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Nostalgic Mosque Memories 🕌 Throwback to the 90's · After Maghrib 🌙

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Today we want to talk about something slightly different.
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We've had so many kind of serious conversations in the
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last month or two and today we wanted to maybe take it in a
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more lighthearted approach and talking about whether we're
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getting old and I think it's kind of been a realization that
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said I need and I and the team have had really over the last
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few weeks. We had said I Lee's birthday of
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course a couple of weeks ago and I'm handle on now.
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We are at that age where we're not feeling as young as we used
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to maybe a few years ago. So we want to talk about
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Nostalgia and maybe bring back some of the best memories may be
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the worst ones as well that we had growing up as always I'm
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delighted to introduce my dearest.
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Chorister brother said I love always so I live Alaikum,
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salaam. How you doing, bro?
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I'm the law for the belated birthday wishes again.
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Yeah, young younger than ever. How's your week been?
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It's good. It's good.
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Every week. Life is good.
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The work continues. Yes, the grinder continues.
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All she said, we've now been doing aftermarket up for around
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about a year and I'm thinking like time has I passed so fast
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since we began and hand allow, it's come a long way.
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The the podcast is growing movement has grown.
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It got me thinking like life and time as we know from our Hadith
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and as we know from the relations of the Athenaeum
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Islam, it disappears like that it feels like yesterday I was in
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double science with a supply teacher and throwing paper
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airplanes and them and whatnot. And before, you know it you've
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doubled an age and you're doing crazy things and life is
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changing. You've got kids and family and
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whatnot. But The question that arises is
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all we getting too old. I don't think it will get into
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old, I think we are, you know, realizing how fast time is
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moving. And similar to the point you
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were mentioning is you know it's time is known by the nickname of
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the brink of I and you know what you were talking about this.
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Just now I was trying to remember my most earliest memory
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as a kid. So Random are almost eating ice
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cream like them. Yeah.
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Those the the white Magnum ice cream.
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Yeah. But a little flavor has been ill
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or something. This is the first thing that
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came to my head. The best, you know, I go so
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quick, you know, having children, they grow up so quick.
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Rory honey, you know, my eldest six.
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Now I'll show lat, you know, I was just flying for me, it's
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just the other day and it makes you realize, you know, you know
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what have we been doing our time?
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This is nice to reflect and I think this conversation I think
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it's good to bring up some old memories.
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Yeah, it's nice because we've also got a couple of boys
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Brothers behind the scenes as well, save most about a Sadiq
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friends of and everyone knows them.
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Of course, as part of the team, are you guys doing some running
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from the law? They come?
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Around how you? And that's nice to have you guys
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on. Don't see the three of you guys
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have grown up in the same Community?
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Yeah, and you all kind of like a few years, but we're very, very
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excited conversation. I think maybe we'll find out.
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Let me ask you a question. What is your first memory
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segments about of said a lie? What About Cha look is?
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Definitely not sandiana. We grew up in that sense.
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Yeah, I got nowhere else. He knows all this is two things,
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I think, one as kids, we always had like a group kids lot on.
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So a thing as a Darian, whatever.
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So we always connected through that and then after mosque, we
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play football with each other, or during the lecture or
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something. We and you'd meet your friends
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then mostly and you grew up with them.
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I think probably the friends. I've had the longest as those
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friends that grew up them with the best offer.
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I saw a picture of you guys. From 20, 25 years ago.
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It will Wing Reebok and Slazenger little closer need to
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post on the tail and your playing football.
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And you and said motive are and said Ali and would be nice to
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sort of a throwback pictures on Instagram.
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Yeah. Yeah, why not?
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Oh my God, I'm embarrassing them.
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I've something very good marketing for this podcast.
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Yeah, I'll finally get to see how it looks say to, you know,
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you know, you know, you know the worst thing.
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No, the best. I'll see how you look when you
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were 15. Well, obviously how you look
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when you're five obviously, the memories I have is different
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because I was born and brought up here and all I know is
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Northwest London a month. So there's so many people go
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through different memories for me.
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Like the streets, I live in the streets, I drive in this all
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I've ever known. I mean, so I've seen my
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community change from birth because my local, A mosque is a
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mosque has to go to from birth. Hmm.
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So my first school was a Moscow went to was at the Moscow into
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and like my friends are the same friends I had.
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When I was three years old for example, for years old and it's
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crazy because time flies so fast Animal Boy, wait till death.
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Yeah, no way. Yeah yeah I guess so my favorite
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memory going up, this is my shop.
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Say I know you're going to say what I think is in my head.
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Until forever. I remember when you used to come
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and ruin it, well, there are certainly they banned there.
