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Speaker 1: Christian Connel Shoe podcast.

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Speaker 2: Patsy, please tell us right, because I started thinking about

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Speaker 2: it yesterday after the show me Jack and pats were

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Speaker 2: talking off air because Already had a cross country run yesterday,

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Speaker 2: and honestly, that was the one of the worst days

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Speaker 2: of my school week. Would always be the dreaded cross

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Speaker 2: country run. It would always been. It was john the winter,

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Speaker 2: it was after the football season in the UK, so

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Speaker 2: it's like wet muddy. You'd have the pee teachers running

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Speaker 2: alongside you, barking at the kids at the back with asthma.

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Speaker 2: Before we realized it wasn't a nice thing to treat

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Speaker 2: people like that. They're just screaming, just misery, kids crying.

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Speaker 2: And then there's always one or two kids who were,

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Speaker 2: like you know, destined for the Olympics.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's great for them, actually do running.

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Speaker 4: It's a job for them for the rest of us.

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Speaker 2: Stitch that they would go running off. Put your hand

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Speaker 2: into it like it's a flesh room, Stitch.

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Speaker 5: How did Already get on yesterday.

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Speaker 6: Patsy, Well, she tried to get out of it. I

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Speaker 6: was telling you yesterday she tried to pull a sickie

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Speaker 6: and nearly convinced the love God to keep her home.

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Speaker 6: He was texting me during the show saying what do

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Speaker 6: I do?

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Speaker 2: And I'm like, you need to or you like and

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Speaker 2: block capitals, hold the line, hold the line, shield brace you.

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Speaker 6: Do the mornings. You need to deal with it and

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Speaker 6: tell me what the outcome is after the show finishes.

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Speaker 6: So he ended up taking it as school. She went

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Speaker 6: and she actually had a.

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Speaker 3: Really good day.

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Speaker 6: But when I picked her up at four, I said, oh,

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Speaker 6: how did the run go? It was two k They

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Speaker 6: had to do pilling down here two k and she said, oh,

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Speaker 6: really good. I met this really nice sheep on the way.

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Speaker 6: I said, what do you mean you met his sheep

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Speaker 6: and she said yeah. I had to stop and pat

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Speaker 6: the sheep. And then there was a horse.

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Speaker 5: Don't stop running around a patching something. The account west

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Speaker 5: and then we went.

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Speaker 2: Jokes were sheep and horses and ponies just walking through

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Speaker 2: the streets.

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Speaker 6: The school's got a farm, so they do the fun

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Speaker 6: run around the farm and there's orchards and stuff there.

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Speaker 3: The school has a farm.

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Speaker 5: I'm going to school, do that not just that he's

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Speaker 5: got the fud? Why was she going to school? Nineteen

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Speaker 5: fifty two in England or something?

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Speaker 6: That's good.

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Speaker 5: I call the midwife.

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Speaker 2: And then I stopped some crabbing apples.

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Speaker 6: They've got a damn and they go yepbiing sometimes as well.

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Speaker 5: Where was she school?

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Speaker 2: Harry Potter World, It's just not the school I went to.

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Speaker 2: That's amazing, Christian.

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Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell shows.

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Speaker 5: I always thought you were a supreme runner.

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Speaker 1: Jack.

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Speaker 4: No, I didn't start running until I was in my twenties,

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Speaker 4: so I wasn't much of a sports kid at school.

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Speaker 4: And my worst day you talk about already had in

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Speaker 4: the cross country path. My worst day was the swimming

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Speaker 4: sports carnival one day year they you were forced to swim.

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Speaker 4: You had to swim at least once.

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Speaker 2: See, this is what it was like younger kids. Now,

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Speaker 2: no one's forced to do anything for good reason. That's

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Speaker 2: actually why we went. There was no option there. You

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Speaker 2: just get in the poll and they threw you in

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Speaker 2: the pool.

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Speaker 4: And I was a skinny, little rake of a kid,

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Speaker 4: and I hated even getting my shirt off and thing.

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Speaker 5: That locker room was brutal for young boys. Wasn't it

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Speaker 5: just awful?

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Speaker 2: Because you had some kids who were just blessed genetically,

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Speaker 2: and it's like that they were almost fully formed young men.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: They had like abs and pets and were massive, and

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Speaker 2: I had beers, and the teachers were slightly and a

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Speaker 2: big old Adam's apple.

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Speaker 5: It's like their voice broke at ten.

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Speaker 3: I never in my whole high schooling life got one

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Speaker 3: of those ribbons.

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Speaker 5: Never. Oh the same with me.

