00:00So obviously here in the Warframe building, we're up here with Jay Herbert. Jay, how are you doing mate?
00:06Looking great in the road, looking great in the road.
00:08Thanks bro, thank you.
00:09Yeah, you're excited, a bit nervous?
00:11Excited, a bit nervous, you know, not really used to this kind of setting but what an honour it is to be here today receiving this award.
00:18Absolutely, so just talk a little bit about your background mate, because obviously UFC isn't it, you know?
00:22Yeah UFC, you know.
00:23Ball Brampton?
00:24Ball Brampton, you know, born and raised in Ball Brampton, you know, lost my life in Lowell.
00:30Yeah, basically, Ball Brampton born and bred.
00:33Started working as a scaffold as a young age and I started, you know, in my early 20s started training and built myself up and got all the way to UFC basically.
00:43With world titles and titles here and titles there and got to UFC.
00:47From the street to Wolverhampton as well, I mean like, how much does it mean to get one of these, to obviously get on above the university?
00:54It's crazy because obviously I've got, you know, I left school with no qualifications at all, you know, I never had no clear path, no future didn't really look right to be honest.
01:07So, to actually leave school with nothing, you know, I've got a bit of trouble in school and stuff, so to come here now to the university and get one of the highest degrees is amazing.
01:17Absolutely man, and when you look over, because obviously in a bit you're going to be giving your speech.
01:20Yes.
01:21Quite nervous doing the speech, yeah?
01:22A bit, yeah.
01:23Yeah, yeah, but when you're looking over giving that speech and you see all those faces of academics, you know, a lot of them have been in the same sort of similar situation that you have, you know.
01:30Yeah.
01:31Come from nothing, come from like, you know, pretty much come from like, you know, poverty backgrounds and everything like that.
01:36I mean, does it, is it encouraging to look at that? It's got to be encouraging to look at that.
01:39It is, it is encouraging, you know, hopefully I can give some sort of inspiration to at least one person, you know, that'll be great.
01:46So, yeah, I'm looking forward to giving the speech. Obviously I'm nervous about it, but you know, I get, it's, once I've done it, it'll be a great accomplishment to receive the doctorate.
01:55So, I'm just really excited about it.
01:57Absolutely fantastic, lots of perfect.
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