May 19, 2025

(no music) SKOOLS | Monday’s Boring Objects | LMBYTS #1356 | 19th May 2025

(no music) SKOOLS | Monday’s Boring Objects | LMBYTS #1356 | 19th May 2025
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Hello, and welcome to Jasonnewland dot com. My name is

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Jason Newland. Please add elicted where you can safety close

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your eyes. I said that as I yawned and scratched

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my beard at the same time. So yes, I can multitask.

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Thank you very much. This is let me buoy to

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sleep number. What number is it? I don't know. One thousand,

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three hundred and one, one thousand, three hundruid. I have

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to check this. Let me go to one of my podcasts,

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one thousand, three hundred and fifty six. BlimE me, that's

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a lot in it. That's a lot. So yep. This

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is Monday's Boring Objects without an object to talk about. Now,

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what I thought I might do is if I look

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back on my Jason Newland's Boring group on Facebook, there

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was a question that at the time of answererring, I

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thought to myself, hmmm, maybe that would be a good

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subject to converse about on my Monday's Boring Objects. But

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I'm going to have to find the question. I'll have

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a look. Okay, okay, give me two seconds. I do

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also have a YouTube channel which is at Jason Newland

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that's also my podcast. So every single recording I do

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goes on there. The website has all of my well

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it will do if I'm just in the middle of

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doing some playlists, but I've been I've been changing things,

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trying to make it a bit better. But I decided

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to be to There was a certain thing I was

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doing and it would take me forever, so I decided

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not to do that. It seemed a bit pointless. I

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may go back and do it in the future, but

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right now, I'm just going to stick to what I've

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got planned. So I do have all of the recordings

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uploaded to the podcast, each individual podcast on the website,

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which will be on the website when they are published.

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It's just going to take a little while to do that.

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I'm having a quick look. Oh yeah, I also started

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a cult, if anyone wants to join, can we see? Right?

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It might have been about the hypnosis and creative writing, right,

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I was fall about talking about how I started in hypnosis,

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but I've probably done that so many times. I talked

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that one too to sleep. But I think there's a

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few little things I probably haven't talked about. Let me

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just think thinking the different jobs I've had, different places,

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have lived, h relationships, mm hmm, people, mm hmm. I

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wanted to talk about something that I haven't really mentioned before,

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something that's all kind of not surprised you, but maybe

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a little bit like, oh, you know, I mean that

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is kind of a sader surprise potentially, but just something

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where you're thinking, hmm, didn't know that about the juicy

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JJ man bloke person. I didn't know how old I

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was until I was seven. How about that? I didn't

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know my day at birth till I was seven. That's

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a bit of a that's more trivia, isn't It's more trivia? Tuesday?

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It is Monday today, Isn't it? Is it Monday? I

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think it is Monday, the nineteenth of May twenty twenty five,

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one two, all weeks to the end of the month.

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It's the year man, and it's like we're nearly halfway

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through the year. Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.

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How much fun it is to ride in It's Oh.

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One of my favorite hymns was should I talked about

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my I talked about my high school. So there's only

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two schools I really remember, I really remember I've been in.

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I could just talk about schools in general. Let's talk

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about my schools in general. Okay. I have this memory

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of walking to school on the first day on my own,

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and this is when I was I don't know, five

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four or five or something. That's when I lived in Newcastle.

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But I have another memory of another school. It might

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be the same school, and it's really it was freaky.

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It was one of those freaky moments. And so I

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was in this school behind the school gates that the

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right side of the school, inside the school, not inside

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the school, but inside the playground part of the front

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of the school. Although that might have been the back

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of the school, I don't think it's really relevant. I

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think it was the front of the school or the side.

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It was eble to side, the back or the front.

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And it definitely wasn't underground. It was definitely on top

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of the ground. And I was standing there on my own,

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looking through the fence, and my memory is it was

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it wasn't barbed wire or anything like that, but it

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was these metal fence. Now, because I was so little,

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probably looked really tall. It might have only been like

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five foot, but in my memory it was like twenty

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foot high. And so I'm looking through the fence at

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this lady and she falls over. I lot dies with her,

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but I'm locked eyes. I mean, there was no locks involved.

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But I looked at her and she fell over, and

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I thought that I had caused her to fall over,

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which is kind of a weird thing. I believed that

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I had somehow made her fall over with my mind,

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which was a weird thing to think, I think at

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that age, at any age, really, and I don't remember

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too much about it. I think I might have gone

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back in school and told a teacher maybe, or just

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gone in a hidden because I didn't want to get

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in trouble. That was a very strange memory. Now I

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don't know where that was. That might have been in Newcastle,

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might be in South End, it might I don't know

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where it was, and don't I remember there was another

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school which was almost overlooking sure there was like a motorway.

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This was in South End, I think, or Newcastle again.

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I think that was a different school, and I got

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the very vague memories of standing looking. I used to

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do a lot of looking back then and just could

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see it was very inner city school. I would say,

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well in around places it wasn't kind of I'm sure

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there was like a motorway that you could see. That's

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my memory of it. Anyway, I don't I remember walking

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to school through down a bypass kind of this. I

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don't know. It was a some kind of bridge that

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would walk down. There was other kids as well. It

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wasn't just me, but walking to school. This would be

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in Newcastle. But again I don't remember much of the

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actual school itself. Have you hear Vinnie's been really fidgety.

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We've just been out, just got back. I took his

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food out of the fridge because he wasn't eating it.

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I'm getting a little bit fed up with chucking it

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away because at the moment he's just eating dry food

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and he doesn't seem to want wet food at all.

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So I put it in the fridge, just brought it out,

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and he's ignoring it. And he's not ignoring it like

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he's not calling to him, but he's just I've got

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an itchy beard. I don't know why. I think it

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might be a heat rash or please. So I remember

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this vaguely remember that. But the first school that I

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really kind of have any any set of memories for

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was when I was seven and i'd moved in with

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papa and papa's new wife. It sounds like a song

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titled don't it. And there was this school just up

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the well, not just up the road, but it was yeah,

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it wasn't wasn't far away from where the house was

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that we were living because we were living with my

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dad's new wife's mother that it was her house. So

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we were living there for I don't know how long

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because we went to school, I guess in the September.

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We moved there about in the summer during the summer

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holidays from South End Nazareth House in South End and

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went to school. I was seven, so I don't know what.

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We didn't have years back then the way they do

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now we do. But it wasn't its like first, second,

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four fifth, It wasn't like year twelve, year fifteen or whatever.

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Didn't have that back then. And I was only there

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probably four maybe one term, perhaps two terms. And then

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we moved because the house we was in was I

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think it was derelict. It was basically falling apart. So

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they moved my step mom's mum into a flat and

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we got a council house because we were overcrowded anyway,

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not that I cared. I didn't. I was fine. I

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like living there, so we I mean, it's like, okay,

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living in a room with one other kid, or even

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two other kids, it's better than living in a room

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with twelve other kids in my see, you know, That's

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how I kind of saw it. And then we moved

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to the house that my nan and grand had ended

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up living in for a long time, especially my nan

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lived in there for a long, long long time. So

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we moved into this new build on this new sort

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of state, and it was technically a three bedroom house.

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The third bedroom was some would argue wasn't big enough

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to be like a It was a very small bedroom.

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Some people might say it's just like a box room.

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Some people might just say, you know, there's lots of

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different things people can say. I was happy there because

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that was my room. For the first time in my life,

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I had my own bedroom. It was glorious. So I've

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talked about this before. My bruce Leaf poster on the wall,

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and even though I didn't know who Brucely was at

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that time, but I learned someone's just sneezed the loudest

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sneeze I've ever heard in my life. So so we

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went I about school, So we went to a different school,

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which was kind of about fifteen minute walk from there,

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so that was like, okay. So that was the second

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junior school I went to in that town. And it's

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kind of weird. I mean, we moved from one house

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that I really liked to another house that I really liked,

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and you know, it wasn't big enough for all of

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us really, plus another kid came along, so in reality,

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we couldn't have stayed there, but I would have happily

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stayed there because well I had my own room. That

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wasn't just the only reason, because I ended up having

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my own room when we moved again. But it was

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just I liked that house. It was a lovely house.

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And I liked the school as well. I like the

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other school. My memories of the first school in that

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town that I went to at seven was and I

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just turned seven, literally probably a week or two before

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the before going to school, and yeah, it was just nice.

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I liked it. I got into a little bit of

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trouble for stealing one of some one of a girl

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who I liked found the keys or managed I don't

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know where she got the keys from to the tuck

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shop and told me about it and invited me in

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to have a feast, and we got caught by the

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janitor after a few days of do it that, and

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the police came into the school and got me to

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stand up and her to stand up and told us

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all off. Now I assumed they hadn't told my parents

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because I didn't get told office at home, But in

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reality they probably did. All the teachers did. But because

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I only just moved there, they probably didn't feel they

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could really tell me off. Yeah, I had only been

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there for like a couple of months living with them.

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Unless I did tell me off, and I just laughed,

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it's possible I just didn't hear them, didn't listen. Yeah,

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I don't know. And then there was another time when

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there was this cupboard that had all like the toys

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in so we were playing toys Lego, these big Lego

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definitely a Lego, but these big bricks sticker bricks or

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whatever they were called, and so had all his toys

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on the floor. The teacher came out of this room

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where all the toys were stored and said, somebody has

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made a dent in the wall. Now I remember even now,

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it was like a brick wall, big old bricks with

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paint covered in paint, but there was a like a dent.

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And their teacher said, no one's going to lunch until

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we find out who did it. No one was owning

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up to it, so I just said, I did it, okay,

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and there's the teacher, so send everyone to lunch. Kept

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me behind, and the teacher said that. She said to me, okay, then,

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new boy, show me how you did it. And I

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went in there and I thought, oh, now I'm on

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the spot. It's really hard. It's, you know, something you're

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not prepared for to if you if you lie to

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get out of doing something you've done, you can kind

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of be prepared in a way, but to lie about

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doing something you haven't done is difficult. Found it very difficult,

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very difficult. So I pretty much said, well, I did

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it with this and it was like a lego brick,

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plastic plastic lego brick. Oh yeah, that's how I did it.

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And the teacher just laughed at me, said show me

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how you did it. Then, so I did this this like, yeah,

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that's how I did that, and I was robbing this

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thing against the wall. It's like the worst lie, not

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the worst lie. But it was. It's like trying to escape

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from a prison cell with a toothbrush or some candy floss.

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Not candy floss, you know, tooth loss. Whatever is it?

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Just you could do it, probably, but it would take forever,

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you know, to break for a wall, to even scratch

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the wall would take more than I pressure than I

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had available, you know, with my little seven year old body,

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I mean I was a size for a five year old.

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And they said, did you really do it? I said yeah,

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They said, you do realize after the stealing this might

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mean you'll go to prison. I said really. She said no,

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not really. I said, okay, but I'm not sure if

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I admitted that it wasn't me or not. But the

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weird thing about it is I felt like it was me.

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That's a strange thing. I felt like I'd done it. Weird.

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So I got moved. So I got expelled from that school.

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Now I didn't get expelled, I don't think I did.

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I left that school and we went to this other school,

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which is around the corner from the new housing the

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state we moved to. So I was moving towards I

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was probably yeah, seven and a half at this point.

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So I'm unless, unless that might be an eight, so

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maybe I'd had the whole year there, but I think

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it was I might have had the whole year there.

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So I went to this other school between eight and nine,

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and I liked that school. I liked that school even

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more than the first school, because yeah, I wasn't at

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the other school long enough to make friends, so I

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might have only been there for one term, because I

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did make friends at the next school, like good friends,

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like my best friend who was called Andrew. I had two.

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I had Ian and Andrew. Ian lived up the road

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and he was on the same mistake as well. I

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was just living and went to school the same school,

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all the same age. Ian's birthday was the same date

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as mine, exactly the same date. And we were good

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friends who were best friends in and out of each

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other's houses. Used to just spend all the times together, really,

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and I was probably that period between living in that house,

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whatever period that was. But I mean, you know, really,

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from a school I was very whispery, whistley loud, wasn't

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it from a school perspective. From a school perspective, possibly

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that was my favorite time, you know, where both school

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and house school and home synchronization was really good. Every

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aspect was good. And that was the only period really

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between the ages of eight and nine. So I went

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to this school I liked, I had friends for the

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first time, not for the first time, but for the

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first time where it was a degree of stability because

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we'd stayed. I've never been at a school for a

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whole year before, so I'd been there for over a year.

