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DAVE WALBROOK RECAPS HIS 100KM WALKING CHALLENGE AS HE CHATS WITH MYSELF AND ADE ON RADIO FOLKESTONE PLUS LOCAL F.A.CUP ACTION. · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Good morning, sports fans of Folkestone. How are we doing
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: this morning? It's me, Aidy Dawkes, back in the hot
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: seat after my trip to Scarborough last weekend. I've got
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: Kevin alongside me here today.
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: Good morning, Kev.
• 0:17
  Speaker 3: Good morning, Adrian.
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: Good to see you. And good to see you too.
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: Back in the shoes. Seems that ages for me.
• 0:22
  Speaker 3: It does, actually, yes.
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: A few weeks ago. And we've got a special guest
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: in today. Good morning, Dave.
• 0:26
  Speaker 4: Good morning.
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: Dave's been in before on Kev's show. More about that
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: in a bit. And today is Derby Day.
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: It's the FA Cup.
• 0:36
  Speaker 4: Oh, is it?
• 0:37
  Speaker 3: I didn't know that. Who are the folks I'm playing in?
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: That team from over the hill today.
• 0:42
  Speaker 3: Oh, what, Dover?
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Dover Athletic. More about them a little bit later.
• 0:47
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: Anything else from you this morning?
• 0:49
  Speaker 3: Well, just a general rundown. The hockey season starts today,
• 0:53
  Speaker 3: in fact. And so I won't go through all the
• 0:56
  Speaker 3: fixtures because now they are actually running 15 teams.
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was over there on Monday and I could
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: see on the scoreboard or flashing advertising boards, whatever it is,
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: all the teams that are playing and the times, etc. So, yeah,
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: they're going to be very busy today.
• 1:13
  Speaker 3: I know. And I think they're going to be even
• 1:15
  Speaker 3: busier because, sadly, I suspect people have picked up on
• 1:18
  Speaker 3: the news that there was a fire at the Burst
• 1:20
  Speaker 3: Inn and some of the people have been evacuated up
• 1:23
  Speaker 3: to the Three Hills. So there'll be, I don't know, overlapping.
• 1:27
  Speaker 3: So that's unfolding as we go, really.
• 1:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all still a little bit raw.
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: I was going to tell you all about my trip
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: to Scarborough last weekend, but it seems to have been
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: overshadowed a little bit by the fire down in the Burstyn.
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: We know nothing more at the moment.
• 1:42
  Speaker 3: It doesn't seem too bad, actually. You know, what social
• 1:46
  Speaker 3: media is like. And all the papers are kind of
• 1:49
  Speaker 3: reporting the same news because not much has come out.
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  Speaker 3: There doesn't seem to be any sort of serious injuries
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  Speaker 3: or fatalities or anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, that's the main thing.
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, last week, you know, 5,000 skinheads down there.
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: It could have put.
• 2:02
  Speaker 3: The smell of Harrington jackets going up and braces.
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: Scar music. It could have been extinct last week. But no,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, on a serious note, I mean, it's terrible
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: up there.
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  Speaker 2: You know, a fire.
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  Speaker 1: Anywhere's bad, but, you know, for Hotel Burstyn and.
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  Speaker 1: Trade for the town of Folkestone it's not going to
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  Speaker 1: be great but like you say hopefully everything will be
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: okay and there'll be no hopefully no.
• 2:30
  Speaker 2: Fatalities and no injuries etc just.
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: Maybe a nasty little fire and probably a lot of
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: work to be done to get it back it seems
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: a shame because they've spent so much on the hotel
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: Burstyn and as I said I was down there last
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: week and the ballroom now is looks fantastic it's all
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: new seats um and you know it is a shame
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: but anyway we're sports show as well we're crack on
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: um play the first song um this goes out to
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: folks in evicted today this is called today is going
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: to be our day fingers crossed it's going to be
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: this is the molotovs The fantastic Molotovs there, and today's
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: going to be our day, fingers crossed. It will be
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: our day at the Crabble this afternoon. Molotovs, incidentally, have
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: got a new album coming out, Erbia. Hopefully the single,
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: they were trying to promote it, and hopefully it might
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: be number one today. Fingers crossed for the Molotovs. Okay, Kev,
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: as you say, we've got a special guest in this morning.
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: I'll hand over to you.
• 4:01
  Speaker 3: Okay, yes, good morning. So, Dave, good morning to you, Dave.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Kevin.
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  Speaker 3: David, before we go and speak about the run, you've
• 4:10
  Speaker 3: kind of got some news, current news, if you like,
• 4:13
  Speaker 3: about the bursting. Because of the park runners on this morning,
• 4:17
  Speaker 3: you had to kind of go down and sort of
• 4:19
  Speaker 3: check it out. So tell us about that. That's sort
• 4:21
  Speaker 3: of breaking news, really.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm the event director for the Folkestone Park Run.
• 4:25
  Speaker 4: So I have an overall responsibility kind of for the
• 4:27
  Speaker 4: health and safety of the event and to make sure
• 4:29
  Speaker 4: it runs smoothly and people enjoy themselves. So is it,
• 4:34
  Speaker 4: where's the lady from Dover, Amy?
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  Speaker 3: Amy, Amy Stimson, yeah.
