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Episode 115 - Good, Bad & The Ugly #10 - We catch up. on our ADHD lives
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ADHDville, the podcast where hosts Paul and Martin bring 40 years of friendship to your ears. As late-diagnosed adults, they explore the ADHD world with fun, games, and the occasional guest—no boring lectures, just a comfortable and hilarious conversation you’d have with old friends. A new episode drops every Tuesday to make your week brighter!
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Theme music was written by Freddie Philips and played by Martin West. All other music by Martin West.
Please remember: This is an entertainment podcast about ADHD and does not substitute for individualized advice from qualified health professionals.
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Transcript
Welcome to ADHDville
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Back in the room! In the bloody room! Back in the bloody room! In the bloody room! ah So yeah, let's just crack on! let's Let's go to a place where the distractions, the landmarks and the detours are on the main roads. Welcome to ADHDville!
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We still got the Christmas thing. Alright. Okay. Alright. Because it comes out... Yeah....on the Alright.
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So we're still... We're still... Next year... Yep. Next year, can we get like a Maria Carey version? If you... All I want for Christmas is He's Paul.
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is I thought think that's the problem. She doesn't know it yet. Christmas is poo. Just fits. Fits. like it does She doesn't know it yet, but it'll happen. It'll happen.
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It comes around eventually. Next year. All right. Hello. I'm Marlon Brando. And when I'm not off my tits on drugs, I'm pretending to be Paul Thompson. And he was diagnosed with the combined ADH and a D again about two years ago.
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And I'm another famous Hollywood actor. Dustin Hoffman. Why not? Why not? You the Blade Runner? Yes. Back 1980, whatever, starring Harrison Ford.
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the film ah ah the film ah played runner yes nineteen eighty whatever starring harrison ford ah The lead role was originally offered Dustin Hoffman,
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which i like so can't picture it in in my head. I could see Marlon Brando. That would be off the charts. Maybe.
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and Where am I? Oh, yeah. So I'm i'm ah mar um' Marlon Brando's lesser known brother, Ian Brando.
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And I was diagnosed with combined ADHD poo-poo platter
Origins of the Podcast
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in 2013. And we start off... uh as uh in the local pub in adhdville the king's agitated head where we the ex-mayors of adhdville take care of business and the meeting agenda today it's a good bad and ugly episode where paul and i catch up on our adhd lives and then share it with you in your seat we don't do it very often we're so busy everyone
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you of our loving public you know the dopamine you know hate that you you dearly need every tuesday and we have to get to catch up on our lives we do so this is it this is it this this this is this is basically what the podcast started out as really yes before it was a podcast it was just you and me just chatting about what's going on and this is just it but in recorded form yes
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But we're slightly different voices. Yeah. Have you noticed how voices have changed? I think. Since we started podding. Oh, really? going to like Radio 2 DJ a little bit.
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Oh, right. Yeah. Yeah. It changes. I have my um my my pod voice, I guess. Yeah, it's true. don't know what it is. Cadence.
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London calling. London calling. Yeah. All right. i'll see house and Yeah. What are we doing now? Oh, yeah. And there's a and there's a quiz yeah somewhere in in the mix. So that's cool.
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Yeah. That's cool. And I think we're going to stay in the pub, Martin, for this fun. Oh, why not? Why not? Stay in the pub. I'm going to sit on something like a kind of like a tepid Indian pale ale.
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Oh, right. Okay. All right. I'm going to go for like a lychee martini. i'm um'm i'm I'm feeling... What? I'm feeling fruity.
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Does that exist or just make it out? Oh, God, yes. course it exists. i have i've I've had many, many in my time and they are gorgeous. So that's the lychee substituting the olive?
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Yes. Right. Okay. It's very and controversial. Not, not over here, mate. Not over here. Okay.
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It's like, want to it's like, it's like standard cocktail menu um issue. Right. Anyway. Explain why you've got so many serial killers over there to say.
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I would be interested to, to see the link there. and Okay.
Cultural Cheese Clash
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ble little up All right. So we're staying in the pub.
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so so Right. So it's going to be a good, bad, and ugly. So we'll – you know what? I don't have anything in in in the ugly ugly column. Do you have anything in the in the ugly column? I do, and it's Christmas.
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Okay. All right. So so let's go – so we'll start off with the good. Yeah, you start off, mate. You go kick it off. Kick us off. Well, ah yeah, so ah last week I had my birthday.
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So that was a thing. um which was That was a good thing. So that was like a i so I struggled to to remember what that was all about. Oh, I had four pastries in the morning.
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There was like... On the same theme or same theally different variety? There was two donuts, an almond croissant and a pan au chocolat.
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Right. So that was four pastries why to kick off the the day. So that's that's that was a... That's impressive. I didn't a I just had one, and then I just like had all the rest during the Just followed through?
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Yeah, yeah. just the end Just had them in a bag, and then I'd walk past it and go, ooh, I quite fancy an armoured croissant. Where were you when you were having these?
