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Rebecca Smithers
Imagine that if it transcribed into French or something.
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Philip Alexander
That be brilliant.
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Rebecca Smithers
There we go. So I don't know if you can see there's a transcript panel.
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Philip Alexander
He says on the top it says on the top that the transcription is started.
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Rebecca Smithers
Great. So I can see it popping up on my side it. So it's already realised that we've got different voices.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
Um and it's doing it really well actually, so.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
That's good. OK. So the first bit of the transcript is gonna be us just chatting. So you'll still have to go
through the transcript to find the actual interview bit.
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Philip Alexander
OK. Ohh wait.
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Rebecca Smithers
But it will save you up all the typing cause it's typing it for us.
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Philip Alexander
Where can I find the transcript bit?
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Rebecca Smithers
Enough. Maybe you see where there's. There's those three dots at the top of the screen.
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Philip Alexander
Three dots on the top of the screen.
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Rebecca Smithers
It says more actions.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
Is there a record and transcribe function?
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
But can you see like does it say transcription?
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Philip Alexander
It says record and transcribe.
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Rebecca Smithers
Because if you hover, it'll click on that.
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Rebecca Smithers
Does it say show transcript?
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Philip Alexander
It says start recording, stop transcript and transcript.
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Rebecca Smithers
Okay. So if you click on transcript the third one.
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Philip Alexander
Ohh yeah, I can see it.
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Rebecca Smithers
That.
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Rebecca Smithers
And that will save after the meeting.
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Philip Alexander
Ohh OK.
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Rebecca Smithers
Okay.
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Rebecca Smithers
Yeah. So.
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Rebecca Smithers
Do you want to start the interview?
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Philip Alexander
Ohh.
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Philip Alexander
I don't know how I should start it. How should I start it?
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Rebecca Smithers
Uh, I think you can just start by asking me the question, if you like.
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Philip Alexander
OK. Should I like introduce this interview or something?
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Rebecca Smithers
Yeah, that might be nice. Like my name's Phil. I'm here with Rebecca Smithers. Senko performing arts.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
Of the older generation.
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Philip Alexander
I don't even know if I should say that.
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Rebecca Smithers
It's fine, don't worry.
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Philip Alexander
How should I say it though?
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Rebecca Smithers
Just say I'm. I'm here interviewing Rebecca. Who's the senco at Bath College or something? Or.
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Philip Alexander
Time.
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Rebecca Smithers
You could just say or just Rebecca, you know, doesn't matter that I'm asanko.
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Philip Alexander
Okay.
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Philip Alexander
Um.
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Rebecca Smithers
Although the transcript isn't picking up what Senco is, it's gone asanko.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah, I can say Ohh it's picked up saying covered.
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Rebecca Smithers
Ohh I did it that time, yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
Got.
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Philip Alexander
OK. Shall I just introduce my?
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Philip Alexander
Interview.
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Rebecca Smithers
Yeah. So should we start now we'll do a.
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Rebecca Smithers
Action.
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Philip Alexander
Ohh.
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Rebecca Smithers
That's alright.
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Philip Alexander
Ohh, I don't even know what to say. Well OK, I am gonna start now.
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Rebecca Smithers
Okay.
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Philip Alexander
Ohh.
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Philip Alexander
321.
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Philip Alexander
So ohh God, I can't.
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Rebecca Smithers
Ohh, you know it, we could just start it as just ask me the first question. Don't worry about introducing it.
Just ask the first question.
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Philip Alexander
OK.
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Philip Alexander
I'm OK. The first question I'm gonna ask.
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Philip Alexander
What games did you play as a child that used your imagination?
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Philip Alexander
But.
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Rebecca Smithers
I'm very lucky that I got on very well with my Big Brother when I was little and we used to play a lot of
games that involved our imagination. The ones that really stand out to me is we used to play Pokémon
where we were pretend to be Pokémon trainers and we would go in our garden pretending to spot
Pokémon and capture them with imaginary poker balls.
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Rebecca Smithers
But we also really like the stories of secret 7 and famous 5, so we used to play secret 7 together.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
But we didn't have characters. We decided we were our own characters in it.
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Philip Alexander
Ohh that's.
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Rebecca Smithers
And yeah, so we we used to play quite a lot together. We can't with stories.
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Philip Alexander
Ohh that that's nice.
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Philip Alexander
Should I say anything else after that?
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Rebecca Smithers
That's Okay thank carry on.
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Philip Alexander
OK, I'm have you ever felt at your lowest ebb and how did you overcome that?
