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Welcome to "Bonus Dad, Bonus Daughter," a heartwarming and insightful podcast celebrating the unique bond between a stepfather Davey, and his stepdaughter Hannah.
Join them as they explore the joys, challenges, and everyday moments that make this relationship special.
Each episode they take a topic and discuss the differences, similarities and the effect each one had one them
Featuring candid conversations, personal stories, and many laughs
Whether you're a step-parent, stepchild, or simply interested in family dynamics, "Bonus Dad, Bonus Daughter" offers a fresh perspective on love, family, and the bonds that unite us.
Bonus Dad Bonus Daughter
We Discover How Well Davey Remembers Hannah's Childhood
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Father’s Day turns into a proper test of family memory when we flip the script and Hannah brings a surprise, three-part plan built around past, present and future. Davey turns up with no idea what’s coming, and we start with the real stuff: a health update on suspected endometriosis, getting onto a waiting list for diagnostic surgery, and the strange mix of nerves and relief that comes with finally being heard. It is personal, frank, and exactly the kind of conversation a father and daughter do not always make time for.
Then we swing into the present with the everyday moments that make this father daughter podcast feel like a living scrapbook: Mexican Train dominoes in the garden as the rain starts, a last-minute dash to London for Hadestown, and the undeniable truth that late nights hit differently now. From there, nostalgia takes over with McFly memories, a signed poster, and a surprisingly thoughtful detour into what happens when memorabilia stops feeling harmless, including the moral question of what to do with items linked to people who later caused harm.
The heart of part one is a playful quiz on how well Davey remembers Hannah’s childhood. We bounce through favourite toys, The Simpsons at 6 pm, Disney comfort watches, picky eating shaped by money worries, school trips, and the chaos of Birds Cottage, including a vomit-in-the-face story and a glow stick emergency that still makes us wince. We finish with the final score and a Father’s Day sign-off that is warm, silly, and honest.
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Welcome And Father’s Day Setup
SPEAKER_00Hello and welcome to Bonus Dad.
SPEAKER_01Bonus Daughter, a special father-daughter podcast with me, Hannah.
SPEAKER_00And me, Davy, where we discuss our differences, similarities, share a few laughs and stories. Within our ever-changing and complex world.
SPEAKER_01Each week we will discuss a topic from our own point of view. And influences throughout the decades. Or you could choose one by contacting us via email, Instagram, Facebook, or TikTok. Links in bio. Hello and welcome to part one of the Father's Day special Bonus Dad, Bonus Daughter podcast today.
SPEAKER_00Part one.
SPEAKER_01Part one of three.
SPEAKER_00So this is a new concept because Hannah's written three episodes.
SPEAKER_01All three episodes today, because today is Father's Day. Happy Father's Day.
SPEAKER_00Thank you, daughter.
SPEAKER_01You're welcome.
SPEAKER_00And I have no idea what these next three episodes are going to be. I haven't got a Scooby.
SPEAKER_01So I had a little thought about what to do because we were recording on Father's Day. I thought I'll try and make it extra special. And one, take all the work away from you, other than the fact that you're going to be, you know, doing the audio and video because that's your area of expertise. But the actual like the podcast episode thing.
SPEAKER_00This is all you.
SPEAKER_01This is all me.
SPEAKER_00This is all you. I don't think you've ever done this before.
SPEAKER_01No, I haven't.
SPEAKER_00We're like episode 4,628.
SPEAKER_01I hope none of them are rubbish that you'll have to drop a part. That's my worry. That's my worry. Is that saying, oh, it's three parts. So yeah. Um before we do, okay.
Endometriosis Update And Next Steps
SPEAKER_00Life update?
SPEAKER_01Done anything? Um I guess life update for me is a medical life update.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_01Is that yeah? Okay. Yeah. Uh so I um I'm now on the wait list for surgery. Yeah. Really good. Uh so I'm gonna have another diagnostic surgery in March. So I don't know what we'll do podcast wise. We'll we'll work around it. Yeah, yeah. We'll work around it. But yeah, March next year, going under the ninth again. Uh they're not gonna chop me up, they're gonna have a look around and see if they can find endometriosis again.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but they couldn't didn't you say they're quite confident this time?
SPEAKER_01They're they're confident it was missed the first time, which doesn't give me a lot of confidence.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but I but I hear that a lot within endometriosis. It does happen a lot.
SPEAKER_01It does happen a lot. So hopefully, fingers crossed, this time they find it or find the cause of all of my pain problems. So uh, you know, open mind at this point. And if they don't, they have uh they have earmarked me for a hysterectomy, which is what I exactly what I wanted.
SPEAKER_00So Which we call the nuclear option.
SPEAKER_01The nuclear option is there and and they will uh they will do it, is is something that they have told me. So that's good because since well, uh since the beginning they haven't said that they would do that because I'm too young.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Now I'm not too young.
SPEAKER_00You've hit the big you'll hit the big three-o.
SPEAKER_01I'll hit the big three-o, and then uh didn't get a diagnosis before 30, but we move, we move, we move. So yeah, that's I guess that's my life update. Pretty boring, pretty uh what did you do last night?
Mexican Train And A London Dash
SPEAKER_01What did I do last night? I came around here. You did I did. Uh we played Mexican train, I won.
SPEAKER_00Yes. In the rain.
SPEAKER_01In the rain. We were outside in the garden and the the clouds were getting darker and darker as we were playing, and uh yeah.
SPEAKER_00I mean the heavens opened.
SPEAKER_01The heavens did open, but we we were pretty quick.
SPEAKER_00We were quick.
