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Episode 53 - The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly #5
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Recorded late September, Paul and Martin (co Mayors of ADHDville) catch up on each others ADHD lives. We get into it about toothpaste, where Vacuum cleaners went wrong and marathon hallucinations! Plus we have a small quiz to round things off. Enjpy!
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Social Dynamics of Dog Walking
00:00:00
Speaker
Yeah, we're back in the room back back back in the room in the room back in the room, you know, I I I was walking my dog this morning and I and I was reminded of something ah so i was I was taking Eddie out and It used to be that if if you walked your dog, right? And then someone else was walking their dog and they'd be coming straight towards you. Yeah. You go, Oh God, I have to go and talk to this person. The dogs are going to sniff around. and lead to and Yeah. It's it's going to be a thing, right?
00:00:43
Speaker
by And sometimes it's like early in in in the morning where you're barely awake and you have to do a human interaction or it's it's in the evening oh yeah when you're kind of tired. And you kind of go through all of that. And then Covid came and lockdown happened. And now what happened and then then what happened then was You'd walk down the road, someone's coming towards you, and one of you would go to the other side of the road, right? They would get out of your way so that you would pass each other, and then all you'd have to do is go, all right, all right. You know, because of the whole six foot thing, and you you wanted to kind of stay up apart from each other, right? And you'd just circle around each other. You wouldn't actually contact. I'd be with just a head gesture.
00:01:34
Speaker
Right. Yeah. Just like, like a nod. Right. And now, obviously, uh, the whole lockdown thing and everything's gone, but we still do that. We still, at least in my area, we still, try if someone comes towards you, you go to the other side of the road. It's like, we've all kind of gone, you know what? I think we will prefer it that way.
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hmm
Toothpaste Debate and Reflections
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Speaker
yeah come out there um yeah it's not like that in italy but with with my dog he's he's really unpleasant with my old dogs so i usually have to like a really cautious anyway and by the time by the time you've like you've given kind of quite close you'd like to say is or shout so is it ah is it a boy or a girl
00:02:34
Speaker
No, it's a boy. I'm sorry. I used to say, if their dog is like massive male, like a rottweiler or something, they always say, oh, don't worry. Don't worry. It's his mind's really. He's fine. So no, no dog. It's mine. It's not you. It's me. Exactly. so Exactly. Exactly. The next thing that popped into my head was, you know how like, we've been having on, I've been having ongoing discussions on and off about about how much toothpaste you put um's toothpas you put on your on your on your brush, right? Big issues. We like to come for the big issues.
00:03:23
Speaker
the big important issues. And my dentist said, oh yeah, it's just about the size of ah of a grain of rice, right? And then you're like, what the fuck? And then you were saying that when you put the toothpaste on your brush, now now you think of me saying, yeah oh yeah it's just a yeah, it's just a grain of rice amount, right?
00:03:51
Speaker
And now, but what
Role Swap and Podcast Purpose
00:03:53
Speaker
now happens is, when I put the toothpaste on the toothbrush, I now think of you thinking of me about this putting on. I love it. I don't There's a cross channel kind of vibe going on. Yeah. It's just crazy how I'm going to think of you thinking to me.
00:04:22
Speaker
Yes. You're now going to be thinking of me, thinking of you, thinking of me. And then the next time we bring this up in like another couple of months, it's going to be a very long and boring podcast. Yeah. I think if you take a meeting, if you take a meeting, if you take a meeting, if you take a meeting, if you think of me.
00:04:43
Speaker
Yeah, there we go. That's just the podcast. of if It's just you and me thinking of each other at various points of of of the day. It's a kind of quality, you know, like quality quality podcast content that we like to do. Yeah. And you know, just to shake things up, we we had a we just decided off off air that For some reason, this was going to be a a backwards episode in that I'm going to do the front end and you're going to do the back end. Seeing as last episode, you did the back end so well.
00:05:25
Speaker
We can swap. We swap to me, to you, to me, to you. Right. So I think you should just introduce us to, and and help i mean you should just jump in and do the first line.
00:05:47
Speaker
Which is, and
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Speaker
Welcome. Welcome to ADHD. Well, that first
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Speaker
Hello, I'm Paul Thompson. I'm doing your bit.
00:06:33
Speaker
see okay okay okay no this is This is a complete swap, right? We are completely swapping. We're just going for it. okay All right, so I'm not Paul Thompson, yeah that was diagnosed with combined AD and the HD 10 months ago. This is weird. And I'm not Martin West, who was diagnosed with just ADHD, ADHD. There's more. So
00:07:07
Speaker
We're just two mates who, by coincidence after 39 years of friendship, discover that we're co-ADHD-ers. Rawr! Now, it's really important to say that this is an entertainment podcast about adult ADHD and does not substitute for individualized advice from qualified health professionals. So
Welcome to ADHDville
00:07:28
Speaker
don't take any advice from us. Regis Harrison, all-inclusive ADHD park bench with room for everyone, including your doppelgangers, your auto egos, your body doublets, your chaperones, and your best buddies.
