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CHATTING WITH DANIELLE AND KELLY FROM THE SPORTS CENTRE · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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Two point nine the Folkstone and Hyde Sports podcast every local sport across the district.
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This is Kevin Sports very daily here on one of five point nine Academy
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FM bring you the Folks, Done and Hide Sports show. On today's show,
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well last week you know what they say about the best laid plans or
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what could possibly go wrong? Well, unfortunately my three guests who were d
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to come in today couldn't make it. I mean that's due to work commitments
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and we do understand that. However, I have tracked down at Danielle,
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who is the Folks and Sports Center gym manager and also takes various indoor cycling
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and weights classes, and in the final letter of my at Z of Local
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Sport alphabet, I will be join by Kelly, who is a Z for
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Zumba instructor. Oh by the way, i still have to find some a
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few other missing letters, but I'm sure I'll get there, don't worry.
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Also on the show, we have football, a rugby, hockey under eighteen's
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football, Netball running reports, plus a couple of sixties songs from Heartbeat,
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a good luck wish to deal Town in the quarterfinals of the FA Bars,
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and a tribute to a Harry Biker and I meantime, let's listen to the
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Beatles and nowhere Man, and then after that we'll have some local music.
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No man sitting in his no landing, a local music there from Ariva and
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a song called Lose My Mind. I quite like that one. It's quite
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powerful, isn't it. That's good? Good start to the show. Right?
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Football news now, folks, and in Victor's Saturday away game was called
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off after an early pitch inspection at the Chessunt Ground, which at least saved
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them a trip round the twenty five into Harbordshire. The next league game scheduled
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is at home to Kingstonian or a bottom of the table that's this Saturday,
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the ninth of March, but a friendly was arranged away against Sheppard United on
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Tuesday evening. Sheppey Is away game on Saturday at Burgess Hill was also canceled,
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so both teams welcomed a bit of match practice. Unfortunately, in Victor
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lost two to one Hivetown. Now, now, it was a pretty sure
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thing that hive Town's away game at Herne Bay was going to go ahead due
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to Herne Bay's artificial pitch, So listen to this report from our man on
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the spot, Tom lerb hythe came out on top away at Herne Bay on
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Saturday, winning two to one against nine men. Steve What was once again
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unable to attend the match, but made just one change from the midweek victory
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over Little Hunts in Town as Josh Wisson replaced the injured Keen Garlinch. The
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game started well for Herne Bay as they took the lead after two minutes when
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Scott Hurd's cross found Cain Rowland, who tapped it in. Things appeared to
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be going from bad to worse when Ethan Smith went down injured and had to
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be replaced by the returning Brad Schaeffer. Despite this, Hyde stayed in the
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game and they were rewarded with an equalizer on the half hour mark as a
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Fanny Colin free kick was knodded in by Josh Whisten from close brains to level
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the scores. The Canons were then able to take the lead on the stroke
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of halftime, and it came from a set piece once again. Jack Stevenson
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sent in a long throw from the right hand side which was flicked on by
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Liam Smith and knocked into the net by Aaron Barnes, much of the light
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of the traveling High fans. The Canons started the second half in the same
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fashion as they'd finished the first, having the majority of the chances but failing
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to trouble Harry Brooks in the Herne Bay goal. The Bookings began to take
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their toll on Herne Bay midway through the half and they had a man sent
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off on sixty nine minutes when Caine Rowland committed the foul on goalkeeper Jack West
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his duty, resulting in him getting a second yellow. On eighty two minutes,
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when Brad Schaeffer was made a run towards goal, defender li and Friend
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brought him down and picked up his second yellow card the match, resulting in
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her and babying reduced to nine men. Despite the two man advantage, hither
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unable to capitalize and it was the host who came closest to scoring on eighty
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seven minutes as ex Canon Danny Walder hit a pinpoint three kicks towards goal which
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Jack West's duty managed to tip passed his left hand post to win the game
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for Hive. The full time whistle blue to mark an important three points for
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the Cannons, who moved up to night as a result. Well thank you
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Tom for that excellent report. Tuesday Union they were supposed to play at home
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to Cray Valley, but once again postponed due to that water log pitch as
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a strange it's because Cray had previously said that if it happened, they were
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happy to play the game at their ground that was also water log So Saturday
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I've tried again at home at Hondan. I mean, it's not just hive.
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Teams and clubs are just having a torrid time with this reign. So
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you know, you can't stop nature. It just pulls down. If it
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doesn't drain away, you've just got to give you time. Liltary out and
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there are clubs that their pitches are absolutely flooded, and so just bear with
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the clubs who do want to get the games on because they'll be playing three
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games a week at the end of the season. Moving on to the Kent
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County Premier League, now Hawkins Town's away game at Tenderlon Now that was also
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canceled. Only one game survived out of the eight fixtures on Saturday. The
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Hawk's next game is away at Bexley, who are thirteenth out of sixteen teams,
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whilst Hawkins remain in second spot. Now some news now about in Victor
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under eighteen's Sunday morning. I popped down to watch Paul Stantons Under eighteen so
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i'd play Faversham Strikeforce on the three G pitch. I missed the start.
