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00:13My parents never intended to call me John.
00:18They were going to call me Ian, but my cousin Ian Smith was born a few weeks before me,
00:24so they had to come up with an alternative quickly.
00:28When I was growing up, I realised that I'd narrowly escaped,
00:32sharing a name with another Ian Smith, the then Prime Minister of Apartheid, Rhodesia.
00:39When Rhodesia grew up, it changed its name to Zimbabwe.
00:46My name never bothered me as a child.
00:50When I was at junior school, I was one of the tallest in my class,
00:54and my friends all called me Big John.
00:58I loved my junior school, and did very well.
01:04When I got to the age of ten, I stopped growing, and all my classmates got bigger.
01:10So by the time I got to senior school, I'd become one of the shortest boys in my class.
01:17To make things worse, I was one of the few boys to be sent to their new school in short
01:23trousers.
01:26I was bullied a bit, and acquired the nickname Piddly Smith, because of my diminutive stature.
01:35There were three other Smiths in my class.
01:38Peter R. Smith, Peter J. Smith, and William Shakespeare Smith,
01:44who for some reason got bullied too.
01:52Peter R. Smith, Peter J. Smith, and William Shakespeare Smith,
01:55who for you outside of your class,
01:55andopa was red-red,
01:55those even more things that don't hurt.
01:55And when theめciches is live here,
01:55I put to the level of honor in the last 15 years ago,
01:56came through thebabiesian,
01:56lead the most systematic reality that I've been made in,
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