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HAVE A LISTEN TO BEN AND BECKY POTTER FROM THE FOLKESTONE ARROWS WHEELCHAIR BASKET BALL TEAM AND JAE HOPKINS RELIVES HER SKY DIVE. · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Good morning, sports fans are Folkster and welcome to the
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  Speaker 1: Saturday Morning Show with Me, Addwks and Kevin Sports very Daily.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Kevin, good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Not too bad, not too bad at all. Lovely sunny
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  Speaker 1: day out there again. You've got shorts on as well.
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  Speaker 2: I'm probably playing for Folks later on.
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  Speaker 1: They're a bit short, so I might play center hal
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  Speaker 1: fall center forward tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Today.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a lovely sunny day out there. We've got
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  Speaker 1: a full studio again.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, lovely, and there's nothing like being busy on a
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  Speaker 3: Saturday morning. We have got Ben and Becky Potter in
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  Speaker 3: today from the Folks and Arrow's wheelchair basketball team, and
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  Speaker 3: we'll be talking to them about everything wheelchair basketball. I've
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  Speaker 3: got a lot to learn this morning. But after that
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  Speaker 3: we will be speaking to Jay Hopkins. Now, if you remember,
• 0:51
  Speaker 3: Jay was on the show a few weeks ago with
• 0:54
  Speaker 3: her three sons about to jump out of a plane.
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  Speaker 3: Well they've done that and Jay's come back into tell
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  Speaker 3: us all about it, so don't go anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she was six foot two when she arrived and
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  Speaker 1: she's five foot four. It must have been a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a bumpy landing.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, thanks to Ross for the breakfast show earlier on.
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  Speaker 1: We could play the first song this morning and then
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  Speaker 1: we'll be speaking to Becky and Ben. First one today
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  Speaker 1: is Seal and this one is called Crazy. A man,
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  Speaker 1: they go, there's Seal there and Crazy from nineteen ninety
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  Speaker 1: all that long to go.
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  Speaker 3: Care Yeah, great, great record.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't realize it was so long ago.
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  Speaker 1: As we said, We've got Becky and Ben here, the
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  Speaker 1: Folkstone Arrows of basketball team, sorry disabled basketball team, and
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  Speaker 1: not to be mistaken with the Saints, but I believe
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  Speaker 1: you've got better results for them than the Saints this year.
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  Speaker 3: So as to keV right, okay, so welcome to the show, Ben, Ben,
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  Speaker 3: keep welcome. Becky, how are you doing good? Thank you good,
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  Speaker 3: lovely to see you. Thanks for coming in. So Folkston
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  Speaker 3: Arrows wheelchair basketball. I mean, I really think this sport
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  Speaker 3: has just gone under the radar in this town. To
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  Speaker 3: be honest, it doesn't get the recognition it deserves. So
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  Speaker 3: I'm really really pleased that you've come in so we
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  Speaker 3: can put the word out and get people, you know,
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  Speaker 3: to perhaps get down and have a look. So, so, Ben,
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  Speaker 3: how long has the team been formed?
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  Speaker 4: So I formed the team about ten, not nine or
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  Speaker 4: ten years ago. I used to play Maystone Rebels in Maystone.
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  Speaker 4: That shut down and then there was no basketball in
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  Speaker 4: Kent competitive water basket in Kent for two years. And
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  Speaker 4: then I got the opportunity to have some basketball chairs
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  Speaker 4: and I thought, well, I could sell them and make money.
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  Speaker 4: But I thought no, there's no, there's no, there's no
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  Speaker 4: disability sport in Kent. So I thought I'd start my
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  Speaker 4: own team.
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  Speaker 3: Oh great, yeah, so and so, Becky, I mean you
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  Speaker 3: are the chief number one supporter and kit washer and everything.
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  Speaker 3: So do you actually play the sport or you just
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  Speaker 3: go along support your husband and the team.
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  Speaker 5: I just go along and support. I tried it once.
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  Speaker 5: It wasn't quite for me, but it's really good fun.
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  Speaker 5: I normally I'm in charge of admin and social media
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  Speaker 5: outside of things, and go along and support.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, okay. And I mean I've looked at some
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  Speaker 3: of some of the teams in the league and done
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  Speaker 3: a bit of Actually I went on the AA route
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  Speaker 3: planner and worked out how far away they are. And
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  Speaker 3: you do have some traveling, don't you been?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, we do travel around the place. Last year,
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  Speaker 4: the furtherest we traveled last year was Cardiff this year.
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  Speaker 4: Luckily we haven't had to go to Cardiff this year.
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  Speaker 4: They've been lots of home county teams. But yeah, if
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  Speaker 4: we we we've done really well this year. We've we've
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  Speaker 4: won nine out of nine games so far and if
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  Speaker 4: we carry on this run, we'll be going to the playoffs,
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  Speaker 4: which national championships, which of this year in Worcester.
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  Speaker 3: All right, so you don't get automatic promotion, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Still go well, so it's automatic promotion if we if
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  Speaker 4: we win, automatic get promoted up to take division. But
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  Speaker 4: then you go to national champs where you play the best.