SPEAKER_01And all the dominoes were slightly wet, but you know, they're all waterproof.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01The game is actually a very waterproof game. It is a very water. It's a camping-friendly game. If you've got a table, camp friendly.
SPEAKER_00Did you hear the story about me trying to find the game?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, because you didn't realise even I knew what it looked like in its in its box, but you had no idea apparently.
SPEAKER_00Well, I thought it was I I could have sworn it was in a metal tin, so I was looking for a metal tin, and I was looking for about an hour for this, like hunting everywhere around the house. Because as we know, you know, things you know, we've got games dotted absolutely everywhere. And I hunted and I even saw this bloody thing like loads of times and didn't even open it up and thought that it's not in that, that's something else. And then your mum just went and got it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. It was definitely a mad look if I if I may be sexist. Um, was that all of your life update?
SPEAKER_00No, we went to we went to big we went to the the smoke on uh on Tuesday. Okay. We went to London.
SPEAKER_01Nice.
SPEAKER_00I went to see Hades Town. Yeah, so I hear that was uh that was a last minute kind of thing. Your mum just said, shall we go? And I was like spontaneity, why not? So drove down to London on Tuesday, and drove back from London on Tuesday. Had uh the show started at half seven, finished at 10, got back across London at 10 o'clock at night, got into the car at Watford at oh, 12 o'clock, and got home at 2 o'clock in the morning, was up at 6, and me went to work, and me no can do this anymore. No, no, no, gone are the days. I remember like when I was in my twenties, I would go out Thursday and come home Sunday, yeah, work in between with like no sleep whatsoever, and still be absolutely fine.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Now me need me eight hours.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, I get you.
SPEAKER_00I'm way too old for those malarkeys.
SPEAKER_01Well, yesterday I didn't wake up until 11am, which is we we did go to bed late, but even that's late for me. I was I needed that sleep. I'd had a few late nights.
McFly Nostalgia And A Moral Dilemma
SPEAKER_01I went and saw McFly. You didn't see McFly, yes. So that was a late night. Uh it took us ages to get out of Thetford Forest, but luckily it was at Thetford and it was local, so to get home was like 45 minutes maybe max. Um plus it was late at night, so you know, casual speeding.
SPEAKER_00But you still got your signed McFly post.
SPEAKER_01I do, I found it the other day. Did you? Yep. Yeah. I'm thinking of putting it in a frame, I just haven't found the frame that I have.
SPEAKER_00How old were you when you got that?
SPEAKER_01Um I figured it out. It was I I think it was 2007 because the date on the you might have to correct me though, because obviously it depends on when you were working there.
SPEAKER_00No, it wasn't. It was it would be before then.
SPEAKER_01And maybe it's 2004 then, because I always get the two confused because there's a date on it, but it doesn't have the year, but you know you can work out the date because you have the day that they went. Yeah. So I managed to work it out. It was definitely like like early naughties then. If it's not 2007, I'm thinking of something else.
SPEAKER_00Well, I was working at Woolies and I'm working where I am now. I've been there for 21 years.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, oh right, yeah. So that doesn't quite make sense.
SPEAKER_00No.
SPEAKER_012004, 2005, then something like that. But yeah, I've still got it and I'm I'm looking to frame it soon, actually. It's a little bit uh beaten up over the years. Do you remember that I have some dark memorabilia as well?
SPEAKER_00Some dark memorabilia.
SPEAKER_01It would be classed as dark Oh shit, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and I still don't know what to do with it. Um It's difficult because I I don't want to sell it and make a profit because that just feels really, really immorally wrong.
SPEAKER_00On the dark web. Nice, nice phrase. What? Profit.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. Um yeah, I don't know what it is I don't know what to do with it.
SPEAKER_01But it feels weird binning it, but also at the same time, like what about stash it upstairs.
SPEAKER_00In case you're wondering what it is, by the way, it's some Lost Profits.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, before we knew Before we knew, yeah, yeah, yeah. Lost Profits. I have uh the whole ticket is signed by every single member of the band.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Um and I don't know what to do with it. Yeah, it feels weird. It feels weird holding onto it, and it feels weird throwing it, and it feels weird. I wouldn't ever sell it. Um but anyway, yeah. Dark memorabilia there.
SPEAKER_00Very controversial. I remember that day when McFly came because that was hilarious, because I was the one who opened up the doors and uh because they came to Woolies, didn't they? And there was like there was like loads of people outside come to see McFly, and they were doing like a meet and greet signing session.
SPEAKER_01It was when Obviously was um it was like their debut. So when did Obviously come out? Obviously.
SPEAKER_00And I just remember it was hilarious because I opened up the front doors to the shop. 2004. 2004, McFly was behind, and there was just like this massive scream from all these people that you could sort of teenage girls. It was just and I was like a bit of screaming from the old.
SPEAKER_01How old was I in 2004? So that would make me eight.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Eight eight. But they were really nice guys.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, uh they the energy on stage, even now, yeah, absolutely phenomenal. They danced, they were rocking out. It was like a little bit like watching your dad rock out on stage because they're of that age, but honestly, they they come up on stage and they were like, Oh, um, McFly is 23 years old um this year. How uh how many of you are younger than 23? And a lot of the crowd still cheered.
SPEAKER_00Well, that doesn't make sense. The only thing because of two years, yeah, 23. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so um, so they were like, Yeah, McFly's 23 years old, and how many of you are over 23? And then some of us who were older than 23 was like, Yeah, and then it was like we all looked around me like ha ha yeah, we all lied.