00:07:46
Speaker
Still here? Then grab each yet packed petal hose, space hoppers or any other transportation methods and let us take you to ADHDville, an imaginary town we've created in our minds. Where we like to explore different parts of the A and the D and the H and the D, D, D, D. Oh, you did that better than me. Way better. Okay.
00:08:13
Speaker
You, but then again, you did the outro better than I did. Oh, last week. I'm not so sure about that. yeah Anyway, so we, as we, we start off out whole in the mayor's office where we will take care of the business. And on the agenda today, we've got a simple one. We've got a, we've got a good, bad and the ugly edition today, Martin.
00:08:43
Speaker
Nice. and i And I also have just a very little quick quiz just to round things off. Just to fun a fun little quiz. We like a quiz. We do. quiz We do.
00:09:03
Speaker
So what have you got? Where are you taking us, Martin? Are we going in with nice? Well, let's jump into the cab. And as always, I think we just go and grab a cup of coffee at the coffee place. All right. yeah Let's jump in the MERS car.
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oh
00:09:24
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where is it where is it where's the mess car Jesus it's it has been a bit slow of late I think someone put I think someone put diesel in the engine and okay which is actually a good thing because that's because it's actually diesel engine diesel engine I probably someone pissed in the in the tank. I don't know. I don't know. Well, do you know what? Because we have people because well. Yeah, they do, but it has it is it is election season currently, right? And I'm wondering whether some other but some sabotaging going on dirty. Oh, here it is. Here it is. All right. The dirt. Yeah. Doing doing the dirty deeds. Politic has got dirt. All right.
00:10:31
Speaker
Alright, can I can I get you a drink, Mr. T? I think yes. ah I'm gonna go for and um what can i go forthy ah after kind of a cappuccino.
00:10:46
Speaker
All right. Well, you know, i'm
House Prep and Solitude Balance
00:10:48
Speaker
I'm going to go for a latte ah with oat oat milk just just to switch things up a little bit to decaf, mind you. Because because I because I have to. Otherwise, yeah otherwise my world gets all a bit squiggly.
00:11:08
Speaker
um All right. Good, bad and the ugly. So so so this is our ADHD lives what's been good what's been bad what's been ugly since we last caught up in it um Can you go first, Martin? What have you got? I can go first. what What's good in your gaff at the moment? We came up to the end of August. um What's been good? So ah if you remember, I am in the process of trying to clear and clean my entire house so that everything is all
00:11:47
Speaker
so that my my house achieves this in this nirvana state of being somehow everything's all clean all at once. um by and you had a we had some yes yes yeah We had some guests around like this weekend so we managed to clear ourselves basically cleaned up the entire house there is one cupboard which is Eddie's cupboard which is by the front door where he has all these treats and his little coats and everything um so that's that's the only little closet area that hasn't that hasn't been cleared out yet so I've got to do that today or to tomorrow tomorrow but I'm really close really close
00:12:35
Speaker
What are you like having guests staying at your house? Because we had guests last weekend. What do you like? What do you like having guests around? Yeah, with there's a saying, one person said what that the guests are like... ah but they so They start to smell.
00:12:57
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um and um You know what? I love having guests, but I love it when they've gone.
00:13:04
Speaker
When they left, um, yeah, it's, it's always find that it's, it's, it's hard work before they arrive. Cause I've got to clear up and clean up and but we'll all of that stuff. So um busy. So I'm tired when, when they turn up and then I'm kind of like.
Focus and Procrastination Challenges
00:13:25
Speaker
I don't want to talk to any anyone, but particularly so because my mental capacity for such things is just gone. So I'm just sitting there very quiet. um and then that And then, yeah, if if if they're hair overnight, then I'm usually better the second day. And then after I'm thinking, yeah. and then But on the third day, I want my world back.
00:13:51
Speaker
Because it's such a strain. Yeah. Because you're constantly thinking, where are they? what do they oh Oh, they're in the bathroom. Oh, I need to go in the bathroom. Okay. Well, have I thought about, you know is there toilet paper? Did I put toilet paper in there? I mean, this is like... Don't need to wear pyjamas. Right.
00:14:14
Speaker
ah Do they need tea, coffee? What do they want? I'm i'm going to have to ask them questions about drinks and then making the dinner. Is it right? No, God, it's it's it's hard work. i think Have they got special needs? But I do know. They got, you know, special needs like air. Hmm. I mean, um yeah, so I do enjoy it generally.
00:14:43
Speaker
I like having people over, um but but it it is is quite it is quite hard work, I will say. yeah yeah ah i So yeah, but so that's been my work.
00:14:58
Speaker
So I've been ah been quite task orientated. some ada So I have a punch list. I had a punch list every every day. So right what am I doing? I've got four or five things on my... So this has been going on for the last couple of weeks where I've got a couple of things on my on my list. I've just been banging them out. So I've been quite productive. Banging them out.
