Hot and Unhinged

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0:30at Whole Foods Market. Odoo, providing tools for businesses across industries into one fully integrated platform. Whatever your business needs, Odoo is committed to providing it. Learn more at odoo.com. Hello and welcome to Tailenders. Hello and thank you for having us on Tailenders, your loosely cricket-based podcast. In the searing heat. So bad. It's actually so bad. I didn't like that. It's not even, do you know what I've done as well? Just out of habit, I've made a cup of tea for the episode. Refreshing. Well, don't they say that actually a warm drink can actually help? Can it? Weirdly. Yeah, can it?

1:10Talk me through the science behind that. I don't know the science. I'm not Hannah Fry, but there is, there is some science. It's because the science is because you said so. I drink it and cheers. Coming up on today's tale enders, New Zealand second test review. plus Stokes Atkinson debacle, women's T20 World Cup, Izzy Wong's going to join us, Matching's going to be here. He's been on his holidays and he's bumped into a famous person. He's got a story to tell. We don't know what that story is, but he's bumped into a famous person. He is a famous person though. Maybe he just bumped into a mirror.

1:47How is everyone coping in the heat? Because this is, you know, just a little bit of topical chat just to get us warmed up. As you can tell on my face, I'm really struggling. I've been in the studio. It's so bad. We were just saying when you were fiddling around with your headphones, me and Jim were like, he's already got a wet head. I'm so bad. It reminds me of like, you know when you like, I don't know, but I play gigs and I swear anyway. I'm like the opposite of Alistair Cook. So I'll walk onto stage looking like a dog that's jumped through a puddle. I feel like that's how I'm starting this episode.

2:21but that's because on stage you do have the energy of a dog that's chomped through a bottle okay yeah and that's a compliment that's a great compliment thank you so much heart and soul of any band that you were in you should end the gig there no not start one there's not much space to go from there yeah but you do wear you know you wear indie clothes so you pay the price for that because i can't go through the gears with the clothes that's the problem like shorts and stuff is a real no yeah well we don't you are in shorts now i actually am but we don't want to wear we We don't want our rock stars wearing shorts.

2:53That's exactly what I mean. I'm not wearing shorts now. I think a rock star's exposed legs is one of my most disgusting legs. Horrible. Because there will be, because a life of living at night means that your legs, your whole body really is translucent. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. Sort of Mr. Burns-esque. Seeing a rock star in shorts is like seeing a test cricketer not in white, apart from you, Jimmy. Yeah, it's always disconcerting when you see a cricketer for the first time in their simbis. And a lot of them would wear sort of Gant three quarters. Charles Tyrwhitt.

3:42you're just describing andrew strauss who am i who am i thinking of

3:53he loves a gant fee do you have um like a warm weather trousers like it's hot today so i'm gonna go for a lighter these are like they're like they're quite sort of is it are they linen they're like in my head um they're kind of they're not that's a navy sort of chino yeah they're sort of chino these are my summer trousers right guys i'm not joking i'm i'm actually really struggling i feel like we can see that

4:26you need to get get yourself an air conditioning unit okay i've got an air conditioning unit and sharky said i'm not allowed to use it because it's too loud on the show well it's a bit loud yeah no but you've got a fan you need an air conditioning unit different different different okay i've started sleeping i'm sleeping with it but it's um the part of the pipe is perfect but um i've actually got quite used to it it's there there's um i think it's rooney there was a story where you used to sleep with the hoover on or something wasn't that what it was okay yeah I heard hair dryer. What? Oh, because it was like white noise?

5:04I thought there's a story where he nearly burnt down his house because he left the hair dryer on all night because he can't sleep without the noise. What, next to his pillow blowing into his... I don't know if it was on the bed. It feels dangerous, doesn't it? I do actually get that because it's a white noise situation. I really like it. It's very comforting because it blocks out all other noise, obviously. There must be tail enders that sleep to weird sounds. Can we do that? There'll be a lot of people trying to get off to sleep with this sound right now. Well, actually, maybe this is helpful then.