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Oo Ki kids from coming in anymore.
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You know what? I'm not going to name names.
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Yeah, there's some some of the brothers.
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I remember I gave someone had concussion playing football.
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No, I don't know what happened but I had no idea.
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What we're talking about in my area of the mosque is name and
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it's a code your community. So of course we're very set in
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our ways who we know what how we behave and what not and
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generally speaking I don't we were misbehaving in compared to
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a rocky boys that called your boys are angels.
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I remember, I remember you lot coming at us.
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We probably were the same scoop over the same time as I see what
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all of them and I even organized a few of them.
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So I remember speaking with his boys and these damn iraki kids,
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they're ruining it. Like we used to have trying to
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football tournaments and we should try and play table,
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tennis. And these guys would come, and
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they're just wreck everything. I think we got invited to one
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stanmore football tournament as well.
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When we were really young guy Alan Shearer, yes, I cheer.
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Yay, Newcastle stuff. Yeah, member Correll was there
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and we didn't get invited back as well.
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Remember be sure. Well, GG, but she refused to
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bring us a show. Used to organize a.
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Yeah. So he's hoping the Rockies to
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the hospital. Honestly.
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I was supposed speak for you guys and your sentence.
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We had a table tennis like we had two things, very active yet
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table tennis. Is and football training.
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So we had a park down the road from the saying here and we pay
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a pound each every week to pay the trainer.
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You know what also is active every Friday during the modulus
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Hubble was sick without a racket.
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No, no. That's basically we played in
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school as well, not just in worse.
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What is that? And he was playing money on.
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I'll tell you what money up going on the kids, who does not
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understand Arabic was outside playing football.
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Yeah. I'm to one of the elders comes
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and kicks and kicks ass back inside.
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Yeah, something and you know how that used to happen to each one
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of us is they buy bunnies. Go toilet.
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So you guys like your closest friends and everything you built
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as a bond. Yeah.
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And supports as, as like a as like a hobby or anything, it
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builds like you said Brotherhood and bonds between people and
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like it teaches you, a lot of skills are your patients?
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There's a post by saying how dire is V.
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Now, if you guys follow him on Graham, he posted something so
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cool. Like a couple of weeks ago, it
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was about games board games. Yeah.
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He's like the lessons of life can be learned when you play.
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You know, for example, we talked about ideas and friendship was
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ironic because I read this post just off the Record.
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It's okay about how you get to know people Imam, Sadiq Ali
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Islam says through traveling and concerns of money.
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And when you anger them the three Hadith, right?
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The three criteria. And he makes economies like in
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Modern day times you could also add board games.
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So that list he is really interesting.
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He's like because when you're playing games with someone
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sports or board games, whatever like you're inside your
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imagination, you're inside a fake trivial game.
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It doesn't matter who wins who loses fun.
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People get angry people, cheat people, lie for example, and
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some people really don't care. He's like that will teach you.
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So many life lessons, when you're analyzing, I'm thinking
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like, bro, these things are so deep when you think about them,
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but when we were kids, that's all we knew like Eames what
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everything for us Sports and who play with, and making sure we
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win and all of that stuff. You know?
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I mean you know what, I miss a lot most of our maybe, you'd
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remember know, we grew up in central Seoul, although I think
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there was only like a limited set of families, I used to come
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more than just a Friday programs with that.
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Will come on like every Tuesday though.
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After Western, you know, Thursday, do I come in, Friday
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morning? Do I know, but like, there was
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always something going on. Well, those were the days
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honest. Because we're just now we have
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more lets, you know, I'm at mentioning games, we used to go
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ayp, a lot of memory wipe. He's on Safari project.
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Yes I think back then it was called MVP.
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Maybe and MVP or something. It was my voice project.
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My voice project. Yeah, I think it's still active
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now and these communities a lot of our communities together
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where we mix the Iraqis and the Iranians and the Hodges.
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And I remember I used to go boxing with ayp.
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We score team already game every game.
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He Parks. Yeah.
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And it keeps kids off the streets.
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You know, it's nice. It was really cool and like, you
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could go somewhere and you wouldn't feel pressure about
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how. That's definitely, I think
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something that she our communities need, and we will
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all share. Yeah, everyone, because we
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wasn't just, she had the mosque, we were shy, you know, you know,
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at the theme parks our show, Somewhere.
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Yeah, I feel like after it became open to everywhere
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everyone, I've lost it, we sort of swayed away the community
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because it you don't feel belong there anymore.
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Anyway, but shots them because that's not, I mean, generally
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anomie talk about this. I think all communities need
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this. These other things youth clubs,
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helps a lot with children going up because you know the youth
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today after issues are way more different hours you could say.
