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Hello and welcome to the

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British English Podcast. In today's

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episode, we're going to be

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experiencing Brushes Week through the

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eyes of my youngest cousin

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who is in her first

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year of university. so the

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memory of Pressures Week is

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hopefully still fresh in her

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mind if you didn't know.

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This week called fresh is

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Week is the first week

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of university for first year

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students or as they say

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in the Uk, a fresher.

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You are a fresher in your first

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year in the U S. They are

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a freshman but we are fresh is

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so yes. he's how fresh is Weak

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in two thousand and twenty four went

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down for my cousin. Totally. L

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A Tilly know how you. Get

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Thanks! How are you? I'm very well. thank

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you very much for taking the time to

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do. They say where is your no longer

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at your university right now You're where are

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you in the world. Of

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in go fed I highly. Yeah, so

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I've come to your your family home.

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yeah and we're going to have a

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conversation about your experience up in Sheffield

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University. Your still a fresher? yeah but

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you you're not in Fresh is weak.

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Have you recovered from fresh? Is. A

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have recovered yeah line and a

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half ago our air. Are

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you sad that Fresh Is week is over?

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Yeah. I am actually I almost fresh sweet but then

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at same time it was gonna have to and at

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some point. Yeah it was not

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healthy. Yes oh good. The whose

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comes in and yeah certainly no.

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Okay well as go back to

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before fresh is week we you

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assuming that you go to university

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before. Am I wasn't going to uni until

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I think a couple months before I change her

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mind. like really late mint last minute I was

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gonna have a year out but then I was

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like nah just go now see I was a

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bit of us like a quick decision but definitely

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the right decision for me. I. Remember. That yeah,

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Quite a a pivot wouldn't it could you?

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If we gonna do some diving in Australia.

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That was one of my plans. that one plane

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and then I was planning on going to London

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and training in London. and then a taser mine

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probably like five times like in the day. Suffer

2:14

a very incisive but ended up was

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settled. Hello to the the get that

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influence. Right? And we should

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clarify: you do more than just

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a hobby if. They

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competed since you have sex with

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that right. Yeah, let's thoughts on us. That was it.

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Because the A and as a

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work on the podium as it's

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but you been on the podium

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multiple times right? winning first, second

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or third. Yet they that and

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how many medals the own Ah

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A season. I like a lot

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of like Meadows that don't really

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have much meaning. Far as I

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impose that Meadows probably like five

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to ten five. To Ten. Wow.

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I fucking you'd say fewer

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fully. Five activists the like as like

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a big bag of like loads of let

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us nice of them are like. That a

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real on systems like real metals like are

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some of them actually made of gold? Nova

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seen. All. Mess as it.

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things that. But.

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The Olympics They bite into the

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meadow. He acted like indicate that

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it's real gold. I have no idea. I

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don't know. That slay. The question

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does other thing. That Sli Gold house only

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not rude would it be if they

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gave you knew I was hadn't really

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thought that I have you visited his

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throat with him. But yes a diving

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say as ivy into a swimming pool

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doing with slips and somersaults us kind

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of same word in that I'm incest

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and to Sf yes I k at

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what got you into diving. My.

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Own preferences. Of at a yes.

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So they were doing so they courses and i

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was too young to the the holiday cause of

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his the i want to do exactly what they're

3:53

doing yes then finding that sunsets as able to

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holiday cause. Yes, And then they were like done

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it. Went to school know that is so. And then

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you did it longer than. Your.

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Brother and sister. Yeah yeah I was

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my aim see get better than l The

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end of it seems that. Say and

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quickness of us Yeah Thanks night that

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you ever have in your mind. Lot

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of want to be better than my

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family members. With. Such as I

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was out There are no, not melt face and

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not. Like that wouldn't let the main aim

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by. Birth and got that point where got like

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I could become better than ourselves let oh that's

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what I want it. Yeah,

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makes sense and it's interesting to

4:31

have that ability as the youngest

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one to have a K set

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them mouth. Now I can access.

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Alpha. he didn't have a scanning

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with. Various

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sizes are listed as anyway.

