Hosepipe Bans, Commonwealth Cuts & Mark’s Big Role!

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Your eyes go in different directions, sir, Sorry about him,
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Sorry about him.
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I was told to do my eye exercise and the
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dogs I do my I exercise and doing that one.
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So those listening only at home Mark is doing weird
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stuff with.
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His eyes, just looking as far as I can to
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my left part to my right files down. But when
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I look it up, it releases out my neck tension.
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There's a lot to do with vestibular and big words.
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It's very early recording this quite early this morning, so
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there's a lot of big words coming out early.
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Better than last.
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Week I spoke apart from what time did you wake up?
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Better than last week? When you call me a prostitute
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because red lipstick?
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I didn't call you a prostitute, did no?
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I said you look like pretty much the same thing.
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It's a fact, why not that you're a prostitute?
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Anyway?
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Welcome to Not Another Couple's Podcast. We number four hundred
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and sixty five three zillion million.
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Sweaty.
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It's quite warm, isn't it again? It's been a heat
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The heat wave has continued.
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I find it amazing now it's a bit like being
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on holiday, you know, when you open the kerts on holiday. Yeah,
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and it's blue sky. It's like I expect it. I see,
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I don't mind. I'm lucky. I've got an air con Jim.
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But obviously I spent quite a lot time with the
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track and it's pretty hot and sticky there. But I'm
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always hot and sticky, so now everyone else is halt sticky,
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but I quite you know, we've.
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Become a bit like nontalant about the heat wave, I
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think whereas it really you know, so when it drops
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about twenty five now this is obviously we're sort of
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in the south of England, sort of southwest of England,
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so if you're anywhere else in the country, it's.
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Not quite a small southwest France.
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Well yeah, we'll get onto that in a minute, but
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like literally south of England, southwest England has been unbelievably
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warm for how well free more weeks?
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Yeah, why do they officially call it heat wave? Was
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it after two weeks?
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About this like blurb first week, which was always a
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massive shot because we're always like you go from like
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normal weather to like thirty five degrees like within a
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couple of days, and everybody's like what is going on?
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And also we've talked about this before, but we're not
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really set up for nobody really has air con in
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the houses. We don't really know how to cool our
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houses properly, how to heat them or try to heat them.
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But obviously, you know, I was chatting yesterday someone about it.
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You know, like having air coorn in your house is
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really expensive. I mean people are struggling enough with trying
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to pay bills as it is, and then heating your
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house is really expensive. So the extremes, it's like trying
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to It's.
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Like I'm starting to flint the other day when we're
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where we're the golf courses, like obviously the greens are
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green and the rest is just like arid. And I'm saying,
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I think this will be normal for you now, Flynn.
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I know this is a bit of a freaky I
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don't think every year is going to be like this
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from now on, but.
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It's it's I think, like you said, it is the extreme.
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So there's a lot of the news obviously there's been
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in the news recently, is the world, like you mentioned
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the wild fars astaurants France and also in Spain.
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Yeah, a bit more not in Madrid, Madrid.
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Yeah, so but obviously it's hitting getting closer and out
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of Bordeaux.
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In France, there.
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Are again Clark was in the class. Yes, so she's
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going to beerits which is okay, it's like forty degrees.
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So three hundred thousand people have been evacuated from France
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and Spain from particular areas where it's very dangerous. Obviously,
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I mean we only hear about it here, I think
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because it's only for like some Brits are affected, you know,
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not good ship in the news really about France or
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Spain normally.
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You know, it's more you know, it's some brit in
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their second home or they're lovely.
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I'm just saying the stuff where I was like looking
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up some stuff, like trying to get a bit more
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in detail about it because heard wildfire was, but I
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didn't know exactly where it was. I don't know how
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many people and like to know these things, as you know,
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I like to look stuff up. And all the reports
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that you see, all the interviews are with a brit
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whose home is like whatever, or they're trying to make
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it relatable lessons, but it was a French.
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Person speaking people here just be like that's not very nice,
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but you know.
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Yeah, well, it's a whole not sharging for like, but
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it's like.
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It's not us because it's a French person or a
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Spanish person who lives in that country.
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But when it's like a brit abroad whether they live.
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There or Venezuelian earthquakes and things like.
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Any any international news like that.
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I mean, we're a little bit better than America, but
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as far as like our external culture because we are
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a part of Europe and there is a bit of
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a gap and we do understand a bit more about well.
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You know what I mean.
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You know what I mean, Yeah, I mean the Heatwavela.
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I said, when do I make a garden design that
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everyone's having to change the plants were used? Now that
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I know this is just a small detail, but as
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you said, heating in the houses, I mean it's eight
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grad put an air conditioning unit into a room or something.
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That's a lot of money.
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So they're saying the fire started because of extreme So
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we had a very very wet winter. So did climate
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change created a lot more vegetation, growing a.
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Lot more areas to burn when you.
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Have the flip side when it's just been dry and arid,
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giant arid it's dry and arid, or you just say arid.
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I think you could just stick with I'm going.
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To I'm going to bulk it up and go dry
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and arid.
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I think yes.
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So that's why there's a lot of more. I mean,
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we've seen it. We've witnessed it from Afar when we
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were in Australia.
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Yes, well, do you remember the big way You won't
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remember because you're so young, the big storms of a
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t eight what it was? Do you know why they
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were so devastating in the UK? What time of year
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was that you.
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Autumn?
