[laughs]

Anywho, moved to another big referral hospital and, um, there was quite a difference in kind of skill set.

Um, it, again, it was quite a young hospital with quite a, not necessarily young in age, but like a young referral team, and I did a lot of training there.

Ended up, like, doing quite...

That was ended up, like, a lot of SOPs, a lot of protocols, a lot of, like, "Can we review this? Can we look at that? Can we improve that?" Da, da, da, da, da.

Um, and then I ended up back at North Downs because I just can't stay away.

Um, so I went back as, like, interim, I think, head of wards, and then ended up in head of training.

So for any of our listeners that, um, aren't familiar with that, what, what is RECOVER? What can they do to play more of a part of that in the practice? What does that look like for the team?

How did you, how did you woo her?

Uh, how did I woo- Mate, so she, she walked into this pub that was quite similar to this that I was in, um, just down the road, actually.

And I mean, the entire pub just like, in my eyes, she was just stunning.

And uh, like, I was like, "Who the fuck is that girl?" And a f- a friend of mine went, "Oh, that's a girl called Tallie." Um, and I went, "Well, I just, I have to marry her." And then I slid into her DMs, didn't reply.

Slid into her DMs again, didn't reply.

And I went for the third [laughs] and was like, I was like, and then she gave me the worst reply ever.

It was like a one-liner.

I love it

Because it must leave a lot of people scratching their heads going, where do we fit in?

Well, I mean, yeah, absolutely.

I mean, everyone, there's an age-old thing saying TV's dying.

I mean, you know, that's half true.

The digital landscape is huge now.

I think there's...

The worrying thing if you're working in TV now is that the brands are going to spend more now on digital than they normally would on TV advertising.

What would you suggest for someone like me to try and get out there a little bit more?

we can go deep.

Well, yeah, I, I, I, I, I, it sometimes makes me a bit sad.

that my whole persona is that and that people don't know that I'm everything.

We're all humans, right? And so I sometimes feel it goes two ways because I'm so lucky to do the job that I do.

So I'm very excited all the time.

I get to sit here and talk to everyone here.

I couldn't want to be in a better place than I am right now talking to you guys.

So we go through childhood not knowing and maybe feeling like, you know, why is this more difficult? Or whatever challenges that you face, if you were to go back and talk to little Sam Thompson, I don't know, age 10, what would you want to say to little Sam?

yeah.

And if I can't pay a parking ticket, how am I going to look after my kids? Yeah.

And so I was a little bit... as sort of I approached 30, I definitely was a little bit more like, okay, I've been told I've got this thing, but now maybe I'll go and get it.

And then I did this doc and I just...

I was interested, but I was like, look, I know the end result.

I'm going to have ADHD.

So at the very end, when the lovely lady actually, she had eyes like a white walker, so piercing blood.

big

Um, but could you imagine had you been diagnosed at, like 10 or i- in mid-teens, how you would have reacted to it, or how you would have felt about it then?

I am gutted that I didn't get diagnosed earlier in my life.

Um, I think it would have absolutely changed my schooling.

Um, this is Netmums.

I feel like it's a parenting podcast, so I imagine that, you know, this isn't gonna come as a massive surprise, but I wish my parents had known.

It would have absolutely changed my schooling, but also how, I think how my parents viewed me as a kid, and that's not really negative.

My parents were always incredibly loving, but I think I was pretty misunderstood as a child.

Mm-hmm.

It's gonna go flying.

[laughs] Ready? One, two, three.

[groans] [laughs] Bloody hell.

[laughs]

Bloody hell.

[laughs] That was wild.

That...

Oh, my God.

The Champions League,

man.

So we used to draw Liverpool in the Champions League all the time, mate.

And the ghost goal.

I was at the game where we...

My memory is terrible, but I was at the game with my dad where Alex scored that free kick.

We beat them 4-3 on aggregate, I think.

Remember, I'm married.

[laughs]

[laughs] Had to get it in.

Yeah.

I wasn't, I wasn't the best, the best-looking guy.

Yeah.

And, and I used to get hammered online.

Mm.

Yeah.

Oh.

Pete's my brother.

He's like family.

I'd say, like, a best friend for me would probably be, like, Marvin.

Yeah, I'd say Marvin.

He's just always there.

He's just, like, the nicest...

[laughs]

[laughs]

[laughs] Yeah, it's a 21.

There's, uh, but there's loads of kids, and they would all basic- all the parents would just, like, drop their kids off and be like, "Finally, we can fucking get rid of them." And so we'd all be, like, to group together as like a group of, like, 20 kids, and you never met each other before.

And then, like, you form, like, these massive friendships.

And I remember I really fancied this girl, and I kissed her under the water in the pool.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, just the three of us.

On Coach Trip, there's a, there's a great time that I...

It was something about

having a black card for Nando.

He was so good.

But he was on the cusp of making it.

And I saw him.

in some club in Marbella and I was, I was quite pissed and I went up to him and I went, I went, Ed Sheeran.

And he went.

want loads of family.

It was wild.

So I wasn't on the show, mate, and I think that's why it was so weird to me 'cause I was like, dude, like, I, 'cause you feel like you're not connected at all.

So it's almost like it's behind your back, but it's not really behind your back.

But as I said to you before, mate, I think back in, back then, I was like, it was just, I remember being like... 'Cause you had a history.

This is the thing.

You had a bit of a history for, for going after people's exes and people's girlfriends and stuff like that.

You were just like that, mate, and you just...

What are you doing? Stop it