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I wasn't too late, but I found out they were one kneel down.
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The game looked sharp and competitive and there was a host of young talent on
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the pitch there and I was really impressed. As I turned round, I
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couldn't help but notice hordes and hordes of people around the hockey pitches. So
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with my nosey sports verryhead, I thought, let's go and find out what's
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going on. I spoke to Janet Fuller and her colleagues, who told me
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it was the Ken Under ten's girls hockey tournament, with teams from all over
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the county taking part, and that in the afternoon it would be the turn
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of the boys under tens. I stayed and watched a bit and then thought
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I let's go back and watch the football or. When I got back,
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the Invictor boys were too one up. So there's three goals I missed in
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Victor were pressing all the time, but Faversham made a break and the player
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was tripped in the box. Nobody argued and a penalty was awarded. The
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kick was taken and the Invictor goalie made a brilliant full length save, but
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the Fabshon player reacted the quickest and buried the rebound. So the game was
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played out for just the last few minutes and I left as the final whistle
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was blown with the score to all. However, I made a classic schoolboy
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era and didn't realize it was a cup game, a quarter final in fact,
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so it meant extra time. Well I found out later in Victor won
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the game six to three. So that's nine goals scored and I only saw
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one. Oh yeah, perhaps this time for a career change. A couple
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of great tracks there from the late seventies Doobie Brothers. There were the Full
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Beliefs that was in seventy nine and the song about December sixty three, well,
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that was recorded in nineteen seventy five. Back to some hockey news now,
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so we've got a round out of the weekend hockey scores. Let's start
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with the stats from the Folks and Optimists well, at the weekend they was
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twelve games played, they won four, they lost three, they drew five
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and the goals four was twenty six and listen to this, the goals against
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was also twenty six. So lots of goals and lots of drawn games there,
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So here we go. Then, the men's first eleven lost one Neil
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to Hulcombe actually Hulk themb a very strong club side I had often providing players
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for the full England side. They lost one new Unfortunately, the seconds had
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a great eight to three win over Gillingerman Courian's keeping them top of the league.
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Goals coming from Ben Allen who scored a hat trick, Isaac Hopkins and
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Hugo Ferno got to a piece, and Lorc and Doyle scored one. The
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third beat Canterbury for neil goal shared out between Steve Timmins, Alex Cross,
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Simon Thompson and Tom Jones. And it's not unusual for Tom Jones to score.
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Oh god, how many times is a year that The fourth teen drew
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three all with burn Ash Ross Dreiber scored twice and Lemmy Fury got the third.
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The fifteen drew too, all thanks to two goals from Charlie Pepper.
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The sixteen beat Mardin Russetts three to one, and the seventh team drew two
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all with another Mardern Russets side. The Ladies first team drew They drew one
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all with high flying Guildford thanks to a short corner goal coming from Hannah Harvey
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with the last touch of the game. The Ladies Seconds lost four nil to
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seven Oaks. The Thirds drew one all with Mardon Russetts thanks to a goal
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from Emplin, and the fourth teen beat Herne Bay to nil. And I
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had to double check this score. I couldn't believe it, so I got
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in touch with Amy and she said it was right. The successful of fifteen
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would beaten nine nil by Noel Park who had a mixture of youth and experience
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and were just too strong. Now, when you get a goalkeeper who lets
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in nine goals, Amelia bates and earns herself the player of the match.
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How many goals did she actually keep out? She must have been busy a
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whole of the game. So we do to you, Amelia. And I'm
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sure they had come bouncing back after that defeat. I've never heard of that
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before. The fifteen losing nine nil and I've just got a little bit of
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news here. Actually the under ten hockey tournament I was telling you about earlier,
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but it seems that the boys winners were Seven Oaks and Marden was the
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girl's winners. So we're going to go on to a bit of music now.
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We have got Hu and Cry. Strange old song is called Looking for
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Linda one O five point nine Academy FM. Well, we had a couple
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of songs from the seventies earlier, and that was a couple from the eighties
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that was Nick Kershel I Won't let the Song go down on Me that was
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around about eighty three, and before that one Hu and Cry. It's a
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strange old song, but it does grow on you, doesn't it. Looking
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for Linda. I wonder if you ever found her? All Right, it's
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time for a bit of rugby news now from Folkston the first fifteen at a
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fine forty six to ten victory at home of a Maidstone on Saturday. This
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sees them in third place, five points behind park House and eight points behind
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the leaders Seven Oaks, who will be the next opponents in an away fixture
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on the sixteenth of March. No game for the seconds Their game is on
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Saturday away to East Peckham and Packetwood. East Peckham and paddock Wood. That's
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there's not two teams, no, it's one team joined together. This will
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be a tough one as folks in our third and East Peckham are fourth with
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just four points between them. The third fifteen lost a close, high scoring
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game to Old Graves Indians, going down thirty one points to thirty six.
