Sept. 14, 2025

(no music) Q&A Friday | LMBYTS #1431 | Jason Newland | 14th September 2025

(no music) Q&A Friday | LMBYTS #1431 | Jason Newland | 14th September 2025
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Hello, Loo hell'll come to Qune Friday. Hello, Hello, Hello,

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hello Hello. So this is Qune Friday. My name is

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Jason new Land. Vinnie is sitting on the sofa staring

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at me, making some weird noises. I've got his food

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that's on the floor on a little plate. There's about

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a quarter of an apple also on the floor for

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him to eat, and some fresh water, and he's still

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staring at me as if to say, where's my food.

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So I don't really know what's going on with him.

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It's a very very stage, very stage. Other than that,

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please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.

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And also my website is Letmeboydisleep dot com for this podcast,

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but I do also have my Chasonnewland dot com which

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is still available. I've I did delete it, but I

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made it available again. It's a little bit different format,

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but it gives you links to all the different places

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that you could listen to my other stuff as well.

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I know I haven't been hugely active the last I know.

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I did a recording on the sixth, which was what

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was one, two, three, four, five, six, seven eight days ago,

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and I did one on the fifth, which was the

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Friday day before, one in the fourth, one on the third,

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one on the alright, and then one on the thirtieth

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of August, twenty ninth, twenty eighth, twenty seventh of August,

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twenty fifth, because I had my birthday off, then twenty fourth,

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twenty third, twenty second, twenty first, twentieth, nineteenth, eighteenth, seventeenth

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of August, fourteenth of August, twelfth of August, eleventh, tenth, ninth, eighth, seventh, sixth, fifth, fourth, third.

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So you know, it's not like I haven't done any recording.

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It's just been like a week and the stats have

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gone down to practically nothing. It's weird. And I did

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do recording, although I didn't you know, still in the

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process of sorting some of the podcasts out I did start.

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If this is a bit echoy, I'm sorry. I've moved

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my microphone to a different part of the room, and

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I might need to get some kind of soundproofing on

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this wall here there because the bookcases aren't here anymore.

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I can get that sorid I sort that out at

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some point, or I could just move back to doing

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it on the chair. But that's a little bit uncomfortable.

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It's not uncomfortable as far as sitting, but making a recording,

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I'm kind of I don't really have the back support

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that I need. My neck's a little bit bent, and

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I'm kind of having to lean forward. Here I can

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just talk and I'm sitting up. It's a little bit easier.

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And also because i'm looking at the laptop to get

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the Facebook questions, it's kind of handy to have it

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in front of me rather than to keep looking down.

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So yeah, i'd like to say thank you to those

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of you that have sent me lovely messages of support.

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Thank you and yeah, and also a big message to

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shout out to Brooke. I do. I've got a message

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from Cara. I've not replied yet. I'm sorry.

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I just.

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I think I've missed a few messages that I've not

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replied to. And I do apologize. I'm not meaning to

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do that. Just kind of lost track of stuff, if

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I'm honest. But I did try and do the Q

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and A Friday on Friday and all it might have

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been Saturday morning, No, it's Friday. I think I ended

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up talking about something completely different from the Q and

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A Friday and it turned into I suppose quite a

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serious conversation, so I just ended up ditching it after

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about forty minutes. But this is Q and A Friday,

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and I will be focusing on just the questions. If

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I can find it, here we go, right, Okay, it

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would go we go, here we go, So no big

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long blah blah blah. I'm just going to get straight

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down onto it, straight down to the nitty gritty drinking

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water as well. Spent after night up last night watching

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The Boxing Canello Crawford. It was very good. So hope

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is the first question, and Hype asks what are your

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top five favorite movies? Kic mm hmmmmmm. Off the top

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of my head, I'm just gonna shout one of my

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shout them out, but the Wanderers, Airplane, It's a Wonderful Life,

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the Life of Brian, groundhog Day. I'm not going to

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say they're my absolute favorites. It's a Wonderful Life is

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my absolute favorite movie of all of them. But the

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others I love and have watched multiple times, although Airplane

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Life of Brian not so much because I kind of

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I want yeah it just because their comedy is good.

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To leave them a bit, you know, let them marinate

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and come back to them maybe a few years later,

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leave it a decade or so, but they are five

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off the top of my head. I'm just trying to

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think of any other ones that I really going back

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to when I was little boom boom boom boom boom

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boom boom movies. Just I'm trying to think it's a

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movie that blew me away. The End of the Dragon

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would be another one, so I'm going to add that on.

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In fact, I would add that probably number two out

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of all the ones, although I couldn't really watch it anymore.

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But as far as having an impact on my life,

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I think, let me It's a wonderful life had an

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impact on me. I remember watching it the very first time.

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I was living above the co op where I was working.

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It's nineteen eighty eight. It's a story behind this. Shall

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I tell you the story? Yeah? Go on there right.

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I was working at a chip shop. I probably mentioned

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this a few thousand times over the years. And what

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happened is my boss I said something that annoyed my boss.

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And this would have been the beginning of March time,

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maybe February March nineteen eighty eight, so I've been working

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there for nearly two years, what about two years at

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this point, I've been living upstairs in the flat for

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a year. So one day he was just talking about

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going to see Stevie Wondering concert, and I was getting

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annoyed because he was talking about nice things he was

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doing and I had no money to do anything, and

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I just, I don't know, I was probably jealous, possibly,

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and I was a big fan, a bigger fan of

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Stevie Wander than he was, because I listened to Stevie

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Wonder like nearly all the time when I'm back then

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I said something to upset him, and he pushed me

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against the wall and he was like twice my size

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at this time. He wouldn't be now, but you know,

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back then he was twicet and like pushed me against

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the wall and I just told him to get off.

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He did apologize, He did apologize, like because I walked out.

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I said, you know, I just walked out, went upstairs,

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and he apologized. And I couldn't let it go though,

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so I kind of said, no, don't worry, and then

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I went back to work and I just couldn't. I

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couldn't be there anymore, so I quit. I left. I

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was given a month to get out of the flat,

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but I didn't know where to go because I didn't

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have a job or anything. So what happened is I

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ended up moving in with my dad, who had a

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new house. So I was seventeen at this point. I

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stayed in his spare bedroom. It was only temporary. It's

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a temporary situation, and I, yeah, it didn't ask me

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to leave. But I worked in a car. I got

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a job. I got two jobs. Actually, the first job

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I got when I was living at my dad's for

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the first time was in a care home like a

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residential home, and I was helping in the kitchen because

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I had whatever you want to call it experience, you know,

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catering experience. I've been to college, spent years at school

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working and you know, doing I can't remember what it

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was called. What was it called domestic domestic education or

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whatever it was called that involved cooking and stuff. So

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I got a job working in the kitchen. Now I

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thought i'd be able to handle that. And I'll tell

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you right now, it's going to be a very hard

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for me to move my way back to talking about movies,

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because I'm going to get stuck on this. I think about. Hey,

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I'm just listening, you know. So I'm in this. I

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go to this job. I wasn't enthusiastic about it, but

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back then I just took whatever I could get. It

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was just a job. I think that was the understanding.

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I could stay with my dad, but I had to work,

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and it's very easy to get a job back then

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at my age, you know, I basically I didn't have

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to take those menial jobs. And not that there's nothing

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wrong with working in a care home. BlimE me. It's

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a really good job to have, and it's a you know,

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you know what I mean, like if it's a it's

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although I wouldn't wasn't directly caring for elderly people. I

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was cooking for them. So that's a very important part

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of being alive, isn't it? Having food? Apparently, So I'll

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tell you right now it didn't work out very well,

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but we'll come to that. I could have done anything, really,

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I could have. You know, I lived in a place

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where there was a docks, one of the biggest docks

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in Europe. I could have got a job as a runner,

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just taking parcels from one place to another. You know,

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I could have got a job in I don't know.

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There wasn't there wasn't a lot going, but there was

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probably thousands of jobs that I could have applied for

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on the docks, and I didn't even think about it.

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All I wanted to do is just get the first

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available job, which is why I did that. I went

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to the job center. I said, I'll go for that

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one they phoned up. That's in a days, right. I

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don't know what it's like where you live, and I

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don't know what it's like now either. That's very slavery

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like now. Anyway, I'm getting all to try feedback from

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my own mouth, even though I've not got headphones on.

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Back in those days, we had this little job center

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on a corner and it was little. There was no room.

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There was there's literally the seat was two desks, two

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seats with people even at the other side, and then

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some jobs in the window, some jobs in the other

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window the other side, and there's some jobs on the

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other side, and it's like it was the size of

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a corner shop, like a corner sweet shop. It wasn't

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big at all. And I have no idea where people

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used to go to sign on, because I never signed

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on when I was in that town. So or Bob

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was never unemployed, so I was, but I never like

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claimed benefits. I think it must have been somewhere else

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they went because there was no room in there, but

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they had these bits of cardboard, so there was this

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big plastic sheeting with I suppose pockets which you could

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put not like pockets in trousers, you know, you can

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put these I suppose post card size or index cards

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in and it advertise the latest jobs. So I'd look

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in the window and then have them either side so

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you could look outside and you could look inside different jobs,

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and then I could just like I think you'd maybe

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write down them the reference number, or maybe even take

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the card out and take it to the desk. I

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can't one million percent remember, and Viney's had a nice

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drink and if he eats some dinner now, so it's

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eleven thirty two. He hasn't known his breakfast chat. But

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he has also had a bit of a weird night

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because he's been up with me and then asleep, and

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then up then asleep. So I went in because I

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needed to get a job, and this sent me for

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an interview at this care home residential home I don't

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even know where it was. I mean idea at the

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time because I worked there, but I couldn't tell you now.

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So I know I can still remember the outlay of

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that town, but I don't remember where that nurse in

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the place was. Hmmm, I think if wait now, I

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don't know. So I turned up straight away. The woman

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in the kitchen, she was my boss. She didn't seem

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to take a liking to me. But in all fairness,

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I don't think I was particularly likable, not in a

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bad way. I just had a bit of an attitude

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on me, I think a little bit. I didn't want

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to be there. I was willing to work. I was

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a hard worker, but I just I wasn't interested in

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the job. It wasn't like it was my life's ambition

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to peel potatoes, which I've been doing for the last

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two years. To be fair, it's quite good at it,

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and I remember one point she was actually trying to say, no,

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that's not how you do it. I got a little

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with experience doing this. Baby. She said, don't call me baby.

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I said sorry. So she didn't like me and everything.

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I didn't see to do anything right. It's all it was,

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is just prep mainly just preparing the food. She did

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the cooking. I prepare the food, and then I got

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given responsibility of making the porridge. Now I've talked about

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the porridge incident, I don't need to talk about it again. Possibly,

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but no matter what I did, the porridge was not

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up to standard. It kicked every day for I was

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there for two weeks, so a two week trial, I

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think maybe it was a week's trial. It seemed like

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about a year, and every day people would complain the

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porridge was too thick, or it was too thin, too runny,

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it was too sweet, too salty, and it was never Basically,

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we had probably I don't know, fifty people living there,

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maybe maybe more, maybe less. They're all like their porridge different.

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You can't, it can't. It's just an impossible situation. In

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that kind of situation, they have to add their own sugar,

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their own salt. Don't they to make it how they

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want it to taste, because I can't make one that's

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going to make everyone happy. So that got a bit frustrating.

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And back then I wasn't as amenable to criticism as

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perhaps I now. I'm not saying I'm amenable now, but

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I was a little bit more reactive, so I was

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having arguments with people about it and just telling them

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what I thought. I said, just this is ridiculous. The

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whole situation was ridiculous. I mean, I can't I can't

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believe everyone. I think. I went into the into the

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where they all sat and ate, and I started shouting.

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I was like, like, you come and everyone, come in

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and cook your own porridge. And I got told off

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for that. The thing is, when I went there, I

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always had, you know, a bit a lot of respect

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for elderly people because because of how close I was

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to my nan. I just I guess I just automatically

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had this questionable respect I guess to elderly people because

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my name's always been old. When she's not around anymore.

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But I'm not saying she was born old, but ever

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since I've known, now ever since the age of seven,

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she's probably in her sixties then seven seventeen, twenty seven,

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thirty seven, forty seven. You know, yeah, she's well, I

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know she's probably it's probably about my age. But anyway,

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it just didn't feel right that I was being I mean,

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some people are coming in shouting at me, Why are

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you shouting at me, you're old, You're supposed to be nice.

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I didn't realize that being old doesn't it doesn't mean anything.

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Just doesn't mean someone's old they're going to be like

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my name, just because they were the same age as

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my nat because at this point I was what seventeen

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my name probably getting onto seventy at this point. I

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mean she passed away when she was ninety five, I

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think ninety six, and that was ten years ago when

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I was forty forty four. So I can't work it

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out how old she'd have been when I was seventeen.

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You might be able to I can't forty four, thirty four,

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twenty four. So in ninety eighty, seventy six, eight nine, ten, seven,

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sixty nine, so it makes sense about sixty nine, maybe

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sixty sixty nine seventy roughly, and she were seventeen year old.

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That's old it was to me. I mean, I realized

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now that sixty nine is very very young. I keep

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saying it to myself. Maybe it would come true. And

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I wasn't sure what to do with that job because

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it wasn't going well. And then there was an added

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element now when my step mom kind of when the

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family broke up, let's say, and I went and lived

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with my step mom, my little brother, and my step

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mom's mum. I was sleeping on a look a camper

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bed in the living room for about blame me. It

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was nearly year, maybe ten months, yeah, nearly a year actually.

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So during that period she dated a couple of people,

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and she dated one particular person that had a motorbike,

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and I wasn't a big fan of him. I probably

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wasn't going to be a big fan of anyone that

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she was dating, to be honest, but it was not

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really any of my business. Well after she left and

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moved away and they ended up, you know, starting a

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new life and that which was nineteen It was, yeah,

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just before I moved into the chip shop flat above

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the chip shop. That's when she moved. So that's when

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I didn't have anywhere to live. So you know, this

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all happened. That man on the motorbike was coming into

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the residential home every single morning to see the woman

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that was my boss, because she was his not his

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actual mother, but like a mother to him, which is

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kind of ironic. Really, now I've missed a little bit out.

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This is going back another year so the previous year

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after my stepmom, who I classed as my mom, had

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moved away and I didn't really see her again after that.

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I had no regular contact since. And I was in

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a nightclub. Yeah, I guess I was probably seventeen early

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setting on at late sixteen. I don't know. It's hard

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to keep track, but I don't know. I was living

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above the chip shops during that year that I was

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living up there. I was in a nightclub with one

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of my friends, and this bloke, the motorblike bloke who

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used to date my step mom for a little while,

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came up to me and he whispered something in my ear.

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I can't tell you what it was you whispered. I

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can tell you part of the sentence. The first bit

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was I. That was the first word, and then there

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was another word, and then the last two words was

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your mum. He giggled and walked away. Now wasn't the

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nicest thing anyone could have done, to be honest, and

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he was a lot older than me, a lot big

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just I. It was difficult what to do with in

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that situation. I was still a kid, I was a teenager,

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and he was twenty six twenty seven twenty five, I

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don't know, three times bigger than me. And then he's

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in there, coming in. So a year later, he's in

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this place every day walking in. Told her how wonderful

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his mummy is, even though she's not she's his actual mum,

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which was a similar situation to me really because my

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mum wasn't my mum eat really not biologically and I

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could see the irony in that to see how close

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he was to her and how important she was to him. Yeah,

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he wasn't able to see that, you know, and maybe

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he just didn't need forgotten it said it, but I hadn't.

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And the first he wasn't. I think it was he

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didn't come in the first day, but I think the

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second day came in and that was me done. That

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was like, nah, I stuck it. But I thought, I

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don't want to be here now if that, And I

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think I did say what's that idiot doing it? And

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she said that's my son, Nash God, and he's just

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I just I let him know that I didn't want him,

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I didn't want to know him. But it was really weird,

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like kick coming in, like really and yeah, I had

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some weird thoughts back then, so that wasn't good. But

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everything worked out and I got sacked. Everything worked that well.

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I got sacked. Basically my trial ended and he said,

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you know you're not you know you haven't passed a trial.

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I said, yeah, good. The only reason I stayed for

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the whole trial because of my dad, so I promised

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I would. I wouldn't have lasted probably two hours there,

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if it had just been me on my own, I

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wouldn't put up with that stuff because I was living

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with my dad. And when I told him I had

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a two week trial, like, just promise me, you'll stick

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it out for the trial. Okay, okay, so I I

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you know, So I left there. My dad wasn't massively happy,

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but I managed to get another job within about a week,

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working at the co op. Now I can't remember why

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I'm talking. Oh yes, it's about movie, isn't it. So

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I started working at the co op, which is if

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you don't know what it is, it is like a

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it's a supermarket. It's big in the UK when England anyway,

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I don't know about other parts of the country or

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other parts of the land mass of which I live.

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And I worked in this co op and it was

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a small one. It was hm, I'd say it probably

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wasn't much. Maybe a little bit bigger than the average

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small shop, you know, probably a little bit bigger. And

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there was space around the back for deliveries. In fact,

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if they'd have removed all that, they could have had

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a much bigger shop, but they would have had to

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deliver from the front, so they had a storage for

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palettes and stuff. It was a professional set up, and

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I started working there, I think it was, but within

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a week of stopping other place. I think it's like

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April time, nineteen eighty eight, and I didn't love it.

