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Hi everyone, welcome to week 15, Catherine Romero's Guides Live Podcast.
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Um nearly didn't happen.
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Um you nearly had no podcast on Saturday.
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I've just sat down on the sofa.
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It's Thursday night, and uh went, all right now we've got everything because we're packing, we're going on, we're going away for the weekend.
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Uh mating partner's taking me away for my birthday, because my birthday on Monday, and um, we're just discussing, going through everything.
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And then he went, he went, he went, um, he said, Oh, he said, uh uh, have you uh, you know, have you done your podcast?
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And I went first time he's really here, heard me swear.
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Legged up here, and he's like, Have you got time?
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I'm like, we're gonna have to make time.
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Um so eight o'clock on Thursday night.
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Um, and I'm I'm just doing my podcast.
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Um, I'm still a bit husky.
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Yeah, um I've not been very well at all this week.
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I've been super, super poorly.
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Um, anyway, getting through the other side of it now.
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I've gone through two bottles of um Beachams, and I say Bleachams, but it's Beachams Gold and Flu, and also I'm now on the Max Beachams Cold Tablets.
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Um I can now speak again, which is uh, you know, is good.
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I appreciate that anyone.
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Uh so and obviously last week was quite an emotional podcast.
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Um, and you know what?
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Hopefully, no one's ever gonna have to go through exactly what I went through.
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Um, but you know what, people have maybe gone through a lot worse.
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Um, so I just kind of wanted to say, you know, a few tips to kind of get through it.
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It's okay to feel emotional, okay, and get upset.
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You wouldn't be human if you didn't.
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Um, you know, and I would also like to, you know, ranting and being upset on social media as well, you know, because that's a way of kind of expressing how we're feeling, isn't it?
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Um I say in the UK, we're not always encouraged to display our emotions and talk about our feelings.
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It's not the done thing.
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Um my parents certainly would never talk about, I would never talk about the way I'm feeling um to my parents.
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Um they're just not like that.
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So, you know, if someone knows how you know that you are feeling not great, they will check on you.
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So I put my little my little kind of like um really upset bit.
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I did I just did it as a soundbite and I just put it on TikTok.
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So I thought if I put it on Instagram, all my friends are gonna be on there and I'm gonna get loads of messages going, Are you okay?
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You sure you're okay?
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You know, uh and I'm and do you know what?
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I don't like that because I am a really strong person and I am okay.
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It's just sometimes things get a little bit on top of me.
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And I want to kind of get the message out to people to say, it is okay, it's okay to be upset, you know, it's absolutely fine.
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You have to actually have those feelings and emotions and know how to express them.
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Um, because that's you know, we can't repress them.
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Repressing them is just not good.
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Um there was any what there was um I did I did actually get I got somebody actually shoved it on Instagram.
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Um, but it I actually got a message from someone that I'm friends with on TikTok saying, Are you okay?
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I was like, Yeah, I am actually okay.
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I just was I was no, I wasn't well, which doesn't really happen help either, does it?
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Um and it was just in that moment I was really, really upset about something.
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But do you know what?
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Time passes on, you know, we're a week ahead from where we were, and I feel I'm absolutely fine now, you know.
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Um is I've put it past me, you know, um, and that's okay.
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And you know, just you know, sometimes um, you know, I think possibly on social media, we have say we we do rant at things, don't we?
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And I've been guilty of doing it myself because of how I'm feeling.
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So what we do is rather than speak to people because we don't want people to necessarily see how upset and hurt we are, we take out our kind of frustration and anger on social media, don't we?
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At some complete stranger who we don't really, really know that well.
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Um, and consequently, we're ranting at them, but actually it's ourselves that have the issue, um, and it's ourselves that need to kind of deal with whatever is going on in our world.
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So rather than kind of expressing what's wrong in your world with some random stranger on social media, you know, we actually need to be looking at our situation and trying to work out how on earth what do we do about it.
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Um, and the biggest thing, learning curve for all of this situation is communication.
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Okay, we have to talk about things, we have to stop being the oh can't possibly talk about that.
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It's not healthy, it's not good.
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And the whole children seen and not heard thing, which is you know a little bit antiquated, but it does still happen, you know.
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And we don't listen to children and we hear some of these really horrible stories about how children have been treated, but they're the next generation.
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Okay, it's really important that they're treated properly and feel that they're loved.
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Um, otherwise, you get adults, you know, they evolve into adults who then have social issues which they then take out on somebody else.
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Um, and I think that's kind of the the biggest message that I kind of really want to get across this week.
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Um, something else that I've done is I've registered for normal traitors.
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I don't know if I'll get on, but um, so when you kind of um you go for the thing that you you get to the I'm gonna sorry, I'm gonna have to pause to cough, right?
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There might be a few of those, and I might get hoarser and hoarser as I carry on.
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Um you have to kind of like tick, do you have a disability?
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And I'm like, oh yeah, I've got a disability now.
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I'm going slightly deaf.
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So I put I ticked yeah into the bottom of hearing.
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I thought that might actually actually get me on the show, mightn't it?
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Because I've got a disability.
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But as I say, the next um kind of advice thing that if you are going through something like this, I kind of want to say, give yourself some time out of out of the whole thing, which I did at the weekend, something to kind of distract your mind.
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Um, I listened to Chris Evans' uh breakfast show, it's great.
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He's got some fun guests on there, and he's got really helpful advice, and he's massively helped me through this whole thing.
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Um, and he's you know, he's a pretty awesome guy, and he's so positive.
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Um, and I've met him in real life, and he's just lovely in real life as well.
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So this weekend, what did I go and do um to distract myself?
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Well, we had date night, Friday night date night.
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Um was I supposed to be no we were no, I was supposed to be doing something else, and I didn't end up doing that, so we had date night instead.
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So we went out for um a pizza, which was really nice.
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I w to be fair, I had one alcoholic drink and really didn't feel that great.
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So I think we ended up being back by about eight o'clock.
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But I thought, do you know what?
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Date night's something that we do need to be doing definitely more of as a couple, um, because you know you kind of like move in together, don't you?
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And then you know you kind of coast along and then you stop doing all the really fun things that you know that you kind of used to do, and it's really important to kind of go and do those things.
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Um, what else did I do?
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Okay, yeah, that's right.
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So um, yeah, so Saturday, what did I do on Saturday?
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So I yeah, so I did I was actually really busy.
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Um I had um yeah, we were I did golf.
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I had golf lesson, rode the pony with somebody else, I think.
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I can't even remember.