00:15:21
Speaker
in a movie like i used ah as it Is your house as tied as it was or is it start to like, you know,
00:15:32
Speaker
Yes, it is because this has been going on for like a few months, right? So I'll clean up one room and then the trick is I've got to maintain that room to be fairly clean. So my goal is is that it it has to be fairly clean and that if someone came around, it would only take me about 10 minutes just to get it up to right.
00:15:58
Speaker
like So, you know, it would only take me just running around the room quickly, do a bit of dusting or vacuum the floor. And then there'll be it'll be perfect. So every room is being kept pretty, pretty clean. And I've worked out that.
00:16:16
Speaker
On Thursday mornings, this is the plan, Stan. Thursday mornings, I'm going to spend four hours cleaning the whole house. And then that should be it. That should be it. I should be able to do an entire clean house in four hours. I had, talking kind of house cleaning, I had a bit of an ADHD kind of meltdown. um Is this in a bad section?
00:16:44
Speaker
Well, it's just the theme. All right, I'll put it in the bad section. I'll put it in bad. Actually, it's better than the bad ones I've actually put in there. Okay. All right. Rewriting the script.
Art Supplies Excitement
00:16:57
Speaker
I'm gonna call it hoovering, Martin. I'm gonna call it hoovering. Vacuuming. Vacuuming, exactly. All right. Okay. So my, it's a, okay, is that, your you finished with your good?
00:17:11
Speaker
Yep. Okay. Yep. That's the goods. I've just a similar thing. As you know, I'm doing it's it's not a theme of finishing though. Finish it.
00:17:27
Speaker
I'm trying to finish my sculpture and it's really hard to like stay on it. And I've realized I've got three or four sculptures that are unfinished. One of which I started to and about six years ago. It's a giant, but about half a meter long and ah unfinished, haven't touched it. and
00:17:56
Speaker
But at the same time, with this sculpture that I need to deliver for this deadline in October, it's really hard. I find it really hard to like stay disciplined on it. Paul,
00:18:12
Speaker
let's be disciplined about it. Let's get an arm done and it's finished or a hand that is okay. So the next two hours, say okay.
00:18:26
Speaker
or whatever I stay on the hand and okay I finish the hand and it's quite difficult to do but i'm I'm working on it seems to be working All right. Yeah. So you're just going to breaking all down into into like, yeah, small chunks. Yeah, exactly. Rather than thinking, I've got to finish this whole thing, which feels overwhelming. You kind of get what's this. Let's just do this little bit here and then that's enough. And then maybe just by doing these small steps, I can might crack the whole thing.
00:19:06
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. So it's working actually. It's working because I'm and um' like on the last part of it, the shape of it is about 98% finished shaping modeling, 98%. It's getting it over that line to 100%. And then i'll I'll be painting it while spraying it.
00:19:35
Speaker
Alright.
New Cowbell and Sound Qualities
00:19:37
Speaker
Alright. Cool. And oh, by the way. Yes. It's like harking back. It's like I'll just like I put this on the end of that conversation. I've got this new product that I've ordered from ah an art shop because you know, we had we had a podcast all about art ADHD and art supplies. I've got a whole. I remember it well. I enjoyed that. I've got a whole tub of um graphite powder.
00:20:08
Speaker
Graphite powder. Yeah. So imagine your pencils, the graphite from your pencils. Yeah. so And you just fight out of the pencil. Yeah. Holding up there for our YouTube viewers. We don't have to. We don't have to imagine a graphite pencil. I'm holding one up to the camera. Point it in my eye.
00:20:30
Speaker
This is a, who who makes this this one? I don't know. Oh, this is a Faber and Castell. Okay. To the pencil, by the way. Well, funnily enough, my graphite powder is Faber Castell. Oh, is it?
00:20:47
Speaker
what are the come on on come on get in there a big tub basically it's it's an old-fashioned way it apparently it's been done used for years if you want like a metal effect buffed metal and
00:21:06
Speaker
arc iron kind of effect. Basically you spray on, you well first first there'd be like ah and a primer, then wait for the black spray paint to too dry. soon it's like Two hours after you've done the black on it, you start with your hand, you get handfuls of the graphite dust, and you start massaging it into the spray paint. And the effect is phenomenal. It's very sensual. It's phenomenal, the effect. isnt And then you can buff it. If you want it if you if you want to buff, you can buff and shine it. All right. All right. So you can massage in the buff.
Productivity Struggles and Task Lists
00:21:53
Speaker
Nice. Loving in that one.
00:21:58
Speaker
Oh, right. Yeah. Now, how about you would normally have Oh, I've got a belt. I've got a new belt. I left it downstairs. Of course I did. God damn it. So I can get it. All right. and gold Yeah, I think it is it is worth I am twenty so you just go and run and then and then I am I'm going to just a vamp for a bit.