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And I guess because I do one term said a

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year and new two years. I suppose if you think

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about it, because when I moved into the other house

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when I was seven, seven, maybe the beginning of the

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year nineteen seventy eight, so I was yeah, and then

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started at the other school and I was there until

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I was nine, and then we moved again and I

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went to a different school again, another junior school, and

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I liked that school as well, to be fair, but yeah,

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I wasn't enjoying the home life at that point then.

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But as far as schools go with I'd say I

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probably liked that school better. The third junior school I

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went to during that period, I liked the school better

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and I did make lots of friends because I was

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there for two years, so I kind of had, you know,

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I kind of got to make more deeper friendships, I

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don't know, like closer friendships, maybe a bit more stability

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in that sense. But the previous school it was just

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really nice because living on a council of State, it

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was a new build. Pretty much all the kids of

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my age group that moved onto that council of State

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were going to the same school as me, so we

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could hang out with each other. And then we moved

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and I lost all those friends, even though I was

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living in a little town. There was I think three

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or there was at least three junior school. It was

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probably a junior infant that's kind of the same thing.

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I think. You know, they went up to the age

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of eleven and in high school from eleven onwards. Is Yeah,

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that was a shame because it was the first time

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that I'd had any kind of stable schooling. And I've

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been through quite a bit while I was there as well,

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because I had problems with my ears partially deaf, had

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an operation, and I liked the school and I like

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my friends, and I had a girlfriend as well. My

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first ever girlfriend was there, and so that was cool,

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I say, my first ever I kind of had her

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girlfriend at the other school, but she kept getting me

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into trouble, so yeah, I think he got moved away.

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That was the one with the keys to the tuck shop. Yeah,

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I had a girlfriend and we used to just chase

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each other and push each other over and stuff, pull

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each other's hair, you know, that's that kind of It

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was a very deep and loving friendship, a very very

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lot of romance. I was eight, but I did have

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my first ever date with her. I went to the cinema.

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I don't really remember what movies we went to see

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because it was Saturday matinee, so there was two movies,

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one old older one and one more newer one. I

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think I might have seen spider Man, the New Spote

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not the New spider Man now, but back then it

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was the new movie New spider Man movie, which was

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about nineteen seventy eight. I feel I need to check

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this up. Nineteen seventy eight Spider Man movie. It was

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nineteen seventy eight. I'll wait a minute. The film was

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that's weird spider Man. Let's have a look. I'm going

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to get this back. Nineteen seventy seven movie spider Man.

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For the first time, I loved it, and I remember

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going to watch it and on the what was it

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The undercard were not the Undercan but the movie before

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was Sinbad in the Eye of the Tiger, I think,

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or it might have been. No, I think it was that.

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I think it was I Love Spider Man. I'm not

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sure which came first, Spider Man or Superman. As far

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as like the new movies that came out in the

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late seventies, it was so good, loved loved it. I mean,

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back then, superheroes were a big thing on TV. I

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mean there'd been a big thing for forever really, but

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there was a real popular, popular thing we had, you know,

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that was on TV at the time. So we had

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we have the Incredible Hulk, Wonder Woman, the Bionic Man,

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kung Fu, and kung Fu was kind of like a

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superhero but it wasn't really but kind of was more

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like real life superhero, you know, because he did kung fu.

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That's why he was called kung Fu. What other ones

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was there? We'll a Bionic Woman. I don't know when

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they started calling it. It was a six million dollar man

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then I'm sure they just started calling it the Bionic

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Man eventually, and then spider Man, because Spider Man was

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also a TV show as well, and I'm trying to

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think of other and we used to have some of

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the older shows on as well, like some of the

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Superman shows, of the Lone Ranger, High Whole, Silvar, Rocketman.

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I'm trying to think of some of the others, like

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but these were in black and white, Dick Tracy, and

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Dick Tracy technically wasn't a superhero, but he kind of was. Yeah,

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there was a lot a lot on back then. I

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probably missed out some really obvious ones. Shall I check,

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because I'm sure, I'm sure there's some that I've missed out.

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So super hero TV shows, I'm going to go online

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nineteen seventies. I don't want images list of superhero television

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and she was just okay, it's going right away back

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from nineteen forty nine. So the Lone Ranger is that

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how old The Lone Ranger was? Flash Gordon. Flash Gordon

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still one of the greatest movies ever in my opinion,

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one of the greatest, greatest soundtrack. But they I used

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to watch the Flash Gordon TV show and this was

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from like nineteen fifty four to fifty five, but they

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used to show it on TV, like in the late

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seventies early eighties Zoro. They used to show that on

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The Invisible Man. They used to show that. Again they

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were black and white. I think the Mighty Atom I

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don't remember seeing that sounds good though, I mean superheroes.

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I'm just looking. It's got stuff here that I can't

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I mean, mister Terrific, Captain Nice. I don't remember ever

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seeing those Eve in the sixties, Kung Fu, Yeah, to see.

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I thought that was I did think that was kind

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of like a superhero Mirror Man. Nope, the six Million

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Dollar Man nineteen seventy three to seventy eight. The Tomorrow People,

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of course, seventy three to seventy nine. And they were superheroes,

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weren't they. That was an English thing and they could

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do I think telepathy between each other and stuff. The

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Invisible Man again started here they I thought the Invisible

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Man was in the eighties. Maybe they just started another one,

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because this is saying the Invisible Man was nineteen seventy

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Invisible Man nineteen seventy five to ninety seventy six. Surely

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it's not the one with McCullum producers. Why are they're

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saying who was in it? They're not. It starred David

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McCullum nineteen seventy five to nineteen Wow, I didn't realize that.

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I used to love that. So that was seventy five

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to seventy six. They were still showing it. They were

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showing repeats and stuff. So I used to watch that

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The Bionic Woman. Of course, I've already mentioned Man from Atlantis, yep,

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superhero that was Bobby Ewing. So Men from Atlantis another

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huge show. Anyone it's old enough to remember that huge.

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He was a pin up. He was a pin up

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for everyone, not just for adults but for kids as well.

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I used to have him on my wall because he

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was a superstar. He could breathe underwater. Come on. I

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kind of felt I was similar to him because I

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swam the way he did. Because I was not I

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had no way of keeping above the water. So I

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just thought, you know what, I'll swim the way the

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Man from Atlantis does, which has gone very wiggly, and

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I could go from one length to the other without

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without going above the water. So I thought I was

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quite good, but I couldn't swim. I used to bang

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into people as well. I remember once I did it

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and I banged into the side and banging my face

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because I couldn't see where I was going. Monkey Monkey,

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So I remember Monkey nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty.

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Used to watch it on BBC two, and I remember

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watching that in the house we moved into when I

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was nine, watching it on TV while I was stripping

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the wallpaper in the living room. So we just moved

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in Buck Roger's in the twenty fifth century. It's a

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superhero and he he didn't have any powers though, so

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I just let's you see all the different superheroes we

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had during that period. I'm going to miss seventies out.

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Minimal nineteen eighty three. Now, I loved Minimal and then

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I didn't, so basically it was my favorite show. It

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was basically was a man that turned into an animal,

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hence Minimal. It's a dog barking now. And it didn't

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go down very well with the audience apparent. It wasn't

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only got one series and that was it. But I

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liked it a lot. But unfortunately, on the night that

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I was going to watch it, because I think I've

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seen a few episodes, the I got into trouble for

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something over nothing really but to do with my schoolwork.

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And I ended up getting big lecture and my dad

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just had a tantrum on me over a broken ruler,

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like a ruler my ruler had a chip in it.

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He wouldn't know why there was a chip in my ruler.

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I don't mean a chip as in, you know, potato,

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And I said, I don't know, and he just went

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on and on and on so and then I went

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and sat in and I couldn't watch Manimal just looked

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at it like, nah, it's well, it never been able

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to watch it since it's weird, isn't it? The A

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team those superheroes were they really but not didn't have powers,

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But then quite a few superheroes don't have powers. Batman

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doesn't have powers. Highway to Heaven it's not a super

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I mean, it's a brilliant show. I loved it. I

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watched that from all the way from the beginning to

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the end that one. I don't mean from the beginning

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of the episode to the end of the episode, but

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from eighty four to eighty nine. Loved Highway to Heaven.

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Why has the Incredible Hulk not been mentioned anyone? I've

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not mentioned a Whulk have I but it's not mentioned

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No Hulk, which was possibly one of the biggest biggest

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shows on TV at the time, late seventies, the Hulk.

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No no Hulk on this list, so it's not a

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complete list. How can they not mention the Hulk. Anyway,

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I mentioned the Hulk Super Grand that was like eighty

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five to eighty seven, So that was funny, but it

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was a little bit. I watched it, but it was

470
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you know, I was kind of coming to leave school

471
00:39:29.440 --> 00:39:30.599
and left school at that point.

472
00:39:35.679 --> 00:39:35.719
Er.

473
00:39:39.760 --> 00:39:42.840
Yeah, why if they put bay Watch down? This is

474
00:39:42.840 --> 00:39:45.719
supposed to be superheroes. They might have got this right.

475
00:39:46.559 --> 00:39:51.199
Independence DC and Novel List is television series based on

476
00:39:51.280 --> 00:39:56.159
DC comics. Okay, let's look at that one adventure as

477
00:39:56.199 --> 00:40:00.239
a Superman Batman. So all these these are the ones

478
00:40:00.239 --> 00:40:02.320
I was looking for, But these are in the six

479
00:40:02.440 --> 00:40:05.519
fifties and sixties. Wonder Woman seventy five to seventy nine,

480
00:40:07.719 --> 00:40:16.559
Superboy eighty eight to ninety two. Really, I don't remember

481
00:40:16.559 --> 00:40:22.960
ever seeing. Superboy was a cartoon for the Chinese reality

482
00:40:23.039 --> 00:40:31.199
singing contest see Superboy TV series. Okay, it's an American

483
00:40:31.239 --> 00:40:35.079
television series based on the fictional DC comic character Superman's

484
00:40:35.159 --> 00:40:38.519
early years a Superboy. The show ran from eighty eight

485
00:40:38.559 --> 00:40:42.119
to ninety two. In syndication. It was renamed The Adventures

486
00:40:42.159 --> 00:40:51.960
as Superboy at the start of the third season, although

487
00:40:51.960 --> 00:40:58.119
this sold arises the first Beanna focused on Clark Kent. Really,

488
00:40:58.800 --> 00:41:01.360
I'd love to see that. I didn't know there was

489
00:41:01.400 --> 00:41:06.199
a Superboy. Why did they never showed that on TV

490
00:41:06.480 --> 00:41:11.559
in this country? I'm pretty sure i'd remember that. Shazam again,

491
00:41:11.599 --> 00:41:13.840
that was seventy four to seventy six. Never saw that.

492
00:41:16.400 --> 00:41:23.360
The Batman series, I mean, who hasn't. I mean, maybe

493
00:41:23.360 --> 00:41:25.880
there are people that hasn't seen it, but the Batman

494
00:41:26.280 --> 00:41:29.519
shows sixty six to sixty eight with some of the

495
00:41:29.559 --> 00:41:36.039
best television ever in my opinion. I loved it. The

496
00:41:36.159 --> 00:41:43.440
Flash nineteen ninety to ninety one, so that was funny.

497
00:41:44.360 --> 00:41:47.719
Lewis and Clark, The New Adventures of Superman, now that

498
00:41:47.840 --> 00:41:51.320
was huge in this country ninety three to ninety seven.

499
00:41:51.719 --> 00:41:54.079
Who used to be on a Saturday evening and it

500
00:41:54.119 --> 00:41:58.199
was one of the top rated shows like in this

501
00:41:58.360 --> 00:42:05.320
country at that time, huge viewership. And the Lewis Lane

502
00:42:05.400 --> 00:42:10.719
whatever her name was, she was absolutely like, you couldn't

503
00:42:11.119 --> 00:42:14.360
it's almost like you couldn't look at a newspaper about

504
00:42:14.400 --> 00:42:19.960
seeing her face on there. Small Ville, now, you know

505
00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:25.199
what is a weird thing. I didn't even know what

506
00:42:25.400 --> 00:42:31.840
small Ville was about, so started in two thousand and one.

