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(no music) (10 hours) #1432 Let me bore you to sleep | Monday’s Boring Objects · Let me bore you to sleep (Jason Newland)

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Speaker 1: Hello, when welcome to Let Me Boy You to Sleep.
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My name's Jason Newland. Please only listen when you can
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safely close your eyes. And this this, this is Monday's
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boring objects. My website for this podcast is let Me
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you'd like to join in groovy So what I thought
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i'd do? What I thought I would do. I sound
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very young today for some reason, don't sound my actual age.
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I was last night. I was going I think I
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was on YouTube going through some.
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Speaker 2: Of the.
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Speaker 1: Not my YouTube, no, I think it was Apple Music,
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and I was just going through some of the music
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that I some of the songs that I like, and
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I forget how many songs I actually really like from
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the past. And sometimes I do get asked that question.
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By the way, it's Vinnie in the background. If you're
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wondering all that noises I do get asked what's my
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favorite song or my favorite album, and off the top
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of my head, I seem to come up with very
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similar question answers. Rather, but if I have the information
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in front of me, like all the different songs that
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have been released, I've got more of an opportunity to
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actually be reminded of some of the songs that I'd
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forgotten about. So what I'm going to do for this
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Monday's boring objects I'm going to I'm just going to
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talk about some of my favorite songs from the eighties.
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Now I'm probably gonna, Yeah, I want to go maybe
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my favorite it might just be my favorite songs from
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nineteen eighty because I don't know how far I can go,
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because I'm going to look through the whole year, Becau
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It's not just number one hits that I would like.
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There's going to be songs that maybe we're in the
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top ten, top twenty, top thirty, even that I might
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have really liked. So I don't want to just find
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the number one hits from the UK, you know, in
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nineteen eighty, because might gave them. Give me maybe thirty songs,
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maybe twenty seven songs or whatever. Because sometimes songs are
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there for more than one week, aren't they? So yeah,
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so I thought, I just I'm not on the website
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called official charts dot com. Now I hope that this
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is only going to be in the UK. It won't
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matter too much because there's a crossover obviously. I mean,
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so many songs that I loved were from other countries. However,
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there's gonna be I mean, I know, sometimes old I
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hear a song and it was a massive hit in America,
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absolutely huge hit. I saw one the other day. It
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was something on YouTube. I think there's this Morning. Actually
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it was some really random and it was like something
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the Corner or something, and it was the Jackson five
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and apparently it was a big hit in America. Never
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heard the song before. So I'm just going to go
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through nineteen eighty, so the top charts in this is
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the first twentieth of the first nineteen eighty Brass in Pockets,
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the Pretenders. Okay, so I'm not gonna I'm just gonna
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go through a lot of these songs I'm not necessarily
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gonna remember. But then if I heard it, I probably think, oh,
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but I'm not going to hear it because I'm doing this.
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I can't play music, not chart music. It'd be nice
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if I could, because I'd like to do a kind
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of like a weekly radio show where I played music
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that I like, maybe even did I like the I do,
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Maybe doing too one show of the weekend, maybe on
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a sad day, where I talk music I like, and
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then the Sunday show could be a request show. But
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it doesn't seem to be any way of doing that,
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like legally doing that without it costing money, which is
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a shame because Spotify used to allow that a few
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years back, and I did do a few episodes where
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I could just do a mixture of this and play
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a song, so I'd like to talk about the song,
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what it meant to me, you know, all that stuff,
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all that drivel, and then played this song, so it's
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kind of yeah, So I'm looking at this my girl
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from Madness, My Girl, my girl, so it's my girl.
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I liked that. I liked everything Madness did, so I
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don't remember that particular song off the top of my head.
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But then here number four, I'm in the mood for Dancing,
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one of my favorite songs that I never even think
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about me in the mood for dancing. I actually dreamt
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about the Nolan sisters last night. I dated one of
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them in my dream. That is very strange if they
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random as well, so it's kind of I mean, number
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one was brass in Pocket. The Pretender's number two is
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with You I'm Born Again Billy Preston and so Rita.
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I probably know both those songs, but I don't. I
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can't think what they are So nineteen eighty it's kind
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of still similar songs from nineteen seventies. It's kind of
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the crossover period, isn't it. The music's starting to change,
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and then at the end of the eighties a song
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that the music changed again into being dominated in the
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UK by Stockhak and Waterman with Kylie Minogue and Jason
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Donovan and Rick Aslee and Sanita and Yeah, some of
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the songs were catchy, but I just wasn't. It wasn't
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for me. Although I did like Rick Cassley his voice.
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I didn't really like his songs, the hits, but he
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did do when I Fall in Love, like the ballad
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and it's very good. I saw him sing it alive.
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Such a great singer. But you know, anyway, I'm in
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the mood for dancing. I remember hearing that, why is
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my laptop vibrating? It is a laptop, isn't it. It's weird.
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I remember being at a wedding, so I guess it
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must have been nineteen eighty. So I wedd inside of
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being nine and see to me, Ironba was like tiny,
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but I probably was tiny at nine, so yeah, but
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for some reason I thought it was a lot earlier
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than that. So the I'm in the mood for dancing
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was being played and I was dancing, and then my
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stepmother had a headache or something and she went home
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and my dad took me and my three brothers. I
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guess she must have gone. I don't know who who
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the baby was with my little brother, but we all
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went out into the sea, which is I think, and
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it's nighttime, and I do believe it's the first and
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only time we ever went into the sea together. I
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just remember that. And it's the only first time I
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ever felt safe in the sea because my dad was there.
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It's weird, isn't it better? Okay, I want to hold
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your hand. Dollar, No, I don't remember that one. I
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remember Dollar because they were on the Rod Harris Show.
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When I was on the Rod Harry Show. But they
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had one really big hit all Pink Floyd Another Brick
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in the Wall. I like that song, but I don't
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really remember it, like when it came out. I kind
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of I thought another I thought it was like from
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the seventies, that song, Oh another break in the war,
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blah blah, tears of a clown, that beat. It's different
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for girls. Joe Jackson, I have a dreamer Abba. Yep,
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it's quite weird because see this is a game kind
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of strange because he's nineteen eighty. I thought Abba was
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pretty much over and done with, Bye bye nineteen eighty,
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not over and dig with. But I had like such
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a huge success in the seventies. I didn't know they
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had any hits in the eighties, but clearly they did
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because I have a Dreams brilliant. They peaked at number
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two though, I have a dream.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, London calling the clash, so this is where the
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seventies clashed.
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Speaker 1: To see what I did there with the eighties, so
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people like the Clash. The Specials kind of carried on
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from the seventies to the eighties, so they almost kind
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of created the eighties in a sort of a new way.
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And London call in I remember that one. But Luke
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loved the clash London Calling and oh, I forget what
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the other one group, the Specials too Much, too Young,
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too much, too young, too much, too young do do
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do something like that. They did a really good song
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called ghost Town. It's down, ah, living in a ghost town,
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all the things that are down, something like that. And
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I actually went to lunch with him, the bloke from
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the Specials. He's no longer with us, unfortunately, but I
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didn't know who he was. So there was this lady
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called Helen. She was a BBC. She was I think
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she was self improved at this point, but she was
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a producer, film producer and TV producer, producer and I
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don't know why, but we just built a friendship up.
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She'd started doing comedy. We met at a comedy gig
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and we just hit it off. She was probably in
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her thirties. I was what was I twenty And this
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is in the nineties when I matter, I was probably
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like twenty two maybe and twenty three. And she used
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to take me out. It wasn't a relationship, although I
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started to have I think I started to have a
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few feelings for her because I spent so much time
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with her, but it wasn't a relationship like romance. But
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she just liked spending time with me, and she used
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to take me to theaters, take me to concerts, take
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me out for meals. And I kind of got a
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chance to see the other side of life, you know,
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the side where there was no no penny, no penny counting,
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no or it's checked what I can afford on the menu.
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And it felt quite nice and I did it. Part
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of people was like, am I taking advantage of her?
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But I wasn't, because I don't really care like that.
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In them days, I couldn't care if I was eating
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in a top class restaurant or in McDonald's. I really
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didn't care. As long as I was able to fill
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my tummy, that's really, you know, with something tasty hopefully.
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But yeah, I think part of the reason it wasn't
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costing her money to go to a lot of these
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concerts because she'd get tickets sent to her because I
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wanted to give her to give reviews, and because she
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was a TV producer and she knew a lot of people,
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and so she'd get a lot of comp tickets. See, yeah,
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I went to one, I went to a concert. I
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forget his name that he did. He had one really
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big hit American guy with a like all this kind
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of style hair. What is his name? I forget his name,
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really really super good looking bloke and he it's a
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really good song as well, like the one that he is,
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one of those like really really good songs in the
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nineties that was like a huge hit, and off the
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back of that he was able to sell out concerts
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and stuff around the world. I guess, oh, it's his name. Anyway,
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we went along, we got bored and left because I
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only knew one song. I wasn't a fan of his,
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but we just couldn't be bothered. It was full of
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there's a lot of very young females screaming, and I
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was like, Okay, this isn't really It was a little bit,
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I don't know, just fee a bit strange being there,
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and I didn't know. If it had been someone that
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I knew, I could have got super excited, probably, but
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but there's one point when he gets on stage. Everyone's
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sitting in their chairs in their seats and it's it's
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I don't know, a theater. There's probably a couple of
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thousand people in there, and he's standing there and everyone's
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clapping and whatever, and he starts talking to everyone, and
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you know, he looks great, sounds great, isn't I don't
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think he's actually started singing yet. And this surprised me.
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He said to the audience, he said, you can come
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up and is this totally true. I'm not making this up.
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He said, you can come up to the front if
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you want and scream. You can stand at the front
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and scream if you want. So all these girls just
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started running up and screaming, and I just thought it
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was quite weird that you almost need to instigate it yourself.
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But yeah, it was. I don't know, it was funny,
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but we didn't. I don't know if it was that
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I didn't want to watch it or that she didn't
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want to watch it, the lady I was with. But
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in the end we left. But I did go to
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a few like operas, and I think and I also
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went to see Waiting for Godo, which had rigged mail
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and age and Edmondson in and there was a huge
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wait for it to start because he hadn't turned up
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or he was late getting there. I think, Rick mal,
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I'm pretty sure it's quite weird. Because it was waiting
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for God, wasn't it. So we were waiting for Rick Mail.
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And I think it was like half an hour forty
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minutes late starting, but everybody wanted to see Rick Mal
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because Rick Mail. If you don't know who Rick Mail is,
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or or Adrian Nipinson if you're not from the UK
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and you've not heard of them, they were in a
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TV they're basically heroes of comedy in this country. They're icons. Really.
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They were in The Young Ones, which was a anarchic
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TV show in the eighties early eighties, well eighty three
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eighty four, so and so they were both comedians, comedy
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actors and stuff. And then they went on and did
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have their own double act where they was it called
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philf Come in what was called Bottom. That's it. They
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had their own TV show called Bottom, which they performed
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all around the country maybe around the world, I don't know.
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And that went on for ages long, many many years.
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And Rick Mal was also in lots of different like
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sitcoms and stuff. And I think Adrian Edmondson did he
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did a bit more serious stuff later on because he
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was in Holby City, so he was really he's just
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really good actor. They were both really good actors. But yeah, yeah,
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this is that. I remember one that Ricky or did he?
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There was? Oh, what's the TV show? It was about
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a minister called Bastard Alan Bastard and it's very funny.
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So Rick Mail, I don't say, Ricky didn't I Rick
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Mail was the star of that and it was very good,
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very funny. That was in the like eighty six eight
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and probably about eighty eight times eighty nine. Hey yeah,
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yeah nine anyway, but I also so going back to Helen.
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I went and she said I want to meet up
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with her. She lived in where did she live? What's
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that movie? A North London movie named after the North
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London area from a blower did three weddings in a
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funeral notting Hill. She lived in notting Hill and she
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lived in this really nice area, big streets, loads of trees.
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She lived in this flat which was biger than a house.
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It was like really quite a nice place. I couldn't
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find her for ages, honestly, it was like it wasn't
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on the eight's. It was hidden. Anyway. I went to
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visit her one day and she I think it's Saturday,
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and she said, Oh, I'm going for lunch she would
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go for lunch. She said, oh, okay, So she went
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to lunch and then when we got there, she said, oh,
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I'm meeting I can't remember her name. I have to
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put it in now the special. See. I didn't realize.
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Okay he Terry Hall. That's it, Terry Hall. So Terry Hall.
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She said, oh, I got a friend coming along and said, okay, cool.
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I didn't like the idea of that. But I said, oh,
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fair enough. Not Paytrie girl, is it? And she said no.
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I said okay, fair enough and she said it's Terry Hall.
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I said, yeah, it means nothing to me. And so
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he came along and they were just talking and had known
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each other, seemed like forever, good friends, and it was
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really friendly, really nice bloke, and she was talking about
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what's he up to, and they were talking about music
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and some stuff that he was getting on with. And
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but at no point did he mention or did she
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mention to me that he was a big star like
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he'd been in I think three big bands in the UK.
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Terry Hall. I mean, he's not around anymore, but he was.
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He kind of was is it Scar? He almost kind
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of I think created Scar, a sort of certain type
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of music, which then led to Madness and maybe Adam
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Andiants should we say possibly, I don't know. Anyway, very
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influential and had loads of people in the band. It
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wasn't just like three people or four people. There was lots,
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So he was never going to make a huge amount
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of money if he was shared out amongst everyone, and
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I quite like that. I think he was just having
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fun with his friends, you know. And they did such
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a great song, ghost Town, which was number one for
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a couple of weeks, but that's later on in the eighties.
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I'm not sure if I'm going to get past the
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first week of nineteen eighty one. That's not good, is it?
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How am I going to? How am I supposed to?
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Maybe this should be my new weekly recording songs. I
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like the charts from the nineteen eighties because I'm going
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to struggle to get through just one week. So if
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you think about that, that's going to be fifty two
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weeks times by ten years, five hundred and twenty recordings,
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five hundred and twenty years, five hundred and twenty years. Really,
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so each year is going to be one Yeah, it's
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going to take me one year to do isn't it
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fifty two, which means maybe I should have started in
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nineteen seventy. But then that wouldn't make sense with it
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because that means I have to live to be another
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fifty five years old. But then by the time I'm
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in another fifty five years, there'll be another fifty five
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years to talk about. Oh, unless I just say my
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favorite songs, So this could be the first episode of
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my favorite songs, But then I've already started it on
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the boring Monday. Perhaps if I hadn't mentioned boring Monday's objects,
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but then I keep mentioning boring Monday's objects Monday's boring
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objects rather, I don't know anyways, So I'm talking, we're
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just having a nice chat. See if i'd known but
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known how I was back then when the waiter came
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around and sort of said, oh, are you ready to
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are you ready to order? How could I not have said,
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what are the specials? Today? Watched Today's specials? Because he
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was in a bank called the specials, and I looked stupid.
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It looked really dumb. I'd have found it hilarious as well.
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At the time. He probably wouldn't have done she might
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have done. I don't know. She might have just been embarrassed,
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but I think that was part of the deal. I
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was quite embarrassing. I think she quite found that quite amusing.
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And he was lovely, really nice bloke. Now back then
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I was did not like meeting new people. I've never
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really enjoyed meeting new people. I'm okay once I meet them.
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Once I've kind of kind of got to know if
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they're safe or not, I suppose in a weird way.
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But it's easy when it's just lunch, it's just like
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an hour or two, like, okay, I haven't got to
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see them again. But when it comes to like working,
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or someone moving in and like to a building or
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into a house that I'm living in when I was
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in the pastor or me moving into a new home
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and having to sort of kind of get to know
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new people, or me starting a new job, Yeah, I've
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never never enjoyed that. But it's weird because eventually you
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just get to know people, don't you. It's standard. I
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mean when I started doing taekwondo, I remember, what was
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I thirty? Now I was forty one? Now I was
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I forty one, I was forty. I was forty years old.
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And I started doing time try yeah taekwondo, and I
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didn't know anyone there, and eventually I kind of got
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to know so many people. And I was quite friendly
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with the instructor because he was more my age than
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anyone else, because he was about ten years old than me.
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A lot of other people were like ten years fifteen
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years old, twenty years old, twenty five. You know, there's
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a lot of much younger people than me. I was
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the youngest, but I wasn't the fattest. I was the
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second fettest, the second fettest, but he was much more.
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I don't call other people fab I'm just saying, okay,
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well I was the second most rotund. And he was
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a lot fitter than I was. And I remember thinking
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back to that time, thinking, because I know I lost
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weight when I was doing it, and after probably six months,
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i'd slim down. And I remember that because the instructor
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is saying you've lost weight. I said, oh, thanks, and
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I believed him, because why would someone lie about that.
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Let's to be crawledn't it. Especially if I start walking
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around about the top on thinking I'm slim now and
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then everyone's laughing at me. It's like no, the police
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are arresting me. He's like, oh, but your boob's back
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inside your brah. Wow. And I see a picture recently
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that I've got of that time, and there's a picture
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of my belly just flopping over the belt. It's like, wow,
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that's me having lost weight. Crazy, And I was standing
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there thinking I was a slim Wow, too much? Too young?
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Do do do? Forget that? I don't know anyway, So
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I'm looking at the spirits having flown the beds? Is
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it love Your after Rose Royce, Spacer Jazz Carnival, seventeen Regents, Rappers, Delight,
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the sugar Hill Gang. I don't know any of these
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day trip to Bagner to bangor if I only want
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to be with you? I only want to be with you?
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Do Do Do Do? Do?
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Speaker 4: Do?
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Speaker 1: Do? Do Do Do? Was that done by quite a
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few different people? It peaked at number four the tourists
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I only want to be with you? Wasn't there a
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really famous person that sung that, like really famous, like
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in the sixties or seventies or something. So I remember
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the song. I knowed the song song, but I don't
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know which version that was. Living by Numbers Escape Rupert
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Holmes the Peniicolada song. I probably know that, but I
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can't think of it working for the Yankee Dollar Skids.
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I'm beginning to think this is not a UK charts
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This is all it is. It is, it is, it is,
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it is Okay, it just seemed like the songs I've
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never heard of. But yeah, is this love that I feeling?
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Is this the love? Is that the one the Rose Royce?
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If it is, then it's a great song. Rappers Delight
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the sugar Hill Gang. Nope, I don't know. It sounds
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familiar like the song that means that. The sound, the sound,
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the title Rappers Delight and then the sugar Hill Gangs.
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I've heard of the sugar Hill Gang working for the
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Yankee Dollar Skids. Too Hot cooling a gang? Too hot,
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too hot. I'm in the mood for being too hot.
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I feel like being too hot. Maybe that's Cooling the Gang.
32:52
I probably know that song, but it's not my calling again,
32:56
go to as it were. So when I was DJ,
33:00
Cooling the Gang songs were quite popularly, quite a few,
33:04
like dancing tracks, so Cooling the Gang. I liked them,
33:09
but I don't remember too Hot, buzz buzz a didd
33:14
lit Matchbox. No, it's number thirty. Don't know that one.
33:19
I probably do, but I can't see off just from
33:22
the title. There's no image or anything. My feet keep
33:28
dancing cheek or chick thirty one. No Blue Peter by
33:34
Mike Oldfield. Now I'm surprised at that. The reason I'm
33:44
surprised because I know who my Coldfield is. I know
33:51
Blue Peter. It's the Blue Peter theme tune for one
33:57
of the most famous children's TV shows in the UK history,
34:03
Blue Peter, and possibly the longest running. I don't know
34:07
if it's still going now, and but it was like
34:12
do do do do? Do? Do? Do do do? So
34:17
I'm thinking maybe Mike Oldfield was asked to revamp it
34:22
and make it sound better. Okay, did Mike Coldfield? Did
34:28
he do the the No? Did he Mike Coldfield? Did he?
34:36
Did he do Trouebler bells? Am I thinking of someone else?
34:41
Which makes him one of the most famous producers of music?
34:49
Did he do? Did he? Did he do the Big
34:55
Brother theme tune? Mm hmm? Anyway, I know the tune
35:03
like really well because I've heard it thousands of times
35:05
when I was a kid. Probably, but I don't remember
35:10
it being in a chart, but clearly it was for
35:12
nineteen twenty four weeks. It peaked at number nineteen No.
35:18
It was in charts for eight weeks, peaked at number
35:20
nineteen low. This week was number twenty four. Crowd of
35:27
the country Kenny Rodgers. I think it was someone like
35:31
Kenny Rodgers. I will recognize this song when I hear it,
35:39
but I won't necessarily know the title of the song
35:44
because really, unlike in I'm going to say America, because
35:51
I don't know about other countries. I know in America
35:55
a country in western music is it was huge and
36:00
it still is huge in this country country and western
36:07
country and is it country? No country where it's not
36:10
country and westn is it country music? Sorry? Country music.
36:15
There's always been a place for it here and there's
36:21
been some huge stars that have had, you know, big
36:25
hits from the country world music world over the decades
36:31
in the UK, but it's not it's never been a
36:34
dominant music here, so you're unlikely to see like a
36:43
Top forty where you've got ten songs from the country
36:50
country music. But some of the really big people like
36:53
Dolly Parton, but there was more herb popular songs that
36:59
became pop. Pillar that sounds weird, isn't it. It's like
37:02
nine to five and Joelene things like that. So I
37:13
actually had an uncle who was in a country band
37:17
and it was the biggest country band in the UK.
37:21
He won awards like the most popular country band every year,
37:25
and I was so impressed until I realized there was
37:27
only four bands in the country. I'm joking. He was
37:31
so good. I went to one of his gigs once
37:33
and he was I think he was doing it for
37:40
probably four decades, five decades seriously, from just did it
37:45
forever that he started off probably doing like sixties music,
37:51
and then he kind of moved into country in the seventies. Well,
37:56
when the sixties country has been around forever, isn't it
37:59
not the with the trees? I'm talking about country music.
38:03
Got to Love Somebody sits the sledge, got to Love Somebody,
38:09
I'm in the mood forgot to love Somebody, for loving Somebody,
38:15
I don't know that one. Then it peaked at number
38:17
thirty four, so that that wasn't like a big strange
38:22
little girl sad Cafe, Nope, young Blood UFO, Sarah Fleetwood,
38:28
Mac don't know that one, My Simple Heart, the Three
38:31
Degrees thirty nine, Paradise Bird, the Letter Wonderland, the Commodorees.
38:40
Now I probably do know those. However, January nineteen eighty
38:57
first to twentieth twentieth is the wrong. It's doing wrong.
39:03
Why is it doing that for six of the first
39:10
six of the first first of the first should we
39:14
see first of the first twenty for January nineteen eighty, right,
39:22
that's the first one that you can do charts, Okay,
39:33
So twelfth is September? Why why have you done that for?
39:39
Why twelve September? I don't want twelve to September twenty
39:43
twenty five is taking away from me. It's say no,
39:49
do what I told you, or don't do anything at all. Stop, no,
39:54
go all the way back to nineteen eighty. It's going
39:57
to take absolutely years if that won't even let me
40:02
go only going back as far as twenty twenty one?
40:09
Why why are you doing this? Okay? So for some
40:16
reason it's blocked me out, and I don't understand why.
