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(no music) (10 hours) Q&A Friday | LMBYTS #1431 | Jason Newland | 14th September 2025 · Let me bore you to sleep (Jason Newland)

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Speaker 1: Hello, he'll come to Qune Friday. Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello.
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So this is qun a Friday. My name is Jason
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new Land. Vinnie is sitting on the sofa staring at me,
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making some weird noises. I've got his food that's on
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the floor on a little plate. There's about a quarter
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of an apple also on the floor for him to eat,
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and some fresh water, and he's still staring at me
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as if to say, where's my food. So I don't
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really know what's going on with him. It's very very stage,
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very stage. Other than that, please only listen and you
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can safely close your eyes. And also my website is
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letmeboydsleep dot com for this podcast, but I do also
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have my Jason Newland dot com which is still available.
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I've I did delete it, but I made it available again.
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It's a little bit different format, but it gives you
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links to all the different places that you could listen
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to my other stuff as well. I know I haven't
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been hugely active the last I don't know. I did
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a recording on the sixth, which was what was one, two, three, four, five, six,
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seven eight days ago, and I did one on the fifth,
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which was the Friday day before, one on the fourth,
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one on the third, one on the alright, and then
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one on the thirtieth of August, twenty ninth, twenty eighth,
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twenty seventh of August, twenty fifth, because I had my
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birthday off, then twenty fourth, twenty third, twenty second, twenty first, twentieth, nineteenth, eighteenth,
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seventeenth of August, fourteenth of August, twelfth of August, eleventh, tenth, ninth, eighth, seventh, sixth, fifth, fourth, third.
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So you know, it's not like I haven't done any recording.
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It's just been like a week and the stats have
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gone down to practically nothing. It's weird. And I did
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do recording, although I didn't you know. I'm still in
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the process of sorting some of the podcasts out I
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did start. If this is a bit echoey, I'm sorry.
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I've moved my microphone to a different part of the room,
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and I might need to get some kind of soundproofing
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on this wall here there because the bookcases aren't here anymore.
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I can get that sorid I'll sort that out at
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some point, or I could just move back to doing
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it on the chair. But that's a little bit uncomfortable.
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It's not uncomfortable as far as sitting, but making a recording,
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I'm kind of I don't really have the back support
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that I need. My neck's a little bit bent, and
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I'm kind of having to lean forward. Here I can
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just talk and I'm sitting up Drake, it's a little
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bit easier. And also because I'm looking at the laptop
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to get the Facebook questions, it's kind of handy to
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have it in front of me rather than to keep
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looking down. So yeah, I'd like to say thank you
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to those of you that have sent me lovely messages
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of support. Thank you and yeah, and also a big
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message to shout out to Brooke. I do like I've
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got a message from Cara. I've not replied yet. I'm sorry.
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I just I think I've missed a few messages that
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I've not replied to, and I do apologize. I'm not
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meaning to do that. Just kind of lost track of stuff,
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if I'm honest. But I did try and do the
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Q and A Friday on Friday and all it might
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have been Saturday morning, No, it's Friday. I think I
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ended up talking about something completely different from the Q
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and A Friday and it turned into I suppose, quite
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a serious conversation, so I just ended up ditching it
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after about forty minutes. But this is Q and a Friday,
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and I will be focusing on just the questions if
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I can find it, here we go, right, Okay, it
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would go here we go, here we go. So no
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big long blah blah blah. I'm just going to get
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straight down onto it, straight down to the nitty gritty
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drinking water as well. Spent after night up last night
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watching The Boxing Canello Crawford. It was very good. So
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Hope is the first question, and Hope asks what are
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your top five favorite movies? Ok mm hmmmmmm Off the
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top of my head, I'm just gonna shout when I'm
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shout them out, but the Wanderers, Airplane, It's a Wonderful Life,
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the Life of Brian, groundhog Day. I'm not going to
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say they're my absolute favorites. It's a Wonderful Life is
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my absolute favorite movie of all of them. But the
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others I love and have watched multiple times. Although Airplane
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Life for Brian not so much because I kind of want,
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yeah it just because their comedy is good. To leave
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them a bit, you know, let them marinate and come
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back to them maybe a few years later, leave it
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a decade or so. But they are five off the
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top of my head. I'm just trying to think of
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any other ones that I really going back to when
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I was little boom boom boom boom boom boom boom movies.
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Just I'm trying to think a movie that blew me away.
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The End of the Dragon would be another one, So
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I'm going to add that on. In fact, I would
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add that probably number two out of all the ones,
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although I couldn't really watch it anymore. But as far
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as having an impact on my life, I think let
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me It's a Wonderful Life had an impact on me.
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I remember watching it the very first time. I was
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living above the co op where I was working. It's
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nine eighty eight. Is a story behind this? Shall I
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tell you the story? Yeah? Go on there right. I
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was working at a chip shop. I probably mentioned this
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a few thousand times over the years. And what happened
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is my boss I said something that annoyed my boss.
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And this would have been the beginning of March time,
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maybe February March nineteen eighty eight, so I'd been working
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there for nearly two years, what about two years at
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this point, I've been living upstairs in the flat for
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a year. So one day he was just talking about
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going to see Stevie Wan doing concert, and I was
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getting annoyed because he was talking about nice things he
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was doing and I had no money to do anything,
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and I just, I don't know, I was probably jealous, possibly,
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And I was a big fan, a bigger fan of
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Stevie Wander than he was, because I listened to Stevie
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Wonder like nearly all the time when I'm back then
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I said something to upset him, and he pushed me
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against the wall and he was like twice my size
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at this time. It wouldn't be now, but you know,
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back then he was twicet, like pushed me against the
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wall and I just told him to get off. He
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did apologize, He did apologize, like because I walked out.
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I said, you know, I just walked out, went upstairs,
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and he apologized. And I couldn't let it go though,
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so I kind of said, no, don't worry, and then
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I went back to work and I just couldn't. I
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couldn't be there anymore, so I quit. I left, I
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was given a month to get out of the flat,
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but I didn't know where to go because I didn't
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have a job or anything. So what happened is I
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ended up moving in with my dad, who had a
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new house. So I was seventeen at this point. I
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stayed in his spare bedroom. It was only temporary. It's
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a temporary situation, and I, yeah, it didn't ask me
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to leave. But I worked in a car. I got
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a job. I got two jobs. Actually, the first job
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I got when I was living at my dad's for
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the first time was in a care home like a
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residential home, and I was helping in the kitchen because
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I had whatever you want to call it experience, you know,
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catering experience. I've been to college, spent years at school
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working and doing I can't remember what it was called.
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What was it called domestic domestic education or whatever it
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was called that involved cooking and stuff. So I got
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a job working in the kitchen. Now I thought i'd
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be able to handle that. And I'll tell you right now,
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it's going to be very hard for me to move
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my way back to talking about movies, because I'm going
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to get stuck on this, I think. But Hey, I'm
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just listening, you know. So I'm in this. I go
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to this job. I wasn't enthusiastic about it, but back
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then I just took whatever I could get. It was
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just a job. I think that was the understanding. I
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could stay with my dad, but I had to work.
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And it's very easy to get a job back then
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at my age, you know, I basically I didn't have
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to take those menial jobs. And not that there's nothing
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wrong with working in a care home. BlimE me. It's
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a really good job to have, and it's a you know,
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you know what I mean, Like if it's a it's
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although I wouldn't wasn't directly caring for elderly people. I
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was cooking for them. So that's a very important part
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of being alive, isn't it? Having food? Apparently, So I'll
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tell you right now it didn't work out very well,
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but I'll come to that. I could have done anything, really,
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I could have. You know, I lived in a place
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where there was a docks, one of the biggest docks
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in Europe. I could have got a job as a runner,
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just taking parcels from one place to another. You know,
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I could have got a job in. I don't know.
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There wasn't there wasn't a lot going, but there was
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probably thousands of jobs that I could have applied for
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on the docks, and I didn't even think about it.
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All I wanted to do is just get the first
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available job, which is why I did that. So I
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went to the job center. I said, I'll go for
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that one they phoned up. That's in a days, right.
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I don't know what it's like where you live, and
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I don't know what it's like now either. That's very
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slavery like now. Anyway, I'm getting all to try feedback
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from my own mouth, even though I've not got headphones on.
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Back in those days, we had this little job center
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on a corner.
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Speaker 2: And it was little.
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Speaker 1: There was no room. There was there's literally the seating
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was two desks, two seats with people even at the
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other side, and then some jobs in the window, some
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jobs in the other window the other side, and there's
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some jobs on the other side, and it's like it
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was the size of a corner shop, like a corner
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sweet shop. It wasn't big at all. And I have
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no idea where people used to go to sign on,
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because I never signed on when I was in that town,
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so or I was never unemployed, so I was, but
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I never like claimed benefits. I think it must have
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been somewhere else they went because there was no room
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in there, but they had these bits of cardboard, so
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there was this big plastic sheeting with I suppose pockets
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which you could put not like pockets in trousers, you know,
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you can put these I suppose post card size or
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index cards in and it'd advertise the latest jobs. So
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I'd look in the window and then have them either
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side so you could look outside and you could look
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inside different jobs, and then I could just like I
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think you'd maybe write down them the reference number, or
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maybe even take the card out and take it to
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the desk. I can't one million percent remember, and Viney's
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had a nice drink Liphilites. And now so it's eleven
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thirty two. He hasn't known his breakfast chat. But he
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has also had a bit of a weird night because
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he's been up with me and then asleep, and then up,
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then asleep. So I went in because I needed to
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get a job, and this sent me for an interview
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at this care home residential home. I don't even know where.
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It was an idea at the time because I worked there,
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I couldn't tell you now. So I know I can
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still remember the outlay of that town, but I don't
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remember where that nurse in the place was. Hmmm, I
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think if wait now, I don't know. So I turned
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up straight away. The woman in the kitchen, she was
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my boss. She didn't seem to take a liking to me.
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But in all fairness, I don't think I was particularly likable,
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not in a bad way. I just had a bit
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of an attitude on me, I think a little bit.
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I didn't want to be there. I was willing to work,
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I was a hard worker, but I just I wasn't
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interested in the job. It wasn't like it was my
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life's ambition to peel potatoes, which I've been doing for
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the last two years. To be fair, it's quite good
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at it, and I remember one point she was actually
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trying to say, no, that's not how you do it.
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I got a lot of experienced doing this, baby. She said,
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don't call me baby. I said, sorry. So she didn't
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like me and everything I didn't see to do anything right.
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It's all it was is just prep mainly just preparing
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the food. She did the cooking. I prepare the food,
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and then I got given responsibility of making the porridge.
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Now I've talked about the porridge incident, I don't need
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to talk about it again. Possibly, but no matter what
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I did, the porridge was not up to standard. It
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got kicked every day for I was there for two weeks,
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so a two week trial, I think I maybe it
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was a week's trial. It seemed like about a year,
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and every day people would complain the porridge was too thick,
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or it was too thin, too runny, it was too sweet,
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too salty, and it was never Basically, we had probably
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I don't know, fifty people living there, maybe maybe more,
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maybe less. They're all like their porridge different. You can't,
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it can't. It's just an impossible situation. In that kind
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of situation, they have to add their own sugar on
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their own salt. Don't they to make it how they
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want it to taste? Because I can't make one that's
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going to make everyone happy. So that got a bit frustrating.
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And back then I wasn't as amenable to criticism as
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perhaps I now. I'm not saying amenable now, but I
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was a little bit more reactive, So I was having
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arguments with people about it and just telling them what
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I thought. I said, just this is ridiculous. The whole
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situation was ridiculous. I mean, I can't I can't believe everyone.
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I think. I went into the into the where they
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all sat and ate, and I started shouting. I was like,
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you come and everyone, come in and cook your own porridge.
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And I got told off for that. The thing is,
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when I went there, I always had, you know, a
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bit a lot of respect for elderly people because because
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of how close I was to mynn. I just I
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guess I just automatically had this questionable respect I guess
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to elderly people because my name has always been old.
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When she's not around anymore. But I'm not saying she
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was born old, but ever since I've known her, ever
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since the age of seven, she's probably in her sixties
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then seven seventeen, twenty seven, thirty seven, forty seven. No, yeah,
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she's well, I know she's probably it's probably about my age.
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But anyway, it just didn't feel right that I was
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being I mean, some people are coming in shouting at me.
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Why are you shouting at me? You're old? You're supposed
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to be nice. I didn't realize that being old doesn't
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it doesn't mean anything, just doesn't mean someone's old. They're
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going to be like my name just because they were
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saying age, it's my name. At this point, I was
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what seventeen my name probably getting onto seventy at this point.
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She passed away when she was ninety five, I think
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ninety six, and that was ten years ago when I
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was forty forty four. So I can't work it out
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how old she'd have been when I was seventeen. You
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might be able to I can't. Forty four, thirty four,
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twenty four, So ninety eighty, seventy six, eight nine, ten, seven,
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sixty nine, so it makes sense about sixty nine, maybe
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sixty sixty nine seventy roughly, and she was seventeen year old.
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That's old it was to me. I mean, I realized
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now that sixty nine is very very young. I keep
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saying it to myself. Maybe it would come true. And
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I wasn't sure what to do with that job because
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it wasn't going well. And then there was an added
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element now when my step mom kind of when the
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family broke up. Let's say, and I went and lived
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with my step mom, my little brother, and my step
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mom's mom. I was sleeping on a look of camper
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bed in the living room for about blind me. It
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was nearly year, maybe ten months, yeah, nearly a year actually.
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So during that period she dated a couple of people,
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and she dated one particular person that had a motorbike,
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and I wasn't a big fan of him. I probably
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wasn't going to be a big fan of anyone that
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she was dating, to be honest, but it was not
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really any of my business. Well after she left and
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moved away and ended up, you know, starting a new
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life and that which was nineteen it was, yeah, just
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before I moved into the chip shop flat above the
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chip shop. That's when she moved. So that's when I
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didn't have anywhere to live. So you know, this all happened.
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That man on the motorbike was coming into the residential
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home every single morning to see the woman that was
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my boss because she was his not his actual mother,
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but like a mother to him, which is kind of ironic. Really,
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now I've missed a little bit out. This is going
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back another year. So the previous year after my stepmom,
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who I classed as my mom had moved away and
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I didn't really see her again after that. I had
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no regular contact since. And I was in a nightclub.
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I guess I was probably seventeen early setting on at
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late sixteen, so I don't know. It's hard to keep track,
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but I don't know. I was living above the chip
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shops during that year that I was living up there.
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I was in a nightclub with one of my friends,
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and this bloke, the motorblike bloke who used to date
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my step mom for a little while, came up to
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me and he whispered something in my ear. I can't
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tell you what it was you whispered. I can tell
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you part of the sentence. The first bit was I.
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That was the first word, and then there was another word,
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and then the last two words was your mum. He
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giggled and walked away. Now wasn't the nicest thing anyone
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could have done, to be honest, and even a lot
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older than me, a lot bigger, I just, I just
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it was difficult what to do with in that situation
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because I was still a kid. I was a teenager,
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and he was twenty six, twenty seven, twenty five, I
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don't know. Three times bigger than me. And then he's
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in there coming in. So a year later, he's in
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this place every day walking in. Told her how wonderful
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his mumm is, even though she's like she'say, his actual mum,
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which is a similar situation to me really because my
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mum wasn't my mum e but really not biologically. And
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I could see the irony in that to see how
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close he was to her and how important she was
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to him. Yeah, he wasn't able to see that, you know,
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and maybe he just didn't need forgotten it said it,
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but I hadn't. And the first he wasn't. I think
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it was he didn't come in the first day, but
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I think the second day came in and that was
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me done. That was like, nah, I stuck it. But
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I thought, I don't want to be here now if that,
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And I think I did say what's that idiot doing there?
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And she said that's my Sundays and he just just
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I let him know that I didn't want him. I
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didn't want to know him. But it was really weird,
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like kick coming in like really and yeah, I had
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some weird thoughts back then. So that wasn't good. But
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everything worked out and I got sacked. Everything worked that well.
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I got sacked. Basically my trial ended and he said,
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you know you're not you know you haven't passed a trial.
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I said, yeah, good. The only reason I stayed for
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the whole trial because of my dad, so I promised
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I would. I wouldn't have lasted probably two hours there,
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if it had just been me on my own. I
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wouldn't put up with that stuff because I was living
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with my dad. And when I told my only two
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week trial, like, just promise me, you'll stick it out
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for the trial, okay, okay, so I I you know,
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So I left there. My dad wasn't massively happy, but
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I managed to get another job within about a week,
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working at the co op. Now I can't remember why
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I'm talking. Oh yes, it's about movies, isn't it. So
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I started working at the co op, which is if
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you don't know what it is, it is like a
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it's a supermarket. It's big in the UK when England anyway,
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I don't know about other parts of the country or
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other parts of the land mass of which I live.
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And I worked in this co op and it was
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a small one. It was hm, I'd say it probably
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wasn't much maybe a little bit bigger than the average
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small shop, you know, probably a little bit bigger. And
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there was space around the back for deliveries. In fact,
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if they'd have removed all that, they could have had
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a much bigger shop, but they would have had to
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delivered from the front. So they had a storage for
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palettes and stuff. So it was a professional set up.
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And I started working there, I think it was, but
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within a week of stopping other place. I think it's
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like April time, nineteen eighty eight, and I didn't love it.
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Be that would be kind of the like the stamp
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line or the headline or the standard you know, response
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to pretty much every job I've ever had is I
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didn't really love it. This can't say I particularly liked
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any job I did. Maybe a couple I didn't mind
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too much, But you know, I've had what fifty sixty jobs. Yeah,
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there was times I quite liked working in insurance. I
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like being good at something, but I didn't like doing
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the thing I was good at, so selling car insurance
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on the phone, I didn't like doing it, but I
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enjoyed being the second best out of two hundred and
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fifty people that was nice, but the actual job itself.
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It was nice to see me myself on the leader
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board and sometimes the top salesperson of the week or
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the month, sometimes the second. It was all, you know.
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It was always like second or first, usually second, to
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be honest. So I could have just bragged and said first,
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you'd never know. But unfortunately, yeah, someone else was first
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most of the time because it was much better than me.
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It's as simple as that, wasn't it. Cody Cody, I
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think it's Cody's name.
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Speaker 3: Was.
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Speaker 1: It was just better than me. That's simple. So but
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it was still nice to be, you know, one of
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the best. But I didn't enjoy doing that kind of work.
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The only the only nice figure about it is perhaps
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being around people, and there was a bit of a
35:21
social life, and it I kind of got a little
35:27
bit of respect, I think because of how well I
35:31
was doing. Maybe I don't know, So it was this
35:34
partly okay hm hmm. But anyway, I get this job
35:41
in the in the co op, really Vinny. They give
35:48
me this horrible brown jacket when I'll go first go
35:52
in there. So I've got trousers and a shirt and
35:54
a tie, and they give me this brown melly. It
36:02
had a weird smell. It wasn't smelly as in covered
36:06
in dog pooh or anything like that. It was just smelly.
36:10
It just had a weird smell. And I didn't like
36:13
that because I didn't want customers coming in thinking that
36:16
that was me. Because I was fairly hygienic back then.
36:23
I'm not saying i'm not now, but I was proper,
36:26
you know, because I hoped to be able to have
36:30
a girlfriend one day, so I knew I needed to
36:35
sort of smell nice and look presentable.
36:42
Speaker 3: I like.
36:43
Speaker 1: Now, so I'm in there, they give me this, and
36:48
it's too tight, bearing in mind a way like maybe
36:53
or nine stone or something, some skinny, really skinny, and
36:59
this and they give me a jacket that's too small
37:03
for me if I'm constricted. Now, it's very hard for
37:09
someone a male being nine stone to where something that's
37:16
constrictive because I was tiny. It was really really really
37:22
really little. I mean I wouldn't be able to even
37:27
get my arms through it. Now it'd be you know,
37:31
it would it would be ridiculous. But I struggled even then. Eventually.
37:40
Sorry about the noise. If you can hear the the
37:45
screaming people in the garden. I managed to get a
37:50
bigger one in the end, but then it was too big.
37:54
I couldn't win the problem with I got, I'm broader
37:57
than I am long, So I'm sure I realized that
38:03
as I put weight on, I actually had the bone
38:05
structure to have the weight, and then realize it back then,
38:09
so I've got I'm not and I said, I don't
38:14
have long arms. So it's quite hard for me to
38:19
buy stuff now as well. If I buy some trousers,
38:25
it's hard for me to buy trousers that are the
38:28
right length. And when I buy something that fits my
38:31
upper body because like XL or XXL whatever, usually the
38:38
sleeves are too long because of my arm. My arms
38:42
don't match my body like length wise, I'm more girthed
38:47
than length as it were. And so I'm working in
38:56
this shop. I remember getting in there and one of
39:02
the things one of my main jobs to start with
39:05
was to load the bread section, so to put the
39:13
the bread and I suppose the cakes and all that
39:18
stuff into the you know, the bread section, which was
39:22
low down, which wasn't really an issue back then because
39:25
I was able to bend down comfortably. And then other things,
39:36
you know. I think when the deliveries came, had to
39:39
kind of check everything off on the list from the palette,
39:42
and then there was busy periods, especially kind of I
39:49
think about half ten, and then at lunch time they
39:51
seemed to get busy, so I there'd to be a
39:56
separate till. Then there's two separate toils, the big tool
40:00
or the front you know, on the main counter where
40:03
all the cigarettes would be high end and the alcohol
40:05
and all that stuff, and there was a shutter that
40:11
for that section because it could only be they could
40:15
only serve that stuff from half eleven in the morning
40:20
till I think two o'clock in the afternoon, because that
40:25
was the license in ours. I don't know if it
40:30
was just the alcohol, and I don't think I was
40:35
allowed to sell cigarettes. I wasn't allowed to sell alcohol
40:37
anyway because I was only seventeen, so I had to
40:41
get every time every time I wanted to get, So
40:46
every time wanted alcohol, I had to ask permission for
40:49
remembers staff to sell this alcohol. So I wasn't asking
40:55
the customer's age, I wasn't asking my own because I
41:00
knew what it was. But it was weird. I was
41:02
kind of getting permission for myself rather than for them.
41:07
And sometimes I'd had people come in that were younger
41:11
than me, and I'd just deserve them if I could,
41:15
because at that time I didn't like I wanted to
41:18
be served, so it was hard. So if I saw
41:22
someone that was able to get served, I'd always serve them.
41:25
Then they could perhaps get me something in the future,
41:28
you know, if I was out and I needed to
41:30
get something from the shop, they'd go in and buy
41:33
it for me. So that was that was quite good.
41:39
I couldn't hear that. I don't know how loud that
41:43
is on the microphone. I can't do anything about it.
41:51
I suppose I could close the window. I'm just a
41:57
bit a bit careful about closing the window when they're
42:00
out there, because if they see me close the window,
42:02
they might just up the volume, you know. So like anyway,
42:09
so I'm in this shop, and one of my memories
42:14
of this, there's two memories I got really of working there.
