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Louis Theroux

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“I'm very agreeable in that sort of technical sense. I'm very inclined to agree to do things and that can get you in trouble because you find your over, I find I over agree and make unrealistic commitments like, oh, that'll be fine. And then I'll do that and then I'll do that. And then you look at it and you're like, there's just no way on earth I can do all of these things. So I try and ring fence my commitment levels, but that's not easy. But in a positive way, that sense of like feeling like I need to show up having agreed to do it, having been offered an opportunity, even though it might sound enormously stressful. Like, I would never, I think this may be a world in which...”
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“Oh, yeah, I think so. Like, there's times when, you know, I suppose that's where the work ethic part fits in or whatever, like that part of. If you commit to doing something, I hate to let people down. Like if I commit to doing something. Turning up on time or I still struggle with that part, like especially as you're in the when you're in the public eye or you're in demand and people write and ask for things, I still will you come to our school and give a talk or I don't”
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“It wasn't like I ever thought I I won't do it. There's no question I'm going to do it. Like I have to do it, but I sort of didn't want to do it. Does that make sense?”
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“I know the spaceships going to land, and what will the aliens look like? But I was just incredibly conscious of thinking, like, why have I been given this huge, it felt like a big slab of pressure and sort of license to fail very publicly and very embarrassingly? And I also knew I wasn't. But I also wasn't so disconnected from reality that I didn't think, well, it's a huge opportunity. And my girlfriend at the time was very supportive and she's like, you know, you should do this, Louis. You're really good with people. And don't worry. You've got this. You can handle it.”
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“And somehow that contributed to my imposter syndrome, my sense that I shouldn't really be here. I remember sitting there thinking like, this is all kinds of wrong. Like, I don't know what I'm doing here. I don't know why they think I'm qualified to do this. And nevertheless, this is what's happening. And it was a segment that was about, you know, TV Nation was a kind of satirical, fact-based comedy show where you went out and slightly made fun of people to prove a political point or to sort of make some sort of social point. So I was interviewing religious cults about when the end of the world was going to happen. So it was sort of like slightly cheeky, irreverent take on religious fanaticism or religious weirdness. So he's like, I wanted to know. So when will the world end? Is it on a Tuesday? How can I get prepared? And I would sort of in a wide-eyed way. Oh no, will there be, you know.”
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“On a network TV show, I was in the union. Probably still the case, but definitely then these TV shows were unionized to an extent in America further than they would be in the UK. So I was in the Writers' Guild of America.”
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“It will exist for 100 years. And so actually there's a sense of fear and discomfort that will subsequently lead to a sense of triumph or self-satisfaction. Is it happiness? I don't know. Like that feels such a blunt instrument for attempting to measure reality. And in general fear, which you would equate with unhappiness can very often be what ends up creating the conditions for real achievement. And I remember sitting on this plane having been given a job by Michael Moore as a presenter on your TV nation. It was a network TV show on NBC. There were then three networks in America. I was twenty three. I was, as I say, awkward in every apparent way disqualified for being a correspondent.”
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“Yeah, that was I remember it vividly. It's extraordinary as you go through life, so much disappears, but there are times when you realize you're at this momentous moment. I suppose often it's high stress moments, which is really revealing, isn't it? Because actually risk avoidance, you know, that almost like my mind's whizzing now, but that benth of my idea, like the greatest happiness, you know, in philosophy there's a utilitarian ideal that's supposed to be the metric for how you judge whether an action is good or not. And it's like the greatest, will it cause the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people? But then if you unpack that, like, well, what does happiness, how do you measure it and how do you measure, is it happiness in the moment? Is it happiness as it's recollected over time? Is it a happiness that, you know, you can that will spread to other people?”
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“I don't mean to habit, like I'm trying to tell you off. I did say habit. Maybe of comfort as well, although habit is really what I meant, yeah.”
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“If any longevity would be making their own shows, you know, it's a no-brainer. And I was like, I guess I just, I'm fine doing my, I'm a creature of habit. I'm just sort of fine. I don't want to mess around with it. And then having done it three or four years ago, like, yeah, I probably should have, should have done it a bit earlier. But it's that thing of the point, which now landing on the point sounds a bit banal, was that you can sort of get in, being a creature of habit, being sort of embracing whatever that, you know, your own sense of self as risk averse and conventional. Sometimes, you know, I needed to challenge myself in order to discover that there was a world out there that was sort of more creative, more lucrative, more fun, more adventurous.”