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Okay, so you're diver. He

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founded a degree that has

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diving. Or a good diving

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facility nearby. And so then he

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decided you can go to university

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as talk about your emotions going

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towards his week and. I

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was definitely very scared. Not suffices

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week but Diskettes amazing away some

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high and like. Yeah, I remember. I

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cried a law that lost sight of Elites that

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when I say goodbye to my friend and stuff

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house or I'd add an thinking about like not

5:15

living at home that was definitely sad ones that.

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Side with an exciting I. Know

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I was going to the as

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A as a source I was

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really sad like ours are they

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leaving my family holiday earlier so

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I was and of assess specific

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spur. oh yeah I definitely sides

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that Very excited as I knew

5:34

I knew as soon as I

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got that wouldn't be sad but.

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Let's running up two hours. Definitely sad.

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A guy puck I sing I

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was inside. Melee known.

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I've. I think mainly. Because

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I was like losing a waste my friends and like

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we will and that was just like really sad thing

5:53

thought that we spend every day to of and then.

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Yes, And not anymore. And my mom and

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Dad obviously. An undergrad, Mr

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but I had already gone said

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okay yeah say com sat Yeah

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okay. I mean, most humans

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would probably agree with you. Yeah,

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so far enough. so I'm sad

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fake cited isn't. And. Then

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I think I'm a. A.

6:16

Very memorable moment is the drive

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up. Oh my gosh, Yes yes

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Islands. I. I've

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got like lows of pitches a my such

6:25

that like a d to seafood law like

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with my all my stuff in the that's

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am. Yeah you have a lot to to

6:31

their. New the I had way too much as

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well and I got there a day late as

6:35

I was coming from my holiday so then they

6:37

I met my son it's like what than they

6:39

were helping me and it was very scary the

6:41

whole thing and like think they saying goodbye to

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my mom was sad that then split season by

6:46

the day of my dad wasn't there and or

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to think about five hours. Yeah

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that drives. I'm inviting us probably talking a

6:53

locked my mom because I was like try

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not to pick. Em

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but via. Is that

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what were your initial thoughts of? Sheffield The

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Did? Did you get to drive through. I'd.

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Been says Mcclatchy times for diving

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competitions. Ah, but. It's not

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the nice to places like and

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not pretty rarely thus the love

7:13

nice places in s But but

7:15

your first impression the site oh

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is to visit Allah is a

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spur of. The rest

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of us but you live in a

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very. Least the palm of

7:26

the country. I'm driving here today

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and going through very narrow lane.

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Yeah, countryside is very solemn. Very.

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Different. Yeah, yeah and I'm going to

7:34

city. So yeah yeah it's different. but.

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Big change and then so you a day.

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they were they got their day before

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us either in there a little bit

7:44

late for we had him a good

7:46

tan and yeah help to confidence of

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espn at a yes or a so

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how did you prepare for fresh is

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weak were there any particular pieces of

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advice he received or things he did

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to get ready other than get That

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was definitely a big part. I

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think I remember like my

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whole TikTok for you page was filled with

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what to do for Freshers week like advice

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and stuff so I definitely like watched a

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lot of TikToks on it. Also had my

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sister saying like what to do and everything.

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Yeah. What kind of things? Telling

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you what to pack like telling you like not

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to get Freshers wristband and

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like all of that stuff. Ah. What trying

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to stand sort of

8:29

lean away from mainstream kind of. Yeah.

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Because apparently the Freshers wristbands aren't worth it. I

8:34

don't think they are because like you never know

8:36

where you're going to go. No one had the

8:38

Freshers wristband. Really? No. So

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Freshers is the first week of going to

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university listeners and this is a very exciting

8:45

moment in the UK typically

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for people who like to socialize

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and binge drink because yeah you

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just get to have fun

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with lots of new people that you're

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probably going to spend three years with.

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Did you meet some of your friends that you

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still have now? Yeah. I met two of my

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closest friends that I'm friends with now in Freshers

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week. I knew one of them kind of from

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home so then I met her and

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she was friends with this other girl and now we're

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really close so that was for Freshers week. Yeah. But

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I think Freshers week is definitely the place

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to make friends. Like everyone's in the same

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position, everyone's got no friends and

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is like in a new place and

9:23

everyone's wanting to get friends with it. Yeah.

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Was that a goal for you? Were you like, I've

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got to make a friend? Well yeah. I think I

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didn't want to be alone. Yeah. But Freshers week is the

9:32

first week. Yeah. But that's the

9:34

week with like everyone's out every night.