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That must have been some game, wasn't it, But even the players didn't
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know what the score was. The next fixture is this Saturday away to a
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Deal and Betsanger. No, that is not two teams. That is a
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combination of the Old Deal team and the Betsanger Colliery team. Now they are
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sixth and Folkston are seventh. This weekend is another session of the Six Nations.
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Italy are at home to Scotland and I'll tell you what this is one
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to watch is Italy are improving every game and it's shown on ITV at two
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point fifteen. England are at home to the title favous Island a kickoff at
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four forty five, also on ITV. And on Sunday Whales played France three
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pm kickoff on BBC one, so it's nice to see all three games on
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the mainstream TV. The table reads as follows. This is before the weekend's
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games. Island are top with fifteen points, then Scotland with nine, England
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have eight points, France next with six points, and then Wales and Italy
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both have three points. Lady Hos, time for a bit of Climby Fishing
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now. I Love changes everything. Okay, we are moving up the years
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there it's Jennifer Page and Crush. That was right about ninety eight. But
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going back in time once again, that was Climbie Fisher. Love changes everything
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from eighty seven right. I'm really trying to crammell this sport in the first
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hour because I'm hoping if they can make it. We've got two guests coming
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in and the trouble is finding this place now because Road of Remembrance is still
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out, isn't it It just froze you right out if if we go right
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around the town to get down to the harbor. So we're going to crack
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on there with some netball news. This is from the Folks to Netball League.
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Well, the winter season is now over and the results table has been
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published each team has played sixteen matches, so I run through the finishing positions
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in reverse order. In ninth place, we had Ice. In eighth place
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we had Scorpions. Seventh was Black Widows, sixth was our five was Tornadoes,
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the fourth was the Vipers. Third place was the Jets. The runners
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up was the Woodpeckers and the winners by nine points. Congratulations go to the
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Panthers. Now, the Summer League started on Wednesday, and players have had
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the option if they can't commit to joining a team, they can become a
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floater so that you can play when it suits you. Games are played on
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Wednesdays at six forty five and eight pm at the recently refurbished coll at the
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Three Hills. So please visit the folks the Netball League facebook page for all
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the contact details and the Netball League are holding a tournament on Saturday, the
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thirtieth of March. That's Easter Saturday and is open to all other leagues.
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It's for affiliated players only and each each team has to provide an umpire.
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It's being held at the Three Hills and will run from approximately nine thirty to
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three pm, depending on how many teams they have. And I remember watching
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some of this tournament last year is fast, it's furious, especially in the
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bar afterwards. Once again, please visit the Folks the Netball League Facebook page.
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And I just got this report in this morning from last night's games.
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That's Wednesday's games. Vipers beat the Tornadoes thirty two to thirty, Tigers beat
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the Black Widows thirty seven to seventeen. The champions Panthers beat Woodpeckers forty one
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twenty six. And there's a new team called the Rough Diamonds and they got
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off to a great start beating Ice thirty one twenty three. So a big
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thing to Hannah Palmer there. She's my media contact and my media guru for
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the netball teams. As we say, if you want to find anything out
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about folks in the Netball League, they do have a Facebook page. Well
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nearly five minutes there of Madonna like a prayer. And like I said before,
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I'm trying to just get all this sport in. We've got two lovely
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ladies raring to go in a studio and have a chat about Zumbat and the
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sports center. But in the meantime it's time for a bit of running news.
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And this is from the Folks and Running and Athletic Club. Twelve runners
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headed off to paddle Wood on Sunday to take part in the half marathon event,
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which is attracted over two thousand runners. This falls nicely in the running
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calendar for athletes who are preparing for a spring marathon. First home for the
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club in twentieth place overall was Dan Radcliffe in an impressive time of one hour
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ten minutes fifty four seconds. The winning time, by the way, was
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one hour five minutes forty seconds. Personal bestper recorded by Nick Bryant one hour
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twenty four forty two, Katharine O'Connor one hour thirty five thirty three, Vicky
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Scott, who I know for a Factors training for Manchester one hour thirty five
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thirty six and Gary Brazier one hour fifty five fourteen seconds. Two runners from
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South Kent Harriers are in the field, Sarah Arana Morton run one hour forty
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four twenty four and Margaret Connolly one hour fifty three thirty five and staying with
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the Harriers of the Couch to five K ten week course reaches its climax on
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Saturday, when some of the participants will run their first ever five k run
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at the Folkstone Park Run and I hope to have coach Karen Quinn and hopefully
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one of the students who's completed the ten week course in the studio here next
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week for a chat. For many, the lid half and the twenty mile
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will be the next on their training agenda. This takes place on Sunday.