507
00:42:32.199 --> 00:42:35.760
I came over it by accident in two thousand and two.

508
00:42:36.679 --> 00:42:38.480
But it used to be on in a weird time,

509
00:42:38.559 --> 00:42:42.960
like on a Sunday afternoon, which is a strange time

510
00:42:43.039 --> 00:42:50.320
for something like a Superman show to be on. And

511
00:42:51.400 --> 00:42:54.280
I did not know, I said, I'm probably two thousand

512
00:42:54.280 --> 00:42:56.719
and three, sorry, not two thousand and two. Two thousand

513
00:42:56.760 --> 00:43:01.559
and three. I didn't know it was about Superman. And

514
00:43:01.679 --> 00:43:04.480
I saw a small villain. I thought that sounds familiar,

515
00:43:08.199 --> 00:43:11.679
And then I started watching it. I loved it, and

516
00:43:11.760 --> 00:43:15.239
I watched it every Sunday. I didn't see it from

517
00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:18.639
the beginning all the way to the end, because it

518
00:43:18.679 --> 00:43:21.400
went on to twenty eleven. I stopped watching it probably

519
00:43:21.480 --> 00:43:29.199
after a couple of years. And what I mean two

520
00:43:29.239 --> 00:43:31.480
things that amazed me about that, I mean, I were

521
00:43:31.519 --> 00:43:39.800
not amazed me is he I was watching what's that

522
00:43:39.960 --> 00:43:46.039
name for the Devil? The TV show on Netflix All

523
00:43:51.079 --> 00:44:10.599
Not Be Easy bub Netflick, a Devil TV show Lucifer, Lucifer. Okay,

524
00:44:10.639 --> 00:44:15.159
so Lucifer. There was this character in Lucifer, and I

525
00:44:15.199 --> 00:44:21.000
thought he looks familiar. Where have I seen him before?

526
00:44:21.119 --> 00:44:23.559
And it was really good in the show, Like I

527
00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:29.440
don't know who he is. He was Superman. It was

528
00:44:29.519 --> 00:44:32.920
smallvill Superman because he was I think he literally was

529
00:44:32.960 --> 00:44:35.599
a kid. He was like a teenager when he started

530
00:44:35.639 --> 00:44:41.480
doing that show. And it was so weird to see

531
00:44:41.519 --> 00:44:44.920
him all grown up, because I suppose he's in his

532
00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:48.239
forties now, maybe even older. I don't know. Shall we

533
00:44:48.280 --> 00:44:52.800
find out Let's find out camera, Let's find out Tom

534
00:44:52.800 --> 00:44:59.039
Willing forty eight. The weird thing about it, it looks

535
00:44:59.079 --> 00:45:01.960
better now than he did then, not as anything wrong

536
00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:05.880
with how he looked then, but he's just maybe he's

537
00:45:05.920 --> 00:45:12.119
just grown into his face. I don't know, he's it

538
00:45:12.280 --> 00:45:16.639
just looks so it just looks. It's weird. I don't

539
00:45:16.679 --> 00:45:22.880
ways see what other things he done. I don't know

540
00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:25.679
why they can't have a little bit of continuity and

541
00:45:25.800 --> 00:45:29.960
just let him be Superman as an adult. But he

542
00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:35.480
didn't seem to want to. He's been in a few movies,

543
00:45:37.559 --> 00:45:42.280
being a few TV shows. He was a Batwoman. He

544
00:45:42.360 --> 00:45:54.159
played Clark Kent. Really Wow, but that was like eight

545
00:45:54.280 --> 00:46:02.400
years after Smallville finished. Hmmm, well, wait a minute, was

546
00:46:02.480 --> 00:46:13.280
this one professionals? Professionals? Okay, No, it's not the TV

547
00:46:13.400 --> 00:46:20.840
show that I used to love, but the point I

548
00:46:20.880 --> 00:46:22.559
was trying to make, if there was a point, I

549
00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:26.119
don't know. I used to shave my head while I

550
00:46:26.159 --> 00:46:30.000
watched small Ville. So I had these clippers and I

551
00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:33.039
just used to do that, and I had when I

552
00:46:33.079 --> 00:46:35.559
shaved my head, I didn't like rinse my hair off

553
00:46:35.599 --> 00:46:40.599
and everything, or rinse, rinse my scalp in the bath,

554
00:46:43.280 --> 00:46:47.320
and then I would rub in this moisturizer into my

555
00:46:47.440 --> 00:46:53.599
scalp and just message my scalp while I watched small

556
00:46:53.679 --> 00:46:57.920
Ville on TV. And not only did it, it just

557
00:46:58.400 --> 00:47:08.239
it felt nice, but how lovely. It's a really nice smell. Yeah,

558
00:47:08.280 --> 00:47:09.639
I just remember doing that. I don't know why I

559
00:47:09.639 --> 00:47:13.639
remember that. That was two thousand and three Sundays. This

560
00:47:13.800 --> 00:47:17.199
is when I was working in a call center selling

561
00:47:17.239 --> 00:47:27.119
car insurance. So maybe it was Spider Man I went

562
00:47:27.159 --> 00:47:29.239
to on that date with. I didn't go on a

563
00:47:29.280 --> 00:47:31.159
date with Spider Man, but I went on a date

564
00:47:31.280 --> 00:47:34.920
with the girl at school to see Spider Man. I

565
00:47:34.960 --> 00:47:38.920
think because I think I went to see Superman with

566
00:47:38.960 --> 00:47:42.719
my brother. I definitely went to see Superman two with

567
00:47:42.760 --> 00:47:48.320
my brother because I was dreaming about it the day

568
00:47:48.360 --> 00:47:52.960
before or the night before. I dreamt because we kept

569
00:47:53.000 --> 00:47:56.119
seeing I dreamt, we kept seeing the adverts, you know,

570
00:47:56.199 --> 00:47:59.920
with all the super villains that were in Superman three,

571
00:48:00.199 --> 00:48:07.400
Superman two, and yeah, I just I wanted to see

572
00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:10.960
that more than I wanted to see the first one.

573
00:48:11.559 --> 00:48:15.320
It excited me. But then I also got excited about

574
00:48:15.320 --> 00:48:17.719
seeing the third one because Richard Pryor was in it.

575
00:48:18.400 --> 00:48:21.400
And at the time Richard Pryor was he was the

576
00:48:21.440 --> 00:48:26.800
biggest Hollywood actor at the time because he'd done Stir

577
00:48:26.960 --> 00:48:29.920
Crazy and he was doing his due, you know, films

578
00:48:29.960 --> 00:48:36.719
with Gene Wilder, and he was huge star. And this

579
00:48:36.800 --> 00:48:42.280
is before I even discovered his stand up. Genuinly didn't

580
00:48:42.280 --> 00:48:45.119
know he did stand up. It's weird, isn't it. But

581
00:48:45.159 --> 00:48:47.559
then I was a little kid, so I didn't really

582
00:48:48.039 --> 00:48:50.119
I knew what stand up comedy was because we had

583
00:48:50.119 --> 00:48:54.480
stand up comedy on television, but it was a different

584
00:48:55.119 --> 00:48:58.920
It definitely wasn't. Richard Pryor didn't have that kind of

585
00:48:58.960 --> 00:49:06.039
adult comedy on that I got to see anyway. I

586
00:49:06.079 --> 00:49:10.519
remember I used to share give this girl my chocolate.

587
00:49:11.000 --> 00:49:16.280
So if i'd i'd ever, i'd ever packed lunch with sandwiches,

588
00:49:16.400 --> 00:49:22.199
packet of crisps, and maybe a chocolate bar, like a

589
00:49:22.199 --> 00:49:30.199
little chocolate bar, such as a penguin. Now I didn't

590
00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:36.239
like penguins. I don't know why. I just didn't like them.

591
00:49:36.639 --> 00:49:38.920
So i'd give them away or try and swap with

592
00:49:38.960 --> 00:49:41.840
someone if someone had a kit kat or you know,

593
00:49:41.960 --> 00:49:45.519
different kind of thing. And what i'd sometimes do is

594
00:49:45.599 --> 00:49:50.320
give away the penguin to someone, to this girl to

595
00:49:50.360 --> 00:49:53.960
show how much I loved her. Sometimes i'd pick flowers.

596
00:49:54.599 --> 00:49:59.039
I'd go up to her and say they go, and

597
00:49:59.079 --> 00:50:03.519
she said this nets And I'm like, check them on

598
00:50:03.519 --> 00:50:04.719
the floor. She said, why do you check them on

599
00:50:04.760 --> 00:50:09.440
the floor because I was stinging me. Oh, so you

600
00:50:09.519 --> 00:50:12.079
knew there was stinging that las In Nettles ended you

601
00:50:12.199 --> 00:50:15.079
because she used to slur sometimes when she spoke. And

602
00:50:15.159 --> 00:50:19.880
I said, what, I can't understand you because you're slurred.

603
00:50:20.280 --> 00:50:23.079
She said, so you knew that there was stinging nettles.

604
00:50:23.920 --> 00:50:27.440
I said, no, there were flowers, I thought, But you

605
00:50:27.480 --> 00:50:31.199
said there was stinging your fingers. I said, yeah, I

606
00:50:31.239 --> 00:50:34.840
didn't know why, but it makes sense. Now, that's if

607
00:50:34.880 --> 00:50:37.320
they sting, they're called stinging nettles. That makes sense. The

608
00:50:37.440 --> 00:50:42.400
name very much applies to the topic that we're conversing about.

609
00:50:43.519 --> 00:50:47.599
She said, what I'm wondering if fin's eating his dinner now,

610
00:50:48.760 --> 00:50:53.320
he's eating his eating his wet food. He started looking

611
00:50:53.320 --> 00:50:56.960
on the floor for dry bits of dry food because

612
00:50:56.960 --> 00:50:59.000
I to drop things on the floor when I'm putting

613
00:50:59.000 --> 00:51:03.480
them in the pocket, and he's been hunting around for them,

614
00:51:03.920 --> 00:51:07.280
and because he had no more, he's had to settle

615
00:51:07.280 --> 00:51:11.639
with a wet food. I don't know if you can

616
00:51:11.679 --> 00:51:14.800
hear that slurping away. I'm not going to give him

617
00:51:14.800 --> 00:51:21.119
any attention. I'm not going to look at him or anything. Well,

618
00:51:21.239 --> 00:51:23.320
I think that he's stopped. He might be looking at me.

619
00:51:25.639 --> 00:51:27.519
I think he did look up, and then he's continued.

620
00:51:29.559 --> 00:51:35.159
So I was at that school. Nothing particularly interesting occurred

621
00:51:35.199 --> 00:51:40.840
at that school that I can really remember, other than

622
00:51:42.280 --> 00:51:45.360
there was one incident. And this is really weird, but

623
00:51:45.400 --> 00:51:48.440
it's true. I had by two incidents. There was this

624
00:51:48.559 --> 00:51:52.519
bully there. Still remember his name. I won't say his

625
00:51:52.599 --> 00:51:56.199
name because I'm sure he's you know, it's sure he's

626
00:51:56.239 --> 00:51:59.400
a good bloke just you know, at that time, he

627
00:51:59.480 --> 00:52:02.039
was a bit of a bit of a ruffian and

628
00:52:02.320 --> 00:52:10.559
used to try and cause trouble. And he picked on

629
00:52:10.639 --> 00:52:16.000
my friend who was who had a I think he

630
00:52:16.039 --> 00:52:20.000
had like one one kidney or something, my friend who

631
00:52:20.079 --> 00:52:23.159
lived three doors up from where I lived, and it

632
00:52:23.239 --> 00:52:25.920
was making fun of him because he because he had

633
00:52:25.920 --> 00:52:29.360
a bag, you know, he had a bag thing. I

634
00:52:29.400 --> 00:52:32.039
didn't really understand it, but I knew that he was

635
00:52:32.119 --> 00:52:38.920
unwell and stuff. So this kid was making fun of him.