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You know everyone's going to be out. So

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did you have a pressure on yourself to be like,

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okay, I need to make a friend? Like halfway through

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the night you're like, oh, I haven't made enough friends

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yet. I don't think that's what went through my

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mind. Okay. I've

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made three friends and you can make

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five by the night. I

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don't think that's how it went. But I

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remember like, I don't know, you just,

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it's way easier make friends than I thought it was

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gonna be to be honest because everyone's

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like not in

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a group yet yeah everyone's looking as

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desperate as you to make a friend.

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But please be friends of me. I

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remember my mum packed way too much

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vegetables for me. Did you

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take any food? I didn't take any

10:21

like cooking food. I took salt and

10:23

pepper and maybe some pasta.

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But that first week I did not eat very

10:30

good. What

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were you like? Pot noodles, a

10:35

lot of pot noodles, a lot of like

10:38

plain pasta. I don't

10:40

think I introduced vegetables and like the next

10:42

month like took me a while to cook

10:45

vegetables. Living like a pirate. Hey you

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could have got scurvy but

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I didn't because I had lots of vegetables.

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That made me sort of stand out when

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I was picking up all the veg and

10:56

putting it from the car into the room.

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I was like who's the veg boy? Because

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he got vegetables. So no specific

11:03

goals other than to make friends. Yeah

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I think just to make friends like do as

11:11

much as I could to meet

11:13

as many new people. Yeah

11:17

you've told me but I've somehow found

11:19

out that you're quite a heavy drinker.

11:23

What the hell? That's my mum saying

11:25

that. She's so dramatic though because I'm

11:27

literally not. But within

11:29

your group maybe at home would

11:32

you say you're the biggest drinker? No.

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No I don't think so actually. I

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think when I'm going out I'm going out.

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Because I have to sometimes

11:44

miss going out for training and stuff. That's

11:46

why I'm making a good night when I'm

11:48

going out. I'm

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out guys. We've got to go big.

11:54

So you go big. That

11:56

sounds bad but I just hate it when it gets to

11:59

the point and I'm like. in a club and I'm like

12:01

sober and I'm like, oh, I want

12:03

to go home straight away. So I

12:05

just have to stay drinking. Oh

12:08

my God, why have I got this name? What

12:10

the hell? And my question to that was, did

12:13

you feel like you needed to prepare

12:15

for Freshers' Week to have more of

12:17

a tolerance to alcohol or

12:19

not at all? I think I

12:23

didn't prepare. I probably should have prepared a bit more

12:25

because I drank a lot more than I ever have

12:27

before in Freshers' Week. I've never

12:29

gone out that much. And this was off

12:31

the back of a summer that you had two, maybe

12:34

three, like... Yeah, I had two

12:36

girls, well, we're talking about girls' holidays, yeah. To

12:39

be fair, they were like a lot... And

12:41

those were drinking holidays. But Freshers'

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Week is like, I don't know, it's a whole week.

12:46

The others were like five days I went on for

12:48

the girls' holidays. But a whole

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week and it's like your pressure to go out,

12:52

like with new people, so you have to be

12:54

drunk to make friends really. Like that sounds bad,

12:56

but like it's so much easier to make friends

12:59

than you're drunk. Yeah. Not like drunk,

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though. Yeah, obviously not. I'm proving the point now, aren't

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I? No,

13:05

I think it's good to be

13:08

intoxicated in Freshers' Week. I think it's got

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to be. Okay, so that

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was goals. Did you join any clubs? I

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joined cheerleading society. I did you. I

13:18

did actually wanna do cheerleading, but I

13:21

can't do it alongside diving. I didn't have

13:24

any time. But... Yeah. I

13:27

did wanna do cheerleading, so I'm in society. You'd be good

13:29

at cheerleading, being able to do your twists and

13:31

turns. Yeah. I did the tryouts and I

13:33

got in, but then I was like, I can't do it. But

13:37

the two friends I made in Freshers are

13:39

doing that. And then I made some other

13:41

friends throughout the cheerleading society, so that's good.

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And just to pause on this cultural

13:46

aspect, would you agree

13:48

that this is bled over from

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America, right? Cheerleading. Yeah, cheerleading, yeah.

