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Speaker: I'll be back in the room. We are. We're there again. and Again? and for a hundredth time. The hundredth again. The hundredth time we are back in the room.
Speaker: Well, it's the 99th again, isn't it? The first one isn't again. 99th again. No, I'm, i'm i'm umm yeah. All right, fine.
Speaker: um All right, well, ah if you're new here or ah hit that subscribe button, give us a like, even give us a comment, give us a congrats.
Speaker: um Yeah. It really, really helps us. reach more than our people. Exactly. All right. So without further ado, let's go to a place where the distractions are landmarks and the details are the main roads for the hundredth time.
Speaker: Welcome to ADHDville.
Speaker: Oh, wow.
Speaker: Love it. Had to be done. Well, talk me through. Talk me through. you how what What, when, how, who? How did you put that together?
Speaker: I mean, I did the original. I just pulled up that file. Yeah. And i thought, let's let's give it a bit more of a celebratory kick up the butt. So there's some Latin drums in there.
Speaker: And I changed some things around. Yeah. Are they like Latin? Is there like – did I hear like – um Oh, you know, there those drums they have in the Bahamas, you know, made out of i oil barrels. Oh, those steel drums. Maybe so dr maybe there were some steel drums in there.
Speaker: I can't tell. Nice. Nice, like that. Like that. Yeah. um cool All right. Well, so ah do you want to introduce yourself, Mr. Thompson? Yes, I'm going to go on.
Speaker: Hundredth time. I'm Paul Thompson. Hello. Hello. Hello. How the devil are you out there? And I was diagnosed with the combined ADH and the D again, crawling towards a pair of months ago, years ago.
Speaker: And I'm Marty West, and I'll start diagnosed with combined ADHD poopy platter in 2013. And we start off, as always, ah in in the yeah in the King's Agitated Head pub in ADHDville, where we ah take care of our 100th birthday episode party. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker: And, you know, I think we're we're just going like, go through, talk about what the highlights were, the highs and the not-so-highs. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker: So we're going to kind of – this is almost like the most non-ADHD content out of i and any episode. This is this is just us. We're just going to have a party. We're just going to chit-chat. Yeah.
Speaker: And at the end – At the end, ah if you if you gave us and ah congratulations on TikTok, um we will we will say that after the outro. So hang around for that. If you've given them a message, we will read it out.
Speaker: At the back end. Yeah, at the back end. Because I said highs, and I said it almost said highs and lows. I don't think there were any lows, were there, Martin? Maybe for you there were.
Speaker: You've had to listen to my dulcet tones on a regular basis for two years. On a regular basis for like, well, yeah. Although, you know, after 40. forty Like once a week.
Speaker: Well, yes. It isn't normally that regular. Yeah. Which is fair. Yeah, almost. It's almost every week. Oh, yeah, and and no, no, no.
Speaker: It is. so oh i I was just thinking over the... Yeah, because we've been friends for about 40 years or so. Yeah. So I haven't spoken to you this regularly since we... Oh, no.
Speaker: we were We worked take to together. Yeah. Yeah. Well, probably didn't speak to each other that much even then. Right.
Speaker: Right, Paul. Right. Right. So we go. Usually the conversation was, classic conversation was, shall we go and get the croissant? Oh, yes.
Speaker: And the pan au chocolat. Absolutely. And the shenanigans around that, because we had a colleague that didn't want to pronounce pan au chocolat. He refused to try and bless him.
Speaker: Yeah. I said, cake. I want cake. And we went. And if we tried to press him, he'd get really angry. Yeah, got Alex. um ah It's a pan de chocolat. Do you want a pan de chocolat?
Speaker: I want cake. Cake. And if we pressed him, if we like made out that we weren't going to go and get him anything unless he tried to pronounce it, at least tried, he'd get really angry.
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. so So, yeah. But i I was, like, reflecting on this episode the last few days. And and if that there's a there is that strong theme, isn't there, that, like, men of our age, generation, we don't, like, share very much, you know, traditionally.
Speaker: um We didn't and still don't generally. So that's been a thing. You know, like, I found out things about Martin I've known for 40 years. That I had no idea about, you know, like his penchant for Hawaiian shirts.
Speaker: Oh, yeah, every summer. I didn't know that. I know. Well, it's starting to get to fall, which means that I will be putting these away and until next summer.
Speaker: So this is probably the last Hawaiian shirt of of the season. Is it? Is that bit early? Yeah. Well, where are we? September the 4th. Come on.
Speaker: I mean, you know, we're now high heading into the full surely autumn. But but bu but but ah ah if you're not on YouTube, you you are missing out because I've got a like banner behind me that says 100 never looked better.