SPEAKER_00But yeah, but yeah, they were they pretty damn good. Yeah, they were really nice guys, and they went and they spoke to everybody that day, and yeah, they were just really, really nice. And they yeah, and they signed I just I just asked them if they'd sign uh a poster for you because you weren't there, were you?
SPEAKER_01No, no, I think I was at school. It was a it was a school day, it was like a Wednesday or something.
SPEAKER_00Um yeah, but yeah, they signed all they said what's her name and Yes, there's two Hannah on it, and they've all signed it.
SPEAKER_01It's awesome, really awesome. Yeah, uh okay. Shall we get on with the Father's Day festivities?
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_01So I thought really hard about how I could do a three-part episode. Um, so I've got a bit of a theme. What is this? Uh that will be for episode two.
SPEAKER_00Oh, okay. Episode two. You see, you'd you're to you'd got me presents and like you're they're just they're toying. Is that Christmas paper?
SPEAKER_01It is, I didn't have anything else. It's it's rude Santa paper, like all the presents are covering up his private parts and his hat or his hands. Yeah. Um I'm sorry, I didn't have anything else.
SPEAKER_00That's hilarious.
SPEAKER_01Well, I thought Father's Father Christmas.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, okay. It kind of kind of tracks a little bit.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but that is all I had at home, sorry. It was either that or dog birthday paper, which I mean would have been fine, but yeah.
SPEAKER_00Have you noticed I've got a new top on today?
SPEAKER_01Oh not a new top, but a different top. I love that top on you. It's very uh it it it's giving stoner like surf vibe energy, and I'm I'm here for it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so that's what I bought in New Jersey, Ocean City New Jersey.
SPEAKER_01It really suits you. I really like it.
SPEAKER_00I like this top because it's very hot outside, so this is very cottony and very light.
SPEAKER_01Very nice too. It's it is warm. It is warm.
SPEAKER_00It's very warm.
SPEAKER_01So um we have we have three episodes for Father's Day.
SPEAKER_00Yes.
SPEAKER_01Uh so I decided the theme would be past,
Past Present Future Father’s Day Plan
SPEAKER_01present, and future.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_01Okay. So uh we're gonna start with the past. Feels like feels like the best place to start.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01You ready?
SPEAKER_00I'm I'm I'm ready. Hang on. Let's go.
SPEAKER_01Let's go.
The Childhood Memory Quiz Begins
SPEAKER_01Good evening. Uh okay, so these are all questions about how well you know me.
SPEAKER_00Oh, okay. I thought you were gonna say your mother. Oh, just very quickly, just very quickly, I went to get your mother's prescription yesterday.
SPEAKER_01Prescription, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Prescription, yeah. And I went into went to the chemist, and normally they just ask your address, don't they?
SPEAKER_01Uh I haven't picked up a prescription in years. I get mine delivered.
SPEAKER_00But they say, um, they say, oh, you know, I just went up there and said it's for it's for Sharon. And they said uh okay, so then they said uh normally they would ask what's your address? What's your address? But he didn't. He went, uh, what's the date of birth? And then it rolled, I rolled off my tongue and I stood there and I went, I'll tell you, mate, it's a good job if you didn't ask us or ask me on my anniversary, I'd have been screwed.
SPEAKER_01Such a man. Yeah. Such a man. So yeah, so this is a quiz on how well you know me.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_01But how well you knew me as a child.
SPEAKER_00Okay, your hair is ginger.
SPEAKER_01No, not yet. Not yet. So the first question was Yes. What was my favourite toy as a child? Blanky.
SPEAKER_00Not blanky, a bunny.
SPEAKER_01Bunny! Bunny.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you got that right. Bunny.
SPEAKER_01Tick for you.
SPEAKER_00And Bunny has been destroyed and repaired many, many times. By destroyed. Well, just it was very well loved.
SPEAKER_01It was well loved. It was well loved. It actually has a second skin on it as well. The original bunny skin is underneath, and mum mum sewed the skin of another bunny over the top.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I I remember when your mum was putting the eyes back on.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and it only has one ear.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I know. Bunny with one ear.
SPEAKER_01Do you know what happened to the ear?
SPEAKER_00That's not a question, but No, I don't actually. Do you not? Because it because you only ever had one ear.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so I pulled it or someone pulled it off as a child. Yeah. Someone did. And then um uh mum might have to correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty certain a cat stole it. The ear. And I believe Mum might have to correct me, but I'm sure it was my Uncle Terry's friend, Keith.
SPEAKER_00Right. He had a cat. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And I'm pretty certain it was Keith's cat.
SPEAKER_00Right, okay.
SPEAKER_01That stole the ear, but mum, mum can fact checker. Have you got the fact checker thing?
SPEAKER_00Oh, I have.
SPEAKER_01Fact checker. Yeah, we'll have to get her uh get her thing on that. So you one point to you. Yeah. Oh, I should have said there's 25 questions.
SPEAKER_00Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_01Okay. What was the name of my first best friend?
SPEAKER_00Your first best friend. I was gonna say Ellie.
SPEAKER_01It's a close. I I think I might give you that answer. Yeah. Yep. I would say Ellie. Ellie listens to this podcast as well. So hi Ellie. Um Elie Norr. I I will I will put that as a tick. I would have accepted Emily Davis as well. Oh, I probably should m Mark I like that. That's right, that's right. Oh no, okay. I would have accepted Emily Davis.