13:52

It's a thing from America, from

13:54

like American football. They have the

13:56

big cheerleading with the pom-poms. Yeah.

13:59

But in... There

14:01

is one group that's pompom but most of them aren't.

14:03

Okay, but we didn't really

14:05

ever have that. It's a new age thing.

14:08

My generation maybe and then your

14:10

generation. Because your generation Z,

14:13

Z, Gen Z. Gen Z. Do

14:15

you like being Gen Z? Yeah. Yeah,

14:18

I mean you don't have a choice. Have

14:21

you heard what other generations think of

14:23

Gen Z? We're very lazy

14:25

I think. Do you think you're lazy?

14:28

Yeah. But

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like not lazy in a bad way. Just like

14:34

using R and a G for like bad things. I

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think each generation is before

14:43

that generation is the one to

14:45

blame. Like we're all making

14:47

the next generation. Exactly. So we're

14:50

all making it nice and easy. The next generation is going to be the worst

14:52

generation. You could look at it like that.

14:54

But then again I think it's kind of like an

14:56

older sibling kind of thing. Like oh they're the youngest.

14:59

They're the silliest generation. Yeah, true maybe. Are

15:01

they called Gen Alpha now? Yeah, I think

15:03

they are. Yeah? Do you

15:05

have any Gen Alpha friends? Or are

15:07

they all babies? When

15:09

were Gen Alpha born? 2010 onwards. When

15:14

were you born? Right.

15:17

So five years younger than you is

15:19

Gen Alpha apparently? Yeah, that's quite a

15:21

lot younger. So how does Freshers Week

15:23

fit into your understanding of British University

15:26

culture? Yeah, definitely. Yeah, I

15:28

think it's why you got it.

15:30

Exactly. Like just have a piss up with your

15:32

friends really. Was it

15:34

quite sad to finish Freshers Week? Yeah,

15:37

I think at that point I was like I'm glad it's over.

15:39

I can't do another night. You

15:42

just restrict it down to like a couple days of

15:44

the week instead. Yeah, wise. Very

15:47

wise. Well, let's talk

15:49

about the actual experience in Freshers Week. So

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can you walk us through your first

15:54

day of Freshers Week and what stood

15:56

out to you? Okay,

15:58

I arrived on the Sunday. Yeah, did

16:01

you go out that night? Just went to

16:03

spoons with my flat. With your

16:05

flat? That's quite cute. Well,

16:07

yeah. So the fresher reps. Did you

16:10

have fresher reps? I don't think so.

16:12

No? Because my university was quite well

16:14

established for freshers week. Yeah, they had

16:16

loads of... Yeah,

16:19

reps going around. Oh, yeah, actually

16:21

now I think about it. We had freebie fairs and they were giving

16:23

like loads of like free shops

16:26

and free entry and stuff. Yeah, okay.

16:28

Yeah. Yeah, were

16:30

you in... are you in halls? Yeah.

16:34

Okay, and did people come around and encourage

16:36

you to go to certain places throughout

16:38

the city on certain nights

16:40

of freshers week? They didn't come round

16:42

to us. No? But like you could see it through

16:44

like Instagram as you followed the right Instagrams and they'd

16:46

say like, this is a good night for

16:48

this place and stuff. Yeah, okay. Okay, so

16:50

they didn't encourage you in the

16:52

halls. So you went out for a

16:55

nice little meal with your friends

16:57

at the spoons or just drink? No, just drinks. Yeah,

17:00

just drink. Did you eat at all that day? My

17:02

mum probably made me have some pasta before I

17:04

went out. I'm sure. Good. Good. Yeah. Okay.

17:06

So that was a quiet start. Yeah, Monday

17:08

was when it actually started. So I'm pretty sure

17:10

there was a freebie fair. I

17:12

don't know if that was on the Monday, but

17:14

that's definitely during the freshers week. Freebie fair

17:17

sounds a bit like actually thinking

17:19

about your education. No, it

17:21

was like it was during the day. So it

17:23

wasn't at night. It was you just went to

17:26

this random building and there was loads of like

17:28

stores like free Amazon Prime subscription for six months.

17:31

Free, like Domino's slides.

17:35

And then they just sign you up to all their emails and then just

17:38

get loads of emails from them. So. Oh, fun. And they

17:40

never stop. Can

17:42

you sign up for Domino's? Yeah, obviously.