42:18
One was every break time, not dinner lunch, but every
42:25
morning break I would get a packet of biscuits, usually
42:31
figure rolls, but there were nice figure roles, they weren't.
42:36
I mean, I've never had a figure roll I didn't like,
42:38
but there were specific ones I liked. They were more
42:41
flat than sausage drawl, can't type, and a can of
42:47
coke and I'd buy that. Usually i'd buy it before
42:51
my break so I could just go in and eat it.
42:54
So i'd buy it first in the morning and then
42:56
i'd go and eat it, or I'd pay for it later,
43:00
you know, whichever way worked out. And I go and
43:03
have my break listen to the radio. It was like
43:08
fifteen minutes because we had this little little room were
43:16
sync with a little table about three chairs. I think, then,
43:22
can it make a bit more nise please? Okay, it
43:29
doesn't want to. And I don't know what else was
43:36
in there, probably a coat rack. I think it was
43:39
locked as well, so we have to use the code
43:42
to get in and out. And it'd be a radio playing.
43:48
And I just remember this particular time because you can
43:52
actually check the timings the years by these two songs
43:56
everywhere by Fleetwood Mac and Fast Car by Tracy Chapman.
44:02
For some reason, those two songs kept playing, not for
44:09
the duration of me working there, but like you know,
44:12
regularly for a few weeks. Those two songs just seemed
44:16
to be playing on the radio, usually both of them
44:21
in that fifteen minute section. For some reason. It's kind
44:24
of weird, and it might be a lie as well.
44:28
Speaker 4: It might be a lie, it may be true.
44:37
Speaker 1: And another memory is I would go home while I
44:41
go back to my dad's during lunch because he lived
44:45
just up the road, and I was borrowing the bicycle
44:48
which I think my stepmum used to use, and it
44:52
was a girl's bike. Did you just say girl's bike? Yeah?
45:00
And there still are girls bikes you can buy. They
45:03
still do exist, believe or not. I've had this conversation before.
45:07
I don't understand, right, why are girls bikes so much
45:12
more comfortable than men's bikes. I haven't got that crossbar
45:21
thing that you have to like get your foot all
45:24
the way over. I don't. It's like, why just a
45:33
nice so you can get you she better put your
45:35
foot over to the other pedal easily. Why does it
45:40
have to be a struggle. So I like that bike,
45:44
and it had a basket in the front, and the
45:46
saddle was comfy, so all three things that my previous
45:55
bike did not have a comfortable saddle. Before I had
46:05
the saddle, it used to basically, it was quite intrusive
46:12
at times, very spiky, very thin and difficult to get
46:20
my leg over it. And it didn't have us like
46:26
a basket at the front. I suppose the only other
46:29
difference for this is it was pink. So I was
46:34
going backwards and forwards, and it took about six minutes
46:38
to get there and get back, well, to get there
46:40
and you know, either side of the journey. So I
46:44
would leave about seven minutes to the hour to get
46:49
home to get to work, which wasn't you know, really ideal.
46:56
But anyway, I'd go back, so i'd have forty minutes
47:00
it's out of the hour, and I'd watch Neighbors on TV.
47:06
I'd get myself a sandwich, maybe a cup of tea
47:11
I don't remember, and then i'd go back. So it
47:14
got me out of the place, which was nice. So
47:22
how did I end up? I just closed the window
47:34
because it was excessively loud. I hope that that will
47:41
keep some of the noise out. Oh where was I? Okay,
47:48
so I'm working in this shop. I'm trying to get
47:51
back to the movie. Question. Wow, this is a long
47:55
way round the streets, isn't it To get back to that.
48:02
So what happened is I got on pretty well with
48:08
the manager, or the manager is rather or the managers was, yeah,
48:13
I was. I got weld with her, and she offered
48:17
me to rent a room upstairs. Because she being a manager,
48:24
she had the flat upstairs, so she offered me to
48:28
rent me a room up there. And I think part
48:33
of the reason was so that i'd be on time
48:35
for work, so because i'd be late a little bit,
48:40
I need a few minutes. But and I thought, yeah,
48:43
it's quite good because then I can just go upstairs
48:45
during my break and being with my dad was only
48:48
ever temporary anyway, so it's just yeah, suited me, so
48:53
I moved upstairs. It was quite good. Actually, at times
48:57
she was a bit noisy because she was really into
49:00
CBE radio, So all night all of hers over over.
49:12
Do you copy? Do you copy all that stuff? Whatever?
49:15
The CB radio thing is very loud, and I don't
49:20
know how she managed to get up in the morning
49:22
because she didn't seem to sleep. She was talking to men,
49:28
very popular, and it was nice. She had a lovely
49:35
living room kitchen. She'd cook on a Sunday and sometimes
49:39
I'd have a meal, and it was quite nice. I
49:42
was kind of left alone to do what I wanted,
49:44
and I had my own TV in my room. I
49:49
didn't really get involved in her life, but we gone, well,
49:53
you know, we did got on all right, and i'd
49:56
go she'd drive. She had a car, so she'd drive
49:59
me to KFC sometimes, and she wanted she was wanted
50:06
to get something to eat, so I'd go with her
50:08
and get myself for something. Yeah, it was okay. And
50:17
I made friends with some of her friends, and yeah,
50:20
so it's okay. Anyway, I said that a lot. I
50:22
haven't know so I'm at work. It's really good at
50:27
singing as well. And I did stay friends with for
50:34
quite a long time, even after what happens next happened.
50:39
So it was weird because I'm at work. There's only
50:45
me her one other person that was the manager who
50:56
was like the assistant manager, but she didn't work full time,
51:00
I don't think, and there was a couple of part
51:03
time staff and me, so I was only I was
51:06
the only full time staff member. And then the other
51:10
lady who is the assistant manager. I think she did
51:13
like by thirty hours a week or something. Because she
51:17
was a grandparent. She was lovely she was thinking. Her
51:20
name was Brenda, and she gave me a Michael Jackson album,
51:24
The Bad Not Bad Thriller. She was lovely. I really
51:29
liked her. So technically you could say this was quite
51:33
a successful job because I got on well with the
51:37
assistant manager. I became pretty good friends with the part
51:43
time worker. We had a little bit of a conflict
51:45
at the beginning, but that was just me, that's all.
51:48
That's how I made friends, and then we became friends.
51:52
And he was lucky, ye younger than me or something.
51:56
And the manager I was living with her. So it
51:59
was kind of quite a good set up, really, and
52:05
my job was very secure if I wanted to stay there. Now.
52:12
The area manager was called mister Cook. I don't know
52:15
why I remember this, but it was like a troll.
52:18
It was like I had to explain it, like something
52:23
that lived under a bridge. It was like that.
52:27
Speaker 5: Just he talked like this, meaning.
52:31
Speaker 1: He didn't like me. Perhaps I shouldn't have told him
52:35
what he sounded like and did an impression of him
52:37
in front of him. Perhaps that's why I didn't like me.
52:41
But that's why I did the impression, because he wasn't
52:43
very friendly, and I think he all, but said pretty much,
52:48
the only reason I was still there is because the
52:50
manager wanted me to stay, and I think she only
52:54
wanted me to stay because she was getting rent, so
52:57
you know, it was kind of one of those. But
53:00
he said no, he wasn't pleased with my progression. So
53:06
even though the manager wanted me to stay, she was
53:09
clearly not giving me a very good appraise. I wish
53:11
you so. Plus, I had a bit of an attitude
53:17
on me as well back then. Hard to believe, but
53:20
I was a little bit rude. By rude, I don't
53:24
mean rude, rude, but I didn't play the game. I
53:29
didn't suck up to anyone ever. At any point. I
53:36
was an extra polite to people just because they were
53:41
in a higher position, because at that time, everybody was
53:47
at a higher position than me. In pretty much every job
53:50
I've ever had, I've never been in a high position.
53:54
So I just treat people the same way as I
53:58
treat anyone else. I like to think, you know, fairly respectfully,
54:04
But as soon as they don't with me back then, anyway,
54:10
it would be gloves are off. So you know, if
54:14
I was when I was fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen,
54:21
twenty twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, twenty four, twenty five,
54:26
twenty six, twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty nine, thirty thirty one,
54:30
thirty two, thirty three, thirty four, thirty five, thirty six,
54:33
thirty seven, thirty eight, thirty nine, forty pretty much until
54:41
I was no longer working. Once I stopped working, I
54:46
was a much better employee, much more patient.
54:51
Speaker 2: And hmm wow.
54:56
Speaker 1: But if people were nice to me, I'd be nice
54:58
to them. As soon as someone kind of turned and
55:01
they were rude, I'd like, okay. And I think one
55:07
of the hardest things are always as I got older,
55:13
my bosses became younger. So I'm in my thirties mid
55:19
thirties and my boss was like twenty one, which wasn't
55:22
an issue because I really liked him. He was one
55:25
of the nicest people I've ever known. But I had
55:28
a previous boss who was like twenty two when I
55:31
was thirty one. Okain, a nice bloke, but he was
55:35
just it didn't seem to know what he was doing.
55:39
His answer to any question was what do you think
55:42
the answer is? It's like, okay, That's not a way
55:49
to answer a question, what do you think? The answer is,
55:56
whow there's a moth inside here since this morning. I
56:01
don't know how I got in, probably through the window
56:02
because the window was open. That's a weird question, wasn't
56:05
it seems to be interested in my shirt? But my
56:12
shirts are clean that moths, don't you know what I mean.
56:17
It's only been on the hangar for a few years.
56:20
I don't think the moth would have got to it. So, yeah,
56:25
I lived in this place upstairs. So I go to
56:32
work one day. I'm just in there, just a normal day. Yeah,
56:42
I remember the So I'm standing there. Two people come in,
56:47
a man and a woman and stand at the counter,
56:52
the assistant manager. So the manager's standing beyond the counter.
56:59
Who I lived with if the assistant manager walks up
57:02
to the door, closes it and locks it and puts
57:05
closed sign up and tells me to go into the
57:09
door into the staff room. And I'm walking in there
57:15
and say, but I've got my my my figure. I
57:18
was in my can of coke and she said this
57:21
isn't a break. I said, okay, We're just going into
57:26
the other room. So I went into the storage room
57:28
into the staff room. I had no idea what was
57:32
going on. It's like I asked her and she wouldn't
57:37
tell me. And then I was in there for about
57:46
an hour, maybe less, but about an hour, and then
57:54
the what's the name that the assistant manager came in
58:02
if I think that, yeah, maybe someone else, but I
58:04
think she came in and she said what happened? Told
58:07
me what happened. So the manager, the people at the
58:14
front desk were underclover undercover police, and the co op
58:25
thought that someone was stealing money, so they set up
58:28
the manager. They set her up. They basically gave us
58:31
some marked money and when they came back in, they
58:37
searched her and she had that money in her pocket
58:42
as like twenty could or something. And as I said earlier,
58:48
I still stayed friends with her. I was living with her,
58:51
and I still stayed friends with her for years afterwards. So,
58:55
you know, he made a mistake and she lost a
58:59
job or the spot, which was not good for me.
59:07
It wasn't good for her either, to be honest. I
59:09
mean she did get another job, but it was I
59:20
was kind of with her during the process, during the
59:23
whole because I think it went to court quite quickly,
59:27
and she I think she ended up getting suspended sentence
59:31
or something like that. They couldn't prove previous money going
59:37
missing or anything like that, so all they had proof
59:39
of was just that one to twenty pound note the
59:46
manager when it's the assistant. I said to the assistant manager,
59:53
are you now going to be the new manager? And
59:56
she said no, I'm I don't do enough hours. I
1:00:01
couldn't do that. I said, oh, and she's shouting. Straight away.
1:00:05
She came back and me said, it's not going to
1:00:07
be you either. I said I don't know. He said no,
1:00:10
you didn't. You thought it was going to be you.
1:00:12
I said no, I didn't. He said, yes she did.
1:00:14
I could see the look on your face. You started
1:00:16
looking around all the cakes she could buy with the
1:00:18
extra money. I was like, wow, she could read my mind,
1:00:24
because back then that's what I would do with money.
1:00:27
I pay Rise more cakes and biscuits. That's my mentality
1:00:32
back then. It hasn't changed that much anyway. What happened
1:00:40
next wasn't so good because we got a new lady. Well,
1:00:45
it was just that they happened to be a fit
1:00:48
and we got we got someone nice, came in for
1:00:53
a week or two, and then we had this woman
1:00:57
comes along and she didn't like me h for some reason,
1:01:02
and we didn't get.
1:01:03
Speaker 5: On, and yeah, we really didn't get on, and in
1:01:18
the end.
1:01:19
Speaker 1: I didn't like her so much. I left. But in
1:01:27
the meantime I was still living upstairs, so I think
1:01:33
what's the name the manager who went upstairs. They had
1:01:36
to give her three months notice to move out, eviction notice.
1:01:44
So that was the very first time I'd ever been evicted.
1:01:48
So that wasn't me specifically, but it was I was
1:01:51
part of the eviction because I was homeless as well
1:01:53
when she got kicked out. So that was during this
1:02:00
I think we I started working. So I moved in
1:02:05
there probably June maybe, and I moved out possibly October,
1:02:20
maybe November, because at that point I'd already got a
1:02:23
new job in the September, so I had to wait
1:02:27
till I was eighteen years old before I applied for
1:02:30
this factory job. And I was working there and I'd
1:02:35
been there for at least a month maybe two before
1:02:37
I moved out. So yeah, so this this whole kind
1:02:44
of police thing must have happened July, August, September something
1:02:54
like that. Anyway, in the meantime, I think it was
1:02:59
before four, before she and while she was still working there,
1:03:04
I was sitting in my room. I had a TV on.
1:03:08
I had a little black and white port or TV,
1:03:12
just watching TV. You know, it was three channels back then.
1:03:17
No four channels sorry, BBC one, BBC two, ITV and
1:03:21
Channel four. And it was either Saturday afternoon or a
1:03:31
Sunday afternoon. I couldn't tell you which one it was
1:03:34
one of them. And I'm just sitting up in a
1:03:38
bed watching a TV and this movie is on and
1:03:43
I've never seen it before. I didn't realize it was
1:03:46
in black and white because of TV. It was in
1:03:48
black and white. And before anyone says, how old are you?
1:03:56
You're seventeen years old and you're watching a black and
1:03:59
white TV. No, we did have color TVs back then.
1:04:02
I just couldn't afford one. So I had a black
1:04:06
and white TV and I or maybe I could afford one.
1:04:12
I don't know, probably could have done. I don't know
1:04:15
how much they was back when. I know I was
1:04:20
earning sixty pounds a week from working in the co op,
1:04:28
or sixty two pounds something like that. Yeah, this is
1:04:37
weird because when I was fifteen, I was earning sixty
1:04:40
pounds a week working in the chip shop when I
1:04:44
was fifteen for the first few months up till September,
1:04:48
so from like April to September, I was getting sixty
1:04:52
pounds a week. Then I went onto the Hitts scheme,
1:04:55
which is the youth training scheme, and my money went
1:04:58
down to twenty seven pound thirty a week for the
1:05:02
first year. Second year was thirty five pounds a week.
1:05:08
So when I started working a co op and I
1:05:10
was getting sixty pound a week, it was like a
1:05:13
huge amount of money. Again, still not very a good
1:05:18
amount of money, but you know, it was okay. I
1:05:22
was probably paying twenty five pounds a week for rent
1:05:28
something like that. I can't i'd have to, I don't know,
1:05:31
something like that. Probably, I think the average room was
1:05:34
about twenty five thirty pounds a week and then, but
1:05:43
I didn't have to pay any rent once my what's
1:05:47
the name my landlady, Well she wasn't really my landlady antmore,
1:05:52
was she because she was being a victed but and
1:05:54
she didn't work for the company anymore. Once she lost
1:05:59
her job, she didn't have to pay any rent because
1:06:04
she was I think I think she got the flat
1:06:06
with the job, but I think she was also paying rent.
1:06:09
I don't know either that, or I just stopped paying rent.
1:06:18
That might have been the situation. It's like, well, you
1:06:21
don't work downstairs anymore, I'm not paying rent. And then
1:06:26
I left and I didn't have any money coming anyway,
1:06:28
other than a couple of part time jobs cleaning. Yeah,
1:06:33
I had a part a couple of part times jobs
1:06:36
cleaning one in the morning, one in the evening, so
1:06:43
that gave me enough to like eat, you know. And
1:06:48
then I got a job in this other company, so
1:06:53
I h the timescale is not quite working out. But anyway,
1:07:02
I did get a job in this maybe it'd only
1:07:04
be now a month before we had to get out.
1:07:09
And then I found a room on the seafront. And
1:07:14
the weird thing about it this lady that took over
1:07:17
the manager's job. I left the job because of her,
1:07:22
because she was I just didn't get on with her.
1:07:29
The irony is this the room I moved into after
1:07:36
I was evicted from the flat ab of the co op.
1:07:40
I didn't really like living there, and I moved And
1:07:44
the room I moved into was a house owned by
1:07:48
the lady that was the manager of the co op
1:07:52
the new manager. So I literally lived rented rooms of
1:07:58
two managers of the same co op at different times,
1:08:02
except the second one owned her house as she had
1:08:05
it as a I don't know, like lodging's thing, and
1:08:14
I moved in there when I was eighteen, and I
1:08:18
lived there. That was at the end of the end
1:08:26
of nineteen eighty eight, so probably I was definitely in
1:08:30
that house in December till probably February eighty nine. The
1:08:43
weird thing about it is I got on really well
1:08:45
with it then, so outside of work, I got on
1:08:48
a k over. Inside work, we didn't get on so well,
1:08:53
so I just turned up at the end. It was weird,
1:08:59
you know. I phoned up about a place so it
1:09:02
going to come and a look at the room. Person
1:09:05
on the phone said, yeah, turn up, and she answered
1:09:07
the door, and I'm thinking, oh, God, don't tell me
1:09:09
you live here as well. I thought she might rent
1:09:13
a room, didn't know she owned the place. And I
1:09:19
suppose because maybe because I was making her money, you know,
1:09:23
I was paying her mortgage. I suppose wasn't me and
1:09:26
the other five people that lived there, so she viewed
1:09:31
me in a different way, I was no longer a
1:09:34
fawn in her side that maybe she thought of I
1:09:37
was before. Hmm, Yeah, that didn't work too well either,
1:09:45
but so yeah, so that was one of the many
1:09:48
places I lived. But I just remember that movie watching
1:09:52
It's a Wonderful Life on that black and white TV
1:09:57
and it was one of the first movies that were
1:09:59
really had an effect on me and really had I
1:10:07
don't want to say spiritual, but it had emotional maybe. Yeah,
1:10:21
So thank you for that, hope. It's only taken me
1:10:25
three hours to answer that one. So the next question
1:10:28
I've got is Isabelle ooh, it says out there, ooh.
1:10:35
Maybe this has been asked before, but what dog? What
1:10:40
kind of dog is Vinnie? Also, where are some of
1:10:45
your listeners from? Oh, okay, that's going to involve me
1:10:50
looking at the stats. Yeah, so Vinnie is a little
1:11:00
red jack Russell, which was I suppose kind of like
1:11:06
is it a Passon's dog or something? And yeah, so
1:11:10
he's only a little thing. It's very noisy at times, screeches,
1:11:18
hates being picked up. Apparently he didn't used to when
1:11:21
he was first born, and then he just took a
1:11:24
dislike to it and been like that ever since. So
1:11:29
I don't know. Maybe someone dropped him, maybe you know,
1:11:33
by accident, maybe because he had kids in his house
1:11:35
when he was born, so maybe one of them picked
1:11:37
him up and dropped him by accident and that frightened
1:11:41
him into being picked up, or maybe they swung him
1:11:44
around or somebody, you know, little kids. So I don't know.
1:11:49
I really don't know. It just be guesswork. Where am
1:11:56
my listeners from? This goes into two questions because revel
1:12:11
Reveal asks she adds to this question love the idea
1:12:16
about where everyone is from. Very interesting to see how
1:12:20
many cultures are represented by the listeners. I think Jason
1:12:25
has touched himself, and I've touched on this before though
1:12:31
I have. I'm happy to go over again because stats
1:12:37
are the thing that I love most in the whole
1:12:38
wide world, the whole world, and we have a look.
1:12:43
I'll based it on the last year, So I'm not
1:12:47
going to go through the stats as in how many
1:12:49
I just go through the stats as in geolocation. Okay,
1:12:58
so I've got countries here, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
1:13:06
ninety ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen,
1:13:11
twenty two, twenty five, so it's twenty five different countries.
1:13:18
This is on my spreaker. I'm also on sound Glad
1:13:22
as well, so they could be more. So according to this,
1:13:28
there's twenty five different countries. The United States is number one,
1:13:35
always number one, always has been since I've been doing this.
1:13:39
So the most listeners that I have ever got on
1:13:42
any podcast over you know, nineteen years is nearly twenty
1:13:47
years is the United States. Second is United Kingdom, which
1:13:54
is where I live. It's kind of stayed the same much,
1:14:02
I would say, to start with United States, there still
1:14:07
is a lot more. I'm getting more than double the
1:14:09
amount in America than I am in my own country,
1:14:14
but it used to be a higher percentage, So the
1:14:17
amount of people listening to me now in my own
1:14:20
country is a lot more than it used to be.
1:14:25
Number three is Australia, which is pretty much been a
1:14:33
kind of standard over the years. Canada is number four,
1:14:42
Ireland it's number five, Weeden is number six, Denmark is
1:14:57
number seven. New Zealand is number eight. Now, there was
1:15:06
a time when New Zealand would be up there with
1:15:09
Canada and Australia and Ireland, and I don't think it's
1:15:15
I've got less people in New Zealand listening. It's just
1:15:17
I've got more people in Sweden and Denmark, Spain. Then
1:15:23
I've got France, Norway, Germany, United Arab Emirates, the Netherlands, Chechia, Iceland, Iraq,
1:15:44
South Africa, Turkey, Mexico, India, Belgium, Malta, Israel, and Singapore.
1:16:06
They're the ones listed. So I don't I mean, I
1:16:14
guess I'm guessing that people only listen if they can
1:16:20
understand English. I guess it makes sense that would be
1:16:25
the case, wouldn't it. But there might be people in
1:16:30
these other countries that are maybe originally from England, or
1:16:36
maybe people listening in one ano. There are people listening
1:16:39
in the second language, not their birth language, their birth
1:16:47
tongue as it were. So I'm grateful. I'm grateful for
1:16:51
anyone that listens. Everyone. It's amazing that anyone listens. Really
1:17:00
didn't really say that, should I but I'm still amazed.
1:17:04
It's why does anyone this than ever? I don't know.
1:17:11
Let's see if it's changed over the last month, current
1:17:17
last month. Let's see what the geolocation is more recently,
1:17:22
rather than just over the entire year. Ah, this is interesting.
