lots that he

816
01:07:47.079 --> 01:07:51.039
didn't like that, accept it's very noisy and the air

817
01:07:51.079 --> 01:07:53.719
blue In the other day, last week or whenever it was,

818
01:07:54.440 --> 01:07:57.119
he pulled me home from that, he didn't didn't like that.

819
01:07:59.280 --> 01:08:03.360
Most things don't bother him, but just springs from the

820
01:08:03.440 --> 01:08:07.639
sky generally. I said to him, just don't look up,

821
01:08:09.039 --> 01:08:12.599
and he told me I was being silly. I have

822
01:08:12.719 --> 01:08:15.719
got to look up to hear the thunder. Have I,

823
01:08:15.719 --> 01:08:22.279
I said, all right, wow, so yeah, Andre. So at

824
01:08:22.319 --> 01:08:25.760
this point I'm thinking I don't want I'm thinking I

825
01:08:25.760 --> 01:08:28.560
don't want someone who's going to bite me and it's

826
01:08:28.600 --> 01:08:33.960
going to make a mess everywhere. And no, I really

827
01:08:34.000 --> 01:08:40.039
decided it was a firm negative, like no, no, not

828
01:08:40.279 --> 01:08:44.399
don't want one. I love l and I did. I mean,

829
01:08:44.439 --> 01:08:46.399
he was pretty good with me, as long as I

830
01:08:46.399 --> 01:08:50.039
remember to wear a long sleeved shirt or T shirt

831
01:08:50.359 --> 01:08:52.960
because if I kept off, God, it'd have a little nibble.

832
01:08:54.000 --> 01:08:57.800
But he was really it was a very loving ferrit,

833
01:08:58.239 --> 01:09:02.079
you know, very cuddly. But at the same time, you

834
01:09:02.119 --> 01:09:04.079
know he'd like to lit'tle bite every now and then

835
01:09:05.439 --> 01:09:11.479
a little snack, treat himself to a bit of human

836
01:09:13.119 --> 01:09:16.359
So and one hundred percent Nope, don't want one. So

837
01:09:16.640 --> 01:09:19.159
I'm just like going out my life as I do.

838
01:09:19.279 --> 01:09:22.279
And I'm walking home. I don't know where i'd been,

839
01:09:22.359 --> 01:09:26.680
probably been to town or something, or to the garage.

840
01:09:26.720 --> 01:09:35.199
And I'm coming back and I see this bloke holdings

841
01:09:35.720 --> 01:09:38.680
in looking in the back of a car and he's

842
01:09:38.720 --> 01:09:43.159
holding a cage. Then I see and this is outside

843
01:09:43.199 --> 01:09:45.760
the front of my building. And then I see Luke

844
01:09:45.800 --> 01:09:49.000
come out and he waves to me and he says, look,

845
01:09:50.199 --> 01:09:53.560
look there, these are the two ferrets, are two baby ferrets.

846
01:09:54.159 --> 01:09:56.439
I said, oh okay, and he said, come and have

847
01:09:56.479 --> 01:09:59.399
a look at them. He was so excited that That's

848
01:09:59.399 --> 01:10:02.079
one of the things about Luke. When he was excited,

849
01:10:03.239 --> 01:10:08.000
he brightened up so much. It was very contagious. So

850
01:10:08.960 --> 01:10:11.800
I kind of got very intrigued, and I was excited

851
01:10:11.840 --> 01:10:17.319
as well to sort of have a look. With no

852
01:10:17.399 --> 01:10:21.399
intention i'd taken one on. I didn't want to take it.

853
01:10:21.600 --> 01:10:24.840
And bearing in mind, the bloke didn't want any money.

854
01:10:24.960 --> 01:10:27.479
He wasn't doing it for money. He just loved ferrets.

855
01:10:29.840 --> 01:10:32.800
So there was two ferrets. One of them, you know,

856
01:10:32.880 --> 01:10:36.159
it was Andre. One of them was his brother, and

857
01:10:36.279 --> 01:10:39.640
one of them had to be that. He hadn't decided

858
01:10:39.680 --> 01:10:46.720
which one was already been adopted by someone else. But

859
01:10:46.800 --> 01:10:49.159
he was going to deliver that ferret, I think a

860
01:10:49.199 --> 01:10:54.199
few days afterwards, because he had to get a cage

861
01:10:54.199 --> 01:10:57.720
and stuff for it. This bloke, who was also a

862
01:10:57.720 --> 01:11:05.439
friend of Luke's. Instead of running around on the floor,

863
01:11:10.319 --> 01:11:17.119
I fell in love with Andre. I fell in love

864
01:11:17.159 --> 01:11:22.039
with him. See that that what I wanted to happen

865
01:11:22.119 --> 01:11:25.720
to me is, you know, like a dog wanting to

866
01:11:25.960 --> 01:11:27.439
I wanted a dog to fall in love with me

867
01:11:27.920 --> 01:11:30.560
and to come up to me and like just have

868
01:11:30.680 --> 01:11:39.439
that attachment. The reverse happened with Andre. I absolutely fell

869
01:11:39.560 --> 01:11:43.000
head over heels in love with that little boy in

870
01:11:43.039 --> 01:11:48.840
a way that I'm really so surprised about, because you know,

871
01:11:48.840 --> 01:11:50.560
if you just said to me a few years back

872
01:11:50.600 --> 01:11:53.119
before that, like one day, you're going to have a

873
01:11:53.159 --> 01:11:58.000
ferret running around your home, I would have I wouldn't

874
01:11:58.000 --> 01:12:02.399
have believed them, would I just laughed. It's like, no way.

875
01:12:02.680 --> 01:12:05.640
To me, a fairy was like a rat. You know,

876
01:12:05.920 --> 01:12:09.359
there was no difference. There's a big difference. But at

877
01:12:09.399 --> 01:12:11.399
the time I didn't really know. I just it was

878
01:12:11.439 --> 01:12:16.079
just some something that was very weak, very weekly, whibbly wobbly,

879
01:12:16.560 --> 01:12:21.000
moved very quickly and bit people. And I didn't want

880
01:12:21.000 --> 01:12:26.760
to I didn't want to know. At this time, I

881
01:12:26.840 --> 01:12:28.760
knew a little bit more about ferrets because I'd spent

882
01:12:28.880 --> 01:12:31.439
time with l and he used to come up here

883
01:12:31.479 --> 01:12:33.920
and it was as good as gold, apart from the

884
01:12:33.920 --> 01:12:43.159
occasional snack out of my arm. And so Vinny certainly,

885
01:12:43.319 --> 01:12:51.880
Vinnie Andre absolutely hated me. I picked him up and

886
01:12:51.920 --> 01:12:56.119
he bit me every opportunity. He bit me just on

887
01:12:56.119 --> 01:12:59.640
that occasion, he really grabbed me and his raisor teeth.

888
01:13:00.079 --> 01:13:02.560
Remember it was tiny at this point. You could like

889
01:13:02.600 --> 01:13:07.239
fit him in a polem my hand. And there's videos,

890
01:13:07.880 --> 01:13:11.479
there's probably pictures on Facebook, but there's loads of videos

891
01:13:11.520 --> 01:13:18.520
of him on my YouTube channel. Andre and I had

892
01:13:18.560 --> 01:13:23.319
to hold him. That the bloke who would brought the

893
01:13:23.399 --> 01:13:26.920
two around, he showed me how to handle the baby,

894
01:13:27.760 --> 01:13:31.159
and so did Luke. So there's a certain way you

895
01:13:31.239 --> 01:13:35.319
basically put your finger thumb around the neck. Because the

896
01:13:35.359 --> 01:13:38.560
neck so tiny, you're not choking it. It's just basically

897
01:13:38.800 --> 01:13:42.119
there's a lot of loose, loose skin there. It just

898
01:13:42.199 --> 01:13:45.880
means that they can't maneuver their mouth to bite you.

899
01:13:47.560 --> 01:13:52.840
Another thing is it was just something that parents do

900
01:13:53.000 --> 01:13:58.560
to ferrets, is they pick him up by their neck

901
01:13:58.960 --> 01:14:01.600
so it doesn't hurt them the back of the neck,

902
01:14:01.640 --> 01:14:07.960
the skin, but they just completely stay still. They stop

903
01:14:08.039 --> 01:14:10.640
being naughty as soon as that happens. Or you can

904
01:14:10.720 --> 01:14:13.600
drag them back like that and they just stay still.

