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Hello and welcome back, how is everyone?

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It's been a good couple of weeks since we've had a conversation,

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I know, I know, it's been quite busy, I'm going to be totally fair to you.

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It really has been a busy couple of weeks. What with the lead up and whatever else

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to the skydive,

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which I'm going to be talking about today because it's happened, it's been done and

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it was incredible. Absolutely incredible, really really enjoyed it.

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But yeah, there's a couple of other bits and pieces that have happened as well,

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including towards the back end of the show today, I'm going to talk about

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an issue that I've currently got going on,

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which has only really started in the last couple of days.

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But yeah, bear with me, we'll get to that. What I'm going to do today, while I'm

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talking,

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I've got my phone with me and I'm going to be looking at some of the pictures

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from the skydive, just to sort of refresh it in my brain a little bit

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because there was so much that happened in such a short space of time that

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actually,

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kind of taking it all in and whatever else was quite difficult.

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I'm going to be totally fair. But yeah, we'll get to that, trust me,

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we will get to that.

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But yeah, I mean in the lead up to the jump,

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obviously I was talking about it quite a bit on social media and whatever else.

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Trying to get as close as we can to what I had set myself

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as a target that I wanted to hit.

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Now I set myself a target of 500lb

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that I wanted to raise.

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And I'll be honest, there was a couple of occasions I'm thinking,

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are we quite going to get there?

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Well we did get there.

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We got there with a couple of days to spare.

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And to say I was incredibly proud

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of getting to that point is an understatement.

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Proud doesn't quite cut it, I'm going to be honest. I was absolutely ecstatic.

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To hit 500lb, I mean the most I've ever raised previously for the MS Society

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during the walks and things, was about 260-265.

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Now skipping ahead a little bit, a couple of days ago I actually had

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my certificate come through from the MS Society for thanking me

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and whatever else for raising the money.

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Including all the little sundry bits, we actually raised £600.

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£600.

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For me personally, I sit and look at that and think,

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how did we get to that number? What a fantastic number to hit.

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£600.

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I'm just looking across at the certificate now.

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£600 and 99p.

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99p.

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If only I could put a penny in.

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Just to round it off. But yeah, £600

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and 99p. Absolutely different class.

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So the first thing I really want to do, I want to give a massive shout out to everyone that's

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chimed in and put some money in to support, not me, forget

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supporting me, supporting the MS Society. Because what they do is absolutely superb.

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The way they help people and whatever else.

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You know, okay, it might be,

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this little section of it might be in my name.

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It's nothing to do with me. It's about everyone that supported the charity,

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everyone that supported the calls.

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And each and every one of you is more appreciated than you would realise.

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Genuinely, absolutely huge level appreciation.

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Absolutely huge.

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Coming away from that, I mean, obviously I'd been in the gym,

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really pushing myself a bit, to be honest with you, not to the

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real top end, I'm going to be fair. I still had a couple of levels I could have gone to.

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I didn't want to push it too hard.

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But yeah, I brought my way into where it needed to be, to just under 15 stone.

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Perfect. Not a problem at all. I had a week leading up where I just

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I basically lived on really good food.

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Things like salad and chicken breast, that sort of stuff.

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Just to make sure. That's how much it meant to me.

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Genuinely, that's how much it meant to me to actually be able to go ahead and

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jump out of an aeroplane.

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So that was done. And again, I'm going to be honest, it was great.

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Getting myself to that state where I had something to focus on in that manner

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was really worthwhile. I loved it.

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I really did. I loved that drive to look at something and think,

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yeah, I'm going to do this. I'm going to get this done.

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It really did sort of push me on. It spurred me forward.

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And it did. I can't really say a lot more on it, apart from the fact

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it really did push me forward. It gave me that drive to keep going,

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to get myself in a position where I could do something completely and totally out of the box.

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Something I'd never dreamed of doing.

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And what I've got to put in there is obviously I'd been doing a little bit of work

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with MS News today.

