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Episode 140 - ADHD Room 101 - Game 3.
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The Mayors of ADHDville are back with their third round of everyone's favourite neurodivergent hate-fest!
Martin and Paul are once again perched at the King's Agitated Head, ready to banish the world's most irritating things into the fiery depths of Room 101. And this time? They've got ChatGPT playing judge (because Paul Merton was simply too expensive).
Will Martin achieve a clean sweep? Will Paul's culinary grievances stand up to ChatGPT's ruthless judgement? And what exactly IS the proper punishment for tailgaters in Italy?
Pull up a pew, grab your favourite beverage, and join the mayors for another chaotic, laugh-filled trip through the wonderfully disorganised world of ADHDville.
New episodes drop every Tuesday! Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and most importantly - be fucking kind to yourself.
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ADHDville, the podcast where hosts Paul and Martin bring 40 years of friendship to your ears. As late-diagnosed adults, they explore the ADHD world with fun, games, and the occasional guest—no boring lectures, just a comfortable and hilarious conversation you’d have with old friends. A new episode drops every Tuesday to make your week brighter!
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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
00:00:00
Speaker
Back in the room! Back, back in the room. And we're glad you're here, joining us. um So pull up a pew. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's go to the place where the distractions are landmarks and the detours detours are on the main road. Welcome to ADHDville.
00:00:19
Speaker
Let's go there.
Meet the Mayors: Paul and Martin
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Speaker
go that place. Meet the gang, cause the boys are here. Boys are here. Boys are here. Boys to entertain, boys to entertain, boys to entertain, boys to entertain you.
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Speaker
Lovely. Lovely. I'm Paul Thompson, talking of lovely. I'm quite, I can be lovely sometimes. I'm Paul Thompson, like and I was diagnosed with the lovely combined ADH and AD again, dragging on towards three years ago.
00:00:53
Speaker
And I'm Martin
What is Room 101?
00:00:54
Speaker
Wurst and I was officially diagnosed with the gorgeous combined ADHD poopoo platter in 2013 and self-diagnosed autistic and we are the mayors of ADHDville and as always we're sitting in the ADHDville pub, the King's Agitated Head, where we will be talking about, well, we will be doing the third round, the third round of Room 101.
00:01:19
Speaker
one ah one Let's count together though. One, two, three. Third round. Right. I think the first one was episode 101 or something, and then the second one was like episode one. It evolved.
00:01:35
Speaker
A little bit after that. Should we say it evolved? Yeah. Yeah. Why not? Yeah. So what is Rumor 101 if you don't know what it is? So Paul and I take in turns to nominate three things that we hate as neurodivergence.
Nomination: Rear Windscreen Wiper Controls
00:01:53
Speaker
Things that just get on our nerves. Hate, despise,
00:01:56
Speaker
Yeah. Hate, despise, um... Yep. What? What? What you got? can't think of any other things. What? Hate, despise.
00:02:06
Speaker
And you want a third now? You want a third? Oh, come on. Dig deep. And yeah come on. Come on.
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Speaker
You can do it. You can find a third adjective. Rylon.
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Speaker
It was worth waiting for. That's worth waiting on. Does it make me rile? Right, right. um And so we take in turns to nominate three things that rile us up. up proper good and proper and right it's up the wrong way right and we will get chat gbt to be the judge and decide whether it goes into room 101 uh which is a place where all the bad things go and whoever gets the most into room 101 wins
00:03:01
Speaker
Yeah, because we could we're using ChatGP because we couldn't afford Paul Merton, who does the official show. You can see it. If you have a want, if you feel like you've got a gap in your life, you can check him out on all the episodes, or most of the episodes are on YouTube.
00:03:20
Speaker
Very cool. Yeah. we Famous people send things into Room 101. Okay. Who wants to go first is the question. You go first, mate. You go first. All right.
00:03:30
Speaker
All right, I'm going to go. um So what I'm proposing to put into room 101 to get rid of in this world is yeah is I mean, i have a car.
00:03:43
Speaker
I know most of the controls,
Nomination: Chicken Risotto
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Speaker
right? Like that big circular thing in the in the middle is is how you point it. It turns around. Yes, yes.
00:03:54
Speaker
That is important, I found. And there's like other knobs and switches. And then you get the lights, right? the the the ones that turn on the full beams and the half beams and all that. And that's complicated enough, right? I just managed to wrap my head around though those lights. it's The thing that I want to put into room 101 is the rear windscreen, the rear windscreen wiper bright and controller.
00:04:30
Speaker
because Okay, that's specific, Marty. Yeah, that particular control, because it doesn't matter what car I get in or even how long I've had that car, I never, I can never, it's it's never intuitive, I've just fiddled around with it.
00:04:47
Speaker
I fiddle around with it until it does something. I'll tell you a funny story. I once, so unfortunately there were people two of people, friends in the car at the time. Someone made a really bad manoeuvre in front of them and I was really angry. But in my flustering anger at that very moment, I ah look i was trying to like flash my lights at him in an angry way. i but i put on the sprinklers.
00:05:19
Speaker
As if to say, I piss on you. That was showing. That was showing.
00:05:28
Speaker
ah Yeah, I know what you mean. Yeah. if That particular control is one too far for me. like Yeah. I just want a button. I want a button I can press that just squirts some liquid and then does the wipey thing. and Then you press it and it turns turns it off. I don't want the the twiddly, like, it's eats it's Egyptian hieroglyphics. It's not made for me.