5:36Maybe Sharky's, maybe it's a wrong call from you, Sharky. Maybe the fan needs to be on in the background and then it's white noise and a podcast. You always get that, don't you? Like someone saying, oh, I fall asleep to you. And you're like, oh, cheers. Yeah. Difficult to know how to take that, isn't it? It is. Yeah. It is a compliment anyway. Sweet dreams to all of you that are trying to fall asleep. I'll tell you what. We've got some good Rob Key, Brendan McCullum chat later to really send you off. Okay. But for now. Can we play Rob Key saying that no one takes wickets bowling under 90 miles an hour in test matches and then just play clips of England batters falling wickets for two years will keep us to lots of stumps.

6:20What I really loved, let's get into that test review. So the second test, England lost by 253 runs. It's won all, which means that's quite nicely poised for Trent Bridge. Final match of the series, deciding match on Thursday at Trent Bridge. One of the great grounds is going to be a heat wave. It's going to be spicy test cricket with Ben Stokes back, with Gus Hackinson back, with essentially the team that won at Lord's back. Apart from Wally Robinson. But the interesting bit, you're referring to Matt Henry bowling really well on that over wicket. And I'm really desperate to talk to Jimmy about Matt Henry and his skills and his bowling.

6:59And you're talking about Tom Blundell standing up to the stumps to stop people like Harry Brook. And then a couple of interviewers chatted to Tom Latham after the game and said, Oh, did you see what Australia were doing? Is that why you're doing the standing up to the stumps thing? But no. I mean, it's been done forever. But they said that they were doing it against you, Jimmy. Last time they played. Yeah. So does that ring true to you? Yeah. It wasn't anything new, I don't think. I think on a certain wicket, it works really well because that wicket, especially day five, it was keeping low, a bit slow.

7:40You know, a batter is going to want to try and get out of his crease, take LBW out of the equation, but keeping a batter in the crease just helps Henry. And I think Blundell's one of the, you know, I thought he was faultless, stood up to the stumps, what I saw of it. Brilliant. So obviously you need the keeper to be competent enough to do it, but I think it's so popular around the world now that most keepers are good at it. I don't know if I've ever seen anyone do it to you, Jim. I might have anyone tried it to you. Yeah. I don't know if I remember that. Yeah, I'm trying to think. So I actually did it this week at Derby for an over.

8:13Tom Moore's stood up to the stumps to me. But I've definitely done it in test matches in certain places. Right. it's not necessarily to do with the pace of the bowler it's to do with the wicket and the batter that you you know the plans that you've got for that batter and I think if the conditions suit because Henry was still bowling at 82, 83, 84 not slow about Greg's pace about Greg's pace yeah not not not got as good an in-swinger as Greg but thanks mate I did actually put I think I put that on the group at one point you actually said that didn't you I was I was I had a couple of nice days at the overall just watching meandering test cricket and the searing heat and it was so nice even though it didn't go in linds way it was amazing to see proper long days of cricket where we're like oh my god we're gonna be here till half six this is amazing no one's and got out but watching matt henry i thought that that's the sort of bowler you want to be isn't it that's the and then i suddenly got wistful and you know what's coming jim i thought oh if only england had a really skillful bowler that could just nibble away and just really outthink batters because of years of experience and training and honing his craft and just really thinking about bowling as an art form if only there was someone who could do that around about 82 miles per hour and managed to get the top batters of a side out that'd be nice wouldn't it are you thinking about chris wokes yeah yeah yeah yeah of course of course of course of course wokes nonsense actually if you ask me he was quite it was good wokes i thought on the on the tv on the coverage nice man isn't he yeah just a lovely man still cricket noses and woody woody was on as well when he for a bit yeah woody oh woody's fantastic enjoyed them too yeah woody's great you just sort of wind woody up and just watch him go and it's just really enjoyable and sees the game brilliantly as well doesn't he like Chris Wokes does but Jim can you could you tell us what makes Matt Henry so good because you've played against him for a number of years really because he popped up onto the scene around in the test side about 2015 so he's been in and around the side for a long time but often underrated and this felt like a real moment for him on a big English cricket stage where lots of people went oh he's good isn't he but we've known he's been really good for ages but he's just he's getting better and at his age he seems to be really his stats are unbelievable at the minute yeah he's I mean he's always been a good bowler he's always had the skills and as he's got older he just sort of has cut out any s*** really doesn't miss just runs in all day yeah he's really skilful I think actually working a batter over I think he's really good at so you know to left-handers he'll come over the wicket round the wicket set certain fields as we've talked about keep up to the stunts as well now How's that sort of another addition to his sort of game in the last few years?