905
01:14:14.600 --> 01:14:20.680
So if it doesn't hurt them, but it makes them

906
01:14:20.920 --> 01:14:25.560
be passive, they give up. They kind of you know.

907
01:14:25.760 --> 01:14:29.960
So that's kind of something I learned to do, but

908
01:14:30.039 --> 01:14:31.840
the rest of it was just not made up as

909
01:14:31.880 --> 01:14:34.359
I went along. But Luke kind of taught me quite

910
01:14:34.399 --> 01:14:42.960
a bit, I suppose as well. Yeah, yeah, And I

911
01:14:43.520 --> 01:14:46.479
went from no where in the world on those so

912
01:14:46.560 --> 01:14:55.399
many things in my flat to I've never wanted anything

913
01:14:55.439 --> 01:14:58.560
as much as I ever did in my life. That's

914
01:14:58.560 --> 01:15:02.640
probably a bit of an exaggeration. I really like the

915
01:15:02.680 --> 01:15:07.199
other one had no interest in and it was just

916
01:15:07.239 --> 01:15:10.800
as cute as I'm sure every baby ferret is just

917
01:15:10.840 --> 01:15:13.399
as cute as each other. But there was something about

918
01:15:13.600 --> 01:15:16.079
Andre I don't know what it was. There was something

919
01:15:16.119 --> 01:15:18.800
about him, something about his little face and his little

920
01:15:18.840 --> 01:15:22.439
mask that he had, like almost like he had an

921
01:15:23.079 --> 01:15:27.640
eye mask on him, like he was a highway dick

922
01:15:27.760 --> 01:15:32.880
Turpin or you know, something like that bank robber. Maybe

923
01:15:33.039 --> 01:15:36.520
maybe not, but yeah, it's just cute. He's facial features,

924
01:15:37.720 --> 01:15:45.000
and I had to have him. There was no option.

925
01:15:46.159 --> 01:15:48.399
In fact, I think the man said that he was

926
01:15:48.439 --> 01:15:53.560
going to give him to the other bloke, and Luke

927
01:15:53.600 --> 01:15:57.600
said he won't nobally, he won't know which one. He

928
01:15:57.680 --> 01:16:01.279
just knows he's going to get one. So I wouldn't

929
01:16:01.319 --> 01:16:07.399
have took the other one. However, weird that sounds Andre.

930
01:16:07.720 --> 01:16:11.000
It was him. It wasn't because Andre was a ferret

931
01:16:11.039 --> 01:16:15.079
that I wanted him. I didn't want a ferret. I

932
01:16:15.079 --> 01:16:17.520
wanted Andre. He was. I just fell in love with him.

933
01:16:17.640 --> 01:16:22.920
He's just something about him. And so for the first

934
01:16:22.920 --> 01:16:25.720
two weeks I had him, and all he did was

935
01:16:26.279 --> 01:16:31.800
bite me. But I continue to pick him up every

936
01:16:31.840 --> 01:16:37.119
single opportunity, cuddle him. And he never bit me on

937
01:16:37.159 --> 01:16:39.319
the face. So I could literally put my face right

938
01:16:39.520 --> 01:16:42.479
up to his. He's probably scared, to be fair, imagine

939
01:16:42.479 --> 01:16:45.239
to seeing my face so close up, probably scared the

940
01:16:45.279 --> 01:16:48.600
hell out of him. But he never bit me on

941
01:16:48.600 --> 01:16:55.640
the face. It's always my fingers if he could. And

942
01:16:55.720 --> 01:17:00.880
after a couple of weeks by after old destroyed loads

943
01:17:00.880 --> 01:17:03.840
of times. But I was just sitting down on the

944
01:17:03.880 --> 01:17:07.319
Saturday night watching the box in and he climbed up

945
01:17:07.359 --> 01:17:11.920
my leg and I was went dressing gown and he

946
01:17:12.000 --> 01:17:14.199
climbed up my left sleeve of my dressing gown and

947
01:17:14.239 --> 01:17:20.079
went to sleep. And from then on he was good

948
01:17:20.079 --> 01:17:25.399
as gold. We got on perfect. It never bit me again,

949
01:17:25.840 --> 01:17:30.000
not on purpose. He used to bite me when we played,

950
01:17:30.079 --> 01:17:32.359
when we had play fights, he bite me. Sometimes you

951
01:17:32.479 --> 01:17:35.520
get very carried away, but all I had to say

952
01:17:35.680 --> 01:17:40.880
was gentle and it stopped. So if he bit me

953
01:17:40.920 --> 01:17:45.560
too hard to say gentle, it just releases jaws. So

954
01:17:46.560 --> 01:17:53.720
his teeth were just kind of touching my skin. We

955
01:17:54.000 --> 01:17:57.560
communicated quite well, which is a bit weird, I think.

956
01:17:59.000 --> 01:18:02.920
But yeah, I think perhaps I should have got I

957
01:18:02.920 --> 01:18:07.399
should have got another ferret. Maybe, But you know what,

958
01:18:07.600 --> 01:18:12.560
Vinnie came into my life. And you know, I'll be honest.

959
01:18:12.680 --> 01:18:17.600
When I lost Andre, it was it was too much.

960
01:18:17.840 --> 01:18:21.640
I mean, I don't I didn't really believe that I

961
01:18:21.680 --> 01:18:29.239
could be so attached to a little thing like that,

962
01:18:31.880 --> 01:18:36.199
but I was. And you know, my vow and a

963
01:18:36.199 --> 01:18:37.960
lot of people do that is that they say I'll

964
01:18:38.000 --> 01:18:42.760
never get I never get another pet, that's it. And

965
01:18:42.840 --> 01:18:45.319
I definitely meant that I wasn't going to get anything.

966
01:18:45.399 --> 01:18:48.039
Not a dog, not a cat, anything. Not allowed to

967
01:18:48.079 --> 01:18:50.640
have a cat anyway, but not up here because I'm

968
01:18:50.640 --> 01:19:00.520
on the first floor. The cat can't get out, however,

969
01:19:01.239 --> 01:19:04.399
you know. So this was in the summer two thousand

970
01:19:04.479 --> 01:19:16.439
and one, and then two thousand and two, November or December,

971
01:19:18.840 --> 01:19:23.279
Vinnie ran through my legs as I answered the door

972
01:19:23.319 --> 01:19:27.560
to Luke. He was laughing and this little thing ran

973
01:19:27.600 --> 01:19:31.000
through and LOGI was there like looking at me, and

974
01:19:31.079 --> 01:19:33.880
he ran in as well. It's like, what the heck

975
01:19:34.079 --> 01:19:39.039
is LOGI chasing? I thought for a second, I thought

976
01:19:39.039 --> 01:19:43.680
he'd got another ferret, and it wasn't. It was Vinny.

977
01:19:43.840 --> 01:19:46.800
But Vinnie was ten months old, so he was He

978
01:19:46.920 --> 01:19:50.039
wasn't a hugely smaller than years now, but he was smaller.

979
01:19:52.239 --> 01:19:54.640
And I mean I couldn't see him. He was moving

980
01:19:54.680 --> 01:20:00.319
so quick. And you know, that's how I ended up him.

981
01:20:00.319 --> 01:20:02.920
But with Andre, that's how I ended up with him.

982
01:20:03.520 --> 01:20:10.479
It was just fall in love situation and no matter

983
01:20:10.520 --> 01:20:13.399
how you know, the ending wasn't good, and I just

984
01:20:14.640 --> 01:20:18.279
it was hard. But he did bring a lot of

985
01:20:19.439 --> 01:20:22.520
pleasure into my life. He made me laugh a lot,

986
01:20:23.720 --> 01:20:32.079
and yeah, I actually adored him, adored him, And I

987
01:20:32.199 --> 01:20:34.119
know that There's a couple of people over the years,

988
01:20:34.159 --> 01:20:38.119
as I've mentioned, like saying why why does he not

989
01:20:38.279 --> 01:20:40.800
to me? But like on the maybe on a Facebook

990
01:20:40.840 --> 01:20:43.560
group or on a Facebook page, why does he keep

991
01:20:43.600 --> 01:20:48.680
talking about Andre? He's been gone for ages. That's why

992
01:20:48.840 --> 01:20:50.680
it is the same reason I talk about my men,

993
01:20:52.399 --> 01:20:56.279
and the same reason I'm probably still going to be

994
01:20:56.319 --> 01:21:01.119
talking about Uncle's sausages in ten years time. The reason

995
01:21:01.159 --> 01:21:06.279
I'm still talking about Luke because they were big parts

996
01:21:06.319 --> 01:21:12.119
of my life and that doesn't change just because they're

997
01:21:12.119 --> 01:21:16.880
no longer here is you know, they're not. I mean,

998
01:21:16.880 --> 01:21:18.760
they're no longer a big part of my life day

999
01:21:18.800 --> 01:21:27.000
to day. But I think once someone has that makes

1000
01:21:27.000 --> 01:21:31.560
that impact. I mean, Uncle's sausages made his impact more

1001
01:21:31.600 --> 01:21:33.840
really over the last year, even though I've known him

1002
01:21:33.840 --> 01:21:37.119
for ten years, and especially more when he got unwell.

