The Phonebox Podcast With Emma Conway - Adam Hattan: Summer Crushes & Deleting Google Searches

Episode Date: May 1, 2023

Who should have checked his search engine before his Mum took a nose? Adam Hattan that's who! This week we chat about unrequited love, Zac Efron crushes and if everyone used to perform musicals in front of their whole family like we did. Be sure to go and follow Adam on instagram here and watch one of his amazing Disney vlogs here. Adam also has Disney books, merch and prints available on his site here.For more of me follow @brummymummyof2 on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook and TikTok and follow the all new @phoneboxpodcast account on InstagramIf you have any guest suggestions or topics you would like me to cover email [e-mail] and be sure to tag so I can see where you are listening!Editing by Soundtruism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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You know, for texting and stuff. And if you're not getting rewards like extra data and dollars off with your mobile plan, you're not with Fizz. Switch today. Conditions apply. Details at fizz.ca. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Phone Box Podcast with me, Emma Conway. And as per usual, I want you to stop what you're doing and take a photo of where you're listening.

I'm trying to get that trend in a bit like Vanilla Ice Ice Ice Baby, as we all know. But did you know, if you follow me on my Mummy of Two account, you will know that Vanilla Ice, in fact, follows me on Twitter. Yes. Imagine me, Emma, teen of the 90s, sat in her hotel room. I was on holiday with the family to see Vanilla Ice followed me on Twitter what a day what a day oh I think about it often so yes Vanilla Ice follows me I want you to show me

what you're doing somebody did mess with you the other day and was like I am actually cleaning out pants drawers while I'm listening to you and I was like brilliant I live to see people walking their dogs listening to me hanging out with their, whatever you're doing show me and today is a most excellent, oh my gosh most excellent, Bill and Ted is an amazing episode with the wonderful Disney content creator Adam Hatton. He is fantastic, he does brilliant Disney videos, Disney vlogs, sometimes alongside his hilarious friend Gary C. He is just amazing. He's one of the UK's top Disney creators and me and my family, we just love him. Even Stephen, we have Sunday night with Gary and Adam, video at 5pm with a fajita. Yes, please. So you must go and follow Adam. And if you have any Disney trips planned,

definitely go and check them out. He also sells Disney guides and all sorts of bits and bobs. He's fantastic. And he has a really interesting take on his teenage years and some hilarious Google search engine, Google search engine stories that will really make you laugh. So enjoy Adam and I will see you at the end for a chat. Hello, Adam. Morning.

And welcome to the Phone Box podcast. It actually works because it's morning. Morning to you. And it will be a morning because this goes out on a Monday morning. I'm going to ask you. Happy Monday, everybody. Oh, yeah. Let's hope it's a good week for you.

I'm going to ask you, when were you 14? I was 14 in 2007. 2007. And you're going to be like, but that's just happened. Was that not like actually last week? What are you talking about? Was I getting married then? Maybe.

If you were phoning from a phone box, which I don't imagine you would do, would you? I mean, they still existed. I lived in a little village in the Oxfordshire countryside. So I don't even think we had a phone box. So I'd have to go into town to use the phone box. Yeah, you have to go into town. Or you could have just used your mobile. Well, we had mobiles, but I got mine at 16.

And it was one of those, I think it was a Nokia 310. A little red one that my mum passed down to me. And the best thing you could do on it was play Snake. Snake all day, every day. I was at uni playing Snake. Black and white, you down to me and the best thing you could do on it was play snake snake all day every day i was at uni playing black and white you had to text other buttons yeah yeah what was the song what was it they used to release all the songs didn't they like of the computer games but the phone games but i can't come to my head in a bit like tetris was that on the phone or was that on a computer snake was the only thing kept me busy for hours i don't know how it could yeah what what else was there to do in where you see you lived in on a computer. Snake was the only thing. Kept me busy for hours.

I don't know how it could. Yeah? What else was there to do in? So you lived in the middle of nowhere, was it? It was like a little place? Yes. So very, imagine like a chocolate box village.