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  Speaker 4: So we are third Division South. There's Third Division Central
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  Speaker 4: and Third Division North, so they'll have the top three
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  Speaker 4: out of those and then the best fourth and then
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  Speaker 4: you play to see who is the best team in
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  Speaker 4: the third division throughout the whole country.
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  Speaker 3: I see right, Okay, Now it's not a very big league.
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  Speaker 3: But as we say, you've got a lot of traveling
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  Speaker 3: and you've got a couple of games in hand, haven't
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  Speaker 3: you at the moment. Yeah? Yeah, so so Becker you
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  Speaker 3: telling me a message media other day because I was
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  Speaker 3: looking for the Fixture or the Thames Valley Kings, but
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  Speaker 3: they couldn't make it no.
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  Speaker 5: Unfortunately, they messaged us saying that they couldn't quite create
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  Speaker 5: a team for our match. So we're hoping to reschedule,
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  Speaker 5: but due to illness and things, they weren't able to
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  Speaker 5: come down unfortunately.
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  Speaker 3: So the league quite happy with that. I mean, they
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  Speaker 3: don't mind you rescheduling.
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  Speaker 5: No, as long as it's within a certain time period
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  Speaker 5: and they're happy. Otherwise it's a forfeit on their side.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, because over the years I've learned that
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  Speaker 3: in hockey and in rugby, if you opposition can't put
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  Speaker 3: a side out in hockey it goes down as a
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  Speaker 3: five nil loss and in rugby it goes down as
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  Speaker 3: a forty nil loss. So it's nice you've got a
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  Speaker 3: little window. I suppose it's a bit more understanding with
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  Speaker 3: the very nature of the game. So Thames Valley Kings.
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  Speaker 3: Then you've got two away games, haven't you been. You've
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  Speaker 3: got London Titans and Southern Charks. So London Titans I
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  Speaker 3: seem to find like two or three venues for them.
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  Speaker 3: They must be a really big c.
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  Speaker 4: So London Titans is the second biggest club in the country.
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  Speaker 4: The other one is Sheffield Steelers up in Sheffield and
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  Speaker 4: London Titans is a massive club. They have a team
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  Speaker 4: in every single league right from the Premier League right
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  Speaker 4: down to eight foot and five foot juniors as well, really,
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  Speaker 4: which is something I want to do. But yeah, so
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  Speaker 4: when we play London Titans, we're playing at Stanmore. That's
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  Speaker 4: their main base. But yeah, they do have training because
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  Speaker 4: they have so many teams. Yeah, they have training all
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  Speaker 4: over the past and it's different grading of training.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, gotcha. So getting onto the logistics, I mean, if
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  Speaker 3: you get a game where you're playing well or anyone really,
• 6:39
  Speaker 3: hero Wood Heat Southern Sharks quite a journey and I've
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  Speaker 3: noticed that some of the start times are quite early
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  Speaker 3: all day. I mean, do you get out early or
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  Speaker 3: do you stay overnight?
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes we stay overnight. If it's really early, we stay overnight.
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  Speaker 4: At the moment, we don't have a minibus or anything
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  Speaker 4: like that, so we do travel up individually. So players
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  Speaker 4: will make their own decisions as are happy to get
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  Speaker 4: up at silly o'clock in the morning. Yeah, I'm not
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  Speaker 4: one of those. I'd like to stay in the hotel
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  Speaker 4: and have a decent breakfast and then get ready for
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  Speaker 4: the match that way.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, the logistics are training and that's only thinking
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  Speaker 3: about this this morning. I mean, if someone's going up there,
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  Speaker 3: they've got and they are disabled. Because you have got
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  Speaker 3: able bodied players, we come to come to that shortly.
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  Speaker 3: Do they have to make room for their own chair?
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  Speaker 3: And do they keep their own basketball chair?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so everyone's got their own individual basketball chair, which
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  Speaker 4: is slightly different to a normal day chair. Most players
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  Speaker 4: will bring their own. We do have some storage, but
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  Speaker 4: that's only for club chairs. So I have a development
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  Speaker 4: session before the main session and they use my chairs,
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  Speaker 4: the club chairs, and we managed to get some storage
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  Speaker 4: for those. So everyone has to bring their own. So
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  Speaker 4: most people have got a big enough car where they
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  Speaker 4: they can get them in.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we're right. So I mean that's why that
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  Speaker 3: sounds with that one, that's for sure. And I mean
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  Speaker 3: I've seen the game a couple of times. I've been
• 8:04
  Speaker 3: up and sneakly watched you lot play at the Sports
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  Speaker 3: Center and oh my word, I was absolutely let's get
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  Speaker 3: out the way, you know, because you get run over.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I mean, Becky, does it worry you when
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  Speaker 3: when you're watching the players out there, thinking, oh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: are they going to get do you get many injuries or.
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  Speaker 5: Not many generally players do you occasionally fall out? That
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  Speaker 5: does happen. I've watched it for many years, so don't
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  Speaker 5: get shocked as I used to, and generally people are
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  Speaker 5: used to it. But yeah, it's quite an intense.