636
00:52:38.960 --> 00:52:45.199
So I intervened and it didn't end well for him,

637
00:52:45.360 --> 00:52:50.519
to be fair, but it didn't seem to stop him

638
00:52:50.519 --> 00:52:55.960
from keep coming back. And then another time was outside

639
00:52:56.840 --> 00:53:01.800
in the in the field. So at this point my

640
00:53:01.920 --> 00:53:04.320
other brother, my one who was two years older, was

641
00:53:04.320 --> 00:53:13.679
there as well, because I was eight and he was ten. Yeah,

642
00:53:13.760 --> 00:53:16.800
so he was like in his probably in the last

643
00:53:16.880 --> 00:53:19.320
year of that school. I still had a couple more

644
00:53:19.400 --> 00:53:25.840
left if I was going to stay there. And this kid,

645
00:53:26.280 --> 00:53:28.639
I think his name is Mark. I think I know

646
00:53:28.679 --> 00:53:31.239
what his name was, but it stayed with me for

647
00:53:31.280 --> 00:53:36.000
some reason. And I don't know if he I think

648
00:53:36.039 --> 00:53:40.920
he grabbed my bag or something, or he might have

649
00:53:40.960 --> 00:53:43.440
walked up and just pushed me over something like that.

650
00:53:43.480 --> 00:53:49.840
I don't know and my brother, and this is totally true.

651
00:53:49.880 --> 00:53:53.280
It's not even made up, because well I could make

652
00:53:53.320 --> 00:53:55.559
it up. I could say anything good night, but it

653
00:53:56.000 --> 00:54:02.039
really happened, which was quite impressive. He showered oi. He

654
00:54:02.119 --> 00:54:04.800
might not have said, oh, but he showered something out

655
00:54:06.159 --> 00:54:10.679
leave him alone, leave my brother alone, or whatever something

656
00:54:10.719 --> 00:54:14.440
like that, and I think this kid shouted something back

657
00:54:14.480 --> 00:54:17.280
at him because there was quite a distance between them,

658
00:54:19.519 --> 00:54:23.400
and my brother chucked this tennis ball which he was

659
00:54:23.400 --> 00:54:26.159
playing with with his friends or whatever. Chucked it and it

660
00:54:26.360 --> 00:54:30.039
landed right in his eye, not my brother's eye, and

661
00:54:30.119 --> 00:54:31.639
then he just chuck it in the air and look up,

662
00:54:32.159 --> 00:54:36.000
he chucked it at this kid. It landed in his eye,

663
00:54:38.280 --> 00:54:41.280
Like how can you? I mean, he had to have

664
00:54:41.320 --> 00:54:45.239
his surgically removed. He didn't it landed. How could you

665
00:54:45.280 --> 00:54:53.519
even you could even plan something like that. I was like, honestly,

666
00:54:53.599 --> 00:54:57.840
I was probably the time that I had the most

667
00:54:59.519 --> 00:55:04.239
I pleased. They pleased with my brother and I didn't

668
00:55:04.280 --> 00:55:06.320
need him to look after me for that because I'd

669
00:55:06.320 --> 00:55:08.119
already dealt with him before and I could the game.

670
00:55:08.199 --> 00:55:11.639
But it was just nice. It's quite nice. You know

671
00:55:11.679 --> 00:55:16.920
when a brother does something like that and it's like

672
00:55:17.280 --> 00:55:22.719
such a good shot. Anyway, there was another time with

673
00:55:22.760 --> 00:55:28.000
my brother. Anyway, it's he's yeah, he did, he did.

674
00:55:28.360 --> 00:55:30.599
He did stand up for me a couple of times,

675
00:55:31.400 --> 00:55:35.559
so I'll give him that. So that school kind of

676
00:55:35.639 --> 00:55:41.760
left the ironic thing about it, right, here's a weird

677
00:55:41.760 --> 00:55:44.679
thing about it. We moved to different school, to a

678
00:55:44.679 --> 00:55:51.679
different house away from that school, but because he was

679
00:55:51.719 --> 00:55:58.519
in the final year, so I started a new junior

680
00:55:58.599 --> 00:56:03.360
school at age none. But my brother was eleven, so

681
00:56:03.480 --> 00:56:06.079
he went to the high school. But he went to

682
00:56:06.079 --> 00:56:09.320
a different high school. So both my brothers. My other

683
00:56:09.400 --> 00:56:11.880
brother was four years older than me, so he would

684
00:56:11.880 --> 00:56:14.159
have been in the second year of high school or

685
00:56:14.719 --> 00:56:21.920
third year of high school at this point. No second year. No,

686
00:56:26.679 --> 00:56:33.880
this sounds weird. I can't remember nine ten eleven, so no,

687
00:56:34.000 --> 00:56:36.320
maybe my other brother still had one year left at

688
00:56:36.119 --> 00:56:42.519
that junior school. Yeah, eight, nine ten, I don't know anyway,

689
00:56:42.920 --> 00:56:45.320
I think he still had one year left there. And

690
00:56:45.360 --> 00:56:52.880
then my other brother went to the high school. But anyhow,

691
00:56:52.920 --> 00:56:55.280
it ended up I went to a different junior school,

692
00:56:55.320 --> 00:57:01.119
another junior school that was miles away, so didn't have

693
00:57:01.119 --> 00:57:07.960
my friends anymore, made some new friends. Both my brothers

694
00:57:08.599 --> 00:57:14.599
went to a different high school to me. I mean

695
00:57:14.679 --> 00:57:17.679
there was no reason for it. I mean literally, this

696
00:57:17.800 --> 00:57:19.920
is like they went. They just went to a different

697
00:57:20.199 --> 00:57:22.079
So I ended up going to a completely different high

698
00:57:22.079 --> 00:57:24.639
school because I was at this different junior school for

699
00:57:24.679 --> 00:57:30.000
two years and instead of just continuing to go to

700
00:57:30.039 --> 00:57:32.639
the school I was already at, which wouldn't have been

701
00:57:32.800 --> 00:57:40.239
hard to get to from where I was living. I mean, ironically,

702
00:57:40.320 --> 00:57:44.400
I think that's doing the correct word. This junior school

703
00:57:45.719 --> 00:57:50.960
that I was going to before was literally, I don't know,

704
00:57:51.119 --> 00:57:53.719
five minute walk from the high school that both my

705
00:57:53.760 --> 00:57:57.039
brothers ended up going to. So they were allowed, it's

706
00:57:57.039 --> 00:57:59.519
why for them to walk there. But I could have

707
00:57:59.840 --> 00:58:04.639
just as easily continued going to the junior school. In fact,

708
00:58:04.639 --> 00:58:06.519
I could have gone with them, couldn't I could have

709
00:58:06.559 --> 00:58:11.280
walked with them, and walking there wasn't an issue because

710
00:58:11.280 --> 00:58:13.280
I was walking to school on my own anyway at

711
00:58:13.280 --> 00:58:17.679
that age. Long before that, yeah, I was walking to

712
00:58:17.719 --> 00:58:21.719
school at seven eight Yeah, eight years old, I was

713
00:58:21.719 --> 00:58:24.840
walking to school on my own, so it wasn't an issue.

714
00:58:24.880 --> 00:58:27.159
And even when I went to the other junior school,

715
00:58:27.239 --> 00:58:30.679
I was walking to about fifty minutes forty minutes to

716
00:58:30.679 --> 00:58:34.360
get there and about two hours to get home because

717
00:58:34.440 --> 00:58:42.360
I was very slow. And that's something I noticed. When

718
00:58:42.400 --> 00:58:44.679
I was at that school. I used to walk around

719
00:58:44.840 --> 00:58:52.760
and just sing songs, and I went through a period

720
00:58:52.880 --> 00:58:57.119
when I thought I was a superhero and I thought

721
00:58:57.119 --> 00:59:05.639
that I could become invisible. I didn't always tell people

722
00:59:06.400 --> 00:59:13.000
that I thought I was invisible. I remember I decided

723
00:59:13.039 --> 00:59:16.119
to do it once during the court the register call

724
00:59:16.360 --> 00:59:19.519
at school, so we'd always go in the first first

725
00:59:19.519 --> 00:59:21.559
part of the day and then call out a name.

726
00:59:22.079 --> 00:59:25.880
Maybe they did it in assembly, I can't remember. He

727
00:59:26.000 --> 00:59:28.599
who has to shout out, yes, sir, here's sir whatever.

728
00:59:30.119 --> 00:59:32.719
And I decided, I'm going to make myself invisible. So

729
00:59:32.760 --> 00:59:37.440
I made myself invisible and no one was looking at me,

730
00:59:37.480 --> 00:59:44.199
so I thought this is working. And then they called

731
00:59:44.199 --> 00:59:46.559
my name out. The teacher or the headmaster called my

732
00:59:46.639 --> 00:59:50.800
name out, and I thought, I'll just keep quiet because

733
00:59:51.000 --> 00:59:52.880
there's no point me talking because people aren't going to

734
00:59:52.880 --> 00:59:59.760
see me. They'll freak everyone out. It's really weird because

735
00:59:59.760 --> 01:00:02.960
they everyone was looking at my seat or where I

736
01:00:02.960 --> 01:00:06.599
would have been sitting, because no one sat on the seat.

737
01:00:06.599 --> 01:00:10.159
I suppose they must have just I don't know why

738
01:00:10.159 --> 01:00:11.639
they didn't sit on it because there was no one

739
01:00:11.679 --> 01:00:14.599
there because I was invisible. I was technically I was there,

740
01:00:15.920 --> 01:00:19.039
and the teacher.

741
01:00:18.760 --> 01:00:29.599
Kept saying Jacen new Land, Jashon and people like, we're

742
01:00:29.679 --> 01:00:32.360
looking over in my direction, and I know they couldn't

743
01:00:32.360 --> 01:00:35.280
see me because invisible.

744
01:00:37.039 --> 01:00:53.000
Horace. Can you hear that? Hi? Horace? Right mate? You're okay? Yeah,

745
01:00:53.760 --> 01:00:57.960
how you been? How's the kids? Well? Well, I didn't

746
01:00:57.960 --> 01:01:08.360
want to talk. I bored him. He's gone. I think

747
01:01:08.400 --> 01:01:11.199
it was one of his kids that got stuck inside

748
01:01:11.280 --> 01:01:13.840
here to the other day, came in the back door.

749
01:01:14.000 --> 01:01:17.760
Back door was lodged open for some reason, and it

750
01:01:17.880 --> 01:01:20.159
comes up trying to get in and out of the

751
01:01:20.199 --> 01:01:23.360
top part where all the windows can't get through the windows.

752
01:01:24.639 --> 01:01:29.840
I used to think I could walk through walls. The

753
01:01:29.880 --> 01:01:33.639
best thing to in those situations is as long as

754
01:01:33.639 --> 01:01:39.079
you never test it, you can still believe it. Because

755
01:01:39.079 --> 01:01:45.000
there used to be this big wall just right. It

756
01:01:45.320 --> 01:01:47.719
had a gold painted on it, and it was just

757
01:01:47.760 --> 01:01:54.159
a random wall, very strange, and I used to believe

758
01:01:54.199 --> 01:02:01.280
I could walk through the wall. But I never tested it.

759
01:02:05.400 --> 01:02:10.320
I wonder one never tested it, but I did. I

760
01:02:10.400 --> 01:02:15.760
used to just remember once I actually, I think we're

761
01:02:15.760 --> 01:02:21.079
playing hide and seek or we're playing soldiers, and I

762
01:02:21.280 --> 01:02:24.719
was in the grass and I made myself invisible. I

763
01:02:24.719 --> 01:02:33.119
thought I'd made myself invisible, and no one found me.

764
01:02:36.800 --> 01:02:41.920
Was there the whole weekend? No one found me. It's like, Wow,

765
01:02:42.800 --> 01:02:48.079
I didn't realize that people were just ignoring me. Did

766
01:02:48.159 --> 01:02:49.639
you ever when you was a kid, did you ever

767
01:02:49.719 --> 01:02:53.119
turn up at school on a Saturday by accident and

768
01:02:53.239 --> 01:02:57.039
wonder why you couldn't get in? That happened to me.

