The Phonebox Podcast With Emma Conway - Simon Glazelle: In Love With His Teacher
Episode Date: November 13, 2023On The Phonebox Podcast this week body positivity creator, radio presenter and podcast host Simon Glazelle chats about the impact of Heat magazine on his body image. And how he was a bit obsessed with... his primary school teacher and of course in love with Leo DiCaprio. Check out Simon on instagram here and be sure to listen to his amazing 'Can We Talk' podcast 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 Christmas story voice note to be featured, email admin@brummymummyof2.co.uk and be sure to tag so I can see where you are listening!Editing by Soundtruism.#spicegirls #90smusic #90s Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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emma conway hope you are well and you are having a flipping lovely start to the week anybody put
their christmas decorations up stop shouting at me stop shouting at me because i might have done
i might have done do you remember the Christmas decorations
from the 80s and the 90s it was like um not silver foil it's like a foil and so it came like a square
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That would be amazing. On today's episode, we have the wonderful Simon, who is the host of
the podcast. Can we talk? And also he does lots about body confidence for men over on Instagram.
So be sure to check him out. I will leave all the links to him in the
description enjoy this episode and I'll see you at the end for a chat hello Simon welcome to the
phone box podcast thank you for having me oh it's so lovely to have you I am very excited we um once
had a brush with Mark Wright oh my god many years ago yes many years ago in a Metal Land store somewhere with your mum.
Oh, Nanny Sanj, of course.
Just love her.
Mark Wright was lovely.
He was lovely and I worked with him for quite a few years.
He was lovely, really lovely.
Worked with Denise and all that kind of lot.
And they were just great to work with.
He was a lovely man.
He smelt nice.
He gave all the old ladies kisses.
Seen him in his pants.
Oh, what an absolute.
Oh, I need to get him on the pod.
Oh, I couldn't have him on the pod.
I wouldn't be able to talk.
You'd be able to look him in the eye.
Okay, so what year were you 14?
I was 14 in 1997.
Which I truly believe.
I, in my head, 95 95 96 and 97 were great years well it's funny
to say that because before literally just before you asked me to come on I for some reason where
I think it may have been the stars aligning I was googling the year I was born how weird is that
that you asked me literally like a week later yeah 1997 seems like a seminal year for
the world like a lot of stuff went down in 97 including princess diana dying r.i.p emily
norris she she moved to england the day princess diana died what a day yeah i mean i remember i
think everyone remembers where they were like i was sat in my TV room with my best friend next to me.
And I felt like at 14, you knew, obviously, you know what happens when people die.
You know what dying means.
But I think the magnitude of it, you don't really comprehend when you're that age.
So I remember feeling that I should feel something, but I didn't know what something was until like years later when you look back at it it was fascinating as well because we had no social media we were
just waiting to see what was coming on the telly like if that happened now we'd be like on you know
tiktok twitter whatever lots of titanic came out the movie the first harry potter book was released in 97 labor won in 97 tony blair i mean there was
lots of things that happened especially in the uk that spice girls were like dominating the charts
in 97 so i kind of felt like it was a really good year and a really bad year it was an absolute i
mean princess diana obviously it was yeah it was very sad. But Titanic was great. Titanic was great.
Apparently Teletubbies was released in 97 as well.
And fun fact, that's actually filmed not far from my house
in the Birmingham Botanical Gardens.
It was filmed there.
So there we go.
That's a little nugget for you.
I saw something on TikTok the other day that the Teletubbies,
they were actually life-size.
They were seven foot tall suits of the people wearing them.
And I was like...
What did you think they were?
Hang on, do you think they were real?
No, no, no.
I thought they were...
I didn't think they would be like seven foot tall.
I thought they were just going to be like quite small.
I don't know.
I don't know what...
I think you thought they were real.
I think you thought a tinky-winky.
Okay, what was your bedroom like when you were 14?
I was a bit obsessed with moving furniture around.
And also, I don't know if anyone else had this,
but this came from actually primary school.
I became obsessed with teachers, and I actually wanted to be a teacher,
and I became obsessed with teachers and the things that teachers had.
So you know when teachers used to ring the bell, I wanted a bell.
So my mum got me a bell and I used to ring it.
And you remember like Whistle's playground where it used to...
