The Phonebox Podcast With Emma Conway - Robert J Douglas: 90's Fashion Faux Pas

Episode Date: October 9, 2023

Who lied about his age, got knocked out at a summer Playscheme and had a secret liaison with Mel B from The Spice Girls? Robert J Douglas that's who! We chat about the time he thought wearing dodgy 90's fashion would help him pull and the dreadful nicknames older siblings give us. All on this weeks episode of The Phonebox Podcast.Be sure to follow Robert on instagram here and check out his brilliant podcast Pivotal 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, topics you would like me to cover or send in a voice note to be featured 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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Who wants this last parachute? I do. until jackpot is awarded or 11 p.m eastern research and supply see full terms at canada.casino.fandu.com please play responsibly hello and welcome to this week's episode of the phone box podcast with me emma conway how the devil are you i hope you are well i want to see where you're listening are you on a bus are you cleaning out your pants drawer i always go to pants drawer I just like the idea of keeping somebody company where that whilst they're sorting out their pants and I don't really I don't really know what that says about me but on this week's podcast we have the amazing Robert J Douglas as his Instagram handle is but it's Robert Douglas he's a brilliant businessman he's a content creator He also has his own podcast, which I will leave in the description, which is called Pivotal, hopefully coming back for a second season. Come on, Robert, give the people what they want. And in today's episode, we discuss all sorts

of things, including an amazing interaction with Mel B and also play schemes. Does anybody remember or did anybody go to a play scheme? Please do direct message me on the Phone Box podcast on Instagram or bring me my move to and say I went to a play scheme, it was brilliant and this is what it was. So enjoy this episode with Robert and I will see you at the end for a chat. Hello Robert and welcome to the Phone Box Podcast. Hello, great to be here. Oh so happy to have you here. What year were you 14? Well I had to do some research to work this out because I keep that on myself so it's 1999 I was 14. An absolute cracking year. So leading up to year 2000. Yeah. Leading up to the year 2000 And I've asked this, anybody who's around the 2000 year, did you think the world was going to end in year two when it went to 2000?

Yeah, 100%. I think it was supposed to be like the day after. We were all supposed to disappear. So, yeah, we were partying like it's 1999, as they say. And nothing happened? Nothing happened. We were still here. Everybody was just like, like well that's it then

i don't remember being like particularly terrified i think i was just a bit like well yeah if it happens it happens yeah let's just go out with a bang and then everyone woke up the next day with hangovers because they didn't expect to be here so there's just nothing absolutely yeah absolutely nothing happened where did you grow up Bristol is born and bred yeah I love it um I might slip back into the accent as we talk but I was gonna say you got quite a posh accent for Bristol what yeah well I I moved from Bristol to uni when well however long ago that is 20 years ago and then I went back briefly and then I've been in the countryside for like 13 14 years 13 years you've lost you've lost your accent then it's not

but when I go back it it all comes back you know when I do a podcast with my sister sometimes she comes on we're straight but I mean that's hand-brewing me anyway but when I'm with my sister it's like proper we were like proper like slip into it and what kind of school did you go to i just went to regular school that actually in hindsight was terrible like i i didn't realize it at the time but yeah it's not a good school whatsoever we had like rivalries with uh so it was like three schools we had rivalries with the other school but everyone it was one of those things like there's going to be this big you know fight battle etc never happened in the whole time we were there we heard all the stories about these battles that happened

between the school never ever happened once i'm picturing grange hill i'm picturing a grange hill kind of school yeah that kind of vibe. Just a regular British school. But my friends weren't actually in my school. It was a weird time for me because I was friends with everyone, but friends with no one at the same time. Like my best friend went to a different school on the other side of town. So, yeah, school was a really weird time. I kind of just went there just because I had to.

Did you stay until you were 18 or were you like peace out at 16? Yeah, peace out at 16. And then I went to a college that no one else from my school went to because I was like, I'm gone. See ya. Oh, you were like out of there. I had a lot of friends out of school, to be honest. And they're kind of like the friends that I'm still friends with today.

What was your bedroom like? This tells a lot about a person. Well, this is where I set out to do research. I texted my mum. I was like, do you remember what my bedroom was like? Because all I can remember is it was blue. And I had some posters on the wall. I had the box room in my house.

