Ray Guns, Glastonbury and Elvis Lives In Hull - It's The Wrap Up

00:00 From finding Elvis in Hull to Glenn's brain being controlled by Trump, my son smoking me over 5k and everything else in between, it can only be one thing. Yes, it's time for the wrap-up. Roll theme. Welcome to the Johnny Jensen show, where modern dads discover how to create the true riches, relationships, and results they deserve. Get your high-value man blueprint and join our community at highvalumanproject.com. Let's go. Hey uh. Hello, Glenn. Good to see you. Good to see you as always, Johnny. It always feels too long, even when it's only been 30 seconds in the green room.

00:44 I know. Do you feel more celebrity-like by me putting you in the green room and then bringing you out? I do, but I wish you'd like provide champagne rather than me having to bring my own tenants. Or is it Castlemaine Forex? Castlemaine Forex. Big four-litre bottles of Thunder Cider. Yeah, a bit of white lightning. A bit of white lightning or some MD 2020 or something. That's what you need in a green room. That's what gets you going. The Americans have got like trashy beer. So you kind of you... I think I forget, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny. I'm going to be honest, and I know we've got lots of American callers, but I'm going to say. Can you name a good American beer?

01:30 There's that Boston. I can name some expensive American beers. Have I mentioned that? What do you say? I was looking for the most expensive beer in London. So the average beer in London is about, what, seven quid, seven pounds fifty, which frankly is mental. What do you think the most expensive beer? And it is an American beer, so it is relevant. Go on, give me a guess. As a pint, I'm going to guess, without being ridiculous, I'm going to guess £13.50. I'll keep going up. £17. Keep going up. For a pint of beer, 20 quid. Honestly, this is going to take a while. Keep going. £40.

02:11 £80.30 English pence for a pint of American imported craft beer. Can you imagine handing over 160 notes and getting two pints back? Good. God, that would have to be one hell of a bar, mate. Were you in one of those strip bars in Soho where they make you give your credit card over before you order? Give my credit card? I think I've given away three of my children. Honestly, it was a great pint, though. Oh, we've talked about that before. The oldest trick in the book. Yes, free drink on arrival. Just give us your credit card and we'll look after you all evening. Anyway, I've derailed your intro, Johnny. Oh, so well, no. What I do need to say is

02:53 we're using Riverside for the first time. So to anyone watching on the live or listening in, if we appear to do anything weird and disappear inadvertently, that's probably what's going on. What's it called? StreamYard doubled their price. So we've had to bail. Either that or the authorities are on to us. You know, Trump has finally got the CIA and I think they did a foreign ones. That's their version of MI6, isn't it? The CIA have finally got to us and impregnated my brain with some sort of mind control device and shut me down. That's what's really happened if we go quiet. Okay, that is definitely a tangent. And

03:35 what have you been up to, Glenn, that has you conspiracy theories and mind ray guns for the mind? Firstly, I've been drinking. I'll come on to why I've been drinking in a short while, I'm sure. But I did pop up to Manchester to see my other half's family. It turns out her sister, and I love her, she's brilliant, but she's really, really into her conspiracy theories. Apparently, there is a frequency of sound, like a note that in the 19th century, the French government banned because

04:12 it gives people free speech and free mental thoughts, and they wanted to get rid of that. So they've banned. And every government in the world has agreed to ban this exact hertz of sound and this sound wave or some kind. You know, you see, I love her dearly. She's brilliant. But my God, that is mental. I know, but I keep seeing on the old Facebook about chemtrails and people, they seed the sky to block the sun. And that's why you can have a nice sunny morning and then utterly cloudy afternoon. Yeah, yeah, fuck weather. Fuck, fuck actual normal natural phenomenon. This is all about the government with a capital T and a capital G and a capital idiot.

04:53 So you're in the no camp that they're not they're not seeding the skies and messing with the 100 no. Can you look only because I know how hard it is to do any form of governance. I've worked with government and in public sector for a year about 20 years. They can't even get their tea order right. There's no way they can maintain a global conspiracy against anything, they're too incompetent, and that's the good ones, let alone the morons who are in charge these days. But the bloke in Florida, Santos guy, he's uh, he's now made a law that you can't,

05:34 you know, sow your seed in the sky. I think most airlines have had that law for quite some time, and they do monitor usage of the toilets for that exact issue, right? Oh, man, so okay, well, we sorry, that's that's a bit of a dead end, really. We don't know much about that, but a few friends of mine post post the stuff, and it is twisted when you see all those crisscrossing things in the sky. We never had that when we went when we were younger, we never had that. I mean, we literally did. It is simply superheated vapor coming out of the back of jet engines, which heats water vapor, which is in the air and turns it into clouds, and then they dissipate. It's literally science, but you can't change opinions with facts.

06:15 And frankly, it's more fun to fuck with the morons than it is to just try and give them a reasonable resolution, right? Okay, I'm gonna there was a whole protest up in London last weekend, actually. So, we should have got you up there, like the like the uh the opposing voice here comes Glenn walking through. This is great because the truth doesn't care about the idiots' opinions, the truth is the truth, and it doesn't care whether they think that their brains are being controlled, so they have to wear their tin hats. The facts are the facts, but of course, that's what I would say because I've been mind-controlled by the government clearly to believe in science. And I'm putting air quotes around science here because you know that that's the done thing in the morning community.

07:01 I think if you're going all in on conspiracy theories, you have to go all in. You can't just do like the Daily Mail version and because then it's really got no more, no, no substance to it at all. Well, I can't tell you about it because theory is into it, but you've got to do your research, Johnny. Have you got a favorite conspiracy theory? Uh, I think I love I love the moon. Well, I don't know much about it, you know, like did they land on the moon? Did they not land on the moon? I think yeah, the fact that they can see the shit that's on the moon that they left there with a telescope that doesn't matter, right? No, I get that. That's kind of what baffles me about it as well. There is like hardcore evidence to suggest that we were. Um,

07:45 I do love, I do love the fact that conspiracy theories. I guess what who's been uh JFK, is there a conspiracy? Yeah, there must be a conspiracy theory, shit tons. Yeah, yeah, it was the CIA, it was an inside job, he's not really dead, all that sort of good stuff. I think Alan Partridge may have shot him at some point. Um, I'm I was probably involved, frankly. Um, who knows? Elvis, Elvis Elvis. No, imagine he's alive, imagine he just like started to be the bin man in Hull or something like that because he just got fed up with all the fame. And um, wouldn't wouldn't that be awesome if he if he chose of all places in the entire planet to retire to to get out of the limelight, he chose Hull.