769
01:02:58.679 --> 01:03:03.199
I mean, I woke up like, oh, I'm late, and

770
01:03:03.239 --> 01:03:08.400
I'm like running to school to get there, and I'm wondering, oh,

771
01:03:08.440 --> 01:03:11.000
everyone's gone, because I didn't realize they were all still

772
01:03:11.039 --> 01:03:15.599
in bed. There's no one here. Everyone's had their lunch,

773
01:03:15.639 --> 01:03:19.280
they're gone their breakfast. Rather, they're gone. So I'm rushing

774
01:03:20.559 --> 01:03:26.199
and get there, and then I realized it's Saturday. I laughed,

775
01:03:26.400 --> 01:03:29.760
I've just well. I waited till I caught my breath

776
01:03:29.760 --> 01:03:32.800
and then I laughed. And I get home and at

777
01:03:32.800 --> 01:03:36.159
this point people the family, people the family are having

778
01:03:36.159 --> 01:03:40.039
their breakfast, and I told them and some of them laughed,

779
01:03:40.159 --> 01:03:46.320
some of them just looked at me. Bewildered. I say

780
01:03:46.360 --> 01:03:48.119
bewildered because that was a new word that I was

781
01:03:48.199 --> 01:03:51.960
trust trying out back then. I like to try a

782
01:03:52.000 --> 01:03:56.800
new word that I hadn't really used regularly, and I thought,

783
01:03:56.840 --> 01:04:06.320
you know what, because this was probably about nineteen eighty before,

784
01:04:06.320 --> 01:04:09.280
I've not used the word bewildered. I don't think I've

785
01:04:09.320 --> 01:04:13.480
ever used it every I know what it means, but

786
01:04:14.079 --> 01:04:17.519
in the context of a sentance. But I don't know

787
01:04:17.599 --> 01:04:20.320
I've ever used it in a sentence or in some

788
01:04:20.440 --> 01:04:29.639
kind of grammatical conversational format. But then I forgot to

789
01:04:29.760 --> 01:04:35.239
use it until now I was remembered. So yeah, thinking

790
01:04:35.239 --> 01:04:37.559
about it's kind of feeling is a bit bewildered really,

791
01:04:40.440 --> 01:04:48.679
So I did like that school. There's a few things

792
01:04:48.719 --> 01:04:50.920
that I perhaps didn't like so much that One of

793
01:04:50.960 --> 01:04:54.760
those things was they kept trying to teach me French, like,

794
01:04:54.880 --> 01:04:59.519
come on, are you kidding? What are you doing? I've

795
01:04:59.559 --> 01:05:04.079
never been mean. I've just for some reason, speaking different

796
01:05:04.159 --> 01:05:10.639
languages never really been something that I was particularly I

797
01:05:10.719 --> 01:05:17.440
wasn't interested in, but I also didn't really understand. Now

798
01:05:17.480 --> 01:05:20.079
I think part of the reason for that, other than

799
01:05:20.320 --> 01:05:26.079
lack of intelligence on my part, probably is unlike the

800
01:05:26.239 --> 01:05:30.679
my dad's generation and my NaN's generation, we didn't learn Latin,

801
01:05:31.920 --> 01:05:39.119
and Latin is almost the root of so many of

802
01:05:39.159 --> 01:05:46.400
the European languages, so you can almost it's I think,

803
01:05:46.639 --> 01:05:50.599
I'm just this is just my interpretation. It is easier to

804
01:05:50.719 --> 01:05:54.440
learn another language when you know Latin. I mean, Latin

805
01:05:54.559 --> 01:05:58.199
is I guess another language, I suppose, but you can,

806
01:05:58.679 --> 01:06:02.159
you know, when it comes to French or German, you've

807
01:06:02.159 --> 01:06:04.880
got the Latin roots, so you can kind of get

808
01:06:04.920 --> 01:06:06.400
to know what things are, and it makes it a

809
01:06:06.400 --> 01:06:12.800
bit easier to connect together. At ten years old, I

810
01:06:12.840 --> 01:06:16.400
was still learning English and I still am so I

811
01:06:16.440 --> 01:06:22.039
didn't really understand, and I didn't learn to read really

812
01:06:22.159 --> 01:06:26.840
till I taught myself pretty much. I did go to school,

813
01:06:26.840 --> 01:06:32.599
but I was what five, six six probably when I

814
01:06:32.599 --> 01:06:35.400
first got my first book, first got my first book.

815
01:06:37.159 --> 01:06:39.920
That's pretty much my only position, actually, that book, and

816
01:06:40.480 --> 01:06:42.119
I used to read it over and over and over

817
01:06:42.119 --> 01:06:45.840
and over and over and over and over again. And

818
01:06:45.880 --> 01:06:48.800
then when I went to junior school, this particular junior school,

819
01:06:48.800 --> 01:06:53.480
the one I'm talking about, I'd read and read and

820
01:06:53.519 --> 01:06:56.599
read and read, take books home, bring them back, read,

821
01:06:56.639 --> 01:07:00.639
you know, I read everything every single book they had

822
01:07:00.800 --> 01:07:06.360
pretty much in their little library. I read, and yeah,

823
01:07:06.360 --> 01:07:11.159
I loved it. Loved reading. That's the only kind of

824
01:07:13.039 --> 01:07:19.239
mildly intelligent thing. Flappy us there. I'm not saying intelligently,

825
01:07:19.360 --> 01:07:23.639
but yeah, the only thing that I really had is

826
01:07:23.920 --> 01:07:27.920
the love of reading. So I'm guessing there must have

827
01:07:28.000 --> 01:07:32.559
been some kind of brain activity going on inside my head.

828
01:07:34.239 --> 01:07:36.559
I don't know what or how much, but there was

829
01:07:36.559 --> 01:07:43.079
something going on. I loved to read. I'd like to

830
01:07:43.119 --> 01:07:45.320
get that passion back because I've kind of lost it

831
01:07:45.360 --> 01:07:48.760
a little bit. I mean, I do listen to audio books,

832
01:07:50.079 --> 01:07:52.760
but it's not the same. I mean, it can be that.

833
01:07:52.840 --> 01:07:55.199
I mean, I wouldn't be saying that if I was

834
01:07:57.239 --> 01:08:01.159
seriously visually impaired. I am visually impaired, but not seriously,

835
01:08:01.840 --> 01:08:06.519
so I think i'd take offense if people said, oh,

836
01:08:06.559 --> 01:08:08.559
you're not reading because you had not actually seen it

837
01:08:08.559 --> 01:08:15.039
with your eyes. But the problem is when I listen

838
01:08:15.079 --> 01:08:17.640
to an audiobook, I do have a tendency of falling asleep,

839
01:08:22.960 --> 01:08:25.279
and I wouldn't class that is reading the book if

840
01:08:25.279 --> 01:08:28.640
I was reading the book, and every time. The thing

841
01:08:28.680 --> 01:08:31.279
is when you read a book, if you fall asleep

842
01:08:31.319 --> 01:08:35.000
reading the book, you're not on like page forty two,

843
01:08:35.159 --> 01:08:37.560
and then when you wake up, you're on page ninety three.

844
01:08:39.079 --> 01:08:41.079
You know, you don't read why you're asleep, do you?

845
01:08:41.239 --> 01:08:44.800
But you can listen while you're asleep, or the thing

846
01:08:44.880 --> 01:08:47.319
can still play. You're not still turning the pages when

847
01:08:47.319 --> 01:08:50.640
you're asleep, and then like, oh, what's happened? I don't know.

848
01:08:51.199 --> 01:08:53.520
It's like I've just gone through thirty seven pages and

849
01:08:53.520 --> 01:08:57.399
I don't know what's happened. Never mind, that's still classes

850
01:08:57.439 --> 01:09:03.720
reading the book. It wouldn't be good it. So I

851
01:09:03.720 --> 01:09:07.000
don't know when it comes to listening to audio books,

852
01:09:07.600 --> 01:09:11.239
whether that's classed the same as reading a book. I

853
01:09:11.399 --> 01:09:18.079
like to think it is, but I don't know. I

854
01:09:18.119 --> 01:09:26.600
don't know. I'm not sure. I have read. From an

855
01:09:26.640 --> 01:09:37.680
audiobook perspective, how many audiobooks I've got? Where's I've got

856
01:09:37.680 --> 01:09:44.840
three hundred and eighty nine titles in my catalog. I've

857
01:09:44.960 --> 01:09:47.800
read more than that because you get some free. So

858
01:09:47.840 --> 01:09:51.520
I've read quite a few that were free, but recently

859
01:09:52.399 --> 01:09:54.920
I've had to go and go in to read them

860
01:09:54.960 --> 01:09:58.399
and they're taking them off. But they got three hundred and

861
01:09:58.479 --> 01:10:02.560
eighty nine, three hundred and eighty three in my library

862
01:10:04.600 --> 01:10:08.720
all all three hundred and eighty nine all but three

863
01:10:08.800 --> 01:10:15.880
hundred and eighty three titles. I couldn't even tell you

864
01:10:15.920 --> 01:10:18.600
blind me the thing is a lot of it is

865
01:10:19.159 --> 01:10:25.000
not not story books. Most of it is kind of

866
01:10:25.039 --> 01:10:36.520
self help. I think like the art of war and philosophy, psychology. Well,

867
01:10:36.560 --> 01:10:41.840
I do have the Beatrix Potter collection as a man

868
01:10:42.079 --> 01:10:47.399
thinking of the men, historic goats, Essentials of social psychology,

869
01:10:47.880 --> 01:10:52.600
the power of habit breaking, the habit of being just

870
01:10:52.760 --> 01:10:58.840
self breaking, the habit of breaking the habit, the habit

871
01:10:58.880 --> 01:11:05.439
of being yourself influenced, Knew and Expanded Artfinish and Artificial

872
01:11:05.439 --> 01:11:11.880
Intelligence for Dummies, Borderline Personality Disorder Never Finished, The eighty

873
01:11:11.920 --> 01:11:17.520
twenty Principal chat Chat GPT Mastery twelve books in one

874
01:11:18.560 --> 01:11:22.279
Understanding disorders of the Brain. Then You've Got Gold by

875
01:11:22.359 --> 01:11:30.279
Zig Ziggler, The Jimp Paradox, Chimp Paradox, Stephen Peters, The Crowd,

876
01:11:30.640 --> 01:11:35.920
a Study of psychology under You Got Success, Habits The

877
01:11:36.000 --> 01:11:41.479
Law of Success Napoleon Hill Oh nineteen gal The Stranger's

878
01:11:41.560 --> 01:11:46.359
Secret for Success. And then You've Got My Voice Will

879
01:11:46.359 --> 01:11:49.199
Go with You by Sidney Rosen As a hypnosis one.

880
01:11:49.439 --> 01:11:51.800
The Therapist Guide to E D m R E M

881
01:11:51.880 --> 01:11:56.520
D r R, the Coage to be disliked, The Complex

882
01:11:56.880 --> 01:12:06.640
Borderline Personality Disorder CO Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz. And then

883
01:12:06.680 --> 01:12:11.159
you've got realer imagined Outspark your outsmite your pain, The

884
01:12:11.199 --> 01:12:17.039
TENX mentor that grant cardone, the ten X Rule, Seven

885
01:12:17.279 --> 01:12:22.720
Power Principles for Success, Hypnosis about Trance by James Tripp,

886
01:12:23.359 --> 01:12:27.279
The Essence of Success by L. Nightingale, The Direct Line

887
01:12:27.279 --> 01:12:33.159
by L. Nightingale, Great Ideas by el Nightingale, The Magic

888
01:12:33.199 --> 01:12:35.680
of Thinking Big. So quite a few of these I've

889
01:12:35.680 --> 01:12:39.000
read in the past, but these are audio versions. Napoleon

890
01:12:39.119 --> 01:12:44.800
Hill's Golden Rules by Napoleon Hill, NLP, The ES Central Guide.

891
01:12:45.319 --> 01:12:48.039
I'm pretty sure I listened to that audiobook or that

892
01:12:48.079 --> 01:12:53.000
it was an audio recording back in ninety eight. BlimE Me.

893
01:12:53.720 --> 01:12:57.119
Hypnosis There's no One understanding or as a start here,

894
01:12:57.560 --> 01:13:02.039
Advanced Hipnotherapy, Reason to Stay Alive but by Matt Haig.

895
01:13:02.880 --> 01:13:06.880
The Joy of Meditation by Sally Meryl Bedfield I think

896
01:13:06.880 --> 01:13:10.640
her name is. That's the recording that I listened to

897
01:13:11.479 --> 01:13:18.239
back in nineteen no. Two thousand. In two thousand, I

898
01:13:18.359 --> 01:13:21.920
listened to that recording. I found it, and I've got

899
01:13:21.960 --> 01:13:25.439
it saved on here. I think I purchased it. It

900
01:13:25.520 --> 01:13:29.319
was like too could or something, I think, but love

901
01:13:29.720 --> 01:13:36.159
that recording. And you've got the Quantum Revelation, the Quantum Rules.

