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Episode 101 - ADHD & 5 Things We Want to Put in Room 101
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Welcome back to ADHDville, the podcast where your brain finally feels at home.
In this episode, ex-mayors Paul and Martin (co ex mayors of ADHDville) are back in the pub and taking a trip to the most dreaded place imaginable: Room 101 to banish their most annoying, frustrating, and downright hateful pet peeves forever.
But there's a twist! They've enlisted a very special, AI judge to decide the fate of their submissions. Will their biggest irritations be accepted for eternal exile, or will the digital arbitrator shock them by granting a stay of execution?
It’s a hilarious and chaotic battle of wits as they plead their cases, complete with unexpected curveballs, personal anecdotes, and the classic ADHD tendency to go down delightful rabbit holes.
Tune in for laughs, relatable frustrations, and the comforting feeling of sitting down for a cuppa with friends.
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Transcript
Introduction and Welcome to ADHDville
00:00:00
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My ear. Oh, dear. All right. Well, where are we? We're back in the room. You're back in the room. Here we are with an itch in my ear. I know.
00:00:11
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but that just means that your ears are desperate for some interesting stuff. to Yeah, exactly. Exactly. All right. So welcome
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Let's go to a place where the distractions to landmarks and the details are made in Rhodes. Welcome to ADHDville. Yay! yes. Oh, yes.
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Intro tune, intro tune, yes it is. Back to the classic. yes Hello, I'm Paul Thompson. I was diagnosed with the combined ADH and the another D crawling towards a bunch of years ago.
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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-mayors of ADHDville, take care of business.
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um And I hope you are, well, um I mean, you, the the general audience are out there. enjoying a nice cup of tea or coffee and just chilling and relaxing. wherever Wherever you are in the world. Yeah.
00:01:43
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Are we still big in, what was it? We were still big in some weird-ass country, Kosovo or something. We were, yeah. ah No, we our our audience in Some strange man. Lithuania. It was one of the Baltic states.
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Yeah. Yeah. That kind of died. But actually, but our our audience in ah Australia has picked up. Okay. Japan. Okay. Well done, Japan.
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so okay japan okay put done well done japan I know. Very nice. um
100th Episode Celebration
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All right. Well, on today's agenda, um firstly, thanks for all the fantastic messages that we've been getting about our 100th episode last last last week.
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Yes. So there are lots of of those, which is great. And ah at the end of this episode, we're going to have new official presentation ah new official ADHDville position to announce. Yes. So someone we to yeah has has has ah ah has been promoted to an official ADHD job, which is nice.
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And we're a broad church, so we're quite open to finding vague and kind of like bizarre positions for people wherever they're needed in um in our community. Right.
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So if you like and subscribe and you get involved in our podcast, then you two can have an official ADHDville ah his position in this town.
Room 101 Segment Introduction
00:03:26
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um And then our main segment is Room 101. I'm excited for this, Paul. Yeah. um Yeah, me three. yeah Now, Room 101, if you don't know, um it is a room where The most annoying, frustrating, and downright hateful things get banished forever.
00:03:48
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Yes. So what's going to happen is that Paul and I are going to list out five things each in turn. Mm-hmm. to put into room 101. It's from the John Orwell.
00:04:01
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Jesus Christ. thats That's his less talented so ra to brother. George, actually. George Orwell, who is, um he wrote the book, what's the book? 1984. 1984, thank you.
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and so rule one wrote one was like Well, in my imagination, it's like this desk is like a prison cell, basically. in in In his world, what it what it actually, yes, it it is. it's it's It's a room where all your crap can go and all your fears are and stuff like that. shit butin yeah but in But in fact, it was an actual room.
00:04:40
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and I think of was in the BBC headquarters. There was a particular meeting room where he hated going. Yes, I think you're right. one I heard that once.
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Right. So ah we have to make our way to room 101.
Elevator Prank Story
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one or one And this involves us getting in the elevator and going up to a to ah to a different floor.
00:05:09
Speaker
Oh, up? We're going up? I've never been up in the elevator. I know. It's always been down, but now we're going up one minute floor. Because we can't be off, take the stairs.
00:05:22
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Yeah. All right. we go. Let's get in. Okay. Okay. There we go. Push the button.
00:05:33
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Okay. floor Floor one, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. No time for, know, chat. Not much.