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“It's oddly infantilizing after a while. Like, there's nothing cool about making hundreds of hours of TV and not owning any of it, right? That's just me being a little bit of a chump. And partly, you know, there's a quid pro quo, I suppose, like, well, you don't get stressed. You turn up. You're making things for a public broadcast. You're getting a decent salary for sure. But people would say, like, why, you know, everyone else, who do you work for? It's like, well, I'm a BBC. I'm on contract. I work from contract to contract three years at a time. Really, you don't have your own company. Like, no, why not? Because everyone else does. Jamie Oliver or Hugh Fernley Whittingstall or whoever you care to mention, any presenter.”
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“Isn't showing off about what a not show off he is. You think I've lost the thread? I haven't. The point we're getting to is that, so I needed to start a company.”
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“But, you know, fine. And that's kind of a joke. Like, that's my point really is that that's something I need to keep an eye on, you know, because actually ostentatious. Almost like ostentatious humility is its own poison. Like why are you so wedded to the idea of having a shit watch? By the way, it's not a shit watch. It's completely reliable. And I've never had it. The only thing that goes on it is the strap. So I've got one that's got a, you can replace the strap. After about five years, the strap goes. I've got two of these. I'm not bragging. I've got one. I've got my spare one in case I can't find this one. Anyway, last time my wife said, it might be time for a new watch. I've got to embrace. I'm trying to lean into being the guy.”
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“He says, I say to them, what colour is your boot That's him in a nutshell. Like unapologetically troll-like, ostentatious displays of wealth and arrogance, right? So I'm the antitate. You can put that on my gravestone, the antitate. So I'm like, I don't give a fuck about your Bugatti. I think it's embarrassing that you have one. No offense. No, I don't.”
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“Anyway, so Andrew Tate feels like he's that guy reduced to its quintessence where he's like One of his catchphrases was people say, why have you got a green Bugardi? Do you know this meme? And what does he say to them?”
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“You can see this. My wife was saying to me last night You know, maybe time for a new watch. This is a Casio, whatever that one is. It's an F91W. These cost like £10, £15. You can get them at Argos. Have you ever seen that watch before? I have. I was listening for a talk about Andrew Tate on the way here, a podcast. You know who Andrew Tate is.”
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“Absolutely not my lane. And it was my wife who pushed me to do it. And so that was a case of me needing to break out of whatever I was doing and say, do you know what? Whatever you think that is risky or mysterious or, you know, a bit spivy, you know, like just a little bit of judgment, like, oh, I don't want to be one of the yuppy guys. Like, we just had an IPO. I've just got my first maserati. Like that, because I'm antagonist, you know, I'm completely that whole mindset. I feel like I'm alienating maybe some of your listeners. It's not my mindset. Like I'm just like, I almost valorize the opposite of that, you know, to probably an extent that's sortly unhealthy. Like, like, I don't want to be the guy. I don't want to flash car. I don't want to flash clothes. I don't want anything. I want to be anti-flash, right?”
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“You know, you sort of reverence it, like, and it was only used for special occasions. And there's a little bit of that in me. And so when I finally went outside the BBC and set up a company three or four years ago, I'm sure most of your listeners probably”
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“I do it to a fault to the point where I worked at the BBC in-house in BBC studios. Just because I sort of liked the idea of the structure, like, I'm a company man going to the factory and, you know, building my TV programs but not owning them. And because I just thought, you know, and I like going to the Kent, I used to love working at TV Center because it felt like going to the factory and then eating at the TV center canteen. You know, it just felt like comfortable. You know, my granddad worked at the London Waterboard his whole life. He had one job that he started when he was 18 and finished when he was whatever, sixty-five, you know. To some extent, those were the times, but that temperament is slightly in me the whole time when he left they gave him some box of cutlery. You work here for 47 years. Here's your silverware in a walnut case and was on a, it was in pride of place, like not pride of place. It wasn't on the mantelpiece, but we used to look at it. That's what grandpa got when he'd worked at the Metropolitan Waterboard for forty-seven years.”
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“You sort of do. And I think, and I want to come back to your question, but I do think that that's also, you know, three or four years ago I started a company. And there's a part of me that's overly. Overly conventional, and as a result seeks out unconventional in my work. And that's positive. It means that I love spending time with people who feel like they give free reign to the darkest and weirdest impulses that I think to an extent we all share but keep repressed, you know, whatever those happen to be, people involved in sex work or people involved in religious cults or hate groups. And that's all my stock in trade is talking to those people because I feel as though I kind of get it. I understand that that's part of the full compliment as horrible as it might sound to say. Like we all have unacknowledged and secret impulses that we have sort of civilized and kept and repressed into, we've inhibited them into our souls so that we can function and not be sent to prison or whatever, be cancelled. But for me, I sort of.”