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You know, like for maybe for Our Generation because we didn't
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have social media to the same degree at all.
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We were not at home like on our headsets playing video games,
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the same degree, or like we went on tick-tocks rolling.
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We were like on the streets, we were out and about, you know, I
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mean and we are meeting people and that being on the road had
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its own challenges. Not that I think any of us were
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roadman but I think that she's just playing football in your
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local Alleyway. Yeah.
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Like I'll but I chances were A bit different.
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I would have fights on in Alleyways, for example, or like
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you we have challenges with, like, see a lot of like crime or
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over here or they're not a lot. At least for me, like, I didn't
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have, I didn't see way too much of it, but now kids have
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slightly different challenges and a lot of the things that
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they this is why I think that I'll be getting old because some
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of the things that they have in terms of challenges, I don't
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even know if I can relate to them.
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You know I mean what age do we want to discuss agent and under?
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Because I think for example that age group is completely
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different. There's one person who I don't
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think those buyers a Sonic bomb when I'm 20.
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I'm like to. Yeah nobody understands Yashin
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because I've like a when I was in secondary school like stuff
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for them was normal for me. It's like what the hell?
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This is black. So weird and strange, I'm not
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used to it but then I grew up like the way I Up around it and
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stuff is just you know you get used to it.
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My age is like a Cheesy Prime. I see the close-up first off.
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What's this Prime? Prime.
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Thank you to our sponsor but this is guys this is like a good
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example of what we mean by. Are we getting old like wacky
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wines selling this drink for doesn't make sense.
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Why are kids paying 100 pounds for energy drink?
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It makes no sense being the hunter.
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This is Gen Z versus what you call a Boomers Boomers.
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You know what? After the world war the baby's
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increased babies increase, because people returned from
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service is Gen, Z that coolers Boomers.
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Yeah, no idea. I was listening to a podcast
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year. The guy who's doing the podcast
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is 30/31. And he's been some is 24.
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It was like, yes was like and what will too?
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Guys born in like 1993. You think about like you're part
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of the team or something smart. Yeah.
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As we age we tend to forget things that are more important
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to you than we tend to focus on things which are important to
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us. I need to make money on a buy a
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house, pay my mortgage. You know things like that.
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We stop concerning ourselves with things like reputation and
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my jollies and Family Matters and what not and we forget about
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the younger generation have so much to offer potential and
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energy you know ambition but they don't get the attention
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really that, you know, because I think the communities back in
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the day is to give more platform to the youth and they do.
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Now we wrong as a big statements it is very I think it's very
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mixed. It really depends on.
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Center to Center. I think a lot of you is a
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platform whether I'm not talking about coming to recite or
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something, I'm talking about avoid giving them something to
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do, more than just, you know, your Friday lectures and you're,
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you know, a day and Ciara more. Like, when we grew up, we had,
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like, clubs table tennis. We had a, but comparing to what
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we had, for example, now, you got Harlequin London.
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Yeah. But that's, that's your
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community is here. It's lie.
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Still Community, which is three miles away.
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Full miles away is completely different and the like literally
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last weekend. My friends in the Moscow between
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25 and 30 organized a camp, camp fire weekend trip a getaway
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canoeing and rock climbing and campfires all of that with with
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shares and with kids who are between 13 and 16 follows they
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took about 60 children followed on this campfire thing.
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That it was and 30 girls or something crazy like that.
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And I'm thinking like those memories that that you know, to
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us is always volunteering for a weekend but to those kids they
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gonna remember that trip in like 2015, 20 years for the rest of
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their lives - but I made friends on that trip.
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But this is what I'm saying these kids like, for example,
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they'll need that guidance and know maybe they need us to hand
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hold them and to to do these things like to book, maybe it's
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because we had nothing else to do that.
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We had to create something together.
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I'll bore them. Yeah, I think we have the option
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to do a lot of things, but we were restricted as Muslims
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environments. We can go to.
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So it was vital for the community at that time to allow
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these things. Like my parents were always
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scared to. Let me go on my school trips.
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So I had to create my own trips for me to go on a trip maybe
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like if I told my mom or dad don't go to a sleepover, I think
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game over. I'm going to sleep over, fair
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enough. So back, we were able to have a
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childhood. I think a nice childhood by, you
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know, Islamic community. Giving us this opportunity.
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I said people who are parents of 15 year olds.
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Now, 10 years older than us, you know, saying and not that old.
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You think about it. You've talked about 40 year olds
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now and whatnot. Late thirties.
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Early forties those guys have 15 14 year old children now who are
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part of Of that generation. These guys themselves, they've
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been born and brought up in the same environment.
