Christine Fox (Josh's Mum)
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Podcast Appearances
And someone else looks at it and goes, oh yeah, nice.
I'm your son.
So you're like, oh, they're great stories.
But no, carry on.
Maybe they'll get a bit better.
I was selling Costco things in school.
Well, that's business model wholesale to the market.
Well, the thing is, so People Like Us was, it was like a fly on the wall documentary showing the area we grew up in.
And it was described on there as the most, like, run-down, poverty-stricken part of England.
That was the premise of the show.
Probably, yeah.
it was centered around a family who worked in our local laundrette and this show was just it was exploiting poor people but it was actually a great show then I become obsessed and I was like oh maybe I could sell guided tours around all these and when I say hot spots of the show it was like there's the local crack house there's the local laundrette but again it was a gap in the market so what you're giving me with this is you're telling me I was an entrepreneur without ever realizing it
Yeah, so I used to love a competition.
I was what you could call a prize pig.
Anything in the magazines, newspapers, I'd be phoning, emailing, sending letters.
Then I'd send so many, as you said, I would kind of forget them.
One day, a house-sized bouncy castle arrived and we're all like,
What's this?
And I don't remember what I won.
It was a cake competition somewhere.