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So blogging and writing columns up to the jump.

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I was going to wait till after I talked about the jump to mention it,

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but now I'm going to mention it now just because I can.

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Well, the temporariness of that columnist role isn't actually temporary anymore.

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Obviously, they saw something in me and in my writings,

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and they've now employed me as a columnist.

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So after 20 years in security, and again, I mention that quite a lot.

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I can't help myself. I'm sorry about that, but it just gets mentioned.

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After all them years in the security industry, I'm now a columnist.

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I mean, to an extent, would you call it a journalist?

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I mean, I suppose you would, kind of.

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I've just literally finished doing some training for it, which was great.

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I got 100% on my exam. Just saying.

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Just putting that out there right now, right at the early stage.

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But yeah, to say that I am incredibly proud of being given that opportunity.

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Again, doesn't quite touch it.

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That level of pride doesn't quite do it justice.

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I'm going to be fair.

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Looking forward to doing that sort of work, putting my story out there in a bigger scale.

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Obviously, I've got this podcast, I've got my website, social media accounts and whatever else.

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But to do it on the kind of scale that's going to be done working for MS News today.

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To me, even now, I'm having to pinch myself at times to sort of accept where I'm going with it,

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and where it's led me.

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So to say that some of the comments I've had from the columns I'd written were positive,

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that would again be an understatement.

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Comments were lovely. Really, really nice.

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I just can't thank people enough for the support.

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Again, the way the family, friends and all sorts of support, not just the columns,

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but a build up to the jump and whatever else.

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They will never ever understand how much I appreciate the level of support that came in.

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Because at times it wasn't easy.

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I'm going to be straight. I've got to put that one out there.

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At times it really, really wasn't easy.

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Although I probably didn't show the difficulty of it.

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There were little bits that were sort of a struggle, to say the least.

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Now I'm going to move forward and talk about the actual jump day itself.

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Because that, there was no struggle.

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There was nothing at all apart from pure excitement.

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Genuine, genuine excitement.

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I mean even when we first got to Langar, Skydive Langar,

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and I'm thinking to myself, right, at this point I should be getting a bit nervous.

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I just couldn't. I couldn't get nervous.

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I just couldn't do it.

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No matter what I was thinking, it was just a case of get me on that plane,

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and then get me out of that plane.

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And for someone that's never wanted to jump out of a plane, never wanted to skydive,

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to have that thought process of, I want to do this.

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I really want to do this.

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It just, it was, it's difficult for me to explain.

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I'm going to be totally straight. It really is.

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I mean when we got to site, went and signed in, the staff on the desk were fantastic, so polite.

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Explained to me exactly what would be happening.

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Explained to me that I'd be called for the tandem dives to get my security briefing,

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my safety briefing, that sort of stuff.

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And when the briefings come around, which was only probably about, I don't know,

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20 minutes or so after we arrived, could be slightly less,

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sat there and I was talking to other people that was doing the jump,

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and there was only five of us, and I was the only one from the MS Society.

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I'm having conversations with people, and obviously, I don't want to go into too much detail,

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but there was three others that were jumping for different charities,

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and everyone was so polite, so nice, so friendly.

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It was just unbelievable. It was so good. It was really, really nice.

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I mean, even to the point of actually physically showing that you're capable of doing the movements

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that's needed to do the dive and whatever else, everyone was so supportive over it.

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And I was told at that point, oh, you're going to be on the second plane.

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OK, cool, not a problem. Went and had a bacon sarnie.

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That was worth it. It was really quite nice.

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I'm going to be fair, it was a really nice bacon sarnie.

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Anytime there's bacon involved, it's totally acceptable for me.

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Yep, going to say that.

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Anyway, now a fancy bacon. Thanks very much, Brian. I appreciate that.

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Anyway, so once that was done,

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eventually got a call over to Tanoi to go to the jump area to meet my instructor

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and to put him a flight suit and whatever else.

