4.8 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 192 minutes
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0:00.0 | What does Home mean to you? I'm Jimmy Famire, writer, broadcaster and restaurant critic, |
0:06.4 | and I've been speaking to well-known names about what Home means to them. |
0:10.6 | And it was in the East End of Burmesemese, when Burmese it was rough. |
0:13.7 | I remember thinking, none of the boys are going to fancy me. |
0:16.5 | Gourd-Dum Barotti and a chicken curry. |
0:19.0 | You are full, you are connected to your culture, and you may get a heart attack. |
0:23.9 | That's Where's Home Really, with me Jimmy Famera. |
0:27.4 | Find it wherever you're listening to this. The The The story is about my Uncle Jimmy. |
1:03.0 | I'll try my best to tell it right, but I haven't heard it in the years since his passing, |
1:08.0 | so my memory could be a little rusty, so please forgive any parts of the story that sound a little off. |
1:14.0 | Now my Uncle Jimmy was a simple man, possibly the most simple man you could ever meet. |
1:20.0 | My dad's side of the family was raised in a very rural town far away from any big city. |
1:25.1 | This meant their childhoods were spent raising farm animals and living off the land in whatever |
1:29.3 | aspect they could. |
1:31.4 | They of course had electricity in running water, but they used it sparingly so as not to rack up a large bill that at the time they couldn't afford. |
1:39.0 | Uncle Jimmy was one of seven kids in the household. He and my father were extremely close and a lot alike, but when my dad turned 18 and graduated high school, he left to go to a university a few states away and he and Jimmy talked less and less in the years that followed. |
1:55.9 | When it was Jimmy's turn to graduate and go off to college, he decided on a different course. |
2:01.0 | He liked being out in the country and fending for himself. |
2:04.0 | He said it made him feel like he was living the life God intended for humans, |
2:08.0 | and that it made him feel closer to the earth and ultimately to himself. |
2:12.0 | So when it was time for him to leave home, the earth and ultimately to himself. |
2:13.3 | So when it was time for him to leave home, he did. |
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