11:11Obsessed with that. Yeah, I think he's an extremely good bowler. A savvy, humble, high quality, not especially fast bowler, working a batter out over a number of overs. Is there anything better in the world? No. So good. You said not especially quick, but when he did start, he was quicker. When he was younger. When he was younger. and I wonder whether there was any you see that those similarities with you Jim where when you first started we're all quicker when we're younger no no but you thought express pace is the thing and then you get into these different eras as a cricketer and you go into an era where you are working on specific deliveries and working on game plans for certain matters and it becomes less about raw pace and hitting the deck and getting those wicked and blasting people out and more about working people out?

12:00Yeah, I think, I thought that when I was watching Sonny Baker, actually, I thought, you know, there's a decision to make in your career and you don't have to choose. It's not like going down one path or the other, pace or skill. It's literally not like, because Sonny Baker's got both, but there are times in a game where, you know, if you've got a new ball in your hand, you've got to make the most of that movement in the air or off the seam. So then maybe if you can sort of bowl within yourself, maybe you know for sunny it'd be like 84 85 and there will be times in the game where you can then crank it up to to 90 89 90 if you can but it's a it's a real skill of knowing when to do that and i think as people get older like matt henry might not have the ability now to to bowl at 90 miles an hour where you know i don't know if he ever has really but so for me like i felt that as i got older that for a bit you thought yeah i've got a spell or two in me at 90 like into my late 20s and once you get past 30 you're like actually i don't really need to to try and do that i can really hold my skills and be good at what you know be excel at the skill side of it i feel like sunny baker is gonna find that bit of tailenders because by all accounts he is a real a real nerd a real sort of student of the game and he keeps a little keeps a little black book of ideas and thoughts and memories and i feel like he's going to listen to what jimmy just said and write that down in his little black book so hi do you have a little black book jimmy no i've never used a black book any other color or just no books no no books at all really didn't learn to write when i was at school so just before we move away from the bowlers and matt henry i wanted to play a brilliant bit of test match special which was andy zaltzman our good friend andy with some incredible stat bombs about matt henry which i mentioned his stats i'd like to um play these to you if that's okay because i found it genuinely fascinating and it goes a little something like this go well i want to focus on Matt Henry with an absolutely prodigious performance.

14:12Six for 29 in the second innings, following five for 80 in the first innings. And that's after he started with nought for 44 in his first nine overs. So for the rest of the match, he took 11 for 65. And the rest of the bowlers in the match put that in context. 28 wickets for 1 ,067. So all the other bowlers averaged 38 per wicket. Henry averaged fractionally under 10 runs per wicket. Best figures for New Zealand against England in their test history. The best match figures for a pace bowler on this ground since Michael Holdings' legendary match in 1976, 50 years ago, and he took 14 for 149. The fourth best match figures for New Zealand by a seamer behind Richard Hadley, Richard Hadley and Richard Hadley.

14:59He's now averaging 19.5 since turning 30, 115 wickets in 21 tests. Out of all the bowlers aged 30 plus who bowled 600 or more overs in test cricket, there are 76 of those. That's the fourth best average, just ahead of Malcolm Marshall, Imran Khan, Kirtley Ambrose, Alan Donald, Glenn McGrath, Fred Truman. Those kind of legends of bowling. So it might have taken world cricket a while to realise quite what an exceptional cricketer Matt Henry is. But I think that message is getting through now. 74 wickets in his last 12 tests at an average of 15.5. And again, looking at Seamus, who've taken that many wickets in 12 tests.

15:40The list recently, Mitchell Johnson, Dale Stane, Alan Donald, Waka Yunus, Wazim Akram, Curly Ambrose are the most recent ones. So truly elite statistical company. Isn't that good? Amazing. Amazing. The over 30 thing is interesting. I wanted to dig into that with you, Jimmy, because you have to find different gears, don't you, as we were talking about. But you also had similar ridiculous success over 30, didn't you? Not according to Andy Zoltzman. No, I think, well, actually, you know what? I was thinking about that as he was saying it and he's talking about the visitors. He's not talking about England players there because there was no mention of any England player there.