SPEAKER_00I saw I saw Ellie at um you'd killed it.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I thought you might have done.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that was really funny. That was when uh when when Ellie came in to get a haircut once and she said um she was in here and and your mum said, Oh, guess who Ellie's seeing now? Uh I went, I don't know. She said, Um, well, you know them. Okay, she went. Member of Kingdom Keys. And immediately I went Simon. Do it be Simon immediately that it was Simon. Do it be Simon, yeah.
SPEAKER_01What was my favourite TV show when I was under 10?
SPEAKER_00Oh see, we used to watch Rolly Polioli all the time.
SPEAKER_01Okay, no, don't don't think of morning.
SPEAKER_00Don't think of morning. Uh Charmed?
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_00No?
SPEAKER_01What did I used to record every single day at 6 pm channel 4?
SPEAKER_00I don't know.
SPEAKER_01How have you not said The Simpsons? Oh god, yes, sorry.
SPEAKER_00Sorry, sorry, yes, The Simpsons. But you we used to watch so much together.
SPEAKER_01We did, we did. We watched Supernatural, Charmed was another one, yeah. Yeah, Buffy, Angel. But I think Simpsons probably would have taken the I was so Simpsons was your thing.
SPEAKER_00My thing.
SPEAKER_01It was my no one else watched The Simpsons, it was just me. So I put that down as my favourite.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Okay But I do accept your other answers, but they are wrong.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER_01What was my favourite Disney movie growing up?
SPEAKER_00Your favourite Disney movie growing up?
SPEAKER_01You probably know what it is now, but you might Hercules. That's what it is now.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_01That's fine. Do you remember what my favourite one is? It is one of the princess ones. To really to your surprise, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Really? What?
SPEAKER_01Snow White? No. Cinderella? No. Bambi? No. Princess one. Bloody deer. Um princess. Who's the one that's quite like me? Oh, Brave! No. Well, yeah, I used to call you Brave. I know you call me Merida, but that's not no. Who's quite bookish?
SPEAKER_00Who's quite bookish?
SPEAKER_01I used to watch it. Well, it was on a video and on my little TV put it in. I don't even think it was the original. I think mum recorded it off the TV.
SPEAKER_00I thought you could do that. That's fine. Um I don't know. I can't think. Bookish.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, she's quite bookish. Here comes the baker with his tray, like always. Doo doe doo doe doo doo.
SPEAKER_00No, I've no idea. See, I used to switch off when Disney films used to come on, so I don't know. Ratatouille.
SPEAKER_01Tanner's oldest time.
SPEAKER_00No.
SPEAKER_01Beauty and the Beast.
SPEAKER_00Oh, oh cool, yeah, of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01You buggered that one up.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, what was her name in Beauty and the Beast? Belle. Belle, that was it. And what was the Beast name? Beast. Beast. And his name.
SPEAKER_01It was Prince something. Prince. Gaston.
SPEAKER_00Oh, Gaston. No, Gaston was the no one spitznize Gaston. No one drinks like Gaston. No one's blessed Gaston. We saw the live version of that in Florida, didn't we? Yeah, we did, yeah. Saw that in Florida, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yes, that was my favourite growing up, I would say that's my favourite.
SPEAKER_00Oh, there they eat.
SPEAKER_01Um what food could I eat every single day as a child?
SPEAKER_00Meatballs.
SPEAKER_01Uh do you know what? I'll give you that. I was gonna say spag spaghetti. Spaghetti, yeah. Very similar, very similar. I'm gonna eat.
SPEAKER_00I remember you we used to buy you tins and tins of meatballs.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, meatballs and gravy. Yeah, right. That's all you would eat. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Meatballs and gravy.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. It's it's amazing that um that autism uh diagnosis didn't come sooner. Yeah.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00I just I just remember that as all you I used to remember.
SPEAKER_01Um I'm much better now. Yeah um and I think that's all to Mitchell really, because he I don't know, he encourages me to try things without worrying if I'm gonna like it or not. Yeah, you know that that I think I think when I was younger, this is no this is no um shade on your parenting, by the way. Um I just want to make that really clear. But there's I think when I was younger, I was worried about if I didn't like something, it was a waste of money. Yeah. You know, because money was quite tight. Yeah. So it was saying that I always wanted meatballs all the time, I knew that You'd eat it. I'd eat it, and you know, it you wouldn't waste your money on it, basically, because I'd eat it all. Um, yeah. Even now, like I still think to myself, oh, I'll I'll eat all my meat first because that's the most expensive part.
SPEAKER_00Which is Well, I still do that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I know, but it's kind of really silly to do that because you know you're gonna eat it all anyway, so you might as well eat it how you want to eat it rather than in this way anyway.
SPEAKER_00I remember when we went to um I think we're I think we were in Greece. Yeah, I think we were in Greece and we had like we were eating Crete. Crete, yeah, and we had like the menus and the Greek food. I mean your mum, me and your mum were having like different bits of Greek food, and you just had spag bowl all the time.
SPEAKER_01I'm pretty certain out of the 14 nights or 14 dinners that we had there, I'm pretty certain 10 of them were spaghetti bolognets because I was so worried about you having to spend money and and and me not liking it. Whereas spag bowl, safe.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I remember I had carbonara one night. Just to mix it up. Just to mix it up, but still kind of like an Italian type pasta type thing.
SPEAKER_00Actually, I'm gonna do carbonara tonight. Well, not carbonara, I'm gonna do like um very nice Tagliatelli with chicken and and double cream and mascarone and parmesan.
SPEAKER_01I thought we were having chips.
SPEAKER_00Oh shit, yeah, we are.
unknownOh.
SPEAKER_00Oh no, because your mum's coming back, isn't she? And then we're going out, I think.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, for to the beach for some chips.