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Um, and there was like a feed store thing, so I went to get some feed and then I played golf.
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So we did the we're doing in the sort of like the driving range thing again.
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Uh and I kind of know we're so we were doing some uh what they call chipping and putting, which the short shots, and which I'm really good at, um, which is great because I was I was really good at it in the driving range.
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Then it gets the kind of like the 50-60 yard shots, and some of them there was one cracking shot that was fantastic, but there's a kid, there's a few little bits that um I still need to work on, but what I'm noticing is there are less duff shots now, more really good ones, which is is really really good, and I'm really enjoying it, it's great playing in there.
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Um, yeah, so I know when we did lunch, um the teenager came back from university telling us all about um lots of stuff of which I can't actually talk about on the podcast because it's a little bit dodgy.
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Um yeah, and I was it was a bit of a really that goes on, it's that common, is it?
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That's quite a worrying thing.
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Um, and it's not the you know, it's not the um second time, the first time I've heard that.
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You know, obviously I'm I'm kind of talking drugs-related stuff, and um apparently, you know, it's the same in high schools, I'm hearing as well.
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Uh yeah, so we had lunch and we had a little really great little catch-up, which was really nice.
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And then we popped over to my little cottage to make sure that was okay.
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Um we did our DVD night there with some popcorn, and I cooked in my own little kitchen, which was really, really nice.
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And my house is so cozy and warm and it was lovely.
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Um, so that was you know, that was that was great just to go back and just de stress and keep yourself busy.
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Um, because it, you know, if you keep yourself going, keep yourself busy doing lots of things and doing lots of people, uh, seeing lots of people, and it kind of focuses your mind, doesn't it?
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On, you know, other things to kind of think about.
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Uh so Sunday, we had a fantastic day, Sunday.
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I think I rode in the morning.
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I kind of can't even remember who who I rode with.
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Um, but there's loads, there's usually loads of choice of people to hack out with.
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I might have even ridden on my own, I really can't remember.
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Um, and then uh yeah, I met up.
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So I do, you know, I do a Pilates retreat every year.
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So I met up with a group of people um for afternoon tea.
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Um there's a lady from New Zealand, she was over, and it was her 80th birthday.
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Uh, and it was just it was great.
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It was lovely to catch up with her and catch up with all the other people.
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So that was great.
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Um then quickly did um did uh poo picking, did the poo count, worm poo count.
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Murce has come back as uh less than 50 eggs per poo pop or whatever it is.
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Anyway, so that basically means he doesn't need worming again, so that's quite good.
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Uh and then uh then we went off to see Star Sailor in Manchester.
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I put some socials up about that.
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So I had a really, really busy weekend actually, but then consequently on Monday I felt absolutely terrible.
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Um and all I've had all I've really done this week is have my hair cut at mother's house.
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We have like this um old friend who comes around.
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I've had cutting hair for years, and we all sit there, three of us.
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We've got a little WhatsApp group, Haircut 100.
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I just get an email every six weeks going, we need a haircut.
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So I'm alright, right?
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Okay, I'll arrange it.
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Um, and then I was supposed to do PLOTIS in a bookshop, and I was going to talk about that whole experience and tell you guys how fantastic it was.
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Um, but unfortunately, I couldn't go.
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I've just been too ill.
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Uh and you know, and sometimes, which isn't it's not like me, okay?
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I never miss out on things.
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Um, but it is, it's um, it's it's yeah, I was I was so ill, so poorly.
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Uh so what else have I done?
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Right, um so I've been kind of doing some TikTok stuff this week.
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I haven't done too much to say because I haven't really had much of a voice um about things.
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So I've been kind of doing some silly jokey social media stuff, um, which is been really fun to do, if I'm honest.
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Um, so that's been good.
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I've been kind of chatting, socializing a little bit more.
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It's a bit weird though.
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I had a message from uh, so I got a friend request, and I thought it was a friend from the yard, and then it wasn't, and then it's like, oh, I I saw you on thingy and on some site, and I thought we'd I'd I can't even remember what she said, you know.
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Um I thought I'd contact you and and link up or something like that.
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And I was like, alright, yeah, okay, then I'll chat to you for a little bit.
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And then she started to, she's like, Whereabouts are you living now?
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And I thought that's a bit too much personal information, and your mind starts running over really suspiciously, doesn't she?
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What does she want to know that for?
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Yeah, mmm.
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So anyway, I've have um I've yeah, I've not replied to her.
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I wouldn't tell anybody where exactly where I'm living anyway.
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It's like it's not particularly um a good idea, and it's no if I've actually could be you'd struggle to track me down to be fair, and mainly because I kind of like spend my time through three different places, but you would struggle to track me down.
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Um yeah, so that's obviously something to be a little bit wary of when you if you're anybody's kind of like chatting to new people um on you know on you know social media and stuff, if they start asking you questions like where do you live, that should ring alarm bells, you know.
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You don't really want to be giving that information out, even if their profile seems and they seem like really nice people, it's just like I'm not sure about that.
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So I didn't actually bother replying to her, but I'm quite busy anyway.
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Um, so I don't really have much time.
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Um so as I say, um so take time out of this situation that you're in, okay.
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Um and sometimes that means like off social media, I wasn't on social media as much this week, and then when I did, I went back and I was doing like really fun, stupid things, you know, because it's okay to be really childish and stupid, there's nothing wrong with that, you know.
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People might think you that you're mad at mad as a box of frogs.
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I heard that today.
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Who cares?
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Who cares what people think?
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Because at the end of the day, they're usually the groomy people, aren't they, that are just doom scrolling through through TikTok, going, hmm, you know, it's like, you know, you're the person that's actually going out and doing these things um and having a laugh because we all need to sort of cheer ourselves up a little bit, don't we?
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It is actually quite important.
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Um, hence the reason this is supposed to be a comedy podcast.
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Yeah, didn't do very well on the comedy front last week, did I?
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No, not really.
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Okay, so I did discover a really cool thing on TikTok.
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Um, and it's like, and you can do like you can do a search thing.
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I'm gonna find it actually, and here you are.
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Let me have a quick look.
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You can download this little app, right?
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It was quite cool.
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I found it.
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And it says, it says TikTok, right?
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Hang on.
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TikTok create a search insights, and there's a way you can kind of search and you can have a look at um content gap, you can see what people searched for, okay.
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Um and you can see where the content you know gap it is.
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And quite and the good thing is that there's quite a lot of stuff that I cover on, I've covered on my podcast previously, that there's a big kind of content gap for.