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We have the English-speaking, they're fully vocational,
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they're working the corporate life in some KPMG, tax audit
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role in the city 95 like the most bread and butter Western
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like role in life. You can imagine.
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Yeah well these guys if they're going to get their kids involved
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in anything is going to be whatever the mosque puts out
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there and it's going to be stuff that's extracurricular which
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benefits them in their CV, you know?
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I mean, Maybe our parents, or maybe the parents of of that
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generation will older than us. Their parents didn't have these
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options, you know. I mean, there wasn't like these
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like extracurricular things that they could send their kids to,
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you know, I mean hackathons and stuff like that, you know, I
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mean, but I will our Our Generation Now who have got
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children or expecting. Children shouldn't soon.
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Insha Allah, we got to think consciously like how can I make
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my youth or my children reached like Their fullest potential in
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every way communities home, communities week, then.
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Affect your kids. That's true.
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That's true. You know.
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I miss Arabic school. Like, we used to go.
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Every Saturday is no, it's to not just learn Arabic, when read
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Arabic a right Arabic and what not, we should have a good time
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like which one can also use it on, you know, this Arabic School
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saying I've never understood it. Okay, you guys are interested on
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you. Yeah you call them Arabic.
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Skunk a look. Well the primary function Arabic
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so School So the, the core of the school is to go to is you
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learn Arabic as the also, you had the Quran, you'll get paid
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so much come, you have your like basic Foundation, generally, we
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call the other vehicle versus you guys couldn't get my dresser
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because but we were low as in-depth as because I was a
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general thing that not just she has 07 is do those like
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Christian Urban schools. There was, there was suddenly
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Arabic puzzle, is it was? There is open to everyone, but
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we'd go to ones. We got specific The shy ones is
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in our skin, our madrasah, we had a lot of non coaches.
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So loads of Iraqis or understand, he's or people from
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different backgrounds and like our curriculum was rigid.
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So by five years old, you knew your soul and throw it in.
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There will probably me that 10 that was was 90% learning
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Arabic. Yeah, 10% learning religion,
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really, uh, for us is no linguistic involvement except
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English, tell us nothing. Now, you won't allow everything
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English in our classes, really, huh?
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That's nice. That's why I decide, I think
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about that a lot in terms of our children, like like Islamic
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learning as well, big Brokers, like my dress always fun at the
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same time like we used to have more Chips shop in the mosque
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and we'd have like, you know, we'd have our banter and whatnot
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with mess around his kids, having fights and kids, who are
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like playing games football in the, in the car park, and all of
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that. But the I'm time we were
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learning religion. So we have three or four
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lessons. We had a clock that ferc had
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Karana muhtadi literally. So a clock, you ethics morals,
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30, your jurisprudence, and you are calm, your rulings, study
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your history. And for on, I can we have to do
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the four lessons we had when we were now slightly change the
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curriculum and all that. But that was it.
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Do you get me? We have exams, we'd have mocks
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we'd get grades. We have parents stay with a
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whole I really Envy you guys growing up in that because when
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you sit with our Hajj or someone who grew up in madrasa, you can
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see, you can see what they've learned in a growing up.
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We didn't get that but the thing is, you guys take it.
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A lot of them. You take it for granted, what
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benefit, you have by speaking Arabic.
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I say this all the time on the podcast and away, I write
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article, you can get a gist of what I am.
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Saving Erebus. Has never taken seriously by
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anyone. I can imagine.
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Well, actually, we learn more later on using Arabic on
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WhatsApp, or on Twitter, then we do not.
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Not my heart. Yeah, reading the subs is very
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unfortunate, but you guys have got like the world, your
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fingertips, you could become classical Arabic Scholars.
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If you wanted to whitewash the way, you don't, you know, like
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for example, for non Arab speakers, we're learning a
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religion based in another language and with a different
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culture. So things that we are foreign to
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culturally Like a job, for example, a job in my culture.
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And if you look at pictures of our ancestors, I saw a picture
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recently of of our community when they visited Iraq soaking
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100 Years Ago, picture, wearing dupatta and shalwar kameez like
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arms out hair out. This that in Iraq.
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And I'm thinking, this is very different to what we're used to
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yes. Now because obviously now we
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understand the physics Behind these things but that's because
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we're totally different to our culture.
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I'm de la culture has adapted as well to her job, but that's
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because we've been taught it. Your culture said is primarily
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your culture and religion are intertwined.
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Your cannibal is always mentioned.
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Your culture is your religion or religion or culture so like why,
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you know, I don't know. I'm going to tell us that but
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like, for example, my religion is a lot.