SPEAKER_00Yes, for some chips. So we won't be having carbonara tonight, I won't. You'll have it tomorrow. I'll have it tomorrow night.
SPEAKER_01Nice. Um, can you recall what my favourite school trip was?
SPEAKER_00Um Was it when we came and picked you up at like two o'clock in the morning from the bus? Was that the one where I sent you that text where it says you know, don't forget your parts don't don't no talky boys, boys bad. Was it Germany?
SPEAKER_01I really enjoyed my Germany trip because I went to Fantasialand. But that's not actually the one I thought of. But actually now that I think about it, you might know me better than I know myself, because that was a good trip.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I'm gonna give you that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, see.
SPEAKER_01I am gonna give you that. I was thinking the French Exchange in my head because I just thought that was an amazing experience for me to have.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah, because we had um Thingy come over, didn't we?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you had yeah What were their names? Alex and um uh Elliot as well.
SPEAKER_00Elliot, yeah, Elliot was great, I liked him, he was really cool.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, um yeah, I think I'm gonna give you that, to be honest. Do you remember if I ever got detention?
SPEAKER_00No. Not that I remember.
SPEAKER_01Really?
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I got one.
SPEAKER_00Did you?
SPEAKER_01Over my whole schooling career. What was that for? For not filling in a contents page, funnily enough, in French.
SPEAKER_00What?
SPEAKER_01So every lesson there was like a a topic.
SPEAKER_00You got detention for that?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. It wasn't that I didn't do it, it was that I didn't realise I had to do it. Right. And therefore she pulled us all in and it was like a it was like a class detention.
SPEAKER_00Oh, right. So a bit ruined my breakfast club style thing.
SPEAKER_01It kind of ruined my record a little bit because I had no detention, so I was so mad about that as well. Oh, I was always in detention. Nah.
SPEAKER_00We used to have at school, we used to have lunchtime detention, or if you were really naughty, you'd have Friday night detention.
SPEAKER_02Oh, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Friday night. That was when you're really bad.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00Never got suspended, though. I was very good. I got away with so much.
SPEAKER_01Mostly, yeah, I was gonna say. Uh so as a child, what was my McDonald's order?
SPEAKER_00As a child, oh, it was a happy meal, chicken nuggets. Yeah, it was. Chicken nugget happy meal. Love a good nug. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Love a good nug, me. Right, ready? Okay. Are you ready for a for a throwback memory?
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01What house were we living in when I vomited in your face?
SPEAKER_00Oh, that was uh I'm just trying to think of the layout. So our bedroom was there, I ran through there, and that was that your bedroom was there, and you were on top of the bunk bed. So cabin bed, yeah. The cabin bed. So that would have been that would have been um Heart's Farm.
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_00Was it not? No.
SPEAKER_01Was it not? No.
SPEAKER_00Really?
SPEAKER_01Much, much earlier. Was it? Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Was it Attleboro? No.
SPEAKER_01No. Where did we move to now you're too late? Uh you're now you're too early, sorry.
SPEAKER_00So we went we moved from Atty from A from A. Ay from A. We moved from Attleborough. From A Town. From A Town. Atty. A We moved from Atty to where did we move to? Oh, that's the bit you're not remembering well. No. Trying to think where we moved to. I thought Come on, that's the best house we've ever lived in, in my opinion. I can't remember.
SPEAKER_01Uh you vomited in my face at uh I vomited in your face at Bird's Cottage. No, it was. It was it was in the cabin bed and and uh it had black
Birds Cottage Mishaps And Near Misses
SPEAKER_01painted floors, floorboards, and you lifted me up from the cat the cabin bed.
SPEAKER_00I just worn it was in Hartsfield.
SPEAKER_01No, no, it was much earlier than that. Bird's Cottage. Yeah, oh yeah, I vomited in your face.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you were mouth open. Mouth open, I had my mouth open and everything. Yeah, yeah, bless you. You were you just went, I'm gonna be sick, and I ran through and I picked you up, and just as I held you over, you just yeah, let it all loose.
SPEAKER_01180.
SPEAKER_00But the best of it was was your mum. Because she was like, she doesn't feel sick, yeah. She she felt she felt well, and I was like, I'm picking bits of vomit. I'm I am really sorry about that, but you weren't very well though, no, or old. I wasn't very old at all. But it was your mum who was then like reaching because of what? Because I just like had a vomit-covered face.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Do you know what else also happened in that house? Go on, what that could have rendered me blind.
SPEAKER_00I felt bad over that because I you waterboarded me. I did waterboard you, and I I had to hold your head so tight. But yeah, you um that was a glow stick. Yeah, we weren't sure if it was toxic or not, and we put you through.
SPEAKER_01She basically drowned me.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I probably put you through and just like poured the was just pouring water over your face to try and get the uh get the glow stick off.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah, but it was but then we that was definitely birds' cottage because I remember the bathroom.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I I remember that incident quite vividly, actually. A lot happened there, didn't it?
SPEAKER_00I mean we set fire to the place as well.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that might be coming up. Yeah, um that's also the house where I thought I saw a ghost. Do you remember?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01It was a bit I think it was haunted that house.
SPEAKER_00That house was so funny because when we first got there, because it was it had very, very low ceilings. Yeah, yeah. Incredibly low ceilings. And the landlord said that he would and you went, you walked in and you went up a step in the living room, and then you had the beams across the across the top. And the funny thing is, the landlord said, Well, he said, What do? Is I'm gonna make the floor all one level. We thought that he'd lower the floor, but he didn't. He raised the other bit as well. So I I literally could not stand up inside that house.