Speaker: a hey banner behind me that says one hundred never looked better it's one hundred and No, 100 never looks so good.
Speaker: And on my head, okay i have i have these ah my 100 sparkly red, brand red, yeah have you know, ADHD brand red ah head bobbly things, which is cool. Sparkly as well. They're like sparkly as well.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Glitter. Glitter. Glitter. And I have a, which I baked this this this morning, this is a parsnip cake.
Speaker: Right. if you remember last week or so, when i pulled up some parsnips and I said I was going to make some parsnip cake. I think I said that on TikTok, actually. So um yeah this is this is the parsnip cake.
Speaker: So just anyone who didn't see the last episode, go back and watch it and listen to it. any Anyway, but the carrot cake, we're talking about cakes and biscuits. The carrot cake was invented in the 13th century in France. they You know, that's as far as the last time, the first time they were mentioned or written about.
Speaker: And it was written because if you were poor, you couldn't have, you didn't have sugar because it was too expensive. Carrot was the nearest thing you could have, the cheapest you could have, to add sweetness to a cake.
Speaker: So that's where the carrot cake comes in. So then I thought, well, what about the turnip? So it's an experiment, right? It was like it's like Martin very kindly, charitably said, um'm going to make turnip cake to prove that it's as sweet and nice as a carrot cake.
Speaker: Well, I didn't do that because I made a parsnip cake. Oh, all right, parsnip. Sorry, no, it was parsnip. I'll get my parsnips and my turnips mixed Yeah.
Speaker: yeah Parsnip cake. And have you sampled it already or are you literally trying it live? No, no, this is the whole thing. ah It's a little bit crude, but um but it is like a carrot cake.
Speaker: it is um sorry But it subs out with parsnip and there's a cream cheese on top. And it and it and in it says one hundred on on on the top And I'm just going to tell you, I want have a little little bit off the end.
Speaker: Can I just say, you've made a lot of it. Yeah, i know. um There's no way I'm going to eat all that. I was going to say. Okay, drum roll.
Speaker: Martin's testing it. is Is it? Yeah. Banging, mate. Banging. Is it? And it's parsnip cake.
Speaker: Yeah. Is it good? Talk us through it. Okay. Well, you've got nutmeg, cardamom, a lot of ginger, cinnamon um in there. i've i've I've got nuts in there.
Speaker: um Ah, okay. So how many pastries are in there? There's about two large parsnips in there, one and a half cups of parsnips in American measurements.
Speaker: So the logic is it shouldn't work, should it? Because we we don't usually, need it's a savory thing, isn't it, a parsnip? Yeah, but so's carrot.
Speaker: So's a carrot. There's not a huge difference between carrots and parsnips. Right. So it's just that I suppose carrots are easier to make, to grow.
Speaker: The same. The same? The same. Okay. In fact, I found parsips. Actually, this year, parsips have been as successful as the carrots.
Speaker: Really? so so So those carrots were grown in my garden, by the way. I made them. I made carrots. Anyway. Now I'm looking up.
Speaker: I'm looking up. Okay, carry on. I'm looking up the history of the pasta to see if it is actually a British vegetable. What do you mean a British vegetable?
Speaker: All right. Well, in the same way that, you know, the potato is South American. Oh, I see. I mean, ah Britain does very well in the root vegetable yeah department. Yeah.
Speaker: Well done, Britain. Well done, Britain, for your potatoes, carrots, and ah other. Seems like a double celebration almost today. Right, yeah, yeah. Anyway, um so let's maybe start out when we started this goddamn podcast.
Speaker: Yeah. I know that we've said it before, um but you said... but you'd been looking for ADHD podcasts it and when you were coming up short.
Speaker: I was. Yeah. Because it was generally, ah found it, well, it's like there's a thing that's come up for me more and more is being age appropriate. You know, if you're like mature like we are, you know, late diagnosed.
Speaker: I mean, in the ADHD community, late diagnosis, people are like in their late 20s and thirty s and right well i was diagnosed when i was 56 you were diagnosed when you were something like that and it it's i found it really hard to find something that was like ah pro seemed appropriate to me know but more baggage potentially more you know
Speaker: trauma that you've been carrying around extra weight. Yeah. So, yeah. And I said to Martin, God, I can't find anything that's like, I don't know, hits the spot. And Martin says, well, why don't you do it?
Speaker: And I said, why don't we do it? And here we are. Right. It's my own fault. I blame myself. You should.
Speaker: Yeah. And it just happened to coincide. That was in the first podcast is on and on the 18th of October, 2023. two thousand and twenty three My diagnosis was two weeks before that.