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a home. Oh, okay. a Home baked. Home baked. Oh no no no my no, my wife went out and got them first thing, zoomed out to the local bakery um and and procured them.
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um So that was nice. And then in the evening it was like we went out to dinner to an Italian rest restaurant. Very nice. Around the corner.
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So then that was it. That was it. So what did you have at the Italian restaurant?
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I had, um, oh boy. I had, it was a it was a pork.
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It was like a pork, um, it was ah It was a cut of pork that had been slow cooked, like, for about a year or two. And then it was like lu the steam sank shank is like a Oh, a stinkle. The famous stinkle.
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Yeah. Pork. It's the shin. Yeah. Yeah, it's very nice. Very nice. That's one of my favorites. yeah Well, you would have liked it, maybe. Was it falling off the bone, Martin?
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Oh, it it is slipped off the bone, off the plate, onto the table, out into the street and was hailing a taxi.
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I mean, that's how off the bone it was. That's how the bone was, but being a Yorkie didn't get a taxi. Yes. That's so that' is seriously off the bone. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, it was good. It was good. it was good um Nice.
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ah Also. That is off the bone. other Other things that would be good is, and we talked talked about about this off pod.
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of off the pod What a knob. Off the pod. um So I did a watering colour class knob bunch of wigs.
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So ah there's a there's a there's like a sort of health centre, a fitness centre near me, and they have... that they have ma They have classes in all kinds of things.
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so why And it was inexpensive, so um so I joined up. You joined the gym? Well, i have no, no. I mean, I am already part of thet of the gym. I mean, I don't actually go to the gym. Right, of course you don't.
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but i so But I'm still part. I still pay it every every month. But, yeah, so I went in. I joined this class. There's about eight mature ladies in there and and and me but and ah and a a very scatty brained teacher teacher of who was a teacherov ah ah So it was a well but it was a... It was a... It was a watercolor class. Oh, okay, okay, yes, okay. um
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So I did... Yeah, yeah. and And it it was it was funny because obviously, ah you know, I've i've been to art college and yes and I'm okay, right? I can put some stuff on a piece of paper if I have to. um And then it was...
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the first Even the first brush stroke that I put down on my little piece of paper, the the art teacher was like, oh, you've done this before.
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i mean, it was like literally just one stroke yeah on the paint. And she was like, oh. you So I was like, oh, God. and then it wasn't a long a i mean everyone else was very entry was was was was very new hardly used paint at all once and and some had some more but but uh i kind of felt like was i suspect i suspect it was not your dexterity martin
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Your your your kind of whimsical, nonchalant brushstroke, the confidence that exuded from your brush. You say that, but I think that's probably it.
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Yeah. there was there was There was a confidence the in my, yes, that's the that just screamed, he's not a newbie.
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he's sort of He's done this before. He's not a new kid on the block. Yeah, like us. Anyway, so that so that was that that was that and that, and that was good. One thing that it did teach me, though, was that I thought, and I i said this before, it's like, holy crap, I can do this.
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I could teach these well-off these well-off women how to paint and draw, and yes, these ladies of leisure. I could do that.
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Totally. Because as far as was say, I was easily as good as the... You could be like a watercolour in Gigolo. ah Exactly. I can just go from house to house, painting and making love as I go. LAUGHTER
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funny With my confidence strokes. Yeah. Yeah. i yeah so that was that So that that was that. um Although I do have a plan to to actually try and make money from from teaching people, which I haven't haven't executed Yeah.
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Yes. Is that going to be another example of... um What's it called? ah Taking cash from rich people?
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What? No, but yes. um When you plan to do something, you don't do it. You put it off. Oh, you know and the nation procrastination. Is that going to be your you know most you you you re most present procrastination project?
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Yeah, it that's going to be in the bad in the bad column.
Curling and New Hobbies
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Right. Yeah, yeah. so ah But i as in this effort to kind of actually try and meet people and you know be being more be more sociable, um I have also joined a sport. I have joined a sporting group.
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at the at the at the ones At the local um country club. Have you been smoking acid or something?
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Me? The third Duke of Windsor? Yes, me. doing a sport so i so i did an an introductory thing which was like an hour and a half or something and then i've had two classes uh so i'm yeah i've got i've got one or two more classes left and then i can join a league
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in the in this sport what sport You'll never guess. Taekwondo. You'll never guess. No. Taekwondo.
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No. Kanooey. No. You can have one more. One more. No. no Cross-country skiing. ah i like i I like all of your of your of your guesses. Like, I could cross-country skiing. I'm trying to spread wide. yeah and you Yeah, well, that's it. Paul, spread wide, Thompson. That's right.
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I spread so wide. if I was a clock, I'd be quarter to three. Exactly. um Or even quarter past nine. um sad um That's when Paul spreads why the most twice a day.
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um No, mate. Like clockwork. Like clockwork.
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I love that. I love that. Come on. I love that. but I love that. That secondhand joke. um the The sport is curling.
