18 May 2026 (21 minutes)

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:01]Well, hello. We are back. Yes. Yes, indeed we are. We are back. And we begin today. It's Monday, so a new week. We begin with extracts from my diary. Now, what I always try to do, I've always tried to do this, is sort of write about my situations and then uh make references to my favorite pop stars and actors and and that kind of thing. And what you get is this. So, it's it's sort of um uh like short stories if you like. So have a listen to this and see what you think.

[00:00:47]Um, and normally I I don't write with with the the person's full name. So I'm going to begin with Michaela Shiffron, but I don't normally write. Uh, well, today I was thinking about Michaela Shiffron. I will just say um, something happened that reminded me of what Michaela said about blah blah blah.

[00:01:08]Okay, so that that's normally how we do it.

[00:01:11]So, this is Michaela Shiffren. Um, the pressure at work, I write, has been non-stop lately, like gates coming at me one after another with no room to breathe. Very poetic.

[00:01:29]I kept thinking about Michaela, how she tries to attack every slope with total commitment, but stays so precise and composed even at those terrifying speeds.

[00:01:46]Today, I decided to stop hesitating, attacking my to-do list the same way.

[00:01:56]Sharp turns, full focus, no wasted movement.

[00:02:04]You like that?

[00:02:07]By evening, I had cleared more than I thought possible.

[00:02:12]My body was tired. My mind felt clean, like I'd crossed the finish line with a new personal best. You like that? And there's plenty more where that came from. So Sadi now sad sink.

[00:02:34]This is a different day. Obviously old fears crept back this evening whispering that I am not enough.

[00:02:45]Instead of sitting with them, I thought of Sadi channeling Max.

[00:02:53]The raw furious determination to outrun everything trying to pull her under.

[00:03:02]I threw on my headphones, stepped into the cold night, ran until my legs shook.

[00:03:10]When I finally slowed down, chest heaving, cheeks stinging from the wind while it was cold, I felt lighter, scared, but no longer frozen. What about that? It's very dramatic, isn't it? We have more Kendall Jenner.

[00:03:32]Okay, Kendall and Kylie. This is I'm telling you it's all about my favorite celebs. Got dressed for a casual dinner.

[00:03:42]Felt plain unsure.

[00:03:46]The Jenna sisters slipped into my head.

[00:03:50]Kendall her long confident walk that owns every room.

[00:03:57]Kylie with the I woke up like this but actually put in the work energy.

[00:04:04]I straightened my posture added well a bolder walk. I'm not sure what I meant by that.

[00:04:15]Sometimes I well sometimes I forget.

[00:04:17]Sometimes I just write nonsense.

[00:04:21]I laughed louder.

[00:04:23]Sometimes armor is just the right stride.

[00:04:28]True.

[00:04:30]Jutter Leadam, this was back during the Olympics, I think. So, so Jutter was in my my uh my thoughts a lot. Went for an early morning run. It's light half 4 now. When the air is still freezing, my body wanted to quit after 10 minutes, but that's normal.

[00:04:51]But I picture Jutter on the speed skating track, low, powerful, slicing through the cold like it belongs to her.

[00:05:02]I think I've copied that from somewhere.

[00:05:05]I dropped lower, pushed harder, found a rhythm that felt almost graceful.

[00:05:14]The burn turned into pure adrenaline.

[00:05:19]Finish stronger than when I started.

[00:05:21]Cheeks red, smile wide.

[00:05:26]Winter does not get to win today.

[00:05:31]We move into the tennis sphere with Emma Radicananu.

[00:05:36]Had a tough conversation with my neighbor. Brought up old repeated patterns.

[00:05:44]I'm not really sure what I meant by that. I wanted to shut down or get defensive.

[00:05:50]But Emma's calm. She's always calm between points. This was echoing in my mind. So I stayed steady, chose my words carefully, which you should always do.

[00:06:04]Kept returning every difficult moment with patience instead of power.

[00:06:11]This is all very poetic. It's a little embarrassing when you when you look back at things you've written.

[00:06:18]Uh because at the time you're trying to be the best writer, the best poet, but sometimes it just, you know, too much.

[00:06:27]Um the talk did not fix everything, but ended without breaking us. The quiet resilience felt like real growth.

[00:06:41]Yes.

[00:06:43]Six minutes I've been doing this for.