• 4:37
  Speaker 4: About quarter to six this morning, bless her, she put
• 4:41
  Speaker 4: on the group chat that there's a fire at the Burstin,
• 4:43
  Speaker 4: the first I knew about it. So I looked at
• 4:44
  Speaker 4: Kent Online. Some of the photos showed quite a lot
• 4:48
  Speaker 4: of smoke. during the night so I went out early
• 4:51
  Speaker 4: to check the course and the wind direction and we
• 4:55
  Speaker 4: were unaffected so we put something out on our social
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  Speaker 4: media at about quarter to eight that we could go
• 5:00
  Speaker 4: ahead and we did go ahead as normal.
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  Speaker 3: And it was fine yeah it was fine yeah yeah
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  Speaker 3: okay right so there you go and what about um
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  Speaker 3: if you you was telling us earlier about sort of
• 5:08
  Speaker 3: access getting down there.
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  Speaker 4: Um um yeah as a pedestrian you can't get further
• 5:13
  Speaker 4: than the London and Paris uh uh hotel on one
• 5:17
  Speaker 4: side They're stopping you walking over the railway bridge to
• 5:20
  Speaker 4: where the customs house is. So effectively the Harbour Arm
• 5:24
  Speaker 4: is totally cut off at this point. Any cars coming
• 5:27
  Speaker 4: down Tram Road are being diverted straight back up Tontine Street.
• 5:31
  Speaker 4: So it will hit, you know, obviously we hope that
• 5:34
  Speaker 4: everybody's okay and there's nobody hurt, but it will hit
• 5:37
  Speaker 4: the business on the Harbour Arm today.
• 5:39
  Speaker 3: Yes, I think they've got a big weekend, some German
• 5:42
  Speaker 3: music going on. Okay, Dave, well thanks for that. Anyway,
• 5:44
  Speaker 3: so let's turn our attention to last week. Now, Around
• 5:47
  Speaker 3: about 10 days ago, you came into the studio and
• 5:51
  Speaker 3: we had a long chat about the walk that was
• 5:53
  Speaker 3: coming up at the time, 100 kilometres. So let's kind
• 5:57
  Speaker 3: of take a, not quite step by step, we'd be
• 6:00
  Speaker 3: here for the whole weekend, but take a step by step.
• 6:03
  Speaker 3: So you managed to, did you stay up there the
• 6:05
  Speaker 3: night before? Let's start with that.
• 6:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I stayed up in a hotel in Shepherd's Bush
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  Speaker 4: because I registered the day before over at Bishop's Park.
• 6:12
  Speaker 4: It was a lovely hotel, but unfortunately it was on
• 6:15
  Speaker 4: the first floor right by Shepherd's Bush Green. And what
• 6:18
  Speaker 4: I didn't know, that Friday night is party night on
• 6:20
  Speaker 4: Shepherd's Bush Green. So there was a lot of smashing
• 6:23
  Speaker 4: of bottles and the drinking of stuff and smoking. I
• 6:27
  Speaker 4: could smell it, even though I had my windows closed.
• 6:30
  Speaker 4: So it was quite a noisy night.
• 6:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, dear.
• 6:32
  Speaker 4: The hotel was great. So, yeah, I was nervous anyway,
• 6:36
  Speaker 4: so I was always going to get up early, but
• 6:38
  Speaker 4: they made sure I did get up early.
• 6:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 6:41
  Speaker 3: So were you far from the start?
• 6:43
  Speaker 4: It was a bus ride.
• 6:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 6:45
  Speaker 4: It was a 20 minute bus ride from Shepherd's Bush
• 6:48
  Speaker 4: Green down to Putney Bridge basically.
• 6:50
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 6:51
  Speaker 3: And what was the, you know, were there many there
• 6:53
  Speaker 3: at the start? They obviously go off in waves.
• 6:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there was, overall, there was about 3,000 because there
• 6:58
  Speaker 4: was many different events. There was a 10K, a 25K.
• 7:01
  Speaker 4: There were people only doing the first day. There were
• 7:04
  Speaker 4: some people doing it non-stop and there was us doing
• 7:08
  Speaker 4: the two day challenge. There was 98 of us so
• 7:11
  Speaker 4: we were set off in waves from uh seven o'clock
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  Speaker 4: so every half an hour there was a wave of
• 7:17
  Speaker 4: roughly 200 people but we were mixed bag of people
• 7:21
  Speaker 4: doing different.
• 7:21
  Speaker 3: Events right okay and i mean did you did you
• 7:25
  Speaker 3: notice that did you think people kind of went off
• 7:27
  Speaker 3: flying you know like like the junior park run they
• 7:30
  Speaker 3: just slowed down for the first bit.
• 7:32
  Speaker 4: Especially the seven o'clock wave uh they were you know
• 7:35
  Speaker 4: there was me with my rucksack with my two liters
• 7:37
  Speaker 4: of water my chewy bars my poncho in case it rained,
• 7:41
  Speaker 4: my walking poles. Some people basically just had a little
• 7:45
  Speaker 4: bib on with a little bit of water and you
• 7:47
  Speaker 4: can see that they were going to take it seriously.
• 7:49
  Speaker 4: They were running all the way around.
• 7:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, right.
• 7:52
  Speaker 4: They weren't flying off.
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  Speaker 3: So take us through the first sort of, you know, 10k, 20k.