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“settings but actually it's that you need the yin and the yang of both and and when i went out and did stuff that was successful on tv like working doing my first segments at a show called tv nation having been hired by michael more when i was 23 partly like a work ethic you know doing preparation and being you know turning up on time as they say is like 90 of the battle but actually then being just sort of allowing those creative juices sort of to, you know, whatever that mysterious quality of humor and connectivity, just being silly and disruptive, like those are really valuable.”
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“He flunked out of a school. He went to another school where they recognized his special needs. But the point is that I sort of think so many, I think we're a tendency to undervalue those parts of life that lead to success that exists. I mean, maybe I'm sort of out of line here because it sounds like you are all over this, but those parts, like the parts of life that help me become whoever I am, part of it's academic, part of it was almost inimical to academic success. It was the part that was free-spirited and naughty and that was bunking off school and seeing movies and or getting me in trouble and whatever that is and it's hard to really bottle it and know quite what it is. There's something that I struggle sometimes with over discipline, right? Or a sense of like doing well in control.”
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“And I feel as though whatever that is, that work ethic has stood me in good stead. But I don't feel that that's, I often think there's a very understandable misconception about the level of importance of academic work, you know, that whole stay in school kids. And, you know, we were talking, I think, off mic about Mr. Beast, the YouTuber. And, you know, the media landscape we're in now, it's just simply not correct to say that, oh, the path lies through academic work, right? And I was talking to my cousin Justin Tharou, oddly enough, he says, Thoreau, who's an actor, he's a director, a writer. He wrote Tropic Thunder, Iron Man 2, he's also like high profile Hollywood actor. I interviewed him for my podcast. I'm not trying to plug. That would be weird to plug one podcast on another podcast, but he was like someone who struggled in the academic setting. Like he had ADHD.”
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“No, Boston. Just to rewind. And I also want to mention one other thing, which is, because we talked a little bit about studying”
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“Yeah, I think we push things forward a little bit. It's not a paradigm shift. Like we haven't completely flipped the script, as they used to say in hip-hop circles. But it is, you know, we worked on the grammar. We tried to do things a little differently. So we created, for one of a better term, format that allowed for elements of actuality, just being silly, having fun or being in life's settings where the unexpected could happen, but also bits of conversation that would be going to places that were quite deep. So yeah, thank you for that. And thank you for passing that on.”
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“Most things aren't that good. They're not. I mean, most things are fine But most things are like only about as good as they need to be. You know what I mean?”
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“Little puff, especially in the journalistic or in the media village, is like, did you see it? Nah, yeah, that was rubbish, wasn't it? And there's a sort of reassuring feeling of like, yeah, let's all give it a kicking. So when you acknowledge that something's good, you're sort of saying like...”
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“There's a troll in all of us, right? And in general, it's more enjoyable to talk about stuff and dunk on stuff because it's shit, right? And that sounds horrible. I'm right in the oversimplifying”
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“But see, because I'm a very glass half empty kind of guy with respect to praise. So what I'm hearing there is it's actual. Yeah, I'm here like, because I'm here, is that a surprisingly, in which case, why would that be surprising?”
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“Because before that, the first three episodes, I hadn't really checked Twitter. I thought, I'm not that guy anymore. I don't really care. I make the shows and I know they're good. And the ones that aren't so good, I know none of these is a clunker. They're all solid. And then I suddenly thought, oh, I went back to, I regressed into being the needy sort of insecure person, which is, you know, and that guy is always there, by the way. I think a lot of people could probably relate to that, which doesn't mean, you know, which is fine, by the way. But I suppose to your point, in all the kind of work, in the work I do, it's not like, is it an urge to connect? Like it's an urge to do good work. And then it's nice for that to be recognized. And as much as I'd like to pretend that.”
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“Then, a couple days later, I got a review, great review in the Times. Just sort of pointing out all the things about it that I knew to be really, really good. It was sort of the perfect review, you know, a rave saying like, this is fresh, it's new, it's different, it's fun, it's entertaining, it's revealing. And I felt really good. And on one level, it's”
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“Okay, now I'm going to try at Louis Through. I'll try hashtag Bear Grill. I tried a few different search terms. And then I suddenly had a vision of my, you know, you get a vision of yourself like, oh, wow, I've become that grubby guy, kind of like, it's sort of sad. It's like trying to fish for approval in the vast swamp of the Twitter verse, right? Casting my line, and nothing much is coming back. And I thought, well, and then one that came back, I looked at it and said just watched Louis through his interview with Bear Grills, wow, it was hella boring. And I was like, I just caught a boot. And then I was like, well, that's what you get. And by the way, it isn't boring. No, it's not boring. The point I was trying to get to was.”
