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Hello.

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>> Hey, how are you doing?

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>> I'm very good, thank you. How's it going

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today?

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>> Pretty well, pretty well, thank you.

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>> Yeah, you feeling good?

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>> Yeah, yeah, I had a quite relaxing

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morning, getting out getting some fresh

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air.

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>> Oh yeah, day off today maybe?

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>> Uh most days are a day off these days.

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>> Oh yeah?

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>> Yeah.

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>> Okay. Since Since how long?

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>> Uh for about 3 years now.

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>> Okay, nice. And how's How does it feel?

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I'm guessing you're We're agreeing that

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you're retired.

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>> Uh yeah, kind of. Between work, shall we

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say?

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>> Okay.

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>> Between jobs.

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>> You're getting a taste for it.

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>> Yeah, yeah. And I came out thinking that

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the weather was good and I'd be able to

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play basketball down at the court, which

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is why I've got this bag, but the wind's

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southeasterly wind's always horrible, so

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I thought I'd just go for a a long walk

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rather than run around.

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>> Hi mate, you all right?

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>> I'm good, mate. How are you? You all

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right?

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>> Yeah, really good, thanks. How's your

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day going today?

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>> Yeah, good, man. Yeah.

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Not so busy today. Just just a quiet

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one, but that's all good. How about you?

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>> Uh yeah, pretty good. I'm almost done. I

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can go home, but I've got to stop by the

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Asda.

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>> Oh yeah?

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>> Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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>> Big dinner?

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>> No, deodorant.

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>> Oh.

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Oh.

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Yeah, it's fair, you're kicking off a

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bit.

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>> So, how you doing today?

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>> Good. I'm on holiday, so I'm excited

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about it.

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>> Oh wow, cool.

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>> Yeah.

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>> Uh how long is your holiday, and how

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long into your holiday are you?

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>> Uh this is my first day, and I'm

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actually here for like 3 days.

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>> Oh, great. In Brighton or the UK?

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>> In Brighton. Just visiting Brighton to

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just visit a friend.

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>> Right. Have you been to Brighton before?

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>> Years ago, yeah. I had a friend who

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lives was at university here, but I

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haven't been

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in I think 10 years.

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>> Okay. And what are you making of

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Brighton so far?

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>> So far, it's good.

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>> Okay.

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>> It's not raining. That's a good start.

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>> And where have you come from? Did you

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say already?

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>> Uh I flew from Amsterdam from

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Netherlands.

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>> And are you Dutch?

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>> I'm half Dutch, yeah. Half Dutch, half

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German.

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>> And how is uh the UK comparing to

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Holland, Netherlands, sorry?

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>> Uh weather-wise, probably very similar.

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Attitude-wise, probably a little bit

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different.

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>> Oh, no. This isn't representative. This

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is like a not a normal day in Brighton,

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I think.

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>> Not a normal day. And why is that?

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>> Uh because everyone thinks that it rains

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all the time, but I film quite often,

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and I don't get rained on very often.

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>> Well, that's good. It rains a lot in

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Netherlands.

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>> Oh, really?

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>> Yeah.

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>> Hi, mate. You're all right?

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>> Yeah.

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>> How are you? You're okay?

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>> Good, thanks. How's it going? You

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feeling okay?

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>> All good. I mean, you know, nice

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weather, you know, Wednesday, midweek,

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got paid. All good.

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>> So, how's your day going so far? You're

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working?

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>> Yeah, I'm working at the moment,

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actually. I'm having a ciggie.

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Uh but I finish early. Finish like 7:00,

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so it's fine.

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>> Oh, really? What's your uh what's your

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job?

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>> I work in the restaurant as a waiter.

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Yeah, that one over there.

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>> What have you been doing so far today?

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>> Uh we just waiting our kids from school.

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Yeah, it's uh

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6 hours. Yeah. From the

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uh 9:00 till 2:00, 3:00. It's uh 10, 11,

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12, 1, 2, 3. Oh, 6 hours.

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>> Yeah, I remember.

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>> And they walking and just have the

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walking near the seaside because we just

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moving to Brighton.

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>> And how old are your kids?

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>> Uh

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6 and 9.

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>> Well done.

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Hi.

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>> Hello.

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>> How are you doing?

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>> I'm good. How are you?

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>> Good, thank you. How's your day going so

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far?

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>> Uh good. I just left Sea Life Brighton

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and it was really nice. I got to see all

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the fishies and the sharks. It was

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really cool walking through the uh the

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sea tunnel and watching all the sharks

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fly like fly over even though they're

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not flying, they're swimming, but it was

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uh yeah, it was really nice seeing all

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the jellyfish cuz I love jellyfish.