Simon, I'm just going to button and say, I think this is just you you don't know where playtime is over
and they used to blow the whistle
I was obsessed with whistles
so my mum used to give me loads of whistles
so this is an insight of what I was like at 14
and then
when to secondary school
I realised the teachers had amazing
big wooden desks with like three drawers either side.
And I said to my mum, I need a desk, mum.
I need a desk just like my teachers got.
So they got me this massive wooden desk.
So I had this massive wooden desk in the middle of my room.
But I was also obsessed with pine furniture.
Don't ask me why.
So I had this big wooden desk. But I was also obsessed with pine furniture. Don't ask me why. The most.
So I had this big wooden desk.
I had this big pine bed.
And I had the worst, worst, worst deep navy,
like space-themed wallpaper in my room.
It was just horrendous.
So it was a real, like, mismatched room.
It wasn't nice.
But obviously, like, you loved at 14,
you spend most of your time in your room, right?
Yeah.
I just loved it.
I loved rearranging my furniture.
I loved rearranging my knickknacks.
I had so many knickknacks.
Yeah.
I'd just rearrange.
I want to know why did you,
at what point were you ringing the bell and blowing the whistle?
At what point were you ringing the bell and blowing the whistle?
At what point in the night?
I used to get up in the middle of the night and ring the bell.
No, I didn't.
I think I blew the whistle all over the house, all over, any time of the day.
The bell was not so much because my parents just got really annoyed with it.
On special occasions, if there was a fire.
My dinner's ready.
Did you have any posters up in this crazy... It reminds me of...
In my head, it's like the office from Harry Potter.
What was the main...
Why have I forgotten his name?
What's the main wizard in Harry Potter?
Dumbledore.
Yeah.
Did you live in Dumbledore's office?
Very similar. Very similar. what posters did you have up or did you just have none you know what i don't think i had
any posters but my sister had a lot of posters i think they've had posters actually she it was i
know i'm going on a tangent it was very sweet she was obsessed with eminem when she was younger when I came out to her as gay she was like ah he's awful
he says the word rude word um he says she says the f word in his song but I'm taking them all
down so she literally took all her posters down it was really sweet I remember it so clearly
um but I was never one for posters I'm not really sure why um maybe because I was in that confused
weird stage when you're growing up and you you know I maybe because I was in that confused weird stage when
you're growing up and you you know I knew that I was gay but wasn't fully out to people and
I felt like good looking back now I couldn't really have like a big picture of a woman on my
wall because I don't know it's a bit disingenuous um and I don't think I loved Cher and Dolly as
much as I do now otherwise I would definitely have them plastered all over my wall now
yeah
will you let your son have posters up or is your house going to be immaculate?
no I would let him have posters up for sure
definitely
we love our house but
I know obviously you can attest to this and lots of people listening can
but once you have a child your house is no longer yours
no
pre him we spent quite a lot of money on the house
and did it all up, and now we have him.
Oof.
I mean, there's fingerprints all over.
Oh, so there'll be big old posters.
Okay, so I'm still not gauging what kind of music you were into,
if you had any crushes.
Usually I can decipher by the posters,
but you've only given me a whistle and a bell.
Really?
You made my legacy a whistle and a bell my legacy a whistle the bell and spice girls spice girls yeah it's me um i think they had like three or four number ones in 1997
um they were i honestly don't remember music before them yeah which is weird because of the
14 you've got what you like and what
you don't like and you I think you probably would have bought a record so I don't know what my first
tape was that I bought but I remember being obsessed with the Spice Girls who was your
favorite Jerry Jerry was my favorite as well I think she was so overtly yeah herself and overtly
over the top and I just loved it I think if you would ask me now as an adult, it would have been Victoria Beckham.
Oh, really?
I don't know.
I just love her.
Just love how, I love how she can take the piss out of herself.
Yeah.
And she's great to do that.
Geri, I don't actually think Geri actually likes taking the piss out of herself.
She's very muted now, isn't she, Geri?