16:23And obviously you've got Jimmy Anderson on those lists. Well, yeah, I think after 30, if you keep yourself in good shape, the experience that you get and the knowledge around your game, as well as having played more and more test matches, it sort of means that you can perform like that. Yeah, yeah. I imagine there's quite a lot of people whose record, whether they're batters or bowlers, will get better when they get into their 30s, potentially. I mean, he's not played a huge amount of test matches. New Zealand in general don't play a huge amount of test matches each year. So it's hard to get, it takes longer to get that experience.

17:01I think, you know, for him, he's played a lot of county cricket as well. So he likes playing in England, likes bowling with the juke ball. So yeah, I think obviously he's doing great. And I've always liked him as a bowler. I like his action, his repeatable. He's got a good snap. It reminds me a little bit of a few bowlers. There's a bit of Jason Gillespie in there. There's a bit of just that snap at the crease. And just his accuracy as well. When you're that accurate, you're always going to have success at some point. You might have times where, I think with the new ball, he tried to bowl quite a few bounces.

17:38He leaked a few runs, I think, early on. But then as the game went on, as the pitch got drier, slower and lower, he just managed to nestle into a length that was really hard for England. Snap in the action is such a nice phrase, isn't it? Yeah, it is. Who else is there? Would you say Donald had that? Yeah. Kluzner? Where have you plucked Kluzner from? Well, because you mentioned Gillespie, so I thought of a similar era. Yeah. Aussies and South Africans. Sorry, the one I was thinking of was actually another New Zealand, the Shane Bond. where he loads up quite high above his head and then brings it in into brings the ball into his body and then snaps at the crease.

18:21Oh yeah. Obviously Shane Bond was a bit quicker. I quite like the rhythmical when I'm watching cricket I want to see the rhythmical run up and then a snap and you see the ball like kiss off the wicket because the timing is just perfect with that action. We should talk about Izzy Wong and her snap. Izzy's got a snap, yeah. That's what would be good. She's going to be on in a bit. and we'll talk to her about she wants to talk about bowling with you actually Jimmy so we can talk about her snap absolutely not a lot of great stuff for England the game was lost because England aren't that good it seems at scoring lots of runs can I just quickly make a point on it though on that and this is opposed to everything that I've heard after the test match and I think you're going to agree with me Greg I'm not sure because we're still having it but contrary to what everybody has said this week was the first time i've enjoyed watching england for a very long time and i think maybe it's just because the test had a really nice rhythm to it as you alluded to it just felt like a proper five day back and forth test before news and got ahead of it but also i really felt look what i'm really anxious about now as a cricket fan is that we have one of those moments where they just draw a line under those five people or three of them and just say that was an experiment that didn't work and it just gets kind of blacklisted because because i really really watching a media game james rue and jordan cox sunny baker i really just felt like here are some you know you're watching a game and you just really want that person to do well yes i haven't felt it for so long i was watching james rue bat and i was just i was nervous for him desperate for him to get through the evening session which he didn't quite and so i just feel with those personalities like there was a sense of the future there and a list of engaging personalities that I want to see playing test cricket more often and I think a lot of people are saying oh that was a bit of a black sheep or whatever for test cricket and you know we're going reverting back to the team but I just kind of wanted to say that that my experience of watching that test was very different to what I heard from everybody else I kind of was really I was emotionally invested for the first time in a long time.

20:36I do agree with that. And I really enjoyed the test match. I also enjoyed how annoying it was at times, but that's what great test cricket is. Yeah, that's what the push and pull of it is. And you've got these young cricketers, but it clearly meant a lot. They were so clearly anxious to do well. They've all got a spark about them all. You can see that they all could be great test cricketers. And it lasted. The game lasted. and it lasted five days we had a good wicket and we saw some brilliant bowling from new zealand we saw some interesting new people playing as you said fee and there were those moments there was a moment i guess uh friday afternoon where it just turned into glenn phillips and ratchin just hitting boundaries and just batting really really well in the sunshine great cricketers and as annoying as that is it was it reminded me of how much i used to hate but also love watching hashim do that to England at the old school with Graham Smith.