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>> I guess they're like your favorite

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animal.

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>> Uh well, no. My favorite animal are

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cats. I'm quite basic, but um I think

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jellyfish are just really cool cuz they

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just they just vibe in the ocean. They

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just swim around. They don't do

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anything.

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>> Yeah.

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>> And they're really like luminescent. I

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like how bright they are and stuff.

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>> Yeah, they're kind of like the most

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alien-looking animal, really, aren't

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they?

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>> Yeah. As I just I don't know. I just

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find them fascinating.

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>> So, hello.

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>> Hi.

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>> And how are you two today?

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>> Yeah, fine.

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>> Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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>> Yeah, good.

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>> Yeah, pretty good.

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>> Uh and what have you been up to today?

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>> Yeah, actually just looking around,

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maybe take a walk by the sea or

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do a little bit of shopping.

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So, it's our first uh third time in

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Brighton.

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>> Okay, you're not local.

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>> No, we're not local. Not at all.

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>> Okay, whereabouts are you coming from

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then?

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>> We're from Switzerland. Yeah, near

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Zurich. I don't know. Maybe you know

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that.

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>> I have a friend living in Basel. That's

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the thing.

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>> All right, yeah, yeah. That's That's in

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another region, but

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It's like 2 hours.

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>> Okay.

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>> Yeah,

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um yeah.

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>> And

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how does Brighton compare to Zurich?

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>> Oh, wow.

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Um

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it's a little bit

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cozier.

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>> Yeah.

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>> Yeah.

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>> It's smaller for

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us.

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>> Smaller.

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>> But people are so much cooler here and

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it's very colorful.

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>> You know, because Zurich can be very uh

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how do you say that?

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It's a small people. Yeah,

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so they're a little bit

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Hi, yeah. You all right?

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>> Hi, yeah. I'm good. How are you?

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>> Yeah, I'm really good today. Thank you.

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How about you?

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>> I'm good. I've just been walking around

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shopping. Got some Pokémon cards, so you

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know, I'm pretty happy.

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>> Okay, what have you got? Have you got

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any any specials, any shinies?

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>> Let's have a look.

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>> Is it shinies? Is that still the term

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for

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>> No, it's like holograms, but like

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they're so rare and no, I didn't get

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anything good in this pack. No.

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>> But that's not the point, right?

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>> No, it's not the it's not the point.

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It would have been nice if I could have

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got my favorite Pokémon, which is

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Greninja. Don't know if you've ever

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heard of it.

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>> Is that what you're on the hunt for?

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>> Yeah, or anything to do with that

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Pokémon, really. It's like It's like a

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frog. Kind of like a frog. Um it's like

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a blue frog. It looks awesome. But um do

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you have a favorite Pokémon?

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>> Uh you just made me think of Squirtle.

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>> Squirtle, yeah, yeah, yeah. Everyone

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Everyone loves the original Pokémon.

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>> Are you a fan of swimming in the sea?

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>> Uh no, I'm a fan of

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the idea of swimming in the sea.

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>> Having the look of someone who

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>> Let Let Let's sort the practicalities.

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I'm not very good at being cold and wet.

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>> Okay. You never been Do you not go in

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ever?

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>> Oh, no, I've been in loads of times.

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Yeah, I'm not one of these, "Yeah, it's

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minus two on December the 25th. I'm

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going to go and throw myself in the

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river." It's like, "No, I'm not going to

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do that. I'll sit in front of the fire

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and keep warm."

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>> Yeah, and me I'm the same. Exactly the

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same. What would you consider a good

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tip? Or what What is the kind of the

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rule you you'd say nowadays about

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tipping?

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>> I don't really have a rule about that,

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honestly. I No, no, no, honestly. Like

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in America, it's 10% of the bill. I

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don't really think like that.

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Whatever you feel like comfortable

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doing, I'm I'm more than comfortable to

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accept, you know. It's not even I don't

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even think in that way.

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>> Yeah.

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>> It's not the place to think like that,

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if you know what I mean.

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Uh but yeah, the money's good. The

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money's good. The people are amazing.

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The food is beautiful. Uh

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>> Is there a bad side to your job? Any

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negatives?

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>> Uh

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It's just having to work.

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It's just having to work.

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>> You'd rather just not work, if possible.

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>> Yeah, or do something else.

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>> I know that feeling.

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>> Yeah. I mean, as a kid I thought to

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myself, by 40 I want to retire. I don't

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care. I'm retiring by 40. No, I'm 43.

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>> Yeah.

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>> It didn't happen.