40:21
I don't get Oh, let's go to Wikipedia see if
40:25
that will do it. Nineteen eighty best selling single of
40:29
the year, Madonna had six number ones juney eighties. So
40:38
I was the Eighties and a Music Week June eighties
40:46
are a total of one hundred and ninety one singles
40:48
which took the UK chart number one spot. Madonna was
40:53
the most successful single act of the decade, as six
40:57
of US singles reached the top spot. George Michael had
41:00
significant involvement with eight number one singles, with two number
41:05
one singles as a solo artist, four as a member
41:10
of Wham and one as a duet with Aretha Frank
41:15
LNN and one as a member of a charity supergroup
41:19
band Aid. Six singles Oh Okay and Frankie Goes to
41:29
Hollywood received the longest number one, which was nine weeks
41:35
in nineteen eighty four two Tribes. The best selling single
41:41
of the decade nineteen eighties was do Their Know It's
41:44
Christmas by band Aid, selling more than three point five
41:48
million copies and passing Mula of King Tire by Wings
41:55
to become the best selling single ever altogether. Now My
42:01
Looking No Needful the only song I've ever enjoyed listening
42:10
to bagpipes. I'm not a fan of bad pipes, bad pipes, bagpipes.
42:21
I know no, Sorry, I can't I don't know. I
42:28
think it's just just not really, my ears aren't suited
42:32
for it. I'm sure they're amazing. My ears don't can't
42:37
adapt to bagpipes, and not everybody that plays bagpipes in
42:43
public trying to figure what the correct words is not
42:49
everyone that plays bagpipes in public should play bagpipes in public.
43:01
I think it's quite a difficult instrument to learn. I
43:06
think it must be, otherwise more people would be good
43:10
at it. I'm sure, I'm sure they are, but just
43:13
you know, I'm moving on. Nineteen eighty saw the introduction
43:17
of the cassette single. Really, I thought that was around
43:20
for ages. I used to buy the cassette single along
43:25
the seven inch and twelve inch format and nineteen eighty seven.
43:30
In nineteen eighty seven, major record labels developed a common
43:33
format for the CD single. I'll tell you what I
43:44
didn't even I don't think. I started listening to CDs
43:49
till the late nineties, so it took me ten years
43:57
before I even accepted the CDs existed. Honestly, it's still
44:01
buying tapes. Best selling single of the year, Wait a
44:13
Minute nineteen seventy, okay, nineteen eighty so it's going to
44:18
give me. This is for the whole year, so I'm
44:20
not going to go by week now because it's to
44:23
take ages number. This is the number. So why has
44:40
it got a number four? It's very weird. So let's
44:46
have a look. These were the ones weeks at number one.
44:49
These were the number one songs. Pink Floyd and Other,
44:52
Brick in the Wall, Pretenders, Brass in a Pocket.
44:56
Speaker 5: And.
44:58
Speaker 1: Blondie Atomic. I loved Blondie, Blondie. See see when I
45:05
get asked the question on a Q and A Friday,
45:07
I'll say, oh, I'll go to the music and I think, well, Madonna, Terrence,
45:14
Trent Derby, and I'll sort of think about Michael Jackson
45:18
and the Beatles and Stevie Wonder and George Michael and
45:28
different various people that I really loved a lot. But
45:33
there was a lot of songs, a lot of singers,
45:36
a lot of bands that I never bought an album
45:39
off ever, Blondie and I love so many songs that
45:45
Blondie did, particularly the Tide is High, because I remember
45:52
my I couldn't tell you the exact year. I could
45:58
because I could look it up, couldn't I Actually, let's
46:01
look it up. Why am I being so so coy?
46:05
The Tide is High, which I would say is one
46:08
of their biggest hits, The Tide is High. Come on, Blondie,
46:16
Blondie and discography Blondie. Right. I want singles, not albums
46:27
essential great, No, I want singles, live albums. These are
46:36
just albums. I want singles. Where's the singles? Oh? Here
46:43
we go, right, So let's go down to the correct year.
46:52
So I'm just going down. They started in nineteen seventy
46:54
six and they had a number one in Belgium and
47:00
number one in New Zealand with Denise Denise Denise UK
47:07
was number two, So that was great song. Loved that.
47:11
That was nineteen seventy eight. So yeah, I didn't realize
47:14
that Hanging on the Teared the Phone that was seventy
47:19
eight as well, and it reached number five in the UK.
47:25
See that's weird, right, Why are none of those listed
47:32
in the US. So Denise Denise like didn't even register.
47:39
Like they didn't release it in America an American group.
47:44
I do believe Hanging on Telephone didn't release in America
47:48
because it didn't chart. How please explain that to me?
47:54
How great song? Two? Great Songs got number five here,
48:02
so we charted the highest in the UK and Denise
48:07
charted the second highest in the UK. But it went
48:11
to number one in New Zealand and Belgium. And then
48:15
in nineteen seventy nine, Heart of Glass reached number one
48:22
in the UK but also in the US, so that
48:27
must have been their big breakthrough hit. It reached number
48:32
one in Australia, in Canada, Gerbil or Germany, probably not
48:39
Germany and New Zealand. So big hit reached got silver Silver,
48:50
I don't know what I'm saying, Silver's heart Glass. Then
48:57
Sunday Girl, it didn't didn't even get in the charts
49:01
in America. This is nineteen seventy nine. Wait a minute,
49:06
Heart Glasses seventy nine. Sunday Girl got to number one
49:09
in the UK again and also Ireland, but it didn't
49:18
chart in America. And then one way or another, one
49:24
way or another, I'm going to get yeah, I'm going
49:27
to get it one way or another. See you don't
49:31
anyone remember that it was a good song. It did
49:34
chart in America, twenty four got to got to number
49:40
ninety eight in the UK, so maybe people in this
49:46
country were not so we're getting bored, which I understand
49:52
because Blondie was amazing Dreaming. So in America this started
50:00
to get more like hits, but they were still only
50:03
getting like twenty four, twenty seven, eighty four when Dreaming
50:11
got to number two in the UK, twenty seven in America.
50:16
Union City Blue thirteen in the UK didn't even register
50:22
in America, and the hardest part, the hardest part, got
50:26
to eighty four. The thing is number eighty four in
50:29
an American chart when you got three hundred plus thousand
50:34
people compared to probably back then, I don't know what,
50:38
fifty fifty five thousand, three hundred million, probably three hundred
50:44
and ten million or twenty million in America. Here there
50:48
was probably about fifty, well fifty five fifty six million
50:53
in nineteen eighty, nineteen seventy nine, fifty million. It's a
50:56
lot more now. And then at the end of nineteen
51:00
seventy nine, call me number one in America, number one
51:07
in the UK. So it's weird. So nineteen seventy nine,
51:13
so nineteen for the looks of this, so heart glass,
51:22
I'm confused. It's a heart of glass, So call me
51:30
who was nineteen eighty So they've got one number one
51:32
in America Heart Glass in nineteen seventy nine. That was
51:37
their first song that got to number one, and in
51:40
nineteen eighty call Me got to number one and in
51:44
the UK as well, So technically we appreciated and realized
51:50
how wonderful Madonna, how wonderful Blondie was kind of before
51:58
anyone else. It's only US, Belgium, maybe Ireland, Canada were
52:05
the only ones that really appreciated how brilliant they were.
52:13
But call Me that was there. I guess that rule
52:17
you go. I would have said that breakthrough because I
52:19
said I had a number one in America and it
52:23
went gold. So they made a lot of money from
52:27
that one song, so it's successful wise, but it's just
52:33
weird that they didn't didn't getting a top ten with
52:36
any of the other songs until call Me in nineteen
52:39
eighty number one, number one any America. Atomic only got
52:45
to number thirty nine in America. What is wrong with you?
52:49
People got to number one here, We're the only country
52:53
that appreciated Atomic thirty nine. You do, I realize when
53:01
we did our charts in the UK, we didn't go
53:05
below forty. It was also top forty, so any charts
53:09
below that wasn't even mentioned ever. They've got no publicity
53:17
in the UK. Day is in the United Kingdom of England,
53:21
Commonwealth Britain. Atomic So Atomic got to number one in
53:29
the UK, but it also charted in the top twenty
53:34
in every other country, well apart from one America and
53:39
which is thirty nine and Canada. Right, so you've got
53:52
heroes that didn't chart at all. I don't know what
53:55
happened there, a non album single and then my favoritest
54:02
song that they ever did, And this is what I
54:05
was going to talk about. This was nineteen eighty, which
54:09
is weird because I was, yeah, I suppose it makes sense.
54:16
Nineteen eighty Does it say when? Does it say when?
54:22
From looks of it, it's at the end of nineteen eighty,
54:24
so probably the winter nineteen eighty so I turned ten.
54:28
My oldest brother was fourteen. He had a job at
54:34
Tesco or some supermarket up the road around the corner
54:39
part time.
54:41
Speaker 5: And.
54:43
Speaker 1: We used to get He was more obsessed about the
54:48
charts than I was. Now. I was happy to wait
54:52
till Thursday to watch it on Top of the Pops,
54:57
but the actual chart was released on a Tuesday, and
55:06
the only way I could spoil, you know, I kind
55:09
of had to listen to it on a Tuesday in
55:13
order for him not to spoil it for me because
55:17
he'd tell me who was number one otherwise, because there'd
55:21
be two days till it was actually released on Top
55:23
of the Pops on a Thursday night. So he used
55:27
to listen to it on a Tuesday. And what we
55:29
did is, I remember one particular night he was working,
55:32
it was dark outside. I'm adding that for effect. I
55:36
don't know who knows. I can't remember, but I remember
55:42
taping the Top forty and I'm guessing it was on
55:46
Radio one and they did the the Top forty charts
55:52
and I recorded the whole thing. Now it needed probably
55:59
the tape needed to be turned over in order to
56:02
record the other side of the tape because of the
56:04
length of the show, which was probably three hours long,
56:07
maybe two hours long. And he kept saying, don't tell me,
56:18
don't tell me who's Who's number one. I don't know why,
56:24
but he was looking so he was really looking forward
56:26
to it. I wanted Debbie Harriet to be number one
56:32
because I love the Tide is High. It's my favorite
56:34
song at the time. And should I sing it to you.
56:42
The tired is high, the tired is high, the tide
56:46
is high, the tide is ha ha hi, And I
56:53
remember it's weird. I got this memory. I remember we
56:56
had this like stacked system. It was like all and
57:00
one with like two There was a record player at
57:03
the top with a plastic cover that you piled up,
57:08
and there was a radio in built, and then further
57:17
down there was two tape recorders side by side which
57:23
you could tape. You could tape to tape, and then
57:31
at the bottom I think there was roomed for albums
57:34
to be put and it had this glass kind of
57:41
like dark glass door with a magnet so you could
57:47
just push it and it had just click shut, you know, magnetized.
57:56
I think the reason I remember I think I think
57:59
my dad still got it. Actually, I think he's still
58:02
got it, or he did still have it when I
58:04
was living with him in nineteen ninety for a little while,
58:09
so I've probably seen it loads of times over the years,
58:13
so that's why I remember it. Maybe, But I just
58:19
remember sitting there on the floor making sure that I
58:27
got all the songs, and I'm sudd I've got this memory,
58:31
and I might have made this bit up, but he
58:34
was phoning, kept phoning up from work. He only lived
58:39
around the corner, kept phoning up from work to say,
58:43
did you remember? Do you remember to record it? So yes,
58:48
I think at one point he actually came home on
58:50
his break because it was literally thirty seconds walk just
58:59
came in to check that we're recording it. It's like, yes,
59:02
we know, it's the most important thing in the world.
59:04
We're doing it because me and my brother were both
59:06
doing it together. My other brother like, what's so important
59:12
about this? He said, you don't understand. They don't understand
59:17
how important this is. I do wonder if we had
59:21
different parents. So, yeah, Tide is High. That was one
59:26
of my favorite songs. I don't know why I'm mentioning
59:31
the Tiler's High. Why was I talking about Tyler's High Rapture?
59:38
So that got to number one in America but got
59:39
to number five in the UK. I don't even remember
59:43
that one, So this is really weird unless it was
59:48
a different chart in America. But clearly Blondie was much
59:54
bigger in the UK than it was in not in
59:58
amounts of people because we've got much smaller population, but
1:00:03
as far as like the percentage, well, the amount. Well,
1:00:10
from a chart perspective, Blondie, we're just reaching a much
1:00:14
higher position. But I'm guessing, like, let's say, for example,
1:00:20
the first number one Half Class in America, that one
1:00:25
song probably sold more singles in America than all of
1:00:31
Blondie's songs did in the UK, all combined, just that
1:00:35
one song in America. So it's you know, you can
1:00:40
look at it different directions. I suppose. Anyway, Blondie was good.
1:00:48
That's all I was trying to say, is I like Blondie.
1:00:55
Fern Kinney, the jazz going Underground and going Underground. I
1:01:04
like that song together we Are Beautiful. It got to
1:01:10
number one. I don't know what that is. So the
1:01:14
Detroit Spinners, I'm working my way back to you, babe.
1:01:20
That was a good song. I like that, And they
1:01:22
got to number two. This is nineteen eighty. I'm still
1:01:25
in nineteen eighty. I've gone from the first week to
1:01:27
the whole year. Deck Sees Midnight Runners. Gino or Gino
1:01:35
got to number two. Johnny Logan, what's another year. This
1:01:40
is seventeenth of May nineteen eighty got to number two,
1:01:47
very first to May. The Mesh a theme from Smash,
1:01:53
a theme from Mesh. I'm not going to read it
1:01:56
out because it's a topic that's not really acceptable to
1:02:01
say it online anymore. But if you watch Mesh, you
1:02:05
know the theme tune. It's I didn't realize I thought
1:02:10
Mesh was because I watched Mesh for the first time
1:02:17
about nineteen eighty four when I got my first TV.
1:02:26
Might be in eighty five, but I think it was
1:02:28
eighty four. I got my first black and white TV,
1:02:32
and I just got these memories. Such it was. It
1:02:38
was because I was a bit of a goggle box person.
1:02:41
I was, really I love television. Television was better than
1:02:47
real life for me personally. It's how I felt and
1:02:51
I enjoyed it. It was escapism and it was more
1:02:55
fun than reality. I understand as probably not very healthy,
1:03:01
but it's just the way it was back then. That's
1:03:04
how my life was. And I loved television, absolutely loved it.
1:03:16
And I remember the first time ever outside of weekends
1:03:21
like a I think on a Friday and Saturday night
1:03:24
I could stay up later, but the rest of the
1:03:27
week I was in bed by nine or whatever. Even
1:03:32
I don't know what the cutoff was, but probably nine
1:03:34
o'clock when I was a teenager, earlier on, when I
1:03:37
was younger, maybe nine point thirty, maybe even ten, I
1:03:41
don't know. But once I got on my TV, there
1:03:50
was no bedtime. Bedtime didn't exist anymore. I'd pretend to
1:03:55
go to bed. I mean, I'd be going up at
1:03:58
like seven in the evening. I'm really tired now. I
1:04:04
just made myself you all. I'd say bye, good night everybody,
1:04:11
and I go and get I want to kiss. My
1:04:13
brother would say, are you doing kissing me? I said,
1:04:15
I'm just happy because it's got me TV. And he said, oh,
1:04:18
fair enough, and don't do it again. I said, okay, sorry,
1:04:24
and I go upstairs. I'd just skip up the I
1:04:26
wouldn't skip up the stairs, I don't. Why would I
1:04:28
say that whoever skips up the stairs skipping room gets
1:04:33
tangled on it in the banistone. But yeah, anyway I
1:04:37
walked up the stairs, I might have ran. I could
1:04:40
run back then, but I might just walked at a
1:04:43
steady pace. It's very difficult for me to remember because
1:04:47
I didn't write anything down in my diary, and even
1:04:51
when I did journals over like twenty five year period,
1:04:55
I never mentioned stairs. Just just never came up. I mean,
1:05:00
the only stairs story really is probably when I fell
1:05:03
down the stairs twice is down here, and then when
1:05:07
I was a little kid fell down some stairs while
1:05:10
I was holding a box full of little cars, I think,
1:05:17
I think, so oh yeah, and also well, yeah, I
1:05:21
used to pretend to fall down the stairs I could
1:05:23
get days of school. But it didn't really work very well.
1:05:33
So once I was doing it and I wanted my
1:05:38
step mom to find me at the bottom stairs, I'd
1:05:40
be like, oh, I'll be holding my knee or something,
1:05:44
and it worked a little bit. But on one occasion
1:05:48
she was actually in the bathroom, which is at the
1:05:50
top of the stairs, and she came out as I
1:05:54
was doing it, as I was like pretending to fall down,
1:05:58
and she was watching me the whole time and couldn't
1:06:02
really get away with it anymore. Hmm. I think she
1:06:09
was just watching over the banister. I'm trying to get
1:06:12
my head around. Yeah, yeah, because the bathroom that was
1:06:16
just off of the top of the stairs. Yeah. So
1:06:23
it was so lovely just watching TV, I've got to
1:06:25
see things I've never seen before. Suddenly I could have
1:06:29
watched Kojak if I wanted to or I could watch
1:06:33
or Mash. Never heard of Mesh, I never heard of
1:06:41
I was, I was Cheers, never heard of Cheers before
1:06:46
I was watching these programs I've never heard of before,
1:06:48
and like wow, it was like a whole new world
1:06:52
opened up to me. The past nine o'clock in the
1:06:56
evening things were happening, and these programs things that I
1:07:00
wasn't allowed to watch, that the family didn't watch together.
1:07:06
That's when I realized are a very different taste in
1:07:08
programs to the family, you know, like my dad and whatever.
1:07:13
They'd watch stuff on a Saturday night that I wouldn't watch.
1:07:20
I'd watch it because it was part of the routine,
1:07:23
the ritual whatever I want to say ritual, I don't
1:07:28
mean anything weird, just just watching television. There's no sacrifices
1:07:36
or anything.
1:07:42
Speaker 3: Right, right, kids, Logan's Logan runs finished, the A teams finished, right,
1:07:49
Let's go and get Let's go in the garden, get
1:07:52
all the candles out and.
1:07:56
Speaker 1: Organized today's sacrifice. So Olivia Newton, John Xana do an
1:08:02
electric light orchestra? Don McLean crying? Is that the one
1:08:08
crying over you? Xana do? I like Xana do? Sana
1:08:15
do Sana Do. I don't know why Ello the Electric
1:08:24
Light Orchestra did another version of Sanna Do with a
1:08:27
different singer. Why why would you need to do that?
1:08:33
I'm not I'm not judging, just asking because Olivia Newton
1:08:39
John I had such an amazing voice odyssey that got
1:08:46
to number two in the charts. Odyssey, I don't know,
1:08:49
use it up and wear it out that toilet paper,
1:08:53
I don't know. Underpants, Abba the Winner takes it all.
1:08:57
I've got number two August Night of August nineteen eighty
1:09:02
The Winner ticks it. It just shows you what I know.
1:09:09
I really thought that Abba had kind of finished. In
1:09:13
seventy nine, David Bowie ashes to Ashes, I got to
1:09:20
number two. So I would have seen it because I
1:09:22
always watched Top of the Pops, so anything in the
1:09:25
top forty I would have seen. Whether or not I
1:09:31
liked it or not, I don't know. I would have
1:09:34
seen it on TV and Ashes to Ash, She's the
1:09:40
jam start number one. I don't remember that one. Kelly
1:09:45
Marie feels like I'm in love. I know that one
1:09:49
they got to number two feels like I'm in love.
1:09:55
I'm in love, feels like I'm.
1:09:58
Speaker 5: In lo.
1:10:01
Speaker 1: I know it's getting old, but I'm going to keep
1:10:02
doing it. The police don't stand so close to me. Wow, again,
1:10:09
I loved that song. That was number four. It's going
1:10:16
to turn around and see.
1:10:19
Speaker 3: All right, carry on, Vinnie, but I can't make a
1:10:22
movement without him stopping what he's doing, So the police.
1:10:26
Speaker 1: Don't stand so close to me. Twenty seven for September
1:10:30
nineteen eighty h Barbers streisand Woman in Love. I don't
1:10:43
think I necessarily particularly appreciated that song at the time,
1:10:50
but that was one hell of a song. I'm just
1:10:53
a warm morning in love. Okay, that didn't do justice,
1:11:00
but that is a great song. Number three had Child
1:11:03
in the UK. I'm going to miss out Blondie because
1:11:08
Oh the Tide is high? Was the fifteenth of November
1:11:12
nineteen eighty reached number two? Why is it saying that
1:11:16
when earlier on it said it reached number one? Make
1:11:20
up your mind, baby, it's lying to me. Um hmm.
1:11:31
It's very strange, very strange indeed. But fifteenth November nineteen
1:11:39
eighty so I was ten ten and two months and
1:11:47
a half EBBA, so it would have been dark outside,
1:11:52
wouldn't it at night? Especially like seven o'clock or six
1:11:56
thirty whenever that came on be Radio one. ABBA's super
1:12:03
Trooper got to number three. It's November nineteen eighty, twenty ninth. Okay,
1:12:19
this is weird. So John Lennon just like starting over
1:12:27
twenty for December nineteen eighty got to number one. No,
1:12:31
it's not weird. I just didn't realize that was the
1:12:33
first one that they released. Yeah, so that's the twentieth
1:12:37
of December. That was when John Lennon was unfortunately left us,
1:12:44
so he they released that song and then I didn't
1:12:51
remember that. I remember they I know the song, but
1:12:57
for some reason I thought that they really least Ah,
1:13:07
I'm surprised considering it was like near Christmas. Why they
1:13:11
didn't release the Merry Christmas one or maybe they put
1:13:21
that on the other side. Wow, that's weird in it
1:13:37
h um. Yeah, So John Imagine and Woman were both
1:13:45
it was number four Imagine and Woman was number two.
1:13:50
It was January and February. All right, they've missed out
1:13:58
some weeks here. I think I'll made him. You know
1:14:05
what I've just done. Do you know what I'm saying?
1:14:07
What number it got to? I've made a mistake. That
1:14:10
was how many numbers it was? How many weeks it
1:14:12
was at number one? H whoops? Sorry? So just like
1:14:21
starting Over was number one for one week? Shall I
1:14:25
start over? Shall I start the whole recording again? So
1:14:29
Imagine because I'm thinking, wait a minute, Imagine was number one,
1:14:35
and so was Woman because I heard it a lot.
1:14:38
That was January eighty one, tenth of January nineteen eighty
1:14:42
one for four weeks, and then a Woman seventh of
1:14:46
February nineteen eighty one for two weeks. I love both
1:14:53
those songs, Imagine probably more than Woman. Yeah, I loved Imagine,
1:15:06
but it was I don't know when it was first released.
1:15:09
It was in the seventies, wasn't it When did he
1:15:12
first release Imagine? Imagine song wow nineteen seventy one, And
1:15:22
it was from his album called John Lennon No Yeah,
1:15:27
John Lennon eleventh of October nineteen seventy one, So I
1:15:39
very much would have heard it at some point in
1:15:42
the seventies. I just don't remember. Now. This next song
1:15:49
I remember very well, and it was a Joe Dolcy
1:15:54
music theater called shut Up Your Face. In fact, I
1:15:59
can even right when I was in my early twenties.