• 7:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was very crowded. It was, excuse me, very
• 8:02
  Speaker 4: crowded start. It kind of evened out over the first
• 8:05
  Speaker 4: couple of kilometres and I did think about running or
• 8:09
  Speaker 4: jogging lightly the first 10K, and I was advised not to,
• 8:12
  Speaker 4: just put a bit more vigour into your walking pace,
• 8:14
  Speaker 4: which I did. So I started off at a good
• 8:16
  Speaker 4: pace of 6K, and then we kind of settled down
• 8:21
  Speaker 4: the first half a dozen K with other people. And then, yeah,
• 8:26
  Speaker 4: I met a couple of people who started nattering. So,
• 8:29
  Speaker 4: you know, we got into it after the first couple
• 8:31
  Speaker 4: of K, around the Harrods Depository.
• 8:35
  Speaker 3: One more, huh?
• 8:36
  Speaker 4: Is it depository? Suppository? No, it's where they.
• 8:39
  Speaker 3: That early on, was it really?
• 8:40
  Speaker 4: Their storage place. I think that was a wrong choice
• 8:43
  Speaker 4: of words.
• 8:43
  Speaker 3: I think you're right there. Don't worry, it is live. Okay,
• 8:49
  Speaker 3: so moving on after your toilet break. I mean, when
• 8:54
  Speaker 3: did you start to feel that, you know, you've been
• 8:58
  Speaker 3: doing a bit of walking or because of all the training,
• 9:00
  Speaker 3: you've done a lot of training, you know, that obviously
• 9:02
  Speaker 3: paid off?
• 9:02
  Speaker 4: Well, initially, I started walking with a lady called Helen,
• 9:07
  Speaker 4: an amazing lady. We started having a natter, probably after
• 9:11
  Speaker 4: the first 20 or 30 minutes, chatting away. And you
• 9:14
  Speaker 4: know what? I didn't actually notice the kilometers passing. No, no.
• 9:18
  Speaker 4: 10 went past, 20 went past. We got to halfway.
• 9:22
  Speaker 4: And I thought, oh, I feel great. You know, 25K.
• 9:24
  Speaker 4: We were very near Hamden Court by then. And I
• 9:29
  Speaker 4: felt great as though I hadn't done anything. So I
• 9:31
  Speaker 4: thought this is a good start.
• 9:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 9:33
  Speaker 3: And what was the weather like?
• 9:34
  Speaker 4: It was about 20 degrees.
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: Sunny.
• 9:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 9:37
  Speaker 4: But yeah.
• 9:38
  Speaker 3: No rain or anything?
• 9:39
  Speaker 4: No rain at all.
• 9:40
  Speaker 3: That's good.
• 9:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 9:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 9:41
  Speaker 4: Excellent.
• 9:43
  Speaker 3: So you come back with a cough then?
• 9:44
  Speaker 4: Yes. Okay.
• 9:46
  Speaker 3: So moving on there. So we have got like 50,
• 9:48
  Speaker 3: 50k to cover. Yeah. So what was it like in
• 9:54
  Speaker 3: sort of 40K almost?
• 9:56
  Speaker 4: Well, 42 is quite a milestone because i've uh i've
• 10:00
  Speaker 4: done a few marathons and in my training i've never
• 10:02
  Speaker 4: taken a step over 42k so that was quite significant
• 10:06
  Speaker 4: and uh i uh again the nattering the chatting the
• 10:11
  Speaker 4: amazing people that i met it just flew past and
• 10:14
  Speaker 4: I did have a few aches and pains in the
• 10:16
  Speaker 4: last 10K, but got to the finish at Runnymede on
• 10:19
  Speaker 4: the first evening.
• 10:21
  Speaker 3: So you say the finish, but that's only the finish
• 10:23
  Speaker 3: of the first half, isn't it?
• 10:24
  Speaker 4: That was the first day.
• 10:25
  Speaker 3: So what happens, I suppose there was a food station
• 10:29
  Speaker 3: or rest station?
• 10:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah. So as you know, Kevin, you know me well,
• 10:33
  Speaker 4: I'm ruled by my stomach. My biggest weakness is food.
• 10:38
  Speaker 4: So I had to really discipline myself and not spend
• 10:42
  Speaker 4: too long at the food stations on the way. There
• 10:44
  Speaker 4: was one at 12k, 25, 37 and one at 50.
• 10:49
  Speaker 4: So I actually kept those to a minimum. So over
• 10:51
  Speaker 4: the two days, I was only actually stopping 20 minutes
• 10:55
  Speaker 4: each day in total, which I think that is very
• 10:56
  Speaker 4: good for me. That included a toilet break as well. Yeah, yeah.
• 10:59
  Speaker 4: I was very disciplined.
• 11:01
  Speaker 3: So halfway, you're halfway, you've done 50k, right? 31 miles
• 11:06
  Speaker 3: i do believe what were those extra two miles like
• 11:08
  Speaker 3: that yeah you added two miles i did an under
• 11:11
  Speaker 3: a k is 62 miles you thought he was only
• 11:13
  Speaker 3: going to walk 60 that's it yeah.
• 11:15
  Speaker 4: Well if somebody had held a gun to my head
• 11:17
  Speaker 4: on saturday night and uh said right now get out
• 11:20
  Speaker 4: there and just carry on and do another 50k i
• 11:22
  Speaker 4: could not have done it no i'd mentally set myself
• 11:25
  Speaker 4: up to do 50 that day some of the people
• 11:28
  Speaker 4: who were getting a massage and treatment next to me
• 11:31
  Speaker 4: in the area were carrying on and I could see
• 11:35
  Speaker 4: the pain and dread in their face. I could not
• 11:38
  Speaker 4: have done another step that day. So I had 12
• 11:40
  Speaker 4: hours rest in a nice hotel with a bath.