Speaker: Right. So they run power now un parallel, run parallel, that whole thing. So it's been a ride. And you bought a mic, which is what you can see on your screen, your little road. Is it a road? I was sploshed out straight away.
Speaker: sploshed in typical ADHD. Like, I'm um um'm just going to go and run out and buy the the equipment right now. Yeah. Way.
Speaker: And then, of course, I had to get the same one because. but I love an excuse to buy tech, you know. Yeah.
Speaker: Oh, I love an excuse to buy anything. Truth be known. Yeah, I mean, you know what? I mean, the sad thing is is is that I already had a mic. I didn't actually need this mic. I already had had one.
Speaker: But for some reason, my ADHD mind wanted the aesthetics of the same mic rather than it being different. Well, that coincides with also before we decided to...
Speaker: This is interesting. but Before we decided to do the podcast together, you had already seen my profile picture, I think probably on on Instagram or Facebook, and you decided to do a duplicate of it with your own boat race.
Speaker: Oh, yeah. You sent me, as a surprise, the same photograph, but you Right, so with the same idea dear listener, what was going on was one day Paul changed his whose profile picture picture on Facebook or something.
Speaker: Yeah, probably ah Instagram, more likely. um And I decided that I was going to replicate the same photo with the same look and the same angles and the same hat and everything. So like so I bought a hat, I bought the top.
Speaker: And then I took the photo exactly same. And then I changed mine so that it was his. And then I just sat there and was like, how long until Paul thinks and until Paul realizes that i'm I've basically copied your photo?
Speaker: Yeah, and right, exactly. And then after a couple of weeks or something, you changed yours again. went, oh, Christ. yes i so So you had a a very does designer, unique technique.
Speaker: t-shirt right which had that little kind pac-man ghost on it can't remember the wording on it so I couldn't afford it or buy it because it wasn't around here so I had to remake that t-shirt and then get a one-off custom print made of it so I could wear that t-shirt my god yeah yeah and then I took a photo and I put that that up online and then eventually you were like hang on a second Yeah, and finally the penny dropped.
Speaker: And think I sent you a message. it was like, hang on. My first instinct was it was some kind of like strange coincidence. You know, that's how slow that's how slow my mind is I'm so, it's weird. I could be so literal and slow on some certain things.
Speaker: And really sharp and fast on others. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You confirmed that. You confirmed, I guess. So then so then that was the the the template. It was like, oh, you and I look really similar.
Speaker: Yeah. So you basically took, yeah, so we basically kind of used those shots of you looking, of me looking like you, and then that became the the identity. Yeah.
Speaker: Well, the other context is people often say that we look like brothers. right For years. For years. that been ah years Even to extent, was even even three two or three months ago, one of my students said, oh, oh Prof, we listen to your podcast. We love it.
Speaker: But by the way, the only problem is we can't tell the difference between your voice and Martin's voice. So apparently we even sound the same. I know.
Speaker: I mean, ah yeah, you are more, you look like my brother more than my actual brother. ah Right. andy who who i Who I love to the ends of the earth.
Speaker: But. Well, your mother thought we were lovers. Oh, yes. My mother thought we were gay, having a nice gay old time. yeah Where did that come from, weird?
Speaker: Well, when I was... I love you, mate, but, you know, right in that way... When but I was like a baby, I had like curly blonde hair and my my mother thought that I looked like an angel.
Speaker: right And she always thought I was like a good looking little boy. and for some reason, I have no idea, but she thought I was going to be gay.
Speaker: And she kept looking for signs of it. and what and she And she said one day, see she asked me, so ah are you gay? I was like, no, I'm not. I'm not gay.
Speaker: She said, oh, that's okay. it's it's It's okay if you are gay because because because gay men are good to their mums.
Speaker: Right. What other motive could you need? Well, you know, when you're a narcissist, you know, people being good to you is like, yeah.
Speaker: Anyway. yeah Anyway. Okay. By the way, update on the turnip. its it It was actually cultivated by the Romans, and it's a Eurasian.
Speaker: It's of Eurasian origin. So it's actually all of Europe and all of Asia. is is either Are you talking about turnips or parsnips? Parsnips. Did I say turnip again? Yeah. Oh, Christ. You're fucking um you're your obsessed, mate.
Speaker: You're obsessed. You're obsessed with the turnip. Pastinaca sativa. Pastinaca sativa is the Latin name.
Speaker: All right. Such an educational podcast. God, Lord, is crazy. um So, all right, so we started to do episodes like zero, one. Actually, you know what? I think episode one is still the the most downloaded podcast, which is what did Paul's diagnosis look like? And it was the story of you getting your diagnosis.