08:28 Um, and the beauty about it as well is he could go and do all of the Elvis kind of tribute acts, and nobody would believe that Elvis would live in Hull. So, he could just be Elvis as Elvis as you want to be, and nobody would want, nobody would believe him. One of the one of the best moments on a bus in Brighton of my life. So, not only was it on a bus, good moment on a bus, it happened to be in Brighton, right? So, I'm get on the bus with this guy, old bloke, like my dad was 82 last week, right? So, he's old, so it wasn't like that old, but he was like a retired guy because he had his pension as a bus pass, right? So, he gets on and he flashes the bus pass, yeah. And I clock his bus pass because he's in front of me, right?

09:07 And it is clearly a picture of Elvis, right? On the bus pass, yeah, yeah, on his bus pass, a picture of Elvis, yeah. Oh, that's bloody genius! So, so the guy just lets him on, right? And he doesn't, you know, it if you really squinted your eyes and desperately wanted to believe it was him, it could have been a picture of him like in his youth, yeah, right. So, then he comes like we're down like further down the bus, and I'm like, oi, mate, why have you got a picture of Elvis on your bus pass? So then he looks at me and starts laughing. He goes, I just like to fuck with the bus drivers. Oh, that's you want to be like that when you're that age, right? You really want to fuck around with everything. Who's going to question you? You can get away with it. He said it when you're old.

09:51 He said, Some of them go, Excuse me, sir, I think. think you should get a more updated photo. They don't actually question. Isn't that Elvis? What photo do you reckon you're going to have on your old age pass? Because it's got to look roughly like you. I'm thinking, what, Jason Statham for you, some sort of uh guy with uh no hair but a body like a Greek god. That's got to be you, right, Johnny. Uh, yeah, well, if I went old school, it could be the guy that played Herman Munster in um he was famous, don't even know his name. Um, celebrity me, yeah, yeah, yeah, celebrity me.

10:30 Yeah, unfortunately, it probably would be someone, someone bald, it probably, yeah, and someone a bit, I probably do look a bit like Jason Statum, actually, or he looks totally, except he's he wishes he had your body. I'm still fit. I tell you what, though, if you saw my social, I guess you're prompting my post from yesterday. My son absolutely smoked me on a run last night. How long was the run? Uh, 6k. It's if you're if you follow me on Strava, it's the good old river run, um, which is along the river, and it's pretty good. So I like to name my runs on on Strava. Yeah, I, you know, um, back at uni, me and my mate used to name, you know, we used to have like those little three and a half inch discs.

11:13 We used to like name them like bowel dust and things like that. All dust. So if you lost it, you go, you go. Uh, uh, has anyone handed him my uh, my what was on there? You had to name it. Oh, it's called bowel dust or flaps too, you know, something like that. Anyway, so go for a run. So he says to me, and this doesn't happen very often throughout their life. He's 15 now, Rosie's 13. So I would say to them, let's go running. You want to come running? All right, but I just constantly exercise. We did go and do Park Run Junior for a while. Anyway, so he's been

11:52 pseudo getting fit. Not actively doing press-ups or too many things like that, but he's been training to try and get into an academy, a football academy, soccer academy. And for all those World Cup, soccer World Cup fans watching and tuning into our show tonight, he's been trying to get into this academy. So he's been training like four or five times a week. So, and I literally has for about the last three months. So he says to me, Do you want to go for a run? I was like, Yeah, come on then. And I was actually doing stuff. But when your kid says, Do you want to go for a run? When someone your kid says, Do you want to do something together? You do it. Hands down. Stop what you're doing and say yes. Because you don't know so many times they're going to want to do that, right? Yes.

12:37 You don't know how many times they're going to ask again or how long it's going to be. And so you just say yes. You say, so I stopped what I was doing. And there we go. So the first thing I noticed was as we get outside and went, I'm like, you've grown again. So he's pretty, I'm six foot. Yeah. So he's he's 15. He's going to be 16 in September. He's pretty much eye to eye with me now, right? Yeah. And so anyway, so we start running. Now, normally in historically, the run would be him behind me going, slow down. You're always, oh, you're like, basically, telling me that I make his life hell by like, we've had runs before where it was like tears and stuff, which, frankly, Johnny, I've been on a 10k mud run with you.

13:15 I'm exactly in Jago's shoes on this one. You were evil. You were like, you run ahead and then you'd wait for me to catch up and then you'd fuck off again. And I don't get a rest. And you're just hanging out, relaxing. And I'm like, I'm dying. And you'll just, yeah, oh, no, this is fine. This is great. We can do this. Yeah, it was only in hindsight that I realized what I'd done to you there. But no, to be fair, you were going so slow that I didn't think you needed a rest. Anyway, we set off on a pace, right? Now, I've been doing this 6k run takes me just under half an hour, right? So we start now. A couple of about three years ago, I was way faster. We start off on this run, and he's, I can see he's kind of like two-step in and kind of like looking over his shoulder.

13:59 We're like, like, like, and I'm just, and I'm out of breath, right? Yeah. And I go, dude, I'm pretty sure you're waiting for me. Just go. And he just flipping disappears into the sun like sonic, you know, like it's that mixture of horror and pride. I was buzzing. I was, I, I, for about whatever, the next half a kilometer, I was catching my breath back because I it was then I realized how fast we'd been going. Yeah, yeah. And then, and he just literally sped off. And he, and he's, he's never been fitter than me, never been faster, not even close. So I was buzzing. And it's because, I mean, he's been, like I said, he's been trying to get into this academy and he has been selected.