So I've got an older brother. He had the gigantic room. I had the box room. Yeah, I had the box room. I had a grey, must be like a 17-inch TV, you know i had the box room i had a gray must be like a 17 inch tv you know like the box kind of tvs had one of those on the side with like this glass table next to my bed that was as significant as my room got i think what were the posters i had destiny's child of course you did classic yeah i had this child had will smear but i remember that the tv me and my brother used to

swap the tv so we would have it like one week on one week off in the other in and they weren't small tellies you'd be like looking a big yeah yeah down the hallway oh destiny's child um who was your? Who did you have the biggest crush on? Beyonce. Well, there was original members of Destiny's Child. Yeah. Who was it? There was Latavia, Latoya, Kelly and Beyonce. So Latavia and Latoya I had crushes on. But then as they left, it was Beyonce all the way.

When they left? What did they do after? Did they pursue a solo career? No, I think Beyonce kicked them out and that was it. A all the way. What did they do after? Did they pursue a solo career? No, I think Beyonce kicked them out and that was it. A couple of them, they've been in, I think one of them's been in films. She pops up in films every now and again.

My husband's, you know, you can have like, like your top few crushes. What's it called? Is that called a hall pass or something? My husband loves Beyonce. And many years ago, I took him to see her in concert.

And my husband is a very quiet man. her Beyonce concert he's not he was like to the left to the left I was like I'm here as well he was like knocking me over absolutely she's brilliant isn't she she's so Well, I got there in 1999. We went to Miami. Oh, check you out. Oh, bougie. We went to Miami. We did the parks and we stayed with my cousin in Miami. And then he took us out with his friends and we went to Hard Rock Cafe. And then we walked across the road to virgin megastore so the first album like proper album

that i bought that i bought myself was destiny's child writing writings on the wall in 1999 i think that was when it was released and big willie style yeah in virgin records on a um on cassette so lovely and i thought destiny's child i i was thinking like i was the coolest guy on the planet and then my brother came out with like these rapper rappers and all of this stuff and i was like oh shame maybe i'm not maybe i'm not that cool maybe not as cool do you know what destiny shard absolute classic and beyonce now is the height of cool. She's always cropping up on my TikTok, her and her, when her daughter dances with her. Oh, my little heart. Oh, it's just so, she's so good.

What other music were you into? Was it like just more like kind of pop R&B? Yeah, so I was in, yeah, pop R&B was kind of what I was into. I kind of went along with anything, but I used to, did you used to do this, record the Saturday charts? Of course I did. Of course I did. i remember i didn't have a proper cassette so i had a microphone that plugged into the box and i would hold it out to the radio um the radio and i would press press record quickly um and then you have to you have to stop it before the dj so i spoke over the end he spoke over the

end he knew what he was doing he He was like, there's 20 seconds left. I'm just going to chat some drivel every single time. Because they know that me and you were there, ready as to record. I was there with my two fingers. I think you had to press record and play. And then he'd be talking.

Our famous DJ was Simon Davis around here. I'm like, Simon, you've talked over it again. Yeah, no, I did. I love the charts. And on a Sunday, the Top 40 on a Sunday, I loved that as well. That's what I used to record, yeah. Play and record every time. I was a pro.

I was a pro. Oh, it was just those were the days. And now, like, with my kids, everything, if they wanted to listen, they just, like, press that. It's mad, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. How accessible stuff is. Did you used to wait to buy, like, records and did you go to the shops and stuff?

No, not really. I started to. I think Big Willie Starr getting that album started to make me want more music. But I was just really passive. I just used to listen to the charts on the radio. And then I had a couple of um cassettes myself but I think that's probably when um our anxiety comes from as adults is that um kids will never know the anxiety of that play play and record session of the chart like they'll never know but that was enough for me I used to just play those all the

time also back in the day you didn't know somebody was number one until you knew somebody was number I'll never know. But that was enough for me. I used to just play those all the time. Also, back in the day, you didn't know somebody was number one until you knew somebody was number one. Does that make sense? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like you can, nowadays,

God, don't we sound like two real old farts? But nowadays, you can gauge it a bit more. But back then, you'd be like, oh my gosh, is it going to be Mr. Blobby for Christmas or is it going to be Take That Babe?

It was like, it just, everything just seemed much harder to accept. Like, I don't know. It just seemed more delicious. And then you had those people like Spice Girls in that era that if they had, if they had a single out, you kind of expected, you kind of knew that everything else was up for grabs. It was just all, you know, all different people. Yeah.

And then it went to like x factor and x factor was just like number one forever then wasn't it just kind of like you knew even if the song was absolutely crap still straight at the top charts for number one yeah okay then so who was your first crush apart from Beyonce did you have anybody else um so I mentioned Spice Girls right yeah so all of the boys in my school, they were all like Ginger Spice, Ginger Spice, Ginger Spice, sometimes Baby. But I was actually Mel B. But I didn't really want to say that to everyone.

