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Episode 105 - Navigate the Seasonal Shift: ADHD and the Transition to Fall
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As the leaves turn and the air gets crisp, do you find your ADHD brain responding in unexpected ways? Welcome back to ADHDville! In this episode, your ex-co-mayors, Martin and Paul, are diving into the vibrant, complex world of autumn. We're sharing our personal likes, dislikes, and sensory experiences of the season, offering relatable insights and tips for embracing this beautiful, yet challenging, transition.
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. Back the room. Back in the bleeding room. And we help and we we hope that you're there in enjoying a nice mug of something warm. Yes. And we invite Even chocolatey.
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Yeah. As we invite you to go to a place where the distractions, the landmarks and the detours are on the main roads. so Welcome to ADHDville.
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We are with a stuffed blanket, warm blanket, hot toddies, stews, minestrone, hot soup kind of thing.
Meet the Hosts
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Okay, hello, I'm Paul Thompson. I was diagnosed with the combined ADH and the D again ah almost exactly two years ago. marvelous And I'm Martin West, and I was diagnosed with the combined ADHD poo-poo platter in 2013. And we start off in the local pub in ADHDville, the King's Agitated Head, where we, the ex-meds of ADHDville, take care of business.
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And we are going to be talking about ah the autumn, because it's my subject.
Seasonal Transition: Summer to Autumn
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Yes, it's your subject. As we switch over... From the summer to the to the fall.
00:01:26
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Yes. yeah um I don't know about you, Mr. T, but here in, certainly on the, would say on the east coast of the states, there is a very definite line between summer and autumn. Uh-huh.
00:01:49
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What I mean is is that it's the only season I think, well, no, apart from the transition to winter, where so everyone in in New York changes their wardrobe in the same week.
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Right. They, yeah they flip from the, from the summer outfits to the, to the outfits, like within a week, everyone yeah has flipped over.
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Yeah. when In Italy, they say, oh, it if they say there's no mid-season anymore. It's either it's it goes from one season to another There's no mid-season, which is a problem for me because I like the mid-season between summer and and um autumn because that's when I get my cardigans out.
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And this year i had like I had like a five-day window for my cardigans.
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It's a big problem. I like my cardigans.
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I know you do. you are a Cardi guy. Yeah. um I would say also that the the the the actual weather changes from summer to autumn in this in in a day. So you'll be in the summer, then you'll wake up one morning and you'll go, yeah and this happens every year, you'll go, yeah.
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It's the winter. Like yeah the air has changed. Yeah. Like the, the, the, temperature has changed. Like, right. Right.
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It's different. You wake up one day and it's different. And you go, hmm, we're here.
Autumn Traditions and Fashion
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We're here. Here it happened um like 10 days ago.
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There was like 25, 26 degrees. And then all of a sudden it's 10 degrees less this week.
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Yeah. Not quite 10 degrees less. I think, you know.
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Yeah, it happened on a Tuesday here. Okay. It was like, woke up on on on Tuesday it was like, oh, it's the fall. Yeah. So this is a so very good time to be chatting about about it. It is.
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Let's talk about it. Let's talk about about the fall. It is. Where are going to go? Are we going to stay in the pub, I think, aren't we?
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We're going to stay talk about. Yeah, let's just stay here. Let's just stay here. I might have a mulled wine. by this is something That's something that they't they don't get in Italy is the concept of a tepid pint.
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You know, when you pour it like a good draft, you know, try a good a really good ah quality craft beer, okay, and it would be room temperature.
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Nice. Tepid, right? And for Italians it's like, yeah no, you're kidding me. No, that's disgusting. No, no, no, no. depends where you ah where you Depends where you live.
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It's totally right, think, to have a tepid pint. Yeah, yeah. Even now, it's changed in the UK. I think everything is, like, colder. You know, even the Guinness now is, it's like, served cold.
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But Guinness was never supposed to be served cold at all.
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Guinness is your classic tepid pint. There we go. It was supposed to be sort of warm, like a soup. Yeah, exactly. um Yeah. ah All right.
00:05:36
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So in the in the autumn, which is a very nice, it is I mean, what but what have we got? we've weve we've We've got the colder weather. We've got changing the leaves, pumpkins, Halloween, Thanksgiving, if you're in the States. Yeah.