1:16:04
This isn't this is not nineteen eighty one, so not
1:16:08
when I was in my early twenties. I'd been ten
1:16:13
back then, yeah, ten. So me and my friend Terry,
1:16:31
this is an alert. Early nineties, we had this job
1:16:34
where we're basically processing things, but labels on things or whatever,
1:16:43
and there was a this is bad that one of
1:16:49
the supervisors used to come around and write down the
1:16:53
weights of everything, like it's stand there for a couple
1:16:56
of minutes while we did a box or a couple
1:16:59
of boxes, filled the color boxes up. And for some reason,
1:17:04
when he talked, he just reminded both of us of
1:17:09
Joe Dalcy when he talked in the music and if
1:17:15
you've never seen the video and never seen the song,
1:17:18
shut up your face, then it might not mean anything
1:17:23
to you. But he was he had that kind of
1:17:26
He spoke a bit like that, and for some reason
1:17:28
me and him found it funny. I was a young man.
1:17:31
I don't I'm not excusing myself, but there you have it.
1:17:37
So what we did, and I don't know why, I
1:17:39
don't know how it started. Either he or I would
1:17:45
start it. So once this man, let's call him Dorian,
1:17:51
Doriastorius or whatever, and he was standing behind us. One
1:17:56
of us would start a conversation, what's the matter you?
1:18:03
That's my first one say. The other one would say,
1:18:06
got no respect? But we're doing in a sentence, so
1:18:12
what's the matter you? And the one say, hm, hmmm,
1:18:17
you've got no respect? Any other one would say what
1:18:20
do you think you do? And then the other one,
1:18:23
like me and Terry, I'd say, why do you look at?
1:18:28
What's the man? Why if you don't why you feel
1:18:32
so bad? Is it? What's the mat you? Wait a second,
1:18:38
I do it right a minute? What's the matter you? Hey?
1:18:43
You got no respect? What do you think you do?
1:18:47
Why you look so sad? It's not so bad? And
1:18:50
then the one say it's a nicer place. I'll shut
1:18:53
up your face? And that would We did it every
1:18:57
single time, and he didn't notice. But we'd do it
1:19:00
in a kind of covert way. It wouldn't just like
1:19:03
what's the man are you?
1:19:04
Speaker 2: Hey?
1:19:05
Speaker 1: Got to no respect? Oh? What do you think you'd do? Hey?
1:19:09
Why are you look as a bad bad? It's the police?
1:19:14
I shad up be of this? That was the song,
1:19:17
and when there was the boy Hey. Then the years ago.
1:19:22
We probably did that as well, probably did more of
1:19:24
the song, but I can't remember all of it now.
1:19:28
It wasn't quite so fresh. It was fresh back then,
1:19:31
you know, because you think it's nineteen eighty one. It
1:19:34
was only ten years earlier that it was in the
1:19:38
charts at number one for three weeks, so I can't
1:19:40
know it was more fresher now another fifty five years
1:19:45
gone past. But it made us giggle, and that's the
1:19:49
main thing. Really. It's kind of borderline rude as well,
1:19:57
but hey, I'm not responsible for what that version of
1:20:02
me used to be like. I would never do that again,
1:20:06
And I apologize since thearly Roxy Music Jealous Guy. Now,
1:20:13
I didn't understand that. I mean, obviously, I'm gonna say obviously,
1:20:19
I don't want to be rude to Roxy Music, but
1:20:22
they clearly brought out that song off the back of
1:20:26
John Lenon situation because it was literally, okay, the month
1:20:34
after John Lennon Woman. Now, I'd never heard Jealous Guy before,
1:20:45
and I didn't know it was a John Lennon song.
1:20:54
Why Roxy Music couldn't just let them release John Lennon
1:20:58
Jealous Guy, I don't know, but I'm kind of glad
1:21:01
he didn't because, and I don't say this very often,
1:21:07
I like cake, No, that wasn't it. Well, I don't.
1:21:17
Roxy Music's version of Jealous Guy was better than John
1:21:26
Lennon's version, and John Lennon's version was great as well,
1:21:30
but Roxy Music took it to a different level my opinion,
1:21:35
obviously it's my opinion, but so good. It's one of
1:21:40
it is one of my favorite songs. Actually, And now
1:21:46
we're moving into a territory that is very much Things
1:21:52
seemed to start to change. This isn't the like nineteen
1:21:57
eighty one period. It's weird. So you got through nineteen eighties.
1:22:02
You've got all the Pink Floyd, the Pretender's Specials, Kenny Rogers, Blondie,
1:22:11
the jam. People from the seventies were still kind of,
1:22:16
you know, breaking through to the eighties, the Electric Light Talk, Eello,
1:22:21
David Bowie, Abba, Barbara Streisson, John Lennon. I know there's
1:22:28
a reason for John Lennon being in the charts, but
1:22:31
you know, there's a lot of stuff from the eighties
1:22:36
like that moved over from the seventies, and then in
1:22:41
the nineteen eighty one, the nineteen eighty one things started
1:22:46
to change a bit. Shaking Stevens, although admittedly being around
1:22:53
for a long time, became huge and Bucks Fizz. They
1:23:04
had Making Your Mind Up, which is at number one
1:23:06
for three weeks. They won the Eurovision Song Contest for
1:23:10
England or UK. I'm not sure if it's Britain or
1:23:15
England or the UK. I lose track. I only lived here.
1:23:19
I don't know who they represented, and that was a
1:23:25
huge hit because there was a point where they pulled
1:23:28
their miniskirts off and I was ten at the time.
1:23:35
I don't know why I'm really focusing on my age,
1:23:38
but I didn't disapprove, That's what I'm saying. Shaking Stevens
1:23:43
was my favorite singer. I feel a little a bit
1:23:48
embarrassed because I thought I liked him when I was
1:23:50
really little. But I was ten ten and a half
1:23:54
at this point, so I wasn't really little, which doesn't
1:23:58
make sense to me, because I specifically remember walking around
1:24:06
the field reading the lyrics to Stand and Deliver. But
1:24:12
it was ninth of May nineteen eighty one. No, that's fine, actually,
1:24:20
because I didn't Yeah, that would have made sense nineteen
1:24:23
eighty one. I started high school in September nineteen eighty one,
1:24:28
so I've got through it. I've got the memories correct.
1:24:31
Because I used to have the I used to have
1:24:36
a magazine called Looking Magazine. I get it every week,
1:24:40
me and my brothers Will had. We had two comics
1:24:43
each each week. I had Looking and The Dandy. So
1:24:50
Looking was kind of it was more like a TV magazine. Really,
1:24:55
it was very much to do with TV and the
1:24:58
charts music. That's what it was really about. It was
1:25:02
kind of, yeah, TV movies, charts, Yeah, it's brilliant. I
1:25:09
don't know if it's still around, to be honest, but
1:25:13
it was really good. And The Dandy was for fun.
1:25:19
I think Looking was for knowledge. It was for keeping
1:25:22
up to date and knowing when the next new songs
1:25:27
coming out, when the next movie, next TV show, you know,
1:25:32
like when the A Team's coming back up on TV
1:25:34
again and things like that. And they'd be posters that
1:25:38
we could get and I think I started reading. I
1:25:44
was going to say ordering, but someone else got it
1:25:47
for me. But it was I'm pretty sure we were
1:25:54
living in the road where the house at my Nanogrande
1:26:00
moved into, so that'd be nineteen seventy eight and seventeen nine,
1:26:10
seventy eight sort of time. So I started getting that
1:26:15
then because I remember we were sitting in front of
1:26:19
the garden, which is a little bit weird because we
1:26:21
normally wouldn't do that, but it must have been very hot,
1:26:24
so we were sitting. Because how it worked is he
1:26:30
had the house. Do you know the front of a house,
1:26:33
and it's the front door. So I'm going to get
1:26:35
I'll give you a description of the house where I lived.
1:26:39
It was my favorite house ever. And then my nanny
1:26:43
grand had lived there as well. For woman then lived
1:26:46
there from nineteen seventy nine to probably about two thousand
1:26:56
and ten, maybe maybe two thousand and nine, seventy nine,
1:27:10
eighty nine, ninety nine two, so she was there thirty
1:27:12
years at least. And I loved that house, but it
1:27:20
just wasn't big enough for a new sprogue. So when
1:27:23
my little brother was born, we you know, it was
1:27:31
okay for a short while because he could stay in
1:27:33
their bedroom, in the parents' bedroom while he was a baby.
1:27:37
But you know, babies grow, and there was solutions, you know, like, well,
1:27:42
we need to get find a solution for this situation,
1:27:45
and apparently my solution of just getting rid of him
1:27:51
wasn't a popular one that was voted down, so you know,
1:27:56
they kept the baby and move to a bigger house.
1:28:02
I wanted to stay there. I had my own bedroom.
1:28:05
I liked that house. It's the only house I've ever
1:28:09
liked ever. I loved. I loved that house, and it
1:28:15
was the first nice place I've ever lived. And I
1:28:20
think because the memories of being there for the first
1:28:23
year and also my little brother being born out it
1:28:27
was a beautiful time as well, and he was running around.
1:28:30
It's like having a little puppy, isn't it. Really, When
1:28:32
you get a baby, it's very entertaining and then a
1:28:38
novelty wears off. I shouldn't say stuff like that, but
1:28:46
it is true. So as a kid it was true, okay, right,
1:28:58
And then when my Nana and Granda living there, it
1:29:02
kind of you know, from ninety one onwards, my name
1:29:07
was living there on our own, so I was visiting
1:29:12
and just that house was in my life for forty
1:29:16
years or thirty thirty odd years. It is the only
1:29:22
the only place really, I mean, my dad's house now
1:29:26
has been in He's lived at the same place for
1:29:30
since what probably early nineties, so that's a long time.
1:29:35
Isn't it. Yeah, so he's that's what's it ninety two thousand,
1:29:42
two thousand and ten, twenty thirty five years or whatever.
1:29:47
He's lived there, BlimE me, thirty four thirty three, thirty four.
1:29:55
So I'm kind of used to him. But I don't
1:29:57
go there very often, but I'm used to that kind
1:30:00
I used to live in here. Now, although I could
1:30:02
really perhaps do something a little bit better with the police,
1:30:08
I don't quite know what I mean, how do you
1:30:13
improve perfection? I don't know. But anyway, so you're looking
1:30:20
at the front of the house, there's a window downstairs,
1:30:25
a window upstairs, So the window downstairs on the right,
1:30:30
and there's a bit of grass on the right, and
1:30:33
then there's another house connected, so it was a semi
1:30:37
detached house. The other house connected was basically just the opposite,
1:30:46
although they did knock through so Whenmber going there, they
1:30:49
knocked through the living room into the Yeah, they knocked
1:31:00
through the living room into the kitchen. And I think
1:31:05
they had an extension as well, so it's a much
1:31:08
bigger space inside their house. But then they had less
1:31:12
guard because the back garden wasn't big really, it was
1:31:16
a nice size, I mean I'd be very happy with
1:31:18
a size, a small or small one. I mean small
1:31:24
ones better than no one at all, isn't it that?
1:31:27
You know what I mean? So, but looking at the front,
1:31:33
the window downstairs was for the living room, for the
1:31:36
living room. The windows upstairs, the one above that was
1:31:40
for the what was my name's bedroom, but it was
1:31:43
originally my dad's in his wife's bedroom. And then you
1:31:50
got the front doors had left upstairs from that, the
1:31:54
first window up there was my bed room window mine, mine,
1:32:03
my first ever bedroom, my first ever bedroom, I mean, wow,
1:32:11
I had it's my first as a child, I had
1:32:18
three bedrooms of my own. I was very lucky, actually
1:32:23
that I mean in a way, although I didn't eh,
1:32:28
you know, it was I preferred the small house. But
1:32:31
both my older brothers were sharing a room. Wasn't really
1:32:34
fair on them. But I did realize at the time,
1:32:39
although it wasn't fair on them, my happiness was way
1:32:43
more important. I realized that when I was seven, I
1:32:47
came to that conclusion. And when I was eight, I thought, yeah,
1:32:52
there's too many of us. Now, one of the older
1:32:57
ones needs to move out. Maybe if that both of
1:33:01
the older ones move out, then the baby can go
1:33:02
into the other room. Well, I can move into that
1:33:05
room because it's bigger, and he can move into the
1:33:07
small room. And we just don't mention the other brothers again.
1:33:15
But you know, I was eight years old. Logic wasn't
1:33:17
at the top. I just I don't think I was
1:33:23
built for a big family. I know some people say, well,
1:33:26
it's only four kids, it's not a big family, but
1:33:29
it's it was noisy, very very very noisy, very chaotic
1:33:37
at times, and I don't know, I kind of I
1:33:47
didn't always enjoy it, if I'm honest, I was very
1:33:53
different from them, and we were all very different. Really.
1:33:58
I just I was really into crowds, and four kids
1:34:04
two adults is a crowd. That's a crowded space. I
1:34:11
liked my space. I remember my dad shouting up at
1:34:16
the window once and where are you Jason? I said,
1:34:22
I'm in my I'm here in the bedroom. I said,
1:34:28
why are you asking me where I am? It said,
1:34:30
what do you mean? I said, you're literally standing below
1:34:33
my window, shouting up at my window asking me where
1:34:36
I am. If you didn't know where I was, then
1:34:40
why would you be looking at the window. You literally
1:34:43
know I'm here don't you? He said, I can see
1:34:46
you now. I said no, I mean before I was
1:34:48
standing at the window, you were shouting up at the window.
1:34:52
And he said, how do you know I'm stand at
1:34:53
the window shouting up if you weren't at the window
1:34:56
looking down, how do you know where I was? I said,
1:34:59
because when I got to the window, you were standing there.
1:35:03
I said, maybe when I got to the window, you
1:35:05
were standing there. And he said that one of us
1:35:09
said it, and he said, should we just stop this now?
1:35:16
I said, what do you mean? He said, well, I
1:35:20
don't know. I'd just rather go back to talking about
1:35:22
the music. I mean, how did you even get on
1:35:26
to talking about rooms and you know, wishing you'd had
1:35:30
a smaller family. How do you get from Blondie and
1:35:35
Shake and Stevens and Bucks Fizz and to that? I mean,
1:35:39
you were talking about walking around the field reading the
1:35:43
lyrics from Looking magazine, and you were confused whether or
1:35:48
not that memory was correct because you remember doing that
1:35:51
around your like the little school you went to, and
1:35:55
you had to correct and realize that everyone that is true,
1:35:59
but it was true because you weren't at high school yet.
1:36:02
I said, okay, I said, what what what what what
1:36:09
are you getting at? He said, how I thought we'd
1:36:12
just maybe get back to the music. I said, all
1:36:16
about the description of the house, he said, do you
1:36:20
think anyone really wants to know the description of a
1:36:22
house that you lived in when you were eight years old?
1:36:29
I don't know. Some people might said how many how
1:36:35
many rooms was there? Or bedrooms?
1:36:38
Speaker 5: You mean?
1:36:39
Speaker 1: He said, yeah, three? And downstairs? What was their living room? Kitchen? Yeah, kitchen,
1:36:51
anything else? Or well, there was a bathroom upstairs, and
1:36:54
there's a toilet downstairs. But the bathroom also had a toilet,
1:36:59
but the it was very small. Not the toilet itself.
1:37:04
The toilet was normal size, but the room that the
1:37:09
toilet was in was quite small. In fact, it was
1:37:17
a little bit of struggle to get in there when
1:37:19
I was sort of a bit bigger, got stuck once.
1:37:24
But I don't want to talk about it. Very hard
1:37:29
to maneuver, because there's certain maneuvers during a toilet session
1:37:34
that needs a degree of movement and flexibility, and if
1:37:40
you're squashed against two walls, it's hard, you know, without
1:37:45
sort of going into details, he can't tell me more.
1:37:49
Tell me more? Did you get very far? Tell me more?
1:37:53
Tell me more like did he have a car?
1:37:58
Speaker 5: Right?
1:37:58
Speaker 1: Okay? Back to the songs Adam in the ants Standard Deliver.
1:38:04
So I remember seeing on morning TV, probably Saturday morning,
1:38:15
there was a I could not a documentary, but there
1:38:19
was like a short thing where they were talking about
1:38:22
the behind the scenes of making that video Standard Deliver.
1:38:29
I don't know if you remember the lyrics for that.
1:38:30
It was stand and deliver your money or your life,
1:38:36
try and use a mirror, not a bullet or a knife.
1:38:40
And even though you, even though you choose to blow,
1:38:51
your conscience will be mine or mine even though you
1:38:57
choose the I wonder what the word was I missed
1:39:01
out actually to start with it be oh oh ho
1:39:08
oh ha oh ho. Do do do do do? Do? Do?
1:39:13
Speaker 4: Do?
1:39:14
Speaker 1: I an acid? Don't you ever? Don't? Okay? A different song?
1:39:19
I remember this one, Smoky Robinson Being with you? Is
1:39:26
that the one?
1:39:27
Speaker 6: And okay, what to see a batter me? And and okay,
1:39:31
what did do? And okay about anything else but being
1:39:36
with you? Being with you?
1:39:39
Speaker 1: People to say they alvis do do do do you?
1:39:46
I remember the he was walking on the beach, Smoky
1:39:49
Robinson with his really soft voice, walking on the beach,
1:39:55
maybe barefooted. I don't know. I wasn't looking at his feet.
1:39:58
I wasn't looking any part of the body of saying that.
1:40:00
I wasn't particularly focused on his feet. But I do
1:40:03
remember it was a beach and it was at number
1:40:10
one for two weeks, and I like that song. Now,
1:40:15
I don't remember Michael Jackson being number one with One
1:40:21
Day in Your Life, because, from the looks of it,
1:40:26
Michael Jackson did not have a number one during nineteen
1:40:30
eighty the nineteen eighty one, twenty seventh for June, he
1:40:34
had One Day in Your Life. So I'm surprised at that.
1:40:41
Why was that? Just the reason surprise is because he
1:40:47
had Off the Wall, which was either I think it
1:40:56
was seventy nine, and One Day in your Life was
1:41:00
not on Off the Wall. So where did One Day
1:41:07
in Your Life? It was released in ninety from the
1:41:13
album One Day in Your Life nineteen eighty one, really,
1:41:24
so I'm confused. So I'm looking at One Day in
1:41:27
Your Life as a song recorded by American singer Mark
1:41:29
Jackson for his nineteen seventy five album Forever Michael, which
1:41:35
I like. That's that album. It's a great album. Lyrics
1:41:39
by Rene Armond was issued as a single in the
1:41:43
UK nineteen seventy five, and later released March twentieth, nineteen
1:41:50
eighty one as a single from the compilation album One
1:41:54
Day in Your Life. Due to the commercial interest that
1:41:59
generated from the sales of Jackson's hit nineteen seventy nine
1:42:04
album Off the Wall, Okay. While a modest ushit, it
1:42:13
was bigger hit in the UK. It became the sixth
1:42:19
best seller single of nineteen eighty one. That's kind of weird,
1:42:24
not not weird, just if I think of nineteen eighty one,
1:42:29
I thought that he released thriller, but maybe it was
1:42:33
later on than it. Shaking Stevens Julie Woo, Julie, I
1:42:44
love Shaking Stephens. I used to dance like Shaking Stephens,
1:42:49
or as I used to like it to say that
1:42:51
other if like I said words at the time, I
1:42:54
used to like to tell people Shaking Stephens likes to
1:42:58
dance like me. Craftwork the model. Now I don't remember
1:43:04
this at the time. Great song, she use the model
1:43:10
and she's looking good. Do do Do Do Do Do Do?
1:43:17
I love that song. They're the type of songs that
1:43:23
I just don't hear anywhere. I don't you know. I
1:43:26
kind of forget about them, and then when I hear them,
1:43:28
I think, Wow, I love that song. The jam town
1:43:36
called Alice Malice rather sorry, and I like that as well.
1:43:41
It was good old type fit. Does anyone remember this
1:43:47
one in the jungle? The jungle line? Steves denied the
1:43:55
Jungle that was a good song like that number three
1:44:00
weeks so it was number one. I'm just going to
1:44:05
go down Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder Ebony and Ivory
1:44:09
twenty fourth of April nineteen eighty two. Wow. Now I
1:44:17
would have been eleven years old, so I was in
1:44:24
the first year of high school, Bernie and for me,
1:44:37
so yeah, I was number one for three weeks. So
1:44:39
I loved that song. I used to sing the lyrics.
1:44:47
It's something I used to do in high school. Not
1:44:51
all the time, but sometimes I needed to be on
1:44:56
my own and i'd walk around the field, the playfield,
1:45:02
and I would sing to myself and i'd sing the
1:45:06
songs like Ebony and Ivory, or i'd sing madness songs
1:45:12
or you know, different songs. But that was one of
1:45:16
my favorite songs at the time. Nicole A little piece.
1:45:22
I don't know that one Madness House of Fun. I
1:45:26
got to number one for two weeks. Goody two Shoes,
1:45:29
Adam and No Adam Ant Not Adam and the Ants,
1:45:35
Captain Sensible, happy talk, happy talking talking, happy talk, talk
1:45:40
about things you.
1:45:41
Speaker 2: Like to do.
1:45:43
Speaker 1: Love that song. I've never been to me, Charlene, that's
1:45:49
a great song as well. Wow, I forgot about that one.
1:45:53
And then of course Fame I Want to Live Forever
1:45:58
and that was July Night in to Dex's Midnight Runners,
1:46:03
Come On, Eileen and number four. That was number one
1:46:11
for four weeks August eighty two. And yeah, I remember
1:46:15
that that was a really popular song during my disco
1:46:18
years when I was a DJ. And Survivor was because
1:46:24
you just played this the beginning that there's the first
1:46:26
few chords of the song do Do Do Do Do
1:46:29
Do Do and with no I just like do do
1:46:32
do Do Do Do Do do do? You know with
1:46:35
wheen do do do Do Do Do Do Do Do
1:46:39
Do Do Do do? Okay, it sounded it sounded kind
1:46:45
of right to me when I first started singing it.
1:46:49
I have the Tiger by Survivor. Great song, but that
1:46:52
was like Rookie, wasn't it. I have the tag. Yeah,
1:46:57
that was number one for four weeks, so I'm yes
1:47:00
in that was because of the Rocky movie. Oh this
1:47:06
is another song that I don't hear very often past
1:47:09
the Ducci for Musical Youth nineteen eighty two October, and
1:47:16
I still to this day do not know what they're
1:47:18
talking about or what they were saying, like it's like
1:47:24
Eastern nariation, their Voriian whatever, it's like what, But I
1:47:30
love them. I actually yeah, wow. I bought their album,
1:47:39
one of the first ever albums I bought. I bought
1:47:44
that album, Musical Youth. I did, I did, I did,
1:47:50
and I listened to all of it. I liked all
1:47:52
the songs. Culture Club do You Really Want to Hurt Me?
1:48:00
Culture Club was a weird one because I loved all
1:48:01
that stuff as well. Nineteen eighty two, twenty third of October.
1:48:08
I don't know if it's the first song, but it's
1:48:09
the first song to get to number one according to
1:48:11
this Now. I remember we was on holiday in All
1:48:17
Whales and we were watching the TV black and white TV.
1:48:23
We had this little portable thing running off a generator
1:48:28
and we're all sitting around. Maybe there's a campfire, I
1:48:31
don't know. If that is probably during the day. It
1:48:38
was summer, so it might have been in the evening.
