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01:02Not do that no more. No, I'm a good boy now good
01:10It's gonna be hard. No, I know I've seen it. I've seen you guys smiling assassins
01:23Chardonnay would you like to introduce us?
01:27Welcome to the assembly our
01:29Collective of autistic neurodivergent and learning disabled interviews
01:34We are delighted to have you today as rules are no subject is out of bounds
01:40No question is off the table and all might happen. Please tell us who you are
01:45Hello, I'm Stephen Fry
01:47I'm an actor and a writer busy myself around the world in different things, but mostly an actor and a
01:54writer
01:54Thank you, Stephen. Thank you. That was the easy bit. Oh dear
01:59Now we have Cameron first. Hello. Hello, Cameron
02:05My first question is a very serious one so just prepare yourself, okay?
02:10You tried to kill yourself a couple of times. Are you happy to be alive now? I
02:16Am Cameron I am happy to be alive, but it was a pretty pretty terrible experience I
02:23I was in agony in my mind and didn't want to live but I can't bring back that feeling so
02:29it's a kind of alien
02:30I it's look like looking at myself as another person
02:33I compare it to if you've ever broken a leg or
02:37Had a really painful injury, you know that you screamed in agony
02:41But you can't make that pain come back to you now. Can you can't make your leg hurt again?
02:46And it's a bit the same with the mind
02:49So you're happy now? I I think so. I'm like a lot of people. I almost don't dare say I'm
02:54happy
02:55But that's stupid because if you are happy you should enjoy it
03:01Thank you very much Cameron, and do you know that your name is an anagram of romance?
03:06Oh
03:08No, I didn't know that actually
03:10Isn't that nice? There you go. Yeah
03:14Right we're coming to Thomas love now
03:21My first question is can you help me meet my idol and icon and legend the amazing human being the
03:31queen of pop
03:32Dame Celine Marie Claudette Dion
03:41I
03:41Wish I could help you there. I'm afraid I don't know Celine Dion
03:46I think I was once in the same room as her, but I didn't speak to her, but she is
03:50a marvelous talent
03:52Yeah, and your admiration is focused on a very worthy worthy idol. I'm London that means I'm gay pride LGBT
04:00What is your advice on finding a husband question mark?
04:03Well, I mean it's a different world now because so many spouses are found online
04:11Yeah, but I guess put yourself out there in a safe and happy kind of
04:17Environment but but I'm I'm afraid I'm out of that game and I've been for 11 years since I found
04:23my husband
04:23So I want to find a boyfriend and be a dad one day and have a son and daughter
04:27Oh, well you you deserve to be happy as everyone does. I'm sure you will
04:31Yeah, my thought last question final question is are you a top or a bottom?
04:39Another London question a lot of hell should be its pride question
04:43Wow, that is as direct as it gets
04:50I'm going to leave that a mystery for people to get yeah
04:53I think that's best. Thank you for raising at a very important point
04:57There is V in the middle of course versatile is there not?
05:01Amazing. Thank you Thomas. That was a great moment
05:05Nicola will be next
05:08Hello Stephen. Hello Nicola
05:13What order do you wash your body parts?
05:18In what order do I wash my body parts?
05:21Yeah
05:23In a shower
05:24I don't use shampoo shampoo
05:27No
05:28Can't you use shampoo?
05:29Just water
05:30With the hair?
05:32Yeah
05:33When I shampooed I'd do my hair first
05:35I would do my intimate areas with a with a with a sponge or a you know one of those
05:41What do you call them?
05:42The shower
05:42Scruncher
05:43Shower
05:43It's a scruncher
05:44It's a scruncher
05:45A scruncher
05:46So I think downstairs and and then upstairs
05:49How much have you spent on cocaine?
05:53Oh my goodness
05:53You have spent your cocaine
05:54Yeah
05:56Yeah you well you've got me there
05:57There was a period when when I was a an addict to the to the stuff and and it was
06:03in those days
06:0460 pounds a gram and I probably
06:08Wasted thousands
06:10Where do you get the cocaine from?
06:12Where?
06:12You get a dealer
06:13A dealer?
06:14A dealer yeah
06:15Wow
06:15Where do you get that?
06:16Where do you get the dealer from?
06:17Where?
06:18A friend offers you some on one occasion when you know I can remember the first time I was offered
06:22they called it a line of cocaine and and you snort it up your nose
06:27Like that
06:28Up your nose
06:29He said oh I got this guy so and so and he gives you the number of the guy and
06:32then you know the guy
06:33I've been drinking on crack cocaine and putting it up your nose
06:38Yeah up your nose
06:39Yeah not crack cocaine that's you smoke I think
06:41I've never had that
06:42You haven't had that yet?
06:43I haven't
06:44No don't say yes
06:46Honestly I know it's terrible because
06:48Did you inject it?
06:49No I couldn't inject myself either
06:51Cooking no?