00:05:56
Speaker
It just annoys I know what you mean, actually. I know what you mean. I do a thing, and this sounds this is going to sound really petty and immature. why When someone is tailgating me, they're like right on your backside, right? Right.
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Speaker
Which happens a lot
Nomination: Motion Sensor Faucets
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Speaker
in Italy. um In England, it's like really frowned upon, tailgating. In Italy, it's actually a national sport.
00:06:24
Speaker
And when they're they're really close up to you can't even see their number plate. I turn on my squeegees.
00:06:32
Speaker
Okay. So I get the satisfaction if when I look behind. They have to put on their windscreen wipers to wipe off what I spurted onto their windscreen.
00:06:44
Speaker
It's a bit petty and immature, but I have to say a little bit of satisfaction. I have to admit it. Right. Yeah. I found that if you want to be petty, you you can definitely squirt people with yeah with the front.
00:07:03
Speaker
So, all right. So, you have – is your car Japanese? Yeah. so you but you you have um you have it's your card japanese It's, yeah, I've got a Honda and a Subaru.
00:07:17
Speaker
Both Japanese. I had a Subaru once. Great car, Subaru. It's good. It's good. I had a Subaru Forester. Great car. I have one, yes. Oh, there you go.
00:07:28
Speaker
Yeah. There you and so And so on the Japanese cars, they're also the other side of the car. Yeah. They change sides on Japanese cars. They're different sides.
00:07:42
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Yeah. yeah and like Because when I hop from one from the Honda to the Subaru, there are various buttons that are like mixed the other way way around. and Right, exactly.
00:07:58
Speaker
And that's... irritating but but so all right so so your specific gripe is that um it's um it's hard to find it's too confusing and it should just be a button just be button that turns it on and you know you you push the button water squirts out and the whole back wiper wipes away until you stop it okay so all right i have typed that what if you know in like um
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Speaker
In some really posh cars, you have, instead of a gear stick, you have paddles. mine Right? What is you could, you could you could a bit like you get on posh cameras, right?
00:08:42
Speaker
Digital cameras. You could swap the buttons around and decide what you want the buttons to do. ah Yeah. Maybe instead of having paddles for changing the gear, the paddles, you could say, oh, I want the paddles just to squirt water.
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Speaker
Right.
Nomination: Leaf Blowers
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Speaker
Or to flash. Right. Yes. And then on the front console, it'll be like, who's driving this car? Oh, it's me.
00:09:07
Speaker
Therefore, it's going to configure all of the controls. The seat is going to slide not perfectly to to where I want it. And all the dashboard controls are going to be exactly what I want.
00:09:19
Speaker
You can have. is it Is it true that on Tesla cars, I fucking hate Elon Musk. would never buy one personally. But is it true that they've got um a fire detectors far detectors on in in their cars? I've not heard that.
00:09:36
Speaker
Yeah, I've heard that. yeah That sounds like a car that I would not buy. Yeah, definitely not. OK, all right. No.
00:09:48
Speaker
and So we we're going to find out ChatGPT thinks of it. Yes, ah I've put it into ChatGPT. ChatGPT is going to be the judge as to whether it goes into Room 101 or not.
00:10:00
Speaker
Let's see what it what it says. i put it in. It says the judge ruling it is accepted into Room 101. The reason is that that rear windscreen wiper controls are a masterclass in unnecessary complexity.
00:10:17
Speaker
Thank you. Twist the stalk once and nothing happens. Twist it twice and the washer fluid launches unexpectedly. Turn it the wrong way and you've somehow activated a feature you didn't know existed. A simple button marked back wipey thing would solve this entirely. Room 101. There you go.
00:10:35
Speaker
they go Fantastic. Come on. Good start. I'm off to a ripping start. A ripping. I wouldn't have said ripping. ah I'm off to a ah flying start.
00:10:50
Speaker
But if that's the word you want to use, that's fine. right, Paul. All right. I get one. Okay.
00:11:03
Speaker
Okay, have you finished scoring? Yes, look at that. Look at that. Look at the expression on Martin's face. I'm holding up to the camera. look at that n Look at that sense of um pride and satisfaction. I'm excited. Yes.
00:11:19
Speaker
yes Alright, Paul. The ball's in your court now. The ball's in my court. Okay. I'm going to take you back, Martin, back, back, back. Back, back, back. To a situation I had when I last visited my father so in England.
00:11:37
Speaker
He lives near London. And I arrived, and literally not even had time to put my bags down in his hallway. And he said, OK, son of mine, don't worry. Because
Nomination: TVs in Restaurants
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Speaker
was 12 o'clock, OK?
00:11:55
Speaker
Midday. He said, OK, I've got it all sorted. You don't have to worry about the thing. i've I have reserved the table at the local Italian restaurant. I thought, oh, shit.
00:12:11
Speaker
All right. Because the British idea of Italian, or anywhere outside of Italy, yeah the the concept of good Italian dining is a bit of a joke, right? Right.
00:12:24
Speaker
So you, as a... but so So you go along with it, don't you? You've just arrived, you know, you're not going to start an argument. From Italy. You've just to arrived from Italy and your dad goes, you know what, i'm going to take you to an Italian restaurant.