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So I was like, right, okay, then so I did actually write some social media around this one, which I will do next week.
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And so yeah, I plan to do some social media, but one thing that I have noticed about TikTok is my engagement is like people look at my stuff for about three seconds at the moment, and which is the the average scroll through time, isn't it?
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So I've just been making my videos three seconds long, but TikTok actually it was like 10 seconds, so I've got people's attention for a little bit longer um on um on Instagram.
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Sorry, did I say it's TikTok?
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I meant Instagram, right?
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And it's kind of important to kind of like see where you are um and what's going on and stuff because um so uh podcast weekly total now, uh seven-day totals, it's at 63 a week, which is no considering when I first started this about three years ago, it was like you know, seven.
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But that's it's that's actually really, really good.
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Um so I'm I'm quite happy with that.
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Um and then if I'm having a look at my Instagram, because this is how it's all about kind of growth, isn't it?
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And I'm getting oh, that's my sorry, I've just seen my friend uh popped up on Instagram.
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I'm quite excited.
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Do you think he'd mind if I if I put his um he's a farming guy, if I actually shared his clip.
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I'm gonna go listen to his clip um and kind of and see what's going on.
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Okay, he's talking, he's actually talking about ring feeders.
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It's great though, because um I'm gonna I'm gonna retweet that um or re slash reshare that he's talking about Salich, Salage um round bale feeders.
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But it's really good that he is getting at that because this is my game, it's right.
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He's called um Frisian Perry.
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Right, you need to go and follow him on Instagram, okay?
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Let's let's try and get him um make sure that you follow him.
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Um because he's a really cool guy.
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I've known him for a long, long time.
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I haven't seen him for a good while, but and we were in the Young Farmers together, and he has he has actually been on Radio Shropshire and stuff.
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Um, and you know, it's really good that he's kind of like getting out there and and kind of like, you know, um kind of telling people how it is on the farm and stuff like that.
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I'm gonna add it to my story as well.
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Um, because I just honestly, this guy is lovely.
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He's like, I've known him for years.
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Um I'll share that.
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So that's on my Instagram.
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You'll see who is, you'll see one of my actual really proper friends that I've known for a long, long time.
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Um, yeah.
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So I kind of I'm kind of sorry, I'm kind of distracting.
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I'm getting quite a lot of new followers.
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Um, and let's have a quick look.
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Right, so so you can you can download all these kind of like there's something called insights if you if you're kind of like serious about increasing your thing.
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Um I've got like real views, 22,000, viewers 10,900 and whatever, eight new followers, 114 likes, 21 comments, 25 reposts, 171 shares, 16 saves, which is pretty good actually.
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Um one of my um so my social media from last week, um, the one of the toilet with James Blunt and the toilet, um got 4.8,000 uh views, and it was shared 119 times.
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So that was great.
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It got you know that that performs quite well.
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Um the other one I did um of uh what up what I did about was 3.9k, um, which is really good, and I got 1.9k, 2k views on a couple of other ones as well.
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So, you know, it's all that's all that's pretty good actually.
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Um that's that's quite you know, it's it's just interesting to kind of see these things because I've only really just started doing all the comedy stuff, and obviously people think it's quite funny, otherwise they wouldn't be sharing it.
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Um so let's have a little look, shall we, at analytics for TikTok Studio, which I've just literally I just set up a TikTok account.
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Okay.
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Um I it's only been active for about I don't know, it's not even been active for 28 days yet, has it?
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No.
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23rd of September, that's when I set it up, and I've already got 5.5,000 views, 194 profile views, 32 likes, 10 comments, 25 shares.
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Um that's pretty good, and people are actually searching for me, 73.2% or seven uh kind of a searching for me, right?
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Let's have a quick look.
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Um, content.
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And it was the hashtag celebrity twin lookalike thing, stupid thing that I did.
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Like that got 713 views.
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Some of the James Blunt stuff's got about 600 views, um, and then other stuff it's like 200 views.
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Um, but it's just like so it's I just I've just fine, but I'm engaging with people.
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I'm actually like chatting to people on TikTok as well.
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Um, some people that have kind of like there's one girl in particular that's been following me on Instagram for ages, and she's found me on TikTok, and I'm like we're having like bits of conversations and stuff.
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It's a bit more of a kind of chatty sort of place.
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Right.
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So um, yeah, so you and this is the so this is it, this is a key thing, right?
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So on yesterday on TikTok, Blunty had put like a um a kind of a what do you call it?
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Uh a kind of like a fast video of it.
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So I kind of I downloaded it onto um Insights for Instagram, um, and I kind of like slowed it all down, and you can see him pulling some fully faces.
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So I screenshotted those and went, You're looking beautiful as a bit of a kind of you know, joke.
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And uh and that's that that's that's got some.
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I've got some, he's actually applied with a with a kind of gif, thinking that's hilarious.
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So there's a few people that's got nine likes on that, 327 views.
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So you know that's quite good.
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But what he's come back with today, and this is what's been going on, he's come then come back with today saying, um, only one he's he's come back with that little kind of like line drawing, hasn't he?
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And you have to kind of get the you know, they get the the car into the line drawing.
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It's really good fun, actually.
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It's quite cool.
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And he said only 1% of people can do that.
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And I'm just like, yeah, but that's kind of copying from because I got you.
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And I just, you know, did I I kind of like slowed down the promo things and because he was pulling faces, but you wouldn't have seen it.
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It's also a little note that says, um, help me.
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It's like, well, we're trying.
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Um, and and you know, so that was that was, you know, there's just that was the this that's the link there.
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And that it's been little things like this that have kind of been happening all the way um through this whole thing.
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Um, but I'm just sort of starting to to share these things with you.
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But for TikTok, it's important to go and update your story and go and um go and actually kind of like um like things, like people that people, you know, um who kind of who sort of follow you.
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Um go and you know, go and like and interact with him a little bit more because you get kind of more stuff going on.
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Um, I've just had James Blunt music following me.
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I don't know.
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I don't like following all of these rubbish accounts.
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The private chat.
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I don't want to privately chat with somebody who thinks he's pretending to be James Blunt.
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I mean, you know, why would you want to do that?
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I just don't understand that.
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It doesn't make any sense to me.
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No, why would I bother?
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Um yeah, so that's kind of um, but do you know what it's actually fun and I'm enjoying doing all this little social media stuff and being a bit stupid and doing some comedy stuff and say I've I will I've um I've I've got some serious stuff to do as well.
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Um, but I did I have did I write them?