1:48:40
It's not really relevant, is it to the story? We
1:48:42
need to know precisely what time it was and what
1:48:45
is everyone wearing and who had the most regular bowel
1:48:52
movement at that time. No, we don't need all that information.
1:48:57
I there were a conversation right about boy George, because
1:49:05
boy George was so pretty if you could look back,
1:49:08
he was a very attractive person, beautiful eyes.
1:49:18
Speaker 5: You know.
1:49:18
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's just I would say factual. He's
1:49:22
very I loved him. Anyway, we were having this argument
1:49:31
between us, so the five of us, it is what
1:49:35
is it? Me my oldest brother, my other brother that
1:49:42
was also older than me, the father, the mother, and
1:49:50
we're all saying arguing between us, like is it a
1:49:53
boy or was it a girl? Is it a man
1:49:55
or is it a woman? You know, a part my
1:50:00
little brother who was he was just like I want
1:50:04
to do a pooh, I need a pooh because it
1:50:07
was only four years old, wasn't he He wasn't too
1:50:10
interested in culture club. I'm pretty sure one of us,
1:50:20
maybe me, I don't know, maybe someone else said maybe
1:50:24
it's in the name boy George, but it looks nagy girl.
1:50:30
She looks naked girl. It was confusing because back then
1:50:36
and his name is boy George. It was kind of
1:50:44
it was kind of it's weird. But oh he was
1:50:49
so gorgeous. Oh he's still doing good. I've seen him, well,
1:50:57
not recent but like in recent years on these music
1:51:02
shows that he he does where he's a judge and
1:51:08
he just it seems to be ageless. I'd say another one.
1:51:14
It was beautiful and as adamant. I don't honestly, he
1:51:22
just he will all let make up, but he didn't
1:51:25
need because that was part of his act, wasn't it.
1:51:28
But he was super handsome, actually pretty, he was pretty anyway.
1:51:37
I don't know why I'm talking about that beas Yeah,
1:51:41
because they were kind of the same kind of period
1:51:42
when they I suppose Eddie Grant, Oh don't one a dance?
1:51:49
Wasn't that? Also on a Beach that was at number
1:51:53
one for three weeks? The jam beat Surrender Don't remember
1:51:58
that one? Renee and Srinato eighteenth December eighty two, four weeks.
1:52:07
I remember this one. I'm not going to sing it,
1:52:10
but it was like if your Love my Darling, see
1:52:14
your Love and it was great. So that was eighty two.
1:52:23
I could go on, I'm going to do eighty three
1:52:25
because eighty three was a big year. This is probably
1:52:30
when I got into my favorite songs. And it's not
1:52:34
just because Michael Jackson was in the charts, but some
1:52:38
of my top songs. I would say, oh, maybe not,
1:52:43
but not all of my songs. I like, got to
1:52:46
number one, but you've got Phil Collins. You can't hurry
1:52:49
love Mente Work down Under and well it's okay. Two
1:52:55
of my favorite songs that I remember of that year
1:53:00
because that's when I went in to hospital. I had
1:53:02
my appendix out Men at Work down Under and Bonnie
1:53:08
Tyler totally Clips at the Heart. Both those songs were
1:53:12
my favorite songs at the time, so I had my
1:53:17
appendix out. Probably I don't know, Summer eighty three, my
1:53:23
moon maybe like June May, June May. Maybe, I don't know.
1:53:31
I was still at school. God, that would have Actually,
1:53:35
I would have been distraught if I'd had to have
1:53:39
that time in hospital and then that time recovering and
1:53:43
didn't get to lose any school time. That would have
1:53:47
been Oh Luckily I did. I managed to lose some
1:53:50
time at school, so that's good. And cack a goo goo,
1:53:58
catch a goo goo too, shy Michael Jackson, Billy Jean
1:54:02
got to number one, Duranne DuRane. Is this something I
1:54:07
should know?
1:54:10
Speaker 7: Oh?
1:54:10
Speaker 1: But this was? Is there something I should know? Is
1:54:16
it something I should know? Is there something? Oh I
1:54:19
should know? See? I never give up. David Bowry, Let's dance,
1:54:25
Let's dance, Span their bully true. So I would say
1:54:38
Every Breath you Take, New edition Candy Girl. I like
1:54:44
that song. Every Breath You Take was good Rodster Paul Young,
1:54:50
wherever I lay my hat that this is weird because
1:54:56
something's missing and I'm going to skip head so Culture
1:55:01
Club cam a comedian Red red Wine ub forty. I
1:55:07
remember listening to Red red Wine and that was one
1:55:12
of my favorite songs of that year as well, But
1:55:16
I don't remember that little rapping bit at the end.
1:55:19
You's here, that's the ice cream van. It's been like
1:55:26
a hurricane out there, half a hurricane today. That was
1:55:36
very loud. Yeah, it's a very loud ice cream van.
1:55:42
It's almost like it was inside the building. Yeah, Paul
1:55:49
Young loved Poor Young ub forty. Red Red Wine I
1:55:54
was in the rolling roller skating rink that we had,
1:56:00
and it was a size It wasn't it like a
1:56:02
size or a small garden. It wasn't like a big thing.
1:56:04
But it was brilliant because there was very very little
1:56:08
to do where I lived, so I used to go
1:56:10
there and I remember listening to Red red Wine because
1:56:14
they'd played songs hit songs from a jukebox or maybe
1:56:19
I don't know from where, maybe it was from the radio,
1:56:22
and they play that loud speakers, and I sometimes I'd
1:56:30
think that I was There was a mixture of characters
1:56:33
that I'd like to play. One was Inspector Cluso, but
1:56:40
then there was also mixed in with Frank Spencer, like clumsy,
1:56:49
accident prone and doing weird things. So I'd end up
1:56:54
roller skating around the wrong way because there was one
1:56:56
way to skate, and I'd go round the wrong way
1:56:59
and be screaming ah and basically only amusing myself. No
1:57:09
one else found it interesting or humorous. I was just
1:57:13
but I thought it was brilliant. But unfortunately I used
1:57:16
to lose control, and yeah, but it was. It was
1:57:22
fun for me, not for anyone else, but for me.
1:57:28
And you know what, they did. They got rid of
1:57:31
I say they the town or whoever got rid of
1:57:34
the roll of the roller skating disc thing. It was
1:57:38
like a disco, really, but it was they got rid of.
1:57:40
It was outside. I think might've had a maybe you
1:57:43
did have a cover on it. I don't know. They
1:57:46
got rid of it and they put in like a dustbin.
1:57:51
They replaced it with some kind of a place for dustbins.
1:58:00
It really and it was one of the best places
1:58:02
to go in town for kids. And it was the
1:58:09
first time I'd ever roller skated, and the roller skates
1:58:14
were old. Never had anyone anyone that could fit me
1:58:18
because my feet were extra big. I'd like clown's feet.
1:58:24
That's why I discovered I was never able to swim
1:58:29
above water, but underwater I could get from one end
1:58:32
to the other in like three seconds because of my
1:58:36
big feet. I just I used to do. The Man
1:58:40
from Atlantis started swimming, well, I just basically looked like
1:58:45
an eel, just flapping and I if you ever seen
1:58:48
men from Atlantis, just google it or YouTube like man
1:58:55
from Atlantis swimming and you'll see how he swims. That's
1:58:58
how I used to swim. It was, Yeah, it was
1:59:04
very I'm surprised I didn't hurt myself, although sometimes I did.
1:59:09
Used to bang myself on the on the face because
1:59:12
I could always see when I was getting to the end.
1:59:17
But I used to do complete lengths underwater, but I
1:59:21
struggled to do half a length on top of the water.
1:59:27
Billy Joel Uptown Girl, I remember that the Flying Pickets quite. No,
1:59:32
I'm not saying I remember Uptown Girl like I forgot
1:59:35
all about that song. No, I mean I remember, like
1:59:39
the original when it came out, the Flying Pickets. I
1:59:43
like this. This was at number one for five weeks,
1:59:46
and I remember because I think it was number one
1:59:50
at Christmas. Yeah, it was, And it was basically the
2:00:00
a cappella. So they all sung together, but there's no music.
2:00:05
Do do Do Do Do Do? So what was they do
2:00:09
do do? Do? Do Do Do Do? But and then
2:00:11
someone else I go ooh ooh. Someone else would be
2:00:15
singing la la la la la la, and another person
2:00:19
would go oh oh. And together it sounded ridiculous individually,
2:00:26
but together it sounded well. It's still just sounded ridiculous
2:00:30
if it was me singing, but it sounded good with
2:00:32
them doing it. Paul McCartney Pipes a Piece nineteen eighty four.
2:00:42
See that doesn't make sense to me, right. All I
2:00:48
can imagine is Pipes a Piece. It was released at
2:00:53
Christmas because it was a Christmas song. It was based
2:00:56
on the football match between the Germans and the English.
2:01:00
I think it was the Germans in English during the
2:01:03
First World War and Christmas Day they kind of had
2:01:07
a truce and played football and showed each other pictures
2:01:11
of their families. I don't know how realistic that was,
2:01:14
but and then they went back to their trenches and
2:01:19
I think someone accidentally had someone else's picture there of
2:01:23
their wife and fought Wow. I don't know if that's true.
2:01:27
I added that, and it was a great I really
2:01:31
liked that song. But it didn't get to number one
2:01:34
till the fourteenth of January eighty four, so I'm guessing. Yeah,
2:01:40
I'm guessing it was like number two or something at Christmas.
2:01:46
Frankie Goes to Hollywood nineteen eighty four. Now my memory
2:01:50
of this is, first of all, it wasent very very controversial,
2:01:57
very controversial in my childhood. I would say probably the
2:02:06
most controversial song during that period that I could remember. Yeah,
2:02:15
I would say that since January nineteen eighty four, so
2:02:18
I was thirteen, and what I remember there was one
2:02:23
particular my STEPMM was singing it because Radio one banned it.
2:02:31
And as soon as Radio on banned it, it got
2:02:34
to number one. It was number one for five weeks.
2:02:38
They wouldn't even they wouldn't play the video on Top
2:02:41
of the Pops. In fact, I don't think they'd even
2:02:44
play the song on top of the Pops because that
2:02:50
was like BBC Radio One with BBC, so I'm not
2:02:54
quite sure how they worked around it. But I did
2:02:59
see the video, so I saw it somewhere. I just
2:03:05
remember seeing my stepm. I'm dancing around singing or holding
2:03:13
a spatula or something, I really cooking in the kitchen,
2:03:16
and she was like singing, relaxed, don't do weird on it.
2:03:19
She was like dancing with a song. Because it was
2:03:21
a huge hit. I mean, it was the biggest song
2:03:25
possibly in the Western world at the time. I'm not
2:03:29
sure how popular it was in the Middle East. I
2:03:32
don't know, but it definitely Russia. But I don't know
2:03:36
if it really hit the charts in Russia or in career,
2:03:41
I don't know, or China. I'm not sure, but in
2:03:45
ended like the Western sphere. It was a very big song.
2:03:51
And there's this one bit where she was singing and
2:03:58
she was dancing and she just stopped just as they said, relaxed,
2:04:03
don't do it when you want to relax, don't do it,
2:04:07
and then like when you want to come, and she
2:04:10
just stopped and stood there as a statue, all right.
2:04:15
And I was thinking, I wondered, do you know what
2:04:17
the song's about, Mummy dearest? Do you do you know?
2:04:22
Because I knew, I kind of knew. Someone told me
2:04:28
a friend. I read it in a magazine. No, I didn't.
2:04:32
I didn't know what it was about. I knew what
2:04:35
the I did, I kind of did. I didn't completely,
2:04:41
to be honest, I was thirteen years old. I kind
2:04:45
of knew. But I just remember thinking, I don't think
2:04:50
she knows what it's the song's about. Ninety nine red Balloons,
2:04:56
Nina ninety nine. Didn't she do that in different lan? Which?
2:05:00
Did it in German? Didn't she? Or part of the
2:05:03
song in German? And or bargain chin compang or porkyin
2:05:08
honey he Napoon. I don't know. Maybe it was a
2:05:15
different language that was number one for three weeks. Lana
2:05:19
Richie Hello, Yeah, that was do you know what? There
2:05:27
was two songs, and both of them were from nineteen
2:05:32
eighty four, which men, I don't want to say all men,
2:05:37
but some males used as in a way to be
2:05:45
romantic to ladies, some ladies, some men and some ladies.
2:05:57
And one of those was on a telephone hello is
2:06:03
with me? Or like you know, when someone answered the
2:06:05
phone or they call hello. And another one was Stevie Wonder.
2:06:13
I just called it say I love you. You know.
2:06:16
It's like I can't say cheesy, but I think I
2:06:19
don't know if it worked. I don't know. I tried
2:06:22
it in later years, but it didn't work. I tried
2:06:24
it once at school at the time, like in nineteen
2:06:28
eighty four, but just got me detention. Apparently I shouldn't
2:06:33
be talking to the teacher like that inappropriate Lano Richie, Hello,
2:06:39
Durandre around the reflex, wham wham, wake me up before
2:06:45
you go go. So I was definitely working at this
2:06:50
point in the the bakery, in the restaurant play, Yeah,
2:07:03
I was definitely. So. I was hearing these songs regularly,
2:07:07
including Relax because they had radio Caroline on which was
2:07:15
a band station, but anyone could get it. It just
2:07:19
had to just tune into it. And it was this
2:07:21
ship docked off of the back in the waters, I think,
2:07:25
just out of British waters. So it wasn't upbreaking any rules,
2:07:30
but it was not. It didn't have a license, and
2:07:35
they'd play all the top hits and then I think
2:07:39
they became legal and whatever turned into another I don't
2:07:45
know who. I don't really know the history. Actually i'd
2:07:49
been making it up, and as you know, I don't
2:07:51
like to make things up. I'd like to be very factuel.
2:07:56
See this is my period, nineteen eighty four again, Pipes
2:08:00
of Peace, Relax, Hello, the reflex flexxx xx Duran Duran.
2:08:08
So I was definitely working in the bakehouse at this time,
2:08:14
Saturday and Sunday mornings early and also during the summer
2:08:19
as well. So nineteen eighty four, during the summer I
2:08:21
was doing it, and I was also, uh but bum
2:08:33
bum bum bum bum. Right, I can give you an idea, right,
2:08:42
So I was doing karate, but I remember one particular
2:08:45
there's this the only song I remember whilst I was
2:08:50
doing karate, and I'm going down here is nineteen eighty five,
2:09:00
There must be an Angel Playing with my Heart and
2:09:04
that was number one twenty seventh of July nineteen eighty five.
2:09:09
I don't know how on earth that didn't stay at
2:09:12
number one forever because it was, in my opinion, one
2:09:20
of the greatest vocals ever, I mean just ever. It
2:09:27
was phenomenal. Ana Lynux just had one heck of a voice.
2:09:38
But I remember, I don't know why, I just remember
2:09:43
hearing that song during that period of doing karate, and
2:09:52
that period I wouldn't have seen top of the Pops
2:09:55
because I was out every Tuesday and Thursday evening apart
2:10:01
from during the summer actually the summer period, so like
2:10:05
during July. Yeah, so July, I wouldn't have been doing it,
2:10:15
but I might have been meeting up with them because
2:10:17
we used to meet up at the park because the school.
2:10:20
Once the school was closed, couldn't use the the what's it,
2:10:27
you know, the hall, the sports hall for however many weeks.
2:10:38
But I still trained, So I'm going to go back.
2:10:42
Frankie goes to Hollywood two Tribes again. Loved that so definitely.
2:10:50
Nineteen eighty four, I was working in the bakery. George
2:10:58
Michael Careless whisper Stevie Wonder. I just call this say
2:11:02
I Love You September nineteen eighty four, the eighth of September.
2:11:07
That was number one for six weeks. Two Tribes was
2:11:11
number one for nine weeks. Wow. So that's got to
2:11:21
be one of Steve Wonder's biggest all time hits as
2:11:26
far as being number one. Did he get to number
2:11:29
one for longer than that with any other songs? I
2:11:33
don't know that. Perhaps is the Tuesday trivia. I don't know.
2:11:41
Maybe this is trivia. Is this trivia? I don't know.
2:11:44
This is kind of trivia and boredom at the same time,
2:11:47
isn't it. But I'm just talking about my favorite songs.
2:11:50
So the Power of Love that is my favorite. Frankie
2:11:55
Go is the Hollywood song out of all of them.
2:11:59
The Power of Love. No, it isn't wait a minute,
2:12:05
there was another one. Oh no, the power of Love.
2:12:11
It comes from above here in my home. So relax.
2:12:20
Two Tribes, the Power of Love all got to number
2:12:24
one in nineteen eighty four. Didn't they do another song
2:12:29
that I liked?
2:12:34
Speaker 4: It?
2:12:35
Speaker 1: Did another song that I liked? The alay is that
2:12:42
I've got to go back discography? Oh, Welcome to the
2:12:48
Pleasure though, Welcome to the Pollutionional. So why is that
2:12:55
not listed? Then that's what I don't understand. It's not listed.
2:13:03
Frankie goes to Hollywood, Welcome to the Pleasure Home. Nope,
2:13:09
it's not It's not listed in nineteen eighty four. So
2:13:13
this isn't all correct, I would argue. So unless it
2:13:19
was the B side, perhaps I should have known better.
2:13:23
Jim Diamond, is that was I should have known better.
2:13:27
Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do,
2:13:31
which is a wonderful song. And then do they know
2:13:34
it's Christmas December nineteen eighty four, so it's a Christmas
2:13:40
number one five weeks it was not number one, So yeah,
2:13:46
definitely I love that song as well. But I love
2:13:49
the American one as well, the Christmas but the American
2:14:04
version I just can't remember what it's called now, But
2:14:07
I like that as well. I thought they're both great,
2:14:11
and it's both for the same reason, wasn't it. It's
2:14:14
just the American one had Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder
2:14:18
and the Boss and I don't mean Molly, I mean
2:14:23
Bruce Spinstein and Tina Turner and Cindy Lauper did Madonna
2:14:38
do it as well? Because you know what, I see
2:14:40
the thing. It might be a weird thing to say
2:14:43
that Cindy Lauper is like Madonna kind of. I'm not
2:14:49
saying Madonna copied Cyndy Lauper, but Cindy Lauper was kind
2:14:53
of almost like the original Madonna. But then you could
2:14:57
say that Blondie Debbie Allen, Debbie Allen, Debbie, you know, Blondie,
2:15:08
that maybe she was the original Madonna. And I'm not
2:15:14
saying it's just because they're blonde, but they're not all blonde,
2:15:19
are they. I mean Debbie Harry, not Alan. Debbie Harry
2:15:23
was blonde, but she probably wasn't blonde anyway. Sydney Lord
2:15:28
had all colors of hair. Time Are the Time? I
2:15:34
love that song so much, and then Madonna. The dog's
2:15:39
barking again. Hasn't barked hardly any yeah, hardly anything today.
2:15:45
I'd say it's weird. I looked out the window the
2:15:47
other day because the dog was just barking and barking
2:15:49
and barking, and I'm thinking, why doesn't the owner told
2:15:54
them try and calm the dog down? Because I do
2:15:57
that when Finny starts barking, try and calm him down
2:16:01
so that these neighbors are not disturbed. I looked out
2:16:04
the window, and she's just standing there or he, whoever
2:16:08
it is, just standing there watching a dog barking like
2:16:12
really loud for a good ten to fifteen minutes. I
2:16:16
wasn't watching for ten to fifteen minutes, but it'd been
2:16:19
barking for that amount of time before I looked, and
2:16:23
I was just checking to make sure everything was okay.
2:16:28
I'm thinking, Wow, it's I don't think even if I'd
2:16:36
got like ten different doctorates in some kind of psychological
2:16:44
different psychological subjects, I still wouldn't understand humans. Foreigner. I
2:16:51
want to know what love is. I want you to
2:16:53
show me a lame page. I know him so well,
2:17:02
dead or alive. You spin me right round, right round
2:17:06
round like a record. Mean So Phil Bailey and for
2:17:10
Easy Lover? I love that song what happened to Phil Bailey?
2:17:16
Because I would argue Phil Bailey was the best vocals
2:17:20
on that song. And I haven't Phil Collins fan, but
2:17:23
Phil Bailey, them two together, they should have done more.
2:17:32
You may argue against this. You might think, oh, it's
2:17:34
a silly thing to say, but I'll say anyway, hell
2:17:38
like yeah, especially on my car. My thing is a
2:17:44
silly thing to say, but I kind of think that
2:17:49
they should have done more together as a kind of
2:17:53
a little double act, you know. I mean, Phil Collins
2:17:57
had a lot on his plate, didn't. Let's face it
2:18:00
if that greedy was used to eat a lot. But
2:18:03
now he had his band, and then he had his own,
2:18:06
you know, solo career. But the harmonies with him and
2:18:12
Phil Bailey singing together was just beautiful, and I would
2:18:19
liked to have seen them do more together. That's just
2:18:23
my personal opinion. I mean, I realize we're eighty five
2:18:29
ninety five, two thousand and five, twenty fifteen, twenty twenty five,
2:18:35
forty years too late, but hey, all we are the world.
2:18:41
So that was the American version of our one, and
2:18:46
we are a world, we are the children. I would both,
2:18:54
I would argue, I wouldn't argue, but I would say
2:18:57
both equally great song, just ruined a bit by the video.
2:19:04
I just I don't know, just both of them. I
2:19:07
just don't like I know that was the cause, that
2:19:10
was the reason for the music. I know that I've
2:19:14
always struggled with things like these big charity events where
2:19:20
they have comedy music, but there's like really funny comedy
2:19:24
sketch and then I'll go to a really super serious
2:19:29
subject and I can't. I can't switch myself like that.
2:19:35
That's why I have to avoid some TV channels, because
2:19:38
some of these like daytime channels and only something on
2:19:43
in the evening as well, where they'll show old TV shows,
2:19:47
old comedies which I quite like watching sometimes, like Whatever
2:19:51
Happened to the Likely Lads and just shows from like
2:19:55
decades ago that I just quite like watching. But then
2:19:59
in the advert it's like Donkey Sanctuaries and eyelid surgery
2:20:06
and all. It's like I just like, nah, man, I
2:20:10
just I'm trying to just enjoy myself and just chill out.
2:20:15
So yeah, I kind of there's yeah, I'm just moaning
2:20:24
and I Phyllis Nelson moved closer, moved closer. And of
2:20:29
course Paul Hardcastle nineteen number one for five weeks. I
2:20:36
mean that that really that was the one heck of
2:20:43
a video, wasn't it. If you don't remember, it was
2:20:48
No nineteen nineteen, No nineteen No nineteen nineteen nine, nineteen nineteen, Yeah, wow,
2:21:04
the crowd You'll never walk alone. Then that's an old
2:21:07
that's been done so many times, isn't it. My favorite
2:21:11
version is Elvis Presley walking through Storm Moved your head
2:21:17
Pie Sister Seledged, Frankie, I love that song. Frankie and
2:21:26
dressed as cheerleaders, which we don't well, we didn't have
2:21:30
in this country, So cheerleaders was something that was foreign
2:21:35
to this country in nineteen eighty five, and they were
2:21:43
doing I don't know, it's like a triangle, We're all
2:21:45
standing on each other's heads and stuff, and it was brilliant.