00:22:24
Speaker
but but I'm just going to vamp. um I was reminded this morning that when I was a kid, we used to have like candy cigarettes, like a packet of like white candy cigarettes. And it was not only that, but we also had golden tobacco. I think it was called golden tobacco, rolling tobacco, but it was made out of coconut. And it came and led in a pouch.
00:22:51
Speaker
And what really triggered this off was, I remember we used to have a licorice pipe. It was like a smoking pipe, black licorice with like red aniseed balls to represent the fire. So it was like, when I was a kid, we had all these smoking products as sweets and as candy. I just thought that was nuts.
00:23:19
Speaker
And then Paul is back. I can see him. He's just come back into the room with a new bell, with a new bell, which, which is, which is great. All right. Well, let us ring in. Yeah. No, no, no. So, so, so when you ring the thing bell, then we go to the next section.
00:23:48
Speaker
Ah, there we go. Oh, that sounds very nice. I like it. A bit less severe than the last one. So a nicer pitch. Yeah. A little bit more genteel. I like it. It's a nice pretty green colour. I just saw on the camera. Yeah, yeah. Very nice. All right. So what's been bad about, I'll go first, I guess, ah bad about ah my ADHD this week.
00:24:17
Speaker
who did very nice showing the camera um yeah um it's it's actually i've I've not been too bad this week. It's just really because I've been so focused on getting the house done that I've actually been quite put productive and I feel like I've had a pretty good week.
00:24:37
Speaker
but the but the But the bad bits are still stuff that I'm putting off. So um I've got to, I mean, i've I've still got 101 tasks that I have to get done. But yeah, I'll get to it over the next month. But I think it's it's more more about, so I have to start, I've got to start earning some more cash, right?
00:25:05
Speaker
So I've not been doing any and you work for ah for a bit. So I've got to kind of get my ass out there and and get the freelance business up and running and get some yes and clients and get some work. And that's going to take a while to do it. I'm putting putting it off. I'm putting it off, Paul.
00:25:25
Speaker
Are you? I've got ah I've got to form my own little company, you know, so that I can so I can do it through the through the books. So I've got to form a company, register that and then I've got to, you know, get my get the portfolio to together, which rather than it being a because my my my portfolio of of my work is is is for is for job hunting.
00:25:54
Speaker
It's like project by project. It's it's not really a freelancing portfolio. it Whereas I would have to break it up into into branding and graphic a design. I would have to kind of break it out into areas rather than in rather than by project. so I haven't done any any of that yet and I've i i've got to get my options here. I did the same about three or four months ago. The way I got my asking to action, what what what worked for me was completely redesigning my online. no Redesign it, I virtually started from scratch, rewrote it. As you said,
Vacuum Cleaner Design Humor
00:26:41
Speaker
you know, change the structure, um you know, trying to be objective about it.
00:26:50
Speaker
and doing that and so that kind of impetus. yeah Yeah, that sounds good. I'll just start there.
00:27:01
Speaker
ah But then there's the that's the thing of I've then got to reach out to people and get on, you know, start contacting people and that is the bugger arse part. That's a bitch.
00:27:18
Speaker
Yeah, so I'm not looking forward to to that. But yeah, so that's that's that's the bad part. It's there because I've always found I've always found that like the the best way of networking actually, I don't know, go to a con convention or or something, you know, just like put put yourself about a bit rather than I mean, I can't do cold. I can't do cold. I can't do phone calls or anything.
00:27:48
Speaker
Emails crap. LinkedIn I think is a complete waste of time. Virtually nothing through LinkedIn. Personally I get nothing through LinkedIn. LinkedIn. But then link in Italy it's a bit different. It's much more Italy is much more about you know actual contact with people.
00:28:07
Speaker
Right. Yeah. No. In in the States, linked LinkedIn is huge. I've got quite a bit of action from linkedin LinkedIn because that's basically where everyone goes. That is right. If outside of quick recruitment agencies,
00:28:26
Speaker
Yeah, that that is and and they use LinkedIn as one of their main tools. So um yeah, yeah that that is the place to be for me. Apparently. Okay. Okay. So yeah, mr t bad hoovering Martin hoovering.
00:28:45
Speaker
we touched on it before so he's he's the he's the he's the deal okay in in italy they have yes the types of plugs all right and therefore um three or four different types of sockets so if you're moving around the freaking house with a really bad hoover yeah got sometimes it doesn't work because it's like and you have to like have to hand like three different adapters and sometimes you don't I can't find it quite often I can't find it and it drives me insane
00:29:23
Speaker
Whereas I had, this is where Dyson comes in. If you have a Dyson and they cost a fortune, but they're nice. yeah like ah that's So I'm thinking, I told my girlfriend, okay, we're going to invest in a new Hoover because it's like, it's really badly designed. It's got like a floppy head and it just doesn't work very well. And it's heavy and it's old.