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I try you know when I had a really, really good comedy idea and I had one the other day, and I think I wrote it down, but I'm not sure if I did.
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But when I've got a cold, my brain doesn't really work very well anyway.
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So I'll I'm trying to think of a Halloween thing to do.
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Um, because that's the other thing that I need to get onto.
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I'm going completely off topic as I usually do.
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Um so oh, there's two things actually.
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So if you haven't gone and listened to um Noel, is it Noel Fitzpatrick?
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What's his name?
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Hang on, let me just have a quick look.
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Go and have a listen to Virgin Radio.
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Um I'm just gonna find it now.
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Virgin Radio.
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Um, should it be on there?
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It was it's um, it's the fit the vet guy, super vet guy.
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I can't find it anyway, but it it's um it's I'm sure his name's Noel Fitzpatrick.
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Um, and he's he's the supervet guy anyway, and he's talking, he's talking a little bit about kind of like um hovering between life and death and kind of asking the question, what's next?
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And that was just an interesting kind of conversation that I heard um Chris Evans chatting to him today, uh, which you know, and so that was just quite interesting.
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And then the reason I'm digressing from that whole conversation is that one of the things that I I just I noticed um in the James Bunt tweet book when he said I followed you home, okay, um, is it was actually posted, he put it on Halloween, okay.
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And I thought, well, that's a bit interesting.
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And I've been kind of like kind of racking my brains as to why why choose Halloween?
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Okay, so why why choose Halloween?
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Um and it was, you know, and I kind of because I kind of thought, um why, why would he, why would he just like I'm not his type, clearly, you know, I'm not a supermodel or like I don't have any money really.
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Um I'm not particularly thin, you know, and not very famous.
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So why would you follow me home anyway?
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It was all seemed a bit bizarre.
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Um and this is really bizarre because some time ago, when I so I've I told you I'm writing this vampire book, and sometime ago I started looking into kind of like Halloween as a thing.
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Okay, and I don't know why I thought I should do this, um, but I was interested in kind of like the living dead and the half dead, and like looking at vampires and stuff, and you know, um, and so I kind of had a quick look at you know what Halloween was all about because it was it was called because how so the yeah, because in uh Kamornock where I used to live, um, Halloween was a massive, massive thing.
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Um, and I was like, kind of, well, why is it so big?
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And it's obviously called All Hallows Eve up there, right?
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So, what is Halloween actually uh kind of about?
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Well, it is about kind of like spirits coming back to life, isn't it?
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Um, and it's kind of about you know looking at like souls and stuff like that and ghosts um of people who are no longer with us.
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Um and and I just and I just thought to myself, because the fact that I'd already had I don't know why, but because I'd already been doing all this research for this book that I'm writing, um, and this was when I was still living in Scotland, okay, and it hadn't really worked out anything.
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And I kind of, yeah, I was kind of looking at all this information about Halloween and all Hallows Eve, um, and seeing, you know, about stories about ghosts and stuff like that, because there were loads of you know stories about ghosts and without really knowing why I was kind of looking at all this information.
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Um, and then, you know, Blunty's put that he on on Halloween he's put that he followed me home.
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Well, why pick that day?
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You know, that's all a little bit strange, isn't it?
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And I've also I've kind of like mentioned about the fact that um, you know, he can see me in a crowd of people and and and so and I'm kind of like so I've got like three tickets to go uh next year and and kind of see him and try and get to the bottom of this, but I'm not sure I'll be able to do it that way.
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I might I might have to try another way, but I'm determined to get to the bottom of this, okay?
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Um, one way or another, find out exactly what's going on.
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I've got a theory in my head, okay, um, and it's a bit far out there.
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Um I wrote to him and said, I think we're this, and he replied by putting a post of him wearing sunglasses on, which were exactly like mine.
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Um, because there's also been really, really strange things because sometimes, you know, if you like you hear about like people who have twin connections.
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Um, for example, Chris Evans has got two twins.
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And if you have like a twin connection with somebody, say for example, there have been times when I've had a really, really uneasy feeling about something, and I don't, and there's no reason for me to have an uneasy feeling because I wasn't really doing anything that would cause me to feel this way.
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Um, and there was one that was the and then I saw the social media to say that he'd arrived at traitors, which I was just like, that's a bit weird, isn't it?
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But there'd been more than one occurrence like this, as if we have some kind of connection to each other, and that was exactly what I wrote in his let my letter to him.
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I was like, I feel like we've got some kind of connection to each other, and I don't really understand it, or I don't really know why, but clearly there's something there, otherwise, you know, why would there have been a flash of light when we saw each other and recognize each other?
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Um, and and you know, and I just I don't know exactly what it is.
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I've I think I know what it is, but I think I need clarity from him.
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But obviously, it's not an easy person to pin down at all, is he?
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Or to kind of fess up to the truth.
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So it's gonna have to be an interesting situation.
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So um I'm so that's the that's the next thing.
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That's the next kind of thing that I'm gonna be trying to do, okay?
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Trying to get to the bottom of this, and I'm gonna be doing that from now.
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Um, I've got a plan.
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I sent an email off today to say, right, can we do this?
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Uh they might not come back and go no, or they might not hear back from me, but I'm gonna chase a few times.
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Um, if not, I'm gonna start upping it, okay?
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I'm gonna start upping the level.
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Um, because I have got to get some answers, okay?
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Um we'll we'll kind of and I'll I'll keep you updated as to what what's going on.
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So I'll let you I'll let you know if I'm appearing on anything in the next sort of like month or so of what's going on.
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So keep a listen to the podcast.
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Um, obviously, viewing figures are now starting to go quite upright, which they will be.
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I'll be doing some social media along with it.
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Um and we'll just go from there and we'll just try and try and everything that I find out, okay.
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I'm gonna talk it through with you guys.
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Um, because it's really nice to kind of have a sounding block to kind of you know benchmark to kind of get things out through.
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Okay, so my voice is just about held up really for half an hour.
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So I'm gonna leave it there.
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I'm gonna say have an amazing week, everyone, and I'll catch you next time.
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Hi everyone, welcome to week 15, Catherine Romero's Guides Live Podcast.
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Um nearly didn't happen.
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Um you nearly had no podcast on Saturday.
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I've just sat down on the sofa.
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It's Thursday night, and uh went, all right now we've got everything because we're packing, we're going on, we're going away for the weekend.
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Uh mating partner's taking me away for my birthday, because my birthday on Monday, and um, we're just discussing, going through everything.