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Be that would be kind of the like the stamp

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line or the headline or the standard you know, response

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to pretty much every job I've ever had is I

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didn't really love it. This can't say I particularly liked

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any job I did. Maybe a couple I didn't mind

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too much. But you know, I've had what fifty sixty jobs. Yeah,

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there was times I quite liked working in insurance. I

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like being good at something, but I didn't like doing

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the thing I was good at, so selling car insurance

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on the phone, I didn't like doing it, but I

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enjoyed being the second best out of two hundred and

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fifty people. That was nice, but the actual job itself,

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it was nice to see me myself on the leader

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board and sometime as the top salesperson of the week

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or the month, sometimes the second. It was all, you know.

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It was always like second or first, usually second, to

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be honest. So I could have just bragged and said first,

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you'd never know. But unfortunately, yeah, someone else was first

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most of the time because it was much better than me.

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It's as simple as that, wasn't it. Cody Cody, I

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think it's Cody's name. Was. It was just better than me.

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That's simple. So but it was still nice to be,

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you know, one of the best. But I didn't enjoy

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doing that kind of work. The only the only nice

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figure about it is perhaps been around people and there

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was a bit of a social life, and it I

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kind of got a little bit of respect, I think

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because of how well I was doing. Maybe I don't know,

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So it was this partly okay hm hmm. But anyway,

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I get this job in the in the co op,

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really vinny. They give me this horrible brown jacket when

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I go first go in there, so I've got trousers

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and a shirt and a tie, and they give me

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this brown melly. It had a weird smell. It wasn't

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smelly as in covered in dog pooh or anything like that.

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It was just smelly. It just had a weird smell.

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And I didn't like that because I didn't want customers

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coming in thinking that that was me. Because I was

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fairly hygienic back then. I'm not saying i'm not now,

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but I was proper, you know, because I hope to

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be able to have a girlfriend one day, so I

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knew I needed to sort of smell nice and look presentable.

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I like. Now, so I'm in there, they give me

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this and it's too tight. Bearing in mind, I way

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like maybe or nine stone or something, some skinny, really

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skinny and this, and they give me a jacket that's

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too small for me if I'm constricted. Now, it's very

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hard for someone a male being nine stone to where

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something that's constrictive because I was tiny. It was really really,

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really really little. I mean, I wouldn't be able to

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even get my arms through it. Now it'd be you know,

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it would it would be ridiculous. But I struggled even then. Eventually,

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Sorry about the noise if you can hear the the

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screaming people in the garden. I managed to get a

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bigger one in the end, but then it was too big.

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I couldn't win. So the problem with I've Got, I'm

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broader than i am long. So I'm sure I realized

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that as I put weight on, I actually had the

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bone structure to have the weight. I didn't realize it

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back then. So I've got, I'm not and I don't

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have long arms. So it's quite hard for me to

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buy stuff now as well. If I buy some trousers,

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it's hard for me to buy trousers that are the

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right length. And when I buy something that fits my

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upper body because like XL or XXL whatever, usually the

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sleeves are too long because of my arm, My arms

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don't match my body like length wise, I'm more girthed

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than length as it were. And so I'm working in

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this shop. I remember getting in there and one of

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the things one of my main jobs to start with

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was to load the bread section, so to put the

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the bread and I suppose the cakes and all that

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stuff into the you know, the bread section, which was

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low down, which wasn't really an issue back then. Because

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I was able to bend down comfortably. And then other things,

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you know, I think when the deliveries came, had to

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kind of check everything off on the list from the palette.

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And then there was busy periods, especially kind of I

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think about half ten, and then at lunch time it

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seemed to get busy. So I did to be a

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separate till and there's two separate tools, and the the

469
00:40:00.159 --> 00:40:02.280
big tour at the front, you know, on the main

470
00:40:02.360 --> 00:40:04.840
counter where all the cigarettes would be high end and

471
00:40:04.920 --> 00:40:10.239
the alcohol and all that stuff, and there was a

472
00:40:10.280 --> 00:40:14.920
shutter for that section because it could only be they

473
00:40:14.960 --> 00:40:19.480
could only serve that stuff from half eleven in the

474
00:40:19.519 --> 00:40:24.800
morning till I think two o'clock in the afternoon, because

475
00:40:24.800 --> 00:40:30.760
that was the license in hours. I don't know if

476
00:40:30.760 --> 00:40:35.119
it was just the alcohol, and I don't think I

477
00:40:35.159 --> 00:40:37.559
was allowed to sell cigarettes. I wasn't allowed to sell

478
00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:41.440
alcohol anyway because I was only seventeen, so I had

479
00:40:41.440 --> 00:40:46.039
to get every time every time I wanted to get.

480
00:40:46.360 --> 00:40:49.119
So every time I wanted alcohol, I had to ask permission,

481
00:40:49.519 --> 00:40:54.840
remember staff to sell this alcohol. So I wasn't asking

482
00:40:55.199 --> 00:41:00.440
the customer's age, but I wasn't asking my own because

483
00:41:00.440 --> 00:41:02.440
I knew what it was, but it was weird. I

484
00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:06.840
was kind of getting permission for myself rather than for them.

485
00:41:07.199 --> 00:41:11.760
And sometimes I'd have people come in that were younger

486
00:41:11.760 --> 00:41:14.960
than me, and I'd just deserve them if I could,

487
00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:18.800
because at that time I didn't like I wanted to

488
00:41:18.840 --> 00:41:22.280
be served, so it was hard. So if I saw

489
00:41:22.320 --> 00:41:25.679
someone that was able to get served, I'd always serve them.

490
00:41:25.760 --> 00:41:28.000
Then they could perhaps get me something in the future,

491
00:41:28.639 --> 00:41:30.280
you know, if I was out and I needed to

492
00:41:30.400 --> 00:41:32.960
get something from the shop, they'd go in and buy

493
00:41:33.000 --> 00:41:35.880
it for me. So that was that was quite good.

494
00:41:39.559 --> 00:41:43.559
I can hear that. I don't know how loud that

495
00:41:43.679 --> 00:41:48.360
is on the microphone. I can't do anything about it.

496
00:41:51.519 --> 00:41:57.360
I suppose I could close the window. I'm just a

497
00:41:57.360 --> 00:42:00.400
bit a bit careful about closing the window when they're

498
00:42:00.400 --> 00:42:02.119
out there, because if they see me close the window,

499
00:42:02.159 --> 00:42:09.480
they might just up the volume, you know. So like anyway,

500
00:42:09.519 --> 00:42:14.639
so I'm in this shop, and one of my memories

501
00:42:14.679 --> 00:42:17.480
of this, there's two memories I got really of working there.

502
00:42:18.480 --> 00:42:24.960
One was every break time, not dinner lunch, but every

503
00:42:25.599 --> 00:42:30.679
morning break I would get a packet of biscuits, usually

504
00:42:31.320 --> 00:42:35.039
figure rolls, but there were nice figure roles. They weren't.

505
00:42:36.280 --> 00:42:38.159
I mean, I've never had a figure role I didn't like,

506
00:42:38.239 --> 00:42:40.920
but there were specific ones I liked. They were more

507
00:42:41.000 --> 00:42:47.320
flat than sausage drawl, kn't type, and a can of

508
00:42:47.400 --> 00:42:51.760
coke and I'd buy that. Usually i'd buy it before

509
00:42:51.880 --> 00:42:53.960
my break so I could just go in and eat it,

510
00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:56.679
So i'd buy it first in the morning and then

511
00:42:56.719 --> 00:43:00.960
i'd go and eat it or for it later, you know,

512
00:43:01.239 --> 00:43:04.119
whichever way worked out, and I go and have my

513
00:43:05.119 --> 00:43:09.119
break listen to the radio. It was like fifteen minutes

514
00:43:12.760 --> 00:43:18.199
because we had this little little room were sync with

515
00:43:18.280 --> 00:43:22.880
a little table about three chairs. I think, Thenny, can

516
00:43:22.920 --> 00:43:30.000
you make a bit more nice please? Okay, it doesn't

517
00:43:30.039 --> 00:43:36.480
want to. And I don't know what else was in there,

518
00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:40.440
probably a coat rack. I think it was locked as well,

519
00:43:40.519 --> 00:43:42.559
so we have to use the code to get in

520
00:43:42.599 --> 00:43:49.039
and out. And it'd be a radio playing. And I

521
00:43:49.119 --> 00:43:52.880
just remember this particular time because you can actually check

522
00:43:52.960 --> 00:43:57.599
the timings the years by these two songs everywhere by

523
00:43:57.679 --> 00:44:03.719
Fleetwood Mac and Fast Car by Tracy Chapman. For some reason,

524
00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:09.719
those two songs kept playing, not for the duration of

525
00:44:09.760 --> 00:44:13.360
me working there, but like you know, regularly for a

526
00:44:13.400 --> 00:44:17.400
few weeks. Those two songs just seemed to be playing

527
00:44:17.880 --> 00:44:21.719
on the radio, usually both of them in that fifteen

528
00:44:21.719 --> 00:44:26.679
minute section for some reason. It's kind of weird and

529
00:44:26.760 --> 00:44:29.000
it might be a lie as well. It might be

530
00:44:29.039 --> 00:44:38.400
a lie, it may be true. And another memory is

531
00:44:38.960 --> 00:44:41.599
I would go home while I go back to my

532
00:44:41.679 --> 00:44:46.079
dad's during lunch because he lived just up the road,

533
00:44:46.199 --> 00:44:49.039
and I was borrowing the bicycle, which I think my

534
00:44:49.119 --> 00:44:54.360
stepmum used to use, and it was a girl's bike.

535
00:44:55.599 --> 00:45:00.880
Did you just say girl's bike? Yeah? And there still

536
00:45:00.880 --> 00:45:03.679
are girls bikes you can buy. They still do exist,

537
00:45:03.679 --> 00:45:08.679
believe or not. I've had this conversation before. I don't understand, right,

538
00:45:10.360 --> 00:45:17.239
why are girls bikes so much more comfortable than men's bikes.

539
00:45:19.039 --> 00:45:23.280
I haven't got that crossbar thing that you have to

540
00:45:23.360 --> 00:45:28.719
like get your foot all the way over. I don't.

541
00:45:29.159 --> 00:45:34.159
It's like, why just a nice so you can get

542
00:45:34.199 --> 00:45:36.639
you she better put your foot over to the other

543
00:45:36.719 --> 00:45:41.599
pedal easily. Why does it have to be a struggle.

544
00:45:42.960 --> 00:45:45.360
So I liked that bike, and it had a basket

545
00:45:45.400 --> 00:45:50.719
in the front, and the saddle was comfy, so all

546
00:45:50.760 --> 00:46:00.159
three things that my previous bike did not have a

547
00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:07.239
comfortable saddle before I had the saddle it used to. Basically,

548
00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:15.400
it was quite intrusive at times, very spiky, very thin

549
00:46:16.880 --> 00:46:25.559
and difficult to get my leg over it. And it

550
00:46:25.599 --> 00:46:29.360
didn't have us like a basket at the front. I suppose.

551
00:46:29.400 --> 00:46:31.400
The only other difference with this is it was pink.

552
00:46:33.400 --> 00:46:36.199
So I was going backwards and forwards, and it took

553
00:46:36.239 --> 00:46:40.159
about six minutes to get there and get back, well,

554
00:46:40.239 --> 00:46:43.519
to get there and you know, either side of the journey,

555
00:46:44.559 --> 00:46:49.199
So I would leave about seven minutes to the hour

556
00:46:49.480 --> 00:46:53.920
to get home to get to work, which wasn't you know,

557
00:46:54.360 --> 00:46:58.320
really ideal, But anyway, i'd go back, so I'd have

558
00:46:59.239 --> 00:47:02.079
forty minutes. It's out of the hour, and I have

559
00:47:02.199 --> 00:47:08.480
to watch Neighbors on TV. I get myself a sandwich,

560
00:47:10.159 --> 00:47:12.920
maybe a cup of tea, I don't remember, and then

561
00:47:12.960 --> 00:47:15.960
I go back. So it got me out of the place,

562
00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:33.760
which was nice. So how did I end up? I

563
00:47:33.880 --> 00:47:39.440
just closed the window because it was excessively loud. I

564
00:47:39.480 --> 00:47:43.039
hope that that will keep some of the noise out.

565
00:47:46.559 --> 00:47:49.480
Where was I? Okay? So I'm working in this shop.

566
00:47:50.760 --> 00:47:54.119
I'm trying to get back to the movie question. Wow,

567
00:47:54.800 --> 00:47:57.280
this is a long way round the street, isn't it

568
00:47:57.320 --> 00:48:07.320
to get back to that. So what happened is I

569
00:48:07.400 --> 00:48:09.960
got on pretty well with the manager, or the manager

570
00:48:10.079 --> 00:48:14.480
is rather or the manager was yeah I was. I

571
00:48:14.519 --> 00:48:21.480
got mald with her, and she offered me to rent

572
00:48:21.480 --> 00:48:24.760
a room upstairs. Because she being a manager, she had

573
00:48:24.760 --> 00:48:29.239
the flat upstairs, so she offered me to rent me

574
00:48:29.239 --> 00:48:33.639
a room up there. And I think part of the

575
00:48:33.719 --> 00:48:35.760
reason was so that i'd be on time for work,

576
00:48:37.480 --> 00:48:40.239
so because i'ld be late a little bit, I need

577
00:48:40.239 --> 00:48:43.840
a few minutes. But I thought, yeah, it's quite good

578
00:48:43.840 --> 00:48:45.960
because then I can just go upstairs during my break

579
00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:49.800
and being with my dad was only ever temporary anyway,

580
00:48:49.920 --> 00:48:54.519
so it's just yeah, suited me, so I moved upstairs.

581
00:48:54.840 --> 00:48:58.159
It was quite good. Actually, at times she was a

582
00:48:58.199 --> 00:49:03.119
bit noisy because she was really into CBE radio all night,

583
00:49:03.159 --> 00:49:13.599
all of hers over over, do you copy? Do you copy?

584
00:49:14.320 --> 00:49:17.440
All that stuff? Whatever? The CB radio thing is very loud,

585
00:49:18.960 --> 00:49:21.599
and I don't know how she managed to get up

586
00:49:21.599 --> 00:49:26.159
in the morning because she didn't seem to sleep. She

587
00:49:26.280 --> 00:49:34.159
was talking to men, very popular, and it was nice.

588
00:49:34.400 --> 00:49:38.119
She had a lovely living room kitchen. She'd cook on

589
00:49:38.159 --> 00:49:41.440
a Sunday and sometimes I'd have a meal and it

590
00:49:41.480 --> 00:49:43.960
was quite nice. I was kind of left alone to

591
00:49:43.960 --> 00:49:46.039
do what I wanted, and I had my own TV

592
00:49:46.199 --> 00:49:51.679
in my room. I didn't really get involved in her life,

593
00:49:51.679 --> 00:49:55.440
but we gone, well, you know, we did got on all right,

594
00:49:55.599 --> 00:49:58.480
and I'd go she'd drive. She had a car, so

595
00:49:58.519 --> 00:50:05.639
she'd drive me to KFC sometimes, and she wanted she

596
00:50:05.719 --> 00:50:08.400
was wanted to get something to eat, so I'd go

597
00:50:08.480 --> 00:50:14.400
with her and get myself for something. Yeah it was okay.

598
00:50:14.679 --> 00:50:20.239
And I made friends with some of her friends, and yeah,

599
00:50:20.400 --> 00:50:22.760
so it's okay. Anyway, I said that a lot, haven't I.

600
00:50:24.760 --> 00:50:28.440
So I'm at work. It's really good at singing as well.

601
00:50:33.360 --> 00:50:35.440
And I did stay friends with for quite a long time,

602
00:50:35.599 --> 00:50:43.639
even after what happens next happened. So it was weird

603
00:50:43.679 --> 00:50:49.360
because I'm at work. There's only me her one other

604
00:50:49.440 --> 00:50:57.280
person that was the manager who was like the assistant manager,

605
00:50:58.360 --> 00:51:02.239
but she didn't work full time, I don't think, and

606
00:51:02.280 --> 00:51:04.639
there was a couple of part time staff and me,

607
00:51:05.239 --> 00:51:07.000
so I was only the other. I was the only

608
00:51:07.199 --> 00:51:10.679
full time staff member. And then the other lady who

609
00:51:10.760 --> 00:51:15.920
was the assistant manager. I think she did like by

610
00:51:16.079 --> 00:51:18.639
thirty hours a week or something. Because she was a grandparent.

611
00:51:19.440 --> 00:51:21.440
She was lovely. She was I think her name was Brenda,

612
00:51:22.199 --> 00:51:25.639
and she gave me a Michael Jackson album, The Bad

613
00:51:26.239 --> 00:51:29.559
Not Bad Thriller. She was lovely. I really liked her.

614
00:51:31.239 --> 00:51:34.760
So technically you could say this was quite a successful

615
00:51:34.960 --> 00:51:38.760
job because I got on well with the assistant manager.

616
00:51:40.679 --> 00:51:43.880
I became pretty good friends with the part time worker.

617
00:51:44.559 --> 00:51:46.360
We had a little bit of a conflict at the beginning,

618
00:51:46.400 --> 00:51:49.239
but that was just me. That's how I made friends.