902
01:13:36.640 --> 01:13:39.279
I forgot about that. I was really into quantum, wasn't

903
01:13:39.279 --> 01:13:42.279
I quantum stuff for a couple of weeks and I

904
01:13:42.319 --> 01:13:46.920
seem to have, I don't know, seemed to have moved

905
01:13:46.920 --> 01:13:50.600
away from it. I'm really interested in all that stuff.

906
01:13:52.199 --> 01:13:57.520
So you got Depak Chopra Chopra, The Quantum Doctor, The

907
01:13:57.520 --> 01:14:04.680
Power of your subconscious Quantum Entanglement, Quantum Physics. Simplified Reality

908
01:14:04.760 --> 01:14:09.760
is Plastic. That's a hypnosis book. Quantum Physics. The Mountain

909
01:14:09.840 --> 01:14:13.439
is You. Think and Grow Rich. The Pain Habit Story

910
01:14:13.439 --> 01:14:16.600
of Earl Nightingale. That's quite a recent one. Think and

911
01:14:16.600 --> 01:14:21.239
Grow Rich. The Secret Million Dollar Weekend Money, The Ultimate

912
01:14:21.279 --> 01:14:25.119
Bob Propter Library. I'm Worth I've had that for years

913
01:14:25.199 --> 01:14:29.760
that month I'm Worth More by Bob Moore, Before and

914
01:14:30.079 --> 01:14:34.520
Laughter as Jimmy Carr. Napoleon Hill, The Road to Riches,

915
01:14:35.199 --> 01:14:39.720
Napoleon Hill's master Course, The Way Out to any One's Success.

916
01:14:40.239 --> 01:14:46.119
Secrets of Success by Brian Brian Brian Brian Tracy, you

917
01:14:46.239 --> 01:14:51.720
are a bad ass at making money, clearly, not the odds,

918
01:14:51.720 --> 01:14:56.720
but Napoleon Hill, Napoleon Hill's Keys to Positivity, The Power

919
01:14:56.920 --> 01:14:59.680
of Ambition, which is what I was listening to earlier today,

920
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:04.000
it's only three minutes left for that one. And Beatrix

921
01:15:04.079 --> 01:15:08.680
Potter Collection, which I accidentally clicked on earlier. That's just

922
01:15:08.800 --> 01:15:12.840
some of the ones that I've listened to. Wow, quite

923
01:15:12.880 --> 01:15:19.760
a few. So then that was the junior school. Then

924
01:15:19.760 --> 01:15:24.479
what happened is I moved. I played the violin in

925
01:15:24.600 --> 01:15:27.239
junior school, so that was pretty good. I also learned

926
01:15:27.239 --> 01:15:35.359
to swim, like technically still, I had swimming lessons. Put

927
01:15:35.399 --> 01:15:37.520
it this way, I'm better at swimming than I was

928
01:15:37.600 --> 01:15:41.439
before because when I was I had a bit of

929
01:15:41.479 --> 01:15:44.600
an accident in the swimming pool, not not that kind

930
01:15:44.600 --> 01:15:50.880
of accident, just yeah, I was saved by the lifeguard.

931
01:15:51.640 --> 01:15:53.720
So after that, and that was when I was very little,

932
01:15:53.760 --> 01:15:59.319
probably about four so or maybe five, So I didn't

933
01:15:59.479 --> 01:16:04.520
like I didn't like swimming pools or anything. And the

934
01:16:04.560 --> 01:16:07.640
swimming instructor we actually had a swimming pool in this school,

935
01:16:08.279 --> 01:16:13.840
which is pretty amazing, and the the sw I had

936
01:16:13.840 --> 01:16:18.319
swimming lessons for quite a while, and he was so

937
01:16:18.520 --> 01:16:22.840
patient with me, absolutely lovely. And the good thing about

938
01:16:22.880 --> 01:16:28.319
it is I got to swim, but without having anyone

939
01:16:28.359 --> 01:16:29.920
else around. I mean, there was a couple other people

940
01:16:29.920 --> 01:16:33.319
having lessons, but what I found is when everyone got

941
01:16:33.319 --> 01:16:36.279
into this to the swimming pool together, they'll all be

942
01:16:36.359 --> 01:16:40.079
jumping on top of each other. And that was not

943
01:16:40.199 --> 01:16:43.680
good for me because I just didn't feel safe and

944
01:16:43.680 --> 01:16:48.159
I didn't feel comfortable with that. And I also had

945
01:16:48.640 --> 01:16:52.119
had violin lessons, so I went learned the violin for

946
01:16:53.439 --> 01:16:55.880
probably about a year, maybe a look, maybe longer than

947
01:16:55.920 --> 01:16:58.800
a year. I was at that school for two years,

948
01:16:58.880 --> 01:17:01.840
so probably playing violin for maybe a year and a half,

949
01:17:04.079 --> 01:17:05.640
maybe two years, I don't know. I think it was

950
01:17:05.640 --> 01:17:09.520
at least over a year anyway. And then I went

951
01:17:09.560 --> 01:17:12.960
to high school when I was eleven, just turned eleven

952
01:17:13.079 --> 01:17:20.720
in nineteen eighty one. Yeah, nineteen eighty one, in September,

953
01:17:20.800 --> 01:17:27.640
that's when I went to high school. And yeah, that

954
01:17:27.720 --> 01:17:30.600
was a whole news story. That was that weird. I

955
01:17:30.600 --> 01:17:34.079
remember we went there for the afternoon, probably a few

956
01:17:34.079 --> 01:17:37.680
months before going there for properly, just to kind of

957
01:17:37.680 --> 01:17:39.840
have a tour of the place, and that was huge,

958
01:17:40.279 --> 01:17:43.880
and I was tiny. I mean, it just take off

959
01:17:43.880 --> 01:17:45.840
two years and that's the kind of size I was.

960
01:17:47.039 --> 01:17:49.039
So I was eleven, so I looked about the size

961
01:17:49.039 --> 01:17:54.800
of a nine year old, absolutely tiny, and apart from

962
01:17:54.840 --> 01:17:56.880
the fact, I was also one of the youngest there

963
01:17:56.920 --> 01:17:59.760
as well, because it had to be eleven to be

964
01:17:59.760 --> 01:18:03.439
an the first year of high school. But some of

965
01:18:03.479 --> 01:18:06.399
the kids, after being there for a few weeks, a

966
01:18:06.439 --> 01:18:09.760
couple of weeks, two three weeks, would turning twelve, So

967
01:18:10.680 --> 01:18:12.359
a lot of the kids were nearly a year older

968
01:18:12.359 --> 01:18:16.600
than me, and that really showed later on in school.

969
01:18:16.680 --> 01:18:20.319
So when like at thirteen, when I was twelve and

970
01:18:20.359 --> 01:18:23.199
they were thirteen, there was I know, there's a lot

971
01:18:23.199 --> 01:18:27.159
of size difference there. Some kids that had beards and

972
01:18:27.239 --> 01:18:30.680
you know, they were grown like almost like adults, and

973
01:18:30.760 --> 01:18:39.319
I was still a kid. So that was weird. And yeah,

974
01:18:39.800 --> 01:18:41.920
I mean that's a difference as a whole new conversation

975
01:18:42.079 --> 01:18:46.600
that high school. But I just remember just looking around thinking, Wow,

976
01:18:47.880 --> 01:18:50.760
I got lost. I got lost all the way. For

977
01:18:50.800 --> 01:18:55.359
five years, I would get lost in that place. Honestly,

978
01:18:55.520 --> 01:18:59.239
I had to. I needed help to navigate to know

979
01:18:59.600 --> 01:19:03.560
where because we have a roster, you know what classes.

980
01:19:03.560 --> 01:19:06.159
We had to go to and where we needed to

981
01:19:06.199 --> 01:19:09.359
be next, and I needed help. I could find my

982
01:19:09.399 --> 01:19:15.359
way around the whole time I was there. It's just

983
01:19:15.560 --> 01:19:18.600
I didn't know what classes, what number classes they were,

984
01:19:18.680 --> 01:19:24.800
and oh there's one. I had a different form room,

985
01:19:24.960 --> 01:19:26.680
which was like where we'd go in the morning and

986
01:19:26.760 --> 01:19:28.600
we'd then go back at the end of the day

987
01:19:29.319 --> 01:19:33.640
to sign and kind of sign out kind of, and

988
01:19:33.680 --> 01:19:36.039
we could go there during breaks, so that I used

989
01:19:36.079 --> 01:19:40.520
to just stay there during the breaks sometimes because I

990
01:19:41.159 --> 01:19:44.640
was worried that I wouldn't get back in time for lunch,

991
01:19:45.000 --> 01:19:47.119
or after lunch, we had to go back there as well.

992
01:19:47.920 --> 01:19:58.800
I think, yeah, anyway that I think that school deserves

993
01:19:58.000 --> 01:20:03.479
a boring record in on its own. But there was

994
01:20:03.520 --> 01:20:06.239
good thing. I liked all of the junior schools, the

995
01:20:06.279 --> 01:20:12.479
three junior schools that I remember, I liked all of them.

996
01:20:11.600 --> 01:20:17.880
I liked the second one more than the first one

997
01:20:18.840 --> 01:20:24.640
because I made some new friends and at that time,

998
01:20:26.239 --> 01:20:30.279
the home, the home situation was as good as a

999
01:20:30.319 --> 01:20:32.920
school situation. It was just really nice. Everything was nice.

1000
01:20:34.279 --> 01:20:37.560
So that was my favorite. That's my favorite time during

1001
01:20:37.640 --> 01:20:41.880
childhood really roundup age of eight, between eight and nine,

1002
01:20:43.359 --> 01:20:48.159
but between seven and nine really because we was also

1003
01:20:49.960 --> 01:20:53.640
evenizing the other school and everything. So that period of time,

1004
01:20:53.760 --> 01:21:01.600
those two years, but between eight and nine. Like I'm

1005
01:21:01.640 --> 01:21:06.560
not saying it's like a Disney movie, but it also

1006
01:21:06.680 --> 01:21:08.720
like a Disney movie. But it was not. I liked it.

1007
01:21:08.720 --> 01:21:15.079
It was Everything was very simple, you know. We lived

1008
01:21:15.079 --> 01:21:18.600
in a new house. Nothing needed to be done. Everything

1009
01:21:18.720 --> 01:21:22.439
was good. We had snow. I built an iceberg, not

1010
01:21:22.439 --> 01:21:27.560
not an iceberg, an igloo. You know. It was good.

1011
01:21:27.680 --> 01:21:29.239
We used to used to hang around all the other

1012
01:21:29.479 --> 01:21:32.279
the kids that were local. We used to go into

1013
01:21:32.319 --> 01:21:35.560
the fields and jump out of trees, climb trees, things

1014
01:21:35.640 --> 01:21:37.800
like that. I used to get pushed out of trees.

1015
01:21:37.840 --> 01:21:41.800
It was. It was fun. We used to climb into

1016
01:21:41.840 --> 01:21:43.479
trees to get away from the other kids. It was.

1017
01:21:43.720 --> 01:21:48.039
It was good fun. So then then we moved. It

1018
01:21:48.119 --> 01:21:50.800
was weird because my name and grand they'd moved in

1019
01:21:50.960 --> 01:21:54.560
straight away to that house from London, and we moved

1020
01:21:54.600 --> 01:21:58.399
into a bigger house because of the family growing. So

1021
01:21:58.439 --> 01:22:02.600
I'd be backing forward to that house constantly. So for

1022
01:22:02.640 --> 01:22:05.960
a short while, I would keep contact with my friends

1023
01:22:06.800 --> 01:22:10.840
Ian and Andrew. Ian was my bestest friend. Andrew was

1024
01:22:11.359 --> 01:22:15.560
another good friend that lived few doors up Andrew lived

1025
01:22:16.960 --> 01:22:19.880
just around the corner. Literally it was like a minute's walk.

1026
01:22:21.319 --> 01:22:24.920
But as time went by, I wasn't at school with

1027
01:22:24.960 --> 01:22:32.000
him anymore, and I kind of lost contact with him.