I mean, I'm in Birmingham, I can't relate. However, we do have cabarets down the road. We literally live by cabarets and I still can't relate. It does smell of chocolate though when you go to Bourne to bourneville there's a fun fact for you it does

and i remember going to cabri world as a kid absolutely loving it yeah and then they took away all the free chocolate do you remember you used to go around yeah if you it's not that they give you like a you get like a crunchy at this bit you get like a picnic at that bit you get and now you literally just get a little pot of melted chocolate and that's what you get yeah yeah it is it is it's not a great it's not a great day out i do love cabris though is it is the best chocolate and you go to america loads you can't beat a cabri can you and if i'm going to visit friends in america i will always take them cabris and they will be very excited when i do bring it well i want to know what your bedroom's like because i think that gives a really good insight into teenage Adam.

Well, you're going to be really disappointed by this. We weren't allowed to put Blu-Tack on the walls. So I don't know why. Obviously, my mum was very house proud. That's fine. Love her to pieces. So any posters or pictures, I think, had to be framed and nailed into the wall. Yeah, I think a nail's worse than a bit of Blu-Tack, because that's a full hole but that's a commitment then isn't it weren't my house i couldn't so i had i had a toy

story 3 poster for the longest time um i had uh a calendar of zac efron hidden in my wardrobe um and it was like i i was quite a grown-up teenager it looked like an adult's bedroom yeah so it was nice and neat and tidy in there well i like to do that thing where you you get to like 10 11 o'clock at night and you think i'm just gonna change the whole room around oh yeah i'm gonna move my bed oh my god that was one of the best things i'll move my bed to that wall i'll move wardrobe over there move my wardrobe over there. Move my desk over there. Oh yeah, this is going to be great. And then my mum would come in at midnight like,

what the hell are you doing? I once dragged a mattress down the corridor. My mum and dad were like, what did you do? And I just stood there with a mattress. I'm moving into the box room, mum. I'm moving into the box room. I can't take this anymore.

Mum's like, you're dragging your furniture down. So it was messy up until the point that I did that. And then I would be like, okay, cleanse. Everything's good. Everything's great. I always imagine boys' bedroom to be black and red, but is that from like the 1980s?

Yeah, mine was very, it was, the only colour on the wall was magnolia. Lovely. Whole house was magnolia. Yeah. Beige carpet. And then I could have whatever duvet I wanted. Oh, and what did you go for?

Well, this is a sore subject. So my mum accidentally, well, she says she accidentally, she threw away my Mickey Mouse duvet cover from when I was a kid. And I would have kept that until my dying day. It was just a blue, brown and striped ensemble. Oh, my mum's house was all magnolia. And she's just had it repainted she moved new house she's put in a feature wall which i've never seen in one of my parents houses and i think it's just a little bit of green what was it what was it was your was your house magnolia my house is

full magnolia it was a brand new build it was a new build and full magnolia the whole the whole thing that was what everything was but i was allowed new build and full magnolia, the whole thing. That was what everything was. But I was allowed blue tack and I had posters on my ceiling and they'd fall on my face when I was asleep. So if you've seen the vlogs and that kind of stuff, you might have seen the Katy Perry poster that I've had. No, you've got a Katy Perry poster in your bedroom?

It was a tour poster. Yeah. And I had that framed over my bed. Okay. And that fell off in the night once just landed on my face we had a peter andre poster and that fell down and smashed in the middle of the night and terrified her she used to kiss his nipples and then she could wipe it off because it was like

okay so we've got the bedroom so what kind of music were you into i imagine like pop music yes but also so i was i was known as the itunes kid what does that mean i got an ipod shuffle and this is we're talking like year eight year nine so i was around 13 and i any pocket money i got would go on itunes and this is around the time of the um glee coming out oh i love i saw glee live did i did too at wembley but with all the people in that now we do not talk about they were all in it the whole cast wasn't it well so it would be the case that the singles come out when the episode airs i would buy them immediately and then my friends would come around and then put their ipod into the computer and then take all the songs that they wanted