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  Speaker 3: Game, it is. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, But uh I
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  Speaker 3: mean because of that, I mean this promotion that you
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  Speaker 3: might possibly get, obviously, it's going to get harder. Have
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  Speaker 3: you have you ever experienced the next level up?
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  Speaker 2: Then?
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  Speaker 4: So when I used to play the highest, I played
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  Speaker 4: with Div two. So I played in Division two and
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  Speaker 4: I'll be honest, when I played Div two it was
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  Speaker 4: more like the level of Div three. Now the level
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  Speaker 4: has increased so much, so we are going to have
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  Speaker 4: to train a lot harder, put the effort in to
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  Speaker 4: really up our game when we go up, if we
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  Speaker 4: go up to Div to.
• 9:08
  Speaker 3: Okay, Well, we're going to play a bit of music now,
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  Speaker 3: and as always, we try and dig into the playlist,
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  Speaker 3: but I must admit I couldn't find a song about
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  Speaker 3: wheelchairs or basketball. But you do do a lot of traveling.
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  Speaker 3: So we've got this one by the traveling Whelber is
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  Speaker 3: called End of the Line. Well, it's as a traveling
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  Speaker 3: wheelbar is there for the folks and Narrows who have
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  Speaker 3: got a lot of traveling next season that hopefully if
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  Speaker 3: they get promotions. Now, Ben, I've just got the list
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  Speaker 3: of the teams that are currently in Division two South
• 10:03
  Speaker 3: and some of these venues you might have been to.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously we know the London Titans, but Coventry. Have you
• 10:08
  Speaker 3: been to Coventry?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well I played Coventary. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. We've got the high Rollers in Harlow in Essex.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I used to train with the high Rollers
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  Speaker 4: when I was at university in Essex.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're a very very good team. Ye. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that's in Essex. Uh, Riverside, I.
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  Speaker 3: Don't know towns really we've got Aces wheelchair basketball.
• 10:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've also I've also played against as they're quite
• 10:35
  Speaker 4: a young team but they're very very well drilled.
• 10:38
  Speaker 3: Again, traveling wise, i've got here that they could travel.
• 10:41
  Speaker 3: You could be in Eylsbury and Buckinghamshire or Late and
• 10:44
  Speaker 3: Buzzard uh and entering in Hertfordshire. So they must be
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  Speaker 3: a big club to have those venues.
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  Speaker 4: Again, they've they've got two to or three teams.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we've got Cardiff met Archers you've been there read
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  Speaker 3: in Rockets you've been to read.
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  Speaker 4: In Nope, not been reading.
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  Speaker 3: That's all right, that might be a new one. And
• 11:00
  Speaker 3: Brixton Ballers that sounds like a bit of a Harlem
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  Speaker 3: Globe trotters.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're they're they're an interesting team. Put it that way.
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  Speaker 4: It's I wouldn't say its wheelchair basketball or wheelchair chaos,
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  Speaker 4: but they are. It's always fun when well.
• 11:13
  Speaker 3: They're looking at this table. You might be swapping places
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  Speaker 3: because their bottom of Division two self and your talk
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  Speaker 3: of Division three.
• 11:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I won't necessarily miss that if that's the case.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, right now, we was just talking off there. Becky,
• 11:26
  Speaker 3: you've got some news about and it's something I didn't
• 11:28
  Speaker 3: know because it's you're keeping it low key to get
• 11:30
  Speaker 3: it off off the ground. But development team tell us
• 11:33
  Speaker 3: about that. Yeah.
• 11:34
  Speaker 5: So we have a session for our younger players and
• 11:38
  Speaker 5: people that are new to the sport as well. Give
• 11:41
  Speaker 5: them a chance to learn about wheelchairs, learn about wilchair basketball,
• 11:44
  Speaker 5: and just meet some other disabled people if they are disabled.
• 11:47
  Speaker 5: Once they're at a level that we feel they know
• 11:50
  Speaker 5: the sport well, we have something called the Inspire League,
• 11:53
  Speaker 5: and the Inspire League is a round of matches. They
• 11:56
  Speaker 5: can play with other development groups and they get to
• 12:00
  Speaker 5: chants to have a feel for the sport for themselves
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  Speaker 5: and have some fun.
• 12:03
  Speaker 3: Okay, so I mean is it inspire? Is it inspired?
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  Speaker 3: I mean our sort of arrangement. How far you go?
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  Speaker 5: So it's not normally too far from this one. It's
• 12:12
  Speaker 5: normally sort of London way. We're quite local thankfully, so
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  Speaker 5: it's not too much traveling for those.
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  Speaker 3: Right, And do the same rules apply if they're a
• 12:19
  Speaker 3: development squad? I mean, is it a shorter time period
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  Speaker 3: or I mean you play just one game at a time.
• 12:25
  Speaker 5: So yeah, it's normally one game at a time. All
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  Speaker 5: the normal rules apply, but it's sort of a little
• 12:30
  Speaker 5: bit more lenient because they're learning, so they won't get
• 12:32
  Speaker 5: as many fouls or things like that.