[00:06:45]Okay, let's continue. Right, this is about Camela Cabello. She's always on my mind. Woke up in a flat gray mood.

[00:06:55]Zero motivation. I think that goes for me most days. Put on Camila anyway. Let her voice fill the flat.

[00:07:07]Before I knew it, I was dancing while making breakfast. When was the I never dance.

[00:07:13]Singing badly in the shower will I always do that. Moving through my day with a warm swaying energy.

[00:07:22]The rhythm pulled me out of the slump.

[00:07:26]By sunset, I was grateful.

[00:07:30]My soul had remembered how to move again. That's a good line. I wonder where I got that from. That couldn't have come from my head.

[00:07:39]So Jenna Ortiga insomnia hitting hard again last night.

[00:07:47]Instead of fighting it, I sat up, let Jenna's intense, unblinking presence take over.

[00:07:55]Stirring into the dark like it owned me.

[00:07:59]Answers like it owed.

[00:08:03]I have a punctuation problem. Like it owed like it owed me. Not owned me. like it owed me answers. Okay. Started writing every chaotic thought. The words pouring out, messy, a little bit haunted.

[00:08:19]Hours passed. When I finally closed the book, the notebook, the weight on my chest had lifted.

[00:08:28]Sometimes you have to stir the night down before it lets you rest.

[00:08:35]That's a powerful one, that one, isn't it?

[00:08:38]Eager sw a long project deadline looming.

[00:08:44]Distractions keep coming.

[00:08:47]Channeling eager today. Relentless focus where every point matters. She keeps grinding with quiet power.

[00:08:59]I blocked everything else. Stayed in my zone. built momentum. One small task at a time. I'm always writing that one small task at a time. One small I'm all that that's a a common thread in my my journal. By late afternoon, I'd made massive progress. No drama, no burnout, just steady dominance.

[00:09:26]Felt really good.

[00:09:29]We're on to a I think I'll have to go and I just I need to have a coffee. I think I'll read this and go and get a coffee. Um okay.

[00:09:39]Presented a big idea in the meeting. I'm not sure what meeting this was. Uh it could have gone either way. Borrowing A's calm accuracy for delivery. That's a good metaphor. Pa's natural command.

[00:09:56]page beckers when questions are flying at me. Oh, Alexia Patelis, her ability to see the bigger picture when suggesting the next steps.

[00:10:09]The combination worked. That is a good combo. People nodded, asking follow-ups, leaving the room excited. That's me, I think, not the other people. felt like I'd orchestrated the perfect play.

[00:10:27]That That's That's a good one. Bianca Sensori and Dakota Johnson in this entry.

[00:10:36]Okay. Spilled my drink five minutes after arriving. That's a good start, isn't it? Normally, I would have spiraled. Instead, I thought of Bianca, owning her boldness without apology.

[00:10:53]Dakota shrugging at life's absurdities with her signature dry calm.

[00:11:01]I laughed, dabbed the stain. Wonder what it was.

[00:11:07]I can't remember. I once um spilled Pepsi on I had like a like uh cream colored chinos and I thought, "Oh my goodness." It it just dried and disappeared. Weird. Not sure what I spilled this time though.

[00:11:26]Rest of the night was surprisingly fun.

[00:11:29]Turns out confidence and Oh, I'm I'm swear. I'm swearing here. I can't read that out. Um anyway, it's a really powerful combo. Confidence and and something a bad word. Zero something. Okay.

[00:11:47]Um yeah. Um okay. What can I say? Some some interesting um let me put it that way.

[00:11:56]Some interesting journal entries there.

[00:12:00]Um yeah. Okay. I think I'll go and get my coffee. Poetry time. I've been writing poetry and I can hear a neighbor is um doing something with some sort of um electric machinery or something. So hopefully that's not ruining the sound.

[00:12:18]Um okay, listen to this. So I'm I'm writing but this is all this is basically everyone all of the um celebrities um that we talk about on this channel. So, let me see here.

[00:12:33]Where is the Oh, my phone's beeping for some reason.

[00:12:38]Okay, here we go. It's called Constellation Unbound. That's a good title. They arrive like sudden weather, shifting everything. Michaela carves impossible lines through frozen cathedrals of snow.

[00:12:55]Each turn, a defiance of physics. A quiet roar echoing across the walls.

[00:13:04]She doesn't race against clocks. She makes time bow.

[00:13:09]Jutter explodes down the oval like a comet that learned how to skate.