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warm drinks, ah chests cardigans. Chestnuts. Roasted chestnuts. It on the street has it all, mate. Street vendors. Yeah.
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People on the street selling warm chestnuts, whole chestnuts. Oh, that's that ah it's the best smell. Mm-hmm. Yep. Yep. I know. But also you ah Yeah, go on.
00:06:20
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Yes, what do you get? but No, no, go on, because I was going to tell you. You get to sleep a whole load better. You get to sleep a whole way better, at least I
00:06:37
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Yes. So what was your size? I mean, like, I know, you know, like... No, no, I'm going to carry on down this little thread of yours, right ah which is I know that there's quite a lot of people will go, you know, like Alexandra for one, will go like, oh, thank God it's colder now.
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Like that kind of heat and the humid heat goes. And then it's just like, oh, yeah. i can I can function better.
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um but Especially related to ADHD. And actually, I think there is some... Related to our ADHD, in the summer, I feel like even if I wanted, even if I was organised and I was focused on that particular day or that particular moment, I can't be because it's too freaking hot.
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So its it's almost like it gets to the end of the summer and there's relief. that if my concentration and my focus happen to coincide with, you know, you know, with the right temperature, you know, the right season, I can do what I want to do.
Cognitive Benefits of Cooler Temperatures
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Does that make sense? Yeah.
00:07:54
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Do what you want to do, Paul. Do what you want to do. There is actually some studies that suggest that cooler temperatures can improve cognitive performance and alertness.
00:08:07
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yeah Yeah, totally. Yeah. It's actually good your Also because you're getting more sleep as well. You're getting more sleep as well. I'm actually thinking, you know, like... so Go on.
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Yeah. As as the it says here, as the days get longer, ah shorter, your you this leads to your brain to produce more melatonin, the hormone that regulates sleeplessness.
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So if the more melatonin you get, so therefore autumn and so and winter, the easier time you get to falling asleep and possibly deeper sleep. Right. deep asleep You know, just a win-win.
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This is so nice. um I'm lucky. So now, i think I'll just spat a bit. So now, if if I'm just, you know, like we have this thing about if you were going to do a test in a bookstore that you would probably perform higher if it was in a bookstore, right? Yes, yes. If you were in a bookstore and you were wearing hat,
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Yes. And it was the autumn. Yes. you'd had extra sleep as well. Yes. think that is like, this feels like optimum time ah to do a test in a bookstore with a hat.
00:09:27
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I can add to that as well. I can add to that. There's actually a research done. um Also, the ceiling height has a big impact on concentration.
00:09:38
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if you want to If you want to concentrate a focus on something, the lower the ceiling is, the more concentration you can have. Wow. Yeah. I know that you can't see it, but um but my room here actually has ah as a sloping roof. Right. on this end of the room where I'm sitting now, it's higher. It's like a normal. Yes.
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And then it slopes down towards the back of the room. So actually. Okay. Is that subsidence? should have the desk down that end of the room where I can concentrate It's your fault for buying a house on the slump. I've got this kind of really crazy roof.
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Oh, okay, okay. Yeah, i mean, have you have you have you seen my house? has the well It has this enormous sloping roof. It's like okay fucking nuts. My house is like, I mean, like when we when we bought this house,
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my wife was like um i was in the u uk and then and then when i came back she had about five houses lined up for me to go and look at right so yeah went around all the houses very nice very nice very nice and then this one was the last house and it was supposed to be the the the joke house it was supposed to be like just just for funsies But we kind of pulled up out outside it and it like it was built in the 50s and it's got this enormous, crazy flat roof on a slope.
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um And it was like, oh, my God, I love this place. Oh, my God, I love that roof. Isn't that the case, though? Anyway, so we ended up moving into the joke house. For sure that's ADHD related.
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You know, there are some quirky houses, people selling quirky houses. their Their dream is that
Cultural Fashion Comparisons
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just by chance, by slim chance, they'll get an ADHD couple will come and see it because no one else will appreciate it.
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Right. Silence. You know what? My God, there's about an eight second delay. It does make me think when I've kind of, what,
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Is there? Fucking hell, yeah. It's really long delay. it's about I'm going to hit the pause button and see if we can catch up. I'll be back.