619
00:51:50.119 --> 00:51:52.920
And then we became friends. And he was like a

620
00:51:53.000 --> 00:51:58.000
year younger than me or something, and the manager I

621
00:51:58.039 --> 00:52:00.599
was living with her. So it was kind of quite

622
00:52:00.599 --> 00:52:06.159
a good set up really, and my job was very

623
00:52:06.199 --> 00:52:13.079
secure if I wanted to stay there. Now, the area

624
00:52:13.519 --> 00:52:15.920
manager was called mister Cook. I don't know why I

625
00:52:15.920 --> 00:52:18.559
remember this, but it was like a troll. It was

626
00:52:18.639 --> 00:52:22.840
like a I had to explain it, you know, like

627
00:52:23.280 --> 00:52:25.480
something that lived under a bridge. It was like that.

628
00:52:26.960 --> 00:52:29.320
Just he talked like this naming.

629
00:52:31.440 --> 00:52:35.239
He didn't like me. Perhaps I shouldn't have told him

630
00:52:35.320 --> 00:52:37.840
what he sounded like and did an impression of him

631
00:52:37.840 --> 00:52:39.880
in front of him. Perhaps that's why I didn't like me.

632
00:52:41.039 --> 00:52:43.159
But that's why I did the impression, because he wasn't

633
00:52:43.239 --> 00:52:47.800
very friendly, and I think he all but said pretty

634
00:52:47.880 --> 00:52:49.800
much the only reason I was still there is because

635
00:52:49.920 --> 00:52:54.159
the manager wanted me to stay. And I think she

636
00:52:54.199 --> 00:52:56.199
only wanted me to stay because she was getting rent,

637
00:52:57.239 --> 00:52:59.159
so you know, it was kind of for one of those.

638
00:53:00.239 --> 00:53:03.920
But he said no, he wasn't pleased with my progression.

639
00:53:06.599 --> 00:53:09.159
So even though the manager wanted me to stay, she

640
00:53:09.280 --> 00:53:11.559
was clearly not giving me a very good appraise or

641
00:53:11.599 --> 00:53:16.800
wish she so. Plus I had a bit of an

642
00:53:16.800 --> 00:53:19.480
attitude on me as well back then. Hard to believe,

643
00:53:20.239 --> 00:53:24.599
but I was a little bit rude. By rude, I

644
00:53:24.599 --> 00:53:28.320
don't mean rude, rude, but I didn't play the game.

645
00:53:29.320 --> 00:53:33.079
I didn't suck up to anyone ever. At any point.

646
00:53:36.079 --> 00:53:39.880
I was an extra polite to people just because they

647
00:53:39.880 --> 00:53:46.159
were in a higher position, because at that time, everybody

648
00:53:46.920 --> 00:53:49.679
was at a higher position than me. In pretty much

649
00:53:49.679 --> 00:53:52.559
every job I've ever had, I've never been in a

650
00:53:52.639 --> 00:53:57.960
high position. So I just treat people the same way

651
00:53:57.960 --> 00:54:01.119
as I treat anyone else. I liked to think, you know,

652
00:54:01.239 --> 00:54:05.960
fairly respectfully, but as soon as they don't with me

653
00:54:08.079 --> 00:54:14.360
back then, anyway, it would be gloves are off. So

654
00:54:14.480 --> 00:54:22.239
you know, if I was when I was fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty,

655
00:54:22.440 --> 00:54:25.440
twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, twenty four, twenty five,

656
00:54:25.960 --> 00:54:29.800
twenty six, twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty nine, thirty thirty one,

657
00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:33.599
thirty two, thirty three, thirty four, thirty five, thirty six,

658
00:54:33.639 --> 00:54:41.119
thirty seven, thirty eight, thirty nine, forty pretty much until

659
00:54:41.199 --> 00:54:46.280
I was no longer working. Once I stopped working, I

660
00:54:46.320 --> 00:54:55.039
was a much better employee, much more patient and hmm wow.

661
00:54:56.360 --> 00:54:58.000
But if people were nice to me, I'd be nice

662
00:54:58.000 --> 00:55:01.800
to them. As soon as someone kind of turned and

663
00:55:01.840 --> 00:55:07.079
they were rude, I'd like, okay. And I think one

664
00:55:07.119 --> 00:55:10.920
of the hardest things were always as I got older,

665
00:55:13.119 --> 00:55:18.880
my bosses became younger. So I'm in my thirties mid

666
00:55:18.960 --> 00:55:22.920
thirties and my boss was like twenty one, which wasn't

667
00:55:22.920 --> 00:55:25.159
an issue because I really liked him. He was one

668
00:55:25.199 --> 00:55:28.840
of the nicest people I've ever known. But I had

669
00:55:28.880 --> 00:55:31.280
a previous boss who was like twenty two when I

670
00:55:31.320 --> 00:55:35.039
was thirty one. Okame a nice bloke, but he was

671
00:55:35.519 --> 00:55:38.000
just he didn't seem to know what he was doing.

672
00:55:39.480 --> 00:55:42.519
His answer to any question was what do you think

673
00:55:42.559 --> 00:55:49.039
The answer is? It's like, okay, that's not a way

674
00:55:49.119 --> 00:55:57.079
to answer a question. What do you think? The answer is, Wow,

675
00:55:57.159 --> 00:56:01.280
there's a moth inside here since this morning. I don't

676
00:56:01.280 --> 00:56:03.039
know how I got in, probably through the window because

677
00:56:03.039 --> 00:56:07.639
the window was open. That's a weird question, wasn't it

678
00:56:07.639 --> 00:56:12.840
seems to be interested in my shirt? But my shirts

679
00:56:12.840 --> 00:56:17.440
are clean that moths, don't you know what I mean.

680
00:56:17.480 --> 00:56:20.480
It's only been on the hangar for a few years.

681
00:56:20.639 --> 00:56:25.360
I don't think the moth would have got to it. So, yeah,

682
00:56:25.519 --> 00:56:31.960
I lived in this place upstairs. So I go to

683
00:56:32.039 --> 00:56:41.719
work one day. I'm just in there, just a normal day. Yeah,

684
00:56:42.039 --> 00:56:46.960
I remember the So I'm standing there. Two people come in,

685
00:56:47.079 --> 00:56:49.960
a man and a woman and stand at the counter,

686
00:56:52.239 --> 00:56:57.199
the assistant manager. So the manager's standing beyond the counter

687
00:56:59.199 --> 00:57:02.559
who I lived with. The assistant manager walks up to

688
00:57:02.599 --> 00:57:06.280
the door, closes it and locks it and puts closed

689
00:57:06.920 --> 00:57:10.000
sign up and tells me to go into the door

690
00:57:10.280 --> 00:57:15.199
into the staff room. And I'm walking in there and say,

691
00:57:15.239 --> 00:57:18.679
but I've got my my my figure roll was in

692
00:57:18.760 --> 00:57:22.119
my can of coke. And she said, this isn't a break.

693
00:57:22.360 --> 00:57:26.599
I said, Okay, We'll just go into the other room.

694
00:57:26.639 --> 00:57:30.760
So I went into the storage room into the staff room.

695
00:57:31.360 --> 00:57:33.639
I had no idea what was going on. It's like

696
00:57:36.239 --> 00:57:42.119
I asked her and she wouldn't tell me. And then

697
00:57:43.280 --> 00:57:49.760
I was in there for about an hour, maybe less,

698
00:57:49.840 --> 00:57:56.000
but about an hour, and then the what's the name

699
00:57:56.079 --> 00:58:03.800
that the assistant manager came in? If that I think that, yeah,

700
00:58:03.880 --> 00:58:05.519
maybe someone else, but I think she came in and

701
00:58:05.639 --> 00:58:11.599
she said what happened? Told me what happened. So the manager,

702
00:58:14.079 --> 00:58:20.920
the people at the front desk were under undercover police

703
00:58:21.320 --> 00:58:26.960
and the co op thought that someone was stealing money,

704
00:58:27.840 --> 00:58:30.519
so they set up the manager. They set her up.

705
00:58:30.519 --> 00:58:34.719
They basically gave us some marked money, and when they

706
00:58:34.800 --> 00:58:38.719
came back in, they searched her and she had that

707
00:58:38.760 --> 00:58:43.880
money in her pocket as like twenty could or something.

708
00:58:45.920 --> 00:58:49.360
And as I said earlier, I still stayed friends with her.

709
00:58:49.519 --> 00:58:52.960
I was living with her, and I still stayed friends

710
00:58:53.000 --> 00:58:56.159
with her for years afterwards. So, you know, he made

711
00:58:56.159 --> 00:59:00.599
a mistake and she lost a job on the spot,

712
00:59:05.880 --> 00:59:08.000
which was not good for me. It wasn't good for

713
00:59:08.039 --> 00:59:10.559
her either, to be honest. I mean she did get

714
00:59:10.599 --> 00:59:21.559
another job, but it was I was kind of wither

715
00:59:21.719 --> 00:59:26.119
during the process, during the whole because I think it

716
00:59:26.159 --> 00:59:29.039
went to court quite quickly, and she I think she

717
00:59:29.199 --> 00:59:33.920
ended up getting suspended sentence or something like that. They

718
00:59:33.960 --> 00:59:38.039
couldn't prove previous money going missing or anything like that,

719
00:59:38.159 --> 00:59:40.360
so all they had proof of was just that one

720
00:59:40.360 --> 00:59:50.719
to twenty pound note the manager when it's the assistant.

721
00:59:50.760 --> 00:59:53.880
I said to the assistant manager, are you now going

722
00:59:53.920 --> 00:59:58.480
to be the new manager? And she said no, I'm

723
00:59:59.760 --> 01:00:02.000
i' I don't do enough hours. I couldn't do that.

724
01:00:03.320 --> 01:00:05.960
I said, oh, and she's shouting straight away. She came

725
01:00:06.000 --> 01:00:07.840
back and me said it's not going to be you either.

726
01:00:08.559 --> 01:00:10.880
I said I don't know. He said, no, you didn't.

727
01:00:10.920 --> 01:00:12.679
You thought it was going to be you. I said no,

728
01:00:12.760 --> 01:00:14.760
I didn't. He said, yes you did. I could see

729
01:00:14.800 --> 01:00:16.639
a look on your face. You started looking around all

730
01:00:16.679 --> 01:00:20.960
the cakes you could buy with the extra money. I

731
01:00:21.039 --> 01:00:24.880
was like, wow, she could read my mind, because back

732
01:00:24.920 --> 01:00:28.159
then that's what I would do with money. I pay

733
01:00:28.239 --> 01:00:33.159
Rise more cakes and biscuits. That's my mentality back then.

734
01:00:34.559 --> 01:00:40.960
It hasn't changed that much anyway. What happened next wasn't

735
01:00:40.960 --> 01:00:46.039
so good because we got a new lady. Well, it

736
01:00:46.159 --> 01:00:48.320
was just that they happened to be a fit. No,

737
01:00:48.440 --> 01:00:53.880
we got we got someone nice came in for a

738
01:00:53.920 --> 01:00:57.360
week or two, and then we had this woman comes

739
01:00:57.400 --> 01:01:03.280
along and she didn't like me for some reason, and

740
01:01:02.840 --> 01:01:03.880
we didn't.

741
01:01:03.679 --> 01:01:18.239
Get on, and yeah, we really didn't get on, and

742
01:01:18.320 --> 01:01:19.039
in the end.

743
01:01:19.199 --> 01:01:27.719
I didn't like her so much. I left. But in

744
01:01:27.760 --> 01:01:33.400
the meantime I was still living upstairs, so I think

745
01:01:33.719 --> 01:01:36.639
what's the name the manager who went upstairs. They had

746
01:01:36.639 --> 01:01:44.199
to give her three months notice to move out, eviction notice.

747
01:01:44.760 --> 01:01:47.880
So that was the very first time I'd ever been evicted,

748
01:01:48.760 --> 01:01:51.519
so that it wasn't me specifically, but it was. I

749
01:01:51.599 --> 01:01:53.519
was part of the eviction because I was homeless as

750
01:01:53.519 --> 01:01:59.679
well when she got kicked out. So that was during

751
01:01:59.679 --> 01:02:05.079
the same I think we I started working. So I

752
01:02:05.159 --> 01:02:16.280
moved in there probably June maybe, and I moved out

753
01:02:16.519 --> 01:02:23.639
possibly October, maybe November, because at that point I'd already

754
01:02:23.679 --> 01:02:27.480
got a new job in the September, because I had

755
01:02:27.480 --> 01:02:29.239
to wait till I was eighteen years old before I

756
01:02:29.280 --> 01:02:34.679
applied for this factory job, and I was working there

757
01:02:35.079 --> 01:02:37.079
and i'd been there for at least a month maybe

758
01:02:37.159 --> 01:02:43.360
two before I moved out. So yeah, so this this

759
01:02:43.400 --> 01:02:50.800
whole kind of police thing must have happened July, I

760
01:02:50.840 --> 01:02:57.800
don't know, August September something like that. Anyway, in the meantime,

761
01:02:59.039 --> 01:03:02.039
I think it was before four, before she and while

762
01:03:02.079 --> 01:03:07.400
she was still working there, I was sitting in my room.

763
01:03:07.679 --> 01:03:09.360
I had the TV on. I had a little black

764
01:03:09.400 --> 01:03:13.840
and white Poorboord TV, just watching TV. You know, it

765
01:03:13.880 --> 01:03:19.440
was three channels back then. No four channels sorry, BBC one,

766
01:03:19.559 --> 01:03:28.760
BBC two, ITV and Channel four. And it was either

767
01:03:29.039 --> 01:03:33.840
Saturday afternoon or Sunday afternoon. I couldn't tell you which one.

768
01:03:33.920 --> 01:03:37.960
It's one of them. And I'm just sitting up in

769
01:03:38.000 --> 01:03:41.480
a bed watching a TV and this movie is on

770
01:03:43.039 --> 01:03:46.239
and I've never seen it before. I didn't realize it

771
01:03:46.360 --> 01:03:48.199
was in black and white because the TV was in

772
01:03:48.239 --> 01:03:56.480
black and white. And before anyone says, how old are you?

773
01:03:56.480 --> 01:03:58.920
You're seventeen years old and you were watching a black

774
01:03:58.960 --> 01:04:02.639
and white TV. No, we did have color TVs back then.

775
01:04:02.719 --> 01:04:06.519
I just couldn't afford one. So I had a black

776
01:04:06.519 --> 01:04:12.760
and white TV and I or maybe I could afford one.

777
01:04:12.800 --> 01:04:15.360
I don't know, probably could have done. I don't know

778
01:04:15.400 --> 01:04:20.159
how much they was back then. I know I was

779
01:04:20.199 --> 01:04:26.800
earning sixty pounds a week from working in the co op,

780
01:04:28.480 --> 01:04:36.960
or sixty two pounds something like that. Yeah, this is

781
01:04:37.000 --> 01:04:40.079
weird because when I was fifteen, I was earning sixty

782
01:04:40.079 --> 01:04:44.239
pounds a week working in the chip shop when I

783
01:04:44.280 --> 01:04:48.639
was fifteen, for the first few months up till September,

784
01:04:48.679 --> 01:04:52.559
so from like April to September, I was getting sixty

785
01:04:52.559 --> 01:04:55.880
pound a week. Then I went onto the Whitets scheme,

786
01:04:55.920 --> 01:04:58.679
which is the youth training scheme, and my money went

787
01:04:58.719 --> 01:05:02.480
down to twenty seven pounds thirty a week for the

788
01:05:02.559 --> 01:05:06.559
first year. Second year was thirty five pounds a week.

789
01:05:08.639 --> 01:05:10.559
So when I started working a co op and I

790
01:05:10.599 --> 01:05:13.239
was getting sixty pounds a week, it was like a

791
01:05:13.280 --> 01:05:18.760
huge amount of money. Again, still not very a good

792
01:05:18.760 --> 01:05:22.400
amount of money, but you know, it was okay. I

793
01:05:22.440 --> 01:05:24.840
was probably paying twenty five pounds a week for rent

794
01:05:28.199 --> 01:05:30.639
something like that. I can't I'd have to, I don't know,

795
01:05:31.360 --> 01:05:34.760
something like that. Probably. I think the average room was

796
01:05:34.800 --> 01:05:42.920
about twenty five thirty pounds a week and then but

797
01:05:42.960 --> 01:05:47.280
I didn't have to pay any rent once my what's

798
01:05:47.320 --> 01:05:51.880
the name my landlady, Well, she wasn't really my land

799
01:05:51.840 --> 01:05:53.360
I didn't are was she because she was being a

800
01:05:53.440 --> 01:05:58.039
victed but she didn't work for the company anymore. Once

801
01:05:58.880 --> 01:06:01.559
she lost her job. She didn't have to pay any

802
01:06:01.599 --> 01:06:06.480
rent because she was I think I think she got

803
01:06:06.519 --> 01:06:07.960
the flat with the job, but I think she was

804
01:06:08.000 --> 01:06:14.960
also paying rent. I don't know either that, or I

805
01:06:15.079 --> 01:06:20.079
just stopped paying rent. That might be in the situation.

806
01:06:20.639 --> 01:06:23.559
It's like, well, you don't work downstairs anymore, not paying rent.

807
01:06:25.639 --> 01:06:27.599
And then I left and I didn't have any money

808
01:06:27.639 --> 01:06:33.719
coming anyway, other than a couple of part time jobs cleaning. Yeah,

809
01:06:33.800 --> 01:06:36.480
I had a part a couple of part times jobs

810
01:06:36.519 --> 01:06:43.400
cleaning one in the morning, one in the evening, so

811
01:06:43.480 --> 01:06:46.119
that that gave me enough to like eat, you know.