Yeah, she's very prim and proper and she
wears like white trouser suits and stuff yeah she looks great she's on horses but she ain't the jerry
we loved no so i remember i remember doing a lot of dancing around to spice girl songs just an fyi
caveat i was very i think i was quite an uncomfortable teenager because obviously like
the gay thing but also I was a really quite
a big teenager in terms of my weight so I feel like it was a not a comfortable like point in my
life and so I'm Jewish and at 13 you have your bar mitzvah so I was kind of like fresh off the
bar mitzvah like circuit a lot of my friends were having their bar mitzvahs and I had just had mine
and I had to wear a suit and I felt very uncomfortable
in the suit and I don't know like it was it was a bit of a weird traditional time um and I remember
in my bar mitzvah my mum and dad they made like a massive big party it was huge and it was in like
a posh hotel in London like that's kind of like what happened then and I remember so clearly they
had you had to have like entertainment and they had like these singing waiters and waitresses.
And one turned out to be like, which actually is quite inappropriate when you're 13.
But one was like a sexy like girl and she did this, not a striptease, but she was wearing like a waitress outfit.
But then she took some of it off and started singing around and stuff.
Oh, blimey.
And I remember it wasn't sexy at all it wasn't but I remember thinking and now looking back like how awkward I was because I knew that I was
not into this yeah women and it just it was just a bit of a weird time I think um but I knew that
the Spice Girls were my kind of people definitely your kind definitely all of
our kind of people i think 14 13 14 especially 14 is awkward yeah everywhere that's why i chose 14
because it you're like one foot in being a kid one foot in being an adult and you're like especially
with the boys boys bodies grow weird at 14. they're all like long and the noses and everything
it's all like strange okay so Spice
Girls what other music were you into I'm pretty sure Aqua released Barbie Girl or whatever it
was called then as well and I loved that I was into anything just a bit like crazy I think what
I was into what other music I was into actually just pop general general pop did you like any
boy bands no I've never really done the boy band thing.
My older sister's obsessed with Take That.
Well, you know my thoughts.
As are you.
You get on very well with her.
But I didn't love boy bands
and I really only liked Spice Girls.
And I've got to be honest,
obviously as you grow up,
like Girls Aloud I loved
and all those kind of, and Sugar Babes I absolutely adore.
But then I think my mind was just like Spice Girls.
I wasn't like one of those weird, obsessed, freaky fans,
but I just felt like they got me and I got them.
Oh, did you see them in concert when they toured?
There was like a random Spice Girl exhibition
that was about four or five years ago
and me and some friends went.
And basically it was this mad fan
who'd been collecting my memorabilia and merch
around the whole time they had been singing
up until today.
And he was able to fill a massive
this arena in Islington and it was just I've never seen anything like it there was crisp packets and
cassettes and cds and just anything spicy you can imagine and it was it just took you back like
like I had a lot of the stuff that he bought as well like I had back then like you know
I was obsessed with buying that kind of stuff I loved All Saints as well they were cracking
loved me and my sister think we thought we were and still think we are the Appleton sisters
less the laugh and you're supposed to be like yeah Emma you'd be Natalie
okay what kind of kid were you at school then were you a bit awks at school so a school yeah
I was because basically I was at an all-boys school that was wildly inappropriate for me but
back then I think our parents just wanted you to go to the best school so that was where I went and
um I remember it was actually my best friend's wedding about a month ago.
We met at secondary school and we both came out to each other like one day just walking off the canteen and stuff.
So he was very much like my saviour at school.
We kind of just were in our own little world.
We had a lot of school crushes, as you can imagine to like rape raging gay boys in like an
all-boys school and we I mean I was a bit awkward because as I said I was quite a lot bigger than
everyone else so that immediately puts you in a position where you know you do get the bullies
and I don't know you you just feel awkward and like the uniform you know I always I remember
vividly no matter what time of year it was I always wore a jumper and I always wore my blazer
because I was so oh no yeah um so I it was just it wasn't the best time I've got to be honest but
I feel like I was able to have fun with the friends that I made at
school because I was always quite sociable and I feel like you know as the the funny fat boy
you kind of do get a quite a big like social crowd because I learned to take the piss out of myself
before anyone else could and that was a mechanism but. But because of that, I did get,
I did have like lots of friends.
It wasn't like I was a loner at school.
I had loads of friends,
but I feel like inwardly,
it just wasn't like the best time for me.
