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- [Man] One, two, three, Listen
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- Welcome to Real Deal, Real Deal,
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Real Deal, Real Deal, Real Deal
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Joining me today are the Happy Pear (indistinct)
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(upbeat music)
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(applauding)
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Welcome to Real Deal.
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I am Brian Rose and we are live here at London Real Studios
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to talk about something that's really important.
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And today I really wanna talk about
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how the economic recession
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is causing mental health issues here in London
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and actually all around the world.
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And this is something
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I wanna talk very seriously about today
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because I want to try to find solutions.
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And I really welcome your input and help.
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We know that this has been an issue
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through the lockdown, the pandemic and the recession,
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but when I've been out there in the field,
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I've really found out how serious this issue is.
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And as I've gone into the data,
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which I wanna share with you today,
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it's even more serious than I thought it was
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and it's quite shocking
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some of the numbers out there are going right now
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with people that are considering suicide,
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people that are feeling anxious,
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feeling lonely, feeling stressed,
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and how it's really hurting our physical
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and mental wellbeing.
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I wanna talk about that today,
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but first I want to hear from you.
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So there's all sorts of different platforms
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that people are watching this show on,
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but I want you to type into the chat right now
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and tell me, what is the single biggest economic challenge
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you are facing right now?
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Also, I want you to answer a question,
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since the pandemic, have you felt a significant increase
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in stress levels, anxiety, loneliness, or hopelessness.
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And finally, how do you think we can solve these problems?
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Is it leadership that we need?
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What are the real issues?
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So please type in the chat right now.
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I really love to hear from you
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so we can try to find these problems
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and solve them together.
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I'm gonna talk about London
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because I can only control what's in front of me.
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But I want you to tell me what's happening in your city
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because I want the best ideas to surface
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so we can all use them.
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That's been the theme of London Real
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for the past nine years.
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People say, "Brian, what do you have this person on
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"or this person on?
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"Why do you agree with this person?"
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It's not about me agreeing with people,
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it's a marketplace of ideas
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that we create here at London Real,
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so we can choose the best idea.
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Best ideas always float to the top,
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if we can have an open and honest debate,
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and the best ideas have marked the upward surge
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of human civilization throughout history.
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So let's get these, these ideas out there
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and choose the best one so we can move forward.
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And look, this is the second part of a series that I'm doing
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on how I can help make London great again,
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to get out there and find out
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what can we really do on the ground?
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And I'm literally going out
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and speaking to people in the field.
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I had two incredible conversations yesterday
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with entrepreneurs and business leaders here in London.
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And I wanna share with you those conversations.
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I've got some video coming shortly,
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and I'm gonna be having more conversations
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with community leaders, health professionals,
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our first responders, anybody I can talk to.
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People in the culture and in the arts in tourism,
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anyone I can talk to, to offer solutions to the problem.
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It's not only happening here in London
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but it's happening around the world.
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And unfortunately I think our leadership is failing us.
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I think we get duplicitous responses from our government
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and sometimes it seems to be politics,
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and they're not really concentrating on good policy
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that's gonna help us get to the next level.
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That's what I wanna talk about today.
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Before I get started, a lot of people say,
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"Brian, what's with the funny accent?
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"What's an American doing in London?
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"And why do you love this city?"
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Well, I love London.
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What can I say?
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I was actually training
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in the gym yesterday, it was leg day,
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and one of the trainers came up to me
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and said, "Hey, where are you from?
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"I heard you talking and you sound a little different."
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And I said, "I'm from San Diego, California."
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He says, "What are you doing in London?"
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I said, "This is the greatest city in the world."
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He said, "What are you talking about?
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"You're from the beach, the sun, the surf, Baywatch?"
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And I said, "No, this is the greatest city in the world."
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I said, "Where are you from?"
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He said, "London."
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And I was trying to convince him
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how this is such a great place.
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And I've lived here over 20 years.
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And for me, this city resonated with me.
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I love the history,
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I love the culture,
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I love the people, I love the fighting spirit.
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The people that fought back in the blitz of 1940,
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when everything looked hopeless, everything looked lost.
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It looked like only a matter of time
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before Germany would invade
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and crush this entire great civilization
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and yet the people fought back.
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I love everything about this city
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and that's why I named my show after this city.
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That was a conscious effort.
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London Real was because of this great city,
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my children were born in this city,
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I have citizenship in this country,
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and it's something I've always loved coming home to.