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Oh, then nice. So I've got close with the cross-country skiing. Yes, it was cold. That is another cold sport, which has like snowy ice. You can slidey, slidey, slidey, but yeah. ah that me Yes. ill I'll get those, those like rocks I call And you just like,
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fire them down the sheet, as I believe it's called, as I'm picking up all these curling terms. But, yeah.
00:16:51
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oh my god Yeah. Yeah. Oh, hang on. All of a sudden, I feel like I'm moving into a new year with a completely new level of optimism.
00:17:04
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Right. So um' I'm just going to hold up to the camera that that there's a picture of me that i'm like I'm like there. That's like evidence. That's evidence.
00:17:16
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I'm there doing the doing the in thing. Your stone is nowhere near the center. Can just point that out? Yeah, I don't have any stones any anywhere.
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But yeah, so that that was it. that's ah that's That's some good stuff going on in my world. That's nice. I like that. I know. i i've i've ah i I feel like I've, you know, I've done something.
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There's a lot of shit going on in there. That's nice. Yeah. Which was the point of the podcast.
Embracing ADHD Positivity
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It's it's it's a it's two instances where i where ah where you have to walk into a room of people that you don't know. Right. And start chatting.
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Yeah, about stuff you don't know. about stuff that we don't yes yes so at least well at least on the curling front we all don't know because we're all just in this or in this learning class thing but with the water color uh everyone was like calling me you know so i was like the master oh what's the master doing was like The curling thing sounds like it's very Canadian. Have you moved to Canada, Martin?
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Have I moved to Canada? See, I think of it as a Scottish thing for some reason. Oh, it is Scottish.
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It could, yeah, I don't know. The Scots are very good at curling. They're very good at curling. Yes. Yes. Okay. Exactly. um But yeah, so it's it's been quite adventurous for me. Nice.
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What about you, mid Mr. T, while i sup on my green tea? I'm so glad you've asked, Martin. I was listening last week. I was in the car. I was going to teach a bunch of men...
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At a forgery, right? Wait, what? I teach men. Yes. At a still forgery. Oh, at a forgery. I thought you were teaching men forgery. Forge. No. Although that is quite interesting. No, generally not. Generally, well, the last... ah I'm supposed to be teaching them in english but the last time i went now just took some cheese You just went in, nabbed cheese and scarpered.
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No, I've got the cheese. I planned in advance. I took them some English cheese. I took them some English still to taste. very nice. Because Italians, they're convinced that there's nothing outside of Italy and and France in on the cheese kind of board that's worth trying.
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So I took them some Staffordshire cheese. Carrot Stilton. Wow. All right. Cost an arm on their leg.
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But they loved it. They loved it. Okay. It's a bit like Gorgonzola, isn't it?
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So then when I explain to them, it is like gorgonzola, but it's less salty and there's less of a, like the aftertaste doesn't linger so much.
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So if you're having a drink of wine, doesn't lingo so much to you anyway. Oh, okay. So I was on the way to that meeting. Yes. I was listening to a podcast. Nice. And they were talking about immortality, right?
00:20:57
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Yeah. And the guy was saying, well, at some point, though, if you're immortal, you've got to decide what age you're going to throw out the anchor.
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Throw out the anchor. Yeah, you say, okay, if you're the Highlander, right, I'm guessing through he threw out the anchor, proverbial anchor. He said, okay, going to stop when I'm about 38.
00:21:25
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I'm going to stop aging. going be a party. Oh, I see. ah I'll stop aging at a certain point. Oh, I get you. All right. Right? Yep, yep, yep. So the guy that was interested, he said, well, what age would you throw out your anchor?
00:21:39
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What age would you stop at? Right. said, whatever. And I was thinking, was driving and was thinking, oh, who go hey Paul, what age would you at?
00:21:52
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would you stop And I said, now. Now. Now. And which was convenient because they there was traffic lights. was quite convenient.
00:22:04
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All right. but No, but I realized, this is why I put it in the good part. i realized that I'm a good part of my life. Yay.
00:22:16
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I'm a good part of my life. I've diagnosed with ADHD two years
Reflection on Life and Immortality
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ago. Yeah. And I feel more of like more authentic than I've ever been. Although it's always work in progress, right? Uh-huh.
00:22:31
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Yeah. if You don't listen to your own laurels, Martin. No, no. I have not rested on mine. Well, I did for a long, long, long time. more me than I ever have done in my life.
00:22:44
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I feel more creatively energized than ever before. I've like... infinite amount of creative energy and um it thinks and don't get me wrong things are really right really challenging the moment for me money wise uh the world has gone to shit you know all of these things um i'm not as young as i used to be i'm you know 58 and a half oh i'm not as young as i can i think yeah i think this is a good
00:23:18
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And it was a good realization, it good moment to think, oh, that's good. That's a good thing. Yeah. That's a nice thing.