• 11:42
  Speaker 3: You did? Okay.
• 11:43
  Speaker 4: So.
• 11:45
  Speaker 3: So did you, the halfway was a feed station where
• 11:48
  Speaker 3: you could not binge, but you could really kind of
• 11:50
  Speaker 3: let yourself.
• 11:51
  Speaker 4: Go a bit.
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: Evening meal.
• 11:52
  Speaker 4: Yes. Yeah. A nice chicken and couscous. It was a
• 11:56
  Speaker 4: very nice, nice food. I made the most of that.
• 11:59
  Speaker 4: They went to all that trouble. So I did partake
• 12:02
  Speaker 4: in that and had the massage was very important because
• 12:05
  Speaker 4: I did have a few aches and pains.
• 12:06
  Speaker 3: How were your feet at this stage?
• 12:08
  Speaker 4: I had a couple of small blisters, but I strapped
• 12:10
  Speaker 4: them up. So it wasn't too bad. And then got
• 12:14
  Speaker 4: an Uber off to my hotel.
• 12:15
  Speaker 3: All right. Very nice, too.
• 12:17
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 12:18
  Speaker 3: Well, we're going to play a bit of music now,
• 12:20
  Speaker 3: and we'll come back, and we will start with you
• 12:23
  Speaker 3: waking up at the hotel and tell us if you
• 12:25
  Speaker 3: had a good night's sleep that night. So, Adrian, what
• 12:27
  Speaker 3: have we got?
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: Well, quite ironically, it's UB40 and Chrissie Hyde. This one's called,
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you did, breakfast in bed.
• 12:49
  Speaker 5: Your face is a mess Come in, baby You can
• 12:51
  Speaker 5: dry the tears on my dress Breakfast in bed Kisses
• 12:54
  Speaker 5: for me You don't have to say.
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: Hello There you go, Ali Campbell and the boys, UB40,
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: plus special guest Chrissie Hyde from 1988. That was breakfast
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: in bed. You didn't get breakfast in bed then, Dave?
• 13:23
  Speaker 4: No, I left at 5 a.m. The breakfast didn't start
• 13:26
  Speaker 4: until 7.
• 13:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 13:28
  Speaker 4: I was crying all the.
• 13:29
  Speaker 3: Way to the start. So, Dave, so you left Halfway
• 13:35
  Speaker 3: Point and you went to a hotel. So tell us
• 13:39
  Speaker 3: about the hotel. Was it a peaceful night?
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 13:42
  Speaker 4: I specifically asked for a hotel with a bath, which
• 13:45
  Speaker 4: I did get. I didn't stipulate a plug, though, because
• 13:49
  Speaker 4: when I got into the room, there was a lovely bath,
• 13:52
  Speaker 4: but no plug.
• 13:53
  Speaker 3: Oh, no.
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: Trooped off down to reception. After about an hour, they
• 13:58
  Speaker 4: found a plug, which I was really grateful for, so
• 14:01
  Speaker 4: I could have a bath. Put it in, and it
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: was too small. So that went into a plastic bag,
• 14:07
  Speaker 4: and after an hour or so, I had a lovely
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: hot bath. That was... Oh, gorgeous.
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, was that heaven, was it? That was worth the
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: little trip. So what was the alternative if you didn't
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: make your own accommodation?
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: They did offer a campsite. They offered to provide the
• 14:22
  Speaker 4: tent and a spongy mat. You had to provide your
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: own sleeping bag and pillow that would be sent ahead
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: as luggage. It was in a school playing field, which
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: was on the flight path to Heathrow via Main Road.
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: And it's an area where kids like to party, a
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: bit like Shepherds Bush Green really.
• 14:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: So I think the people that went there didn't get
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: a lot of sleep.
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: Right. So it was a better deal that you got then. Yeah.
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: I know what I'd do again. Yeah. I'd do it again.
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: So you set off on the next day. Did you
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: have a specified set off time or was there a
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: window where you could just turn up?
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: It was 6am. This was the bit I was really
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: worried about in advance because I'd done the training and
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: but not back to back. So I did not really
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: know how I was going to feel on Sunday morning,
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: but I felt pretty good relative to how I thought
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: I would. So 6am in the dark, we set off
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: from Runnymede, walking through Windsor and we were off again.
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: So yeah, another enjoyable, the first 25k was enjoyable, passed
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: some beautiful houses around Maidenhead and around this beautiful part
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: of the country. And I was doing really well at 75k.
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: So that was 25k on the day. 75k overall. I
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: was actually the first man at that point. So the
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: first 75k, I was doing well.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: Excellent.
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: And did you team up with anybody that you teamed
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: up with before?
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: I started off with this amazing lady called Helen. I
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: realised that I was probably holding her back. So after
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: a first few kilometres on Sunday morning, I sent her
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: on her way to do her own walk rather than mine.