21:36I thought this feels quite old fashioned in a nice way. Look, it's full. The sun's out. Everyone's just enjoying the fact that cricket is happening and the story was being told. And all this stuff, we always talk about short form cricket and how everyone's attention spans are nothing now. Well, we have to try and train our brains again to sit there through the boring stuff because when you sit there through the boring stuff you enjoy the highs even more it's really difficult to read a complicated novel because there's bits of it you don't understand and there's bits of it that are boring and you go oh why are they telling me this who's this character now oh what's that mean yeah at the end of it you go i've really enjoyed that that was a really interesting five four and a half days of cricket absolutely and that's why we love test cricket so i watched the third day i think with with Barney Douglas, film director who made the edge.

22:27And he was saying to me, he said to me both while watching Emilio Gabat and James Rue, he said that he was so locked in because you're just watching someone for the first time realizing, oh, I can do this. This is not beyond me. And even though they haven't scored massive runs or whatever, we were saying that must be the best feeling. And not like getting picked, not walking onto the pitch, but when you're in that flow of that moment where you're like halfway through an innings or whatever and you're thinking oh this is within my capability to do you know what i mean and i thought like we would i think in a small way we even though england had been beaten by 250 runs we've witnessed quite a few small moments of that this week which i just really enjoyed plus joe root went to 14 000 runs and was so modest about it it actually started to annoy me i think we need to put a ban sometimes on when someone is congratulating you for genuine greatness, you're not allowed to say, well, I was just doing the job for the team.

23:29Yeah, we get blah, blah, blah, blah. We get that. How are you actually feeling about being the second highest run scorer that's ever played this stupid game that we love? When did it annoy him? Was that in an interview after? Post-match, yeah. Did it? Well, when he was being nice about it. But I get it. But also, I get it. And because we know what Joe Root's like, and I love him for that but I'm also going just I want you to tell me exactly how you feel about that but he's been captain there's so much going on I understand why and what a great measure of life that you can do that and still leave that week going I've had a nightmare this week which is what he will have thought I've had a horrible week I do understand it but also there's he's got to get back to his house and just go yes I can't believe I can't believe I'd manage to do that.

24:20Yeah. Yeah. Will there be a bit of him like that to me? A little bit. I don't think so because I don't mean it in a smug way either. Just in a No, but he went into the week like two runs short of it, didn't he? Yeah, he did. So he's like, I'm going to get it at some point. Yeah. I'm not going to get dropped if I get two noughts this week. Yeah. So I will get it at some point. I love the idea that he goes home, shuts it all and goes, yes! I'm going to f***ing f***s! But I think he would. I hope he does. I want him to. I want him to realise what he's done for English cricket then, frame it that way.

24:54I think it'd be easier for him to go home and do that if England would have won. Because you're trying to do your best for the team and then if you play for a long period of time, then those sorts of stats do sort of stack up. But you're not doing it for the stats, if that makes sense. You're doing it to try and help the team win. It's a difficult one because he will be proud as anything that he's got 14 ,000 runs. and his family will be ridiculously proud. And I think once you're finished, you can then, you know, once he's retired, he'd be like, oh God, what an amazing effort that was. But at this moment, he's in the middle of a test series where he's trying to, and he was captain as well.

25:34It's a tricky one to judge. He had it every week, Jim. There was a period like every week, there was something, wasn't there with you? Oh, he's got X, da, da, da, da, da. I simultaneously get it completely. And I love him because he's like that. But also I do hope he realizes just what he's managing to achieve regularly in this stage of his career. And also shoulder all the stuff that flew his way because of this call up as being captain again, looking after those young players, which he seemed to do really well. There was after that first day in the field, there was so much chat about how energized he looked, how fun everyone was making cricket look.

26:17and that's sort of all we want, isn't it? We want to watch our players having a nice time and it looked like for at least a bit of that test, some of them were. I think, I was going to just mention about the, his actual on field, like when it came up on the big screen, his reaction to that. So he sort of put his hand up, I think. Don't think he raised his bat. Oh yeah. And then the applause kept going and he almost, I feel like he sort of went, right, that'll do. Sort of like trying to cut. Shut up now. The other guy was facing, so he's like, right, that's enough. yeah i actually like that yeah it's a bit like um it's class a bit like when david attenborough kept standing up because people kept clapping him at his 100th birthday oh really and he was a bit like oh god it's done again like thank that's enough now thank you he said didn't he say before that event he's like i i don't want to do this but i know everyone wants to say happy birthday to me so i'm gonna go because the country needs it i think that's probably what i'm getting at is we need Joe Root so much.