so i got the short straw there because no one ever gave me their songs but that was where all my pocket money went was um music but it was like what peter pan was a favorite the live action peter pan by universal that was fantastic uh tron uh peter pan that's so that was like my childhood crush peter pan i feel like he had like did he have like a blonde pixie cut yeah yeah yeah i think i do i do know who you're talking about so peter pan was your childhood crush well celebrity childhood crush what about casper the friendly ghost he seemed to be a very popular or is that before your time no no i used to so um if we watched that there was a scene at the end where like they're doing casper the friendliest girl and there's they've got like there's a disco lights

so this is i mean this is quite sad but our our um our weekendly thing was putting that on and then getting torches and then doing a disco was it adam we would have been best friends even though it was like i would have been have been 15 years older than you, which would have been weird. Oh my God, that would have been my dream. Me and Claire used to do, my sister used to do, Joseph and his technical dream coat, full renditions in the garden.

Really good. It's so fun. It was red and yellow and pink. I'm going to be the narrator this week. And she's like, oh no, you could be Elvis or whatever he was called, the Pharaoh. I was always the show director for our family shows. Yeah, of course.

Because I'm the oldest out of all the kids and cousins. So I wanted to make sure that everyone was in the right places. Everyone knew the dance moves. I'd take the tickets as people came in and showed them to their seats. Have you got any footage of it? Or is it just lost in time? I don't know.

I think part of me thinks it must be. I think probably in my grandparents' attic, buried away, there might be some things. Oh, yeah. My nanny, Joyce, RIP, she had one LP. One LP, which was Cabaret. I don't know if you've ever seen Cabaret, but it's about strippers.

And when we were 10, we were doing full, full cabaret. Full of everything. Oh my goodness. Feather bowers. Sitting in the lounge in your room. And I was like, yeah. Like, this is not appropriate for children. Oh, I love to share.

Okay, so at school, what kind of school did you go to? Was it just a comp? Was it mixed? What was it? Normal, a secondary school of about 2,000 kids. I was the only was it? Normal secondary school of about 2000 kids. I was the only out gay kid in a school of 2000. So I had a bit of a rough ride. But the school itself was like actually quite good looking back on it.

It's just the fact that I was obviously the odd one out. So where were you in the hierarchy? Were you kind of like on your own? Did you have a little gang? I was out outside. I wasn't part in the hierarchy? Were you kind of like on your own? Did you have a little gang? I was out outside. I wasn't part of the hierarchy. Oh, Adam, I want to go back and I want to dance to Joseph with you. Oh, no.

I had friends, but I was kind of a floater. So there would be, it depends on like the day. So I'd normally go over that side of the canteen and sit with'd normally go over that side of the canteen and sit with them and go over that side of the canteen and sit with them. So I had some good friends that I could rely on and it got better as you get older, obviously. But yeah, so I was always the odd one. You know, I was a boy who didn't like football.

I was obsessed with theme parks and Disney and obviously not many people can relate to that. So whenever I wanted to do a birthday party we'd go to like Gulliver's Land or Legoland or something like that but now look at you you're thriving with what you used to love and you've stuck with what you love and it's I mean it's not done too badly for you I'm very lucky to basically have the thing that I love doing which is you know going to Disney World be the job now now. Yeah, that is the dream, isn't it? And now I can kind of look back

on all those books and be like, ha ha, you're not doing this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and you're like, you know, you're releasing your books or you're doing your, you know, your YouTube videos

and you're going on these trips and you're just like, let's see, guys, look how, it's just, it's really good. I'm sorry that that school wasn't that great. I have interviewed other people and they didn't have a great time. It that that school wasn't that great i have interviewed other

people and they didn't have a great time it's because school isn't always the best time for everybody no and that was the one thing i really struggled with was that obviously adults tell you all they did back in the day oh these are the days of your lives best time of your life enjoy it and i was like god if this is the best days of my life what's it going to be like when i get out of here it's all downhill from there yeah so i mean if there's any kids listening who are currently in school don't worry it can get better and i think it's a real testament that you and laura who i also interviewed like how successful you are now um being still similar to what you were at school like you it's not like you've had to have this big change of uh you know personality or whatever you've you're still you're

still as you were you're smashing it just as quirky as i was back then yeah i but that's what that's what makes you different it yeah it is what makes you and i probably didn't lean and i i probably didn't lean into what i loved as much then as i do now i probably did myself a disservice back then i mean what was your hidden secret that you didn't share with people at school i mean it wasn't a hidden secret but i love to take that i mean obviously i think i don't think I've got a podcast I don't think I've got a podcast without mentioning take that because you know I love Gary Bartlett yes we know we get it um and I did for a while pretend that I like the cure and I liked like indie music and stuff and