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: But speaking to some amazing people on the route, a
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: lady called Karen who lost her husband to suicide at
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: only 34 with four children. Other people running for cardiac
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: risk in the young. She lost her brother. So there's
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: some amazing stories that were driving people to get to
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: that start line.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: You're dead right, Dave. I mean, that's what drives the
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: people on. I mean, I don't know if you, perhaps
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: later on in the last quarter of the whole weekend,
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: Perhaps you were having a bad moment. You were telling
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: me why you're doing it. Last week, you were telling
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: me why you're doing it for your dad, which was
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: a really sad story. So just, if you don't mind,
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: let's just briefly recap about your dad.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, my dad was in the RAF during the Second
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: World War, based out in Calcutta, in Bengal, in northeast India.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: He was in the RAF, you know, attacking the Japanese
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: in Burma. He was a gunner on a Lancaster gun.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: They got shot at on their return to base. They
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: ended up crash landing near where they were, near where
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: they were based. He was the only survivor. I always
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: remember him covered in scars. He had a lot of
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: broken bones. He never really talked about it much.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: No.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: But, you know, he did leave the RAF with post-traumatic
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: stress disorder like millions did at the end of the
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: Second World War. And that developed into paranoid schizophrenia.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: In the 1950s.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: And the thing was, we said this the other day,
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: that people didn't have quite an understanding of that in
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: those days. Now, there's much more, which is why you
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: ran for South Kent Mine. There's much more understanding and
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: people out there counselling and things like that, isn't there?
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: There's more prevention out there. And this is kind of
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: what South Kent Mine is doing, being there for somebody
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: at early stages, which they do for thousands of people
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: in the local area. That catchment, that safety net wasn't
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: there for my dad. They dealt with the symptoms. And
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: they sectioned him, but there wasn't any there to try
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: and prevent it happening.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: Right, such a shame. So, I mean, when you were really,
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: really struggling, or let me ask it a different way,
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: was there any points when you were really struggling?
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Sunday was a bit more challenging because lots of
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: the different events, the different distances were all happening on
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: the Saturday. So there were less of a starting off
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: in Runnymede Sunday morning. So we were a lot, after
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: the first 5 to 10K, the other side of Windsor,
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: you saw less people. So we were by yourself a
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: bit more. I ran with a great guy, Matthew. We
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: stuck together till 75K. So that's 25K on the day.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: But from that onwards to the finish, I was kind
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: of by myself and I was just getting very tired.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: I sorted all my blisters out. So there was nothing
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: that was going to incapacitate me to stop. I was
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: just getting so tired. It started to rain as well.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: So the last 25K was the hardest, but there was
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: no way I was going to stop. I thought about
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: my dad, about why I was doing it, my family,
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: the sponsors and things like that. And that kept me going,
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: but I was gradually getting slower, but there was no
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: way I was going to stop.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, right. I can relate to that because we did
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: discuss this. I mean, I did the 100K through the
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: day and through the night. And mine was from London
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: to Brighton. And we got over the sort of the downs,
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: you know, sort of ditchling beacon area. And there was
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: a big flat surface. And I could see the finish
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: in the distance. And that's when I did my crying.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: I really did. I thought, I'm going to do this.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: And there was a time when I was running for
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: my friend Fred who passed away with cancer. And I
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: had to dig deep and just think about that as well.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: It was really tough. But at the finish, I don't
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: know how you felt at the finish, I was elated.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: How was you at the finish?
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: I cried. I don't cry when I'm sad. I cry
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: when I'm happy, when my football team win, which they
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: do quite a lot recently. I cry with joy. And
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: I was pleased for myself in the memory of my
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: dad and the supporters that I was just pleased. I
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: remember looking at the clock. I started at 6 a.m.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: and it was four minutes past four. So I've been
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: going for 10 hours, four minutes. And that included the stops.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: And I was just chuffed with myself. I had a
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: little tear of joy in passing that finish line. And
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: I was just so pleased I'd actually done it.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I can imagine. Yeah, brilliant. And so the next move,
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: you know, was it the next sort of an hour?
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Was you on a high or was it like an anti-climax?
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: Well, I had something to eat. Yeah. They think they
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: called it because it was an ultimate challenge. They did
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: ultimate burgers at the end.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Oh, did they?
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: And so I had to have one of them. Then
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: a massage. And then only then did I start looking
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: at the journey home. And it was three changes to
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: get back to St. Pancras. And in the middle, there
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: was a bus replacement service. Oh, no. I thought, I
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: do not need that. So anyway, I worked out a route.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: I looked at getting an Uber from Henley to St. Pancras,
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: but it was 100 quid. And I thought, hmm. Maybe not.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: So it took me two hours to get from Henley
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: to St Pancras and then an hour from there home.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: You didn't fall asleep and end up in Margate.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: No, the trouble was sitting down, trying to stand up
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: again on the train was a bit more challenging Sunday evening,
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: but I was really glad to get home.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I bet. Okay, well, Adrian, we'll play another song
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: then and then we'll come back to Dave one more
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: time and we'll wrap it all up and we've got
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: some news about a little event going on tomorrow morning,
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: I do believe. So what have we got next, Adrian?
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Okay, we've got a band from New Zealand. Is it
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: New Zealand or is it Australia? I can't remember. Anyway,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: this is In Excess, and this one is called Mystify.
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: All fails and mistakes.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: Streets are blue.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Almond blocks That chill divine.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: Some silken moments.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: The late Mick Hutchins. Put my teeth back in. Mick
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Hutchins of NXS. By process of elimination, we reckon they're
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: from Australia. Dave whacked that one in.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Dave put us right.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: He put us right.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: It's good having guests putting us right. We're supposed to
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: know these things.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Well, we knew them from Down Under anyway. Anyway, that
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: was Mr. Vi by In Excess, a band I saw
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: in 1989. It was around that kick album. I saw
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: them at the Hammersmith Palais or Odeon.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Probably the Odeon, I think.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was good anyway. Okay, Dave. Back to you
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: and Dave.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Right. So, Dave, last little chat with you. So you've
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: completed it. First of all, I think, just tell me
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: about one high spot and one low spot on the
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: two days. What's the high spot?
