All Talk 56 - 2009 Predictions - Living Your Life In Your Spare Time

HUTCHBACK

So, we’ve cracked one prediction. That must have been the most ludicrous prediction that anyone has made in this end of year predictions farrago.

DR. NOSTRUM

I don’t know, I haven’t been looking.

HUTCHBACK

No, but I’ve been looking at them and none of them are as insane as that. They’re all things like ‘People will stop going out and spending money.’

DR. NOSTRUM

Well, one thing about this is that there’s not enough time to write 10 predictions if this is how we’re going to do it, but I could summarise them.

HUTCHBACK

Well, we’re not going to come up with 10 today.

DR. NOSTRUM

No, that’s cos no-one’s paying us.

HUTCHBACK

No.

DR. NOSTRUM

If someone was paying me, believe me, I’d come up with 10.

HUTCHBACK

Yeah, well, I’m now doing my job in my spare time for no money..

DR. NOSTRUM

No you’re not.

HUTCHBACK

I am!

DR. NOSTRUM

Oh well. I’m doing my life in my.. um, my life has become..

HUTCHBACK

“I’m doing my entire life in my spare time.” Now that.. Let’s work that out. Now that’s a prediction; people start living their entire lives in their spare time...

DR. NOSTRUM

As their hobby.

HUTCHBACK

Yeah. No, because there won’t be any jobs, so you now have to live your whole life in your spare time.

DR. NOSTRUM

What do you mean there won’t be any jobs?

HUTCHBACK

Well, no, cos everyone’s going to lose there jobs.

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DR. NOSTRUM

So, I’m living my life in my spare time.

HUTCHBACK

Yes, living your life in your spare time. You are a pioneer. You’re a pioneer.

DR. NOSTRUM

There must have been others before me?

HUTCHBACK

Well, they were called the terminally unemployed...

DR. NOSTRUM

Or, the mentally ill.

HUTCHBACK

...the mentally ill, or the clinically insane. However, you are actually doing it intentionally, as a career.

DR. NOSTRUM

As a career.

HUTCHBACK

You are doing everything in your spare time.

DR. NOSTRUM

Yeah. I’m not making a success of my career. It’s true, if your career becomes successful you no longer have time...

HUTCHBACK

Yes, that’s it.

DR. NOSTRUM

...to live your life.

HUTCHBACK

That’s exactly it.

DR. NOSTRUM

But that’s a truism, not a prediction.

HUTCHBACK

No, but what will happen is that people will start doing all their work in their spare time.

DR. NOSTRUM

And what will they do in their work time.

HUTCHBACK

They won’t have any work time.

DR. NOSTRUM

So it’ll swap?

HUTCHBACK

Yeah.

DR. NOSTRUM

It’ll swap, so your work time..

HUTCHBACK

So everyone will be doing work, but not as their job, but just to keep themselves busy. So if you’re a bin man, you’ll carry on being a bin man, but you just won’t get paid for it. You’ll go around just taking people’s rubbish away...

DR. NOSTRUM

Yeah

HUTCHBACK

...and emptying it onto the street just cos it makes you feel better.

DR. NOSTRUM

Well, you gotta keep yourself busy.

HUTCHBACK

You’ve got to keep yourself busy.

DR. NOSTRUM

I fear what most people will do is just roam the streets looking for food, in which case it’ll have been an advantage being a bin man cos you’d know where to look.

HUTCHBACK

So bin men will become the...

DR. NOSTRUM

The hunter gatherers.

HUTCHBACK

...guru’s for the new age.

DR. NOSTRUM

Well, no.

HUTCHBACK

They’ll be the wise..

DR. NOSTRUM

They’ll be just underneath Ray Mears.

HUTCHBACK

Alright, but they’ll be consulted, they’ll be able to charge..

DR. NOSTRUM

Now That..! No, wait a minute! That is one of the predictions that is reasonably obvious, is that people who forage will become leaders of the new age.

HUTCHBACK

Yes, absolutely.