[00:13:17]Thighs of forged steel I've written here. hair whipped by velocity, turning ice into liquid fire beneath the blades.

[00:13:31]A storm in human form, eager, walks onto red clay, eager, as if the earth itself owes her some kind of allegiance.

[00:13:44]Racket swinging like an ancient scepter, grunting with the force of every buried dream.

[00:13:53]Point after point she plants flags in the ground of greatness.

[00:14:00]Emma Radicananu was she drifts through pressure like silk through thorns.

[00:14:08]Elegant, precise, unbreakable in the eye of the hurricane.

[00:14:14]One magical fortnight became her signature, but every match since proves the furry tale was only the beginning.

[00:14:25]Paige and a move like twin pulses of tomorrow.

[00:14:31]Step back threes raining down like silver prophecy.

[00:14:37]Crossovers leaving ankles unapologizing.

[00:14:41]That's the door of the shed just opened by itself. That is That is weird.

[00:14:49]They don't just play the game. They are redesigning its geometry in midair.

[00:14:57]Alexia conducts symphonies with her feet. Alexia Patelis, a midfield maestro, painting through traffic, threading passes that arrive like destiny.

[00:15:11]When she dances with the ball, even defenders paws to admire.

[00:15:17]Camila opens her mouth and whole summers pour out.

[00:15:23]Warm, rich, rhythmic fire wrapped in velvet. Her voice carries the salt of the Caribbean and the neon of new cities, making strangers remember they have bodies and hearts that hunger.

[00:15:43]Sadi holds centuries in her gaze, her a vessel for intensity, quiet until the scene demands her to burn.

[00:15:57]She does not act characters.

[00:16:01]Jenna moves through shadows with surgical grace.

[00:16:07]Dark humor flickering behind wide eyes, a blade wrapped in delicate skin, making silence terrifying and beautiful.

[00:16:24]Dakota carries quiet storms behind halflitted eyes, delivering lines like slow dripping honey with a sting at the end. Seeing through the performance of the world, smiling at what she finds.

[00:16:46]Kendall and Kylie stand twin pillars of a new Olympus, sculpting empires from silhouette and will.

[00:16:58]One with razor precision and runway command.

[00:17:04]The other with curve and creative wildfire.

[00:17:08]Together they turned famous into founders.

[00:17:14]Biana steps forward as living architecture, bold, unapologetic, a walking question mark during fashion to catch up.

[00:17:28]She wears the present like it's already becoming myth.

[00:17:35]These women do not orbit the same sun.

[00:17:40]They are separate sons. Some conquer mountains of snow and clay. Some command stages and screens.

[00:17:51]Some bend balls beats billion dollar dreams to a vision.

[00:18:00]What do you think about that? Quite p u um what's the word? Poetic. I was going to say patriotic. Quite poetic.

[00:18:10]That's good. There is more here, but I think that that's enough for one day, isn't it? That's enough um poetry there.

[00:18:18]I do I do have something I would like to share with you in just a second.

[00:18:25]There is a word for this. I've been very creative.

[00:18:31]So, I've taken sonnet 18 from Shakespeare and I've changed it a little to incorporate my feelings, my um optimism, my depression, my optimism.

[00:18:54]um the way I refer to my favorite celebs and I've put them into the sonnet. Okay, so this is sort of based on Shakespeare, but it's rewritten. Okay, so it's the famous one, shall I compare thee to a summer's day, but it's been rewritten. Okay.

[00:19:18]Shall I compare thee to a winter's slope, Michaela?

[00:19:26]Thou art more graceful than Shiffron, carving gates at dawn.

[00:19:32]Jutter gliding on ice like Kendall and Kylie's stride.

[00:19:39]Rough winds do shake the darling buds of my resolve each mourn. Too short the training window. Too long the scroll of doubt. Sometimes too hot the spotlight burning on Paige and Ay's court.

[00:20:01]Often is eager's gold dimmed by a fatigue's shade.

[00:20:08]But thy eternal grace, Emma and Alexia, they shall not fade, nor lose possession of that form.

[00:20:22]When in eternal lines to time, thou growest.

[00:20:29]So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

[00:20:41]Even when my legs scream quitting before the final set.

[00:20:50]What do you think about that? Well, we are done for today. We are back tomorrow. Thank you for watching this and or listening. Uh more from me tomorrow. Tatty by.