00:05:44
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Although there does seem to be rather a long... This is a very slow elevator, I must say. Yeah. Oh, you ever had strange conversations with people in elevators?
00:05:59
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I tried to have no conversations with people in elevators. right It's the worst, worst conversational room in the universe. did once. I was an elevator full of strangers and people like got in.
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And i i I worked my way to the middle of the elevator and said to everyone, I guess you were wondering why I brought you here today. Oh, yes. Strangers.
00:06:26
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Yes. And i I'd wanted to do that for years. And then I finallyly thought, damn it, I'm going to do it. I didn't care how andve I've got some strange looks.
00:06:40
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We were in Cuba, you and i right right? We were on a bus. Right. okay going from one village to another and it stopped and the bus stopped for like, I don't know, a food break or something.
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And we all piled out, right? So there's all of us, everyone on the bus, all just kind of in a big kind of in in a little group. And then there's us two and you and you turned around to everyone on the bus and you said, expect you're wondering why I brought you here.
00:07:18
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Did I do that? Yes. Oh, right. Okay. And not even in Spanish. Not even in Spanish, though. No, no, no. It was in English. Oh.
00:07:29
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Okay. I'll tell you. I'll tell you that that That phrase, I expect you're wondering me what I brought you here, comes up in the conversation of me and my wife, um that I don't know, maybe once a month, right? Okay.
Playing Room 101 with ChatGPT
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regularly will sitting in there right and and uh one of us will turn around and go ah expect you're wondering why i brought you here yeah nice ah such such a good phrase anyway right so do this is how this is going to go mr paul and i've put in some some some extra effort here for you Oh, really?
00:08:10
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So on the show, on the UK show Room 101, right, a guest will come on and they'll say what their thing is, right? And then the host of the show will decide whether it goes into Room 101 or not.
00:08:26
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Yeah. Right? And then gives a little short thing. So what I've done is I've set up ChatGPT to be the host, right? Okay. So whatever we say, ah will put it in and it will either accept it or it will ten deny it.
00:08:47
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Okay. Yeah. But you have to do you have to paste into chat PT? You know, because if i if I say one of my five things, is it just they like a one word thing or or do you put the whole conversation in?
00:09:02
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No, just a word. Yeah. it did just So if it ran so if sorry if it was like, I hate pineapple pizza, right? I think it's you banished. I just write in pineapple. that spoiler?
00:09:14
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Is that a spoiler? No, no, no, no, no. I wouldn't. I wouldn't give a spoiler away. um so So I'll just put in like a very brief summary of the thing.
00:09:25
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Right. And then it will and then then it would judge you could do that in real time for our yeah public, for our wonderful audience. Oh, wow. Okay. Thanks, Martin. All right.
00:09:38
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You know what? Okay. I put in some effort into this episode. But I'm going to win. Is it a winning, losing thing? Yes. Or is it just satisfaction? So we have to see how whether we can get...
00:09:52
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More things in than the other person scoring. We're going to take names and. Okay. Of course. Okay. All right. Okay. All right. let's So. Okay.
00:10:02
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All of a sudden getting my, my competitive side is coming out. Yes. All right. So do you want to go first then? I do actually, Martin. all Thanks for asking. All right. I'm going to go.
00:10:13
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I'm going to go strong right from the top. Okay. Right. um Well, should I tell you the things that I first, the things that I had seven things when I started? Okay.
00:10:26
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And give you an idea of the kind of stuff. Just go give give you an idea of how strong the the other five are. I'm going to tell you the two that I've not put in there.
00:10:38
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All right. One of which is the word game changer, right? It's a game changer. It's a game changer. There's so much. i Well, I won't go into but you know.
00:10:48
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I mean, I've been talking for half an hour about the game changer. And then the other one I've got that I've decided to leave out with really so certain elements of reluctance. So ah ready salted crisps.
00:11:00
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Oh, ready salted crisps. That's kind kind controversial. The banality that is ready salted crisps. As if they weren't ready.
00:11:11
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Why it have to be ready? No one says ready onion crisps. but so i think If they weren't ready, they wouldn't have put them in the packet. Why is ready important?
00:11:25
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I think it's because crisps or chips in America didn't come with salt. you hate you you You had to add it. yourself at some point. okay.
00:11:38
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oh Remember there was a packet crisps. I'm crying now. There was a packet of crisps that had the salt packet in little blue packet you and you had to open it and then sprinkle it in yourself.