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It must be one of the flattest courses around, but on race day you
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just don't know what's going to happen. In the past runners I've had to
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face wind, rain and one year there was actually a tree came down on
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the course. Luckily nobody was hurt. So I'll be on the mic that
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day at the finishing line, encouraging runners as they crossed the line. Okay,
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so time for a bit of music and we have got the Four Tops.
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What a great classic track this is. This is Kevin Sports very Daily
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here back in the studio, second hour of sports. We crambed loads and
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stuff in the first hour, but we've still got plenty of stuff to get
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on with. So don't go away. Make sure that kettles on two sugars
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for me. Put your feet up. We've we've got two lovely guests coming
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up both from the folks and sports Center where we can be chating to them
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shortly. I've also got to do my little rendition of what I've been watching
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at Heartbeat. And know I'm boring you and I'm getting all the stick in
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the world about Heartbeat, but the way they link the situation on the show
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with a song is just amazing. So they're going to talk about that,
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and I'm going to do a little tribute to a man that passed away.
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That would be right at the end of the show, and I'm sure you
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will love this one, so stay with us. Starting the second hour,
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We've got some Stevie Wonder and some vocal music H four five South Good Fisher
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German Bye East fear in South four or five occasionally six rain, then fair
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Goods four five occasionally six la rain, then fair. It is on this
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film, I'm thinking, oh, we've got a CB outside breaker one night
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if you've got the weather forecast. But no, that was phenomenal, cats
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local music there and postcards from somewhere. But you know, Okay, So
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we're back in the studio and today I'm pleased to welcome two guests to the
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show. We have Danielle who's the Sports Center gym manager. Good morning,
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Danielle, Morning Kevin, and we are joined by Kelly, who is also
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Zoomba instructor. Good morning or afternoon? Good enough, yes, long old
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right, so fantastic. I'm so pleased you could come in today, ladies,
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because for a number of reasons, I've been trying to get people in
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from the Sports Center for a while and it is a tough time with you
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got classes and things to do. But I'm especially please to see you,
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Kelly, because I've been doing this eight set of sport and the people said
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to me, what are you going to do for z I'll say so easy,
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Zumba. I've just got to find a zoomber instructor. So Danielle,
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let's start with you. Tell us a bit about your background and how you
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became a gym manager. Well that was many years ago, now ten years
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I've been there, yeah, ten years. So I went through a little
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bit of a difficult stage in life of a bereavement and stuff and sort of
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had no direction and headed to the Sports Center for something to do. Yeah,
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to get some structure in life. Did you think at the time it'll
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be ten years that you'd be there. No, I didn't even think,
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you know, just done a few classes, took part myself, done some
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gym work and stuff, and then one day just form I could do this.
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Oh I quite like this. The lessons have you learned? There?
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Isn't there? You know, if you're feeling a bit down and a bit
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low your self esteems bit low is get out there and do some sport exactly.
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So what is your role? I mean gym manager? You've got to
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crack the whip and make sure classes are on time, that sort of thing.
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Yeah, a bit of that, is it? Yeah, a bit
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of that bit of programming for our gym members. Teaching classes, so you
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actually teach yourself to you I do, yeah classes. So in that period
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of time, you've you've sort of moved on to uh did you? Was
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you into instruction at the time when first game? No, no, not
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straight away. I was just a just a gym instructor obviously wasn't manager at
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first. So just a gym instructor instructor first and then onto manager. Yeah
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yeah you still but you still teach classes as well. Yeah, okay,
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so what classes you teach? I teach REVS, which is our sort of
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version of indoor cycling. We're not allowed to say it, but I will
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say it because but you can't help but say it. It's sp i in.
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We're not allowed to say it's a trademark, but you know what we're
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talking about. And what else do you do? And also a couple of
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different classes called sculpt and tone. Sculpt and tone, Yeah, what is
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that? I remember for the first time hearing bums and tumbs and I fell
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about laughing, you know, but people just saying now rolls off the tongue.
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So what is sculpting? Sculpt and tone? What is that? So
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I've just sort of named it myself. Yeah, my own sort of design
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of my class, my workout. So it's just upper body and lower body
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sort of toning exercises that can be including weights and sometimes not sometimes just your
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your body weight. But and what sort of clean tell have you got?
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Age group? And how often do your classes run? So on Tuesdays and
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Thursdays. I do my classes in the mornings, and I have a wide
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range of age groups that come to my classes. Sometimes they're younger ones,
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but the majority of the time it's more sort of around the fully plus age.
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And there's such a lovely group of regular ladies that come along. Right.
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Well, we're just going to switch over to Kelly now and talk about
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Zumba. Kelly's tell us, say you got into zomba. She was a
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bit of a raver in your youth, and you like disco maybe a little
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bit. So I became a fitness instructor twenty three years ago. I qualified.
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I used to go to a local aerobics class and again, similar to
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Danielle, I thought, I like this. It makes me feel good,
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and I think maybe I can help other people feel good. So I qualified.