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Yes, so the leaves haven't fallen off the trees. So
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normally we get storms in winter when there's no leaves
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on most deciduous trees in the UK, so the wind
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blows through the tree. But because all the leaves were
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still on the tree, so many trees got blown over
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because the leaves block and becomes like a So it's
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a bit like you're saying, this wet.
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Very winter, lots of vegetation, lots more areas, a lot
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of hand gestures.
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I wonder if it's going to be a thing of
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the normal. Is just a little blit, But.
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There seems to be I don't know it's because we're
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I think there is definitely more aware of flooding extremes
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of weather in places that you wouldn't normally expect it.
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But Sophie, our client whatever journalist, has just done a
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big trek out and Shamily right and well the Italian Alps,
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and she did some of the Shemily and she found
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that she was in Shamany in nineteen eighty nine for
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a school trip or something and had a picture of
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the Meader glass, the big glassier glacier and where it
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was then and then she took exactly the same photo
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now and the glasses just disappeared.
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We've been out there and you said it at the
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rate of decline was or evaporation.
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It's Are there people still saying that isn't global warming?
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Are there some people that adamant that it's not us
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that have done this?
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Oh, I'm sure there are. They're probably all Trump supporters.
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We had Jehovah's witnesses. Mark was very.
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Excited, happiness where you weren't we were remotely involved, wasn't
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naked upstairs? You just had a shout out probably, but no, no,
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you're just laking up, okay, And Flyinden was downstairs and
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we were like, can you just open the door?
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The door bowkers and they just forget or ignore it, think.
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Someone else is going to do it the magic door.
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So he sort of opened the door. You justn't just
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think you you and then close it again.
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What's that thinking? It was just like a and it's
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going he's got this leaflet, He's going, what is this
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Jeovah's Wars the home.
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But what's amazing is the huge taking over Twickenham Stadium
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for three days. Huge one. I didn't know Jehovah's witness
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was that b Yeah.
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Well we know someone who is from Flynn's previous school.
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I'm just cleaning my glasses in case you wonder what
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the actually clack is. And yeah, I mean obviously constantly
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recruiting or trying to spread the word.
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But they did offer me a tonal happiness, which I
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was shotting, but every time she was getting angry tonal happiness,
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I might take it on holiday.
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It's been confiscated, I think, yes, Jesus, Jesus literally is
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it Jesus?
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I don't actually know, to be.
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Honest, it is a form of Christianity, which surprised me.
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Because then they don't don't celebrate Christmas or.
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Well, Christmas is not a form of Christianity, Easteries and
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all of that tin Father Christmas.
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Yeah, but they don't throw a Birthdays good. So it's
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like you're just arrive conception did you arrive flopped out? Anyway?
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So lots of stuff going environmental, dealing with the heat.
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It's ongoing.
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I just think, which you talk about this the other day,
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what's the worst job in this heat wave? I think
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being a chef because the kitchens are already hot. That
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must be tough road lane. I was speaking to two
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guys who were tar making outside of the house the
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other day. Just get used to it, Just get on
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with it, I guess.
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But I suppose you know you're going to be You're
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just going to be sweating and hot.
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I suppose it's like it's like you're going and coaching
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at the tracking you know you're going to be sweaty
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and hot and outside.
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Yeah, we've had we had three athletes at one competition
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get heat stroke, you know, just you don't realize at
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the time, but then they get home, you know, stinking
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headaches and blurred vision. And that's quite common. So there
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must be lots of people doing that, especially well. I
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think I don't know if they've canceled, like well, there's
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no sports on at the moment apart from track. Our
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football is not it's not football season, it's not rugby season.
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Hockey no, hockey don't play over summer. So the only
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kind of official yeah, crooquet.
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Croquet talking about summer of sports was your title Summer
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of sports. It's not going on. So obviously we've had
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work up football boom, job.
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Done, tick tick, the Nations Cup, rugby, that's all done,
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this part of it. And then they all come over here.
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And go to the Southern Hemisphere ground.
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So Fiji played at aston Villa or and then they.
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All come over here and play in the autumn.
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That's correct.
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I'm so down with my sports.
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And then we you were watching obviously got into you
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if you're into cycling, and even if you're not.
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The latter stage is always dramatic.
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And they changed the last stage because of the fire.
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Because of the fire, it's shorter. But what they did,
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and I think it was huge success because it didn't
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just make it procession. The last day is normally procession.
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So you've got the yellow Jersey leading it and it's
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very rare for them to lose their position and so on,
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but they change the route. So they had three climbs
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up more March in France, which like ten percent at
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the top, and so suddenly you had it wasn't just
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about the sprinters and so what's his name? Pocket? I
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can never say his name went ahead with or whatever,
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and it was just extremely exciting and really really iconically
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French and Parisian.
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They do take them off from like cobbles and like gravel.
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Which is just the crashes. But you saw them. They're
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going a long, they're going up a hill, so it's
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to come in France. Tire going up that hill in France,
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and well, you know, it's like you know when you're
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getting slow and a little computer on your bike starts
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turning off because it thinks you've stopped on my own
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heart rate belts thirty five kilometers. Now it's phenomenal.
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overall in the general classification and they said, all, how
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come you weren't in the in the final group of sprint.
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really honest. But they're just it's brutal.
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the end of it.
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good on what country is from who obviously just looks healthy, enormal.
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He's recovered and actually able to eat normally and train normally.