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And this is home, people say,
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"How often do you go back to the States?"
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Rarely, actually, this is the place I call home.
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And so it pains me and frustrates me
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when I go out there and I see boarded up businesses,
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when I hear people suffering from their mental health,
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when I watch political leaders make ridiculous decisions,
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when there's no science based decision making
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when it comes to how to deal with COVID
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in our lives, our businesses, even our education.
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Taking my children to school, every single day
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I walk my son Kaden to school
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and I'm watching what happens,
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I'm seeing the people out there
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and it pains me to see this city struggling economically
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more than any other city in Europe, it really is.
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And so I wanna offer solutions, that's the thing.
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Don't bring me a problem, bring me a solution.
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That's what I tell my team here all the time.
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And so today I wanna bring you some ideas
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for some solutions.
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I'm not one that complains,
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I'm one that wants to offer a better concept.
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So that's what I wanna talk about today.
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And I wanna talk about, of course,
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why I love, love London as well.
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And I wanna move to my next slide.
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And that is me going out
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and talking to real people out there on the ground.
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The first person that I went and spoke to
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was Simon Woodroffe.
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And this is Simon
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and funny enough, he invited me to speak him yesterday.
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And of course he just happens to live on a houseboat
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in Chelsea, on the Thames River here in London.
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I know it's a hard job I had,
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but I got to go out and speak with this man.
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He's an incredible guy,
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he received an OBE from the Queen in 2006
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for services to the country
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and Simon for 30 years was in the entertainment business
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then he created a restaurant chain called Yo! Sushi,
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where at the time
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no one had ever seen anything like that in London.
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He put Sushi on conveyor belts
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that went around the restaurant
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you could take what you want, robots would serve you drinks.
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And it was really out there,
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it required a lot of innovation, a lot of risk taking,
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a lot of real British spirit.
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And he made a massive success out of that.
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He later went on
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to become one of the first dragons on Dragon's Den
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and quiz entrepreneurs
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and push them hard about their business models.
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And I got to sit down with him yesterday
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and I asked him, quite frankly,
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I said, "Simon, what do you see
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"as the problems we face here?
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"And what are some of the solutions
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"to get London back to work?"
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'Cause I, I really feel
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that the economy solves so many problems.
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It gets people back on track, it gets them busy,
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it gets them generating an income, it provides certainty.
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I went out and asked him some really hard questions,
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and I wanna share with you some of the responses
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that he gave to me.
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Here's a short video clip of me going out
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and speaking with Simon Woodroffe yesterday.
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(upbeat music)
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So it's Brian Rose from London Real.
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I am on this beautiful houseboat in Chelsea Harbour
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with Simon Woodroffe who is an entrepreneur
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who's pretty much been there and done that.
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30 years in the entertainment business,
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he also was the founder of Yo! Sushi
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and iconic British brands.
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One of the first dragons on Dragon's Den.
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And now he's taken that Yo! brand
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into hospitality all around the world.
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And I'm super excited to sit down with him today.
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And maybe answer some questions
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that have been burning inside me lately,
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which is how do we get London back to work?
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Tell me about fear,
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this country has seen moments of real darkness
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and come together, the Blitz in 1940, for example.
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And I remember when this started happening in March,
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I had a young team
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and I said, "Look, I've seen things like this before,
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"I've seen economic crashes,
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"I remember the AIDS scare when I was in New York City."
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And I said, "You're gonna feel all this fear,
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"but if you breathe through it,
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"it's never going to be as bad as you think it is."
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But a lot of people have process fear really,
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maybe poorly or in a difficult way with all this COVID.
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How would you give advice
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to how to deal with the fear and the unknown
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'cause its not (indistinct) business.
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- Look at here we are sitting
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in a serious business conversation
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and we're talking about fear.
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The world has changed and absolutely right.
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Fear is one of the most common human emotions
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that we all suffer all of the time.
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And actually it's very useful,
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like anger can be very useful as well.
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It gets you up and gets you off your bum
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and gets you doing things. - Yeah.
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- Stress is not so good, because it sort of debilitates you
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and stops you doing things.
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There's a balance, but I think we're going through a period
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where we're learning
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and I think it'll be taught in schools eventually,
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how to deal with these emotions that we get as human beings,
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as opposed to just learning
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about history and geography or math,
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and we will get much better