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>> What would

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>> Yet.

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>> Okay.

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>> Yet. Let's be positive.

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>> Yeah, yeah.

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>> Are you from Brighton?

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>> Uh no, we are from Ukraine. But before

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we live in London and it's we just

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moving this a first three days.

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>> Oh, wow. Okay, tell me which place is

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better, London or Brighton you think?

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>> Oh, I can't tell

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the same. It's It's so different place.

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It London it's a

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too much gallery and people and some

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I don't know. It's like a so expressive

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energy, but in Brighton is more slow

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living and the ocean is so different.

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It's like a New York and LA.

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Or like a French Riviera and Paris and

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totally different place and two amazing

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place.

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>> Good comparison. Okay. And what are you

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doing with your kids later?

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>> Uh we are back to the London.

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>> Ah, okay.

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>> Because we have flight just from the

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tomorrow.

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>> Ah, okay. And when you say cats, do you

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mean house cats or like the cats?

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>> Any cat. I love My favorite cat

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specifically would be snow leopards. I

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love snow leopards and I love the fact

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that they have a really long tail to

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balance themselves when they climb

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mountains and stuff. Even though Even

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though they're snow leopards, they don't

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actually live like live in snow biomes.

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So, they live in like rocky biomes. So,

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it's yeah.

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>> And do you own cats? Do you have cats?

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>> I have a cat. I have one cat and then I

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also have a dog and they fight all the

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time. But they're really cute. So, I

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have a little orange cat. Well, I say

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little. He's quite big. He's He's a

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mistake him for like a Maine kind

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of big.

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>> Oh, really?

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>> Yeah. But he's just a he's just a normal

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house cat like a tabby cat, but he's

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just massive for some reason. But yeah.

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>> Yeah, I was going to recommend if you

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don't have cats they have like a cat

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cafe.

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>> I heard about it. Yeah, I really

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I've got so many plans for today, but

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I'm I might have to stop by. Have a

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little look.

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>> Yeah, so you're pretty uh like someone

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who just is normally has like hairs in

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your coffee every morning and stuff

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anyway.

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>> There's hairs everywhere. It's to the

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point where I just kind of like blur it

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out. I can't even see the hairs anymore.

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But like they'll pop back up in my

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vision right before I leave the house

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and I see like my leggings or my tights

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will be covered in cat hair and I'm like

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oops. Oh well.

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>> Yeah, I understand. I have a dog and I'm

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exactly the same. Like I'm constantly

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dusting myself now.

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>> So what would be the dream scenario then

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would you

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have retired at 40? What would you going

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to do then? Do you have a passion?

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>> Oh, I have many passions, but I think

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that one would immediately be

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to get a farm, a small plot of land,

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have some animals, you know, I like

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plants, I love plants. If you're into

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plants, it's another thing. It's another

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dimension. You're not even there, you

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know.

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And it's an empathic thing. Like you

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develop empathy

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with plants, which is a bit weird.

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>> Yeah. But you definitely do.

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>> Yeah, yeah, if your plants will to know,

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oh my god, it's like an animal, you

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know.

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>> Yeah, yeah. I actually my my top of my

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list of chat GPT is I have a monstera

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that died. It got gnats. And I panicked

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and I just I bought I honestly I'm

12:45

treating it like a child. I've spent too

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much money on like

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this like weird breathable soil.

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>> Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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>> I can't remember the name now.

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>> Yeah, yeah, yeah. Perlite maybe?

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Perlite.

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I know my plants, I told you.

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I told you.

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>> Funny. So do you have a plan for tonight

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in Brighton?

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>> We probably have some dinner.

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>> Yeah.

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>> Somewhere.

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>> Yeah.

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>> Somewhere nice.

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>> Nice.

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>> Yeah.

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>> And we've wanted to see the the the sea.

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>> Yeah.

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>> I want to go to the pier.

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>> Yeah, to the pier.

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>> Okay, yeah.

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>> walk a little bit into the sea sort of.

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>> Really? Go for a dip in the sea?

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>> No, no, no, no. Like on the pier, but

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>> Okay.

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>> It's a little bit further away from the

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beach.

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>> Right, okay. And are you going to have

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some English food or you going to dine

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out somewhere else?

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>> We will see, I guess.

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>> Do you like English food? Have you tried

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English food?

13:37

>> We haven't tried English food yet.

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>> Okay.

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>> But we we have we ate a lot of Asian

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food.

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>> Yes.

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>> Yeah.

13:46

>> good Chinese and

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>> Yeah, have you tried any Indian food

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here? Like in England is obviously quite

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well known for its Indian cuisine.