SPEAKER_01No, you couldn't, you were like this.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I had I was my head was to cock.
SPEAKER_01It was a lovely house though.
SPEAKER_00It was a great house.
SPEAKER_01I loved the like the dining room bit at the back.
SPEAKER_00We had say you said about the log fire, so we had an open fire as well. And I remember so we had uh so I had to chop wood, so I wanted to buy an axe, right? And your mum was like, Oh, no, she so she got me this little hatchet thing. I was like, Well, that's not gonna do anything. So we went and bought a full-on axe. And I remember coming home from work one day and we'd run out of wood, and there was your mum in the garden with this little hatchet trying to chop the wood, and it just wasn't happening. I just sat there in the car laughing my ass off. So I was like, that's not gonna happen. And that's where I had the chainsaw incident as well.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I was gonna say, mum almost lost a finger.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, your mum lost a finger on nearly lost a finger on a hedge trimmer. Yeah, I nearly killed myself with a chainsaw.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Um, it was quite uh that was that was like a bad omen kind of house.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Um God, that was very do you remember when the bird came into the house and you said good morning to it? There was this bird sitting on the beam, and for some reason didn't query the fact that there was a bird in our house and just like morning. And we just carried on walking. We're like, are you gonna do something about the bird or are you just gonna morning? I should never forget that. Morning. I was sitting on a sofa. Oh yeah. Good times. Yeah, good times. I loved I loved that house because well, I loved it because it was a cottage, and I was small, so didn't care about the whole beam situation. But I loved um we had a dance mat there.
SPEAKER_00We did. Um I could never do it though because I dicked my head.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, we loved that. Absolutely loved that house. And the bit at the back with the mound with um mum used to cover it in snow when it snowed, and then we'd slide down and skid. Yeah, trampoline was that at that house as well the first time. There's a ditch at the bottom, that was fun.
SPEAKER_00There was, yeah, yeah. There was a little room at the back, and that's when I started doing a lot of writing.
SPEAKER_01Yes, there was a little uh office room. I very rarely went into that little room.
SPEAKER_00It was very tiny. You could literally, it was like a box, it's like a cupboard.
SPEAKER_01You could probably do that to the wall. Anyway, question ten.
Teenage Tastes Music Films Style
SPEAKER_00Question ten. Oh, bloody hell one in question ten.
SPEAKER_01What was the first club or activity I joined?
SPEAKER_00Uh drama.
SPEAKER_01Yes. Do you remember what it was called?
SPEAKER_00Um The Drama Company. God or yeah. Access no.
SPEAKER_01No, not quite.
SPEAKER_00Act oh yeah, I can't remember.
SPEAKER_01And action.
SPEAKER_00Oh, and action. That was it. And action.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, good one.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you got that one. Right.
SPEAKER_01Uh yeah. Good times. Good times were had by all. Yes. First time I ever I did drama then, and then I did drama at high school drama club, and uh never took that any further. No, you didn't.
SPEAKER_00So no, no.
SPEAKER_01Ended up in a film though.
SPEAKER_00You did end up in a film.
SPEAKER_01That was cool.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01But other than that, yeah. Solid. Solid work. Uh what band or artist was I obsessed with as a teenager? There were well There were several.
SPEAKER_00There were several. So like Paramour. Yeah. Yeah. I'll give you that.
SPEAKER_01Paramour. Uh I would have accepted Avrilvine as well. Yeah, it's Avril.
SPEAKER_00Did you like the Irish folk version of Skaterboy singing the other day? Yeah, I did.
SPEAKER_01I liked it. Very good. It was great, wasn't it? It was good. What was my most embarrassing fashion phase?
SPEAKER_00Your most embarrassing fashion phase? I don't think you ever had anything that was overly embarrassing.
SPEAKER_01I think there was things that mum used to pick up on more than maybe you would. I threw this one as a bit of a curveball, to be honest.
SPEAKER_00I don't really no, no, I don't really think there was anything that I can think of. There's nothing that I'd say that you wore that was embarrassing.
SPEAKER_01I wouldn't say it's embarrassing, but mum did say I had a lot of plaid shirts at one stage.
SPEAKER_00Did you?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I remember her mentioning it quite a lot. That might be a fact checker one, but yeah. I'm gonna put no for that. Fact checker. Checker. I just remember her being like, oh, you've got three plaid shirts or four plaid shirts. I was into plaid. Plaid was cool.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Uh it was it plaid for me was like, or plaid or or what's it called? Um tartan types type material. I think for me at the time it was like trying to embody that kind of Ever Lovini.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, the skater.
SPEAKER_01Skater, skater without be skater but being pretty. I think I was in the middle of the.
SPEAKER_00On the cusp of emo, but not cusp of emo.
SPEAKER_01Cusp of emo. That's exactly how I described it actually. Because they were, they were dark, they were dark, but they weren't like oh emo. Still dark makeup, but purples and things. I didn't really wear makeup that much, but um yeah, I was I was kind of like trying to be rebellious, but not.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Um what was my favourite film as a teenager?
SPEAKER_00Your favourite film as a teenager?
SPEAKER_01Can you remember?
SPEAKER_00Did we see it cinema?
SPEAKER_01Not possible. See came out before I was I would go labyrinth. But oh, I would say that's childhood. Think teenager think a little bit more um more arty.
SPEAKER_00More arty than labyrinth. Goonies, well, not Goonies.
SPEAKER_01No. There you go. Again, that was more of a childhood one. This is teenage.
SPEAKER_00Teenage.