1028
01:22:32.199 --> 01:22:35.199
But for some reason I kept contact with Andrew because

1029
01:22:35.920 --> 01:22:38.760
because he lived literally two three doors up, I used

1030
01:22:38.760 --> 01:22:41.520
to see him or see his mum and dad and

1031
01:22:41.560 --> 01:22:44.640
they were friends with my nan and granddad. They so

1032
01:22:44.800 --> 01:22:47.640
it's kind of kind of kept in contact with him

1033
01:22:48.359 --> 01:22:51.039
into my early twenties. Still used to visit him in

1034
01:22:51.039 --> 01:22:54.960
my early twenties, which bearing in mind I moved out

1035
01:22:54.960 --> 01:22:58.520
of that place when I was nine, so was that

1036
01:22:58.840 --> 01:23:02.880
nineteen to so yeah, over probably fift thirteen fourteen years.

1037
01:23:03.920 --> 01:23:05.880
But I lost contact of Ian. And he was my

1038
01:23:05.960 --> 01:23:11.279
bestest friend's and he was on the same date of

1039
01:23:11.359 --> 01:23:14.920
birth as me. But my name is should tell me

1040
01:23:14.960 --> 01:23:17.640
stuff because she kind of knew what's going on around

1041
01:23:17.720 --> 01:23:20.399
and she'd sort of update me on how he was doing.

1042
01:23:20.800 --> 01:23:25.840
Even in my thirties. She'd tell, oh, yeah, he's he's

1043
01:23:25.840 --> 01:23:28.239
got married or whatever, and she just keep up to

1044
01:23:28.319 --> 01:23:31.439
date with some of the kids that are now like

1045
01:23:31.960 --> 01:23:37.239
fully grown adults what they're up to. But it's weird

1046
01:23:37.319 --> 01:23:44.520
because that it's just I don't know why we kind

1047
01:23:44.560 --> 01:23:47.840
of didn't keep in touch. Maybe it's just a bit harder,

1048
01:23:47.880 --> 01:23:50.920
you know, but it was so close to me and him,

1049
01:23:51.199 --> 01:23:54.359
really close. And then I got my new best friend,

1050
01:23:54.399 --> 01:23:57.359
Dean in high school now in junior school. That the

1051
01:23:57.439 --> 01:24:01.359
last two years of junior school and most of the

1052
01:24:01.399 --> 01:24:05.439
way through high school. In the last year of high school,

1053
01:24:05.640 --> 01:24:10.399
we became a little bit estranged, you know. I think

1054
01:24:10.479 --> 01:24:15.000
it was, yeah, we didn't get on so well, but

1055
01:24:15.600 --> 01:24:21.960
all the years previous to that we were inseparable. It's yeah,

1056
01:24:22.840 --> 01:24:26.760
So that was what'so that another friend called Ian no

1057
01:24:27.319 --> 01:24:29.880
Ivan who lived around the corner used to come to

1058
01:24:29.960 --> 01:24:34.680
my house, and another friend Neil. So it's really I

1059
01:24:34.720 --> 01:24:39.680
had three friends that were known by my family that

1060
01:24:39.760 --> 01:24:43.000
were welcome in the house to come visit, and you know,

1061
01:24:43.119 --> 01:24:45.279
they'd just like, go upstairs is upstairs, so they just

1062
01:24:45.319 --> 01:24:50.319
come up. So I had three three friends and that's

1063
01:24:50.359 --> 01:24:54.640
the only friends I had that I'm pretty sure they

1064
01:24:54.640 --> 01:24:56.239
would just walk in the back. To be fair, I

1065
01:24:56.239 --> 01:24:58.159
don't think they'd even knock on the front door. Walk

1066
01:24:58.159 --> 01:25:03.039
in the back and knock on the back door, or

1067
01:25:03.119 --> 01:25:07.640
shout up at my bedroom standing in the little alleyway.

1068
01:25:07.800 --> 01:25:12.479
Oy juicy, are you there? One of them did sound

1069
01:25:12.560 --> 01:25:18.399
like a like a pirate, and that was Ian, not

1070
01:25:18.439 --> 01:25:23.640
like Ian Ivan, So they were cool. I had other friends,

1071
01:25:23.640 --> 01:25:25.720
but I didn't. I used to go around Pill's houses

1072
01:25:25.760 --> 01:25:30.199
and get banned from the wasn't allowed to go around anymore,

1073
01:25:31.439 --> 01:25:34.560
never allowed to go into well, I'm not allowed to

1074
01:25:34.600 --> 01:25:40.399
go into. But Dean's dad didn't like me, so it

1075
01:25:40.479 --> 01:25:42.760
was always like, way on the doorstep, I'll go and

1076
01:25:42.800 --> 01:25:46.239
get him, and he let I went in once. But

1077
01:25:46.319 --> 01:25:49.239
he did live in an old people's home like he was.

1078
01:25:49.279 --> 01:25:54.039
That was the family business, so I didn't care about that.

1079
01:25:54.119 --> 01:25:57.239
But I don't think his that just didn't. He didn't

1080
01:25:57.359 --> 01:26:04.479
didn't take to me, but my parents let it. Literally,

1081
01:26:04.760 --> 01:26:08.279
Dean would just come in to go upstairs. He was,

1082
01:26:09.159 --> 01:26:13.319
in some ways I think, part of the family really. Yeah,

1083
01:26:13.359 --> 01:26:16.800
we were always together, and then Neil was a bit

1084
01:26:16.880 --> 01:26:18.640
like that as well. Niel just used to come around

1085
01:26:19.119 --> 01:26:21.920
and he'd come up, and the same with Ivan. But

1086
01:26:21.960 --> 01:26:23.840
there were the only three really that I used to

1087
01:26:23.920 --> 01:26:30.800
have come around regularly to my house and I'd go

1088
01:26:30.840 --> 01:26:34.000
around Ivans, but I didn't used to hang around in

1089
01:26:34.039 --> 01:26:36.880
his house, but I used to wait for him and

1090
01:26:36.920 --> 01:26:38.319
his mom was lovely. He used to talk to his

1091
01:26:38.439 --> 01:26:41.680
mum and it is yeah, Ivan's mom was lovely. He

1092
01:26:41.720 --> 01:26:44.199
had two older brothers I think that were into motorbikes.

1093
01:26:44.239 --> 01:26:46.359
But he was a good bloke. He was a good

1094
01:26:46.439 --> 01:26:49.039
lad and his brothers were nice. And his mom was

1095
01:26:49.079 --> 01:26:54.760
absolutely lovely, so friendly, and so he was well promeed

1096
01:26:54.800 --> 01:26:57.800
my house as well, but I didn't used to spend

1097
01:26:58.159 --> 01:27:01.159
too much time in his house. Used to be just

1098
01:27:01.199 --> 01:27:06.000
like waiting for him and would go out and then Ian.

1099
01:27:06.960 --> 01:27:13.279
So I wasn't allowed really into Dean's house. But Neil

1100
01:27:13.600 --> 01:27:15.800
and I don't know why, but his parents liked me.

1101
01:27:16.479 --> 01:27:18.279
They just welcomed me. I don't think they liked They

1102
01:27:18.359 --> 01:27:22.159
just put up with me. They tolerated me, and they'd

1103
01:27:22.199 --> 01:27:25.880
let me in, always always let me in. I'd stay over,

1104
01:27:26.600 --> 01:27:32.760
we'd go in the garden, we'd cause trouble and they

1105
01:27:32.840 --> 01:27:36.479
just kept letting me. They just let me in. And

1106
01:27:36.520 --> 01:27:38.920
they were lovely, both of them, both the father and

1107
01:27:39.000 --> 01:27:42.720
the mother both lovely. And when I got when I

1108
01:27:42.760 --> 01:27:46.760
moved up into the chip shop flat above the flat

1109
01:27:46.800 --> 01:27:49.960
when I was sixteen, they gave me stuff for the flat.

1110
01:27:50.479 --> 01:27:55.079
I could, you know, toaster, cutlery, stuff like that it's lovely.

1111
01:27:56.239 --> 01:27:58.600
And this is after some of the weird stuff I

1112
01:27:58.640 --> 01:28:01.840
got up to in their house. I mean, once I

1113
01:28:01.880 --> 01:28:04.039
got drunk, or we all got drunk, but I got

1114
01:28:04.079 --> 01:28:07.880
particularly drunk, and for some reason we thought it would

1115
01:28:07.880 --> 01:28:10.399
be a funny thing to I think it was about

1116
01:28:10.399 --> 01:28:15.560
fifteen fourteen maybe, and we thought it'd be funny too,

1117
01:28:15.560 --> 01:28:18.359
because we had like a half day I think it

1118
01:28:18.399 --> 01:28:22.359
was a school teacher strike or something like that, and

1119
01:28:22.760 --> 01:28:27.960
we went around to me. Dean and Neil were in

1120
01:28:28.079 --> 01:28:35.199
Neil's house. We thought, let's raid the alcohol cupboard. So

1121
01:28:35.239 --> 01:28:39.279
we were drinking out of pint glasses and just mixing everything.

1122
01:28:39.720 --> 01:28:43.439
Really silly idea to do, very very dangerous as well,

1123
01:28:43.520 --> 01:28:46.960
so I would never do that now, but I did

1124
01:28:47.039 --> 01:28:52.119
on that occasion, and I don't The other two got drunk,

1125
01:28:52.159 --> 01:28:57.199
but not like I got. They thought it'd be a

1126
01:28:57.199 --> 01:29:02.399
funny idea to take me up to their mom and

1127
01:29:02.479 --> 01:29:05.000
dad's his mom and dad's bed and wrapped me in

1128
01:29:05.079 --> 01:29:10.000
the douvet like a sausage roll. Okay, wrapped me in

1129
01:29:10.079 --> 01:29:13.760
the douvet. And that was not a good idea because,

1130
01:29:15.079 --> 01:29:17.119
as I kept saying to them, I need to get

1131
01:29:17.199 --> 01:29:21.800
to the bathroom. So I won't really go into what

1132
01:29:21.800 --> 01:29:25.640
happens next, but I made a real mess of the bed,

1133
01:29:25.800 --> 01:29:30.880
the bed in the the house. Really, I mean I

1134
01:29:31.000 --> 01:29:36.000
was because I was very drunk. I completely destroyed the

1135
01:29:36.079 --> 01:29:45.159
house and then I left. They thought it was hilarious,

1136
01:29:45.640 --> 01:29:49.399
not the parents. I never saw the parents result reaction

1137
01:29:49.600 --> 01:29:53.520
because they weren't there. They were at work. I left

1138
01:29:53.520 --> 01:29:56.479
and did my paper round and then I went home,

1139
01:29:57.760 --> 01:30:02.319
went to bed, and then I got up about half

1140
01:30:02.439 --> 01:30:11.199
six and it was dinner time, and I had boiled eggs.

1141
01:30:11.399 --> 01:30:14.199
That was my dinner. I did not want eggs. Eggs

1142
01:30:14.319 --> 01:30:16.439
was the one thing I'm probably out of the whole

1143
01:30:16.479 --> 01:30:19.439
world of food. I did not want to eat. And

1144
01:30:19.479 --> 01:30:22.239
I had a headache. And Tucker's Luck was on TV,

1145
01:30:23.520 --> 01:30:26.880
so I can guess get the actual year from Tucker's Luck.

1146
01:30:27.159 --> 01:30:32.079
Tucker's Luck used to be on BBC two. Tucker's Luck

1147
01:30:33.720 --> 01:30:36.600
BBC two. I'm sure it was used to be on

1148
01:30:36.640 --> 01:30:45.399
a Tuesday BBC two. Tucker's Luck is eighty three to

1149
01:30:45.479 --> 01:30:53.079
eighty five. Tucker's Luck was on, so I wonder if

1150
01:30:53.079 --> 01:30:56.960
it tells me okay. Series three went on to twenty

1151
01:30:57.000 --> 01:31:00.880
second of October nineteen eighty five, so I would have

1152
01:31:00.960 --> 01:31:08.439
been just turned fifteen at that point, so I reckon

1153
01:31:08.520 --> 01:31:10.000
it was probably a little bit before that. So when

1154
01:31:10.039 --> 01:31:13.560
I was about fourteen and he used to be on

1155
01:31:15.720 --> 01:31:21.439
thirteenth of March, I wonder if it's it's gonna bug

1156
01:31:21.479 --> 01:31:24.359
be down. I'm sure it's a Tuesday or Wednesday. I

1157
01:31:24.359 --> 01:31:32.960
don't know why, but I just had this feeling, Oh

1158
01:31:33.039 --> 01:31:39.960
my goodness, wow, thirteenth of March. Okay, and this was

1159
01:31:40.479 --> 01:31:45.119
this is the second series of Tucker's Luck. Tucker's Luck,

1160
01:31:45.239 --> 01:31:50.159
second series, episode one, so it might have been anyway.