812
01:06:48.760 --> 01:06:53.119
And then I got a job in this other company.

813
01:06:53.159 --> 01:07:02.400
So I the time scale is not quite working out.

814
01:07:02.440 --> 01:07:04.440
But anyway, I did get a job in this maybe

815
01:07:04.440 --> 01:07:08.679
I donely be now a month before we had to

816
01:07:08.719 --> 01:07:13.400
get out, and then I found a room on the seafront.

817
01:07:14.760 --> 01:07:17.280
That weird thing about it this lady that took over

818
01:07:17.360 --> 01:07:22.239
the manager's job. I left the job because of her,

819
01:07:22.679 --> 01:07:27.239
because she was I just didn't get on with her.

820
01:07:29.239 --> 01:07:35.960
The irony is this the room I moved into after

821
01:07:36.039 --> 01:07:38.119
I was evicted from the flat ab of the co op.

822
01:07:40.239 --> 01:07:44.320
I didn't really like living there, and I moved and

823
01:07:44.400 --> 01:07:48.199
the room I moved into was a house owned by

824
01:07:48.239 --> 01:07:51.159
the lady that was the manager of the co op,

825
01:07:52.920 --> 01:07:57.960
the new manager. So I literally lived rented rooms of

826
01:07:58.119 --> 01:08:01.400
two managers of the same co op at different times,

827
01:08:02.480 --> 01:08:05.760
except the second one owned her house and she had

828
01:08:05.800 --> 01:08:13.960
it as a I don't know, like lodging's thing, and

829
01:08:14.000 --> 01:08:18.399
I moved in there when I was eighteen, and I

830
01:08:18.439 --> 01:08:26.479
lived there. That was at the end of the end

831
01:08:26.520 --> 01:08:30.640
of nineteen eighty eight, so probably I was definitely in

832
01:08:30.720 --> 01:08:43.840
that house in December till probably February eighty nine. The

833
01:08:43.880 --> 01:08:45.520
weird thing about it is I've got on really well

834
01:08:45.560 --> 01:08:48.720
with her then, so outside of work, I got on

835
01:08:48.760 --> 01:08:51.039
a k with her. Inside work, we didn't get on

836
01:08:51.079 --> 01:08:56.279
so well. So I just turned up at the It

837
01:08:56.319 --> 01:09:02.000
was weird, you know. I phoned up about a place,

838
01:09:02.720 --> 01:09:04.159
so going to come and have a look at the room.

839
01:09:05.079 --> 01:09:07.439
Person on the phone said, yeah, turn up, and she

840
01:09:07.560 --> 01:09:09.720
answered the door, and I'm thinking, oh, God, don't tell

841
01:09:09.760 --> 01:09:13.119
me you live here as well. I thought she might

842
01:09:13.159 --> 01:09:17.640
rent a room, didn't know she owned the place. And

843
01:09:19.640 --> 01:09:22.800
I suppose because maybe because I was making her money,

844
01:09:22.960 --> 01:09:24.760
you know, I was paying her mortgage. I suppose it

845
01:09:24.760 --> 01:09:28.359
wasn't me and the other five people that lived there,

846
01:09:30.479 --> 01:09:33.279
so she viewed me in a different way. I was

847
01:09:33.359 --> 01:09:36.640
no longer a thorn in her side, but maybe she

848
01:09:36.760 --> 01:09:44.800
thought of I was before. Hmm. Yeah, that didn't work

849
01:09:44.840 --> 01:09:48.000
too well either, But so yeah, so that was one

850
01:09:48.039 --> 01:09:51.520
of the many places I lived. But I just remember

851
01:09:51.560 --> 01:09:54.319
that movie watching It's a Wonderful Life on that black

852
01:09:54.359 --> 01:09:58.520
and white TV and it was one of the first

853
01:09:58.560 --> 01:10:03.199
movies that were really had an effect on me and

854
01:10:03.760 --> 01:10:10.239
really had I don't want to say spiritual, but it

855
01:10:10.359 --> 01:10:22.640
had emotional maybe. Yeah, So thank you for that. Hope.

856
01:10:24.840 --> 01:10:27.199
It's only taken me three hours to answer that one.

857
01:10:27.439 --> 01:10:33.199
So the next question I've got is Isabelle ooh, it

858
01:10:33.239 --> 01:10:38.279
says out there, ooh. Maybe this has been asked before,

859
01:10:39.199 --> 01:10:44.199
but what dog? What kind of dog is Vinnie? Also,

860
01:10:44.439 --> 01:10:49.680
where are some of your listeners from? Oh, okay, that's

861
01:10:49.760 --> 01:10:56.119
going to involve me looking at the stats. Yeah, so

862
01:10:58.600 --> 01:11:05.479
Vinnie is a little red jack Russell, which was I

863
01:11:05.479 --> 01:11:08.359
suppose kind of like is it a parson's dog or something?

864
01:11:09.600 --> 01:11:13.800
And yeah, so he's only a little thing. It's very

865
01:11:13.920 --> 01:11:20.920
noisy at times, screeches, hates being picked up. Apparently he

866
01:11:20.960 --> 01:11:23.239
didn't used to when he was first born. And then

867
01:11:23.279 --> 01:11:26.159
he just took a dislike to it and been like

868
01:11:26.239 --> 01:11:32.600
that ever since, said, I don't know. Maybe someone dropped him,

869
01:11:32.640 --> 01:11:35.159
maybe you know, by accident. Maybe because he had kids

870
01:11:35.159 --> 01:11:37.279
in his house when he was born, so maybe one

871
01:11:37.319 --> 01:11:39.479
of them picked him up and dropped him by accident

872
01:11:39.520 --> 01:11:44.039
and that strightened him into being picked up. Or maybe

873
01:11:44.079 --> 01:11:47.159
they swung him around or somebody, you know, little kids.

874
01:11:47.800 --> 01:11:51.439
So I don't know, I really don't know. It just

875
01:11:51.479 --> 01:12:08.800
be guesswork. Where are my listeners from? This goes into

876
01:12:08.840 --> 01:12:14.720
two questions because revel Reveal asks she adds to this question,

877
01:12:15.039 --> 01:12:18.920
I love the idea about where everyone is from. Very

878
01:12:18.960 --> 01:12:24.000
interesting to see how many cultures are represented by the listeners.

879
01:12:24.880 --> 01:12:29.439
I think Jason has touched himself. Now I've touched on

880
01:12:29.520 --> 01:12:33.600
this before, though I have. I'm happy to go over

881
01:12:33.680 --> 01:12:38.119
again because stats are the thing that I love most

882
01:12:38.199 --> 01:12:42.119
in the whole wide world, the whole world. Let me

883
01:12:42.159 --> 01:12:45.359
have a look. Are based it on the last year.

884
01:12:46.880 --> 01:12:48.640
So I'm not going to go through the stats as

885
01:12:48.640 --> 01:12:51.840
in how many. I just go through the stats as

886
01:12:51.880 --> 01:13:10.600
in geolocation. Okay, so I've got countries here, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen,

887
01:13:11.600 --> 01:13:18.800
twenty two, twenty five, So it's twenty five different countries.

888
01:13:18.880 --> 01:13:22.680
This is on my spreaker. I'm also on sound Glad

889
01:13:22.680 --> 01:13:27.720
as well, so there could be more. So according to this,

890
01:13:28.079 --> 01:13:34.640
there's twenty five different countries. The United States is number one,

891
01:13:35.159 --> 01:13:38.680
always number one, always has been since I've been doing this.

892
01:13:39.520 --> 01:13:42.399
So the most listeners that I've ever got on any

893
01:13:42.439 --> 01:13:47.199
podcast over you know, nineteen years is nearly twenty years

894
01:13:47.760 --> 01:13:54.920
is the United States. Second is United Kingdom, which is

895
01:13:54.960 --> 01:14:00.399
where I live. It's kind of stayed the same much,

896
01:14:02.520 --> 01:14:07.199
I would say, to start with United States, there still

897
01:14:07.239 --> 01:14:09.680
is a lot more. I'm getting more than double the

898
01:14:09.720 --> 01:14:12.119
amount in America than I am in my own country,

899
01:14:14.079 --> 01:14:17.720
but it used to be a higher percentage. So the

900
01:14:17.760 --> 01:14:20.560
amount of people listening to me now in my own

901
01:14:20.560 --> 01:14:22.640
country is a lot more than it used to be.

902
01:14:25.600 --> 01:14:33.520
Number three is Australia, which is pretty much been a

903
01:14:33.640 --> 01:14:40.119
kind of standard over the years. Canada is number four,

904
01:14:42.840 --> 01:14:56.680
Ireland it's number five, Weeden is number six, Denmark is

905
01:14:57.079 --> 01:15:06.359
number seven. New Zealand is number eight. Now there was

906
01:15:06.399 --> 01:15:08.840
a time when New Zealand would be up there with

907
01:15:09.319 --> 01:15:15.439
Canada and Australia and Ireland. I don't think it's I've

908
01:15:15.439 --> 01:15:17.680
got less people in New Zealand listening. It's just I've

909
01:15:17.720 --> 01:15:23.640
got more people in Sweden and Denmark, Spain. Then I've

910
01:15:23.640 --> 01:15:42.760
got France, Norway, Germany, United Arab Emirates, the Netherlands, Chechia, Iceland, Iraq,

911
01:15:44.640 --> 01:16:04.880
South Africa, Turkey, Mexico, India, Belgium, Malta, Israel, and Singapore.

912
01:16:06.560 --> 01:16:14.039
They're the ones listed. So I don't I mean, I

913
01:16:14.920 --> 01:16:19.520
guess I'm guessing that people only listen if they can

914
01:16:20.800 --> 01:16:25.399
understand English. I guess it makes sense that would be

915
01:16:25.439 --> 01:16:30.600
the case, wouldn't it. But there might be people in

916
01:16:30.640 --> 01:16:36.039
these other countries that are maybe originally from England, or

917
01:16:36.159 --> 01:16:39.600
maybe people listening in one another are people listening in

918
01:16:40.359 --> 01:16:47.359
the second language, not their birth language, their birth tongue

919
01:16:47.640 --> 01:16:52.279
as it were. So I'm grateful. I'm grateful for anyone

920
01:16:52.479 --> 01:16:57.800
that listens. Everyone miss it's amazing that anyone listens. Really

921
01:17:00.000 --> 01:17:02.640
didn't really say that should I But I'm still amazed.

922
01:17:04.119 --> 01:17:09.000
It's why does anyone this than ever? I don't know.

923
01:17:11.159 --> 01:17:16.239
Let's see if it's changed over the last month, current

924
01:17:17.239 --> 01:17:22.479
last month. Let's see what the geolocation is more recently

925
01:17:22.600 --> 01:17:27.800
rather than just over the entire year. Ah, this is interesting.

926
01:17:30.479 --> 01:17:34.600
So the United States is the top and it's still

927
01:17:34.640 --> 01:17:40.760
double what United Kingdom is. Then you've got Australia, Canada, Sweden,

928
01:17:42.119 --> 01:17:47.920
so one two three, fourth, Sweden's fifth. Nowland Ireland was

929
01:17:47.960 --> 01:17:51.319
fifth for the whole year, but Sweden's fifth more recently

930
01:17:51.840 --> 01:18:02.399
then Ireland, France, Denmark, Church New Zealand, United Arab Emirates, Somalia.

931
01:18:03.119 --> 01:18:06.479
So that wasn't on the overall year. One was it Spain,

932
01:18:06.840 --> 01:18:20.359
South Africa, Turkey, Iraq, Mexico, Finland, Malaysia, Greece, Belgium, Germany, Norway, Jordan, Algeria.

933
01:18:20.600 --> 01:18:23.000
So if I go by month, it breaks it down

934
01:18:23.079 --> 01:18:28.960
more to shows more countries, because I think what it is.

935
01:18:28.960 --> 01:18:32.760
If I go for like the whole year, it only shows,

936
01:18:34.479 --> 01:18:36.840
it's limited to how many it kind of shows and

937
01:18:36.880 --> 01:18:44.319
says others that makes sense, I say, last twelve months. Yeah,

938
01:18:45.319 --> 01:18:48.039
I mean there's there's a lot of others which it

939
01:18:48.079 --> 01:18:54.119
doesn't even mention. So it's four point five percent. So

940
01:18:54.199 --> 01:18:58.439
over the last year, four point five percent or just

941
01:18:58.520 --> 01:19:04.479
under five percent of my total listeners come from other

942
01:19:04.560 --> 01:19:11.199
countries than the ones that I already mentioned. So yeah,

943
01:19:11.439 --> 01:19:16.560
that's there's a lot of countries, probably pretty much every

944
01:19:16.560 --> 01:19:19.239
country in the world. I guess there might only be

945
01:19:19.319 --> 01:19:32.000
a few, but still quite nice. As far as where abouts,

946
01:19:33.920 --> 01:19:41.079
and you've got United States, there are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,

947
01:19:41.199 --> 01:19:51.520
eight nine ten. Wow. These are regions are California, So Texas, Florida, Illinois,

948
01:19:51.880 --> 01:20:02.159
New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Arizona, North Carolina, New Jersey, Washington, Utah, Ohio,

949
01:20:03.239 --> 01:20:40.479
South Carolina, Massachusetts, Michigan, Indiana, Virginia, Oregon, Missouri, Connecticut, Minnesota, Colorado, Mississississippi, Maine, Montana, Wisconsin, Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, Iowa, Kansas, Alaska, Nevada,

950
01:20:41.000 --> 01:20:55.000
New Mexico, Delaware, Oklahoma, Louisiana, District of Columbia, New Hampshire, Idaho, Hawaii, Arkansas,

951
01:20:55.680 --> 01:21:06.359
North Dakota, West Virginia, Nebraska, Rhode Island, Vermont, South Dakota, Wyoming.

952
01:21:06.079 --> 01:21:06.399
And.

953
01:21:08.000 --> 01:21:15.479
Others some others as well. So how many is that one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,

954
01:21:15.720 --> 01:21:21.359
eight nine ten out of eight in twenty twenty two,

955
01:21:21.600 --> 01:21:25.760
twenty four, twenty six, twenty eight, thirty thirty two, four

956
01:21:25.960 --> 01:21:32.760
thirty six eight forty fifty, it's like fifty. I mean

957
01:21:32.840 --> 01:21:40.399
these are regions, not states, are they? There's states, all regions.

958
01:21:40.920 --> 01:21:45.119
So there's that one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,

959
01:21:46.399 --> 01:21:50.319
ten and twelve fifty six, twenty two is only you?

960
01:21:51.319 --> 01:21:53.560
And if I have twenty six, twenty eight, ten and

961
01:21:53.720 --> 01:22:00.920
thirty thirty two, thirty four, thirty six, thirty eight, forty

962
01:22:01.680 --> 01:22:06.800
forty two, forty six, forty eight, fifty fifty two fifty

963
01:22:06.840 --> 01:22:18.520
four fifty six fifty seven, so fifty seven districts or regions.

964
01:22:19.640 --> 01:22:21.640
So I don't know how many states there is, And

965
01:22:22.520 --> 01:22:25.680
so I thought I always every state. But California is

966
01:22:25.760 --> 01:22:31.119
n our state, then is it? I don't know. I'm confused.

967
01:22:32.600 --> 01:22:34.720
And then we can look in California and you've got

968
01:22:34.720 --> 01:22:41.319
Los Angeles, Nappa, Mountain Views, San Jose, Sorry, San Jos, Woodland,

969
01:22:41.600 --> 01:22:49.880
Elk Grove, Fresno, Palm Desert, Richmond. There's a lot, it's

970
01:22:50.039 --> 01:22:55.560
a lot, a lot, lot, lot, lot lot Texas. How

971
01:22:55.560 --> 01:23:06.439
many in Texas, Dallas, North Richland Hills, San Antonio, Houston, Austin, Waxahatchie, Frisco,

972
01:23:07.159 --> 01:23:16.439
Legal City, Grapevine, Abilene. I mean it's a lot, a

973
01:23:16.439 --> 01:23:24.399
lot of different places. If we go to United Kingdom,

974
01:23:25.159 --> 01:23:29.960
your England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland. If I go to England,

975
01:23:30.239 --> 01:23:42.119
so England is the most however however, no, there's no however.

976
01:23:42.279 --> 01:23:47.960
So however, England is eighty five nearly eighty six percent

977
01:23:49.640 --> 01:23:54.000
out of the United Kingdom. Scotland is seven zero point

978
01:23:54.039 --> 01:23:58.359
three six percent, Wales is three point two eight percent,

979
01:23:59.119 --> 01:24:02.319
Northern Ireland zero point four six percent, and other is

980
01:24:02.399 --> 01:24:07.000
two point ninety four. So that could be the Falkland

981
01:24:07.000 --> 01:24:11.960
Islands or Isle of White Island, man Jersey. Maybe I

982
01:24:12.000 --> 01:24:16.760
don't know places like that. I can't think of any

983
01:24:16.760 --> 01:24:25.119
other places. So England there is sid Cup. See if

984
01:24:25.159 --> 01:24:27.600
you from any of these places, contact me. Let me

985
01:24:27.640 --> 01:24:35.199
know sid Cup, Bristol. So this is this is over

986
01:24:35.239 --> 01:24:44.079
the last year. This is the top places in England.

987
01:24:45.000 --> 01:24:50.079
Like you know, that's the most viewed sid cups number one.

988
01:24:50.640 --> 01:24:54.159
I don't know where sid Cup is. Bristol number two.

