Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to this year's Unexplained Halloween's Special with
Speaker 1: me Richard mc lane smith. I truly hope to have
Speaker 1: a new special this year, but sadly I wasn't quite
Speaker 1: able to put it together in time. I don't want
Speaker 1: to leave you empty handed, however, so although some of
Speaker 1: you may have heard these tapes already, for others this
Speaker 1: will be an entirely new, horrifying experience. It was back
Speaker 1: in May twenty twenty that the body of Ben Williams
Speaker 1: was found in his flat on Fountain Road in Tooting,
Speaker 1: South London. When the police found him, those who saw
Speaker 1: the state of his body had no doubt he'd been murdered.
Speaker 1: After a thorough investigation, however, the cause of Ben's death
Speaker 1: was judged unknown and labeled simply death by misadventure. But
Speaker 1: then they discovered the tapes, an audio diary that Ben
Speaker 1: had been recording of the pandemic in the months before
Speaker 1: he died. These are those tapes, raw and unadorned. Make
Speaker 1: of them what you will. Happy Halloween, and remember, wherever
Speaker 1: you are, it is always the witching hour. Somewhere testing
Speaker 1: I think that's working. It's March sixteenth, twenty twenty My
Speaker 1: name's Ben Williams, twenty seven. I live in in Twoting
Speaker 1: in London, and yeah, I just got this audio recorder
Speaker 1: because I thought I might keep a diary of what's
Speaker 1: going on at the moment, basically in the middle of
Speaker 1: what some people think might be a global pandemic. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's called coronavirus or coronavirus, and yeah, a lot of
Speaker 1: people have died, so it's got a few names. Actually,
Speaker 1: it's also called COVID nineteen. There's a big one here,
Speaker 1: Severe acute respiratory syndrome. Coronavirus two or SARS CoV two
Speaker 1: is another name. They're saying that it's started in Wuhan.
Speaker 1: It's a city in China with a like a population
Speaker 1: of something like eleven million people. And I've never heard
Speaker 1: of it before, but that's like, that's bigger than London.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's kind of mind blowing in itself. Anyway. Basically,
Speaker 1: in Italy over two thousand people have died already. It's
Speaker 1: kind of getting about of control there. And in China
Speaker 1: it's over three thousand now or what they're saying anyway,
Speaker 1: And yeah, here in the UK it's I think we're
Speaker 1: over fifteen now. Fifty people have died. You know, there's
Speaker 1: already kind of government campaigns telling people to wash their
Speaker 1: hands loads and you know, like avoid big groups and
Speaker 1: even questioning whether people should fly or like travel anywhere.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so I guess that's the first diary entry. Um,
Speaker 1: it's cool the Health Service comparing notes and talking to
Speaker 1: leaders around the world, and I can tell you that
Speaker 1: the UK is now leading a growing global campaign amongst
Speaker 1: so I'm just listening now to basically the government started
Speaker 1: doing these live press briefings about the spread of the virus,
Speaker 1: which is pretty sobering. So Prime Minister Boris Johnson has
Speaker 1: just been talking about how they think cases might start
Speaker 1: to double every five or six days, and they're saying
Speaker 1: we need to stop all non essential contact. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a pretty big deal. I was thinking it,
Speaker 1: maybe putting a diary together of you know, what's been
Speaker 1: going on, and I don't know, maybe if it gets
Speaker 1: a bit serious and it might be quite interesting, maybe
Speaker 1: put it out as a podcast or something. No one's
Speaker 1: going to want to listen to that they might I
Speaker 1: was your dad anyway, Yeah, he's fine, he's busy with work.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think he's really kind of paying
Speaker 1: much attention to this pandemic stuff. I think he thinks
Speaker 1: it's it's not really going to hit us. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think they'll be that bothered about it, to be honest, No,
Speaker 1: not at all. So you know about all this um
Speaker 1: this lockdown stuff, I don't know if it's true, but
Speaker 1: I was just thinking, like, if we have to stay inside,
Speaker 1: why didn't you come and stay with me? And what
Speaker 1: in your haunted flats? It's not haunted? Do you think
Speaker 1: anything over fifty years old is haunted? But what about
Speaker 1: all those weird noises I always happened here whenever I'm
Speaker 1: staying Yeah, all those weird pipes and mice. We were
Speaker 1: talking about maybe moving in together anyway at some point,
Speaker 1: So a good chance to give it a go when
Speaker 1: it Yeah, I guess let's just wait and see what
Speaker 1: happens with a lockdown, and we're going it actually comes
Speaker 1: into play and then we can make a decision, all right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, who knew the apocalypse is going to be
Speaker 1: all about running out of toilet paper? Yeah? I managed
Speaker 1: to get some rice pasta yeah, and a load of
Speaker 1: cans stuff. Yeah, but should I be washing it? You are.
Speaker 1: What about fruit? Yeah, I've got bananas, some apples. Well,
Speaker 1: I was just gonna use washing up liquid. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: That's what I was thinking. How come you supposed to
Speaker 1: use soap and water on a can, but you can
Speaker 1: just run a banana under the tap nine days? I
Speaker 1: thought it was two days. Where did you read that?
Speaker 1: Fuck it, I'm just gonna put soap on the bananas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, quite cheers them. Happy birthday to you, Happy
Speaker 1: birthday to you. Two of our staff members are in
Speaker 1: intensive care and I've been tested, yeah seriously, and they
Speaker 1: tested positive today. So what are you all getting tested?
Speaker 1: What's going on there? There's nothing in place for us,
Speaker 1: which obviously we will have been exposed because they were
Speaker 1: at work last week and then they did start to
Speaker 1: feel one well, so they went, you know, went off,
Speaker 1: but then within a few days have ended up intensive care.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. But there's nothing. Even the advice when
Speaker 1: we rang, the advice was that you don't have to
Speaker 1: close if you don't want to. But fortunately actually we
Speaker 1: put our staffs, you know, and the children as well
Speaker 1: being before. Yeah. But also over the last three weeks, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we've had quite a few members of staff unwell. But
Speaker 1: this is the thing. If you're not tested, how on
Speaker 1: earth are we to know? Yeah, everything is still so vague,
Speaker 1: isn't it. Yeah, personally, I think we've had coronavirus in
Speaker 1: the school for over a month, So definitely, if we'd
Speaker 1: closed two weeks ago, yeah, we would have stopped the
Speaker 1: spread because there is no way, especially if we don't
Speaker 1: know about it. So it's Wednesday, March eighteenth today. Normally
Speaker 1: i'd be at work right now, but I've got a
Speaker 1: text last night from my boss just saying don't come
Speaker 1: in today. Obviously everything that's been going on, they just
Speaker 1: felt like closing the cafe was the right thing to do,
Speaker 1: and I guess I sort of agree with them. But
Speaker 1: it's a bit worrying. What the what the fun? What's chairman? Chairman?