SPEAKER_01What could I appreciate more as a teenager? That I I I still love this film now, actually.
SPEAKER_00When it's out before you were born, yeah.
SPEAKER_01You introduced me to it later.
SPEAKER_00Is it like a John Hughes one, like Pretty in Pink, First Viewer? No, no, no, no, no, that type of thing.
SPEAKER_01No, not anything like that.
SPEAKER_00Evolution.
SPEAKER_01No, I would say it's like I think it was late 90s it came out.
SPEAKER_00Late 90s? I don't know. Because we watched so much.
SPEAKER_01Amelie. Oh, of course. I love that film. Yeah, I love that film now. Yeah, that is great.
SPEAKER_00Did I introduce you to that? Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Uh what is the make of my ukulele?
SPEAKER_00Oh, uh, oh god. Mahula. No, uh.
SPEAKER_01I knew this one would get you. Oh god. I knew this one would get you. I was so proud of it. I would have been so annoyed if you got it straight away. Oh god. I'll give you a clue. It's not a cala, it's the cheap version. It's their like it's like their encore. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I can't remember.
SPEAKER_01Uh Lanakai.
SPEAKER_00That's it. Lanakai, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Didn't get that one. Don't know me that well. What pub did I sing in public for the first time?
SPEAKER_00Ooh, ooh, it would be um Green Dragon.
SPEAKER_01It was the Green Dragon. That's not what I put down. I remember singing in this weird little pub. It was in the corner. I don't remember the name of the pub. I was hoping you'd you'd be able to tell me. Maybe Mum would. You were in a corner like this, and it was in like in the mid of Norwich somewhere, but it was like one of them pubs that's like a bit higgledy-piggledy. It's got like lots of corners and turns. And one of our friends. No, no, not central central Norwich. I'm talking a little bit outskirts-y.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Um, and it was like on a road where it kind of just stands out in the middle, and then the parking is all the way around. It's a bit rubbish parking. It's a bit like a Quebec Road, that sort of situation, but it wasn't that one either. Um, it was in there, and um the gentleman um I sang one song and then I said, Please can I sing another? And I sang an Av Levine song, and then I sang an Ed Sheeran song, I think, at the time. Okay, but I will put Green Dragon down because I think actually Green Dragon was your yeah. Yeah, I would say that's actually more accurate than what I was thinking of. Okay.
SPEAKER_00That was the first pub that I sang in as well.
SPEAKER_01Oh, nice. Yeah. Both have both both firsts. We're on we're on question 16, by the way.
SPEAKER_00Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_01Uh what was the first song I ever sung publicly?
SPEAKER_00The first song you ever sung publicly?
SPEAKER_01I don't know if I just gave that away.
SPEAKER_00Was it Avallevine?
SPEAKER_01It was, yeah. Uh do you remember the song? Was it was it Skaterboy? No. No.
SPEAKER_00I don't know.
SPEAKER_01It's um it's called Fall to Pieces.
SPEAKER_00Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_01But I'll give you the tick for Avallevine.
SPEAKER_00It wasn't terracotta pie, terracotta pie, terracotta pie, terracotta pie, banana terracotta pie.
SPEAKER_01When I was younger, what did I spend all my money on?
SPEAKER_00What did you spend all your money on? You never really I don't ever really remember you spending a lot of money. Um what like toys? Because you were never into dolls or stuff like that.
SPEAKER_01Uh toys is very I guess it is a toy, yes, but but but loosely.
SPEAKER_00Pokemon not Pokemon, no, not quite that, but no.
SPEAKER_01Think more software.
SPEAKER_00Software?
SPEAKER_01What like uh on the Yeah Well more PC I'd say.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, um I don't know.
SPEAKER_01Uh when I thought about this question, yeah, I thought what did I spend all my money on? And to be honest with you, I think it was computer games. Like I really enjoyed Zoo Tycoon, I really enjoyed Sims, I really enjoyed Yeah, you did Crash Bandicoot. But that was more PS2. Yeah. So I think I spent a lot of money on games, so I would have accepted games. Um so I can't give you that one.
SPEAKER_00That's okay.
SPEAKER_01What TV series was I addicted to?
SPEAKER_00Oh, there were so many.
SPEAKER_01There were so many, but which one did you think of?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, because like there was charmed, buffy, supernatural.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I'll take it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Supernatural. Supernatural was the one I was thinking of.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. That was funny because it was you and your mum. I never watched the first episode with you and your mum. You watched it.
Firsts Email Concert Car And Texts
SPEAKER_01What's supernatural?
SPEAKER_00Supernatural. And I think you watched the first two without me. And then because it was on tell, this is before you could buy it, so I missed the first two episodes. So I came in like three episodes in, and I never watched the pilot and the second episode until uh years later when they were like rerunning it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Nice. Yeah, before the days you could actually um stream. Stream. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01What was the first book series I became obsessed with?
SPEAKER_00Maximum ride.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you had that in the last uh last time we recorded, we were talking about that.
SPEAKER_00Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_01What annoys me more than anything as a child?
SPEAKER_00Me.
SPEAKER_01No. I thought of one thing in particular for this, and I'm not even sure if you knew it annoyed me.