17:46

Obviously. I think we did a

17:48

pre-r flat. So we put on like the group chat

17:51

for our whole accommodation like pre-r flat,

17:53

flat 69. Like kind of iconic. Oh,

17:56

god. And then. We need to

17:58

explain that. I'll

18:01

do it in the

18:03

resources. So,

18:06

pre's means pre-drinks, so you're

18:08

having drinks before your drinks.

18:12

Drinks before you go out to a

18:14

public place to pay for drinks, so

18:16

you bring your own drinks. Did

18:19

you provide any drinks for them? No.

18:21

No. It's a BYO

18:23

pre-drink. Yeah, bring your own, definitely. And

18:25

what kind of drinks are you consuming

18:27

in that environment? I think

18:29

I had a lot of vodka squash. Vodka

18:32

squash? This is vodka, squash

18:34

and vodka. Oh, okay, god.

18:36

Yeah. It's so

18:38

good though because it keeps you hydrated as well. Less

18:42

of a hangover the next day. Yeah, yeah.

18:44

Yeah, I suppose that's quite

18:46

good. I kind of got sick of that

18:48

quite quick, so I went for just like a bottle

18:50

of rose. A bottle of rose. £3.75

18:52

from Tesco. And

18:55

good quality? I don't care. I'm

18:59

like, 11%. Yeah,

19:02

this takes me back. So we used to

19:04

buy two bottles of white wine for £5

19:06

and they were the strongest percent. And

19:09

that's what you cared about, wasn't it? Yeah. It

19:11

is what you care about. The guys,

19:13

do they drink a lot of the

19:16

2-litre cider bottles? Do they bring

19:18

that at all? Yeah, they

19:20

have a lot of cider. I think

19:22

also vodka, but they have more sticks like the

19:24

ciders and the beers. Okay, rose for you.

19:26

Yeah. And vodka squash. What do

19:28

you think that says about you to have a bottle

19:30

of rose? Everyone was thinking that. Have you got a

19:33

glass? No. I

19:37

just wanted to get it down as good as I could before I got out.

19:40

So you're just going around

19:42

your dorm holding the neck

19:44

of a rose bottle and

19:46

swigging it, again like a

19:49

pirate. Yeah,

19:51

you could have said that. Yeah. What

19:54

do you think the people think of you? I

19:56

think I'm a normal uni student. Yeah.

19:59

Yeah. She's got a rosé, normal. No

20:02

glass, no need. Okay, so you

20:04

had pre's at yours. Did

20:07

that go down well? I went well. Made any

20:09

friends there? I

20:11

didn't really make that many friends from my accommodation.

20:13

Like, it's weird because it's like really out of

20:16

the center. Yeah. So

20:18

I chose it because it's like literally five minute walk from the diving

20:20

pool. I see. And all the other

20:22

accommodations are more like closer to the center, like on

20:24

the other side of Sheffield, but this one's like quite

20:26

out. So you made a logical

20:29

decision to choose this accommodation and the

20:31

other people around you didn't logically think

20:33

about the reason why. AKA

20:36

weirdos. So

20:41

that's good though, that your flat are

20:43

all right. We actually got quite lucky with our flat. Because

20:47

that can be a real problem for

20:49

a lot of people. Yeah. Yeah.

20:52

Not many people, I thought that would be when

20:54

most people make their friends through their flat, but

20:57

most, like all of my friends in my

20:59

like closer group now don't get on with

21:01

their flat really. Not that they

21:03

like have fallen out, they just don't really talk

21:05

to them. Yeah. Which is kind of sad.

21:07

Yeah, that is sad. I had quite a

21:09

good group, but there was one

21:11

girl that really wasn't into the whole fresh a week

21:14

kind of thing. And I brought

21:16

a guitar, electric guitar and an amp. And

21:18

I used to come home and play it. Oh

21:21

my gosh, you're that guy. And she would come

21:23

through and just slam my door shut.

21:25

Because I thought I was doing a service to

21:27

the flat for entertaining them. At like 4am. Yeah.

21:31

So I love that. Charlie's back. Listen to

21:33

this guns and roses. And

21:36

then she was very protective over her kitchenware.