989
01:24:55.439 --> 01:24:59.520
I've never been to Bristol, Newcastle upon Tyne used to

990
01:24:59.600 --> 01:25:05.239
live there, Birmingham, So hello to everyone in Sidcup and

991
01:25:05.239 --> 01:25:08.399
Bristol and Newcastle on Tyme and Birmingham and all the

992
01:25:08.399 --> 01:25:23.159
other places I mentioned, Trowbridge, Hartleypool, Cambridge, Gosport, Great Yarmouth, Leeds, Huddersfield, Manchester,

993
01:25:24.199 --> 01:25:55.479
ash Ford, Dagenham, Lundon, Huntington, Huntingdon, Houndslow, Sunderland, Bexley, Heath, Leicester, Hackney, Aylesbury, Fulham, Portsmouth, Dewsbury, Sutton, Wandsworth, Workstop, Islington,

994
01:25:56.840 --> 01:26:02.600
Milton Keynes, Sheffield, Milton Keynes. Why do I say like that,

995
01:26:02.680 --> 01:26:07.439
Milton Keynes. It's very posh of me. Sheffield is Milton

996
01:26:07.520 --> 01:26:40.520
Keynes a very posh place to live, Sheffield, Hull, Croydon, Eastleigh, Oxford, Lee, Maidstone, Cramlington, Liverpool, Swindon, Wembley, Luton, Nottingham, Kensington, Solihull, Newham, Watford, Chorley, Eastbourne, Wallingford.

997
01:26:42.279 --> 01:26:47.000
And then thirty three point two percent is in other places,

998
01:26:47.640 --> 01:26:50.640
which is quite a big amount. So basically there's a

999
01:26:50.680 --> 01:26:55.960
not enough room for them to cover everything. But Sidcup

1000
01:26:56.239 --> 01:26:59.079
is number one for the year, and so is Bristol.

1001
01:27:01.319 --> 01:27:06.520
So this is anyone out there that's this mad in

1002
01:27:06.560 --> 01:27:11.079
love with me, just contact me, especially if you're human.

1003
01:27:12.600 --> 01:27:14.840
Let's have a look what other thing. Let's say for

1004
01:27:14.920 --> 01:27:19.439
the year, for the month, so let's say the last

1005
01:27:19.920 --> 01:27:24.720
last month for the youth for England, let's over luck,

1006
01:27:26.000 --> 01:27:30.079
so I'm going to see which one's the top. Oh

1007
01:27:30.760 --> 01:27:43.039
last month the top one was Portsmouth, Wembley, Wallingford, Manchester, Croydon, Birmingham,

1008
01:27:43.880 --> 01:27:50.119
Newcastle upon Tyne, Sheffield, Camden. These are places, some of

1009
01:27:50.119 --> 01:27:52.920
them I've not mentioned before. These must have been those

1010
01:27:52.960 --> 01:28:06.960
other thirty three percent you got Gosford, Fulham, Bristol, Wandsworth, Witness, Hartleypool, Leeds, London,

1011
01:28:07.760 --> 01:28:17.600
lewish Ham, Leighton, Buzzard, Sutton, Bromley, Harrow. I wish I

1012
01:28:17.640 --> 01:28:20.399
could say Bromley and actually roll my tongue, but I'm not.

1013
01:28:20.439 --> 01:28:27.840
I'm just making my lips vibrate. Just there's a skill,

1014
01:28:27.920 --> 01:28:54.760
isn't it. I suppose in some ways Harrow, Nottingham, Sleeford, Gloucester, Glockhouse, Gloucester, Gloucester, Richmond, Sausages, Rochester, Amisham, Brent, Redditch, Lowestoft,

1015
01:28:55.439 --> 01:28:59.520
Saint Helen's Pete. Wow, there's loads, isn't there. This is

1016
01:28:59.520 --> 01:29:08.479
more than the one Wow, Petersfield, Whitney, Eastleigh, Ashford, south Shields, Southampton, Walsall,

1017
01:29:09.199 --> 01:29:16.479
City of Westminster, Windsor Swindon, Windsor Does that mean members

1018
01:29:16.479 --> 01:29:20.560
of the royal family are listening to me, Hello, your highness,

1019
01:29:22.279 --> 01:29:34.000
thank you for listening. Wakefield, Corsham, Ward and Forest, Hitching, Leicester, Oxford, Tamworth, Thetford.

1020
01:29:34.960 --> 01:29:38.079
I used to know someone that was from Tamworth, someone

1021
01:29:38.119 --> 01:29:40.520
I worked with. It was really nice bloke. It was

1022
01:29:40.560 --> 01:29:46.079
a comedian as well, really friendly, nice nice man. It's

1023
01:29:46.119 --> 01:29:50.399
a long time ago. Okay, let's go it this month

1024
01:29:50.479 --> 01:29:53.800
so far, because that was current month. That's this month,

1025
01:29:53.840 --> 01:29:59.039
not last month. That's the current month. So Portsmouth, whoever

1026
01:29:59.079 --> 01:30:02.079
you are in Portsmouth, you're the one listening to the

1027
01:30:02.159 --> 01:30:09.239
most to me at the moment. And then Wembley, Wallingford, Manchester, Croydon, Birmingham,

1028
01:30:09.560 --> 01:30:18.479
Newcastle upon Tyne, Sheffield and Camden and Gossport, Fulham, so

1029
01:30:18.520 --> 01:30:21.119
you're the ones, you're the most one's listening to me

1030
01:30:21.159 --> 01:30:24.600
the most. But if I go last month, it's a

1031
01:30:24.640 --> 01:30:32.560
look England, Oh, Newcastle upon Tyme was the top one,

1032
01:30:32.800 --> 01:30:40.880
ports From the number two, Gosport, Birmingham, Hartlepool, Wallingford, Leeds, Nottingham,

1033
01:30:41.720 --> 01:30:50.399
one's Worth, Daggingham, witch Church, solly Hole. So many places

1034
01:30:50.399 --> 01:30:53.800
I've not been to. Is it really weird? Like I

1035
01:30:53.800 --> 01:30:57.439
think it would be nice to travel the world on

1036
01:30:57.520 --> 01:31:03.039
a boat, though you know, on a not a ferry

1037
01:31:03.199 --> 01:31:07.159
like cruise. I'd like to go on cruises, but I

1038
01:31:07.199 --> 01:31:09.880
don't mean I want to go cruise in Oh, let's

1039
01:31:09.920 --> 01:31:15.880
go cruising. No, I mean just on a cruise, just

1040
01:31:15.960 --> 01:31:21.039
traveling around and have something to talk about. It's that's

1041
01:31:21.239 --> 01:31:36.600
kind of that's my new dream. It's my new dream. Wimbledon, Sutton, Newham, Wembley, Abingdon, Ashford, London, Sleaford, Witness, Harrow, Stockport,

1042
01:31:37.199 --> 01:31:40.600
Oxford Hole. It's a lot of places up north that

1043
01:31:40.640 --> 01:31:46.600
I've not been to. I liked it in Nottingham. I know,

1044
01:31:46.840 --> 01:31:52.079
technically it's middle, it's the Middle. It's not North. It's

1045
01:31:52.079 --> 01:31:54.760
the middle. Isn't it like Middle East? Middle East? Not

1046
01:31:54.840 --> 01:32:03.359
Middle East? That's a different place. It's a Midlands I suppose,

1047
01:32:03.399 --> 01:32:10.039
isn't it. Really it's kind of just like Newcastle's up north,

1048
01:32:10.079 --> 01:32:13.600
but it's not. There's those places that are nowhere near

1049
01:32:13.640 --> 01:32:19.000
the sea, but really as parts where you can't get

1050
01:32:19.000 --> 01:32:21.680
near the sea because you basically have to go into

1051
01:32:21.680 --> 01:32:27.720
Scotland to get to the sea. I'm talking like I all, look,

1052
01:32:28.079 --> 01:32:33.119
Bognor Regis. I used to live in Bognor Regis. If

1053
01:32:33.159 --> 01:32:37.800
you're listening from Bognor, Regis. Hello, do you remember me?

1054
01:32:41.399 --> 01:32:43.800
No one? No one's going to remember me from any time.

1055
01:32:43.840 --> 01:32:47.159
I don't think Bognor Regis. Yeah. I used to work

1056
01:32:47.159 --> 01:32:55.840
at Buttling's momentarily Stratford upon Even, not my Stratford, but

1057
01:32:56.039 --> 01:33:04.520
Stratford upon Even, Daventry, Prescott, Ellesmere Port, Lower Stuffed, Hell's

1058
01:33:04.600 --> 01:33:20.239
one I've got family and low Stuffed, Spennymore, Hackney, Great Missenden, Southampton, Hayward's, Hefe, Sheffield, Pontefract, Bushy, Acrington, Hereford,

1059
01:33:20.880 --> 01:33:28.479
Hammersmith and Lee and Lee. So I'm just trying to think.

1060
01:33:28.560 --> 01:33:31.359
If I look at the other one, the other studio,

1061
01:33:32.079 --> 01:33:42.279
at the sound cloud, some looks see I think SoundCloud

1062
01:33:42.359 --> 01:33:49.399
is a less uk. Oh wow, that's weird. Got loads

1063
01:33:49.439 --> 01:33:55.640
of listeners on there today for some reason. Uh yeah,

1064
01:33:55.960 --> 01:34:01.439
predominantly there's something place but it says on here. So

1065
01:34:01.560 --> 01:34:03.399
this is one of my SoundCloud let me boy this

1066
01:34:03.439 --> 01:34:08.640
sleep podcast Council Bluffs. That's a city where that is

1067
01:34:08.800 --> 01:34:22.239
in America. So, but the countries are America, United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Canada, Australia, France, Norway, Philippines, Malaysia, Hungary,

1068
01:34:23.039 --> 01:34:37.199
Russian Federation, Singapore, Latvia, Vietnam, Brazil, Spain, Netherlands, Denmark, Thailand, Croatia,

1069
01:34:38.239 --> 01:34:58.199
crostro Croatia, Poland, Italy, Pakistan, Sweden, Kasus, kas Kazakhs, Kazakhsstan, Colombia, Pauchu,

1070
01:34:58.520 --> 01:35:10.439
gal Iron, Dea, India, Togo, Barbados, Baain, the Kia. It's

1071
01:35:10.479 --> 01:35:14.680
actually Turkya, but we still call it Turkey. They rebranded.

1072
01:35:14.800 --> 01:35:18.960
Did you know that Turkey rebranded and decided to change

1073
01:35:19.000 --> 01:35:21.840
their name instead of t u r k e y,

1074
01:35:22.079 --> 01:35:26.039
Like the bird is now t u u k I

1075
01:35:26.239 --> 01:35:30.239
y e. And it's supposed to be pronounced Turkia. Maybe

1076
01:35:30.239 --> 01:35:35.920
it was always pronounced Turkya by people in Turkey. It's

1077
01:35:36.640 --> 01:35:45.239
but then Germany's is pronounced Deutschland, and Spain is pronounced

1078
01:35:45.319 --> 01:35:53.239
pronounced Hispania, and France it's at Francis, Like you know,

1079
01:35:53.319 --> 01:36:01.680
we most countries are pronounced wrongly by foreigners, like me

1080
01:36:02.000 --> 01:36:07.199
being a foreigner to another country. So it's just it's standard.

1081
01:36:07.199 --> 01:36:10.439
It's not disrespectful, it's just it's just how we're taught

1082
01:36:10.439 --> 01:36:17.479
at school, isn't it. I mean, I have very very

1083
01:36:17.560 --> 01:36:22.479
vague memories of school, guess that I once went. But

1084
01:36:22.479 --> 01:36:25.840
they've got the cities or the towns. There's a council Bluffs.

1085
01:36:29.359 --> 01:36:33.680
That's a weird name, isn't it, Council Bluffs because Bluffs

1086
01:36:33.720 --> 01:36:35.760
is like when you kind of lie, isn't it? Or

1087
01:36:35.800 --> 01:36:43.119
you missdirect? So council a lying council. And they've got

1088
01:36:43.279 --> 01:36:48.720
boardman is that another city or town, Ashburn? So that's

1089
01:36:48.760 --> 01:36:52.399
in the United States. So that's the top three. Then

1090
01:36:52.439 --> 01:37:00.399
you've got Manchester, Dublin in course Ireland, Sandy and Phoenix

1091
01:37:00.560 --> 01:37:09.479
in America. Folkstein, I don't know where Folkstein is Folkestein,

1092
01:37:10.720 --> 01:37:13.720
All right, don't shout, I'll find it. Oh yeah, it

1093
01:37:13.760 --> 01:37:31.319
is in Germany. I wonder if that's what's his name? Sebastian, Philadelphia, Melbourne, Sterling, Columbus, Huntingdon, Portland, Winnipegville, Gen, Schweiningen,

1094
01:37:32.640 --> 01:37:39.479
schwing In. And that is Germany as well. Yep, Germany.

1095
01:37:39.920 --> 01:37:42.439
I've got to be careful because I remember years ago

1096
01:37:43.039 --> 01:37:47.079
I learned about flags. I know a lot about flags.

1097
01:37:47.359 --> 01:37:49.199
I put to know more about flags than anyone that's

1098
01:37:49.279 --> 01:37:53.319
ever existed. No, I had a book of flags, but

1099
01:37:53.359 --> 01:37:55.640
I noticed that some of them are very similar to

1100
01:37:55.680 --> 01:37:58.199
each other, but just the colors in a different order,

1101
01:37:59.479 --> 01:38:03.039
and sadly'd be a bit lore be careful because some

1102
01:38:03.119 --> 01:38:07.560
people would take offense and I'm not out to cause offense.

1103
01:38:07.680 --> 01:38:11.800
I'm out to cause love in the world and sleep

1104
01:38:12.960 --> 01:38:21.720
and we lack fation. Chicago, City of Monty, Lupper, Mountain Lupper.

1105
01:38:22.079 --> 01:38:25.119
I genuinely don't know how to say that. I mean

1106
01:38:25.159 --> 01:38:27.760
I do mess up the names on purpose sometimes, but

1107
01:38:27.800 --> 01:38:30.399
on this occasion, I don't know how to say it.

1108
01:38:31.239 --> 01:38:35.399
And that's in the Philippines. So whoever is from the

1109
01:38:35.439 --> 01:38:40.640
Philippines or from wherever you're from, Hello, maybe contact me,

1110
01:38:40.720 --> 01:38:49.399
say Hi. Saint Helen's in England, kill Hay, Kill Hay.

1111
01:38:49.600 --> 01:38:56.000
What's that America kill Hay. Yes, it's in America, Portland, Chicago,

1112
01:38:58.399 --> 01:39:13.399
Bayn Lepaz, Bayn Lepus, Lepers, Lettuce Lepers. Where is that then? Malaysia, Okay, Malaysia,

1113
01:39:14.680 --> 01:39:23.319
Sydney and Lidney. Sorry at Alfaretta, Lakefield, Birmingham, Budapest, which

1114
01:39:23.359 --> 01:39:38.319
is in Hungary, trod Tronheim, Stockton on Tees, Brisbane, Sunderland,

1115
01:39:39.399 --> 01:39:46.119
which is near Newcastle, Oldbury, Riga readin Wiley, Saint John's,

1116
01:39:46.600 --> 01:39:53.560
Salt Lake City, Saint John's, miss Minneapolis, Albury, San Antonio,

1117
01:39:54.479 --> 01:39:58.000
mill Brooks has quite a few different places. But what

1118
01:39:58.119 --> 01:40:01.560
about the other countries? Why do you keep focusing? It's okay,

1119
01:40:01.640 --> 01:40:05.439
let's go. We could go to Scotland, the United Kingdom.

1120
01:40:05.479 --> 01:40:11.800
She'll go to Scotland. Let's have a look Scotland. The

1121
01:40:11.800 --> 01:40:16.920
top places for the last last month. Okay, this is

1122
01:40:16.920 --> 01:40:23.199
the last month. Glasgow or Galasgow or Glasgie. So if

1123
01:40:23.199 --> 01:40:30.000
you're in Glasgow, Glasgie, Glasgow, if you're there, say hello,

1124
01:40:32.439 --> 01:40:39.680
grange Mouth? Is that how you pronounce it? Grange Wolf, Godrange,

1125
01:40:39.800 --> 01:40:51.479
molfrange Mouth, I don't know. Edinburgh, Tory, Byrne, Folk, Kirk, Dundee,

1126
01:40:51.960 --> 01:41:02.039
kin Ross, Bellshill, Alness, Hamilton, Ayer, Aberdeen, Kirk Coldie, eleven Strath,

1127
01:41:02.560 --> 01:41:10.920
miguelo Ardri, Airdrie, rother In, vaux In Varo. That sounds

1128
01:41:10.920 --> 01:41:14.520
like like an Australian name, isn't it. Where's you live? Mate?

1129
01:41:14.840 --> 01:41:21.039
In Varu? I live in Vu? You live Varu kill Manock.

1130
01:41:21.239 --> 01:41:24.600
That was a really bad Australian accent. I apologize, and

1131
01:41:24.600 --> 01:41:26.880
I know I've got a lot of people from Australia listening.