14:42 He's now in this academy. Ah, congrats. That's good news. So he's. Well, I had the same thing. I'd um so I did, uh, was it like. last weekend, two weeks ago, two weekends ago? It was two weekends ago. We did a 10k. So me and the Mrs., she wanted to do it because she likes running because she's some sort of freak. I don't trust people who like running. You lot are weird. I get a runner's high and endorphins. Bullshit. It's pain and it's horror and it's boredom. But she loves it. So we did this 10k sponsored by Tottenham actually, which was absolutely lovely. Let me just cancel that call so I don't have someone ringing it. So yeah, we did this 10k sponsored by Tottenham Hotspur.

15:26 You met Aussieard dealers. He gave the medals out at the end. Oh, epic. So cool. But I invited my boy because you had to be over 18. And like Jay, he's a footballer, you know, he's been playing football since he was a kid. He's super fit. He runs. And I'm my best. I've never been a runner, but I'll knock out a 5k in about 25, 26. He's already doing 23s without even trying. And we ran off and within about 3k, 4K or something like that, I look left to me. He passed me running backwards. Little shit.

16:04 However, the good thing, though, is within the next 500 meters, 1,000 meters, he turned and rolled his ankle on the grass, which meant that he really slowed down, which meant that I overtook him, which means I now have 100% race win record against him. And I'm pretty sure I'm going to retire on that note because there's no way I'm going to beat him under normal circumstances. He's way faster. So yeah, I might just hold my hands up and say, that's it. I retire. I win, but I'll hand over the baton to you gracefully. I think that sounded like a foghorn leghorn car. I think I've seen that cartoon. I said, boy. Oh, yeah.

16:49 But he's rapid. And he's a shit because he doesn't train. He doesn't try. He's just, he's quick like Jayco. You know, these kids that just like being fit and healthy rather than drinking around the back of a shed. Jago hasn't been. He plays football, but he hasn't been super fit. Plus, there's this sort of age to testosterone to height to everything ratio, strength ratio. By the way, is this the son that got my boy absolutely hammered on New Year's Eve? Almost certainly, yes. Yeah, I mean, all of my kids were probably more than a little bit merry. But yeah, Oliver was certainly handing out the shots as if he bought them. Yeah. Well, they went to the park with that whole bottle of

17:32 tequila rose. Did they? So, you know, that first drink that you never drink again because of the horror experience you had for me. Yeah, yeah. Mine, Miss Southern Comfort is my one, right? So now Jago, he can't even drink a flipping strawberry milkshake. He's been poisoned by tequila rose. He can't even see the bottle, basically. It turned his stomach that much, right? By all accounts, about half an hour before we left, they went to the park. I don't know how far the park is from your house. Went to the park and between the three of them, necked the whole bottle of tequila rose. So when Jago got in the taxi, he was like, The world is awesome.

18:15 Then we got home and he realized quickly that the world was not so awesome as he proceeded to throw up for the next hour and a half. I'd like to apologise, but I also want to say you're welcome. Boys have got to learn this shit, haven't they? I'm so happy that it happened almost in a controlled controlled explosion, basically. Crash Test Dummy situation, basically. We were there. It was all cool. I could see what he was doing. I knew in my own heart of hearts that that was going to be his most like his baptism of like what happens when you get really hammered and can't see and throw up for two hours. And so that was it. New Year's Eve, your house. So you can always, you can wear that. Like I get you a t-shirt. It happened here.

18:59 Honestly, I feel honored and privileged. And if you're gonna, if you're gonna fuck up a drink, better to fuck up tequila rose than a good drink. You don't want to fuck up like Scotch or I don't know, Southern Comfort or something. That was my one. I ruined it. Ruined it. Absolutely ruined it. So there we go. So that happened, basically. I was proud. It was a moment. We got to the end. You know what's really funny? When we got to the end, there was banter. There was like, I was like, dude, what time could you have done that in? He's like, I don't know. I don't care. I don't know. Plus, he runs like a remedial. He runs on his toes.

19:39 Oh, I do that. And it's hard because like the toes give you more power. So when I was young, I. ran for because that gives you more speed. But now my calves are so old that they won't take it. So I'm having to retrain myself to run heel first like a fucking slow person. I'm not a fan, I'll be honest. Well, that sounds like you're well, okay. So look, that's running, right? We're getting well into, we'll save more of that chat for our running podcast, which we're going to start next month. I went out out, out, out, two months ago. Because it's been a while. I've actually missed apologies to the gang. We've missed a couple of months actually of the wrap-up. We're supposed to be doing a wrap-up every month, basically, at least.

20:22 Again, we wrap up the month. During lockdown, we were wrapping up every week. It was Bank Holiday, May Bank Holiday. Went out on the Saturday to the Albion, which used to be a rockers' pub when I was a lad. It's now quite a nice gaff. And there's a group of DJs in Maidstone, all sort of our age, oldies, called the vinyl. Youngsters. Youngsters. Vinyl countdown and they keep doing parties. It's bloody brilliant. Outdoors on the terrace, packed. About 200 people. Absolutely brilliant. And then the next, oh, and also the good thing was finished at half 11. I was about to say, was it one of these because I've seen these things where you it starts at sort of 5 p.m., finishes at 10 p.m.

21:06 So people could be in bed by 11. So you get a day out and then you get a night in at the same time. I think this feels like genius. I'm totally on board with it. It's very, very good. And then the next day, it was a bank holiday weekend. Another old mate who was more is sort of funk and groove and stuff like that. Another pub. The bin. No, not the bin. That's what I'm for Sally. The Bell. The Belle in Bearstead. Funk Darren Watts and Laz. Whole afternoon, even more people. You literally couldn't get in the place. It was such a sunny day, right? It was a sunny day, so it was kind of like perfect storm, basically, but it was literally back to the time of like four or five deep at the bar, like stood at the bar so long that you actually banter with the people at the bar.

21:56 Honestly, I'm all right with that because I get really fucked up. I get really pissed off when people start queuing in a line at a bar. Now, I know in my head, that is technically, I agree, it's the most efficient way of making sure everyone gets the fairest way. But no, there's an art to being served at a bar and you need everyone jammed up and you kind of lean forward at a 45-degree angle and you're waving your card or your cash or you're trying to catch their eye. If you've got a nice like chest like me, you might shove it up so that they might grab their attention with your boobs. But there's an art form to get and serve. These bastards are robbing our children of that skill.

