Learn English on boxing day 2023 šŸ”“LIVE from England šŸŽ

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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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Ho, ho, ho, ho!
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It's Boxing Day.
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Boxing Day has arrived
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and we are out and about with myself and Mr.
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Steve.
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We are out in the countryside.
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Isn't this amazing, Steve?
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It's lovely. Yes. It's a lovely mild weather.
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Perfect day for a walk.
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Boxing Day walk.
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It's quite a tradition in many parts of the world.
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Certainly here to go forĀ  a nice walk on Boxing Day.
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We've decided to share it with you.
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Yes, that's what we're doing.
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But the big question is, where are you?
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I don't know. I'm I'm lost. I'm completely lost.
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You dragged me here. Where are they?
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Where are the viewers?
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I have no idea where they are. Over. They're.
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I think over there. Yes, I can see. Are you sure?
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I think I can see.
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I don't know.
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That might be an angry farmer up there.
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Steve, you might be right.
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yes, that might be.
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Our view is waiting for us.
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it's not love.
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It's not lovely.
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Yes, I can think.
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I can see somebody.
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Can I see some writing going across the screen?
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V task is is that V test is the first And today's live chat, I wonder.
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We'll find out.
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We'll find out in a moment.
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So getting very fit.
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Mr. Duncan.
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We're walking up this hill towards what we think are the viewers,
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and we're hoping that theyĀ  appreciate all the effortĀ 
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that you've put in. Yes.
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Anyway, that that doesn't matter.
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The important thing is today we have this.
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We have all of this.
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Look at it. Look.
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Free to wander the countryside on Boxing Day.
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What?
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What could be better?
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When you think about it.
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Well, I can think of one thing.
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Mince pie and custard.
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No, I can think of somethingĀ  even better than that.
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Sharing a few moments
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with our beautiful, lovely, loyal viewers.
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Wouldn't that be a very nice thing to do?
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there they are, Steve.
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Hi, everybody.
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This is Mr.
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Duncan and Mr. Steve.
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We are here today on boxing Day,
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and we are now live with you out and about.
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We did eat too much food yesterday.
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It is traditionally, isn't it? Absolutely.
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But we're fasting at theĀ  moment, so we've had nothing
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since about 10:00 last night.
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So. Yeah.
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So that's 12, 16 hoursĀ  without anything to eat. Mr.
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Duncan said we're doing a fast today, although weĀ 
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didn't eat a lot of food,Ā  we had a big Christmas meal.
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We will show you that next Sunday.
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Don't forget, we are back with you on Sunday.
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So don't panic about that because it will be next Sunday.
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It will be New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve.
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So we will be looking back over
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some of the moments of 2023.
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And of course,Ā 
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we will look forward toĀ  the following year as well.
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So today is is.
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How would you describe it?
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New Year's Eve. Eve, Eve, Eve, Eve,
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Eve. How many Eve's?
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That's a lot of Eve's.
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Here we go.
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We've got the live chat, and I suppose I should say hello to the live chat.
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I wonder who was first.
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I think we can guess.
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congratulations, Vitesse.
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Vitesse was first.
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Congratulations, Vitesse.
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We can't give you a roundĀ  of applause, unfortunately,
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because we haven't got our machine.
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That's nice.
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Thank you, Mr. Steve.
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So we have the lovely Shropshire landscape.
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For those wondering whereĀ  we are, this is Shropshire,Ā 
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a place called Much Wenlock.
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Behind me you can see lots of farmer's fields also over there in the distance.
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I will point towards it if Mr.
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Steve can just move out of frame slightly.
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There it is up there
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that is called the wrekin
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wrekin w r e k i and
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and that is a famous landmark in this area.
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And we are out and about right now.
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A few people, Steve will come back.
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A few people are worried that I might be cold, but I can tell you now I'm not.
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I am really warm because the weather is crazy.
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It must be 11 to 12 degrees out here.
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No wind, which means thatĀ  we were walking up the hillsĀ 
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to get here and Mr.
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Duncan was getting overheated.
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He had to take his coat off.
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I was sweating, beads of sweat. Yeah.