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>> Yeah, we actually just

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>> So, yeah.

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>> restaurant around the corner

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and they serve Indian food.

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>> Yeah.

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>> Yeah, maybe try it

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in the evening.

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>> How long are you working for today?

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>> Uh I'm working only until about 5:00

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actually. I've got an evening off.

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>> That's decent for a restaurant, isn't

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it?

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>> Yeah, bonfire tonight in Lewes, um Lewes

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bonfire. So, I'll be over there this

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evening,

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um which is which I'm looking forward

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to. Go every year.

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>> What's a bonfire?

14:18

>> Um a bonfire is

14:20

culturally very different to what it

14:22

literally is just

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a pile of wood that you set fire to,

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literally. Uh culturally, it's been

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going in Lewes for 150 years.

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Um it's the biggest bonfire society in

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the world.

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>> And then how about later on tonight?

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What's your plan?

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>> Uh so, we are off to Lewes bonfire to

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try and give that a go and hopefully the

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traffic is okay.

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>> Wow, what's a bonfire?

14:44

>> A bonfire is a

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uh

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ginormous pile of wood which you set on

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fire. Uh

14:53

>> Why?

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>> I miss I miss occasion it's to mark uh

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November 5th, which was a failed

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historically was a failed uh attempt to

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blow up the Houses of Parliament um and

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it's uh to

15:06

I think essentially remind politicians

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not to

15:10

be too outrageous and keep them in check

15:12

a little bit and also remember that the

15:14

failed attempt and the people who were

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brutally executed.

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>> Wow, English culture is very strange.

15:24

>> Yeah, there we go.

15:25

But yeah, that's that's what

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Bonfire Night is about.

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>> And lastly, what are you up to tonight?

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>> I'm watching a basketball game on TV.

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I've got a friend who plays

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professionally in Italy.

15:36

>> Oh, really? Wow.

15:38

>> And unusually, they've got a midweek

15:40

game this week, so I'll be tuning into

15:42

that at 5:00.

15:43

>> Wow, is that who got you into basketball

15:45

then?

15:45

>> No, no.

15:46

Me and his mother were muckers when we

15:48

were both playing for Sheffield

15:51

30, 35 years ago.

15:52

>> Wow.

15:52

>> And it's my friend's son, so

15:54

he's been brought up very much

15:58

in the heart of the basketball family.

16:00

But he's

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>> But he's in Italy now.

16:02

>> He went over as a 16-year-old um

16:05

as a as a professional. So, he has

16:07

Italian papers and plays as an Italian

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in the Italian league.

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But still gets to play for GB

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internationally.

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>> Wow, good.

16:14

>> seeing his rise from a skinny little kid

16:16

about my height to now being 6'5" and 15

16:19

stone, it's uh

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Yeah, it's been quite inspirational.

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It's helped me on my journey back to to

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trying to compete again at a high level,

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so

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>> That's great. It's a great to watch them

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live on television knowing him like

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>> Yeah, you know, I go to the shops and

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get some salami and Italian pizza and

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Italian all my stock cupboard has become

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desperately Italian over the past few

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years.

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And as a consequence, my diet's improved

16:42

enormously.

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>> That's fantastic. I'm

16:46

getting you looking forward to that.

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>> It should be a good one.

16:48

>> All right, so have a nice evening.

16:49

>> Thank you.

16:50

>> Nice to meet you. Thank you.

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>> And uh will you be setting fire to

16:53

anything in theory or

16:54

>> Not personally,

16:55

um but I'll be enjoying those that do.

16:58

I'll be enjoying what they what they

16:59

create. They always create different

17:01

sort of effigies

17:02

um of different characters, whether it's

17:04

like political characters or cartoon

17:06

characters or you know, real and and and

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fictional so

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they're all relevant to the year we've

17:11

just had. So, I imagine there will be

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a Mr. Donald Trump floating around this

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evening

17:17

um or or Nigel Farage, but something

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like that for sure. And I'll be burning

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those.

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>> Oh, great. Well, have a nice evening.

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>> You too, man.

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>> Okay, well, I hope you have a nice

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evening. Nice speaking to you.

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>> Thank you.

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>> Enjoy your time in Brighton.

17:29

>> Thank you. Thank you. You too.

17:31

>> Hope you have a nice evening.

17:33

>> You too.

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>> Nice to meet you.

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>> Yeah, it was really nice talking to you.

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>> Have a lovely one, yeah.

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>> Thank you.

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>> Thank you for watching this week's

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episode. How did you like it? Please let

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comments below. And as always, we'll see

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you next time.

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Ta-ta.