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I think so. Yeah, I think I would stop around now. Actually, just a few years back because I did have a little bit more energy before the i cancer kind of like i really sucked sucked some of it out of me. I didn't know how that affected it.
00:23:52
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Yeah, I'm still kind of, I still feel like I'm coming back from all all all of that. That's... Okay. I feel like it it kind of wiped me out for a while and I'm and i'm still getting back. So, yes so a little yeah, so a little bit before that. It's the curling.
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It's the fucking curling, mate. that's That's what's helping. Nice. Bringing me back. Bringing me back. well Well, that's good. Yeah.
00:24:22
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Yeah, so you're going to live forever starting now. that's that's That's the good news. Yes. from From you. and And you were on your way, ah if I remember the story right around you, you were listening to this podcast in the car on your way to teaching English people. some cheese.
00:24:44
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With some cheese. some Staffordshire Stilton. Right. Okay. All right. And then you just didn't talk and you didn't teach English. You just dumped the cheese on them and and you talked about cheese and then, oh, time's gentlemen.
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It's become a bit of a joke and inside a joke that we don't really talk about English anymore. And we talk about men's stuff. yeah Do you at least speak English but when you're speaking the men's stuff? About 37% of the time.
00:25:20
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About 37.2%. Okay. Well, it's complicated because one of the guys, usually you have four people, okay, who have not have more or less a good level of English. There's one guy...
00:25:37
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that of the four that is speaks almost no, no, of the three, speaks virtually no English. And it is complete shit show. Lovely guy, Fabio. All right. Lovely guy. um And so to fill to make sure he doesn't feel left out, we end up talking a lot in Italian. And
Deep Talks at the Men's Club
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in the end, it's become a boys club, as in mean men talking about their prostate.
00:26:07
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ah
00:26:09
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Right? What a great club that is. And talking about, well, but it's really cool. Like two weeks ago, were talking about what friendship means. Aww.
00:26:21
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And it's really cool. Aww. And the table means they don't talk about this stuff, you know? Because, you know, if you're in London or or in New York, you talk about this stuff. It's kind of like,
00:26:34
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you know, um what's it called? You know, in like um provincial Italy, men of our age don't talk to each other about stuff.
00:26:45
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I'm sure they do. we end up talking about stuff, you know. Stuff. Stuff. you Like important stuff. We don't talk about football or that kind of shit. Right.
00:26:58
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We talk about We talk about stuff you know it's good and we occasionally we throw in some big english like hello in the beginning and so chi and and some cheese cheese all right nice cool but i did take guys under the cheese i took some a very nice bread with the cheese all right Nice. Yeah. What else you got? Anything else in the- Of course, in the in the in the good stuff, now that's it. All right.
00:27:33
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Well, that that's nice. All right. It's nice. It's nice. nice All right. ah do you Do you have the the cowbell that that that signifies- there we go. Oh, blimey.
00:27:50
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It's loud. It's only little bell. It is loud. It's fucking loud. It's vintage. It looks vintage. sound Yeah. ah Oh, bad stuff. Oh, two today I was the busiest person that has ever been on the planet Earth running around, have to so yeah had to get Eddie to the groomers, had to get do some Christmas shopping, had to like ah drop the car off at the thing. um but Wait, wait, wait, wait. Talk us through Eddie at the groomers. I'm interested.
00:28:28
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i do home We could do a whole episode of Eddie and the Groomers. It even sounds good, Eddie and the Groomers. ah Yeah, it it sounds like a ah ah then ah nineteen fifty s sort of rockabilly band that that fits was that never took
Dog Grooming Adventures
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off.
00:28:50
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um yeah What did I have done at the groomers? um All right, so he gets shampooed and then dried off. He gets nails He gets his ears done. He gets his butt expressed.
00:29:07
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ah he gets his he gets his nails done um he gets his ears done ah he he gets his his his is his butt it um expressed Back sack and crack?
00:29:24
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Yeah, yeah. Okay. um Yeah, so he he comes back smelling nice. does he um does he Does he know it? Does he come? Because my dog, when he's been shampooed, he for i you can see his his body language changes. He's like, oh, yeah, damn, I'm hot.
00:29:46
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Oh, God, no, no. we hate he like he He doesn't enjoy getting going full life full stop. And then when he's out, he's like, he he like fuck you for putting me through that bullshit.
00:30:02
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and then hes and and And then he spends and the rest of the day as asleep, which is what he's doing now. He's like, down there. Cute. Asleep.
00:30:14
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Is he a little bit ADHD, Eddie? Yeah. his' His... No. Oh, God, no. He is like... He is so not ADHD. He is like, buy buy the book. In fact, if he's anything, he would be...
00:30:31
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autistic if you were going to kind of put him in in any category he is why he he likes his things done in a certain way he's got special in yeah he's he's got a little narrow focus of special interests and and then he then if things go weird he gets up upset but um Yeah, he's good, though. Okay.
00:30:59
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Yeah, that was it. That was it. What about you, Paul? What's on your on your bad world? Bad. I've got a bad world. I've got this. I've got a bee in my bonnet about this thing. It's a traditional thing in Italy.
