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00:04well well
00:08hi there people I kind of recognize y'all from the telly hello hello sir Lenny Henry
00:14just relax and come down relax I would just try to relax
00:27okay Ali would you like to introduce us hello and welcome to the assembly our collective
00:36of autistic neurodive version and learning disabled interviewers no subject is out of
00:47bounds no question is off the table and all might happen please tell us who you are my
00:56name is Nicola Sturgeon H Lenny Henry Rylan Anna Maxwell Martin Stephen Fry I'm Thomas
01:03love that was the easy part I'm gonna start with a question from Jim hi Jim is it back
01:12out of order to be mean to God are you in trouble with him let me know now Stephen please
01:18do
01:19we mean to God I would be if there were a God obviously and if that God was extremely petty
01:25minded and extremely mean and extremely stupid rather than being offended by you know genocide
01:34child abuse murder cruelty he can't take a few crisp remarks about him then that wouldn't
01:41be much of a God would it frankly Jim no I would say to God how dare you how dare
01:46you create a world
01:47in which there is unearned misery children with bone cancer well why you could have created a world
01:54in which there was no such thing you are all-powerful you've created a world in which children suffer from
02:00bone cancer you've created life forms whose cycle is to go into the eye of a child in Africa and
02:07lay eggs
02:08and make that child lose its sight in pain and again there was no need for such a thing if
02:14you were
02:14a good and kind God you could have made a world in which there was none of this terrible unearned
02:20misery
02:22yeah hey Steve man thank you yeah Jack
02:29hello hi Jack it's quite widely known that you've had a lot of uh let's say alterations do you think
02:38you're setting really unrealistic beauty standards do you know what it's funny because I read an article
02:43the other day allegedly I've had a nose job I've had um I've seen my teeth done I've had a
02:49lift I've
02:50heard I've had nothing done to my face apart from Botox and years ago fillers not teeth oh yeah
02:57they're definitely the teeth come on shiny as they are the teeth have definitely been done yeah
03:03absolutely you don't I could these glow in the dark they glow in the dark no they don't
03:09don't they don't they might do I don't know when I'm asleep thank you so much
03:17Julius you're up hello hello hello nice to meet you are you pro-choice or pro-life and do you
03:25think
03:25men should have a say in the matter I'm so sorry for my ignorance I don't really understand what pro
03:32-choice
03:32and pro-life means when it comes to abortion oh okay sorry do I think men should have a say
03:40I know it should I think it should be all down to the woman to be quite honest with you
03:45this is a
03:47really tough question this because I feel like everyone's situation is very different but I think
03:53overall majority-wise like yeah it's the woman should have a say kind of bottom line really in
04:01it it's borderline got nothing to do with the man bit of a sticky subject really in it but I
04:09think
04:119.5 times out of 10 the woman should have 100% say it's a woman vibe I think the
04:18woman should make
04:18the decision thank you yeah we are going to come to Harry good morning Nicola Sturgeon how are you
04:28morning howdy I'm good thank you I've got a question for you when I was eight I moved from one
04:33area of
04:34London to another one it was a big change and I found it very difficult overwhelming and stressful
04:41is leaving politics going to be very hard for you yeah yeah I think it is I I've been in
04:52politics
04:52since I was 16 and I've been in parliament since I was 29 so 27 years that is a long
05:01long time I think
05:02it's going to take me a little while to get used to not being a politician because you're like used
05:08to
05:08like doing what you do and when it comes to like now you think oh yeah because it's scary you
05:13know
05:13change is scary and it's like oh my god what am I going to do now and am I going
05:20to be okay
05:20and I've got a second question for you your face is on toilet paper
05:30it is 25% off at the moment do you find that very funny or do you find it very
05:37offensive
05:38I find it funny you you can find my face in all sorts of things toilet paper I wasn't aware
05:45but 20% off I mean who can refuse a deal like that so the big question for you Harry
05:51because
05:51you can tell me it's 20% off have you bought it well well I think I might you never
06:02know
06:02I was on a plane it was last year actually early last year I was away for a weekend with
06:08a friend
06:08and there's a woman sitting across the aisle from me on the plane and she'd said she was like you
06:14know
06:14she was a supporter of me and everything but as we were chatting on the plane she said that
06:19she had a pillow with my face on it it was a bit kind of weird but not as weird
06:27as toilet paper
06:27no no no no not that much not that weird
06:35thank you very much for your time thank you the good thing you guys right is that you're making me
06:40cry but you're also making me laugh quite a lot
06:44thank you I love the chat by the way oh thank you very much very good to talk to you
06:49thank you okay Sean would you love to adopt children or have children on your own just like Elton John