Speaker: Nurses in hospital. So that so that that was fun.
Speaker: And then had our first guest. And we had our first guest, Jonathan Astor, on episode nine. Yes. So he was our guinea pig.
Speaker: get our guinea pig Yeah. to kind of see we've had weather Since him, we've had guests. had guests in total all right All right. 11 guests. I've got a list. A heads up for all our wonderful guests.
Speaker: Because i i for me, one of the main highlights has been the guests. um So I'll put the go quickly through the guests in no particular order. We've got Jonathan, Alice, Vanessa. Oh, no, 12.
Speaker: John, Alice, Vanessa, Jenny, Lucy, who I missed, which which I ah wish I'd actually been there. I was working in Palermo at the time. Then we have Seth, David, Chloe, Michael, Tina, Willie and Maddie. 12 all together.
Speaker: And it's been such a joy for me, the guest part of it. yeah We don't have the money, you know, for like expensive, famous people who have got ADHD that all the other podcasts have.
Speaker: And it's just normal people, well normal, you know, normal ADHD people with their with their stories. just been a blast. Right. Was Willie the Tubbs there?
Speaker: tubs in there Yeah, Willie, yeah. All right. Yeah, who was in there? Second to last, yeah. All right. ah yeah Chloe, ye yeah, she she talked about dyspactia. So that was episode 21. I'm just kind of like just kind of looking.
Speaker: We've got Tina's twice, so it could be so could say that's 13 guests, but it's twice the same person. It's the same guest. We had, yeah, we on episode 38, we had my friend Seth Davison.
Speaker: No, no, no. Episode 38 was David who once owned a koi operation. A shop. On a whim. was ah a yeah was it david who who owned the koy who once owned a koy ah operation now job yeah on the web He bought a koi shop on a whim.
Speaker: know. That was hilarious. And then episode 43 was ah the school school psychologist, Seth Davison, who I don't think no one knows this, even you, Mr. T, but Seth listens to all our episodes.
Speaker: Good on you. from from a Good man, Seth. And then if he has any feedback from a... from a psychologist point of view, he texts me and say, oh, by the way,
Speaker: this is This is wrong or or whatever, which he's only ever done once. so um um Okay. I thought it was a constant thing. no It's only once. Okay. But, you know, if there's something wrong, he will – I have faith, Seth, that he will text me and put me right. And also ah can then put a disclaimer in the in the show notes.
Speaker: um So I can kind of pull that that out. ah Yeah, we had Lucy, which was episode 50. and she She kind of talked to us from, you know, she came, she's a she she was born in Africa.
Speaker: So it was was kind of good to kind of get her point point of view. um Boy, yeah. I mean, Alice, your your your friend, that was episode 58. Talked about autism a lot there.
Speaker: Yeah. Well, she was human i actually diagnosed with Asperger's only because still in Italy, that's probably kind of a bit...
Speaker: kind of old school on how they name their autism thing. So in Italy, you can still have ADHD and actually be diagnosed with Asperger's. So they're kind of, yeah, it's a loose around the seams in Italy. Episode 74, we had, as you said, van Vanessa, hoser who who had that that was a crazy, chaotic life. That was no incredible.
Speaker: Right. That was incredible. And she's getting married in like ah not long. I mean, it's like just over a week or something that she'ss she's getting married. And then we had episode 75, Jenny am getting back.
Speaker: um yes i am getting back um for a for a second visit in November because she's got a book coming out fabulous and and we we really liked her ah so see someone else has got a book coming out but we'll talk about that maybe later And then absolutely. And then where are we? I'm just scrolling down, scrolling down.
Speaker: And then we had a big old. Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. I know. Keep those weapons. You're right. And then we had Tina, your ADHD bestie, episode 93 episode 97 as well because we kind
Speaker: and episode ninety seven as well because we kind of You've left out, did you have Michael in there? michael from Michael's in there, sorry.
Speaker: i say He's way back in, um where was he? He was ah Michael, um who, you know, we we still talk talked to on the ticky-tocks. He was episode 14.
Speaker: episode fourteen And then the last guest we had was ah Katie from ADHDable Life, um which is also another very fun episode.
Speaker: It was. Yeah. Yeah. So it's been really interesting. you know poop it just highlighted to me how unique everyone's ADHD is. Mm-hmm.
Speaker: Absolutely. You know what? but um one One thing I was so thinking about, the guests, no, no, no, not the guests, but the people who support us and comment and like and subscribe and all that.
Speaker: And one thing that that that struck me this morning when i was thinking about all of them is that they all they all have a sense of humor. they They all like to laugh. They're all fun yeah yeah people.