00:12:42
Speaker
And you're like, what was the actual? What the actual fuck, right? And he said, oh, I said, oh, what's it called? He said it's called Colluccio's now.
00:12:54
Speaker
If you're from London, you will know that Coluccio was started in Mayfair. It was one of the first Italian restaurants in central London. Okay. Run by a guy who's now dead. And he sold his name and the restaurant to, I don't know, like some massive chain of restaurants.
00:13:16
Speaker
Like a group that has different chains of restaurants. Okay. And he just took the name. And it's like, oh, okay. Okay. And then they spread it out around, ah mainly around the southeast, I think. So this was one of those chains of what was once a an authentic Italian you know experience. Okay. okay so Okay. All right. Okay. Yeah. forcing folks False kind of enthusiasm from the guy. Yeah. yeah
00:13:50
Speaker
Yeah. Cut a long story short. We sit with go in, and we sit down, give in the menus. With the first in there, it's empty. Right? Okay. They put this in front of the toilets. That smell.
00:14:04
Speaker
ah Fuck off. Right? So someone, so
Nomination: Pre-Grated Carrots
00:14:08
Speaker
i think from the staff, went into the toilets. And it's like, blimey. So my father was indignant and got us moved.
00:14:17
Speaker
of Yeah, absolutely. So then we got moved, we sat down again, we got given the menu, and this thing on the menu, Martin, this is the thing that going to put in room 101, this thing on the item on the menu jumped out at me.
00:14:34
Speaker
Uh-huh. Right? Yeah. Chicken risotto. okay It jumped out at me because I think that's just a wrong and that's just a bad concept. You could do probably two, three, four hundred different risottos that would be better than chicken risotto.
00:14:57
Speaker
okay right so So I ordered it, didn't I? Out of curiosity. think How bad can it be? Right? huh yeah It was shit.
00:15:12
Speaker
So I did a bit of research because there was a bad concept. it was ah It was terrible to eat. But I did a bit of research. that But why?
00:15:23
Speaker
to actually put it to put it into words, why is it wrong? It's because rice and chicken are fairly... There was like a a texture clash between the two.
00:15:36
Speaker
They're kind of like fairly, I don't know, the rice has has a short grain, you slow it stirling and it's starches creating a velvety source.
00:15:48
Speaker
The chicken breast or thigh meat has a completely different structural fibre and when it's diced into risotto it becomes dry and chalky, right? And it just doesn't, it's called here a battle of blandness between the two. Right.
00:16:06
Speaker
Yeah. The starchy base with the protein, you know, there's nothing really that contrasts it enough. The chicken is mild and neutral protein, whereas the risotto is like a neutral canvas for the ingredients that you should add to it. Blah, bla blah, blah.
00:16:23
Speaker
Anyway, it was terrible. All right. So I'm going to put chicken risotto into room 101. All right. all right I'm just trying to think whether I've ever had a chicken risotto and I don't think I ever have.
00:16:41
Speaker
Like if I ever have one, it usually like it's as it's a seafood one. Usually. Asparagus, wild mushroom.
00:16:51
Speaker
Oh, that sounds, yeah, mushroom.
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00:16:53
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now you're talking. Black cabbage and pancetta. Oh, wow. That sounds awesome. mean, you know, you know, truffle.
00:17:03
Speaker
truffle Right. You know what? I'm not really a truffle fan. I mean, like, it's okay. yeah And I can taste it. and i kind of I'm not a big fan.
00:17:20
Speaker
I don't need it here. yeah Yeah, I'm not a massive fan. um I think even a Michelin-style chef, like top three Michelin star chef would struggle to make a good chicken risotto.
00:17:38
Speaker
all right All right. You could use the broth of the chicken okay adam to to give volume, liquid, and make it more liquid. You could use the broth, but not the actual meat.
00:17:52
Speaker
right. Just to be clear. You know what? I mean, like, I don't eat much, much of chicken at all, but um but it is everywhere. Yeah. In the in the States. It's like everything is chicken, especially fried. In the States, you bleach chicken, don't you, as well?
00:18:12
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Which is, Jesus. yeah Yeah. we we We bleach assholes and a chicken. I think that's the other thing. but In that order? Apparently.
00:18:26
Speaker
I don't know. That's I hear. Oh, dear. All right, so hey Room 101, so i've've've I've ah put into Room 101, chicken risotto is a bad concept. It's bland and every single ri risotto is would be better and the rice and the chicken have a texture clash.
00:18:48
Speaker
All right. Excellent. Excellent input, Martin. Okay. All right, let's see what the judge says. It is also accepted. into room 101.
00:19:01
Speaker
The reason it says is chicken risotto commits the culinary crime of choosing the most boring option available. Risotto is a glorious vehicle for mushrooms, seafood,
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00:19:16
Speaker
asparagus.
00:19:18
Speaker
It's like he was listening to us. fattener squash, wild garlic, truffle. Good God! You've god said even sausage. Oh yeah. Oh totally sausage. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sausage risotto. And yet someone... Or a gorgonzola.
00:19:35
Speaker
Oh. h And yet someone... Or a simple zaffirano. All right. And yet someone looked at this creamy canvas and thought, you know what this needs? Cubes of slightly overcooked chicken breast.
00:19:51
Speaker
The textures don't harmonize. The flavor is often underwhelming. In a world of exciting risottos, chicken risotto is the beige office carpet of Italian cuisine.