00:31:16
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called Panettone. Okay. Oh, yes. it's Do you know it? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, okay. That makes my face easier. It's a sort of a sweet...
00:31:30
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bread. It's a brioche. It's a giant fuck-off brioche. Domed. aye yeah sweet so yeah what So why have I got bee in my body about them? Yes.
00:31:46
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Go on. Okay. Put into context, it's just they're just made of, like a brioche is just made of, flour, eggs, butter, sugar, yeast, some canned
00:32:01
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okay okay but garridge for example and some raisins right I like it Alexandra our our um you know i'll um what did she of our official ah but but she's a cook and she's a yes she's a chef yeah she's a chef so she'd be able to relate to this just like the ingredients are basic okay yeah the the cost of them has just skyrocketed It's just insane, right? Okay.
00:32:35
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So if you were to bake I asked ChatGPT, I've got them to have. If you were to make one with just those basic ingredients, yes right the most basic ingredients, it would cost to us between 20 and 25 euros.
00:32:52
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It's about the same in dollars. Okay. Wow. 20 to 25 euros for which is in exact saying, right?
00:33:03
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Yes. But these days, if you're Italian, if you want to make an impression and you go to a Christmas dinner, right, you're going to take the artisan panettone.
00:33:17
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Okay.
Panettone Price Rant
00:33:19
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And my girlfriend was saying to me, he said, yeah, oh if you want an artisan panettone, it's going between 50 and 60 euros. So dollars. Imagine that, right? For a panettone, for a giant brioche.
00:33:32
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Right. and And I think the world has gone fucking insane. It's large donut. It's a big fucking croissant.
00:33:44
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ah It's a big croissant. And if you want a good artisan one, they want $50 to $60 for it. Wow. It's amazing. Yeah. so I it also asked Jachi BT, what's the most expensive? padded tolder that you can buy In Italy, at this very moment, this is why BTT rocks, right? Okay. At this very moment, so um just before Christmas, you can pay for one panettone.
00:34:21
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It's one kilo. It weighs a kilo. Okay. One kilo. Yeah. 850 euros. and fifty ear arose yeah because it comes in a fucking velvet box the the velvet box is like 750 years and this so why so you can say paul why do you get upset about this stuff because it represents martin what everything i hate about christmas all right here we go this excessiveness um you know just excessive
00:35:00
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excess makes sense um Yeah, this, this, right? yes Yeah, that's an excessive amount It's just insane. It's just mental. it is. You know, people trying to make impressions, you know, and it's like empty gestures of like, oh, I've got this fucking giant brioche and it cost me €850. Check me out.
00:35:25
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Oh, why is it so much? Oh, because it's got a velvet box. Mm-hmm. Lovely. That's lumber lad that's mybi my too all bad my bad.
00:35:36
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That's nice. I feel better at talking about it though. Oh, there we go. see feel like. um a weight has lifted off my my brioche little shoulders all right that's that that's good all right so on the uh so we have to uh do the bell and then we can go go into like there we go into the ugly portion as i said i don't really have an ugly i don't have ugly i've my panettone is bad and ugly at the same time ah
00:36:08
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Oh, that's good. That velvet box just pushed me over the the precipice. Right. ah like I like that. is it is it Is there anything else that we... Have you got a velvet box, Martin?
00:36:22
Speaker
Do I have a velvet... so I'm sure, isn't that a Nirvana song or is it, or I thinking of the someone else? Anyway, um no, no, I do not have a box of the velvet.
00:36:37
Speaker
um I think ah now would be a good point to jump in the tractor. We'll just go make our way over to Alexandra's Haunted Inn.
00:36:49
Speaker
Okay.
00:36:53
Speaker
While you have sort of coughing fit.
00:37:03
Speaker
that's better. Are you all right there? Oh! Did you do do your wine go go down the wrong way? Yeah, no. Red wine gives me terrible acid reflux.
00:37:20
Speaker
Why are you drinking it, mate? Just putting it out. like it. I can't help it. Also because last night i had a lot of of Prosecco.
00:37:32
Speaker
Okay. And Prosecco gives me terrible acidity for a couple of days. Oh, so coming back. I can't resist it. I love Prosecco. All right. All right. Well, I will say, so last week um i um alex i I showed you a picture because because Alexandra had had handmade little gnome yes of of of of of me.
00:38:00
Speaker
Yes. and i and i shot and i And I showed that in last week's episode. But now, happily, Paul, there is one of you. Oh, is there?
00:38:11
Speaker
There he is. And I'm going to just pull it up um on my phone and just show it show it to the to the camera. Oh, there you go. Yes. Okay. I like it. I like it a lot.
00:38:29
Speaker
Yes. So you've got like a little black hat and you've and you've got your thick black glasses and little nose and then a little white and then a big white beard. Yeah, it's ah it's getting it's it's almost completely white now, my beard.