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It's just extremes. It's you can see them. It's just
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mind of the matter because their bodies are just like
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the machine.
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It's almost on robots by the end of it.
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They just find it to fuel themselves in the evenings
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to catch up.
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they're so naked and lacked it and all the things
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that are kicking.
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working up two in the morning for bloods Like really,
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why two in the morning where they're trying to recover.
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How long is the tour? Is it two weeks?
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Stages?
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Is it so three weeks? Pretty much?
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I think it's twenty one stages, spread stages.
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And then the other thing big things happening, which not
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gonna be a rip to tune into because it's not
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on mainstream TV.
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It is the Commonwealth Games.
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Yeah, so I was looking trying to get it on
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the Gym TV and I thought it was Channel five
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but I think they do show the height.
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Is ten pm highlights right.
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So TNT Sports Athletics are started. I can't find any
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of it. I do think it's a really good grounding
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people go all why do we still have the Commonwealth?
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You know there's certain athletes who perhaps couldn't quite make
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the GV team that can make them Tamah.
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I mean, this is what I'm saying. I haven't tuned
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into a lot of it yet, but you know, there's
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there's It's exactly that there's an opportunity for other people
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to compete like Gymsey or Guernsey, or smaller countries or
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smaller parts of the Commonwealth e. Swales, and just be
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given that opportunity to comp at a high level and
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be recognized for what they do. Because we watched so
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Glasgow this year, so obviously Australi pulled out for financial
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financial reasons. Glasgow have been able to do it for
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about a quarter of the cost.
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Currently but they've reduced it right, But there was night
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there was there were nineteen sports.
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And now we've got ten.
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Would you like to know what they are?
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Because let me play the game.
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Let's do the game.
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Athletics. I know about athletics, basketball, weightlifting, swimming, gymnastics. If
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I said netball, netbwle, that's six hockey nobody, Uh, bowls, Yes,
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I've got one more. No, I haven't got more. Badminton
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off ground it. I think martial art. So that's so
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the things are. I mean, that's it, but it's not
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normal basketball.
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It's three and three bars and wheelchair basketball, gymnastics, athletics
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and power athletics, bowls, para bowls please. Boxing, cycling but
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track citing only and para track cycling, judo, netbles, swimming,
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para swimming, weightlifting and power powerlifting.
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Nice.
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The sports that aren't in it.
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That are normally in it normally hockey, hockey, badminton, beach volleyball, cricket,
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rugby sevens.
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Squash, rugby seven's is normally in it.
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Table tennis, triathlon, wrestling, but obviously linked to swimming. There's
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no diving, so it's only swimming. Gymnastics is artistic gymnastics,
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not rhythmic gymnastics.
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You would be a side gudget if you were.
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Cycling, no road cycling or mountain biking.
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So they've been selected obviously to bring down the costs,
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which is understandable, but I think it's in some ways
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it's quite good because it's highlighting other sports that you
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don't normally get to see or would normally get highlights
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to be over ridden by diving or the cycling or
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some of the other ones. I just think, yeah, I
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mean having people doing I mean we watched a bit
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of the three by three basketball and that was actually
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quite interesting because it was.
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Like totally did rules, didn't quite get what's going on.
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It's a bit more like, yeah, I mean the others
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were obviously big as well, but he just looked like
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he looked like a rugby player.
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Yeah, I didn't understand the rules particularly, but it's a
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bit more like street.
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It seemed to just be continuous, which is great, very far.
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Yes, but yeah, but yes, that's the thing not many
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people knew. My mum loves watching sports on TV, and.
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But she'd don't have obviously can talk that cricket.
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The other channels, so for her, you probably have to
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watch it on Channel five. Or catch up or highlights somewhere,
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but whereas it was on you know, normal BBC or
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I TV.
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English gymnast a landed on his head. He was okay, MRI,
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I think it was English and directly on his head
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off off the high bars, which.
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Is amazing how he didn't put his hands down just
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so fast.
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I didn't see it. I saw other athletes. We saw
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other athletes fall off and need land on the bum or.
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But yeah, and obviously the obviously the cricket season. Then
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you got European Athletics. European Athletics as well, happening very
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soon after the Colm that is in Birmingham.
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So we're like hosting everything here.
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Yeah, we're hosting everything. So the Europeans when we went
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to the Darwin League in the Olympic Park. The UK
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Athletics has changed, It's kind of reduced anyway, they're trying
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to become They are becoming profitable, but they're now that's
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dependent on TV, right, so they can now advertise other events.
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So they were advertising the Europeans and apparently Europeans now
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they've had to put in more temporary seating because they've
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sold out, which is a great thing.
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So if you were going to do a sport in
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the Commonwealth. The ones we've listed that's not athletic bowls.
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Norman bowls are really good. I'm quite flexible, as you know.
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So that lunge position at the start and just holding.
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It are You're not thinking of kurling.
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they stay there from don't think they love in a
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slight curtsy.
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Most of the people we around here two long bowls
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are about sixty five.
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Well, I'd like to mix up with a fifty seven
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year old, not fifty seven, but that will be when
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I take it up. Now, what sport would I do?
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I would like to be good at to be more
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skillful on a basketball court. I did it for a
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bit because when I was out in France, all the
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Oklahoma means who were out in.
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France with Americans, I used to.
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Play basketball with them. So we used to play twice
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a week and we got a bit better. Man Rene
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he could dunk Sure's waves is impressive. I could touch
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the rim a bit rude.
