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Oh, you want the energy? Oh, you want energy? Welcome. Hey,
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Hey, hey. <unk> Hey everyone. Welcome to our couch. I am Adam.
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And I'm Scott. And we are here today with Ed King. Welcome, ed.
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Thank you very much. Good to meet here.
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Ed, what do you do, Rex?
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I'm the design practice lead.
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Okay.
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Okay. Can you, can you elaborate on that just a little bit, a bit more,
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You know, it ranges from coloring in with, um, crayons.
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Um, sometimes we, we, if we're having a good week,
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we get the felt tips out if we've been really good and we promise not to get any
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on the desks.
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When you were a kid, did you always dream about being a designer?
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Ooh,
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Um,
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Oh,
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Um, my, one of my oldest brothers, Adrian, he was a,
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he was a graphic, became a graphic designer,
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but he very quickly got in the first kind of, um, web bubble,
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I guess web 1.0 is, it was all sort of beginning, uh, to grow.
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And I remember going around to his place and he had a, an old Mac,
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an old power pc, and he showed me this website he was working on.
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And it was obviously horrible, um, by, like, by modern standards.
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But I found that, I think that was probably my start point. Um,
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interestingly every year, cause I asked him how he got to do, you know,
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came to do that. Every year after that he gave me a,
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a different job that I should actually consider doing. He's like,
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you don't wanna be a designer, you wanna be a plaster plasterers, make,
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you know, good money, 600 pounds a week, whatever it was at the time. Um,
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and we ended up, I think the last one he told me before it was too late,
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I'd already started, my first job was to become a deep sea, uh,
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underwater welder, cuz you only have to work six months of the year. Uh,
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and you get enough money, um, for the whole year by long wait.
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I, I actually forgot what the question was. Um,
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we really went on a journey there. Okay. Moving
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Along. Um, what's one of the main things you enjoy about working here at Rex?
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Um, I, I'd say things like this, you know, the little,
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the re and Yeah. Their expertise. Yes. You got. Thanks,
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Ed. That's all we needed. Okay. And, and that's a cut. That's the take.
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We probably need more questions, don't
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We? Yeah, we do. No, but there seems here. Oh, here we go.
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I didn't see the other side. <unk> Okay.
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So where'd you grow up when you were a kid?
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Uh, south London, near a place called Stratton. Um, lived there till I was,
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oh God, till I went to uni. And then a couple of years in Kent, um,
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which is like the equivalent of going to the countryside, um,
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which was quite nice for a few years. And then moved back to London.
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Lived in Ting Brixton, so proper London boy.
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Oh,
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Nice. Who's, who's your, who's your team?
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Uh, crystal Palace is my local team. Okay. Um, but if you,
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Who's your team by? Uh,
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I don't want a team that wins anything. It's Arsenal. Yeah. Crystal
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Palace. Must break easy. Hey,
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Sweet one. Okay.
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Okay. Uh,
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what would be your favorite luxury holiday destination on the north side?
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In a suburbs of Brisbane.
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That's where I live, so it wouldn't be much holiday,
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Obviously, getting beyond the north side of Brisbane. Where,
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where would you venture to?
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Um, well, my wife and I thought we wanted to go to New Zealand.
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We always quite like the idea. She,
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I think she really wants to go to the Hobbiton Place. Oh. Choice.
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And I wanna do a bike tour out there, or like a campervan tour.
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So like fairly classic touristy type thing. But till the kids are bigger,
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we're not gonna, not gonna manage that.
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So you wanna ride a bike? Mm,
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That's it. Okay. Yep.
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Good. Okay. Um, I think we're pretty good.
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No, but not Ed. Um, favorite movie mate.
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Recently, most recently. Everything everywhere. All at once.
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It's properly wacky with a sort of coming of age story in there too. Um,
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and I think I just like how wild it is.
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It's like the crazy stuff that happens and the weird things they fight and that
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mix of,
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of bureaucracy really highlighting how insane it is getting her taxes done.
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It's just nuts. There's
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So much happening at once.
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Yeah. You could say everything. I've not seen it. It's happening everywhere.
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Yeah.
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So, so once take, I think we'll, we'll call it a wrap there.
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Thank you for joining us on, on our couch, our chairs, our couch.
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We'll figure out a good name. Yep. Um, but look, great having you on. Thank you.
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And we appreciate your time.
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Do you have any parting words for us?
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Okay, cool. All right. That's a wrap. Thank you.