00:20:03
Speaker
That's brilliantly put. That's excellent feedback. Yeah. I could have put it better myself. yeah So the thing is, I predicted my dad that it was good because that's the kind of son I am. you yeah that's thought what That's the thing. That's how I've always fucking been. you know don't Don't upset the apple cup, Paul.
00:20:27
Speaker
Just play along with it. Right. It'll only be an argument. Hope he's not watching this. One point each. Okay. one one point each hey Can I show you my smug face?
00:20:42
Speaker
Yes, look at that. Rudy, don't do that in front of everyone. That's worth it. um You know what? Sticking.
00:20:54
Speaker
All right. so let's
00:20:58
Speaker
I seem to have been on in a sort of ah a bit of a thing frame of mind, like a like ah things that function in in the world that just annoy me. Right. One thing is, is you go to the bathroom of like a, you know, restaurant as we're in like a restaurant.
00:21:20
Speaker
Yes. we've we've we've We've just had some chicken risotto we've just had some chicken chicken risotto um and we're now going to the bathroom to like freshen up.
00:21:33
Speaker
And you like wash your hands. rice But the but but the tap the the taps, the faucet is one of those motion sensor ones.
00:21:44
Speaker
Yes. Where you have to like wave your hand vaguely in front of it. right to like get the goddamn thing to work then only like if even if you do it just squirts out for like 0.5 of a second of water and didn't catch it i hate right i mean and then you get this the the the dryer that's also sensitive to movement you know yeah in europe you got the um what's it called um
00:22:18
Speaker
What's the the famous British hair dryer? Dyson. Dyson. You get the Dyson hand handriers They're everywhere in Europe now.
00:22:30
Speaker
Oh, are they? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love the towel. I love the paper towel. Yes, i'll I quite like the pep tail. I don't want my hands dripping as I'm walking out.
00:22:42
Speaker
Right, you're just were wiping it on your trousers. Yeah. And then on the way out i I'm personally not super...
00:22:53
Speaker
kind of ah paranoid about germs and stuff. But when I leave the man's toilet, I'm thinking of the statistics that say that most men don't wash their hands when they take a piss, right? and i I use my elbows to get out.
00:23:12
Speaker
And you know what? I wonder sometimes, you know, like when you come out of the bathroom and there's a bit of a performative like, well, I have washed my hands because I'm i'm like doing hand things and wiping them on my shirt or something. and friend And yes so that everyone knows I'll wash my hands. Look, because I'm trying to dry it a bit more. And I ah wonder how many men, now you've said that, like don't wash their hands.
00:23:42
Speaker
I think it's about 60% of men who don't wash their hands. I wonder how many of those come out of the bathroom, into the restaurant, and just do that performative, like, it oh, I've just washed my hands thing. Right.
00:23:57
Speaker
And they haven't. so So when 60% say they they they don't wash their hands, it probably means it's 70% because there's a good 10% that don't wash their hands but are too embarrassed to say they do.
00:24:11
Speaker
They don't. Right. You know what? I mean, like, um it reminds me, ah there have been various campaigns that win awards occasionally. This is like one of those things that you can do if you're an advertising person and you want to win an award is that you turn, um so ah you turn the door when you so when you leave the the bathroom and there's a door, like a door handle, sometimes you turn it into a into a penis,
00:24:51
Speaker
right so it right so it's like so say there's a there's a door handle and you you and you put a penis on there so that you have to touch the the penis to get out of the bathroom right so it's like saying you've just touched your dick and i'm just reminding you that you've just done that and you're now leaving. And that's interesting, okay.
00:25:20
Speaker
It's like um so psychological games. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, um But um as much as I should have put in, you know, like the hand dryer, i actually put in the motion sensor. Yeah, yeah. I totally to get it though. Yeah.
00:25:39
Speaker
Okay. Because it's also the soap thing as well. If you want to get soap, that's that's often a bloody motion sensor as well. And I understand that that you don't want to touch things.
00:25:53
Speaker
But um if you're if you're washing your hands, you can assume people have made the commitment to wash their hands. So it's not that much of a problem if they have touched the tap.
00:26:07
Speaker
Surely. It's not like it you touched the tap and then they changed their mind. I just think if we can put a man on the moon, as I always say, surely we can make those things bloody work.
00:26:20
Speaker
There has to be a better way. Okay. All right. So I'm and build something better. All right. So i'm just um telling chat GBT that that they don't work properly. Scrap them and build something better.
00:26:40
Speaker
All right. Here we go. Room 101. What's chat GPT? Oh, it is also accepted. fantastic okay all right it says it says uh the reason uh motion sensor faucets promise hygiene and convenience then make you perform a tiny desperate handba the hand hand ballet under the tap like you're like you're auditioning for swan lake restroom edition too close nothing too far nothing finally works i water for three seconds scrap them bring back competence
00:27:20
Speaker
Nice. like that. that's what That's what it says. Bring back competence. That's very good, actually. Bring competence. I like that. I'm liking that. That's two for me.
00:27:32
Speaker
All right, Martin. Just yeah hold back on the smugness. Okay. Okay. What you got? We're not even halfway through. i think we are exactly halfway through.
00:27:44
Speaker
Because we've done one full round and 50% of the second round. oh carry round So we are at at the 50% mark. ah Okay, fair enough.