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And as soon as I met my instructor, stood at the gate waiting for me.

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What a nice guy, such a nice fellow.

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Introduced himself. We had a bit of a chat.

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He sort of said to me, do I want to wear a flight suit?

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I said, yeah, let's go for it.

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So got into that. Wow, that was tight.

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My word was that flight suit tight.

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Just going to put that one out there.

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But I can understand why it needed to be.

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But OK, anyway, so got into the flight suit,

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met I paid for the video and photograph package.

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So I met the photographer as well.

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Again, really nice guy.

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Explained how the photography side of it would work and whatever else.

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And I explained to him that obviously, if it's OK with himself,

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the video and whatever else would go on to social media or on to the MS News

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Today site and whatever else, that was all absolutely fine.

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I made sure he got credited for that.

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But after that, it came time to go to the plane.

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Yeah. And as we're heading to the plane.

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And I'm thinking to myself.

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Right, at this point.

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I'm about to get on a small little aircraft.

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Go up to 10,000 feet in the air.

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And then leave the aircraft before it touches down.

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I should be getting nervous right about now.

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I just couldn't get nervous.

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I just couldn't do it.

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Even at that point, there was just nothing.

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So I was having a good chat with with my instructor, with with the cameraman.

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And they were just in a way kind of helping a little bit,

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and especially with my instructor,

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because I couldn't have my crutches at the time, I didn't have my fez machine on.

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So I was walking the best I can to get to the plane and very gently.

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They were helping.

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And it was massively appreciated because.

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And walking is not the easiest thing in the world for me to do.

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I think everyone by now knows that.

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But I did what I could do and I got onto the plane, climbed on.

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Yeah, climbed on, climbed onto my knees to get into the plane, because.

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It just wouldn't have been another option.

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I had to be on my knees.

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But we now sat on the aeroplane.

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And getting all connected up.

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So all the clips and whatever else that the instructor needs to clip me to him.

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That was being done.

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And I'm thinking to myself, surely now, surely now there's got to be some concern.

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I couldn't stop smiling.

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Every picture that was taken of me on that plane, I'm smiling.

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I just couldn't help myself.

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It was just such an incredible feeling.

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It really was.

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When we got up in the air and I'm going to sort of try and cut it a little bit down to

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When we got up into the air, we got to about maybe nine and a half thousand feet, maybe

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nine and I put me goggles on that needed to wear.

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They were tightened up for me.

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Blimey, they were tight too.

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And then it got to ten thousand feet and the green light went on.

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And genuinely, it wasn't a case of being excited anymore.

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It was a case of pure and utter elation that were at that point.

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And even to the point we're shuffling across to sit on the edge of the plane and we sat

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there on the edge of the plane.

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Only for a few seconds we sat there.

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And I looked down at the ground and see how far down it is.

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I look at the cameraman.

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The cameraman smiles at me and I just looked at him and said, let's do this.

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I couldn't help myself.

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I really couldn't help it at all.

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I just had to get it done.

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And at that point we left the plane, did this sort of little back flip thing.

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And I'm thinking to myself, wow, that's loud.

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I mean, you can hear the wind and whatever else.

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Oh, wow, it was loud in my ears.

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But again, I could not stop smiling.

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I can't say that enough.

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I just couldn't stop smiling at all.

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Mega, mega excited.

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We're doing the freefall, freefalling for about 30 seconds.

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And then the parachute opens and it goes from so loud to just peaceful.

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Literally just peaceful.

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And you're just looking at the ground.

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I had the opportunity with assistance, obviously, to have a go at flying the parachute a little

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bit.

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That was great.

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I really enjoyed that.

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And yeah, it was just such a nice chilled experience at that point.

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It really was a nice chat with the instructor.

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We got to the landing point and I pulled my legs up brilliantly.

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Absolutely fantastic.

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I am aware of the instructor sort of use these legs just to move mine up just ever so slightly

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so I could grab the little handles on my legs.