1003
01:21:37.960 --> 01:21:42.560
I mean, that period that we shared together is something

1004
01:21:42.600 --> 01:21:47.800
that's kind of a bit precious really, that whole you know, situation,

1005
01:21:50.359 --> 01:21:55.039
and there's no way I could ever forget that. And yeah,

1006
01:21:55.079 --> 01:22:01.680
so he's always going to be remembered by me. I hope,

1007
01:22:01.880 --> 01:22:09.239
I hope. And even if he's not, the memories recorded

1008
01:22:09.319 --> 01:22:11.479
it's onto, you know what I mean, it's me talking

1009
01:22:11.479 --> 01:22:15.920
about it. So even if in thirty years time, perhaps

1010
01:22:16.000 --> 01:22:19.960
for whatever reason, I don't have the actual memory, I

1011
01:22:20.000 --> 01:22:25.479
can listen back and hear about it and think, oh,

1012
01:22:25.680 --> 01:22:34.319
he sounds nice. Who's this bloke that's talking? Why has

1013
01:22:34.319 --> 01:22:38.359
he got such a squeaky voice? So yeah, that's how

1014
01:22:38.359 --> 01:22:41.920
I got Andre. Thank you for that. Rich asks when

1015
01:22:41.960 --> 01:22:50.399
it's Finny's birthday. It's the end of February, so you

1016
01:22:50.399 --> 01:22:56.760
would have been born in two thousand and yeah, end

1017
01:22:56.800 --> 01:23:03.880
of yeah, end of February two thousand and twenty three, No,

1018
01:23:04.039 --> 01:23:09.439
twenty two, So end of February twenty twenty two was

1019
01:23:09.479 --> 01:23:13.399
when he was born. The exact date I used to have.

1020
01:23:15.399 --> 01:23:17.279
I could probably get it because I used to have

1021
01:23:18.920 --> 01:23:21.920
a picture with a date on where he was literally

1022
01:23:22.119 --> 01:23:26.039
a baby, you know, like a it looked like a

1023
01:23:28.479 --> 01:23:33.399
I don't know, like pink little turn it or something.

1024
01:23:34.359 --> 01:23:39.319
But yeah, so end of February, he'll be foor next year.

1025
01:23:41.600 --> 01:23:45.760
Robin asks me, have you ever been inside Hampton Court Palace.

1026
01:23:46.279 --> 01:23:52.000
I'd love to visit there. First of all, I thought

1027
01:23:52.039 --> 01:23:56.439
I don't know, But now I do know. Hampton Court Palace.

1028
01:23:58.319 --> 01:24:01.319
I'm pretty sure it's got a zoo. Kay. I don't

1029
01:24:01.359 --> 01:24:05.399
know why, but I have a feeling there's a zoo there.

1030
01:24:05.560 --> 01:24:27.600
Hampton Court Palace zoo. Uh hampter the Hampton Court ban

1031
01:24:27.840 --> 01:24:41.359
version right, it doesn't look this Hampton Court beasts. Okay, yeah,

1032
01:24:41.399 --> 01:24:46.520
there is is there. Okay, does I'm going to change

1033
01:24:46.560 --> 01:24:58.560
it to does have a zoo. Hampton Court Palace does

1034
01:24:58.640 --> 01:25:01.359
not have a traditional zoo, but it's magic Garden and

1035
01:25:01.359 --> 01:25:06.600
adventure playground features mythical beasts. That's what I visited when

1036
01:25:06.640 --> 01:25:09.279
I was a kid. I thought they were real animals. Wow,

1037
01:25:11.399 --> 01:25:14.199
no wonder I was able to kiss a tiger on

1038
01:25:14.279 --> 01:25:22.159
the lips, all that bragging for years afterwards, thinking I

1039
01:25:22.359 --> 01:25:27.000
was more invincible than tiles and when clear I wasn't.

1040
01:25:27.720 --> 01:25:31.960
It wasn't they wasn't they wasn't. Yeah, I have been there,

1041
01:25:33.840 --> 01:25:35.880
even though I clearly don't know where it is, but

1042
01:25:35.960 --> 01:25:41.199
I have been there. Then he started barking again the thunder,

1043
01:25:43.079 --> 01:25:46.479
and yeah, I have been there. It's a long, long,

1044
01:25:46.720 --> 01:25:50.279
long long time ago, like decades ago, so I don't

1045
01:25:50.399 --> 01:25:54.319
really remember it. But I've been to all the main

1046
01:25:55.600 --> 01:25:59.720
tourist attractions, either when I was very young or when

1047
01:25:59.760 --> 01:26:03.239
I was kind of in my twenties. I including all

1048
01:26:03.239 --> 01:26:08.680
the museums, met in Two Swords, Tower of London, the Palace,

1049
01:26:09.039 --> 01:26:12.359
that whole walk up to the palace whatever that's called,

1050
01:26:14.479 --> 01:26:20.319
the Zoo, London Zoo, the library at London Library or whatever.

1051
01:26:20.520 --> 01:26:24.119
So I've been. So I'm pretty much everywhere, but not

1052
01:26:24.239 --> 01:26:33.039
for a very very long time. Kathleen asks, what's the

1053
01:26:33.119 --> 01:26:39.079
best birthday present you ever received. Well, technically I would say,

1054
01:26:39.319 --> 01:26:41.399
I know it's my birthday was three days ago. But

1055
01:26:41.920 --> 01:26:46.039
your question, Kathleen, that's the birth that's the best present

1056
01:26:46.039 --> 01:26:54.479
I've ever had. I don't know, really best birthday present. See,

1057
01:26:54.520 --> 01:26:56.479
when I was a kid, not nothing as an adult.

1058
01:26:56.560 --> 01:26:59.640
But when I was a kid, I enjoyed this year

1059
01:26:59.680 --> 01:27:01.880
because I got some PayPal gifts that was really lovely

1060
01:27:02.720 --> 01:27:08.239
kind of I almost felt like I was I don't know,

1061
01:27:08.840 --> 01:27:15.199
just felt quite nice, felt very nice, I think as

1062
01:27:15.279 --> 01:27:25.079
a kid. As an adult, nothing I mean not nothing,

1063
01:27:25.159 --> 01:27:32.960
but yeah, nothing like particularly that I can think of

1064
01:27:33.520 --> 01:27:43.960
off the top of my head. As a kid, No,

1065
01:27:44.760 --> 01:27:48.880
nothing really stands out because they're all. The thing is

1066
01:27:48.960 --> 01:27:53.079
with my dad and his wife, they were very generous

1067
01:27:53.119 --> 01:27:56.560
when it came to Christmas and birthdays. I'm not saying

1068
01:27:56.600 --> 01:27:58.000
they weren't the rest of the time, but they were

1069
01:27:58.119 --> 01:28:01.039
very I always got lots of pressing for birthdays and

1070
01:28:01.119 --> 01:28:07.479
Christmases from the age of seven to fifteen. So it

1071
01:28:07.720 --> 01:28:14.159
was Yeah, it was like every year. I mean, fifteen

1072
01:28:14.399 --> 01:28:15.800
was a bit of a slow one, but all the

1073
01:28:15.880 --> 01:28:20.720
other years it's you know, when the whole family was together. Yeah,

1074
01:28:21.359 --> 01:28:24.640
every year was good, you know, like Christmas as well.

1075
01:28:25.479 --> 01:28:29.560
I never there was never any disappointment. There was never like,

1076
01:28:29.720 --> 01:28:32.640
oh I didn't get enough presents, because I always got

1077
01:28:32.880 --> 01:28:39.600
more presence than I ever needed, you know. It was

1078
01:28:40.279 --> 01:28:46.000
I was very, very fortunate. And the same was with birthdays.