Speaker 1: You knocked over a glass? It's fine, I understand. I've
Speaker 1: got chairman bla company. Anyway, I like to say, hopefully
Speaker 1: you know it's not gonna be that long. Um. Absence
Speaker 1: makes the heart grow fonder and all that. That's true,
Speaker 1: it does, it does. What's that is that? Is it
Speaker 1: a big be crying in the background? Yeah, yes, been
Speaker 1: crying NonStop pretty much. It's that family next door. Remember
Speaker 1: they've got that little kid. I mean there are kids
Speaker 1: about three. That sounds like a newborn. They're all the
Speaker 1: same money. No, it's quite different really. Nine in the
Speaker 1: UK after testing positive for the viruses, I've gone in there.
Speaker 1: I went to the first one, like all the pasta's gone,
Speaker 1: all the rice has gone, bread's gone toil, the paper again,
Speaker 1: all gone. I went to the next one, same, all gone.
Speaker 1: How long's that gonna go on for? Like if more
Speaker 1: people will start panic buying, then all shelves be empty.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like do I have to stop pile?
Speaker 1: But then I'm not supposed to stop pile, because then
Speaker 1: that means there won't be food for everyone else. But
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking, fuck it, Like if other people are
Speaker 1: stop piling, I don't want to be the one who
Speaker 1: doesn't have anything to eat. I mean they're saying we
Speaker 1: might be like locked inside. If we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: be staying inside, then obviously you probably don't want to
Speaker 1: be going out if it's that bad. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know what they're planning to do, Like you know what,
Speaker 1: They're gonna have the army on the street making sure
Speaker 1: we stay in I mean that can't work, can it.
Speaker 1: What they're going to be dropping food around our houses.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't mind it, like we had rationing
Speaker 1: in the Second World War, and you know there are
Speaker 1: people starving all over the world, but it would just
Speaker 1: be good to have a bit of a sense of
Speaker 1: you know, what's the plan. What are we're supposed to
Speaker 1: be doing here? Because I've just been to the shop
Speaker 1: and it feels like that it's going to get stripped
Speaker 1: bare and I can't get a delivery slot on the
Speaker 1: computer because it's all booked up. So yeah, so I'm
Speaker 1: just to be worried about that, a bit worried about
Speaker 1: what's going to happen now buying a supermarket. Patrick's brother
Speaker 1: in law and his family have moved in to protect
Speaker 1: their parents. But where they're staying there, well, we've just
Speaker 1: moved our kids into our bedroom, right, they've given them
Speaker 1: the other two rooms two rooms, right, helpful, I think
Speaker 1: in a way. Yeah, that's really good of you to them,
Speaker 1: and it's good for our kids because then they're being
Speaker 1: amused by their cousins, which is great. Well, you know, well,
Speaker 1: Boris Johnson was saying he's happily he'll happily shape people's hands. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that'll probably come back to So they've told
Speaker 1: him not to come into hospital. Oh shit, So what
Speaker 1: do they think it is? Cancer? Well, how do they
Speaker 1: know that if he's not been in to be checked?
Speaker 1: So why they do this lockdown? Then you're just going
Speaker 1: to stay up there, it's granny all right. Oh well
Speaker 1: it's good you're there then. Yeah, I'm all right. Obviously
Speaker 1: you know, the cafe was shut, so the job's kind
Speaker 1: of on pause. I guess hopefully it's not for too long. No,
Speaker 1: Is that the one about the guy with all the tigers? No,
Speaker 1: I've not seen it yet, but I'll check it out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe we could do one of those zoom calls. Do
Speaker 1: you have that? Yeah, it's just like skype. All right, people,
Speaker 1: reasonable instruction. Yeah. I don't know what to say about
Speaker 1: it really. Um I guess I kind of knew this
Speaker 1: was coming, but now it's official, just feels I just
Speaker 1: feel a bit nervous about it. Um. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: here on my own for a start, so I can't
Speaker 1: see people, can't have them round. I don't want to
Speaker 1: get it. I don't want my parents to get it.
Speaker 1: So it's just better to stay in, isn't it? Then? Hi,
Speaker 1: it's it's listen. I really soryist is over voicemail. Um,
Speaker 1: but it looks like that's that for the time being.
Speaker 1: So we will be closed from tomorrow. UM. Still not
Speaker 1: sure what this means for you, but for the time
Speaker 1: being obviously, don't don't come in. UM. I guess you'd
Speaker 1: hope there'll be some some sort of government support over money,
Speaker 1: but who knows. Anyway, give us a call if you're chet. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's very sorry. So it's uh, it's Tuesday twenty fourth
Speaker 1: official lockdown started today and just got his text to
Speaker 1: check this out. Gov dot UK coronavirus Alert. New rules
Speaker 1: in force now you must stay at home. More info
Speaker 1: and exemptions at gov dot UK forward slash coronavirus stay
Speaker 1: at home, Protect the NHS, Save lives. I mean that
Speaker 1: is that is real? Yeah, it's quite a yeah, it's
Speaker 1: quite God. That baby is driving me nuts. It's just
Speaker 1: crying all the time. It woke me up last night
Speaker 1: and there is again on fressure over the lack of
Speaker 1: yees all that. Yeah, but it's Italy though, isn't it,
Speaker 1: don't it? We'll get like that. It's safe. Yeah exactly. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Now I'm doing it all the time. Yeah, I feel
Speaker 1: like my skin is gonna fall off. Yeah. Just use moisturizer.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, it's honestly, you need to or your hands
Speaker 1: will just be read raw. Yeah. Well yeah, I lost
Speaker 1: it obviously. I mean I've had to shut the cafe,
Speaker 1: so a love being furloughed. I think, how do you
Speaker 1: think I feel? Then? I'm the one who hasn't got
Speaker 1: a job. How was I supposed to know a fucking
Speaker 1: pandemic was going to start? That is the sound of silence.