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hey but you kind of have to go through those things right and I still as I said I'm still my best
friend I met there and I and actually weirdly over the last maybe 10 years I've had a couple
of Facebook messages from the bullies at that school saying I'm really sorry that I made your
life hell um I just can't apologize enough and actually you it's those
moments where you're stopping and thinking you're like wow you were a complete see you next Tuesday
but you've actually I think you've no you've realized what you did yeah hellish you made it
people and you've gone out of your way and you've apologized and actually thank you like and I remember yeah because it's quite a big thing to admit but I did have a lot of crushes
and I remember one friend and I had a particular crush and we were like let's get his phone number
let's get his house phone number and ring him and just listen to his listen to him say hello
because we loved loved his voice we just loved everything about him so we used to go i used to go back to his house and i'd ring him
i was really looking back at that you're like that's quite sweet that's not sweet that we
stalked him we stalked him but you know like that kind of thing it was actually quite sweet that I had those friendships and and we there was like that commonality like we we knew who each other were
and that's so nice yeah it was really nice and it's nice that you're friends today as well so
talking of crushes who is your um famous crush now or when I was 14 I mean you can tell me you
are now as well if you want to give me a list for when you were 14.
Well, I've got to be honest.
Obviously, I mentioned Titanic and Leonardo DiCaprio back then
was particularly good looking.
It's the hair.
I truly believe it's the floppy hair.
Floppy hair always gets me.
And blonde's never been really my type.
But for some reason, he was, I think, the first blonde guy that I saw.
And I was like, oh, my God, like the hair and his little button nose.
I don't know.
He was just – and when you went to see it in the theatre –
sorry, the cinema on that massive screen, you're like,
whoa, like he is a phenomenal looker.
Romeo and Juliet as well.
Romeo and Juliet.
Oh, my gosh.
If, knock at the door, Leonardo DiCaprio knocks on it,
he's asking for some milk or something, I don't know,
would your heart still flutter?
Yeah, but I would say I'm so sorry. I've only got almond milk because I'm a bit...
Come in, love.
Come in.
Yeah, but I want him to be him from then, not now.
Yeah, he's a funny one, isn't he?
He enjoys dating very, very young women,
which I always think is a bit of a red flag.
Yeah, it's a bit of a red flag.
To be honest, but do you know what?
He's still gorgeous.
He is gorgeous.
It was such a good film, wasn't it?
I was just...
I might have to watch it. Oh, no, hang on. There is a good film, wasn't it? I was just... I might have to watch it.
Oh, no, hang on.
There is some inappropriate bits, isn't there?
I could forward through the whole...
Paint me like you're one of your French girls
or whatever the hell.
Is that what she says?
Yeah, that is.
She's like, just, you know...
Doesn't sound quite so romantic, Brummie.
Paint me like one of your French girls.
And then a hand up against the window
oh it's so so steamy wasn't it it was just like um okay what was your biggest fashion
faux pas well i kind of feel like my just everything because i just i wasn't a fashionable teenager. It wasn't part of my...
Actually, I mean, saying that Stussy, I think, was around then.
And I remember going to these weird, like, you know, like Avon parties and Tupperware parties?
Of course.
My mum's friends used to just do like Stussy parties.
And I just remember going into...
Trendy. I remember going into their houses and they just remember going into... It's trendy.
I remember going into their houses and they just had piles of things laid out in their living rooms.
And you just used to go around and like pick things up and try them on and just, you know, buy some stuff.
And I remember wearing a lot of oversized Stussy waistcoats, black waistcoats with like pockets literally everywhere.
And I used to love all that stuff.
I didn't, I knew that I didn't love my body and what I looked like.
So I was always very conscious about what I wore.
Didn't want to like, you know, wear anything too tight and too short and all that stuff.
Yeah.
But I remember wearing a lot of Stussy.
What was the other one?
It was Stussy and...
It was Naff Naff.
Oh, you had a Stussy hat that was like back to front, of Stussy. What was the other one? It was Stussy and... It was Naff Naff. Oh, you had a Stussy hat
that was like back to front,
had Stussy.
I think like what Samuel L. Jackson
kind of hats that Samuel L. Jackson wears.
I wonder why no boys ask me out.
Walk around with that on.
There was Naff Naff.
There was Spliffy.
Did you have Spliffy?
That was the one.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
Yes.
Loads of it.
I had so much of it.
And that's an inappropriate thing to have, isn't it?
I don't think I knew what a spliffy was.
I think I just, was it like a little cartoon character?
Yeah.
My God, I had so much of it.
God, yeah, I remember that.
And it was all quite grungy, wasn't it?
Or like street.
