E45: I Have NEVER Shared This Before.

twenty twenty. Fuck me. I can still remember where I was when it hit the second millennium in the year two thousand. I remember being in Plymouth, which is in Devon, a small countryside location in the southwest of England, watching the fireworks on the side of a hill with my dad, and I was seven or eight years old, twenty years ago. It's so crazy to me. It's crazy to me. I can't get my head around it. You know, so much has changed. In

That time. And when I say changed, I don't mean my material circumstances. I mean my fundamental beliefs about the world. At the age of eight, seven, nine, ten, up to the age of about sixteen. I was a horrendously um insecure kid, right? And I didn't know it at the time because I overcompensated with confidence. I was a kid that was growing up in a all white city, basically, in an all white school of one thousand five hundred kids.

I was black, I was broke, and I had a massive fucking afro. In a school where people were typically middle class and rich, and all of them were white, and they all had perfectly straight hair, and you know what I mean? And I just. And the fundamentals of the way that I view the world have completely transformed in that space of time. Um And my circumstances have too. Um

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