07:03Elton John is gay what I thought this news to me
07:07um I would love I'd love to have children you would yeah I'd love to be a dad my mum's
07:1574
07:17and I don't like talking about she's born in 1952 she was I love you so much
07:24um but I don't I don't like talking about this but there's going to come a point where my mum's
07:29not
07:29around potentially and I want my mum to know my kids mm-hmm I I really I know I can
07:38have kids and
07:40give them a great life and I just I just want my mum to know my kids so yeah I
07:46feel like not time to
07:48tick in but I want them to know her yeah and now we're gonna hear from Jirio oh no hello
07:57hello
07:58hello you like I'm an arm wrestle what me and you yeah come on then no I'm warming up yeah
08:08no he's
08:10gonna beat you we could set up an arena for you if you need see you knew this look they
08:14was ready to
08:14bring the chairs everything he's gonna beat you listen listen there's one there's one thing yeah
08:22there's one thing you need to know about me yeah yeah I don't mess about
08:36you're gonna use oh thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you
08:50all right listen after this meet me in the car park
09:02so you ain't even got a question you just wanted to embarrass me
09:16yeah where are you lot from south london mate two two in mainstream two team I like it down there
09:21I've been down there it's changed a lot now has it was all fields before now is it it was
09:26all rough
09:27and ready yeah now it's all high-tech it's all high-tech yeah if you're into cafe nero that sort
09:33of
09:33thing boring shh we can't talk about cafe nero we're on the telly joseph me and my mum um have
09:41a lot of
09:41conversations about this so um do you think that in order to defeat racism we should abolish race as
09:49a concept that's a brilliant question but you're right the concept of race is um it's a made-up thing
09:56right yes you are who you are and you're a human being and you bleed red but some people were
10:02chosen
10:02to be chattels and slaves and treated like cattle and others weren't i think that once you remove
10:12that um from the table and everybody's a human being um you can probably move on so probably yes
10:20if you got rid of race you get rid of racism too yeah of course that's a really good question
10:26um i found out i was black when i was six and then after that it was kind of afro
10:31-caribbean
10:32and then it then it's now it's black british black british and um it's it's a it's it's removing an
10:38element of your ethnic background yeah but it's all right to be black and it's all right to be black
10:43british and it's right to be afro-caribbean a friend of mine used to say it's okay to be
10:48racy and sexy but it's not okay to be racist and sexist so we we move on and we stand
10:54together and stand
10:54for each other is what i think i think that's a good headspace to be in i i agree it
10:59was nice to
10:59meet you thank you it's nice to meet you too thank you i wish i had your hair off to
11:05you ben
11:07your suit looks very classy yeah oh thank you this is from the charity shop and i got this because
11:13i
11:13went to a party dressed as dolly parton oh so i wore this okay so i've heard beverly in yorkshire
11:25is one
11:26of the most haunted places in england have you had any paranormal experiences this is such a good
11:33question it is the most haunted place we did live next the cemetery and as a young girl i used
11:42to think
11:42i could hear things around our house yeah i've never seen it i've never seen a ghost i think i
11:48want to believe in ghosts though has anyone seen a ghost i think i oh is it ghost have you
11:53what did it
11:54look like a ghost my mom you saw your mom she's up there yeah is she yeah she's in heaven
12:02yeah but you
12:04saw her again i saw her when i was trying to sleep in my bedroom i saw her was that
12:10comforting yeah
12:12you see i love the idea that i i've had quite a few people die in my life and i
12:17love the idea that
12:18i'd be able to see them have another little chat with them or like keeping their memories alive
12:23exactly so i still want to believe in ghosts yes but beverly is apparently heavily haunted and also
12:28the most pubs of any town in the country second question so i heard if you didn't decide to be
12:36an
12:36actress you said you'd be a good paramedic have you ever helped someone in need or study any
12:42medical practices i just be a paramedic guys have you have you ever done anything to help
12:59anyone no i haven't got a clue i haven't got a clue i think i said that i'm trying to
13:08justify now i
13:25thank you for making period products free in scotland was there much of a backlash yeah there was
13:35no offense to the guys in the room but if you're not a woman and you don't live with periods
13:41and
13:41everything you don't really understand what it's like and there's a sense from a lot of men that we
13:46don't get free shaving products or anything like that it's not really the same so yeah there was a
13:53bit of a backlash were you a pad or tampon person i was a tampon i'm now a bit old
13:57for either but um
13:58oh that's scary that's scary yeah it's painful i just you know yeah it's i mean i was quite lucky
14:08i didn't have the worst kind of period pains kind of average i suppose some months it was really really