1:17:30
So the United States is the top and it's still
1:17:34
double what United Kingdom is. Then you've got Australia, Canada, Sweden,
1:17:42
so one, two three, fourth, Sweden's fifth. Now Ireland was
1:17:48
fifth for the whole year, but Sweden's fifth more recently
1:17:51
then Ireland, France, Denmark, chech New Zealand, United Arab Emirates, Somalia,
1:18:03
so that wasn't on the overall year. One was a Spain,
1:18:06
South Africa, Turkey, Iraq, Mexico, Finland, Malaysia, Greece, Belgium, Germany, Norway, Jordan, Algeria.
1:18:20
So if I go by month, it breaks it down more.
1:18:23
It shows more countries because I think what it is.
1:18:29
If I go for like the whole year, it only shows.
1:18:34
It's limited to how many It kind of shows then
1:18:36
says others. That makes sense, I say, last twelve months. Yeah,
1:18:45
I mean there's there's a lot of others which it
1:18:48
doesn't even mention. So it's four point five percent. So
1:18:54
over the last year, four point five percent or just
1:18:58
under five percent of my total listeners come from other
1:19:04
countries than the ones that I already mentioned. So yeah,
1:19:11
that's there's a lot of countries. Probably pretty much every
1:19:16
country in the world. I guess there might only be
1:19:19
a few, but still quite nice. As far as where abouts,
1:19:33
and you've got United States, there are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
1:19:41
eight nine ten. Wow. These are regions are California, So Texas, Florida, Illinois,
1:19:51
New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Arizona, North Carolina, New Jersey, Washington, Utah, Ohio,
1:20:03
South Carolina, Massachusetts, Michigan, Indiana, Virginia, Oregon, Missouri, Connecticut, Minnesota, Colorado, Mississississippi, Maine, Montana, Wiconsin, Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, Iowa, Kansas, Alaska, Nevada,
1:20:41
New Mexico, Delaware, Oklahoma, Louisiana, District of Columbia, New Hampshire, Idaho, Hawaii, Arkansas,
1:20:55
North Dakota, West Virginia, Nebraska, Rhode Island, Vermont, South Dakota, Wyoming,
1:21:06
and others some others as well. So how many is that? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
1:21:15
eight nine ten out of eight In twenty twenty two,
1:21:21
twenty four, twenty six, twenty eight, thirty thirty two they
1:21:25
four thirty six eight forty fifty. It's like fifty I
1:21:32
mean these are regions, not states, are they? It? States?
1:21:39
All regions. So it's like one, two, three, four, five, six, ten,
1:21:46
and twelve one fifty six two of you. And I've
1:21:51
had in six, twenty eight, ten, thirty, thirty two, thirty four,
1:21:56
thirty six, thirty eight, forty forty two, forty six, forty eight,
1:22:05
fifty fifty two, fifty four, fifty six fifty seven, So
1:22:10
fifty seven districts or regions. So I don't know how
1:22:20
many states there is in so I thought I always
1:22:23
every state, but California is in our state, then is it?
1:22:27
I don't know, but I'm confused. And then we can
1:22:33
loick in California. And you've got Los Angeles, Napa, Mountain Views,
1:22:37
San Jose, sorry, San Jos, Woodland, Elk Grove, Fresno, Palm Desert, Richmond.
1:22:47
There's a lot, there's a lot, a lot, lot, lot,
1:22:52
lot lot Texas. How many in Texas, Dallas, North Richland Hills,
1:23:00
San Antonio, Houston, Austin, Waxahatchie, Frisco, Legal City, Grapevine, Abilene.
1:23:12
I mean it's a lot, a lot of different places.
1:23:22
If we go to United Kingdom, your England, Scotland, Wales,
1:23:26
Northern Ireland if I go to England, so England is
1:23:31
the most however, however, no, there's no however. So however
1:23:43
England is eighty five nearly eighty six percent out of
1:23:50
the United Kingdom. Scotland is seven zero point three six percent,
1:23:56
Wales is three point two eight percent, Northern Ireland zero
1:24:00
point four six percent, and other is two point nine
1:24:03
four So that could be the Falkland Islands or Isle
1:24:08
of White Island, man Jersey. Maybe I don't know places
1:24:12
like that. I can't think of any other places. So
1:24:18
England there is sid Cup. See if you from any
1:24:25
of these places, contact me. Let me know sid Cup, Bristol.
1:24:33
So this is this is over the last year. This
1:24:37
is the top places in England. Like you know, that's
1:24:45
the most viewed sid cups Number one. I don't haven't
1:24:51
no where sid Cup is. Bristol number two. I've never
1:24:55
been to Bristol, Newcastle upon Tyme, used to live there, Birmingham,
1:25:03
So hello to everyone in Sidcup and Bristol and Newcastle
1:25:06
on Tyme and Birmingham and all the other places I mentioned, Trowbridge, Hartleypool, Cambridge, Gosport,
1:25:17
great Yarmouth, Leeds, Huddersfield, Manchester, ash Ford, Dagenham, Lundon, Huntington, Huntingdon, Houndslow, Sunderland, Bexley, Heath, Leicester, Hackney, Aylesbury, Fulham, Portsmouth, Dewsbury, Sutton, Wandsworth, Worksop, Islington,
1:25:56
Milton Keynes, Sheffield, Milton Keynes. Why do I say like that,
1:26:02
Milton Keynes. It's very posture of me. Sheffield is Milton
1:26:07
Keynes a very posh place to live? Sheffield, Hull, Croydon, Eastleigh, Oxford, Lee, Maidstone, Cramlington, Liverpool, Swindon, Wembley, Luton, Nottingham, Kensington, Solihull, Newham, Watford, Chorley, Eastbourne, Wallingford.
1:26:42
And then thirty three point two percent is in other places,
1:26:47
which is quite a big amount. So basically there's a
1:26:50
not enough room for them to cover everything. But Sidcup
1:26:56
is number one for the year, and so is Bristol.
1:27:01
So if is anyone out there that's this mad in
1:27:06
love with me, just contact me, especially if you're human.
1:27:12
Let's have a look what other thing. Let's say for
1:27:14
the year, for the month, so let's say the last
1:27:19
last month for the youth for England. Let's have luck.
1:27:26
So I'm going to see which one's the top Oh
1:27:30
last month, the top one was Portsmouth, Wembley, Wallingford, Manchester, Croydon, Birmingham,
1:27:43
Newcastle upon Tyne, Sheffield, Camden. These are places, some of
1:27:50
them that I've not mentioned before. These must have been
1:27:52
those other thirty three percent. And you've got Gosford, Fulham, Bristol, Wandsworth, Witness, Hartleypool, Leeds, London,
1:28:07
lewish Ham, Leighton, Buzzard, Sutton, Bromley, Harrow. I wish I
1:28:17
could say Bromley and actually roll my tongue, but I'm not.
1:28:20
I'm just making my lips vibrate. Just It's a skill,
1:28:27
isn't it. I suppose in some ways Harrow, Nottingham, Sleeveord, Gloucester,
1:28:40
Glockhoust Gloucester, Gloucester, Richmond, Sausages, Rochester, Amisham, Brent, Redditch, Lowestoft,
1:28:55
Saint Helen's Pete. Wow, there's loads, isn't there. This is
1:28:59
more than the other one. Wow, Petersfield, Whitney, Eastleigh, Ashford,
1:29:05
south Shields, Southampton, Walsall, City of Westminster, Windsor Swindon, Windsor
1:29:15
Does that mean members of the royal family are listening
1:29:17
to me? Hello, Your Highness, thank you for listening. Wakefield, Corsham,
1:29:26
Ward and Forest, Hitching, Leicester, Oxford, Tamworth, Thetford. I used
1:29:35
to know someone that was from Tamworth, someone I worked with.
1:29:38
It was not really nice bloke. It was a comedian
1:29:41
as well, really friendly, nice, nice man. It's a long
1:29:46
time ago. Okay, let's go it this month so far,
1:29:50
because that was current month. That's this month, not last month.
1:29:55
That's the current month. So Portsmouth, whoever you are in Portsmouth,
1:30:00
you're the one listening to the most to me at
1:30:02
the moment. And then Wembley, Wallingford, Manchester, Croydon, Birmingham, Newcastle
1:30:10
upon Tyne, Sheffield and Camden and Gossport, Fulham, so you're
1:30:18
the ones, you're the most one's listening to me the most.
1:30:22
But before I go, last month it's that a look England, Oh,
1:30:29
Newcastle upon Tyn was the top one, ports From the
1:30:33
number two, Gosport, Birmingham, Hartlepool, Wallingford, Leeds, Nottingham, one's Worth, Daggingham,
1:30:45
witch Church, solly Hole. So many places I've not been to.
1:30:52
Is it really weird? Like I think it would be
1:30:54
nice to travel the world on a boat though, you know,
1:30:59
on a not a ferry like a cruise. I'd like
1:31:04
to go on cruises, but I don't mean I want
1:31:07
to go cruise in Oh, let's go cruising. No, I
1:31:11
mean just on a cruise, just traveling around and have
1:31:18
something to talk about. It's that's kind of that's my
1:31:22
new dream. It's my new dream. Wimbledon, Sutton, Newham, Wembley, Abingdon, Ashford, London, Sleaford, Witness, Harrow, Stockport,
1:31:37
Oxford Hole. It's a lot of places up north that
1:31:40
I've not been to. I liked it in Nottingham. I know,
1:31:46
technically it's middle. It's the Middle. It's not North. It's
1:31:52
the middle. Isn't it like Middle East? Middle East? Not
1:31:54
Middle East. That's a different place. It's a Midlands, I suppose,
1:32:03
isn't it. Really it's kind of just like Newcastle's up north,
1:32:10
but it's not. There's those places that are nowhere near
1:32:13
the sea, but really as parts where you can't get
1:32:19
near the sea because you basically have to go into
1:32:21
Scotland to get to the sea. I'm talking like, I all, look,
1:32:28
Bognor Regis. I used to live in Bognor Regis. If
1:32:33
you're listening from Bognor Regis, Hello, do you remember me?
1:32:41
No one. No one's going to remember me from any time.
1:32:43
I don't think Bognor regis. Yeah. I used to work
1:32:47
at Buttlings, momentarily Stratford upon Avon. Not my Stratford, but
1:32:56
Stratford upon Even, Daventry, Prescott, Ellesmere Port, Lower Stuffed, Hell's
1:33:04
weren't I've got a family and low Stuffed, Spennymore, Hackney,
1:33:10
Great Missenden, Southampton, Hayward, Safe, Sheffield, Pontefract, Bushy, Acrington, Hereford,
1:33:20
Hammersmith and Lee and Lee. So I'm just trying to think.
1:33:28
If I look at the other one, the other studio, at.
1:33:32
Speaker 6: The SoundCloud, some looks see I think SoundCloud is a
1:33:42
less UK.
1:33:45
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's weird. Got loads of listeners on there
1:33:50
today for some reason. Uh yeah, predominantly there's something place
1:34:00
but it says on here. So this is one of
1:34:02
my SoundCloud let me boyd this sleep podcast. Council Bluffs.
1:34:07
That's a city where that is. It's in America. So,
1:34:10
but the countries are America, United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Canada, Australia, France, Norway, Philippines, Malaysia, Hungary,
1:34:23
Russian Federation, Singapore, Latvia, Vietnam, Brazil, Spain, Netherlands, Denmark, Thailand, Croatia, Crotro, Croatia, Poland, Italy,
1:34:43
packing Pakistan, Sweden, kass Kas, Kazakhs, Kazakhstan, Colombia, Pauchew, gal Idea, India, Togo, Barbados, Baain,
1:35:08
the Gia. It's actually Turkia, but we still call it Turkey.
1:35:13
They rebranded. Did you know that Turkey rebranded and decided
1:35:17
to change their name instead of t u r k
1:35:21
E y, Like the bird is now t u k
1:35:25
I y e And it's supposed to be pronounced Turkia.
1:35:30
Maybe it was always pronounced Turkia by people in Turkey.
1:35:35
It's but then Germany's pronounced Deutschland, and Spain is pronounced
1:35:45
pronounced Hispania, and France is at Francis, like you know,
1:35:53
we most countries are pronounced wrongly by foreigners, like me
1:36:02
being a foreigner to another country. So it's just it's standard.
1:36:07
It's not disrespectful, it's just it's just how we're taught
1:36:10
as school, isn't that? I mean, I have very very
1:36:17
vague memories of school guess that I once went, But
1:36:22
they've got the cities or the towns. There's a council Bluffs.
1:36:29
That's a weird name, isn't it, Council Bluffs because Bluffs
1:36:33
is like when you kind of lie, isn't it? Or
1:36:35
you missdirect? So council a lying council, and they've got boardman.
1:36:44
Is that another city or town? Ashburn? So that's in
1:36:48
the United States. So that's the top three. Then you've
1:36:52
got Manchester, Dublin in course Ireland, Sandy and Phoenix in America. Folkstein,
1:37:05
I don't know where Folkstein is. Folkstein, All right, don't shout,
1:37:11
I'll find it. Oh yeah, it is in Germany. I
1:37:16
wonder if that's what's his name? Sebastian, Philadelphia, Melbourne, Sterling, Columbus, Huntingdon, Portland, Winnipegville, Gen, Schweingen, Schwingen.
1:37:34
And that is Germany as well. Yep, Germany. I've gotta
1:37:40
be careful because I remember years ago I learned about flags.
1:37:46
I know a lot about flags. I've known more about
1:37:48
flags than anyone who's ever existed. No, I had a
1:37:51
book of flags, but I noticed that some of them
1:37:54
are very similar to each other, but just the colors
1:37:57
in a different order. Sadly'd be a bit well be
1:38:01
careful because some people would take offense and I'm not
1:38:06
out to cause offense. I'm out to cause love in
1:38:09
the world and sleep and we lack fation. Chicago, City
1:38:16
of Monty, Lupper, Mountain Lupper. I genuinely don't know how
1:38:23
to say that. I mean, I do mess up the
1:38:26
names on purpose sometimes, but on this occasion, I don't
1:38:29
know how to say. And that's in the Philippines. So
1:38:34
whoever is from the Philippines or from wherever you're from, Hello,
1:38:39
maybe contact me, say Hi. Saint Helen's in England, kill Hay,
1:38:48
Kill Hay. What's that America kill Hay. Yes, it's in America, Portland, Chicago,
1:38:58
Bayn Lepaz, Bayn Lepus, Lepers, Lettuce Lepers. Where is that? Then? Malaysia, Okay, Malaysia,
1:39:14
Sydney and Lidney. Sorry at Alpharetta, Lakefield, Birmingham, Budapest, which
1:39:23
is in Hungary, trod Tronheim, Stockton on Tees, Brisbane, Sunderland,
1:39:39
which is near Newcastle, Oldbury, Riga readin Wiley, Saint John's,
1:39:46
Salt Lake City, Saint John's, miss Minneapolis, Albury, San Antonio,
1:39:54
Mill Brooks has quite a few different places, but What
1:39:58
about the other countries? Wh do you keep focusing it? Okay,
1:40:01
let's go. We could go to Scotland, the United Kingdom.
1:40:05
She'll go to Scotland. Let's have a book Scotland the
1:40:11
top places for the last last month. Okay, this is
1:40:16
the last month. Glasgow or Galasgow or Glasgie. So if
1:40:23
you're in Glasgow, Glasgie, Glasgow, if you're there, say hello,
1:40:32
grange Mouth? Is that how you pronounce it? Grangemouf Orange
1:40:39
Wolf range Mouth? I don't know. Edinburgh, Tory, Byrne, Folk, Kirk, Dundee,
1:40:52
kin Ross, Bellshill, Alness, Hamilton, Ayer, Aberdeen, Kirk, Coldie, eleven Strath,
1:41:02
Migelo Ardri, Airdrie, rother In Vaux in Varu. That sounds
1:41:10
like like an Australian name, isn't it. Where do you live? Mate?
1:41:14
In Varu? I live in Vu? You live in Vu
1:41:20
kill Manock. That was a really bad Australian accent. I apologize,
1:41:24
and I know I've got a lot of people from
1:41:26
Australia listening. Please forgive me, Molly, Please forgive me.
1:41:31
Speaker 7: Forgive me.
1:41:32
Speaker 1: Do you mean nothing by it? In Varus? Invery? It's
1:41:40
not in Vu, it's in Very Inverury, in Very, Kilmarnock, Livingstone,
1:41:49
bonnie Bridge, Galashiel's bar Head, Inverness, done fer Mile Line
1:41:59
Alo open Hello, where do you live? Hello? Well? Hello, yeah,
1:42:03
but where do you live? Hello? We've already done the ingredients.
1:42:07
Where do you live? I'll stop there Oben Peter's Head.
1:42:15
So where about Wales? We can't miss Wales out and
1:42:19
we'll go to Northern Island as well, so we can't
1:42:21
miss You can't miss the different parts of Northern Island
1:42:24
of the United Kingdom. And Wrexham. Chepstowe Barry. This is
1:42:29
in Wales, so Wrexham's the top. This is last month
1:42:34
Chepstow Berry Coldi coot d Side, mice Stig Cardiff, Quimbran, Ferndale.
1:42:45
Tony Pandy. That's my favorite name ever, Tony Pandy. Why
1:42:54
is it? Why do I love that name so much? Tony?
1:42:58
Where do you live Tony Pandy? Wow? I wish I
1:43:02
could live there. You can. You've just got to buy
1:43:05
a house. It's got to move. Oh. I want to
1:43:09
live in Tony Pandy. I mean, I don't know if
1:43:14
i'd want to move there. I don't know what it's like.
1:43:16
Maybe if you live in Tony Pandy. You can tell
1:43:18
me Tony Pandy, what brilliant name. I'm probably pronouncing it wrong.
1:43:25
It's probably like just come some completely different sound. Abadair, Hollywell, Caerphilly, Kafily, Newport.
1:43:39
Actually know someone lived in Newport, Bargode, Lanellie, Blackwood, Swansea,
1:43:46
Ponti Pool, Mountain, ash man A Bridge and Abba Stwift
1:43:53
ab Burstwift. So the top one's there, Wrexham and Chaps
1:43:59
though Barry Caldecott d Side. I did think about maybe
1:44:07
I'm thinking of getting married. I mean, I haven't met
1:44:10
anyone yet, but I'm just thinking about it. I'm just wondering,
1:44:13
m maybe it'd be nice to get married because I'm
1:44:21
thinking I quite like to go away. I'd quite like
1:44:25
to go away and I don't know cruises. If I
1:44:30
can afford to do it one day and it just
1:44:34
seems like I could be much nicer. I'll be able
1:44:36
to do it, and it'd be more if I had
1:44:42
someone to look after Vinnie while I went on holiday.
1:44:46
So yeah, I'm thinking of getting married. I don't know
1:44:51
what you think, would you reckon? Do you want to
1:44:54
get married to me? Do you want to marry me,
1:44:57
Do you love me? Will you love me forever? I
1:44:59
never I never know. Right last month Northern Ireland, Newtown Abbey, Belfast,
1:45:09
dung Gannon okay, because that's Uncle Sausages was from Northern Ireland.
1:45:17
So I just thought that'd be interesting. What other places
1:45:19
are there so many different places. I can't I just
1:45:24
can't begin to go through all I means. France, Lead
1:45:31
de France, al Guererose, Alps, s grand Este, nouvelle. I
1:45:39
can't even say the names. It's terrible, isn't it. I'm
1:45:43
so I'm such a lower class I am. I've got
1:45:47
no style at all. Brittany Ochitanne, Normandy, Harts de France,
1:45:58
Pays de la Lawyer, Corsica, course, Corsica. Is that in France?
1:46:04
Is it? I didn't know that I thought it was.
1:46:13
I don't know I thought it was it was a
1:46:14
different country. Paris. So Paris is the top place in France.
1:46:19
The people listen to me, it's that's nice. I just
1:46:23
want to go back to the last year, the last
1:46:27
twelve months. So I want to see in the UK,
1:46:31
United Kingdom, England Sidcup. We've already done that when we Sidcup,
1:46:40
so we've done England, United Kingdom to Scotland Scotland. Glasgow
1:46:47
is number one. Edinburgh, Falkirk, grange Mouth, then Motherwell, Bonnese, Hamilton, Dundee, Pennycuick, Aberdeen, Livingstone,
1:47:04
dun Firm Line In Invery and Rue, Johnstone, Bell's Hill, Tory,
1:47:15
burn Wick, Bretching, Ayer, Kinos Cooper, alnez al Broth, Leven, Coatbridge,
1:47:26
Kirk Coldy, inver Gordon, Inverness, dal Keith. Hello, Hello, now
1:47:33
I did that okay, Elvskinne Perth, Greenock, Cumber Maude, the
1:47:41
Cumber Nord, Bathgate, Kilmarnock, Strath Miglow, Gallas, Huth, Glen Ross's, Macduff, Paidley,
1:47:55
Glen Village, Irvine, Dumfries, Preston, pans Airdrie, bar Head, Broxburn, Alexandria. Forres.
1:48:08
There's quite a few, isn't it? And then you're a Wales.
1:48:14
This is tiring me, this is bangor so that The
1:48:17
top one is Chepstow, Wrexham, Cafilly, Pembroke, doc Caldicott Bridge
1:48:27
and Blackwood, my Stag, Cardiff, hen.
1:48:31
Speaker 4: Goed, Barry, Elbow, Veil, ebel Vale, Aberdare, Flint, Newport, Pontypool,
1:48:42
d Side, Ferndale, Tredegar, Pembroke, Pontyprid, Mountain.
1:48:51
Speaker 1: Ash, Swansea, Hollywell. My favorite name of all time, Tony Pandy,
1:48:58
I love that name. I don't know why Bangod. I
1:49:02
think I might need to move to Tony Pandy Bargoed.
1:49:09
So if there's anyone out there that wants to be
1:49:11
a dog sitter, I mean my wife and yeah, if
1:49:16
you live in Pondi Pandy, Tony Pandy oh Bargoed, have
1:49:22
a have a Ford West Abba, Stwift, comran Port, Talbot,
1:49:30
full Top, Port Toalbert was in America, Rile Neath, mene Bridge,
1:49:38
por Porty by the way, don't sort don't contact me
1:49:42
and said, no, it really is in Wales. No, I
1:49:44
know it's in Wales, but I think maybe there might
1:49:47
be a port Toalbert in America as well. So you're
1:49:50
a Bowld Buckley, Langdwyn, langdon No Port, Maddock, Abber, Galviny
1:49:59
roof In Murphy, Tidfill, cal Fridge, Calbridge, Rover Bangor where
1:50:10
I came. Well, lastly i'll do the hm hmm. What's
1:50:16
the other one? Northern Ireland? I do want to miss
1:50:19
that one. So always a lot more in the year, Bella, Mina, Belfast, Cookstown,
1:50:27
dun Gannon, Londonderry, Newton Abbey, Newry, Omar, bally Money, bally Money.
1:50:36
That's a no nice word, isn't it not? Because it's
1:50:40
got the word money and it just just Baally Money.