2:21:48
Loved it and really big fan that song number one
2:21:53
for four weeks. Then you have mixed They must be
2:21:58
an Angel, seventh of July nineteen eighty five. Umm but
2:22:13
boom but boom boom, boom boom. That's one of my
2:22:17
all time favorite songs. It just is. It will always be.
2:22:22
But sometimes I forget. I forget that it is because
2:22:29
although individually I like a lot of the eur of
2:22:32
mix songs, I never ever once listened to a EU
2:22:37
of mix album. Madonna Into the Groove nineteen eighty five,
2:22:46
You Be That was kind of Madonna was starting just
2:22:50
making a Was that her first song in number one yeah,
2:23:00
I think it was a number first number one song
2:23:01
in the UK four weeks and then ub forty Chrissy
2:23:06
Hyde I Got You Babe. Yeah, like that David Bowie
2:23:12
and Mick Jagger dancing in the street four weeks at
2:23:16
number one. I think that it was like a comedy video,
2:23:24
wasn't it. And seeing David Bowie and Mick Jagger literally dancing,
2:23:36
it was so funny that people just kept they wanted
2:23:38
to keep watching it on TV. The video midyeal. If
2:23:45
I was that was a good song as well. If
2:23:49
I was that was number one. Jennifer Rushed the Power
2:23:56
of Love. Wow, huge, huge, huge hit, A great ballad
2:24:08
wow wow yeah amazing and Fergle Sharky a good heart,
2:24:14
a good heart to it. Yeah, I like that. I'm
2:24:18
your man. Wham Whitney Houston Save All My Love for You.
2:24:24
So that Whitney Houston's first number one hit two weeks
2:24:29
and it was a fourteenth December eighty five, so I
2:24:35
was now fifteen. Shaking Stevens Merry Christmas Everyone was the
2:24:46
twenty eighth of December, so technically technically Saving All My
2:25:00
Love for You was the Christmas number one, but Shaking
2:25:07
Stephens I thought that Merry Christmas Everyone was the number
2:25:10
one song for Christmas, but it says twenty eight for December,
2:25:14
but then it might be wrong. It would be the
2:25:20
most played song though at that time, being Christmas and
2:25:25
all wet. So that was like nineteen eighty five was
2:25:29
the last full year of living in the big house
2:25:36
with my family, and then we just had the first
2:25:41
few months of ninet eighty six. So west End Girls,
2:25:45
Pet Shop Boys, our hardest sun always shines on TV
2:25:53
Bill the Ocean We're in the Going gets stuff for
2:25:56
to get going. Diana Ross still making songs Chain Reaction.
2:26:03
Wasn't that an old song? It is now, I guess,
2:26:06
But wasn't Cliff Richard and the ones living doll So
2:26:12
that was the young ones as in Rick mal Adrian Edmondson, Yeah,
2:26:25
and the other two God forgets, I forget their names now.
2:26:30
I never did learn the name of the little one,
2:26:35
George Michael A different corner Falco Rock Me Amadeus, Wow,
2:26:41
whether we rock me Amadias a Medeias Amadias and Medeias
2:26:46
and Medeias and Medias loved that song. Rock Me Amadias
2:26:53
BlimE me, Papa, don't preach I remember that twelfth of
2:26:57
July nineteen eighty six. I was living in the flat
2:27:01
with my step mom's mom, my step mom's step mom,
2:27:07
my step mom, my step grandmother, and I used to
2:27:11
watch Papa Don't Preach the video and I loved it.
2:27:16
Loved that video. Although True Blue, I love that video
2:27:23
much more. I had it on tape, recorded it and
2:27:27
I wore the tape out. I loved it that much.
2:27:31
But as a song, Papa Don't Preach is one of
2:27:36
my favorite songs Madonna ever did. Just that one off song.
2:27:40
I loved it, and I loved the album True Blue,
2:27:44
and that's one of my favorite. My two favorite albums
2:27:47
of Madonna. True Blue and Like a Prayer. Wow, Christy
2:27:55
Burgh Lady in Red. So my sixteenth birthday, Okay, when
2:28:07
I turned sixteen, the number one song was Boris Gardner.
2:28:12
I want to wake up with you, and I think
2:28:16
anyone's ever said that to me. I want to wake
2:28:22
up with you. Anyway, I'm going to bring this to
2:28:26
an end because noisy people are outside again, so I
2:28:30
would say thank you for listening. Remember to be kind
2:28:33
to yourself because you do deserve to be happy and
2:28:36
be gentle of yourself. He deserves to feel safe, lots
2:28:40
of love bye, relax in a more deep and meaningful way,
2:29:03
maybe in a way that can not just allow you
2:29:09
to feel calmer now and throughout the time we've spend
2:29:19
together here, not just relaxed at the end of the
2:29:27
recording when it's finished and you can enjoy that sense
2:29:33
of comfort and peace, but also I think it would
2:29:49
be nice to have those feelings of vexation continue for
2:30:05
longer after the recording has ended, so that you can
2:30:19
still benefit from listening to my voice, maybe in a
2:30:30
few hours time, perhaps tomorrow, and then by listening regularly,
2:30:45
especially if you find like some people do and myself
2:30:50
as well. I sometimes I find one particular recording that
2:30:55
really resonates with me, and I just listened to it
2:31:03
over and over again every morning, every evening. There was
2:31:16
this recording from We're going back to about nineteen ninety nine.
2:31:24
It wasn't hypnosis, but it was a guided visualizations. It
2:31:29
kind of was hypnosis, really, and I managed to find
2:31:36
it again and it still has the same effect on me.
2:31:43
And part of it was the person's voice relaxed me
2:31:57
just felt so peaceful, and I'd look forward to listening
2:32:04
to her in the morning and in the evening, and
2:32:17
I knew before even pressing the play button that as
2:32:25
soon as I've done that pressed the play button. This
2:32:30
is in the days of CD players, press the play button.
2:32:44
If that it might have even been a tape tape recorder,
2:32:49
I'd lie down on the bed and then even without
2:32:57
necessarily listening to her words because I had to memorized. Really,
2:33:15
it was as if my body knew exactly what to do,
2:33:26
and the muscles just almost went into automatic relaxation, and
2:33:48
I remember my mind would slow down. Now. Now, I
2:34:02
was listening to this recording in the early days of
2:34:08
learning hypnosis, and long before I ever made any videos
2:34:19
or audio recordings myself, because I didn't start doing that
2:34:24
till two thousand and six, I knew, I knew how
2:34:40
helpful I found being able to just let go, to
2:34:54
have that trust in the person that I'm listening to,
2:35:07
knowing that it's going to be just as relaxing, if
2:35:15
not more so. Each time you hear my voice, you
2:35:25
may feel the same. Some people have been listening to
2:35:36
me for over a decade. Maybe not solidly, obviously, not
2:35:50
twenty four hours a day, but maybe people come back.
2:35:58
Some people may be listening every day. That's something that
2:36:12
I do which you may not realize by listening, is
2:36:29
when I record these recordings. Now. For example, I also
2:36:45
am affected by the words that I say. So if
2:36:56
I say, do you focus on your feet, notice your
2:37:05
feet relaxing, I will be focusing on my feet. I
2:37:17
will be noticing my feet relaxing. If I said, focus
2:37:35
on your hands, and maybe notice the difference between each hand,
2:37:47
perhaps notice the the air in the room, the temperature
2:37:54
of the room. On the backs of your hands. You
2:38:06
may start to notice what almost feels like a very
2:38:10
light breeze, even though there may not be any type
2:38:19
of breeze at all where you are right now. And
2:38:32
as you become aware of your hands, I'm also aware
2:38:46
of how relaxed my hands are feeling.
2:38:56
Speaker 7: Now.
2:39:11
Speaker 1: And when it comes to potentially drifting off to sleep,
2:39:18
which may be the reason you're listening, I also feel
2:39:30
drowsy when I make these recordings. I also notice my
2:39:45
mind drifting. In fact, at times I've actually fallen asleep
2:40:07
without even noticing, and then I carry on talking. It's
2:40:21
only when I listen back to do the editing I
2:40:30
hear snoring and I think I don't remember snoring. I
2:40:40
remember talking. Was this snoring was a pig turned up.
2:40:50
That's why I sound like when I snare and I
2:40:58
get really into the whole experience. I don't know how
2:41:12
you feel, how relaxed you feel in your feet, how
2:41:24
relaxed you feel in your hands. I have noticed more
2:41:50
and more that the more relaxed, deeper level of comfort
2:42:08
you feel, the easier your breathing becomes. It's almost like
2:42:26
that additional muscle relaxation. So this allows you to breathe
2:42:45
easier without necessarily focusing on your breath, however, being able
2:43:11
to notice the ease in which you breathe so naturally.
2:43:55
You breathe so very easily and smoothly. Whenever I imagine
2:44:37
my breathing improving. When I've got my eyes closed, I
2:44:54
tend to visualize a beautiful field with trees and flowers
2:45:14
producing all that life giving oxygen. It feels nice to,
2:45:49
if nothing else, just taking some time away from everything,
2:46:19
enjoying that feeling of peace serenity with a joyful heart.
2:47:17
Time seems to just drip by so very slowly, relaxed,
2:47:48
so deeply peaceful, completely unattached to any thoughts whatsoever in
2:48:27
this moment, completely free, noticing that your mind has slowed down.
2:49:40
Slowed down because nothing really requires your attention. You can
2:50:27
enjoy the physical sensations of allowing the stress to rip
2:50:44
out of your body, to appear out of every part
2:51:04
of your body, and being released from your brain. Ng
2:51:28
your mind slowly but surely, the muscle sing les, relax
2:52:37
so very deeply, rex so deeply, and the feelings, the
2:53:18
pleasant feelings in your arms and shoulders, deepening each part
2:53:43
of your body further and deeper and deeper. Noticine, the
2:54:24
feelings in the back of your neck, feelings in your wrists, muscles,
2:55:28
in front of your body. I all say, feeling peaceful deeply,
2:56:22
there's a sense of peace spreads through your fairy core.
2:57:03
Even when you focus on your mind. Your mind becomes
2:57:30
beve and slower, even deeper. Relax so very slow, his stomach,
2:59:07
he's fall in your stomach, You're back. Notice Notice how
2:59:49
relaxed you'd never feel in the hole of your back.
3:00:32
You spy from your brain all the way down the
3:00:42
middle of your back, sending and receiving millions of messages
3:00:53
every day, deepcomfort, increasing, deeply relaxed, uns legs, spreading those
3:02:25
signals down a spine or cord into air, every part
3:02:34
of your body, your shins and your calf, muscles, your elbows,
3:03:37
Feelings of peace and tranquility spreading through your body, tips
3:03:55
of your toes, to your eyes, your fingers, all the
3:04:11
way till you lower back. The tinker read there, the
3:04:28
tinker peace h drifting mind just wandering away, happy to
3:05:38
let go, let go completely, let go, so tranquil, the
3:06:42
whole body enjoying a sense of listening that he for more,
3:08:28
he enjoy the space, this space of peace and safety,
3:09:45
so very relaxed, you do, letting go. Maybe we can
3:11:44
just focus on the different parts of your body, just
3:11:56
to notice you foolhead and your eyes. You two so loose,
3:13:25
noticing the sense of complete freedom, absolute freedom, breda peace
3:14:58
for energy, peace to breathe, so much easier loose. You
3:16:45
may have or may not have noticed your mind drifted, peaceful,
3:17:49
move any even more deeply in the direction of total
3:18:09
bliss for pace, bliss for pace, terrefting to to to pace,
3:20:05
so calm, letting go, peace, let me mind rexed, body
3:21:18
so relaxed, so relaxed, your body feels almost invisible, so
3:22:15
very relaxed. I'm peaceful, so peaceful, relax like a hm.
3:23:35
And you could start to notice that you are feeling
3:23:41
more relaxed, even though I've not purposely focused your mind
3:23:54
upon that sense of physical comfort that is growing within
3:24:01
you throughout your body, and your mind starts to slow down,
3:24:15
and that could be almost in recognition of I guess
3:24:23
my speech not being particularly fast, and things just generally
3:24:37
feel calmer. Just by listening to my voice, you give
3:24:48
yourself an opportunity to take a break from the day,
3:24:57
take a break from your life as it is, and
3:25:05
to give yourself a rest, giving yourself permission to take
3:25:13
some time off and to allow your body to relax
3:25:20
and allow your mind to slow down, which in turn
3:25:31
releases the tension and he stresses that you had in
3:25:36
your body. It's almost as if the parts of your
3:25:46
body just open up, allowing the negativity out and at
3:25:58
the same time replace in that negativity with positive heathing energy,
3:26:09
which then fills your body up and your mind to
3:26:15
also starts to appreciate those feelings of increasing confidence, an
3:26:34
almost uplifting feeling, positive healing, an energy that spreads through
3:26:51
your body like a wave of comfort, and all this comes,
3:27:02
and just allowing yourself a few minutes, maybe half an hour,
3:27:15
however long you want it to be, to just rest
3:27:25
and allow your mind and your body to almost reset
3:27:34
itself to the settings of comfort and relaxation, calmness, which
3:27:53
allows more room for feelings of pleasure and happiness to
3:28:07
move around your body and into your mind, almost as
3:28:16
if your mind and your body are sinking together, almost
3:28:26
mirroring each other with that growing positivity and calmness. And
3:28:40
it feels nice. It really does feel nice to know
3:28:47
that you are the one that has allowed yourself to
3:28:56
feel more comfort and to experience more of this deep
3:29:11
relaxation spreading throughout your body. And as I focus on
3:29:27
each part of your body, you can notice that that
3:29:33
part becomes even more relaxed just by focusing on it.
3:29:47
It becomes even more calm and comfortable just by focus.
3:30:00
And as I move down your body, starting at your head,
3:30:12
the parts that you've already focused on will continue to
3:30:19
relax deeply, and those parts that we've not yet focused
3:30:27
on or just automatically release any remaining tension in anticipation
3:30:40
of even more comfort about to come. Now, I'm going
3:30:53
to start by focusing on your forehead. Just being aware
3:31:01
of the feelings of your forehead and any background sounds
3:31:11
like mister Herbert the Pigeon can just allow you to
3:31:16
feel even more relaxed. Just means you're in the moment.
3:31:27
This isn't this isn't a sterile environment. This is the world.
3:31:35
I live in the countryside, so there's lots of nature
3:31:42
sounds around. So as you focus on your forehead, just
3:31:53
notice how it becomes even more relaxed as you focus
3:32:03
only on my voice and that part of your body.
3:32:12
Moving down to your eyes, focusing on your eyes, noticing
3:32:23
how your eyelids feel so heavy yet so light at
3:32:33
the same time, and all the muscles around your eyes
3:32:40
relaxing completely. Moving your focus down to your mouth, your lips,
3:32:54
your tongue, your teeth, and your gums, the whole of
3:33:01
your mouth relaxing, calm and loose. As you focus now
3:33:17
on your jaw, not just the parts of your jaw
3:33:24
near your mouth and your chin, but all the way
3:33:28
up the size of your face to your ears, the
3:33:35
hole of your jaw, feeding more relaxed and calm. Focusing
3:34:00
in on your neck, the front of your neck and
3:34:08
your throat, relaxing and loose and calm, the side of
3:34:21
your neck, the right and left side of your neck
3:34:29
relax and loose and calm, And now the back of
3:34:45
your neck. Focusing on the back of your neck, letting
3:34:58
go of any tension that may have been there before,
3:35:05
and enjoying that sense of increasing comfort and release that
3:35:19
you can experience in the back of your neck. Moving
3:35:30
down your back and moving either side of your spine
3:35:38
right from the top of your back all the way
3:35:43
down to the bottom of your back, down to your
3:35:55
lower back. And as you move up and down your spine,
3:36:08
you can feel the muscles either side of your spine
3:36:15
relaxing even more. And as those muscles relax, that sense
3:36:29
of comfort starts to spread outwards from your spine into
3:36:40
both sides of your back, the top of your back,
3:36:47
the middle and your lower back. And as you scan
3:36:55
gently and slowly up and down your back, there's the
3:37:03
muscles in the top of your back relax and become looser.
3:37:14
The muscles in the middle of your back also seem
3:37:20
to just almost divide from each other, separating and almost melting,
3:37:35
and in your lower back there seems to be an
3:37:41
extra special feeling of comfort. The spreads into your hips,
3:37:58
so down your lower back to your hips, into the
3:38:06
area where your cosis are and into your buttocks, and
3:38:14
all those muscles that spread whom your lower back into
3:38:24
your hip area start to melt, start to really let go.
3:38:44
I don't even know where about. To focus on your shoulders.
3:38:50
Your back and your spine will continue to let go,
3:39:01
continue to relax so calmly. And as you focus on
3:39:16
your shoulders, you may notice that they're already feeling really loose.
3:39:34
They're already feeding calm, and they're feeding those muscles. Then
3:40:00
move from your neck into your shoulders. Feel so soft
3:40:16
and gentle, so smooth and calm, and the feeding in
3:40:42
your shoulders seens to spread deep into your shoulders, that
3:40:57
sense of relaxation, not just traveling deeply into your muscles,
3:41:09
but also relaxing the bones and moving all the way
3:41:22
to underneath your arms, relaxing that whole area between the
3:41:31
tops of your shoulders and underneath your arms. He Then
3:41:45
you feel so relaxed and comfortable in your shoulders, which
3:41:59
sends that's deep healing message into your arms, and you
3:42:21
may feel almost as if your arms are not even
3:42:26
there because they're so relaxed so deeply relaxed, so so calm,
3:43:05
so loose, not feeling, spreading all the way down your arms,
3:43:30
two elbows, including your elbows circumforts, spreads all away into
3:43:59
risks are forearments, and your wrists so heavy yet at
3:44:18
the same time so light and gentle. Focusing h now
3:45:02
on your hands, my hands, so peaceful in your hands.
3:45:58
This is sense hm, real peace. It just seems to
3:46:21
I feel so familiar when your hands relax deeply. M ees,
3:47:00
the thing is a thing is sads. You think your tips,
3:48:37
moving your attention to the front of your body, so comfortable,
3:49:07
move on your focus your legs, what muscles in your thighs,
3:50:51
your knees so relaxed, a carved muscles and just shames
3:51:32
copusy four feathing your feet so peaceful, so calm, so peaceful,
3:54:02
sircom so peaceful, sycom so peace for rain, peace fall,
3:55:07
so calm, allowing that deep relaxation to spread your chest,
3:55:23
in your stomach, so letting go of everything. So I'm
3:55:54
gonna start counting down now, from twenty down to one.
3:56:06
You can imagine in a way it's like just walking
3:56:09
down some steps and each step or twenty steps, and
3:56:15
each step represents a level of comfort. Each step represents
3:56:28
a deepening of that comfort, and the furvies you walk
3:56:41
down those steps, the deeper and more relaxed you feel.
3:56:53
So starting with number twenty twenty, nineteen, eighteen, seventeen sixt
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three four four two two well five four nine hey
4:08:53
seven four five four four two.
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Speaker 5: One.
4:17:33
Speaker 1: And now as you focus on your eyes, we're gonna
4:17:50
count down from ten downs one. Focus sin just on
4:18:02
your eyes, your eyelids, the muscles around your eyes, your
4:18:13
eye walls themselves, a whole area that makes up your eye.
4:18:33
And as we count down from ten down to one,
4:18:40
whilst focus in on your eyes, you'll become twice is
4:18:54
relaxed with each number counting down, and you may find
4:19:10
the all you want to do is just drift off
4:19:16
to sleep. And if that's what you want, then just
4:19:25
allow yourself to do that. Now, focusing on your eyes,
4:19:40
I'm going to begin counting down from ten down to
4:19:46
one right now, nine eight seven s five u four
4:26:23
three two one. So counting down from ten to one
4:29:16
ten nine eight seven six five four three two one.
4:29:47
And maybe that was a bit too quick in order
4:29:50
to relax. Maybe it's a bit too fast for you
4:29:54
to notice the calming of your body, maybe even a
4:30:04
little bit of pressure there. Like you'll count it down
4:30:08
from ten to one. Would you expect me to do? Man,
4:30:12
expect me to stick go with floppy just because you're
4:30:15
counting down. We could try it again, but this time
4:30:25
I go. It's lower this time, as you focus on
4:30:32
the whole of your body before we focus on your legs.
4:30:39
Just notice how your body does start to feel more
4:30:49
relaxed with every number that I count down ten nine, eight, seven,
4:31:28
six five four three mm two one, And just notice
4:32:43
how how you feel, generally, how your body feels. It's
4:32:55
not necessarily even about counting down from ten to one.
4:33:07
It's that space that you have, that space between being
4:33:24
active physically or mentally to just sitting or lying down,
4:33:36
just being there, not doing anything, not saying anything, or
4:33:41
needing to think about anything. So it opens up a space,
4:33:49
you know, a bit of a space, a gap. And
4:33:58
the more I camped down from ten to one, the
4:34:03
bigger that gap becomes. So there's that gap of calmness,
4:34:12
of comfort, relaxation. It's a nice feeling, and it moves
4:34:29
those stresses or discomforts physically or emotionally, moves them away.
4:34:46
Allows you to just slow down. Someone to count again
4:34:59
from ten down to one, and notice that gap widening,
4:35:07
the gap, And as it widens, it's almost like the
4:35:13
stress and attention falls into the gap and gives you
4:35:31
that distance, that space. Now ten nine, eight, seven, six, five,
4:36:38
four three two one. How did your body feel? Can
4:38:03
you notice that the feeling calmer, the feeling more relaxed.
4:38:41
As we now focus on your legs, just your legs.
4:39:02
We're just going to start with focusing on your thighs.
4:39:21
Of course, it's not the most exciting thing to be doing,
4:39:26
because I'm sure like most of your body is not
4:39:33
a lot going on right now. Just focusing on the
4:39:45
whole of your thighs, the tops of your thighs, the
4:39:51
sides of your thighs, the bottoms of your thighs. You're
4:39:58
outer thighs and you're in the thighs basically the whole
4:40:03
of your thigh that leads into your hip and it
4:40:11
goes down to your knee joints. Now, this is a
4:40:22
big area. It's a very heavy area. It's very strong,
4:40:31
probably the strongest muscles in your body or in your thighs.
4:40:47
But I don't think we perhaps give enough attention to
4:40:55
our thighs. Perhaps we don't acknowledge how important our thighs
4:41:09
are to our lives, how much they actually do for
4:41:28
us all through our lives. And it may seem to
4:41:42
sound really weird, but I think that all of our
4:41:48
body parts, especially our thighs, need some TLC, a bit
4:41:58
of love shown, a bit of acknowledgement. I thank you
4:42:14
gratitude for what our thighs do for us. And I
4:42:27
know this may sound a bit strange. Maybe you think,
4:42:33
why am I surely how I should be out in
4:42:36
the garden hugging a tree or something. Well, it's hard
4:42:45
to set a microphone up on a tree. That's why
4:42:48
I'm doing this indoors. Otherwise I would be outside hugging
4:42:50
a tree. Now I can't see the television from the tree.