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: You know, the high spot were the people. I mean,
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: you and I talked about this about 10 days ago.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: And the journeys that people had to get to that
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: start line, you know, it's bringing me out in goosebumps
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: talking about it now. There's just some amazing people on
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: that walk. And, you know, there was a lady there
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: of 34 whose husband had committed suicide. She had four children.
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: And she was there doing it and raising money for
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, things like that. And it was
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: just the people with a high point. The low point
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: was Sunday afternoon for me. not having anybody to talk to.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: All you do is think about your aches and pains,
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: start thinking about yourself, not what's going on around you,
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: the rain, but.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Do you know what, Dave? I was talking to my Sue,
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: who you know very well, and I said, yeah, Dave's
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: going down on his own. And she said, straight away,
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: she said, hasn't he got anybody at the finish? I said,
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: I don't think so. I never thought about it. She said, oh,
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: after all that work, she said, you must have someone
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: at the finish. And now, on reflection, on my walk,
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: I couldn't wait to see my Sue, Pam and Kim. And, yeah,
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: that made a huge difference, knowing that they were there
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: on the finish line.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: What was nice, they're very considerate at the finish, the
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: people that are turning up solo. So they took my
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: phone off me and took loads of pictures of me
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: at the finish.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: Ah, right.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: And without even asking.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: They were right on it.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: They're aware that there's some people that are just there solo. Right.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Now, I've been asking all the questions, but is there
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: anything that you want to add that's really, you know,
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: important to this last little chat.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, this month is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. As
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: many people know, I think there was a big promotion
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: in the Premier League over the last few weeks about this.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: Suicide is the single biggest killer of men under 50.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: It's a massive, massive problem. And South Kent Mind are
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: aware of this. So tomorrow morning, there is a Coastal
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: Sunrise Walk of Hope meeting at Battery Point at 5.45pm.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: And there's a lovely walk with a lot of like-minded
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: people down towards Folkestone Harbour. And we finish up at
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: Muggs at the bottom of Tontine Street. So that's the
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: meeting up at 5.45 at Battery Point. I think the
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: sunrise is around 6.45 and you're walking towards the sunrise.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: So hopefully it'll be nice and sunny. I think it's
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: going to be dry. Hopefully it's all going to be
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: open again at Harbour area. So we should be OK
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: by then. I think we should be OK.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Good, right. Anything else, Dave?
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: No, that's it. And as far as my charity effort,
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: I'm grateful for you having me on your show. It
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: did go up on the day of the interview. I've
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: exceeded my target by 10%.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: Which was how much?
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: It was £ 2, 000.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: I'm up to £ 2, 200 plus gift aid. I'm just under 3,000
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: in total.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, brilliant.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: And I'm eternally grateful for the generous messages of support
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: and the donations. All corners of my contacts book.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Brilliant.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Very grateful. Thank you. Thank you to you all.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: Now, Dave, before you go, one last little thing. I
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: want to talk about your recovery. How have you been
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: this week?
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: I'm okay. I had a sports massage on Monday. I
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: was hobbling around a bit. I was struggling on Monday,
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: to tell you the truth. I had to go and
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: pick my wife up from Gatwick Airport. And standing in
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: the arrivals area by Gatwick North was a bit challenging.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: I had to sit down because my feet were sore.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: But gradually, every day, I'm getting better and better. I
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: think that was a comedy show in the 70s, wasn't it?
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: And today, I actually walked. I've walked from Sandgate to here.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: So that's about three miles. So that is progress.
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: I have been to the park run this morning, but
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: there was no way I was going to run it.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: So today, every day I'm getting better.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Good, great.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: Well, Dave, it's been a brilliant journey. Not only for you,
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: but for us as well. We're really pleased to support
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: you and Southgate Mine. And Adrian, what do you think
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: of all that?
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Well, if I was wearing a hat, hats off to you.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: I know I couldn't do it. I'm not in any
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: fit shape to do anything like that at the moment.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, that's fantastic. And, you know, you've raised,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: over £ 2, 000, which is obviously the charity's really going to,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: you know, every charity needs money, but, you know, that's
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: a lot of money towards your charity.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: And thank you, A, thank you, Kevin, for having me on.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: I'm very grateful.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: You're more than welcome.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: Right, Adrian, let's play some music, then we might have
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: some time for some sport.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we might be able to fit something in. Derby
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: day today?
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: There's a game on or something, isn't there?
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: I think they could beat us after then. Anyway, hopefully
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of entertainment now. Talking of entertainment, this
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: is The Jam. Breaking the studio here. One of the
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: knobs come off.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: There is the jam. Paul Weller, Rick Butler and Bruce Foxton.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: One of my favourite bands from the 80s. That was
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: from 1981. That was That's Entertainment. And entertainment is going
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: to hopefully be this afternoon.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Be on a high this afternoon, won't it?
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: At the Crabble. As I say, it's FA Cup day.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Last time we played Dover Athletic in the FA Cup.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: was at the Crabble, and it was way, way back
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: on the 14th of October, 1989. A lot of you
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: people there, that's going to be there this afternoon, probably
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: wasn't even born when we played. When I was doing
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: the old commentary with Charlie, he was 20-odd years for
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: this league game, and he said, I wasn't even born.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, that puts a bit of perspective on the game. Yeah,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: we won with an Andy Allen goal.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: No, it wasn't. It was Kempe. I think it was.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Can't remember anyway.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: 2,165 were there that day.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: I think there's going to be a lot more there.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: You think so?