1132
01:41:27.079 --> 01:41:32.920
Please forgive me, Molly, Please forgive me, forgive me. Do

1133
01:41:32.960 --> 01:41:40.359
you mean nothing by it? In Varus in Very. It's

1134
01:41:40.359 --> 01:41:49.079
not in Vu, it's in Very, Inverury, in Very, Kilmarnock, Livingstone,

1135
01:41:49.520 --> 01:42:00.680
bonnie Bridge, Galashiel's bar Head Inverness, done fermile Line. Alo, Hello,

1136
01:42:01.279 --> 01:42:03.960
where do you live? Hello? Well hello, yeah, but where

1137
01:42:03.960 --> 01:42:07.800
do you live? Hello? We've already done the ingredients. Where

1138
01:42:07.840 --> 01:42:15.720
do you live? I'll stop there Oben Peter's Head. So

1139
01:42:15.960 --> 01:42:19.680
where about Wales? We can't miss Wales out and we'll

1140
01:42:19.720 --> 01:42:21.720
go to Northern Island as well, so we can't miss.

1141
01:42:22.079 --> 01:42:24.720
You can't miss the different parts of Northern Island of

1142
01:42:24.760 --> 01:42:30.359
the United Kingdom. And Wrexham. Chepstow Barry. This is in Wales,

1143
01:42:30.760 --> 01:42:36.399
so Wrexham's the top. This is last month, Chepstow, Berry, Coldecott,

1144
01:42:37.439 --> 01:42:47.840
d Side, mice Stig, Cardiff, quum Bran, Ferndale. Tony Pandy.

1145
01:42:48.760 --> 01:42:54.760
That's my favorite name ever, Tony Pandy. Why is it?

1146
01:42:54.840 --> 01:42:58.439
Why do I love that name so much? Tony? Where

1147
01:42:58.439 --> 01:43:03.039
do you live Tony Pandy? Wow? I wish I could

1148
01:43:03.119 --> 01:43:05.760
live there. You can. You've just got to buy a house.

1149
01:43:06.239 --> 01:43:09.199
It's got to move. Oh I want to live in

1150
01:43:09.239 --> 01:43:14.920
Tony Pandy. I mean, I don't know if i'd want

1151
01:43:14.960 --> 01:43:17.079
to move there. I don't know what it's like. Maybe

1152
01:43:17.079 --> 01:43:18.840
if you live in Tony Pandy, you can tell me

1153
01:43:21.279 --> 01:43:25.399
Tony Pandy what brilliant name. I'm probably pronouncing it wrong.

1154
01:43:25.439 --> 01:43:39.079
It's probably like learn it just got some completely different sound. Abadair, Hollywell, Caerphilly, Kaffiy, Newport.

1155
01:43:39.439 --> 01:43:45.880
Actually know someone lives in Newport, Bargode, Lanelli, Blackwood, Swansea,

1156
01:43:46.920 --> 01:43:52.840
Ponti Pool, Mountain, ash man A Bridge and Abba Stwift

1157
01:43:53.319 --> 01:43:59.199
a Burstwift, so the top one's there, Wrexham and Chaps

1158
01:43:59.279 --> 01:44:06.680
though Barry Caldercott d Side. I did think about maybe

1159
01:44:07.520 --> 01:44:11.399
I'm thinking of getting married. I've I haven't met anyone yet,

1160
01:44:11.439 --> 01:44:13.840
but I'm just thinking about it. I'm just wondering, m

1161
01:44:15.520 --> 01:44:21.600
maybe it'd be nice to get married because I'm thinking

1162
01:44:21.640 --> 01:44:25.680
I quite like to go away. I'd quite like to

1163
01:44:26.279 --> 01:44:30.159
go away and I don't know cruises. If I can

1164
01:44:30.239 --> 01:44:35.000
afford to do it one day and it just seems

1165
01:44:35.039 --> 01:44:37.039
like I could be much nicer, I'll be able to

1166
01:44:37.079 --> 01:44:42.640
do it and it'd be more if I if I

1167
01:44:42.640 --> 01:44:45.640
had someone to look after Vinnie while I went on holiday.

1168
01:44:46.479 --> 01:44:51.600
So yeah, I'm thinking of getting married. I don't know

1169
01:44:51.640 --> 01:44:54.239
what you think, would you reckon do you want to

1170
01:44:54.239 --> 01:44:55.560
get married to me? Do you want to marry me?

1171
01:44:56.960 --> 01:44:59.800
Do you love me? Will you love me forever? I? Never?

1172
01:45:00.000 --> 01:45:00.560
I never, never?

1173
01:45:01.720 --> 01:45:12.239
Right? Last month Northern Ireland, Newtown Abbey, Belfast, dung Gannon okay,

1174
01:45:13.079 --> 01:45:17.399
because that's uncle Sausages was from Northern Ireland. So I

1175
01:45:17.439 --> 01:45:20.319
just thought that'd be interesting. What other places are there

1176
01:45:21.760 --> 01:45:25.800
so many different places. I can't I just can't begin

1177
01:45:27.039 --> 01:45:32.560
to go through all I means. France Lead de France,

1178
01:45:33.600 --> 01:45:40.439
al Guererose, Alps, grand Este, nouvelle. I can't even say

1179
01:45:40.479 --> 01:45:45.119
the names. It's terrible, isn't it. I'm so I'm such

1180
01:45:45.119 --> 01:45:49.279
a lower class I am. I've got no style at all.

1181
01:45:49.600 --> 01:46:04.039
Brittany Ochitanny, Normandy Harts, Defrance, Pays de la lawyer, Corsica, Corsica.

1182
01:46:04.119 --> 01:46:08.239
Is that in France? Is it? I didn't know that

1183
01:46:09.840 --> 01:46:14.439
I thought it was. I don't know. I thought it

1184
01:46:14.520 --> 01:46:17.720
was for it was a different country. Paris. So Paris

1185
01:46:17.800 --> 01:46:20.760
is the top place in France. The people listen to me,

1186
01:46:21.359 --> 01:46:24.680
that's nice. I just want to go back to the

1187
01:46:24.760 --> 01:46:29.920
last year, last twelve months. So I want to see

1188
01:46:30.039 --> 01:46:39.079
in the UK, United Kingdom, England, Sidcup We've already done

1189
01:46:39.119 --> 01:46:43.079
that when we sidcup. So we've done England United Kingdom

1190
01:46:43.560 --> 01:46:52.000
to Scotland. Scotland. Glasgow is number one, Edinburgh, Falkirk, grange Mouth,

1191
01:46:53.239 --> 01:47:05.439
then Motherwell, Bonnese, Hamilton, Dundee, Pennycuick, Aberdeen, Livingstone, dun firm Line,

1192
01:47:06.279 --> 01:47:18.199
Invu invY and Rue, Johnstone, Bell's Hill, Tory, burn Wick, Bretching, Ayer,

1193
01:47:18.840 --> 01:47:29.840
Kinos Cooper alnz al Broth, Leven, Coatbridge, Kirk, Coldy, inver Gordon, Inverness,

1194
01:47:30.239 --> 01:47:40.560
dal Keith, Hello, Hello, now I did it? Okay Elvskyne, Perth, Greenock, Cumber, Maude,

1195
01:47:40.920 --> 01:47:50.199
the Cumber Nord, Bathgate, Kilmarnock, Strath, Miglow, Gallash, Hughth, Glen,

1196
01:47:50.399 --> 01:48:00.439
Ross's mad mac Duff, Paigley, Glen Village, Irvine, Dumfries, Preston,

1197
01:48:00.520 --> 01:48:09.399
pans Airdrie, Barhead, Broxburn, Alexandria. Forres, There's quite a few,

1198
01:48:09.560 --> 01:48:14.840
isn't it. And then you're at Wales. This is tiring me,

1199
01:48:14.960 --> 01:48:24.000
this is bangor so The top one is Chepstow, Wrexham, Capilly, Pembroke,

1200
01:48:24.199 --> 01:48:34.039
doc caldicott Bridge and Blackwood, my Stag, Cardiff, hengoed Barry, Elbow, Veil,

1201
01:48:34.840 --> 01:48:49.479
ebbele Vale Aberdare, Flint, Newport, Pontypool, d Side, Ferndale, Tredegar, Pembroke, Ponti,

1202
01:48:49.960 --> 01:48:56.760
Prid Mountain, Ash Swansea, Hollywell. My favorite name of all time,

1203
01:48:57.000 --> 01:49:02.199
Tony Pandy, I love that name. I don't know why, Bangod.

1204
01:49:02.560 --> 01:49:07.319
I think I might need to move to Tony Pandy Bargoed.

1205
01:49:09.479 --> 01:49:11.159
So if there's anyone out there that wants to be

1206
01:49:11.239 --> 01:49:16.079
a dog sitter, I mean my wife and yeah, if

1207
01:49:16.119 --> 01:49:22.439
you live in Pondi Pandy, Tony Pandy, oh Bargoed, have

1208
01:49:22.680 --> 01:49:29.680
a have a Ford West Abba Stwift, cobran Port, Talbot

1209
01:49:30.960 --> 01:49:37.039
four top Port. Talbert was in America, Rile Neath, men

1210
01:49:37.119 --> 01:49:40.960
a Bridge, pork PORTI by the way, don't sort of

1211
01:49:41.359 --> 01:49:44.199
don't contact me and said, no, it really is in Wales. No,

1212
01:49:44.279 --> 01:49:46.840
I know it's in Wales, but I think maybe there

1213
01:49:46.880 --> 01:49:50.199
might be a port Toalbert in America as well. So

1214
01:49:50.279 --> 01:49:57.760
you are a Bowld Buckley, Langdwyn, langdon no Port, Maddock, Abber,

1215
01:49:58.000 --> 01:50:10.560
Galviny roof In Murphy, Tidfill, cal Fridge, Calbridge, Rover Bangor Well. Okay,

1216
01:50:10.640 --> 01:50:16.800
well lastly I do the hm hmm, what's the other one?

1217
01:50:17.000 --> 01:50:19.359
Northern Ireland I do want to miss that one out,

1218
01:50:19.520 --> 01:50:26.399
So always a lot more in the year, Bella, Meina, Belfast, Cookstown,

1219
01:50:27.319 --> 01:50:36.560
dun Gannon, Londonderry, Newton Abbey, Newry, Omar, bally Money, bally Money.

1220
01:50:36.600 --> 01:50:41.000
That's no nice word, isn't it not, because it's got

1221
01:50:41.000 --> 01:50:49.239
the word money and it just just bally Money. Craig Avon,

1222
01:50:50.279 --> 01:50:55.479
Bangor down Patrick that's another quite good. Maybe it's just

1223
01:50:55.520 --> 01:50:57.319
because of the names that it's got a name in

1224
01:50:57.399 --> 01:51:09.600
it down Patrick and you've got new Townhards. This was

1225
01:51:09.680 --> 01:51:14.000
the last twelve months. So what other places was thinking?

1226
01:51:14.319 --> 01:51:24.000
They go to Ireland? Leinster, Munster, Connak, Ulster, Ulster. I

1227
01:51:24.079 --> 01:51:28.800
thought Ulster was Northern Ireland. No, well, it just shows

1228
01:51:28.840 --> 01:51:34.800
you what I know. I'm so out of touch with places.

1229
01:51:36.319 --> 01:51:46.840
Uh what about Sweden? Nor Vinnie's just farted, No, I

1230
01:51:46.920 --> 01:51:50.600
think I hope it's Vinny. No, I didn't feel anything,

1231
01:51:50.680 --> 01:51:52.960
so I'm just s manling it. So BlimE me out.

1232
01:51:53.000 --> 01:51:56.439
I really hope it is in. I wish i'd kept

1233
01:51:56.479 --> 01:52:02.920
the window open now nor Bottom County, Stockholm County, Vetra,

1234
01:52:03.760 --> 01:52:15.560
Gotterland County, Ostroglottland County, Upsala, Upsala. That's very Viking up Sala.

1235
01:52:17.319 --> 01:52:29.159
Isn't that now? I know this is Sweden. Upsala. Now

1236
01:52:29.239 --> 01:52:32.880
I watched The Vikings and I realized, you know, you

1237
01:52:33.560 --> 01:52:37.239
it's the wrong country. But perhaps I can't remember. But

1238
01:52:37.399 --> 01:52:44.520
Upsala isn't that where some of the Vikings lived. I

1239
01:52:44.680 --> 01:52:46.960
watched every episode of the Vikings and it was about

1240
01:52:47.119 --> 01:52:50.720
seven thousand different series, you know, but of it it

1241
01:52:50.880 --> 01:52:54.560
went off for ages and I loved it very much.

1242
01:52:56.920 --> 01:53:01.079
Upsala Farmland. Let's have a look at a click on

1243
01:53:01.159 --> 01:53:05.079
up Sidlet's see if there's any places that I remember. No,

1244
01:53:05.319 --> 01:53:13.560
just upsalah ah. So if you're in Sweden. I remember

1245
01:53:13.640 --> 01:53:17.680
going to Sweden. It's just on the airport on the

1246
01:53:17.760 --> 01:53:24.680
way to somewhere, and I just not surprised. But there's

1247
01:53:24.760 --> 01:53:30.880
just everyone was blonde, and you know, I see that

1248
01:53:30.960 --> 01:53:34.279
on the news, newspapers and TV shows and I can't

1249
01:53:34.479 --> 01:53:42.039
just assume it's a it's just a cliche. But I

1250
01:53:42.079 --> 01:53:44.359
don't know. Obviously, not anyone in Sweden is going to

1251
01:53:44.399 --> 01:53:49.359
be blonde, but it seems to be there's a few

1252
01:53:49.439 --> 01:53:58.960
people that are. What about Belgium. That's Belgium. You've got Brussels, Capital, Flanders,

1253
01:54:00.039 --> 01:54:08.960
walone wall Wall Oh cool, so hallo everyone from Belgium

1254
01:54:09.600 --> 01:54:23.640
and India, Canada, Ireland, Sweden. Denmark's look at Denmark Capital Region,

1255
01:54:24.239 --> 01:54:35.600
Central Jetland, South Denmark, Zealand and North Denmark. So fred

1256
01:54:36.159 --> 01:54:44.199
Fredericksburg is the top place for the year. Copenhagen More

1257
01:54:45.439 --> 01:54:57.560
Municipal valby from Shudje Hunderstead, von Loos, Bellerup Municipal Municipality,

1258
01:54:59.159 --> 01:55:10.479
Gloucestrup Municipality. I can't even say it, so thank you

1259
01:55:10.600 --> 01:55:12.600
to everyone. I can't go for every single country, but

1260
01:55:14.439 --> 01:55:17.760
there's a lot of countries. It's like I'm kind of

1261
01:55:17.840 --> 01:55:22.359
covers everyone in the world, kind of as far as

1262
01:55:22.439 --> 01:55:26.439
not everyone, as in every single person, but it's going

1263
01:55:26.520 --> 01:55:34.880
to pretty much cover most cultures, most religions, perhaps perhaps not.

1264
01:55:35.279 --> 01:55:40.319
I mean it's I got no idea. Jonathan asks what

1265
01:55:40.439 --> 01:55:45.319
does a typical days meals and beverages consist of? It

1266
01:55:45.439 --> 01:55:50.840
depends where you're going and what you're buying. If I

1267
01:55:51.039 --> 01:55:53.960
was when I was going to visit Uncle sausages in hospital,

1268
01:55:54.800 --> 01:56:01.680
I think it's about twenty quid for a a coffee,

1269
01:56:02.680 --> 01:56:08.640
maybe two coffees and a couple of sandwiches, about twenty

1270
01:56:08.720 --> 01:56:15.680
quid a day. It does depend where you're going because

1271
01:56:15.680 --> 01:56:18.279
you know, there's cheaper places you can go and get

1272
01:56:18.359 --> 01:56:22.920
something for sometimes meal deals. If you're out, you can

1273
01:56:23.000 --> 01:56:26.000
get like a meal deal for five pound where you

1274
01:56:26.079 --> 01:56:30.760
get a drink sandwich and maybe pack it at Crisps

1275
01:56:32.800 --> 01:56:34.800
or a chocolate bar or something, you know, so you

1276
01:56:34.920 --> 01:56:44.960
get enough for like a little meal thing. Beverages. I mean,

1277
01:56:45.000 --> 01:56:47.840
I only really just drink tea and water most of

1278
01:56:47.920 --> 01:56:52.520
the time. Occasionally I have fizzy drink, but it's not often,

1279
01:56:54.039 --> 01:56:58.560
so I don't know how much fizzy drinks cost the

1280
01:57:02.000 --> 01:57:04.239
I don't know how. It's weird really because I don't

1281
01:57:04.239 --> 01:57:08.760
because I don't go into pubs. I don't drink olcore,

1282
01:57:08.840 --> 01:57:10.640
so I don't. I don't know how. I'm not even

1283
01:57:11.159 --> 01:57:14.319
not even the faintest idea how much a pint of

1284
01:57:14.479 --> 01:57:20.960
largo would be. So if I pint larger cost cost

1285
01:57:21.880 --> 01:57:31.039
UK pint of lager four pounds sixty the cost the

1286
01:57:31.079 --> 01:57:33.279
average cost of pint lager in the UK is four

1287
01:57:33.319 --> 01:57:38.479
to sixty Ah, okay, right, So it depends where you are.

1288
01:57:39.439 --> 01:57:42.199
According to this, it says London's five pounds forty four

1289
01:57:42.279 --> 01:57:46.520
for a pint and Wales is four to twenty one,

1290
01:57:46.720 --> 01:57:50.359
so it's the cheapest place to get a pint of lager.

1291
01:57:50.960 --> 01:57:58.079
London's the most expensive, Southeast four ninety four the second

1292
01:57:58.159 --> 01:58:03.159
most expensive. That's where I live. Northeast England four fifty six.