Speaker 1: It's so weird. So it's a Thursday in March twenty
Speaker 1: sixth and I've just come outside Tom, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I guess see if everyone was doing it and there's
Speaker 1: like nobody here. It's so strange. And listen to that.
Speaker 1: Not a plane in the sky. You see one now
Speaker 1: and it's like the end of twenty eight days later,
Speaker 1: you know, and you're just looking up at this thing
Speaker 1: in complete awe. Well, they're not social distancing. I'm on
Speaker 1: the high street now, and I mean this is even
Speaker 1: more eerie because like, obviously there's a few more people here.
Speaker 1: There's a couple of cars I'm not sure they are
Speaker 1: key workers, but anyway, just crazy. There's like all the
Speaker 1: shop fronts are down. I mean there's like maybe one
Speaker 1: or two people on this whole high street. It's so weird,
Speaker 1: so weird. It's like three people here. I'm surprised it
Speaker 1: not more because it's in a way. You know, if
Speaker 1: you are and allowed out for a bit, this is
Speaker 1: where people are going to come. But I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe just people being nervous at the moment. M Here
Speaker 1: are the birds. I mean, I don't even maybe you
Speaker 1: could hit that before, but I just I didn't notice
Speaker 1: it so many of them. There's quite a few people jogging,
Speaker 1: um people walking around. But I watch it. Watch that
Speaker 1: meet let's go go around two meters. It just comes
Speaker 1: straight at me. I can see him jogging all the
Speaker 1: way down here, right next to the fence, can't go anywhere,
Speaker 1: and he's practically brushed my shoulder. Just watching the briefing tonight,
Speaker 1: and I've noticed that. So the podiums had changed. So
Speaker 1: before they were just saying, you know, each want to
Speaker 1: like stay at home, protect the NHS, save lives in
Speaker 1: kind of blue and white, which is I guess conservative
Speaker 1: colors now they've changed it so each podium's got like
Speaker 1: one of each color of the sort of main political parties.
Speaker 1: So there's yellow for lived, blue for Conservative, red for labor,
Speaker 1: and it says like stay home in the yellow. Conservatives
Speaker 1: have got protect the NHS and Labor has got saved lives.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a dominant Cummings strategy to try and get
Speaker 1: everybody who's watching to think that all the other parties
Speaker 1: are somehow involved in the management of the pandemic, so
Speaker 1: it all goes tits up. Obviously, we won't just blame
Speaker 1: the Conservative Party. That was brilliant. I wasn't sure if
Speaker 1: any one was going to do it, but yeah, like
Speaker 1: the whole street was there. Got kind of be emotional.
Speaker 1: Really just nice to see people outside, isn't it, Because
Speaker 1: he's sort of I know, we're like we are allowed out.
Speaker 1: I've been out, but I'm thinking more about not going
Speaker 1: near people than you know, feeling like I'm with people.
Speaker 1: But tonight it's like properly, you know, got to weigh
Speaker 1: a bit of the neighbors. And yeah, I mean, bloody hell,
Speaker 1: they don't have to deserve it. I mean, what an
Speaker 1: amazing effort, and they're doing it without all the proper
Speaker 1: bloody gear, like how, I mean, how is that even possible?
Speaker 1: Should be doing it for the shot workers as well, though,
Speaker 1: I mean turns out who would have thought it that
Speaker 1: these key workers, You know, they might not make the
Speaker 1: millions that CEOs make or what the guy's making the city,
Speaker 1: but the country kind of falls apart without all these
Speaker 1: other jobs that don't superficially look like they're impressive or important. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we should clap for them as well, or at
Speaker 1: least I hope when this is over. If it is over, ever,
Speaker 1: then you know you won't forget that. I thought i'd
Speaker 1: try and do a bit of baking since everyone else
Speaker 1: is doing it. Um, So I've got the chairman. He
Speaker 1: helped me out. We're making some hot cross buns. Is
Speaker 1: that right, buddy? Is that right? Yeah, they're in the
Speaker 1: oven right now. Actually, I think he looked all right.
Speaker 1: Just check him out, ship Prime Minister. Well that's a
Speaker 1: big story. He's not in the best of shape either,
Speaker 1: so we're that's not good for him. Oh shit, oh
Speaker 1: ah m hm, oh Fox's sake. Yeah. So when I
Speaker 1: came back in, it was just like flower on the floor.
Speaker 1: He'd been walking through it. Have you watched those Hours
Speaker 1: to Green videos yet? No, not yet, but I will do.
Speaker 1: It's on my list. Yeah, check him out. It's really good.
Speaker 1: So you're getting out every day, Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's not like having the Highlands on
Speaker 1: your front door with it, no, I know, but it's
Speaker 1: some important you need to make sure you go. So
Speaker 1: just for like your mental health and everything. What do
Speaker 1: you fucking that is enough? That is enough? That's not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't sleep because it's just a really strange noise.
Speaker 1: It's been going on for a while now. It's coming
Speaker 1: from the wall. I don't know if you can hear us,
Speaker 1: okay in the fireplace maybe year that it's weird. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe it's like mice or something. I've got Yeah,
Speaker 1: say what, Oh, now she didn't perform she as a judge.
Speaker 1: That's a nice trick question. Yeah, well done. It pretty
Speaker 1: pathetic too for me on that man, I thought I
Speaker 1: got five who Actually Tuesday, March thirty first, death rates
Speaker 1: are still going up. It's just gone up another couple
Speaker 1: of hundred in the last day. We're over two thousand now.
Speaker 1: And yeah, just got this letter from the Prime Minister
Speaker 1: I'm hoping he hasn't written it himself, because obviously i'd
Speaker 1: have to disinfect it. Then I won't do the voice.
Speaker 1: So I'm writing to you to update you on the
Speaker 1: steps we're taken to combat coronavirus. More we all follow
Speaker 1: the rules, the fewer lives will be lost, and the
Speaker 1: sooner life can return to normal. It is with that
Speaker 1: great British spirit that we will beat coronavirus, and we
Speaker 1: will beat it together. So it's just the British spirit
Speaker 1: really that we need. Don't need any of this other stuff.