00:38:43
Speaker
Right. So ah that's for you. Thank you, Alexandra. Thank you so much.
Listener-Made Holiday Decorations
00:38:49
Speaker
Lovely. Lovely. And then this is the whole tree, right? Lovely. I'm just showing picture of the whole tree. And then somewhere on there. That's a serious tree.
00:38:58
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, she was up till three o'clock in the morning, I believe. ah but But we are on her tree. oh shit. Lovely.
00:39:09
Speaker
We are on her tree. So if you look really hard, she's... That's great. There is a little gnome you and a little gnome me on a tree Corfu.
00:39:23
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, she's in Corfu. Okay. Yeah. I think so. Lovely. Pretty sure. um Yeah. So there we go.
00:39:35
Speaker
Lovely. That's lovely. I'm just trying to like um ah having, I'm just padding for time slightly because i'm just seeing if big she you're always writes nice things you know you know um in the in the YouTube comments.
00:39:57
Speaker
section. um Okay. where So we can go straight to Alexandra's haunted in at this point then, I suppose. Yes.
00:40:07
Speaker
Yes. Let's do that as we're like, we've got 10 minutes left. All right. 10 minutes and change. Yes. So let's go to the quiz. Let's just do a quiz. right i i do a quiz All right. Yeah.
00:40:21
Speaker
Yeah. Let's just do that. are you Fine. just do that Well, I've got quiz, Martin. Nice. We didn't have time to to of like fit it in because I think this so that i thinking it would this is going to take up a future episode.
00:40:40
Speaker
um This is something um I think is definitely on your on your kind of like cheese platter, as it were. Oh, okay. Mentally, I mean, I don't like like a real cheese platter. It's the combination between ADHD and autism and how it messes up with your mind,
Unusual Food Combinations Quiz
00:41:02
Speaker
Marty. With your mind. With your mind. And it's become in a bigger bigger and bigger thing that like,
00:41:13
Speaker
that my, I kind of like, comes across my mind. Is this heading anywhere? Yeah, it So we' we we're going to, I think, I'm sure it'll come up in a future podcast about ADHD and autism.
00:41:28
Speaker
But in the meantime, I thought I would do a thing, quiz based on combinations, Martin. See what I'm doing there? Right? Combinations. All right. Combinations with a foodie theme.
00:41:42
Speaker
Oh, okay. All right. The foodie theme of combinations, right? So I've got a list of things that were invented, created, and indeed served by Michelin star top chefs.
00:41:57
Speaker
um Combinations, right? But one of them has been made up by me. Okay. Right? You've got to guess which one I made up, Martin. Martin.
00:42:10
Speaker
Right, got it. Far away. Yeah, serve it up, mate. So this one is on the theme of fruit and contentious combinations with fruit, all right?
00:42:22
Speaker
Okay. First one, strawberries and black pepper. Yeah. Okay. Which is good, by the way.
00:42:35
Speaker
Watermelon and oysters. Okay.
00:42:40
Speaker
Okay. Right? Okay. Yeah. Pear and capers.
00:42:48
Speaker
Which one have I made up? You see, now, this is this is where the alex that's it and where Alexandra's chef's brain is, like, jumping around because there are certain combinations that work and some that don't. so Yes. But I thought it would appeal to you, Martin, because we spoke, I think, a couple of episodes ago about your palate and how educated your palate is.
00:43:17
Speaker
Kind of. A little. Oh, yeah. It is. Probably, it is. I would say, um obviously, strawberries and um um and black pepper is a thing. I've had it.
00:43:28
Speaker
It works. Pear and capers, you've got the ah pears can be sweet. They're quite gritty. um They have a certain kind of floral flavor.
00:43:41
Speaker
um And then capers are sharp and acidic. And those two feel like they could work to together. It's like I can imagine um imagine a salad that had capers in it and had sliced pear in it and balsamic vinegar and and and jack walnuts.
00:44:05
Speaker
So that all works, right? I have to say this is probably the quiz that I've enjoyed the most because I really put a lot of effort into my suggestion. Okay.
00:44:17
Speaker
I put a lot of in for it because I wanted to try and... ah i was trying to make your word work hard, Martin. I am. my my my My little brain's running like ah like the clappers.
00:44:29
Speaker
Do you need summary? Oysters... See, the thing is, oysters have a very salty... flavor, like like they taste of the sea. and And watermelon also tastes... If you have salt with... with If you put salt on watermelon, that also tastes good.
00:44:51
Speaker
So I can see... that those two can work. I mean, one's quite soft and yeah and and well but bo and watermelon is also soft, but has a very different texture, firmer texture. But I kind of think just be just how you eat oysters, I feel like watermelon doesn't work with it because you you put the whole oyster in your mouth and you swallow it down as Or do you?
00:45:21
Speaker
Yeah, i I tend to usually. do. ah So I feel like... yeah I just said that for dramatic effect. ah Yeah. So i think well what I think even though the taste of watermelon and oyster makes sense in my little puggy brain, I think just the kind of the the kind of eating of it doesn't quite make sense.
