Captain Tom Moore

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Hope? Captain Tom Moore.

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How old was the oldest person ever? And it's Jean Calmet.

We stood outside our doors every night to bang pots and pans and clap the millions of NHS staff working extreme hours to keep us alive.

and 99-year-old Captain Tom walked laps of his garden in Bedfordshire, raising $30 million to fund the NHS.

And it was in that spirit of possibility and optimism that I recorded the Conscious Evolution podcast in the spring months of 2020, with a message of hope and unity.

And since then? Well, let's just say it hasn't quite gone to plan.

There's a link in the show notes to hear the whole thing.

It all got a bit Captain Tom, didn't it, really? It all got very sort of heavily emotional.

People who'd never been there kind of grieving.

And you write about your rising distaste for this kind of thing.

OK, so, David Mitchell, with the correct

musical answer, go on, what have you got? We put Captain Tom and maybe other old people who he sung it with.

Well,

yeah, it was Captain Tom, it was Michael Ball who sung it with him.

Oh!

Not that

age.

Happy to medium fifties.

Was it Alan Titchmark? It is Alan Titchmark.

But also in the opening speech, he mentions Captain Tom's daughter as a villain.

Captain Tom.

Yeah, explain that for the Americans.

So in the UK, when the COVID-19 pandemic first hit, a very elderly gentleman called Captain Tom, who used to be a member of the army, to raise money for the NHS with his walking frame, wearing his military regalia, would walk back and forth in his garden.

Right.

It

Right, right.

We talk about his new podcast that he's got coming up.

We talk about how he was, aside from Boris Johnson and Captain Tom, the face of lockdown.

You would have heard of him.

You would have done one of his workouts.

It was, it was...

You were literally like, apart from Boris Johnson, yeah, I think you were the face of lockdown in the UK.

Let's not forget Captain Tom as well, so Captain-

Yeah, yeah, Captain-