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An early start to the day

>> Yeah, not too bad, man. Not too bad. >> Yeah. How's your day going today? >> Really well, actually. Got very early. Way too early. [laughter] >> Um, drove all the way down to...

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>> How's it going?

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>> Yeah, not too bad, man. Not too bad.

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>> Yeah. How's your day going today?

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>> Really well, actually. Got very early.

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Way too early. [laughter]

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>> Um, drove all the way down to Brighton

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in one go. So, that was fun.

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>> Okay.

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>> Um, and yeah, we're just enjoying the

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sights, enjoying the views.

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>> Okay. I guess where have you come from?

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>> Swansea.

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>> Really?

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>> Yeah. Wow.

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>> All the way down from Swansea.

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>> And are you a Welshman?

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>> I am. I am a Welsh man even though my my

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name is Matteo. So, I'm I'm half

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Italian, half Welsh. But that's a thing

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in Wales, isn't it?

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>> Yeah, there's uh there's quite a lot of

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Italians down in South Wales.

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>> I'm not sure. A lot came down in after

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the First World War and after the

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Second. Um I think they were just

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migrating to be honest and

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>> Okay.

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>> enjoying different parts of the world

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and they brought uh cafes, ice cream,

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gelato, stuff like that down. And yeah.

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>> How's your day going today?

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>> It's really good. Yeah. My daughter's

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getting married on Sunday, so we're just

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getting the last few bits of stuff that

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we need before we uh before we get ready

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for the final the final countdown.

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>> Wow. Is it a bit stressful or you

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getting to the end of that?

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>> I don't know. Is it stressful? It's

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quite [laughter] stressful. Good

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>> question.

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>> Okay.

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