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I've taken it down that hole again. Literally, yes, I
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think so.
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I'm reading Mark Foster's book. I'm just talking about it
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was the fastest in the world at fifteen, so fifty
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it was a new event. Then the fifty meter free
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in the UK. So oh no, I think you said
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it was a world record anyway, so because most pools
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were twenty five back then, I think. But he was
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talking about there's no money in swimming, you know, just
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you did it for the love of it. You rocked
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up and liked being part.
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It's hardcore swimming training.
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what the whole the rest of the family of some
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of them have done swimming, but the boys are now doing.
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Triathlon and it's still.
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What I don't think he was talking about this is
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when you first started training, there was no segregation. If
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you're a sprinter on an enjoyance at that you just
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length after Later he then went to Millfield and I
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think it was the English swimming coach who was at
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Millfield as well, and then suddenly there was a separation
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from the type of event that you did to the
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train that you did. We say, yeah, because you'd expect
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that you're on the track.
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You don't try to expect I remember, you know, no
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obviously near that level.
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But swimming, you just got in and did.
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You didn't matter that second recovery.
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the longer races back then anyways.
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Much. It was tended to.
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Be you know, fifty meters or one hundred meters max
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stuff in medleys and all of that.
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And things like that.
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But you would you would, and you wouldn't necessarily do
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specific You would do stroke training, specific straight training. But
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I used to compete in backstroke, but I didn't really
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get to practice that that much because most of the
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time you're just doing freestyle. It's like like I suppose
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it being a marathon runner and all you just just run,
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you know, you don't do any intervals.
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You don't do you literally just run, run, run, run, run,
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because that's what you do.
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But you were talking about some of the athletes now
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doing this, because I asked you again, I've forgot what
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off feet training.
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So some of the athletes are starting to do stuff
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on bikes.
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Well, the Mleven training squad who've become quite famous now
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Keatie Hodgkinson, Hunter Bell. There was pictures of them when
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they're out and I think they go up to Fort Romano,
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which is altitude pre season, and there's lots of shots
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them in psyching kit. They look like pro cyclist. And
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so we've all said that the heart doesn't know what
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it's doing and he knows how hard it's working. So
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if you're trying to condition the heart and building fitness, okay,
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there's the mechanics of running, that's different. But if you're
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just trying to build a cardifaskia fitness, why smash yourself
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on the track constantly. So a lot of the Jamaicans
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will do all their the grasses, aren't they But they
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do most of their training on grass. So Colon who's
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out of Texas state. They don't wear spikes until race day.
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They have you know, they have race trainers. But but yeah,
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so it's they just train off feet. It doesn't smash
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you up. And rugby boys are starting to do it.
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I think.
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Also, you know different countries which genetically made very different
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of the Kenyons and stuff are very light lies.
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The most important thing for an insurance athlete in terms
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of body type. No small calt Okay, see what small carts?
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They did an experiment and like a good valve, they
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put little so they've got strong tenors, but they put
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tiny in little weight, ankle weight some people. We're talking
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tiny crams. And then looked at running efficiency and so
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if you look at the canyons, that's why I.
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Can't run very far. That's a very big car.
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So yeah, it's because I think it's like a weight
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at the ending for penduance, weighing me down.
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Cars weighing at me down. That's what it is.
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So that's the reason why you can't run.
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Then Flyn was saying, I thought we played golf that
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Friday night, was it and we got there was the
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pro and another mative is that came past we let
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them through and one of the guys, Flint Knonose, he's
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a plus four hand, kept very good, trying to make
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it pro. And Flynn said, I don't think I'd want
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to be a very good golfer because it's so individual.
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it's such a lonely so it was antisocial.
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You can't have That's why I was doing swimming, gymnastics, ballet, trampolining,
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all of that before about the age of eleven ten eleven,
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and the swimming was fine, and I could do it,
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and did a few early morning sessions and started to.
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You know, ramp it all up of it.
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really boring to me because kind of chat when you're
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swimming really can you very difficult.
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Every time you come up for a breath, like you
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can talk to you you've got time with your next.
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Year, the next year you're following people was up, down, down,
493
00:24:23.079 --> 00:24:24.920
you know, and the coaches occasion you will yell at
494
00:24:24.920 --> 00:24:25.880
your pokey.
495
00:24:25.960 --> 00:24:31.519
With swimming, you're right, you could do it.
496
00:24:31.240 --> 00:24:33.079
Just like choking on little water. But like at the
497
00:24:33.200 --> 00:24:35.960
end when you're doing recover of lit clock watching and you.
498
00:24:35.920 --> 00:24:39.359
Go again because it's like yet like a minute swimming clock.
499
00:24:39.440 --> 00:24:42.680
Yeah, you go right, a minute off, go again minute
500
00:24:42.720 --> 00:24:46.519
ago or thirty seconds ago, and then you've got just
501
00:24:46.599 --> 00:24:50.000
clot watching. You haven't got time to chat to no chatting,
502
00:24:50.079 --> 00:24:53.799
where gymnastics was a bit more interactive and social, and
503
00:24:54.279 --> 00:24:56.400
when you wait your turn, you're warming up while you're
504
00:24:56.400 --> 00:25:00.240
doing your splits or whatever, you can have a little
505
00:25:00.240 --> 00:25:02.599
bit of a social as well, which was much more.
