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Simon 'Blue' Robinson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
730 total appearances

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The real Rudolf Nureyev โ€” a volatile but vulnerable genius

And you make sure it works, you make sure it's safe, and you make sure it's secure.

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The real Rudolf Nureyev โ€” a volatile but vulnerable genius

So it's a position of huge responsibility and trust.

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The real Rudolf Nureyev โ€” a volatile but vulnerable genius

And your employees, the principals, he or she or both, are often away.

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The real Rudolf Nureyev โ€” a volatile but vulnerable genius

They're often in business or they're often traveling.

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The real Rudolf Nureyev โ€” a volatile but vulnerable genius

So you run things as they want them to be run.

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The real Rudolf Nureyev โ€” a volatile but vulnerable genius

It was, and they look at you when they're interviewing you.

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The real Rudolf Nureyev โ€” a volatile but vulnerable genius

They ask your background, and they knew exactly who I was, and I seemed to reflect a level of trust, and that is why they hire you.

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The real Rudolf Nureyev โ€” a volatile but vulnerable genius

Everything is about integrity and trust and responsibility, and they got that, and I have that, and so off we went.

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The real Rudolf Nureyev โ€” a volatile but vulnerable genius

It was good.

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The real Rudolf Nureyev โ€” a volatile but vulnerable genius

He was, but he had six houses, I think six or seven houses on various continents.

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The real Rudolf Nureyev โ€” a volatile but vulnerable genius

So we were always running around.

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The real Rudolf Nureyev โ€” a volatile but vulnerable genius

He didn't give the budget to that.

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The real Rudolf Nureyev โ€” a volatile but vulnerable genius

So when I finally got to work for other people in Europe, there was time, there was a budget.

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The real Rudolf Nureyev โ€” a volatile but vulnerable genius

And we had meetings and sat down and planned things, planned events.

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The real Rudolf Nureyev โ€” a volatile but vulnerable genius

So it was wonderful.

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The real Rudolf Nureyev โ€” a volatile but vulnerable genius

No, I don't believe I was.

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The real Rudolf Nureyev โ€” a volatile but vulnerable genius

Exactly.

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The real Rudolf Nureyev โ€” a volatile but vulnerable genius

On that super yacht, I was working as chief steward, the 245 foot one.

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The real Rudolf Nureyev โ€” a volatile but vulnerable genius

We were off Monaco and I was serving dinner to the owner, Sir Donald Gosling.

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The real Rudolf Nureyev โ€” a volatile but vulnerable genius

And a phone call came through to the radio room and the radio officer took it and came down and said, Blue, there's a call for you.