1079
01:28:46.039 --> 01:28:52.079
I always got lots of presents and I liked all

1080
01:28:52.119 --> 01:28:55.960
of them. Really. I remember one year when I was

1081
01:28:56.640 --> 01:29:01.920
probably about ten, eleven, ten, I don't know, and I

1082
01:29:02.760 --> 01:29:06.439
had a video game, so that was cool, like a

1083
01:29:07.199 --> 01:29:12.279
kind of First Space Invaders Asteroids kind of game that

1084
01:29:12.479 --> 01:29:17.640
was handheld, but a big old thing batteries. The batteries

1085
01:29:17.680 --> 01:29:20.800
were the size of a car. It was a big thing,

1086
01:29:20.960 --> 01:29:25.880
but it was loved it. Do Do Do Do Do

1087
01:29:26.000 --> 01:29:32.960
Do doo? Yeah, things like that. That was nothing like

1088
01:29:33.119 --> 01:29:38.039
how it sounded. But I can't think of any particular

1089
01:29:38.239 --> 01:29:42.760
presence that had off the top of my head. That is,

1090
01:29:43.439 --> 01:29:46.159
I'm not saying there wasn't any particular presence that I

1091
01:29:46.439 --> 01:29:51.199
liked most of all, And I'm trying to The big

1092
01:29:51.319 --> 01:29:55.560
presents really, I think were Christmas time, because I got

1093
01:29:55.600 --> 01:29:59.880
a couple of the two biggest presents I remember at Christmas.

1094
01:30:01.520 --> 01:30:06.600
Oh no, I got the best present I ever got

1095
01:30:09.279 --> 01:30:14.119
for my birthday was when I was seven. I mean,

1096
01:30:14.159 --> 01:30:16.279
it might not been on my birthday, it was around

1097
01:30:16.359 --> 01:30:18.880
that time because we all got bike, but it was

1098
01:30:18.920 --> 01:30:21.720
a bike. I got a new my first ever bike

1099
01:30:22.680 --> 01:30:26.399
when I was seven, my seventh birthday, and my dad

1100
01:30:26.479 --> 01:30:29.159
taught me to ride, and he did that whole thing

1101
01:30:29.239 --> 01:30:32.199
where he's like holding onto the because I had fallen off,

1102
01:30:33.640 --> 01:30:39.399
and he put stabilizers on and he kind of he said,

1103
01:30:39.520 --> 01:30:42.199
I'm holding on. And he was behind me and I

1104
01:30:42.359 --> 01:30:48.319
was cycling, and I said, he's still holding on. He said, yeah,

1105
01:30:49.359 --> 01:30:52.640
he's still holding on. He said, yeah, I'm still holding on.

1106
01:30:53.239 --> 01:30:55.640
I'm thinking, why are you doing such a soft voice.

1107
01:30:56.439 --> 01:31:03.039
I said, he's still holding on? What And I showed

1108
01:31:03.119 --> 01:31:05.600
he's still holding on and my phone rings, and he said, yeah,

1109
01:31:05.640 --> 01:31:10.840
I'm still holding on. And I'm thinking mobile phones aren't

1110
01:31:10.840 --> 01:31:15.159
even invented yet since nineteen seventy seven. This is really weird.

1111
01:31:16.359 --> 01:31:19.920
One if it's real and I look behind me and

1112
01:31:20.239 --> 01:31:27.319
there's nowhere to be seen. I'd cycled into a different town.

1113
01:31:28.319 --> 01:31:32.479
I've been gone for about six hours. Never really could

1114
01:31:32.600 --> 01:31:39.000
gauge time back then, So yeah, that's when I realized

1115
01:31:39.000 --> 01:31:42.720
I could cycle without him like holding on. I mean,

1116
01:31:43.560 --> 01:31:47.239
but I did have stabilizers. Stabilizers are good. I think

1117
01:31:47.279 --> 01:31:52.359
everyone should have stabilizers all the time. It just makes sense,

1118
01:31:52.439 --> 01:31:55.319
doesn't it, Because at least then you could just stop

1119
01:31:55.359 --> 01:31:57.640
your bike wherever you are and just leave it standing up.

1120
01:31:59.399 --> 01:32:05.399
There's no real not to have stabilizers. I remember seeing

1121
01:32:05.520 --> 01:32:08.319
someone years ago in a park having a go at

1122
01:32:08.359 --> 01:32:12.199
their kid because they had stabilizers, and almost like you

1123
01:32:12.279 --> 01:32:15.600
can't have still have stabilizes, you're night now. It mean

1124
01:32:15.720 --> 01:32:21.119
me like give the kid a break, you know, what

1125
01:32:21.239 --> 01:32:33.720
does it matter? Really? Right? Yeah? The bike that was

1126
01:32:33.760 --> 01:32:36.720
the best present Birthday present I got was that bike.

1127
01:32:39.760 --> 01:32:42.720
I did get another bike at Christmas quite a few

1128
01:32:42.760 --> 01:32:50.239
years later when I was about thirteen and maybe fourteen

1129
01:32:50.359 --> 01:32:55.880
thirteen something like that, and it was a racer and

1130
01:32:56.239 --> 01:33:02.199
earlier on, but probably about age ten, nine, ten or

1131
01:33:02.239 --> 01:33:08.119
maybe eleven even I got a telescope for Christmas. I

1132
01:33:08.199 --> 01:33:10.479
think it was Christmas. It might have been for my birthday,

1133
01:33:11.960 --> 01:33:18.479
It's possible. I don't remember exactly, but yeah, I've got

1134
01:33:18.520 --> 01:33:24.960
this telescope, really nice telescope. But yeah, so I can't

1135
01:33:25.000 --> 01:33:27.760
really say I would go with the bike. And it

1136
01:33:27.880 --> 01:33:32.760
was a grifter I think, and it was the first

1137
01:33:32.800 --> 01:33:39.239
time i'd ever had a bike, and I mean, that

1138
01:33:39.399 --> 01:33:47.359
was the best summer of my life. It was there's

1139
01:33:47.439 --> 01:33:50.279
no other summer. It wasn't about the heat. It wasn't

1140
01:33:50.279 --> 01:33:52.439
about the weather. You know, we may it makes such

1141
01:33:52.439 --> 01:33:55.239
a big deal, like all wasn't as hot as it

1142
01:33:55.359 --> 01:33:58.920
normally is or it's been too hot. When I was

1143
01:33:59.000 --> 01:34:03.960
a kid, I couldn't care at all if it was

1144
01:34:04.119 --> 01:34:08.560
raining or if it was sunny. That was my first

1145
01:34:08.760 --> 01:34:16.359
time with a family, like an actual family living. The

1146
01:34:16.479 --> 01:34:18.840
next year was good as well, but that was the

1147
01:34:18.920 --> 01:34:25.039
first year. The first summer was just nineteen seventy seven

1148
01:34:25.239 --> 01:34:27.880
when I was well, I was lee, I was just

1149
01:34:27.960 --> 01:34:31.000
before I was seven, but yeah, I was seven in August.

1150
01:34:33.640 --> 01:34:38.880
So that was the best summer of my life or

1151
01:34:38.960 --> 01:34:43.520
in my memory anyway. And the next year was really

1152
01:34:43.560 --> 01:34:48.800
good as well. So I basically seventy seven seventy eight

1153
01:34:49.319 --> 01:34:53.800
were the best summers that I ever had. But seventy

1154
01:34:53.880 --> 01:34:58.800
seven especially because we lived near the well, we're lived

1155
01:34:58.840 --> 01:35:03.039
near the beach as well, actually lived near the beach

1156
01:35:04.319 --> 01:35:06.439
in the big family house. But this was like just

1157
01:35:06.560 --> 01:35:09.680
up the road from the beach, a bit of a

1158
01:35:09.760 --> 01:35:19.439
walk but not too far. It was a straight walk Yeah,

1159
01:35:19.560 --> 01:35:22.760
so that's what I would say for that. The bike

1160
01:35:23.039 --> 01:35:25.399
that was my favorite, the best person I ever got,

1161
01:35:27.760 --> 01:35:30.399
but technically not really the best present I ever got

1162
01:35:30.560 --> 01:35:33.279
was a family. If we're going to be if I'm

1163
01:35:33.319 --> 01:35:35.920
going to be sentimental, So we moved out of the

1164
01:35:36.000 --> 01:35:39.199
children's home and lived with my dad and his new

1165
01:35:39.279 --> 01:35:47.720
wife permanently the summer of nineteen seventy seven and possibly June,

1166
01:35:49.560 --> 01:35:53.760
maybe July. It was back in them days. A couple

1167
01:35:53.840 --> 01:35:56.079
of weeks was like a few months to a little kid,

1168
01:35:56.119 --> 01:35:59.760
and it's like a long time. So he probably moved

1169
01:35:59.800 --> 01:36:05.399
there after school finished. So I went there, left South

1170
01:36:05.600 --> 01:36:09.119
End and we moved there instead of visiting at weekends.