506
00:25:02.440 --> 00:25:04.039
Interesting and it's still intense.
507
00:25:04.119 --> 00:25:07.920
But did you your badminton, wasn't it last time my
508
00:25:07.960 --> 00:25:09.599
mom and dad met, I think a badminton club.
509
00:25:10.400 --> 00:25:11.920
So that was the big that was Like.
510
00:25:12.200 --> 00:25:16.279
Back in the seventies, people didn't have squashed gyms and
511
00:25:16.400 --> 00:25:18.839
like takes and CrossFit and all that stuff.
512
00:25:19.119 --> 00:25:22.440
You play, Yeah squash to the leisure center.
513
00:25:22.599 --> 00:25:25.920
Yeah, oh you'd have squash Badmington swimming.
514
00:25:26.119 --> 00:25:30.319
I suppose you can keep fit classes, yeah, scarf wafting,
515
00:25:31.119 --> 00:25:33.480
scarf bicycle keep fit classes.
516
00:25:34.880 --> 00:25:36.119
Why if you have to wear a scarf?
517
00:25:36.480 --> 00:25:38.200
Well, no, it was a bit wafty.
518
00:25:38.799 --> 00:25:41.480
You know. It was my first experiences of fit classes
519
00:25:41.480 --> 00:25:43.400
when I was probably about sixteen sixteen.
520
00:25:43.720 --> 00:25:47.119
I've been doing gymnastics and all these like exclusive sports
521
00:25:47.160 --> 00:25:49.359
and then you turn up as a bunch of old.
522
00:25:49.200 --> 00:25:51.839
Women and leo toods, mostly only thirty five.
523
00:25:51.839 --> 00:25:55.240
Doing scarf classes. Scarf often they used to do, say
524
00:25:55.240 --> 00:25:57.079
the big keyp fit thing they did at the alcohol.
525
00:25:57.240 --> 00:26:00.440
But we as my aerobics team, we went to do
526
00:26:01.279 --> 00:26:04.759
our performance of our routine, like the extreme level of
527
00:26:04.759 --> 00:26:07.079
what they were doing, and it was like one hundreds
528
00:26:07.079 --> 00:26:09.440
of the women, so our next on everyone. You know, the.
529
00:26:10.920 --> 00:26:15.640
Josh's grandma, she was part of that. And it was I.
530
00:26:15.720 --> 00:26:17.640
Call it called it scarff Wold because that's pretty much
531
00:26:17.640 --> 00:26:19.400
that some of what they did. They'd have scarfs and
532
00:26:19.400 --> 00:26:23.599
it'd all been like, you know, like formation, wafting stuff.
533
00:26:24.799 --> 00:26:27.160
Not taking anything away from them. It's just not for me.
534
00:26:28.119 --> 00:26:31.160
Well, so yes, said, what other sports are going on?
535
00:26:31.200 --> 00:26:33.559
There must be others. Obviously there's lots of others, but
536
00:26:33.599 --> 00:26:34.559
we're not quite in the rugby.
537
00:26:34.599 --> 00:26:34.759
Soon.
538
00:26:34.839 --> 00:26:37.640
Our friends daughter just came back from competing in the World.
539
00:26:37.400 --> 00:26:39.920
Across did well. It did really well.
540
00:26:40.160 --> 00:26:43.160
She placed it and in the D two level, so
541
00:26:43.200 --> 00:26:45.200
the D one, D two, D three or was it
542
00:26:45.240 --> 00:26:48.880
just D one D two, So they won.
543
00:26:49.079 --> 00:26:54.880
She was amazing, Yeah, very exciting and then was it
544
00:26:54.880 --> 00:26:58.000
it soon? Jeff was saying that the first Premier League
545
00:26:58.079 --> 00:27:04.400
game because Wolves. Now he's Wolves, isn't he? No, Hell said,
546
00:27:04.400 --> 00:27:07.400
He've gone up, haven't they? So the Premiership and they're playing.
547
00:27:07.119 --> 00:27:09.400
Man not think so, I know, I don't know.
548
00:27:09.480 --> 00:27:11.400
It's really soon. It's like, well, I.
549
00:27:11.319 --> 00:27:13.039
Think that's where to our friend, I'm going to use
550
00:27:13.039 --> 00:27:15.880
the sky sports coming around. He always takes off June,
551
00:27:16.000 --> 00:27:19.640
mid June to mid July because that's when nothing's happening.
552
00:27:19.720 --> 00:27:23.319
Nothing's happening for sort of premiership sport on high level
553
00:27:23.319 --> 00:27:26.279
sports stuff that he normally covers. He tends to go
554
00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:29.799
to do the sort of before and after interviews and
555
00:27:29.799 --> 00:27:33.200
stuff anyway, rather than matches itself. But back in the day,
556
00:27:34.559 --> 00:27:37.079
so we did take freight of you a few years ago.
557
00:27:37.400 --> 00:27:40.240
I think Hamma had just got her first paraglass.
558
00:27:40.440 --> 00:27:43.920
Mum, No, granny just kept calling me ergen klop.
559
00:27:44.079 --> 00:27:46.440
So I had to find the photo and then she
560
00:27:46.559 --> 00:27:48.279
then she just trushed your teeth.
561
00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:50.799
Yeah, said my teeth were whiter.
562
00:27:51.200 --> 00:27:51.400
Yeah.