I think it was like, yeah, I was a bit embarrassed by it. But I don't know why. I don't know why, but I was Mel B all the way. And then everyone else was like yeah ginger spice because i think she was a bit risque she was like the you know she was quite voluptuous she was bopping around but but melby was gorgeous when she had like um the leopard print and say you'll be there and she had like the like the bustier and stuff on yeah if she knocked on the door now would your heart flutter a little bit no not now do you know what funny

story but i mean i think it might have been 14 or maybe 15 so i was on when did you do work experience probably it's probably 15 16 isn't it yeah yeah yeah i think i was 15 i did work experience at the imax just opened in in bristol and i did my work experience there and on lunch she came out of a radio station called GWR and she no fanfare it was just her um and she walked out of the radio station and there was two men following her along I thought they'd they worked for her but no they had paper pens they were chasing her for her autograph and she was walking out and I didn't she was walking out. And I didn't, I was shy as anything. So I didn't say a word. I just followed behind and just watched where she went.

But yeah, I could have had my crush meet there. When I was 15, if I'd have been on my work experience and Gary Barlow had walked out of a cinema, I'd have dropped dead. It would have been in the papers. It would have been front page of the flipping mirror girl drops dead on work experience and garrison I didn't mean it FanDuel Casino's exclusive live dealer studio has your chance at the number one feeling winning which beats even the 27th best feeling saying i do who wants this last parachute i do

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other people saw uh had seen her so um like that that day and she was on the radio so people have known she was there but yeah i remember gwr on the waterfront and she walked out yeah i could have married her my life could have been very different you could have done but you were 15 we have to bear that in mind she might not have married a 15 year old i think she had her sights set on then again you would have been better than some of the other husbands she's had she's had some right flipping wrong guns hasn't she um what was your first snog like? Was it terrible? Was it all right?

Because we've had a lot of terrible snogs on this podcast. Really? Yeah. I don't really remember. I was at Play Scheme. I remember that much. It was Play Scheme. I don't know if you had Play Scheme.

We did have Play Scheme. So that's like, Play Scheme is like somewhere you go for some holiday when your mum's at work. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. It was insignificant, I think. i haven't got i haven't got a story around my first snog that's sad it's not sad that's your story there's no story and the story is because there's been some horrible stories there's been like burger snog there's been like real disgusting stories so count yourself looking and also also i wasn't a ladies man so it's not like i had girls to be like yeah you know i want to snog this person's like no like that i was most people just did it to get it over with and then to like right i've checked that off but play scheme was great i loved it i wonder why i wonder why it was called play scheme i've never thought about

it before in fact i've never heard anybody else call it play scheme apart from you. I wonder why it's called play scheme. I don't know, but my dad worked for Bristol City Council at the time, so it was specifically for children. My mum worked for Birmingham Council. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You think that might have been? It may have been a work benefit called the play scheme,

which is why we called the play scheme, which is why we called it play scheme. But I don't know. I've never, because the word scheme is a really weird word to use. I did not call it like fun summer school. It sounded like we were working in some sort of way. No, I'm thinking, was it like a sweatshop? The play scheme, maybe it wasn't. Yeah, because both my parents worked at the pencil as well.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it may have been that. Well, after I after us my mom yeah but we oh it was great we used to love it used to toss around summers yeah and they used to i think they got bigger budget they must have got a bigger budget because we ended up going to like on trips day trips all over the place cinemas bowling climbing all those yeah i feel like we might have gone to maybe drayton manor which is a bit like alton towers but just not as good not i remember i remember getting knocked out at play scheme because we i don't know where's your where yours was but ours was always in like schools that were closed for the summer and we had like i actually i don't think we had free reign on the school we just used to run around and we went to one school that had like um in the

basement was where they had their lockers they had a couple of rooms but there was a long corridor all the way through the school so we used to turn all the lights off and then you know tell scary stories and then had to get to the other end of the corridor so my turn i was ready ready to sprint through the corridor because i thought no ghost or goblin is going to get me on this run. But they had opened all the lockers in the hallway. So there was an open locker and I ran, my head hit the locker and I went flying down. I don't remember the next 30 seconds.