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And then he went, he went, he went, um, he said, Oh, he said, uh uh, have you uh, you know, have you done your podcast?
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And I went first time he's really here, heard me swear.
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Legged up here, and he's like, Have you got time?
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I'm like, we're gonna have to make time.
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Um so eight o'clock on Thursday night.
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Um, and I'm I'm just doing my podcast.
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Um, I'm still a bit husky.
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Yeah, um I've not been very well at all this week.
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I've been super, super poorly.
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Um, anyway, getting through the other side of it now.
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I've gone through two bottles of um Beachams, and I say Bleachams, but it's Beachams Gold and Flu, and also I'm now on the Max Beachams Cold Tablets.
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Um I can now speak again, which is uh, you know, is good.
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I appreciate that anyone.
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Uh so and obviously last week was quite an emotional podcast.
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Um, and you know what?
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Hopefully, no one's ever gonna have to go through exactly what I went through.
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Um, but you know what, people have maybe gone through a lot worse.
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Um, so I just kind of wanted to say, you know, a few tips to kind of get through it.
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It's okay to feel emotional, okay, and get upset.
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You wouldn't be human if you didn't.
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Um, you know, and I would also like to, you know, ranting and being upset on social media as well, you know, because that's a way of kind of expressing how we're feeling, isn't it?
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Um I say in the UK, we're not always encouraged to display our emotions and talk about our feelings.
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It's not the done thing.
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Um my parents certainly would never talk about, I would never talk about the way I'm feeling um to my parents.
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Um they're just not like that.
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So, you know, if someone knows how you know that you are feeling not great, they will check on you.
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So I put my little my little kind of like um really upset bit.
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I did I just did it as a soundbite and I just put it on TikTok.
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So I thought if I put it on Instagram, all my friends are gonna be on there and I'm gonna get loads of messages going, Are you okay?
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You sure you're okay?
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You know, uh and I'm and do you know what?
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I don't like that because I am a really strong person and I am okay.
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It's just sometimes things get a little bit on top of me.
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And I want to kind of get the message out to people to say, it is okay, it's okay to be upset, you know, it's absolutely fine.
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You have to actually have those feelings and emotions and know how to express them.
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Um, because that's you know, we can't repress them.
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Repressing them is just not good.
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Um there was any what there was um I did I did actually get I got somebody actually shoved it on Instagram.
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Um, but it I actually got a message from someone that I'm friends with on TikTok saying, Are you okay?
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I was like, Yeah, I am actually okay.
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I just was I was no, I wasn't well, which doesn't really happen help either, does it?
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Um and it was just in that moment I was really, really upset about something.
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But do you know what?
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Time passes on, you know, we're a week ahead from where we were, and I feel I'm absolutely fine now, you know.
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Um is I've put it past me, you know, um, and that's okay.
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And you know, just you know, sometimes um, you know, I think possibly on social media, we have say we we do rant at things, don't we?
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And I've been guilty of doing it myself because of how I'm feeling.
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So what we do is rather than speak to people because we don't want people to necessarily see how upset and hurt we are, we take out our kind of frustration and anger on social media, don't we?
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At some complete stranger who we don't really, really know that well.
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Um, and consequently, we're ranting at them, but actually it's ourselves that have the issue, um, and it's ourselves that need to kind of deal with whatever is going on in our world.
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So rather than kind of expressing what's wrong in your world with some random stranger on social media, you know, we actually need to be looking at our situation and trying to work out how on earth what do we do about it.
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Um, and the biggest thing, learning curve for all of this situation is communication.
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Okay, we have to talk about things, we have to stop being the oh can't possibly talk about that.
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It's not healthy, it's not good.
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And the whole children seen and not heard thing, which is you know a little bit antiquated, but it does still happen, you know.
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And we don't listen to children and we hear some of these really horrible stories about how children have been treated, but they're the next generation.
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Okay, it's really important that they're treated properly and feel that they're loved.
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Um, otherwise, you get adults, you know, they evolve into adults who then have social issues which they then take out on somebody else.
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Um, and I think that's kind of the the biggest message that I kind of really want to get across this week.
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Um, something else that I've done is I've registered for normal traitors.
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I don't know if I'll get on, but um, so when you kind of um you go for the thing that you you get to the I'm gonna sorry, I'm gonna have to pause to cough, right?
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There might be a few of those, and I might get hoarser and hoarser as I carry on.
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Um you have to kind of like tick, do you have a disability?
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And I'm like, oh yeah, I've got a disability now.
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I'm going slightly deaf.
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So I put I ticked yeah into the bottom of hearing.
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I thought that might actually actually get me on the show, mightn't it?
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Because I've got a disability.
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But as I say, the next um kind of advice thing that if you are going through something like this, I kind of want to say, give yourself some time out of out of the whole thing, which I did at the weekend, something to kind of distract your mind.
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Um, I listened to Chris Evans' uh breakfast show, it's great.
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He's got some fun guests on there, and he's got really helpful advice, and he's massively helped me through this whole thing.
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Um, and he's you know, he's a pretty awesome guy, and he's so positive.
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Um, and I've met him in real life, and he's just lovely in real life as well.
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So this weekend, what did I go and do um to distract myself?
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Well, we had date night, Friday night date night.
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Um was I supposed to be no we were no, I was supposed to be doing something else, and I didn't end up doing that, so we had date night instead.
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So we went out for um a pizza, which was really nice.
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I w to be fair, I had one alcoholic drink and really didn't feel that great.
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So I think we ended up being back by about eight o'clock.
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But I thought, do you know what?
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Date night's something that we do need to be doing definitely more of as a couple, um, because you know you kind of like move in together, don't you?
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And then you know you kind of coast along and then you stop doing all the really fun things that you know that you kind of used to do, and it's really important to kind of go and do those things.
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Um, what else did I do?
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Okay, yeah, that's right.
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So um, yeah, so Saturday, what did I do on Saturday?
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So I yeah, so I did I was actually really busy.
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Um I had um yeah, we were I did golf.
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I had golf lesson, rode the pony with somebody else, I think.
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I can't even remember.
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Um, and there was like a feed store thing, so I went to get some feed and then I played golf.
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So we did the we're doing in the sort of like the driving range thing again.
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Uh and I kind of know we're so we were doing some uh what they call chipping and putting, which the short shots, and which I'm really good at, um, which is great because I was I was really good at it in the driving range.