Speaker: Can you imagine a party?
Speaker: Yeah. With all of our loyal listeners and followers and all of our guests all in the same room. Mm-hmm. What would that be like? I think it would a ah riot. It would be brilliant.
Speaker: I know, right? It it it would be and we a a a laugh. We'd need a bigger cake. Yeah. Yeah. just moving Moving around. and We're going to need a bigger cake.
Speaker: Cue the Michael Caine voice. We're going to need a bigger cake. voice but guy the need to pick a cake Nowhere near it.
Speaker: No, no. You're getting mixed up with Jaws and the... Oh, yes. We're going to need a bigger boat. Yeah. We're going to need bigger boat. Well, that's a coincidence.
Speaker: there There was um an interview. watched an interview with, what's his name, the director, very, very famous director, Spielberg. Spielberg. Spielberg.
Speaker: He said that there were absolutely, well, one of the actors was his, he was completely drunk and had to cancel it, even had the boats ready in and everything because was actually shot in the sea. They had to cancel it and reschedule it because one of the actors, the main of the three, not the captain, one of the other two, wasn't Richard Dreyfuss, it was the other one,
Speaker: Oh, the sheriff. would be the sheriff. He rocked up one day and he was completely legless. He barely stand. And that's a reschedule. Anyway. I thought it was the classic...
Speaker: boat scene where they're talking in the boat and they're all drunk. Yeah, they were drunk. Yeah. But like acting drunk. was the Was the one who was plastered. Oh, yeah. But they were acting drunk. In this case, he was literally drunk. yes. And they couldn't actually go. They couldn't actually do it.
Speaker: Yeah. Anyway... Anywho, I think that there's, I think we we can. I mean, what else have you have you have you got that that yeah that you wanted to say?
Speaker: Yeah, I've got, well, only the podcast, the 100 podcast coincides, you know, almost exactly with my with my diagnosis. And just just the thing where, you know, just being such a roller coaster, I think probably I wouldn't have studied so much about ADHD had it not been for the fact that I had to do...
Speaker: um research for the podcast every week, you know. Right. Which has helped me a lot. I wouldn't have been as disciplined otherwise. No. You know, listening to podcasts, other people's podcasts, watching documentaries, blah, blah, blah, you know.
Speaker: Yeah. and so that's been ah It's helped me a lot. Yeah, that kind of weekly... thing of of it being in your head. Yeah. been quite, quite, quite good.
Speaker: Yeah. Also, because you're conscious of you know, you're not just, it's not just me and you having a conversation. You're putting out there some information and you're conscious of it being, the the information being that it holds some water.
Speaker: You know, we're not scientists, we're not psychologists or doctors or anything like that. But conscious of, you know, just not like blurting out any kind of nonsense, you know. Right. And you're conscious of it a level of responsibility, shall we say.
Speaker: So that's say that in that sense, making sure that, you know, you're listening and researching with an ear, a certain ear of responsibility. Mm-hmm. They knew.
Speaker: I mean, I know. Yes. Yes. there is there There is a responsibility. ah I thought that this podcast was going to die. Actually, how I mean, did this is a question. How i I never thought we would get to 100. That just seems like a stupid number.
Speaker: um yeah I thought we might die somewhere in the twenty s maybe. Me too. It would start fizzling out yeah somewhere.
Speaker: yeah have Just go longer longer and longer it would die.
Speaker: there are so many There are actually so many podcasts I have seen in the ADHD community that have sprung up. We're doing our first podcast and then kind of like just die.
Speaker: You don't hear about it ever again. Well, I think it was you that told me that in the beginning that most podcasters don't get beyond 10 episodes.
Speaker: Yes, yes, almost like statistically, we are like in the tiniest
Speaker: margins. I'm not writing a what percentage of podcasts. I'm just writing to chat, GBT. So podcasts get to 100 episodes.
Speaker: episodes let's Let's see if GPT can chuck up something. I mean, it's having a think. But, yeah, um
Speaker: fewer than 7% of podcasts ever make it to their 100th episode. In another insight, only 1% of podcasts reach 100 episodes.
Speaker: Wow. Somewhere between that. OK. More chest bumps. More cake. Chest bumps. More cake.
Speaker: More energy. More energy. More football.
Speaker: Cool. All right, so let's look onwards to what we're going to be doing next.
Speaker: Okay. which which Which I think, well, personally, i think this is ah this is this is a time when when we can say, right, well, oh do we stop the podcast here, just go 100, or do we carry on?