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Yes. But like, I remember when, when
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I met someone like 75 7 years ago, there were in their 30s and
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they're very involved in the show Community.
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And there are key. I'm not gonna obviously there's
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not representative at all, and this person who's very long in
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the community, couldn't name the 12 imams of the a little bit
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sticky. So 30 to 40 years old and you're
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doing a lot of work with the community but something that we
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were forced to learn and thank Handler.
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We were forced to be taught to learn 56 years old, the 12
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imams. I had a bit 14 months, I mean,
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like in Brennan but you know, Some people want you to know,
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and I know that some, a common issue, and I just closed for the
24:15
dean or I did, you know, this, this is a very critical because
24:20
when you learn when you're young bro, they benefit you as you
24:24
grow because you're never going to be in that state where you
24:27
know, should I? Sometimes like there is like
24:31
questions you are shy to ask about embarrassed to open up a
24:34
subject with DVD with your own parents sometimes as if you grew
24:37
up in such community in such and such Remnants with already know
24:41
the answers to these nothing. That was the beauty of, you
24:44
know, metres maybe, but maybe not as well.
24:46
I put you off, as I remember when I was six, seven, eight
24:48
years old, maybe a bit older like nine.
24:50
Ten, we were learning about Olson.
24:52
The has arrived in the muhajiroun and The Ensemble.
24:54
I've enjoyed these things. You'd enjoy it now, say it, but
24:57
I remember like one of the things I, I don't know what my
25:01
problem is with muhajiroun Assad.
25:03
I remember, I hated studying and reading about because maybe is
25:08
the teacher who's trying really hard used for I see Teach it to
25:10
be fair to him. I love lesson.
25:12
But like it was just love. Like I felt like I'm studying at
25:15
school but now looking back on it.
25:18
Yeah, it's nice. I am delighted that these are
25:21
words and Concepts and stories unfamiliar with and stories that
25:25
I handle. I've known for 20 years and so
25:27
on and so forth. You know, I mean we had to learn
25:29
about calm of of how when you're praying.
25:32
This is what you do and how what you don't do.
25:34
You know, you learn about your a clock and the rules of solola
25:37
Hammond, got a little home and all of these kind of different
25:39
Current things. And you get them saying
25:42
philosophy that Arguments for and against Allah, they're the
25:45
Western arguments in The Atheist arguments versus the theological
25:47
arguments that you find in theism and like these kind of
25:50
things were drilled in us, institutionally from a young
25:54
age. But some people, you know,
25:56
there's the flip side that people could be put off.
25:59
Yeah. So by the time they're like 15
26:01
years old, 20 years old, to ask questions like bro.
26:03
I know what these guys are going to say I was taught when I was
26:06
happy enough, you know? I mean so it's important that
26:09
that education. That but it's also done properly
26:12
and communities are doing that. They're getting better they only
26:15
really well. Yeah you know I enjoyed a
26:17
remember quite a lot I wish to go to the same year.
26:21
Otherwise we're stuck at this saying you're subject to much
26:23
but I think the majority of our memories are grown up.
26:25
I didn't want burgers and places like that that one was measured
26:28
as time. I've got my dad's ball play
26:30
Snake. Yeah, that did it.
26:32
Every kid should stick or Nakia. Yeah.
26:38
It was a Nokia. 3210. Youíve on the Masonic 2003, a
26:42
lot like a 2000. And but the thing is that it's
26:44
like I've had the same experiences like similar
26:47
expensive, you guys, mmm, because I grew up like my
26:51
parents were against black. Me and my brother, having
26:53
technology. We were lucky.
26:54
If we last had a PlayStation, or in your mother turned out to be
26:56
the biggest nerd alive. Yeah, yes.
26:59
When when, when you were born They only start near 70.
27:04
Are you serious? Like the gap between you being
27:17
an infant? And don't know your name and
27:20
this guy starting gear 7. It's a big time and you imagine
27:23
obviously the difference now between you and some new
27:25
starting at seven now. Yeah, like pretty much right?
27:28
Or not even that more than that, you know.
27:31
So it's Time passes fast. Yeah.
27:35
Like I've I look at the guys on Moscow, like 27.
27:40
No, I mean, not try something like 24.
27:42
I'm like, yeah, they're young as I can my mind.
27:44
I remember when they were kids and their three years younger
27:47
than me, but it's all good now. Yeah, I remember when I was,
27:51
like, 15 16 or 17 or 18, Roy should hear a man, like, you are
27:57
literally in charge of the world.
27:59
And now, when you look at that age group, you like well, the
28:01
bracelet, Kids like Mohammed a seed.
28:05
One of our brothers, 19 years old.
