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🗓️ 19 June 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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0:00.0 | If just thinking about your bills makes you feel confused and disorientated, |
0:05.0 | like your head is full of Raspberry, |
0:08.0 | then you need Monzo. |
0:10.0 | Download your new favorite bank and pay bills from custom pots. |
0:15.0 | Money never felt like Monzo. |
0:18.0 | UK residents, T's and C supply. |
0:31.8 | It's 11 PM on July 31st 1970, just off the northwest coast of Britain. Trouded in cold mist, the murky muddy waters of the Solway Firth churn and swirl. |
0:39.4 | This inlet of the Irish Sea creates a triangular dent in the British coastline right at the border of Scotland and England. |
0:49.0 | Somewhere in this mouth of freezing cold water, around five miles from the coast, |
0:53.4 | a small navigation boy floats unsteadily |
0:57.0 | on the tumultuous surf. |
0:59.8 | The rusting metal cylinder |
1:01.6 | is just four feet wide, a tiny flash of colour bouncing and spinning among the inky black waves. |
1:09.0 | On top of the boy, clinging on for dear life, is a shivering young man. |
1:17.0 | 24-year-old Jeff Hunter sits, curled up in a ball, one arm clusping a metal hook, a frayed piece of rope tied around his waist. |
1:27.0 | If he loses his grip on this tiny, slippery float, he'll be swept out to sea. |
1:34.0 | Jeff pulls the hood of his anoract tighter over his head |
1:38.0 | and tucks his legs closer to his body, |
1:41.0 | trying to stay warm. |
1:42.0 | I wasn't sure what the temperature went down to but as night |
1:46.4 | came it got definitely colder so I just sat on the thing longer and longer. |
1:53.2 | Eventually, as it got colder, I realized that I was going to have to spend the night on this boy. |
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