At 3:02 Well – mostly, at least. Greetings Xenophiles! And Happy New Year! I won’t say that again for another 350 days.
Guerrilla asked us all to choose a song to ‘take us into 2026’ and I chose that one – so I thought it would be nice to play it as the first thing this year. It’s 50 years old, you know.
On this day in 1559 Elizabeth the first was crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey
In 1797 the first top hat was worn by John Etherington in London and some people were actually afraid of it. Terrified, even.
On this day in 1974, Happy Days was first aired on American TV. It ran for 11 years.
In 2009 Tom Hanks landed US Airways flight 1549 on the Hudson river. The first images of this were sent around the world on what was then the relatively unknown Twitter – and suddenly Twitter was the hottest thing on the block. Then Elon bought it and ruined it.
Happy birthday to Claudia Winkleman – it’a pure coincidence that I was playing the Traitors music earlier. And happy birthday to Martin Luther King, and Bob Clearmountain. At least one of those people you may have to Google.
Our guest this week is in my contacts as “Gareth Taekwando” so I guess I should be careful with my questions over the next hour.
Gareth Avenell
Throwback
â Wallingford near Oxford. Old school childhood / outdoors / no screens / trombone & drums. Started Taekwon-Do.
19:17:00
19:20:00 – Commercial Break (check WhatsApp).
Money Money Money
Canterbury for Uni / Sports science & biosciences / More TKD competing / Needed a real job – became science teacher.
19:32
19:35 – Commercial Break (Check WhatsApp)
Chaotic, Quixotic, Exotic
Romanian friends from uni / Visited a lot / Saw a job / decided to move / ISB / Science dcepartment / Post-pandemic = Taekwon-Do school with many challenges / (what does Taekwon-Do mean?) / Multi-national classes / What else?
19:48
19:51 – Commercial Break (Check WhatsApp)
Next Chapter
Passion for Taekwon-Do / Raise a new generation / will stay in RO.
Breaking News! It’s Gareth’s birthday tomorrow so this is a day early.
19:58 (check WhatsApp)
This has been Expat Life
Pentru Limba Romana, apasa 1 —>
Handover to Uman Real here.
Aaand we’re done!