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The Most Raw Conversation I've Ever Had: Revisited
The Most Raw Conversation I've Ever Had: Revisited
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Excuse me, sir.
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Excuse me, sir.
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>> Sorry to bother you.
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What?
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>> Sorry to bother you.
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I'm Chris and I I'm I'm a photographer.
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I'm a portrait photographer.
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And I I just thought that you had like a really cool look.
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It It was I noticed you over there
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and the hat and everything
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and the coats.
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Are you from Dublin, sir?
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>> Yeah.
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>> Are you?
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>> No, I don't live here anymore.
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I left many years ago.
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>> Oh, okay.
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>> I'm leaving tonight.
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I'm going back to London where I live.
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>> Oh, you're living in London.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Do you miss Dublin?
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Well, you have a certain >> that's not funny >> empathy
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and nostalgic feeling for the place you're from originally.
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I'm not using my first name.
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I'm using my middle name, which is James.
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>> James.
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Okay.
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>> And that's what I'm calling myself because it doesn't cause a hassle, right?
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>> I've never been happy with my first name.
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>> You're a photographer, did you say?
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>> Yes.
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There's no money involved in this, you know.
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There's no money involved.
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>> You get the vibe
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and I know you're not >> I'm not to scam you
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or anything.
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>> Yes, I know that.
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But and I should take that as a compliment.
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I look at myself in the this morning
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and I I'm not happy with what I'm looking at.
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You know, I've always had a sense of um >> appearance, right?
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I since I was a young boy.
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When you're not rich, I mean, if I was rich, I'd um I mean,
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I've always had what I would regard as impeccable taste.
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But now here I am, not rich.
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And yet I I still make a slight effort.
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You know, it's like if you haven't got money,
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you you know what I'm saying?
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I should have money off my own bet, you know,
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because of my background and all the all the possibilities.
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I should have I should, you know,
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be like a a top lawyer or theoretically that was within my grasp, right?
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To be a top professional and and to be pretty wealthy in that respect.
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>> Yes.
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>> I I missed that train.
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>> Have you ever been married?
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Do you have family?
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>> I mentioned that before.
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What was your name?
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>> I'm Chris.
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I >> I regard myself Chris's the greatest >> failure that ever walked the planet Earth.
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>> Why?
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>> Because I am because I I didn't achieve the very basics.
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I'm the could have been man.
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I call myself the could have been man.
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I could have been right.
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I'm the could have been man, but I ended up with nothing.
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I didn't even get a life.
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And I tried from the age of 13, you know,
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and the girl I was looking was looking at the other geyser.
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What is the most important lesson you think you've learned over the course of
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your life?
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>> Never wanted to put anybody down or bully.
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You know, I have no tolerance for bullies
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or put somebody down
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or make fun of somebody.
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If I if I could turn the clock back,
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I wouldn't hesitate to tell people exactly how I feel,
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which I didn't want to do.
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Then I didn't want to hurt hurt anybody, right?
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>> Yeah.
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>> Just bought a necker shift.
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>> You want to put on your necker shift if you want.
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There's 9 million people in London and I don't have a single friend.
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And I'm I'm not saying that like I'm crying.
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That is the reality.
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I lived overseas in the Americas, North America, South America.
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And when I came back,
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um they had all kind of disappeared
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and I've been alone for the last 22 years.
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When I was quite young, >> I didn't need any friends.
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I'm chasing girls and I didn't want another guy.
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I had the dawn to be able to chat up
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and all those and they'd be
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then they'd move in
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or try to move in.
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And of course, it never dawned on me I'd get to this age
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and be practically penniles
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and not have a profession
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and all the rest of it,
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which I I should have, right?
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Or money.
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I should have a profession.
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I should have money.
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I missed all of that.
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I And not even a wife because I've been alone all of my life,
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you know, since the age of four.
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You could say I'm psychologically alone since the age of four.
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My own mother was a piece of ice.
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We had a horrifically bad relationship at one point.
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Very difficult woman.
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Piece of ice.
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There was no physical contact.
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>> Mhm.
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>> Very strange.
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Very Irish woman.
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There was no hug.
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There was no kiss.
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There was no nothing.
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It was I do remember
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when I that school I was at
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when I was four years of age.
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There was another kid that after school I went to his house.
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>> Mhm.
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>> And his mother was all over him.
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Right.
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And I can even feel this to this very day, that feeling.
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I I wish she was my mother.
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And then you read about about some British English guy who's disappeared
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or in jail in India
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or Thailand and the parents fly over there.
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>> Mhm.
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Yeah.
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>> When I came back from America, I stepped off the plane.
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Nobody I've never been met at any airport in my life by anybody.
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And I know in my heart I could have been taught in certain things.
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The other thing I might tell you, Chris,
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is I've always had it done for writing
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and I wrote two plays
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which I'm very proud of
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and they've been sitting there for 20 years.
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I' I've said recently that I make people laugh almost every day.
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I haven't made you laugh because I've been very serious,
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but I make people laugh every day without even trying. like I'm not trying
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to be but and I said this is my greatest asset.
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My only contribution is complete strangers that I talk to.
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They crack up laughing sometimes.
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Chris, I mean >> these people are wonder who is this famous guy.
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>> You know, I don't have a bitterness,
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but I could have but I don't have it right.
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>> And you've been very friendly and gracious to me and kind.
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And I appreciate that, James.
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That's what that says a lot about your character.
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Says a lot about your character.
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But there are times um uh when you do feel low, you know,
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