00:11:52
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Was it Smith's crisps? I don't know. That's funny. anyway oh right all right what What I am putting in, ah however, is small talk. Oh, small talk, that classic.
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Classic, come on. All right, come on then. You're already trembling in your boots, I can tell. Small talk, I'm coming in strong. Okay. ah Small talk, yeah, when you've got to like, youve you're in the middle of like some, I don't know, let's say it's a wedding.
00:12:23
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For me, i like the classic small talk kind of situation. Yeah. And you've got a cousin in front of you or your cousin's wife that you've never met.
00:12:34
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And she's talking about her kids and she's talking about a new cover that she's just bought for her cell phone. She's talking about ah the trip to get to the wedding. and And, you know, they had to stop off at the, you know, the petrol station.
00:12:51
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and they didn't have ready salted crisps in the shop. And now they don't have ready salted crisps, and now they're hungry. And it's going on, and and you're nodding.
00:13:01
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you think, how can I get out as You're thinking, know what's my get-out strategy? oh And I never have one. I never have a good one. I know. Other than that, emptying my glass, if I have a glass of of wine or something, I empty it.
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Even if it's full. Just down one. Down in one. Oh, my glass is empty. Oh, no, exactly. My glass is empty. i'll catch you I'll catch you in a bit. I'll i'll come yeah straight back, honestly.
00:13:34
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Yeah. Oh, look how long the queue is at the wine bar. It could be a while. Oh,
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oh that's my first one, Martin. Right. Well, let's put it into room 101. Let's ask the the jack charge And the judge says, accepted into room 101.
00:13:56
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The reason is small talk is the conversational equivalent of lukewarm tea, forced, bland, and and and and draining. How about the weather? Deserves ah eternal exile.
00:14:10
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So yes we can skip straight to the good stuff. Right. There we go. right There we go. Good one. You're in. One for you. um my one My one is is um is bad pens.
00:14:28
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Bad pens. Oh. You know, like when you pick up a pen and it's like scratchy,
00:14:39
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And you often kind of need a pen at that particular moment, and then you pick one up, yeah and it's just like it doesn't work, and you're not scratching around, or it half works.
00:14:51
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Those are the worst ones, the worst that start off okay, And you go, okay, I'm going to start to write now. And then it just kind of scratches out on you. Yeah. so not i pay enough The biro, which is I think is ah ah it was invented in Budapest, the biro by Mr. Biro in Budapest.
00:15:09
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He is still the best. The most reliable is the biro. Yeah, the old BicBiR. Yes, I saw ah a picture where it had the BicBiR pen from, you know, all through different eras from when it was introduced to kind of the the present day. And it's hardly changed at all.
00:15:31
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Yeah, I love that. That's great. We've got an episode, haven't we, coming up about ADHD and pens. Do we? It's on the list. I think you put it on the list. Yeah. Okay. So pens. Bad pens.
00:15:43
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ah god bad pens okay Talk us through what what's going through. Do you get frustrated? do you go into a spiral of anger? Yeah, because at that moment, i need you know like how thoughts in your head are just very temporal?
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They'll disappear in ah in in in in a moment. So I've got a th thought that I need to get down but before it just poofs out. right And then the pen doesn't work.
00:16:13
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And then now I'm just frustrated. like i have to find you know I have to find a pen. And then by the time I found a pen, whatever thought I had that i was going to write down is gone. And it's bad pens' fault.
00:16:25
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It's bad pens' fault. Okay. I like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. All right. I'm going to put in bad pens. into our judge and let's see what we get a ruling on. What about Sean I get the dead man walking. How bad can you get?
00:16:46
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Right. Bad pens is in room 101. bad pence is in room one ah one It's been accepted. Yeah. A pen that won't write when you need it most is betrayal in plastic form.
00:17:03
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You shake it, scribble circles, blow on the tip and still nothing. They waste time, ruin signatures. Oh, yeah, they ruin signatures and mock your and mock your trust.
00:17:16
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Into the abyss they go. All right. I have to say I've never blown on a pen.
00:17:24
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I've licked a pen. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's controversial. All right. Okay. I've never blown a pen, says Paul. That's a T-shirt.
00:17:35
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All right. are you Are you, just so we get an idea of, like, the general dynamic of your choice, have you already, like, um have you already like blown the doors on your list? Is that your best one?
00:17:51
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No. or you Are you building it up? Mine is in random order. i oh as As I thought of them, they are in that order. Number two. i've got I've got my next one, Martin.