• 12:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's a good introduction to the senior definitely.
• 12:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, that's good news. We'll have to keep an eye
• 12:41
  Speaker 3: on that because I think that's really worth to mention
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  Speaker 3: as well. There might be some parents out there that
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: have got disabled children. Or he doesn't have to be disabled,
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: because Ben, that's what I want to talk about now.
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  Speaker 3: It's called wheelchair basketball, but you don't have to have
• 12:55
  Speaker 3: a disability to play, Is that right? Explain about that.
• 12:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, so you don't have to have this to
• 13:01
  Speaker 4: play at a national level. When you start playing internationally,
• 13:04
  Speaker 4: you have to be register disabled. But when you play
• 13:06
  Speaker 4: at a national level, you can play as an able
• 13:08
  Speaker 4: body person. We have in the wheelchairsport. We have a
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  Speaker 4: classification system from a five point player down to a
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  Speaker 4: one point player. An everybody person be five point and
• 13:17
  Speaker 4: then it goes down in disability and range of movement.
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  Speaker 4: You can have one or two everybody people on your
• 13:26
  Speaker 4: team sheet, but you can only play one on the
• 13:28
  Speaker 4: court at one time.
• 13:29
  Speaker 3: Okay, right, and is such a thing then as a substitution,
• 13:32
  Speaker 3: do you have substitutes on the line.
• 13:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we have substitutes yep. So there is an
• 13:36
  Speaker 4: unlimited amount of substitutions. Okay, but because of the classification system,
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: you can only have a certain amount of player points
• 13:43
  Speaker 4: on the court at once. So in our league you
• 13:46
  Speaker 4: can have fifteen points on the court at once, So
• 13:50
  Speaker 4: a five point everybody player is obviously five point of that.
• 13:52
  Speaker 4: So then you've got to make four other players out
• 13:56
  Speaker 4: of the other ten points. So it comes down to
• 13:58
  Speaker 4: tactics for the coach.
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: You were you were saying you have certain people, you
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: can have substitutions all the time. Do you have a
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: coach on the sideline that does the substitutions always that
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: you all the time?
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: What do you do if you're not on the court.
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  Speaker 4: So at the moment, I don't play because I had
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: surgery last year, so I'm still recovering. I have now
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: finally got back into my bustle chair. But I'm nowhere.
• 14:22
  Speaker 4: You're ready to play it. So I'm on the coach.
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: I'm the I am the coach. So I'm on the
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: sideline all the time making decisions.
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: And the subs are they roll on? Roll off? Can
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: they go back on again?
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: Yes? Again?
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 14:33
  Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, yeah. So I tend to sub my top
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: scoring players to give them a rest or bring them
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: back on and you know, do super plays and things
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: like that.
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: Right, I understand that you've got one of my old
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: one of my old Sunday Morning football players, mister Lawrence Bloomfield.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: If you're listening this morning, good morning Laws. And if
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: brother Matt's listening as well, good morning Matty.
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Laura, Lawrence has played for many, many years.
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: He was always very very keen and Sunday Morning and
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: he was a great asset to the Sunday Morning team. So, yeah,
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: good morning Laws if you're listening.
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: And I did notice, I'm sure I know this that
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: the team you are it's not just male players, is it.
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: You've got some females in the.
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it's it's it's a mixed sport. We have. Well,
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: my main female Meg, she used to play GB level
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: back in the day for GB women's. She retired out
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: of that many years ago and I managed to persuade
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: her to come back and she's a very crucial part
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: of our team. Yeah.
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: And are you players? Are they mostly local? They travel
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: in Okay, We've.
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: Had players all over the places because they say we're
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: the only competitive Wiltshire basketball team in Kent. So I've
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: got a new chat from Battle. I've had people from
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: Dartford before, Maidstone, Regular Basis, Tendon, so Ashford LID. So
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: you know players literally come from right right.
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: Oh that's that's good for the sport though, isn't it.
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: So Becky starting to wind up now, So is there
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: anything you want to add? I mean, if people are listening,
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: especially for the development side of things, how can they
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: get in touch with you.
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: So we're on Facebook and Instagram. It's just called fatescenarow
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: to watch a basketball club. Give us a message. Even
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: if you just want to come and have a look,
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: We're more than happy to welcome you and have a
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: chat with you about disability sport.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: Right, So you said about youngsters. But if there's someone
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: that wants to try the sport, is age a concern?
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, perhaps they might be in the thirties,
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: but they've never done it before, so they're obviously a
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: rookie player. Can they go in the development scored?
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: Yep, we're welcome to anyone any age. Were welcome anyone
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: that is excellent.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: I mean you have to get the word out about
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: that because that's a great feeder into the senior side.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: So Ben, now, then, as we're running out of time,
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: anything else you want to add. There must be some Hello.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: Is anybody listening, Is the dog the cat listening?