4:43:01
If you move down to your knees gain such an
4:43:05
important part. And I think we don't necessarily I'll speak
4:43:15
for myself here, I don't necessarily appreciate all that my
4:43:22
knees do for me until I have a problem with
4:43:28
my knee. It's occasionally, if I ever maybe i'll bash
4:43:33
it or it's aching for some reason. It's then that
4:43:39
I realize how much it does. You know, the benefit
4:43:44
of being able to use my legs without any kind
4:43:52
of physical discomfort is a beautiful thing that's possibly not
4:44:00
appreciated until it's temporarily removed. You know that's comfort. But
4:44:12
as you focus on your knees, regardless of how your
4:44:16
knees feel, you can have that sense of gratitude and
4:44:25
love to your knees for all that they do for you,
4:44:39
And you can still have that attention on your thighs
4:44:42
and maybe notice how your thighs feel. Maybe you've noticed
4:44:49
that they are relaxing more deeply as you focus now
4:45:08
on the bottoms of your legs, your shins, and your
4:45:12
calf muscles, the bones between your knees and your feet,
4:45:20
incorporating of course, your ankles so important. Anyone that's had
4:45:33
even like the slightest sprain of an ankle knows how
4:45:40
how much we take our ankles for granted. And it's
4:45:50
kind of strange in a way when you think that.
4:45:55
You know, logically, our wrists are a lot thinner than
4:45:59
the rest of it their arms, which is okay, it
4:46:03
doesn't can't see any problem with that because we're just
4:46:07
picking stuff up. But our ankles so much thinner than
4:46:15
the rest of our legs, and from a physics perspective
4:46:25
or logical even it doesn't really make sense that all
4:46:29
this weight would ultimately be resting on your ankles then
4:46:38
leading to your feet, that thin area, thin bone. Yeah,
4:46:51
it does so much great work. Supports us, supports our
4:46:57
body for a lifetime, helps us to balance, It helps
4:47:09
you to get her around and be mobile. And there's
4:47:21
the calf muscles. Of course, when I was younger, I
4:47:29
couldn't see the point in calf muscles. Didn't seem to
4:47:33
do anything. Okay, if I walked around on tiptoes, then
4:47:39
my calf muscles get some work. But of course that's
4:47:43
not true. The calf muscles are being used whenever we
4:47:47
use our legs and your shins there to protect your
4:48:01
lower legs, shaped in a way, almost as a protector
4:48:10
for the bone, leading of course to your ankles and
4:48:25
your feet. But we're not going to focus on your feet.
4:48:32
We're just going to focus on the legs. I realize
4:48:39
that now that I've mentioned your feet, it probably focuses
4:48:43
on them anyway, for maybe I should focus on your
4:48:46
feet a little bit. You can have them in your
4:48:52
awareness the same as you have your thighs in your awareness.
4:48:59
Even though you haven't been focusing on your thighs for
4:49:03
a few minutes, we've been focusing on your ankles, there's
4:49:14
still that sensation of comfort in your thighs, and there's
4:49:29
that movement of energy because the thighs hold lots of
4:49:38
different sensations. Of course, there's the muscles, the big straw
4:49:45
muscles that we have in our thighs, but the skin
4:49:59
on the outside side of the thighs, as in the
4:50:03
outside of all of our body, can be very sensitive,
4:50:12
sensitive to the touch, sensitive to temperature, and inside your
4:50:25
thighs the bones, there's the muscle, there's the blood, vessels,
4:50:33
the ar trees, all this stuff that's inside your thighs.
4:50:43
And I guess sometimes it'd be nice if you could
4:50:46
actually put your fingers inside your thighs and a message,
4:50:54
so you can message on the outside, of course, but
4:50:58
to be able to get deep into the muss and
4:51:01
to be able to just massage inside your thighs, message
4:51:06
in the bones of your leg, massage in all the
4:51:14
veins and just gently healing your thighs, and you could
4:51:25
move down message and inside your knees, just message in
4:51:32
those bones. But with healing fingertips, spreading that healing energy
4:51:40
deep into the joints of your knees. Of course, there's
4:51:50
the back of your your knee, you know, the inside
4:51:54
crease where your knee is. It's a really sense the
4:52:00
area very it feels very nice when you stroke it.
4:52:06
That might be because it's an area that's not really
4:52:10
touched very often. It's almost like a hidden part, that
4:52:17
crease in your legs. It's almost it's like a part
4:52:24
that has a sensitivity, which is a little bit different.
4:52:36
Of course, it's protected by your legs, so you can
4:52:46
imagine putting your fingers into that crease in your legs,
4:52:57
that fold in between your legs. You can just message
4:53:01
with your fingertips, letting your fingertips going inside, massage in
4:53:08
the muscle tissue. You can of course field the bones
4:53:18
of your knees, healing through your fingertips, and then as
4:53:30
you go down to your calf muscles. Now that's the
4:53:36
part I'd like to be able to really put my
4:53:40
fingertips deep inside my calf muscles, massage in every single
4:53:49
tissue of that muscle, healing every part, and then doing
4:54:01
the same for my shins, massage in and gently stroking
4:54:09
the bones, gently stroking them, healing in a loving way,
4:54:16
because they deserve to be treated as the precious bones
4:54:23
that they are, because our legs are so precious as
4:54:28
in all the other parts of our body, and more
4:54:32
precious of any juel on the planet. When you start
4:54:47
to think about your legs in this way, it can
4:54:59
change your or perspective. It might sound a bit a
4:55:08
bit silly to start with the idea of having love
4:55:14
for your legs, showing appreciation for your thighs, wanting to
4:55:23
be able to put your hands in your thighs, massage
4:55:31
the muscles and the bones, and to get your fingers
4:55:37
deep in there, releasing all tension, just to show how
4:55:47
much you care about your legs, how much you care
4:55:54
for what your legs do for you regularly, your knees,
4:56:03
your calves, your ankles, the strength of your ankles, considering
4:56:16
how thin they are compared to the rest of your legs,
4:56:20
especially your thighs, yet they're so strong, so flexible, absolutely
4:56:34
amazing things. Your ankles are truly a gift because of
4:56:46
what they do for you, supporting all that weight, regardless
4:56:57
of how what weight you are are, even if you
4:57:01
only ate stone, there's still a lot of weight for
4:57:06
these little ankles. Now I'm a lot heavier than eat
4:57:13
stone double down. Yet my ankles support my body all
4:57:24
the time, although they do give off a sigh of
4:57:31
relief when I sit down as I have my whole
4:57:36
legs do my feet. My feet also go, my toes clap.
4:57:47
I'm so happy. Your legs really are amazing. And I
4:58:15
know that talking about talking about your legs is probably
4:58:22
possibly among the most most boring things you've ever heard
4:58:26
anyone say. Possibly they're boring or not. Everything I said
4:58:35
is true. Your legs are amazing. Your legs deserve not
4:58:52
just respect, they deserve to really acts deeply. They deserve
4:59:10
to take some time out of the day to just
4:59:16
let go completely. The legs really can relax. And because
4:59:52
the legs are so such a most you know, very
4:59:56
important part of your body. When you relax your legs,
5:00:02
the rest of your body also naturally follows in that
5:00:13
journey of comfort. I can feel it in my hips.
5:00:25
My hips feel really loose, and also my lower back
5:00:32
as well. My lower back really feels it feels stretched,
5:00:40
even though I'm just sitting in a chair and there's
5:00:43
no stretching as far as I'm aware that I'm doing,
5:00:49
it's almost as if the muscles are just relaxed so
5:00:52
much that there is a natural stretch as the tension
5:00:59
has reduced a lot. And I'm now going to count
5:01:20
down from ten down to one, and you can continue
5:01:30
to fill wonderfully relaxed ten nine, eight, seven, six, five.
5:02:01
Speaker 5: Four three two.
5:02:13
Speaker 1: Why relax? So I'm just going to count down from
5:02:31
five down to one, And as a countdown, if you
5:02:36
just focus on the numbers, just the numbers counting down,
5:02:44
and notice how you feel in this moment as you
5:02:53
hear the numbers counting down, knowing that those numbers counting
5:03:01
down represents you feeling calmer, not just in your body,
5:03:11
but also relaxing your mind. And just notice how you feel.
5:03:20
There's nothing to do, there's nothing to say, there's nothing
5:03:26
to think about, starting with number five, four three two one.
5:04:19
And as you notice the gradual letting go of the
5:04:31
tension in your body, you may also begin to notice
5:04:39
and be aware of how your mind is starting to
5:04:47
slow down. This is just a natural thing that happens.
5:04:56
It's not really a special procedure. It's just natural because
5:05:02
as your body relaxes, your mind also starts to relax,
5:05:09
and the more your mind relaxes, the more your body relaxes.
5:05:13
It's just a continuous circle of relaxation. And there's that
5:05:25
calmness that comes from relative quietness. You know, even even
5:05:33
if there's background sounds either your side or mind, it's
5:05:39
still going to be quite calm. You know, you haven't
5:05:45
got the television on, there's no music in the background
5:05:50
unless you're listening to the recording. With music, of course,
5:05:58
you're very likely not going to be sitting in a
5:06:00
room with other people. Of course you might be, but
5:06:05
generally it's more ideal if you can do this on
5:06:08
your own, so no distractions, and when you stop thinking
5:06:19
about stuff, relaxation automatically rises. A sense of comfort starts
5:06:37
to grow, and without trying to build it up into
5:06:45
something fantastical or something magical, this is just a natural process,
5:07:00
something that's easy to accomplish. In fact, it's almost you know,
5:07:11
the sense of relaxing completely happens really when you put
5:07:18
no effort into it. It's not something that you can
5:07:22
really force. It's something that happens naturally. And part of
5:07:34
the process of this recording and others is simply two
5:07:46
allow you to take advantage of this space this time,
5:07:59
just let go, to just be here, to be in
5:08:11
tune with how you feel, yet with the intention of
5:08:26
wanting to relax deeply and maybe even to fall asleep,
5:08:39
depending on what it is that you wish for yourself
5:08:46
in this moment. As we know, relaxing is the majority
5:09:02
of the process of falling asleep. The actual falling asleep
5:09:07
part is the tiny bit at the end. The deeper
5:09:15
relaxed you become, the easier you find yourself drifting. But
5:09:37
you can also if you choose stay focused on my
5:09:44
voice and really enjoy the process, gradually relaxing each muscle
5:10:17
in your body effortlessly and just observing the sensation of
5:10:44
letting go completely this time. And when it came, count
5:11:00
from six down to one, and you can notice your
5:11:10
mind calming down more with each number that you hear
5:11:21
me say, naturally, feeling calm and slow and peaceful, six, five, four, three, two, one,
5:14:30
being aware of hell. Your mind to slowed right down,
5:14:43
sinking deeply into relaxation. And as you focus on your mind,
5:15:07
you may notice that there are some thoughts still there,
5:15:19
maybe some stubborn thoughts that for some reason, perhaps need
5:15:29
your attention. That's what you can do is send love
5:15:44
to those thoughts. Sprinkle those thoughts with love. Might a
5:15:58
petals from a flower, Just sprinkle it over them, petals
5:16:04
filled with love towards those thoughts, to let those thoughts
5:16:11
know that you're not abandon the number. You just need them.
5:16:19
You require them to just calm down, slow down, quiet
5:16:31
down for now, so as you focus on those remaining thoughts.
5:16:48
As we count down this time from seven down to one.
5:16:54
With each number, just imagine sprinkling those flower petals of love, kindness,
5:17:09
gratitude over those thoughts, which will allow them to just
5:17:23
melt away and relax deeply. With every number, those thoughts
5:17:38
will become more and more relaxed. Starting with number seven, six, five, four, three, two.
5:20:04
Speaker 5: One.
5:20:21
Speaker 1: How need you now notice how relaxed you're feeling in
5:20:38
your body? We're going to focus on your hands. Is
5:21:00
the more relaxed your hands are, the more relaxed your
5:21:06
body and mind are. And there's you focus on your
5:21:27
hands and your fingers. There's nothing needed to be done.
5:21:38
There's no clenching of fists or tents in the fingers
5:21:43
or anything like that. It's just noticing and focusing on
5:21:57
your hands, noticing how they feel, because the more relaxed
5:22:26
your hands feel, the calmer your mind feels, and the
5:22:36
more comfort you feel throughout your body. And you may
5:22:55
have already noticed your mind is starting to dress like
5:23:38
since just on your hands and fingers, allowing them to
5:23:56
experience are real deepening of that relaxation in your hands
5:24:07
and fingers, more and more relaxed. With each number from
5:24:33
eight down to one. You can almost feel that healing
5:24:48
and relaxing energy spreading into your hands and fingers, becoming
5:25:05
year more relaxing with each number you hear, going down
5:25:24
eight down to one, drifting, drifting again, starting with.
5:25:46
Speaker 7: Number eighth, seven, six, five, four, three.
5:28:52
Speaker 1: Two, just being here now, nothing to think about, nothing
5:29:51
to do, nothing to say, and everything just feel calmer.
5:30:06
And this is your natural state of being. This is
5:30:14
how you just normally feel when you take away all
5:30:21
that other stuff that we add, you know, things like
5:30:28
stress and worrying and overthinking and anxiety, tension, just generally
5:30:44
thinking about stuff. And you take that away, which is
5:30:50
what we do what we do now you're left with
5:31:02
a real sense of peacefulness which comes to you very
5:31:11
quickly because ultimately it's just a feeling a feeling of comfort,
5:31:30
almost as if you've gone inside yourself and you've found
5:31:34
a special place where everything is peaceful, a place where
5:31:48
you can feel relaxed and your natural sense of comfort,
5:31:59
a place where you can be you, where you can
5:32:07
accept yourself for who you are, the place where you're
5:32:14
not trying to please anybody else ever, a place where
5:32:24
you can actually not just love yourself, but in some
5:32:34
ways more importantly, you can like yourself appreciate who you are.
5:32:52
That sense of gratitude is in the air all around you.
5:33:07
That's also a place where you can actually feel the
5:33:15
healing energy soaking into your body. Healing energy soaking into
5:33:30
your body, and the healing energy spreads through your veins,
5:33:44
traveling to each and every single part of your body,
5:33:57
and you start to realize that actually that healing energy,
5:34:04
it's not just entered into your brain, it's become part
5:34:11
of your brain, and that spinal fluid is now mixed
5:34:22
with healing energy, not just allowing you to feel so
5:34:33
much more relaxed and healthy in this moment, but also
5:34:48
you start to realize that actually, what's happening now with
5:34:56
that healing, relaxing energy spreading through your body, it's actually
5:35:06
changing your life. It's actually changing the way you're going
5:35:16
to feel not just now, but tomorrow and the next day.
5:35:25
As your health improves, not just your physical health, but
5:35:33
your mental health. Things that used to bother you in
5:35:40
the past, for some reason, no longer have the effect
5:35:48
that they used to because something has changed deep within you.
5:36:02
Maybe things that used to cause you to feel anger
5:36:12
no longer have that power to control you the way
5:36:23
they seem to be able to before. As you realize
5:36:32
that you're the one who decides what affects you, You're
5:36:45
the one who decides to feel relaxed and calm when
5:36:55
you choose to enjoy noticing these natural developments of healing
5:37:13
continuing to grow and improve your life day by day,
5:37:27
including of course, your ability to relax so much easier.
5:37:41
And sleeping is the most natural thing in the world
5:37:52
to you, because falling asleep is something that you done
5:38:03
so many times in your life, and you know that
5:38:11
you were born, as we all were, with the ability
5:38:18
to fall asleep naturally. We were born with that ability
5:38:31
to just drift off into a deep, healing sleep. Even
5:38:45
when we're kids, sometimes we'll fall asleep when we don't
5:38:50
even want to try to us stay awake. Maybe it's
5:38:56
a birthday in the morning, or it's Christmas or holiday
5:39:01
or something we look forward to. We don't want to
5:39:04
go to sleep, But the more we want to stay awake,
5:39:11
the more we just start to drift. And the more
5:39:19
you fight drifting, the more you try to stop yourself
5:39:22
and drift in asleep, the deeper and stronger that drifting becomes.
5:39:36
Because we're born not just with the need to relax
5:39:41
deeply and to naturally fall asleep, but it's our birthright,
5:39:53
it's part of our DNA. And sometimes as we get
5:40:03
older in life, perhaps at times we have forgotten that
5:40:14
relaxing completely is not only a wonderfully pleasant experience, it's
5:40:31
also really easy. It's very very easy to let go,
5:40:50
because that's all it is. It is just deciding to
5:41:00
let go. And when you press the play button on
5:41:10
my recordings, you have given permission for my voice to
5:41:20
relax you. When you press that play button, you have
5:41:27
given me permission for my words to affect you in
5:41:39
a positive, only a positive way. Opening up your mind
5:41:57
too useful and healing suggestions that can have such an
5:42:18
amazing effect on how you feel right now as well
5:42:33
as those changes that continue long after the recording ends,
5:42:43
those changes within you that continue to flourish and grow,
5:42:56
transforming your life in a positive, beautiful way, allowing you
5:43:11
to move forward in your life in the direction that
5:43:17
you choose for yourself. And this feeling, this feeling that
5:43:35
you can experience a safety, comfort, calmness, just feels so nice.
5:44:00
It's such a healthy place to be, and that positivity
5:44:14
grows within you each and every day. Moving forward, you're
5:44:33
going to find that you're more relaxed physically and in
5:44:44
your mind is more relaxed. And it's not that you're
5:44:53
thinking slower, it's just that your mind will be less
5:45:00
clogged up with unnecessary negativity because from now on, your
5:45:12
mind rejects negativity. From now on, you're going to start
5:45:22
noticing when negativity arises, and you can just say stop, stop,
5:45:41
and that negativity will turn around and leave you alone.
5:45:55
Stop and that negativity would disappear. And as you notice
5:46:15
that you feel way more relaxed than you probably expected,
5:46:30
you can now congratulate yourself because you're the person that
5:46:39
has done this. You are the one that has opened
5:46:46
your mind up to the simple facts that you can
5:46:54
feel more relaxed in your body and in your mind.
5:47:05
You've opened your mind up to the birthright of being
5:47:11
able to just fall asleep easily when you choose. And
5:47:28
that's a nice feeling. Don't you think it feels nice?
5:47:35
Doesn't it? To feel calm? All that healing energy is
5:47:44
spreading through your body and your mind to spend time
5:47:55
in a special place where negativity can no longer enter.
5:48:12
Negativity is banned, it's barred, it's not allowed entry. Doesn't
5:48:22
it doesn't. This doesn't deserve to be here, It doesn't
5:48:26
belong here. Negativity has no place in your life, which
5:48:44
makes room for more comfort, more heathing, more relaxation, more peace.
5:49:16
It feels nice, doesn't it? Just the let go with everything.
5:49:41
I'm not gonna count down now from twenty down to one.
5:49:49
You can continue to relax. If you choose, you can
5:49:59
drift to sleep. With every number you hear me say,
5:50:14
you can feel twice as relaxed, or if you choose,
5:50:21
you can feel twice a sleeping.
5:50:31
Speaker 5: Now.
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Speaker 1: Twenty nineteen, eighteen, seventeen, sixteen, fifteen, fourteen, thirteen, two, twelve, eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five.
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Speaker 4: Four.
5:53:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is your time to just take a break,
5:53:36
your time to relax, to allow your mind to slow down,
5:53:55
to give yourself permission to take a break from everything.
5:54:14
And you, you're the only person that can make that decision.
5:54:22
You're the only person that can actually tell your mind
5:54:29
to just relax, to just take some time off so
5:54:53
that you can focus on your body, getting in touch
5:54:59
with how you feel physically. And in the process of
5:55:16
this body scan, where you focus on different parts of
5:55:21
your body, those parts that you focus on and observe,
5:55:35
even though you're not purposely requesting for those parts of
5:55:43
your body to relax, it's kind of expected. You expect
5:55:52
when you listen to my voice to feel more relaxed
5:55:59
naturally of me, because when you're listening to me, your
5:56:10
attention is focused on my words, and as my words
5:56:23
guide you to focus on those parts of your body,
5:56:37
your focus increases, which actually calms your mind. And when
5:56:59
your mind calms down, your body relaxes. And when your
5:57:19
body calms down, your mind relaxes. And even though we've
5:57:43
not really started to focus on your body, you can
5:57:52
already feel that healing energy spreading through your body, pushing
5:58:08
out stress and tension, healing all the parts of your body,
5:58:24
including your skin, your bones, your blood, all of your
5:58:32
organs inside your body, all of the muscles, all of
5:58:38
the fat, all of everything, every hair on your body
5:58:47
is filled with that healing energy. And when your brain
5:59:03
fills with that healing energy, the feeling of comfort and
5:59:17
relaxation increases deeply, increases in a way that your mind
5:59:47
starts to fill perhaps bit drowsy because it's not needed,
6:00:03
and it may start to drift if that's what's needed.
6:00:23
So if you're listening to this and what you need
6:00:28
is deep relaxation, that's what you get. If what you
6:00:34
need is to fall asleep naturally and easily as your
6:00:42
mind drifts, that's also what will happen. Because by pressing
6:00:58
that play button on the podcast and listening to me,
6:01:04
you give permission for your body and your mind. In fact,
6:01:18
you give the command to your body and your mind
6:01:22
to relax deeply and to drift off to sleep if
6:01:35
that's what you want.
6:01:41
Speaker 5: Or need.
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Speaker 1: And as I focus on the different parts of your body,
6:02:00
you may start to just drift. And then you come
6:02:08
back again and you hear me talking, and I'm focusing
6:02:14
on a different part of your body, and you may
6:02:24
find yourself drifting. If you don't realize you're drifting until
6:02:33
you stop drifting and you're alert again to my voice.
6:02:41
Focusing on a different part of your body starts to
6:02:47
relax even deeper, because that drifting is basically you already
6:03:01
in the sleep zone. And the more you drift, the
6:03:11
longer you drift, and the longer you drift, eventually that
6:03:21
drifting continues into sleep, and that's the last you remember
6:03:33
until you wake up in your own time, when you
6:03:41
experience the right amount of sleep for you, because when
6:03:50
you do, and if you do for the sleep, it's
6:03:57
extremely pleasant, so relaxing, so deep healing sleep. It feels
6:04:22
so nice to relaxing into your own body and mind
6:04:34
as you feel that healing energy is spreading through it,
6:04:42
relaxing us so deeply, relaxing so so deeply. We start
6:05:05
to focus on your eyes, moving down to your jaw,
6:05:29
down to your neck, your shoulders, palms, heads, things, your
6:06:11
chest and stomach, your back, your spine, youhps, you legs,
6:06:59
your feet, your toes, and then feeding, eating, spreading and
6:07:35
growing inside your body, feeling you up. Now let's focus
6:07:49
again on parts of your body, focusing this time on
6:07:59
your fuehead. It now on your mouth, your lips, your tongue,
6:08:15
the whole of your mouth. Focus then on your fingers.
6:08:37
Maybe you could move your fingers a little bits. You
6:08:41
can focus on each one individually, both hands. And even
6:08:57
though you focus on both of your hands now they
6:09:02
almost seemed to just melt into one. Where is your
6:09:11
right hand? Start in your left hand, and almost as
6:09:19
if just mixed together. Now focusing on your knees, just
6:09:36
noticing how your knees fell. Now, focusing on your elbows,
6:10:02
focusing on both of your elbows. Just observing the feeling
6:10:17
of your elbows. Now focusing observing the back of your neck,
6:10:59
feeling energy on the back of your neck, absurd your ankles,
6:11:49
being aware his goals, sensations in your ankles. What you so?