00:27:56
Speaker
Okay. I've got... Yes. because There's not so much context in this one. Just going straight into it. Leaf blowers.
00:28:07
Speaker
Oh, leaf blowers. Funny should say that. Leaf blowers. And what came to mind... in in german leaf blow is called laubblasser and you're thinking oh come on paul why you you know what's german got to do it it's because i know something very interesting about the germans because say what you like about the germans but in germany you can get a fine for um using the leaf blowers at the wrong time of day, right, or on the wrong days, you could get a fine of up up to 50,000 euros.
00:28:47
Speaker
Right. ah You can get a fine here. You can get a fine here. Right. Okay. That's good. um If you use, well, so fake so if if I use a leaf blower at the wrong times, I will get fined.
00:29:06
Speaker
I was literally yesterday, i was driving around um ah a little town close to to me and they had a big sign up saying that gas or petrol powered leaf blowers were banned outright.
00:29:22
Speaker
Really? Outright banned. Okay. And you could only use and you could only use electric ones. ah okay Okay. So I would say, yeah, and it because it it is a town by town or a borough by borough deal. Yeah, the same is like a country by country thing and a municipal by municipal, right?
00:29:50
Speaker
In Germany, for instance, it's banned between one o'clock and three, so lunchtime. Okay. Anytime after five o'clock in the evening until nine o'clock the following morning.
00:30:04
Speaker
Right. Well, that's like here. But I'm saying... Some days of public holidays, you can't use them at all. Right. But I'm saying that that that the town just up from me is even better if it just bans them out outright. that There isn't even a slot for you to... That's good. Because the thing is...
00:30:24
Speaker
it There's people like in the gardens, who there there there is some sense of it because if you um if you're a council worker and you want to keep, you've you've got to like lay down, if you' if you've got leaf mulch, you're attracting weeds that can ruin the roads, which can make, cost a lot of money to redo roads and things like that. So in that context, but at home,
00:30:52
Speaker
I mean, it just doesn't make any sense. No, because... It's actually leaf mulch. It's good for the garden. Yes. No, i I... So we have... There are various gardening companies that come round and deal with people's backyards, right? They'll go mow them and then they'll get the leaf blower out and they'll leaf blower.
00:31:09
Speaker
I... Yeah, no, i don't I don't do that. I leave the leaves there to feed the plants. Yeah. And what's wrong with a bit of raking?
00:31:21
Speaker
which also aerates the lawn as well. right yeah You're you' actually doing a good because you when you're raking, you could be raking the moss out of your grass at the same time.
00:31:33
Speaker
right And get exercise. Oh, yeah. you Well, but that that's it. I mean, like I actually like doing... I actually mow the the grass and do all that because, you know, it gets me outside and I get some exercise, mate.
00:31:49
Speaker
ah All right. There's also there's also the thing, one other last thing you were saying, is this men and power tools thing, you know? They're just like this stupid masculine bullshit. You know, the men feel like, you know, they're...
00:32:04
Speaker
I don't know, controlling or shaping or commanding nature. Right. It's an instinct that's bigger than than themselves. I like a good power tool. You know what? there's it's It's just ri reminded me. God, I hope this doesn't get out.
00:32:22
Speaker
But there was a guy that I used to work with and at an ad agency years ago. who had the same thought. He was like, I hate power tools. I'm never going to own a power tool. Right?
00:32:35
Speaker
Right. So once in a while, someone would go, oh, how did you do that? Did you did you get a power tool? He said, no, I'm never going to get a power tool. And they'll say, you will have to get a power tool at some point for some reason.
00:32:51
Speaker
And then he got cancer and died. no so so he never did captain son he never did as far as i'm aware he won power there's power tools and power tools There are some very good cheap. I'm going to say cheap power tools. Don't even bother with them.
00:33:14
Speaker
Get good tools. Right. That's my thing. Good tools. But just on that masculine thing, you can you can also get power tools in in in in pink.
00:33:27
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Can you? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. You can get an electric drill in pink. You can get a set of school drivers in pink.
00:33:39
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taper I have a tap a pink tape measure downstairs. Lovely. like Good on you. Okay. All right. So I'm going to put in into, I'll ask, uh, chat GPT if it's going to allow, I'm going to put gas powered leaf blowers in there. Or do you want all leaf blowers? All leaf blowers.
00:34:01
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All right. Okay. I'm just going to put in leaf blowers. Um, for the reason that what they are loud noise, noise pollution, unnecessary noise pollution.
00:34:15
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because they are noisy. All right.
00:34:19
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Exactly. All right, here we go. um I feel confident for you. And yes, roomy it is accepted to Room 101. The reason why it says leaf blowers take a quiet autumn morning and transform it into an airport runway.
00:34:37
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They don't actually solve the leaf problem so much as relocate it to someone else's garden. all while blocking birdsong.
00:34:48
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the The joy of listening to the listening and hearing, listening to nature, you know. Exactly. And they are doing this all while per producing the soundtrack of and of an angry mosque mosquito the size lawnmower.
00:35:05
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The noise to benefit ratio is simply unacceptable. Yes. Fantastic. Well done. Well done. You can show me the score, of Martin. team so how There we go. I pulled the scores up to the cameras. Oh, lovely.