00:45:45
Speaker
So that's one out. Right, so in your post-grooming puggy brain... Yes....you're saying watermelon and oyster is is the one I made up.
00:45:59
Speaker
Yes. Even though... No, Marty. it was actually if created by a famous French chef called René Redzepi.
00:46:11
Speaker
Okay. Apparently why it works is because it's got the cold sweetness and the marine salinity. Yes. Okay. See, that's what i was saying. yeah i i up the I made what I pairs of caters.
00:46:26
Speaker
Yes. You see, the thing is is that is that is that I could go onto Google right now and go pear and capers, and then there'll be a bunch of things will come up for it.
00:46:37
Speaker
Oh, well, but maybe, yeah. um that was My suggestion wasn't that it was... Oh, was It's not that it's stupid. So it's really a test of, have you heard of this food combo or not? No. Has it been invented by a top chef?
00:46:55
Speaker
Oh, a Michelin star. Okay. All right. Okay. So first one, I was i was i failed, but basically. Yes. Yeah. All right. Now, this one, I think, will need particular concentration, Martin. Come on, concentrate.
00:47:12
Speaker
i won I'm using both of my of my pla brain cells. Yes. Your ADHD mind. Concentrate, Martin. Come on. Come on. Right? Okay, this one de mixes, combines even, seafood and sweet additions.
00:47:31
Speaker
Okay. Lobster and vanilla. Oh, okay. Right? Okay. You ready? Yeah.
00:47:43
Speaker
Sea urchin and custard. Oh, come on.
00:47:49
Speaker
okay Crab and dark chocolate.
00:47:55
Speaker
Right. Okay. One of those I've made up myself. Okay. So I would say crab and dark chocolate works.
00:48:07
Speaker
Seafood and and dark chocolate go really well. um So I'm saying that that's fine. Lobster and vanilla.
00:48:19
Speaker
It's so weird. It's such a vanilla.
00:48:26
Speaker
I can see it going because I can see it vaguely. I mean, yes. ah Now, the sea urchin. It's challenging, isn't it, Martin? It's challenging.
00:48:39
Speaker
the The sea urchin in custard obviously feels like, you know, sea urchin, again, has got that very salty. Yeah. of it's got that very so and and and and And it's almost like a custard texture as well.
00:48:55
Speaker
right Yes. It's it's it's very soft. That's true. Yeah, that's fair. So so so I feel like soft and soft. Glutinous, think is the word you're looking for. Yeah. So I feel like custard, as I think of like birds, instant custard out of a packet, which i've shown i'm I'm sure no Michelin-style chef is going to reach out for a packet of birds. Absolutely.
00:49:21
Speaker
But yes, I'm going say that the urchin and custard one is you've made the up, Paul. You've made it up. Okay. Go on. No, mate. That's a Japanese chef creation.
00:49:35
Speaker
Oh, blimey. The reason sea urchin works, according to him, with custard... Yeah. It's both a creamy and umani rich. which Umani is from the Chinese, okay? Yes. Which is pronounced umani, Martin. Yes, I know. um It's um it's a like you could chur chinese a Japanese way of saying savoriness, okay?
00:49:59
Speaker
It's one of the five basic taste tastes. Yes. Okay. and particularly they both have that kind of savory taste dress all right so the one day yeah the one i made up was crab and dark chocolate oh okay all right which again you you you you could get crab and dark chocolate as a as a thing but it doesn't exist this something
00:50:29
Speaker
so This is such a fiendish, fiendish quiz. No, it is. It's sneaky. Sneaky is the word you're looking for so but um I've ah failed. I've been too nice before. I've been way too nice.
00:50:43
Speaker
You have, and now you've just, like, pulled out the big guns. i I have. Okay. you You can – you're playing now – you've lost, Martin.
00:50:54
Speaker
You've lost. You're now playing for respect and dignity. A little shred of dignity, LAUGHTER
00:51:05
Speaker
Okay, last category, right, yes is herbs with unexpected pairings, right? Okay, all right. Basil and coffee.
00:51:18
Speaker
Okay. Right? Sounds great. I'm into that. Yeah. Sounds great, doesn't it? Yeah, it does sound really good. It does sound outstanding.
00:51:29
Speaker
It does. Well done, basil and coffee. Well done. Rosemary and chocolate. Oh, come on. That's also good as well. Blinding.
00:51:40
Speaker
Yeah. Rosemary chocolate. Last but not least, thyme and caramel. Oh, God, that's good too.
00:51:50
Speaker
this is this is This is the same. Each question is like, does it work, right? And I kind of yeah, all these three work. I still had to guess.
00:52:02
Speaker
By the way, I didn't do any research. I guessed. My my pairings were completely invented in my little tiny mind. well I didn't go on the on the winter and winter internet internet and like look up stuff.