I actually had friends outside of school did Did you have mates outside of school? And I hung out with them more, to be honest, than my friends in school. Right. Now, I had like family friends and stuff that we had seen occasionally. Because it was literally, everyone who lived in the village

went to the same school. Everyone knew everyone. I think, but living in a big city, you can kind of vanish probably a little bit easier. And I had some friends and um I'm had some friends who I'm still friends with today that I hung out with outside of school rather than than just schoolmates okay so first crush that was not a celebrity you don't have to say their name um was it somebody at school was it just somebody you know and you're like

and I like to think of it as like the summer of all summers you know you always have that like summer when you're here to be like oh yeah it was just like the weather was amazing i was hanging out with my friends all the time and like um and i had just met this guy who was in the year above and we're actually still friends today uh because we're part of the same friendship group oh fab and we'll call him robert robert was ro. Robert was, you know, tall, dark, handsome, blue eyes, like, had the charm and everything. Unfortunately, Robert was straight. Oh, cursing Robert.

As much as I confessed my love over MSN one dark, dark day, didn't really go anywhere. But, yeah, we laugh about it now. And we see... In fact, I'm seeing him next week. So, yeah, it's nice to still have those connections. We've all had unrequited love, every single person. And my first question was completely unrequited love.

And do you know what? He's now gay, Adam. The other way round. It's kind of nice to have those first yearning feelings. And they're like, oh. It genuinely felt like, back in that day, it felt like it was the be all and end all it felt like like the world would end if nothing nothing happened there because a lot of my friends were girls we would watch rom-coms and stuff like that

so i had this like really built up idea of what love is and what romance is yeah i i found romeo and juliet with leonardo dicaprio and and Claire Danes had a lot to answer for. I was like, that's what love's meant to be like. I mean, Leonardo DiCaprio in that film. Yeah, I mean, not now because he's got some old funny things going on. But in that film with that floppy hair. Oh, and you're supposed to be really hard and you're supposed to be like forlorn and your families are supposed to hate. No, that's not actually what it's supposed to be like. It's not supposed to be like forlorn and your families are supposed to hate no that's not actually what it's supposed to be like it's not supposed to be like that you're not supposed to

be debating drinking poison and potentially killing yourself but i i had a few teenage boyfriends where it was a bit like that and it was a bit like rowing in the street and then making up in front of your mates and i can't see it and like so dramatic and I didn't have mobile phones or anything so this was just like face-to-face drama did you have to deal with drama on MSN I don't know anything about MSN I was very much the generation of like social media was very very new okay like it was early doors for social media so MSN kind of came around when I was doing my GCSEs before that it was MySpace, I don't know anything about that either. So on MySpace, was it like Facebook?

It was, but I don't think you could actually message on it. It was all, everything has to be posted to your wall, I think. And you could like, it was all about what background you picked and what music you picked. Yeah. And your coolness was defined by what you chose. So you'd spend hours, hours going through all the different themes and all the different music to choose what you would actually have on your profile.

What was your perfect profile then? What was the one day you're like, I've smashed this profile? I never got it right. I never got it right. And I was so indecisive as well. And then obviously MSN came around. Email was big. We loved email so msn did

you i don't get you have to like pick like a little name and then you'd leave like a little like statement imagine skype okay but it's just the messaging side so you could some i think as days went on you could then have a video call with people or you could see their video but you could never hear them for some reason you can have a webcam but you couldn't heaven forbid there'd be a microphone and you could send a nudge to someone oh nerd so if they weren't paying attention and they'd left you on red you go on facebook you used to poke didn't you there used to be a poke button on facebook i don't think they have that anymore so the facebook was the first one that we actually started using yeah and now there's just so much social media it is just like some might say too much

it's quite overwhelming have you seen that they're going to start charging you for social media now what do you mean like they're talking about charging for instagram oh gosh like for what it's ridiculous i think they're going to charge for blue ticks and stuff aren't they like they do that on twitter in it anyway well no because it's going to be down to who sees you and everything so if you don't if you don't pay the, less people are going to see your posts and stuff. And I barely see my friends' posts as it is. Yeah, I mean, that's not fair because you're going to get the real big creators who are owning megabooks. They're going to be paying the megabooks money and be seen by everybody.