00:29:51
Speaker
um and I find different adapters for different sockets and I i i had a little bit of a meltdown with it. Oh dear. Yeah, it was driving me crazy because well we'd had up a little bit of an argument.
00:30:11
Speaker
Work. Right. um be wise i yeah
00:30:20
Speaker
then have
00:30:25
Speaker
I have the right socket, never the right plug. Anyway, in the end I got it done. I did have a shout out. A shout out. I use some expletives. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Actually, you know what? Cause if you're listening in the UK, you have one plug socket. You have your three pin plug. In the States, we have two. We have two.
00:30:55
Speaker
ah because it's like ah this ah Italian type. There's two types of Italian plugs and there's two types of German plugs we have. All right. Right. eight so And there's no logic behind it. Oh, if it's a higher powered thing that you're using,
00:31:20
Speaker
you you move on. Well, often it's to the German plugs, if it's a high more high powered, kind of like if you're using it like ah ah like ah i a rotary,
00:31:32
Speaker
ah like a, what do you call them? I'm trying to think what you call them. If you like power tools, if you're using power tools, you go to the German, a German plug and a jacket, but you don't always have those to hand. You might not have a German socket where you're working. Oh, it's mental.
00:31:50
Speaker
Point being ah so like you can have yeah, it is a nightmare Martin is is so if you but if you have a Dyson's like it's charging by itself a DHD and But they cost a fortune don't they Dyson's like four or five hundred pounds They're ridiculously expensive. Yeah, I have but makes your life a lot easier yeah I have I have
00:32:17
Speaker
but I don't use a Tyson for ah one reason, which is I think they are a con. Oh, do you now?
00:32:28
Speaker
Yes. Because in the old days, we used to have Hoover bags, right? Vacuum bags, right? You get these like little brown bags and you shove them in and you vacuum and then all the stuff went into the bag, right? And then they went with a bagless vacuum, right? Yeah. Where you basically vacuum and then you get this, then you take this cylinder out and you empty that out into the trash, right?
00:32:58
Speaker
And for years I thought, hang on a second, I've got all this dust and shit that I'm now breathing in because I'm now dumping it out into the, it's a trash. Now this is cloud of
Nostalgia and Domestic Life
00:33:11
Speaker
dust in my face. I'm like, which is really bad, isn't it? It's bad stuff.
00:33:18
Speaker
So I now have, and I've gone back to the bag system. Have you? So I now have, yeah. And I much prefer it. Flash news. I much prefer it. Dyson, Con. Right. But only for that aspect of it. Right. i i I'm in agreement with them. I was looking for a new fan and I looked at Dyson.
00:33:48
Speaker
and they look really nice. But you know what? ah ah One of the reasons I wanted them was because I wanted one that didn't make any noise. The Dyson fan makes as much noise as any other cheap, you know, cheap fan. So I was like, oh what's the point? It just looks good. What's the bloody point? What's the point in that? What's the bloody point in that? I don't know, mate. A little chat about who it is. Oh, you know what?
00:34:18
Speaker
We are as domestic as they come. You and me. but It's a bit embarrassing. We spent a bit more hardcore, a bit more, you know.
00:34:27
Speaker
going to Raves, coming back from London, stopping off on the way back to the Kibab house at five o'clock in the morning. um in ah Where did we used to stop? Croydon? No. Mitcham? No, it was like Stratum. Stratum, Stratum High Street. The Kibab house is open yeah air all night.
00:34:52
Speaker
freak
ADHD Symptoms with Seasons
00:34:53
Speaker
keep up It seemed that way. And now we're talking about hovers. Bagless, bag or bagless hovers.
00:35:05
Speaker
Bagged or bagless. Where do you sit on this very important question? All right, so ah right that's the bad done. yeah That's bad. So it's time, time, time for the cowbell of change.
00:35:22
Speaker
There we go. Oh, there we go. I quite like that. It sounds quite... is It It's quite satisfying. I think, I think ugly it's like really heavy. It might be made of some lead content in there somewhere. It's a heavy metal cowbell. Yeah. It's probably a musician you're laughing right right now. It's like a classic. I think it's a goat bell.
00:35:53
Speaker
Oh, was it? Yeah. All right. Is there a picture on the front front of it? Of the bell? No. Yeah. No. No. No. All right. Just chipped and marked and... Oh, okay. but for for For some reason, I thought we was like... All right. See, I don't really have a real ugly ADHD.
00:36:22
Speaker
don't you? story doug like because it's it's It's actually been quite quite a good ADHD time, apart from the the the fact that I'm putting things off generally. But I think
ADHD and Migraines
00:36:39
Speaker
I'm actually kind of way more on top top of it. And I think it's something to do with, I think I'm better with my ADHD symptoms in the summer than I am in the winter.