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I did an exercise to music qualification. So I started off teaching like
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bum's legs and toms, basic aerobics, things like that, and then sort
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of saw that zumber was around and thought, yeah, I quite like the
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look of that. So twelve years ago I became a Zomba instructor. So
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I did the course to qualify as a zumber instructor. And that's my passion,
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absolute passion. I love it. I teach other classes as well,
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but Zomba is right up there. Oh yeah, absolutely. Well. It
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was a sad day for me when aerobics was fizzling out because I used to
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love aerobics, and I did go along to classes back in the day.
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Then. I think things have changed now, but I was the only man
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in the class and they always used to put me at the back, in
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the corner and out of the way. Things have definitely changed now, Yes,
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absolutely. You get lots and lots of men coming along now and yeah,
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and then they seem to do it with all a smile on their face,
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and yeah, that's great because at the time I felt the odd one
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out, being the one man in the class and used to get some funny
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looks. But after the how our people used to some of the ladies just
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so you're really good at that, you know. Yeah, And it was
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because I was enjoying it. Sad to say, when it changed the zoomba,
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my coordination wasn't quite up to it. I did try, but I
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sadly declined to keep it up. I have done a few charity zoombers,
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and we were talking off here now about Zombethon, a word I haven't heard
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for a little while. Do you get involved with zumbon? I do,
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yes. I've been asked quite a few times by generally ladies that come to
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my class if they've got you know, friends that want to raise a bit
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of money or personally, I've had some friends that we've raised money for and
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it's just a nice way of the community coming together really and also people just
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having fun. Yeah, a good cause for a good cause and raising a
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lot of money. So yeah, they're well worth doing. Absolutely, I
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think one of them. I went to Dan at hive there was for a
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Sayings charity and Born Babies charity, very close to my heart actually because you
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know, for a few reasons. But yeah, there was cake sales going
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on, jumble sales, and also yeah, we normally have a raffle after
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the zumbethon, and again it just raises those extra funds for the charities that
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need it. Yeah, okay, Dan, you're coming back to you talking
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about raising money for charity. Do you get people approach you and say can
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I hire the gym to do an event? Does that ever crop up?
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Or do you kind of do your own thing and pushing them You think to
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yourself, you know, it's a good cause out there's just go for it.
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We haven't had anyone approach us for quite a while for anything like that,
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various different things. Obviously, they normally approach my boss for things like
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that, for the fundraising stuff and charity events and stuff like that. But
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we haven't had anything for a little while. Okay, we'd be open to
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good idea. Yeah, I mean in your in your rota of stuff.
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Is there time when the gym is actually there doing nothing or is it on
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the go all the time? We have different periods in the day where it's
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quiet and then sometimes it's not. It's different rights the people that come in
26:45
as well. You get the early morning ones that they'll come in get their
26:48
work out of the way with before work, and then as the morning goes
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on, you get people coming in after their school drop off. Yeah,
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that's a good catchment point that Yeah. Yeah, might get a few of
27:00
the older generations that come in a little bit late morning then go in the
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cafe in and come in get their little workout. But it's a massive social
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aspect as well. They come in and there will be a little social gathering.
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There's certain few that come in and they have their chat as well as
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their work out. Yeah great, and then nip into the calf for a
27:19
cuppa as well. That's the best part of is't it exactly? Okay,
27:25
we're going to take a little break now play some music, but we will
27:26
be back because we've hardly touched a surface on this well song there called Black
27:45
is Black, And I'll tell you what I've worn out. We've been zombering
27:48
all in a studio. I've pulled a muscle. I'll never be able to
27:52
do a four minute mile again. I'm really trouble it. But so we're
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going to talk uh back with Danielle. Daniel Now, tell us about a
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typical day in your life as a sports center gym manager or typical day never
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the same, never the same. Could start off with an appointment, or
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it could start off with a class or just making sure that the classes that
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are running are running smoothly and everything's needed. So in the main center is
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where the gym is, and we also have studio too, and our Revolutions
28:33
studio in the main center, which cycling, and then over the other side
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of the car park we have a smaller building which is the well Being building
28:45
and we have studio one in there. Okay, what building, sorry,
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the well Being Yes, yes, so that's where they've got the toning tables
28:52
and chairs and they do different treatments and therapies and massages and stuff like that
28:56
over there, so well worth going and have a look. Right, all
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of our members get ten percent offers over there as well, so just worth
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mentioned. Oh yeah, yeah, any special offers. We're all up for
29:07
sharing that. Yeah, sharing a little bit of panpering, you know.