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Okay, we're back. We're back. i am I am back still in just video form and audio and pause still. In the land of just the ethereal voice.
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Oh, you've stopped fluttering me.
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Oh, boy. At least we're in sync now, so that's good. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it was really difficult before. Anywho, so yeah, we're just talking about how, you know, the habits change, you know, the lights changing, you sleep better, like way better. And just not just longer, but actually much more profound, much deeper sleep. but At least I do.
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Right. Yes. um Yeah. it Do I, do I sleep better in the autumn? Yes. Who likes a hot night?
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Not me. No, no, no, no. Moreover, I like heavy a heavy duvet on top of me. You know, you feel like Molly Cuddled.
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Yeah, it's that kind of weight on you. And, of course, when you' when you ah when you get dressed for the autumn now, now it's it's almost like you are wearing little mini versions of your...
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of your heavy duvet. so Yeah, exactly. Your pullover, your heavy knit sweaters. Yes. And your scarves. I don't, I never look good. Have you heard the expression that the in English people, they don't look good in short trousers because they just look like someone. oh then they're um They don't look good in shorts, I should say.
00:13:54
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It looks like someone with all their trousers. Right. But in the autumn, I think the English are much better with the autumn fashion. Way We are at that. Yeah.
00:14:06
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which is something that I found when I moved here. It is very much in the summer. You just wear shorts and T-shirt pretty much. And then um and I think I look good in shorts, I have to say.
00:14:23
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do you? um But, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Okay. You know, I know that, you know, I know that I am so i am tooting my own trumpet on on on this.
00:14:37
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I've seen you so rarely in shorts, Martin. I'm just realising. I never thought I'd come to this kind of realisation. But I've hardly ever seen you in shorts. Hardly ever.
00:14:48
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Well, you know, in the summer here, you kind of have to, right? Yeah. Oh, here too. It gets too hot. Too hot. Too hot. Yeah. um But then you switch over
Retail Dynamics in Autumn
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to your to your autumn, your full wardrobe, and it's just like. Yeah.
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And we do layers very well. Yes, exactly. Not in the in the in the States, but in the UK, right, where where where we come from.
00:15:18
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um We layer clothes, right? So we've got like, you know, we've got. Because and it can be all all weather. It can be any weather that day, right?
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Yeah. And I think it could be a hell of a lot more creative as well. I like a yeah British girl who know ah bridges girl who knows how to dress in the autumn slash winter is a very attractive thing to to behold.
00:15:47
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right Right. I think it has been said that the british that the British do fashion well because of this layering thing that we have to do.
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Totally. and the and the and the ah the And the Americans struggle. I'm i'm so som sorry, guys, ah but you struggle with the layering concept.
00:16:14
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Yeah. Which is what we need in the fall. We got it down, definitely. And there was a supplement it last so last Sunday, no, Saturday, there was a supplement of a of ah of ah an Italian newspaper.
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And it's a fashion supplement and a big feature section on how the British do layers in the winter.
00:16:39
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And it's like Italy, they're all on they're all all up for spring and summer. Italians have virtually no style. Controversial, I know.
00:16:51
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but it just dies off, does it? They just don't have much style in the winter, Italians. They become like boring. It's weird. They become very boring. It's just not trying hard enough.
00:17:07
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No. You see, that's where the focus turns to the Scandinavian countries and the Nordic thing and the hygge. Exactly. They've got tweeds.
00:17:20
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And the English, yeah. You've got the walls and the tweeds and, you know, kinds of stuff, the aran jumpers. Yeah. We're just nailing it, mate. Nailing it.
00:17:31
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Yeah. um One thing that that isn't so good about the autumn is, it is for me, it's the start of the SAD, the seasonal season.
00:17:44
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Was it a seasonal affective disorder? Yes. ah Yeah, where it kind of makes my ADHD other parts of my ADHD worse.
00:17:59
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Actually, I get more da i get more the deep the depressed and it's harder to motivate myself because um Okay. as As, as, as, the light goes, I kind of like power down. Really?