00:36:49
Speaker
Oh, okay. thank I think because of the outside and the vitamin vitamin D that you kind of get from the sun and I'm much more active during the summer that you eat. The food that's in season. And the food and the fresh food I'm eating from the back garden. and Yeah, so there's a lot of real things going really well. I think my, when it starts to get into the into the winter months, that's when that's when i I struggle a lot a lot more. okay So that's when the that that's when I get more ugly, I guess. I've got an ugly. All right. I'll clean me up, bad boy.
00:37:34
Speaker
Sure. I've been getting a lot of headaches and migraines in the last few weeks. All right. Last last week, um I have like migraine every day. And it was ah really not like I don't get migraines like some people get them like really and they have to shut themselves away with no sound in like, you know, black towel.
00:38:01
Speaker
you know, no light. I'm not that bad, but it's still it's iss still a quite unpleasant. And funnily enough, when I was taking the meds ADHD meds, Ritalin, I didn't have any headaches or migraines.
00:38:19
Speaker
at all. So meds really really helped me with that. So but i' I'm off the meds as you know. But I was I thought I'd look into it. But what's how ADHD and migraine
00:38:36
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not pathologically related in the sense that they they they think that people if we who have ADHD get migraines and headaches, but not as a direct um result of ADHD. They say you're more like we're more to get headaches and migraines because of the associated stress related to having ADHD. That makes sense.
00:39:06
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Right. So that's that's that. So yeah, migraines, it just just especially when you get when it's overcast, I get really bad migraines. I can almost feel them coming on. All right.
Routine and Focus Management
00:39:24
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Yeah, like day two days ago, it was overcast as like, oh God, here it comes.
00:39:31
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Yeah, because the pressure is like low pressure, low air pressure. And yeah, it's almost a guarantee. So yeah, that's the ugly part. It's a bastard. It's a bastard. It's a bastard. I've just had two texts, right? Two texts while you've been chatting. One was, you know, I was saying that I need to get working. Oh, right. So it's someone reaching out.
00:39:59
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my old boss has reached out who who's forming a little short-term contract and once ah is pulling to together a team by the sounds of things to kind of do a pitch. And i'm and I've been pulled into it into that as the creative person. Cool beans. Great. and So who knows about that? That's great.
00:40:25
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That's good. You, like me, you, you, you're, apart from your ADHD is better in the summer, but it's also my ADHD is better when I've got a routine.
00:40:39
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Yeah. yeah yeah oh oh absolutely like i because i i try because my autistic side of my undiagnosed autistic side just say likes routine and um i try and use that to kind of bring my ADHD into line a little bit more so if i can put a process or a routine of i do this then i do this then i do this then that
00:41:10
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makes my world just run so much smoother. by yeah is that yes i mean it It can't be all this sort regimented structure because my because my ADHD side doesn't want that whole structure. It just wants to do its own thing. So it's like, it's like, example of sword isn't it because also if you're a pain that usually means a room is, you know,
00:41:42
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interacting, in my case, you know, reaching three days, just interacting with, you know, 300 students, maybe up to the teachers, you know, let alone parents, you know, during the end of term. um But that and in that environment, there's more masking going on, or I guess an element of that, which is stressful. It's not all good. I guess it depends if you're the routine, I mean, generally the routine, if I have, if I have a routine that I'm making up for working from home, um,
00:42:26
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It, that doesn't really work for me as a routine. It doesn't help my ADHD. The routine that takes me out of the house, I'm maybe a drive, having to drive to get to a location, working with other people, set time, kind of, uh, uh, you know, so kind of, um, habits, you know, continual habits. But that's, that's the kind of the only routine that actually helps me, I find.
00:42:56
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Yeah. Yeah. Especially now. Absolutely. like Yeah. Yeah, go on. Go on. Okay. um Especially i like I don't know if it's just a coincidence or whatever, but been ah as a teacher I've been I've had three months off over the summer because in the summer everything stops for three months in Italy because so um I've just I've noticed a decline in my memory for instance because of the lack of Yeah, no, yeah, no, it, I, yeah, it, it worked. Yeah. That's why am I going yet? ah yet but Yeah. Yeah. Cause if, if I'm
All or Nothing Mentality
00:43:46
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on a routine crazy and, um, you know, I've got deadlines to meet and everything, ah people to make happy, I can, I can, when I'm on it, I'm really on it and I can, I'm, I'm as sharp as a tack.
00:43:58
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But now I'm kind of lull. It's a nice lull, but my my memory isn't good. And I, you know, I forget things. um yeah I'm less reliable. I mean, I forget stuff. I know. This is almost this thing of like, yeah, either all on and just fucking bang it out like a machine or like some sort of German Android just really um nailing the whole thing and then the other switch is it's like this two you're you're either either either in mode one or mode two and and mode two is like is like
00:44:36
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A useless sack of shit. Yeah. You know. Before I got the... You can barely do anything. Right, exactly. Just a... Just a... Just a... What's it called? What are they called? A... A mess. Omeba. An A single-celled organism. Amoeba. Exactly. Like a blob. Just a protozoa Mr. T.