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Yeah, those are difficult when if you like, one class finishes and another
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class starts, you know, there's a little sort of five minutes either side
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handover time. Do the instructors sort of go up to five minutes, you
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know and sort of call that their hour? Yeah, generally they've sort of
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either finished if there's a class. There's not always a class that goes straight
29:33
after one back to back, sometimes there is, and sometimes they'll just finish
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their class a couple of minutes early, so they've got enough time to get
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everyone out, make sure everything's cleaned down and tidy ready for the next class
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to go on. Yeah, okay, and you're final in general that the
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participants respect that. Oh yeah, definitely. All of our members are lovely,
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they really are. Yeah. Okay, that's good to know. Yeah,
29:59
So, apart from yourself the indoor cycling and spinning around type things,
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what else goes on in you know, what sort of hat of the classes
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could people go? I mean, are there out and outweight lifting type classes?
30:11
So you tell me. We have in Studio two, which is in
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the main building, we have pump classes in there, so that's evolving weights
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like hand weights and bars, which is all sort of to the beat of
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the music, so it's, you know, to the time of the music.
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It's coordinated, so that's different moves upper body, lower body again with
30:33
your handweights and with your bar, so that goes on in there. We
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also that's where zombra is as well. In Studio two, Bums and tums
30:42
happens in there, which everybody knows bums and times. It's been around for
30:47
many many years or belt as it was always referred to, Yeah, bums,
30:53
legs and toms. And then over in Studio one in the well being
30:57
building, that's where we have all of the classes like yoga, pilates and
31:04
tai chi and stuff like that that go on in there. So could you
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help someone supposing someone I don't know wasn't used to exercise and I've been putting
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a bit of weight on and they didn't know what class to go for,
31:17
could you advise them, as you know, yeah, definitely, Yeah,
31:21
definitely, there's always you know, something different or something for everyone to be
31:26
doing, depending on their circumstances. You know, what they've done before,
31:30
if they've done nothing, or if they've just done a little bit of exercise,
31:33
if they're just a walker, you know, we'll design a program for
31:37
them or recommend classes for them or is that part of your role as the
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gym manager? Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, So we
31:45
have other fitness instructors. I'm not like the only one obviously in the gym,
31:48
don't single handly run it, but yeah, the other fitness instructors in
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the gym. So that is what our role is, to design programs for
31:56
people. We do gym inductions and then reviews obviously with clients as well.
32:01
So if it's nice to sort of like stay with a client, you do
32:06
an induction with them, so showing them around the whole gym, showing them
32:08
how the equipment works so that they can work it safely and efficiently on their
32:13
own. And then after that next step if they want it, is to
32:15
then have a program, have their stats done if they want it. So
32:22
that's like telling them exactly what they're made up of instead of just standing on
32:25
the state on the scales and saying this is how much you weigh, this
32:30
is how much of you is muscle and water and fat and stuff like that
32:34
and everything. So it breaks it all down. So we can do that
32:36
for people and then help them along with their fitness journey, their goals,
32:42
whatever it is that they're trying to achieve, or if they're training for something.
32:45
Again, we can help with that. Well, that is brilliant.
32:47
I hope everyone out there is listening to this because that takes the mystery away.
32:52
If you've never been to a gym before and you think, oh,
32:53
do you know what I need to do some exercises, just go and have
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a word with Danielle and she will you're in the right direction. There's no
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need to be worried about or one of my staff or one of your Yeah
33:04
yeah, yeah, excellent. So that's brilliant. Okay, so we'll come
33:07
back to you in a minute, Danielle. So switching back to you,
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Kelly. So somebody turns up and wants to do zoomba class, So what
33:15
advice would you give them. I would just say go at your own pace,
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and I always give alternative options for people. So if people don't want
33:27
to be jumping around, or they can't jump around, they've got an injury,
33:30
or they just want to do low impact options, I will give those
33:34
all the way through. So it's a very adaptable class. Zomba for all
33:39
ages, all abilities, and it's just like a party. Atmosphere puts a
33:45
smile on people's faces. And as I say, age doesn't come into it.
33:51
I have a lady in her nineties that attends some classes. Absolutely,
33:57
and you said you couldn't zomber, but you were moving around the studios me
34:00
in a way. So there we go, give my secrets away. I
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mean there's anything else that The benefits are pretty obvious, but is there anything
34:09
you want to promote? You know, then now's your chance. If someone's
34:15
thinking of sitting on the fence there thinking about coming to your zomber class,
34:19
tell us why they should I think. I mean, I teach on her
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Tuesday evening at Folks and Sports Center Zumba, and the people in the class
34:27
are the best people I've ever come across. To be honest with you,
34:30
it's a lot. I have a few testimonials from regular people that come along,
34:35
and one lady says she feels so empowered being surrounded by men and women
34:43
all just having a good time, dancing, smiling. They feel like they're
34:46
in a girl band. Sometimes they can lose their inhibitions for an hour.