00:18:17
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No, I'm the opposite. Yeah. I sort of semi-harmonic. Oh yeah. No, I'm the opposite. Yeah. I love it. yeah no, I love it. I feel like I can do what I want to do, you know? Right. Right.
00:18:32
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Yeah. It feels like i don't have I don't have to think about, oh, it's hot today. I can't do this and I can't do that. Or if I want to do this, i've got I could only do it early in the morning or, you know, or when the sun's gone down.
00:18:45
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No, I could do it all freaking day, you know. Wow. Yeah. That's crazy. i like life I like that for you, Paul.
00:18:56
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Yeah, yeah. I have to have a lamp. yeah well I've got a negative thing about about autumn. It's the colour brown. The colour brown.
00:19:09
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See, it's all right. It's all right with clothing. No, not even. It's all right with, you know, if it's leaves on the ground and the trees. And love, all that, all the different shades of brown and orange and yellow and stuff.
00:19:24
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I just can't, you know, like, and I did a bit of a deep dive on this. Do you remember the 1970s? It was all brown. Everything was brown.
00:19:35
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All my my parents' furniture and the carpets and everything was brown.
00:19:44
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I thought you to my parents were brown. They were brown. Yeah, well, especially my mother. She was particularly brown. And so I saw did some research on it, and so and I found out there was a reason for it.
00:20:00
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It was actually a backlash to be having too many, like, psychedelic, crazy rainbow colors in the 60s. It was a reaction, backlash. Oh, wow.
00:20:10
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was that Everyone wanted to go to like earthy colors. It made them feel like they were healthier and, you know, returning back to nature. It was a distinct reaction of the populist.
00:20:24
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yeah Okay. or Do you decide you remember your parents having everything brown?
00:20:32
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Let me think. um My dad had a chocolate brown Ford Escort.
00:20:38
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Right. Yeah, I mean, the exact the the i yes, I think of the autumn colours as being very much actually the palette of the entire 70s. Yeah.
00:20:51
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yeah I think. Now that I come to think of it, you've got that sort of... so but Yeah. Wallpaper. Brown wallpaper. Yeah.
00:21:02
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Yeah. Creams, oranges. Yes. Yes. um But i i I do like an autumn palette, to be honest. I like the kind of oranges and and and the whole seasonal palette.
00:21:23
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And you know why? i think it's because... You and I, we we we we both work in the creative fields and i do a lot of retail marketing.
00:21:36
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And what happens is is that in the in the retail world, it dies a death during the summer. So there's not much going on. People don't tend to spend much, right, because they're out there doing their, they're on their holidays and their vacations and they're doing their thing.
00:21:56
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And then when autumn comes around, that's when the ah foot yes gets put on the on the gas as as as far as the retail shopping is.
00:22:08
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you've got loads of sales events. You've got Halloween. You've got general like full you know just general fall promotions. You've got thanks Thanksgiving. So there's a lot going on.
00:22:21
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Right. So suddenly it's like everyone's like, like there's a, there's a lot of sales events. So I'm like stupidly busy in the full palette. And it's like, suddenly I get to use like, you know, brown and blacks and greens and purples and really nice color, really nice strong colors. Purple's good.
00:22:42
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So you kind of get into that Halloween. Yeah. It but depends how they're used, isn't it You can use them creatively, definitely. Just generally they're just it's not very often. It's just nice to be doing that, to be in using those those water and pallets. But obviously as we are working in...
00:23:06
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retail you're usually about three or four or six months out. So actually that was the, that was a weird thing. I'd be doing full stuff and being in the full mood, uh, about May, June.
00:23:21
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ah right. Okay. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. No. Yeah. We'd be Halloween in the summer. yeah ah yeah yeah no yeah we'd be doing halloween in the summer And then Christmas would would happen like, you know, now I would be working on Christmas stuff. I'd be knee deep in Santa now.
00:23:43
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how well wow What about food, Martin? What have you got on food? For me, that's when food gets way more.
00:23:55
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Well, not more interesting. It's just very different. and I can't wait for autumnal food. Love it. All right. So what do you like then? but put your but your where What Soup.
00:24:06
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page
00:24:13
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Soup. Soup. Soup. Or you get, some in in Italy, you get soups or you get um like little ravioli in broth. Okay.