Speaker: We just blindly... charge on ahead into the future to what's it to infinity and beyond right so yeah ah we I mean I am committed to carrying on doing this podcast I thought thought I was being dumped on air no Jesus Christ absolutely but Absolutely. Goodbye, Martin. nice Goodbye. Goodbye.
Speaker: Goodbye. You know what? i I think, I believe David Bowie dumped his band, the Spiders from Mars, live on on stage at the end of the concert.
Speaker: yeah he he sacked them all. Yeah. Well, you were actually involved with me when I actually split in with a girlfriend while you were still at her house.
Speaker: Oh, yeah, yeah. four o'clock in the morning. Yep. That was fun. Yeah. Get out of my house. Do you split up with your girlfriend while I'm there?
Speaker: Right there. Yeah, with your then girlfriend. Yeah. With all the shouting and the running off. and Get out of my house. Yeah.
Speaker: It was actually, the language is a bit fruitier than that. o I bet. um Right, so. um So, yeah, well, we kind of started a new newish format, didn't we, about eight or nine episodes ago.
Speaker: Yeah. We're generally leaning on to, like, a little bit more of the entertainment side of ADHD and less of You know, we don't need to overlap with what all the other but podcasts are doing on ADHD.
Speaker: Yeah, we are. you know, we've got stuff teed up. We are. We've got, like, episodes are coming up, like, they're called ADHD and zombies. You know, no one else is doing that.
Speaker: Who? Who? Who's doing that? pull who No one. No one else is doing it. No one. Just us. Just us, just us, carving our own path. And in that way... Forging forth.
Speaker: Right. we This is really early doors, really early. But, Mr. T, um when we had Jenny Glukas on and she was talking about that she has a book coming up, and afterwards we went...
Speaker: Maybe we should do a book. Yeah. Maybe we should do one. Yeah. So what did we go and do, Paul? We're doing it. Yeah.
Speaker: We're doing it. mean, we're still early, early, early stages. This the first it's been mentioned to anyone in a public way. Right.
Speaker: but But we are working on a book. And because Paul and I, Paul and I, this is this is unlike any other ADHD book that is out there. yeah It is so unique that I'm wondering whether it will ever be able to get published.
Speaker: because It's going to be a challenge to find a publisher. Or we'll publish it ourselves. We know. Or we might crowdfund it. That's true. And so we'll let you know, listeners, viewers.
Speaker: It is something else. It feels like cross between a coffee table book because its yeah design is just like it is ah is going to be a work of art in and of itself.
Speaker: um Yeah. And fucking funny. When you said, when those words came out of your mouth, Martin, it's going to be like the first thing that came to me instantly was, you know, in the 70s, you had those kaleidoscopes.
Speaker: was like a tube. And you'd look through it and twist it and you'd get this like um these like clashing prisms of light and colour. Yeah.
Speaker: That's the third first thing that came to mind. It's like a book like there's like a kaleidoscope in the form of a ADHD book. Right. You twist and turn, you look through it, and there's all kinds of unexpected things happening. It is fucking crazy. It is. So, yeah.
Speaker: So ah we are working on it, and we and when we hit a milestone um of it, we will let everyone know, and we will get everyone excited and jazzed up for it, because it is something. So we've got some content already.
Speaker: We've got some content. Martin sent me a message. ah think it was last Friday evening. He said, so, Paul, how many pages are we going to have? Because we're, like, getting through the spreads now. and We've got, you know, quite a lot of content.
Speaker: I hate that word, content. But, yeah, we've got a lot of stuff. Spreads. Yeah. Spreads. We need more spreads. We need more spreads. More work. More fun. Crap.
Speaker: um All right, so we'll keep everyone ah ah advised on that. Yeah. All right, well, let's jump in the tractor, Mr. T, and we're going to head over to Alexandra's Haunted Inn.
Speaker: Well, I would say the not not not really because we had the mayor's car for a long while. Oh, that's true. Oh, we only had the tractor after the election.
Speaker: Yeah. And do you know what, Martin? I prefer the goddamn tractor. So do I. So do I. All right. Well, I think we should just get in.
Speaker: Now,
Speaker: we're back...
Speaker: We're in. Alexandra's halted in, which as we're getting into spooky season, I'm sure we'll get spookier as we go. um But she's got, she had a few comments on episode 99, which was about cookies and cakes.
Speaker: um Firstly, she says, I don't like birthday cakes in general. Yeah. She's got a point. She's got a point.
Speaker: the oh Now she's mentioned it, it's kind of, it resonates, you know, because you feel like you're expected to react to it, aren't you?
Speaker: If someone's gone to the effort and you're expected to like go through the motions, oh, wow. And I totally don't like it very much. I don't like the candles.