00:18:05
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Yes. I'm going to put, my choice to put my number two thing, item or thing to put in yeah room 101 is composure.
00:18:18
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Composure? Composure. never have I've never had it, never will. So as in i'm putting it I'm banishing it into Room 101 as as like my my acceptance as a kind of, um at this stage of life, just accept it, let it go.
00:18:37
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Just let it go, Paul. You're never going to be composed. All right. For some people, composure is a good thing. For me, it's like, it's a good thing that I accept that I'll never have it.
00:18:50
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Just let it go. Shake it out. All right. All right. Well, yeah, I suspect that... you know, like you would be, but you would be, curve you would be, yeah.
00:19:04
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Cause, cause the effect you would banish it from everyone's world. Like the whole idea of being, being, Oh, even better. I love that. Yeah. If can't have it, I'm not, one can have it.
00:19:16
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and if i can't have it i'm not no can have it
00:19:24
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Fuck them all. Fuck them all. All right, let's stick it Let's see what the judge says. Oh, denied. Denied. Fantastic.
00:19:35
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Yes.
00:19:39
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It says, while chaos has its charms, being composed is a secret weapon. It keeps you from saying the wrong things at the wrong moments and lets you walk through storms with the at least the illusion of of control.
00:19:54
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It's not fun, but it's powerful. Composure earns its stay in the world. ah that's That's funny. right That's funny.
00:20:05
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Alright, my one, my second choice. um this ah If you live in, actually, I think this is generally, i think everyone can kind of but can appreciate this, but if you live somewhere where tourists go, you will appreciate this more.
00:20:27
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And it's People who walk like two or three or four people abreast while they're walking along the pavement or the sidewalk, they take up the whole thing.
00:20:42
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Yes. And it's usually like a sort of a family usually. Yeah. And they just take up the whole thing. Yeah. And they should be banished. I mean, especially in places like in New York where where we just well want to just mow them down.
00:20:57
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You want to get to work? Yeah, we've got stuff to do. yeah And you get people yeah and you get people on vacation, right, who are just like, oh, I'm just going to be on vacation. And they're maybe then they just take up the whole sidewalk and just, yeah.
00:21:16
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but stuff What about when it's people that stand too abreast on the elevators? um yeah Oh, it's on yeah. you know what I mean? You get it on the metro. on the what' What's it called in the States? On the... What's the metro called? the escalator.
00:21:36
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Yeah, the metro. and ah The underground metro. but subway. Oh, subway. Yeah, on the subway. People are standing too abreast on the subway. you're like You're trying to get to work. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:21:49
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Yeah. All right. Usually tourists, as you say. All right, here we go. Let's see what it says. Oh, I get. So I get it that is accepted into room 101. Okay. All right. It says four abreast sidewalk walkers are a human barricade of daily life. They move at at to glacial speeds, spread like they own the pavement, and dare you to find a gap.
00:22:16
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Straight into room 101, they can block the corridors of eternity instead. Yes. Nice. Well, that's that the other thing, isn't it? Glacial speed.
00:22:26
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They're just like wandering aimlessly. like ah They don't care how fast they're going. Yeah. Okay. All right. All right. Number three. Oh, oh no. Hang on.
00:22:40
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Okay. this is going This is another curveball. Okay. All right. Because it's a temporary 101. Does it have to be in roomwow room 101 forever?
00:22:51
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Yeah. Does it? Yeah. Oh, okay. I'll send it anyway. I'm going to send the color yellow.
00:23:01
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Right? Left field. The color yellow. Okay, I am dying to hear. Because i I've been trying, I've been ahve been painting a lot recently. Okay. Not walls, as in as in paintings of like portraits and shit, right? Oh, nice.
00:23:21
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And I've been trying to get out of my monochromatic... state of being as an artist. I'm very, very monochromatic. yeah So this week, this week, is literally this is a recent thing.
00:23:33
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This week I decided to do a portrait of a friend h and I decided to in color, like full color. And he's got a yellow, he's got a yellow t-shirt. Okay.
00:23:46
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I'm literally looking at it now. can show it to the camera. So there we go. So if if you're if you watch our our our YouTube, it's very nice.
00:23:59
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right Very nice. I like one like that. There you So I was fine. ah was fine. I was like with with the colour until I got to the yellow. And it took me like four days of the yellow.