06:51No
06:52Maybe a weight loss drug maybe
06:55Not doing it no more
06:56Oh no no and I wouldn't recommend anybody do it obviously and but I would also recommend
07:01We're all very grown up about it we understand why people seem to want to do it and
07:06And maybe find a better answer than simply condemning everybody for doing it
07:11Because in the world the most important thing is to be effective not to be right
07:14But to find a way to solve a problem
07:17Thank you Nicola
07:18Yeah
07:20Thank you nice to meet you
07:22You can't do this in back in the palace
07:24No I know it's great
07:26Well you shouldn't do it anywhere
07:27Oh god
07:28Right we're coming to Harry now
07:33Hello sir Stephen how are you?
07:35Very well thank you
07:37I read that you are bipolar
07:40Yes
07:41One of my family has that
07:43How can I help him please?
07:45Oh that's such a good question
07:47It really is
07:49It's
07:50The first thing to realize is that it's it's an illness
07:53It's not something that could be wished away
07:56It's it's um it is a real thing
07:59It's worth thinking of it as being like the weather
08:02Now the weather is real
08:04You can't pretend it's not raining when it's raining
08:07You can't say no it's not raining it's ridiculous
08:09You're getting wet it's really raining
08:11Yes
08:12But on the other hand it's also true that you didn't make it rain
08:17The rain happens
08:18You didn't it's not your fault that it's raining
08:22You shouldn't beat yourself up and say why am I depressed I shouldn't be
08:25That's like saying it shouldn't be raining
08:27It's not something in your control
08:31It will eventually stop it always has and it always will stop and the sun will come out at some
08:37point
08:37And and so that's what it's like with with a mood disorder like bipolar
08:44And it's difficult but it
08:47It's worth remembering that it's not their personality
08:52It's the weather inside them and it will change
08:56Yeah
09:00We're going to come to Luca now and he's got something he'd like to show you
09:05Hey Luca
09:08The world is too much for us by William Wordsworth
09:11My favourite poems
09:15The world is too much with us late and soon
09:19Getting and spending we lay waste our powers
09:24Little we know of nature that is ours we have given our hearts away a sordid boon
09:32This sea that bears her bosom to the moon the winds that will be howling at all hours
09:38And are up gathered now like sleeping flowers
09:41For this for everything we are out of tune
09:46It moves us not great god I'd rather be a pagan suckered in a creed outworn
09:54So might I standing on this pleasant lee have glimpses that will make me less forlorn
10:02Have sight of proteus rising from the sea or hear old triton blow his reefed horn
10:11My dear fellow that's absolutely wonderful
10:16I love that and you delivered it with such passion and power we are out of tune don't you agree
10:24Yes
10:25It's getting and spending it meant a huge amount to me Luca
10:29And beautifully done as you can see i'm very moved by it
10:32I love poetry and that is one of my favourite poems and beautifully done wonderful
10:39Right we've got jacob up now
10:43You've done adverts for heineken
10:47alliance and leicester
10:49twinings tea
10:50okay pioneer hi-fi walker's crisps
10:56marks and spencers
10:58honda
10:59wow that's a lot
11:00virgin media
11:03extra strong mints
11:05after eight minutes
11:07sainsbury's
11:10heather airport
11:12direct line
11:14and finally whitbread
11:17is there anything you wouldn't do for money
11:19oh my god
11:24wow you pinned me there
11:27i am a tart
11:32thanks for reminding me
11:36my next question
11:38is why did you go on channel four in 2022 saying you were proud to be a jew if you
11:45are an atheist
11:48um because being a jew and an atheist is not a contradiction
11:52but plenty of jews like me are atheists
11:54sigmund freud albert einstein were jews and they if they had stayed in germany and austria
12:00they would have been gassed and killed like any other jew but i went on channel four to give that
12:07alternative christmas message because there had been a disturbing rise in anti-semitism you know
12:12desecration of jewish shops and uh you know swastikas on jewish gravestones and all these sort of
12:17things yeah it's terrible i thought of my mother in particular just i think you know she's still alive
12:22and uh she always had and as her parents did a faith in coming to britain was a place of
12:28openness
12:28for jews and that they would be as welcomed as as all immigrants uh were um and they would be
12:35just
12:35horrified uh all these you know terrible things happening in the world but we've got to stop
12:40yeah making them reduced to racial hatred because that's never going to solve anything yeah
12:50ben you're up all right so my first question is a bit of a touchy one
12:59all right so you attended a funeral and you were sat next to paul mccartney
13:07how did you feel when paul mccartney said to you shut up you can't sing i actually felt justified
13:15because i know i can't sing we had this mutual friend john schlesinger film director and it was
13:20his funeral and uh during the singing i did what i always did i mimed yeah um and paul turned
13:29to me
13:29and said stephen you're not singing why aren't you singing you should be singing i said paul i can't
13:35sing he said everybody can sing sing so the next one i started singing and he said you're right you
13:40can't sing shut up so i wasn't the least bit offended i thought yes it's now official yeah do
13:48you know and i'll tell you i'll tell you a story yeah i used to do this program called saturday
13:52live
13:52and hugh hugh laurel and i would uh would do sketches together and in one of them we were doing
13:57this thing