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But we landed and again, I got interviewed at the point of landing for the video.

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And I think the video tells a story about just how excited I was.

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I just couldn't stop myself.

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Couldn't stop smiling.

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Couldn't see the family on the ground when I landed.

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Honestly the experience was it's one of a lifetime, genuinely experience of a lifetime.

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It's something that I wouldn't actually be frightened to do again.

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Quite the opposite.

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Maybe one day, no rush, but maybe one day in the future I might look to do it again

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because I want that feeling again of freefall.

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Just genuinely that 30 seconds freefalling.

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It was just something else.

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It's a feeling.

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It's so difficult to explain.

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It was just so liberating.

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I think it's probably the best way I can put it.

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It was unbelievable.

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But yeah, that's probably about as much as I need to discuss of the skydive.

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You know, since it, I've spent a lot of time talking about it.

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I can't help that.

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I've discussed it a lot with people.

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Put videos up on my social media accounts and whatever else.

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But yeah, as I say, the fact that I'm now going to be working for the MS News today

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as a columnist, that's something I'm incredibly proud of.

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Off the back of all of it.

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The amount of money raised, superb.

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I'm going to go on to something very briefly now.

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I'm a bit mindful of the time.

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We're about 19, nearly 20 minutes long already.

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I mean, wow.

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I'm going to very briefly talk about the last couple of days.

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My back has been atrocious to the point, actually I ended up on the floor yesterday, which wasn't

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nice at all.

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I had this incredible twinge and pain in my lower back.

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Put me on the floor for a minute or so.

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Thankfully Lisa came and helped me up.

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But it's things like that over the last few days, I have noticed leg issues that they're

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feeling a bit weaker than they do normally.

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I can't work out why.

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I'm wondering maybe.

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Is it?

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I don't know.

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Have I overdone things a little bit recently?

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Do I need to have a bit of time relaxing?

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Which is possible because I must admit I've been incredibly busy.

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I really have.

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So I'm going to give that a go for a week or so, see what happens.

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In the hope that it is something and nothing.

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Fingers crossed.

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But yeah, I mean there's that new issue.

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Let's say new.

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It's one I've had in the past but it just seems a little bit worse currently than it

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ever has done previously.

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Last thing today.

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I've got somebody to thank.

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When I say somebody I mean something.

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My mobility scooter, Eleanor, done me brilliantly for a year.

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Absolutely done me really really proud for a year.

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Four mile an hour machine.

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You know, I couldn't be happier with how it's gone.

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But unfortunately she's kind of worn herself out a little bit.

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I'm told the motor is probably on its way out because it's a four mile an hour machine

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going up and down hills all the time.

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The motor's kind of wearing itself out.

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So on either Tuesday or Wednesday of this week I have my new mobility scooter being

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delivered.

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It's a reconditioned one.

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I'm not spending the money necessary to go and buy a brand new one.

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But yeah, I've got a new machine coming.

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An eight mile an hour machine.

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Bit bigger.

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I've had a go.

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I've had a little ride and very comfortable.

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Really nice suspension.

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Yeah, quite looking forward to it to be honest.

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But yeah, I mean after a year of being out and about on Eleanor it's going to be a shame

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to see her go.

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It really is.

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But you've got to move with the times on these things haven't you?

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When new things are required you just accept it and smile and carry on.

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That's how I'm going to leave it.

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That's just how I'm going to leave it.

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Well as I say, it has been a couple of weeks and I'm kind of hoping I'm getting myself

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back to a good state now.

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I'm trying to sort of relax things ever so slightly.

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Get myself back into the position I was in probably about a month or two months ago.

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But we'll see.

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Well I hope you've all been doing really really well and I will be back to one podcast a week.

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And you never know what happens in the future is about maybe an extra one on top of that.

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But let's not discuss that right now because let's just get back to one a week anyway.

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I hope you all have a good one.

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I'll speak to you all soon.

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Bye bye.