6:13:01
Now you too on both of your thinks, being aware
6:13:19
how you TOAs Yeah right now notice thin hiw You
6:14:13
entire body fails, noticing your mind fails. Now letting go,
6:15:11
letting go, letting go everything, letting go, letting go, letting
6:15:53
go everything everything. I'm going to start now, and I
6:16:20
would like you just first of all, just to see
6:16:22
yourself lying down on that message table, lying on your front.
6:16:31
Your head is supported, your arms are supported, and you
6:16:39
feel comfortable and breathing. It's really easy, and you feel
6:16:49
you feel confident in how you look as well. So
6:16:53
there's none of that issue of body problems or shyness
6:16:58
because I'm a professional and this is a therapy session,
6:17:07
so none of that stuff matters whatsoever. This is about you.
6:17:18
This is about how you feel and how you can
6:17:25
enjoy that sense of comfort and relaxation that comes from
6:17:32
letting go and allowing my hands my fingers to relax
6:17:38
you by a messaget your body. So I want to
6:17:49
start off just by placing my hands on the back
6:17:54
of your head, just gently, just you can feel what
6:17:59
my hands feel like really on you. So you can
6:18:08
maybe feel the warmth of my hands on the back
6:18:10
of your head. With my hands to the side of
6:18:16
your head, not pressing, but just holding there very gently,
6:18:23
maybe over your ears, and a little bit on your face,
6:18:28
so you can feel my hands so you can become
6:18:33
accustomed to them. And now put my hands on the
6:18:46
back of your head again and gently let them slide
6:18:51
down onto the back of your neck. You can feel
6:19:03
my hands gently stroking the back of your neck to
6:19:14
start with, just so you can get used to the
6:19:22
feeling with my hands on your skin, get accustomed to
6:19:29
realize that you're safe and it's all good, it's all fine,
6:19:41
And I'm going to start gently messaging the muscles in
6:19:45
the back of your neck with both hands. Now, this
6:20:01
is a very trusting situation, really, because our necks are
6:20:07
so fragile and to have someone have their hands around
6:20:12
your neck in that way can sometimes be problematic for people,
6:20:19
which is why massages are quite good, because it allows
6:20:23
you to relax and to get in touch with trust,
6:20:38
to feel peaceful and calm. And there's a massage the
6:20:50
sides of your neck gently moving from the bottom of
6:20:58
your neck, it would be sort of near where your
6:21:02
shoulders start, I guess, all the way up to your jaw,
6:21:09
your ears, kind of area that side of your neck.
6:21:15
Of course, it's a lot longer than the front of
6:21:18
your neck. The message in the back of your neck,
6:21:38
especially that area where perhaps we hold tension, and as
6:21:47
that area's message, you can actually feel a sense of
6:21:52
release in the back of your neck and maybe you
6:22:00
can breathe it out as well. Notice how it feels.
6:22:05
Notice how you feel. Then moving down to that area
6:22:19
between your neck and your shoulders, that musty area. Starting
6:22:27
to message that area on both sides. I mean, this
6:22:34
would be the area that a lot of people would
6:22:36
message if they were going to give you like a
6:22:39
shoulder message. Even that's not technically the shoulders, but it's
6:22:45
all the muscles that lead to the shoulders from the
6:22:50
neck and again that can hold tension and stress. And
6:22:57
when massaged sometimes it's a nice deep message is useful,
6:23:05
and you decide how deep that message is and just
6:23:21
allow my knuckles just to dig in to get to
6:23:28
those muscles and to really relaxed all the time being
6:23:38
firm yet gentle with you and just stroking down the
6:23:56
area to act your shoulders, moving to the muscles of
6:24:04
your shoulders and maybe initially just pulling up the shoulders
6:24:16
a little bit of the table just to give you
6:24:19
a little bit of a stretch, but very gently. And
6:24:30
you've got the muscles at the front of your shoulders,
6:24:33
the sides and the back. Again, this is a part
6:24:44
that can really take quite a bit of pressure, quite
6:24:49
a bit of needing if if you wish to really
6:24:59
really the tension to really get into those muscles, and
6:25:08
you can let your fingers in there make you feel
6:25:12
really nice. Sometimes it's just being stroked gently or being
6:25:19
massaged quite strongly. It can all be beneficial to the
6:25:29
relaxation with the muscles in your shoulders. Now to move
6:25:48
down your arms, we do one arm at a time,
6:25:58
starting with your right eye. Well I do is I
6:26:07
just lift your arm up, just hold it to the
6:26:12
side of you that way still be attached, and I
6:26:19
just message the tops of your arms all the way
6:26:34
down to your forearms into your wrists, gently messaging that parts,
6:27:01
the softer part which is the under part of the arm,
6:27:08
which leads to the crease in your elbow. The inside
6:27:13
it's much more sensitive skin. Sometimes just having that stroked
6:27:31
feel really nice, pleasurable and relaxing. Now moving down to
6:27:48
your right hand, just holding your hand in both of
6:28:01
my hands, just pressing gently on the back of your
6:28:10
hand and stretching your fingers ever slightly at the same
6:28:22
time pressing down and massaging each finger, and then starting
6:28:37
to massage the palms of the hand. Just turning the
6:28:48
hand gently, stretching it gently, and actually having your hand held.
6:29:00
It can really be an emotional experience sometimes even if
6:29:07
it is a stranger, someone you don't know very well,
6:29:13
like a massage person or a therapist, maybe because it's
6:29:19
intimate and you can feel nice, you can feel safe.
6:29:40
As I put that right arm back down where it was,
6:29:49
did the same with your left arm, exactly the same.
6:30:01
Massage in the muscles your arm all the way down
6:30:07
to your rest, stroking the inside of your arm, just
6:30:19
being gentle or as firm as you require. And then
6:30:33
massaging your left hand, stretching the fingers gently, massage in
6:30:49
the palm of your left hand. H you feel so
6:31:08
so relaxing, so comforting, and I just rest your left
6:31:34
arm back down. Start to message your back, the biggest
6:31:48
part of your body, starting at the top, starting again
6:32:00
where we already been, the area at the top in
6:32:03
between his shoulders, near your neck. Going back the message
6:32:11
in that area again, but this time moving downwards, taking
6:32:22
a downward stroke to the middle of your back, working
6:32:30
from the outside inwards. It's a massage in the your back,
6:32:38
but the outsides of your back, the parts where your
6:32:50
arms would maybe rest against, almost the path that connects
6:33:04
your front to your back. Just messaging down firmly but gently,
6:33:22
as firm as you want, moving down and moving across
6:33:30
a little bit, and moving all the way down again.
6:33:34
Be very gentle yet firm as you choose. Eventually you
6:33:47
get to the spine. We can massage the muscles and
6:33:52
either side of your spine from the top of your
6:33:55
neck all the way down to your lower back. We
6:34:07
can do that a few times. Sometimes people would use
6:34:17
the knuckle or the two fingers and just go your
6:34:23
side of the spine almost just push down, go all
6:34:28
the way down to the bottom of the spine, each
6:34:32
time releasing tension and opening up the body, stretching your
6:34:43
body so that you feel more relaxed but at the
6:34:50
same time rejuvenated. And now I'm going to move to
6:35:06
one side, to your right side, and from the bottom
6:35:15
of your ribs to your pelvis, I'm going to massage
6:35:22
that area of your back. I'll stretch over the other
6:35:27
side and I'll pull the muscles gently and massage and
6:35:33
push from one end that side or way to my side.
6:35:39
It's in the middle of fact to where your spine is,
6:35:44
massaging that side of your spine the opposite side to
6:35:50
where I'm standing. It's almost likely kneading bread. There's that
6:35:58
big area which is firm yet lot's there to message.
6:36:10
Potentially one of the most important places to actually have
6:36:15
a message because you really feel it. You really feel
6:36:22
the release and the pleasure of having your lower back massaged.
6:36:31
It releases so much from your body that's not useful,
6:36:40
starting a healing process which will continue long after this
6:36:45
recording is over. The message in this part of your
6:36:57
body not only feels read good for you, it's actually
6:37:03
fun to do because it is, as I said, like
6:37:07
kneading bread, it's a part that you can really get
6:37:13
hold of and really massage deeply if that's your choice.
6:37:28
And then I'm going to move over to the other
6:37:30
side of your body and do the same with the
6:37:36
opposite part of your lawer back, kneading and messaging from
6:37:46
your sides all the way to the middle of your
6:37:52
back where your spine is pressing, needing, firm, and gentle
6:38:07
at the same time. It feels so releasing this mixture
6:38:17
of pleasure, comfort, release, calmness, relaxation or mixed together. Plus
6:38:32
there's that feeling from your stomach as it's been stretched.
6:38:39
Even though you're in your stomach now, you can feel
6:38:42
it being stretched because that whole area is connected to
6:38:46
your stomach. Now we're going to move or move further
6:38:57
up to your top of your body and I we
6:39:02
do the same this time, starting with your upper back.
6:39:11
Put my hands forward over and mass massage in that
6:39:16
area up to your spine, from the side of your
6:39:23
body up to your spine. So some of that massage area,
6:39:29
the muscle tissue or whatever fatty tissue even will be
6:39:35
possibly from your chest. There's all connected, chest and the
6:39:41
back connect together. I'm going to be massaging and just
6:39:47
pulling some of that skin from your side up and
6:39:54
massaging that area of your upper back all the way
6:40:03
to your spine. And then I'll move down a bit
6:40:10
and I'll continue with the middle of your back, doing
6:40:13
exactly the same thing as gentle, as deep as you choose. Now,
6:40:32
I'll move or the other side again and do the
6:40:35
exact same thing with the top of your back on
6:40:40
the other side, from pretty much underneath your arm area
6:40:49
really to your spine, and then continuing that all the
6:41:04
way down, including the lower your middle.
6:41:09
Speaker 2: Of your back.
6:41:23
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to your thighs, the backs of your thighs,
6:41:31
and the sides of your thighs, starting with your right leg.
6:41:41
Massage in the back and the sides of your thighs
6:41:50
gently and firmly. There's a lot of muscles there. It's
6:41:57
an area that can be very tense at times and
6:42:00
maybe needs a little bit more pressure than the rest
6:42:04
of the body that's up to you. You can gently
6:42:12
stroke the back of your legs where you know, opposite
6:42:19
your knee joint or underneath your knee joint, very sensitive,
6:42:25
gentle area, and then working down to your calf muscles.
6:42:41
Massage in your calf muscles thoroughly and deeply, if you choose,
6:42:51
using both hands and fingers, digging deep to your ankles.
6:43:10
In the back of your back of your ankles, just
6:43:16
gently massage in that area, maybe lifting the leg and
6:43:28
stretching a little bit. Moving to the right foot, massage
6:43:52
in the bottom of your feet and the sides of
6:44:01
your feet gently but firm enough so they don't tickle,
6:44:18
and just allow the pleasure that you get from having
6:44:23
your feet message to just overtake you as I continue
6:44:33
to message your feet, the bottoms of your feet, the
6:44:39
sides your arches, your heel. You can put a lot
6:44:48
of pressure into your heel and it feels amazing, yet
6:44:53
the arches need to be a bit more gentle. Stretching
6:45:02
your toes gently and massage in the bottoms of your
6:45:08
toes with my fingers, each one individually. Moving over to
6:45:24
the left leg to do exactly the same thing. Start
6:45:32
in at the top of the thighs, work in the
6:45:38
back of the thighs and the sides, massaging deeply and
6:45:44
gently the whole area, working all the way down. And
6:46:00
this is an area that maybe you could like to
6:46:06
spend more time relaxing and messaging. So perhaps if you
6:46:15
wanted like a bigger future recording, want's spend more time
6:46:20
on one particular area. As you move down to your
6:46:32
calf muscles, Massage in your calf muscles firmly and gently,
6:46:51
moving down your aincord into your feet, massage y the
6:47:00
backs of your feet, the bottoms of your feet, stretching
6:47:10
your toes and message in each tone individually, and then
6:47:17
feeling of pleasure and release. The experience when your having
6:47:24
your feet massaged feels really good. Now should turn over
6:47:45
in your mind. Laying on your back, I'm just going
6:47:56
to start again for your neck area in your shoulders,
6:48:14
just to get back in touch with that area. And
6:48:24
as you move up, I can clean my hands, make
6:48:36
them more fresh, because now I'm gonna message your face gently,
6:48:46
starting off with your forehead your eyes are closed, and
6:48:57
I can just stretch your eyes a little bit, pushing
6:49:03
up on your eyebrows and just massaging around your scalp,
6:49:19
massaging down your cheeks, around your ears, into your jaw,
6:49:30
gently the sides of your neck chin m hmm, and
6:49:53
just moving down from your neck down your chest, starting
6:50:05
by message in the very top of your chest where
6:50:12
the collar bone is, either side of the collarbone, and
6:50:26
then just massage in the hole of the chest, moving
6:50:38
the chest around, because it's quite a large area. You
6:50:52
can move from one side to the next, moving my
6:51:00
hands underneath pretty much where your arms are stretching up,
6:51:13
stretching some of the muscles of your back in the process,
6:51:21
moving up over your chest, and they're moving down again,
6:51:42
and then allowing my hands they just message gently and
6:51:48
slide down towards your stomach, starting in the middle of
6:51:54
your chest, and then gradually my hands moving apart and
6:52:04
massaging and sliding at the same time, moving down to
6:52:14
just below your rib cage, moving down and massaging up again,
6:52:33
giving your chest all the attention that it needs to
6:52:41
feel completely relaxed. Remembering that I'm also going to be
6:52:53
focusing on your sides as well. An area that really
6:53:00
it doesn't get much attention. It feels really good when
6:53:06
it's massaged, just stroking my hands down the sides of
6:53:16
your body, just below your arms, all the way down
6:53:23
to your hips. Now moving to your stomach area, I'm
6:53:38
going to stand one side of you like I did
6:53:41
when I did your lower back. I'm gonna do a
6:53:46
similar process of just stretching the muscles from your side,
6:53:55
gently massaging from one side to the next.
6:54:07
Speaker 5: Move in.
6:54:10
Speaker 1: A whole area from below your ribs all the way
6:54:14
down to below your belly button, and then move around
6:54:25
to the other side of you and repeat that process
6:54:35
of relaxing, deeply, calmly. You feel loose, you feel free.
6:54:51
And it's something about having your stomach message that's different
6:54:55
from any other part because we do have a tendency
6:55:03
of holding a different kind of stress in our stomach
6:55:08
that we may not be aware of. As I now
6:55:16
message your stomach in front of your stomach, making circles
6:55:26
around your belly button, and then going the other way around,
6:55:42
there's a gentleness and a freedom that comes from feeling
6:55:48
how you're feeling. As I now move down the tops
6:55:58
of your thighs muscles, massaging them and I can do
6:56:06
this two legs at the same time, pressing down, massaging
6:56:15
deeply those muscles in your thighs, at front of your thighs,
6:56:26
and moving down to your knees, gently massaging your knees,
6:56:37
sliding down your shins, putting pressure on either side of
6:56:43
your shin gently, softly but firmly, moving down to your ankles.
6:57:01
Stroke in the tops of your feet, and then with
6:57:11
each foot in each hand, just gently messaging the whole
6:57:18
of the foot, the top, the bottom, your heel, your ankle,
6:57:27
your toes, messaging every part of your feet. Feels so
6:57:40
good to select. Go and enjoy the process. Enjoy feeling
6:57:57
so deeply real. Next, so much comfort and so many
6:58:10
feelings become just from touching your skin. And you can
6:58:27
just lie there for as long as you choose, enjoying
6:58:37
the feeling of deep comfort and being massaged by me.
6:58:56
Enjoy the deeply right, And all we're gonna do is
6:59:21
blow out some candles. In your mind, there are going
6:59:38
to be a hundred candles, and you're going to blow
6:59:48
each one out individually, one by one, starting at one hundred.
7:00:00
As I count down all the way down to one,
7:00:12
and each time I say a number. You can imagine
7:00:21
that candle in front of you, and I'd like you
7:00:27
to actually physically gently blow that candle out, just so
7:00:46
it's not big blows, just a gentle, and that candle
7:00:57
will extinguish. And then I'll say the next number, so
7:01:07
we move down and you can just blow that one
7:01:16
out as well. And as we move down the numbers,
7:01:30
you'll find yourself feeling more and more relaxed. If you
7:01:39
need to sleep, you'll also find yourself becoming incredibly tired
7:01:49
and sleepy. In fact, you may struggle to blow out
7:02:01
all one hundred of these candles as you feel more
7:02:18
and more deeply relaxed, more and more deeply tired, And
7:02:46
the further you go down, the more your mind starts
7:02:56
to drift. You may find that you stop listening to
7:03:08
me after a while. And even though there may be
7:03:21
background sounds where you are, you'll be aware of those
7:03:29
sounds at the moment, be may start to just not
7:03:49
even notice them at all because they're unimportant. Where I am,
7:04:11
I've got the sounds of the birds, there's horrors, the
7:04:16
pigeon it likes to say hello sometimes, and there's the
7:04:24
odd plane that goes by, maybe traffic and trains in
7:04:34
the distance, but none of that scene is important whatsoever.
7:04:51
All candles you blow out, the less important anything is.
7:05:06
More candles you blow out, the further you seem to
7:05:17
move away from sounds, from general date days, stuff seems
7:05:37
to just move away on its own. You feel more
7:05:54
calmer with every can you blow.
7:06:00
Speaker 2: Out, hiding.
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Speaker 1: The next number, do you hear me say? And then
7:06:28
you blow that candle out to h So easy, so simple.
7:06:55
We're gonna start by introducing the first candle, which is
7:07:09
a hundred. First candles one hundred. When you blow that
7:07:29
candle out, you'll find immediately a slight change in how
7:07:48
you feel, as well as a real sense of positivity
7:08:00
growing within you, relaxation and sleepiness expanding. Starting with one
7:08:34
hundred blow out back coundle now h ninety nine candle
7:09:17
ninety eight, can do ninety seven, ninety six, ten ninety
7:10:57
five and ninety four, can't do ninety three and ninety
7:12:25
two and ninety one, ten ninety and eighty nine and
7:14:12
threty eight and eighties Chendo eighty eight five fen fen
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fen eighty two and two one y seventy nine candle,
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seventy eight candle seventy seven, candle seventy six, can handle
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seventy five, candle seventy four, candle seventy three, candle seventy two,
7:23:20
candle seventy one, candle seventy one and seventy and do
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sixty nine, candle sixty eight, candle sixty seven, candle sixty five,
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candle sixty four, candle sixty four, candle sixty three, candle
7:26:36
sixty sixty one, candle sixty seven, fifty nine, hand fifty eight,
7:28:40
candle fifty seven, fifty six, chendo fifty five, handle fifty four,
7:30:32
handle fifty three, candle fifty two, fifty two.
7:31:58
Speaker 8: And to.
7:32:02
Speaker 1: The candle fIF do one, candle fifty candle foty nine,
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candle forty eight, candle forty seven, can do forty six,
7:35:58
can do forty five forty two candle Who do you want?
7:37:55
Handle foty, handle thirty nine.
7:39:19
Speaker 4: And do.
7:39:24
Speaker 1: Thirty eight. Can do thirty seven, Canto thirty five, eight
7:41:28
two thirty four, handle thirty three, handle thirty one, schendle
7:43:39
thirt and two, ten eighty nine, ten twenty eight and
7:46:42
twenty seven twenty six can do twenty five CANi four
7:49:33
ten twenty three and to a deep two.
7:50:51
Speaker 4: And do.
7:51:32
Speaker 1: And to wit.
7:52:15
Speaker 2: M D.
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Speaker 1: Ninety can do seventeen cazo sixty chancel four ten to
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four and eleven and nine ten eight six M can do.
8:03:10
Speaker 7: Fo and do.
8:03:55
Speaker 1: Hey seven two or let go of all of those thoughts, worries,
8:06:13
concerns about the past, thoughts about the future, and even
8:06:21
things you've been thinking about today. Just let it all
8:06:25
go because none of it is useful in this moment.
8:06:37
Speaker 7: This is your.
8:06:39
Speaker 1: Opportunity to just focus on feeling relaxed, allowing yourself to
8:06:59
get in touch with that natural sense of peace that
8:07:08
we all have within us. It's available for everyone. It
8:07:15
just sometimes takes a little bit of effort to set
8:07:20
up the right time and place in order for you
8:07:26
to just let go. Because when you do decide to
8:07:36
let go and relax, that's what your body starts to
8:07:41
do because you've chosen, You've chosen to just allow your
8:07:51
body to unwind and your mind starts to slow down.
8:08:00
And it's a nice feeling. It's a nice feeling at
8:08:05
the beginning just to know that you have chosen to
8:08:11
decide to relax deeply, and because you've made that decision,
8:08:22
your body will just follow suit. Because sometimes all the
8:08:29
muscles in your body need is just permission from you
8:08:35
to relax, because so often we're busy, we're going from
8:08:43
here to there, we're walking around, and we're doing stuff,
8:08:50
and the body doesn't have any time or space to
8:08:56
really relax deeply. So it kind of waits for you
8:09:03
to lead the way, waits for your permission. And when
8:09:13
you do give your permission and you give to say so,
8:09:20
we may say, okay, it's time for your body to
8:09:28
let go completely and relax totally, your body just follows.
8:09:39
It's like a breath of relief. Ah good, I can
8:09:45
now relax. That feeling at the end of a day,
8:09:52
of a very physical day that you may experience in
8:09:56
the past. But you get home and you just sit
8:09:59
dow down on a chair, maybe you kick your shoes off,
8:10:03
and our arm feels so nice knowing that you don't
8:10:10
have to get up again for a little while at
8:10:13
least if you choose, you can just sit there for
8:10:17
maybe an hour to it feels blissful. And just by
8:10:30
sitting down like that, your body knows that it's time
8:10:35
to relax. Your body has been given permission from you
8:10:43
because it's a mindset in your mind you're prepared to
8:10:53
let go of everything and just cool completely, allow all
8:11:03
the stress of your body to evaporate. Any tensions can
8:11:12
just gradually vanish. It's almost like magic, really, because that
8:11:31
sense of relaxation in your body, it's a very natural state.
8:11:40
It's not something unusual. It may feel unusual when you
8:11:45
first start to relax, if you if you haven't really
8:11:50
spent a lot of time focusing and giving yourself this
8:11:54
space to let go completely and relax, they see molmost alien,
8:12:02
but it isn't. It's actually the most natural thing in
8:12:08
the world.
8:12:10
Speaker 8: To let go.
8:12:11
Speaker 1: Completely, to relax totally, the most natural thing in the
8:12:20
world to allow yourself to feel really calm in your mind.
8:12:36
And it is almost like a literal unwinding. It's like
8:12:44
you press a button and all the tension just releases.