00:24:24
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Or tortellini. Tortellini in broth. Oh, it's just the best thing. But you can't eat them in the summer because you just sweat sweat like a bitch. likeo Like a P-I-G. Yeah. like a page like ah like a pi g Exactly.
00:24:39
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So, yeah. All right. So you get – what about – yeah, because I think you you you said last week that you don't have pumpkin spice lattes. I mean – We – no.
00:24:54
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No, we don't. Is there anything else that that that that kind of comes out –
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um In the autumn for you guys
Autumn Foods and Traditions
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over there. Well, not in the world you get there's these things called, um oh, God, what are they called? It's a bit like the um the American um thing that they have the cracking egg into it. What do you call it? Christmas. Yeah.
00:25:22
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Crack an egg into Christmas. It's a drink that you crack an egg into. Oh, eggnog. Eggnog. and but in In Italy, they've got like this like thing. It's an alcohol-based drink that you crack an egg into it.
00:25:37
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But it turns, it's a bit like if you if you put like, um if you put into, if you put tiramisu through the blender, okay, crack an egg into it and a little bit of um alcohol.
00:25:55
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Okay. It's a bit like that. I'm not explaining it very well, but it's very nice. I know. I get it. I get it. Very nice. um Well, yeah, because... ah this is This is when the food becomes good because this is the harvest time, right? So this is when you get a lot of, um when you shift over to a lot of the root vegetables. So, you know, we eat seasonally in this house.
00:26:33
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So if it's in season, then that's what we tend to do. So now we we we we we are, you know, we've got loads of, but actually we were came up to the end of the corn season, but yeah, so lots of corns and squashes and okay loads of load loads of that kind of stuff. Obviously, know, as I've said, the pumpkin season,
00:26:56
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Pumpkin everything. She'll get pumpkin pie and pumpkin spice this, pumpkin spice candles, pumpkin spice everything. It's all pumpkin. We've got, I've just discovered the joy of, in in in Italian it's called um the black cabbage.
00:27:14
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And I'd never heard of the black cabbage. Okay. The black cabbage. I've heard of like black cabbage. everywhere. and then And so my but girlfriend, she made this black cabbage soup and it was phenomenal.
00:27:28
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And we had it for a couple of times during the week. It was really amazing. And with with with ginger. Okay. And so i after that, I thought, oh, I'm going see how you translate it in English.
00:27:41
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It's kale. Oh, kale. Kale. And I just, it's amazing. I'm loving kale. In fact, tomorrow night I'm doing a risotto with pancetta and kale.
00:27:56
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There we go. I was cooking with kale only earlier for lunch. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah, no, ah grow it out, out in the garden, which I have to say, and perhaps that this is, this is the same for you, perhaps, but, um, if I buy kale in the supermarket, it is like, it is, it is not good. It is tough as old boots.
00:28:23
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It's not, it's, it's, it's horrible. Um, but I, I, I, I grow it in me garden. Because I'm old. And it is fantastic. It is completely different. It is night and day thing. It is kale.
00:28:40
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ah i I went down a bit of ah ah ah i done done a rabbit hole on on ah kale. and it's um Okay. if you If you consider the broccoli, okay, to give ah to compare it, broccoli is considered a superfood, right?
00:28:56
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Kale Completely. If you put kale, if had a fair fight, there was a fight between a kale and a broccoli, okay? You put me in ah in a cage.
00:29:07
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Kale comes up top every time in terms of nutritional value. It's amazing, the kale. Yeah. Right. and I know that not everyone agrees, but there we go. I've just found out. Yes.
00:29:25
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yes In the meantime, I just found out the eggnog, okay, yeah the Italian version of it, which I was describing before, is called the Zabayone, okay, and it's made with um egg yolks, sugar, and masala wine.
00:29:42
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masala wine So it's very sweet wine. ah It's basically whisked up into a kind of ah kind of a mousse, not mousse, quite a mousse, but very creamy kind of um combination.
00:29:55
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It's very nice. Yeah, very nice. Very easy to make. I like it. like that a lot. It's really cool. Very nice. Okay.
00:30:06
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You know what? on On other things which are ADHD related, did you know, Mr. Thompson, that actually, eat meat you know what? so this Just going back to the whole retail thing, there is this retail...