00:52:21
Speaker
I just invented them. Well, I think your your instincts are spot on. because ah i don't Because you haven't really put a foot wrong in your guesses. Living in Italy for 21 years helps.
00:52:39
Speaker
I'm sure it does. I mean, honestly. Basil and coffee, Martin. Roseberry chocolate, thyme and caramel. Right. So here's the thing. I can't think about it in the same way.
00:52:55
Speaker
I can't use the same thought process that I've used for the other two because clearly that is like not the way to go. So now I have to think about what.
00:53:07
Speaker
So you've done chocolate in the you had chocolate in the previous one. So I think you may have just gone. Yes. I think you you you may have. you may have done that one again. You may have kind of gone, oh, yeah, let's just do the chuck the chocolate again. So I'm going to go. So just based on the fact that you may have picked chocolate and then just done it again because it was the third question. like, oh, let's just get something down here.
00:53:35
Speaker
so So I'm going to say Rosemary chocolate is the one that you made up for this quiz. No. No.
00:53:48
Speaker
i was like ah clean At this point, we should have had your mate Seth come in now with with the beer and the cheese soup. Beer and cheese soup, mate. I made up the thyme and the caramels.
00:54:05
Speaker
ah I made the fatal mistake. i don't if you noticed, but all of the ones that I made up were the third. oh Because I was just lazy with my cut and pasting.
00:54:16
Speaker
See, I was... There's always the third one that was what I meant. I've realised.
00:54:24
Speaker
I was looking for the thing where you were being... glad ah you we were You were being lazy. I just thought it was the chocolate, but no, it was the... it was cut and pasting. I was lazy with the cut and pasting.
00:54:38
Speaker
I'm looking thyme and... What was it, thyme? And what was it? Caramel. Caramel.
Foodie Friends and Fun
00:54:46
Speaker
It sounds good though, doesn't it? look, I've got loads of thyme and caramel recipes. They're coming up like nothing. Are Yes. I'm quite impressed myself.
00:54:58
Speaker
Thyme and caramel. No, I mean, that's, ah yeah. But it's it's not, you know, it's not, to be fair to me, it's not like, I don't know, coffee and mint.
00:55:13
Speaker
obvious ones it's not it's not obvious stuff it's not like um chocolate and strawberries right well at home did any of you get any of this or were you like me and just like Completely. Maybe everyone was just particularly disappointing failures.
00:55:38
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Wow. All right. Oh, you know what we haven't done? Well, there you go. You've completely battered me. ah right I feel like Jake Paul after that boxing match. Oh, god Broken jaw. With...
00:55:57
Speaker
Yeah, with AJ. ah What his name is. um Yeah. Anyway, um yes, me with my with my double double jaw thing. um yeah you've got He's got titanium in his jaw now, apparently.
00:56:14
Speaker
Oh, is he? Blimey. Says him right. But, you know, I think he was he was getting something like 100 million or something. Something ridiculous. For all of that. So, you know, I don't exactly feel sorry for the guy. All right. So next week.
00:56:32
Speaker
What's next week, Martin? What are we going to talk about next week? um Cos, whose turn is it to pick? It's yours, think. Oh, crap.
00:56:44
Speaker
All right. You know what? haven Oh, you know what? I actually did have a short list on my phone. phone and I'm going to pick from from one of one of these. we did ah How about ADHD and cars?
00:57:07
Speaker
Okay, yeah. ah you feelbar how you for spanish How do you feel about with driving? Driving. I like driving in my car. In my car.
00:57:19
Speaker
It's not quite a Jaguar. Here in my car, I feel safest of all. I can lock all the doors. um David Bowie there famously covering the cover of a Carrie Newman number.
00:57:36
Speaker
Here in my car, I feel safest of all. I can lock all the doors. We could be heroes just for one day.
00:57:48
Speaker
in my ford pontiac um right all right there we go so that's it all right jobs jobs jobs good um all right so this is just leaves it for me to say that uh that uh who are we what are we doing that the ADHD bill is delivered fresh every Tuesday. to all perverts are fine podcasts and please feel free to correspond out well in the comments. But wait, there's more if you wish to see our beautiful, beautiful faces and Sally forth to the YouTubes and the TikTokies.
00:58:24
Speaker
And you can also pick up a quill and email us at adhdville at gmail dot com. But in the meantime, be fucking kind to yourself this Christmas. And I beseech you fellow Christmassy ADHDers fare thee well with glances apart and cake and biscuits and prosecco.
00:58:49
Speaker
Right. And see you. And panetone. Yeah, see you somewhere after after Christmas, I guess.
Future Podcast Plans
00:58:59
Speaker
yeah There, says the mayor.
00:59:04
Speaker
There we go. Let me think. So we have one more to do this year then we're... Yeah. And then it's 2026. And we can plan for that.
00:59:18
Speaker
Right, because I'm be down in Washington, D.C. So may have to do it from the hotel room. you go hotel in washington yes Yes, yes, yes. It's about six hours drive south. South? Really? Yeah. Okay.