1:50:48
Craig Avon, Bangor down Patrick that's another quite good. Maybe
1:50:55
it's just because of the names. It's got a name
1:50:57
in it down Patrick and you've got new Townhards. This
1:51:09
was the last twelve months. So what other places was thinking?
1:51:14
They go to Ireland? Leinster, Munster, knnak Ulster, Ulster. I
1:51:24
thought Ulster was Northern Ireland. No, well, it just shows
1:51:28
you what I know. I'm so out of touch with places.
1:51:36
Uh what about Sweden? Nor Vinice just farted? No, I
1:51:46
think I hope it's viny. No, I didn't feel anything,
1:51:50
so I'm just smiling it so blindly out. I really
1:51:53
hope it is in. I wish i'd keep the window
1:51:56
open now, nor Bottom County, Stockholm County, Vetra, Gotterland County,
1:52:06
Ostroglotte Land County, Upsala, Upsala. That's very Viking up Sala,
1:52:17
isn't that? Now? I know this is Sweden. Upsala. Now
1:52:29
I watched The Vikings and I realized, you know, he
1:52:33
said it's the wrong country, but perhaps I can't remember,
1:52:37
but Upsala isn't that where some of the Vikings lived.
1:52:44
I watched every episode of The Vikings and it was
1:52:46
about seven thousand different series, you know, but of it
1:52:50
it went off for ages and I loved it very much.
1:52:56
Upsala Farmlands. Let's have a look at a click on
1:53:01
up side and see if there's any places that I remember. No,
1:53:05
just upsalah.
1:53:07
Speaker 8: Ah.
1:53:09
Speaker 1: So if you're in Sweden. I remember going to Sweden.
1:53:14
It's just on the airport on the way to somewhere,
1:53:19
and I just not surprised, but there was just everyone
1:53:26
was blonde, And you know, I see that on the
1:53:31
new newspapers and TV shows and I kin'd of just
1:53:34
assume it's a it's just a cliche. But I don't know. Obviously,
1:53:43
not anyone in Sweden is going to be blonde, but
1:53:45
it seems to be there's a few people that are.
1:53:53
What about Belgium, that's like Belgium. You've got Brussels, Capital,
1:53:58
Flanders walone wall wall Oh cool, it's a Hallo tech
1:54:07
one from Belgium and India Canada, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark. I
1:54:20
look at Denmark Capital Region, Central Jatland, South Denmark, Zealand
1:54:29
and North Denmark. So fred Fredericksburg is the top place
1:54:40
for the year. Copenhagen, More Municipal Valby from shoj Hunderstead,
1:54:52
von Loos, Bellerup Municipal Municipality, Gloucestrup mop Municipality. I can't
1:55:06
even say it, so thank you to everyone. I can't
1:55:11
go for every single country, but there's a lot of countries.
1:55:15
It's like I'm kind of covers everyone in the world,
1:55:20
kind of as far as not everyone, as in every
1:55:23
single person, but it's going to pretty much cover most cultures,
1:55:30
most religions, perhaps perhaps not. I mean, it's I got
1:55:36
no idea. Jonathan asks what does a typical day's meals
1:55:42
and beverages consist of? It depends where you're going and
1:55:46
what you're buying. If I was when I was going
1:55:52
to visit Uncle Sausages in hospital, I think it's about
1:55:58
twenty quid for a a coffee, maybe two coffees and
1:56:05
a couple of sandwiches, about twenty crid a day. It
1:56:14
does depend where you're going, because you know there's cheaper
1:56:17
places you can go and get something for sometimes meal deals.
1:56:21
If you're out, you can get like a meal deal
1:56:24
for five pound where you get a drink sandwich and
1:56:29
maybe pack it at Crisps or a chocolate bar or something,
1:56:34
you know, so you get enough for like a little
1:56:37
meal thing. Beverages. I mean, I only really just drink
1:56:46
tea and water most of the time. Occasionally I have
1:56:50
fizzy drink, but it's not often, so I don't know
1:56:54
how much fizzy drinks cost the I don't know how.
1:57:02
It's weird really because I don't because I don't go
1:57:04
into pubs. I don't drink alcohol, so I don't. I
1:57:09
don't know how. I'm not even not even the faintest
1:57:12
idea how much a pint of largo would be. So
1:57:16
if I point pint larger cost cost UK pint of
1:57:25
lager four pounds sixty the cost the average cost of
1:57:31
a pint lager in the UK is four sixty ah, okay, right,
1:57:37
So it depends where you are. According to this, it
1:57:40
says London's five pounds forty four for a pint and
1:57:45
Wales is four to twenty one, so it's the cheapest
1:57:48
place to get a pint of lager, London's the most expensive,
1:57:55
Southeast four ninety four the second most expensive. That's where
1:57:59
I live. Northeast England four fifty six. This is pounds
1:58:05
slightly above the national average, and then four ninety three
1:58:11
in Southwest are also a month the highest prices. All
1:58:17
let's have a look. What's the It's got a little
1:58:23
chart here, so I have a look at the chart.
1:58:26
Is there a chart? Yeah? See what? Oh? Go away?
1:58:31
I don't want to be a paid member. Go away right?
1:58:36
So according to this Southwest five sixteen, Southeast five twenty one,
1:58:45
London five pound fifty nine, East Midlands, Oh so nothing
1:58:50
for Norwige then no, they don't buy lager there East England,
1:58:54
East Midlands four pounds seventy four, four pounds seventy four,
1:58:58
West Midlands and also Wales Northwest four pounds eighty seven,
1:59:04
Northeast four pound fifty six. Actually has realized the Northeast
1:59:13
and the Northwest does also have a Let's see, depends
1:59:17
where you live. Scotland four pounds eighty seven. So it
1:59:23
depends what you're eating, I mean you can or what
1:59:25
you're drinking. So if you can drink alcohol, then you're
1:59:28
looking at like five quid roughly for a drink, and
1:59:35
if you're if you get a takeaway delivered, you're looking
1:59:42
at about twenty pounds, you know, roughly. It could be more.
1:59:48
Depends what you're ordering, depends where you're ordering it from,
1:59:51
what time of the day, what kind of delivery charges
1:59:55
there is there is you know, yeah, it really just
1:59:59
depends on what you get. But then you might be
2:00:05
talking about me specifically. So I get my everything I
2:00:11
get is delivered to me. And I just had a
2:00:14
delivery this morning from eats what it was called Uber Eats,
2:00:21
and that cost me I think like thirty four pounds
2:00:28
something like that. And for that I got four milks.
2:00:41
Oh okay, it's some bananas, some apples, some pizzas. Those
2:00:48
two little pizzas. I got a packet of bags which
2:00:53
you can store stuff in for the freezer and stuff
2:00:56
and the fridge. I got some jaffee cakes and another
2:01:03
little packet of biscuits, some bread rollschbatta, and I think
2:01:12
that's pretty much it. Trying to think what else there
2:01:16
was Boom boom cheese. Got some cheese as well, some
2:01:26
cheese slices. So you know, you could buy stuff like
2:01:32
I have, So I find I have a cheese and
2:01:35
tomato bread roll, which is what I'm planning to for
2:01:37
my lunch. Then the a pound, probably two pound, but
2:01:52
then Vinnie has to he loves cheese, so I can't
2:01:55
have to share it with him. Where is he He's
2:02:01
not even under the table. I don't know where he is.
2:02:05
He's actually right under my chair, like behind my chair.
2:02:11
I didn't even know he was there. I didn't know
2:02:12
where he was. So yeah, it depends really on what
2:02:17
I'm eating before I get a takeaway. It's pretty much
2:02:21
at least twenty pound, if not more. As far as
2:02:27
like a takeaway food, whether it's a pizza, whether it's
2:02:30
a roast dinner, whether it's yeah whatever, it is really
2:02:39
looking at roughly twenty. But then I mean, I guess
2:02:49
most of my money really goes on food. I mean
2:02:53
there's priorities. You know, I got the bills, so bill
2:03:02
and food, and that's it. Really, that's the two things
2:03:06
I kind of prioritize on. And I include you know,
2:03:09
Vinnie's food as well in that I get that delivered too,
2:03:14
So yeah, that's kind of it. That's really so I
2:03:16
don't I guess I don't take too much notice of
2:03:19
how much things are. I'm more interested in that I've
2:03:23
got enough to cover how much things are, if that
2:03:28
makes any sense. Because I've got direct debits for all
2:03:31
of my bills, I don't have to pay anything like
2:03:36
I have to pay it, but I don't have to
2:03:38
kind of go and do anything. It just automatically goes
2:03:41
out of my account. We know how direct debits work.
2:03:46
All right, Wow, is it Sunday today, isn't it? I
2:03:52
just seem to be very sarcastic towards myself. I'm in
2:03:55
a sarcastic Sunday, So yeah, Jonathan, that's kind of it. Really,
2:04:00
I just it depends what what is my You said
2:04:08
typical days meals consist of? You didn't say cost, did you.
2:04:16
It's because I've been out half a night. I'm not
2:04:17
reading it properly. What does the typical days meals and
2:04:20
beverages consist of?
2:04:22
Speaker 9: Not cost?
2:04:23
Speaker 1: You didn't ask me cost, But I'm telling you the
2:04:24
price of stuff I have in more recent years. I
2:04:36
be jay eating. I try and have something cooked and
2:04:42
a sandwich and maybe a couple of bowls of breakfast
2:04:45
cereal through the day water juice. I've got it. If
2:04:54
I don't have juice, and I don't know water basically,
2:04:58
and tea cuts it tea without sugar. Sometimes I have
2:05:09
regular takeaways. Sometimes I'll go without having a takeaway for
2:05:14
a little while, but you know, I do get I
2:05:18
haven't had one for over a week now, which is
2:05:24
a long time. But then I haven't really been eating.
2:05:28
I've been spend a lot of time in bed, so
2:05:30
I didn't really I couldn't face kind of doing it.
2:05:33
But yeah, I don't eat a huge amount really. I've
2:05:44
never been a big eater. I mean, I'm because I'm
2:05:49
a big eater because I'm eating and I'm big, but
2:05:51
I've never been a big consumer of food other than
2:05:55
when I am chocolate war Dean asks any sign of
2:06:01
new people moving in? I know that you said there
2:06:04
was a couple of empty places in your block. Well
2:06:10
it's weird because downstairs right the flat downstairs where my
2:06:15
friend used to live, and then a lady moved in
2:06:17
and she's moved out within a year of moving in there,
2:06:23
they're putting a new kitchen downstairs because apparently they like
2:06:28
to do it, and there's no one living there. I'd
2:06:31
like a new kitchen, please, can I? So they put
2:06:36
a new kitchen in. As far as I know this,
2:06:39
they're already started showing that flat out to people. The
2:06:43
flat opposite, which is Uncle's Sausages, they came last week
2:06:50
and I think it was last week. They emptied his
2:06:55
flat very quickly, and they were checking stuff out the
2:06:59
window into a not a skip, but it's like a
2:07:05
van with a kind of big metal cage on checking
2:07:08
stuff in there out of his window, which didn't sit
2:07:14
well with me, to be honest. It just seems a
2:07:16
bit disrespectful. But hey, and the painters have been in there.
2:07:22
The painting's been downstairs, so I think that one's nearly
2:07:25
ready to go as well, because all I had to
2:07:27
do is just sort out two rooms because both the
2:07:32
kitchen and the bathroom were brand new. The bathroom was
2:07:36
literally being built or rebuilt when Uncle's Sausages was in hospital.
2:07:42
He never got to see it finished, so there's probably
2:07:46
less for them to do in there. It's weird, really,
2:07:54
so I don't know really what's going to happen. There's
2:08:00
been people coming in and looking around, and I did
2:08:03
see the lady from the council coming in because she
2:08:06
got the key off me and she came in and
2:08:09
she was she had her board on her she was
2:08:13
going into of course sausages flat. So it looks like
2:08:17
that's ready to go nearly. So they've really pulled out
2:08:21
all the stops to get them done as quickly as possible,
2:08:25
to let them out as quick as possible. But when
2:08:30
people do move in, I'll let you know. But the
2:08:33
moment still both the flats are still empty that it
2:08:38
looks like, I mean, what is it now, September. I
2:08:42
wouldn't be surprised if, well, I'd say one hundred percent
2:08:47
they're both going to be full by Christmas. I wouldn't
2:08:54
be surprised if at least one of them isn't occupied
2:08:58
by the end of October, which is only well six
2:09:04
weeks away, so I wouldn't be surprised it alas be
2:09:07
surprised if both of them are occupied by like November.
2:09:13
It'd be lovely if it took six months or a year.
2:09:16
A little bit quiet, because you know, it's the thing
2:09:21
is these doors they slam if you don't if you
2:09:24
don't close and quietly, they just slam on their own,
2:09:26
which is kind of part of the fire regulation safety thing,
2:09:30
you know, But it's very noisy. And it shakes the
2:09:33
whole building when they slam because they're heavy doors. So
2:09:40
out of the six flats, two are empty. So I'm
2:09:48
going to start at the top of the building. Uncle's
2:09:51
sausages close his door quietly. His next door neighbor closes
2:09:56
the door quietly. I close my door quietly. Below me
2:10:01
closes their door quietly. The one opposite lets their door
2:10:07
slam continuously. They don't like, they're not aware of it.
2:10:12
They just let it slam, and it does shake. It
2:10:14
makes Vinnie bark and it shakes the building. The one
2:10:19
next door to that one used to let her door slam.
2:10:26
So I'm hoping that whoever moves in just doesn't it
2:10:31
the door slam, because then Vinnie's going to start, especially
2:10:36
if it's at night, he'll start barking. And if the
2:10:40
person lives in opposite me, let's say, door slam, it's
2:10:44
just going to be disruptive for me because it will
2:10:48
literally shake my flat. It's one of those things. The
2:10:54
building's not it's not like a flimsy building. It's not
2:10:59
made out of board, but it really you know that
2:11:03
all the flats are joined together, aren't they, And it
2:11:10
just seems and because everything echoes in the hallway, it
2:11:16
would seem natural that well, that someone wouldn't let the
2:11:20
door slam. Sometimes it's going to slam. My door slam sometimes,
2:11:25
you know, if I'm getting shopping in or something, and
2:11:27
sometimes it slams, but I don't. I just continuously let
2:11:32
it slam. I try and stop it. But once I
2:11:36
tried to stop it and I broke my heel, So
2:11:38
that wasn't so good. But other than that, because it
2:11:44
because it goes and you have to push it to
2:11:45
open it. So I was trying to stop it from slamming,
2:11:48
and it my heel got caught in between the door
2:11:53
and the doorfray in the bottom of the doorframe. H
2:11:58
I was limping around for about two months after that
2:12:04
was all painful. So yeah, I'm not sure, but it
2:12:09
looks like soon. Maria asks, have you ever fractured or
2:12:14
broken any bones?
2:12:16
Speaker 3: Is?
2:12:16
Speaker 1: So? When? And how? Thank you?
2:12:19
Speaker 3: Well?
2:12:19
Speaker 1: My favorite subject. It's not really I have. I've probably
2:12:27
broken more bones than I realized, but I think all
2:12:30
of us have potentially. I remember an expert on toes well,
2:12:36
I didn't speak to him personally, but it was on
2:12:38
the news or whatever. I think this was during David
2:12:42
Beckham pulled out the World Cup or the European Cup
2:12:47
because he had a broken toe and people were mocking him. So,
2:12:52
how can you pull out such an important event with
2:12:56
a little broken toe? Oh you should hurting, David. Oh sorry,
2:13:03
you're not getting paid enough for not a million pounds
2:13:05
of weeks? Not enough is it for you to just
2:13:07
endure a little bit of oh oh the toe? And
2:13:12
this expert was saying, actually is acony. It's to kick
2:13:17
a ball around with a broken toe is the most
2:13:19
ridiculous thing ever. It's not something you can do. It's
2:13:24
And also they said that probably nearly everybody's had a
2:13:29
broken toe without even realizing. If you stump your toe
2:13:34
quite often a little but a bone breaks and we're
2:13:38
in paining for weeks. It gradually goes, but it's just,
2:13:42
you know, it's just one of those things. So the
2:13:50
first real bone I remember was I broke my right
2:13:55
hand punching a piece of frozen meat while a box
2:14:00
of frozen meat. And yeah, I had to go went
2:14:07
to hospital and I basically I pushed the bone. It
2:14:13
was the second knuckle in from my little knuckle on
2:14:16
the right hand. It compressed the bone right into itself,
2:14:21
so I don't have a knuckle on that hand. And
2:14:27
oh that was weird because I was twenty what was
2:14:32
I twenty four twenty four? What was I twenty three,
2:14:41
twenty three, twenty four, something like that, And so I
2:14:47
had about five weeks off work unpaid, which was difficult,
2:14:57
and I had to learn because I couldn't do the
2:14:59
job because I I needed my hands to do the job,
2:15:02
do the manual work. And it was so weird having
2:15:08
to learn because there's certain things I needed my right
2:15:12
hand for because I was right handed well pretty much
2:15:16
everything like writing and that, but it's like toilet stuff.
2:15:20
I'm not going to this very difficult learning to do
2:15:22
stuff with my left hand. I just felt so weird.
2:15:29
It wasn't all bad, but you know, just generally. And
2:15:33
so that was the first time. The second time I
2:15:37
broke anything was I can't with you, I can go
2:15:47
through the bone. So I think two thousand and four
2:15:53
my rib when I was doing wing chun, and then I, oh, yeah,
2:16:11
I'm going to go. I can't go through the different years.
2:16:13
I can't remember, but I'll do it by body part
2:16:15
rather than yeah, I'm starting in my head. I don't
2:16:21
know what I've broken in my face, I couldn't tell you.
2:16:25
Maybe when I was very young, but not that I
2:16:28
can remember nothing in my shoulders, my arms. I broke
2:16:34
my left wrist when I first moved in there. I
2:16:38
fell out the bath, so I broke my left wrist.
2:16:42
I broke my right hand twice. So the second time
2:16:48
I punched the door, and this was about six years ago. Hey,
2:16:54
so I yeah, broke my hand again. I've damage my
2:17:01
left hand numerous times, but I don't know about whether
2:17:05
it's broken or not. It might have been like a
2:17:07
little crack or something, you know, but not like proper.
2:17:12
Broke broke my rib again. So I've had my rib
2:17:18
broken twice and my wrist broken once. I had my
2:17:22
right hand broken twice, broke my toes a few different occasions,
2:17:33
had broken toes, my big toe at least twice, the
2:17:38
top of my foot at least once. My heel, now
2:17:44
the heel, I didn't go and get anything sorted, but
2:17:48
I was hobbling around for two months, so I think
2:17:50
I broke something in my heel as well, but or
2:17:53
chipped the bone something like that. And then I fell
2:17:58
down the stairs a couple of years back, fractured my
2:18:00
back in two places. That was the first week that
2:18:04
I got Vinnie. It was weird because it had snow,
2:18:10
really solid snow settled and everything. And I got Vinny
2:18:14
that week and we all week we was in the
2:18:17
snow and I was wearing my boots making sure I
2:18:21
didn't fall over. I slipped once, but it was in
2:18:24
the snow and in the fields. It didn't hurt because
2:18:27
it was in the snow. And he laughed at me,
2:18:30
and I said, don't laugh. Next time I'm going I'm
2:18:32
going to land on you. He stopped laughing then. And
2:18:38
the last I think it was a Wednesday, maybe it
2:18:40
was a Thursday. It rained and everything melted away. All
2:18:47
the ice went, no snow, not a sight. You couldn't
2:18:54
see it had even been there, like it didn't exist.
2:18:59
Speaker 8: And then.
2:19:01
Speaker 1: Luke calls up. I think he might have knocked on
2:19:06
the door. He might have wrung me up, I don't know.
2:19:08
He said, I would just want to bring Vinnie down
2:19:10
in the garden and play with LOGI. I said, all right.
2:19:13
This was like nine o'clock or something. He was I
2:19:16
think he was more excited about Vinnie than I was.
2:19:19
So Luke was downstairs At this point, I let Vinnie
2:19:24
out and he ran downstairs into the garden to play
2:19:27
with LOGI I come down. I got my crocs on,
2:19:36
but I did put my coat on because it was cold,
2:19:41
and Luke was standing in the bottom of the stairs.
2:19:45
I was just talking to him as I was like
2:19:46
getting ready to come down, and I think I got
2:19:49
down about two steps or three steps, and I went
2:19:55
and I bounced down the hole of the staircase deady.
2:20:03
It's not like it's concrete steps, it's not like big,
2:20:06
not loads of steps, but it was enough. And Luke
2:20:10
was laughing because he didn't not hurt myself. He said,
2:20:15
it was so funny to watch just you bouncing off
2:20:18
of each step and a look on your face because
2:20:21
it happened so quick. I didn't really I didn't really
2:20:25
know what was going on. To be fair, I didn't.
2:20:28
I couldn't really process it because it was so quick.
2:20:33
One minute I was standing there, next minute I was
2:20:35
at the bottom of the stairs, having been on a really,
2:20:38
really weird roller coaster. Well it wasn't a roller coaster.
2:20:44
It was falling down the stairs, but you know what
2:20:45
I mean. It was a kind of very strange experience.
2:20:50
So he's laughing, I'm not feeling great, and I mean
2:21:01
it ended up that I had had a fracture back
2:21:03
in two places. So I mentioned, you know, I wasn't
2:21:07
my back wasn't feeling wonderful and I couldn't get up.
2:21:12
I needed his help to get up, and he was
2:21:18
He said I needed to go to the hospital, and
2:21:21
I said, nah, I'll be all right. But I couldn't
2:21:24
sit down, I couldn't stand up. I couldn't do anything.
2:21:26
It was just I knew something was broke, just for
2:21:31
the simple fact that well, I felt it. But at
2:21:35
the same time I thought, no, I don't. I can't
2:21:38
face being in a in the hospital for the next
2:21:42
twelve hours thirty I think it was thirteen and a
2:21:46
half hours I was in there. But he said, yeah,
2:21:50
but what if you got internal, something internal happened, you know,
2:21:55
outside of something else, you know, might say you might
2:22:00
be serious. So if you wanted to come with me,
2:22:03
I said, no, it's all right, I'll just get a
2:22:05
taxi in. He looked after Vinnie and yeah. The doctor
2:22:14
even said, oh, no, can't be fractured when he eventually
2:22:18
sort of saw me. So he can't be fractured. Because
2:22:20
it was fractured. You be in agony. I said that
2:22:24
I'm what do you think I'm in? He said, no,
2:22:27
you won't be able to You won't be able to
2:22:29
stand up if you had if you had a fracture
2:22:31
in your back, you'reon be able to stand up. He said,
2:22:35
I'm going to give you an extra anyway with a
2:22:36
cat scan. And then he came back. He said, yeah,
2:22:39
it's fractured in two places. He said, I don't know
2:22:44
how you can stand up. I said, sitting down's worst,
2:22:47
and standing up it's hers more than I sit down.