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So it's probably warmĀ  throughout Europe, I would say.
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Maybe.
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Certainly.
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Somebody told us on on Sunday that it was very warm in Italy
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and I would imagine it's quite warm in France.
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Of course, Paris will be warm anyway.
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And there has been snow in the UK,
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but in Scotland, so not here.
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But they have had a lot of snow on Christmas Day, which was yesterday.
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Which leads me to my next question.
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How is your Christmas Day?
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Did you have a nice time on Christmas Day?
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Did you have some fun?
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Did you have some nice gifts?
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Maybe you didn't celebrate it, but maybe you still had a happy day.
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So what did you do yesterday?
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We had a lot of fun.
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We had some gifts.
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Mr. Steve bought me something very, very nice.
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In fact, he bought me three very nice gifts.
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I will show you them on Sunday,
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on New Year's Eve live stream on Sunday.
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And I bought something nice for Mr.
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Steve as well.
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All I'm going to say is it is connected
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to what we were just talking about.
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The weather. No. Okay.
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I guess
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it's a weather station. There we go. Well.
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well, I don't know what you're going to say.
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I say I was going to just leave it there and then
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I guess I could have done if you hadn't told them.
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Well, you told them when you said the weather just said it anyway.
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Right. They're not going already. There isn't much else.
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It could beĀ 
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if you said it's somethingĀ  to do with the weather, it's
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it's not going to be anything but a way of measuring the weather.
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hello, Claudia.
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What's cooking?
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Claudia, what have you got in your past?
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What's cooking, Claudia?
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Is it something spicy and hot?
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Is it something salty or not?
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Claudia, what is in your past?
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Hello to somebody. Birthday.
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Mr. Duncan, I am here again.
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Please wish me well.
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A spa show. A spa show.
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It is my birthday. Happy birthday to you.
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Can you give me a special dance?
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Well, yes.
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Well, I'm not sure aboutĀ  here because it's very muddy.
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We were on a slope.
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Yes, and it's muddy and it's quite muddy, but, you know, it's used a dance.
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You've got to pay. As I say.
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You've got to you've got to put some some some dollars into my G-string.
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Imagine if we were dancing in a go go ball.
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That's it.
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And you've got to you've got to put money down the front of our t shirts or somewhere else.
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I'm standing with my legs astride here because we're on quite a difficult slope.
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You should be used to that.
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And I'm going to get achy legs very quickly, Mr.
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Donkey. You know what I'm like
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standing on flat ground so you can imagine what it's going to be like on the slope.
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Anyway.
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You'll be pleased to hear we're only here for a short time and Steve is already complaining.
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Could you stop kicking the camera?
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is there any chance just trying to make sense of you, Not India.
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Hello.
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Quality from India is watching is Hello.
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Hello, India.
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I hope.
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I imagine it's a bit warmer there than it is here.
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Have you got any snow? I doubt it.
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I don't know.
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Maybe.
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Well, I mean, there are mountains in India with probably some snow on them.
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Yeah. So yes, it would be the answer to that. Yes.
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There's the big mountain range that divides,
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I think isn't isn't it between India and China.
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So yes, there is a large sort of mountainous area which is desolate,
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but it will it is also a contended area.
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So quite often there areĀ  battles between the ChineseĀ 
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and sometimes on the border as well.
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Hello.
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Yes, I am from India.
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Thank you very much for joining me today.
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We also have o guess who else is here?
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Lewis Mendez.
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Hello, Lewis.
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Did you have a nice Christmas?
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I know who did.
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Have a nice Christmas for all of us.
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Beatrice. Hello, Beatrice.
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If you're watching at the moment in the mountains with your family,
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thank you very much for your lovely Christmas photographs.
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I think
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she's in Buenos Aries.
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I think.
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Claudia.
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Claudia. Now, Beatrice is in Buenos Aires.
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Definitely. Yes. Beatrice. Yes. Yes.
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Is that how you meant?
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Did you mean cruelty?
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You know Beatrice? yes.
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She was sent to see Beatrice.
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Sent us some lovely photographs with her family.