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Then it gets the kind of like the 50-60 yard shots, and some of them there was one cracking shot that was fantastic, but there's a kid, there's a few little bits that um I still need to work on, but what I'm noticing is there are less duff shots now, more really good ones, which is is really really good, and I'm really enjoying it, it's great playing in there.
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Um, yeah, so I know when we did lunch, um the teenager came back from university telling us all about um lots of stuff of which I can't actually talk about on the podcast because it's a little bit dodgy.
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Um yeah, and I was it was a bit of a really that goes on, it's that common, is it?
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That's quite a worrying thing.
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Um, and it's not the you know, it's not the um second time, the first time I've heard that.
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You know, obviously I'm I'm kind of talking drugs-related stuff, and um apparently, you know, it's the same in high schools, I'm hearing as well.
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Uh yeah, so we had lunch and we had a little really great little catch-up, which was really nice.
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And then we popped over to my little cottage to make sure that was okay.
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Um we did our DVD night there with some popcorn, and I cooked in my own little kitchen, which was really, really nice.
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And my house is so cozy and warm and it was lovely.
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Um, so that was you know, that was that was great just to go back and just de stress and keep yourself busy.
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Um, because it, you know, if you keep yourself going, keep yourself busy doing lots of things and doing lots of people, uh, seeing lots of people, and it kind of focuses your mind, doesn't it?
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On, you know, other things to kind of think about.
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Uh so Sunday, we had a fantastic day, Sunday.
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I think I rode in the morning.
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I kind of can't even remember who who I rode with.
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Um, but there's loads, there's usually loads of choice of people to hack out with.
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I might have even ridden on my own, I really can't remember.
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Um, and then uh yeah, I met up.
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So I do, you know, I do a Pilates retreat every year.
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So I met up with a group of people um for afternoon tea.
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Um there's a lady from New Zealand, she was over, and it was her 80th birthday.
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Uh, and it was just it was great.
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It was lovely to catch up with her and catch up with all the other people.
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So that was great.
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Um then quickly did um did uh poo picking, did the poo count, worm poo count.
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Murce has come back as uh less than 50 eggs per poo pop or whatever it is.
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Anyway, so that basically means he doesn't need worming again, so that's quite good.
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Uh and then uh then we went off to see Star Sailor in Manchester.
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I put some socials up about that.
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So I had a really, really busy weekend actually, but then consequently on Monday I felt absolutely terrible.
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Um and all I've had all I've really done this week is have my hair cut at mother's house.
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We have like this um old friend who comes around.
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I've had cutting hair for years, and we all sit there, three of us.
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We've got a little WhatsApp group, Haircut 100.
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I just get an email every six weeks going, we need a haircut.
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So I'm alright, right?
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Okay, I'll arrange it.
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Um, and then I was supposed to do PLOTIS in a bookshop, and I was going to talk about that whole experience and tell you guys how fantastic it was.
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Um, but unfortunately, I couldn't go.
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I've just been too ill.
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Uh and you know, and sometimes, which isn't it's not like me, okay?
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I never miss out on things.
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Um, but it is, it's um, it's it's yeah, I was I was so ill, so poorly.
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Uh so what else have I done?
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Right, um so I've been kind of doing some TikTok stuff this week.
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I haven't done too much to say because I haven't really had much of a voice um about things.
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So I've been kind of doing some silly jokey social media stuff, um, which is been really fun to do, if I'm honest.
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Um, so that's been good.
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I've been kind of chatting, socializing a little bit more.
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It's a bit weird though.
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I had a message from uh, so I got a friend request, and I thought it was a friend from the yard, and then it wasn't, and then it's like, oh, I I saw you on thingy and on some site, and I thought we'd I'd I can't even remember what she said, you know.
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Um I thought I'd contact you and and link up or something like that.
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And I was like, alright, yeah, okay, then I'll chat to you for a little bit.
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And then she started to, she's like, Whereabouts are you living now?
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And I thought that's a bit too much personal information, and your mind starts running over really suspiciously, doesn't she?
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What does she want to know that for?
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Yeah, mmm.
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So anyway, I've have um I've yeah, I've not replied to her.
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I wouldn't tell anybody where exactly where I'm living anyway.
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It's like it's not particularly um a good idea, and it's no if I've actually could be you'd struggle to track me down to be fair, and mainly because I kind of like spend my time through three different places, but you would struggle to track me down.
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Um yeah, so that's obviously something to be a little bit wary of when you if you're anybody's kind of like chatting to new people um on you know on you know social media and stuff, if they start asking you questions like where do you live, that should ring alarm bells, you know.
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You don't really want to be giving that information out, even if their profile seems and they seem like really nice people, it's just like I'm not sure about that.
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So I didn't actually bother replying to her, but I'm quite busy anyway.
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Um, so I don't really have much time.
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Um so as I say, um so take time out of this situation that you're in, okay.
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Um and sometimes that means like off social media, I wasn't on social media as much this week, and then when I did, I went back and I was doing like really fun, stupid things, you know, because it's okay to be really childish and stupid, there's nothing wrong with that, you know.
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People might think you that you're mad at mad as a box of frogs.
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I heard that today.
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Who cares?
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Who cares what people think?
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Because at the end of the day, they're usually the groomy people, aren't they, that are just doom scrolling through through TikTok, going, hmm, you know, it's like, you know, you're the person that's actually going out and doing these things um and having a laugh because we all need to sort of cheer ourselves up a little bit, don't we?
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It is actually quite important.
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Um, hence the reason this is supposed to be a comedy podcast.
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Yeah, didn't do very well on the comedy front last week, did I?
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No, not really.
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Okay, so I did discover a really cool thing on TikTok.
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Um, and it's like, and you can do like you can do a search thing.
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I'm gonna find it actually, and here you are.
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Let me have a quick look.
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You can download this little app, right?
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It was quite cool.
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I found it.
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And it says, it says TikTok, right?
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Hang on.
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TikTok create a search insights, and there's a way you can kind of search and you can have a look at um content gap, you can see what people searched for, okay.
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Um and you can see where the content you know gap it is.
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And quite and the good thing is that there's quite a lot of stuff that I cover on, I've covered on my podcast previously, that there's a big kind of content gap for.
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So I was like, right, okay, then so I did actually write some social media around this one, which I will do next week.
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And so yeah, I plan to do some social media, but one thing that I have noticed about TikTok is my engagement is like people look at my stuff for about three seconds at the moment, and which is the the average scroll through time, isn't it?
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So I've just been making my videos three seconds long, but TikTok actually it was like 10 seconds, so I've got people's attention for a little bit longer um on um on Instagram.