563
00:27:51.599 --> 00:27:54.319
And then the other relatives said I look like Charles Duds, who,
564
00:27:54.319 --> 00:27:58.799
bizarrely enough I went to go meet because they wanted
565
00:27:58.839 --> 00:28:01.960
me to play him as a younger, but you're too old. No,
566
00:28:02.079 --> 00:28:03.039
the film never went ahead.
567
00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:04.880
Apparently this was before I met you.
568
00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:09.759
I was with Matt on Arblas Street and we trained
569
00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:14.920
in his agent. Yeah, so I met Charles Dance. He
570
00:28:15.079 --> 00:28:17.480
was just a very polite What did he say to you? Hell?
571
00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:22.799
Because there is a similarity, and that was about it. Really,
572
00:28:25.359 --> 00:28:30.240
this is a very good looking act apparently acting I
573
00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:33.559
put my hand to anything, put my hand or anything.
574
00:28:33.799 --> 00:28:35.960
The other actors I have done acting. Actually, I did
575
00:28:35.960 --> 00:28:37.720
that worm documentary.
576
00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:41.319
That's presenting that's not acting, it's not as presenting.
577
00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:48.480
Well, it's just all lax, is it.
578
00:28:49.799 --> 00:28:51.880
You could go back to your school play because you're
579
00:28:51.880 --> 00:28:53.680
an all boys school and you had to play a girl.
580
00:28:54.039 --> 00:28:56.759
Finally enough you got Did you put yourself forward for
581
00:28:56.799 --> 00:28:59.000
that role? Or did you get auditioned?
582
00:28:59.000 --> 00:29:00.519
And so forward?
583
00:29:00.680 --> 00:29:03.799
Is the only guy still remember your bird bust?
584
00:29:03.839 --> 00:29:05.960
Indeed you'd go to fight these rebels my lord?
585
00:29:06.160 --> 00:29:07.359
And what part were you playing?
586
00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:11.759
I was King Henry the eighth Wife, which one because
587
00:29:13.279 --> 00:29:14.880
eight part two or something. It was a bit of
588
00:29:14.920 --> 00:29:19.440
a pistake from our house due to.
589
00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:20.200
You made Was there anyone else playing a girl?
590
00:29:20.279 --> 00:29:20.759
Was it just you?
591
00:29:21.599 --> 00:29:24.160
I got the biggest cheer, obviously because I also to
592
00:29:24.200 --> 00:29:27.599
wear a dress. Yeah, but I made it into a miniskirt.
593
00:29:28.079 --> 00:29:30.160
And how old were you when you were playing this rule?
594
00:29:30.640 --> 00:29:33.440
I think I was sick for I think I was
595
00:29:33.480 --> 00:29:36.680
seventeen or something like that. I was bloody good.
596
00:29:37.480 --> 00:29:38.799
Are you growing by them?
597
00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:40.920
Yeah a little bit. I didn't have boobs.
598
00:29:40.559 --> 00:29:43.680
Though, no, but I meant height wise.
599
00:29:43.839 --> 00:29:46.119
I think I think seventeen was when I just started
600
00:29:46.160 --> 00:29:50.240
to grow I could have I mean that.
601
00:29:50.279 --> 00:29:54.440
Was that that could have launched a whole different life
602
00:29:54.480 --> 00:29:54.640
for you.
603
00:29:55.079 --> 00:29:59.240
Cambridge lives or have like agents were knocking at the time. Yeah,
604
00:29:59.799 --> 00:30:04.319
I just thought, no, let some skip gardener.
605
00:30:04.440 --> 00:30:07.160
Let someone else have that opportunity. It's not for me.
606
00:30:07.880 --> 00:30:08.720
I could do anything.
607
00:30:08.759 --> 00:30:12.119
Well, Charles Starts was already out there and I thought,
608
00:30:12.240 --> 00:30:19.119
what we don't even know no idea, But yeah, I
609
00:30:19.119 --> 00:30:28.119
could have been massive, massive butts I have got big.
610
00:30:30.640 --> 00:30:34.200
Yes, so that your head is probably oblong.
611
00:30:34.240 --> 00:30:38.839
You can tear me off. And then word, you just
612
00:30:38.880 --> 00:30:41.279
realized when we were walking kinks and holding hands, you've
613
00:30:41.279 --> 00:30:44.720
suddenly clocked why you can't hold my hand because I've
614
00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:45.519
got a rangutang.
615
00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:48.039
No, you are on a rangutang with an oblong haird
616
00:30:49.039 --> 00:30:52.319
put that on your CV. That can be on my
617
00:30:52.359 --> 00:30:56.680
anting on kids shapes. It was an oblong. It wasn't
618
00:30:56.680 --> 00:30:59.960
a rectangle. We never heard of a bloody rectang a rectang.
619
00:31:00.359 --> 00:31:01.519
But why do they call an op And what's the
620
00:31:01.519 --> 00:31:07.640
difference between oblong and a rectangle? Do you really need
621
00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:11.720
me to explain right now? No reason you should know that.
622
00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:16.839
Tell me a rectangle and an oblong? I think you
623
00:31:17.119 --> 00:31:21.880
don't come on. I'm not going because everyone knows the
624
00:31:21.920 --> 00:31:25.599
difference between an oblong, which one's two D which one's three.
625
00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:28.519
D oblong and a rectangle.
626
00:31:27.920 --> 00:31:29.440
Which one's two D, which one's three D?