1171
01:36:10.039 --> 01:36:17.119
Who moved there forever? And it was technically that was

1172
01:36:17.279 --> 01:36:20.680
like the best birthday present I ever had because for

1173
01:36:20.800 --> 01:36:25.680
the first time, well since I was a baby, I

1174
01:36:25.880 --> 01:36:31.880
was had two parents and my brothers all together in

1175
01:36:31.960 --> 01:36:39.279
one house. Yeah, so that was brilliant. Yep. And I

1176
01:36:39.479 --> 01:36:44.119
was the baby for one more year, for just one year.

1177
01:36:46.199 --> 01:36:53.720
Move on, Joe, Joe. Mary asks me, how do you

1178
01:36:53.800 --> 01:36:59.279
design the episode titled artwork you use it's always so creative? Well,

1179
01:36:59.359 --> 01:37:05.199
thank you. I use different things, So I use a

1180
01:37:05.279 --> 01:37:19.319
mixture of a Canva and chatch EPT five and sometimes

1181
01:37:19.399 --> 01:37:22.960
other things to put together, maybe some images I've got,

1182
01:37:23.119 --> 01:37:27.359
maybe images that I've found online to put together what

1183
01:37:27.479 --> 01:37:32.359
I want to kind of express. Usually it's something to

1184
01:37:32.439 --> 01:37:36.239
do with the recording. It might be hidden in the recording,

1185
01:37:36.319 --> 01:37:40.880
but it's quite often there's a little hint in the image,

1186
01:37:42.159 --> 01:37:45.359
or sometimes I hide little things in the image where

1187
01:37:46.000 --> 01:37:48.600
you'd have to really have a closer look to see

1188
01:37:48.640 --> 01:37:54.960
it what it is. But generally I have to think

1189
01:37:55.039 --> 01:37:57.600
what I wanted, what I want the record, what I

1190
01:37:57.640 --> 01:38:00.840
want the image to be. So I think that up

1191
01:38:00.880 --> 01:38:05.319
and then I asked chat GP two five to maybe

1192
01:38:05.479 --> 01:38:08.840
create that image. This is one way of doing it.

1193
01:38:10.319 --> 01:38:12.399
And then I get it to redo it and to

1194
01:38:12.800 --> 01:38:17.880
change things. And it takes quite a while, sometimes sometimes

1195
01:38:18.000 --> 01:38:21.399
half hour an hour to get the image done, depends

1196
01:38:21.479 --> 01:38:26.319
on how well it comes out first time. And then

1197
01:38:26.359 --> 01:38:30.840
I go into Canva and I edit the image. And

1198
01:38:31.359 --> 01:38:34.039
sometimes I do multiple images and put them all together,

1199
01:38:34.760 --> 01:38:37.760
taking off the background, putting them into Canva, editing it

1200
01:38:38.239 --> 01:38:45.119
so it looks like one image. Yes, so that's kind

1201
01:38:45.159 --> 01:38:48.000
of what I do. I used to sometimes again, I'd

1202
01:38:48.039 --> 01:38:50.800
take stuff from online and i'd change the image, edit it,

1203
01:38:52.560 --> 01:38:56.600
or pictures of myself or pictures of Vinnie, you know,

1204
01:38:58.800 --> 01:39:01.920
just or put in my picture and make me be

1205
01:39:02.039 --> 01:39:05.880
in this scenario, and you know, things like that. So

1206
01:39:08.680 --> 01:39:12.520
the Q and A Friday images just generally just Queo Friday.

1207
01:39:14.359 --> 01:39:19.199
But like I did an image yesterday goodbye Uncle Sausages,

1208
01:39:19.399 --> 01:39:21.960
and it was a nice image. It was a picture,

1209
01:39:23.199 --> 01:39:25.039
not one I made up, just one that had been

1210
01:39:25.119 --> 01:39:30.199
taken yesterday. So I do sometimes do that as well.

1211
01:39:32.079 --> 01:39:35.439
And there's pictures of me and my seecret at uniform,

1212
01:39:36.359 --> 01:39:40.399
pictures of me in my karate uniform when I was

1213
01:39:40.439 --> 01:39:44.399
a kid, that is. So there's lots of different images.

1214
01:39:44.640 --> 01:39:49.680
I mean, I've done what fourteen one thousand and four

1215
01:39:49.840 --> 01:39:53.319
hundred and I don't know how many I've done. Now

1216
01:39:53.560 --> 01:39:57.359
let's have a look. So yesterday's one was number one,

1217
01:39:57.960 --> 01:40:01.439
four hundred and twenty four, So this is one for

1218
01:40:01.520 --> 01:40:04.640
I was four hundred and twenty five. So that's how

1219
01:40:04.720 --> 01:40:08.920
many images I suppose I've done, although I think some

1220
01:40:09.039 --> 01:40:12.399
of the earlier ones didn't have images, but I did.

1221
01:40:12.520 --> 01:40:17.600
I started doing images a few years back. I do wonder,

1222
01:40:17.680 --> 01:40:20.199
you know, because I listened to some of my old

1223
01:40:20.279 --> 01:40:26.319
stuff from I don't know, fifteen years ago and I think, oh,

1224
01:40:26.399 --> 01:40:29.199
I can't believe I did stuff that wasn't good at all,

1225
01:40:31.560 --> 01:40:34.359
and I've really improved. What I do is I mean,

1226
01:40:34.439 --> 01:40:36.439
the quality of the sound is better that it used

1227
01:40:36.479 --> 01:40:40.439
to be. But I wonder if that's what it's going

1228
01:40:40.520 --> 01:40:43.760
to be like in ten years time. If I look

1229
01:40:43.880 --> 01:40:47.000
back at let's say today's recording, all the recordings that

1230
01:40:47.119 --> 01:40:50.239
I've been doing in the last year or so, well,

1231
01:40:50.279 --> 01:40:54.119
I look back at these recordings, I think, oh, my goodness,

1232
01:40:55.600 --> 01:40:58.800
I don't believe that I used to make such recordings

1233
01:40:59.000 --> 01:41:04.239
as that. I'm so glad that I managed to improve

1234
01:41:05.399 --> 01:41:10.119
the quality of the content. I don't know. I might

1235
01:41:10.199 --> 01:41:14.960
look back at this and think, God, what was I doing.

1236
01:41:16.279 --> 01:41:26.079
It's possible. So what was the question again, what's the

1237
01:41:26.159 --> 01:41:29.399
best birthday? No? No, how do you design an episode? Yeah?

1238
01:41:29.479 --> 01:41:34.159
So that that's kind of how I do it is

1239
01:41:35.119 --> 01:41:38.319
they're creative, but I have to say what I want,

1240
01:41:40.119 --> 01:41:42.079
so I have to create it kind of in my

1241
01:41:42.239 --> 01:41:45.720
mind roughly what I want, and then I have to

1242
01:41:45.800 --> 01:41:49.239
find a way to put that together because I'm not

1243
01:41:49.319 --> 01:41:57.640
an artist. Like as far as creative images, which you

1244
01:41:57.760 --> 01:42:00.199
can do, you know, there are there are programs that

1245
01:42:00.279 --> 01:42:03.159
you could put an image together and make it from scratch.

1246
01:42:03.600 --> 01:42:07.159
That's that's not something I could do or something that

1247
01:42:07.199 --> 01:42:11.039
I even want to learn to do. But I know

1248
01:42:11.199 --> 01:42:14.880
what I want. Does that make sense if I want?

1249
01:42:15.359 --> 01:42:18.000
Like the other day, I wanted an image of a

1250
01:42:18.119 --> 01:42:21.279
baby jump and O have a cake, but chatch Ebt

1251
01:42:21.359 --> 01:42:26.800
wouldn't allow it, even though it's basically just my little

1252
01:42:26.800 --> 01:42:30.640
brother ruling my eighth birthday party because it was just

1253
01:42:30.720 --> 01:42:32.640
born the day before my birthday party, and that's what

1254
01:42:32.760 --> 01:42:34.520
it was supposed to be, him jumping out of the

1255
01:42:34.600 --> 01:42:38.479
cake ruling my party, like auld jokey kind of thing.