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Sorry, did I say it's TikTok?
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I meant Instagram, right?
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And it's kind of important to kind of like see where you are um and what's going on and stuff because um so uh podcast weekly total now, uh seven-day totals, it's at 63 a week, which is no considering when I first started this about three years ago, it was like you know, seven.
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But that's it's that's actually really, really good.
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Um so I'm I'm quite happy with that.
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Um and then if I'm having a look at my Instagram, because this is how it's all about kind of growth, isn't it?
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And I'm getting oh, that's my sorry, I've just seen my friend uh popped up on Instagram.
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I'm quite excited.
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Do you think he'd mind if I if I put his um he's a farming guy, if I actually shared his clip.
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I'm gonna go listen to his clip um and kind of and see what's going on.
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Okay, he's talking, he's actually talking about ring feeders.
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It's great though, because um I'm gonna I'm gonna retweet that um or re slash reshare that he's talking about Salich, Salage um round bale feeders.
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But it's really good that he is getting at that because this is my game, it's right.
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He's called um Frisian Perry.
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Right, you need to go and follow him on Instagram, okay?
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Let's let's try and get him um make sure that you follow him.
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Um because he's a really cool guy.
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I've known him for a long, long time.
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I haven't seen him for a good while, but and we were in the Young Farmers together, and he has he has actually been on Radio Shropshire and stuff.
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Um, and you know, it's really good that he's kind of like getting out there and and kind of like, you know, um kind of telling people how it is on the farm and stuff like that.
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I'm gonna add it to my story as well.
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Um, because I just honestly, this guy is lovely.
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He's like, I've known him for years.
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Um I'll share that.
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So that's on my Instagram.
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You'll see who is, you'll see one of my actual really proper friends that I've known for a long, long time.
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Um, yeah.
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So I kind of I'm kind of sorry, I'm kind of distracting.
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I'm getting quite a lot of new followers.
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Um, and let's have a quick look.
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Right, so so you can you can download all these kind of like there's something called insights if you if you're kind of like serious about increasing your thing.
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Um I've got like real views, 22,000, viewers 10,900 and whatever, eight new followers, 114 likes, 21 comments, 25 reposts, 171 shares, 16 saves, which is pretty good actually.
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Um one of my um so my social media from last week, um, the one of the toilet with James Blunt and the toilet, um got 4.8,000 uh views, and it was shared 119 times.
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So that was great.
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It got you know that that performs quite well.
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Um the other one I did um of uh what up what I did about was 3.9k, um, which is really good, and I got 1.9k, 2k views on a couple of other ones as well.
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So, you know, it's all that's all that's pretty good actually.
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Um that's that's quite you know, it's it's just interesting to kind of see these things because I've only really just started doing all the comedy stuff, and obviously people think it's quite funny, otherwise they wouldn't be sharing it.
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Um so let's have a little look, shall we, at analytics for TikTok Studio, which I've just literally I just set up a TikTok account.
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Okay.
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Um I it's only been active for about I don't know, it's not even been active for 28 days yet, has it?
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No.
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23rd of September, that's when I set it up, and I've already got 5.5,000 views, 194 profile views, 32 likes, 10 comments, 25 shares.
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Um that's pretty good, and people are actually searching for me, 73.2% or seven uh kind of a searching for me, right?
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Let's have a quick look.
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Um, content.
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And it was the hashtag celebrity twin lookalike thing, stupid thing that I did.
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Like that got 713 views.
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Some of the James Blunt stuff's got about 600 views, um, and then other stuff it's like 200 views.
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Um, but it's just like so it's I just I've just fine, but I'm engaging with people.
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I'm actually like chatting to people on TikTok as well.
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Um, some people that have kind of like there's one girl in particular that's been following me on Instagram for ages, and she's found me on TikTok, and I'm like we're having like bits of conversations and stuff.
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It's a bit more of a kind of chatty sort of place.
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Right.
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So um, yeah, so you and this is the so this is it, this is a key thing, right?
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So on yesterday on TikTok, Blunty had put like a um a kind of a what do you call it?
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Uh a kind of like a fast video of it.
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So I kind of I downloaded it onto um Insights for Instagram, um, and I kind of like slowed it all down, and you can see him pulling some fully faces.
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So I screenshotted those and went, You're looking beautiful as a bit of a kind of you know, joke.
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And uh and that's that that's that's got some.
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I've got some, he's actually applied with a with a kind of gif, thinking that's hilarious.
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So there's a few people that's got nine likes on that, 327 views.
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So you know that's quite good.
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But what he's come back with today, and this is what's been going on, he's come then come back with today saying, um, only one he's he's come back with that little kind of like line drawing, hasn't he?
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And you have to kind of get the you know, they get the the car into the line drawing.
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It's really good fun, actually.
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It's quite cool.
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And he said only 1% of people can do that.
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And I'm just like, yeah, but that's kind of copying from because I got you.
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And I just, you know, did I I kind of like slowed down the promo things and because he was pulling faces, but you wouldn't have seen it.
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It's also a little note that says, um, help me.
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It's like, well, we're trying.
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Um, and and you know, so that was that was, you know, there's just that was the this that's the link there.
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And that it's been little things like this that have kind of been happening all the way um through this whole thing.
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Um, but I'm just sort of starting to to share these things with you.
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But for TikTok, it's important to go and update your story and go and um go and actually kind of like um like things, like people that people, you know, um who kind of who sort of follow you.
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Um go and you know, go and like and interact with him a little bit more because you get kind of more stuff going on.
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Um, I've just had James Blunt music following me.
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I don't know.
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I don't like following all of these rubbish accounts.
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The private chat.
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I don't want to privately chat with somebody who thinks he's pretending to be James Blunt.
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I mean, you know, why would you want to do that?
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I just don't understand that.
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It doesn't make any sense to me.
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No, why would I bother?
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Um yeah, so that's kind of um, but do you know what it's actually fun and I'm enjoying doing all this little social media stuff and being a bit stupid and doing some comedy stuff and say I've I will I've um I've I've got some serious stuff to do as well.
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Um, but I did I have did I write them?
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I try you know when I had a really, really good comedy idea and I had one the other day, and I think I wrote it down, but I'm not sure if I did.
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But when I've got a cold, my brain doesn't really work very well anyway.
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So I'll I'm trying to think of a Halloween thing to do.
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Um, because that's the other thing that I need to get onto.
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I'm going completely off topic as I usually do.
00:21:46.640 --> 00:21:48.720
Um so oh, there's two things actually.