00:24:14
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and everything else was easy. And i was it's like i was having an argument with the yellow. Oh, come on. All right. Just do what you're supposed to do. So is it the colour yellow? Because it was bloody difficult.
00:24:28
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All right. hello It turns out. All right. Well, let's just put in the colour yellow.
00:24:36
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Oh, it's so not going allow it, surely. Yes, it is denied. It is not allowed. we get a second opinion? Ask if it's sure.
00:24:47
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Ask if it if it's if they're sure. they want to reconsider. It says yellow is sunshine daffodils and that perfect slice of cheese on a burger. Sure, it can be gary in large doses, yeah but life without yellow would be dull. Gray affair.
00:25:06
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Too much joy to excel completely. Yellow lives. Okay. Oh, I like that. Just think how cool a monochromatic world would be pretty cool as well.
00:25:18
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Anyway, okay. All right, I'm two down. All right, but that i like that. um All right, well, my my why ah third thing that I'm putting in is ah is is wet socks.
00:25:32
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Like, socks do not need to be wet at all. No. I mean, I can maintain my sense of humour through almost everything, it feels like.
00:25:46
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Okay. um But nothing sucks the sense of humour out of me faster than wet socks. Okay. Like, it's just... like What if you've got sand in your socks?
00:26:03
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What's sanding your socks? Oh, and wet. And wet. Oof, I mean, that just sounds like, I mean, the thing is, I don't mind sanding my socks particularly. I mean, it's not great.
00:26:16
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but um but I know what you mean, definitely. yeah Could it be any socks? What about, does it have to be like 100% cotton? Or does it not depend on the material? No.
00:26:29
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Any socks? Long socks? Any socks. if it if If it's wet, the the whole sensory issue meltdown. um i could put happily on the sock theme, I could put personally into room 101 any sock that went hot beyond halfway up my calf muscle. so ah but you but Like those really tall ones that go up right and under your knee.
00:26:57
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Under your knee. Can't do that. is that were you Were you forced to, as ah as a kid, have really long socks? Yeah, we were.
00:27:08
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Yeah. Plus, if you wear a kilt, you've got to have long socks. Oh, that's true. So it's a problem. It's a bit of a problem for me. Yeah. oh yeah yeah All right. Well, ah the ah it it's been accepted into room 101.
00:27:24
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one ah one ah Okay. I'm not surprised. Well done, Martin. Where socks are ah but betrayal in textile form, cold, clammy, and demoralizing, they turn every step into a i misery march.
00:27:41
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yeah They don't just annoy. They haunt your toes into room 101 forever. i hold yeah if you had if you had if you had wet socks and you had to do a like a marquee speech in front of like 4 000 people it's gonna it's not gonna be easy is it it's gonna dump in your mood literally yess because yeah it's gonna kill it kill it yeah okay all right what's next i've got two left so i'm gonna have to ramp it up on my
00:28:13
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Okay, a little bit less left field. um School reunions.
School Reunion Awkwardness
00:28:21
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Oh, school reunions.
00:28:24
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School reunions. I've never done one and I never will. Oh, I have. not Have you ever been to a school reunion?
00:28:36
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Yeah. yeah You have? i but I'm surprised, actually, Martin. i went Well, ah our our joint friend Steve, um ah we do ah me and Steve decided to do one at our old days secondary school.
00:28:53
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So that was from when we were like, what, 13 to 18 I was there. i was there um And it was the weirdest thing about it forus for Steve and I was that um our artwork on the walls of the main corridor were still there.
00:29:18
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Right. So after like, I don't know, 10 years easily, it was after we left easily 10 years, it was still there. And we were like, what the hell is this?
00:29:30
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Impressive. Has this school not produced any more artists to replace this? Right. Right.
00:29:42
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and So one hand you were feeling celebratory and the other hand you were feeling a bit too depressed for the lack of talent, up and coming talent. Yeah. was like, come on. Is that really? Yeah. Surely. Yeah.
00:29:56
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But that's not the reason why I'm putting it into Room 101. No, no, no. I know. but but actually going in. Go on. It's the inevitability about making really stupid comparisons. Right. Right.
00:30:11
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about how how they're doing. How well you succeeded. Did you succeed in life or did you fail? Yeah. Did you age well?
00:30:25
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did you Did you get like I had? i got ah There was a boy who got 100% in chemistry, but he ended up being a petrol pump attendant. And you feel bad.