627
00:31:29.559 --> 00:31:32.119
I want you to explain what the difference between.
628
00:31:33.319 --> 00:31:38.039
A rectangle? But nobody uses the word oblong anymore. Why
629
00:31:38.119 --> 00:31:40.440
don't they? Let's bring oblong back?
630
00:31:41.319 --> 00:31:46.079
It does sound weird when he keeps saying itlong. There's
631
00:31:46.119 --> 00:31:52.440
another one, Yes, no rom void, but.
632
00:31:52.359 --> 00:31:53.000
That's a muscle.
633
00:31:54.119 --> 00:32:00.400
It's a shapey plunger. Yes, because they like trapedia called
634
00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:04.240
thesius penis.
635
00:32:05.400 --> 00:32:12.160
Tiny tiny thing belong in significantly, they'd produce a lot
636
00:32:12.200 --> 00:32:14.279
of good kids, a lot of nothings.
637
00:32:14.680 --> 00:32:16.640
You were talking about pain thresholds and men and women,
638
00:32:16.720 --> 00:32:20.680
weren't they, and the difference what men could equivalent? But
639
00:32:20.759 --> 00:32:22.240
how many bones? I think that was a bit of
640
00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:25.920
an exaggeration. How many bones? How do they know?
641
00:32:26.359 --> 00:32:28.960
A different exaggeration? How many children of you birth?
642
00:32:29.000 --> 00:32:31.519
Well, no, but I'm saying twenty bones. I mean just
643
00:32:31.640 --> 00:32:34.759
breaking three or four bones would be which bones? Obviously
644
00:32:34.920 --> 00:32:37.200
penis there isn't one there is.
645
00:32:39.599 --> 00:32:43.480
So this lovely man was calling it. Man'splaining just about
646
00:32:43.559 --> 00:32:46.599
the difference between nobodys. Already put numbers on.
647
00:32:47.160 --> 00:32:48.240
But how did they do this?
648
00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:50.960
I can't remember all the details. I just want to
649
00:32:51.000 --> 00:32:52.319
know the numbers erect.
650
00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:56.160
The numbers made sense because it's the equivalent of its
651
00:32:56.240 --> 00:32:58.559
equivalent of its equivalent of people get equipment of what.
652
00:32:59.079 --> 00:33:03.240
So the equivalent of breaking twenty both, I'm going to
653
00:33:03.359 --> 00:33:08.519
run forty three, giving birth was no fifty seven. But
654
00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:11.160
there was also a pain threshold of where you would pass.
655
00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:15.319
Out was forty eight or something, and then giving birth
656
00:33:15.480 --> 00:33:21.000
was fifty seven. So it was basically just saying we
657
00:33:21.279 --> 00:33:25.960
are women are perceived as the weaker sex purely just
658
00:33:25.960 --> 00:33:33.519
because generally we are smaller, build, less muscle power, strength
659
00:33:33.559 --> 00:33:37.000
what about and you know, just generally smaller, So we're
660
00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:38.000
seen as the weaker sex.
661
00:33:38.079 --> 00:33:39.279
But actually.
662
00:33:40.799 --> 00:33:44.200
We give birth at a fifty seven and then you've
663
00:33:44.200 --> 00:33:47.240
got to keep that thing alive and have no sleep
664
00:33:47.279 --> 00:33:49.960
for about a year and your body's ripped to shreds
665
00:33:50.319 --> 00:33:51.200
and you just crack on.
666
00:33:51.839 --> 00:33:58.960
Basically that stopped you, isn't that? Remember Arnie had Arnold
667
00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:00.880
Schwartz legal, yeah, who used to come up.
668
00:34:00.799 --> 00:34:02.839
With some very interesting quotes. But he did say that
669
00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:06.440
women are fatter and less muscle than men. Have gotten
670
00:34:06.480 --> 00:34:10.760
a lot of trouble, but it is physiologically correct for reasons.
671
00:34:10.360 --> 00:34:13.039
Of child, bigger hips, all those things.
672
00:34:13.440 --> 00:34:16.079
But yes, Nie, I don't know where that came from.
673
00:34:16.239 --> 00:34:22.800
But yes, pain, yeah, I think long prolonged pain men are.
674
00:34:23.360 --> 00:34:27.239
But I think women have been given the menstrual cycle
675
00:34:28.079 --> 00:34:29.119
from an early age.
676
00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:31.719
Do you really think that's the reason why to prepare
677
00:34:31.760 --> 00:34:32.280
them for birth?
678
00:34:32.440 --> 00:34:37.400
No? No, but we used to pay every month generally
679
00:34:37.559 --> 00:34:39.960
if you have a regular cycle and then the husband
680
00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:41.760
every day.
681
00:34:42.039 --> 00:34:47.360
People have it more than others. And you know, en demitriosis.
682
00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:54.440
Is extreme, extreme pain, menstrual pain and horrific for many women.
683
00:34:54.760 --> 00:34:57.199
And you know they also have those little tens machines
684
00:34:57.239 --> 00:34:59.920
that they put onto people to simulate period pain. Oh, yes,
685
00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:02.440
which I think is brilliant fun and I need to
686
00:35:02.480 --> 00:35:05.960
get one so you can put that on. And you
687
00:35:05.960 --> 00:35:09.039
know most people, you know, just standing or they try
688
00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:11.559
and make them do normal activity like washing up, like
689
00:35:11.639 --> 00:35:15.440
driving or eating or going to the gym or whatever,
690
00:35:15.639 --> 00:35:20.400
and these poor men are just literally can't cake just
691
00:35:20.440 --> 00:35:23.719
standing there. So going back to your holding hands, you
692
00:35:24.039 --> 00:35:25.280
have extremely long arms.