Speaker 1: Ppe it's funnier way he's saying about how fewer lives
Speaker 1: will be lost and the sooner life can get back
Speaker 1: to normal, return to normal, because I think normal's gone me,
Speaker 1: isn't it. Maybe this is a moment. It's terrible, it's horrible,
Speaker 1: we're all having to live through it. No one wants
Speaker 1: to be living through this right now. But could this
Speaker 1: be an opportunity to improve things, make things better? In
Speaker 1: a way, it's sort of exposing how what was before
Speaker 1: wasn't actually normal, like what's now is normal. Having a
Speaker 1: virus come in and just completely dismantle all the kind
Speaker 1: of social conventions that we had got used to and
Speaker 1: just sort of took for granted, like a working week,
Speaker 1: a weekend. You know, there's no such thing as Sunday,
Speaker 1: like cosmically, it's just that's what we've given the names
Speaker 1: of the week, so we can plan and keep a diary,
Speaker 1: all important things, being very useful. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: it's funny, isn't it. We keep talking about going back
Speaker 1: to normal. What we mean is going back to the
Speaker 1: fictions and the things that we made up that we
Speaker 1: feel secure being surrounded by. And I wonder if we
Speaker 1: can take this opportunity to in a useful way interrogate
Speaker 1: some of the fictions we had before, like having to
Speaker 1: go to work Monday to Friday nine to five. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe people might realize this something to be gained. There's
Speaker 1: some value in, you know, working from home or being
Speaker 1: able to manage your time differently and in more profound
Speaker 1: ways as well, you know, hopefully you know, it's not
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even say it's better or worse. It's just
Speaker 1: really different. With flu, you can take a lemsick, you
Speaker 1: can still lie down and rest and stuff. But if
Speaker 1: I've had proper flu, yes, if I've slept a lot
Speaker 1: but I've been able to read a book. This I
Speaker 1: can't even focus on literally lying. I can't sleep. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if feeling horrendous because the first two days I was
Speaker 1: still sort of active and up and about. And then
Speaker 1: Patrick said, if you've got this, you need to go
Speaker 1: and like rest, it's probably going to get worse. Are
Speaker 1: you isolating then? I mean it's about avia the house,
Speaker 1: isn't it. Yeah, I can't. Basically I'd just lie in
Speaker 1: my bed and at night everyone comes in, but we
Speaker 1: have the windows open, but there's not really anything else
Speaker 1: we could do. Yeah, leveliously, me alone in the day. Really,
Speaker 1: I know they've talked about herd immunity and stuff back
Speaker 1: in there, Oh my god, a few weeks ago and stuff,
Speaker 1: all the messages. I don't go to hospital, and obviously
Speaker 1: I wouldn't go to hospital because I can breathe. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not a problem. But there is no way that
Speaker 1: I'm not passing whatever I have to the rest of
Speaker 1: this household. I think. In fact, Lily hasn't eaten all
Speaker 1: day to day. She's a one year old, so she's
Speaker 1: not well. Yeah, my friend was saying that as well.
Speaker 1: They tried to call one on one and then it
Speaker 1: goes to the COVID line, doesn't it right, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just a bunch of people in the room just telling
Speaker 1: people not to go to hospital. Can't they at least
Speaker 1: track people that think they might be ill, but just
Speaker 1: take their address or something. There must be a better
Speaker 1: way to get a sense of where it is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like they've literally got call centers of people just
Speaker 1: telling people not to go to hospital, but then to
Speaker 1: call one one one if you feel really sick. And
Speaker 1: my mate was like, I've just called one one one
Speaker 1: and have come through to you. Yeah, but dad, that's
Speaker 1: not really the point, is it. Well, firstly hasn't stopped
Speaker 1: yet and it's still going up. But also it's a
Speaker 1: false equivalence if you don't take into account what happens
Speaker 1: if we don't do anything. But it could have been
Speaker 1: five hundred thousand. So it's not a question of saying
Speaker 1: we could just open everything up and the cost would
Speaker 1: be twenty thousand people, because that's all it's going to die.
Speaker 1: The cost of doing that it could be half a
Speaker 1: million people. So it is that a price worth paying? Yes,
Speaker 1: that's going to happen. I've lost my job. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: it's not in our hands to dictate whether it's not
Speaker 1: like a war, though you keep saying that it's not
Speaker 1: up to us when the virus decides to call it
Speaker 1: a day. Yeah, we can get a vaccine. Fine, but
Speaker 1: it's going to be like at least a year. It's
Speaker 1: just going to take time. Jobs are going to be lost,
Speaker 1: the economy is going to be badly affected. I don't
Speaker 1: know why. That's just in the news constantly. Yes, we
Speaker 1: know the economy is going to go down, but on
Speaker 1: the other side of this it will come back again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But that's the thing. It's not a question of what
Speaker 1: is the best option. We don't know how it's going
Speaker 1: to affect the economy. We don't know how many people
Speaker 1: are going to die. All we know for sure is
Speaker 1: that people are going to die, and if we do
Speaker 1: these measures now, we can save them. If that is
Speaker 1: the only certainty, why is it even a discussion. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just keep hearing his scratches in
Speaker 1: the wall. I'm guessing that's what it is, you know,
Speaker 1: having all this food here. I'm definitely not coming around
Speaker 1: until you but that's started. Yeah, but I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's that for sure. If I could have someone
Speaker 1: around to look at it. I'll call someone in, but
Speaker 1: there's not much I can do at the moment. How
Speaker 1: is your money situation? It's not great. I mean I've
Speaker 1: not heard anything about this furlough business, so just waiting
Speaker 1: on that. Really, Yeah, I don't know. I don't want
Speaker 1: to think about it. Really. What about your dad? Could
Speaker 1: you ask him for Hell, no way, I'm not asking
Speaker 1: him for money, not after last time. Howly, shit, I've
Speaker 1: got one. I've got a delivery slot. Jesus Christ. I've
Speaker 1: been waiting so long for that, right, Well, only took
Speaker 1: me a couple of weeks, but it looks like I've
Speaker 1: got a delivery coming. When is it three weeks time? Brilliant?
Speaker 1: But you know better than nothing? J Christ? What was that? Right?