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Speaker 2: No ribbons for me. Otherwise I don't think we're doing this.

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Speaker 2: I think things have been a different at school. I

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Speaker 2: would have been Okay. It broke me somehow, and I'm

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Speaker 2: still trying to find some kind of validation. This is

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Speaker 2: every morning at six am, after twenty three years.

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Speaker 5: When when wouldn't it be enough? Dad? I've got a

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Speaker 5: ribbon now, Dad, what.

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Speaker 3: Was your sport like? What were you trying to avoid?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 5: Was that run?

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Speaker 2: I never, I was always not in the middle of it.

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Speaker 2: But it was just so much bloody effort. And I

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Speaker 2: remember deliberately once. Also, can we just talk about back

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Speaker 2: in the day. So it was the eighties for me

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Speaker 2: and pantsy right these days now, my kids on these

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Speaker 2: training they've got the feet have been measured, they've got

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Speaker 2: like Nike air Max nine the trainer runs for you.

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Speaker 2: In my day, it was something called a plimsule. Right,

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Speaker 2: and it was just I had no kind of athletic

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Speaker 2: support whatsoever, so it wasn't really kind to your feet anyway.

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Speaker 2: So I thought, our better get out of this week,

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Speaker 2: because that's what it was all about. Patsy like called it.

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Speaker 2: It was always about I remember friends with fake letters

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Speaker 2: from parents.

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Speaker 5: It's all about trying to get out of it.

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Speaker 2: And when I just forget my I just forget my trainer,

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Speaker 2: so I've got my kits, so it looks like I

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Speaker 2: was really keen to do this, all right, But I

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Speaker 2: just forget my trainers and the guy went. It was

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Speaker 2: always the worst thing to say to a young kid

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Speaker 2: was that's okay, you just go to lost property box.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, lost property box was worse fate than hell. Their feet.

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Speaker 2: I've got it on hands and knees the five K

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Speaker 2: please pie, sir, please not the lost property box. And

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Speaker 2: I go, why if they don't fit me, doesn't matter,

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Speaker 2: Just put something on there. All I could find was

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Speaker 2: like size two sizes up for me of actual football

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Speaker 2: stud boots, you know when the old klackety clacks, so

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Speaker 2: we have to run on comm but to get anywhere

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Speaker 2: near a field, it was just the shock of it

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Speaker 2: going up through my legs. I still don't think I'm

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Speaker 2: okay now. I used to hate that run, absolutely dread.

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Speaker 2: It was like that traumatic experience, wasn't it?

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Speaker 5: Som of you? Was the if you Patsy? Were you gifted?

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Speaker 3: You know what?

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Speaker 6: I was actually ironically good at long distance running, but

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Speaker 6: sprinting I was terrible, and I always tried to get

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Speaker 6: out of gymnastics. I hated the parallel bars with a passion.

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Speaker 3: And the vault the gymnastics, Oh.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, was that climb up that rope and then slide

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Speaker 2: down again?

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Speaker 5: That was it? And then the monkey bars. You might

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Speaker 5: I used to love doing them. You don't like bars?

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Speaker 3: You just the monkey bars was in the playground.

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Speaker 7: We didn't know that for me at sixteen, they go

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Speaker 7: get this monkey bars? Else doing this the field monkey bar,

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Speaker 7: doing the parallel bars though.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, no, I didn't like your height. It was really

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Speaker 6: scary and I'd always nights from mum.

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Speaker 5: Did you guys have to do? Did you have to

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Speaker 5: get in the showers afterwards? That was a dread picture

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Speaker 5: to get naked.

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Speaker 3: I saw anyone use the showers.

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Speaker 2: We had to, and like you said, we had no

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Speaker 2: choice going swimming. A pe teacher would stand at the

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Speaker 2: entry of the shower. It's number two, the dodgy, and

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Speaker 2: they would.

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Speaker 5: Call themselves, I'm not making us up, the naked patrol.

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Speaker 5: It was the eighties.

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Speaker 2: It was in time to check right, and I kept saying,

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Speaker 2: clim by the way, is it whatever got into this

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Speaker 2: fully kitted right?

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Speaker 5: Did you ever catch.

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Speaker 2: Anyone thought from now we need to form a naked patrol.

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Speaker 2: So one of them was at the entry point. Another

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Speaker 2: one is number two, was at the exit point. Where

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Speaker 2: if I'm going in naked, why do I need to

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Speaker 2: be checked again? I haven't hidden, I haven't hidden a

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Speaker 2: suit or something to get dressed in this awful

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