00:45:04
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I forgot what I was going to say now. All right. Years before I got my diagnosis for ADHD, I was always saying to people.
00:45:23
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All or nothing. All or nothing. Yes.
00:45:33
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It reminds me of like when I did the London Marathon, I did the most idiotic thing you could possibly do. um its the It was the first and the only marathon that I will ever do. I i was ah limbering up, warming up on Blackheath and thing. And I went off with the semi-pros, like the clappers. Because you thought, oh, Lord, nothing.
00:46:02
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Right. I utter did the half marathon in an hour and 20 minutes. The half marathon. Jesus. Right. Right. An hour and 20 minutes. I finished the full marathon in five hours. Oof. The wells fell off because nothing. I just saw these, these runners thought, oh, I'll go with them. They were semi proud. They were ridiculous.
00:46:29
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Oh God. and believebe you know what that that That doesn't surprise me about you in the slightest, in the slightest. That is such a Thompson thing to do. Right. I can do this. I can do this. Yeah. And then like an hour in, it's like, yeah. And I started hallucinating.
00:46:56
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I got, I literally hit the wall. I started hallucinating going around Canary Wharf. Oh, nice. Right. Which is just, just after the halfway mark, I saw a marker that said there was only five kilometers to go. I looked at my watch. Oh, blimey. I'm going to finish it in like under like two and a half hours. I went to the next marker and I said, there's a twin. It was like, oh, it was like double.
00:47:26
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And it's like, oh. I'm going backwards. I'm going backwards. I was seeing things. I was going backwards. Yeah. I love a good hallucination story. And that was destroying. It's like, oh, God, you know. Oh, yeah. That would kill you. That would kill you. It's destroying. Yeah. It's also boring. It's the boring
Professional Relationships
00:47:51
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part of the race going where I'm freaking, you know,
00:47:55
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Canary Wharf you know all right the crowds are smaller as well I'll take your word for it all right let's let's jump ah into the cab and let's go to let's go to the post post office the post office yes yeah all right let's go come on
00:48:23
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Man, they should they should we should get this place a bit of paint The post office. Yeah. Yeah, it's like one of those post office from 1970s in England, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know There's been there has been lots of good comments um but uh i'm not going to read out any why because you lost them uh what have you lost them yeah i do um i'm just reading this uh i'll just sorry it's this it's this it's this it's this a job that that suddenly pop okay
00:49:15
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Pop-ups are saying, has she shared any details of this project? And I'm like, I know nothing.
00:49:25
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ah I literally know nothing about this job. um It is funny, though, and I think this is a really interesting thing. I don't know whether you've found this before, but there are certain, you know, like when you're out there and you're doing your job or whatever, there are certain people that you come across that you kind of get on with from a professional point of view. um And then they are worth investing in in the the in the relationship because when they move on or you move on or whatever, at some point they phone you up and go, Oh, I've got a job for you. Yeah.
00:50:09
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And then they pull you into some other job or project. And I've got, I've got about two or three people that over the last 15, 20 years just will phone me up, will phone me up occasionally and then get me a job somewhere.
00:50:28
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it's yeah It's quite nuts. In fact, you're an eye, right? you know ah I've been let go of so many jobs, but then that's the nature of advertising industry.
00:50:43
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you know you just yeah you can you know if If your agency loses a client, then yeah yeah chances are through no fault of your own, you're out as well. yeah um But I was out of a job. You get someone new coming in, you know, new boss comes in, you know, they want to oh make their mark, you know, bring their own people in. Yeah, that happens. That's happened to me many times. um But I can remember I was out on my ear at one point and then I phoned you up and I said, anything going around your way and you and you're like, yeah,
00:51:20
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Come around here, have an interview. So it's just started as well. That was in London. Yeah. Yeah, it is who who you know, I mean it you know, yes, it helps I'm male and it helps I'm white. um
Listener Engagement and Quiz Fun
00:51:40
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So there's a certain amount of privilege that kind of comes with that. But even so, you know, the relationships that you build with people. Yeah, I mean, so reputations everything, isn't it? Right. So this woman who's firming up about a job, this would be
00:51:57
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ah So, she so she hired me, you know, quite a few years ago, then she hired me for a second job. So this would be the third thing, the third. Yeah. the um I have the same because I've, I'm basically only working with one agency right now. Um, and it's a bit of a drip kind of, uh, it's like, uh, you know, sometimes three or four months past and there's nothing, you know, nice chunky job comes along.
00:52:27
Speaker
And they're always like, really, they got the phone and said, Oh, this job came up and I thought of you. And it's really cool. Yeah. But it's getting this, it's getting from my, for me as 57 year old, you know, brand creative director, the producers are running a bit dry, right? Which is,
00:52:52
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i and little bit saying yeah um all right so ah ah so is So we've just gone to the post office just to say, yeah, we if you, yeah.