Speaker 1: So I haven't been wearing them, but I'm definitely seeing
Speaker 1: more people outside with them on, so that's sort of
Speaker 1: making me think maybe I should be wearing them. I
Speaker 1: just don't get the messaging. It's a bit confusing. It's
Speaker 1: on the one hand, they're saying you don't need to
Speaker 1: wear a mask, but please don't buy any masks because
Speaker 1: the NHS staff need them, and so if they need them,
Speaker 1: surely they must do something right, which makes me just
Speaker 1: think it's something to do with it not doing anything
Speaker 1: for you. It's more that they've made such a bloody
Speaker 1: balls up of having the ppe for the NHS workers
Speaker 1: that they're having to basically ask us to risk our
Speaker 1: lives just to cover their own mistakes. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: they do need it more than I do because I'm
Speaker 1: just here. You know, I'm only going out once a day.
Speaker 1: But it clearly does something. I mean, look at the
Speaker 1: far east right, Korea, Vietnam, China, Dale wear masks and
Speaker 1: correct me if I'm wrong, But have they not handled
Speaker 1: this pretty well? Certainly compared to what we're doing. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I've just done something so bad. I just went to
Speaker 1: put the bins out and I was singing, fucking I
Speaker 1: was singing a Snoop Dog track or something anywhere. I
Speaker 1: look up and there's a fucking hearse in the middle
Speaker 1: of the street, and then I realize they are about
Speaker 1: ten people just standing right there, totally silent. Must have
Speaker 1: heard me rapping when I came out of the house
Speaker 1: all dressed in black, and then the fucking coffin comes out.
Speaker 1: I don't know who it is. I've not. I think
Speaker 1: it's an old lady lives across the street. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I've never spoken to her, but I imagine it's coronavirus
Speaker 1: on our street. I feel so embarrassed. I'm sure they
Speaker 1: didn't even notice it, but it's just it was just
Speaker 1: weird because it was you know, obviously no one's around,
Speaker 1: so it's just totally silent. I had no idea. That's
Speaker 1: them going off. Now, shit, what you've just volunteered. Sure,
Speaker 1: that's a good idea. I mean, look, that's that is commendable.
Speaker 1: But I mean you're pretty high risk. You're over seventy
Speaker 1: and you've just had a heart operation. Oh okay, they
Speaker 1: keep you away from the coronavirus patients. But still though
Speaker 1: it's a bit of an epicenter, isn't it for that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff? So when would you find out? Shit? Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it's it's I'm impressed. What's that you go into a
Speaker 1: what you got into a fight? Right? Where were you cycling? Yeah? No, no,
Speaker 1: I don't know it. But hang on, what do you
Speaker 1: mean he was black? Yeah? But why did you say that?
Speaker 1: It's got nothing to do with the story, has it.
Speaker 1: It's just a bit racist. Isn't it. You thought he
Speaker 1: was a drug dealer. Well that's even more racist, Dad,
Speaker 1: It is racist, of course it's racist. But Dad, if
Speaker 1: he was a white guy, you wouldn't have said this
Speaker 1: big white guy gone out? So why did you say
Speaker 1: black guy? Yeah, but just think about that. Well, anyway,
Speaker 1: what happened. You obviously didn't beat you up. You scared
Speaker 1: him off. I'm sure he did. H Hello, m fucking
Speaker 1: someone was in here? Will no, no what? Call the
Speaker 1: police and then what they're gonna say? Someone came in
Speaker 1: fucking stats and tints up on the floor. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: in the middle of the floor. Yeah, but I don't know,
Speaker 1: fucking tell them it's not a fucking ghost. I don't
Speaker 1: know why they would do it. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I haven't looked. That's not the point. Someone has been
Speaker 1: in the house. No, I'm not going to go you.
Speaker 1: I just called you because I'm scared. Yeah, did you
Speaker 1: see that? Where were they going? God, desert? Yeah, probably
Speaker 1: santrape or something. Yeah, seven men aged forty to fifty
Speaker 1: and three women aged twenty three to twenty five. I
Speaker 1: think there's a bit more to that story. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: all right, Yeah, same as everyone else. Really, although you'll
Speaker 1: never guess, well you probably will guess. You know Karen
Speaker 1: next door, she's having a bloody barbecue. Yeah, can you
Speaker 1: hear that? Yeah, yeah, it's about four people there. Well,
Speaker 1: she lives on her own. So can you even have
Speaker 1: family though? I don't think so. Yeah I should, But
Speaker 1: no apology Home Secretary for these failings which enny chefs,
Speaker 1: staff and their families blame on the government. Well, I'm
Speaker 1: sorry if people feel that they have I'm sorry if
Speaker 1: you feel they have been failings. Oh, I'm sorry if
Speaker 1: you feel you've died. You've got to be kidding me.
Speaker 1: What the fuck is wrong with these people? The total
Speaker 1: number of coronavirus deaths and UK hospitals has risen above
Speaker 1: ten thousand. That's the thing. They just kicked them out
Speaker 1: of hospital, don't even test them and send them straight
Speaker 1: into a care home in the most at risk group.
Speaker 1: Yeah thousands probably HS for saving his life. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you're doing it then? So when'd you start sterling next week?
Speaker 1: Are you sure it's a good idea? You sound excited
Speaker 1: about it. No, it's good to see you give him back,
Speaker 1: you know, after all your generation have done to ours,
Speaker 1: La Dad, you do realize you didn't actually fight in
Speaker 1: the war, right, because I'm not convinced that you know that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well I probably would if I was a doctor, but
Speaker 1: i'm not. So what am I supposed to do? I
Speaker 1: have been looking into volunteering. Actually, I'm just getting round
Speaker 1: to it anyway. It doesn't matter if a volunteer now
Speaker 1: or not. The point is we're the ones who are
Speaker 1: getting screwed over right now, so that we can stay
Speaker 1: inside and protect you lot. I'm not saying we don't
Speaker 1: want to do it. I'm happy to do it. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying that, you know, maybe all these people in
Speaker 1: your generation, landlords and whatnot, maybe they can offer to
Speaker 1: drop the rent for a couple of months or something.
Speaker 1: It was most of you like the vote for Brexit, right,
Speaker 1: I'll give you that. We don't know if it's going
Speaker 1: to be good or bad. But the point is it's risky,
Speaker 1: isn't it, And it's putting our futures at risk, and
Speaker 1: most of us didn't vote for that. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: April fourteenth, God, I don't even know what day it is.