27:19He hasn't just got the cricket world on his shoulders. He's got all the fans just going, just give us something good. And that 14 ,000 runs in amongst the s**t after the Ashes and the Noosa and the McCollum thing and the Stokes thing, the nightclub and the Atkinson and the curfew and all that. We're just like, that, just give us this. We want to clap. We want to clap some cricket. yes while you're saying that i love ben stokes not saying anything this week like the sort of like the dark knight hiding while gotham burns it was like that like he's it was just like he's letting everyone do you know i mean news flashes stuff like that but he had this vision of him in his leg i know he's batting for diarum scoring 90 odd but do you know i mean he had this vision of him letting letting it play out have you ever seen so have you seen bat at all because Because he kept sort of going to the clips of it when he did a test match on Sky.

28:16When I was watching him back, it looked like, have you ever been in the gym when someone's doing kickboxing on a punch bag? And they're making noises and going, yeah! Like just getting rid of all this. And he looked like he took it out. He took it all out on Ben Sanderson at Northampton. Yeah, yeah. It's so true. It would be great to hear from Ben Sanderson and just actually refer to him as Ben Stokes. Let's get him on the talk about it. It was very, it was like Mortal Kombat. Wasn't it like, hi-oh, Kent? It was like, really. It was really like, don't use arms. Knockout. Yeah, technical knockout.

28:56It totally was like that. But that's it. He just, it's kind of amazing that he didn't, he hasn't said anything yet. And apparently he's going to speak tomorrow and that will be really interesting, obviously. Greg, you're famously Jimmy's PR agent for a lot of this. Would you have recommended a Sains Ben Stoich, just keep totally quiet? Because I think he's played that unbelievably well. Yeah, weirdly, yes, because there's so much to unpack with this. And we're just purely guessing because there's so much silence and so much euphemistic chat and ambiguous chat as well from management. It was sort of intimated last week that we should leave Ben alone because of sort of mental health worries.

29:42Yeah, yeah. Which was like, and that was because. Yeah, I asked Ben Sanderson about that. he said yeah well seems fine yeah let's ask the ball how the ball feels now after clattering into into the fence it was when mccullum said i'm worried about ben and we were like oh okay well let's all right we'll leave that alone then yeah that sounds like he's having a tough time i mean obviously he's gonna have a tough time because he's the captain and that's stressful and there was this nightclub thing and the curfew and whatever else but we wondered whether there was something else happening that obviously you want to look after the player and all the rest of it but then he was saying oh i'm chatting to ben every day and then we see our superhero put his cape on and sort of save the world again but in for durham and you go okay so he's all right then and then you hear that there might not have been a curfew after all because they won and does the curfew count after you've won is there is there a curfew caveat and then saracens is talked about what's saracen's got to do with it and then there's a the security guy gets punched but then stokes nowhere near it and then but what just somebody please tell us what is happening because after all of that why have we not had our best players playing in a test match that we could have been watching i know but greg even you read and this is not because not because you were saying it but when you read those facts out i was just disassociating looking into space i'm sorry because it's just like sweet dreams everyone phoenix is falling asleep now put the fan on it's just so like just so done with all of that but i think that's why i think that's why i'm talking about with the enjoying watching the cricket is that james roomie because you're like oh this is what i'm invested in this is what i understand someone making a debut england trying their hardest like do you know what i mean yeah but they're trying their hardest to ruin it again like just as i said last week if you can't manage this thing it's okay stop doing it then just if you can't do it it's it's all right you paid millions of pounds to do this if if we were paid that much money to do our jobs and we were this shit at it we'd be sacked like honestly if i was doing the breakfast show in the way that they're doing their job i'd be out and that's fine yeah and it's it's it's crazy it's like we're we really want to play watch these players play cricket why are you not sorting this out so that those players are playing I don't understand any of this.

32:04It's clearly driving me mad.

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33:38Izzy Wong, we love you. Welcome back to Trail Finders. Thank you for having me at Trail Finders. Crazy legend. I want to get straight into this and I want to talk about your snap at the crease. Okay? Sharky. Izzy, have you got your aircon on? Yeah. let me turn my air con off before we talk about your snap it sounds like you've got an air conditioner on yes because it's 50 degrees yeah turn that air con off why have you got your air con on this um this t-shirt i'm wearing has now become part of my skin