1293
01:58:03.920 --> 01:58:08.800
This is pounds slightly above the national average, and then

1294
01:58:09.359 --> 01:58:14.239
four ninety three in Southwest are also a month the

1295
01:58:14.319 --> 01:58:22.800
highest prices. All let's have a look. What's the It's

1296
01:58:22.840 --> 01:58:25.520
got a little chart here. So if I look at

1297
01:58:25.560 --> 01:58:31.800
the chart, there a chart. Yeah, see what? Oh go away,

1298
01:58:31.840 --> 01:58:36.560
I don't want to be a paid member. Go away right?

1299
01:58:36.760 --> 01:58:44.600
So according to this Southwest five sixteen, Southeast five twenty one,

1300
01:58:45.520 --> 01:58:50.520
London five pound fifty nine, East Midlands, Oh so nothing

1301
01:58:50.600 --> 01:58:54.439
for Norwige then no, they don't buy larger there East England,

1302
01:58:54.560 --> 01:58:58.439
East Midlands four pounds seventy four, four pounds seventy four

1303
01:58:58.520 --> 01:59:03.600
West Midlands and also Wales Northwest four pounds eighty seven,

1304
01:59:04.720 --> 01:59:12.920
Northeast four pound fifty six. Actually has realized the Northeast

1305
01:59:12.960 --> 01:59:17.159
and the Northwest does also have a Let's see, depends

1306
01:59:17.159 --> 01:59:23.359
where you live Scotland four pound eighty seven. So it

1307
01:59:23.439 --> 01:59:25.520
depends what you're eating, I mean you can or what

1308
01:59:25.560 --> 01:59:28.560
you're drinking. So if you can drink alcohol, then you're

1309
01:59:28.600 --> 01:59:34.680
looking at like five quid roughly for a drink, and

1310
01:59:35.800 --> 01:59:42.319
if you're if you get a takeaway delivered, you're looking

1311
01:59:42.319 --> 01:59:48.399
at about twenty pounds, you know, roughly. It could be more.

1312
01:59:48.479 --> 01:59:50.960
Depends what you're ordering, depends where you're ordering it from,

1313
01:59:51.560 --> 01:59:55.039
what time of the day, what kind of delivery charges

1314
01:59:55.159 --> 01:59:58.760
there is there is, you know, and yeah, it really

1315
01:59:58.880 --> 02:00:05.760
just depends on what you get. But then you might

1316
02:00:05.800 --> 02:00:11.239
be talking about me specifically. So I get my everything

1317
02:00:11.279 --> 02:00:13.960
I get is delivered to me. And I just had

1318
02:00:14.000 --> 02:00:21.039
a delivery this morning from eats where it's called Uber Eats,

1319
02:00:21.880 --> 02:00:28.000
and that cost me I think like thirty four pounds

1320
02:00:28.079 --> 02:00:34.880
something like that. And for that I got four milks.

1321
02:00:41.479 --> 02:00:48.079
Oh ok, it's some bananas, some apples, some pizzas, those

1322
02:00:48.239 --> 02:00:53.720
two little pizzas. I got a packet of bags which

1323
02:00:53.880 --> 02:00:56.439
you can store stuff in for the freezer and stuff

1324
02:00:56.560 --> 02:01:03.239
and defridge. I got some Jaffa cakes and another little

1325
02:01:03.279 --> 02:01:12.560
packet of biscuits, some bread rolls, chibata, and I think

1326
02:01:12.680 --> 02:01:16.680
that's pretty much it. Trying to think what else there

1327
02:01:16.880 --> 02:01:25.399
was Boom boom, boom boom. Cheese. Got some cheese as well,

1328
02:01:25.760 --> 02:01:31.640
some cheese slices. So you know, you could buy stuff

1329
02:01:32.439 --> 02:01:35.079
like I have. So I find I have a cheese

1330
02:01:35.119 --> 02:01:37.079
and tomato bread roll, which is what I'm planning to

1331
02:01:37.159 --> 02:01:48.640
have for my lunch. Then the a pound, probably two pound,

1332
02:01:52.079 --> 02:01:55.159
but then Vinnie has to he loves cheese, so I

1333
02:01:55.239 --> 02:01:59.640
can't have to share it with him. Where is he

1334
02:02:01.520 --> 02:02:03.399
He's not even under the table. I don't know where

1335
02:02:03.439 --> 02:02:08.720
he is. He's actually right under my chair, like behind

1336
02:02:08.840 --> 02:02:12.239
my chair. I didn't even know he was there. I

1337
02:02:12.279 --> 02:02:16.039
didn't know where he was. So yeah, it depends really

1338
02:02:16.199 --> 02:02:20.479
on what I'm eating before I get a takeaway. It's

1339
02:02:20.720 --> 02:02:27.199
pretty much at least twenty pound, if not more. As

1340
02:02:27.239 --> 02:02:29.800
far as like a takeaway food, whether it's a pizza,

1341
02:02:29.880 --> 02:02:38.920
whether it's a roast dinner, whether it's yeah whatever, it

1342
02:02:39.000 --> 02:02:48.640
is really looking at roughly twenty. But then I mean,

1343
02:02:49.000 --> 02:02:51.239
I guess most of my money really goes on food.

1344
02:02:52.800 --> 02:02:58.159
I mean there's priorities. You know, I got the bills,

1345
02:02:59.479 --> 02:03:06.000
so bill and food, and that's it. Really, that's the

1346
02:03:06.079 --> 02:03:08.640
two things I kind of prioritize on. And I include

1347
02:03:08.920 --> 02:03:11.960
you know, Vinnie's food as well in that I get

1348
02:03:12.000 --> 02:03:15.600
that delivered too, So yeah, that's kind of it. That's

1349
02:03:15.680 --> 02:03:18.079
really so I don't I guess I don't take too

1350
02:03:18.199 --> 02:03:22.960
much notice of how much things are. I'm more interested

1351
02:03:23.000 --> 02:03:26.000
in that I've got enough to cover how much things are,

1352
02:03:28.079 --> 02:03:31.199
if that makes any sense. Because I've got direct debits

1353
02:03:31.319 --> 02:03:34.880
for all of my bills, I don't have to pay

1354
02:03:34.920 --> 02:03:38.039
anything like I have to pay it, but I don't

1355
02:03:38.119 --> 02:03:40.359
have to kind of go and do anything. It just

1356
02:03:40.520 --> 02:03:44.560
automatically goes out of my account. We know how direct

1357
02:03:44.680 --> 02:03:50.880
debits work. All right, Wow, is it Sunday today, isn't it?

1358
02:03:51.880 --> 02:03:55.359
I just seem to be very sarcastic towards myself. I

1359
02:03:55.439 --> 02:03:59.640
am in a sarcastic Sunday, So yeah, Jonathan, that's kind

1360
02:03:59.640 --> 02:04:04.239
of it. I just it depends what what is my

1361
02:04:08.479 --> 02:04:11.520
You said typical days meals consist of? You didn't say cost,

1362
02:04:11.640 --> 02:04:17.399
did you. It's because I've been out half a night.

1363
02:04:17.439 --> 02:04:19.920
I'm not reading it properly. What does the typical days

1364
02:04:20.000 --> 02:04:23.560
meals and beerges consist of? Not cost? You didn't ask

1365
02:04:23.640 --> 02:04:25.239
me cost, But I'm telling you the price of stuff

1366
02:04:26.760 --> 02:04:39.520
I have in more recent years a jewy eating. I

1367
02:04:39.680 --> 02:04:44.159
try and have something cooked and a sandwich and maybe

1368
02:04:44.199 --> 02:04:46.640
a couple of bowls of breakfast cereal through the day,

1369
02:04:48.760 --> 02:04:55.239
water juice I've got it if I don't have juice,

1370
02:04:55.239 --> 02:04:59.840
and I don't know water basically, and tea cups. It

1371
02:05:00.000 --> 02:05:12.880
tea about sugar. Sometimes I have regular takeaways. Sometimes I'll

1372
02:05:12.960 --> 02:05:15.479
go without having a takeaway for a little while, but

1373
02:05:15.760 --> 02:05:19.039
you know, I do get I haven't had one for

1374
02:05:22.119 --> 02:05:27.119
over a week now, which is a long time. But

1375
02:05:27.239 --> 02:05:29.199
then I haven't really been eating. I've been spend a

1376
02:05:29.239 --> 02:05:32.239
lot of time in bed, so I didn't really I

1377
02:05:32.279 --> 02:05:38.920
couldn't face kind of doing it. But yeah, I don't

1378
02:05:38.960 --> 02:05:46.359
eat a huge amount really, I've never been a big eater.

1379
02:05:48.079 --> 02:05:50.199
I mean, I'm because I'm a big eater because I'm

1380
02:05:50.239 --> 02:05:52.199
eating and I'm big, but I've never been a big

1381
02:05:52.720 --> 02:05:58.119
consumer of food other than when I am chocolate war

1382
02:05:59.680 --> 02:06:02.399
Chris Den asks any sign of new people moving in?

1383
02:06:02.920 --> 02:06:04.720
I known that you said there was a couple of

1384
02:06:04.800 --> 02:06:11.720
empty places in your block. Well, it's weird because downstairs

1385
02:06:11.800 --> 02:06:15.880
right the flat downstairs where my friend used to live,

1386
02:06:16.039 --> 02:06:18.720
and then a lady moved in and she's moved out

1387
02:06:18.800 --> 02:06:24.199
within a year of moving in there, they're putting a

1388
02:06:24.279 --> 02:06:28.880
new kitchen downstairs because apparently they like to do it

1389
02:06:28.880 --> 02:06:31.640
when there's no one living there. Well, i'd like a

1390
02:06:31.720 --> 02:06:37.039
new kitchen, please can I? So they put a new

1391
02:06:37.119 --> 02:06:40.000
kitchen in. As far as I know this, they're already

1392
02:06:40.039 --> 02:06:44.439
started showing that flat out to people. The flat opposite,

1393
02:06:45.079 --> 02:06:51.760
which is Uncle's Sausages, they came last week and I

1394
02:06:51.840 --> 02:06:56.880
think it was last week. They emptied his flat very quickly,

1395
02:06:57.720 --> 02:07:00.920
and they were checking stuff out the window into a

1396
02:07:01.800 --> 02:07:05.720
not a skip, but it's like a van with a

1397
02:07:05.840 --> 02:07:08.800
kind of big metal cage on, like checking stuff in

1398
02:07:08.880 --> 02:07:14.840
there out of his window, which didn't sit well with me,

1399
02:07:14.960 --> 02:07:17.600
to be honest. It just seems a bit disrespectful. But hey,

1400
02:07:21.000 --> 02:07:23.680
and the painters have been in there. The painting's been downstairs,

1401
02:07:24.359 --> 02:07:26.600
so I think that one's nearly ready to go as well,

1402
02:07:27.000 --> 02:07:28.880
because all I had to do is just sort out

1403
02:07:29.000 --> 02:07:33.520
two rooms because both the kitchen and the bathroom were

1404
02:07:33.600 --> 02:07:38.399
brand new. The bathroom was literally being built or rebuilt

1405
02:07:39.039 --> 02:07:42.600
when Uncle Sausages was in hospital. He never got to

1406
02:07:42.600 --> 02:07:47.199
see it finished, so there's probably less for them to

1407
02:07:47.279 --> 02:07:57.319
do in there. It's weird, really, so I don't know

1408
02:07:57.720 --> 02:08:00.920
really what's going to happen. There's been people coming in

1409
02:08:00.960 --> 02:08:04.399
and looking around, and I did see the lady from

1410
02:08:04.439 --> 02:08:07.239
the council coming in because she got the key off me,

1411
02:08:08.239 --> 02:08:12.199
and she came in and she was she had her

1412
02:08:12.319 --> 02:08:15.600
board on her she was going into of course, sausages flat.

1413
02:08:16.800 --> 02:08:19.520
So it looks like that's ready to go nearly. So

1414
02:08:19.800 --> 02:08:22.279
they've really pulled out all the stops to get them

1415
02:08:22.319 --> 02:08:26.039
done as quickly as possible, to let them out as

1416
02:08:26.079 --> 02:08:31.119
quick as possible. But when people do move in, I'll

1417
02:08:31.199 --> 02:08:34.880
let you know. But the moment still both the flats

1418
02:08:34.880 --> 02:08:39.800
are still empty that it looks like, I mean, what

1419
02:08:39.960 --> 02:08:45.760
is it now September. I wouldn't be surprised if well,

1420
02:08:45.840 --> 02:08:47.960
I'd say one hundred percent they're both going to be

1421
02:08:49.960 --> 02:08:56.000
full by Christmas. I wouldn't be surprised if at least

1422
02:08:56.039 --> 02:08:59.840
one of them isn't occupied by the end of October,

1423
02:09:01.600 --> 02:09:05.920
which is only well six weeks away, so I wouldn't

1424
02:09:05.920 --> 02:09:08.680
be surprised. It as surprised if both of them are

1425
02:09:08.720 --> 02:09:14.920
occupied by like November. It'd be lovely if it took

1426
02:09:15.000 --> 02:09:18.560
six months or a year. A little bit quiet, because

1427
02:09:18.600 --> 02:09:22.760
you know, it's the thing is these doors they slam

1428
02:09:23.079 --> 02:09:25.119
if you don't if you don't close them quietly, they

1429
02:09:25.239 --> 02:09:27.560
just slam on their own, which is kind of part

1430
02:09:27.600 --> 02:09:31.840
of the fire regulation safety thing. You know, but it's

1431
02:09:32.119 --> 02:09:34.319
very noisy and it shakes the whole building when they

1432
02:09:34.439 --> 02:09:42.960
slam because they're heavy doors. So out of the six flats,

1433
02:09:43.279 --> 02:09:49.199
two are empty. So I'm going to start at the

1434
02:09:49.239 --> 02:09:52.960
top of the building. Uncle's Sausages closed his door quietly.

1435
02:09:54.720 --> 02:09:58.960
His next door neighbor closes the door quietly. I close

1436
02:09:59.039 --> 02:10:06.279
my door quietly. Below me closes their door quietly. The

1437
02:10:06.399 --> 02:10:11.439
one opposite lets their door slam continuously. They don't like

1438
02:10:11.520 --> 02:10:13.239
they're not aware of it. They just let it slam

1439
02:10:13.640 --> 02:10:15.680
and it does shake. It makes Vinnie bark and it

1440
02:10:15.760 --> 02:10:20.680
shakes the building. The one next door to that one

1441
02:10:21.640 --> 02:10:29.960
used to let her door slam. So I'm hoping that

1442
02:10:30.039 --> 02:10:35.119
whoever moves in just doesn't it the door slam, because

1443
02:10:35.159 --> 02:10:37.680
then Vinnie's going to start, especially if it's at night,

1444
02:10:38.199 --> 02:10:41.520
he'll start barking. And if the person lives in opposite me,

1445
02:10:41.640 --> 02:10:45.920
let's say, door slam, it's just going to be disruptive

1446
02:10:45.960 --> 02:10:53.479
for me because it will literally shake my flat. It's

1447
02:10:53.520 --> 02:10:57.279
one of those things. The building's not it's not like

1448
02:10:57.399 --> 02:11:00.640
a flimsy building. It's not made out of board, but

1449
02:11:02.640 --> 02:11:06.119
it really you know that all the flats are joined together,

1450
02:11:06.199 --> 02:11:12.600
aren't they and it just seems and because everything echoes

1451
02:11:13.159 --> 02:11:19.279
in the hallway, it would seem natural that well that

1452
02:11:19.399 --> 02:11:22.800
someone wouldn't let the door slam. I mean sometimes it's

1453
02:11:22.840 --> 02:11:26.159
going to slam. My door slam sometimes, you know, if

1454
02:11:26.199 --> 02:11:28.760
I'm getting shopping in or something. Yeah, sometimes it slams,

1455
02:11:28.800 --> 02:11:33.760
but I don't I just continuously let it slam. I

1456
02:11:33.920 --> 02:11:36.880
try and stop it. But once I tried to stop

1457
02:11:36.920 --> 02:11:38.840
it and I broke my heel, So that wasn't so good.

1458
02:11:40.159 --> 02:11:44.840
But other than that, because it because it goes and

1459
02:11:45.000 --> 02:11:46.960
you have to push it to open it. So I

1460
02:11:47.079 --> 02:11:49.920
was trying to stop it from slamming and it my

1461
02:11:50.079 --> 02:11:53.960
heel got caught in between the door and the doorfray

1462
02:11:53.960 --> 02:11:58.800
in the bottom of the doorframe. Oh. I was limping

1463
02:11:58.880 --> 02:12:05.119
around for about two months after that was all painful.

1464
02:12:07.159 --> 02:12:09.840
So yeah, I'm not sure, but it looks like soon.

1465
02:12:11.800 --> 02:12:16.960
Maria asks, have you ever fractured or broken any bones? Is? So? When?

1466
02:12:17.039 --> 02:12:21.840
And how? Thank you? Well? My favorite subject. It's not

1467
02:12:21.960 --> 02:12:29.359
really I have. I've probably broken more bones than I realized,

1468
02:12:29.479 --> 02:12:33.000
but I think all of us have potentially. I remember

1469
02:12:33.199 --> 02:12:38.039
an expert on toes Well, I didn't speak to him personally,

1470
02:12:38.079 --> 02:12:40.399
but it was on the news or whatever. I think

1471
02:12:40.840 --> 02:12:44.760
this was during David Beckham pulled out the World Cup

1472
02:12:44.920 --> 02:12:49.039
or the European Cup because he had a broken toe

1473
02:12:49.399 --> 02:12:52.640
and people were mocking him. So, how can you pull

1474
02:12:52.680 --> 02:12:57.960
out such an important event with a little broken toe?