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I know in Buenos Aires as it was.
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Thank you very much. Your family is loved.
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Your your.
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Your family is lovely.
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And it looks as if they like.
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I always get the feelingĀ  that Beatrice and her family,Ā 
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they're quite close.
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Very close.
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And I get the feeling your family is also very protective of you.
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They care a lot for you and you are very lucky because of that.
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What do you say, Steve?
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I would say hello to Sports Channel.
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Interesting.
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And I am from Iraq.
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Hello, Iraq.
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So somebody new, I think.
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I don't think we've seen you before.
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If we have, I apologise.
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but yeah, yeah.
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And this often happens when we do these random live streams
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that you get new people popping up that haven't popped up before.
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So yeah. Right.
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If it is your first time on the live chat, please let us.
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No, please say Mr. Duncan, it's our first time.
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I get the feeling Steve.
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Steve might be in pain already.
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No, I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm just.
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I'm standing with.
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With my legs in strange positions in order to be level for the camera again.
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You should be used to be trying to suggest.
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I think you be in a hole.
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I think Steve is trying.
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I don't think you can adjust the landscape.
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It's going to be difficult.
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Do you know where we are standing at the moment?
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About 400 million yearsĀ  ago, this was under the sea
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in a different part of the world,
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in a different part of the world where Australia is there.
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Isn't that strange, though?
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This whole area is a huge coral reef
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that has broken free and tipped over.
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And if you look around this area you will find lots of small
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sea creatures buried in the rock.
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And that is how we know that this usedĀ 
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to be under the sea a many,Ā  many millions of years ago.
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Isn't that amazing?
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So if we were here 400 million years ago, we would be underwater.
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We would be under the sea.
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Right now, the sandstone rock is a quarry
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around here for for for buildings. Yes.
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And it's basically just lots and lots of dead sea creatures.
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It's amazing that they've somehow shifted with the tectonic plates. Yes.
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So they ended up here.
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So part of the sea bed broke free and tipped up.
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And that is where we are standing right now on Wenlock Edge.
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That is what it is.
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It's quite, quite interesting, actually.
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St Stefano
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here in Italy is on the 26th of December, says Christina.
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Now it is worth mentioning that some people are of course
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going to celebrate Christmas later than us.
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That's interesting you should say that. Mr.
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Duncan, can you, can you just go back a bit because we had somebody there from Ukraine.
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Nadia, what's it got?
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There we go.
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Nadia from Ukraine.
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Well, according to something I've read today,
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Ukraine don't normally celebrate
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Christmas, as you said, till January.
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But is it true that you've actually celebrated it yesterday?
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According to something I read,
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then you celebrated it on the 25th this year.
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And so is it the six?
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Yes, it's the Orthodox Christians. That's it.
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So maybe so. I don't know. Maybe you can.
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Maybe you can tell us, Nadia, because they follow the different calendar. So.
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So one group follow the Gregorian calendar and others follow the different ones.
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So we have ours on the 25th of December.
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That's all Christmas Day.
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And then Orthodox have theirs on.
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I think it's around the 6th of January.
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But what have you done this year?
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Nadia Please let us know.
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so maybe there has been a
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change because of the recent situations.
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What's wrong?
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I thought I saw something.
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That was something going across on the screen.
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I thought there was some big bird in the air, but in fact, it was crawling along on your screen.
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It's a it's a little fly. And I.
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But I thought it was in the sky.
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It's like it was flying.
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but there you go.
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Okay, that's we must say that.
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Didn't you say it?
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No, I didn't see that my fly was what was going across the screen.
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I see just where the sky is.
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And I thought it was a bird in the sky, which is when I look around and I realise it's a fly on.
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You're on your screen, Mr. Duncan. Good.
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Can I say thank you very much, Mr.
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Steve, for your gift?
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Now we are going to show them on Sunday and all I'm going to say about my gift that Mr.
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Steve gave to me is it's something very useful.
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Something very useful.
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That's all I'm saying. For now.
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Nothing else. And I did buy Mr.
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Steve something nice as well for his Christmas presents.
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Of course, we had chocolates as well.