Speaker: Right. Blowing out. I don't like blowing out candles. Right. Right. Oh, the pressure. like the attention, the attention, the pressure. Mm-hmm.
Speaker: Yeah, I don't like, i mean, certainly American birth birthday cakes, they they have this very, they go heavy on this buttercream icing, which is like clawing so much sugar. It's just makes me, and the sponge is usually like pants as well.
Speaker: um what it In Italy, they go massive on sugar. A lot of sugar in there. Italian's got a a major sweet tooth. So, yeah.
Speaker: um She also says, because ah she's a chef, or was a chef, um and we were talking about choux pastry, I've made millions of eclairs and choux in my life. Oh, wow. meet i was not surprised. Lovely.
Speaker: I know, right? I know. My sister used to do quite an unusual, she used to make the shoe buns, so it'd be the profiteroles, but with ah raspberries as well, fresh raspberries on the top. So you get that mixture of choux pastry, dark chocolate and raspberries. It's very nice. Classic combo.
Speaker: and And her parting words are, by the way, this is di ri directed at you, Paul. By the way, Italians buy Greek olive oil and sell it as Italian.
Speaker: Kalamata, guys. You can't beat that. Beat that. Well, it's not quite true. There's a lot of... um Well, if you go to Puglia in the south, it's like you could drive from Badi Airport all the way to Calabria, and it's just all olives, and very good olives.
Speaker: So I don't know. I think the industrial, she's probably right as the industrial olives, industrial level, like major quantities. Yeah, definitely. And I would have to agree with Calamata olives, which are Greek, are the king.
Speaker: olives yes they're very nice very very nice yeah i like the calamata um pate as well in italy you can get can get it in the form of a pate it's mind-blowing and you can spread it on your your bruschetta nice All right, well, ah do you want to remind... Bruchetta, as you call it in the UK.
Speaker: Bruchetta. Bruchetta. you want to remind our our lovely public that ah how pi how important their feedback is? About their feedback? Yeah. just bit about my feedback.
Speaker: Yeah, your feedback, dear listener, viewer, or both, is vital to to us. Not just me, both both of us. That's us. Him and me. And we read all of your comments. We might read out yours on a future podcast.
Speaker: Right. And we've already read out a bunch. And as I said, we are going to be reading out some of your stuff after this episode. ah So stick around for that. um But what are we going to be doing next week to launch ourselves into the... Well, it was your idea. So I think you should introduce it. This is yours. All right.
Speaker: Well, I did think, well, it it it was episode 101, which reminded me of... George Orwell's book, 1984, where Room 101 is like where all the bad things happen, which reminded me of that of that show that is on in the UK, Room 101, where guests come on and they talk about things they hate and they want to put in Room 101. So I thought we would with do the same. Hosted well, now it's hosted by Frank Skinner, but for years it was hosted by Paul Merton, who...
Speaker: I will controversially put forward as almost the, how can I say, doppelganger of the reputable Martin West.
Speaker: Whenever I watch Paul Motton, I think of Martin. Jesus. Yeah, it's weird. ah know, but you're similar. I've been accused of looking like Phil Collins.
Speaker: Okay. Before. Right. And, yeah Paul Merton. But Paul Merton. All right. Well, I'll take that as you're a twin brother. I feel like, you know, I have some kind of authority. Well, unfortunately, he's funnier than me.
Speaker: All right. So next week, we'll be kind of putting things into room 101. Yeah. Things we don't like. We don't like. All right. We like a of...
Speaker: What is that? A bit of a rant about stuff we don't like. all right All right. if you if you've commented, then take on ah stick around for a a minute. We'll just go through the outro, and then we're going to get on to those messages.
Speaker: All right. So that just leaves me to say that ADHDville is delivered fresh every Tuesday to all providers of fine podcasts. Please subscribe to the pod and rate us most cosmic.
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Speaker: And I beseech you fellow ADHDers, fare thee well with gladness of heart. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There, says the mayor.
Speaker: But it's not quite that, that. But it's not, is it? Not quite that, is that? To some some ah messages. So maybe I should have said this in the in the main segment, but but if you're listening to this, if you comment on us or whatever, then we really ah appreciate all your support for the last 100 episodes.
Speaker: um It is amazing. It makes a massive difference, the feedback we get from you guys.
Speaker: hey It just like really does keep you going. It feels like, you know, you get to our age, you think, oh, you don't need anyone's you know approval. Actually, you do. It's nice to get a pat on the back, isn't it?
Speaker: Yeah, totes. um All right. So I thought maybe we'll just go through and go down these. ah Well, we'll just say them like one after the other.