8:12:53
It's like a wheel, like a cog, like the inside
8:12:57
of the clock just unwinding. And he's so much I
8:13:01
could see that the little wind up knob that's used
8:13:06
just going the opposite way that you choose to wind
8:13:10
it up, and the energy that premetic stress for energy
8:13:20
gradually winding down, losing its power, losing its strength. As
8:13:31
a sense of relaxation becomes stronger and deeper, and you
8:13:40
may find a the more relaxed you feel that your
8:13:49
mind starts to wonder, maybe seemed to stop listening to
8:13:59
me for a w Your mind goes somewhere else, and
8:14:05
then you realize you're listening to me again, and that
8:14:11
was just your mind to drift in to sleep, which
8:14:17
is quite natural, because sometimes when we're stressed and tense,
8:14:29
we're not mean I actually be aware of what we need,
8:14:34
what we physically are emotionally need in this moment. But
8:14:42
when you allow your body and mind to relax completely
8:14:50
and you let go of all thoughts, concerns, worries, ideas,
8:14:59
or letting them go allow them to drop onto the floor.
8:15:09
When you start to get in touch with the feelings
8:15:15
of such relaxation, feels so nice to be in touch
8:15:28
with the calmness of the different body parts as they
8:15:37
become looser and looser. Even your breathing seems easier and
8:15:50
more natural, effortless, as that cool lands for your mouthful
8:16:00
those into your lungs, breathing in comforts and relaxation, and
8:16:13
then just breathing out any excess remain intentional stress from
8:16:21
every part of your body and mind. And as you
8:16:30
start to focus on your mind, maybe you notice that
8:16:36
things come to a standstill or maybe just much much
8:16:45
lower than before, because your mind is not really needed
8:16:55
when listening to my voice, which allows your mind to
8:17:03
relax just as deeply as your body. And that's synchronicity
8:17:13
between the relaxation of your body relaxation of your mind.
8:17:27
Speaker 8: Let you know that.
8:17:30
Speaker 1: Feeling completely calm, loose, and relaxed really is a great
8:17:44
healing experience fear.
8:17:50
Speaker 5: And has.
8:17:55
Speaker 1: So many positive benefits for your body, your mind, and
8:18:03
your life. To be able to lect over everything and
8:18:12
to relax completely in all parts of your body and mind.
8:18:25
Even your bones has arised, all your muscles arise, even
8:18:41
the skin that covers your body is rerised. Every hair
8:18:58
do you have is also deeply relaxed, and your brain
8:19:16
really starts to feel the benefits this healing relaxation. And
8:19:30
then as your focus from the inside of your scalp
8:19:37
where your brain is, you can start to realize and
8:19:43
notice the benefits of your brain relaxing deeply. And then
8:19:56
it's your brain continues to as it sends those messages
8:20:07
to the rest of your body and your mind to
8:20:15
relax more deeply, relaxy more completely, letting go of any
8:20:41
remaining force or concerns, allow them just to drop onto
8:20:51
the floor, because they may not be necessary in this moments,
8:21:02
In this moment of deep reaxation and calmness, and filing
8:21:15
your brain with deep concentrated heathing, calming, relaxing every part
8:21:40
of your brain feathing so loose and comfortable, so relaxed
8:22:00
and beeaceful. Your brain feels so light, that's so healthy.
8:22:16
That sense of deep deep comfort really does allow you
8:22:30
to enjoy those ever increase in sensations of comfort, that
8:22:42
is spreading throughout your body, relaxing each and every muscle
8:22:55
of your body, e even deeper, deeper, much more deeper
8:23:13
than before, much more convent spreading through your body, in
8:23:30
your mind, be so peaceful and calm, so very very
8:23:48
peaceful in ay part of your body, letting go mm
8:24:02
hm a everything athing so peaceful time, so relax every
8:24:28
second the passes you feel.
8:24:36
Speaker 9: Dper dper relax dper and dper last.
8:24:57
Speaker 2: Come so calm.
8:25:05
Speaker 1: Peace for so very peace from your head down to
8:25:18
your ties, such peace and comfort through in all the time,
8:25:34
Such peace and comfort spreading through your body and mind
8:25:48
deep and deeper, such comforts, spreading and sinking deeper into
8:26:05
a muscle of your body, so that you feel amazing,
8:26:18
so laxed, So piece, so sol and piece so.
8:26:39
Speaker 8: Lett him go.
8:26:44
Speaker 1: Every I'm gonna do a body scan, focusing on firstly
8:26:56
how you feel in your body, Not trying to change
8:27:01
how you feel, not trying to relax, not trying to
8:27:07
move away from any discomfort or stress or tension. Just accepting,
8:27:15
observing and accepting how you feel in the different parts
8:27:21
of your body, just allowing yourself to be exactly as
8:27:27
you are, to notice, to get in touch with how
8:27:39
you actually feel in this moment. So I'm going to
8:27:46
start off by focusing on your hands. Just be aware
8:27:57
of your hands. I'd like you to move your hands around,
8:28:07
just maybe move your fingers.
8:28:09
Speaker 8: A little bit.
8:28:12
Speaker 1: I've been enclosing your hands very gently, just so that
8:28:19
you can get in touch with how your hands and
8:28:27
your fingers fell, very very slow movements. Focusing now on
8:28:48
your feet, and if you can just do kind of
8:28:55
an equivalent with your feet. Is you just done with
8:29:00
your hands, maybe turning your ankles, moving your feet around,
8:29:11
moving your toes gently but only very gently and very
8:29:21
slowly noticing how your feet feel in this moment. Focusing
8:29:40
now and your eyes, and I'd like you to just
8:29:47
focus on your eyelids. Maybe you can open and close
8:29:52
your eyes a couple of times to really get in
8:29:57
touch with how you feel. You do close your eyes,
8:30:03
the muscle changes in your eyes when you do close them,
8:30:12
maybe raising your eyebrows. It stretches the tops of your eyes,
8:30:22
perhaps squinting your eyes, scrunching up your eyes, just so
8:30:30
you can herely again touch of all aspects of how
8:30:42
your eyes feel right now. Now focus in on your thighs,
8:31:02
and you know it just starts you to gently tense
8:31:05
your thighs, just very very gently, just enough so you
8:31:15
can become more achuned to the physical sensation of your
8:31:29
upper legs, the front of your thighs, and the backs
8:31:34
of your thighs. Noticing and observing how your thighs feel.
8:31:50
Right now, moving your focus to the back of your neck,
8:32:07
just noticing the back of your neck the muscles, and
8:32:13
of course they lead to the side of your neck.
8:32:18
They also lead to the top of your back, which
8:32:23
leads to your shoulders. So as your focus on the
8:32:29
back of your neck, maybe you can move your head
8:32:35
gently upwards as if you're looking up, maybe moving your
8:32:43
head down as if you're looking down, perhaps moving your
8:32:51
head side to side, right to left, bony very slowly
8:33:03
and very gently. I'm not trying to force anything. It
8:33:11
has to be very very gentle, just so you can.
8:33:22
Speaker 5: Be more.
8:33:26
Speaker 1: In touch with the feelings, with the sensations physical sensations
8:33:38
of hound back of your neck feels. Right now, as
8:33:54
we now focus on the tops of your arms, the
8:34:04
parts where your biceps and your triceps are between your
8:34:09
elbow and your shoulders. To focus on those parts, the
8:34:18
tops of your arms, you may like to just tense them,
8:34:25
but very very gently and slowly, see you know, straining
8:34:37
or putting any pressure whatsoever.
8:34:44
Speaker 8: On your arms.
8:34:47
Speaker 2: It's just so that you can.
8:34:52
Speaker 1: Gain more of a sense of how your upper arm
8:35:01
our feeling in this moment, and just noticing as you gently,
8:35:15
very gently and slowly tighten the muscles and then let go,
8:35:29
notice how the tops of your arms feel right now,
8:35:45
as a now focus on your stomach, the area the
8:35:56
lower aptomen area below you're going up to move it
8:36:02
all the way down to your hips, just a part
8:36:09
of your grind. Maybe you're able to tense these muscles
8:36:22
in the area very very gently and slowly. If that's
8:36:38
a difficult thing to do, maybe you can just move
8:36:45
your body, pushing your stomach up, maybe moving in orbit
8:36:54
to the side using your hips, just so you can
8:37:00
get more in tune with how your lower abdomen area
8:37:13
this feeling in this moment. Just noticing the physical sensations
8:37:35
or your lower abdomen as you move your attention to
8:37:54
your mouth to see your lips and inside your mouth,
8:38:07
the teeth, your guns, your tongue, just noticing how your
8:38:25
tongue in your mouth feels, and it may help by
8:38:34
moving your tongue around your mouth, moving it to your left,
8:38:43
maybe pressing it gently against the side of your mouth,
8:38:50
and then to the right, gently to the side of
8:38:55
your mouth, perhaps press up against the top of your mouth,
8:39:04
and then down gently against the bottom of your mouth.
8:39:13
All is very slowly and very very gentle, so that
8:39:29
you can be aware of how you feel in your
8:39:45
mouth area now and to focus on your wrists. I'm
8:40:17
gonna ask you to maybe just routine your wrists by
8:40:26
moving your hands in a circular motion very gently and slowly, just.
8:40:41
Speaker 5: So you can.
8:40:48
Speaker 1: Feel the sensations that you are currently experiencing in your wrists.
8:41:11
Perhaps luep in your hands up and down again very
8:41:24
very gently and slowly, very chancel and slur.
8:42:00
Speaker 8: As you now.
8:42:04
Speaker 1: Start to observe in a lower pack. The bad part
8:42:18
is just the buance your hips where your coxis are
8:42:35
a whole area which also really does include the signs
8:42:43
of your body because those muscles are very much connected.
8:42:53
There's those muscles also move into your hip aeria connecting
8:43:01
to your botics the sides of your hips, and if
8:43:16
you're physically able to do so, maybe in very gently
8:43:28
just newbody ever, is slightly, very slowly to side to side,
8:43:46
just enough h to gauge how you feel.
8:44:01
Speaker 2: In your law back.
8:44:10
Speaker 1: Perhaps you move your hips gently up and down, gently
8:44:25
and slowly.
8:44:30
Speaker 7: In order to.
8:44:35
Speaker 2: Be in touch.
8:44:39
Speaker 1: With the physical sensations of your low back. As we now.
8:45:08
Speaker 2: To your attention.
8:45:13
Speaker 1: To your jaw, that area from your chin all the
8:45:21
way up to near where your ears are.
8:45:28
Speaker 8: Oh, your jaw, you can just.
8:45:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's okay to do so. Gently open your mouth,
8:45:52
not wide they stretching, just very gently and slowly opening
8:46:04
your mouth in closing your mouth very gently and slowly,
8:46:27
so you can be in touch with how your jaw
8:46:40
feels now, I'll just sit down. The chest area. They
8:47:27
need to do anything to move your chest it is
8:47:34
it moves every time you break. It moves very gently
8:47:47
and slowly automatically with each bread he tache. It is
8:48:04
your focus on.
8:48:08
Speaker 2: How your chest.
8:48:16
Speaker 1: Yes, when you pray, live in your focus to your
8:48:56
forms elbows. Maybe you're able to very gently and slowly
8:49:18
tense the muscles in your forms. And when you do that,
8:49:27
you can feel your elbows as well, very gently and slowly.
8:49:59
Speaker 8: Gently absolutely.
8:50:08
Speaker 1: Up saving your forearms and Jill bays, Yeah, focus the
8:50:47
rest of her back, the offer back in the middle,
8:51:00
the middle of your back again, this part of your body.
8:51:20
Speaker 5: News.
8:51:23
Speaker 1: Also, every time you pray, you may not notice that
8:51:34
usually makes you serve your upper back. In the middle
8:51:47
of your back. You can really feel.
8:51:56
Speaker 4: That.
8:51:58
Speaker 1: Gentle millen your focus.
8:52:50
Speaker 2: Into the.
8:52:52
Speaker 1: Area to butte pray those muscles and those bones in
8:53:08
your midsection. Just make the sense how there were hips, yo,
8:53:48
right now.
8:53:56
Speaker 2: You can.
8:53:59
Speaker 1: Yeh very gently.
8:54:04
Speaker 8: Leave her hips.
8:54:11
Speaker 1: Maybe side to side very gently and yeah, very gently, softly, slo.
8:55:05
Everything starts to slow down, including the thoughts in your
8:55:22
mind and your mind itself just starts to gradually. It
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doesn't have to be instant, but just gradually starting to
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It's almost like time is storing him. It's a slower
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pace to maybe what you're used to in your day
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to day life. It's a slower movement of energy, very
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small movements which make up the larger movements. This is
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always the case. Now, when you move your hand, it
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might seem like it's one movement, but it's lots of
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minute different muscles moving in accordance with each other. And
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what happens in this space that we're sharing is we
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move from that big movement into those smaller movements. Starting
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to focus on how your body feels, not just as
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a whole, not just oh, i'm feeling this way. I'm
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feeling stressed or tense, or I'm feeling relaxed and calm.
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I'm feeling this way, I'm feeling that way. Start and
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to notice that your body begins to present to you
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small feelings around your body, small physical sensations in your legs,
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whether pleasurable or not. Maybe resisting the temptation to label
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them or to judge them. Those feelings, just thinking them,
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thinking about them is just being neutral, just feelings, not
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being particularly conserned, just noticing what your body is telling you,
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feelings in your arms instead of feeling the whole of
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the arm. I've you notice those individual feelings, all those
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different muscles and the skin, the hairs of your arms,
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all the internal parts of your arms, the veins, the bones,
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just being aware of maybe your elbow on your right
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arm has a certain feeling. Maybe you're left wrist also
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has it's own individual physical sensation. What about your forearm
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on your.
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Speaker 5: Right arm.
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Speaker 1: You're right for there may not be any particular feeling
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that you could even give a name to, may not
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feel like anything other than just a feeling. You know,
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it's there. The feelings in your shoulders, perhaps your shoulders
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when you think about them, kind of almost like they're
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the same, you know, the same feeling, almost like you
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both of your shoulders are just one thing. Of course
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they're not. And when you focus on your left shoulder
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and then on your right shoulder, maybe find that you
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move the muscles a little bit, maybe tense the muscles gently,
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noticing the difference in each shoulder and your lower back,
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the left side of your lower back and the right
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side of your lower back. Of course, that connection to
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your buttocks into your hips and also moving up into
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the middle of your back, and sometimes like right now, actually,
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when I focus on their part, when I focused on
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my buttocks and then I focused on the middle of
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my back, almost felt like the muscles in my lower
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back were being stretched very gently, just stretched a little bit.
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Even though I wasn't doing anything to try to stretch
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your lower back, it just seemed to happen. The feeling
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of very gently stretching your lower back comes along and
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feeling in your chest, just noticing what sensations you are
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experiencing in your chest right now. And there's so much
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of the chest. Obviously, there's the collar bone leading to
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the chest. You've got the chest bone, You've got the
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muscles in your chest. Of course, if you're female, there's
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possibly the breasts your male.
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Speaker 8: You've got the.
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Speaker 1: Different well why not that different these days, but there
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may be more muscles at the top of the chest
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at the side underneath. It's pretty much the same whether
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you're a man or a woman. There's muscles there, muscles
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that stretch out to your back as well as breast
9:06:21
tissue stretches and moves into your back. To just being
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aware of your chest being with whatever feeling there is
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in your chest. Well, I noticed that I focused on
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my chest. I feel it in my back and my
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upper back. I mean, I guess the obvious reason would
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be because you know, I'm breathe in in then it
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stretches my chest and my back at the same time.
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It feels it feels okay, it doesn't feel a little
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bit of pain in my ro chest A little bit
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not pain, but little discomfort, maybe stiffness possibly, I don't know.
9:08:16
Notice my shoulders are also wanting to flex for some reason.
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That's probably part of my upper back, that connection between
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my shoulders and my other back. Because I can move
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my shoulders and stretch the muscles in my back, moving
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the shoulders backwards or up, which then moves I think
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it's the scapulous in your back. It feels quite nice.
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Speaker 10: Actually, a good thing about this is you can, if
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you want to, you.
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Speaker 5: Can just.
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Speaker 1: Relax or stimulate the various muscles in your body gently
9:09:37
in order to get more of the sense of how
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they feel. And when you're relaxing, when your detense and
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muscle and you let it go and you let it
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re relax, it relaxes way more than it would normally,
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you have to feel that you're able to do that.
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There's on a point of doing it. If there's an
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issue with the perfect part of your body. You need
9:10:31
to be gentle with yourself at all times when relaxing deeply.
9:10:45
It's important to be kind to yourself. As you know
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it'sss your mind. How much is your mind slowed down
9:11:11
since we started this recording. How come and peaceful is
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your mind right now? We have nothing to think about
9:11:50
and just my voice to listen to, because you know,
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the intention behind this recording is relaxation. At the very least,
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for you to feel more relaxed at the end of
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the recording than you did at the beginning, at the
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very least, to your mind to slow down because your
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body continues to relax, because that's.
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Speaker 4: What you.
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Speaker 1: Want to happen. That's what you expect to happen, a
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relaxation to fill.
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Speaker 11: Your body, maybe calm your mind.
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Speaker 1: To the point of bulleden when you start, maybe to
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drift away through It's all most as if moving further
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away from the body in your mind, just leaving that there,
9:14:40
kind of liking it an escape pod in the spaceship
9:14:44
a movie, a space movie. You know and and against
9:14:48
that little pardon, it sends the man far away from
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the spaceship six three.
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Speaker 4: Two two monster.
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Speaker 8: I s and be so.
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Speaker 1: Pays and focusing on the easing of those individual parts
9:17:25
your body that's relaxing.
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Speaker 8: One point one.
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Speaker 4: You may.
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Speaker 1: Find that.
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Speaker 8: Every now and.
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Speaker 1: Then you realize that you aren't listening to my voice
9:18:03
because your mind started to imagine something different, maybe started
9:18:15
to almost move into some kind of a dreamy state.
9:18:29
And then you become aware of my voice again.
9:18:35
Speaker 8: And even though you may.
9:18:39
Speaker 1: Want to focus on my voice, you may also wish
9:18:44
to allow your mind to just drift naturally into that
9:18:58
space that come effoots and safety, and you feel warm
9:19:20
comfort spreading through your body, like a warm blanket covering
9:19:33
you gently, keeping your body at just the perfect temperature.
9:19:58
Speaker 8: Even if you can here.
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Speaker 1: The background sounds, they just don't seem to matter anymore.
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There's that sensor peace spreads through your mind like a
9:20:35
gentle breeze, yet strong enough to blow away all negativity, strong.
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Speaker 12: Enough to.
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Speaker 1: Remove from your mind any anxiety or stress that was
9:21:06
there before, and blow away any other thoughts for healings.
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Speaker 8: Just don't fit.
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Speaker 1: With the sense relaxation that is feeling your body.
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Speaker 5: Ed your mind.
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Speaker 8: As you have woke this on your mind, you count
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down tamn down to one. With each number you hear,
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your mind will become.
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Speaker 1: Slightly m hm.
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Speaker 8: Relaxed, just just slightly.
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Speaker 1: Ten down to nine, just a slide movement.
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Speaker 8: You're nine, down to eight, just.
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Speaker 1: Another small change in how you feel. Eight down to seven.
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Head that feelings is a gap, and it's like a
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gap that starts to get the wider, the gap between
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those feelings.
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Speaker 8: That you used to have in your mind.
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Speaker 1: Compared to the feelings you have there growing now, feedings
9:23:54
of comfort.
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Speaker 8: And security, and.
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Speaker 1: And they can't become wider.
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Speaker 8: A down to seven, seven, down to six.
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Speaker 1: We get to five, the mind will start to have
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a certain physical sensation, most like there's a magnet outside
9:24:34
of your head, sucking detention and the stress and any
9:24:40
remaining feelings.
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Speaker 8: That you don't want, sucking them out through your skull.
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And then down to four you can start to me
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the experience that sense.
9:25:05
Speaker 1: Not just emptiness, but space, place full of fresh air,
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the place where you can stretch. It's almost as if
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as you go down to four and three, your mind
9:25:31
is expanded with this sense.
9:25:38
Speaker 8: Of peace.
9:25:41
Speaker 1: And tranquility, growing.
9:25:46
Speaker 8: Moves down to get to one.
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Speaker 1: Mind just feels, it's acting how you want to feel,
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the most perfect fading idea, the sensation that.
9:26:22
Speaker 12: You'd like to keep.
9:26:27
Speaker 1: The place that say, where.
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Speaker 8: Nothing can affect you at all.
9:26:50
Speaker 1: Need to stay in that that space of tuft, confidence, confidently,
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own ability to create this space and this fear of colfor.
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Speaker 8: Within your own mind.
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Speaker 1: Just bycounting ten.
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Speaker 12: Down to one.
9:27:22
Speaker 1: And this is something that you can do yourself.
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Speaker 8: When you're on your own, the time when you can
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maybe sit down, maybe just for a few minutes.
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Speaker 1: Close your eyes, just count slowly ten.
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Speaker 2: Down to one.
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Speaker 1: And experience.
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Speaker 8: These feelings in your mind or would you feel that
9:28:11
way in your mind?
9:28:14
Speaker 1: Your body copies your mind, and that feeling is spread
9:28:29
through your spine and.
9:28:32
Speaker 8: Your nervous system into.
9:28:35
Speaker 1: Every part of your body, travels through your blood strain,
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feeling and relaxing.
9:28:51
Speaker 8: Every article of your existence. Then we can we can
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practice this a few.
9:29:11
Speaker 1: Times before the end of the recording.
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Speaker 2: And then you can.
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Speaker 12: Write this on your own.
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Speaker 8: At each time you comfort ten about one. The feelings
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of comforts.
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Speaker 1: Calms, deep.
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Speaker 8: Deep relaxation becomes stronger, deeper wid pray with these positive
9:30:04
chemicals spread throughout your body, relaxing you so quickly, relaxing
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your whole body.
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Speaker 1: And mind.
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Speaker 12: So very.
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Speaker 8: Very easily, just by counting damn down to one. So
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we can do it now, I recount from ten down
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to wind. I'd like you to repeat the number after me,
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So I say ten.
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Speaker 1: You can just repeat to yourself.
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Speaker 8: Just notice where wow you feel in your mind and
9:31:15
your body. I don't want to say nine. You can
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repeat to yourself nine day, noticing increase in comfort colm
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in your mind and your body the same want to say, paint,
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I want.
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Speaker 1: To say seven, six, and I say five.
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Speaker 8: Four, when I say three two, and I speak when
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I say one, beat that number.
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Speaker 12: Now.
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Speaker 10: Of course, when you do this on your own.
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Speaker 8: About listening to me, you can say the numbers or
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whatever speak the you do. It's necessary.
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Speaker 12: Three years.
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Speaker 8: You can adapt if you feel you want to say
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the numbers.
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Speaker 1: Ten down to one.
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Speaker 8: Faster than I do.
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Speaker 2: Can you go ahead and do that?
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Speaker 8: Would you feel when you do it yourself when you
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light the more space between the numbers, maybe take a
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looking longer.
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Speaker 12: To get ten.
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Speaker 1: Way down to one.
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Speaker 8: That's your choice also to do. I mean you count
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ten down to one?
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Speaker 12: It to one who.
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Speaker 8: Lets recruiting this culture listening music, he said, cook.
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Speaker 12: See no.
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Speaker 4: Right fo.
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Speaker 8: U ninety nineteen, sixteen, sixteen, fifteen, fourteen thirteen, Well eleven
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nine ninety six six five, four.
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Speaker 13: Three two one. Now let's see thank you to get.
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Speaker 12: Down twenty one.
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Speaker 4: Now, let's fat.
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Speaker 12: Kess sad. It's now thasus one again. It's time thank you.
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Speaker 8: Stef's si.
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