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You can't have Christmas without chocolates,
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I think it's fair to say.
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Yeah, we get them surprisingly late.
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no, we're not boring you with our details Christmas time.
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But, yeah, we we, we did eat a lot of food.
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And, chocolate, of course, is always, I would say, central to that for us.
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But anyway, yeah, it's the most important part of the food.
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The food is the most importantĀ  part. It always has be.
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I remember at home we usedĀ  to always eat a lot of food
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We did over Christmas, and I think everyone does, to be honest.
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What a lovely landscape. Hello, Bruno.
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Yes, we are not very far awayĀ  from our house, actually.
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So we're just going out for a walk on Boxing Day because we ate so much food.
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We are trying to walk off some of those dreadful calories on the way.
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Yes, as I said, we haven'tĀ  eaten anything since aboutĀ 
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10:00 last night, which is actually to tell a lie.
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I had a yoghurt this morning, a coffee yoghurt,
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and but that's all I've had.
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So in effect,
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I've been. Have you had anything to eat?
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I just had a little bit of bread this morning, but I am looking forward to having what Mr.
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Steve likes to call his bubble and squeak, which is where we take all the leftovers
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and we fry them and then we have some turkey because we we did
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we did this here, get a ratherĀ  large turkey, didn't we?
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The smallest we could find.
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But as we discussed on Sunday, it's
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very difficult to get a small turkey because, well, one, they are big birds anyway.
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Yeah.
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And and two, most turkeys
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are four sort of big families,Ā  eight, ten or 12 people.
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But we managed to get one for six,
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but it was still it's still
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going to last at least four meals.
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which makes sense to four. Six.
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Yeah.
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And then I'll hopefully boil the bones and make a nice soup as well today.
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Yeah.
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All the leftover vegetables of which I was due extra anyway.
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The potatoes, the brussel sprouts,
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sweet potatoes,
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carrots.
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and dare I say, potatoes
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and potatoes will all come out of the fridge.
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I will chop them up, put them in a frying pan and fry them and make
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what's called bubble and squeak, which is called that because it makes
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squeaking and bubbling sounds when you're frying it in the frying pan.
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And then we'll have that with the heated up gravy and some turkey,
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along with a bit of stuffing that's left over.
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I'm not so I might sauce.
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I'm not going to lie.
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I am a little hungry right now.
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I could eat that right now.
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Well, we're talking about it, unfortunately, and we've effectively fasted for 12.
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What time is it now? 2:00?
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No, it's it's about 2:25.
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So that's 12, 16 hours really,Ā  without anything to eat.
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So if we look a bit pale, that's probably why
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and that's the reason why we're walking, because we had too much yesterday.
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Mr. Duncan is wearing aĀ  shirt, but isn't it freezing?
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No, it isn't.
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It is surprisingly mild, Very mild.
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And in fact, you had to take your coat off.
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I was sweating,
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literally. Sweat was pouring off.
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Mr. Duncan's head.
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And I feel about right.
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Okay.
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I feel about right, but then I don't get that hot anyway.
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But now you can.
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There's no wind.
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No wind.
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So there is some wind coming out the back of me.
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That's because of the brussel sprouts. I think so.
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But yeah, there's no wind here at all.
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It is totally still at about 11 degrees
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and we have been walking a lot, so we're hot. Yes.
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But so that's the reason Mr.
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Duncan hasn't got a coat on.
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So if you want to enjoy the landscape,
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we we'll move aside for a moment and we will let you see the landscape.
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So there it is.
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Look at that.
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So that is the view thatĀ  we're enjoying at the moment.
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And you can see everything is looking rather nice.
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We have the landscape, we have quite a few farmer's fields here.
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So all of the fields you can see here are actually farmer's fields.
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Sometimes they have crops growing
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and in some of the fieldsĀ  they keep animals, livestock.
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There were some sheep over there, but they've they've all been taken in.
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And as I mentioned earlier,
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there is the most famous landmark around here, the Wrekin Hill.
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W are
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e k i n wrekin
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and that is a large hill
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that many people like to climb to the top of their on New Year's Day.