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: Or yeah, just to just say just say hello to
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: anyone who's listening, and anyone needs welcome to the try
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: the development session. It is open literally to anyone.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: You say you can try it.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: I see you don't have any more home games less
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: this season, but where do you actually play your home
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: games so people can actually find out where you're actually based,
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: where you can they can come and have a try out.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: So if you follow our social media, but Becky's very good,
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: she always posts where our matches are going to be.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: At the moment they're at Folks and Academy at Sports
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: Hall at the top sports Hall. But I'm hoping when
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: the folks at sports Center, hopefully fingers crossed home again,
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: we'll go back there. Yeah, and then yeah, we'll be
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: back there hopefully.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: Right now we've touched on all the sporty side of stuff,
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: but underlying this, I mean these players must put a
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: lot of time and effort and their own money into
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: gett into these games. So this is a big shout
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: and it's over to you on this one being a sponsorship.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: So obviously after some sponsors, So just tell us what
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: sponsors could do.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: So at the moment we are completely self funded, but
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: going into the second Division and the traveling and all
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: the rest of it, we will need some sponsors. Now
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: when I was when I started up this club, I
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: started this club because there was no disability sport in
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: Kent and we now have we now have one particular
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: player who has come right through from his bio league.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: He started off in a power chair, now pushes his
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: own manual chair, He's got his own wheelchair, basketball chair
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: coming completely funded for free. And to see him go
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: through from right from starting off to where he is
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: now is incredible. And funding, any sponsorship or any funding
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: that we get would help the next child to go
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: through that process or next person to go through that process.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: Doesn't have to be a child, you know. And that's all.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: That's all I've advocated for the whole way through this
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: whole process is just to give disabled people the opportunity
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: that I didn't get as a kid because when I
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: was a child, there wasn't disability sport. It wasn't pushed
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: as much as it is now. And I want to
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: give people in Folks and Kent the opportunity to play.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: So if we do get sponsors, it'll be able to
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: help the running of the club, the cost of hiring
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: the hall, the cost of equipment potentially, you know, to
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: help the players get to get into the sport and
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: to be more social, so socially out there. And because
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: we have a big social side of our club as well,
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: we all meet up for coffee after every training session,
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: we go out for meals and whatever else, and we
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: have barbecues around my house because I've converted my back
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: garden so that we can fit will to use it
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: to that because it's always difficult.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: We're still waiting for that invitation.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Hasn't got any baskets out there?
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, exactly all over the place, exactly.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Seriously, if there's anybody out there that has been listening
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: to this, and perhaps I didn't even realize that folks
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: had a wheelchair basketball team and they fantasy just helping
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: out any way they can, then please please either get
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: in touch with me through my Facebook page or directly
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: to Becky on their Facebook page. And well, we're going
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: to wrap up now, but Becky, you've got any helloes
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: to say? There must be must be someone listening that
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: you want to say.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, just sort of family for helping support us
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: really through this journey and the team really, and we're
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: done for the team for doing so well so far.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Excellent, Ben, last word from you, anything you want to
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: add before we go, No.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: Just just say thank you for having us and it's
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: been a delight and I love talking about wheelchair basketball.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: And I love talking about how it can affect people's
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: lives and a positive outlook. So yeah, I'm not happy.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: Thanks been great having you on and it's been a
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: real education to yourself, ad and I hope loads and
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: loads of people out there. So unfortunately there won't be
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: a home game for this season, but keep your ears
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: pinned to radio folks them because we want these guys
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: to go up and then we want to really push
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: this and perhaps you can help in any way you can.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: So Becky, Ben, thanks for coming in. And it's been
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: a pleasure. Thank you.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been a really interesting outlook into the sport. Yeah,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: we're going to play another another sound here and this
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: is here we go.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: This is perfect day.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: And from nineteen ninety seven again all those many years ago, just.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: A perfect day.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: Drinks and.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: You know you won't remember.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: There you go, there's raise a light and in the
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: morning and that was the one before that you had
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: perfect day. Well, the Folks and Arrows basketball team have
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: left the building and we've got Jay in.
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: Good morning, Jay morning, A how are I'm very well?
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: Thank you? Beautiful day is.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Just a perfect day, as they just said, Yeah, fresh
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: from your charity aeroplane jump.
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we could go today. We were jumping out of
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: a plane. We also had a gorgeous day that day
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: as well, very lucky.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: That's brilliant. I mean, for those of you that haven't
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: seen it, check out the video. It's just it's like
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: vibes are jumping out of the screen because you just
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: feel the wind in your face when you're watching, you know,
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: the video of it. So without further ado, it's probably best,
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Jay if you just runs through the day. I mean,
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: you all went up there together. Was you'll obviously a
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: big excited, a bit nervous, and we were.
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: I was nervous before that we wouldn't be able to
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: jump because it's obviously very dependent on the weather. And
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: we woke up to glorious sunshine. The three boys that
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: Oscar lives in Folkeston, Milo in London, and Ivor in Somerset,
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: so they'd all come back down and I just thought, oh, please,
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: let us be able to do it. And we drove
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: up to Headgorne and it was gorgeous sunshine the whole
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: way we got there. Checked in, they waged us all
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: to check that we really weighed what we said we would.
