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Most people say Grimsby is a bad place. Welcome to Grimsby. This is the most dangerous town in Lincolnshire. 15 years of decline and deprivation. This is shocking. Grimsby has shocked me. And I'm not trying to be political, but I think it speaks its volumes. The state of that. Geez. What the dirt see is what us lot from Grimsby see. We just see the beauty in it. One thing is hard when Grimsby is getting a job. I've applied for dozens. There's a lot of places that would get me to volunteer with them and half the time it's just, "Oh, you've done that for us. All right, bye."
Yeah, no. I'll sign down it, but that's probably about it. I wouldn't really ever leave my hometown. I've been here since birth and don't plan on leaving. It's disturbing and frustrating to see how Grimsby is depicted as a dead end, as a place where nothing can thrive. Karen, I'm sure you'll have heard people say like about being the end of the line, but you know, it's it's the beginning of it, too. It's a job that I've applied for is the Mighty Mariner, which is the football ground's mascot. I actually thought of you, Karen, because you had your mascot come to companies, didn't you? That would be so, is great.
I would come to a football match if you were. There has to be opportunities, right? For people like Cohen, people like me, people like, you know, lots of people to stay and to thrive here because it is possible. And it's a great it's a great place to grow up, a great place to be. Cuz I would do a lot of mascot work besides my mascot business. I thought why not apply for it. This business is send friendly because I've grown up with send myself. So, people with like additional needs like autism and people don't like can't cope in our big spaces and stuff like stuff like that.
The leading to this been a nightmare. It gets stressful and all. I open bits and bobs like we can't be together all the time cuz we'll argue. To be fair, if lucky was doing something like Cohen and support you, you would as well, wouldn't you? With mascot businesses is proud of Wilson. Retail was a big thing for a lot of people at one point. But a lot of it's all closing down now. Vape shops and barbers, that is mostly what it's made up of. Not once we sort of get a job or whatever. Not You have got your own second hand shops, your charity shops. That's another place that I've volunteered at one point. We are One Foundation. See a
lot of it on social media that No, when you see a new building, it's empty. Half the time all you'll hear is oh, it's going to turn into a vape shop. A lot of people see a camera and they'll rev their engine trying to cover. Idiot. So, this is just checking the DVDs to see if they're scratched, if they're fake. Cuz like you tend to get a lot of them where they've been copied. So, we're not allowed to put them out. A couple of years ago, I used to always be stuck in the house. I went to drop some off at me auntie at one point to a food bank. And that's where all the voluntary stuff started. Cuz I don't
like to be stuck in the house. That's why I try and keep myself doing as much as I can. Mostly when you're not hearing back from jobs, you're waiting for ages to find out whether you got the job if you haven't. When you don't have feedback, you're like, "I've been turned down cuz of my disabilities." I start overthinking it a lot. That's what I do with a lot of things. I overthink a lot Well, if you've started, you'll come in all open the door to you then. When you speak to a majority of them, they're working in the fish factory or the bread factory, soup factory. And that's about it. That's the main jobs or in the local supermarkets.
There's nothing else for these young ones to progress. You know, for media, for anything else, there's There's nothing here. Which is a shame really, cuz especially Cohen, because he's so good at media. He's so good at doing these things. But for Cohen to be able to go into that, it would mean probably for Cohen to leave his town. This is just something that the government need to help with. But we're not there yet. Hang on, I just need to breathe cuz my sister's an MP, and if she sees this, she'll kill me.
I can feel myself in burning up because I am so passionate about this, you know. Soon as I mentioned about the job for the mascot, Drew was like, "Do it. Do it. You got to go for it. That'd be perfect for you." Callum wants to be able to do the application, don't you, Callum? But sometimes he just gets a bit mixed up. It is such a struggle for these guys, and people don't understand how amazing they are. Obviously, you do have them times where you do sort of doubt yourself, but then it's sort of like you get back to it.
Ever since a kid, I've always said, when you asked what your dream job was, it was always wrestler. Now I've got all that sort of realized that wouldn't be a parent job unless you became some big person. How do you do that? I used to get all the way through a match, forget it. Now I get like halfway through a match, but I forget it. That's brilliant. Small chunks into big chunks. And then you strengthen your balance. That's it, balance. Some of it will be a bit harder than you think, but it's yeah. Exactly. But I'm getting there. And you're the one who was fighting through that, and you're the person that I can really see has improved so much, all because you want to do this.
It's awesome. [clears throat] Did you apply for that? As Mighty Mariner, yeah. I saw they were advertising for it. You'd be amazing. I got loads of people tagging me in it, they were like, "Oh, he's You would be amazing. And then you could have a fight with someone, the equivalent of the mascot there. And then you go viral cuz you'd be wrestling with the Mighty Mariner versus Ace Matthews. Callum, you are smashing it. Keep coming back week after week, just as you do put all of your effort in and most of all you keep being you.
Hang on. I'm I thought I was your boy. What? This is about Cohen, okay? WHO EXACTLY IS COHEN? Mom and Dad always had positive light. Don't put yourself down what if not. If I start beating myself up about some you're like no you can do it. What do I say about this one? Scratches. Yeah, that's how I checked it about three times but that's what I do is that once I get talking I'm like oh yeah what do I do with this one?
This one's quite scratched. So that one will go down a little pile I've got to side. Even with wrestling I'm like yeah no I don't think I'll ever make it and I'm like stop being stupid you will.