Got up and ran to the other end. Knocked out a place did you tell anybody you were just like it's just a place game war wound got kicked out yeah yeah i feel like ours is like at the local ymca just like we just got dropped out my mom and my mom and dad do listen to this i bet they'll be like emma you make it up but yeah it was but you know it was great we did um like plays and musicals and stuff like in bin bags you have to make your own outfits it's brilliant i said to my daughter now right you gotta put on a bin bag for two weeks wear a bin bag and she'd be like absolutely not um what was your biggest

fashion faux pas i wasn't fashionable so i had loads of fashion faux pas but i i remember my brother starting work at i want want to say maybe JD Sports. He started working at JD Sports. And I went into town and he said, come in, I'll show you some shoes, some trainers, get these trainers. So I went in. He showed me all the trainers. I was like, I'll have a look around the other shops and see. Went to another shop and bought a pair of trainers without his permission or guidance.

And it was, do you remember Alessi?essi trainers aless aless or alessi i think i would have called them elise but i probably was wrong yes yeah i don't know what they're called but it was those they were baby blue and they were just giant like giant size straight it looked like clown shoes that's how we described describe them nice so i came back i put them on straight out the box went back to jd sports wearing them with my kappa kappa tracksuit and he just looked me up and down and i was like trying to impress my brother and i was destroyed absolutely destroyed with my kappa tracksuit and my elise um clown shoes and you it seems to be a lot of

people with older brothers is that the older brother's job was just to take the piss a little bit is that is that what it's like yeah yeah yeah yeah always always every day everywhere you go but at home it's fine no one else around as soon as there's someone else around that's it you're destroyed you are it does seem. We had Steph Douglas on and she was saying even now, because she works with her brother in business meetings, he'll say stuff like about a top or about, you know, just some sort of like comment about she wore a big like gold chain. He's like, oh, here's Mr. T.

Like all these business people. See, I'm the older sister and I would never do that. I'm always just so kind and lovely. My brother was the worst. I remember someone outside of our family asking me what I wanted for Christmas and he chimed in a haircut. So every single year from then on, it became people around us used to say,

oh, what do you want for Christmas? A haircut. Haircut. Yeah, a haircut. The worst. He used to call me Yogurt. So people would know me as Yogurt. Robert.

Robert the Yogurt he used to call me. Why? Just because he wanted to destroy my life. Just because it rhymes a bit with Robert. Yogurt. Yeah, Yogurt. I call my sister Clarabella. And I think she hates that

and I still do that now like Clarabella or if I'm sending her a little message or something are you still close now I'm yeah we yeah yeah we talk on time like our um children are very close so oh that's nice yeah me and my sister are super close so when I got a bit more sophisticated like out of my catatracts Elise yeah yeah and Elise shoes I had so bit more sophisticated like out of my kappa track suit yeah and at least shoes I had so I was into like shirt and jeans so I never wore jeans up to that point but I had jean and I had this shirt with um it was like a picture like a photograph but printed on the shirt and it had a caravan on it it had um it had like a skyline on it or it was just it was hideous One of those things where you'd wear it like on a stag do or whatever. So yeah, I thought I was the boss.

Jeans and cream make skin. And I wore those to a school dance thinking I'm like the boss walking in. Did you in your head think I'm going to pull tonight because i've got a caravan on my top because that's what that's what teenage girls want in life yeah yeah yeah it's the shoes what were they like lace up so they slip-ons what were they like no they were slip they were slip on so they were slip-ons but i i'm sure i walked in in slow motion into the store dance like i was in some kind of music video like the music went like this yeah like that and everybody just turned and they're like he's caravan man and it was one of those things where at school like you used to be at the scene in your school uniform so i was

like gotta make an impression no one's gonna you know no one's gonna top me that was the worst i don't even know if anyone's trying to make an impression i wonder where you got it from was it like a top man or burton's t-shirt no no it wasn't it was uh um you know these yeah you know these shops that just spring up and then they disappear after a year or so it was one of those ours was called go bananas go bananas that's what our shop was called um and i got some snakeskin trousers actually a bit ofanas. So there was a bit of a theme going on. Is there anything you would have worn now that you wore then? So like anything that you liked back then that you think,

well, I could wear that today. No. No. No, probably not. Actually, do you know what? I didn't have a pair, but I used to. Actually, no, I did have a pair. Clark's Wannabes. Yes. I would wear those now. They're very expensive now. what um i didn't have a pair but i used to actually no i did have a pair clark's one of these yes i