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So next week a lot of peopleĀ  will be going up there
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to see the new year arrive of somebody said that it was volcanic,
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it was it's an ancient volcano, but I'm not sure whether it is or not.
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It actually isn't, isn't it? No, it's not.
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It isn't volcanic as I understand it.
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It's a it's a part of the landscape
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that was above the the ice.
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During the ice age.
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And there are many parts around here, many places where you can see
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some of the very old rock that was not affected by the ice Age.
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So the ice, as it formed around the Earth, only came up to a certain height.
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So certain things, certain types of rock
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were actually above the iceĀ  and they were not affected.
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And I think I might be wrong, but I think the wrekin is similar
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to thatĀ 
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as well as we have manyĀ  places round here, don't we?
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Remember, the last Ice AgeĀ  was about 300,000 years ago,Ā 
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something like that.
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It was.
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It was a very long time ago.
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Fortunately, we weren't around.
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I think it was in theĀ  hundreds of thousands It keep.
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Well, we don't know, do we.
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Well no.
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Well I'm just saying I think that's what it is so somebody can look it up and tell us
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you would know for certain.
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So we definitely don't know. Well, I think I do.
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300,000 years.
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We think so.
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We'll be wrong. 200. It may be less than that.
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It may be less than that, because I'm sure I'm sure man was
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was sort of forming into sort of societies around the same time.
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The Ice Age. Yeah.
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Human beings were trudging around during the ice skating.
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So definitely, yeah, maybe maybeĀ Ā 
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that's where the Eskimos came from.
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Well, yeah, if we stand to be corrected.
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So you can't wrong.
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Please let us know.
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By the way, we can't say Eskimo anymore.
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It's Inuit.
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Okay? Yes. You're not allowed to say Eskimo.
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That's racist to you. It sounds like an insult.
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I'm sure it isn't to Eskimos.
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Inuit? I don't think they care Anyway.
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I've forgotten any Eskimos or Inuit.
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It's watch as if you'reĀ  watching this at the momentĀ 
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in your little igloo and you are tuning in.
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Maybe. Maybe you are heating yourself up.
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That's an insult, assuming that they would be in an igloo,
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because I would
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imagine that these days are probably in modern,
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well insulated, warm homes, semi-detached houses
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with a little driveway
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and a picket fence whichĀ  will disappear when it snows?
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I think so.
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who else is here?
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We haven't said hello toĀ  the live chat for a while.
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I'm starting to get cold, by the way.
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Hello, Jemmy from Hong Kong. Happy Boxing Day.
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The reason why they callĀ  it Boxing Day, by the way,
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for those wonderingĀ 
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is because it was often theĀ  day that people got paid
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for those who were servants or working
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for the the wealthy people.
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They would have to work on Christmas Day.
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So they were given their gift or their salary or their wages
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the day after Christmas, normally in a box, a small box, a gift was given to them.
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Hence Boxing Day.
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of course there are
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many phrases in English, Steve, that use box.
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Can you think of what?
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No box.
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Then if you are boxed in,
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it means you are stuck in a corner.
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You can't escape from a situation or a position that you're in.
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That's very good.
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Yes. To be boxed in, boxed in, In your boxed in,
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you can't escape from aĀ  situation either physically or
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it could be a situation that's not a physical situation.
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You could be in a relationship.
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You could say, I'm boxedĀ  in, I can't get out of it.
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You're surrounded on all sides.
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It's as if you are trapped inside a box.
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Also, Steve, you can think outside the box, right?
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To think outside the box is to do something in a different,
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imaginative or ingenious way,
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or maybe to do something in a way that's never been done before like this.
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It's something that companies often ask their employees to do or encourage
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is to think outside the box to try and get ahead of the competition
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in some way, somethingĀ  that's never been done beforeĀ 
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or has previously been rejected
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but might work now.
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So to think outside the boxĀ  is to use your imaginationĀ 
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to think differently.
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Maybe do something that's never been done a bit like me, really A lot
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a lot of people say that I think outside the box is learning how long you take two
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to come around to usingĀ  yourself as an example of whyĀ 
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not if you can do that?