14:14sore um but yeah i think if if you don't go through you don't understand it's it's not just something
14:22you kind of brush off it's really every single month you're going through this as a woman so yeah
14:28thank you thank you thank you elijah all right up next we have mikey mikey hi
14:38would your next relationship be brad or angelina
14:46where's um i don't like brad no not a fan of brad you can read into that what you want
14:53um
14:58we're gonna come to gary next gary hello hi what were you doing celibate in your 20s when
15:04were you rich and good looking oh that's so sweet of you still good looking i was celibate in my
15:1020s it
15:10was a strange thing 1981 when i left university this new terror pervaded the gay world aids now i
15:20wasn't consciously thinking i'm not going to engage in any sex at all because of aids but i suspect
15:27somewhere along the line i did associate it with danger i'm afraid a few of my university friends did
15:35die from aids over the next five six seven years um and i went to a lot of funerals so
15:42there was that
15:43aspect of of it um it was also i just got out of the habit and i was so used
15:51to being on my own and
15:52the idea of having someone else's toothbrush on my bathroom shelf you know i just thought oh no
15:57um and i was afraid as well and i didn't feel attractive and in the gay world you go into
16:02the club and
16:03instantly everyone looks you up and down like that and then turns away and you think oh and i didn't
16:08like the music and the dancing and i just wanted to talk to people and and i i just didn't
16:13fit into
16:14that world yeah it is cameron why didn't you like it when your mum called you lenny well i was
16:23christened
16:23lenworth um but my mum used to call me len my mates called me lenny because um in dudley they
16:30put a e on
16:30the end of the interview so you be cammy you be jakey so i'm lenny because my friends called me
16:36that did you ever call you lenny no oh oh oh um in my house i was called len yeah
16:43it was a very sharp
16:45clear len that was my name in the house right and then i won a television talent competition and then
16:53the people showed up at my house to interview me and it's the first time i heard my mum call
16:57me she said
16:57well lenny grew up in dudley and i went what she never calls me lenny lenny was such a naughty
17:05boy
17:05when he was a child i had to beat him you know she was suddenly calling me lenny but it
17:11was because
17:11she was being posh you don't call me lenny you call me len particularly when you took off one of
17:16your
17:16shoes to beat me with it thank you for answering my question thank you very much
17:30now we're gonna come to thomas lav hey here he comes
17:36there it is hello hello rylan clark you're all right mate how are you doing i'm thomas lav i'm so
17:42nice to
17:44to interview celine dion can you let me know question mark rylan clark i'm trying at this
17:50moment to get a show with celine dion the empress and queen of pop i've got a present for you
17:56this
17:56is celine dion's autobiography my story my dream and there's a cute photograph of that's her husband
18:03renege angeli bless him and that's her as a child celine marie claudette dion she's so cute like i was
18:08cute when i was a baby boy you keep that as well can i keep that as well as a
18:11kid yeah just to keep it
18:12tom thank you so much yours thank you it's so nice to meet you i'm kissing you like the pope
18:18bless you my child
18:22i love celine dion and now we have some music that we think you're really going to enjoy
18:28you took a lot i do too yes you do you took a lot too much too much talking
18:37hey there's a man i meet walks up our street he's a worker for the council has been for 20
18:48years
18:50and he takes no lip oh all right
18:53he's got a little off the gut puts it in a bag king never thinks to murder and he packs
19:03his lunch in a
19:04somber spad oh the children caught him milky he never lets on but i know because he once told me
19:13he let me know a secret about the money and his kitty he's gonna buy a thingy gonna call
19:25he's gonna buy a thingy
19:36when i was asking the question i felt my heart pound out my chest it felt like a new me
19:44i could actually do something that i didn't think i would ever ever be able to do nice to meet
19:51you
19:51thank you for that thank you for that i had a good time did you
20:02happy to see you again i hope to see you again too
20:05they'll ask me where i've got her i say i see my money
20:09that's your name steven pretty good thanks pretty good
20:22i thought i knew what i was walking into and then about five seconds before i went in my stomach
20:27went in
20:28in the lift i was like what are they going to ask me actually you can ask me anything you
20:33want now
20:34i think we're all mates
20:46i literally was having an out of body experience all the time because it was so authentic and real
20:51quite extraordinary experience i mean really remarkable actually i think it did me look good
20:59thank you so much honestly
21:06that's like unbelievable what a brilliant group of people felt really privileged
21:15like i'm not bullshitting here that was one of the most
21:20like profoundly emotional experiences of my whole life i'll treasure this
21:39i feel the need to come out there now and tell the world about what's going on in this room
21:45and it's impossible for me to do that so it's getting to me do you get what i mean yeah