00:53:08
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could go to our comments, whether whether it's on TikTok or YouTube or yes or on the podcast is to drop us a line. and ah people do People have been saying some amazingly great things. um So thank you makes so much for those.
00:53:26
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that that that actually do just I mean it doesn't have to be anything just just to start say hey to say hi yeah but yeah it it lifts us but it's to the sky to the sky and beyond and beyond well let's go back for a quick quiz oh yes that's page thus minutes earlier right jump in jump in let's go
00:53:56
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handbrake turn. Right. I know, right? Well, you know, we're a little bit on ah on a time time crunch now. So this is going to be, this is just a random, this this is a no theme quiz of three random questions that I thought were just fun. Just fun.
00:54:18
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All right, so it's just gonna be the three questions and each one has three possible answers. Okay, you and just have to pick out the in in this, you know, you know the way I know the standard format. my ah The standard quiz format. All right.
00:54:36
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um First question, in some parts of Texas, oh is it illegal to swear in front of, A, the state flag, B? Swear in, okay. Yeah, like, you know, like, ah fuck, you know, mate, go blind me, shove it up your ass, you bastard. Right, or I was just saying in America to curse, to curse in front of the flag. To curse.
00:55:06
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Yeah. In fact, no, in front of the, the, the state flag, the state flag, the state flag. Okay. Yeah. The Texas, right. Because there's the American flag and then each state has its own flag. Okay. Yep. Right. So you type got it. has a flag Yeah. Yeah. Um, uh, B a priest, any priest or yep.
00:55:34
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Might just have to hit a priest, a man of the cloth. hand at the club Or see a dead person.
00:55:45
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i Maybe you'll see. Okay. I know a funny story about Ozzy Osbourne pissing against the national monument in Texas. Got arrested in a woman's dress. Anyway, that's for another time. I'm going to say C is just sounds the most unlikely, most ridiculous dead person.
00:56:04
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And you'd be right. You'd be right. Straight off the mark. One for one. Straight off the bat, you can't draw star. Square in front of a dead person. That's amazing. No. In some parts of Texas. Buggery. There's some states in the south where buggery is illegal. Yeah. Yeah. ah I would think think so. um All right. Question number two.
00:56:33
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speaking of what a weird segue speaking of buggery from buggery to to to to to to Uranus right cause the planet Uranus was first named so the first name before it became Uranus right was it a george oh god was it b
00:57:12
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it george come on moto or like it to be wouldn't you now because i thought of what should i call it i thought of cosy Modo. Modo. No, it isn't Modo. It was going to be called George after King George III who was on the throne at the time. it's yeah it's a Jesus is foreskin.
00:57:49
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Oh, we're back to that, are we? That was that was a Saturn. The rings of Saturn that are the ones, there is a theory by a Vatican scientist that these these these these the the rings around Saturn were actually Jesus again. Post. um Yeah. But no, okay. um weird Weirdly, you it that whole thing came up again a last week when apparently that is also Jesus's jesus sees a wedding ring. So I think there was a
00:58:34
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There was a woman, I think she was a nun, she owned, she was the abbotess, I think. Then she had a dream that she was marrying Jesus and the wedding ring was Jesus's extra parts. Wow. um Okay. Yeah, I know. It's like, once it comes up, then you keep hearing the goddamn thing. All right. So this is, this is, this is a 50 50. Okay. So according to a study that was done in Scotland, in with Scottish cows. So if you're Scottish,
00:59:19
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with a week's ears because we're going to be talking about Scottish cows. That was terrible. um did Do Scottish cows prefer a classical music? m B country music?
00:59:38
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classical. So how they so how they determine this was that they have heard something about this. They played it some music and then it would depend on the milk yield. So one of them was go on. I think it's I think I've heard about this. I think it's classical.
01:00:01
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So what do you think that that they like classical music more or they hate classical music ah like classical music? music. They do like classical music. So the, the, yes. And they hate country music. Hated, even. Yeah. Well, so the they yield was super was produced. Yeah. So yeah, there was less music, uh, there was less. Right. Milk. Okay. Yeah.
Conclusion and Call to Action
01:00:30
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There you go. There you go. So you did. So you won. You got two out of out three. That is a, that is a win. I'll take that. Is it not? Yeah. Okay. All right. We do like a quiz. so i think We do. So let's just shovel ourselves off onto into the outro, shall we? Yes, yes. Mr. T? Yes. OK, so we're back in the town hall. We we got in the car. And ATS2V always is delivered fresh every Tuesday to all purveyors of fine podcasts. Please subscribe to the Pardon Raiders most weekly. And feel free to correspond.
01:01:19
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At will in the comments, but wait there's more if you wish to see a beautiful beautiful faces Sally forth or Sally built to the youtubies or the Tiktokies You Be fucking kind to yourself just know
01:01:50
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I don't have a position. I pull fellow ADHD his. Know they sell something to the house. Come in here and get the flesh. Nice.
01:02:07
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There. That's that. Come on. and