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Well, yeah, if you can and if it's correct.
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Well, we're thinking outsideĀ  the box today coming upĀ 
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here, because we could haveĀ  just stayed in a house.
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I don't think anyone elseĀ  is standing on a hillsideĀ 
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and very cosily.
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Done the live stream from your studio.
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Yeah, but we decided to come out here.
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I mean, I wouldn't have chosen to do that, but Mr.
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Duncan thought, well, let'sĀ  do something different.
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Let's think outside the box.
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Let's go out to a place we've never done a live stream from before.
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I suffer the discomfort,
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the aching legs and possible derision from locals.
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A man attacked by a sheep.
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My legs are not aching.
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I like standing up as we know you do.
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yes. today there was a tsunami 19 years ago.
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Was that the one in Japan?
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I don't know, Steve.
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There was a very bad two tsunami, wasn't there?
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I'm sure it was Japan.
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It was around this time of the year.
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so, yes, Please let us know if that's the one you meant.
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It might've been the oneĀ  that hit Malaysia as well,Ā 
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because that may have been the same one.
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But there was that terrible Fukushima.
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I'm not swearing, but that was the place I was thinking.
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That was the place that was affected.
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The nuclear power plant.
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Yes. So I think was that really nine that can't be 19 years ago.
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How I differ from Russia.
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we're getting people from India.
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there was one in India, says Salisbury.
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27:07
Now, yes, that was it.
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Yes, because there was also one that hit
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Malaysia.
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Well, that's. Yes, not too far away.
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That's it. Yeah. So.
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So there were because the other one was I'm sure the other one was around 2016,
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the other one that affected Japan, which was a terrible event.
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Thousands of people died.
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It is horrible footage. Yes.
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Kristina asked, When do I go back to work?
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I go back to work on the 2nd of January,
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Sumatra in 2004.
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Yes, that's the same.
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That's near Malaysia, isn't it? Sumatra.
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It's Indonesia.
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Yeah. So yeah. So yeah.
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I wonder.
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Yes, I wonder if that was all connected with the one in Japan.
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We don't know.
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27:55
No, it's two different ones because the Japan one was 2006 was it.
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And that one was two.
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It was 19 years ago.
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It would have been 2004. Right.
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as you can tell, we're not entirely
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sure.
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Japan was later. Yes. Yes.
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That doesn't seem like it was that long ago.
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It wasn't, but there we have it.
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There's been a lot of tsunamis, haven't there?
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And. Well, I it's fair to say that we would never be affected
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by a tsunami where we liveĀ  because we're so high up.
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Well for a start we're notĀ  near the sea anyway. Yes.
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We're likely to be flooded by all the rain that we've had. But,
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but yes, we're relatively safe
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from the effects of a tsunami but I think we have a had one,
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I don't think we've had one in the UK. No.
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But there's always the potential for warming, global warming and all that.
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Okay, this is really cheerful, but people living on the south coast
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or living in coastal areas are often subject
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to flooding due to the bigĀ  storms and sea pouring in.
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so yeah, people can get flooded.
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Not a tsunami as such, but just through general bad weather.
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Yes they are.
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Fortunately, they are still rare occurrences,
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quite often occurring after an earthquake has taken place under the sea.
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That's it.
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So you've got to live in an earthquake area and then that.
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Yeah, from what we understand,Ā  fortunately, we don't.
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Yes, the Japanese one most later. You're right.
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Hello to who else is here?
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Let's let's see.
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We've got quite a few peopleĀ  joining us. Hello to Mo.
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Hello, Mo.
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Thank you for your wishesĀ  from Algeria is not lovely.
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Some lovely messages there. Hello, Dipper.
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I like your name, by the way.
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Dipper, if you did, it means you go into something
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regularly, you dip, you go.
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But people
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put you.
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Maybe you take a dip in the water.
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Maybe you take a dip of your bread in the soup.
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You dip. Isn't that nice?
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Any more phrases connected to boxes?
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There is another one, by the way.
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it's, No, I can't think of one.
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Mr. Duncan.
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Go on, then.
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Okay, then.
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I thought you got one.