And for small businesses and stuff like that, if you're using Instagram as a method to actually promote your products, you don't really have an option but to pay it. Yeah. I mean, we do that really, don't we? Yeah. Like I know YouTube is your biggest kind of platform, but for me, Instagram is where I like try and get out the podcast or come watch a video or whatnot.

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Conditions apply. Details at fizz.ca. Okay, fashion faux pas. I want to hear an outfit that you lie in bed at night and you go, why did I wear that? Why did I wear that? This was, I had, this was when I was 16. I had my first job working in Debenhams in the home department. Or Debenhams, as it's formally known.

Basically went to the next clearance store for the very first time. And I picked out a yellow t-shirt, a turquoise sleeveless hoodie. Right? Right. I'm getting hate from Step zip up from steps by yeah yeah yeah um turquoise matching tracky shorts no yellow socks and whatever shoe i was wearing at the time but i i thought i was you know i bought this outfit and i was like oh my god i'm it you look at me and everyone's going to go like robert's gonna be like look at how amazing he looks yeah so i went and i'll never forget it i went around to my um best friend's house knocked on the door and her mum answered because she wasn't in and i said do you like my new outfit and she went oh yeah and I walked back home thinking maybe I am maybe I'm not it

the mom the mom moms can never like can they oh yeah lovely it's a choice you were channeling you're in a boy band but in like a strange way what what fashion outfit did you think actually did hit the nail on the head though? Like was a really nice and you'd wear it still today? On my birthday and I bought a Abercrombie shirt for the first time and it was every penny I had. I think it was like 60 pounds to buy a shirt from there. And it was just like this tan and blue check shirt. Nice. And I was just like, oh my God, I feel like I could be as sexy as the models that are working in the store. I wasn't, but it was nice to have that idea.

Yeah, I've never, do you know what? I've always been too intimidated to go in to, and I've never been in one of those shops ever. I haven't, I haven't shopped there for a while. Everyone used to carry the bags around. Like a plastic bag? No, it was, so it was, you've probably seen them before, but it's like a, it was a paper bag with a half-naked man on the front. And if you had, it was a beautiful, beautiful carrier bag. Don't get me wrong, it had like fabric handles and stuff.

Oh, like a tote. Oh, I love a tote. Sort of. And then you would, if you'd carry your school books around in that. And if you had one of those, you were cool. Yeah, yeah. Erin's Lululemon tote bags bags which are like about that big and she took a pe kit to school in one the other day and it was all just like overspill i was like you can't put your full pe kit in that i'm taking it my tote bag into school um yeah no she she's all about that i think when i was at

school it was probably like mor Morgan and Kukai. I don't know if they existed. I've never heard of them. Yeah, you'd get, well, I once applied for a job at Morgan and you had to put a photo on your application form. And yeah, no one ever got back to me. I once applied for a job at Hollister

and got to the group interview and then was never seen again. Because that was the point they took your picture. But you know what? How confident were we? We were like, you're confident. I was like, I can work there. Yeah, of course I can.