00:30:38
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You feel bad for making those comparisons. Well, that's the only reason why you go, I think, is to compare. Yes, but that's the problem. That's where I don't go, Martin.
00:30:48
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I know. and it end And you end up with a room of people who think, who think yeah. They're looking at you. That's the thing. They're looking at you making the same comparisons.
00:31:01
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Right, because they think that they've done better than most people. So that's what gives them the kind of the the chutzpah, if you like, to kind of turn up to these things is because they think that they're going to look down on most people.
00:31:15
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Right. And you probably start caring for the first time in your life about what you're wearing before you step out. I don't know. I think it's like, ah so what job did you get in the end and how successful are you?
00:31:31
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What job didn't you get? right I know for ChatBT, it's going to be, I think it's going to be touch and go. All right. Well, let's find out.
00:31:41
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Let's find out. More predictable than the color yellow, maybe. It's accepted. nice. an acceptance. It says school reunions are awkward nostalgia traps.
00:31:54
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Forced small talk. There you See, that's all that small talk. talk Oh, yes. Yeah. um Paul, what have you been doing? ah Martin, Martin, what have you been doing for the last 30 years?
00:32:10
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yeah know thank Thankfully, I think that I was actually doing quite quite well, which was why I felt like I like i could enter. You know what I mean? I felt like, oh, right. I think I think i can hold my own. right you You just come through like a three-year intensive period in the gym.
00:32:29
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You were like ripped. Yeah.
00:32:32
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ah can No. Martin Rice ripped and successful. All right. So on to mine, right? On to my fourth one. and this is This gets quite specific.
00:32:46
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Small snooze buttons. on alarm clocks. So, you know, like when you have an alarm clock and because you can't get up in the morning, right?
00:33:02
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and then you And then some of these alarm clocks have small or fiddly
00:33:10
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snooze buttons like and um yeah and I'm thinking like back in the day they were smaller I mean I think they're probably large now but but they used to be quite quite small um and they're hard to kind of like turn off yeah but infinitely the iphone even on the iPhone if you want to um the difference between the snooze button and the turning alarm button is ridiculously disproportionate
00:33:41
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They should be die equally easy from in my mind. Right. I used to have an alarm clock. I don't know why I bought this, stupid dumbass. You would have to clap.
00:33:53
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It was okay to to turn the alarm off, or I think you had to clap twice or something stupid, right? Okay. I thought, oh, that sounds good because I don' have don't have to reach out to kind of like find the small button.
00:34:07
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I can just kind of go, and then that would be it. That was the most fucking annoying. Because as it wouldn't stop and you'd end up kind of almost doing this.
00:34:20
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You would wake up the morning and do an applause for that.
00:34:27
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Well, bad. That's a terrible way to wake up. awesome I'd rather be slapped in the face. Oh, yeah, that was... that that's horrendous. That alarm clock did not last long.
00:34:39
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No. It was kicked to the curb. All right, well, let's see how how that did. small but Small snooze buttons on alarm clock. Yes. It is accepted into Room 101. Tiny snooze buttons are the cruelest of sleep separatists. You fumble, you hit the wrong button, and suddenly your morning has turned into a wrestling match with your own alarm clock, tiny and evil.
00:35:03
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Banished! Banish. Well done, Martin. Okay. I could have a fool full sweet. ah full sweet Well, yeah, I think for me to win, I'd have to be given like chap chat GPT is going to be so blown away by my final proposition my final proposal. This is going to give me triple points.
Broccoli Debate
00:35:25
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Okay. well the land let's Let's find find find out. All right. What's your final final one, Paul? Broccoli. broccoli. Broccoli. Broccoli.
00:35:36
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Broccoli. But even worse, I can be slightly more slightly more um ah specific. There was a girl once who are I was working at this agency and I got to a point where they trusted me, silly people, with them recruiting new designers.
00:35:53
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All right. And this girl came in and it was a disaster from day one. Day one. the She had a problem with um um um wind retention. Okay. Okay.
00:36:10
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That was already a bad start. But she every day she used to bring in broccoli in a Tupperware box. Oh, right. And eat it in front of everyone on her desk.
00:36:23
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Oof. Yeah. Oh, my God. And it was just like, for me, that that smell is just makes me want to vom every time.
00:36:35
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But any kind of broccoli is just like this evil. only thing I like about broccoli, I should point out broccoli, if you let it flower, is a beautiful thing. It is.