1256
01:42:41.159 --> 01:42:44.039
But they could they wouldn't. It was hard to get

1257
01:42:44.079 --> 01:42:47.039
it done because it was it took ages to put

1258
01:42:47.079 --> 01:42:52.119
that image together. Let me ever look at it. I

1259
01:42:52.239 --> 01:42:56.359
did that on the day before my birthday. I think

1260
01:42:56.399 --> 01:43:04.199
the internet's shut down for some reason. Why. That's very strange.

1261
01:43:04.359 --> 01:43:09.479
Oh it is? Why is it hidden? Oh? I know why?

1262
01:43:09.800 --> 01:43:17.000
So okay, the image I ended up with with how

1263
01:43:17.079 --> 01:43:20.159
my brother ruined my eighth birthday, there's a number one,

1264
01:43:20.720 --> 01:43:23.600
four hundred and twenty two, so that was on Monday,

1265
01:43:24.720 --> 01:43:28.560
and it's an image of me frowning with birthday boro

1266
01:43:28.680 --> 01:43:34.840
my T shirt, there's my dad with his beard, there's

1267
01:43:35.439 --> 01:43:41.319
my stepmum holding a new baby, and then there's the

1268
01:43:42.039 --> 01:43:44.600
my oldest brother and my other brother. So it's all

1269
01:43:44.720 --> 01:43:48.079
kind of you know, planned, and it's got number eight.

1270
01:43:48.159 --> 01:43:52.119
So on a birthday cake, everyone's laughing except me, and

1271
01:43:52.199 --> 01:43:55.840
I'm just shrowning. And then there's a big speech bubble

1272
01:43:56.520 --> 01:44:00.279
aimed supposed to be aiming towards the baby, saying I'm

1273
01:44:00.319 --> 01:44:07.600
the baby now. So it's not always easy to put

1274
01:44:07.640 --> 01:44:14.479
it all together, but other times it works quite nice.

1275
01:44:15.880 --> 01:44:19.520
So it's a very simple thing, like Vinnie woke me up.

1276
01:44:20.199 --> 01:44:22.319
This is what I did on the twenty fourth of August,

1277
01:44:25.600 --> 01:44:30.680
and I wanted to be like an image of me.

1278
01:44:32.319 --> 01:44:35.079
It never always comes up right, but it's kind of

1279
01:44:35.119 --> 01:44:38.359
an image of me in bed. But I wanted me

1280
01:44:38.680 --> 01:44:46.039
to be wearing old Victorian type bedclothes, a bit like

1281
01:44:46.319 --> 01:44:51.479
Scrooge Dickenson kind of thing. But then it wouldn't allow

1282
01:44:51.520 --> 01:44:54.119
that because that was copyright, and like, okay, how can

1283
01:44:54.199 --> 01:45:00.600
I get around that? And I wanted Vinnie basically the

1284
01:45:00.760 --> 01:45:04.000
same wake up and there's a little tag with video

1285
01:45:04.079 --> 01:45:07.199
on it. So I just kind of played around and

1286
01:45:07.279 --> 01:45:11.039
in the end managed to get an image that kind

1287
01:45:11.079 --> 01:45:14.399
of worked, and then the day before that, I did

1288
01:45:14.880 --> 01:45:19.720
call one called good Morning, and basically what I was

1289
01:45:19.760 --> 01:45:22.159
talking about was working at different jobs, and I was

1290
01:45:22.199 --> 01:45:24.319
at at one point I was talking about working in

1291
01:45:24.359 --> 01:45:30.760
the bakery and how if the conveyor belt never stopped

1292
01:45:30.880 --> 01:45:36.079
hardly so sometimes you'd end up with bread rolls all

1293
01:45:36.159 --> 01:45:39.039
over the floor. So I thought, I wanted an image

1294
01:45:39.079 --> 01:45:43.319
of me with bread rolls kind of up to my

1295
01:45:43.439 --> 01:45:50.319
waist and then falling off the conveyor belt. And it

1296
01:45:50.439 --> 01:45:53.920
took quite a while for me to get it done,

1297
01:45:54.840 --> 01:45:56.960
you know, lots of different versions, and then I found it.

1298
01:45:57.560 --> 01:46:02.000
So even though the image is it probably looks like

1299
01:46:02.159 --> 01:46:04.520
quite an easy image to do, it took a while

1300
01:46:04.920 --> 01:46:10.680
to kind of put it together. And then I did

1301
01:46:10.800 --> 01:46:20.319
one last week, twenty second August twenty twenty five. Was

1302
01:46:20.359 --> 01:46:24.239
it Friday? Last Friday, And I wanted to talk about

1303
01:46:24.319 --> 01:46:26.800
bottles because I've got ninety six bottles of water delivered

1304
01:46:29.000 --> 01:46:33.319
and I wanted a house made of bottles. And in

1305
01:46:33.439 --> 01:46:35.760
the end, it didn't come out how I wanted it

1306
01:46:35.880 --> 01:46:38.840
to come out as but I had, you know, I

1307
01:46:38.920 --> 01:46:43.840
spent so long on it. I just thought it's you

1308
01:46:43.920 --> 01:46:47.800
going to have to do. So you know I did that.

1309
01:46:48.199 --> 01:46:54.319
I wasn't it wasn't crazy about the text, but you

1310
01:46:54.399 --> 01:46:56.600
know it ended up okay. I should know. If I

1311
01:46:56.680 --> 01:47:00.760
did any game now, i'd make a few changes. And

1312
01:47:00.920 --> 01:47:04.079
I didn't run. The day before, I bought myself to sleep.

1313
01:47:05.319 --> 01:47:11.760
So I've got a sheep in a chair asleep but

1314
01:47:11.960 --> 01:47:18.319
dreaming or thinking or whatever, dreaming of Instead of sheep

1315
01:47:18.520 --> 01:47:21.520
jumping running around, he's got humans. So he's got a

1316
01:47:21.560 --> 01:47:25.199
human jumping over a fence and two humans like running around.

1317
01:47:26.239 --> 01:47:30.319
It's just little things like that. It's another one called

1318
01:47:30.399 --> 01:47:34.039
thin Legs that I did the day before, and it's

1319
01:47:34.119 --> 01:47:40.359
basically a caricature of me with a big upper body

1320
01:47:40.600 --> 01:47:47.039
and tiny little legs because I bought some Yeah, I

1321
01:47:47.199 --> 01:47:53.159
bought some tracksup bonds and then Teddy Bears. That's Trivia

1322
01:47:53.239 --> 01:47:57.960
Tuesday last week. So I've got a picture of a

1323
01:47:58.199 --> 01:48:04.000
Teddy Bear picnic, three pre bears, all hats on, drinking

1324
01:48:04.319 --> 01:48:09.800
through straws for some glasses, with some burgers and stuff,

1325
01:48:09.920 --> 01:48:15.319
you know, on the on the blanket, checkered blanket, but

1326
01:48:15.439 --> 01:48:17.760
in the background, because in the park in the background,

1327
01:48:17.800 --> 01:48:20.359
like all these humans just running away around screaming and

1328
01:48:20.680 --> 01:48:27.960
running away screaming. So I like that. And then another one,

1329
01:48:29.520 --> 01:48:32.239
mental health review. I seem to be doing one every day.

1330
01:48:32.319 --> 01:48:36.359
If I have, I've been quite good recently. Mental health

1331
01:48:36.399 --> 01:48:42.600
review is there's bugs Bunny sitting on a like a

1332
01:48:42.680 --> 01:48:47.920
psychiatrist's couch, and a psychiatrist is looks a bit like Freud,

1333
01:48:49.119 --> 01:48:53.560
and there's that whole thing, you know, Christine pointing out

1334
01:48:53.640 --> 01:48:56.640
what's up, doc, and it is the could. Yeah, So

1335
01:48:56.720 --> 01:48:58.920
it was quite because I just had a mental health

1336
01:48:58.960 --> 01:49:03.199
review on a Monday, and then I got one. I

1337
01:49:03.279 --> 01:49:05.199
don't know what I'm telling you. You might already know this.