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: It's all tickets to Folkestone fans, apparently.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: Going back, I don't know if you can remember, what
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: was the differential in the leagues?
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Who... Well, we were both in the same division. Oh,
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: you were?
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: It was the Southern League Premier, but at that particular time,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Dover Athletic were.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Cruising.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: I think they played 13-1-13 at that stage, and they
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: were getting great guns. This was Folkestone's last year in existence.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Oh, they were Folkestone Town then, were they?
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: It was just Folkestone.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they were Folkestone.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Was it Folkestone 19? I can't remember.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: I think there were folks in town. Because folks in
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: Invicta were actually a side in the Kent County League,
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: I think it was.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's correct, yeah.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: Because when I played for Dormobile... Dormobile?
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Dormobile.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: Northcliffe and Dormobile, yeah. We used to play against folks
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: in Invicta. And we always hoped that we would get...
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: that they could get hold of the pitch. Because back
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: in the day, we used to call.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: It the big pitch.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: And it was.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: It was massive.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: It was massive. Compared to the... or the postage stamp
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: that they've got down there now, but, so yeah, and
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: we did, yeah, we played them, so I know that
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: it was Focusing Invicta, and then the actual Focusing Invicta
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: from that era, they folded, and came out of the
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: Kent League, and I think that's when Invicta, because the
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: current Invicta picked up the mantle of the name, yeah.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, way back, well, just a season or so after,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: wasn't it, after that, but, Yeah, 2,165. I remember going
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: to that game very, very well. I had my friend
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: over from Germany and he couldn't quite believe that non-league
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: football would have that many fans going to the actual game.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: I can remember it was absolutely jam-packed back then, obviously.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Crabbeau is now slightly better ground than what it was
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: back in 1989. But, you know, it's been all ticket
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: for folks in the Victor fans this afternoon. I think
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: they gave us 1,700 tickets. I know we've... I think on...
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: What day was it?
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: It's today.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: I think on Tuesday or Wednesday, I think we'd sold
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: about 750, 800 tickets. So I'm thinking probably whatever we've
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: sold between then and now, I think there'll be over.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: Probably 1,000 fans, yeah.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: When you first come out, and I saw they'd given
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: us 1,700 tickets, I thought maybe we'd get about 1,300 tickets.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: And I think we're probably won't be far off that. Um,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: but of course, if we win today, it will be, um,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: probably about four and a half thousand people claiming they
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: were there. A bit like when Julian and beat, uh,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Chesterfield 10, nil, there's only two and a half thousand.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Then I was one of them, but the amount of
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: times I was at that game. Yeah, of course you were.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Uh, but yeah, I mean, it's, it's a massive day
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: today for, uh, Kent football. Um, biggest, um, because for me, uh,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: I love the FA Cup, always have done. This game today,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: I think, is the biggest second qualifying round game. The
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: BBC obviously haven't fought that because they're covering other teams.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: I really thought this one would be live on TV,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: but the powers that be at the BBC have decided, no,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: we're not going to cover Folkestone Invicta and Dover.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: I can't remember the last time Folkestone Invicta were on
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: the TV. It might have been, I don't know if
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: it was streamed when you went up to Wrexham.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Oh, Wrexham, yeah, that was a live game.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a pay-as-you-watch sort of, pay-as-you-go live stream
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: from Wrexham, yeah, because that was during COVID.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: That's right, yeah.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: In the UK, or sorry, in England, COVID had been
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: lifted where you could go and watch the games freely.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: But in Wales, the COVID still.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: still stood there so you couldn't go to you couldn't
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: travel to Wrexham for that game I think if we
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: had let our supporters in there I think we would
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: have taken loads and.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: What role were you you were Seasiders Radio.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah Seasiders Radio we were up there or I was
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: up there the previous chairman managed to wangle it so
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: I could go on the players coach to the game
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: because you know everything back then was you had to
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: sign in here You had to have COVID tests, etc. And, yeah,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: I was very, very fortunate enough to be sitting in
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: the media box next to the commentator that does BBC
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Radio Wales. He does Wrexham every week as well. And
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: a legend, Mickey Thomas, that used to play for Man United.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: Mickey Thomas, yeah.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Wales. And, yeah, he actually bought me a cup of tea.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: Did he? Did you keep the cup?
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: No, it was a disgraceful one. And I had You've
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: got me a packet of custard creams. Oh, dear.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: What a bonus.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean, you know, today's FA Cup, I mean,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: there's a few quid on it for whoever wins, but
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: I don't think anybody's really worried about the money side
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: of it. It's just bragging rights, isn't it? Last time
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: we played there a couple of seasons ago, we won 3-2.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Quite an outstanding game that was. It was blood and
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: thunder and guts. I'm sure it'll be much the same
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: this afternoon.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: You know, I've played at the Crabble. I've played for
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: the High Reserves. And, I mean, it's got a beautiful,
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: beautiful playing surface. But I don't know what it's like now,
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: but it was on a slope.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: The actual surface is wonderful, but it was a slope.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: I think they've tried to iron that out a little
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: bit since, you know, way back in our day.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, a long time ago, yeah.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: I remember playing there for folks in youth many, many
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: years ago. 81, I think it was back then. Yeah,
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: that was.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: It was a bit of a quagmire then, I must admit.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: But this time of year, I mean, the pitches are... Well,
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: hopefully they're just the grass pitches that are around instead
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: of so many... Yeah, I mean... They're just recovering, aren't they?