22:36 I'm so on board with that. The utter bedlam of a bar four or five deep, 100 odd people, 200 people, two bar staff. And they're just knocking out pines like bosh, bosh, bosh. People waving tennis. And imagine now you've been waving, they'd be like flipping, flipping a Harry Enfield. Waving your edge. I know you're wearing exactly going to beepish, but the amount of money you need to buy around now, you'd be like Harry Enfield. 80 quid a fucking pint. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, well, I have three inches of beer. That's all it is. I've got three inches of cash. How much beer can I get for that? I think people are going out again.

23:14 I know it's, I seem shit to bring up the flipping C word and, you know, and lockdowns up, but it does, it was a bloody long time ago now. It does seem like people are going out again now, which is, which is. I've been going out for a lot recently and I've got so much coming off. I've been out to, I saw, I was up in Leeds to see Tim Minchin at the weekend. He's kind of sits at the piano and makes up funny other songs. He's an incredible musician, a comedian. He wrote Matilda. He's just one of the annoyingly talented bastards.

23:50 He's just got the, he's the sort of man who 2,000 years ago, they'd have made a religion about him because he's that sort of inspirational bastard. But yeah, he's brilliant. But I'm also this is annoying because he had a tour going on. Wolfram Stowe sold out instantly. We thought, okay, well, let's just go up to Leeds to see him there because that's where we could get tickets. And then he put more bastard days on in Wolfram Stowe, which is only 10 minutes away from where my average lives. So yeah. I've got Skunk and Encyclopedia. I've got Smashing Pumpkins, Block Party, Dodgy.

24:31 I'm going to bloody Wimbledon next week. Wimbledon. I don't give a shit about tennis. On a jolly work jolly or something else. No, no. I'm just uh there well that remind me to talk about work in a moment, but um yeah, no, it's just just just uh my other half got tickets in a ballot and my mum is mental about tennis like she knows the name of like can you name five current tennis players? I certainly can't, I don't give a damn. I don't know what I don't even uh curious is he the Aussie British, yeah, that's one, okay, King in England. Oh, um, no, I can. Uh, the uh, the tall Goran even isn't it?

25:14 He's still, isn't he still doing as masters? No, that he was he was in the 1998 final or some shit like that. Yeah, he is not a current player. What's he called? The tall, they're all bloody tall, aren't they? There is someone who's there's one of the old guards still left in there, exactly. That's it. There's old guard, but there's I don't know anything about tennis at all, and frankly, I don't care. But my mum, she is obsessed with the game in the same way that I'm obsessed with football or formula one. Um, but she's never been to Wimbledon, and now I've got tickets and we're going to centre court. And I have you taken her, no, because it's me and it's me and my other half.

25:56 Like, I don't really care about it, but it's one of you don't say no to that thing. So I don't know. Do I tell her? Do I just rely on the fact that I might not be picked up by the TV cameras? Because she's damn well going to be watching. Oh, dear. Oh, I'm stumped. I think, uh, I think you should have tried harder to take your mum at some point in her life, you've chit head. The thing she loves most, and you could have queued up, you could have got in the ballot, you could have could have done. I don't give a shit about tennis, man. I care about tennis less than I care about running, which is which is really fucking not at all.

26:38 Um, so I'm gonna make it. I'm taking her to Rome for a birthday. So hopefully, that will make it up to her. Yeah, and the Rome Masters, which will be on at the same week, just some car park. So, tell us about work. What's happened at work? Ah, mate, it's been about if we'd have recorded this episode two days ago, I'd take mate. It's tough, it's hard out there. Um, but I reckon if I can make it through till November, which is when all the, I sell tech in the public sector, and all the big government frameworks are all up for a new one. I've put all the applications in, they all mature in and come online in October, November. And that's when shit tons of opportunity comes out.

27:21 And I'd have said, look, it's all if I can make it through to then, it'd be great. Uh, however, as of yesterday, um, they've decided that uh, hang on, we we've got an earn out coming out. Our company's been bought, and we need to just this is our last bit of earning money for the owners, so we're cutting everything. So, this time, yeah, not this time, but yeah, yesterday afternoon, uh, I had a chat with them, and they said, Yep, we're gonna discontinue, we're deprioritizing the public sector. So, I am now on the hunt for a new job because, uh, yeah, I am now well as of next month, unemployed, which is kind of it's a crap way to be spending your summer, right?

28:02 Well, what a platform to put your CV out there. Uh, um, uh, there's uh, you know, I think it is. Is this a good opportunity? Um, if anyone's looking for someone who's got um opinions without knowledge, um, who's got a massive personality and knows a few interesting people and uh some things about tech and the public sector. Call me, call me, that's all I'm gonna say. Give me, give me a shout, and can close a deal beautifully like Boris Becker smashing it down the baseline. There we go, that's a good callback.

28:41 Um, yeah, it's one of those weird things where I've been through this before and I'm trying not to take it not not too seriously because clearly this is my life and I'm a single dad. Like, I've got no one else bringing in money into the house. I've got to pay the mortgage, I've got to pay the bills, there's going to be pressure. Um, I haven't got six months of savings, I've got maybe three quarters of a month's worth of rent saved up, so or not rent mortgage. Um, so there's pressure, but equally, because I've been through this before, I have to trust future me. Have I told you about my future me mindset? No, but it, I'm sure it's going to fit beautifully with the uh uh aspects of the high-value man 3xc formula for living.

29:28 So, yeah, go for it, hit me. Well, I know that every situation currently currently. in all of the iterations of me before has put me in where I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know how I'm going to get out of this. I don't know how I'm going to sort it out. I've got no idea what's going to happen. I don't know where I'm going. I don't know how to fix things. Current me has built shit. And a future version of me has sorted that out. I trust future me to sort things out because future me has never let me down. So a future version of me in a couple of weeks or a couple of months is going to find a job that pays enough money to pay the bills and all will be good.

30:10 Even though right now, current me is sitting there thinking, fuck, what do I do? How am I going to get through this? I've got no idea how to do this. Do I tell my kids? How do I deal with this? How do I emotionally process this? Is this an opportunity to teach them about vulnerability? Is it an opportunity for me to say, actually, life doesn't, it's not all linear and it doesn't all go to plan. Or do I protect them and hide it away and say, actually, you know what? Everything's fine. But all these things that currently are thinking about, I absolutely trust future me will sort this shit out.