34:51
And also, I think if you're going through struggles in your home or personal
34:55
life, it's escapism going to at any class and Zomba, I think you
35:01
can go in there, leave your inhibitions at home somewhere, and just be
35:06
free for an hour, just dance, feel the music. And it is
35:10
Latin based, but you know, I adapt to my classes. So there's
35:15
some good old sing along songs, a bit of Proud Mary in there,
35:17
which people absolutely love, so it's relatable. But yeah, people feel very
35:22
empowered, and I think it is for anyone. So if you haven't done
35:27
zumber before, come and give it a go. Do what you can,
35:30
and it gets easier week by week, and it's just fun. It's just
35:35
fun. Oh great, That's what I love about people like yourselves coming in.
35:39
You've got such a passion for what you do. We could every guest
35:44
that comes in, I sation, we could be here all dayking about this
35:46
sort of thing. So it's nice and the point is of the show is
35:51
to promote to the people who focused and if for someone driving around in their
35:53
car now and they just just randomly switched on, you know, we want
35:57
you to listen to this and just remember that there is something out there for
36:02
you. You don't have to be a fitness freak. You can just go
36:07
along and let yourself go. And as you say, Kelly, you can
36:09
switch off from everything outside the world and just be in your own little spaces
36:15
for an hour. That's true. I think mental health and physical health go
36:19
hand in hand with classes and especially with zoomber because it just it does make
36:22
you feel good about yourself. So right then, Danielle, we are running
36:28
out of time, I'm afraid, and I've got some more sport to squeeze
36:30
in, but I might have to leave it next week, So Kelly,
36:34
sorry, Danielle, tell us about how people can get in touch and get
36:38
hold of you or the sports center and what is out there for them.
36:43
So we have our Facebook page, we have our website, or people can
36:47
just phone up, or they can just pop in. Yeah, that's probably
36:52
the best thing. Yeah, pop in and have a look around. That's
36:54
the best way for to see what everything we've gotten off of because there's so
36:59
much going on there. Take the mystery away. I mean, the sports
37:00
Center is just like part of our upbringing. I remember taking my kids to
37:06
the sports Center. He's over fifty years old now, isn't it. God?
37:08
Yeah, yeah, we had our fiftieth anniversary. Was it last year?
37:13
Yeah? I remember. I remember having this conversation with Tessa and yeah,
37:17
it's just been there forever. But it's grown and grown and grown,
37:21
isn't it. It was part of part of my childhood. I remember that
37:23
was my weekend thing, me and my best mate. We'd go swim in.
37:28
Yes, yeah that was, and then chips in the cafe after that's
37:35
you shouldn't say that, Chips on hips, Danielle, anything else you want
37:42
to say before we just hand ever quick word with killing. Just come and
37:45
see us, Come and see us, Come and have a look to see
37:46
what we've got on offer. Have a look around. There's so much to
37:50
see. There's so much going on, so much different things that we've got
37:52
something for everyone. Too many people still don't even know about us. It's
37:58
so shocking when you've seen there. So yeah, people come in and they
38:00
go, I don't even didn't even know you were here where you been?
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Yeah, right, Kelly. The last word of you now, so Zomba.
38:09
When when are you at the sports Center? So I'm at the Sports
38:13
Center every Tuesday evening six pm till seven. But there's also three other zomber
38:21
classes running throughout the week, so you have a Monday evening, a Wednesday
38:24
evening and also a Sunday morning for people that don't want to do the inner
38:29
evening classes and would rather do the weekends. So there's quite a few zomber
38:32
classes to choose from. Yeah, you've got a good spread of times there
38:36
to try and suit everybody absolutely, any last word from you, get out
38:38
there and again just come, just come along, lose your inhibitions. Don't
38:44
worry if you think you've got two left feet, you may surprise yourself.
38:46
Just come and have some fun. Danielle Kelly, thank you so much for
38:51
coming in. It's been wonderful talking to you, and I really hope that
38:52
the membership of the gym and zomber just goes through the roof. Okay,
38:57
so about time for a bit of the Jackson Jackson five there and I love
39:13
you save Okay, we're gonna squeeze this one in a bit now, it's
39:15
a bit back to football, but it's about deal Town right now. We
39:22
recently spoke about Maystone's journey to Wembley, but there is actually one other Kent
39:27
club who are on a journey to Wembley, and that's deal Town. On
39:30
Saturday, they make the long trip to play Lincoln United in the quarter final
39:34
of the FA Vurs. Now, most clubs would say that this is the
39:37
greatest game in the club's history, but Dealtown have gone one further and lifted
39:40
the FA VARs Trophy back in the year two thousand and I was there.
39:45
Did I tell you that before? Probably probably loads of times, But looking
39:50
back now, I'm really pleased that I went along that day. Both clubs
39:53
are on a rich vein of form. Last time I checked out, deal
39:58
Town were third in their league and lincol can you United for second? So
40:00
it's going to be a really tough game, perhaps the home advantage swinging the
40:05
tides towards Lincoln's way, but let's hope not. The players travel up at
40:08
two pm on Friday and stay overnight, whilst the supporters leave at eight thirty
40:13
on Saturday morning and chain to deal Town chair and Natalie Benville. She tells
40:17
me they have around two hundred and fifty traveling fans who will make the four
40:22
hundred and forty mile round trip and probably won't be home till about ten o'clock.