2:22:54
I've just spent the last twelve hours, twelve and a
2:22:56
half hours sitting down. Standing up was relief, but then
2:23:03
it started hurting the game and on standing up, but
2:23:05
it was relief compared to sitting down for such a
2:23:08
long time, which oh so yeah. So what I've got?
2:23:17
I think so my knuckles and I guess I've got
2:23:24
two hands to my right hand twice, my wrist once,
2:23:32
my ribs twice two different times, and my foot the
2:23:41
top of my foot once and my big toe at
2:23:45
least twice. Yeah, and the heel. I don't know, but
2:23:50
that's the breaks I've had. There's a few little breaks
2:23:54
along the way, But I suppose the the scaries one
2:24:00
would be when I fell out the bath, to be honest,
2:24:03
because I hurt my shoulder and I couldn't I couldn't
2:24:06
get up. I was on my own and I was well,
2:24:11
everything was out. You know, I was naked, so it
2:24:13
wasn't an ideal situation. But when I fell down the stairs,
2:24:24
but at least I had a T shirt on the
2:24:25
rest of me, I was naked, and then I was
2:24:30
when I was at work. Yeah, pretty much was naked
2:24:33
most places most times. It's weird, isn't it. Well, we
2:24:39
weren't all naked. I mean, it's not a bad thing,
2:24:41
is It's not. It's not an awful state of undress? Really,
2:24:45
is it. It's natural. It doesn't hold up in court though,
2:24:51
doesn't stand up in court. Wow. So yeah, I've had
2:24:55
a few, a few little knocks around, but probably other
2:25:02
than like falling out the bath, that was not good.
2:25:04
But the stairs one that was, Yeah, that's probably the worst,
2:25:13
the worst. I don't know, none of them were nice,
2:25:15
but that was you know, sitting down, standing up whatever.
2:25:21
It was just it took a long time for that
2:25:23
to calm itself. Down. Yeah, that was weird.
2:25:30
Speaker 3: That was.
2:25:35
Speaker 1: Yeah. Since then, I've had a few problems with my
2:25:37
upper back. I don't know if it's to do with that,
2:25:43
almost like a misalignment or something.
2:25:46
Speaker 3: I don't know.
2:25:48
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know that Maria. So that's
2:25:56
I thank you for Maria, Christine, Jonathan, Reveal, Isabelle, and Hope.
2:26:04
Thank you very much. That's all the questions I do
2:26:06
believe I've answered in this here particular Q and A Friday,
2:26:12
and Vinnie knows straight away I'm bringing this to an end.
2:26:17
He always knows. How does he always know? I don't know.
2:26:26
So yeah, thank you for listening. Remember to be kind
2:26:30
to yourself, because you do deserve to be happy and
2:26:36
be gentle with yourself. You deserve to feel safe, lots
2:26:43
of love. Bye. Relax in a more deep and meaningful way,
2:27:05
Maybe in a way that can not just allow you
2:27:11
to feel calmer now and throughout the time we spend
2:27:21
together here, not just relaxed at the end of the
2:27:29
recording when it's finished and you can enjoy that sense
2:27:34
of comfort and peace, but also I think it would
2:27:51
be nice to have those feelings of relaxation continue for longer.
2:28:11
After the recording has ended, so that you can still
2:28:22
benefit from listening to my voice maybe in a few
2:28:32
hours time, perhaps tomorrow, and then by listening regularly, especially
2:28:47
if you find like some people do and myself as well.
2:28:52
I sometimes I find one particular recording that really resonates
2:28:59
with me, and I just listened to it over and
2:29:06
over again every morning, every evening. There was this recording
2:29:19
from We're going back to about nineteen ninety nine. It
2:29:26
was it wasn't hypnosis, but it was a guided visualizations.
2:29:31
It kind of was hypnosis, really, and I managed to
2:29:38
find it again and it still has the same effect
2:29:42
on me. And part of it was the person's voice
2:29:54
relaxed me, just felt so so peaceful, and I'd look
2:30:04
forward to listening to her in the morning and in
2:30:11
the evening. And I knew before even pressing the play
2:30:22
button that since I've done that, pressed the play button.
2:30:31
This is in the days of CD players, pressed the
2:30:42
play button, if that it might have even been a
2:30:48
tape tape recorder. I'd lie down on the bed and
2:30:52
then even without nest necessarily listening to her words because
2:31:11
I had to memorized. Really, it was as if my
2:31:18
body knew exactly what to do, and the muscles just
2:31:33
almost went into automatic relaxation, and I remember my mind
2:31:54
would slow down. Now. Now, I was listening to this
2:32:05
recording in the early days of learning hypnosis, and long
2:32:15
before I ever made any videos or audio recordings myself,
2:32:24
because I didn't start doing that till two thousand and six.
2:32:34
But I knew, I knew how helpful I found being
2:32:50
able to just let go, to have that trust person
2:33:00
that I'm listening to, knowing that it's going to be
2:33:14
just as relaxing, if not more so. Each time you
2:33:21
hear my voice, you may feel the same. Some people
2:33:37
have been listening to me for over a decade, maybe
2:33:49
not solidly, obviously not twenty four hours a day, but
2:33:57
maybe people come back. Some people may be listen every day.
2:34:13
There's something that I do which you may not realize
2:34:21
by listening, is when I record these recordings. Now, for example,
2:34:45
I also am affected by the words that I say.
2:34:58
So if I said to you, focus on your feet,
2:35:07
notice your feet relaxing, I will be focusing on my feet.
2:35:19
I will be noticing my feet relaxing. If I said,
2:35:37
focus on your hands, and maybe notice the difference between
2:35:44
each hand, perhaps notice the air in the room, the
2:35:55
temperature of the room. On the backs of your hands,
2:36:08
you may start to notice what almost feels like a
2:36:12
very light breeze, even though there may not be any
2:36:20
type of breeze at all where you are right now.
2:36:33
And as you become aware of your hands, I'm also
2:36:44
aware of how relaxed my hands are feeling now and
2:37:13
when it comes to potentially drifting off to sleep, which
2:37:20
may be the reason you're listening, I also feel drowsy
2:37:36
when I make these recordings. I also notice my mind drifting.
2:37:57
In fact, at times I've actually fallen asleep without even noticing,
2:38:15
and then I carry on talking. And it's only when
2:38:24
I listen back to do the editing I hear snoring,
2:38:35
and I think, I don't remember snoring. I remember talking.
2:38:45
I was snoring. Was a pig turned up. That's why
2:38:53
I sound like when I snore, I get read into
2:39:01
the whole experience. I don't know how you feel, how
2:39:20
relaxed you feel in your feet, how relaxed you feel
2:39:32
in your hands. I have noticed more and more that
2:39:58
the more relaxed, deeper level of comfort you feel, the
2:40:15
easier your breathing becomes. It's almost like that additional muscle relaxation.
2:40:40
So this allows you to breathe easier without necessarily focusing
2:41:03
on your breath, however, being able to notice the ease
2:41:32
in which you breathe so naturally, you breathe so very
2:41:59
easily and smoothly. Whenever I imagine my breathing improving, when
2:42:47
I've got my eyes closed, I tend to visualize a
2:43:03
beautiful field with trees and flowers producing all that life
2:43:20
giving oxygen. It feels nice too, if nothing else, just
2:43:56
taking some time away from everything, enjoying that feeling of
2:44:34
peace serenity with a joyful heart. Time seems to just
2:45:22
drip by, so very slowly, relaxed, so deeply peaceful, completely
2:46:12
unattached to any thoughts whatsoever in this moment, completely free,
2:47:15
noticing that your mind has slowed down. Slowed down because
2:48:06
nothing really requires your attention, you can enjoy the physical
2:48:35
sensations of allowing the stress to rip out of your body,
2:48:53
to appear out of every pa of your body being
2:49:18
released from your brain in your mind, slowly but surely,
2:50:03
the muscle thing les relax rs so very deeply, res
2:50:56
so deeply, and the feelings, the pleasant feelings in your
2:51:22
arms and shoulders, deepening each part of your body further
2:51:55
and deeper and deeper. Noticine, the feelings in the back
2:52:28
of your neck, the feelings in your wrists, muscles, in
2:53:30
front of your body, I all say, feeling peaceful, deeply,
2:54:24
there's a sense of peace spreads through your fairy core.
2:55:05
Even when you focus on your mind, your mind becomes
2:55:32
beve and slower, even deeper, relax so very slow, his stomach,
2:57:09
peace fall in your stomach.
2:57:33
Speaker 8: You're back.
2:57:39
Speaker 1: Notice Notice how relaxed you'd never feel in the hole
2:58:08
of your back. You spy from your brain all the
2:58:41
way down the middle of your back, sending and receiving
2:58:52
millions of messages every day, decomfort increasing deeply relaxed uns, legs,
3:00:25
spreading those signals down a spine or cord into air.
3:00:35
Every part of your body, your shins and your calf, muscles,
3:01:21
your elbows, Feelings of peace and tranquility spreading through your body,
3:01:56
tips of your toes, to your eyes, your fingers pull
3:02:12
way till you lower back lettinker rear the tinker, peace,
3:03:14
drifting mind just wandering away, happy to let go, let
3:03:45
go completely, let go, so tranquil the whole body enjoying
3:04:50
a sense listening God he more pece fur enjoying the space,
3:07:15
this space of peace and safety. So firy fy relaxed,
3:09:26
letting go. Maybe we can just focus on the different
3:09:51
parts of your body, just to notice you fool head
3:10:26
and your eyes mutual so loose, noticing a sense of
3:11:31
complete freedom, absolute freedom day to day for energy, peace,
3:13:36
to breathe, so much easier loose. You may have or
3:14:51
may not have noticed your mind drifted hm peaceful many
3:15:52
even more deeply in the park wrecks chef total bliss
3:16:11
for pace blissph pace terrefting O to pace come so calm,
3:18:19
let him go, peace with mind.
3:18:57
Speaker 10: Relaxed, firty, so relaxed, so relaxed.
3:19:56
Speaker 1: Your body feels almost invisible, so very relaxed. I'm peaceful,
3:20:29
so pay so relax yeah, like, And you could start
3:21:38
to notice that you are feeling more relaxed, even though
3:21:48
I've not purposely focused your mind upon that sense of
3:22:00
physical comfort that is growing within you throughout your body,
3:22:08
and your mind starts to slow down, And that could
3:22:18
be almost in recognition of I guess my speech not
3:22:26
being particularly fast, and things just generally feel calmer just
3:22:44
by listening to my voice. You give yourself an opportunity
3:22:54
to take a break from the day, take a break
3:23:00
from your life as it is, and to give yourself
3:23:08
a rest, giving yourself permission to take some time off
3:23:18
and to allow your body to relax and allow your
3:23:23
mind to slow down, which in turn releases the tension
3:23:35
and he stresses that you had in your body. It's
3:23:44
almost as if the parts of your body just open up,
3:23:50
allowing the negativity out and the same time replacing that
3:24:03
negativity with positive heathing energy which then fills your body
3:24:13
up and your mind to also starts to appreciate those
3:24:26
feelings of increasing confidence, an almost uplifting feeling, positive healing,
3:24:46
an energy that spreads through your body like a wave
3:24:57
of comfort, and all this comes and just allowing yourself
3:25:12
a few minutes, maybe half an hour, however long you
3:25:18
want it to be, to just rest and allow your
3:25:30
mind and your body to almost reset itself to the
3:25:41
settings of comfort and relaxation, calmness, which allows more room
3:25:57
for feelings of pleasure and happiness to move around your
3:26:10
body and into your mind, almost as if your mind
3:26:19
and your body are sinking together, almost mirroring each other.
3:26:31
With that growing positivity and calmness, and it feels nice.
3:26:45
It really does feel nice to know that you are
3:26:51
the one that has allowed yourself to feel more comfort
3:27:04
and to experience more of this deep relaxation spreading throughout
3:27:18
your body. And as I focus on each part of
3:27:30
your body, you can notice that that part becomes even
3:27:44
more relaxed just by focusing on it. It becomes even
3:27:53
more calm and comfortable just by focusing. And as I
3:28:06
move down your body, starting at your head, the parts
3:28:15
that you've already focused on will continue to relax deeply,
3:28:25
and those parts that we've not yet focused on were
3:28:31
just automatically release any remaining tension in anticipation of even
3:28:43
more comfort about to come. Now, I'm going to start
3:28:56
by focusing on your forehead. Just being aware of the
3:29:03
feelings of your forehead and any background sounds like mister
3:29:14
Herbert the pigeon can just allow you to feel even
3:29:19
more relaxed. Just means you're in the moment. This isn't
3:29:29
this isn't a sterile environment. This is the world. I
3:29:37
live in the countryside, so there's lots of nature sounds around.
3:29:50
So as you focus on your forehead, just notice how
3:29:55
it becomes even more relaxed. You focus only on my
3:30:06
voice and that part of your body. Moving down to
3:30:16
your eyes, focusing on your eyes, noticing how your eyelids
3:30:29
feel so heavy yet so light at the same time,
3:30:39
and all the muscles around your eyes relaxing completely. Moving
3:30:50
your focus down to your mouth, your lips, your tongue,
3:30:58
your teeth, and your calor mums, the whole of your
3:31:03
mouth relaxing, calm and lease as you focus now on
3:31:19
your jaw, not just the parts of your jaw near
3:31:26
your mouth and your chin, but all the way up
3:31:31
the size of your face to your ears, the hole
3:31:38
of your jaw, feeding more relaxed and calm. Focusing on
3:32:05
your neck, the front of your neck and your throat
3:32:13
relaxing and loose and calm. The side of your neck,
3:32:26
the right and left side of your neck relax and
3:32:34
loose and calm.
3:32:46
Speaker 11: And now the back of your neck, Focusing on the
3:32:52
back of your neck, letting go of any tension that
3:33:03
may have been there before, and enjoying that.
3:33:11
Speaker 1: Sense of increasing comfort and release that you can experience
3:33:23
in the back of your neck. Moving down your back
3:33:35
and moving either side of your spine right from the
3:33:40
top of your back all the way down to the
3:33:46
bottom of your back, down to your lower back, and
3:34:03
as you move up and down your spine, you can
3:34:10
feel the muscles either side of your spine relaxing even more.
3:34:26
And as those muscles relax, that sense of comfort starts
3:34:33
to spread outwards from your spine into both sides of
3:34:43
your back, the top of your back, the middle, and
3:34:50
your lower back. And as you scan gently and slow
3:35:00
lead up and down your back, there's the muscles in
3:35:06
the top of your back relax and become looser. The
3:35:16
muscles in the middle of your back also seem to
3:35:22
just almost divide from each other, separating and almost melting,
3:35:37
And in your lower back there seems to be an
3:35:43
extra special feeling of comfort. The spreads into your hips,
3:36:00
down your lower backet into your hips, into the area
3:36:08
where your cosicks are, and into your buttocks, and all
3:36:16
those muscles that spread from your lower back into your
3:36:26
hip area start to melt, start to really let go.
3:36:46
I don't even know where about. To focus on your shoulders.
3:36:52
Your back and your spine will continue to let go. Yeah,
3:37:02
continue to relax so calmly, and as you focus on
3:37:18
your shoulders, you may notice that they're already feeling really loose,
3:37:36
they're already feeding calm, and the feeling those muscles mh.
3:38:02
The move from your neck into your shoulders feel so
3:38:14
soft and gentle, so smooth and calm, and the feeling
3:38:43
in your shoulders seens to spread deep into your shoulders,
3:38:58
that sense of reaction vexation, not just traveling deeply into
3:39:07
your muscles, but also relaxing the bones and moving all
3:39:23
the way to underneath your arms, relaxing that whole area
3:39:32
between the tops of your shoulders and underneath your arms.
3:39:41
He Then you feel so relaxed and comfortable in your shoulders,
3:40:00
which sends that deep healing message into your arms. And
3:40:22
you may feel almost as if your arms are not
3:40:28
even there, because they're so relaxed, so deeply relaxed, so
3:40:51
so calm, so pose not feeling. Spreading all the way
3:41:27
down your arms, two elbows, including your elbows circumforts, spreads
3:41:57
all away into rests of forearments, induists, so heavy yet
3:42:19
at the same time so light and gentle. For if
3:43:00
you see it now on.
3:43:06
Speaker 8: Your hands, my hands.
3:43:36
Speaker 1: So peaceful in your hands, there's a sense of real peace.
3:44:18
It just seems to I feel so familiar when your
3:44:31
hands relax deeply els a thing is a thing is
3:45:39
sad less your finger tips, moving your attention to the
3:46:42
front of your body, so comfortable, move on your focus
3:47:12
your legs, was muscles in your thighs, your knees, so
3:48:58
relax the carve muscles and just shains Compasi four feathing
3:51:37
your feet so peaceful, so calm, so peaceful, circom so peaceful,
3:52:40
sycom so peace for re sin peace for so calm,
3:53:18
loving that deep relaxation, to spread your chest, in your stomach,
3:53:29
so letting go of everything. So I'm gonna start counting
3:53:57
down now from twenty down to one. You can imagine
3:54:09
in a way it's like just walking down some steps
3:54:15
and each step or twenty steps, and each step represents
3:54:20
a level of comfort. Each step represents a deepening of
3:54:33
that comfort, and the fervies you walk down those steps,
3:54:44
the deeper and more relaxed you feel. So starting with
3:54:57
number twenty twenty, nineteen, eighteen, seventeen sixte three four four
4:00:29
see too well five four nine eight.
4:06:54
Speaker 12: Seven four.
4:09:47
Speaker 1: Five four four two.
4:13:00
Speaker 3: One.
4:15:35
Speaker 13: Now as you focus on your eyes, We're gonna count
4:15:52
down from ten douts one.
4:16:01
Speaker 1: Focus in just on your eyes, your eyelids, the muscles
4:16:10
around your eyes, your eye walls themselves, a whole area
4:16:22
that makes up your eye. And as we count down
4:16:36
from ten down to one, whilst focus in on your eyes,
4:16:51
you'll become twice is relaxed with each number counting down
4:17:06
that you may find the all you want to do
4:17:13
is just drift off to sleep. And if that's what
4:17:23
you want, then just allow yourself to do that. Now,
4:17:38
focusing on your eyes, I'm going to begin counting down
4:17:46
from ten down to one right now, two nine eight
4:19:56
seven four.
4:21:53
Speaker 9: Five four.
4:24:25
Speaker 1: Three two four mm hmm, So counting down from ten
4:27:15
to one ten nine eight seven six five four three
4:27:39
two one. And maybe that was a bit too quick
4:27:52
in order to relax. Maybe it's a bit too fast
4:27:56
for you to notice the calming of your body, maybe
4:28:05
even a little bit of pressure there, Like you're count
4:28:09
it down from ten to one. Would you expect me
4:28:12
to do man, expect me to just to go floppy
4:28:17
just because you're counting down. We could try it again,
4:28:26
but this time I go this lower. This time, as
4:28:32
you focus on the whole of your body before we
4:28:37
focus on your legs, just notice how your body does
4:28:46
start to feel more relaxed with every number that I
4:28:59
count down ten nine, eight, seven, six, five, four three
4:30:11
two one, and just notice how how you feel, generally,
4:30:49
how your body feels. It's not necessarily even about counting
4:31:04
down from ten to one. It's that space that you have,
4:31:12
that space between being active physically or mentally to just
4:31:36
sitting or lying down, just being there, not doing anything,
4:31:41
not saying anything, or needing to think about anything. So
4:31:48
it opens up a space, you know, a bit of
4:31:51
a space, a gap. And the more I count down
4:32:02
from ten to one, the bigger that gap becomes. So
4:32:10
there's that gap of calmness, of comfort, relaxation. It's a
4:32:22
nice feeling, and it moves those stresses or discomforts physically
4:32:37
or emotionally, moves them away. Allows you to just slow down,
4:32:59
someone to count again from ten down to one, and
4:33:02
notice that gap widening, the gap, And as it widens,
4:33:12
it's almost like the stress and attention falls into the
4:33:18
gap and gives you that distance, that space. Now, ten nine, eight, seven, six,
4:34:28
five four three two one. How did your body feel now?
4:36:04
Can you notice that? Do you feeling calmer, the feeling
4:36:19
more relaxed. As we now focus on your legs, just
4:36:47
your legs. We're just going to start with focusing on
4:37:08
your thighs. Of course, it's not the most exciting thing
4:37:27
to be doing, because I'm sure, like most of your
4:37:33
body is not a lot going on right now. Just
4:37:45
focusing on the whole of your thighs, the tops of
4:37:51
your thighs, the sides of your thighs, the bottoms of
4:37:58
your thighs, your outer thighs, and your inner thighs. Basically
4:38:05
the whole of your thigh that leads into your hip
4:38:13
and it goes down to your knee joints. Now, this
4:38:23
is a big area. It's a very heavy area. It's
4:38:31
very strong, probably the strongest muscles in your body or
4:38:38
in your thighs. But I don't think we perhaps give
4:38:54
enough attention to our thighs. Perhaps we don't acknowledge how
4:39:07
important our thighs are to our lives, how much they
4:39:29
actually do for us all for our lives. And it
4:39:43
may seem to sound really weird, but I think that
4:39:49
all of our body parts, especially our thighs, need some TLC,
4:40:00
a bit of love, shone, a bit of acknowledgement. I
4:40:13
thank you gratitude for what our thighs do for us.
4:40:28
And I know this may sound a bit strange. Maybe
4:40:34
you think, why am I surely how I should be
4:40:37
out in the garden hugging a tree or something. Well,
4:40:46
it's hard to set a microphone up on a tree.
4:40:49
That's why I'm doing this indoors. Otherwise I would be
4:40:51
outside hugging a tree. Now I can't see the television
4:40:55
from the tree. If you move down to your knees
4:41:06
gain such an important part. And I think we don't
4:41:14
necessarily I'll speak for myself here, I don't necessarily appreciate
4:41:23
all that my knees do for me until I have
4:41:29
a problem with my knee. It's occasionally, if I ever
4:41:34
maybe i'll pash it, or it's aching for some reason.
4:41:39
It's then that I realize how much it does. You know,
4:41:46
the benefit of being able to use my legs without
4:41:53
any kind of physical discomfort is a beautiful thing that's
4:42:01
possibly not appreciated until it's temporarily removed. You know that's comfort.
4:42:13
But as you focus on your knees, regardless of how
4:42:18
your knees feel, you can have that sense of gratitude
4:42:27
and love to your knees for all that they do
4:42:30
for you, and you can still have that attention on
4:42:43
your thighs and maybe notice how your thighs feel. Maybe
4:42:49
you've noticed that they are relaxing more as you focus
4:43:08
now on the bottoms of your legs, your shins, and
4:43:13
your calf muscles, the bones between your knees and your feet,
4:43:22
incorporating of course, your ankles so important. You know, anyone
4:43:33
that's had even like the slightest sprain of an ankle
4:43:39
knows how how much we take our ankles for granted.