00:35:22
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So it's down to the last two? Yes. Honestly, mate, I think this could be a draw. This could be a draw. because I've got it. Mine is, oh, now i'm regretting my set my third one. But go go on. All right. So. No, I'm not regretting it. No, Dabby. I'm not regretting it.
00:35:42
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Yeah, stick. Carry on. carry on with conviction. um Yes. So let's say that we are in our restaurant, we are were so going through our chicken risotto, we've been to the bathroom, we can hear a noise blower, a leaf blower going on outside.
00:36:04
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And the other thing that annoys me about restaurants, and I suspect this is an more of an American thing and than and than ah in an Italian thing, but they will have TVs in restaurants.
00:36:19
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There's certain types of restaurants where there'll be TVs above the bar. So there'll be a restaurant bar, there'll be a bar with the alcohol, and then there'll be TVs above it.
00:36:32
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Yeah. And I hate that. I hate that as well. Especially for me because I watch so little TV that I'm drawn to it like a moth is drawn to a light bulb.
00:36:45
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Right. And it's just like i can't help just staring at it. Yeah. even with Even if I could be in the very good company of your good self, Martin. Mm-hmm. That would be good company.
00:36:59
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Spontaneous and stimulating conversation. Abundant. Yeah. Yeah. and But this fucking television behind you, and I can't help but become like drawn to it. Right.
00:37:13
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It's annoying. Our ADHD brains are not like there's enough going. I mean, you know you've you've you've got other people, you've've you've got someone there, you've got to have a conversation with them.
00:37:26
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There's noise, yeah there's ah stuff going on, there' eating there's and you don't need that ed added extra thing of like watching, especially if if it's sports, which it often is.
00:37:41
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you know oh totally oh oh i mean since you get that in italy in uh in america yeah yeah i didn't realize it because you don't get that in england no you not i've never been in a restaurant in england and i've been in a few And I've never been in a British restaurant and and that's had a television.
00:38:13
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Right. So ah where where wherever you're watching this, wherever you are around the world, um do you have TVs in your restaurants sometimes? Not all of them, just like a certain type of a restaurant. In Greece, for example.
00:38:32
Speaker
I bet they do in Greece. Right. in in I would imagine in Corfu, being a bit of a tourist place, I can imagine there being bars, bar restaurants, and there being TVs there. That would seem like a thing. I can imagine that.
00:38:48
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All right, so let's see what Room101 says. TV's in restaurants. It's so distracting from my ADHD brain. Let's see what it says. Oh, go a I get a hat trick because it's been accepted in.
00:39:04
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It says, restaurant TVs hijack your attention just as you're trying to have a conversation. One minute you're discussing your weekend plans, the next you're inexplicably invested in a college basketball game, a 24-hour news cycle, or a documentary about deep sea fishing. For an ADHD brain, they're not bad, man. With growing headlines.
00:39:26
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Even worse, when with the rolling headlines and you can't help but read them. Bastards. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They are not they are not background ambience. They are attention magnets hanging on every wall.
00:39:40
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Yes. Okay. All right. Well done, Martin. i um ah i i can I will hold that up the camera and look smug. There we go. Well.
00:39:53
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we has today come on We're going to stay in the culinary world, Martin. I love it. okay yeah I'm going to put into Room 101 pre-packaged, pre-grated carrots.
00:40:09
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Pre-grated carrots? Pre-grated carrots. Now, every time, Italy at least, when you walk through... pretty much any, walk into any supermarket, the first thing you come to is the fruit veg department.
00:40:27
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Yeah. Is that the same in America? Yeah. That's your entry thing. Why? Why isn't it last, for example? Anyway, that's for another episode.
00:40:38
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Yeah. ah there is And usually to your left, there's a whole range of packaged, ready to kind of ready to eat kind of salad options.
00:40:55
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h Okay. You've got your rocket, you've got your basil, you've got maybe some herbs and stuff like that. You've also got packaged packaged grated carrot.
00:41:14
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right Now who in their right mind okay is going to buy that because it's already dried out you're going to lose all of the you you're never going have the same succulent smarty succulent a succulent carrot a succulent yeah it's going to be dried out you just be just like why would you do that it's going to lose all of its kind of um or it's like fresh consistency of a freshly and the joy of freshly grating your carrot.
00:41:50
Speaker
And how long is it going to take? Don't tell me that it's time-saving. Come on. Well, the only thing I can think of a reason would be if you've got arthritis and you're old and you can't grate your carrots and you look at your at your recipe and it says grate a carrot and you're like, oh, no, my hands don't work anymore. I'm going to go find a carrot. At that age, if you're that decrepit, you're going to start grating your fingers too.
00:42:23
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So you wouldn't even get to the carrots in the end. You'll be on your way to A&E. Right. so So perhaps bags of grated carrots save some people from losing their fingers.
00:42:35
Speaker
That's the only reason I can think of to two right to keep it. i'm um So I'm thinking let me when I was in the prepared salad section, you could definitely get pre-grated carrots. Yes. Pre-grated garlic.
00:42:55
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um Oh my God, lettuce. Pre-created garlic? yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there's another thing I've put into Rue World on garlic powder.
00:43:08
Speaker
Oh, right. Garlic powder. Work of the devil. Work of the devil. I use it quite a lot. Garlic powder? No! Come on! Yes, yes, yes.