13:57and i suddenly realized on like thursday hugh if we're doing the sketches the way we've written it
14:03means i've got to sing that song i said you know i can't he said no i've heard you can
14:07sing if you're
14:07relaxed have you considered hypnotism and i'd never considered it and i found one who was in central
14:14london and i called up his office and he was hungarian which somehow made it rather wonderfully the thick
14:20hungarian accent so he said what is it you want off me i i want you to put your hands
14:26on your knees
14:27and now you feel i am lowering you down a well all right okay so it gets darker and darker
14:35and darker
14:36into the well and there you see the little little disk of light at the top is getting smaller and
14:43smaller and my voice is the rope that keeps you safe as you go down into the dark and i
14:49was going
14:49down and it really worked i was hypnotized so he said um now when you're doing this program tomorrow
14:55what is the uh the line that your friend gives you before you have to sing and i said well
15:01actually
15:01he says hit it pitch um which is which is what he says he's a heated beach is what he
15:08said yeah he said
15:10all right all right this is what he says that is again when you hear the words heated beach
15:19you will be completely relaxed and you will be able to sing as if alone in the shower and now
15:27i pull
15:27on the rope and you come up the veil yeah and and we did the sketch and i did sing
15:32i was relaxed i wonder
15:33if it would still work for like any future sketches i don't know i shall have to find out all
15:38right thank
15:38you thank you it was a pleasure chatting to you thank you very much ben that was great welcome to
15:43claire now hello steven i'm claire hello claire you're 30 years older than your husband
15:52me and my girlfriend have an age gap i'm 38 and she's 21. what do you say to people who
15:59don't like
16:00age gap relationships um i i feel a bit sorry for them i don't see why they should have such
16:08an opinion
16:08about things but um the only thing that matters in in a relationship is love and and if you feel
16:16it
16:16and it's felt on both sides and it's not an exploitative relationship i mean um i would say to
16:22people that in our relationship elliot has all all the power really he makes a lot of the decisions
16:28about things because i trust him too it just it works for us extremely well and if people don't
16:36like it well i find age is just a number at the end of the day as long as you're
16:41happy that's the main
16:42thing you're right claire absolutely right yeah yeah thank you very much that was lovely okay next we're
16:49gonna hear from gin good job thank you uh steven my name is gin like to drink how wonderful
16:56who's your favorite world wrestling entertainment superstar let me know now steven please well this
17:07is all due to my husband my husband uh when he was a teenager was very fond of uh wwe
17:12his favorite was
17:15sean michaels the heartbreak kid i like the undertaker and roman reigns is very fine brock he's in
17:21a smashing machine brock leslie's a stone-cold steve austin people think steven you can't like
17:28wrestling but i actually do so i would say probably the undertaker is my favorite hey steven thank you
17:34very much gin we're gonna hear from huey now good morning huey hi um as a humanist do you think
17:43you'd
17:43believe in no life after death because you think god would hate you well no i i just i i
17:52would call
17:52myself a humanist i think it's a good word it's that's to say humanists put humans at the center
17:57of our own destiny we make our own lives you know we're not told what to think by a group
18:03that claims
18:05to have secret answers written in a book our holy text is experience what we see in the world what
18:11we
18:11understand from evidence my belief is anybody who tells you they know what happens to a human being
18:17after they're dead is either a liar or a fool because nobody knows you just don't and personally
18:25i think if you believe there is no life after death it means you value life so completely because this
18:32is
18:32it and the idea that it's not enough is extraordinary to me people say oh this can't be all there
18:38is
18:38what it isn't enough for you that there's africa and iceland and that there's waterfalls and fields
18:45and deserts and and more animals than you can count more species of beetle alone than can be catalogued
18:52there is such richness diversity beauty and astonishing variety in this world that the idea
18:58of saying oh there's got to be more than this it just seems to me so arrogant and stupid to
19:02embrace
19:03everything we have because this is it our life and it's precious that was so nice thank you
19:18this is quite something really yeah do you need water or anything i'm fine thanks here we go
19:28i wish i knew how it would feel to be free
19:43i wish i could break all the chains holding me
20:18i wish i could share all the love that's in my hand
20:25Remove all the thoughts that keep us apart
20:35Oh, I wish you could know what it means to bring me
20:43Then you'd see and agree that everyone should be free
21:09I wish I could give all I'm longing to give
21:17I wish I could live like I'm longing to live
21:25Here we go
21:25Oh, I wish I could do all the things that I can do
21:32And though I'm way overdue
21:37I'll be starting to do
21:41Well, I wish I could be like a bird in the sky
21:50How sweet it would be
21:54If I found I could find
21:58Oh, I saw to start
22:02And look down at the teeth
22:06That I'd say
22:08Cause I know
22:10Yeah, then I'd say
22:12Cause I know
22:14Yeah, then I'd say
22:17Cause I know
22:20It's a beautiful
22:24How it feels
22:26How it feels
22:28To be
22:34Free
22:46Gorgeous.
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