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“Feeling worth, you know, I don't want, I think I've got a healthy, relatively healthy sense of Self esteem, but nevertheless I think I whether I require it, I enjoy Know, I got a series out at the moment. This isn't my attempt to segue into the promotional portion of this interview, but nevertheless, here we are. I got a series out at the moment on iPlayer called Louis Thru Interviews, and we had one that went out a few days ago where I interviewed Bear Grills, an alumnus of this very podcast. I listened to your interview with him, by the way. In preparation. And when it went out, For whatever reason. I think because I thought it was a good show and I hoped it would get a good reception. I was on, I thought, I'm going to go on Twitter and see what people were saying. And it was surprisingly quiet. And then I felt a bit like the”
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“I think I connected with people not to sound oxymoronic or whatever it is, no tautologists by connecting with people. In other words, like I always find I do my best connecting. Sounds a bit weird. Yeah. Face to face. Maybe at one level, but in the end, I think I was just trying to do good work and get approval. Maybe more than connection, like just trying to sort of get an A at work. Do you know what I mean? So I would feel good and think, like, oh, I got 10 out of 10 on my article or on Of writing, my film review. And then if people said to me, that was really good, that was like getting it, you know, like you've got a good review or whatever, you know, people say, like, you did a good job. It was maybe a way of it's just a little Just a little spurt of whatever that is, like just kind of pleasure, you know,”
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“I used to watch TV and I liked TV and there was something about the democratic kind of nature of television, the fact that everyone watches TV. I thought, well, that's a way of working in a medium that will connect with people. And so it was in the mid-90s. TV was... In a kind of a mini golden age, the Simpsons was on Seinfeld was on, Friends was just about to come on. There were all these amazing TV shows. Larry Sanders was another one.”
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“Like, I relate to people with famous parents. Like, you know, people like, you know, Jacob Dillon. whose Bob Dylan's son. I don't know why I reached for that comparison, but. For people who know and You know, it's a great track, it was a huge international hit, but his dad's Bob Dylan. That's a painful, maybe not painful, but that's an extraordinary legacy to be born into. And in a related way, I was conscious of my dad. His name as a writer really meant something and that it was that if I was to attempt to write something, it was going to be a case of very likely kind of falling short, at least in my own mind. But the idea of writing in television was less, I felt, wouldn't invite the same comparisons.”
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“I find the chat show experience not especially, I mean, I've done it a few times and as life goes on it seems, you know, the idea of public speaking or, you know, when I first got into TV. It was like, why am I doing this? This is not me. Like, this is not what I was cut out for. This is not something that I aspired to do. And it sounds really, you know, the whole notion of it feels intimidating and just a bad fit. And nevertheless, I knew that just briefly, like I was working in magazines as a journalist in New York. I aspired to be a TV writer, partly as a way of sort of avoiding comparison with my dad, not directly, but I suppose that was in my mind, was like, I want to write and be creative, but I know I'll never write books. You know, I didn't feel like I wrote when I wrote, it didn't feel especially as though it came as easily as it should. You know, it's hard when your dad”
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“If I could dial down, I think sometimes I think I have changed it actually is the first thing to say because there were times in my life where I said no to things. Just because I thought that's going to be a bit like, you know, I did the maypole dancing in the end and it went fine. I did learn this will surprise you, but I did learn how to read. And, you know, despite all the anxiety I had about doing that. And so, and then as life went on, I think there were times when I said no to things, opportunities. Which probably, just because the idea, I was asked to go on David Letterman's chat show. When it was on CBS, this would have been in around two thousand one, and I said no because I thought that's just going to make me anxious. And looking back on it, I probably. Wish I'd done that”
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“And Nancy was like, What's the matter? So I think that's just, I think that's in me, it's probably in a lot of people. And you just deal with it. But why should that be the case? I don't really know why”
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“And it was just the idea of having to talk to people. And in a relatively high wattage setting, so you think, I don't want to be wandering around like a blithering idiot. So there's a sort of little stress that sits alongside that. But there was no real reason on paper why I shouldn't have been thinking, well, this is going to be amazing. This is going to be a night. I'll remember my whole life, you know, and I attempted to adjust my mindset, you know, using kind of Paul McKenna-like or Yuri Geller like, you know, just visualize. Think about what this is. This is going to be, no one's expecting anything of you. This is a chance to sit down with some amazing people and have fun. But nevertheless, for the first kind of hour, I was there just thinking, I kept just sighing.”