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I see. I thought you got. right. Okay.
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Think outside the box boxed in. Yes.
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I can't think of another one.
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Is there another one?
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You can also
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box. Clever.
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Have you ever heard of that?
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I haven't.
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If you do that, it means you do something in a very interesting
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or a very sneaky or very devious way.
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You box clever
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and I think it has something to do with the
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the art of boxing,
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which also is a very interesting sport when you think about it.
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People just basically they pay to watch two people
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beat each other up.
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It isn't that strange.
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What a strange way to earn a living.
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What do you do for a living?
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Well, I actually I fight with another man.
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I punch him in the face andĀ  he punches me in the face,
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and we try to cause brain damage to each other.
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that's very interesting.
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Do you ever get.
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Do you ever get a day off?
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It's a gladiatorial sport, isn't it?
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It's a spectator sport.
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a bit like, ferrying people to the to the lions,
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or people fighting to the death.
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So, yeah, I think probably,
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they used to do I think boxing is probably derived from,
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from the old fashioned sports in medieval days when they would
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literally have sword fights to the death, like wrestling in a ring
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or jousting dragon wrestling.
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They used to do that naked.
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Can you imagine anything,Ā  Anything gayer than that,
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Watching two greasy men wrestling
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and fighting naked, although it was the Romans.
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So what do you expect?
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Yeah.
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So, yeah,Ā 
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instead of instead ofĀ  actually fighting with swords
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and killing each other, now they just sort of hit each other on the head.
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Two, they knocked them out.
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It's it's, it's a it's a,Ā  it's a it's a little more
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grown up, isn't it?
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So there's a little bit more sophisticated.
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Imagine it's derived from that.
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And, you know, we still like to watch people like to watch that.
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They like to watch people,
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boxing each other in the head. Yes.
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It's a huge sport.
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It's a huge sport. Lots of money involved.
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Millions and millions and millions of pounds and dollars is made from boxing.
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And some people think it is a bit
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is a bit outdated watchingĀ  people punch each other.
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Anyway, you don't need to do that now.
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You justĀ 
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you can just turn on theĀ  internet now and go to Twitter
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and see people fighting and hitting each other.
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You'd have to pay anything for that.
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Anyway, we're going in a second.
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It's almost time to go because we've been here for 34 minutes and we're hungry.
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I'm hungry, my legs are aching, kids are standing on a slope.
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so we
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just readjust my we can always we can always just stretch our legs.
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Would you like to see us stretch your legs?
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We're going to stretch your legs.
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So just a moment to two.
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Mr. Steve.
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that's. that's good.
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Are you enjoying that?
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Is that better?
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Please don't fall over.
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Trying to stretch my legs has better circulation has returned.
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I must have weak joints.
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Anyway, we are going.
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So I hope you've had a good time.
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I hope you've enjoyed thisĀ  live stream with myself, Mr.
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Duncan, and him Mr. Steve.
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We will be back with you on New Year's Eve.
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Can you believe it?
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It's going by so quickly.
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We Will be looking at some of the highlights and remembering some of the not so nice
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moments of this year.
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And of course, we will beĀ  looking forward to next year.
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Some interesting things happening maybe.
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What do you think?
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Yes, I'm sure we are going to plan
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a visit somewhere in 2024,
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so all will be revealed.
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I wonder where it will be.
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It's exciting, isn't it?
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We are going see one Sunday from 2 p.m.
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UK time. We will be with you in the studio.
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It won't be.
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It won't be quite as uncomfortable as it is now
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because Steve will be in his lovely comfy chair.
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Catch you later.
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And of course, until the next time we meet, enjoy the rest of your Boxing Day.
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Have fun.
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And of course, you know what's coming next.
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Yes, you do.
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Well, are you ready?
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I'm ready
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ta ta for now.
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weā€™re going now.
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isn't that lovely?
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Doo doo doo doo doo doo.
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Mr. Steve,
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Isn't it wonderful?
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Look at the landscape. I feel so.
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I feel so liberated.
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I feel so free.
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Free as a bird.I though weā€™d finished, we have.
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Let's go.
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