1161
01:31:50.199 --> 01:31:51.239
It was the same day of the week, so it

1162
01:31:51.279 --> 01:31:56.920
might have been a different episode, but it was a Tuesday.

1163
01:31:57.079 --> 01:31:59.600
In fact, let's have a look at the tenth of

1164
01:32:00.439 --> 01:32:05.199
tenth of March Ceber or not. Now it's nineteen eighty three,

1165
01:32:05.359 --> 01:32:15.119
so let's just look at this one. That was a Thursday.

1166
01:32:15.720 --> 01:32:19.760
So that was the very first series and the third series.

1167
01:32:27.560 --> 01:32:29.960
For some reason, the date's not coming up. Oh yeah

1168
01:32:29.960 --> 01:32:35.279
it is. That was a Tuesday. So the first and

1169
01:32:35.520 --> 01:32:38.680
the second and third series was on a Tuesday. First

1170
01:32:38.760 --> 01:32:45.880
series was on a Wednesday Thursday rather, so I'm pretty

1171
01:32:45.880 --> 01:32:50.640
certain it would have been eighty four. Wow, So I

1172
01:32:50.800 --> 01:33:00.319
was fourteen, probably four thirteen, fourteen fourteen, probably, and they

1173
01:33:00.399 --> 01:33:08.159
was still lovely to me, like just found I don't

1174
01:33:08.199 --> 01:33:09.960
I'm sure they didn't find it funny, but it was

1175
01:33:09.960 --> 01:33:12.359
one of those things that just for some reason, they

1176
01:33:12.399 --> 01:33:15.960
were just nice. And I did get banned from some

1177
01:33:16.079 --> 01:33:18.680
of the people, like friends from school. I'd go around

1178
01:33:18.720 --> 01:33:22.680
their houses and get told I wasn't allowed to go

1179
01:33:22.760 --> 01:33:26.720
back because I don't know, say the wrong thing, do

1180
01:33:26.800 --> 01:33:32.760
the wrong thing, whatever, And I'm me. When there was

1181
01:33:32.760 --> 01:33:36.399
this one kid and he had this big pile of

1182
01:33:36.680 --> 01:33:42.039
mud and decided he wanted to wrestle, so I kept

1183
01:33:42.039 --> 01:33:48.399
climbing onto the parlor jumping onto him, and his mum

1184
01:33:48.640 --> 01:33:53.800
didn't like it. Apparently I was getting too excited, like okay,

1185
01:33:53.800 --> 01:34:00.239
I should rephrase out, but I was getting excited. Yeah,

1186
01:34:00.239 --> 01:34:01.920
I was just like getting pumped up, and I was

1187
01:34:02.239 --> 01:34:05.920
perhaps being a bit too over the top, maybe too

1188
01:34:06.199 --> 01:34:08.199
Maybe it seemed like I was being aggressive or whatever,

1189
01:34:08.239 --> 01:34:11.000
but I was just like running up and jump in,

1190
01:34:11.159 --> 01:34:14.840
and you know, I didn't have a sword or anything,

1191
01:34:15.000 --> 01:34:17.479
but I was I definitely thought I was a Viking.

1192
01:34:17.520 --> 01:34:19.640
I think at the time I was going through a

1193
01:34:19.640 --> 01:34:30.680
little Viking phrase phrase phase phrase. There was another two Yeah,

1194
01:34:30.720 --> 01:34:34.079
I remember I went around another kid's house and I

1195
01:34:34.119 --> 01:34:39.199
wasn't allowed to go back there again. My favorite place,

1196
01:34:39.279 --> 01:34:42.960
the favorite place I ever went to, was this girl's

1197
01:34:43.199 --> 01:34:45.800
I really liked that and I was hoping that she

1198
01:34:45.880 --> 01:34:48.680
was going to be my girlfriend. And she invited me

1199
01:34:48.760 --> 01:34:51.960
to a birthday party. And it was the first birthday party,

1200
01:34:54.199 --> 01:34:56.840
probably the only birthday party I was ever invited to

1201
01:34:56.920 --> 01:35:00.159
as a kid. Not that I've really been invited to

1202
01:35:00.520 --> 01:35:03.279
many as an adult, eva really, but that was the

1203
01:35:03.319 --> 01:35:07.079
first one, first and only one. And I was in

1204
01:35:07.119 --> 01:35:10.159
this Her dad was like a vicar, so it was

1205
01:35:10.199 --> 01:35:14.119
in this not monastery, but VICARYE just said, huge house,

1206
01:35:14.439 --> 01:35:18.439
huge house. And I went to a birthday party. And

1207
01:35:20.720 --> 01:35:23.279
I was probably in the first year put it the

1208
01:35:23.279 --> 01:35:27.520
first year of high school. I'd say, I think and

1209
01:35:27.560 --> 01:35:32.039
I loved her, okay, And she took me aside and

1210
01:35:32.079 --> 01:35:36.760
said just two things. I said, yeah, what can you

1211
01:35:37.239 --> 01:35:40.680
stop looking through my under my underwear drawer? Please? And

1212
01:35:40.720 --> 01:35:45.000
I said, okay, what's the second thing? She said, I'm moving.

1213
01:35:46.239 --> 01:35:47.720
I said, just because at the end of I was

1214
01:35:47.760 --> 01:35:51.319
just I was looking for some binoculars. She said, why

1215
01:35:51.720 --> 01:36:00.680
why you This is a weird I can't even bother.

1216
01:36:01.479 --> 01:36:06.359
Why would my binoculars be in your underwear, dwells, that's

1217
01:36:06.359 --> 01:36:15.000
what I keep mine. Okay, So I didn't. I wasn't

1218
01:36:15.000 --> 01:36:18.359
looking through, but I did do that as an older age. Yeah,

1219
01:36:18.359 --> 01:36:20.199
I got kicked out of a few people's houses for

1220
01:36:20.199 --> 01:36:23.479
that as well, but that was enough of my date

1221
01:36:23.560 --> 01:36:27.199
in history in my twenties. So I yeah, so I'm

1222
01:36:27.199 --> 01:36:32.199
just basically, she takes me aside and said I've got

1223
01:36:32.199 --> 01:36:38.800
some news. I said, okay, I thought weird. She said,

1224
01:36:39.079 --> 01:36:42.840
I'm moving away. I said, what do you mean? Said well,

1225
01:36:43.079 --> 01:36:45.920
because this is just at the end of school, the

1226
01:36:46.359 --> 01:36:48.439
school break, and said, oh, I'm not coming back to

1227
01:36:48.439 --> 01:36:52.960
school again. I'm moving. My parents are moving to a

1228
01:36:52.960 --> 01:36:56.880
different district. He's going to be a vicar of a

1229
01:36:56.920 --> 01:37:01.880
different place the other side of the country. And she

1230
01:37:02.000 --> 01:37:11.319
seemed generally genuinely concerned for my welfare, for my well being.

1231
01:37:12.880 --> 01:37:16.239
So I think she might liked me a bit. I

1232
01:37:16.279 --> 01:37:18.720
know it's very both very young. We were like eleven,

1233
01:37:19.560 --> 01:37:23.039
twelve or whatever, but just like, it was so nice

1234
01:37:23.039 --> 01:37:25.239
the fact that she invited me to a birthday party,

1235
01:37:26.000 --> 01:37:28.800
and also that she told me that she was moving away,

1236
01:37:28.880 --> 01:37:32.199
and she seemed to care that she was moving away,

1237
01:37:34.399 --> 01:37:36.119
and I said, well, we can still keep in touch.

1238
01:37:36.239 --> 01:37:39.800
She said, nah, I don't really want to. I said, okay,

1239
01:37:40.039 --> 01:37:42.119
that's to be fair. I think that's support the moment.

1240
01:37:42.760 --> 01:37:47.079
It did, and I think her trying to push me

1241
01:37:47.159 --> 01:37:51.239
out of a window didn't help either. But I just yeah,

1242
01:37:51.279 --> 01:37:53.600
but before that, it was romantic, not romantic, but it

1243
01:37:53.640 --> 01:38:00.720
was kind of nice. Yeah, there was a bit of

1244
01:38:00.720 --> 01:38:05.439
a problem with the toilet lid. And when I got

1245
01:38:05.479 --> 01:38:10.560
back to school after the holiday, the school holidays, there

1246
01:38:10.600 --> 01:38:13.159
was a few other kids that were at that party.

1247
01:38:13.520 --> 01:38:15.479
I want to keep going on about as about the

1248
01:38:15.520 --> 01:38:21.239
blocked toilet, and whenever they mentioned block toilets. For the

1249
01:38:21.279 --> 01:38:23.520
next four years at school, everyone would look at me,

1250
01:38:24.760 --> 01:38:28.479
even if the toilet. You know, so I mentioned block

1251
01:38:28.560 --> 01:38:32.199
toilets in a different classroom where I wasn't even there.

1252
01:38:33.319 --> 01:38:36.319
Everyone would walk from that classroom to the other side

1253
01:38:36.319 --> 01:38:38.960
of the school and look in the door and look

1254
01:38:39.000 --> 01:38:40.960
at me. Some people would go out out the front

1255
01:38:41.199 --> 01:38:43.720
at the side, looked through the window and look at

1256
01:38:43.760 --> 01:38:47.800
me and then walk off. It was a very strange,

1257
01:38:48.600 --> 01:38:54.119
strange environment. I had nothing to do with the block toilet, Okay,

1258
01:38:54.960 --> 01:38:59.640
maybe I did. I think sometimes block toilets, just it's

1259
01:38:59.640 --> 01:39:04.039
just not sometimes. I mean, I don't think toilets are

1260
01:39:04.319 --> 01:39:07.880
or they're not suited for all sizes, are they? You know,

1261
01:39:09.159 --> 01:39:14.680
there's sometimes just needed a wider I was going to

1262
01:39:14.720 --> 01:39:16.680
say a bigger mouth, but that's probably not the right

1263
01:39:16.760 --> 01:39:19.800
term for a toilet, is it a bigger it's you know,

1264
01:39:21.600 --> 01:39:23.399
it's like when you're hungry. It'd be nicer if we

1265
01:39:23.439 --> 01:39:26.600
had a bigger hole to put the food in when

1266
01:39:26.600 --> 01:39:31.920
we were really really hungry. Mind you, I suppose we

1267
01:39:31.960 --> 01:39:40.439
are supposed to chew on we technically right. I've talked

1268
01:39:40.479 --> 01:39:43.560
for much longer than I expected because this was supposed

1269
01:39:43.560 --> 01:39:45.760
to be not supposed to be, but I was hoping

1270
01:39:48.359 --> 01:39:53.600
to eat, to get some food, and a little bit

1271
01:39:53.640 --> 01:39:58.399
earlier than this. Because it's now nearly half past eight,

1272
01:40:00.079 --> 01:40:05.119
I've been talking for well over an hour, probably over

1273
01:40:05.359 --> 01:40:07.840
an hour and a half, I think, maybe even longer

1274
01:40:07.880 --> 01:40:12.840
than that. And I still didn't manage to cover all

1275
01:40:12.840 --> 01:40:20.560
the schools. So this is Monday's boring objects schools, junior schools.

1276
01:40:23.800 --> 01:40:27.119
So that's it. That's the end of this recording. It's

1277
01:40:27.319 --> 01:40:29.359
I hope it's been as exciting for you as it

1278
01:40:30.600 --> 01:40:38.119
as it was for me, so please remember to be

1279
01:40:38.239 --> 01:40:41.640
kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy,

1280
01:40:42.159 --> 01:40:47.279
and remember to be gentle with yourself. You deserve to

1281
01:40:47.319 --> 01:40:55.000
feel safe. Lots of love, bye,