I always struggle throwing boxes away.
Why?
Well because if you take the washing machine out of it, and fit that in your kitchen, and there's the box, all crisp and new and empty and I can't help but look at it, and part of my mind sees the potential. You look at it and you think, wow, that could be, like, a castle, or a -- you've been there! [laughter and awkward looks from Jeremy and James] Or a den, or a like car. I'm the same with shoe boxes. I don't think I've ever thrown one away ever, because you think, I could keep special things in it, or put it on it's side and you could have, like, a TV screen, or maybe you could use the big box as a spaceship and then the little one as a dashboard. Come on, you've been th-!
Richard? Are you all right? Seriously, because this is a man, with, there's no other way of putting this, with a helicopter licence.
The CAA said I was alright.
I know but, the CAA, if they're watching this, will think, "He's a madman!"
Well, it's not a real helicopter -- it's just the box his fridge came in.
Yeah, alright. I just make the noise! [laughter and applause]
[both imitating helicopter rotor noise]
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