would wear those now they're very expensive now but yeah because you're very like trendy online i think you make like a real effort with your looks yeah that's that's to make up for the caravan forever trying to make up for the caravan um are you glad that you grew up then or do you wish you grew up now 100% then like that I think now it's so much pressure like I don't think I could have coped with social media imagine me rocking up to the dance with the caravan and the snake skin now that would be on Instagram stories Snapchat oh my gosh you would be it would be you'd be caravan man forever my first podcast that i did i told my listeners i i turned up to a dance in a batman skirt a batman jumper and converse that were like fake con like fond verse with batman on and as i walked into the disco all the boys started

going na na na na na na na batman that that would have been on tiktok it would have been yeah yeah yeah that would have been a meme see and i don't i couldn't have been a meme growing up i just couldn't have been a meme so i'm so glad i grew up then because you could just get away with so much more and i think there was a lot of freedom then to to kind of yeah just do what you want i like the fact that we what i like about when we grew up is that we didn't know what people were doing i don't have it's like now my daughter can see that so-and-so's going there and so-and-so's doing that and they're tagging in there and they're going with them but we didn't really

know what was going on did we we just kind of like did what we did yeah and then you saw your mates in the munda you didn't know what was going on that i think that would have made me really anxious we used to just go out and say we'll be back at five and this was at like 12 13 14 yeah we'd just be back when when i'm hungry i'll see you like we used to wait till the um the lights turned on in the street like when the street lights come on it's like time to come in now it's pitch black you could probably get murdered i mean it's the summer it's like quarter to 10 i think i should probably just come in now. So we used to wait for that as our little signal to go back in.

But do you know what? I loved it. Yeah, I loved it. But even things like, I was thinking about when I was 14 and doing a paper round. And even things like that, paper rounds, well, I don't think they exist anymore. I assume not. But I used to do a paper round and just be cycling around the neighborhood, like posting and earning money. Giving strangers newspapers yeah yeah I think they do have

I saw one um advertised locally recently and I thought oh and I thought I don't think I really want my daughter going around giving strangers newspapers at six o'clock in the morning yeah it's a bit of a weird thing to do we did loads of like there's so many rogue things that we used to do when we were when we were younger um what was your greatest teenage success do you think i think it was working i i worked before i was supposed to work so i did so i did a paper round and then i went straight to so it's a bristol evening post and i did a paper round for a local shop earning six pounds a week and then i went straight to the evening post directly

and then negotiated with them to deliver the papers to my house and they would pay me the full whack so I got 18 pounds 50 a week for that and then I started working for water companies growing bottle tops onto like sample water bottles putting them in a little bag yeah did that like every evening earning loads of money and then when I did work experience at the IMAC I lied about my age and I carried on working there earning 200 pounds a week when I was 15. 200 pounds a week in the year 2000 is like a million pounds a week yeah 200 pounds a week that was like a full-time wage yeah so I got away I got away with it for the summer and then i tried to when i went back to school i tried to negotiate working weekends and they asked me why and i said i have to go back to school

and that was the biggest mistake they didn't realize i wasn't uh i don't know where hr were but i was working there for a whole summer we didn't have hr then there was nobody did nothing no everything that you that is very have you seen gilmore girls i'm not sure no so one of the main characters did that in gilmore girls he went to work at costco and then it transpired that he he also they were like where you get at school and he can't work at cost anymore then. You must have just been living your life with £200 a month. £200 a month. Spending caravan tops. £200 a week. A week?

You're doing that a week? £200 a week, yeah, for the whole summer. Buying bad fashion in the knock-off shops. Finally, straighters. What was your biggest teenage flop? What do you regret now? Probably not making long-lasting friends. Yeah.

Like I mentioned mentioned before like my friends were at at different schools i was a popular kid by default because my brother was and he was at the school so when i entered the school i came with that kind of like oh you're dougie's little brother you know so that gave me social currency to be cool yeah without actually being friends proper friends with everyone so i was, I could spend the lunchtime with the goths or I could go with, you know, the unpopular kids or I could go with anyone and I would get on with everyone. But the result of that is I've not got any friends from school

that are still in my life. That sounds really sad. I'm not upset about it. He's crying. Listeners, he's a single tear. He's just dripped down his cheek. Rolling by my cheek. Onto his caravan top that he's wearing for today's podcast.

I was just like a kid that floated around and got on with everyone. I'm a bit more, even now, I'm quite a floaty kind of person. Kind of like to keep it you know like like it's not keep keep my fingers in every pie that doesn't sound like it's a phrase keep like keep your finger in every pie that doesn't sound right you know what i mean like i like to find like yeah yeah you get the gist um yeah i was a bit like that because you do see people now don't you they're like oh we've been friends for like 30 years. I've got the odd friend from school, but I kind of tended to just kind of flit around.