4:43:52
And it's kind of strange in a way when you
4:43:54
think that. You know, logically, our wrists are a lot
4:44:00
thinner than the rest of our arms, which is okay,
4:44:05
it doesn't I can't see any problem with that because
4:44:08
we're just picking stuff up. But our ankles so much
4:44:15
thinner than the rest of our legs, and from a
4:44:24
physics perspective or logical even it doesn't really make sense
4:44:31
that all this weight would ultimately be resting on your
4:44:38
ankles then leading to your feet. That thin area, thin bone. Yeah,
4:44:53
it does so much great work. Supports us, supports our
4:44:59
body for a lifetime, helps us to balance, It helps
4:45:11
you to get around and be mobile. And there's the
4:45:23
calf muscles of course, when I was younger, I couldn't
4:45:32
see the point in calf muscles. It didn't seem to
4:45:35
do anything. Okay, if I walked around on tiptoes, then
4:45:41
my calf muscles get some work. But of course that's
4:45:45
not true. The calf muscles are being used whenever we
4:45:49
use our legs, and your shins there to protect your
4:46:03
lower legs, shaped in a way, almost as a protector
4:46:12
for the bone, leading of course to your ankles and
4:46:27
your feet. But we're not going to focus on your feet.
4:46:34
We're just going to focus on the legs. I realize
4:46:40
that now that I've mentioned your feet, it probably focuses
4:46:45
on them anyway, So maybe I should focus on your
4:46:48
feet a little bit. You can have them in your
4:46:54
awareness the same as you have your thighs in your awareness.
4:47:01
Even though we haven't been focusing on your thighs for
4:47:05
a few minutes, we've been focusing on your ankles, there's
4:47:16
still that sensation of comfort in your thighs, and there's
4:47:31
that movement of energy because the thighs hold lots of
4:47:40
different sensations. Of course, there's the muscles, the big straw
4:47:47
muscles that we have in our thighs, but the skin
4:48:01
on the outside of the thighs, as in the outside
4:48:05
of all of our body, can be very sensitive, sensitive
4:48:15
to the touch, sensitive to temperature. And inside your thighs
4:48:30
the bones, there's the muscle, there's the blood, vessels, the
4:48:35
ar trees, to all this stuff that's inside your thighs.
4:48:45
And I guess sometimes it'd be nice if you could
4:48:48
actually put your fingers inside your thighs and message, so
4:48:56
you can message on the outside, of course, to be
4:49:00
able to get deep into the muscles, and to be
4:49:03
able to just massage inside your thighs, message in the
4:49:08
bones of your leg, massage in all the veins, and
4:49:17
just gently healing your thighs, and you could move down
4:49:30
message and inside your knees, just message in those bones,
4:49:36
but with healing fingertips spreading that healing energy deep into
4:49:43
the joints of your knees. Of course, there's the back
4:49:52
of your your knee, or the inside crease where your
4:49:58
knee is. It's a very sensitive area. Very it feels
4:50:05
very nice when you stroke it. That might be because
4:50:10
it's an area that's not really touched very often. It's
4:50:15
almost like a hidden part. That crease in your legs
4:50:22
it's almost like a part that has a sensitivity, which
4:50:29
is a little bit different. Of course, it's protected by
4:50:40
your legs, so you can imagine putting your fingers into
4:50:51
that crease in your legs. Walled in between your legs,
4:51:02
you can just message with your fingertips, letting your fingertips
4:51:06
going inside, massage in the muscle tissue. You can of
4:51:17
cause field the bones of your knees, healing through your fingertips,
4:51:32
and then as you go down to your calf muscles.
4:51:37
Now that's the part I'd like to be able to
4:51:40
really put my fingertips deep inside my calf muscles, massage
4:51:47
in every single tissue of that muscle, healing every part.
4:52:02
And then doing the same for my shins, massaging and
4:52:09
gently stroking the bones, gently stroking them, healing in a
4:52:16
loving way, because they deserve to be treated as the
4:52:24
precious bones that they are, because our legs are so
4:52:28
precious as in all the other parts of our body,
4:52:34
and more precious of any jure on the planet. When
4:52:48
you start to think about your legs in this way,
4:53:00
it can change your perspective. It might sound a bit
4:53:10
a bit silly to start with the idea of having
4:53:15
love for your legs, showing appreciation for your thighs, wanting
4:53:25
to be able to put your hands in your thighs,
4:53:31
massage the muscles and the bones, and to get your
4:53:38
fingers deep in there, releasing all tension. Just to show
4:53:48
how much you care about your legs, how much you
4:53:56
care for what your legs do for you regularly, your knees,
4:54:05
your calves, your ankles, the strength of your ankles, considering
4:54:18
how thin they are compared to the rest of your legs,
4:54:22
especially your thighs, yet they're so strong, so flexible, absolutely
4:54:36
amazing things. Your ankles are truly a gift because of
4:54:48
what they do for you, supporting all that weight, regardless
4:54:59
of how what weight you are, Even if you only
4:55:04
ate stone, there's still a lot of weight for these
4:55:09
little ankles. Now I'm a lot heavier than eat stone
4:55:17
double down, Yet my ankles support my body all the time,
4:55:30
although they do give off a sigh of relief when
4:55:33
I sit down, a fact, my whole legs do. My
4:55:42
feet feet also go, my toes clap. We're so happy.
4:56:09
Your legs really are amazing. And I know that about
4:56:19
talking about your legs is probably possibly among the most
4:56:26
most boring things you've ever heard anyone say, possibly you're
4:56:33
boring or not. Everything I said is true. Your legs
4:56:41
are amazing. Your legs deserve not just respect, they deserve
4:57:01
to relax deeply. They deserve to take some time out
4:57:14
of the day to just let go completely. The legs
4:57:43
really can relax. And because the legs are so such
4:57:56
a most, you know, very important part of your body.
4:58:02
When you relax your legs, the rest of your body
4:58:05
also naturally follows in that journey of comfort. I can
4:58:24
feel it in my hips. My hips feel really loose,
4:58:32
and also my lower back as well. My lower back
4:58:37
really feels it feels stretched, even though I'm just sitting
4:58:43
in a chair and there's no stretching as far as
4:58:49
I'm aware that I'm doing. It's almost as if the
4:58:52
muscles are just relaxed so much that there is a
4:58:56
natural stretch. As the ten has reduced a lot, And
4:59:21
I'm now going to count down from ten down to one,
4:59:29
and you can continue to feel wonderfully relaxed. Ten nine, eight, seven, six, five,
5:00:03
four three two. Why relax? So I'm just going to
5:00:31
count down for five down to one, and as a countdown,
5:00:37
if you just focus on the numbers, just the numbers
5:00:44
counting down. And notice how you feel in this moment
5:00:55
as you hear the numbers counting down, knowing that those
5:00:59
numbers counting down represents you feeling calmer, not just in
5:01:12
your body, but also relaxing your mind. I just notice
5:01:21
how you feel. There's nothing to do, there's nothing to say,
5:01:27
there's nothing to think about, starting with number five, four, three, two.
5:02:11
Speaker 3: One.
5:02:21
Speaker 1: And as you notice the gradual letting go the tension
5:02:33
in your body, you may also begin to notice and
5:02:41
be aware of how your mind is starting to slow down.
5:02:52
This is just a natural thing that happens. It's not
5:02:59
really a less your procedure. It's just natural because as
5:03:04
your body relaxes, your mind also starts to relax. And
5:03:11
the more your mind relaxes, the more your body relaxes.
5:03:15
It's just a continuous circle of relaxation. And is that
5:03:27
calmness that comes from relative quietness. You know, even even
5:03:34
if there's background sounds, either your side or mine, it's
5:03:41
still going to be quite calm. You know, you haven't
5:03:47
got the television on, there's no music in the background,
5:03:52
unless you're listening to the recording with music. Of course,
5:04:00
you're very likely not going to be sitting in a
5:04:02
room with other people. Of course you might be, but
5:04:06
generally it's more ideal if you can do this on
5:04:10
your own, so no distractions, and when you stop thinking
5:04:21
about stuff, relaxation automatically rises, a sense of comfort starts
5:04:38
to grow, and without trying to build it up into
5:04:47
something fantastical or something magical, this is just a natural process,
5:05:02
something that's easy to accomplish. In fact, it's almost know.
5:05:13
The sense of relaxing completely happens really when you put
5:05:20
no effort into it. It's not something that you can
5:05:24
really force. It's something that happens naturally. And part of
5:05:36
the process of this recording and others is simply two
5:05:47
allow you to take advantage of this space, this time,
5:06:01
to just let go, to just be here, to be
5:06:12
in tune with how you feel, yet with the intention
5:06:28
of wanting to relax deeply and maybe even to fall asleep,
5:06:41
depending on what it is that you wish for yourself
5:06:48
in this moment. As we know, relaxing is the majority
5:07:04
of the process of falling asleep. The actual falling asleep
5:07:08
part is a tiny bit at the end. The deeper
5:07:16
relaxed you become the easier you find yourself drifting. You
5:07:39
can also, if you choose, stay focused on my voice
5:07:48
and really enjoy the process of gradually relaxing each muscle
5:08:19
in your body effortlessly and just observing the sensation of
5:08:46
letting go completely. This time, I want to count from
5:09:02
six down to one, and you can notice your mind
5:09:15
calming down more with each number that you hear me
5:09:23
say naturally, feeling calm and slow and peaceful, six, five, four, three, two, one,
5:12:32
being aware of how your mind has slowed right down,
5:12:45
sinking deeply into relaxation. And as you focus on your mind,
5:13:09
you may notice that there are some thoughts still there,
5:13:21
maybe some stubborn thoughts that for some reason perhaps need
5:13:31
your attention. That's what you can do is send love
5:13:46
to those thoughts. Sprinkle those thoughts with love all petals
5:14:01
from a flower. Just sprinkle it over them, petals filled
5:14:06
with love towards those thoughts, to let those thoughts.
5:14:13
Speaker 3: Know that.
5:14:16
Speaker 1: You're not abandoned in them. You just need them.
5:14:21
Speaker 2: You require them to just calm down, slow down, quiet down.
5:14:37
Speaker 3: For now.
5:14:45
Speaker 1: So as you focus on those remaining thoughts, as we
5:14:50
count down this time from seven down to one, with
5:14:56
each number imagine sprinkling those flower petals of love, kindness,
5:15:11
gratitude over those thoughts, which will allow them to just
5:15:24
melt away and relax deeply. With every number, those thoughts
5:15:40
will become more and more relaxed. Starting with number.
5:15:57
Speaker 14: Seven, six, five, four, three, one, and.
5:18:23
Speaker 1: Need you now notice how relaxed you're feeling in your body.
5:18:49
We're going to focus on your hands, because the more
5:19:02
relaxed your hands are, the more relaxed your body and
5:19:10
mind are. And you focus on your hands and your fingers,
5:19:37
there's nothing needed to be done. There's no clenching of
5:19:42
fists or tents in the fingers or anything like that.
5:19:54
It's just noticing and focusing on your head hands, noticing
5:20:08
how they feel, because the more relaxed your hands feel,
5:20:33
the calmer your mind feels, and the more comfort you
5:20:42
feel throughout your body. And you may have already noticed
5:21:09
your mind is starting to dress like sain just on
5:21:45
your hands and fingers, allowing them to experience a real
5:22:03
deepening of that relaxation in your hands and fingers, more
5:22:19
and more relaxed. With each number from eight down to one,
5:22:44
you can almost feel that healing and relaxing energy spreading
5:22:55
into your hands and fingers, becoming year more relaxing with
5:23:14
each number you hear, going down eight, down to one, drifting,
5:23:37
drifting again starting with number eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two,
5:27:43
just being here now, nothing to think about, nothing to do,
5:27:54
nothing to say. Everything just feels calmer. And this is
5:28:10
your natural state of being. This is how you just
5:28:17
normally feel when you take away all that other stuff
5:28:26
that we add, you know, things like stress and worrying
5:28:31
and overthinking and anxiety, tension, just generally thinking about stuff.
5:28:49
You take that away, which is what we do. What
5:28:53
we do now you're left with a real sense of
5:29:07
peacefulness which comes to you very quickly, because ultimately it's
5:29:19
just a feeling, a feeling of comfort. It's almost as
5:29:33
if you've gone inside yourself and you've found a special
5:29:37
place where everything is peaceful, a place where you can
5:29:51
feel relaxed and your natural sense of comfort, a place
5:30:01
where you can be you, where you can accept yourself
5:30:11
for who you are, a place where you're not trying
5:30:16
to please anybody else ever, a place where you can
5:30:28
actually not just love yourself, but in some ways more importantly,
5:30:38
you can like yourself, appreciate who you are. That sense
5:30:55
of gratitude is in the air all around you. That's
5:31:09
also a place where you can actually feel the healing
5:31:18
energy soaking into your body. Healing energy soaking into your body,
5:31:37
and the healing energy spreads through your veins, traveling to
5:31:47
each and every single part of your body, and you
5:31:59
start to realize that actually, that healing energy, it's not
5:32:06
just entered into your brain, it's become part of your brain,
5:32:19
and that spinal fluid is now mixed with healing energy,
5:32:31
not just allowing you to feel so much more relaxed
5:32:39
and healthy in this moment, but also you start to
5:32:51
realize that, actually, what's happening now with that healing, relaxing
5:33:01
energy spreading through your body, it's actually changing your life.
5:33:15
It's actually changing the way you're going to feel not
5:33:20
just now, but tomorrow and the next day. As your
5:33:27
health improves, not just your physical health, but your mental health.
5:33:39
Things that used to bother you in the past, for
5:33:45
some reason, no longer have the effect that they used
5:33:51
to because something has changed deep within you. Maybe things
5:34:05
that used to cause you to feel anger no longer
5:34:15
have that power to control you the way they seem
5:34:25
to be able to before. As you realize that you're
5:34:34
the one who decides what affects you. You're the one
5:34:48
who decides to feel relaxed and calm when you choose
5:35:02
to enjoy noticing these natural developments of healing, continuing to
5:35:16
grow and improve your life day by day, including of course,
5:35:31
your ability to relax so much easier and sleeping is
5:35:48
the most natural thing in the world to you, because
5:35:59
falling as sleep is something that you've done so many
5:36:06
times in your life, and you know that you were born,
5:36:15
as we all were, with the ability to fall asleep naturally.
5:36:26
We were born with that ability to just drift off
5:36:37
into a deep, healing sleep. Even when we're kids, sometimes
5:36:50
will fall asleep when we don't even want to try
5:36:55
to take us stay awake. Maybe it's a birthday in
5:36:59
the morning in or it's Christmas or holiday or something
5:37:03
we look forward to. We don't want to go to sleep.
5:37:08
But the more we want to stay awake, the more
5:37:13
we just start to drift. And the more you fight drifting,
5:37:22
the more you try to stop yourself and drift in
5:37:25
a shape, the deeper and stronger that drifting becomes. Because
5:37:38
we're born not just with the need to relax deeply
5:37:45
and to naturally fall asleep, but it's our birthright, it's
5:37:55
part of our DNA. And sometimes as we get older
5:38:06
in life, perhaps at times we have forgotten that relaxing
5:38:18
completely is not only a wonderfully pleasant experience, it's also
5:38:33
really easy. It's very, very easy to let go, because
5:38:53
that's all it is. It is just deciding to let go.
5:39:07
And when you press the play button on my recordings,
5:39:15
you have given permission for my voice to relax you.
5:39:26
When you press that play button, you have given me
5:39:30
permission for my words to affect you in a positive,
5:39:45
only a positive way, opening up your mind to useful
5:40:05
and healing suggestions that can have such an amazing effect
5:40:24
on how you feel right now, as well as those
5:40:36
changes that continue long after the recording ends, those changes
5:40:47
within you that continue to flourish and grow, transforming your
5:41:00
life in a positive, beautiful way, allowing you to move
5:41:15
forward in your life in the direction that you choose
5:41:21
for yourself. And this feeling, this feeling that you can
5:41:38
experience of safety, comfort, calmness, this feels so nice. It's
5:42:02
such a healthy place to be, and that positivity grows
5:42:18
within you each and every day. Moving forward, you're going
5:42:35
to find that you're more relaxed physically and in your
5:42:46
mind is more relaxed. And it's not that you're thinking slower,
5:42:59
it's just that you're mind will be less clogged up
5:43:03
with unnecessary negativity, because from now on, your mind rejects negativity.
5:43:21
From now on, you're going to start noticing when negativity arises,
5:43:33
and you can just say stop, stop, and then negativity
5:43:46
will turn around and leave you alone. Stop and that
5:44:02
negativity would disappear. And as you notice that you feel
5:44:20
way more relaxed than you probably expected, you can now
5:44:36
congratulate yourself because you're the person that has done this.
5:44:44
You are the one that has opened your mind up
5:44:50
to the simple facts that you can feel more relaxed
5:44:58
than your body and in your mind, you've opened your
5:45:08
mind up to the birthright of being able to just
5:45:16
fall asleep easily when you choose. And that's a nice feeling.
5:45:32
Don't you think it feels nice? Doesn't it? To feel calm?
5:45:44
All that healing energy is spreading through your body and
5:45:49
your mind to spend time in that. That's your place
5:46:01
where negativity can no longer enter. Negativity is banned, it's barred,
5:46:19
it's not allowed entryue doesn't. It doesn't. This doesn't deserve
5:46:26
to be here, doesn't belong here. Negativity has no place
5:46:35
in your life, which makes room for more comfort, more heathing,
5:46:54
more relaxation, more peace. It feels nice, doesn't it? Just
5:47:25
the let go with everything. I'm gonna count down now
5:47:45
from twenty down to one. You can continue to relax.
5:47:56
If you choose, you can drift to sleep. With every
5:48:07
number you hear me say, you can fill twice as relaxed,
5:48:22
or if you choose, you can fill twice as sleeping
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now twenty nineteen, eighteen, seventeen, sixteen, fifteen, fourteen, thirteen, twelve, eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven, six,
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five four. This is your time to just take a break,
5:51:38
your time to relax, to allow your mind to slow down,
5:51:57
to give yourself permission to take a break from everything end.
5:52:16
You're the only person that can make that decision. You're
5:52:24
the only person that can actually tell your mind to
5:52:31
just relax, to just take some time.
5:52:47
Speaker 2: Off so that you can focus on your body, get
5:52:59
in in touch with how you feel.
5:53:04
Speaker 1: Physically, and in the process of this body scan where
5:53:20
you focus on different parts of your body, those parts
5:53:31
that you focus on and observe even though you're not
5:53:39
purposely requesting for those parts of your body to relax,
5:53:49
it's kind of expected. You expect when you listen to
5:53:55
my voice to feel more relaxed naturally, because when you're
5:54:08
listening to me, your attention is focused on my words,
5:54:23
and as my words guide you to focus on those
5:54:34
parts of your body, your focus increases, which actually calms
5:54:52
your mind. And when your mind calms down, your body relaxes.
5:55:20
And when your body calms down, your mind relaxes. And
5:55:42
even though we've not really started the focus on your body,
5:55:53
you can already feel that healing energy is spreading through
5:56:04
your body, pushing out stress and tension, healing all the
5:56:23
parts of your body, including your skin, your bones, your blood,
5:56:33
all of your organs inside your body, all of the muscles,
5:56:39
all of the fat, all of everything, every hair on
5:56:47
your body is filled with that healing energy. And when
5:57:00
your brain fills with that healing energy, the feeling of
5:57:16
comfort and relaxation increases, deeply increases in a way that
5:57:44
your mind starts to fill, perhaps bit drowsy because it's
5:58:01
not needed. Then it may start to drift if that's
5:58:20
what's needed. So if you're listening to this and what
5:58:29
you need is deep relaxation, that's what you get. If
5:58:35
what you need is to fall asleep naturally and easily
5:58:43
as your mind drifts, that's also what will happen. Because
5:58:57
by pressing that play button on the podcast and listening
5:59:05
to me, you give permission for your body and your mind.
5:59:14
In fact, you give the command to your body and
5:59:23
your mind to relax deeply and to drift off to
5:59:35
sleep if that's what you want or need. And as
5:59:51
I focus on the different parts of your body, you
6:00:02
may start to just drift. And then you come back
6:00:11
again and you hear me talking, and I'm focusing on
6:00:16
a different part of your body, and you may find
6:00:27
yourself drifting. You don't realize you're drifting until you stop
6:00:36
drifting and you're alert again to my voice. Focusing on
6:00:45
a different part of your body starts to relax even deeper,
6:00:55
because that drifting is basically you already into sleep zone.
6:01:10
And the more you drift, the longer you drift, and
6:01:15
the longer you drift, eventually that drifting continues into sleep,
6:01:31
and that's the last you remember until you wake up
6:01:40
in your own time, when you experience the right amount
6:01:45
of sleep for you. Because when you do, and if
6:01:54
you do fall asleep, it's s s truely pleasant, so relaxing,
6:02:08
so deep healing sleep. I'm it feels so nice to
6:02:27
relax into your own body and mind as you feel
6:02:38
that healing energy is spreading through it, relaxing. Use so deeply, relaxing,
6:02:53
use so so deeply.
6:03:06
Speaker 2: We start to focus on your eyes, moving.
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Speaker 1: Down to your jaw, down to your neck, your shoulders, arms, hands, fingers,
6:04:13
your chest and stomach, your back, your spine, you itaps,
6:04:52
your legs, your feet, your toes, and feeding, eating, spreading
6:05:36
and growing inside your body, feeling you up. Now let's
6:05:50
focus again on parts of your body. You spend this
6:06:00
time on your forehead. Now on your mouth, your lips,
6:06:13
your tongue, the whole of your mouth. Focus in on
6:06:32
your fingers. Maybe you could move your fingers a little bit.
6:06:43
You can focus on each one individually, both hands and
6:06:58
even those. Focus on both of your hands. Now they
6:07:04
almost seemed to just melt into one. Where is your
6:07:13
right hand? Start in your left hand end, almost as
6:07:20
if just mixed together. Now focusing on your knees, just
6:07:38
noticing how your knees fell. Now focusing on your elbows.
6:08:03
Focusing on both of your elbows, just observing the feeling
6:08:19
of your elbows. Now focusing, observing the back of your neck,
6:09:00
feeding the energy from the factory your neck, observing your ankles,
6:09:51
being aware of physical sensations in don't think.
6:10:01
Speaker 15: U s.
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Speaker 1: A noticin now your toes on both of your feet,
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being aware how your toes. Yeah, right now, notice thin
6:12:14
high your entire body feels, noticing your mind feels now
6:13:03
letting go, letting go, letting go everything, letting go, letting go,
6:13:54
letting go everything everything. I'm going to start now, and
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I'd like you just, first of all, just to see
6:14:24
yourself lying down on that message table, lying on your front.
6:14:33
Your head is supported, your arms are supported, and you
6:14:41
feel comfortable and breathing. It's really easy, and you feel
6:14:51
you feel confident in how you look as well. So
6:14:55
there's none of that issue of body problems or shyness
6:15:00
because I'm a professional and this is a therapy session,
6:15:09
so none of that stuff matters whatsoever. This is about you.