1475
02:12:58.439 --> 02:13:04.199
Oh you hurting, David? Oh? Sorry, you're not getting paid enough?

1476
02:13:04.359 --> 02:13:06.399
Not a million pounds a weeks? Not enough is it

1477
02:13:06.840 --> 02:13:09.199
for you to just endure a little bit of oh

1478
02:13:10.000 --> 02:13:16.119
with toe? And this expert was saying, actually is acony.

1479
02:13:16.880 --> 02:13:19.119
It's to kick a ball around with a broken toe

1480
02:13:19.239 --> 02:13:21.800
is the most ridiculous thing ever. It's not something you

1481
02:13:21.920 --> 02:13:28.560
can do. It's And also they said that probably nearly

1482
02:13:28.600 --> 02:13:33.000
everybody's had a broken toe without even realizing. If you

1483
02:13:33.079 --> 02:13:35.680
stump your toe, quite often a little but of bone

1484
02:13:35.720 --> 02:13:40.640
breaks and we're in paining for weeks. It gradually goes

1485
02:13:41.359 --> 02:13:44.640
but it's just, you know, it's just one of those things.

1486
02:13:45.359 --> 02:13:54.840
So the first real bone I remember was I broke

1487
02:13:54.960 --> 02:13:59.920
my right hand punching a piece of frozen meat. Was

1488
02:14:00.079 --> 02:14:06.479
a box of frozen meat, and yeah, I had to

1489
02:14:06.640 --> 02:14:13.399
go went to hospital and I basically I pushed the bone.

1490
02:14:13.479 --> 02:14:16.800
It was the second knuckle in from my little knuckle

1491
02:14:16.840 --> 02:14:20.800
on the right hand it compressed the bone right into itself,

1492
02:14:21.960 --> 02:14:24.920
so I don't have a knuckle on on that hand.

1493
02:14:25.960 --> 02:14:32.600
And oh that was weird because I was twenty what

1494
02:14:32.800 --> 02:14:39.159
was I twenty four twenty four? What was I twenty three,

1495
02:14:41.119 --> 02:14:47.640
twenty three, twenty four, something like that, And so I

1496
02:14:47.720 --> 02:14:54.840
had about five weeks off work unpaid, which was difficult,

1497
02:14:57.119 --> 02:14:58.920
and I had to learn because I couldn't do the

1498
02:14:59.039 --> 02:15:02.159
job because I I needed my hands to do the job,

1499
02:15:02.239 --> 02:15:08.720
do the manual work. And it was so weird having

1500
02:15:08.840 --> 02:15:12.000
to learn because there's certain things I needed my right

1501
02:15:12.119 --> 02:15:16.279
hand for because I was right handed well pretty much

1502
02:15:16.319 --> 02:15:20.199
everything like writing and that, but it's like toilet stuff,

1503
02:15:20.199 --> 02:15:22.720
I'm not going to It's very difficult learning to do

1504
02:15:22.880 --> 02:15:26.840
stuff with my left hand. It just felt so weird.

1505
02:15:29.399 --> 02:15:32.359
It wasn't all bad, but you know, just generally. And

1506
02:15:33.359 --> 02:15:37.079
so that was the first time. The second time I

1507
02:15:37.199 --> 02:15:47.279
broke anything was I can't with you, I can go

1508
02:15:47.399 --> 02:15:53.520
through the bone. So I think two thousand and four

1509
02:15:53.760 --> 02:16:11.520
my rib when I was doing wing chun, and then I, oh, yeah,

1510
02:16:11.560 --> 02:16:13.399
I'm going to g I can't go through the different years.

1511
02:16:13.439 --> 02:16:15.760
I can't remember, but I'll do it by body part

1512
02:16:15.880 --> 02:16:21.520
rather than Yeah. Starting in my head. I don't know

1513
02:16:21.640 --> 02:16:24.319
what I've broken in my face. I couldn't tell you.

1514
02:16:25.079 --> 02:16:28.680
Maybe when I was very young, but not that I

1515
02:16:28.760 --> 02:16:34.760
can remember nothing in my shoulders, my arms. I broke

1516
02:16:34.840 --> 02:16:37.879
my left wrist when I first moved in there. I

1517
02:16:37.959 --> 02:16:41.600
fell out the bath, so I broke my left wrist.

1518
02:16:42.760 --> 02:16:47.840
I broke my right hand twice. So the second time

1519
02:16:48.040 --> 02:16:53.440
I punched the door, and this was about six years ago. Hey,

1520
02:16:54.399 --> 02:17:00.959
so I yeah, I broke my hand again. I've damage

1521
02:17:01.040 --> 02:17:04.760
my left hand numerous times, but I don't know about

1522
02:17:04.799 --> 02:17:07.600
whether it's broken or not. It might have been like

1523
02:17:07.680 --> 02:17:12.120
a little crack or something, you know, but not like proper.

1524
02:17:12.200 --> 02:17:18.120
Broke broke my rib again. So I've had my rib

1525
02:17:18.200 --> 02:17:23.079
broken twice, and my wrist broken once, had my right

1526
02:17:23.159 --> 02:17:33.079
hand broken twice, broke my toes a few different occasions.

1527
02:17:33.719 --> 02:17:37.920
Had broken toes my big toe at least twice, the

1528
02:17:38.079 --> 02:17:44.319
top of my foot at least once. My heel, now

1529
02:17:44.559 --> 02:17:48.000
the heel, I didn't go and get anything sorted, but

1530
02:17:48.079 --> 02:17:50.840
I was hobbling around for two months, so I think

1531
02:17:50.920 --> 02:17:53.200
I broke something in my heel as well, but or

1532
02:17:53.399 --> 02:17:57.879
chipped the bone something like that. And then I fell

1533
02:17:57.959 --> 02:18:00.559
down the stairs a couple of years back, fractured my

1534
02:18:00.639 --> 02:18:04.760
back in two places. That was the first week that

1535
02:18:04.799 --> 02:18:08.959
I got Vinnie. It was weird because it had snow,

1536
02:18:09.959 --> 02:18:14.760
really solid snow settled and everything. And I got Vinnie

1537
02:18:14.799 --> 02:18:17.360
that week and we all week we was in the

1538
02:18:17.559 --> 02:18:21.000
snow and I was wearing my boots making sure I

1539
02:18:21.040 --> 02:18:23.879
didn't fall over. I slipped once, but it was in

1540
02:18:23.959 --> 02:18:26.959
the snow and in the fields. It didn't hurt because

1541
02:18:27.000 --> 02:18:28.959
it was in the snow. And he laughed at me,

1542
02:18:30.000 --> 02:18:31.799
and I said, don't laugh. Next time I'm going to

1543
02:18:32.040 --> 02:18:35.120
I'm going to land on you. He stopped laughing then.

1544
02:18:36.000 --> 02:18:40.719
And the last I think it was a Wednesday, maybe

1545
02:18:40.760 --> 02:18:46.319
it was a Thursday. It rained and everything melted away,

1546
02:18:46.840 --> 02:18:54.000
all the ice went, no snow, not a sight. He

1547
02:18:54.040 --> 02:18:56.840
couldn't see it had even been there, like it didn't exist.

1548
02:18:59.239 --> 02:19:05.239
And then Luke calls up. I think he might have

1549
02:19:05.520 --> 02:19:07.760
knocked on the door. He might have wrung me up,

1550
02:19:07.760 --> 02:19:09.319
I don't know. He said, I would just want to

1551
02:19:09.360 --> 02:19:11.639
bring Vinnie down in the garden and play with LOGI.

1552
02:19:12.440 --> 02:19:15.239
I said, all right. This was like nine o'clock or something.

1553
02:19:16.159 --> 02:19:18.159
He was I think he was more excited about Vinnie

1554
02:19:18.159 --> 02:19:22.840
than I was. So Luke was downstairs. At this point,

1555
02:19:23.440 --> 02:19:26.120
I let Vinnie out and he ran downstairs into the

1556
02:19:26.200 --> 02:19:32.840
garden to play with LOGI I come down. I got

1557
02:19:32.959 --> 02:19:37.600
my crocs on, but I did put my coat on

1558
02:19:37.639 --> 02:19:43.200
because it was cold, and Luke was standing at the

1559
02:19:43.239 --> 02:19:46.000
bottom of the stairs. I was just talking to him

1560
02:19:46.079 --> 02:19:48.680
as I was like getting ready to come down, and

1561
02:19:48.840 --> 02:19:52.040
I think I got down about two steps or three steps,

1562
02:19:53.280 --> 02:20:00.440
and I went and I bounced down the hole of

1563
02:20:00.479 --> 02:20:04.959
the staircase. Diddy. It's not like it's concrete steps, it's

1564
02:20:05.000 --> 02:20:07.920
not like big, not loads of steps, but it was enough.

1565
02:20:09.040 --> 02:20:14.319
And Luke was laughing because he didn't not hurt myself.

1566
02:20:14.399 --> 02:20:17.120
He said, it was so funny to watch just you

1567
02:20:17.360 --> 02:20:20.360
bouncing off of each step and look on your face

1568
02:20:21.559 --> 02:20:25.520
because it happened so quick. I didn't really I didn't

1569
02:20:25.559 --> 02:20:28.399
really know what was going on. To be fair, I didn't.

1570
02:20:28.920 --> 02:20:31.319
I couldn't really process it because it was so quick.

1571
02:20:33.120 --> 02:20:35.120
One minute I was standing there, next minute I was

1572
02:20:35.120 --> 02:20:38.239
at the bottom of the stairs, having been on a

1573
02:20:38.360 --> 02:20:44.040
really really weird roller coaster. Well it wasn't a roller coaster.

1574
02:20:44.120 --> 02:20:45.479
It was falling down the stairs, but you know what

1575
02:20:45.520 --> 02:20:48.639
I mean. It was a kind of very strange experience.

1576
02:20:50.520 --> 02:21:00.680
So he's laughing, I'm not feeling great, and I mean

1577
02:21:01.079 --> 02:21:02.920
it ended up that I had had a fracture back

1578
02:21:03.000 --> 02:21:05.959
in two places. So I'd mentioned, you know, I wasn't

1579
02:21:07.360 --> 02:21:12.040
my back wasn't feeling wonderful, and I couldn't get up.

1580
02:21:12.079 --> 02:21:18.280
I needed his help to get up, and he was

1581
02:21:18.520 --> 02:21:20.920
He said I needed to go to the hospital, and

1582
02:21:21.040 --> 02:21:24.360
I said, nah, I'd be all right, but I couldn't

1583
02:21:24.399 --> 02:21:26.479
sit down, I couldn't stand up, I couldn't do anything.

1584
02:21:26.520 --> 02:21:31.680
It was just I knew something was broke, just for

1585
02:21:31.760 --> 02:21:35.280
the simple fact that well, I felt it. But at

1586
02:21:35.319 --> 02:21:38.399
the same time I thought, no, I don't. I can't

1587
02:21:38.559 --> 02:21:41.559
face being in a in the hospital for the next

1588
02:21:42.200 --> 02:21:45.959
twelve hours thirty I think it was thirteen and a

1589
02:21:46.000 --> 02:21:50.559
half hours I was in there. But he said, yeah,

1590
02:21:50.639 --> 02:21:55.399
but what if you got internal, something internal happened, you know,

1591
02:21:55.920 --> 02:21:59.760
outside of something else, you know, it might say you

1592
02:22:00.120 --> 02:22:03.719
might be serious. So if you wanted to come with me,

1593
02:22:03.799 --> 02:22:05.680
I said, no, it's all right, I'll just get a

1594
02:22:05.799 --> 02:22:14.159
taxi in. He looked after Vinnie and yeah. The doctor

1595
02:22:14.200 --> 02:22:18.280
even said, oh, no, can't be fractured. When he eventually

1596
02:22:18.360 --> 02:22:20.680
he sort of saw me so he can't be fractured

1597
02:22:20.680 --> 02:22:23.879
because it was fractured. You be in agony. I said

1598
02:22:23.920 --> 02:22:27.559
that I'm what do you think I'm in? He said, no,

1599
02:22:27.719 --> 02:22:29.040
you won't be able to You won't be able to

1600
02:22:29.079 --> 02:22:31.719
stand up if you had if you had a fracture

1601
02:22:31.760 --> 02:22:33.120
in your back, you're going be able to stand up.

1602
02:22:34.639 --> 02:22:36.319
He said, I'm going to give you an extra anyway

1603
02:22:36.600 --> 02:22:39.639
with a cat scan. And then he came back. He said, yeah,

1604
02:22:39.639 --> 02:22:44.120
it's fractured in two places. He said, I don't know

1605
02:22:44.200 --> 02:22:47.799
how you can stand up. I said, sitting down's worst,

1606
02:22:47.879 --> 02:22:53.879
and standing up it's hurts more than I sit down.

1607
02:22:54.239 --> 02:22:56.559
I've just spent the last twelve hours, twelve and a

1608
02:22:56.600 --> 02:23:03.200
half hours sitting down. Standing up was relief, but then

1609
02:23:03.280 --> 02:23:04.959
it started hurting the game and I was standing up,

1610
02:23:05.040 --> 02:23:07.959
but it was relief compared to sitting down for such

1611
02:23:08.040 --> 02:23:16.920
a long time, which oh, so, yeah. So what I've got,

1612
02:23:17.159 --> 02:23:24.559
I think so my knuckles and I guess I've got

1613
02:23:24.639 --> 02:23:31.319
two hands to my right hand twice, my wrist once,

1614
02:23:32.559 --> 02:23:41.040
my ribs twice two different times, and my foot on

1615
02:23:41.040 --> 02:23:45.120
the top of my foot once and my big toe

1616
02:23:45.120 --> 02:23:50.239
at least twice. Yeah, and the heel. I don't know,

1617
02:23:50.399 --> 02:23:53.479
but that's the breaks. I've had a few little breaks

1618
02:23:54.159 --> 02:24:00.239
along the way, but I suppose the the scariest one

1619
02:24:00.280 --> 02:24:02.120
would be when I fell out the bath, to be honest,

1620
02:24:03.399 --> 02:24:06.600
because I hurt my shoulder and I couldn't I couldn't

1621
02:24:06.639 --> 02:24:10.399
get up. I was on my own and I was well,

1622
02:24:11.280 --> 02:24:13.680
everything was out. You know, I was naked, so it

1623
02:24:13.840 --> 02:24:22.120
wasn't an ideal situation. But when I fell down the stairs,

1624
02:24:24.680 --> 02:24:25.879
but at least I had a T shirt on the

1625
02:24:25.920 --> 02:24:30.440
rest of me. I was naked, and then I was

1626
02:24:30.600 --> 02:24:33.719
when I was at work. Yeah, pretty much was naked

1627
02:24:33.799 --> 02:24:39.760
most places. Most times. It's weird, isn't it. Well, we

1628
02:24:39.879 --> 02:24:41.799
weren't born naked. I mean, it's not a bad thing,

1629
02:24:41.879 --> 02:24:45.079
is It's not. It's not an awful state of undress, really,

1630
02:24:45.200 --> 02:24:49.639
is it. It's natural. It doesn't hold up in court though,

1631
02:24:51.319 --> 02:24:55.399
doesn't stand up in court. Wow. So yeah, I've had

1632
02:24:55.440 --> 02:25:02.360
a few, a few little knocks around, but probably other

1633
02:25:02.479 --> 02:25:04.799
than like falling out the bath, that was not good.

1634
02:25:04.879 --> 02:25:12.520
But the stairs one that was, Yeah, that was probably

1635
02:25:12.559 --> 02:25:15.319
the worst, the worst. I don't know, none of them

1636
02:25:15.360 --> 02:25:20.559
were nice, but that was you know, sitting down, standing

1637
02:25:20.639 --> 02:25:23.440
up whatever, it was just it took a long time

1638
02:25:23.520 --> 02:25:30.559
for that to calm itself down. Yeah, that was weird.

1639
02:25:30.639 --> 02:25:37.079
That was Yeah. Since then, I've had a few problems

1640
02:25:37.079 --> 02:25:39.440
with my upper back. I don't know if it's to

1641
02:25:39.559 --> 02:25:46.680
do with that, almost like a misalignment or something. I

1642
02:25:46.760 --> 02:25:56.000
don't know. I don't know. I don't know that Maria.

1643
02:25:56.159 --> 02:26:01.959
So that's I thank you for Maria, Christine, Jonathan, Reveal, Isabelle,

1644
02:26:02.440 --> 02:26:06.399
and Hope. Thank you very much. That's all the questions

1645
02:26:06.440 --> 02:26:10.799
I do believe I've answered in this here particular Q

1646
02:26:10.920 --> 02:26:16.639
and A Friday, and Vinnie knows straight away I'm bringing

1647
02:26:16.680 --> 02:26:19.600
this to an end. He always knows. How does he

1648
02:26:19.760 --> 02:26:28.319
always know? I don't know. So yeah, thank you for listening.

1649
02:26:28.799 --> 02:26:34.040
Remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve

1650
02:26:34.520 --> 02:26:39.479
to be happy and be gentle of yourself. You deserve

1651
02:26:39.520 --> 02:26:46.120
to feel safe. Lots of love. Bye,