00:36:46
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I have some. The flowered broccoli is amazing. have some in my garden. This same girl, she used to sneak out using the fire escape every day to avoid avoid um kind of sneak the kind of the bad impression of leaving on time where everyone else was like, you know, putting in their work and putting in the effort. Right.
00:37:11
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She would sneak out down the fire escape to avoid being seen. Nice. The problem was I'd recruited her. Mm-hmm.
00:37:22
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It's not good. It wasn't a good look. Anyway, broccoli. Do you remember, Port, he just reminded you and i um didn' ah we went through a phase of interviewing people when we worked at Red Redland. Yes, that that's right. yes right yeah And I remember one interview we did.
00:37:46
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where we were interviewing this young girl dis did designer, and she's going through her portfolio, and it's not that good, but we're just kind of going going through it.
00:37:59
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And then somewhere in there, there is a certificate for like 50-metre backstroke or something, And, and, but oh, did you design this?
00:38:14
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She said, oh no, i just, I just did the 50 meter backstroke. No. And ah do didn't remember that And we looked at each other.
00:38:27
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And we both were like cracking up. You know that you you do a thing where you're trying to not laugh? Oh, no. And we were both not laughing. Oh, God. And not daring to look at each other that that this poor young girl had put her. you Imagine that same woman has got a podcast.
00:38:50
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Yes. Probably about ADHD.
00:38:54
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She's probably got her own podcast, right? And she's talking about this traumatic experience she had, but strangely, probably strangely proud of it, of that experience.
00:39:05
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i would be. Yeah. I mean, yeah. i I used to, remember the days when you used to get... portfolios of photographers in, you're to do finding trying to find a photographer and you could like, like we get for like for a couple of days, constant stream but of motorcycle couriers turn up with portfolios before digital.
00:39:30
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before digital This guy, and we actually ended up employing him, he had a great portfolio, but he also had um in the middle a huge pair of women's breasts in the middle of his portfolio.
00:39:45
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And he said, I swear to God, you've no idea how how many commissions I got because I knew that was mostly men looking at my portfolio and I would be the portfolio they would remember.
00:39:59
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What? What? Yeah, he it was a technique he you he used. Jesus Christ. Yeah. Matthew Donaldson. He's still a famous stma photographer. famous He's quite a famous photographer.
00:40:14
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Hello, Matthew. Oh, really? Jesus Christ. ah All right. Well, let's see if broccoli goes in. ah It's going to be. i come It's going to be in there.
00:40:29
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Denied. Denied. Broccoli is one of those foods you might grumble about, but it's basically tiny green trees of nutrition.
00:40:41
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It may spark childhood protests, but it's a hero in disguise. Too good to exile. Oh, man. I only got one then. so you got two.
00:40:52
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Did I? ah got a small talk. And school reunions. i right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah too Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you've got four, maybe five.
00:41:03
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know. What's your last one, Martin? The sound of slurping. People slurping food. Yeah. i It just, it literally, it, it, oof.
00:41:18
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You must be angry just thinking about it. Okay. In Japan, it's considered a good thing. It's good manners in Japan. I know. And in China as as well. So when I worked in China...
00:41:32
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um There was a lot. I mean, you could not go out and have food anywhere without the sound of a restaurant full of people slurping their their food.
00:41:44
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Okay. Everyone doing Can you imagine that? Everyone slurping their food in the restaurant all at the same time. Well, on that theme, have you ever heard the idea that you should never, if you're going out on a first date, this like top advice.
00:42:01
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but Well, depending on your point of view, it's but it's kind of like neuro-bage advice. If you go out on a first date, never order spaghetti, too much slurping, too much potential for mess.
00:42:15
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My mind, if I go on a first date, definitely order the spaghetti. well I want to see how she deals with potential chaos and mess.
00:42:27
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You can do the whole lady and the tramp spaghetti thing. course you could, yes. It's from romantic. It's romantic, okay? Yeah. Romantico.
00:42:39
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Iosco molto romantico. All right, let's see whether slurping food is in Rumor 101. Oh, yes, I got a clean sweep. It is in Rumor 101. Well done, Martin. Well done. Slurping food loudly is a full-on assault to the ears and social etiquette.
00:42:55
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Even ramen lovers have limits. Rumor 101. Wait, one... Room 101 awaits those reckless aural sound effects. There we go. Well done, Martin. Well, that was fun.