00:30:26
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marketing thing which we now know of and we and we and we do sales around it which is that everyone comes off of their summer holidays and their summer of they vacations and then there is a window ah between like when you come back then there's like a back to school period right when you have to kind of get your kids all kitted out and get that whole fucking thing done and straight after that everyone goes into a like a i've got to finish what
00:31:06
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you know, what I haven't got done in the year. Yes. Yeah. and ah So, you know, and then they'll know that Christmas is coming up. So that's a whole thing.
00:31:17
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And then then there's Thanksgiving, which is a whole thing. So there's this window where everyone kind of goes, oh, crap, ah i've I've got to sort everything out. And that happens sometimes.
00:31:29
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at work in the office, like if your company hasn't, you know because you're in in in quarter four, right? You're you're because you're coming up into quarter four and you're going to go, right, if we we haven't hit our targets and we've got to put the foot on the gas.
00:31:45
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So work is panicky. um I know um and everyone has all these jobs to to to do. So, you you know, if you were going to, you know, finish up a project, you know, and you're on your house, you'd be like, right, I've got to get this fucking project done.
00:32:04
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So everyone's running around the stores a lot more, getting all their kind of crap done. um And there's just a lot of pressure to kind of,
00:32:15
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kind of to kind of do stuff right in the in the autumn. Yeah. Which is no fun. Yeah. But it exists. but but In Italy, they do a change of wardrobe. It's very common that you have a summer wardrobe and a winter wardrobe.
00:32:35
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And it's just like one of the chores that we we've like been putting off, but we need to do it. Because I've been surviving on one jumper for about a week now. So... Right.
00:32:46
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But I mean, like, do you find lot that... ah But do you do you find that work, I mean, you have to think think back, but has does work get busier after, you know, like when when everyone comes back from their holidays and they start picking up the phone? Totally, yeah.
00:33:04
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Yeah. and Oh, massively. Especially if you're freelance, it's a nightmare because it's kind of quite slow to keep going again. So generally it's not until the first couple of weeks of October that it picks up really.
00:33:20
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You know, people get there back into the groove. Get in the groove. Get back in the groove.
Autumn and ADHD Diagnoses
00:33:28
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So I'll just be checking. So ah kale, just so um for ADHD peeps, kale is just like rocket food. It's like the best thing you could eat you've if you've got ADHD because got tons of magnesium.
00:33:43
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And also it has calcium, potassium, iron, vitamins, A, C and K. um its It's like it's like a mega. And you can eat it raw. It's even better if you eat it eat it raw, maybe in a smoothie.
00:34:00
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And I would just say that we are funded by the by Big Kale. Yes. Thanks yeah thanks thanks thanks for the ah for for the big check that will be coming. I'm only saying it because normally I'm enthusiastic about because normally I freaking hate cooked vegetables.
00:34:20
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But actually, kale has blown my mind, Martin. know this I usually hate cooked veg. I can tell. Oh, my God. Yeah. It's like, wow, where have you been in my life?
00:34:33
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Love it. That's crazy. um i will I will tell you ah ah another interesting thing that is not kale ah related.
00:34:46
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Blimey. on that On that thing of like there is a but bit of a surge of activity in the fall, there is a September surge in ADHD diagnosis.
00:35:00
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Really? There's a well-documented phenomenon that child and adult ADHD diagnosis spike. In the fall. Oh.
00:35:11
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because it um know Because, as I was saying, there is a a more of a of of a demand on us towards the end of the year. um Yeah.
00:35:22
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you know what You know, like you know if it's like kids, they're going back into school, or if it's quarter four and we're struggling with our executive this dysfunction, and then that is a kind of a...
00:35:37
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If you're adolescence, you're going back to to university, you're having to be more social. Right. And pressure pressure is on for, so for for ah yeah you know, studying.
00:35:51
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Yeah. So so it spikes. Okay. It spikes, it spikes, it spikes. And no one likes spikes, or do they?
00:36:01
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and Well, I think if you're ah if you are a medieval torturer, you might like spikes. Yeah. Or if if you're into that, you might like spikes. All right.
