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Our first contestant today is Richard Wilson.

Welcome, Richard in Northampton.

You're a scuba diver.

I am, yeah, qualified to 30 metres.

Don't do it very much in this country because it's cold, but, you know, I can and I do occasionally. Oh, good stuff. Hey, you know what's happening right now? People are messaging in 8-8-2-9-1. What's wrong with the cold water? Get in there, sunshine. Absolutely not. I know. Because you've got your paddy qualification, isn't it? Yeah, so I'm Paddy, yeah. And because you've got that, when you're on holiday and you see the scuba diving, snorkeling experience, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You're one of those people who says, yep, I can actually do that instead of spending five days in a swimming pool and then going out and just going as low as five metres. Yeah, that's it. Rock up with your certification and off you go. You're a member of the fourth emergency service. You're a recovery truck driver. I used to work for the fourth recovery service, but not anymore. Amazing stuff. What did you recover? Was it trucks or was it cars? Was it people who were stranded, all that kind of stuff? Cars, vans, drag off the side of the motorway, things like that. Wow. Good job? The job was great, yeah. Yeah, I really enjoyed it. It's interesting that job, you know, for all those recovery people, you've got to be a people person, haven't you? Because when you get to someone's broken down car, all right, you know what to do with the car but you don't necessarily know the mental situation of the people that are stranded. A, they've got a B somewhere, so they're a bit agitated anyway. Yeah. Usually they're delighted to see you, to be fair. Usually they're absolutely delighted that you turn up. But two in the morning, it's poor an hour radio. Well, Bravo, Richard. How's your music knowledge? I would imagine being in the truck you had either the radio or a tape or a CD playing all the time.

Yeah, it's poor now I'm a radio. Well, Bravo, Richard. How's your music knowledge? I would imagine being in the truck,

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