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: You don't want to get that wrong, and then we'd
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: been given a check in time of ten o'clock, but
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: they did say we could be waiting around all day
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: because it's all dependent on who's ready and available when,
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: and particularly with there being four of us who wanted
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: to jump out of the same plane, it was quite
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: dependent on all sorts of other people and what they
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: were doing. But actually we only sat around for about
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: two hours, and it was in glorious sunshine, watching other
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: parachutists jump out of the sky and planes and helicopters take.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: Off, so it was still another wave of planes go up,
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: you know, before you, So they were under the same
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: impression that they had to hang around, but they went up,
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: so the turnover was quite quick.
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: Yes, some people had been given nine o'clock as an
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: arrival time. We'd been given ten o'clock as an arrival time.
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: So they just have people kind of arriving in waves
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: and get through as many as they can at whatever rate.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: And did you feel the plane was I know, there's
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: four of you, but was there any other anyway? Was
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: it just you?
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: For there was us four and one other person jumping
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: out of our plane, and then there was also the videographer.
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: So we were all tandem, so we're all attached to someone,
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: but there was also a videographer jumping out as well.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: That's amazing.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: And you know you said you had to have waked
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: around for two hours before.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: How nervous were you? You get you know you're there
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: and you're thinking.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: You don't know when you're going to jump, And obviously
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: it's a big deal jumping out of an aeroplane anyway,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: but the longer you wait, so I do imagine it's
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: the nerves and everything all kicking.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Did they or do you know?
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: We're all so logical.
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: We were all super excited and really ready for it,
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: but I kind of feel like we all felt we'd
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: risk assessed it already. We knew we were going to
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: be attached to someone. In fact, the guy who was
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: my tandem instructor had done twenty eight thousand parachutes, so
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: we felt really confident. Actually, And a lot of people
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: have said when they've watched that video that in that
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: little plane where you're going up quite slip steeply and
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: you're sat on benches pointing backwards in the plane, so
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: it all feels quite unnatural, to be honest, But we
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: were all smiling and laughing because we were just dead
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: excited it was about to happen.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: I was going to say that.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, I've not watched the video as well and
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: the photos that you had taken, And the thing that
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: to me is the big smiles on all your faces.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: You look really really happy. That didn't look no nervously
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: is there at all. He just looks like you really
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: enjoyed it.
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: We really did. It was so much fun. It was
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: just it's such a wild thing to be able to
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: do anyway, and to be able to do it with
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: all three sons, and for them to do it with
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: their brothers. They really enjoyed it.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: It's something you were you know, obviously you wouldn't. You'll
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: never forget absolutely, and you did it for good cause
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Yes, so we did the fundraising go which is probably
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: still open. Is it's still open?
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: It is still open. We've raised well over three thousand pounds.
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: I'm super tough. And do you know, Breast Cancer Now,
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: which is the charity we've been raising money for, have
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: been so lovely about it. They sent us a handwritten
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: card from a girl called Pearl who works at Breast
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: Cancer Now saying, you know, written with our names and
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: saying well done on meeting your target and go and
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: enjoy it. Left us a little voicemail message. They've been
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: They've made us feel really appreciated, which is a lovely thing.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Actually, that's nice to know that you're appreciated. You know,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: you're raising the money for that particular charity, and yeah,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: I think that's that's great.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: I mean, you probably lost all track of time, but
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: how long does it take from the jumping out the
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: plane to landing?
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: You're absolutely right. If I hadn't been told how long
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: it was going to take, I would have had no
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: idea that the first bit the skydive. So that's when
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: you're kind of horizontal with your arms out in front
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: of you probably seen it on the telly before. That's
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: about thirty to forty seconds. We jumped from twelve thousand feet,
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: which is about two point two miles, so you're really
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: a long way up. And the weirdest thing about it
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: is what's happening is you're free falling through the sky.
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: But because that's such an unusual kind of concept, your
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: brain doesn't really think that's what's happening. Your brain just
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: think there's lots of air coming up at you, so
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: you're falling at one hundred and twenty miles an hour,
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: but it just feels like you're being blown upwards almost
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: because there's so much wind coming up in your face.
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: You can see on the photographs there's photos of me
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: with my cheeks.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Because I'm trying.
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: And then suddenly the parachute opens after thirty to forty seconds,
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: and it feels like you're going upwards, which of course
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: you're not, it's just slowing the.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: You'll be catapulted.
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: It feels like you're going upwards as well, and then
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: you're from then on you're sort of hanging vertically, so
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: it's a very different feeling, and the instructor sort of
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: loosens a few bits and pieces because then you're in
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: a much more sort of comfortable position and that you
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: don't need to be strapped quite as hard to them,
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: so they loosen things and everything feels a little bit
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: more like normality and reality. But also by then you're
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: near enough to the ground that it feels like the
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: ground's coming up towards you, so you can you can
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: see what's happening. We could see across to London we
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: could see it was this beautiful patchwork quilt that we
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: could see. It was absoutely wonderful.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: There's one absolutely lovely bit in the video where the
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: camera focused on you and you just said, it's so beautiful.