00:43:08
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That was good. Right. Well, I think we have now got quite a way to go to get up out of here, up in go down in the elevator, get into our tract and go to Alexandra's Haunted ah haunted haunted in Okay.
00:43:28
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So let's just quickly jump in the well in the elevator. Oh, that was fun. I enjoyed that. It could be a regular. You know what? I thought I like this kind of this chat GBT being a sort of a judge thing.
00:43:46
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Yeah. Not like that. It kind of adds element of randomness. Yes. Which is a bit more fun. So, yeah, we will do this again. Yeah, totally.
00:43:59
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Yep. Wow. All right. Out, out, out, out the elevator. Quickly, all right. We've got to jump into the tractor. Jesus. Oh, the tractor now. Yeah. Wow. Wow.
00:44:21
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We've never had an episode with so many sounds. know, we've forms of transport. Tractors, elevators, tambourines. I know. um All right, we're at Alexandra's Haunted Inn, and she's a left left us a note where she says, ah oh, um so this this was about the 100th.
Listener Feedback and Special Announcements
00:44:48
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episodes. He says, ku congratulations guys. Thank you for each and every one of the hundred episodes and the wonderful moments you shared with us. Well, you're quite welcome.
00:44:58
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And she says, oh my God, I love that the the head thing that I was wearing last week. I had that kind oh, here we go. Look. With the numbers. It's actually here. Look, here we go.
00:45:09
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I can put it back. I've got got got the numbers on my head. She says, I love wearing weird things on my head in chi general. um And her one criticism, if you can call it that, was ah was last last week there was a a moment where I was trying to kind of go, well, that was 100 episodes. Are we going to 100 more And it came off like I was ending the show for some yes reason.
00:45:40
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Live. Live. Live on air. And I was thinking, oh, blimey, Martin's going to like say, I don't want to this anymore, She said, poofed.
00:45:52
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I thought I was getting dumped too, Paul. Martin! So there we go. So I apologize for the for the for the small panic attack. All right.
00:46:04
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and like ah right Over to you, Mr. Paul. Over to us. So the post office. So this is the bit where we say that you' your feedback is vital to us because it is. That's why we say it.
00:46:19
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ah We read all your comments. You might read out yours in a future podcast like this one from Misdiagnosed Phoenix. She says, yay for the parsnip cake.
00:46:30
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It's Martin. we ah We gave Martin ah a yeah a challenge to um to see the parsnip cake came up to the same level as the carrot cake.
00:46:43
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and and um yeah and she i And I thought you guys were brothers, she said. She thought we were brothers. Yes, lot of people do great show. She said glad I caught it 100 percent yeah like a virus.
00:46:58
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She caught it. No, not like a virus. So, and yeah. And Carol yeah yeah said, Carol Ann said, well, you fellas are a treat to listen to.
00:47:10
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And I'm generally right as rain when I'm finished, like having cuppa with friends. which is what this Which is what I think we were going for. We always did, didn't we? Yeah. was like just From the beginning.
00:47:25
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It's like sitting down with a couple of friends and just chatting about stuff. Yeah, chewing the cud. And we have that announcement, right, Paul? but That we talked about.
00:47:37
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Yes, we've got an announcement. Carol, because she's been contributing so much and being such a... Such a, what's this but expression I'm looking for?
00:47:50
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such Consistent fan? Consistent fan and ambassador for our cause. Supporter. We've given her an official um official title of Minister of Snacks.
00:48:08
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Well done. Minister of Snacks. Well done, Carol. Welcome to welcome to our broad church. Right. So, ah yeah, huge we will give you, the ah audience, ah a and an official ADHD job title. Yeah. If you support us, show us your love and that you're here, then, yeah, we will we will give you an official job title. So congratulations, Carol.
00:48:36
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you. um right So on that before we go to the outro section, it just leaves me to tell us, because it's my turn to choose for next week. Next week's episode is going to be about ADHD and hats, Marty. Oh, get ahead, get a hat. Oh, dearie me. Okay.
00:48:57
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Get ahead, get ahead. Perfect. All right. Well, that sounds like an interesting um thing to get your head around. um Or underneath.
00:49:08
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00:49:26
Speaker
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00:49:43
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And I present you fellow ADHDers. Fare thee well with gladness of heart, he said a little bit too loudly. There, says the mayor.