6:15:20
This is about how you feel and how you can
6:15:27
enjoy that sense of comfort and relaxation that comes from
6:15:34
letting go and allowing my hands, my fingers to relax
6:15:40
you by a massage your body. So I want to
6:15:51
start off just by placing my hands on the back
6:15:56
of your head, just gently, just so you can feel
6:16:01
while my hands feel like really on you, so you
6:16:10
can maybe feel the warmth of my hands on the
6:16:12
back of your head. And with my hands to the
6:16:17
side of your head, not pressing, but just holding there
6:16:22
very gently, maybe over your ears, and a little bit
6:16:28
on your face, so you can feel my hands so
6:16:35
you can become accustomed to them. And now put my
6:16:48
hands on the back of your head again and gently
6:16:52
let them slide down onto the back of your neck.
6:17:05
You can feel my hands gently stroking the back of
6:17:15
your neck to start with, just so you can get
6:17:21
used to the feeling with my hands on your skin,
6:17:26
get accustomed to realize that you're safe and it's all good,
6:17:35
it's all fine. And I'm going to start gently messaging
6:17:46
the muscles in the back of your neck with both hands.
6:18:02
Speaker 16: Now, this is a very.
6:18:03
Speaker 1: Trusting situation really, because our necks are so fragile and
6:18:11
to have someone have their hands around your neck in
6:18:16
that way can sometimes be problematic for people, which is
6:18:21
why massages are quite good because it allows you to
6:18:26
relax and to get in touch with trust to feel
6:18:40
peaceful and calm, and there's a massage the sides of
6:18:52
your neck, gently moving from the bottom with your neck.
6:19:02
It would be sort of near where your shoulders start,
6:19:04
I guess, all the way up to your jaw, your ears,
6:19:12
kind of area that side of your neck. Of course,
6:19:18
it's a lot longer than the front of your neck.
6:19:33
The message in the back of your neck, especially that
6:19:41
area where perhaps we hold tension, and as that area's message,
6:19:50
you can actually feel a sense of release in the
6:19:54
back of your neck, and maybe you can breathe it
6:20:02
out as well. Notice how it feels. Notice how you feel.
6:20:18
Then moving down to that area between your neck and
6:20:22
your shoulders, that muscle area, starting to message that area
6:20:32
on both sides. I mean, this would be the area
6:20:37
that a lot of people would message if they were
6:20:39
going to give you like a shoulder message. Even that's
6:20:45
not technically the shoulders, but it's all the muscles that
6:20:48
lead to the shoulders.
6:20:51
Speaker 16: From the neck.
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Speaker 1: And a game that can hold tension and stress. And
6:20:59
when massaged sometimes a nice deep message is useful, and
6:21:07
you decide how deep that message is and just allow
6:21:25
my knuckles just to dig in to get to those
6:21:30
muscles and to really relaxed all the time being firm
6:21:41
yet gentle with you and just stroking down the area
6:22:01
to your actual shoulders, moving to the muscles of your shoulders,
6:22:13
and maybe initially just pulling up the shoulders a little
6:22:18
bit of the table just to give you a little
6:22:21
bit of a stretch, but very gently. And you've got
6:22:32
the muscles at the front of your shoulders, the sides
6:22:36
and the back. Again, this is a part that can
6:22:46
really take quite a bit of pressure, quite a bit
6:22:52
of needing if if you wish to really release the
6:23:02
tension to really get into those muscles and let your
6:23:11
fingers in there make you feel really nice. Sometimes it's
6:23:17
just being stroked gently or being massaged quite strongly. It
6:23:28
can all be beneficial to the realaxation. Put the muscles
6:23:38
in your shoulders. Now to move down your arms would
6:23:58
do one arm at a time, starting with your right arm.
6:24:08
Well I do is I just lift your arm up,
6:24:13
just hold it to the side of you, that word
6:24:18
still be attached, and I just message the tops of
6:24:24
your arms all the way down to your forearms into
6:24:41
your wrists, gently messaging that part. The softer part, which
6:25:05
is the under part of the arm which leads to
6:25:11
the crease in your elbow. The inside. It's much more
6:25:17
sensitive skin. Sometimes just having that stroked, I feel really nice,
6:25:37
pleasurable and relaxing. Now moving down to your right hand,
6:25:57
just holding your hand in both of my hands, just
6:26:09
pressing gently on the back of your hand and stretching
6:26:16
your fingers ever slightly at the same time, pressing down
6:26:27
and massaging each finger, and then starting to massage the
6:26:40
palms of the hand. Just turning the hand gently, stretching
6:26:53
it gently, and actually in your handheld can really be
6:27:04
an emotional experience sometimes even if it is a stranger,
6:27:12
so when you don't know very well, like a massage
6:27:16
person or a therapist, maybe because it's intimate and it
6:27:30
can feel nice, you can feel safe. As I put
6:27:43
that right arm back down where it was, I'm gonna
6:27:51
do the same with your left arm, exactly the same,
6:28:02
massage in the muscles your arm all the way down
6:28:09
to your rest, stroking the inside of your arm, just
6:28:21
being gentle or as firm as you require, and then
6:28:35
massaging your left hand, stretching the fingers gently, massaging the
6:28:52
palm of your left hand. You can feel so so relaxing,
6:29:19
so comforting, and I just rest your left down, back down.
6:29:44
Start to message your back, the biggest part of your body,
6:29:56
starting at the top, starting again where we already been,
6:30:03
the area at the top in between his shoulders, k
6:30:08
near your neck. Going back, a massage in that area again,
6:30:14
but this time moving downwards, taking a downward stroke to
6:30:28
the middle of your back, working from the outside inwards.
6:30:36
It's a massage in the your back, but the outsides
6:30:44
of your back, the parts where your arms would maybe
6:30:54
rest against, almost the path that connects your front to
6:31:07
your back. Just messaging down firmly but gently, as firm
6:31:25
as you want, moving down and moving across a little bit,
6:31:33
and moving all the way down again, be very gentle
6:31:39
yet firm as you choose. Eventually we get to the spine.
6:31:51
We can massage the muscles and either side of your
6:31:55
spine from the top of your neck all the way
6:31:59
down to your lower back. We can do that a
6:32:10
few times. Sometimes people would use the knuckle or the
6:32:21
two fingers and just go your side of the spine,
6:32:27
almost just push down, go all the way down to
6:32:31
the bottom of the spine, each time releasing tension and
6:32:39
opening up the body. Stretching your body so that you
6:32:48
feel more relaxed but at the same time rejuvenated. And
6:33:07
now I'm going to move to one side, to your
6:33:10
right side, and from the bottom of your ribs to
6:33:19
your pelvis, I'm going to massage that area of your back.
6:33:27
I'll stretch over the other side and I'll pull the
6:33:31
muscles gently and massage and push from one end that
6:33:38
side or way to my side. It's in the middle
6:33:42
of fact to where your spine is massaging that side
6:33:48
of your spine the opposite side to where I'm standing.
6:33:55
It's almost like kneading bread. There's that big area which
6:34:01
is firm yet lots there to message. Potentially one of
6:34:13
the most important places to actually have a message because
6:34:19
you really feel it. You really feel the release and
6:34:25
the pleasure of having your lower back massaged. It releases
6:34:34
so much from your body that's not useful, starting a
6:34:42
healing process which will continue long after this recording is over.
6:34:58
The message in this part of your body nine he
6:35:01
feels really good for you. It's actually fun to do
6:35:07
because it is, as I said, like kneading bread. It's
6:35:13
a part that you can really get hold of and
6:35:17
really massage deeply. If that's your choice, and then I'm
6:35:30
going to move over to the other side of your
6:35:32
body and do the same with the opposite part of
6:35:41
your lawer back, kneading and messaging from your sides all
6:35:49
the way to the middle of your back where your
6:35:56
spine is pressing and kneading firm and gentle at the
6:36:09
same time. It feels so releasing this mixture of pleasure, comfort, release, calmness,
6:36:25
relaxation or mixed together. Plus there's that feeling from your
6:36:36
stomach as it's been stretched. Even though you're in your
6:36:42
stomach now, you can feel it being stretched because that
6:36:46
whole area is connected to your stomach. Now we're going
6:36:57
to move or move further up to your top of
6:37:02
your body and I we do the same this time,
6:37:08
starting with your upper back. Put my hands forward over
6:37:16
and mass massage in that area up to your spine,
6:37:24
from the side of your body up to your spine.
6:37:28
So some of that massage area, the muscle tissue or
6:37:34
whatever fatty tissue even will be possibly from your chest.
6:37:40
There's all connected, the chest and the back connect together.
6:37:47
I'm going to be massaging and just pulling some of
6:37:51
that skin from your side up and massaging that area
6:38:02
of your upper back all the way to your spine.
6:38:10
And then I'll move down a bit and I'll continue
6:38:13
with the middle of your back, doing exactly the same
6:38:16
thing as gentle, as deep as you choose. Now, I'll
6:38:34
move the other side again and do the exact same
6:38:38
thing with the top of your back on the other side,
6:38:43
from pretty much underneath your arm area really to your spine,
6:39:03
and then continuing that all the way down, including your
6:39:09
lower your middle of your back. I'm gonna go to
6:39:27
your thighs, the backs of your thighs and the sides
6:39:34
of your thighs, starting with your right leg, and massage
6:39:43
in the back and the sides of your thighs gently
6:39:53
and firmly. There's a lot of muscles there. It's an
6:39:59
area that can be very tense at times and maybe
6:40:03
needs a little bit more pressure than the rest of
6:40:06
the body that's up to you. You can gently stroke
6:40:14
the back of your legs where you know, opposite your
6:40:22
knee joint or underneath your knee joint, very sensitive, gentle area.
6:40:36
And then working down to your calf muscles, massage in
6:40:44
your calf muscles thoroughly and deeply, if you choose, using
6:40:53
both hands and fingers and deep to your ankles, in
6:41:12
the back of your back of your ankles, just gently
6:41:18
massage in that area, maybe lifting the leg and stretching
6:41:31
a little bit. Moving to the right foot, massage in
6:41:56
the bottom of your feet and the sides of your
6:42:03
feet gently but firm enough so they don't tickle, and
6:42:20
just allow the pleasure that you get from heaving your
6:42:25
feet massaged to just overtake you as I continue to
6:42:35
message your feet, the bottoms of your feet, the sides,
6:42:44
your arches, your heel. You can put a lot of
6:42:49
pressure into your heel and it feels amazing, yet the
6:42:56
arches need to be a bit more gentle. Stretching your
6:43:04
toes gently, the massage in the bottoms of your toes
6:43:11
with my fingers, each one individually. Moving over to the
6:43:26
left leg to do exactly the same thing, starting at
6:43:36
the top of the thighs, work in the back of
6:43:40
the thighs and the sides, massaging deeply and gently the
6:43:48
whole area, working all the way down. And this is
6:44:02
an area that maybe you could like to spend more
6:44:08
time relaxing and messaging. So perhaps if you wanted like
6:44:17
a bigger future recording wants spend more time on one
6:44:23
particular area as you move down to your calf muscles.
6:44:40
Massage in your calf muscles firmly and gently, moving down
6:44:56
your aincord into your feet. Massage in the backs of
6:45:03
your feet, the bottoms of your feet, stretching your toes,
6:45:13
and massage in each tone individually. And then feeling of
6:45:20
pleasure and release that you experience when your having your
6:45:26
feet massaged feels really good. Now should turn over in
6:45:47
your mind. Laying on your back, I'm just going to
6:45:58
start again with your neck area in your shoulders, just
6:46:16
to get back in touch with that area. And as
6:46:26
you move up, I can clean my hands make them
6:46:38
more fresh, because now I'm gonna message your face gently,
6:46:48
starting off with your forehead. Your eyes are closed and
6:46:59
I think your stretch your eyes a little bit, pushing
6:47:05
up on your eyebrows, and just massaging around your scalp,
6:47:21
massaging down your cheeks, around your ears, into your chaw,
6:47:32
gently the sides of your neck chin m hm, and
6:47:55
just moving down shall your neck down to your chest,
6:48:06
starting by massage in the very top of your chest
6:48:14
where the collar bone is. Give a side of the collarbone,
6:48:27
and then just massage in the hole of the chest,
6:48:40
moving the chest around. Because it's quite a large area,
6:48:54
you can move from one side to the next, moving
6:49:02
my hands underneath pretty much where your arms are, stretching up,
6:49:15
stretching some of the muscles of your back in the process,
6:49:23
moving up over your chest and they're moving down again,
6:49:44
and then all alower on my hands. The just massage
6:49:48
gently and slide down towards your stomach, starting in the
6:49:56
middle of your chest, and then gradually my hands moving
6:50:03
apart and massaging and sliding at the same time, moving
6:50:12
down to just below your rib cage, moving down and
6:50:31
then massaging up again, giving your chest all the attention
6:50:40
that it needs to feel completely relaxed. Remembering that I'm
6:50:54
also going to be focusing on your sides as well,
6:51:00
an area that really doesn't get much attention but feels
6:51:06
really good when it's massaged. Just stroking my hands down
6:51:17
the sides of your body, just below your arms, all
6:51:24
the way down to your hips. Now move into your
6:51:36
stomach area. I'm going to stand one side of you
6:51:43
like I did when I did your lower back. I'm
6:51:47
going to do a similar process of just stretching the
6:51:52
muscles from your side gently massage in from one side
6:52:06
to the next, move in the whole area from below
6:52:14
your ribs all the way down to below your belly button.
6:52:26
I'm going to move around to the other side of
6:52:28
you and repeat that process of relaxing, deeply, calmly. You
6:52:47
feel loose, you feel free. And it's something about having
6:52:54
your stomach massage that's different from any other part because
6:53:02
we do have a tendency of holding a different kind
6:53:07
of stress in our stomach that we may not be
6:53:11
aware of. As I now message your stomach in front
6:53:22
of your stomach, making circles around your belly button, thing
6:53:36
going the other way around. There's a gentleness and a
6:53:45
freedom that comes from feeling how you're feeling. As I
6:53:57
now move down the tops of your thighs, muscles, massaging them,
6:54:07
and I can do this two legs at the same time,
6:54:12
pressing down, massaging deeply those muscles in your thighs at
6:54:22
front of your thighs, and moving down to your knees,
6:54:31
gently massaging your knees, sliding down your shins, putting pressure
6:54:44
on either side of your shin gently softly but firmly,
6:54:56
moving down to your ankles, stroke in the tops of
6:55:05
your feet, and then with each foot in each hand,
6:55:17
just gently messaging the whole of the foot, the top,
6:55:25
the bottom, your heel, your ankle, your toes, messaging every
6:55:34
part of your feet. It feels so good to let
6:55:43
go and enjoy the process, enjoy feeling deeply relaxed, so
6:56:09
much comfort and so many feelings that come just from
6:56:16
touching your skin. And you can just lie there for
6:56:33
as long as you choose, enjoying the feeling of deep
6:56:42
comfort and being massaged. Quite me, enjoy the deeply.
6:57:11
Speaker 3: Right.
6:57:18
Speaker 1: And all we're gonna do is blow out some candles.
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In your mind, there are gonna be a hundred candles,
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and you're going to blow each one out individually, one
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by one, starting at one hundred. As I count down
6:58:08
all the way down to one, and each time I
6:58:15
say a number, you can imagine that candle in front
6:58:24
of you, and I'd like you to actually physically gently
6:58:35
blow that candle out. Just it's not big blow, it's
6:58:51
just a gentle, and that candle will extinguish. And then
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I'll say the next number as we move down, and
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you can just plow that one out as well. And
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as we move down the numbers, you'll find yourself feeling
6:59:36
more and more relaxed. If you need to sleep, you'll
6:59:44
also find yourself becoming incredibly tired and sleepy. In fact,
6:59:56
you may struggle to blow out all one hundred of
7:00:07
these candles as you feel more and more deeply relaxed,
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more and more deeply tired, and the further you go down,
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the more your mind starts to drift. You may find
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that you stop listening to me after a while.
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Speaker 17: And even though there may be background sounds where you are,
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you'll be aware of those sounds.
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Speaker 1: At the moment, be may start to just not even
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notice them at all, because they're unimportant. Where I am,
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I've got the sounds of the birds, there's horrors, the
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pigeon who likes to say hello sometimes, and there's the
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odd plane that goes by, maybe traffic and trains in
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the distance. But none of that scene is important whatsoever.
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All candles you blow out less important. Anything is more
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candles you blow out. The further seemed to move away
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from sounds and from general date days. Stuff seems to
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just move away on its own. You feel more calmer
7:04:00
with every candle you blow out. H the next number,
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do you hear me say? And then you blow that
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candle out to h so easy, so simple. We're gonna
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start by introducing the first candle, which is a hundred
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first candles one hundred. When you blow that candle out,
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you'll find immediately a slight change in how you feel,
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as well as a real sense of positivity growing within,
7:06:10
relaxation and sleepiness expanding. Starting with one hundred blow out
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back candle now ninety nine, candle ninety eight, can ninety seven,
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cam ninety six, ten ninety five, hand ninety four, can't
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do ninety three, hand ninety two and ninety one, ten
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to ninety and eighty two nine and threty eight and
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eighties schndo eighty eight five and and and eighty two.
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Speaker 15: Da us.
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Speaker 1: And two one jes seventy nine, candle seventy eight, candle
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seventy seven, candle seventy six, can handle seventy five, candle
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seventy four, candle seventy three, candle seventy two, candle seventy one,
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candle seventy one and seventy and do sixty nine can
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do sixty eight, candle sixty seven, candle sixty five, candle
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sixty four, candle sixty four, candle sixty three candle sixty
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two and sixty one, candle sixty seven, fifty nine, hand
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fifty eight, candle fifty seven, candle fifty six, candle fifty five,
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handle fifty four, handle fifty three, handle fifty two, fifty two.
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Speaker 8: And to.
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Speaker 1: Fifty candle fifty one, candle fifty candle foty nine, candle
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forty eight, candle forty seven, ten to forty six and
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forty five and forty two candle who do candle forty
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candle thirty nine and do thirty eight, can't do thirty seven,
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canto thirty five, two thirty four, handle thirty three, handle
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thirty one, shandle thirty two in eighteen nine, ten, twenty
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eight and twenty seven, twenty six can do twenty five,
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can four end of twenty thirty and doing deep two
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and twenty world and white yen end ninety chendle seventeen
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zo sixteen choz four, jen to t and yea nine
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and eight s six.
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Speaker 3: Jim can do.
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Speaker 18: Wo and doy.
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Speaker 19: Usa two.
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Speaker 1: Yen. Or let go of all of those thoughts, worries,
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concerns about the past, thoughts about the future, and even
8:04:23
things you've been thinking about today. Just let it all
8:04:27
go because none of it is useful in this moment.
8:04:38
This is your opportunity to just focus on feeling relaxed,
8:04:58
allowing yourself to to get in touch with that natural
8:05:04
sense of peace that we all have within us. It's
8:05:14
available for everyone. It just sometimes takes a little bit
8:05:20
of effort to set up the right time and place
8:05:27
in order for you to just let go. Because when
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you do decide to let go and relax, that's what
8:05:42
your body starts to do because you've chosen. You've chosen
8:05:50
to just allow your body to unwind and your mind
8:05:58
starts to slow down. And it's a nice feeling. It's
8:06:06
a nice feeling at the beginning, just to know that
8:06:10
you have chosen to decide to relax deeply, and because
8:06:20
you've made that decision, your body will just follow suit.
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Because sometimes all the muscles in your body need is
8:06:34
just permission from you to relax. Because so often we're busy,
8:06:44
we're going from here to there, we're walking around, and
8:06:48
we're doing stuff, and the body doesn't have any time
8:06:56
or space to really relax deeply. So it kind of
8:07:04
waits for you to lead the way, waits for your permission,
8:07:14
and when you do give your permission.
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Speaker 2: When you give to say so, we can say okay,
8:07:24
it's time.
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Speaker 1: For your body to let go completely and relax totally.
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Your body just follows. It's like a breath of relief.
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Speaker 3: Ah.
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Speaker 1: Good, I can now relax. That feeling at the end
8:07:53
of a day, of a very physical day that you
8:07:56
may experience in the past. Get home and you just
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sit down on a chair, maybe you kick your shoes
8:08:05
off and our ah feels so nice knowing that you
8:08:11
don't have to get up again for a little while
8:08:15
at least if you choose, you can just sit there
8:08:19
for maybe an hour to It feels blissful. And just
8:08:32
by sitting down like that, your body knows that it's
8:08:37
time to relax. Your body has been given permission from you.
8:08:45
Because it's a mindset in your mind, you're prepared to
8:08:55
let go of everything and just completely allow all the
8:09:05
stress of your body to evaporate. Any tensions can just
8:09:14
gradually vanish. It's almost like magic, really, because that sense
8:09:34
of relaxation in your body, it's a very natural state.
8:09:42
It's not something unusual. It may feel unusual when you
8:09:47
first start to relax, if you if you haven't really
8:09:52
spent a lot of time, focusing and giving yourself this
8:09:56
space to let go completely and relax. They seem almost alien,
8:10:04
but it isn't. It's actually the most natural.
8:10:09
Speaker 16: Thing in the world.
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Speaker 1: To let go completely, to relax totally, the most natural
8:10:21
thing in the world to allow yourself to feel really
8:10:34
calm in your mind. And it is almost like a
8:10:40
literal unwinding. It's like you press a button and all
8:10:50
the tension just releases. It's like a wheel, like a cog,
8:10:58
like the inside of the clock, just unwinding. And it's
8:11:01
almost like you could see that the little wind up
8:11:06
kno that's used just going the opposite way that you
8:11:11
choose to wind it up, and the energy that premetic
8:11:19
stress for energy gradually winding down, losing its power, losing
8:11:29
its strength. As a sense of relaxation becomes stronger and deeper,
8:11:42
and you may find a the more relaxed you feel,
8:11:50
that your mind starts to wonder, maybe seem to stop
8:12:00
listening to me for a while, Your mind goes somewhere else,
8:12:07
and then you realize you're listening to me again, and
8:12:13
that was just your mind to drifting to sleep, which
8:12:19
is quite natural because sometimes when we're stressed and tense.
8:12:30
We're not mean I actually be aware of what we need,
8:12:35
what we physically, you're emotionally need in this moment. But
8:12:44
when you allow your body and mind to relax completely
8:12:52
and you let go of all thoughts, concerns, worries, ideas,
8:13:01
all letting them go allow them to drop onto the floor.
8:13:11
When you start to get in touch with the feelings
8:13:17
of such relaxation, this feels so nice to be in
8:13:29
touch with the calmness of the different body parts as
8:13:36
they become looser and looser. Even your breathing scenes easier
8:13:52
and more natural, effortless. Is that cools through your mouth
8:14:02
or nose into your lungs, breathing in comforts and relaxation,
8:14:14
and then just breathing out any excess remain intention or
8:14:21
stress from every part of your body.