693
00:35:25.320 --> 00:35:28.440
Apparently I actually tested I should test money.
694
00:35:28.440 --> 00:35:31.440
He only did this woman in France in Eastern and
695
00:35:31.920 --> 00:35:35.599
you could touch something that flinkers and there's only sentimeter
696
00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:36.920
is between.
697
00:35:36.599 --> 00:35:39.400
You, he claims he's told me. But I could hang
698
00:35:39.400 --> 00:35:41.440
off the rafter without take my feet off the floor,
699
00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:43.280
and he couldn't reach the raft.
700
00:35:44.719 --> 00:35:46.440
And then we realized when you stood and you put
701
00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:47.840
your arms down on the side of your arms are
702
00:35:47.880 --> 00:35:49.880
almost at your knees because you're a range of town,
703
00:35:50.679 --> 00:35:51.079
and then.
704
00:35:52.639 --> 00:35:55.280
Put your hands down.
705
00:35:55.599 --> 00:35:58.480
I can't remember, obviously when I was when we used
706
00:35:58.480 --> 00:35:59.239
to hold hands and you.
707
00:35:59.280 --> 00:35:59.920
Said you love it.
708
00:36:00.039 --> 00:36:01.000
You're talking about.
709
00:36:02.880 --> 00:36:09.440
All right, meaning I hadn't really thought about it when
710
00:36:09.440 --> 00:36:15.199
we first met and we've been holding him.
711
00:36:11.519 --> 00:36:17.760
I was, well, I had to hold my hand up because.
712
00:36:17.639 --> 00:36:20.000
Like I'm like trying to come hold it up. That
713
00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:20.800
would make it shorter.
714
00:36:21.039 --> 00:36:23.559
What I meant was like, lift your hand up to
715
00:36:23.559 --> 00:36:26.960
meet mine, because it's otherwise I've been walking on like this.
716
00:36:27.079 --> 00:36:28.559
The one shoulder dipped to the floor.
717
00:36:29.760 --> 00:36:30.039
Mm hm.
718
00:36:31.320 --> 00:36:32.880
Anyway, if you could just shorten your arms.
719
00:36:32.719 --> 00:36:38.199
That'd be a lot easier for me, possible. I'd like
720
00:36:38.280 --> 00:36:40.639
to be taller. I've always wanted to be a bit taller.
721
00:36:41.599 --> 00:36:43.079
It's not going to happen there now, is it.
722
00:36:44.119 --> 00:36:44.199
No?
723
00:36:44.519 --> 00:36:45.239
Not onless I have.
724
00:36:46.719 --> 00:36:52.559
That was amazing, that's extreme. I think he would have
725
00:36:52.599 --> 00:36:55.920
been five six, had surgery, very tall, and then we
726
00:36:56.000 --> 00:36:59.119
tested him for all sorts of its, just like decades later,
727
00:36:59.159 --> 00:37:02.800
and he had no balance. The properception was still affected.
728
00:37:03.280 --> 00:37:05.639
And you didn't know because he hadn't He didn't.
729
00:37:05.360 --> 00:37:07.639
Want to tell anyone at first, and then we kept
730
00:37:07.760 --> 00:37:11.800
exposing this balance issue to the point of doing the
731
00:37:11.840 --> 00:37:14.679
vo two on the treadmill walking. I said, oh, could
732
00:37:14.679 --> 00:37:15.000
you let go?
733
00:37:16.599 --> 00:37:18.559
How does he move around during the day.
734
00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:21.760
He was very wealthy, so I think he got driven
735
00:37:21.800 --> 00:37:23.519
pretty much everywhere. But you still have to get out
736
00:37:23.519 --> 00:37:24.000
of the car and.
737
00:37:24.920 --> 00:37:26.800
Down the stairs from his bedroom to them.
738
00:37:26.880 --> 00:37:28.440
He was just fairly unstanding on his feet.
739
00:37:28.599 --> 00:37:33.119
Is it just a lift? What is a lift? Anyway?
740
00:37:33.800 --> 00:37:34.360
Well, there we are.
741
00:37:34.559 --> 00:37:37.119
Enjoy the heat wave. Stay cool if you.
742
00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:38.480
Can heat hydrated.
743
00:37:38.599 --> 00:37:42.440
This host pipe band where we are as well, carry
744
00:37:42.440 --> 00:37:44.440
buckets of water and water plants.
745
00:37:44.480 --> 00:37:45.880
Still exactly.
746
00:37:47.840 --> 00:37:51.199
We're going to be taking a little break over the summer.
747
00:37:50.920 --> 00:37:53.719
For August, but we'll be back.
748
00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:55.840
So go back and listen to some our other episodes
749
00:37:55.880 --> 00:37:58.800
if you haven't caught up yet, because there's loads of them,
750
00:37:59.239 --> 00:38:03.639
loads of them and the brilliant Okay, love you all
751
00:38:03.679 --> 00:38:04.119
see soon.
752
00:38:04.239 --> 00:38:05.480
Enjoy summer quite a bit
753
00:38:22.280 --> 00:38:22.320
H.