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Philip Alexander
And come back from it.
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Rebecca Smithers
Yeah, that have been there. Ohh, and come back from it. So there have been a few times in my life where
I've had quite a low ebbs and I had quite a significant change in my life a couple of years ago and it was a
very difficult time.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
And I think the thing that I found the most important was surrounding myself with people who I knew
wanted the best for me and looked out for me. So lucky to have good family and friends who kept an eye
on me. And but I also tried to focus on things that brought me happiness. So I really like making things.
I'm a crafter, so I do crochet and baking things like that.
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Philip Alexander
Is crocheting knitting?
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
Yeah. So it's like Yum, but it's got a hook. And so instead of two sticks, it's it's a little hook. So it's just
making lots of loops.
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Philip Alexander
Ohh yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
And and well, the last few weeks even I've been quite stressed. So my my latest project was I crocheted a
really big dinosaur.
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Philip Alexander
Ohh that's good.
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Philip Alexander
Ohh.
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Rebecca Smithers
It's like this thing is about a foot and 1/2 tool.
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Rebecca Smithers
Ohh.
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Philip Alexander
Is it in the college?
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Rebecca Smithers
It's not. It's at home, but I can show you a picture next time I see you.
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Rebecca Smithers
Yeah.
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Philip Alexander
Ohh OK, that would be good.
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Rebecca Smithers
Yeah, that. That's how I come back from a low web.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
What's the next question?
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Philip Alexander
The next question is.
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Philip Alexander
Have you ever found that love is a risk? Have you ever thought, you know, I'll go in?
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Philip Alexander
The deep end.
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Rebecca Smithers
I think I think love is always a risk, but I think it can be a very worthwhile risk.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
Um, I think some people don't worry too much about it being a risk. I personally worry quite a lot about
it being a risk and and I think that because people change over time, it might not have been a risk at one
time, but then it becomes a risk later on because things might change. But I think because love comes in
so many ways, you could have romantic love with a partner. You could have, you know, platonic love with
a friend. You can have familial love with a family member.
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Rebecca Smithers
I think there's just so many types of love. I say that maybe like romantic love is riskier than family love.
That's my experience cause I've got quite a strong family.
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Philip Alexander
I I would probably agree as well.
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Rebecca Smithers
Yeah, it's it's a tricky 1, isn't it? But I think you know when you where, where love is, you could also have
hurt and pain, but people would argue that maybe it's worth it.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
Yeah.
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Philip Alexander
Because some people can come back from it, some people can't.
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Rebecca Smithers
That's true. Yes, it could be. You know, if it was a risk that went wrong, it could be there's a lot of trust
lost or.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
Um, yeah, I think. I think that's a good point. Some people can come back from it, can't they? And others
struggle. Yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
It's good.
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Philip Alexander
Shall I ask you the next question?
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Rebecca Smithers
Yes, please.
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Philip Alexander
Okay the next question is what does desire mean to you?
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Rebecca Smithers
Desire Okay I think. I think desire is something that's very.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
Very much like inside you like. It's a very internal thing. At least that's kind of how I feel about it. But, you
know, desire can be.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
Lots of things like right now I'm quite tired. I quite desire a nap or something. You know, sometimes it's
just your basic need. But I think desire. Maybe it's deeper than that. It's something that you feel that you
really want and that could be a person or a thing or a job or an object. Could be a really desire, that next
iPhone or something. That's not really me. I don't go for the latest model of stuff.
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Rebecca Smithers
But yeah, I think maybe desire is like the want for something, but a real drive behind it to go out and get
it.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah, like.
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Rebecca Smithers
Whatever that might be.
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Philip Alexander
Like my new iPhone.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
Like your new iPhone? Yeah. So you decided you went out and you got that new iPhone. And yeah, then
it might be that maybe sometimes desire could be something quite active or it could be quite restful as
well. You could just desire to just have some peace.
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Philip Alexander
Hi.
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Philip Alexander
Like that.
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Rebecca Smithers
Yeah, it's usually at the end of term.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Philip Alexander
Because I pretty much finish now.
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Rebecca Smithers
Yeah. Yeah. You're pretty much then I still got another day.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
Yeah.
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Philip Alexander
So what tactics do you have to escape from the stresses of your life? So that could be work, you know?