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: And you get about five minutes of that, that stage
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: of hanging from a parachute until the bottom, and they
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: make the one thing they make you sort of practice
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: in training in advance is that you can lift your
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: legs up really high. Because however the tandem instructor decides
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: to land, whether they decide to land on their feet
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: or they kind of skid in on their bum which
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: they do a lot of the time, what they need
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: is not to have your.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Legs at the way basically, so once.
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: You get quite close to the ground, they make you
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: prove you can do that hanging off a strap in advance,
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: and then when you get quite close to the ground,
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: they say, right, legs up now, and keep those up,
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: keep them up, don't put them down. Whatever happens.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: And what was your first feeling when you got down,
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: apart from amazement? Did you want to go back up again?
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: No? I mean the first thought was are the three
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: boys all all right enough? Because that I jumped before them.
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: They were all behind me, but there was also someone
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: who was doing that video who was in my face
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: going did you enjoy it? So I was trying to
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: sort of smile and say hello and yes to them,
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: but also check that the boys were, which of course they.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, when you all jumped out, was it like five
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: ten seconds after each did you meet everybody in We're
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: all four of you in the air at the same time.
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: No, so we were We didn't see each other at
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: the kind of skydive section, and then I could see
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: them as I was parachuting. I could see them above me,
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: but quite a long way above me coming in, and
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: then obviously as we as I came down, they all
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: sort of started landing around me. But yeah, it was
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: just the most extraordinary experience, It really was.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And what about when the after after effect? I mean,
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: was you buzzing for a day?
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: Yeahlin after that must have been a mean, it was.
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: It was huge. We were all kind of high fiving,
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: just dead excited. And so what we did actually was
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: jumping to take off for all the kind of suit
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: that you have to wear, a jumpsuit type thing, and
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: then we were also starving by this point, So we
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: all went to a local pub not too far from
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: Pluckley and sat down and just kind of post mortemned
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: you know how we all felt about it all, which
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: was a really good thing to do, and had huge
• 31:13
  Speaker 6: burgers yea.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: And did the boys enjoy it as much as you did?
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah, they all absolutely loved it, and they're super thrilled
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: that they have done it. I think they are probably
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: more inclined to do it again in the future.
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: I kind of.
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: Feel like I absolutely would if it was, you know,
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: I needed to do it for charity, or it was
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: going to save a life. I suppose it could save
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: my life potentially, then I would absolutely do it. But
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: I don't think I would choose to do it again.
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: I'd do something else another time. But the boys all
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: loved it, yeah.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: I mean when you came in earlier with the boys
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: as well, I mean, you were all really keen to
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: do it.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: So it's nice to hear that you really enjoyed it
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, because you know, you sometimes you might think, well, yeah,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: I'll do this for charity, and then you've got to
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: actually do the thing that you're going to do, and
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: then you don't quite enjoy it.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: But you really looked.
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: When I've run marathons and things before, you know the
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: amount of training that you have to do, you start
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: to think, oh goodness, I mean, that's much harder to
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: do that kind of thing than this. This is turn
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: up and do what you're told and really but yeah,
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: it was. It was absolutely brilliant fun.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, there's anything else you want to add before
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: we go, I think we just want to recap on
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: your just give in because the page is open. You know,
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: you've all done the deed, You've been through the emotional
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: side of it, so it's really time to take a
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: step backwards and see yeah, they've just givings going.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: Well, just a huge thank you to everyone who's supported us.
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: I'm really really grateful and breast Cancer now for being
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: so kind to us, Skydive Headcorn for looking after us
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: and making sure that we all got down safely. I
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: think there was one particular moment where I was on
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: the edge of the door about to go out. Well
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: I'm not even on the edge of the door because
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: you're instructors on the edge of the door, so you're
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: really out of the plane and all three boys were
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: just watching their mother about to fly out at two
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: and a half miles.
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  Speaker 3: And the thing I will say is that I was
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: looking at the video and if you look closely on
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: some of the inside, there's like some insulating tape yea,
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: even the drafts coming in I suppose it was. Yeah,
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: I thought, oh my goodness, they don't see that anything
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: is all together by blastos.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 6: At one point Milo said he could feel his instructor
• 33:22
  Speaker 6: pushing the tape back into place on the side of
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: the plane. But yeah, it all felt very safe and
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: it was absolutely wonderful. Big, huge thank you to everyone
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: who's supported us, including you guys Aiden keV for having
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: us in.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: We really appreciate it more than welcome.
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: And if anyone does want to support us there, I
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: think we've got about another week before the fundraising closes,
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: and the easiest way to do it is to find me.