And I had my mates. Oh, really? Because we followed boy bands. And the school I went to, that was not a cool thing to do. So I found friends that wanted to. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. You wouldn't be doing that.

My school, they were all into like real indie music. Yeah. And they were like Rage Against the Machine and Slipknot. Rage, yeah. Pop will eat itself. And they used to have like all, you know, the t-shirts and everything. And I just kind of like. Well, you've got Nirvana on right now.

So you're. The irony of me in a Nirvana top. You're redeeming yourself. Do you think I'm listening to Nirvana? Do you think I'm getting off this podcast in Nirvana? I actually had somebody on social media get so angry with me that I had this Nirvana top on. They were like, you're a disgrace.

You don't even like Nirvana. And I said to them, if you want to wear a Gary Barlow jumpsuit, go ahead and do it. I don't care what you wear. It doesn't make no difference. It's just a cute top. But I did have the Nirvana cassette. So I did have that.

I'm not sure I ever listened to it. It might have been just to have out in my bedroom when my school friends came around. Yeah, yeah, no. If you could go back in time, what would you tell yourself? I would probably give myself permission to make mistakes, just be whoever I wanted to be. I think that was, I think because I didn't have a one friendship group, I think I was kind of, I used to just go along with what other people did.

I kind of knew who I was, but in terms of like, like I said, I had a crush on Mel B, but no one else at school would know that. Like I just went along with, oh yeah yeah Jerry Jerry's yeah she's the best um music you know I didn't go as far as Slipknot and Nirvana I'm not wearing a Nirvana top but you know like the pop music and all of that I just kind of went on and I didn't I didn't I wasn't necessarily confident that I you know could just be who I wanted to be and be made fun of and it would it was all fine um so I think I would probably go back tell myself that I would go back to the cashier at the dodgy pop-up shop and punch them in the face for selling me the caravan

I think that how old are your children again six and ten yeah so mine's erin's in year eight now and i think i think that's just a process of being a teenager hiding yourself a little bit you know i think it's probably she likes um music and stuff that i'm probably she probably wouldn't tell her friends about actually she probably would like how i was like hanging around with other people to like take that and you were like hiding your love of melby i think it's just people go through you know no one's really like their authentic self perhaps until they're a little bit older are they um yeah yeah a bit of a shame i kind of wish i was a lot like maybe a little bit naughtier i was a very oh really yeah rigid yeah rigid rigid child and like i'm a real rule follower and i should have been a bit more like yeah fuck me i'm sod

off or whatever yeah um because you realize now how yeah i was similar so i was a goody two shoes like i um i got detention once and both sat into tears the last time I got detention. All of these things like, yeah, yeah. Oh, that it's the worst. And the worst thing was it was for not drawing a Christmas turkey for homework. So I sat in detention, draw the Christmas turkey. And that was my first detention. And I was, yeah, I was very, very good.

And I think I would, although I looked older than I was, yeah, I was very, very good. And I think I would, although I looked older than I was, so things like going out and drinking and going out into what we would call town, into Bristol and stuff, I started quite early. Yeah, so did I, yeah. So that was fun. But, yeah, I think I would be more slick than that. Yeah, authority, even now, authority, like I'm like, I get like i'm even gonna have to go and sit sit at parents evening opposite like i'm like oh i'm scared of the teachers even though they're like 22 and i'm like what are they gonna say about my child um well

thanks so much for coming on the podcast i'm so happy to hear that you had a caravan top if you've got a photo of you in the caravan top or some sort of dodgy picture please do send it me and i'll put it on my insta story so everybody can see yeah i've definitely got a picture of the snakeskin shoes 100 it's on the wall in my um parents front room it's still up so i get that yeah oh i bet you look do you know what i bet you look so happy in the pictures, because I bet you thought you were like me in my snakeskin trousers.

I just thought, I look, they like squeaked when I walked. I just thought, I just look great. Because it wasn't snakeskin, obviously. It was like plastic. I just thought I just looked great. Well, thanks so much for coming on the podcast, and I will speak to you very soon. Thanks, Robert.

Thank you. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Right, I've had a little Google. i've had a little google i've had a little google at play schemes and it seems to be an 80s and 90s term for maybe just a kids club i can't see what it's affiliated with i don't know how much it was but i tell you what they were flipping good fun no rules at a play scheme but you definitely let me know let me know if you

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