28:06
Are they got married. Just jump on and watching it,
28:25
you'll find out. Anyway, I remember the guy would
28:31
be out my love lesson. Is the real chilling by the Chip
28:34
Shop all the time with two, three brothers.
28:37
Same guys just chilling. Like, I remember every time I
28:40
was to walk out of my class, I see these guys through the
28:43
windows, just having fun. And, you know, I think like, I
28:46
used to think my, but I liaise a younger, he's from them, he's a
28:49
kid from the mosque while Charlotte the guys, much more
28:53
wise than I am, and I younger age, and he's doing incredibly
28:56
well. And now he's so close in age to
28:58
be, you know, when you're 54 and someone's 52, you don't even
29:01
think, But when you're 13 and you think they kids, what's the
29:12
worst? I don't think the worst memory
29:15
was something when you were young.
29:17
If you could have changed, you would have changed.
29:20
Yes, my aide outfit. Do you remember getting your 8
29:27
outfit, ready? Every morning, and then the the
29:29
night before, and you look forward to wearing it the next
29:31
day, you know, just what he does.
29:35
Now, I skate new crazy idea, please.
29:41
Everything I see. Please, right?
29:43
Well, I don't think there's anything specific to change.
29:47
Yeah. I need the love.
29:49
You are who you are? Because your youth?
29:52
Yeah, we enjoyed where we grew up.
29:56
I feel like people who didn't grow up in the community
29:58
environment have something missing may be so missed out on
30:04
something that we grow Best of Both Worlds.
30:06
You know, the spiritual, I think in the social and the social as
30:11
you get the balance of both and I think as you grow it also feel
30:15
like you're missing out for you guys.
30:16
Have a lack of really not with your community.
30:19
I say you're coming. I mean in the community, you
30:20
guys grew up in your age group that you have a really nice
30:24
batch of, boys mashallah, It really depends.
30:26
The party took because some some Dave go in the wrong direction,
30:30
the wrong direction, maybe the ones we didn't like martial law,
30:32
like a look at the work that some of you guys are doing like
30:35
the Charities that you work with the TV channels that have been
30:39
set up on the back. Yeah, I did, I think it taught
30:42
us in our professionalism, that we have today, a lot of the
30:45
experts that we have today is probably because the community
30:48
grew up in earlier and you said, you can learn a lot.
30:51
Thanks. So to answer the question, are
30:54
we getting old? Should I lie?
30:58
We all get old. That's shiny.
31:00
That's a reality. We can't deny every time.
31:04
Little candle, but not all the way.
31:06
Just stop blowing candles best. Sort of realized that, you know,
31:11
time is going to pass so quick and I think it's best to try.
31:16
Spend them right way. Try and you know, no age in
31:25
terms Zuv you know how active you can be spiritually or your
31:28
family or your community, I think.
31:29
Even as you age and older it should continue to continue,
31:33
you'll be boring, stop all of this.
31:36
There's traditions of the application, a Muslim, where
31:39
implies that I use is one who's under four years old.
31:45
So especially in Paradise. Inshallah.
31:58
And you know, all my hobby if I know like by hon everything, all
32:01
of that. It's all like thanks to people
32:04
like John Hardy so much feel like I can thank as a kid
32:10
growing up in the outside of my home computer tengo, que me
32:12
tengo like there who may be a Tango.
32:14
What kind of people he was a teacher?
32:21
He was a teacher for a large. Amount of the Shiite Community,
32:24
but he disappeared. And I chipped a lot of times you
32:26
go to the gym. Can U.
32:27
See ya. You will bump into my 1000% have
32:31
high like a flashback of that name from like my youth days,
32:34
you just open to unlock some memory Carmel Tango.
32:37
That's, you know, say you mentioning.
32:38
So, Dad hardly there's a lot of things from our past which
32:42
disappears to suggest Hari is is the guy who brought us Ali,
32:46
father basically used to create the recitation groups and from
32:51
that alley father became the The breadth of guidance, the light
32:54
of guidance and your father, became the main recital for that
32:57
and then he, he grew up to be his own thing.
33:00
I shall not even in our community, we have moved on to
33:04
something. I don't know.
33:05
Yeah, in our committee. We had Yad Yad youth as a direct
33:09
drive. Yes, we will all like the first
33:13
batch of graduates. All the boys used to recite some
33:16
of them now. Marshall are doing really well,
33:18
the same, very G recital and then you had like Mahmoud Abbas
33:22
cream. Used to come, for example, I'm
33:24
out of the committee. Come to me, arson.
33:26
And wanton does use common size 10, but within the community
33:29
where the banana Brothers assembled re of course along,
33:31
after Maghrib, Christmas and all of this proves that if you grow
33:36
up and R2, yeah, grew up in that environment.
