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What most people think

And I am, it's Tuesday morning And I went out and did a bit of daytime clubbing at the weekend. I just won't let it go. 46 years old, there I was at the PrintWorks of all the youngsters. And I had a very strange situation whereby I logged into my Instagram yesterday, and there was one of those messages from somebody that hasn't come in. It said, thanks for the free drink at PrintWorks, and I didn't remember it from a young person. So that's always good. And on that bombshell, welcome back to the show, Andrew Dawes. So good to have you back on, mate. Are you well? Yeah, I'm good, thank you. I'm jealous of you going clubbing. I didn't even like clubbing when I was a youth, you know? That was a youth. Yeah, I never got into that. It may be because I use phrases like youth.

Yeah. I didn't even like clubbing when I was a youth, you know? I was a youth. Yeah, I never got into that. It may because I used phrases like youth. Yes. Yeah, when I was a mere slip of a lad. I mean, it is, what's happened is there's like a daytime rave scene, which is wisely concluded that Generation X are selfish and are never going to let it go, really. We're never going to stop doing this. So they've also realized that we're the ones with disposable income as well. Well, also, because the younger generation don't drink, do they? So there's no point in having a rave for them. It's just people moving around in bright lights. And they're not going to make any money, are they? You know, how are they going to make any money off that? I would say that these days there's probably more alcohol being drunk at baby raves than actual raves. We're just tired, disillusioned mothers sitting in the dark. Oh, yeah. They're slamming the Pino Grosier, those people. You know, it's pretty grotesque to watch. I's you were on the third ever episode of the show i don't

know if you remember that back then it was like yeah february it was i launched a show in february

2019 and yeah i don't we we actually did interviews in person back then and um you were now but

i think this is your fifth time coming on that sounds about right yeah that Yeah, that sounds right. Yeah, you remember those days? People used to meet up. We just got used to this online thing and realized it's better. So, I mean, the incredible thing about Zoom, I think, is that how often people are late for Zooms, where both people are in their house. It's really has shown us like our frailties as a species where the standard

thing for any Zoom work thing is running a bit late can we do it at 10 past. That is the standard

that it didn't happen today. But I think that, I mean, running late from fucking what? Like,

yeah, exactly. You're rolling out of bed. you don't even have to wash you know i'm not

in broke trousers at the moment you know this is ridiculous i don't have to do that well running running

late i think often means i've late i've latterly decided that i want a nice coffee yeah i'm not willing to

in terms of what i'm willing to accord priority to sticking to previous uh commitments is not up there with my desire to have a nice coffee for this meeting. It is a proper slap in the face. It worries me, though, because I remember thinking this before. There's a short story by E.M. Forster, you know, it's written over 100 years ago called The Machine Stops. And it's a dystopian future where people are just

in a room and they only communicate through screens and that's all you know it's just completely

come true it's worries me this kind of there is a little bit of that i don't know about you i mean

i always had an issue with this generally but you know when you're just having coffee with one

person or you go for dinner with one person. I find that very,

and this is going to be the most millennial I've ever sounded, but very anxiety inducing. It's just a lot of fucking pressure, isn't it? Well, also, I've realized that, you know, I think maybe it's old age, but I'm, I'm a frail person. I caught a nasty cold a while ago in New York and I had it for like a month.

And so now I've realized I just don't want to see people anymore. It's not worth the risk. Yeah, yeah. So you're not gone like kind of fully masked. It's just pragmatism and how you feel about humans, really. That's pretty much it. Sorry, someone's ringing my doorbell.

Should I answer it or should I let them?

Yeah, yeah.

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