30:47 100%. Yeah. I don't use that exact language, but it is very much like that, like that rock solid faith in who you are. And the, you know, if there's, you know, I've not made this up. This is stuff that I've read and learned, right? It's, is all the evidence from our past will give you the, in terms of wins, right? If you go back and look at all the times you have hit a situation where you didn't know what to do next, but you worked it out. Now, as twisted and as weird as it sounds, walking, learning how not to shit yourself, right? I'm not sure I've done that yet. I know, still working on that. So close.

31:31 So close. I don't know why they fired me. Yeah, like perseverance. Like you don't know how to drive. And then you're just second nature. You don't know how to get a job and yet you get one, you know, whether it's a paper round or a flipping pizza delivery or, you know, whatever the first job out of you. Like you're just like, oh yeah. And then you're flipping that time when you were skint as a bastard. And you know, oh, every, if you look back at you through your life, then pretty much the very fact that you're alive today meant that you had to win, win, win over and over again. Overcome, conquer, evolve, learn, equip yourself, move on. Like

32:13 that's the magic of it. And I'm, it's the weird thing, you know, about quantum mechanics and the universal energy and all these kind of things. But this planet that we're on is built to support us all. Like, and then, so whether it's the sun, water, food, like literally everything is provided. So then who are we as humans to think, well, we're completely different? Like we're screwed when my life's over because she left me or because I've lost my job. I'll be like, no, like actually, the only reason your life is going to be screwed is if you just don't get off your ass and go out there and make it happen.

32:54 Like with the absolute faith that I have totally got this. It's an opportunity. Yeah. And it's that horizon, right? There's this mindset of like I, when Columbus sailed west, he didn't see over the horizon. He just had faith that that's where the land was. And you just got to keep going. And even when you've lost, you've left all the safety behind you and you're in the middle of the fucking ocean in a storm, you've got to think, no, fuck it. I believe in this and I know this is going to be right. And just keep sailing west because even though you can't see what's over the horizon, you know there's land. You fucking know it. And that's all I've, all I've got to do over the next couple of weeks, keep sailing west, keep making progress, keep doing the things which are going to get me to a land that I can then commit genocide on.

33:45 Everything always comes back to Trump. Or Netanyahu or whatever he's called. Well, this is beautiful because actually with Trump, I'm actually, I've already got some, though. I was a bit worried that I'd not have any, you know, it's easy to fall into a funk in these sort of situations, right? If you've got nothing to look forward to and you've got to make sure every penny is accounted for so you can stretch that out and make sure I think I've probably got about three months before I'm into credit cards and that sort of shit. But all the way through that, I've already prepaid loads of activities. I've got loads of gigs lined up. I've got events lined up. I've got a holiday. My other half and I, we're actually going to Los Angeles.

34:29 Angeles to see Oasis play because it was cheaper to go to a Los Angeles to see Oasis than it was to get bloody tickets to Wembley. So we've got all that lined up and paid for. I've got some stuff to look forward to. And I'm lucky enough that it's big adventure stuff. But I know that even if I didn't have that, I'd be thinking, right, how can I put some things in the future? How can I arrange some things which are cheap or free, but give me a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel? And that light not be in an oncoming train this time. Yeah. Well, that's the fire code, having that balance across your life. Because if you stress and worry about one thing and let that be to the detriment of another area of life, then you're screwed.

35:10 And men, too many men, wonder what's going on. Like, oh, I don't know what's going on. Like, well, I can see what's going on. You've let everything go because you're worried about the other thing. It's, it's, it's, I get it happens, but that's the whole premise and the, and, you know, and the raison d'etre of high value man is that who we are is capable. And who we are when we show up as that person is like fucking magnet magnetic. Like people want us there. People want to be uh want to include us. And that's um, that's the magic of the situation you find yourself in. There, you just got to get out there and make it happen. Yeah. And it's what so many men that they look at it and they think, oh, I'm just going to shy away.

35:55 I'm going to lock myself away because I feel like a failure. Actually, no, fuck it. You haven't failed. Just talk. Talk to people. Share stuff. Share opinions. Share ideas. Share plans. Because every time you're talking to someone, firstly, you're just normalizing the process. You're taking away the unknown and the fear about all this. And you just don't know what's going to happen. And yeah, I'm joking about clearly, I don't think any of our listeners are going to give me a call and say, Glenn, I've got a perfect job for you. But every conversation I have, there's a chance, right? There's a tiny chance that something might come off. So keep talking about things, keep sharing things, keep talking about everything you want to achieve.

36:36 And it might happen. And in fact, that's the thinking behind something else I'd already started to do, which was before this all happened, because this was kind of out of the blue. I wasn't expecting to be unemployed. But I'd already started thinking about a side hustle, Johnny. This is something I've been wanting to do for ages based on my own experiences of doing exactly that, of talking to people about things I want to do and then making them happen. Have I told you about my list of things that I want to do? Well, we've talked about bucket lists on the pod many times. Yeah, yeah. So, but obviously there's been a gap between the lockdown and doing some more recently.

37:21 What is new that's on your bucket list? Well, one of the things on my bucket list is start a business. And so I thought, what better way to start a business than to start a business helping people to do things on their bucket list and to actually kick it off? So what I've done is I've started building something called 42 things to do because clearly, as any geek like me knows, 42 is the meaning of life. Okay. It's the answer to the question of life, love, the universe, and everything, right? And for me, the meaning of life is to live fully, to really give it some.

37:58 So what I thought is I'm building a platform which is basically helping people firstly come up with their list of 42 things to do, 42 things that they would like to put on their list of things. And it's hard. It's hard to come up with ideas. If I was to ask you off the top of your head, Johnny, what's a bunch of things you want to do? Have you got some stuff off your head that you absolutely will say, I'm going to add this to my list? And the reason I have is because it's a topic inside of high value man. And the point being is if you don't have these things on the top of your mind, how can you talk about them? And even more to the point is you get out of the habit of even thinking they exist.