I was thinking of the discounts. I was thinking, I'm going to wear this out. But it's going to be good. No, they were just, saw my photo and they were like, bin. What was the fashion brand to own when you were a kid then? There was Morgan. There was Kukai. Like Topshop was really, really big when I,

but unfortunately not the sizes. Topshop was a big one. I mean, a lot of things like C&A. They used to have like, you know, have you heard of C&A? Like department stores and stuff like that. And Go Bananas was one in Birmingham, which you'd go in and you'd get like knockoff tartan trousers and stuff like that and go bananas was one in birmingham which you'd go in

and you'd get like knockoff tartan trousers and stuff and uh leather leather trousers do you want to go bananas on saturday let's go go bananas yeah go bananas at the palisades oh or there was um there is a market called oasis market in birmingham which i think still exists and you could go in and buy like quite alternative things but my mom was always like they'll sneak drugs in your bag my god you're going to a racist market they're gonna put drugs in your bag why would they put drugs in your bag you're gonna put drugs in your bag so yeah they were kind of the places that we went um i don't think i i don't think there's one outfit that i think i would wear today that i wore back then but then again the give it five years and the style will come

back around again adam i'm 15 years older than you i've given it three times five years the 90s seem to be coming back though if you've got anything for the 90s i put on my stories about how i used to wear satin shirts they were very popular and people said they're back in style yes um i remember do you remember like satin gym wear no it sounds very jane fun i remember just that was it was like a pe kit like you'd wear that with plimsolls yeah oh yeah yeah my kids have like red shorts or a bit like that yeah so that that if i think of the 90s that's what i remember shell suits yeah also i couldn't fit into one single solitary thing i had in the 90s i would be be like, if I put my satin shirt on, I'd be like that now and it'd be completely open.

It would be ripped like the Hulk at the back. I'm not the same person I was, to be honest. You're better. I'm better. Do you know what, Adam? I am better. I mean, okay, what's your greatest teenage success? So I had to work very, very hard to get the average grade in all my subjects.

I'm pretty sure I'm dyslexic but I've never had the test more is known about it now than it was back then I really struggled with English couldn't like really struggle to read and that kind of stuff but I managed to get an A star in my English GCSE by not even reading the book so what did you do so apparently I can write and which means it makes a lot of sense because i write books but yeah um because i basically blagged my way through the essay because i've written it well yeah because it was to kill a mockingbird who wants to read to kill a mockingbird because i was often told by teachers like you're not gonna do well so it was like a stick it to

the man that is good you're a netflix film waiting to be. You are. You're a Netflix film waiting to be made. I showed them. I mean, if they're going to pay me their big bucks, I'll do it. I showed them. Who would play Robert? Who would play the unrequited love in your Netflix film? Well, if I could cast anyone, even if they're not an actor, it'd be Charles Leclerc. Who's Charles Leclerc?

Who's he? Oh, he's an F1 driver. I've got nothing to do with formula one racing or anything like that oh is he gorgeous honestly to god this man is just something else i'll put it in my i'm gonna do an insta story highlight so i'll put a picture of charles leclerc in the highlights so we can see his oh yeah is he um french he is charles leclerclerc. But back in the day, it would have been Zac Efron. Yeah, Zac Efron, High School Musical, or Zac Efron, 17. 17 again.

Again, or whatever it was. Yeah, that's peak. I mean, he wasn't 17 in that film, was he? No, he wasn't. But the hair length was good. His body was just, oh, oh dear. Zac Efron in that. And do you know what?

I think he gets a lot of stick now and he still looks great does i think people are a bit mean about him yeah people don't don't like to see people growing older or changing and i do think he gets a little bit of sticking you know zach efron if you're listening we'd still we'd still go out with you you want to go out some time okay your biggest teenage flop and you think oh um not understanding search history before i used google images for the first time what what were you oh no then did your mom find the search i think you can i think you can imagine um yeah yeah she's because so when i got home from school there was like from when my sister finished school and you were like right uh there was like 20 minutes where i'd

have the computer to myself and so i was just like right so what do naked men actually look like um and then there was one day it was brought to my attention there was a lot of crying involved and uh yeah so i had i had a boyfriend who i lived with um and which probably would have been the similar sort of time to when you were doing this but like obviously i was growing up and i came back and i looked on the search engine and he'd been typing things like, big, busty, blonde. And I was like, you've just been said, big, busty, blonde, ladies.

Lovely. That's really made me laugh. Okay. So if you could go back in time to little adam what would you say to him i mean it's gonna be it's quite touching really but it's gonna be like it'll get better don't worry stick it out it's gonna be fine um everything you're going through now will actually make you the person that you end up being yeah because that's a good thing like when you are like bullied and stuff like that you get a lot of empathy. Yeah.