It was just, I used to follow boy bands and dress like boy
bands I don't know what the logic I don't know the logic in my head I thought well if I dress like
them then they will fancy me so I'm like bopping up dressing like PJ and Duncan surprisingly enough
none of them fancied me and what was your biggest teenage um success do you think um I so I was quite into playing music
and I used to play quite a lot of instruments at school um well we know you played the whistle
and the bell whistle the bell of love um but actually at one point I was playing the trumpet, the tuba,
and I started playing the accordion at primary school.
At the end of primary school, I started playing the accordion
because my primary school teacher was playing it.
They used to play it to us, and I was obsessed with my primary school teacher.
I'm like, right, I need to play that, Mum.
So she got me a teeny little one when I was 13 or whatever,
and then it kind of like grows as you do
and by secondary school I was still playing it and I wasn't great I got to like grade
six or seven which is quite good um and I just remember I remember doing like school um like
talent shows and and concerts and stuff and I just loved it because I kind of feel like music was part of like my
escape as it was a lot for a lot of us in that you know when you're that age and even though
it wasn't the Spice Girls it was still like something that I could really enjoy doing and
I loved the sound of the accordion I know I sound like an old man now but it was just that sound
that I loved and also all these stories your mom's dance just
lovely it was you're like I want a bell and my mom got me a bell I wanted to play an accordion
she got me a teeny tiny accordion it's just like the most supportive yes she was very supportive
but then you do you know like I've done I've done a lot of work on like body and diets and stuff yeah and back then
when you're that age when you're a teenager growing up especially like in the 90s it was the time when
all the fad diets were around not sure about you but my mum was always on a diet always and that
was kind of like what you what i grew up on that kind of yeah and I think that's where a
lot of it stems from now for me I'm not obviously blaming anyone but that was a lot of like my
growing up it was just a different time wasn't it things that were normal like I really um I'm sure
my mum will message me to correct me but I'm sure my mum used to went away on a weekend that was
like just to do aerobics and it's just it was just there's a
lot of like aerobics um there was a lot of what is the step the step one is it the one where you go
yeah yeah you go up on the step and then there was top there was like taibo as well there was
like a lot of just different exercise things and a bit of jane funder and then everybody was calling
everybody fat and then heroin chic was fashionable awful it was just it was just whenever whenever it comes up with those you know that you see those videos
like when they're calling people fat in the night is it just weren't fat like Jerry wasn't fat and
people would just be like it's just great it was kind of like the whole heat magazine movement
wasn't it like they used to circle people's cellulite and put them in their wings and stuff
and call it out on the front covers and
like you look back at it now and freaking hell like was that actually real life but at the time
I never questioned it at the time I know I just looked through it and I was like oh right that's
normal that's just like so it's just absolutely bananas and what was your biggest teenage flop? What do you think? Oh, I wish I'd like not done that.
I was always quite like a good boy. Like I never really was out of my young sister was a terror when she was that age.
But I was always quite OK. I don't ever remember thinking, I wish you hadn't done that, Simon.
Oh, that's good. What would you tell yourself if you could go back no one cares what you no one
cares what you don't like no one cares like just take your jumper off at school like take your
blazer off like just be okay with yourself and I kind of feel like that would have maybe like opened
doors and opened just like how you thought about the world and how you thought about yourself at that time
because it was yeah it just wasn't I just felt my mind was probably a bit clouded by
judgments from other people and yeah like one of the bullies was actually bigger than I was
but because he the other people were like laughing at him rather than with him. I don't think he realised that.
So they were laughing at him, laughing at me.
And I was like, hang on.
So I think I was acute enough to realise what was going on,
but never saying anything because I didn't want to start trouble.
So I kind of feel like that's probably what I'd say.