38:39 So you've got nothing, you've got nothing creative, nothing exciting floating around your head. So I want to go. There's some of them are like the obvious ones, okay? But I don't give a shit, right? I want to go, I want to do Macapeach or like I want to go up somewhere. Oh, that's a mine. Yeah, yeah. I want to go up to Macapeach. I also, that Killy Manjaro is apparently quite a mission, but not that highlighted. It's just like a long fucking steady walk. It's not like going up Everest, right? I want to do a skydive. I would love to sail across the that's not true. I think I would hate to sail across the Atlantic, but I think it's there to be done, right? It's not like a friend of mine. That's literally exactly my mindset on this.

39:21 And savings are a really good example because back in the day when I was. when I came up with my list of things, saving learning how to sail was on it. And because I kept talking about my list and sharing things with people, turns out I knew someone who actually he knew someone who was a captain of a boat. They said, Oh, how about we do the uh around the Isle of White race and I teach you how to sail? So I've I now have learned how to sail. I was teaching talking to someone else about, oh, I'd love to learn how to fly. You do know that I'm airline pilot and I teach people how to fly. I now know how to fly a plane. I was talking to someone else, I want to go to the opera. Well, I'm a member of Glenborn, a seven-year fucking waiting list.

40:01 It's the premier opera place. And he took me to opera. So that, and that's just there's so many things where if I wasn't talking about my list, hadn't come up with the list and started talking about it, it wouldn't have happened. I'm sick and tired of people thinking, oh, it'll never happen or just post and boast. Here's my list, and I'm going to boast about doing it. No, I want to create something where we can help people to do their list, where we can give them resources and advice and guidance and create a community around that where we can hook them up with suppliers. So on a bunch, not on a budget jump, I'm doing that soon.

40:39 Parachute jump is on my list as well. If I knew that there were 10 people in our region, we're near Maidstone in the UK. If I knew there were 10, 15, 20 people who wanted to skydive in the UK, that would be brilliant for me to call up a skydiving company and say, How about you give us a group discount? And we get a good deal together. We'll do it on this day. And that would also then prompt people like me and you to actually make that happen rather than just, well, manana, manana. Actually, no, fuck it. Let's let's build something where we can help people to do these things. So that's going to be my side hustle, which I'm going to be working on. So I've got a whole bucket list section in the High Value Man project process, right?

41:21 But I haven't put a tool behind it. Okay. Have you tried Replit? That coding AI tool? I'm using Bolt, Bolt.new, which is powered by Claude. And it's, yeah, it's brilliant. And I've built the outline of it. I've got about just shy of 2,000 activities on 42 things to do at the moment. People can sign up. Yeah, yeah, categorized in various different ways. But you can sign up. You can add your own things to the list as well. You can make your own list of things. I'm going to be adding a quiz on there so you can basically say, oh, I'm more adventurous or am I cautious?

42:04 Or what's my personality type? And it will suggest a bunch of things. My brain's gone right off on mine. For some reason, I'm thinking about glory holes. I don't know what I mean. Honestly, so some of the activities are private because I want to have not safe for work activities on there as well. If you know what I mean, you might have some sexy time activities that are on your bucket list. So you should be able to put them on there as well. So yeah, there's a and there's, I've built like a Twitter style, blue sky style social network thing. And next up is to get the search engine working and to build all the supplier side of things as well, because I want suppliers to be signed up and plug in.

42:45 They'll be on, you can flip probably on affiliate programs and whatnot. That's where, that's where the money's going to come from, I hope. Because as much as I just want to help people, frankly, if I can make a few quid on the side and help people in the process, I think everyone's a winner, right? Like Noel and Liam. Do a few concerts, everyone have a laugh, and we'll make 100 million quid. Fantastic. Fantastic. We just want to give, like, you know. So I'm excited for all this stuff that you've got going on. What's Glastonbury this weekend as well? Do you know where you want to go? Well, Glastonbury would be on my list of things that I want to do.

43:26 And I will, because I've never been, I've been to music concerts and festivals, but I've never been to Glastonbury. Have you been to Glastonbury, Johnny? I have been twice. Yeah, how was it? I loved it. Hang on. When was it as well? Was it pre-kind of corporate? It was all some wellies and mum. It was right on the tipping point of, I think, they'd put the wall up. It was like the second year they were really kind of checking people on the way in. So it would have been about 1998, something like that. No, not in 1997, maybe even 1996. Yeah, that's before some of our listeners were born.

44:09 Oh my God, that happened the other day. I was talking to a back to the pub story. I was joshing with a barman about the music. And he said, yeah. Yeah, yeah, he goes, about something random and when this song first came out. And then, so I was like, I was like, fuck off. When were you born then? He goes, oh, 2002. Prick. The thing I was talking about was 10 years before he was even born. Not like, oh, do you remember? Oh, you were, how old were you? No, 10 years before he was born. But no, I like Glastonbury. So some people I know, they go every year. They go, I don't know how you wanna do it. How do they get tickets every year?

44:54 Because it's a ballot, right? Special code, like a little back, back, back, dodgy handshake kind of thing, you know. Well, I feel I'm at the stage where I definitely, and I'm definitely going to go because next year's a fellow year, but the year after, clearly they'll run it again. I'm at the stage where I'm willing to pay more to guarantee a ticket and also guarantee I don't have to sleep on the floor. Yeah, there's loads of that now, the old glamping things everywhere. Some festivals now, it's all glamping. There's festivals everywhere. That thing you're going to, the Dodgy and the Hoosiers and stuff, that's like in Orpington. It's like a wonderful. Yeah, yeah, I'm doing that. I'm also going to another one where we're seeing Judge Jules. That feels like a real blast from the fucking past, right?

45:41 Oh, man. Okay. So Glastonbury, that's going to be on TV. I've got to probably watch a fair bit of that. I do like a bit of that. You're not sort of sitting there thinking, oh, I wish I was there. But then I see, I think I didn't like about it. The thing I did not like about it was the walking. You're going to be in some miles on your flipping, you know, steps. The challenge, I think you've got two types of people who go to Glastonbury. You've got those who are just like, I'm just going to wander around. I know there's some bands I want to see and I'm going to kind of go there and go there and it'll be nice. And yeah, I'll see the band and then I'll wander over and I might miss a bit. And then you've got other people like, right, 6.56, we're going to be here. And then 6.57, we have to leave because we have to leave the end of that set so we can get to the front stage of this bit.