You understand other people a lot more. I wouldn't take any of it back. And don't retake your A-levels. And don't Google. Or if you're going to do it, delete the search history afterwards. Be savvy. Come on.

This is the delete button. You've got five minutes. You're like, do you know what? It's going to get better. But more importantly, this is the delete button. This is the delete button. You've got five minutes. You're like, do you know what? It's going to get better. But more importantly, this is the delete button. This is the delete button. Well, that's like,

actually, that's how I ended up coming out was my mum found out a shirtless pictures of Zac Efron on my USB stick. Yeah. And she was just like, why have you got these?

And I was like, so about that. Oh, lovely mum. Oh, that's so nice. Okay. Do you wish you were a teenager now or are you happy you were a teenager then?

I think because of the ride I had, I think it'd be quite interesting to be a teenager now. Yeah. I know, I suspect, I don't know, you can tell me, but the other people you've said, have they said back in the day? Yeah, I think the older people I've interviewed have said back in the day, but then Laura, who I also interviewed, who had a little bit of a tough time, she said now. And I think it's because she was plus size and now there's so many more role models

and so much more stuff that she could tap into to educate herself about the way she looks and stuff and clothes and things that she would prefer now as well and i think there's so much more understanding about mental health and so i went back to my old school to do an assembly and like talk about the type of career that i've had and why not going to university and that kind of stuff and just seeing like how you could be gender fluid and no one would bat an eyelid the fact that you could be any member of the alphabet mafia yeah and just be accepted for who you are by everyone in the school i was just like god i would have killed for that experience when i was at school i didn't there

was nothing about mental health there was just no it just didn't exist at all have you seen an episode of miranda where she talks about um the sexual health video no which was like um oh a lady lies on a lilo in the middle of a pool loads of men stand around with white hats on they jump in the pool swim up one man embraces the woman on the lilo and the woman switches off and go right that's that then that's that i don't know what you're talking about we had to put uh condoms on um you know do you remember you see at the big colgate that you'd squeeze at the top we have one sex education lesson and we were in a girl's school we were to put a condom on that hey it's like of all the stuff you could be telling us you're just telling us how to put a condom on a mat like it just

doesn't make any sense um yeah, sex education and stuff like that, there was nothing. So I think nowadays, hopefully, my kids will, you know... Be taught the birds and the bees. Yeah, the birds and the bees. Or I say, you know, you might have a boyfriend or you might have a girlfriend. Like, it's all just a bit more, you know, a bit more open.

And it was getting there. It just wasn't a bit more open and it was it was getting there it just wasn't there yeah I mean it was not there when when I was at school at all that just wasn't and I went to an all-girls school so you're not telling me there wasn't different kind of you know people there but like would you go back or would you be now I would be I look let's be honest probably back in the day I did stuff that I probably wouldn't ever be able to work again because I would have pictures of me just putting my boobs I'd be on a coach with my boobs on a trip to Newquay just with my boobs squeeze up hey you all right lads like and somebody would take a photo that would have come out and no that would have been on only fans so i i'm quite one for the feet finder i yeah i i i think it's safest for me to have been

a teenager then where there's no photographic evidence when there was no photographic evidence. When there was no photographic, nobody needs to see that. It's terrible. Well, thanks so much, Adam. It's been a pleasure. Good luck with all your stuff going on and enjoy your next trip to Disney. Not that I'm jealous. I will.

Thank you very much. I'll vlog it for you. How's that? Oh, yeah. Vlog it for me and the kids. As I've mentioned, we have fajitas. We have fajitas with Adam and Gary.

That's what we do on a Sunday. I've got Adam, Gary and fajitas and it is our dream evening's what we do on a sunday five o'clock adam gary and fajitas and it is our dream evening and i will speak to you soon adam all right take care my love bye it was so fun to sit down and have a chat with adam he is so lovely and all the content he produces on videos and everything like that is super family friendly he strives to be a family friendly content creator. So your little fam can watch the videos. And I highly recommend that you do.

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