40:25
So good luck to deal Town and let's hope they make it to the
40:30
Semis. From nineteen eighty five, there Rasbury Beret from Prince. Now,
40:47
I've squeezed most of all the sports reports I wanted to do in this last
40:52
two hours. So what I'm going to do. It's my favorite little spot
40:54
on the show. I'm going to tell you about Heartbeat again. Well I've
41:00
been Heartbeat binging and I've come up with two storylines that fit the music.
41:04
The first one is about Lord Ashley's I think it was his nephew. He's
41:07
about twenty years old, he's rich, spoilt, drives a rolls Royce,
41:12
drinks and drives, and for that he was arrested by a Constable Nick Rowan.
41:15
He seemed to be anti everything. And whilst all this was going on,
41:20
you could hear this one song playing and it just so fitted the situation.
41:36
Generation my generation there from the Who in nineteen sixty five, Oh by
41:40
Die before a Get old well, I think he's still with us. Actually,
41:45
rot A Daltrey still rocking a ray. Okay. Now. The other
41:47
situation in Heartbeat was there was an elderly gentleman who came to Aidensfield. He
41:52
was ill, he only had about six months to live, but he was
41:55
on a mission. He kidnapped Rowan Rowan Nick Rohan's wife Kate at gunpoint,
42:01
and was going to shoot her because he blamed Nick for the death of his
42:05
daughter after she committed suicide. Nick was the arresting officer after his daughter had
42:09
murdered her husband, who was a bully and a wife beater. She got
42:13
ten years. Not long after this, the gentleman's wife she died as well,
42:17
and once again he blamed Nick. So instead of going for Nick,
42:20
he decided that he should live and he should feel the pain of a dead
42:23
loved one. However, the gentleman broke down in the end and he just
42:28
couldn't stand it anymore. He gave the gun up and knowing his journey was
42:32
over. Then as they were playing it, this song was playing in the
42:37
background, So poignant and such a lovely song, The Holies He Ain't Heavy,
42:43
He's My Brother nineteen sixty nine. There time many classic tracks being played
43:00
here today. It's such a good wedge of music, you know. And
43:06
we had two lovely guests in weren't they so good. I'm so enthusiastic about
43:09
what they do down at the Sports Center instructing Zumbring managing. So if you're
43:17
any day and you want to join a class, then please just go along
43:22
to the Folks and Sports Center. Well, it's nearly the end of the
43:23
show and I'd just like to say that I will be on the mic at
43:28
the LID Half Marathon. It's also a twenty miler. It's the one that
43:32
is really good for runners. I know it sounds horrible running twenty miles,
43:37
but if you're training for a spring marathon, this is just what you need.
43:40
It's a really flat course, but you don't know what the weather's going
43:44
to be like. It's a bit bleaked down there, but once you've got
43:46
it under your belt and out of the way, then you won't regret it.
43:51
So that's down there's the nice work LID half and twenty mile at Sunday
43:55
morning. Plenty of races around at the moment, so if you're trying,
44:00
then this is one for you. Now, this is something I don't often
44:04
do. It's not about sport or anything, it's not about music. But
44:07
it's a tribute actually to a gentleman, a hairy biker. Now I'm not
44:13
Harry, I'm not a biker. But when the news broke of the passing
44:15
of Dave Meyers, you couldn't help be saddened as he lost his fight against
44:21
cancer. When the Harry Bikers first hit the screen back in two thousand and
44:24
four, just can't believe that it's twenty years ago. They put a different
44:29
slant on cooking. I mean, how could Dave Meyers and psy King And
44:32
they did look overweight, didn't they At the time they loved traveling around on
44:37
their massive motorbikes clad in leather. How could they know anything about cooking?
44:42
But the nation immediately took to them their style and they went on to produce
44:45
countless cooking shows, not just in Britain but in some exotic locations abroad.
44:52
And they also did what can I say, This is me saying they're looking
44:55
big fellas They knew that, and they did sort of cooking for sl and
45:00
I think between them they lost six stone. Now, Dave Meyers said He
45:02
wanted his mourners to loosen up with vodka mar Our teeny cocktails before they went
45:07
into the church at the funeral, and for the week a feast of meat
45:12
and potato pie with chips would be on the menu. He wanted his coffins
45:15
to be carried out to the song recorded by the Scorpions, The Best Is
45:20
Yet to Come, saying that they would a great rock anthem. It would
45:22
be to cheer everybody up. Dave Myers, You're going to be one tough
45:27
actor follow now. Unfortunately I couldn't track down The Best Is Yet to Come,
45:31
but I'd like to play this one as a tribute by the Scorpions.
45:35
It's called the Window Change. So rip Dave Meyers, one hairy biker,
45:40
See you next week.