46:23 And then we go here and we miss this. And they're all fucking scheduled, left, right, and center. How are you supposed to enjoy that when all you're doing is scheduling your time? I know. And clearly, we've got no bloody clue because we've only been, I've only been for twice and you've never been. But I got a couple, this mate I was talking about that goes all every year. She knows people. So they go and do like her fella DJs in random little food tents that shut at 11 and turn into a rave and stuff. And then they're the ones that are like, oh, yeah, the best bit was when Fat Boy Slim played 224 in a, you know, in a big tent that sells henna tattoos during the day kind of thing, you know?

46:59 Yeah, yeah. I think I, to be honest, I think the proper Glastonbury experience is to not go with anybody who minds you being off your head and then taking some like flipping, just a hoofing loads of acid and drugs. I am there. I am 2027. I am happy to stand in a field and lose half my brain. Yeah. It'll be fine. What's the worst that could happen? I know, but just need to, you just need a 10-day holiday off the back of it, basically. Yeah, but you know, future meals all out. Like I said, it'd be fun. Yay! Totally. Changing the subject slightly, I wish I've my future me could have fixed.

47:43 Did you see the picture of my car hanging over the wall of the hills? That looks scary. That looked genuinely genuine. I mean, I know the situation, but for those who haven't seen the picture, what happened? What the hell happened? How did you end up with your car in a kind of Italian job style lads? I've got an idea hanging over the fucking edge of a cliff sort of moment. Oh man, it was literally that. Thank you. I wasn't in it, which is so basically. We went to Brixton Academy Monday night, took my daughter, Benson Boone, did an album launch party, right?

48:23 So it came up on my 0202 priority. Benson Boone, album launch party, 15 quid a ticket. Now, Benson Boone, he's 22. He's like from Texas or somewhere. He's taking the world by storm. He's a beast. Is that Mils and Boone's brother? This is a nephew, actually. Yeah. A great nephew. He had that song, Beautiful Thing. I can't sing it to you now because it's completely gone out of my head, but he's bloody good. Good show. He likes to put on a show, definitely. It's only 22. So Album Launch Party, and he played the Capital Summer Ball on the Sundays. And his tickets came up on the Friday night. If he's 22, he was born in 2003.

49:05 Yeah. Fucking bastard. Yeah, and he's super. How dare he be talented and successful before I am? He's absolutely smashing it. He played Coachella, yeah, and got Brian May on stage with him to play the lead guitar in his like pop in his, you know, in his favourite. Bless him, if he's giving these up-and-coming artists a good chance, you know, giving giving Brian May a chance to stand on a stage and get his music heard. The best bit, right? I've not seen the video, so I might be making more of it than it actually was. But I understand he says he gets Brian May on stage, right? And Brian May's doing his and the crowd are just not really reacting. So he stops the music and goes, Hang on a minute, whatever.

49:51 Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, a Texan, a cowboy. Hang on a minute, boy. Hang on a minute. Whoa, rust up a root and two in a minute. Here we go. I'll see. I'll see. I'll see. Do you know who this is? Right? This is Brian fucking May, right? All these Coachella flipping, perfect, pristine influencer knobheads, just like completely blank-faced, no idea who one of the legendary guitar, you know, rock guitar players. Yeah, he stopped the crowd. He's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, time out, time out. You know what? I like this guy. I didn't like him before, but yeah, no, I like him now. He's getting fair respect.

50:33 So went to Brixton Academy. Daughter's like deliriously happy. It's Monday night. We bunked off. We didn't bunk off school. We just raced up there after school. We got like literally to the front. We were at the front. We got there early. I parked the car, chucked her in the queue, got back there. O2 priority, good old O2. So we are literally like in the first 200 people in there, run down the front. And apart from the weirdos that have got fluffy ear outfits and whatnot on, we're like literally two behind the bar. So the whole night was awesome. She wants to, Brenton, he does this thing where he does like stage door and comes out and shakes everyone's hands and sign autographs and photos and self.

51:14 So my daughter's like, he's definitely coming out. He's definitely going to another two hours, stood outside. I'm like, I'm so tired. I really love her. Oh, so tired. It's like, so what we've got to go. Guy comes out. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry to tell you, Benson Boone has left the building. Okay, so get back to the car. I'm now driving home, like fading in and out of consciousness. I wasn't like I was drunk. I was just tired. I was literally doing, I had the window down, but then she's cold. She's like, oh, it's cold. It's cold. So I'm like, oh, fuck. So the ready's down the motorway. Like, you know, like 50p's worth of outrun. And I'm swerving. I'm like, oh, waking up. Like, on the rumble things.

51:58 Get home, unload the car. So I'm unloading the car. The handbrake had to have been on because if the handbrake wasn't on, the car would have rolled back as I was unpacking it. I was in the boot. I was out the boot. I was closed the boot. I did the back door, do whatever. Go indoors, go to bed, two o'clock. I'm like, what is that? And then, and then, and then I see, I see out the window, the car is rolled down the hill. And by some miracle, instead of rolling straight back, instead of rolling straight back and ending up in someone's lounge or bedroom, because the down the ground floor are flat,

52:35 it somehow did a sort of a swerve and just so was and then went up onto the wall and was like wedged on a metal post that forms part of the wall. And I just looked on some pace then. I don't know. Well, I think maybe not because if it had, I think it would have had enough pace to get down that hill and just hit the thing and launch into someone's front room. But if it's launched up a wall and up onto a post and something. But not like the whole wall. It was more like imagine a car hit a two-foot wall and kind of then like bounced up onto it, basically. All I'm saying is it's probably got higher on that wall than I could have if I'd jumped.