33:39
Ya Shah Alam adachi, mommy damji.
33:40
All Tha precise from our community, like graduated from
33:44
this system and then like, young Brothers, you see.
33:47
Now our site is useful for Kara. All of these guys.
33:50
Like, you know, you know, a big ones is by Bye, everyone.
33:54
And yeah, people will be shocked by a or someone oughtta.
33:56
Yes. Yes.
33:57
Yes. Chef Osama was reciting in
33:59
English before anyone else and he responded the whole English
34:03
recitation. You know, I remember shall
34:05
summon or Thor used to recite? And then one time I saw him on
34:10
the TV channel called, as the Heart TV lectures iRobot, was
34:14
confused, isn't here a sec? He does not Mia and now he's
34:18
giving lectures. That's we all love less than my
34:21
love, honestly. Yeah.
34:24
Good. Good, good, good memories.
34:26
Yeah. I think we all know.
34:27
We all had a good childhood husseini.
34:29
Islamic everything was I'm beautiful.
34:32
I think we should just be grateful and thankful.
34:34
Thanks to our parents. Yeah, I was about to say, I
34:37
think we are blessed to have the right parents.
34:39
Yeah. We should.
34:40
We have to be grateful and thankful to our parents.
34:43
First of all most like for me, my grandmother, my mom, my dad,
34:47
my all the people who like helped us, you know, not should
34:53
us are teachers. As you know, the ones, the harsh
34:56
ones, and the lenient ones, they will contribute something.
34:59
You know the uncles, the Moscow tell us to go back in.
35:02
God bless him. You get me like there's this is
35:04
the people that were the backbone of we are who we will
35:08
be for the rest of our lives. And sharp know I used to love
35:11
during the Harem. I don't know what age I was
35:15
there was a year that for I think the first time in my life
35:18
I heard the English lecture. And it was like like even like
35:24
the words does it was like I remember like my family will
35:35
drop us off at that place and they got them.
35:40
Everyone wanted to go like the English lecture.
35:43
It was so weird so it's really loved it.
35:47
He loved it and that's what helped I think.
35:49
The English well, the go on and then, you know, you bring things
35:53
up, a little, a little, a little bit TV, mmm-hmm Shambala, what
36:00
what, what not has recited as you listened to Growing Up,
36:03
English Arabic, anything Yes, that's what was the question.
36:10
Sorry, they're just listened to Growing Up.
36:13
Recite is what lovely are. Was your favorite me as a kid
36:18
and give us ample? What would you give us?
36:19
Ample? That was bussing. 40.
36:25
Lights are shining. How's it going?
36:27
How's it going? Long time ago about 10 years
36:41
ago. That was like top-tier for me,
36:55
how's it Go? Jenna, Jenna.
37:04
Message an initial koala. Yeah, yeah.
37:09
But he runs it in a very different tune, like a different
37:12
Melody, compiler. They went crazy when I acquired
37:15
my wife's family from the US, they used to boss up.
37:20
My grandma called us from. Karbala the time you've got a
37:23
recital like this and you're chasing him my my one, my missus
37:29
moved to the UK. She's like I cannot believe
37:33
mullah Mustafa an Ibis. Here and no one cares.
37:36
When I say no cares in the sense that he's it's everyone knows
37:39
he's here on the value. It's yeah, not just that I do
37:41
appreciate it. Another chance not new news.
38:05
Of course, every day is an historic sites, and by the way,
38:11
if you go to as majlis on ashore on night, he recites every a
38:14
show tonight. I love that I've had that that I
38:18
remember like the English after that was like Ali.
38:21
Father. I don't remember anyone else.
38:23
To be honest, Studio has a mother.
38:25
Father was biggest. I've only heard the mothers in
38:27
the u.s. it wasn't hit. We don't have a life like
38:30
Library recitations, something. I only follow was only one that
38:33
doesn't English. Studio work.
38:35
Yeah and you just mentioned the the tracks used to release one
38:41
to Fathom. I can fathom.
38:42
I came to Kerala. That was the Beautiful.
38:45
The best truck cry are saying a bus are these all?
38:52
Will stop the balls legendary first first album part of my
38:54
skull - farts mascara, but I think it's and everyone's heart.
38:57
Yeah, 100% hundred to give us a sample.
39:08
They look ya'll, come on. You've killed my brother,
39:30
nah. Place in your heart without my
39:44
djinni, that was the most beautiful as a kid because I
39:55
remember he recited the Liva and holy Foundation.
