John Oliver
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You're going to have to kind of teach yourself as you go along and fill in the gaps and know that in a sense, you're always in search of gaps because that is how you're going to fundamentally understand the country that you're hoping to call home in my case.
No, because my manager, the same guy that said, you're not going to Edinburgh this year.
He said, just go.
Like, don't sign anything more than a three month lease because American TV shows fire you after three months.
Okay.
That was his inspiring team talk.
This is an English manager.
It's a huge opportunity for you, but to be honest, I'll see you in September.
With your tail between your legs, having been humbled by what they're about to do to you.
Good luck.
So that, yeah.
So he had told me this is not going to take long.
So I'd put all my stuff in storage in South London.
It was there until last summer was when I got it out.
It had been in storage facility for 18 years in South Norwood.
Now you finally, now you've relaxed.
You finally were like, all right, I think this thing's going well.
You say that though, because that is the problem, right?
It's partly falling in love with a job and falling in love with a country where you don't legally permanently belong.
I remember like six or seven months in being very happy with, uh,