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: I'm Jae Hopkins either on LinkedIn or on Facebook, and
• 33:52
  Speaker 6: you'll find links to our just giving page there.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Brilliant you heard that, So yeah, make sure that you
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: check out the page and you can see the video
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: and everything. They're there as well, and I enjoy it
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: like like we.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: Did, right, Okay, so ady over to you now.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well last night it was gig time again. I
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: actually managed to go to the gig and I went
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: to the Pennytheater in Canterbury and I saw my friend's band,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: certified Madness tribute band, and they were they're really good.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: They've they've only just started out, so they've some of
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: the records weren't quite as good as what they was name.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: But obviously I'm going to play a Madness song, and
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: I'm going to play my favorite Madness song, which is Mistakes,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: and it's the B side of One Step Beyond. There
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: you go, there's Madness and Mistakes the B side of
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: One Step Beyond. Not a song that you're here very
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: often on the radio, but that's probably my favorite Madney's song.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: Well, okay, so Adrian, we're run out of time now,
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: but I do think we need to just mention the
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: fact that you've got a game to go to this
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: afternoon and you've got an exclusive to tell them.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Well, you certainly have.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: We are up at Dartford this afternoon and on Wednesday afternoon,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: the Folks new Victor chairman Josh Healy, who came in
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: last week, phone me and said, would you like a
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Seasider's radio exclusive. The manager, the new manager that was
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: announced on Monday and mister Jay Saunders from Tunbridge. He's
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: going to be at the game today and would we
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: like to give him his first interview live on the
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: radio before the kickoff.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: Wow, sounds like a coup And it's nice to know
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: that Josh is looking after you and sort of respecting
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: what you're doing.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: I think, Yeah, he was very supportive of us last week.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: I know we had a little bit of a technical
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: problem before we started, me pushing the ron button as always,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: but yeah, he's you know, he's taken over the club
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: and he's pushing the club forward. The new manager, he's
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: got a four year deal so he's uh. His plan
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: is to get us out of this league hopefully next
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: season into the National South where there's going to be
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: a lot more traveling and a lot more for him,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: a lot more of expense. But you know that the
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: fans of folks and we've have come in their numbers
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: this season and to be honest, the team hasn't really
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: performed this season unfortunately. But yeah, he's bringing his backstaff
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: team from Tunbridge as well, so onwards and upwards and
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: We're going to be speaking to him, as I say,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: before the game this afternoon on Seasideer's Radio.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: Brilliant. A good coup for you and for the club,
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: and I'm sure, excuse me, the supporters we will be
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: loving it. It's given something to cheer about after a
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: bit of a die season.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: Really.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we are playing top of the league
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: dart for this afternoon, so I'm not expecting too much,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: but I just need to put moments really and you know,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Dartford Old going for the championship to get promoted, so
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be a tough game.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah right, Okay, Now before we close, I've just got
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: a bit of netball news. I've got the netball scores
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: from the second of April, and once again it goes
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: like this. I mentioned the team, the score, and then
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: the outstanding player. So we've got Rough Diamonds eighteen Sarah,
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: Vipers forty seven, viv Ice fifty erin Stingrays fourteen Mayer.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: And we've got another high scoring draw. We had one
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: last week thirty nine, and all this one is Tiger's
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: twenty seven Hannah and Scorpions twenty seven Lilia. And don't
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: forget there's an Easter tournament at the Three Hills on Saturday,
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: April the nineteenth from ten am. It's billed as a
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: super shot and mixed netball tournament, so the fellas can
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: join in as well. So anyway, if you want to
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: find out any more about that, please go to the
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: Folkston and Netball League of Facebook page and excuse me,
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: I've got a bit of a tickle in the throat there.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: So I just want to say good luck to some
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: former guests of the show, Martin Chander and his two sisters,
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: Angie and Kirsty, who on Sunday they're going to run
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: the London Landmarks half marathon raising money for the Evelina
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: London Children's charity. And good luck to Ellis Stewart, she
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: was a guest last year when she run London Marathon.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: She's running the London Landmarks. She's running for Pilgrim's Hospices.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: Tom Aspinall will be down in Brighton, he's running the
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: Brighton Marathon there. He's from Folks and running an athletics
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: club and local club member from Folks and Pam Allen
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: is actually in Milan. She's running the Milan Marathon, so
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: good luck to you, all of you. I just want
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: to give a quick mention to Beach Sprint Regatta is
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: taking place as we speak. I'm going to go down
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: there straight from the show. So if you're down on
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: the sunny Sands having a walk, just have a little
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: lean over the prom and have a little look and
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: support them.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Yep, make sure you do that. It's a lovely day.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: It's the Grand National this afternoon, keV and I'm going
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: to give you a little tip. And it's thirty three
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: to one outside. Yeah, I'm going to stick a quid
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: on it each way. It's called senior chef. You heard
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: that here first thirty three to one.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: We'll never look at that. Yeah. Me and missus ferret
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: normally e an afternoon in front of the telly. Actually
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: we do like a bit of a virtual bit betting.
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: You know. It's well, it's just great fun, great festival
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: is so English and long may it continue.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, four o'clock this afternoon, so I should be doing
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: my Seasiders radio. Well that game that's on. So if
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: you hear me cheering half about you know that a
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: senior chef has come in. Okay, that's the end of
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: the show this morning. Thanks to keV and we'll be
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: back next week. Bay Bye.