21:39

Like she was like, do not use my pan.

21:42

I mean, that's fair enough, isn't it? It was

21:44

a good pan. She was very good. So we used

21:46

it. Yeah. OK, so that was

21:49

day one. What were some of the

21:51

key events or activities you participated in

21:53

during the week? And

21:55

which did you enjoy the most? I'm pretty

21:57

sure. My favourite thing to

21:59

do. because bongos bongo, I've even done

22:01

bongos bingo. You have then? Bongos

22:05

bingo. Oh my God, it's so good.

22:07

Basically, I'm pretty sure that was on the Wednesday.

22:10

Basically, you stand like loads of like

22:12

tables, you sit down on tables and

22:14

then you have your bingo sheet and

22:16

then they call out the numbers and

22:18

everything and then in between like every

22:20

round, like everyone gets up and

22:22

dances and sings and like if like a, I

22:24

don't know, like if 33 is

22:26

red, like they'll play the Irish song and

22:28

then everyone gets up and dances. And then 33, just

22:31

because. Yeah, 33. Okay. And

22:33

there's like two men dressed as like girls,

22:35

like on the stage, like in skirts and

22:37

like braids and like, it's just

22:39

really weird, but like so fun. And

22:42

then there's like prizes if you win. And

22:44

if you like say you got bingo, but you didn't get

22:46

bingo, everyone boos you. So it's like, oh my God, it's

22:48

a big deal. I can't believe you've done bongos bingo. No,

22:50

I don't know. No, we, yeah, bingo

22:53

wasn't a thing. I took Stacy to

22:55

a gala bingo night, the first date

22:57

we had. That was our first date.

22:59

Was it like filled of old granny? Yeah, yeah, it

23:02

was a very strange decision and

23:04

it didn't lead to success. The

23:06

second date was better, but bongos

23:09

bingo. You highly recommend this? Highly

23:11

recommend, like I wanna go back.

23:15

Yeah, could you not go on a weekly

23:17

basis? No, it was only there like that

23:19

week. They go, they go like on tours, I

23:21

think. So they've released

23:23

their tour dates actually recently, but there's

23:25

no Sheffield. Oh no. Could

23:27

you go to like Nottingham?

23:29

Yeah, probably. Travel for bongos bingo.

23:32

I would travel, I would travel far from bongos. I

23:34

can tell. Honestly, it's so

23:36

fun. Can

23:38

we talk about the games that you play around

23:41

drinking because that's very specific to

23:43

British culture. Yeah, you play Ring of

23:45

Fire. Yeah, that's still a thing, nice,

23:47

okay. So what is Ring of Fire?

23:50

Basically, you have all your cards, like a

23:52

deck of cards in a circle. And

23:55

what's the aim of the game, of all of these drinking

23:57

games? What's the aim? It's not really an aim,

23:59

it's just... to not drink I guess but then everyone

24:01

wants to drink. Yeah. So the aim is

24:03

to get intoxicated quickly in a fun

24:05

way. Yeah. And

24:08

to avoid losing I guess

24:10

at the same time. Yeah because there is

24:12

a loser in... Yes. Yes.

24:15

In Ring of Fire. Yeah yeah. And that

24:17

person gets very drunk. So you

24:19

kind of got to get a bit involved but not

24:21

be the loser. Okay so Ring of Fire, you get

24:23

a pack of cards. So they're

24:25

all like face down in the circle and all

24:28

the different numbers mean something different. So like for

24:30

example, King means pour a bit of your drink

24:32

into the middle. And the middle is

24:34

there's a... A cup. Usually you put like

24:36

a cup or if you're adventurous you put

24:39

a boot or a kettle. We could yeah.

24:41

Or something disgusting. Yeah and

24:43

then it like it ends up filling

24:45

with like wine, beer, vodka. Someone has

24:47

some... Rose. Like... Yeah.

24:51

Wine isn't it? Yes yes true.

24:53

You got me. And then the last person to pour

24:55

the last King has to drink that. So

24:57

then... No for us. Yes that's

24:59

horrible. Yeah. Have you had that?

25:02

Have you had to do that? I have once yeah.

25:04

Yeah. Did you go home early? No. No? I'm a

25:06

soldier. Yeah you're one of the biggest drinkers in the

25:08

group. Ring. We

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