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Philip Alexander
Work could be a massive stress.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
But work is quite often a big stress bill. You're right. I. Yeah, I I would say that probably the most stressful
aspect of my life is my job, cause it's just quite can be quite intense. Sometimes it's very rewarding. I
really love working with my learners, but sometimes at the end of the day, I just want to completely
switch off and not think about work.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
I do live by myself, so I found that an interesting thing to figure out how to escape when you're on your
own.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
But I do have two two Guinea pigs as pets. They keep me clean, entertained and.
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Philip Alexander
I had to Guinea pigs when I was younger, yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
Do I love Guinea pigs? They're such good pets. They're so lively.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
And so yeah, they keep me busy. But in in the last couple of years, I've actually quite gotten into playing
video games, and especially like the games where you play a character and you're off on missions and
you get to meet people and go to new places, mainly started during lockdown because obviously then
was the pandemic. I just needed to escape.
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Philip Alexander
Said.
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Rebecca Smithers
Yeah, I I don't think I could have got through lockdown without playing Animal Crossing.
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Rebecca Smithers
Ohh.
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Philip Alexander
Ohh, I used to love that as well.
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Rebecca Smithers
It's so nice cause you just have your little Ireland and you have your you know you, you can plant it how
you want and especially at a time when I was very isolated from people, I had these little animals on this
island and they were always like, really chatty.
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Philip Alexander
Ohh.
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Rebecca Smithers
I you know, they wanted to talk to you.
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Rebecca Smithers
So I think, yeah, gaming is definitely something that I found is useful, but then yeah, also having like a
really good project to sink my teeth into like crochet.
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Rebecca Smithers
And of course, just going and hanging out with friends and doing something that's completely not work
like we go paddle boarding or hiking or something.
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Rebecca Smithers
Um.
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Philip Alexander
Go out drinking. Oh my God.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
Or out drinking. While I wasn't going to say that one, Phil, but yes, there's some sometimes us grown-
ups do that to you.
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Philip Alexander
The.
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Rebecca Smithers
Yeah.
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Philip Alexander
I've got.
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Philip Alexander
Team. No, I've got one more question.
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Rebecca Smithers
Ohh, one more question, go ahead.
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Philip Alexander
Um.
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Philip Alexander
So do you consider yourself to be a feminist?
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
I absolutely do consider myself to be a feminist, and quite frankly, I think if you if you know a woman and
if you like a woman is in, even if you just ohh friends with or related to one, I think everyone should be a
feminist and it's something I feel very strongly about. And I actually did my masters dissertation on the
inequality of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
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Philip Alexander
Mining.
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Rebecca Smithers
And yeah, I did. I did a a study into why. It's mainly men in STEM subjects.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
And you know it especially, I mean in all of us, you feel like could be here for hours going on and on
about feminism and but.
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Philip Alexander
Well, I've got a lot of time.
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Rebecca Smithers
Ohh thank you though.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
And but yeah, so it's, I mean that's the thing. You know we it's it's been just over 100 years since women
over 30 got the vote. So if I was alive 30 years ago, I would have the vote. But I am a single woman over
30. So that meant that I might not have as many rights as a married woman over 30 because she has to
basically follow what her husband says.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
And there are still lots of inequalities in today's society with like the gender pay gap. So quite often men
are paid more for doing the exact same job as a woman.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
And I genuinely find it terrifying looking at some of the news in America, like where abortion laws and
reproductive rights are being limited.
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Philip Alexander
Yeah.
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Rebecca Smithers
Um, but it's all it. It's. But you know when it's those sorts of things are being restricted, but there's no
emphasis on supporting child services or education.
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Rebecca Smithers
It it means that it is. It's the women who suffer. It's the women who were in a difficult position so.
0:13:4.840 --> 0:13:5.330
Philip Alexander
Yeah.
0:12:59.110 --> 0:13:14.780
Rebecca Smithers
Yeah, I think there's there's a a very long way we need to go with women's rights. I think we're on the
right track, but there are sometimes where we go backwards as well. So yeah, it's a subject I feel very
passionately about and I think I think everyone should be a feminist.
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Rebecca Smithers
Deep down.
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Philip Alexander
I think we all are deep down. Well, I'm hoping we all are.
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Rebecca Smithers
Hopefully, yeah.
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Philip Alexander
I think those are all the questions.
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Rebecca Smithers
Excellent. Well, thank you very much for interviewing me, Phil.
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Philip Alexander
Well, thank you very much for doing the interview with me.
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Rebecca Smithers
Lovely.
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Rebecca Smithers
Okay so we.
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Philip Alexander
So we stopped the transcript now.
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Rebecca Smithers
Yeah. So if I let's figure that out. Ohh, it's good. I enjoyed that Phil. And there are some good questions.