Life Is Short. Scare Yourself.

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[Music] this is my house and this is me outside my [Music] house life here is fine so why am I thinking about doing something odd odd is the wrong word I’m trying not to scare myself the right word would be scary why am I thinking about doing something scary something that would risk [Music] this but the one thing I’ve learned about filming is that when you’re scared just film anyway because if it turns out all right you’d be glad you did and if it doesn’t turn out all right filming is probably the least of your worries [Music] I think they’re building an Athletics track here I’ve lived here years and now they decid to build one 2 minutes from my house great timing so today I’m going to ride my bike past every house I’ve ever lived in 50 years of Home dwelling in one big old loop we’re getting close to my first house now this out here is where I’d come and play when I was a kid with my brother just beyond the trees it’s all houses now when I was a kid you could just walk for Miles we’d be out here all day and you just go home when you’re hungry if you showed 1980s 7year old me just what’s left I’d have cried hey I want to cry do you cry in 1980 because of a field you’re going to have a tough time at [Music] school so my first 19 years were across the road here one of the houses over there me my brother my parents it was a regular house but it had a huge huge Garden I couldn’t throw a ball from one end to the other I could now because they knocked a house down a few years after my parents moved away they went in and then built on all the gardens so there there is no Garden anymore we used to play rugby on this bit of grass in front of me all the kids from this side of the road versus all the kids from my side of the road just playing rugby up and down this Main Road ball bouncing in front of the cars no health and safety no one got run over no one from my side of the road got run over some kids got run over it’s a busy [Music] road so I moved out of home because my girlfriend was pregnant so I moved in with her parents and her obviously not just her parents that be weird and it was Handley cuz they lived right around the corner from the little swimming pool that I worked at as a lifeguard in this beautiful old building that had been there for over 100 years the sign still says swimming bars but they’ve turned it into it’s a block of flats that’s a little hatch we used to pay to go you swim is nothing sacred cemetry Junction it’s famous for y Bam Bam ye kebabs and uh Ricky jaas 2010 film and [Music] me okay interesting movie trivia C Junction the movie wasn’t always called that Ricky Jas wanted to call it marathan the PR but the credential Assurance company told him no he wanted to call it that because at one point in the 70s and the 80s everybody in Reading worked for the pr my mates did my girlfriend did I never did I tried to work for the pr to sell life assurance and I failed the psychometric test how is that possible have you seen for Wall Street how do you fail to work in that industry morei APR close to Windsor but the property is less it keeps the businesses of Britain great it’s got Europe’s biggest trading estate it doesn’t matter where you’re from you want to work then come along so the first house I actually bought is just around the corner I would have been maybe 21 22 and I was only able to buy it because a different life insurance company not the credential did give me a job bonus only no basic salary and I was rubbish but that didn’t matter because back then you just put no income declared on your mortgage application and they gave you the money anyway those were the days jumpers for gold poost so once I got the hang of selling life insurance I did quite well suck on that credential and bought a bigger house moved to this one just behind those trees and this was cool here backed onto these fields and when I started to get in shape eventually I’d come straight out the gate and I just run here mostly walked but did some running here this was cool fields there’s a river here about 10 years two dogs four kids it’s good didn’t want to leave here but life is complicated and do you know what else is complicated divorce so uh I moved into that little block of flats there not stopping at that one when I was at that little place over the road I was 39 and the mess I thought life was over and I’d come here every Saturday morning and do park run every Saturday didn’t always get faster but I got better here so once my divorce was sorted I rented a place just down there it was all right it was bigger have my kids and I was there about a year before I met Jen it’s the first place that we liveed together to be honest the house is horrible but uh right people anywhere can be [Music] okay and so after that one 8 years go now I moved to where I am now home for now all of the houses I’ve ever lived at have all been just a couple of minutes away been getting on the M4 and this is pretty [Applause] quiet I spent most of my life being able to hear the [Applause] M4 I hate it and the motorway runs by your door and you know just where you’re heading it’s equid distance between London and R 50 years just over 21 mil around reading might be time for something else which is where this all gets a bit scary because something else will something else be better what is better last year my fitness got better I was Stronger and faster I was better but I ended the year not feeling any better I know on social media that better normally just means lifting more or running quicker or being bigger but life is way more complex than that imagine I’ve just watched Top Gun three times in a row watching Iron Eagle next would be better than watching Top Gun again it would be close but it would be better Iron Eagle isn’t better it’s just better for me then I think when it comes to living in Reading I might just be ready to watch Iron Eagle and I can’t believe I’m even saying that let’s go for a walk [Music] if I was 10 years younger I’d move to a house that was a bit older and a bit more rural play it safe and then 10 years later go for it somewhere off grid somewhere scary do it a step at a [Music] time I don’t have time for steps I’m 50 do you know how I remember that I’m 50 apart from a mirror I sit on the bike in the office I sit on it in the office close my eyes and instantly I’m 19 years old I’m in the secondhand bike shop that bike would have been about 5 years old Top Gun would have been about 3 years old and I’m telling myself one day one day maybe 35 years it’s took took to get that bike 35 years life is short I don’t have time for one day may I don’t have time for anything so we’ve been looking at houses that are scary the Drone shots that the estate agent sends they’re epic but the houses are scary but then what’s scary people told me that traveling around Africa on my own was scary but was it really what’s the worst case break down I have to wait a couple of days for someone to come and get me quit my job for YouTube was that scary what was scary was staying another day in financial services that would been horrific you can’t put your butt in the camera that’s just offensive but this house move and it going wrong that is proper scary I will be old and broke probably divorced again in a house with Rising damp and bats in a 300y old attic so do I wait I can’t wait I can’t wait because because another 35 years will go and I’m not moving to a house with damp and bat at 85 life is like a theme park when you’re young it’s 9:00 a.m. and the place is just open and you can do what you want you got all day and then before you know it it’s half hour before the place closes and you have to really pick what you’re going to do next cuz you don’t got time for many more rides and when this place closes it doesn’t reopen and when I make a video there’s normally a message although I don’t always know if it’s for me or for an audience talking to audience wouldn’t it be cool to make content Fitness content out in the middle of nowhere where I can’t throw a ball off my land what’s the message I don’t know life is short do scary things do odd things take your pick [Music] yeah yeah yeah we would like to put an offering on it yep yeah yeah they told us about the bats [Music]