53:19 So there we go. So the car is now somewhere random in London, waiting for some assessment to decide whether they're going to fix it or write it off. And I don't think there's any son's car at the moment. Are you a public transport bus wanker? No, I'm actually riding my bike everywhere. So it's a bit of a shops, but my girlfriend took me to shops, did the shopping, I've been riding my bike everywhere. Oh, I say that. No, I honestly, I don't feel, I think this was deliberate. I think Jaygo beat you in a race and you've been looking for an excuse to ride your bike to get fit again so that you can actually beat him and go get back into it, right? I'm super fit. No, it's just terrible. What happens? And I don't know.

53:59 They didn't want photos. They didn't want description. They're like, oh, what happened? Oh, well, it's, oh, yeah, it's fine. We got it. Yeah, it's okay, fine. So my neighbor says they're going to write it off because they tried to write his car. with minimal damage. Probably easier, right? Easier for them at least. Computer says no, basically. So that's that's that's what that's I've got a whole list here, which I'm going to save for for for uh for our next wrap-up. I've had loads of mad things happen to me. That's just that's just one of them. Um, uh, but but yeah. And I think you know what the magic of that is? Is that my girlfriend said to me,

54:36 if I had the week you've just had, oh, because by the way, 48 hours before the car rolled itself down a hill, I was being really organized ahead of my trip to France where I'm driving that car on holiday. And I got, you know, paid myself. I was like, right, I'm going to go and get the exhaust done and that tire that needs changing. 250 plan for it and everything. 250 quid out the window. So then my girlfriend said, she's like, if, if, if I had the week that you'd had, I'd be in pieces. And I was like, yeah, I think, I think some people would be actually, but I'm

55:13 like, I'm rolling with the punches. But this is the thing. I don't think you should underestimate this. And I think it's so easy to not appreciate the work you've put in to being resilient. And this isn't to say you're kind of being blasé about things and not taking them seriously. You definitely are, but you've worked on yourself. You've done, put the effort in and you've worked on this self-belief and this positive mindset of, you know what, I don't know how I'm going to fix this, but I'm going to make it happen. And I've got one sign in my house that's got words on it. I fucking hate this live, life, love shit. But I've got one sign which says you don't need to see the top of the staircase to take the first step.

55:53 And you've built in yourself this mindset of, right, I don't know how I'm going to fix this, but I know I can take the next step and take the next step. And what I love about you, Johnny, is it's not just you. You're also working to build that mindset with other men as well, because men need that help because not enough of us have got that resilience. Oh, yeah. Thanks for saying. There's a group I'm in on Facebook, right? Which I've tried, I keep meaning to leave, but then it's just, it just keeps growing. And I feel like it's called the man cave, right? It's basically about men's mental health. It is the bleakest space on earth. And you just can't believe the misery that people are dragging around with them. So I don't want to end on a low, but that is.

56:37 No, but it's not a low because they're dragging it around with them by choice because they and I and this is everyone's situation is different, I know, but I believe that we can control what we can control and we can do things which are going to make those little incremental gains, which ultimately add up to a massive change. And by changing mindset on the small things, it adds up to the big things. And by getting the support of other men going through this sort of stuff and support from people like you, then men can really stop sticking their head in the sand until it's definitely too late to be able to help.

57:14 Yeah. One of the questions I asked men on the way into Basecamp, which is the free area with all the free resources and tools, it's how much have you spent on your own personal development? And no surprise, or the people that don't do anything. They've never read a book. They're not going to spend anything. And that's not a criticism. It's like you don't know what you don't know. Right. So, and it's good on them that they are here. They're doing something. They've been sent over. They've watched a video. They've listened to the podcast, whatever it might be. But it's just, it's shocking, really, that we don't get pumped this stuff at school or from our dads or, you know, it's down to, it's down to other people.

57:59 It's down to high value man project, other men's coaching programs to actually start to instill this into men. And here's one of the really important point is that women need us to step up. Women need us to be strong, resilient. They need us to be charismatic and have faith in ourselves because that's they, women don't want to lead in that respect. They don't want to be in a relationship where they're the ones that have to decide everything and be the flipping support unit and the mum and the flipping cook and all that. They don't, they want men just to show up. They want men to be confident and lead and give them the space to thrive.

58:41 And in any relationship, you need 100% at all times. And sometimes that's one of you being at 90% and one of you being at 10%. Sometimes it's 50-50. And it's about knowing that when the other person is in the lowest state, you're able to step up and know it and trusting that when you're in your lowest state, they're going to step up for you. That's what a real relationship's about. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and we can't always have that, you know. It's no, but we can't have it with a relationship. But what we can do is do the stuff for ourselves to know when we're high and when we're low and to be surrounding ourselves with people who can support us and offer whatever we're missing.

59:21 And I know that I, for one, will be happy to chat to anyone who was feeling low. But I know that you'd be even more delighted to speak to people who were going through tough times and just needed just that little bit of help to get them seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Yeah, exactly. And that's the better. The secrets of success aren't that secret. It's just that most of us won't do what it takes to make it happen. And we can. We all can. So I'm going to leave it there for us as we hit the hour. We never like to go over the hour. It feels, you know, like the Indiana Jones, the big rock and the arrows are about to be loaded up. Glenn, absolutely brilliant to hang out. We will definitely do this at the very least at the end of every month.

1:00:04 I wish you all the best in your job hunt. Absolutely pump the LinkedIn machine. I see some incredible posts on LinkedIn where people say, Guess what's happened to me? And they're flipping, you know, 1,000, 3,000, 5,000, 10. So absolutely know someone who's as killer as you are with putting those projects together and getting them over the line, you will be snapped up too soon. Love you, man. Yeah. And until then, for all those that have listened this far, please be sure to leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It seriously, genuinely helps promote the show. And the best review of the week gets a one-hour power call with me, which is normally 150 quid or 200 bucks.

1:00:49 If you read the show notes on my podcast episodes, I've been making up quotes of the week and putting like silly names like Matt Tucker and Krispy Bacon and Toby Larone. Nice. Because I've only got a few reviews and they're quite old, right? So come on, everybody that's listening, get yourself on there and leave a review. The link actually is in the show notes or search up Johnny Jensen's show and you can leave it to review there. Glenn, bloody good to see you, mate. I'll see you next time. Looking forward to it. Take care. Thanks for tuning in to the Johnny Jensen show. Be sure to subscribe, leave a review, and share it with fellow dads.

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