1338
01:49:05.319 --> 01:49:08.119
You might have seen them. I have to go outside,

1339
01:49:08.279 --> 01:49:12.079
and this was I think this was Sunday the eighteenth.

1340
01:49:13.119 --> 01:49:15.479
So it's me, Well it's kind of not really me,

1341
01:49:15.640 --> 01:49:18.359
but it's kind of a me kind of picture. A

1342
01:49:18.439 --> 01:49:22.840
middle aged man, more hair, and there's like I have

1343
01:49:22.920 --> 01:49:25.239
to go outside at the top, but he's in a

1344
01:49:25.319 --> 01:49:28.439
kind of a very gray kind of room and there's

1345
01:49:28.439 --> 01:49:31.399
a doorway, but everything outside the doorway is very bright,

1346
01:49:32.800 --> 01:49:35.680
light and colorful, kind of like the Wizard of Oz.

1347
01:49:36.239 --> 01:49:39.680
So that was what I was looking for. It took

1348
01:49:39.760 --> 01:49:44.399
a while to get that together. But I was pleased.

1349
01:49:45.640 --> 01:49:48.640
I mean, I had to make a lot of changes

1350
01:49:48.720 --> 01:49:57.079
to get it to where it was, so, yeah, that's

1351
01:49:57.319 --> 01:50:04.840
kind of what is that. Yeah, sometimes it's quite easy,

1352
01:50:07.520 --> 01:50:10.079
you know, like Trivia Tuesday. A couple of weeks ago,

1353
01:50:11.520 --> 01:50:15.119
I was talking about vikings, I think, so I just

1354
01:50:15.199 --> 01:50:20.279
wanted to be a viking with green Beard with a

1355
01:50:20.359 --> 01:50:24.560
helmet with a title Trivia Tuesday, and that's what it did,

1356
01:50:24.800 --> 01:50:27.560
and it did it very quickly. Well, I took a

1357
01:50:27.640 --> 01:50:33.560
few seconds, maybe ten seconds. Adam was pretty much perfect straightaway.

1358
01:50:34.479 --> 01:50:36.600
So there's times like that when it's really good, and

1359
01:50:36.640 --> 01:50:41.520
other times when it takes absolutely well. It seems to

1360
01:50:41.600 --> 01:50:49.039
take a long time, and sometimes I can't be bothered.

1361
01:50:49.359 --> 01:50:52.720
It's like, just I don't want to spend so long

1362
01:50:52.840 --> 01:50:55.680
working on images, so you want to get thing out.

1363
01:50:56.800 --> 01:51:01.680
I've made the recording, just doing the editing, and there's

1364
01:51:01.680 --> 01:51:03.520
been times where I've actually just put it out without

1365
01:51:03.520 --> 01:51:06.359
an image because I just like, no it' it has

1366
01:51:06.399 --> 01:51:09.560
taken way too long, especially when I had to keep

1367
01:51:09.600 --> 01:51:13.119
going up to the hospital, so I'd edit and then

1368
01:51:13.119 --> 01:51:18.079
I'd just like post it without an image. So that's

1369
01:51:18.199 --> 01:51:22.159
kind of my creative take on that. So some would

1370
01:51:22.239 --> 01:51:24.600
argue maybe that it's not creative at all because I'm

1371
01:51:24.640 --> 01:51:28.000
not the one really doing anything. I'm giving the instructions.

1372
01:51:30.840 --> 01:51:33.199
But yeah, it's coming out of my head. It's coming

1373
01:51:33.199 --> 01:51:36.079
out of my mind a lot of it. And I

1374
01:51:36.199 --> 01:51:38.199
also have to do the editing, and I know what

1375
01:51:38.279 --> 01:51:42.600
I'm looking for. So yeah, thank you for that. So

1376
01:51:42.840 --> 01:51:48.359
Cheryl asks, since you seem concerned about your forehead getting larger,

1377
01:51:51.760 --> 01:52:05.520
oh my goodness, would you consider getting their hair piece? No? Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, However,

1378
01:52:07.880 --> 01:52:10.479
I think the only reason only time I would ever

1379
01:52:11.479 --> 01:52:16.199
get a hair piece, it would be probably in the

1380
01:52:16.319 --> 01:52:20.039
event of if I was in a play or if

1381
01:52:20.079 --> 01:52:22.439
I was in in some kind of fancy dress situation.

1382
01:52:23.279 --> 01:52:25.680
Then you know, perhaps I would wear like a wig

1383
01:52:25.800 --> 01:52:32.359
or something. But and you know, I do understand why

1384
01:52:32.479 --> 01:52:38.600
people do need to wear hair pieces and wigs and stuff,

1385
01:52:39.159 --> 01:52:43.640
but I don't, especially as although I go on about

1386
01:52:43.640 --> 01:52:47.840
my hair and stuff, I've spent many years bored. I've

1387
01:52:47.880 --> 01:52:50.640
been shaving my head on purpose. It's hard to do

1388
01:52:50.720 --> 01:52:55.359
it accidentally. But you know, basically, I don't care that much.

1389
01:52:55.479 --> 01:52:57.319
I'm just a little bit annoyed that I don't have

1390
01:52:57.479 --> 01:53:00.680
control over it anymore. Because before I shave it off,

1391
01:53:00.920 --> 01:53:03.399
and I was in control. Now I don't have to

1392
01:53:03.479 --> 01:53:05.399
shape it all off because it kind of does it

1393
01:53:05.560 --> 01:53:10.840
doesn't grow back, so it's a little bit annoying. My

1394
01:53:11.000 --> 01:53:19.439
forehead getting larger. I like that. No, never, No, I wouldn't.

1395
01:53:19.520 --> 01:53:24.239
I don't. I understand, you know, like some famous people

1396
01:53:25.520 --> 01:53:30.960
they I don't think i'd look younger because that's the thing, like, Okay,

1397
01:53:31.199 --> 01:53:34.520
I could be in my sixties when I'm nearly fifty five. Now,

1398
01:53:36.520 --> 01:53:40.439
I don't think I'm going to look younger with a

1399
01:53:40.560 --> 01:53:44.960
hair piece. I think the only thing that would make

1400
01:53:45.000 --> 01:53:46.840
me perhaps look a bit younger if I didn't have

1401
01:53:46.920 --> 01:53:49.880
the gray. But then my hair is not that gray.

1402
01:53:50.079 --> 01:53:53.119
It's gray, but it's gray in at the sides at

1403
01:53:53.159 --> 01:53:57.880
the top. But there's a lot of hair that's still

1404
01:53:58.039 --> 01:54:03.039
dark dark brown my head, but my beard less. So

1405
01:54:03.720 --> 01:54:06.920
I got Yeah, my beard's definitely gone much more grayer

1406
01:54:07.000 --> 01:54:15.079
than my hair on my head. And no, I wouldn't.

1407
01:54:15.079 --> 01:54:18.720
I wouldn't get a hair piece. And I think if

1408
01:54:18.760 --> 01:54:23.000
I met someone and they kind of were really like, well,

1409
01:54:23.039 --> 01:54:24.840
I want you to get a hair piece, I don't like.

1410
01:54:25.319 --> 01:54:31.720
I don't like being with someone that's baled. Mate. I don't. Yeah,

1411
01:54:31.800 --> 01:54:34.319
I'd probably just say, well, i'll see it. Then, you know,

1412
01:54:34.479 --> 01:54:37.479
find someone else that's got hair or just willing to

1413
01:54:37.520 --> 01:54:41.800
wear a hair piece, because I don't date someone that's bald.

1414
01:54:42.359 --> 01:54:44.479
If you don't want to be with someone that's baled.

1415
01:54:44.640 --> 01:54:48.119
That's the way I see it is. If you want

1416
01:54:48.119 --> 01:54:50.640
to date someone that's tall, don't date someone as short.