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“You know, because sometimes it's that like, what if we win and I have to give a speech or you're worrying about whether you're going to win? I knew I was an honoree and I knew I wasn't going to say any. I wasn't going to have to give a speech.”
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“So it's not just men now, it turns out. Extraordinary list of, like Andrew Garfield, an extraordinary list of incredible people. And it wasn't even an awards bank. It wasn't even like the BAFTA's like where you sit and sit through the speeches and then at half past ten when you're starving hungry and quite tired, you sit down and eat your food. This was like a banquet banquet where you just sit around and have a delicious meal and then a few people pop up and say a few words between starter and the main cause. So it was like, and it wasn't even that, it was like maybe a couple hundred people, like quite small as these things go. But the point is before on the evening of I was like, I don't want to go. And I said, I knew I had to go, but I said to Nancy, my wife, I was like, I am not feeling this. She's like, what is it? I said, I just can't you know, I don't know, I just feel really anxious. And she's like, but you're not even giving a speech.”
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“It's quite a common dynamic, you know, not bragging two nights ago I was a GQ man of the year. Thank you. Applause. Thank you. I was one of the honorees. And so there was a banquet, like a posh dinner catered by Heston Blumenthal and Stormzy was going to be there, Mo Salah, Leah Williamson, the footballer.”
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“separating my collection of screws and nails into their different jars. You know what I mean? Like that for me is like that, you know, a lot of guys be like, yeah, that sounds like heaven to have two hours to organize my shed, you know, and not realize that you're missing out on the tapestry of life. So I plead guilty to whatever that is. Maybe that's just being a man.”
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“Some people are really gifted at friendship. They're there and they think about and they make arrangements and I don't make really, I'm not very good at social arrangements, all these sort of boring things that are the qualities that are really the stuff of life. Like just getting together, reaching out. Are you okay? It's been a while since I saw you. I wanted to meet up. Which in general, this is a crust generalization, but I think women are slightly better at than men. And I think that's been one of the many gifts my wife has given me, is actually involving me in life, like in just a normal sort of neurotypical way. Whereas my tendency would be to sort of disappear into my slightly incell-like shell, you know, of kind of in a metaphorical shed of kind of counting. The joke in making my book is like, you know,”
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“So, for me, and I think if you ask my friends, they might say, you know, be like, oh, yeah, Louis a good guy. I hope they would say that. But they also might say he's a little bit absent. Like he's a little bit. I don't feel I'm an especially attentive or present friend. And”
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“Intimacy easy. So I sort of experience a lot of the times my work is a license to be intimate without consequences, like to get a bit like what you're doing now. You talk to people, someone in a prison who's been sentenced to 10 life sentences. He's like, okay, how does that feel? So what's life like? And then kind of getting or whatever happens to me, all the work I've done in some sense is about attempting to peel layers back and see inside someone's psyche and then get on a plane and fly off and go home and live my normal life almost at a less intimate plane of existence. And so clearly, you know, and the other joke I've made over the years is like, oh, what makes me good at my job is also what makes me bad at life.”
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“And I think, um, I think that I I've struggled with intimacy sometimes. I think I In terms of relationship building, in my private life, It's a running joke between me and my wife, like that she's extremely sort of emotionally acute and that I'm slightly the opposite, which is kind of weird when you think about my job, which hinges on supposedly being sort of maybe emotionally or psychologically perceptive, but it's almost as though, but I see it in my mum as well, like my mum having worked at the BBC. Went into therapy and became a relationship counselor. And it's funny because my mom also finds it difficult sometimes to fully inhabit her emotions. If it doesn't sound an odd thing to say, I don't know, I'm going to probably regret saying that, but let's make it about me. And I think with me, I think... Yet I don't always find really”
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“I think that's right. Yeah, yeah. Being the space to grow and become your own person and not feel that you're especially kicking against anything but licensed to follow your own interest. I think that's all positive. I think What is it that look, I think in general, I've said this and probably someone else said it as well, that what you think maybe your disability is also your superpower? Exactly.”
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“Me and my brother and I were slightly a side effect. Like we weren't, and again, I could spin that as a positive actually. Like there was a sort of a level of us being autonomous. You know, we had whatever the opposite of helicopter parents is, we slightly had that. Like they were like, okay, cool. You know, you do you. And I think, again, that can be, I kind of quite grateful in some ways for that. But, you know, they had their own thing going on.”
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