39:58
Here, is that when Boston King? So everyone heard it on studio
40:03
and he released it Came to the Hui Foundation resided live
40:06
Kappa. Everyone of us is reading
40:09
everything with him then you stopped while I was like bro.
40:12
She'll let me read it. And you know what and you know
40:18
one day young reciter Amidala, we recited it Allah O my soul.
40:24
Honestly that literally tore everyone apart.
40:27
Yeah. Yeah.
40:29
It was like a replica of busting when we were growing up.
40:33
We had a mixed bag. Bag.
40:34
But for me for like the first 10, 15 years of my life purely
40:40
although and some english. And then when I attend, like 15,
40:42
I started reading the Arabic and Farsi and then the first bar,
40:46
some tracks are had Malabar. Some tracks.
40:47
I had was the same ones and a half an hour over calendar.
40:54
It's got one of those, what? No, I don't know that we don't
40:57
and of course, the other ones start I have seen on server.
41:06
No, you know, what's the most amazing?
41:07
Danny. What's the, what's the main Roy?
41:11
Roy, beautiful, because he goes party in that if I supposed to
41:28
shine, but this tiny a lot more, her Samir Nadeem.
41:32
So, what was the big order track?
41:34
Back in the day, it was one shot.
41:36
The first track. I truly fell in love with was
41:39
this truck? In fact it was recited on she
41:41
avoids this year, okay? It was recited by.
41:46
Who is that by that young boy alemdar?
41:49
Remember him? Yes, yes, I'm done with the book
41:54
and then of of uh John. Oh there he is.
42:05
Oh God. Yeah, yeah, beautiful.
42:16
That was like a big track When We Were Young in popped
42:20
obviously, there's so many other tracks.
42:21
You remember shouts of the Farsi?
42:23
You remember we are civil or you've made the original version
43:03
on the Spears and it's what's his name?
43:20
It was crazy. We film dialogue Applause in the
43:23
August bottled hammered by geology had August taken during
43:28
closure for the Youth Club iyg cannot and we found out tracking
43:35
down. Watch the video for you.
43:54
I salute and of care about the sorrow of Zahara Classics.
44:06
I think we should pull it. Paula Davis.
44:08
I think we need to run through a mini of the war.
44:11
One more memory. From yossef growing up is just
44:15
walk out and never forget, 2014, World
44:35
Cup was, first established memory.
44:39
I have is my day. Dad was driving to a dark and he
44:45
took the whole family from Iraq from London to a lot, because he
44:48
took a journey driving, and my mom started crying and
45:04
start crying. And I'm like, oh, what's
45:06
happening? Why is mama crying?
45:08
And she tells me look, and I see the shrine of Abba.
45:10
Father, that's the first Islamic thing I No way that drove to
45:16
rock it does every year so fucking sick.
45:31
It was a temporary lights on and burn Oak driving through turkey
45:39
is quite nice. Mmm.
45:40
Yeah you got to see a lot of nature.
45:46
Wow. Following a massive Ciara.
45:49
Honestly. Brexit ZR.
45:51
And honestly I'm the last shot. Yeah.
45:54
So, you know, is giving me so much memories.
45:56
Yeah. They have a different one.
45:58
Yeah, enjoyed it guys. Will comment down below.
46:00
What's your favorite recitations?
46:02
When you're growing up? What's your favorite memories
46:04
from? When you were young lady?
46:05
Leave her. Leave a mosque Emoji in the
46:07
comments. Yeah, leave a little mosque
46:08
Emoji. Last know you've changed your
46:10
tune in to hair till now. Amir Sadiq.
46:13
Yeah. Last words, one memory I have is
46:17
this is a quick one. There was a shop called Eddie's
46:21
12p sweets by are a critical hit the shot.
46:24
That was the best shot ever. What 2p sweet shuvits.
46:27
Yeah. Because I'm the guy who was all
46:29
gelatin ones. Those were the days.
46:31
Were 50p would go a long way. Yeah, you spent twenty p on one
46:40
PS3 it. So when you you come back
46:42
changed, It is now 50 Peak about to fret of Bastion is a multi
46:51
wave at 20p your knots 1.75. 118 and that's if you don't cross
46:58
the hour of across a number of because I was crazy to make sure
47:04
you know what? You're a nice we haven't yet.
47:06
Yeah. Cheering into Jamar nicer
47:07
brother, Muhammad Ali. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
47:10
And follow us, follow us on Instagram, followers, and
47:13
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47:16
Yeah. Leave a comment of your
47:17
memories. What Memories you've had?
47:20
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47:21
Let us know what your favorite stations are.
47:23
Also favorite said, Ali recitation and yeah.
47:26
All right, guys. See you next week and shot a
47:28
loss. I wanna come back to my books.