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So if you haven't gone and listened to um Noel, is it Noel Fitzpatrick?
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What's his name?
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Hang on, let me just have a quick look.
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Go and have a listen to Virgin Radio.
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Um I'm just gonna find it now.
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Virgin Radio.
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Um, should it be on there?
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It was it's um, it's the fit the vet guy, super vet guy.
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I can't find it anyway, but it it's um it's I'm sure his name's Noel Fitzpatrick.
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Um, and he's he's the supervet guy anyway, and he's talking, he's talking a little bit about kind of like um hovering between life and death and kind of asking the question, what's next?
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And that was just an interesting kind of conversation that I heard um Chris Evans chatting to him today, uh, which you know, and so that was just quite interesting.
00:22:32.960 --> 00:22:50.799
And then the reason I'm digressing from that whole conversation is that one of the things that I I just I noticed um in the James Bunt tweet book when he said I followed you home, okay, um, is it was actually posted, he put it on Halloween, okay.
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And I thought, well, that's a bit interesting.
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And I've been kind of like kind of racking my brains as to why why choose Halloween?
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Okay, so why why choose Halloween?
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Um and it was, you know, and I kind of because I kind of thought, um why, why would he, why would he just like I'm not his type, clearly, you know, I'm not a supermodel or like I don't have any money really.
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Um I'm not particularly thin, you know, and not very famous.
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So why would you follow me home anyway?
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It was all seemed a bit bizarre.
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Um and this is really bizarre because some time ago, when I so I've I told you I'm writing this vampire book, and sometime ago I started looking into kind of like Halloween as a thing.
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Okay, and I don't know why I thought I should do this, um, but I was interested in kind of like the living dead and the half dead, and like looking at vampires and stuff, and you know, um, and so I kind of had a quick look at you know what Halloween was all about because it was it was called because how so the yeah, because in uh Kamornock where I used to live, um, Halloween was a massive, massive thing.
00:23:58.880 --> 00:24:01.839
Um, and I was like, kind of, well, why is it so big?
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And it's obviously called All Hallows Eve up there, right?
00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:09.920
So, what is Halloween actually uh kind of about?
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Well, it is about kind of like spirits coming back to life, isn't it?
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Um, and it's kind of about you know looking at like souls and stuff like that and ghosts um of people who are no longer with us.
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Um and and I just and I just thought to myself, because the fact that I'd already had I don't know why, but because I'd already been doing all this research for this book that I'm writing, um, and this was when I was still living in Scotland, okay, and it hadn't really worked out anything.
00:24:39.119 --> 00:24:57.039
And I kind of, yeah, I was kind of looking at all this information about Halloween and all Hallows Eve, um, and seeing, you know, about stories about ghosts and stuff like that, because there were loads of you know stories about ghosts and without really knowing why I was kind of looking at all this information.
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Um, and then, you know, Blunty's put that he on on Halloween he's put that he followed me home.
00:25:04.720 --> 00:25:06.400
Well, why pick that day?
00:25:06.640 --> 00:25:09.599
You know, that's all a little bit strange, isn't it?
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And I've also I've kind of like mentioned about the fact that um, you know, he can see me in a crowd of people and and and so and I'm kind of like so I've got like three tickets to go uh next year and and kind of see him and try and get to the bottom of this, but I'm not sure I'll be able to do it that way.
00:25:28.720 --> 00:25:33.519
I might I might have to try another way, but I'm determined to get to the bottom of this, okay?
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Um, one way or another, find out exactly what's going on.
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I've got a theory in my head, okay, um, and it's a bit far out there.
00:25:43.279 --> 00:25:54.240
Um I wrote to him and said, I think we're this, and he replied by putting a post of him wearing sunglasses on, which were exactly like mine.
00:25:55.039 --> 00:26:05.440
Um, because there's also been really, really strange things because sometimes, you know, if you like you hear about like people who have twin connections.
00:26:05.680 --> 00:26:08.720
Um, for example, Chris Evans has got two twins.
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And if you have like a twin connection with somebody, say for example, there have been times when I've had a really, really uneasy feeling about something, and I don't, and there's no reason for me to have an uneasy feeling because I wasn't really doing anything that would cause me to feel this way.
00:26:26.400 --> 00:26:37.519
Um, and there was one that was the and then I saw the social media to say that he'd arrived at traitors, which I was just like, that's a bit weird, isn't it?
00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:47.680
But there'd been more than one occurrence like this, as if we have some kind of connection to each other, and that was exactly what I wrote in his let my letter to him.
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I was like, I feel like we've got some kind of connection to each other, and I don't really understand it, or I don't really know why, but clearly there's something there, otherwise, you know, why would there have been a flash of light when we saw each other and recognize each other?
00:27:02.160 --> 00:27:08.640
Um, and and you know, and I just I don't know exactly what it is.
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I've I think I know what it is, but I think I need clarity from him.
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But obviously, it's not an easy person to pin down at all, is he?
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Or to kind of fess up to the truth.
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So it's gonna have to be an interesting situation.
00:27:22.559 --> 00:27:26.000
So um I'm so that's the that's the next thing.
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That's the next kind of thing that I'm gonna be trying to do, okay?
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Trying to get to the bottom of this, and I'm gonna be doing that from now.
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Um, I've got a plan.
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I sent an email off today to say, right, can we do this?
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Uh they might not come back and go no, or they might not hear back from me, but I'm gonna chase a few times.
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Um, if not, I'm gonna start upping it, okay?
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I'm gonna start upping the level.
00:27:46.960 --> 00:27:49.519
Um, because I have got to get some answers, okay?
00:27:49.680 --> 00:27:55.279
Um we'll we'll kind of and I'll I'll keep you updated as to what what's going on.
00:27:55.359 --> 00:28:02.480
So I'll let you I'll let you know if I'm appearing on anything in the next sort of like month or so of what's going on.
00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:04.319
So keep a listen to the podcast.
00:28:04.559 --> 00:28:09.200
Um, obviously, viewing figures are now starting to go quite upright, which they will be.
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I'll be doing some social media along with it.
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Um and we'll just go from there and we'll just try and try and everything that I find out, okay.
00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:20.319
I'm gonna talk it through with you guys.
00:28:20.480 --> 00:28:25.680
Um, because it's really nice to kind of have a sounding block to kind of you know benchmark to kind of get things out through.
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Okay, so my voice is just about held up really for half an hour.
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So I'm gonna leave it there.
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I'm gonna say have an amazing week, everyone, and I'll catch you next time.