00:36:19
Speaker
All right. And then we've also got the last thing is I've got these is the um is is we get the daylight savings time. thing that happens in the fall where you get that well it's full forward so we lose an hour right out fall back so we lose an hour spring forward fall back oh fall back yes yeah that's right we gain an hour oh hang on no if we we lose an hour of daylight if we fall back oh yes yes yes but we gain an hour of time yeah and it gets darker
00:36:59
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Yeah. It gets darker. That I'm less enthusiastic about, I must admit. But the things, the positives of smells, definitely the smell. know, people having bonfires.
00:37:11
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Oh, yeah, that's a big one. A bonfire. You can have bonfires for the first time. You know, because the summer you can't. It's too dangerous. You can have a bonfire safely.
00:37:22
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It's just the Yeah. fires and there's a specific we talked about fashion before but there's a specific thing the scarf love a scarf i love a scarf i have several you know no don't have one i've got a ya light i've got a yak hair scarf it's my favorite all right I'm trying to think of a joke about yaks, but but I can't. <unk> yeah There is nothing coming.
00:37:55
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All right. strange Usually you're so hot on the yak jokes. yeah right I mean, we will do a Halloween episode.
00:38:06
Speaker
So feel like we can just we can just we can just do that one shortly. So that will be coming up before Halloween, um which which is towards the end of October. So it's probably not the next episode, but the episode after that will be yeah Halloween special. Yeah.
00:38:28
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Which I'm looking forward to very much. Yes. Maybe it's, I mean, I'm a bit of a grouch, not just because of Christmas, but also Halloween. Can't stand Halloween. Fuck you, Paul. Maybe.
00:38:39
Speaker
This is the end podcast, mate. this is this is the of the podcast make we We are doing Halloween and you're going to be excited. Yeah. Well, I like horror movies. Can I talk about horror movies and it will be still on theme?
00:38:55
Speaker
Can we do that? Ghosts? Okay. Cool. Do you have any ghost stories? Oh, yeah. Oh, well, there you go then. Yeah, I've got ghost stories.
00:39:07
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All right. Yeah. Yeah. We can do that. Okay, all right. and And then hopefully you can, without giving anything away, but hopefully we can talk about your your um little Halloween story.
00:39:24
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Yes, I'm meeting a journalist tomorrow. we will All will be revealed, but I'm meeting a journalist. Mm-hmm. So I'm on, yes, I hope that that'll be. On a Halloween theme.
00:39:37
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Yeah. So there we go. That's exciting. All right. So I think this will be a good point to jump in in in the old tractor. and make our way over to and Alexandra's Haunted Inn.
00:39:53
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Yeah. So that's it. So finish up your pumpkin spice latte and let's jump in and get going. Purch a buttock on that tractor seat. Oh!
00:40:09
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um
00:40:20
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It's weird that because usually I'm dancing to that to that bit of music. I'm dancing to it. And I realize the video's off. It's actually completely wasted. I was doing some wild crowd-pacing moves and no one can see me.
00:40:35
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Right, but I think it kind of like comes through in your voice. I think your voice dance is... You can hear the energy, the vibe. Oh, you know what we haven't done?
00:40:48
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The ratings. We haven't done. Yeah, we haven't rated it. So so yeah let's... yes!
00:41:03
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Yes. Love the banjo. God. I know they say every time. ah Dopamine hit. ah Autumn. I'm going to give it a nine.
00:41:14
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It's right up there. that there There is a lot going on for you. Yeah, I think I would say for me, i there is a lot to be to be to to get excited about for me. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:41:29
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So I'm going to give it like an 8.5. That seems good for me. All right. And they what about a burnout score for you, Mr. Paul? This low is two.
00:41:39
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There's not much burnout going on there. It's two. How about you um So that gives you like a plus seven. um And for me, i think I think it actually affects me a bit more than it does you.
00:41:55
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um Yeah, it sounds like it. Yeah, yeah so I can get quite burnt out at this time of year, especially with work. um So I would actually give it like a seven.
00:42:09
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so right So for me, it ends up being 1.5 difference plus So so I think you are more into Oh, totally. You get more out of yeah the fall than me.
00:42:23
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Well, especially, I used to own a chestnut grove. I mean, how much more, do you can't get much more tunnel than that. I used to produce about 150 kilos chestnuts.