1417
01:54:51.680 --> 01:54:53.760
Or if you want someone that's short, don't date someone

1418
01:54:53.800 --> 01:54:58.000
that's tall, expect them to crouch all the time, walk

1419
01:54:58.039 --> 01:55:02.760
on their knees. You know. It's like things like that

1420
01:55:02.880 --> 01:55:07.720
are controllable, not meeting someone that you feel you know,

1421
01:55:08.319 --> 01:55:10.840
you might meet someone that they've ticked all the other boxes,

1422
01:55:10.880 --> 01:55:19.760
but ultimately, why walk up to someone and start talking

1423
01:55:19.800 --> 01:55:24.720
to them? If it's a big no no. Then being

1424
01:55:24.920 --> 01:55:29.439
seven foot tall and maybe you're four foot five, and

1425
01:55:30.520 --> 01:55:33.119
you know your limit of height is only it only

1426
01:55:33.159 --> 01:55:37.079
go as high as six foot two. As for a partner,

1427
01:55:38.319 --> 01:55:44.359
you know, or you want someone shorter, or if you've

1428
01:55:44.399 --> 01:55:48.119
got to really if that's the thing, if you've got

1429
01:55:48.199 --> 01:55:54.920
to really a thing, you know, whatever the person is,

1430
01:55:55.279 --> 01:55:58.359
whether you're a male, female or whatever, if you've got

1431
01:55:58.399 --> 01:56:06.199
a particular like so, I would say go with that like,

1432
01:56:06.560 --> 01:56:11.880
go with it, whether you've really got a thing for

1433
01:56:12.960 --> 01:56:16.840
someone with a certain color hair, or someone with a

1434
01:56:17.880 --> 01:56:20.279
type of maybe from a certain part of the world,

1435
01:56:21.800 --> 01:56:30.159
or someone who's really really, really tall or whatever. If

1436
01:56:30.199 --> 01:56:34.399
you've got something, if that really has a big impact

1437
01:56:34.479 --> 01:56:38.279
on how you feel physically and emotionally, then it makes

1438
01:56:38.359 --> 01:56:43.199
sense to kind of go towards that, you know, or

1439
01:56:43.439 --> 01:56:47.239
body size even But then body size, like height is

1440
01:56:47.319 --> 01:56:49.560
not really going to change. Is it going to get

1441
01:56:49.560 --> 01:56:51.840
a bit shorter of age, It's not really going to

1442
01:56:51.920 --> 01:57:04.640
change too much classes, you know. You know, I guess

1443
01:57:04.680 --> 01:57:06.800
if you're dating someone who doesn't have glasses and they

1444
01:57:06.880 --> 01:57:09.720
start wearing glasses, maybe you've got an issue with people

1445
01:57:09.760 --> 01:57:13.199
wearing glasses. Some people do. I used to be a

1446
01:57:13.279 --> 01:57:18.920
bit weird towards glasses where A wearers, even though I

1447
01:57:18.960 --> 01:57:22.640
wore glasses myself. My attitude was, why would I want

1448
01:57:22.680 --> 01:57:25.960
to date someone that's wears glasses, because it'd be like

1449
01:57:26.000 --> 01:57:31.760
having a relationship through a window. Because I wear glasses

1450
01:57:31.800 --> 01:57:34.000
as well, it'd be like wearing you know, or I

1451
01:57:34.079 --> 01:57:35.479
didn't wear them all the time, but it'd be like

1452
01:57:35.520 --> 01:57:40.119
having a relationship through a window, which is rude. And

1453
01:57:40.239 --> 01:57:43.079
I shouldn't have said that out to people loud in public,

1454
01:57:44.560 --> 01:57:48.840
but I thought it was kind of funny. But at

1455
01:57:48.880 --> 01:57:51.600
the time, I didn't wear glasses all the time. I

1456
01:57:51.800 --> 01:57:56.560
just had to wear them for reading. So I don't

1457
01:57:56.600 --> 01:57:59.560
feel that way anymore. It's not like having a relationship

1458
01:57:59.600 --> 01:58:03.119
through all. You know, if I date some glasses, it's

1459
01:58:03.960 --> 01:58:11.239
what it's double glazing now, isn't it? Pretty much? And yeah,

1460
01:58:15.600 --> 01:58:19.920
what was I gonna say? What was the question? Oh?

1461
01:58:20.039 --> 01:58:25.000
Hair pieces? So yeah, i'd yeah, I see a lot

1462
01:58:25.039 --> 01:58:29.920
of the old movie stars, like from the old days.

1463
01:58:29.960 --> 01:58:32.840
It used to wear wigs, and you could see it

1464
01:58:32.920 --> 01:58:43.720
with wigs, but it kind of didn't matter. It's kind

1465
01:58:43.720 --> 01:58:51.359
of one of those weird things is if I'm boarding,

1466
01:58:51.640 --> 01:58:53.960
I'm not like I've got a bald patch at the back.

1467
01:58:54.439 --> 01:58:58.600
I'm receding. I've been receding for decades and my hair

1468
01:59:01.520 --> 01:59:04.159
and I moan about it. But firstly, I can't see

1469
01:59:04.199 --> 01:59:05.600
the back of my head, so I can't see the

1470
01:59:05.680 --> 01:59:07.920
board patch. I forget it's there most of the time

1471
01:59:08.520 --> 01:59:10.760
until people just start laughing at me when I'm walking

1472
01:59:10.840 --> 01:59:16.640
down the street. But I wouldn't I mean, I wouldn't

1473
01:59:16.680 --> 01:59:18.680
get you can't really get bald. You can't get a

1474
01:59:18.960 --> 01:59:21.720
hair piece just for one tiny little board patch, can you,

1475
01:59:22.800 --> 01:59:30.800
Or one average size, growing ever increasing bald patch. I

1476
01:59:30.880 --> 01:59:34.760
don't care. I'm at an age now where having a

1477
01:59:34.840 --> 01:59:38.159
board patch there's no shame. There's no shame in never

1478
01:59:38.239 --> 01:59:41.800
having a board patch. But I'm fifty five. I'm allowed

1479
01:59:41.840 --> 01:59:47.319
to have a board patch without having to explain myself,

1480
01:59:47.439 --> 01:59:50.760
you know, I mean everyone is. It doesn't matter what

1481
01:59:50.840 --> 01:59:53.800
age you are. Some people go bored and in their

1482
01:59:53.880 --> 01:59:57.039
teenage years. I know people. I know a girl that

1483
01:59:57.119 --> 02:00:02.640
went completely gray when she was fourteen, and it's like

1484
02:00:03.359 --> 02:00:05.399
she dyed her hair. Of course she dyed her hair.

1485
02:00:06.279 --> 02:00:11.039
What else was she going to do? But nowadays having

1486
02:00:11.079 --> 02:00:14.199
gray hair is almost a fashion, isn't it with young people?

1487
02:00:14.960 --> 02:00:20.920
Or blue hair or green hair. So yeah, I don't.

1488
02:00:21.239 --> 02:00:24.000
I would never wear it. Well, I do do. Actually,

1489
02:00:24.760 --> 02:00:33.000
sometimes there's a lot of banging around whatever that is.

1490
02:00:44.680 --> 02:00:55.800
It's weird. I oh, I can't think I was talking about.

1491
02:01:03.399 --> 02:01:05.960
I can't remember what I was talking about now, But yeah, no,

1492
02:01:06.039 --> 02:01:11.119
I wouldn't. I wouldn't wear a hair piece. I think

1493
02:01:11.119 --> 02:01:14.720
it's okay. Love me for how I am and love

1494
02:01:14.840 --> 02:01:20.279
me for how I will be because you can't have

1495
02:01:20.399 --> 02:01:23.680
how I used to be because that's gone. So all

1496
02:01:23.720 --> 02:01:26.600
you've got is how I am now. And if you

1497
02:01:26.640 --> 02:01:29.760
want to stick around, you'll be You'll see how I

1498
02:01:30.079 --> 02:01:35.119
will be. Mind you, if you listen to the podcast,

1499
02:01:35.199 --> 02:01:37.520
you'll find out how I was as well. Because I

1500
02:01:37.600 --> 02:01:40.479
do talk about the past. It's hard to talk about

1501
02:01:40.520 --> 02:01:43.239
the future, isn't it, because it hasn't happened yet apparently,

1502
02:01:46.800 --> 02:01:50.800
and I do believe or that is all the questions.

1503
02:01:53.840 --> 02:01:56.680
So thank you very much for listening. Remember to be

1504
02:01:56.800 --> 02:01:58.880
kind to yourself, and thank you for all the questions.

1505
02:01:58.920 --> 02:02:06.520
I say you real hope, Rich Robin, Kathleen, Mary, dev Sheryl.

1506
02:02:06.920 --> 02:02:10.199
So thank you all of you for your questions, and

1507
02:02:10.319 --> 02:02:12.920
remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve

1508
02:02:13.000 --> 02:02:16.600
to be happy and be gentle with yourself. You deserve

1509
02:02:16.760 --> 02:02:25.000
to feel safe. Lots of love, Bye,