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: They are.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, we've had a really hot summer, haven't we?
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: And a lot of the pitches of... Or a lot
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: of grass in and around Kent have been scorched to.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: Well, certainly, I know for a fact that certainly the
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: local rugby scene, they put the season back two weeks
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: because the pitches were in such a state. And it
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: looks like it's paid off because we all know... how
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: much those of us that have got front and back lawns,
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: how much they are recovering.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: It's been a great summer because I haven't had to
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: cut the lawn once, you know, because there's nothing to cut.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, me neither, but that's probably due to being concrete
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: out in the back garden. OK, we'll sing another song on.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: I've got to play this one. This one is called
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Two Tribes Go to War. This is Frankie, Ghost Hollywood.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: I wonder who this is for this afternoon.
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: Frankie goes to Hollywood 1984 and Two Tribes.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: What a.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Great choice, Adrian, actually. Two tribes go to war. Just
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: imagine if the two chairmen kind of had a little
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: punch-up in the centre circle instead of playing the game,
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: you know.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: I'd be 100% behind Josh Healy on that one, I
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: can tell you.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that'd be quite interesting. Half-time entertainment we could have. Yeah, yeah.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: A couple of rounds each.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jim Palmiter versus Josh Healy.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: In the blue corner.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: I tell you what, that would be fantastic. Get him
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: in those sumo suits or something.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: That would be really funny. I don't mean it, Josh, honestly. Yeah, OK.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Just a little thing while we're going on about folks
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: in Evicta. And Scarborough, I suppose. Last year, Scarborough sponsored
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Adi Youssef, one of the folks in Evicta players who
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: has since been moved on to Cray Wanderers now. But
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: we sponsored him and we was given a shirt at
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: the end of the season. of course I put it
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: in the Scarborough raffle last week and for the Scarborough
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: weekend and it was won by a friend called Mark
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: he won the shirt and he said it's a medium
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: and he says I'm triple XL at best he said
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: so please have it he said and auction it off
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: and he says I know you do your radio station
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: he said see what funds you can raise for so
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: I've put it on the Seasider Radio Facebook page this morning.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Somebody had offered me £ 30 for it, so I put
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: that on there. And now, you know, highest bidder wins it.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: And I'm going to read it out next Saturday at
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: the Salisbury City game at half-time, who the actual highest
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: bidder is. And so far, it's now up to £ 100. Oh,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: that's good, yeah. So if you would like to bid
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: on that, £ 100 is the going rate so far. As
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: I say, go to Seasiders Radio on Facebook. excellent no
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Seasiders radio coming from Dover this afternoon they have refused
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: permission for me to broadcast Lee said about that probably
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: the better but I shall be in the away end
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: with all the other folks in Invicta fans this afternoon
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: cheering on the boys and we'll be wearing all blue.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: Today yeah be a nice change for you I think
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: Adrian actually.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Do you know what I was trying to think the
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: last time I actually went to a folks in Invicta
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: game where I wasn't you know working.
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: In a box or something in the box yeah.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: And actually having to to pay the admission families as well.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I honestly can't remember. I think it was,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: I can't honestly can't remember.
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: Years ago. Yeah.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: A few years ago, but, uh, I should be back
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: next Saturday in the, um, media box down at Salisbury city.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: So unfortunately next Saturday, I won't be here as I'll
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: be on the way to Salisbury.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: Salisbury Hill.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: Salisbury Hill.
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: I went past there when I went to Torquay the
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: other week. Uh, We got a bit of a detour
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: and had to go past Stonehenge.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: Did you? That A road. Do you know what?
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: I didn't know that Salisbury Hill was an actual place.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: I did have a question come up in a quiz,
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: I think, and it was about Salisbury Hill. And I
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: didn't know it was down by Southend. I just thought
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: it was something they made up in a song. Peter Gabriel,
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: wasn't it?
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: Peter Gabriel, yeah. That was a classic from 70-something or other.
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, we've come to the end here this morning on...
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Radio Folkestone 105.9 FM.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: Well, I won't be back on Thursday, but I'll be
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: here on Saturday. And so, you know, just because Adrian's away,
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: we like to keep the show going as often as
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: we can. So please tune in next Saturday. And in
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: the meantime, I'll see if I can find a guest.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: I've got nothing in at the moment, but you never know.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: I might find someone. And I must say that today's guest, Dave,
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: was such a good speaker. He did such a good job.
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: after such a big, massive challenge. Yeah, so hats off
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: to him. And South Kent Mind.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, South Kent Mind, also one of the charities that
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: Scarborough support as well. So there'll be a few quid
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: on their way to South Kent Mind.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: That is nice.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: I didn't realise that was one of his charities.
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: He's a trustee.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, we will be making a donation to them
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: very shortly from Scarborough.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: Brilliant.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: Okay. I'm going to finish off.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: You've probably got less than a minute of this one,
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: but this one is Holly Johnson and the Americanos. As
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Kev said, he won't be here Thursday, but he will
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: be back next Saturday, and I'll be back in two
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: weeks' time.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: Take care, and we'll see you all then. Take care.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: Bye for now.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Bye-see-bye.
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: Americanos