SPEAKER_00Oh, okay. Uh I don't know. That was weird. What? So I was just looking at the um looking at the screen to make sure that it was still recording, and I was like, why is my left knee there? And I moved my and I thought, actually, no, but it's my right knee because it's back to front, isn't it? On the screen. Yes, it is, yes. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01It's so this is the right way. Yeah. I should have put this, but no, no, it doesn't make sense to be the right way, doesn't it?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it does, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01I will be honest with you. What used to what used to annoy me anything as a child, and this is God's honest truth, yeah, was the weather. Do you know how many times I laid in bed when you know when we used to have uh Wayne Jill, Alex Tia come over? Yeah, uh, in in park park house particularly, I always was like, oh, like I was in bed and I would I would almost like scrunch up my fists and pray and pray and pray. Please be good weather, please be good weather. It would be silly because we would have fun in the house anyway. Yeah. But for me, that house always, because we had that massive garden.
SPEAKER_00Garden was huge with multiple puzzle tree.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it always felt like it should be good weather, like it would look so we can go off on the trampoline and do more stuff. So I would say the weather, and I'm not sure you knew that, but I used to really, really upset the table. Weather annoys me.
SPEAKER_00I mean, it's like again, it's like it's really bloody hot today.
SPEAKER_01Um, how did you cheer me up as a child?
SPEAKER_00Uh throw about.
SPEAKER_01I didn't think of that one. Can you think of something else?
SPEAKER_00I know, just throw about.
SPEAKER_01Throw about was good. I think I might have to give you that one. I'd actually forgotten that was a thing.
SPEAKER_00Throw about another one. Ostrich.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that ostrich was what came to my head as well.
SPEAKER_00Like, playing ostrich.
SPEAKER_01You actually banned me from playing ostrich for a while. Well, yeah, because you hurt.
SPEAKER_00Ostrich is great. Yeah. What ostrich is, it's a thing.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah, okay. Just explain my childhood real quick.
SPEAKER_00It's it's you know when you do a thumb war like this, it's like extreme thumb war. So you're like you you have you hold as an ostrich and you've got to get the other person, but the other ostrich has got to block it as well. And it gets yeah, it gets bad. And Hannah got vicious.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, the shoulder is the best place.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01Pinchy peachy. What was my first ever email address nickname, as in the bit before the at?
SPEAKER_00Cute Bertie.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I did not think you'd get that one. Uh, what was my first concert?
SPEAKER_00Your first concert?
SPEAKER_01Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_00Oh, did I take you?
SPEAKER_01No. Did your mum take you? Yeah, this is a little bit before you actually.
SPEAKER_00Was it? Okay.
SPEAKER_01You might remember. Uh think about what was out at the time.
SPEAKER_00I do know what I was gonna say, blazing squad.
SPEAKER_01Sorry for the levels there. I did not expect you to get that. It was blazing squad. It was at the beach in Great Yarmour Great Yarmouth? Yeah. Well, Mum might it might be lowest stuff, actually. Mum might have to have correct me. Zack checker! Yeah, yeah. Uh what was my first car?
SPEAKER_00Your first car? I don't know because I wouldn't get in it.
SPEAKER_01That's not true. What was my first car?
SPEAKER_00Uh it was it in Igo. No, what was it?
SPEAKER_01Come on, father. Was it, was it it had no brakes. Come on.
SPEAKER_00I know, but I can't remember.
SPEAKER_01We dark blue.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I yeah, but I don't know cars, do I? Cars ain't cars.
SPEAKER_01Peuge 106. Oh my little beast Peugeot.
SPEAKER_00Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_01Love that car.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah. Uh it's Father's Day.
SPEAKER_00I didn't know there'd be a test.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Uh so last question is what was the last text message I sent you?
SPEAKER_00Oh, sent me?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Me personally.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Would it be about it would be about the Avril Levine Skateboy thing, wouldn't it?
SPEAKER_01No, what was the last text I sent you?
SPEAKER_00The last text you sent me? Yeah. It was sarcastic.
SPEAKER_01It was.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01It was.
SPEAKER_00I remember it being sarcastic.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I actually forgot this last question I was going to send you something random going to take and I forgot.
SPEAKER_00I can't remember, but I know it was definitely sarcastic.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it was. So you said, Are you doing the episodes for Sunday? And I said, All three, baby. And then I put I said that up here because I'd already sent you a message.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And then you sent me a laughing face.
SPEAKER_00Yes.
SPEAKER_01So uh you didn't get that.
SPEAKER_00Oh, I confused you yesterday, didn't I? With the ice cream thing.
SPEAKER_01You confused me a lot. Oh yeah, what was that? Out.
SPEAKER_00Out, I'll have out.
SPEAKER_01That means nothing.
SPEAKER_00It's a Lincolnshire thing.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it means I'll have anything. I'll have out.
SPEAKER_01Oh, right, right.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I'll have out.
SPEAKER_01Did you enjoy your mint magnum?
SPEAKER_00I did enjoy my mint magnum.
SPEAKER_01I enjoyed my mint magnum. Did you?
SPEAKER_00Did Mitchell and your mum enjoy their coconut and five? I believe so.
SPEAKER_01Mum liked it. Mitchell, I I didn't ask her about that actually.
SPEAKER_00That made me laugh as well. When you said because when you said about ice cream, you said I said, Do you want to pick up snacks or ice cream on your way? You said we'll pick up ice cream. And you said, and your mum said uh she wanted the coconut and mango newy, and you just went, Well, that's very specific.
SPEAKER_01Well, I thought my worry was that is so specific. What if they don't have it? I have no idea what to get now. Yeah, uh, but they did have it, so it's fine. And I I was like, I know she does like a mint magnum, then you already put mint magnum in cycle. So, um, how well did you know me? Uh, you got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen out of twenty-five. Fifteen out of twenty-five. That's not you got ten wrong. Yeah. I think you need to work on that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I do. Okay. But remember, I'm getting old memories going.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah, of course, of course, of course.
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