And maybe put a poster or two up and get rid of the bloody bell or whistle and then maybe
you know what no no I stand with the bell and the whistle it's one of my favorite I stand with it
it's niche it's a quacking story and I hope if your son says I want a bell you're gonna go do
you know what it I'm gonna get you the biggest bloody bell
in the in the on amazon i'm gonna you're gonna get it i'm priming it
it's so interesting because you're the what you promote today is so different to how you were
feeling when you were younger isn't it it's a shame it's a shame you then didn't have you now
as somebody to look up to so do you think social media is good for teenagers today or
you're glad we didn't have social media it's a two-edged sword it's good and it's bad like I
always say my I've got two two young nephews one's nine and one is 12 and they've been on
TikTok for a while I'm not sure if they should be but they have been and I remember them seeing this guy who was a very very like effeminate gay guy on there and
he was wearing makeup and he was dancing around and you know like just doing what he was doing
on TikTok and they were watching him but they didn't have any judgments about him they really
like were laughing at him laughing rather than laughing
at him and i thought to myself actually that is quite incredible like i love that side of it like
they get to see people that maybe they wouldn't ordinarily see living in like a really small town
in Hertfordshire so that side of stuff i think is great but i don't think it's particularly great
for mental health for you know like obviously the bullying the bullying stuff, let's not talk about it right now
because I could talk about it for a long time.
But that is awful, an awful side of social media.
And the comparisons that you can make on social media with people,
for young kids, I just don't think is a good thing at all because the
whole body the shaming and the feeling less so because someone else has you know a better in
inverted commas body it's just not the one having said that I don't know like would how would our
childhoods be shaped if we had social media then i kind of feel like it's
quite nice to be naive when we were teenagers i i i'm happy that i was naive to be honest i'm happy
also i worry a little bit about the it's not the words not urgency the words like everything's
immediate everything's on your phone if you want to listen to a song you just press it if you want
this you just do it whether we have if we wanted us if you want to listen to a song you just press it if you want this you just do it where there's we have if we wanted us if we wanted
to wait for a single you have to wait for it to come or wait for it to come on the radio
you have to like where there's now it's like instant gratification which does worry me a bit
i remember pre-mobile phones i don't know if you god i'm gonna go there again but me and for some
reason me and my group of friends had pages no somebody on here has had
a page i had a boyfriend with a page yeah well i mean what the hell is that about pages should
just be reserved for doctors and hospitals like what the hell were we thinking but you used to
like call the number and used to actually talk to someone it wasn't like they're automated you're
like um what would you what would your what is your message you say um jonathan where the hell are you you need
to page your friend they're like in what world is what what are you thinking um so pre-mobile
it was the pager and i just think about it now i'm just obsessed with the fact that we all have
pages yeah that is that i'm so sad i think i probably just couldn't afford a pager maybe
but i had a boyfriend and i remember him having a pager. But no, I never.
And I also remember drug dealers had pagers.
Like that was the money.
Yeah, what's so urgent that a 13-year-old needs a pager?
It's so funny.
It's so funny.
I think that I'm happy that I wasn't around with social media.
But I understand the positives.
Hopefully it will encourage children
to embrace different types of people but um I really hope yeah I really hope so yeah I hope so
you know our son's nearly two and I know that he's obviously going to grow up in that world
there's no you can't hide from it anymore so I just hope it's okay yeah I think I think the kids
today are more resilient than... Yes, I agree.
...than you think.
They adapt to things.
You know, they've all got tablets
and they've been doing stuff since they were so little.
And we just...
Isn't it funny that our kids,
if you tell them, you know, we didn't...
There was no such thing as a mobile phone sometime,
you know, in some of our cases.
They don't understand it.
Like, they literally do not get
it like what it's the internet minor just like what like you didn't have there was no i couldn't
google it there was no internet and they're just like well we did have internet it was dialogue
i remember it so clearly i had we had one like ancient computer my mum computer in my mum's house, not my dad's house.
I remember it so well.
It was on one of those hideous computer-like tables,
casters, and the dial-up, you'd like, I mean,
if you wanted to log on to something that you shouldn't be logging on to,
you'd get no chance because the whole house wakes up with the dial-up.
Yeah, no one could use the phone as well if you dialed it up.
No, nothing.
It was hilarious. If you tell that to like my nephews they're like what
what to me oh they were happy days well simon thanks so much for coming on the podcast it was
lovely to speak to you having me and i will speak to you very soon thank you
it was so brilliant to chat with simon i keep thinking about how much he loved
his teacher and that he got the the whistle and the bell and the desk like dumbledore and his
mom just was like whatever you want whatever you want bab you can have it you want a whistle you
want a whistle you want a desk like dumbledore no questions asked i'm gonna get it for you
it was brilliant and next week we've got another fantastic episode coming up with Gareth from Hunsnet which is cracking and has one of the
rudest tales ever to be told on the phone box podcast that is one not for children's ears
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