Speaker 1: I think it's Tuesday. Somebody has been claiming that this
Speaker 1: five G system is somehow contributing to coronavirus deaths, because
Speaker 1: I think it's something to do with it, maybe scrambling
Speaker 1: your DNA. I don't understand how that has got into
Speaker 1: people's imaginations so much that they're burning fucking foaemasks. I
Speaker 1: love a conspiracy theory as much as the next person,
Speaker 1: but you know, I like them because it's fun to
Speaker 1: imagine in a way, but don't go burning fucking foemasks down.
Speaker 1: I mean, right now, we definitely need them. But also,
Speaker 1: this is the thing about conspiracy theories and this kind
Speaker 1: of conspiracy theory is that, in a weird way, it
Speaker 1: makes people feel more secure to think that there's a
Speaker 1: conspiracy going on, to think that somewhere somebody is manipulating
Speaker 1: all this, you know, some organization in the shadows is
Speaker 1: responsible for the chaos right now. Because although that is
Speaker 1: supposed to be the thing that scares you people, actually
Speaker 1: I think find the idea of that more reassuring than
Speaker 1: the idea that this shit is just happening. And I
Speaker 1: get that in a way, like you know, it's a
Speaker 1: perfectly human thing to not want to feel scared and
Speaker 1: feel in control. But I don't know, it's just I
Speaker 1: find it crazy. I just think, wouldn't it, in a
Speaker 1: way be better to just accept that this isn't a conspiracy,
Speaker 1: that this is actually how things work. I know, silly
Speaker 1: trying to dig into the logic because there isn't any
Speaker 1: But I just think maybe if there's a way to
Speaker 1: challenge it enough so that it will stop someone burning
Speaker 1: a fucking foam mask down, then I've got to try,
Speaker 1: haven't I Yes, the reckon Is virus might have come
Speaker 1: out of a lab. Is that not just a bit
Speaker 1: of a conspiracy theory? I don't know. I mean, basically,
Speaker 1: there is a virology lab right outside of Wuhan, and
Speaker 1: apparently that's where they've been testing similar things before, So
Speaker 1: I mean it's a bit of a coincidence. And what
Speaker 1: is the wet market anyway? I don't know. You tell me, well,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Hello, Hello, mum, Mum, I can't I
Speaker 1: can't hear you. Gotta put them, Yeah, put the microphone on.
Speaker 1: I'm going to call you. Oh, there you go. What
Speaker 1: he needs to do their bit, and the way I'm
Speaker 1: doing my bit is by working every ad got to
Speaker 1: every health ministers doing that around the world. But my
Speaker 1: questions he is will he be taking a pay cut
Speaker 1: as he works footballers to do and as the government
Speaker 1: in New Zealand is doing well, I'm not proposing to
Speaker 1: do that. What I am proposing to do is work.
Speaker 1: Oh shit, is that power cut? I can see uh
Speaker 1: lights on the rest of the street, so it must
Speaker 1: be refused. Let's have a look, hi, and then are
Speaker 1: you're doing You're right? Yeah, I think it's it's just
Speaker 1: the fuss going to meet always the back of the
Speaker 1: bloody cupboard. H yeah, Oh it's back on. Mhm. That's weird.
Speaker 1: Oh shit, I missed the clap. I can't go out
Speaker 1: now because that's if I go out halfway through, it's
Speaker 1: gonna look like I don't really give a ship. But
Speaker 1: if I don't go out, there could be lots of
Speaker 1: reasons why I haven't done it. Yeah, fuck it, I'm
Speaker 1: hearing it again. That's oh god, oh god, huh chairman,
Speaker 1: Oh god, how did you get in there? No, come on,
Speaker 1: be serious. I was only joking. Well, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's like the other day, all the doors
Speaker 1: in the house just slam shut. I keep hearing these scratches,
Speaker 1: no idea what they are. I don't think they're mice.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe I just need to get out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you should, it's important to try and get out of it.
Speaker 1: But also, um, I didn't tell you this, but just
Speaker 1: after I moved in, one of the neighbors mentioned something
Speaker 1: about something that happened here once, something something really bad,
Speaker 1: like what. I don't know. I don't know. I didn't
Speaker 1: They didn't say, Well, why didn't you tell me that?
Speaker 1: Because it's probably nonsense and I didn't want to scare
Speaker 1: you off and coming around. Why didn't you try and
Speaker 1: look into it before getting upset? There must be something
Speaker 1: online about it. Hello ones from First Castle. Yeah, hi there,
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering if you can help me. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to find some information about my flat, or like the
Speaker 1: history of my flat, and I just wondered if is
Speaker 1: there any way I can find maybe some information about
Speaker 1: who might have lived there, or maybe some news archive.
Speaker 1: Possibly everything shut because of the pandemic at the moment. Fortunately,
Speaker 1: perhaps you may want to try ancestry dot com. That
Speaker 1: might be a good question to start, all right, Yeah, brilliant,
Speaker 1: Thanks for your help. Okay, all right, cheers, bye bye.
Speaker 1: Delivery from Turkey carrying a large shipment of kids delayed.
Speaker 1: So that's over one hundred NHS staff now died. Oh
Speaker 1: that's mattew Just what do you mean? What about the
Speaker 1: furlough scheme? Isn't that I don't understand. So I haven't
Speaker 1: been there long enough to qualify for it. What difference
Speaker 1: does it make. I've worked there just like anyone else.
Speaker 1: Are you sure there hasn't been some kind of mistake?
Speaker 1: What am I supposed to do? I'm not going to
Speaker 1: go you, but can you have just made something up? Well?
Speaker 1: Is there even going to be a job at the
Speaker 1: end of this? I haven't really found anything, so I've
Speaker 1: just put some requests on forums and stuff. Hopefully someone
Speaker 1: will get back to me about it. Oh, yeah, that
Speaker 1: sounds interesting. I'm a little bit nervous about what it
Speaker 1: might be, but yeah, trying not to think about it
Speaker 1: too much. I'm not willing to one hundred percent say yeah,
Speaker 1: I think schools should open because we'll all be fine,
Speaker 1: because it's simply not true. Yeah, and although yes, statistically
Speaker 1: it's really loved well. Having said that, some of our
Speaker 1: staff are staff, well, quite frankly, they should not have
Speaker 1: to come into work because the percentage of them being
Speaker 1: ill and dying, right is significantly higher, and they shouldn't
Speaker 1: be punished I made any thought about that, Absolutely not,
Speaker 1: and it shouldn't be punished for that, or villa fight
Speaker 1: for that. That's the things like can't they do it
Speaker 1: so that it's much more of an open, honest conversation
Speaker 1: than it's like, right, I'm not joking. I think someone's
Speaker 1: in the house. Nice mm hmm, yeah, that's that's footsteps.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, huh hello, hull hello, h m hm.
