With millennials set to be the heaviest generation since records began, we go to the South Wales Valleys, which has some of the highest obesity rates in Wales, to meet the friends determined not to let their size get in the way.
there are a lot of you know plus-sized
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people in Wales is a fact in the UK is a
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big fact so a lot of plus-sized people
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will be watching this and a lot of
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plus-sized people will relate to what
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I’m saying it’s my most popular song cuz
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like to know like just so many people
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relate to it but when I recorded it I
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wasn’t even going through half the
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problems that I was talking about and
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like now I listen back and I’m like I’m
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actually going through it now I don’t
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want to shoot music videos because of my
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appearance since there I’m like bit like
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anxious like what are people gonna think
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when they look at me and I don’t like
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standing awkwardly in front of people I
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write all these songs if I’m hungover or
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or just fuck I know all the boys around
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here so it should be a good one yeah
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should be good obviously got a big show
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next weekend it’s a nice Club it’s like
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an indie club sort of thing in Cardiff
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performing there before look a hook spin
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our brave winner I’m in about a widow
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jump right now when I hear that bring up
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come a long way from being a sinner mic
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driller no beginner everybody won’t see
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me for shame on the anxiety starting to
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come down a bit now so yeah yeah
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drinking is good man well no it’s not
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but if I couldn’t sauce me out anyway
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sure I mean all we do is go to
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McDonald’s or we’ll get a kebab at the
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end of the night you’re like 4 o’clock
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in the morning and it’s just not not
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good you never wake up and go hot you
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know I’ll have a banana with my San
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Miguel today like fuck I was always
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always just eating so much crap like so
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much crap cookies doughnuts anything
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thrown at me and then I started working
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at Domino’s and my life was pretty much
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over from there so I know if I just
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stopped drinking for a week my anxiety
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would go was triggered such bad panic
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attacks as death he’s obviously like
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going out all the time just doing stupid
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shit and just like
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got to pay the consequences for it like
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Jonah me you do quite a lot of talk
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about mental health and it your music
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expresses quite a lot of your mental
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health in the way that you feel about
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things so it’s kind of walk me through
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that man you know it’s yeah it’s
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definitely my being sort of vocal point
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when I when I create my music feel if
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you’re suffering with mental health
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issues that doesn’t necessarily mean
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okay I have to work I have to tell
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everyone that I’m going through this
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going to that he’d want to talk about it
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and publicly that’s cool but for me it’s
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sort of like therapy broadly you know I
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release it people give me feedback and
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then just talk it out
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it should all be common I hope I hope it
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is anyway but we’ve got a what we’ll
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wait and see what happens
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[Music]
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I’m really glad everyone was really
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everyone was really receptive on it
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everyone was loving it – brilliant
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he just got a perform do you set in that
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and whatever think that first but
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whatever they might hold for us yeah
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could be anything right now
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