00:42:35
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Oh, see, that's just, oh, that's just lovely. I loved it. And the collecting of them, that was back-breaking. But anyway, anyhow. Anywho. So, um Alexandra's haunted in.
00:42:50
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Yes, she left a note. so She left a note because Alexandra is our official town crier. no No, because she got promoted, remember? So she's our... Oh, yes, yes.
00:43:08
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they post the though the The postmaster general. general, yeah, yeah, yeah. postmaster chair here yeah I'm out of sync, really out of sync by about four months.
00:43:19
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Okay. Don't worry about it. We've got some feedback from Alexandra about the last episode, right? Yeah. Well, one thing that she did say, because i i because we talked about books and and she's and ah specifically Terry Patchett, who's like my favorite author.
00:43:39
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um She said, funny thing, Martin, I found an audio book yesterday from terry from the Terry Pratchett series that I recommended. So she's listening to the first book, The Color of Magic. So I was like, oh.
00:43:57
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That is cool. um so i down that and Put that down as a win. That is a win. If I can just convert people one at a time. That's good.
00:44:09
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And then she also finishes off her lovely lot. So if you go to a YouTube, you can see her ah comments there. It's always, always and lovely. um She says, ah she says, love you guys.
00:44:24
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You're a hug to our souls. and I'm just reading that now. God, I'm a bit emotional reading that. Oh, I know. That's really nice. That just makes such a difference.
00:44:36
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It does, doesn't it? That's really cool. Thank and you so much. And the and Minister of Snacks agrees. So the Minister of Snacks is Carol. And she says, she left a note saying, new goal unlocked, Foyle's Bookstore in London.
00:44:54
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I will be going one day. Yeah. So if you missed it, go back an episode because we were talking about books and books books stop bookshops. and it was a cracking episode. It was nice. You know, blowing our own trumpets.
Community Engagement and Feedback
00:45:11
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Right. So, um you know, we've got the – if you – at home, at home, in your car, whatever, ah if you comment and if you get involved in the podcast and listen to it and, you know, comment on our comments and, you you know, and you and you and you get involved, whether it's on YouTube or – It makes such difference.
00:45:37
Speaker
It makes such a difference. Yeah. Right. Or, you know, then we will. Even if it's bad stuff or even suggestions for future episodes. Could be anything. Right. Yeah.
00:45:48
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But get involved. And then ah we will give you ADHD job title so that you can join the ADHD Council along with. Yes.
00:46:01
Speaker
ah We've got Alexander's on there. Carol's on there. um Seth is on there as our our minister of head stuff. um All right, so that just leads me on to ah what is next week's episode, Paul? And it's your turn.
00:46:21
Speaker
It's your turn this week. My turn. We've got ADHD and cooking, Martin. Cooking. Interesting subject, I think. Food. Wow. The preparation of food. And the consumption of. Habits, organizational aspects, you know, how do you organize your cupboards, that kind of thing.
00:46:41
Speaker
So if there's any suggestions about what you think we could cover on the theme of cooking, let us know. Yeah. what's What's your favorite meal? What's your favorite food?
00:46:54
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What do you absolutely hate and cannot stand on a plate? Or even in the same room as... Right.
00:47:06
Speaker
Can you cook or are you like terrible? I know that Alexandra is ah is a is a chef. So, I mean, come on. she's like She's like professional grade che chef. Chefy chefs. i'm i'm Well, for next week also, i tomorrow I'm making a risotto with kale and pancetta. So I'll let you know how, you know, it'll be on theme next week. I'll let you know how that went.
00:47:33
Speaker
Kale and pancetta is on. Oh, right. I love it. Cool bananas. All right. So that just leaves me to say ADHD World is delivered fresh every Tuesday to all purveyors of fine podcasts. Please subscribe to the pod ah and rate us most pumpkin spiced and feel free to correspond at will in the comments. But wait, there's more.
00:47:58
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00:48:13
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And I beseech you fellow ADHDers, fare thee well with gladness of heart. Ah, yes. Ah, yes. Ah, where's that button?
00:48:26
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There it is. There, says the mayor. That's that.
00:48:31
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will better Hopefully we'll see you next week on the on the actual videos, on the pictures.