Speaker 1: But when I went through to the kitchen, the back
Speaker 1: door was open. What so have your fun the police
Speaker 1: to say what someone walked into my house and then
Speaker 1: left the door open. I mean, I don't even know
Speaker 1: they can come around? Can they? At the moment, nothing
Speaker 1: was stolen. I mean someone came into your flat. You
Speaker 1: need to cold leaves. It doesn't matter if they take
Speaker 1: something or not. Look, are you sure you didn't leave
Speaker 1: it open in the day? Definitely didn't leave open. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I'm just so fucking tired of the news and just
Speaker 1: constantly reading the news. But this virus recession, fucking endless lockdown.
Speaker 1: You don't seem like you're getting a lot of sleep.
Speaker 1: Maybe you should speak to someone like a therapist. Why
Speaker 1: don't you sho show the NHS help plane. Right, So,
Speaker 1: as you know, I put a request out on one
Speaker 1: of those forums and it looks like someone's got back
Speaker 1: to me, which is great. Just having a look now
Speaker 1: to mister Williams, this might be of some interest. Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you, Roger. The challenges facing the government, holy shit,
Speaker 1: you're fucking kidding me right? Are you ready for this? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So this is from eighteen ninety five the Tooting tragedy.
Speaker 1: Tooting was on March seventh, the scene of one of
Speaker 1: the most terrible tragedies that have occurred in London for
Speaker 1: many years. It resulted in the death by suicide of
Speaker 1: a man named Frank Taylor, a plasterer of Fountain Road.
Speaker 1: But wait, after he murdered his wife, Martha, and six
Speaker 1: of his children, including newborn baby George Shire eldest child,
Speaker 1: Frank Taylor survived. What follows is best described by the
Speaker 1: surviving boy who made this statement. At about five thirty
Speaker 1: in the morning, I was in the back bedroom with
Speaker 1: my brothers and sisters when I heard my mother scream
Speaker 1: out murder. Then followed the sound of a heavy thud
Speaker 1: on the floor of the front bedroom. Immediately afterwards, Father
Speaker 1: come into our room, where in addition to myself, there
Speaker 1: were my brothers and sisters, Maggie aged thirteen, Annie eleven,
Speaker 1: Florrie seven, Freddie five, Willie three, and George three months.
Speaker 1: On entering the room, Father said, oh, Frank, where are you?
Speaker 1: I replied, I'm here. Father. He then, without saying another word,
Speaker 1: seized me by the throat with his left hand, cut
Speaker 1: me on the right side of the throat and on
Speaker 1: both my hands and left arm with some sharp instrument,
Speaker 1: which I now know to have been a razor. At
Speaker 1: the time, all the other children were screaming, and my
Speaker 1: father then left the room. I managed to crawl into
Speaker 1: a corner, and almost immediately afterwards Father came back and
Speaker 1: commenced cutting the throats of my brothers and sisters. He
Speaker 1: did them all except Florrie, and he then fell backwards
Speaker 1: on the floor and moaned. He got up soon afterwards
Speaker 1: and went into mother's bedroom, and I heard him sharpening
Speaker 1: the razor. He then came back and cut Florrie's throat,
Speaker 1: and immediately after stumbled back into his own room and exclaimed,
Speaker 1: Oh Lord, and then he moaned, for are we over
Speaker 1: twenty thousand. Now at some level that has to be
Speaker 1: mistakes made by the government. Surely it's not about blaming.
Speaker 1: I'm not just blaming for the sake of it. It's
Speaker 1: about what they are blaming them for. Yeah, but if
Speaker 1: you can't scrutinize the decisions they're making and the consequences
Speaker 1: of those decisions, then what's the bloody point of any
Speaker 1: of it? Why have an election at all? Exactly? Can
Speaker 1: you imagine if it was Corbin in charge. If they're
Speaker 1: not handling it well, then isn't that reflective of them
Speaker 1: not being able to govern? Very well? No, Dad, you're
Speaker 1: the snowflake, if you're the one getting upset. How can
Speaker 1: it possibly be doing a good job If the only
Speaker 1: measure of the job they're doing is whether people are
Speaker 1: dying or not. By that measure, people are definitely dying
Speaker 1: at a much worse rate than in other countries. You
Speaker 1: can't just say that's what the science says. There are
Speaker 1: lots of scientists saying lots of different things. What they
Speaker 1: mean is that's what some scientists were saying, that's the
Speaker 1: scientific advice they chose to latch onto. What's that got
Speaker 1: to do with China. I don't live in China. And also,
Speaker 1: can you stop saying China. It's not all of China,
Speaker 1: it's just the Chinese government. Yeah, I saw that Norman Hunter.
Speaker 1: You're always talking about him. He's a bit older than you, though,
Speaker 1: wasn't he. I can announce that we have met our goal.
Speaker 1: The number of tests yesterday, on the last day of
Speaker 1: April was one hundred and twenty two. Yeah. But did
Speaker 1: you hit the target or did you just fudge it
Speaker 1: a bit to make it look like you did. I mean,
Speaker 1: to be fair, you've got to set a target. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you hadn't set a hundred thousand, then you wouldn't
Speaker 1: have got anywhere near it. But just say it, Just
Speaker 1: say you didn't get one hundred thousand. But you've done
Speaker 1: a great job, to be honest, I think people will
Speaker 1: be happy with that, the testing capacity that we've built.
Speaker 1: Official statistics show that UK has now recorded the highest
Speaker 1: number of deaths linked to coronavirus in Europe. In England
Speaker 1: and Wales, almost a quarter happened in care homes, where
Speaker 1: deaths are still rising. I've decided not to join in
Speaker 1: the clap tonight. Maybe that's wrong. I don't know, I
Speaker 1: mean starting to feel a little bit like, you know,
Speaker 1: this is drawing attention away from the fact that these
Speaker 1: people shouldn't have to put their lives on the line
Speaker 1: like this, they are heroes. I've been reading a bit
Speaker 1: about you know what NHS staff are saying that you know,
Speaker 1: they're not heroes and and all that, and that you
Speaker 1: know what they really need is financial support. And you know,
Speaker 1: next time there's a vote for a bloody nurse's pay rise,
Speaker 1: maybe that that could be voted for now, and that
Speaker 1: the clap is somehow kind of cloud in that issue
Speaker 1: and drawing attention away from the fact that they've been
Speaker 1: woefully under funded and not given support, not given the
Speaker 1: protection that you know, National Health Service is entitled to.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to get political. It's not about
Speaker 1: right or left or who's good and who's bad. It's
Speaker 1: like there are good people and bad people in each side.