00:43:19
Speaker
Well, because what I do is, i don't use it when I cook. Well, okay let me explain. so explain yourself barton right we eat a lot of beans in this household right so i buy dried beans in quantity like big big vats of it right i've got all kinds of things and then what i have to do period yes publicly periodically i will have to boil them up to kind of rehydrate them Yes. And then in that water I will put onion powder, I'll put garlic powder and I'll put some bay leaves in there and then it just gives it a little bit of a flavour. Okay.
00:44:01
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So that's where I use it, specifically that okay that use case. Okay, okay. All right. All right.
00:44:12
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Okay, so I'm going put in bags of pre-grated carrots. Is that okay? I'm just going to leave it at that. That's fine. All right, here we go. Straight up.
00:44:24
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Here we go. And it is... Paul. Mate, mate, mate. What?
00:44:35
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I'm going to hold your hand when I say this. a It got denied, No. It got denied entry. explains Explain yourself.
00:44:48
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Okay, reason. Pre-grated carrots occupy very... There's no reason. There's no reason.
00:44:57
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Here we go, here we go, here we go. Oh my God, I've just kind of like... All right, okay. I love this first sentence. It says, pre-grated carrots occupy a very specific and noble niche in society. They say...
00:45:19
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Has a noble leash. They save fingers from the terror of box box box graters, reduce prep time and allow tired humans to feel vaguely healthy with minimum effort.
00:45:34
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are they so Are they slightly dry? it says. Yes. Slightly overpriced? Also yes. Convenience is not a crime.
00:45:47
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That's controversial. Oh, ah it has has a little note for you, Paul. It says... Don't cry....that the real villain remains the Box Grater, which has injured far too many innocent knuckles.
00:46:06
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Okay. Yes. Yes. do you feel, mate? How you feel, mate? How do you feel now? I know what you mean, but depends.
00:46:17
Speaker
Oh, Jesus. Yeah. i'm go look my can hunt squis I'm going to smug. I'm going to challenge them. Okay. All right. All right. is Is there any kind of appeals process?
00:46:29
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Why not, mate? Why not? Could I employ some expensive lawyers? All right. you know I'm going to put in an appeal. If you're like me and you like yeah you have a bit of a fetish for kitchen appliances, kitchen tools, like a really good set of of chef's knives.
00:46:52
Speaker
Or, in my case, one really good standard, you know not too big, not too small knife, right but a really good knife.
00:47:04
Speaker
Then a really good grater. All really good grater. What else? Yeah, that kind of thing. really good bottle opener, a really good garlic crusher.
00:47:20
Speaker
I like all those things. All right. I know. ah You have a Philip Stark orange lemon juicer. Yes, do. A juicer. juicer.
00:47:33
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squeeze a thing but ju ah I lost it, though. I lost it. come on. Yeah, I don't know where that ended up. Anyway, mate. All right. So I'm going to lodge and appeal for you and say... Okay.
00:47:47
Speaker
So let me just make sure that I got this right. i said, what if you had a really good knife and a really good grater? Yeah. All right. All right. Yeah. it's the all right. that's That's your appeal. It has an appeals court.
00:48:01
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ah Here's the evidence, ownership, ownership. Oh, you know what? You know what, mate? It was a good call because you're now reconsidered ruling accepted into room hey one. There you
00:48:15
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but it's safe that the that that said that the original ruling was based on the assumption that pre-grated carrots served a practical purpose for the greater um for the greater weary masses. However, if one possesses a genuinely excellent knife and grater, the existence of bags of pre-grated carrots becomes a much harder thing to justify. The court acknowledges that they are often drier and more expensive.
00:48:45
Speaker
But um but the yeah the appeal is is upheld. Let me just get the... got I've got another argument as well. I've just thought. When you pretty much, it's been like when you use a juicer.
00:49:06
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Look at that smutness that comes back. when you If you use a juicer, okay you're making a locke um like a smoothie, whether it's a fruit or a vegetable or or whatever.
00:49:21
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ye If you don't drink it within about 30 seconds, you're losing most of the nutritional value of it. And I would say if you're grating a carrot yeah and it's been grated potentially days before you eat it, you'll be losing most of a big percentage of its nutritional value.
00:49:40
Speaker
All right. I love it. I love it. Awesome. All right. Well, that means that you go. That that was a cliffhanger ending, but we end up- What is a cliffhanger?
00:49:55
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right um what do you think at home do you think some of these things uh didn't deserve to go into room 101 what things would you put into a room 101 um what things would you grate in anticipation if you had a good grater tell you what's nice grated radishes oh yeah Yeah, yeah. I've... I've got grated radish.
00:50:20
Speaker
I've actually pickled some. So so've I've done a of an Asian pickle so i can have it... Yeah. Anyway, let's just jump in the tractor and make our way over to Alexandra's haunted inn. Alexandra's haunted
00:50:44
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inn.
00:50:47
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All right. All right. So we're we're at the post office. um This is the bit, Martin, where I say I pronounce and present to our listeners and viewers.
00:50:58
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Yes. um the cold The idea that they could send their feedback to us. We'd be overjoyed yeah with your contributions. and We may feature your feedback on a future episode.
00:51:11
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Absolutely. um So Alexandra's left a note about last week's episode, which was about composure. Composure. Composure. Yeah. she's So she said quite rightly, composure, what is that? She said she had to Google it.