Speaker: Yeah. So do you want to start? All right. From Neuro Spicy Services. ah Congratulations! exclamation mark Nice.
Speaker: Thank you. I've got Chris is is is a and then we've got the gay flag and v yes and she says ah congratulations, which is nice.
Speaker: Thank you, Chris. Also from Katie, ADHDable TM Life. Holler that Holler that Holler that Holler that Holler that Holler as in shout Yeah Right She was on episode 98 Yes We've got Sherry K Congratulations here to support my friend or follow along for the journey Thank you. And the next message we've got here is from Aiza, okay, with lots of different icons on the end of that. Congratulations to you and Paul, two exclamation marks.
Speaker: You give me hope that ADHD truly can do anything in the new technological age. who Oh, praise indeed.
Speaker: And then we've got Alexandra, um theses are kind of like who we speak about every week. ah There's lots of claps emojis, lots of lots of party emojis. He says, congratulations. hope hope to Hope you make a lot more.
Speaker: That needs a celebration and a cake. Well, I made a cake. The cake. Martin made the cake. Martin wins some effort. Next is from Ness City Rollers.
Speaker: Wow, what an achievement. Well done for sticking to it. Lots of different emojis going on there. Yeah, lovely. it Yeah, so we've been friends for a long time. And got Sarah Northwood who says, Fantabulous.
Speaker: Fantabulous. And next one is from Cheesy Beano's. ah Congratulations. All right. Yeah, there's right Deborah um up in Scotland.
Speaker: And we've got Wolf Girl running. This is such a huge milestone. Keeping up with that amount of dedication is so huge with ADHD. It is because it's not. Damn right it is. It's not. That's easy. Then from oh um all ADHDistically me, that's quite an achievement. Well done, lads.
Speaker: Right, so that's Chani from episode 75. Oh, Chani. We'll be her on. Then we've got a misdiagnosed Phoenix. Woo-hoo! Congratulations.
Speaker: 100, 100, 100. Okay. And Nicola, ah brilliant. Congratulations. Yes, the consistency is fabulous. I know, right? It is. Then we've got whatever Lee says can congrats.
Speaker: And Lunette, major kind kind congratulations to you. and With four exclamation marks, exclamation marks. ah And we've got Sunfish Baby.
Speaker: um ah Well, friend, good, good, good, good good good friend of the pod. ah Well done. Grateful to you both for the for the diive for the dedication. Thanks for so many laughs and moments of resonance.
Speaker: That's nice. like that. Moments of resonance. like that. And next, Sassy Ashley NC. What's NC? Is that American thing? North Carolina. Oh, really? Okay.
Speaker: Thank you for what you do from a NeuroSpicy NC gal. Congratulations on 100 episodes. Woo-hoo. Thanks, Sassy Ashley. And then Jersey Rich 3388. Congratulations.
Speaker: Okay. Then from Rhett. Yay. Simple message there. Yay. Three exclamation marks. And Leslie Torrey, congratulations. Keep up the great work.
Speaker: From Tees for Veggies. Tees for Veggies. Congratulations. Congratulations. you You're dedicated to this project and willingness to take us along. And your late stage realisation has been very inspiring.
Speaker: So very impressive that you both have reached this milestone. Way to go. That's really nice message. Thank you. Yeah. And then we've Sirenaptic Minxy, which is our friend Carol, who comments a lot. So he says, congrats to you guys.
Speaker: Such an awesome achievement, my friend. Here's to 100 more. and lovely and that's that's it and i've I've just checked on the ah on the ah TikToks I've got one late one sliding in um from from from our friend Headnooks you had and so he says kuun congratulations guys 100 episodes is immense especially with ADHD over the moon for you both
Speaker: Oh, that's very nice. Thanks, everyone. That's really, really kind of you. like such a It makes a massive... I can't underestimate... Oh, no, I can't overestimate how what that means to us.
Speaker: It's great.
Speaker: Hello? Radio silence. Absolutely. Can you hear me? All right. Well, I don't actually have a way. You know what? I've thought about this and the scripting, but I actually have no way to actually end this.
Speaker: um So, you know what? Well, have. I've got way. The thing we hear this again. let's go with the in interest let Let's go out with the new okay about that?
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Are you in? Yeah, I'm in. I want to say, before you do, i want to say thank you, Martin. It's been an absolute pleasure. I look forward to the next 100.
Speaker: Yep. Okay.
Speaker: ye
Speaker: okay Hello. Thank you, Paul. Thanks for being my ADHD wingman as co-mayor and ex-mayor.
Speaker: All right. that's
Speaker: Let's wave good, good, good. good
Speaker: I've dropped cake on myself. Lovely.
Speaker: but lovely