Speaker 1: And how do we know how it might have been
Speaker 1: handled by someone else, It might have been worse. We
Speaker 1: just don't know. But it's just one thing after another
Speaker 1: of this Ppe was supposed to be getting flown in
Speaker 1: from Turkey. Turkey. I mean this is months down the line, right,
Speaker 1: so I've I've just come down to the park today
Speaker 1: and well, as you could probably tell, I can't believe it.
Speaker 1: It's like there's about twenty groups of people just sat around.
Speaker 1: Seems like lockdown's over. Yeah, did yet hold of it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What's going on? Patrick's taking her in now? Is she right?
Speaker 1: She breathing? All right? Fucking hell, you don't know that.
Speaker 1: We don't even know if it's coronavirus. She's calling me, hello,
Speaker 1: what's going on? You're right, population, that's what they just said,
Speaker 1: come straight in, all right, just let us know. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I speaking a bit. Fuck so it doesn't sound great,
Speaker 1: but fuck yeah I can hear it again. Something I
Speaker 1: can It's in the room. It's in the room. What
Speaker 1: the fuck have you been watching? Normal people? Then? Uh? Nah,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it yet, but um, yeah, So something
Speaker 1: happened last night, like what like something came into the
Speaker 1: bedroom and pulled the covers off the bed. Really, I'm
Speaker 1: not making up. I don't know what the fuck is
Speaker 1: going on, but something fucking came into the room last
Speaker 1: night and pulled covers off the bed. Look, I've got
Speaker 1: it recorded, yeah, so why don't I send you the
Speaker 1: file and you can hear it for yourself? Does fucking footsteps? Like?
Speaker 1: Did you give that number a call? I don't need
Speaker 1: to call someone about it? What the fuck am I
Speaker 1: going to tell them? Well, I'm kind of experiencing exceptionally
Speaker 1: how I demand or I help mine, and therefore are
Speaker 1: needing to keep coal shops that we may have to
Speaker 1: as many coals as possible and help everyone that. Thank
Speaker 1: you for calling Anxiety UKs Info line. We are now
Speaker 1: connecting you to a trained volunteer will provide you with
Speaker 1: information regarding stress anxiety, anxiety based depressions, and the services
Speaker 1: we offer. Please hold until we connect to you. Fuck this,
Speaker 1: What am I going to tell them? Like? My house
Speaker 1: is being haunted by the ghost of a fucking murderer.
Speaker 1: I think they've got bigger things to worry about right now. Yeah? Hi,
Speaker 1: how are you doing? Is it? Is it that long?
Speaker 1: How are you doing? Yeah? Right? Can you believe it? Yeah? Well, no,
Speaker 1: I'm all right. I was just you know, I've just
Speaker 1: been calling friends, you know, and making sure everyone's all right.
Speaker 1: You're keeping all right? You good? Yeah good? I was
Speaker 1: just wondering you still got that our house and the
Speaker 1: back of your garden. The thing is yeah, I've just
Speaker 1: my whole flat is just completely flooded, and you know,
Speaker 1: I just wondered if it was she's actually she's in Scotland. No,
Speaker 1: she wanted to stay up there with her dad. No,
Speaker 1: it's not like that. I did want to speak. Hello.
Speaker 1: Did you listen to it? Yeah? I did, But I
Speaker 1: can really tell what was going on? Well I told
Speaker 1: you what was going on, right, Well, anyway, there's something
Speaker 1: else this morning. So I was going through the files
Speaker 1: on the recorder and there's a fucking file there that
Speaker 1: I didn't record, and well, just listen to it. That
Speaker 1: is me asleep in my bedroom. But wait, did you
Speaker 1: hear that? If I'm being honest, I can't really tell
Speaker 1: what it is. But if that's me snoring, and who
Speaker 1: the fuck recorded that? There's someone else's voice in my
Speaker 1: room and I am asleep? Like any cars that number? Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: I called it and I told him like there's something
Speaker 1: fucking weird going on in the house and they didn't
Speaker 1: believe me. And that was it. And how's how's chairman? Well,
Speaker 1: yeah that's another thing as well, because I haven't seen
Speaker 1: him for a couple of days now. Hello, Yeah, hi, um, look,
Speaker 1: I don't even know who I need to speak to
Speaker 1: here or how this might work. But I really need
Speaker 1: to talk to someone about about this thing. Yeah, of
Speaker 1: course it's it's Ben. Hi. Yeah, no, I don't. I'm
Speaker 1: not a regular at all. Um. I don't think I've
Speaker 1: ever been to church, to be honest, Well, basically, I
Speaker 1: think my house might be haunted. And I just thought
Speaker 1: maybe you guys, you know, if you believe in God,
Speaker 1: then maybe you believe in this other stuff. Look, I'm
Speaker 1: not putting your leg honestly, Well all sorts. Really, things
Speaker 1: have been breaking. I'm hearing strange noises, there's this baby
Speaker 1: crying all the time, and and the other day I
Speaker 1: think it seemed like someone had been in the house.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I live on my own. Is there any
Speaker 1: chance that someone maybe could come out, maybe the vicara
Speaker 1: or something. I just don't know what to do, and
Speaker 1: I just thought, I don't know, maybe someone could do
Speaker 1: an exorcism or something. We don't. I don't think a
Speaker 1: zoom consultation is going to cut it, to be honest, Look,
Speaker 1: just just just forget about it. It's fine. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: to bother you, all right, mum, Yeah, no, I'm fine. Yeah, obviously,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm fine. I was just wanting to see
Speaker 1: how you're doing. Oh good, how's granddad? M okay, okay.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're getting this, but i'm hearing
Speaker 1: the footsteps again. Mm hmm hello, what what is that?
Speaker 1: What is it? What is it? What is the frank? Okay,
Speaker 1: the funck was that? No? H who? Who h