00:51:30
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ah And she said, like, no, no, na haven't got composure. Composure. up On the other hand, I'm very composed, she says, when others have a crisis.
00:51:40
Speaker
Classic. Classic. It's an absolute classic. um She says she has a weird relationship with stress, though. When i would I first get psychosomatic issues, it starts like itching. And if I actually feel it is already out of control, as if it is already out of control. I'm the same.
00:52:02
Speaker
I get an itchy ear. Oh. When I'm losing composure. Wow. I get an itchy ear. It starts to like, I think it's like a, yeah what's it called? It's a bit like a stim in a way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, now you mention it. My scalp gets itchy.
00:52:23
Speaker
Oh, there you go But my hands generally, it's a classic autistic thing, trait. My hands generally are always around my face. Yeah, yeah. Very often.
00:52:36
Speaker
Yeah. of My hands are often around your your face as well. She said, that's me. I have i've come to the realisation that an external meltdown, I like this, what Alexandra said, an external meltdown isn't the worst thing that can happen to me, even if it's if there's an element of shame. And that's true. It's like, well, have a have a meltdown.
00:53:03
Speaker
Right. It's fine. It's fine. It's kind of cool. The thing about living in New new York is, and listen and certainly if you like live and work in Manhattan, working out and you're on the subway in the mornings, you see every every human thing that can ever be a human thing, it it will be there, right? So you go there and people having meltdowns, their their disasters, someone's like pissed out in their head or they're laughing their heads off.
00:53:41
Speaker
but And you see it every day. um And yeah yeah we we as New Yorkers, once you've been through that for years, it's like, yeah you can have a total meltdown we we just kind of go oh yeah i've been there yeah you know yeah ah got it i've got a note down i've met buddhists in the past and even at least two girlfriends i've had with buddhists the most stressed and anxious people you've ever met in their lives they just found this like trick of hiding
00:54:13
Speaker
um their anxiety better than other people, you know, but it's there. And often the most anxious people, some of the most anxious people I've met were Buddhists, right?
00:54:27
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And it was a total sham, I have to say. i'm not saying that' all i'm not saying all Buddhists, just want to put that out there. A lot of the Buddhists I have met, their their sense karma and composure was a complete sham.
00:54:41
Speaker
I would say that from the ones that I've met or people who like study or practice it usually have high anxiety at the beginning and they're looking for something to help. Exactly. So, so they will, they will, they will find comfort in it and they will find something there that helps them. But that doesn't,
00:55:03
Speaker
I think it's that way round that people with with and anxiety look for some... Which I would much... Personally, I'd much prefer people to to go and and look at Eastern philosophy than like going down the whole Bible route.
00:55:24
Speaker
Buddhism's very cool. There's a lot of really good stuff going, good on you, Buddhist, good on you. I'm um i'm I'm fighting in your corner. I'm not fighting because I couldn't be Buddhist, wouldn't it?
00:55:37
Speaker
Well, no, because like you would get like fighting monks. like you like just fight you that There was a thing back in the day when they would not only be like you know like being all Zen-like, but they they could also kick your ass as well.
00:55:55
Speaker
Oh, massively. I've read a book about a guy who's traveling the old spice route and it took him through Nepal. And he got robbed by a Buddhist monk.
00:56:06
Speaker
Nice. Yeah. Jesus. He got robbed. Anyway. Right. Speaking of robbing your time, what are we going to be robbing people's time with next week, Paul? I think it's your turn to use. I'm glad Martin.
00:56:26
Speaker
Yeah. Well, Martin, we' we spoke about this just before we came on we did to record this episode. Because there's some new research that's come out, which is fascinating.
00:56:37
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Absolutely fascinating. That... um there are certain traits that are typical to ADHD or ADHD people that would demonstrate um up to 400% more than neurological um neurotypicals do, okay, in response to um trauma. Okay, I'll give you example.
00:57:03
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um You know when at least I do this, I maybe have a meltdown and within and you could click your fingers and of a sudden I'm back to normal again.
00:57:19
Speaker
And it's like a very quick thing between a meltdown and going back to the normal to normal. And then I think, I get a sense of shame thinking, God, did I just make that all up? Was that just a complete act?
00:57:30
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But apparently, that's very typical of ADHD people. They just snap out of a meltdown really, really, really quickly. All right. Also, they talked about hypervigilance, that we can tell someone's mood by their footsteps.
00:57:48
Speaker
Oh, right. The heaviness of their, the tread of their feet and all of these kind of things. So anyway, we're going to do, the next episode is going to be about ADHD and trauma response.
00:58:01
Speaker
Oh, that's a biggie. It's a one. That is big one. Alright. Yeah. That sounds very interesting. I shall have to get... You shall have to send me the yeah the research link. The research. Yeah. Yeah.
00:58:15
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I can read it. Oh, it's the outro. It is. Because our hour is up. And we're so glad that you're here. And if you stayed till the end... We love you.
00:58:27
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00:58:52
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00:59:08
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00:59:13
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Wow. This is like... That's about on the hour. This is 59 minutes and 16 seconds, so I reckon by the time... That's impressive. Yeah, so we were stuck in under the hour.
00:59:26
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Under the hour, look at that. Look at that. Professional, slick even. It's like we've done 139 times before. Yeah, 40 now. Yeah. thirty forty times before yeah fourteen now