8:14:27
Speaker 3: And mind.
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Speaker 1: And as you start to focus on your mind, maybe
8:14:36
you notice that things come to a standstill or maybe
8:14:44
just much much lower than before, because your mind is
8:14:53
not really needed when listening to my voice, which allows
8:15:04
your mind to relax just as deeply as your body.
8:15:13
And that's synchronicity between the relaxation of your body relaxation
8:15:26
of your mind.
8:15:29
Speaker 19: Let you know that.
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Speaker 1: Feeling completely calm, loose, and relaxed really is a great
8:15:46
healing experience fear and has so many positive benefits for
8:16:03
your body, your mind, and your life. To be able
8:16:09
to let go.
8:16:11
Speaker 2: Everything and to relax completely.
8:16:19
Speaker 1: In all parts of your body and mind. Even your
8:16:27
bone has arised, all your muscles arise, even the skin
8:16:44
that covers your body is rised, every hair.
8:17:00
Speaker 3: You have.
8:17:02
Speaker 1: It's also deeply relaxed, and your brain restarts to feel
8:17:20
the benefits this healing relaxation. And as you focus on
8:17:36
the inside of your scalp where your brain is, you
8:17:42
can start to realize and notice the benefits of your
8:17:50
brain relaxing deeply. And then there's your brain continues to
8:18:01
relax sends those messages to the rest of your body
8:18:13
and your mind to re reax more deeply, relax me
8:18:32
more completely, letting go of any remaining thoughts or consents,
8:18:50
allowed them just to drop onto the floor because they're
8:18:57
no longer necessary in this moment, In this moment of
8:19:06
deep relaxation and calmness, feeling your brain with deep concentrated heathing, calming,
8:19:36
relaxing every power of your brain, feeling so loose and comfortable,
8:19:58
so relaxed and peaceful. Your brain feels so light, that's
8:20:14
so healthy. That sense of deep, deep comfort really does
8:20:27
allow you to enjoy those ever increase in sensations of
8:20:41
comfort that are spreading throughout your body, relaxing each and
8:20:56
every muscle of your body, eat deeper, deeper, much more
8:21:13
deeper than before, much more convent spreading through your body.
8:21:32
Your mind be so peaceful and chalm, so very very
8:21:50
peaceful in avery part of your body, letting go, mm
8:22:04
hmm everything aything, so peaceful, time, so relax a very
8:22:29
second the passes you feel.
8:22:38
Speaker 20: Dper dper relax dper and dperlax, so calm.
8:23:07
Speaker 1: Peace for so very peace from your head down to
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your ties, such peace and comfort throwing all the time,
8:23:36
such peace and comfort spreading through your body and mind
8:23:50
deep and deeper, such comfort, ready and sinking deeper into
8:24:06
airy muscle of your body. So the feel amazing, so relaxed,
8:24:25
so piece so so relaxed and piece, so.
8:24:41
Speaker 19: Lett him go.
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Speaker 1: Every I'm gonna do a body scan, focusing on firstly
8:24:57
how you feel in your not trying to change how
8:25:03
you feel, not trying to relax, not trying to move
8:25:09
away from any discomfort, or stress or tension. Just accepting,
8:25:17
observing and accepting how you feel in the different parts
8:25:23
of your body. Just allowing yourself to be exactly as
8:25:29
you are, to notice, to get in touch with how
8:25:41
you actually feel in this moment. I'm going to start
8:25:48
off by focusing on your hands. Just be aware of hands.
8:26:05
I'd like you to move your hands around, just maybe
8:26:10
move your fingers a little bit. I've been enclosing your
8:26:16
hands very gently, just so that you can get in
8:26:24
touch with how your hands and your fingers feel, very
8:26:37
very slow movements. Focusing now on your feet, and if
8:26:55
you can just do kind of an equivalent with your
8:26:59
feet you've just done with your hands. Maybe turn in
8:27:06
your ankles, moving your feet around, moving your toes gently,
8:27:17
but only very gently and very slowly, noticing how your
8:27:29
feet feel in this moment. Focusing now and your eyes,
8:27:46
and I'd like you to just focus on your eyelids.
8:27:52
Maybe you can open and close your eyes a couple
8:27:55
of times to really get in touch with how you feel.
8:28:01
When you do close your eyes, the muscle changes in
8:28:09
your eyes when you do close them. Maybe you're raising
8:28:15
your eyebrows. It stretches the tops of your eyes. Perhaps
8:28:24
squinting your eyes, scrunching up your eyes just so you
8:28:33
can hear it again. Touch with all aspects of how
8:28:44
your eyes feel right now. Now focus in on your thighs,
8:29:03
and it just starts you to gently tense your thighs,
8:29:09
just very very gently, just enough so you can become
8:29:20
more achieved to the physical sensation of your upper legs,
8:29:34
the front of your thighs, and the backs of your thighs.
8:29:41
Noticing and observing how your thighs feel right now, moving
8:30:01
your focus to the back of your neck, just noticing
8:30:10
the back of your neck, the muscles, and of course
8:30:16
they lead to the side of your neck. They also
8:30:20
lead to the top of your back, which leads to
8:30:25
your shoulders. So as your focus on the back of
8:30:31
your neck, maybe you can move your head gently upwards
8:30:40
as if you're looking up. Maybe moving your head down
8:30:47
as if you're looking down. Perhaps moving your head side
8:30:54
to side, right to left bony very slowly and very gently.
8:31:09
I'm not trying to force anything. It has to be
8:31:14
very very gentle, just so you can be more in
8:31:28
touch with the feelings, with the sensations, physical sensations of
8:31:41
how the back of your neck feels. Right now.
8:31:55
Speaker 19: As we.
8:31:58
Speaker 1: Now focus on the tops of your arms, the parts
8:32:06
where your biceps and your triceps are between your elbow
8:32:11
and your shoulders. To focus on those parts, the tops
8:32:20
of your arms, you may like to just tense them,
8:32:27
but very very gently and slowly, so you know, straining
8:32:39
or put in any pressure whatsoever on your arms.
8:32:49
Speaker 19: It's just so that you can.
8:32:54
Speaker 1: Gain more of a sense of how you upper arms
8:33:03
I feeling in this moment and just noticing as you gently,
8:33:17
very gently and slowly tighten the muscles and then let go.
8:33:31
Notice how the tops of your arms feel. Right now,
8:33:47
there's a now focus on your stomach, the area the
8:33:58
lower aptomen area. Blow your belly button, move it all
8:34:04
the way down to your hips, just above your grind.
8:34:18
Maybe you're able to tense these muscles in the area
8:34:26
very very gently and slowly, if that's a difficult thing
8:34:41
to do, and maybe you can just move your body,
8:34:50
pushing your stomach up, maybe moving an orbit to the
8:34:56
side using your hips, just so you can get more
8:35:05
in tune with how your lower abdomen area is feeling
8:35:20
in this moment. Just noticing the physical sensations of your
8:35:37
lower abdomen as you move your attention to your mouth,
8:36:02
not to see in your lips and inside your mouth,
8:36:09
the tea, your guns, your tongue. Just noticing how your
8:36:27
tongue in your mouth feels, and it may help by
8:36:35
moving your tongue around your mouth, moving it to your left,
8:36:44
maybe pressing it gently against the side of your mouth,
8:36:52
and then to the right, gently to the side of
8:36:57
your mouth, perhaps pressing up against the top of your mouth,
8:37:06
and then down gently against the bottom of your mouth.
8:37:14
Ays very slowly and a very very gentle, soothy. You
8:37:31
can be aware of how you feel in your mouth
8:37:47
area now and to focus on your wrists. And I'm
8:38:19
going to ask you to maybe just routine your wrists
8:38:27
by moving your hands in a circular motion very gently
8:38:37
and slowly, just.
8:38:43
Speaker 19: So you can.
8:38:50
Speaker 1: Feel the sensations that you currently eperiencing in your risks.
8:39:13
Perhapsolute in your hands.
8:39:17
Speaker 18: Up and down.
8:39:21
Speaker 1: Again very very gently and slowly, very gent so so
8:39:47
and slow.
8:40:02
Speaker 19: As you now.
8:40:05
Speaker 1: Start to observe in a lower back. Their bad part
8:40:20
is just the buf of your hips where your coxis
8:40:30
are a whole area which also really does include the
8:40:43
signs of your body is those muscles are very much connected.
8:40:55
There's those muscles also move into your hip area connecting
8:41:02
to your buttics the sides of your hips, and if
8:41:17
you're physically able to do so, maybe e in very gently,
8:41:30
just nevebody ever slightly, very slowly, some side to side,
8:41:48
just enough to gauge how you feel in your lower back.
8:42:12
Perhaps it even move your hips gently up and down,
8:42:26
gently and slowly, in order to be in touch with
8:42:41
the physical sensations of your lower back.
8:43:04
Speaker 19: As we know.
8:43:10
Speaker 1: To your attention to your jaw, that area from your
8:43:21
chin all the way up to near where your ears are.
8:43:30
Speaker 19: Oh, your jaw, you can just yeah, it's okay to
8:43:46
do so.
8:43:48
Speaker 1: Gently open your mouth, not wide, they stretch, just very
8:44:00
ently and slowly opening your mouth in closing your mouth
8:44:14
very gently and slowly, so you can be in touch
8:44:40
with how your jaw feels. Now and I have to
8:45:13
sit down the chest area and I need to do
8:45:29
anything to move your chest it is. It moves every
8:45:37
time you breathe. It moves very gently and slowly, automatically
8:45:56
with each breath you tache. Make you focus on.
8:46:11
Speaker 7: Your chest.
8:46:18
Speaker 1: Feels when you pray. Move in your focus to your forms,
8:47:01
your elbows. Maybe you're able to very gently and slowly
8:47:20
tense the muscles in your forearms, and when you do that,
8:47:29
you can feel your elbows as well, very gently and
8:47:51
slowly gently, Absolutely, I'm sady. Your forearms and dopers no
8:48:41
focus resting her back.
8:48:54
Speaker 7: Off the back.
8:48:59
Speaker 1: And the middle the middle of your back again this
8:49:18
part of your body. News. Also every time you breed,
8:49:33
you may not notice that. Usually make you serve your
8:49:46
upper back. In the middle of your back. You can
8:49:54
really feel that into.
8:50:06
Speaker 11: Ends.
8:50:13
Speaker 21: Yea men, your focus.
8:50:52
Speaker 1: Into the area by the boy. There's muscles and those
8:51:07
bones in your midsection. This made u sense how there
8:51:43
were heaps feel right now you can very very gently
8:52:06
used your HAPs maybe side to sign very gently and
8:52:39
very gently softly. Everything starts to slow down, including the
8:53:22
thoughts in your mind and your mind itself just starts
8:53:32
to gradually. It doesn't have to be instant, but just
8:53:38
gradually starting too. It's almost like time is story him.
8:53:51
It's a slower pace to maybe what you're used to
8:53:59
in your day to day life. It's a slower movement
8:54:10
of energy, very small movements which make up the larger movements,
8:54:35
which is always the case. Now, when you move your hand,
8:54:43
it might seem like it's one movement, but it's lots
8:54:45
of minute different muscles moving in accordance with each other.
8:54:54
And what happened in this space that we're sharing is
8:55:11
we move from that big movement into those smaller movements.
8:55:32
Starting to focus on how your body feels, not just
8:55:43
as a whole, not just oh, i'm feeling this way.
8:55:48
I'm feeling stressed or tense, or I'm feeling relaxed and calm.
8:55:55
I'm feeling this way, I'm feeling that way. Starting to
8:56:02
notice that your body begins to present to you small
8:56:14
feelings around your body, small physical sensations in your legs,
8:56:33
whether pleasurable or not. Maybe resisting the temptation to label
8:56:47
them or to judge them, those feelings, just thinking them,
8:56:57
thinking about them as just being luke sure, just feelings,
8:57:10
not being particularly conserned, but just noticing what your body
8:57:21
is telling you.
8:57:30
Speaker 2: Feelings in your arms, instead of feeling the whole of
8:57:36
the arm.
8:57:38
Speaker 1: Maybe notice those individual feelings, all those different muscles and
8:57:51
the skin, the hairs of your arms, the or the
8:58:00
internal parts of your arms, the veins, the bones. Just
8:58:17
being aware of maybe your elbow on your right arm
8:58:26
has a certain feeling, maybe your left wrist also has
8:58:37
its own individual physical sensation. What about your forearm on
8:58:58
your right.
8:58:59
Speaker 16: Arm, you're right for arm, there may not be any.
8:59:11
Speaker 1: Particular feeling that you could even give a name to,
8:59:22
may not feel like anything other than just a feeling.
8:59:27
You know, it's there. The feelings in your shoulders, perhaps
8:59:39
your shoulders when you think about them, kind of almost
8:59:43
like they're the same, you know, the same feeling, almost
8:59:50
like you both of your shoulders are just one thing.
8:59:55
Of course they're not. And when you focus on your
9:00:06
left shoulder and then on your right shoulder, maybe find
9:00:14
that you move the muscles a little bit, maybe tense
9:00:20
the muscles gently, noticing the difference in each shoulder, and
9:00:45
you lower back the left side of your lower back
9:01:01
and the right side of your lower back. Of course
9:01:13
that connection to your buttocks into your hips, and also
9:01:26
moving up into the middle of your back. And sometimes
9:01:40
like right now, actually when I focus on their part,
9:01:45
when I focused on my buttocks and then I focused
9:01:49
on the middle of my back, almost felt like the
9:01:54
muscles in my lower back were being stretched very gently,
9:02:03
just stretched a little bit. Even though I wasn't doing
9:02:08
anything to try to stretch your lower back, it just
9:02:17
seemed to happen. The feeling of very gently stretching your
9:02:30
lower back comes along and feeling in your chest. Just
9:02:57
noticing what sensations you are experiencing in your chest right now.
9:03:23
And there's so much of the chest. Obviously, there's the
9:03:27
collar bone leading to the chest. You've got the chest bone,
9:03:34
You've got the muscles in your chest. Of course, if
9:03:42
you're female, there's possibly the breasts your male you've got
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the different well might not make different these days, but
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then maybe more muscles at the top of the chest,
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but at the side underneath, it's pretty much the same.
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Whether you're a man or a woman. There's muscles there,
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muscles that stretch out to your back as well as
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breast tissue which stretches and moves into your back. To
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just being aware of your chest, being with whatever feeling
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there is in your chest. Well, I noticed that I
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focus on my chest. I feel it in my back
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and my upper back. I mean, I guess the obvious
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reason would be because you know, I'll breathe in in
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then it stretches my chest and my back at the
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same time. It feels it feels okay, it doesn't feel
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a little bit of pain, in my right chest a
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little bit, not pain, but a little discomfort, maybe stiffness possibly,
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I don't know. Notice my shoulders are also wanting to
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flex for some reason. I think that's probably part of
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my upper back, that connection between my shoulders and my
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upper back, because I can move my shoulders and stretch
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the muscles in my back, moving the shoulders backwards or up,
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which then moves I think it's the scapulous in your back.
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It feels quite nice.
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Speaker 2: Actually, a good thing about this is you can, if
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you want to, you.
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Speaker 1: Can just flex or stimulate the various muscles in your
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body gently in order to get more of the sense
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of how they feel. And when you're relaxing and your
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detense and muscle and let it go and let it relax.
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It relaxes way more than it would normally.
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Speaker 16: You have to feel.
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Speaker 1: That you're able to do that.
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Speaker 19: There's no point in doing it if.
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Speaker 1: There's an issue with the pert part of your body.
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You need to be gentle with yourself at all times
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when relaxing deeply. It's important to be kind to yourself.
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As you notice your mind. How much is your.
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Speaker 2: Mind slowed down.
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Speaker 1: Since we started this recording? How come and peaceful is
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your mind right now? We have nothing to think about
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and just my voice to listen to. Because you know
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intention behind this recording, this 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 your mind to slow down because your body
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continues to relax, because that's what you want to happen.
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Speaker 2: That's what you expect to happen, a relaxation.
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Speaker 16: To fill.
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Speaker 2: Your body, maybe calm your mind.
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Speaker 1: To the point of boredom. When you start maybe to
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drift away through it's almost as if you're moving further
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away from a body in your mind, just leaving them there,
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kind of liking it an escape pod and the spaceship
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a movie, a space movie, you know, and and against
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a little pardon it since the man far away from
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the spaceship six three two two lights, drifting size and
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be so pas and focusing on that eating are those
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individual parts your body that's a relaxing one by one.
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Speaker 7: You may.
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Speaker 1: Find that every now and then you realize that you
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runt listening to my voice because your mind started to
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imagine something different, maybe started to almost move into some
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kind of a dreamy state, and then you become aware
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of my voice again.
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Speaker 19: And even though you may.
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Speaker 1: Want to focus on my voice, you may also wish
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to allow your mind to just drift naturally into that
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space of comfort and safety that you feel warm, comfort
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spreading through your body like a warm blanket covering you gently,
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keeping your body at just the perfect temperature. Even if
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you can hear background sounds, they just don't seem to
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matter anymore. There's that sensor. Peace spreads through your mind
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like a gentle breeze. Yeah, strong enough to blow away
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all negativity, strong.
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Speaker 19: Enough to.
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Speaker 1: Remove from your mind and any anxiety or stress that
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was there before, and blow away any other thoughts or
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feelings that just don't fit with the sense relaxation that
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this feeling your body end your mind. As you have
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focused on.
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Speaker 19: Your mind.
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Speaker 1: And count down from ten down to wind, with each
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number you hear, your mind will become slightly relaxed, just
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just slightly, from ten down to nine, just a slight movement,
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nine down to eight, just another small change in how
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you feel. Eight down to seven. That feeling is a
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is a gap, almost like a gap that starts to
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get wider. The gap between those feelings that you used
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to have in your mind compared to the feelings you
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have the gluing now evens of comfort and security and confidence,
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and the gap become wider. Eight down to seven, seven.
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Speaker 19: 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 this a magnet outside
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of your head, sucking contension and the stress and any
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remaining feelings that you don't want, sucking them out through
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your skull.
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Speaker 19: And in down to four.
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Speaker 1: You could start to really experience that sense not just emptiness,
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but space, place full of fresh air, place where you
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can stretch. It's almost as if as you go down
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to four and three, your.
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Speaker 2: Mind is expanded with this sense.
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Speaker 19: Of peace.
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Speaker 1: And tranquility growing.
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Speaker 19: It moves down to bring into one.
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Speaker 1: Mind is exactly how you want to feel.
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Speaker 19: The most.
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Speaker 1: Perfective feeling idea, the sensation that.
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Speaker 19: You'd like to keep.
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Speaker 1: The place that's say, where.
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Speaker 7: Nothing can affect you at all, and you.
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Speaker 1: Can stay in that that space and confirm confidence, confident
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in your own ability to create this space and this
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feeling of comfort within your own mind just by counting ten.
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Speaker 19: Down to one.
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Speaker 1: And this is something that you can do yourself when
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you're on your own, the time when.
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Speaker 19: You can maybe sit down, maybe just for a few.
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Speaker 1: Minutes, close your eyes, just count slowly from ten.
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Speaker 19: Down to one.
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Speaker 1: Go you experience these feelings.
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Speaker 19: In your mind.
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Speaker 1: And when you feel that way in your mind, your
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body copies your mind, and the feeling is spread through
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your spine and your nervous system into every part of
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your body, travels through your blood stream, feething and relaxing
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every article of your existence.
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Speaker 19: Now we can we can practice this a few times.
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Speaker 1: Before the end to be recorded, and then.
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Speaker 19: You can write this on your head.
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Speaker 1: And each time you countfort ten about one, the feelings
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of comforts, calmness, deep deep relaxation becomes stronger and deeper
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m mind grain with these positive chemicals, the spread throughout
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your body, relaxing you so quickly, relaxing your whole body
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and mind.
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Speaker 19: So very very easily, just by counting ten down to one.
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Speaker 7: So we can do now, I'm gonna count from ten.
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Speaker 19: Down to one.
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Speaker 1: I'd like you to repeat the number after me. So
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when I say ten, you can just repeat to yourself.
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Speaker 19: Death.
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Speaker 1: I just notice, beware.
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Speaker 19: How you feel in your mind and your body. Then
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when I say mine.
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Speaker 1: You can repeat to yourself. Nine became noticing the increase
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in comfort, calmness.
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Speaker 19: In your mind and your body. The same when I
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say eight, when I.
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Speaker 1: Say seven, six, I want I say five, four.
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Speaker 19: When I say three, mm hmm.
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Speaker 1: I honestly when I say one, beat that number. Now,
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of course, when you do this on your own without
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listening to me, I can say the numbers or whatever
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speed the y FI it's necessary for you, so you
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can adapt. So you feel you want to say the
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numbers ten.
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Speaker 19: Down to one faster than I did, then you.
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Speaker 1: Go ahead and do that. What if you feel when
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you do it yourself, do you like have more more
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space between the numbers, Maybe take a lot longer to.
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Speaker 19: Get them ten all the way down to one. That's
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your choice.
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Speaker 15: All say it to do.
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Speaker 19: So I'm going to count ten down to one.
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Speaker 15: We get to one.
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Speaker 19: The hook with this recording the mscles you're listening to
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music and the musical continue. Yeah, no, Y.
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Speaker 22: Four assassa.
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Speaker 23: Assassssssssssss sit.
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Speaker 1: Nineteen eighteen, sixteen, sixteen, fifteen, fourteen, thirty twelve, eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five.
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Speaker 3: Four.
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Speaker 19: Three two.
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Speaker 1: One Now opin eyes, lets the physically filed having counts
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down in twenty to one, allowing stress attention.
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Speaker 19: To lead through your fingertips and your tastes.
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Speaker 1: And as you focus on your fingertips.
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Speaker 19: Maybe they feel a little bit singly, which is it's
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it's got an understanding considering attention has been exiting your
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body through your fingertips. So now I'm going to count
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from twenty down to one again. It's time.
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Speaker 1: For you to feel relief at tension and stress and
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the anxiety that you may have leading through your stomach.
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Just leading through your stomach, almost as if it's just
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releasing to hold your stomach naval to just above your
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chests or believed chests, rather to surrounding your.
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Speaker 19: Belly by the area, the whole area. You can build
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the tension of your body where's left. Just release from
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the area, and you may notice that your stomach will
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become very relaxed. As a countdown from twenty down to one, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Twenty nineteen, eighteen, seventeen, six, fifteen, fourteen, thirteen, twelve.
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Speaker 19: Eleven, ten, nine eight seven six nine four three h.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, what.
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Speaker 1: Can be nice?
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Speaker 15: Again?
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Speaker 19: If you choose people, just keep them clothed because the
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girl's relaxing This made us say, your stomach girls.
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Speaker 15: Mad.
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Speaker 19: This is your focus, just dottle skin in your body.
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Speaker 15: It's made to say your body, girls.
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Speaker 19: Focus like a body. Back chest, stop